Author's Notes: If you are reading this then you are one of two people.

-You either have read my work or just saw this as a new fic and thought I'd give that one a read

-You've read 'Mind Games' and are curious to what happens to De Tanga.

If you haven't read 'Mind Games' before then please read it before reading this fic. This is a continuation story from 'Mind Games', and though it's not completely necessary to read it, it will make things easier to understand. As De Tanga is not a real character in the Slayers Universe but is one of my creations. If you have read 'Mind Games' and are reading this, then many thank yous! I didn't really expect anyone to really want to read this fic. You might be hoping for me to throw in some Xellos/Filia action in it, and I probably will. But it will be minor and towards the end of this fic. How long with this story will be? I have no clue.

Just Waiting

Part One, Day One – 89 Days To Go

By Relm

Ninety days. That was the agreement. De Tanga would work for Luna for ninety days and then she would decide if she wanted to date him.

It was a crazy situation that De Tanga didn't know how he got into it. It had all started when De Tanga happen to meet up with his old friend Xellos. Upon seeing his old friend De Tanga realized there was something different about Xellos. And then De Tanga met Filia, the golden dragon that had changed his best friend forever. A ploy was put into motion and De Tanga found himself aiding Filia in playing mind games. De Tanga's goal had been to get Xellos and Filia together, but then he also developed feelings for the golden dragon. After the game was finished De Tanga ended up in Zelphilia heartbroken. He met Luna and she somehow got him to tell her everything. That's when the agreement was born.

Luna refused to be a rebound so she decided that De Tanga would stay in Zelphilia working for her at the restaurant for three months, ninety days, and then maybe she would date him.

De Tanga hadn't verbally agreed to this arrangement. But that didn't matter to Luna. It was what she decided and since she had, that was the way it was going to be.

De Tanga hadn't ever met a woman like Luna before. She was strong willed, more so than any human female De Tanga knew, fearless and demanding. Within a short amount of time knowing her she had both irritated and angered De Tanga.

So why go through this deal of hers? Luna was mysterious and full of fire and De Tanga found her alluring for it. He even liked how she frustrated him. It didn't matter how sad or depressed he was she had that power to instantly snap him out of it. All it took was a couple words and his troubles took backseat and he was focusing on her annoying qualities. Arguing with her was even fun. De Tanga knew trying to piss off Luna Inverse was playing with fire; she could kill him so easily. But that just made De Tanga want to be around her more. He felt energized being around her.

But this arrangement went against one of De Tanga's cardinal rules. Never get romantically involved with mortals. This golden rule made De Tanga lead a very lonely life.

Monsters treated De Tanga like a traitor and most immortal races didn't want anything to do with monsters. His foster mother had been an elf and she was persecuted by her kind for being involved with his monster foster father. Though dragons were aware of his non-involvement with the war of the monster's fall, he was still a monster after all. Filia was the first golden dragon that had treated him differently.

Luna was a human, and De Tanga definitely didn't get involved with humans. It wasn't that De Tanga hated humans; they were probably his favourite race. They were evil and they were good. Each one was so different from the other. Though humans were generally regarded as a lowly race they were way more accepting then the more 'superior' races.

Falling in love with a human would be such an easy thing for De Tanga.

So why the rule?

De Tanga was a monster, an immortal. Humans were mortal, they would age and die. De Tanga knew he couldn't bear to love someone and watch them die.

The rational part of De Tanga's mind told him to stay away from Luna. That she was would die like all humans do. But there was that rumour that Luna was the knight of Cepheid, that a piece of the dragon god resided within her. Both Lei Magnus and Rezo the Red Priest had pieces of Shabranigdo in them and they lived much longer than any normal mortal. They both might have been immortal too, had Lei not been encased in ice and Rezo killed as a piece of the reborn monster lord.

Magic also played a factor in a human's lifespan. Those more gifted in magic seemed to live longer than most. Even though Luna didn't choose to cast magic, De Tanga sensed the ability in her.

It's those two reasons that De Tanga made Luna the exception to his rule. He didn't know how long she'd live, but he was sure she'd out live most humans.

Today was De Tanga's first day working at 'The Devil's Spoon', the main restaurant of Zelphilia. As De Tanga stood outside the bustling restaurant he mentally smacked himself at the sight. The restaurant looked like it had been fixed many times but the sign above was large with big bright letters. Anyone within ten blocks of the building would know what restaurant it was.

'How could I have just walked in there yesterday and not see the sign?' He shook his head. When his master Deep Sea Dolphin teleported him into Zelphilia he hadn't known where he was. He was so focused on his grief that he just headed straight for the restaurant's bar to drink away his sorrows. Any monster treading into the territory of Luna Inverse the monster slayer knew to be careful. But De Tanga hadn't been. He was lucky to be alive.

The restaurant had been loud and busy, but everything stopped as De Tanga entered the room.

All the patrons held their breaths as they nervously looked between Luna and De Tanga.

Luna flashed a dark smile. She had wondered if Deep Sea Dolphin's priest would show up or run. Showing up meant that De Tanga had accepted the arrangement. She reached behind the bar and grabbed a brown paper bag. "Put this on." Luna ordered as she threw the bag at him.

De Tanga looked inside the bag and saw a waiter's uniform. He noted the smell of lemons and daisies. It was the same smell that Luna's clothes had. 'Probably used the same soap as she does to wash own. Does that mean she specially washed these for me last night?' De Tanga wondered as he went to the washroom to change.

As a rule De Tanga usually favoured wearing looser fitting clothing with lots of layers. They were easier to move in and more pockets to keep things. So De Tanga was in for a shock when he got into the uniform Luna had provided him.

The pants though long enough, were very tight from the waist down to his mid thigh. The shirt was a muscle shirt that was very tight showing off every one of De Tanga's muscles.

Monsters could change their form at will but their 'human' form wasn't usually one they chose, it was one they took without thinking. So in theory De Tanga could change his form to make the uniform not so tight he refrained from doing so. Taking another human form felt too strange for him.

Though the uniform was very tight De Tanga could move in it. 'Probably tight to give the ladies something to look at.' He thought as his mind traveled back to how tight Luna's outfit was. Being so tight it showed off her womanly assets.

De Tanga wondered if this was a requirement for the guys to wear that worked at the restaurant or if this was just another way Luna was trying to irritate him.

As De Tanga came out in the dining area Luna threw an apron at him. "Put that on and start taking orders."

"You're making the assumption that I know how to wait on tables." De Tanga quipped while putting on his apron.

"Your master cooks part time at a restaurant. I figured you would at least know how to be a waiter."

"Just because she cooks doesn't mean she'd make me do such a menial task of waiting on tables."

All the patrons at the restaurant kept looking back and forth between Luna and De Tanga as the pair argued. Fear and uncertainty loomed in the air.

Luna glared daggers at De Tanga. "I figured you'd at least have an idea what to do. Unless you are an imbecile after all."

"Doesn't matter how hard or easy a job is any good employer should train their new hires." De Tanga countered back. "That is providing you are actually a good employer."

Luna quickly scanned a nearby table for things she could throw. She had decided on a bowl of soup when 'The Devil's Spoon's' bartender got between the monster and the slayer.

"Luna how about I train him and you don't destroy the restaurant again?" The blue haired bartender pleaded.

Luna eyed them both with spite. "Fine. Five minutes then he better be taking orders."

De Tanga was going to make a snappy comeback until he got a better look at his 'savoir'.

The young man appeared to be in his late teens with eyes the matched his long blue hair that he had tied back in a ponytail not unlike how De Tanga wore his hair. The man was very tall with broad shoulders and a muscled body that would make a body builder jealous. Though the uniform looked good on De Tanga with his modest build, he felt like a little skinny shrimp next to the bartender whose muscles were very much highlighted by the tight outfit.

None of that alarmed De Tanga. What got De Tanga's attention were two things. When the young man smiled you could see that his upper canines were longer and pointed like fangs and that the young man had a blue scaly dragon like tail. This man wasn't human, or not fully human.

"Sorry about my big sister Luna. She's always rough on the new ones." The young man apologized. "I'm Leviathan Inverse. But you can call me Lev." He introduced himself.

Now this confused De Tanga more. First he didn't know what exactly Leviathan was, but now the man was an Inverse too? De Tanga thought he knew about each member of the Inverse family. But this Leviathan was one that he had never heard off. "Inverse?"

"Yeah I'm kinda an adopted family member. I used to be a water serpent dragon." Leviathan explained briefly.

Again this created more confusion for De Tanga. In the class ranking of dragons golden dragons and ancient dragons were at the top and feral or lesser dragons were at the bottom. Lesser dragons were just wild beasts that tended to attack anything that crossed it. Sure they could be tamed or trained but they were in no means intelligent. Golden dragons and ancient dragons were both powerful and enlightened. Because of their power and heightened intelligence they were capable of changing from a dragon form to a human form.

The serpent dragons were the middle class of the dragon world. There are five classes of serpent dragons: fire, water, earth, air and spirit. They are capable of understanding human language but they can't speak it, nor could they change their forms. The posses power to manipulate the element that they are but that is the extent of their power.

'I'll have to ask him more about himself later.' De Tanga mused as Leviathan went into an extremely fast explanation of how the system worked at 'The Devil's Spoon'. Leviathan spoke very fast cramming a lot of information in a very short amount of time.

Had De Tanga not been a monster his head would have spun.

"Did you get all that?" Leviathan asked when he finished explaining.

De Tanga nodded. He pretty much knew what he was going to have to do anyways. He was just being difficult to annoy Luna.

"Good! What's your name again?"

"De Tanga."

Leviathan frowned. He knew from his studies who De Tanga was. He also knew that Luna detested Deep Sea Dolphin. 'Why would Luna hire a monster that serves Deep Sea?'

"Five minutes are up!" Luna bellowed.

De Tanga chuckled darkly as he went to do the bidding of his new 'master'.

...

The whole day De Tanga looked for ways to irritate Luna. He'd mess up orders, 'accidently' bump into her and flirt with all the pretty girls dining at the restaurant.

It was a rollercoaster ride of excitement and fear for all those dining at 'The Devil's Spoon'. The main reason people ate at the restaurant besides the food was the danger of it. Nobody knew when hurricane Luna was going to blow everything up. Most of the diners knew not to purposely piss Luna off. But every now and then a traveller would breeze in and make the mistake and invoke Luna's rage. It never ended well for those poor stupid travellers.

Like the seasoned diners the staff at the restaurant knew better than trying to annoy Luna.

De Tanga was truly playing with fire. Luna didn't get the reputation as the monster slayer for nothing.

So for each new 'mistake' De Tanga made everyone in the room collectively held their breaths and were ready to bolt at a moment's notice.

Luna looked like she was going to react like she would normally; she even went to grab her sword a couple times. But instead, Luna 'accidently' hit De Tanga with her serving tray, glared at any diners that got wrong orders silencing any would be complaints and 'accidently' spilled drinks on De Tanga every time he flirted with the girls. Mostly hot beverages.

And then there was the banter. The two were constantly insulting each other the whole time.

"For such an old waitress you are extremely clumsy." De Tanga motioned to the newest beverage that had been spilled on him. It had been hot tea and it had like the others ended up on his lap. Every time a spill would dry Luna would 'accidently' spill another making it look to anyone who just came in the doors think De Tanga ad peed his pants.

De Tanga actually found this amusing as the temperature of the liquid didn't bother him. And Luna only spilled when he flirted with other women. To make her so jealous already after only knowing her a day and a half made De Tanga's pride swell.

"If you weren't so slow with your orders then you wouldn't be in my way." Luna countered back. "But I guess you can't help being slow, you are only a 'monster' after all."

"Funny how I'm only in your way when I'm not paying any attention to you. What an attention starved woman you are to be so self centered and greedy."

A short young man with blue green hair and eyes entered the restaurant with obvious confusion on his face. "What the hell is going on?"

De Tanga studied the young man for a moment. From his state of dress and the sword at his side De Tanga assumed this was Gavin Inverse, the youngest of the Inverse children, a budding time mage/swordsmen who was known for his lighting quick speed.

'Gavin' was also studying De Tanga as well. "Who's the new guy?"

"That's De Tanga." Leviathan stated matter-of-factly from the bar.

"De Tanga? As in Deep Sea Dolphin's head priest? A monster? Luna why would you hire a monster for? You hate monsters!" Gavin spat out as a plate went whizzing by his head. Luckily Gavin was spry enough to dodge the porcelain projectile. Luna regularly used her younger brother as target practice.

"You're late! Get to work!" Luna ordered rather than answer Gavin's question.

Gavin grumbled as he went to the back to change.

"Your shifts over. Change and leave." Luna said coldly to De Tanga as she went back to serving her customers.

As De Tanga went to change he passed Gavin on the way.

"Congratulations on staying alive." Gavin said in a strange voice. "But I would be careful what you say and do; Luna has killed for less."

"Oh she won't kill me." De Tanga said with a smug smile. "We have an arrangement after all."

Gavin stared at the monster confused he disappeared through the doors. "I hate being out of the loop." Gavin muttered as he went to face the beast that was his oldest sister.

(Author's Notes: Since this story takes place in Zelphilia I couldn't do the whole thing and not introduce some new characters into the mix. Otherwise it would be a very boring story At least for the length it's probably going to be. Both Leviathan and Gavin are of my created characters and since I've lost RSBI I have no character page for people to use as a reference. But I will try and explain about them throughout the story so that people get a grasp of who they are. I will also introduce up to another five characters in future parts. They will be of the Inverse family or friends of them.)