Diana-sama

"Slayers: The Imaginary Cure"

Dis: I don't own Slayers, unfortunately.

Sum: Zelgadis POV, Zel/OC Zelgadis is off looking for his cure as usual when he finds a woman in the forest he's traveling through. When the woman wakes up, she remembers nothing except for one name: Lina Inverse. Zel agrees to take her to Lina, but on the way Zel finds out about certain powers this woman has that he might want to keep to himself... the power of the mind, the power of imagination- the cure to his transformation.

----- Imaginary Prologue -----
Zelgadis glared at the fire. He was alone again, and still searching for a cure to his hideous curse. After six months of traveling without anyone else to talk to or be with, he was actually feeling kind of lonely.
Not a good sign. It meant he was becoming dependent on his friends.
He sighed and lay against one of the giant trees of the Tanair Forest. Tanair City was supposedly a city that had sprung up from the destroyed remains of the last city of the Elves, and had magical books and resources that remained from the elves.
He'd been wandering through the forest for two days now, and he was beginning to worry that he'd never find this city. He'd only heard that it lay somewhere hidden within this forest.
A bit impulsive to go without more information.
He sighed and gently rested his head against the bark of the tall tree, his body hidden between giant roots. Sleep... it was a difficult thing nowadays. He still had nightmares of Rezo putting the curse on him... damn that bastard.
Zelgadis closed his eyes and slept in the embrace of a giant tree.
The tree seemed to smile. It had been a long time since anyone had curled up between it's roots. Such a long time. There was that one girl, from so long ago, who had planted and cared for the tree. The tree remembered. It had been many, many years ago that she had been here in this forest, but the tree was not dead and thus did not understand death, as the girl must now be.
But trees will be trees. -----