Christmas in Seilune
Sunny: here is our new Slayers fic, for the holidays.
Alandra: for the Christmas spirit, and peace on earth.
Ramon: and the Slayers series does not belong to us, it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi.
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Chapter 1
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The morning arrive to the snowy city of Seilune, every where you can see the streets, buildings and the roads covered in snow, many people rise up early in the morning to clean up the snow, and most important, preparing for the Christmas celebration.
In the Seilune castle, Little Sylvia opens up the window and sees the entire city covered in snow, with a big smile on her face. "Its today, it is today!"
Sylvia dresses up by her self and runs directly to her parent's room, with the four Dalmatian puppy's right behind her. The four dogs grow up a little since the last time, and they never left Sylvia's side, not even when she goes to the Balls, they really treat the little four year old girl like if she was their mother, and of course Sylvia treats them really nicely, sometimes she feeds them milk in a baby bottle, they all like it when Sylvia feeds them that way.
"Mommy, Daddy!" Sylvia enters her parents room and saw them sleeping in each others arm. "Daddy, its morning!"
"Your daughter is calling you, Zelgadiss." Said a very sleepy Amelia, wrapping her self in the chimeras arm.
"It's too early." Responded a deeply sleepy Zelgadiss. "Its ten o'clock."
"Daddy, you promise!" complained Sylvia, shaking Zelgadiss on the shoulder.
"Alright, alright, I'm up!" said Zel getting up and letting out a big yawn, and finally gets out of bed to get dress.
Amelia also got up and put her rope around her. "Don't be late now, or else Lina and the others would have eaten all the breakfast supplies." Said Amelia tapping Sylvia's head gently.
"Alright Mommy." Said Sylvia with a smile then she left the room with the puppies following her.
"We won't be late!" said Zel, then he gave Amelia a soft kiss on the lips and left.
Amelia gave a sight, a sight of happiness. After that incident after the Spring festival, Sylvia found out that Zel is her father, in the beginning it might sound that she was socked but in the end she cry, she cried in happiness because she finally found her father. And Amelia and Zel got married, there were some political discussions with the ministers of Seilune because of the fact that Zelgadiss is a chimera but Prince Phill gave them a few pushes and finally the gave Amelia no problem about marrying Zelgadiss. And Amelia could tell that Zel is different now, he's not much that lone wolf he was, maybe sometimes, but at least Amelia can see him smiling.
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Zelgadiss walks down the streets of Seilune holding his daughter by the hand, and on her remaining hand she's holding a basket that has a lot of baby bottles, and of course the four Dalmatians are following Sylvia from behind.
"Good morning princess Sylvia." "How are you today Sylvia?" "We have a snowy day aren't we princess? How are you today?" To where Zelgadiss passed with Sylvia, every one in Seilune greeted the youngest child of the Seilune royal family, and Sylvia greeted them back. In fact, it seems that Sylvia is more popular than Phill, here in his own city.
"So to where are we going, Sylvia?"
Sylvia looks up to her father. "Didn't Mama tell you, Daddy?"
"Nope."
"We are going to a fosters home for lost and abandoned animals, we are going to visit a Saint Bernard mommy who gave bird to her puppies two days ago. And we are going to see them!"
Zel sighed, it is amazing how kids get so exited when they see little puppies, of course Zel could not understand because he never had a puppy when he was a kid.
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Zel and Sylvia arrived to the foster home for lost animals, once inside they saw what a complete jungle it is in there. Every where they look they saw animals. Dogs cats, horses, birds, heck there was even a bear in here that right now is in his hibernation. A home that the Seilune family ordered to be build a few years ago, and Sylvia like to come here a few times.
"What is this, a home or a Zoo?" mused Zel.
Suddenly an old lady walks to Sylvia with a smile in her face. "Princess Sylvia, welcome."
"Good Morning Miss Anna." Greeted Sylvia then shows her basket. "I brought the bottles like I promise!" after saying that, Sylvia passes the basket to Anna.
"Thanks you dear." And Anna looks at the basket full of baby bottles. "My, my , my. You have brought more than the enough, dear."
"Say, can I seed one f them please?" pleaded Sylvia.
"But of course dear. Let's go then!"
"Yay!" Sylvia jumped in joy, the all of a sudden a horse appears from behind Sylvia and touches her back with his nose.
"Hey, what is wrong with the horse?" Zel almost jumped when the horse appeared all of a sudden.
"This is Big H. daddy, he's the horse grandpa used to ride but he changed when he traded for another!" Sylvia explained then turns to the horse. "So Big H. how are you today?"
"Weeehehehe! (Doing fine, thank you!)" wiggled the horse. "Purrrf? (Going to see the puppies?)
Sylvia nodded "Yeah, I got some stuff to feed them, are they doing fine?"
"WEEEHEH. Purrf. (Well, consider the fact that they wine so much, they're alright. Come on I'll take you to them.)" The house lowered itself so that Sylvia could clime to him.
And of course Zel helped Sylvia to get on top of the horse. "Thanks daddy."
"No problem." after saying that they all started to walk, probably to the place where the puppies are, and with Sylvia humming happy all the way. How much she looks like her mother.
But what strangest Zel the most is that after the fight against Air Jay, Sylvia has gain a ability to communicate with Animals, Zel wonders if Air Jay has something to do with this. But what ever it is, Zel just hopes that it will not harm Sylvia. The others saw this has a real strange fact indeed, but harmless to Sylvia, many of the other grow ups saw this has a silly child's imagination, Zel bets that the old lady Anna sees it that way.
A few minutes later Zel, Sylvia and Anna enter a small room and saw the Saint Bernard mother with her baby puppies on a basket hear her. Five little baby Saint Bernard's crying and wining because they are new born and they can't hardly walk.
"Monica." Sylvia runs to the Saint Bernard mother and gently taps her on the head. "How are you doing today?"
"Au au, ruf. (I'm all right dear, still a little tire but I'm ok.) Barked the female dog now know as Monica.
Anna laughed at this. "It's amazing kids and their imagination. Princess Sylvia really believes that she can talk to animals"
"Yeah, sure." Zel try to hide his sarcastic voice.
"You know, when we first found Monica she was a real bad dog, she was always biting other peoples because her owners never feed her, one day Monica got lose and started to attack people, but Sylvia appeared and calmed down the savage beast that was in Monica, she brought her to our place and since then the two of them became close friends."
Zel got amazed with the story. "Sylvia did that? And she was not even scare?"
"It seems your daughter found the good heart in Monica. And to think that in that time, Sylvia was just two years old.
"Two year old?" Zel did not now what to say to that, it is amazing that Sylvia was not even scare.
"Yes, and can you believe that she did the same thing to a bear?"
"A bear?"
"Yes, you saw that we have a bear in the house. The poor thing was being hunted by some crazy hunters, and witch made the bear come to Seilune by accident, many people got scare back then, but Sylvia approached the wild beast and calm him down, just like she did with Monica. And she was just three years old"
Zel looked back at Sylvia, it is amazing how she can even reach t the hearts of animals, and didn't even had Air Jay's power. Sylvia is so innocent that she can change the hearts of many; it doesn't matter if it is human or animal. After all, she is Zelgadiss little angel.
"Daddy! Here!" Sylvia passes a bottle to Zel, the baby bottle is already full with milk.
Zel got a little confuse, what does Sylvia wants him to do with the bottle? "What am I suppose to do with this?"
"Feed the puppies!"
"WHAT? Why can't Monica do that her self?"
"Because Anna has got some temporary decease and she can not feed the puppies in the moment." Responded Anna. "So we are feeding the puppies by giving them the food our selves and Sylvia agreed to lend us a few baby bottles to us and she wanted to feed the puppies today."
"Isn't that great Daddy?" asked Sylvia very excited.
The last thing Zel wants to do is feed a dog by a baby bottle, it would be so humiliating for him. "No way! I'm not going to do that!"
"Huh? Why not?"
"Because not!"
"Why?"
"I don't want to!"
"Why?"
"SYLVIA! Don't insist! I'm not going to feed the dogs and that's final!"
A few moment later.
We find Zel site on a chair, feeding one of the puppies with a baby bottle. "Why must she always have to make that sad face to convince me?" murmured Zel, very embarrassed.
"Oh Daddy, you look so Kawai when you feed a puppy like that!" said Sylvia, who is also feeding a puppy.
Zel felt more embarrassed, but then he looked around the house, like if he's searching for something. "Why do I have the feeling that everyone in the world is laughing at me?"
In the Seilune castle
The Slayers gang is in the royal living room, witch is the biggest room in the castle, putting the effects on the Christmas tree, a tree that is so big that it can reach the roof.
Little Maia raywinged around the tree very happily, ever since her mother taught him that spell e doesn't stop flying
"Maia, stop ray wing around and give us a hand!" ordered Lina. "if your not careful you might bonk into someone!"
"I'll be careful mommy!" said the child still flying around, not noticing that he's flying directly to his father.
"Maia, look out! Your going to……" but Gourry never finished his sentence because Maia crashed against him and making the two of them slide over the table, that is until they fall on the edge on the table, making a big noise when they fall.
Luckly Gourry lifted his son up so that he would not get hurt. "Ouch, this really hurts……"
"Can we do that again dad?" asked the child, very excited. "It was so much fun!"
"NO WE CAN NOT!"
Jiras and Garos laughed at the scene. "Those guys sure know how to make us laugh."
Lina approached the two ex-minions of Garv with heavy foot steps. "What is so funny? You are not making fun of my family, are you?" asked Lina with a dangerous and spooky voice witch made Jirias and Garos turn white.
"NO! No way! No way, no way!" they answer her immediately.
"Let them be Lina." Said Filia who now appeared from behind the tree with Val right behind her. "Its Christmas, let them enjoy them self's"
"By the cost of my family?" shouted Lina.
"Please Mrs Lina, don't dragon slave the place." Begged Amelia.
"Lina if you want to beat Jiras and Garos then beat them out side. I don't want my baby girl Alice to see such violence!" demanded Xellos, caring his and Filia's daughter who just hatched a few weeks ago. Filia's been pregnant a few mouths ago but she already gave birth to her baby. It seems that the Golden Dragon pregnancy system is much, much different from the humans. Alice is a sweet baby golden dragon, already in her human form, she has her mother eyes and her father hair colour.
"Master Xellos, you could at least help us!" cried Jiras and Garos.
"Don't you guys yell! Don't you see that you are scaring my baby? Isn't that right my little nouchy woutchy?" said Xellos in a very infantile way and tickles his baby witch made little Alice giggle.
The other sweat dropped and looked at Xellos dumbly. They would never think, not even in a million years, that Xellos would act so…….fatherly. It's like they are seeing a new version of Xellos. Filia did not bother with this, in fact she was smiling, and the most surprising thing of all, she has not been calling Xellos a namagomi ever since she was pregnant. In fact they've been acting like a real normal family, and Filia is probably very happy because she feels that this way she can reborn the Golden Dragon race.
Even Sylphiel giggled at the scene, it sure is funny seeing Xellos acting this way with his baby daughter.
"You know, that fruit cake creeps me out." Said a swordsman with a small but noticeable scar on his right eye on the top of his eyebrow and he has a short spiky brown hair and brown eyes, his name is Miguel.
"I know, he's creeps every one." Replied Sylphiel still giggling and looking at her boyfriend witch she has met in Sairagre after the last attack in Seilune.
"But honestly, do you want a kid like that?" asked Miguel, a little nervous about that subject.
Sylpheil laughed innocently at Miguel's question. "I don't want that kid. I want a kid that can call me Mommy and that can call you Daddy."
"I can go with that, but they are so noisy!"
"Oh Miguel." Sylphiel just keep on laughing at Miguel nervousness about having a kid.
Lina looks back at her old friend, Lina does not know the details of how Sylphiel and Miguel meet but she is happy to see that Sylpheil found some one who can make her laugh and that could give her love. And that Miguel looks like a fine guy, but Lina promises to throw him a big fire ball if he ever breaks Sylpheil's heart.
"Mommy I'm home!" shouted a Sylvia who just got home with her father and her puppies.
Amelia looks back to her daughter. "Welcome back dear. Did you have fun with the puppies."
Sylvia nodded her head happily. "Yes mommy, I feed them all, and Daddy also feed the puppies."
Zelgadiss blushed furiously "Sylvia! Don't be such a big mouth!"
The rest of the Slayers gang were just holing up to their laughs.
"WHAT'S SO DAMN FUNNY?" yelled Zel.
"I'm sorry Zel, but I can just imagine you feeding a puppy by using a baby bottle." Laughed Amelia.
"You too Amelia, you too?" cried Zel.
"Mommy!" called Sylvia, pulling up her mother leg and caring a star.
Amelia smiles to her daughter, every year Sylvia always wants to be the one to put the star on top of the Christmas tree. "Ok honey, let's do this." Amelia carries up her daughter and Ray Wings to the top of the tree, making Sylvia put the star.
"I don't know why, but Sylvia always like to put the star." Said Lina to Zel.
Zel looks up to Amelia and Sylvia, the two of them seem so much exited about Christmas, he could see that by the look on their eyes. Zel wonders what kind of Christmas Amelia passed when had Sylvia, in fact Zel does not understand the basics of Christmas because he never celebrated Christmas before, not even when he was a child because of Rezo, so basically this will be the first Christmas that Zelgadiss will celebrate in his life, but what troubles him the most is that he does not know what to do.
To be continue…...
Alandra: many people want it so here it is. A sequel of Sylvia.
Sunny: and we personally want to thank Maurice A. Nigma for letting us use his character, Miguel, in our fic