Strange Reflections: 1
Amelia passed by Xellos's room, it was on the way to her room after all, and just happened to glance into the open door. She caught a glimpse of the mazoku given careful attention to something on the inn room's desk. She paused for a moment, and looked to see him in deep concentration over something.
"What's he doing?" she wondered. She continued on towards her room, stopped again, looked back at the open door and blinked. She shook her head as if to clear it. "It has nothing to do with me, whatever it is." She walked forward again, determinedly and vanished around the corner of the hall to her room.
Within a moment her foot steps receded into background noise, stopped, and then came rushing back at a fast walk. Amelia blurred by a maid on her way back to the mazoku's room.
"So what prank are you planning now Xellos?" Amelia demanded. Xellos flinched as he dropped two pieces of glass. Well, he knew when she had passed before that curiousity was going to get the better of her. He just sort of wished that she had held out longer.
"Well several actually," Xellos admitted. "But this isn't one of them."
"And how can I trust that you are telling the truth?"
"Have I ever told such an outright and obvious lie as that?"
"So what are you doing then?" she asked.
"Sore wa.."
"Life is wonderful. Life is wonderful. Life. Is. Won. Der. Ful."
"I'm trying to put this mirror back together," he said quickly, gesturing at the glues and various pieces of glass and metal.
"Mirror? How'd it break?"
"I'm not sure, found it in pieces a few years ago after one of Lina-chan's battles," he answered. "It has a great deal of magical power, and I'm curious as to what its supposed to do."
"Should you be playing around with something like that without knowing what it does?"
"Probably not," he answered cheerfully. "But it makes an interesting past time."
"Have you ever considered asking a white mage to fix it for you?"
"But what white mage is going to do a favor for a..." he watched as Amelia arched an eyebrow. "Oh...Amelia, would you do me the favor of mending this mirror for me?"
"Sure!" she answered cheerfully with her eyes closed. "All you had to do was ask." Xellos sighed in exasperation as he let Amelia magically piece together the broken mirror. She finished within twelve minutes what he had been trying to do for the last several years. Well at least the mirror was put back together.
"Okay," he picked up the large mirror and turned it over, examining it. "Now how's it supposed to work."
"Maybe," Amelia leaned in close behind him. She had to in order to get a good look. Fortunately neither of them noticed or they would have been distracted. Maybe they would have even broken the mirror again. Oh, wait a minute, that would have been a good thing.
"Maybe it's this jewel here," Amelia suggested. "The one that looks like a button."
"The one you just pressed?" Xellos asked dryly.
"Uh?" Suddenly both were encompassed in a blinding light. In an instant it was gone and the room suddenly seemed darker than it had before.
"That was interesting," Xellos said. "I wonder what just happened."
"Yeah, that was weird."
"L-sama damn it!" Xellos looked at Amelia in surprise, the princess just blinked and looked back in confusion.
"Oh my, Amelia-sama, you shouldn't use such profanity." Xellos and Amelia turned about to see a pair of people standing behind them that looked, dressed, and sounded like them.
"Ahhh!!! Its a mazoku!!" the other Xellos back-pedalled into a corner and cowered there. The real Xellos sweatdropped and began twitching uncontrolablly.
"I can't believe that you ACTUALLY wear these clothes," the other Amelia complained in a sultry voice. "With a body like this why would you want to hide under these thick wools?" The real Amelia's mouth hung open in shock.
"I'll tell you anything you want, just don't hurt me!"
"Oh my, aren't you the gorgeous hunk of mazoku."
"AAAHHHH!!!!!" Xellos and Amelia screamed in unison.
"Hey guys, what's going on up here?" Lina's voice called out. The second Xellos scrambled over and stuck his head out the door.
"Lina-chan," the Amelia copy said coyly, licking her lips. She looked from Xellos to where Lina's voice had come as if in indecision. The real Amelia face faulted.
"Oh Lina-san, there's a scary," the real Xellos pulled himself out of his shock long enough to pull the copy Xellos back in the room and stick his own head out the window.
"Oh, everything is alright in here Lina," he called out, sweatdropping. "Amelia was just giving one of her justice speeches again."
"Oh, Lina-chan..hey!" the Amelia called out as the original pulled her back away from the door.
"We're fine Lina, never mind us!" Amelia called out. Xellos smiled once and then shut the door quickly.
"Well that was weird," Lina said. "That mazoku better not be doing anything to her. Hey, Amelia, I'm taking a bath if you need me!"
Amelia breathed a sigh of relief as the door closed, then felt something grab her from behind.
"Oh, Amelia-sama, don't let the monster hurt me!" Amelia tried to answer and couldn't barely finding the breath to gasp as she felt her arm and a rib snap.
"LET GO OF HER NOW!" Xellos shouted, and the copy released a nearly crushed Amelia. "Hey you get over here and heal her." The copy Xellos skittered away and curled himself into a fetal position.
"Oh let her heal herself," the copy Amelia sniffed. "Or go get that frigid dragon queen."
"Listen you little..."
"I've got it," Amelia coughed.
"Are you certain?" She gave a thumbs up as her breathing became easier.
"Oh my, a hunk and considerate," copy Amelia noted, sauntering up to Xellos. "And how are you in..."
"Don't you dare say it, you unjust imitation!"
"You know, dear," the princess heard her own voice whispering in her ear. "If you want me to yourself, you just had to ask. I might as well start with familiar territory anyway." A hand brushed past her breast, eliciting a blush and then sudden movement from Amelia.
"Let go of me you doppleganger!" Amelia shouted rocketing across the room.
"No wonder you've never been able to sack that chimera," the copy Amelia hmphed from where she fell on the floor.
"'Familiar territory?' why Amelia-chan, what have you been doing in your spare time?" The real Xellos asked, Amelia turned a brighter red.
"Not as much as I'd like to be doing, right now," the copy Amelia hmphed again.
"Hey you, cease these un-civilized behaivors, this instant."
"Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me!"
"Oh you poor thing, just come over here and mommy will protect you from the evil mazoku."
"Don't even think about it!" Xellos and Amelia shouted. The copy Amelia hmphed again.
"What's a girl got to do for a little fun around here?"
"Ack!"
"Would you quit that! We're not going to hurt you!" Xellos shouted.
"You're not?"
"No we're not." Amelia said.
"Oh, well then, hello, I'm Xellos Metallium," he grabbed Xellos's hand and shook vigorously. "Though you already know that. And I guess you already know all about Master's plan to..." Xellos covered the copy's mouth.
"If any of my secrets get out without my permission then I will hunt you down and kill you!"
"AHHH!!!!" The Xellos copy returned to his corner in the fetal position.
"Xellos," Amelia called him over and they paired up across the room from the copies. "What are we going to do about them?"
"Well, I considered just destroying them, but I really don't know what that would do to us...so."
"Well we can't just kill them, they are living creatures."
"What are you talking about, they're.....gone."
"What?!?" Amelia shrieked. "Where'd they go?" Both ran out and checked the hallway.
"You know, I think I know where you're copy went," Xellos muttered. Amelia looked confused for a moment and then blushed beet red.
"Oh no, Lina-san, the baths!"
"Well, whatever it was Xellos was doing with her," Lina thought. "It couldn't have been too bad, she wouldn't be so relaxed other wise."
"How's that Lina-san," the girl she thought was Amelia asked. While thinking, "How can she bear to talk like that ALL the time?"
"Oh, that feels great, Amelia," Lina sighed. "Where'd you learn to give such a good massage?"
"Oh, here and there," the copy Amelia answered cheerfully. She began shifting her grip.
"She's not...is she?...nah, this is Amelia," Lina sighed.
"You like that Lina-san," she asked. Lina narrowed her eyes at the now obviously sultry tone to the voice.
"Yeah, that's good, are you okay Amelia?"
"I'm fine, then you like that," shadow Amelia said. "How about this?" Lina stood up immediately and jumped away as soon as she recovered from the surprise of feeling Amelia's hand between her legs.
"What's gotten into you Amelia!" Lina shouted, blushing madly.
"Not a virgin?" the shadow Amelia pouted, and Lina's already red skin deepened. "Oh my, that's a disappointment, but then its been SUCH a disappointing evening. So was the blonde any good?"
"Lina-san!" the sorceress turned to the sound of Amelia's voice coming from outside the baths. She looked from where the bath door was opening and Amelia was coming in frantically to where Amelia sat, nude in the water. She looked back and forth several times, only getting more confused.
"Oh, damn, its the little party pooper," the shadow Amelia hmphed.
"Get dressed and start behaving now!"
"Yeah, yeah," the shadow complained, picking up her clothes. She goosed Lina on her way past the sorceress, who was fortunately too confused to retaliate. "Catch you later red."
"Get dressed BEFORE you walk outside!" Amelia shouted. The copy Amelia rolled her eyes, turned about and kissed the real Amelia a full and passionate kiss. This proved too much for Lina who fell back in a faint.
"Give some thought to my earlier offer," she said to Amelia's burning and scandalized face. Amelia didn't even notice the copy walk outside still mostly unclothed.
"Get off me you hentai, mazoku-freak!" Zelgadis's voice cried out.
"Oh Zel-kun, don't let the nasty mazoku hurt me!"
"Fruit cake, what are you bloody talking...Amelia!? what the....why are you naked." Amelia pulled out of her paralyzing rage and shame at that last comment, and abandoned the unconscious Lina.
"Well, I was on my way to ask you something," her twin was saying. "But you seem to be busy. Unless you don't mind a third."
"It's not like that! It's not..."
"I said get dressed first you harlot!" Amelia was virtually roaring as she came out into the hallway.
"Keep your voice down," the shadow Amelia complained. "Do you always have to yell?"
"Hey can you guys make less noise?" Gourry asked stepping out of his room.
"Yes, you are all making quite a...ahhh!!" Filia gasped as she came around and saw the scene. "Zelgadis-san, what are you doing?"
"Its not what it looks like!" Zelgadis shouted desperately.
"I can't seem to find the other copy...oh there he is," Xellos said irritably.
"AAHH!!! Gourry-san kill the mazoku before he hurts me!" Amelia regarded him angrily as he cowered behind the swordsman.
"I suppose you're looking to lay everything that moves too," Amelia sniped.
"Of course not," the shadow Xellos snapped nervously. "Carnal love is wrong." Everybody face faulted.
"What's going on here!" Everybody looked to see Lina and the glowing red aura around her. "I count a Xellos and an Amelia too many! And one of those girls tried something with me that is going to get her a LOT of pain."
"Oh, Lina-san, that evil copy tried to take advantage of my innocence!" the dressing Amelia cried out. "She's a woman of loose morals! We should smite her with the hammer of justice!!"
"What?!?"
"FLARE ARROW!!" an arrow of fire struck the speaking Amelia and the charred copy looked at Lina with a shocked and surprised expression. "Like I'm that stupid. Now...WHAT HAPPENED?"
"Well Amelia repaired this magical relic for me," Xellos started, deciding that his standard response would get him REALLY hurt. "And while we were looking it over, we activated it." Lina sighed and investigated the floor.
"It wouldn't have been a mirror, would it?" The sorceress asked.
"Why, yes," Amelia answered. "Why?" Lina was smashing her head into the wall and sobbing in frustration. Then she turned to face what she hoped were the real Xellos and Amelia.
"I DESTROYED THAT THING FOR A REASON YOU TWITS!!!"
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