Disclaimer: I don't own the Slayers (however much I may want to) and I'm
only borrowing them for a short time, so tough luck, get your own! I'm
renting these now!
^.^
In some library in Seyruun......
Long , long ago the mazoku and ryuuzoku coexisted peacefully together until one day a conflict broke out among the leaders of the mazoku and the ryuuzoku. While the reasons for this conflict were unknown it eventually lead to the collapse of the chaos alliance and the first war of the races. One theory on the reason for the divide was that the mazoku were creating a weapon of incredible power.......
"Aren't you getting a bit tired of reading books all day Lina-chan?"
"AGHHHHH!!!! FIREBALL!!!!!"
As a very startled Lina Inverse jerked around and immolated whatever poor soul had snuck up on her she slowly realized two things, one, the poor soul was NOT dead, and two, the 'poor soul' was really a fruitcake mazoku standing there with a huge grin plastered on his face and a slightly scorched cloak.
"Your fireballs are much stronger than I last remember, you must have been working on them!"
"Xe-Xelloss! What are you doing here?"
For once Xelloss actually had his eyes open and Lina couldn't place it but they seemed slightly differant from the few times she HAD seen them as he leaned over her taking advantage of his few inches of height and the fact that he was floating as usual.
"Sore wa...... Well, I suppose I could tell you for once seeing as this isn't official buisness........."
As Xelloss leaned back in midair Lina could see that he HAD changed from when she last saw him after Darkstar was destroyed, he seemed less..... Compact somehow, as if he'd loosened up, or lost something, she also saw that his usual fruitcake grin(tm) was looking slightly strained, all in all Xelloss looked tired, almost depressed......
"Actually I'm really here just to see how my favorite dragon spooker is doing that's all! Juuo-sama said I had done excellant work with Darkstar so I get to take a vacation!"
"And you decide to spend it with me........?"
"Of course! Who else leaves a trail of negative emotions miles wide? Traveling with you is like having a buffet Lina-chan!"
Lina's eyebrow twitched
"So....... All I am is an all-you-can-eat luncheon of negative emotiong huh Xel?"
"All.....? Hmmmmmm...... No that's not ALL you are to me Lina- chan...... You're something far more than that......"
Lina suddenly found herself blushing bright red as she dropped the large book on her toe at Xelloss's last words
"Wha-what do you mean by that??"
"Sore wa himitsu desu!" ^.^
"................"
Lina decided she felt much better after she pounded Xelloss face first into the floorboards. Xelloss Gradualy extracted himself from the floor to find Lina once more reading the book and pointedly ignoring him.
"So what are you reading now Lina-chan? More spellbooks?"
"Noooo..... It's a history of the first war of the races, when mazoku and ryuuzoku divided."
For some reason Xelloss suddenly went quiet and suddenly looked VERY dangerous. Tensing every muscle he gripped his staff untill his knuckles popped, looking at her with eyes that were wide open, wide amethyst cat eyes tinged with gold.......
"And why are you interested in past history that old Lina-chan?"
Speaking in a quiet voice with none of it's usual cheer Xelloss fixed his eyes on Lina who, understandably was nervous.
"N-no reason really! I just thought I might read something besides spellbooks that's all! I'll go put it up now......"
Lina quickly hurried off and shelved the spellbook allowing herself to finally relax and take a shaky breath as soon as she was out of Xelloss's sight. She had NEVER seen him like that. Ever. Not when facing Valgaav or even Darkstar, back then he seemed more deadly than anything she had ever seen, and to her sorceress sight he had blazed with darkness, but not just with darkness, snaking it's way up from his core was a thin thread of absolute gold. A gold she had seen only once before when she had met the Lord of Nightmares.
Back in Seyruun........
"But Mr. Zelgadiss............"
"ABSOLUTELY NOT! I WILL NOT WEAR THAT!"
"But you look so cute in it!"
".................PINK is NOT my color.............."
The two people in question were a busty purple haired girl in tan clothes and a man dressed all in gray with a hood covering his face, they were (of course) none other than Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, crown princess and lover of justice (Oh that hurt to say with a strait face.....) And Zelgadiss, an unfortunate chimera who wanders the wastelands of his own soul...... (^.^;; Sorry I couldn't resist! All Slayers fans should remember that form Try, if not you have no right to be a Zelgadiss groupie. Which is perfectly fine.)
"But......"
"No."
*sniff sniff* ~.~ "Mr. Zelgadiss............"
".................."
~.~
"...........Fine, I'll wear something fancy and I'll go but not pink........."
"Yay Mr. Zelgadiss! I knew you would see the justice and strength of our love!"
With this pronouncement Amelia proceeded to throw herself on Zel who, having rather well developed assets thrust in his face, poked several new holes in his hood as all his hair stood on end.
"Oy! Amelia! Zegladiss!"
"........It's ZELGADISS........."
With an exuberant greeting Gourry Gabriev, swordsman extrordinaire(also known as jellyfish brains) ran up with his usual good mood.
"Hey Lina wants all of us to meet her at some library soon, she said she needs to talk to all of us about something."
"What does she want to talk about?"
"Uhhhh....... I forgot........"
"Baka........"
"Well anyways if you guys would follow me I'll take you to her, Filia is already there waiting for you all!"
Back in some library in Seyruun........
"So Miss Lina what did you want to talk to us about?"
The entire Slayers group was for once completely assembled since they had destroyed Darkstar, Filia sat at the far end of the table sipping a cup of tea as usual, Zelgadiss and Amelia sat a LOT closer together than they had ever been before, it seemed the exuberant princess was finally thawing Zelgadiss out...... And Gourry was sitting on the right side eating some snack he'd bought along the way to the inn.
"I want to talk about Xelloss"
At this pronouncement Filia lost all her composure and spewed her tea all over Gourry.
"What do you want to talk about that namagomi mazoku for?!?!?"
"I want to talk about him because I just saw him about an hour ago......."
Lina didn't manage to get any further because everyone immediately began asking if the filthy mazoku had done anything to her.
"No, no, no, no, and NO! He didn't do anything to me, he was actually nice the whole time."
Lina decided not to mention his strange behavior when she mentioned the first war of the races.
"What I want to talk about is that he seemed really depressed, like he had been really hurt by something."
"What? You're saying you think that that...... MAZOKU actually has FEELINGS?"
Filia, unable to help herself burst out laughing, oblivious to the fact that Lina had that eyebrow twitch again.......
"I agree with Filia, mazoku feed off negative emotions, they don't have them."
"Yeah, and Mr. Xelloss is always so cheerfull! I can't imagine him depressed!"
"Huh? Xelloss? Where is he?"
Lina calmly pounded Gourry into the floor and went back to the topic at hand.
"You guys may be right but he HAS changed since Darkstar, he hardly seems like the Xelloss we knew, and he really does seem depressed, and really, really tired. He acts like he really doesn't care about things, he didn't even have a crazy suggestion, he just said he came by to see how I was doing and when I turned around he dissapeared."
"............."
"........Ummmm.... Miss Lina?"
Amelia tenatively looked up at Lina as if she were expecting a fireball any second.
"Huh, what is it Amelia?"
"I um..... Er....... I think....... I think Mr. Xelloss might be in love with you!"
En mass the entire group fell over, except for Gourry who was still unconcious.
^.^
In some library in Seyruun......
Long , long ago the mazoku and ryuuzoku coexisted peacefully together until one day a conflict broke out among the leaders of the mazoku and the ryuuzoku. While the reasons for this conflict were unknown it eventually lead to the collapse of the chaos alliance and the first war of the races. One theory on the reason for the divide was that the mazoku were creating a weapon of incredible power.......
"Aren't you getting a bit tired of reading books all day Lina-chan?"
"AGHHHHH!!!! FIREBALL!!!!!"
As a very startled Lina Inverse jerked around and immolated whatever poor soul had snuck up on her she slowly realized two things, one, the poor soul was NOT dead, and two, the 'poor soul' was really a fruitcake mazoku standing there with a huge grin plastered on his face and a slightly scorched cloak.
"Your fireballs are much stronger than I last remember, you must have been working on them!"
"Xe-Xelloss! What are you doing here?"
For once Xelloss actually had his eyes open and Lina couldn't place it but they seemed slightly differant from the few times she HAD seen them as he leaned over her taking advantage of his few inches of height and the fact that he was floating as usual.
"Sore wa...... Well, I suppose I could tell you for once seeing as this isn't official buisness........."
As Xelloss leaned back in midair Lina could see that he HAD changed from when she last saw him after Darkstar was destroyed, he seemed less..... Compact somehow, as if he'd loosened up, or lost something, she also saw that his usual fruitcake grin(tm) was looking slightly strained, all in all Xelloss looked tired, almost depressed......
"Actually I'm really here just to see how my favorite dragon spooker is doing that's all! Juuo-sama said I had done excellant work with Darkstar so I get to take a vacation!"
"And you decide to spend it with me........?"
"Of course! Who else leaves a trail of negative emotions miles wide? Traveling with you is like having a buffet Lina-chan!"
Lina's eyebrow twitched
"So....... All I am is an all-you-can-eat luncheon of negative emotiong huh Xel?"
"All.....? Hmmmmmm...... No that's not ALL you are to me Lina- chan...... You're something far more than that......"
Lina suddenly found herself blushing bright red as she dropped the large book on her toe at Xelloss's last words
"Wha-what do you mean by that??"
"Sore wa himitsu desu!" ^.^
"................"
Lina decided she felt much better after she pounded Xelloss face first into the floorboards. Xelloss Gradualy extracted himself from the floor to find Lina once more reading the book and pointedly ignoring him.
"So what are you reading now Lina-chan? More spellbooks?"
"Noooo..... It's a history of the first war of the races, when mazoku and ryuuzoku divided."
For some reason Xelloss suddenly went quiet and suddenly looked VERY dangerous. Tensing every muscle he gripped his staff untill his knuckles popped, looking at her with eyes that were wide open, wide amethyst cat eyes tinged with gold.......
"And why are you interested in past history that old Lina-chan?"
Speaking in a quiet voice with none of it's usual cheer Xelloss fixed his eyes on Lina who, understandably was nervous.
"N-no reason really! I just thought I might read something besides spellbooks that's all! I'll go put it up now......"
Lina quickly hurried off and shelved the spellbook allowing herself to finally relax and take a shaky breath as soon as she was out of Xelloss's sight. She had NEVER seen him like that. Ever. Not when facing Valgaav or even Darkstar, back then he seemed more deadly than anything she had ever seen, and to her sorceress sight he had blazed with darkness, but not just with darkness, snaking it's way up from his core was a thin thread of absolute gold. A gold she had seen only once before when she had met the Lord of Nightmares.
Back in Seyruun........
"But Mr. Zelgadiss............"
"ABSOLUTELY NOT! I WILL NOT WEAR THAT!"
"But you look so cute in it!"
".................PINK is NOT my color.............."
The two people in question were a busty purple haired girl in tan clothes and a man dressed all in gray with a hood covering his face, they were (of course) none other than Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, crown princess and lover of justice (Oh that hurt to say with a strait face.....) And Zelgadiss, an unfortunate chimera who wanders the wastelands of his own soul...... (^.^;; Sorry I couldn't resist! All Slayers fans should remember that form Try, if not you have no right to be a Zelgadiss groupie. Which is perfectly fine.)
"But......"
"No."
*sniff sniff* ~.~ "Mr. Zelgadiss............"
".................."
~.~
"...........Fine, I'll wear something fancy and I'll go but not pink........."
"Yay Mr. Zelgadiss! I knew you would see the justice and strength of our love!"
With this pronouncement Amelia proceeded to throw herself on Zel who, having rather well developed assets thrust in his face, poked several new holes in his hood as all his hair stood on end.
"Oy! Amelia! Zegladiss!"
"........It's ZELGADISS........."
With an exuberant greeting Gourry Gabriev, swordsman extrordinaire(also known as jellyfish brains) ran up with his usual good mood.
"Hey Lina wants all of us to meet her at some library soon, she said she needs to talk to all of us about something."
"What does she want to talk about?"
"Uhhhh....... I forgot........"
"Baka........"
"Well anyways if you guys would follow me I'll take you to her, Filia is already there waiting for you all!"
Back in some library in Seyruun........
"So Miss Lina what did you want to talk to us about?"
The entire Slayers group was for once completely assembled since they had destroyed Darkstar, Filia sat at the far end of the table sipping a cup of tea as usual, Zelgadiss and Amelia sat a LOT closer together than they had ever been before, it seemed the exuberant princess was finally thawing Zelgadiss out...... And Gourry was sitting on the right side eating some snack he'd bought along the way to the inn.
"I want to talk about Xelloss"
At this pronouncement Filia lost all her composure and spewed her tea all over Gourry.
"What do you want to talk about that namagomi mazoku for?!?!?"
"I want to talk about him because I just saw him about an hour ago......."
Lina didn't manage to get any further because everyone immediately began asking if the filthy mazoku had done anything to her.
"No, no, no, no, and NO! He didn't do anything to me, he was actually nice the whole time."
Lina decided not to mention his strange behavior when she mentioned the first war of the races.
"What I want to talk about is that he seemed really depressed, like he had been really hurt by something."
"What? You're saying you think that that...... MAZOKU actually has FEELINGS?"
Filia, unable to help herself burst out laughing, oblivious to the fact that Lina had that eyebrow twitch again.......
"I agree with Filia, mazoku feed off negative emotions, they don't have them."
"Yeah, and Mr. Xelloss is always so cheerfull! I can't imagine him depressed!"
"Huh? Xelloss? Where is he?"
Lina calmly pounded Gourry into the floor and went back to the topic at hand.
"You guys may be right but he HAS changed since Darkstar, he hardly seems like the Xelloss we knew, and he really does seem depressed, and really, really tired. He acts like he really doesn't care about things, he didn't even have a crazy suggestion, he just said he came by to see how I was doing and when I turned around he dissapeared."
"............."
"........Ummmm.... Miss Lina?"
Amelia tenatively looked up at Lina as if she were expecting a fireball any second.
"Huh, what is it Amelia?"
"I um..... Er....... I think....... I think Mr. Xelloss might be in love with you!"
En mass the entire group fell over, except for Gourry who was still unconcious.