Author Notes: I would appreciate any feed back for this story. This isn't my first fic (I'm working on two others now), but I think this is the first I 'll post. Oh and I'm just tired when I wrote this so excuse my insanity (unless you like it then I'll sleep deprieve myself more often ^_^ ). And I don't own anyone from The Slayers though I wish I did ^_^; Aaaannnd I don't think I left anything out so on with the fic. (YAY!) Oh and this just appears to start off normal and nice{which is the scariest part of my insanity, I seem normal}but it gets um...stranger trust me{ahahaha! 'scuse me it slipped out *ahem*}and on to the fic. (O_o do I sense deja' vu or is it just me?)
It started out like a normal day in the life of the Slayers, Lina and Gourry were eating the usual amount of food, Zelgadis was having coffee with Amelia watching, and Filia was chasing Xellos around with her mace. Little did our group of heroes know that this day would forever stay in their memory (cue dramatic music).
"Filia, could you tell me where you got such a nice mace?" asked Xellos from the other side of the table.
"You, you, you!!! Arrgh!!!" yelled Filia as she leapt over the table screeching other insults out randomly.
"Mr. Zelgadis should we try to stop her?" asked Amelia looking at Zelgadis.
"No, remember what happened last time we interrupted them," replied Zelgadis looking at her. Images of Filia's mace sending anyone who interrupted her into the higher stratosphere flashed through Amelia's mind. "And to tell the truth I think they both enjoy this every morning or so" he commented.
"WHAT?!!!" yelled Filia glaring at Zelgadis. She ran over to Zelgadis and *ahem* maced him pretty good. Filia then stood there panting heavily. 'Oh no I didn't mean to do that' she thought. "I'll go make sure he is okay,"she said running out the door.
"Mmpphhht hhhppnnd" said Lina still eating.
"What did you say Miss Lina?" said Amelia looking at the hole in the ceiling from where Zelgadis took his leave.
Swallowing and taking a drink out of a pitcher Lina said "We'll leave in a minute, I'm almost done."
"Hey what about my roof!" shouted the inkeeper (person, guy, thingie? O_O;).
"On second thought, I'm done now,"said Lina grabbing Gourry and Amelia as she ran out the door with amazing speed.
"You with the purple hair! Your not leaving until you pay for damages and the meal your friends ate," yelled the inkeeper (dude, guy, thingie!).
"Me?" said Xellos looking innocently at the inkeeper. "I wasn't with them at all."
"Well they seemed to know you especially that long blonde haired girl" the inkeeper said.
"But..." started Xellos as he edged for the door while thinking 'I can't believe that I'm stuck here in this situation. When I catch up to Lina I'm going to...'
"Hold on," said the inkeeper grabbing Xellos's cape before he made to the door pulling him back inside "Like I said, your going to help me pay for this!"
~ ~ ~ (pretty squigglies,ne?)
A loud noise (a cross between a crash and a thud) announced where Zelgadis landed. A minute or two later Filia was running towards the sound came from and saw a medium sized crater. She then jumped down into the crater and was pulling Zelgadis out of the hole. Lina and the others (minus Xellos)arrived when Filia just got Zelgadis out of the hole.
"Filia, I think you should quit doing stuff like that," said Gourry looking at the unconscious Zelgadis.
"Well at least the town we're going to isn't to far away" said Amelia then looking worriedly at Zelgadis"But how are we going to get there if Mr. Zelgadis can't walk."
"A healing spell Amelia" said Lina as she knelt down right by Zelgadis "Recovery!"
"Ungh..."mumbled Zelgadis as he sat up and rubbed his head."What happened?"
"You were maced" said Lina."Can you walk? We need to get to the next town before nightfall."
"Yeah I can walk" he replied.
They all then walked down the road for a hour or two until they met a merchant who looked terrible(you know a beat up appearance or something like that).
"Hello travelers. May I intrest you in any of my wares?" he said.
"You look like you don't have anything worth while for us to stop" said Lina walking on.
"But I have this" he said holding up what appeared to be half of a talisman. It was black lined with dark blue and purple. The half of the ruby seemed to sparkle with it's own light.
"So what?"said Zelgadis looking at the talisman.
"This is very ancient I think it was forged long before the Kouma War (War of the Monster's Fall)" said the merchant.
"How do you know that?" asked Filia looking skeptical.
"Look at the back" said the merchant handing it to her."For all I know about fakes and forgeries this seems real." Everyone looked at it and even Lina agreed this maybe an original.
"How much?" asked Lina looking at him.
"150,000" he replied looking a little smug.
"What" screeched Lina. They argued for awhile until they settled on 5,000 Lina's claim being it was only half of it and it was beat up.
"Here" said Lina giving him the money while he gave her the talisman.
"Pleasure doing business with you" replied the merchant.
They then parted ways not thinking anything more of it.
~ ~ ~(the return of the squigglies)
In her bag she had her many school books, a flame-thrower, and her lunch. Around her neck she had a necklace. It was white lined with orange and yellow. It also had half of an emerald that was sparkling merrily.
'This is going to be a normal, average, boring day ' she thought as she brushed her brown hair out of her eyes. Looking around her with her hazel-now-blue-at-the-moment eyes she sighed.
How wrong she was.
~ ~ ~(YAY more squigglies ^.^)
"So what's so special about this amulet?" asked Gourry looking at Lina as she looked at the talisman.
"Don't know but I sense a strong magical power from this. It seems incomplete though." She then turned it over and saw some almost unreadable letters on the back. "Hey! I wonder what this says!"
"Hmm..." said Filia as she looked over Lina's shoulder "I'm not familiar with this language."
"Hand that amulet over and we'll let you live" said a bandit as he jumped out of a tree followed by many others.
"Gourry hold this," shouted Lina as she threw the talisman over to Gourry.
As Lina and the others fought Gourry looked at the talisman. 'Why can't they read this?' he thought as he punched a stray bandit.
A 15 minutes later everyone was back to looking at the amulet.
"When did you get that Lina?" asked Xellos after he transported in.
"Where have you been Mr. Xellos?" asked Amelia looking at him.
"That is a secret!" was Xellos's reply as he thought 'Like I would tell them I had to fix the roof and clean the whole inn to pay the bill. But it will be fun to destroy that inn later though.'
"Lina, it says on this something like a poem" said Gourry.
"Well what does it say Gourry" asked Zelgadis as everyone else face faulted..
"It says:
Doors of fate be unlocked,
gates of the dimensions open wide.
Send forth a traveler,
whether it is friend or foe.
Hiraita Doa!
~ ~ ~ ( ^_^ I like the squigglies)
The girl just sat down at the table and sighed. "This is so boring" she muttered glaring at the table.
"Care for half of my soup then? Or nachos?" said Diladau27 looking up at her from where he was making his soup.
"Nah, thanks for the offer though " she said looking up at her brother and smiling. She absently fingered her necklace. Suddenly it flashed a bright green light as a sound (description: combine the sound of two swords hitting each other and swishing a stick through the air very quickly {abbreviate this to clish})filled the air. A shimmering white and black hole opened up beneath the girl and as she fell in she grabbed her bag and screamed.
A moment later the hole closed up leaving no trace that it was ever there. Dilandau27 thought' Well I guess she won't be bored anymore but, I hope she is back in time for dinner' as he turned back to his cooking.
~ ~ ~( lookie at the squigglies ^o^)
{Clish! yay! I invented a sound}
All the slayers looked up when they heard a clish noise only to see a hole rip open above them.
"Ahhhhhhhaaiiiieeee!!!" screamed a voice from above as a figure fell out of the hole and landed on Zelgadis. This effectively knocked out the figure and gave Zelgadis a small headache.
The girl had brown hair and looked around 17 years old. Even though she was unconscious she holding a bag very tightly. But what caught everyone's attention was the necklace she wore.
Amelia knelt down and said "Recovery." Then she and everyone else took a step back as the girl's eyes fluttered open.
"Huh wha..."she sat up and shook her head, then saw the group. "Yaaah!" she shouted as she moved back some distance.
"Who are you?" asked Filia looking at the girl.
"My name is Digi_riven" said Digi_riven (Mwuhahaha! Told you it would get strange!).
"What kind of a name is that?" said Gourry.
"..." Digi_riven looked surprised "Call me Riven then."
"Ok Riven" said Gourry.
Looking around quickly Riven said "Where am I? This isn't my house. Hey wait I know you guys!!" Riven half shouted pointing at the Slayers.
Lina being Lina said "Yes I am the beautiful sorcery genius Lina Inverse!"
"I am Gourry Gabriev" said Gourry.
"I'm Amelia Wil Tesla Sailune, fighter for justice, peace, and love!" Amelia said while posing.
"Zelgadis Greywords" quietly said Zelgadis.
"Filia Ul Copt" said Filia brushing some dirt off of her.
"I'm Xellos, the mysterious priest," said Xellos pointing to himself.
"..." was Riven's reply.
"Are you inspired to be around us?" asked Lina.
"A little, but isn't Filia a gold dragon and Xellos a mazuko?" said Riven with a thoughtful look on her face. Everyone present except Gourry and Riven face faulted.
"H-how did you know that?" asked a shocked Filia from where she was on the ground.
"Umm...I don't want to say," replied Riven anyone who had gotten back to their feet had face faulted again.
"Ok then the introductions are made and could you tell us where you got that necklace." said Lina pointing at the necklace.
"Well I bought it when I was little I felt drawn to it. I've been looking for the other half of it for awhile but I haven't found it," replied Riven holding her necklace up for everyone to see.
"Is this it?" said Gourry holding up the now other half of the talisman.
"Oh can I have it please please please!" begged Riven on her hands and knees.
"Wait a minute let us talk" said Lina.
She and the others gathered in a group to discuss well Riven.
'Ok I'm now in the Slayer's world, ok I can accept that. Maybe I can have an adventure here' Riven thought gleefully to herself.
"We need to know who she is" said Filia looking at Riven.
"I think she doesn't want to talk about herself to us. Even how she seemed to know about us" said Zelgadis looking thoughtful.
"Maybe you can trade her that talisman for the information Miss Lina" Amelia stated. "I don't think she will talk otherwise."
"But" interrupted Lina "if she goes crazy or something we should be ready. "After a minute or so everyone agreed to Amelia's proposal and turned around.
"If you answer our questions we'll give you this" said Lina holding up the talisman. "Okay, where are you from."
"Not from this dimension. You see there is no magic, mazukos, or dragons. We learn science, math, and other stuff like that." Riven said looking at them.
Everyone was shocked for a minute then Filia asked "Do you belong to a specific race then."
"I'm a human if that's what you mean." replied Riven "Can I have the other necklace half now? Pleeease?"
"No, does that necklace have any powers that you know of then" said Lina.
"No"
"Are you in any planning to take over or destroy the world"
"What kind of a question is that? And no I don't plan on doing anything to this world."
"Okay if you travel with us and answer any later questions I'll let you have this then" said Lina (her judge of character instinct said it was okay to trust her).
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!" yelled Riven as she leapt up and down as the Slayers walked a little bit ahead.
Riven took the amulet and put it in her bag and stood up. 'Yay I'm a part of the team almost,' she thought as she ran after the others.
So begins a(and mine) crazy adventure.
Author Notes (Returns):Please don't hurt my small self confidence level with flames. Any people who encourage me I will see as idols ^_^ I will try to get the next part up soon as I can. Wheeeee! I finished my first chapter of my 3rd fic(I have others just they're not typed and since no one cares about that I'll be quiet).