SLAYERS: WARPED
or
BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE
Nayru: Here is my Slayers opus. I've been told by my peers that it's worthy of a doushinji. I don't know. I think I'd just like to put it here and see what everybody thinks.
Xiao: Hey, even I liked it.
DISCLAIMER: The Slayers characters aren't mine. Rei, Elijah, Kinsei, and Alin ARE mine.
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Introduction: Xelloss' Mission
The year in Earth time is 2003. A lone figure sits on a school roof. He'd put down a cell phone five minutes ago. The conversation he had went as follows: "There is a bomb in the school. I'm going to detonate it in five minutes and thirty seconds. I suggest you run."
"Who is this?! Who's calling?!"
"Bye!"
Xelloss watched pandemonium unfold as the school was evacuated. "For all the bad I've done, I'm still pinned with the task of finding four wayward children who are supposed to be on the side of good. Why did Zelas give me this task? Oh, wait, that's right... "
Two nights before, Zelas had called Xelloss to her.
"Xelloss, I've recieved a message from seven years in the future." She spoke calmly.
"That's wonderful. Did it tell you to quit smoking?" Xelloss was peeved that she'd interrupted his dinner with the Slayers; rather, stealing dinner from the Slayers.
"No, you idiot." Zelas pursed her lips. "It seems someone has decided to interefere with the way time and lives are supposed to progress. And you are involved."
"Really. How nice." Xelloss rolled his eyes. He wanted to go back to torturing Lina and Gourry, poking holes in various sexual protection products owned by Zangulus and Martina, dulling the spikes on Mace-sama, and being all around evil and slowing his 'friends' journey to "wherever the road leads them". "What does this have to do with me?"
"Well, apparently, it's about you and those 'Slayers'. It seems that they're being attacked by an evil overlord who has come from the future to this time era. Your future self sent the message. It seems that all of you except for 'Zelgadis' die."
"How terrible." Translation: I don't care.
"I have one question before I continue: HOW DO YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A GOLDEN DRAGON?!" Xelloss jumped.
"But, Zelas, I-"
"No ifs ands or buts. It seems that in the future, the Slayers marry, settle, and procreate. YOU procreate with a Golden Dragon... name of... FILIA." Zelas glared at Xelloss. "All matters aside. Read the message. I want you headed for the Earth in the year of 2003 to retrieve the four children who were sent there when their parents were brutally murdered or, in the case of the Golden Dragon, shipped to a different dimension. Your guidelines from your future self are there. I want you to change ONE thing: DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THE GOLDEN DRAGON. Everything you need to know,is there. As assistant will join you when you reenter this era."
"Fine by me!" Xelloss continued smiling. He hadn't flinched as his deepest, darkest secret was revealed. He simply bounced away to read the rest of the message.
Xelloss scanned the crowd, looking at the message again. "Red hair, bright red hair, the youngest had red hair." He noticed a group of four set off from the rest of the children. A shock of bright red seemed to glow from it. There was a slightly duller red color of hair as well, like a mix between purple and gold, along with dark blue and dark green. "Bingo." He ran along the buildings to get closer. The group was pulled close together. The redhead was smallest, about 5 feet tall. The only boy was tallest, almost 5 and a half. The green haired girl was only a little shorter than him, while the last girl, with maroon hair, was only a little over 5 feet. All of them wore school uniforms with jackets over them. The smallest girl was enclosed in the boy's jacket, while the other two simply stood close together. They were in quiet conversation. "Oh, this is definitely them. Odd, that they all band together." He looked at the message again. "What's this...? A fifth...? Oh, the assistant, right... I'll have to examine that later." He looked carefully at the maroon haired one. "Kinsei Zelas- tch, who'd name her that?- Ul-Copt Metallium, approximate age sixteen. Wow, she does look a lot like Filia. Checks out." He examined the boy. "Alionel 'Alin' Marik Wil Tesla etcetera jesus christ that's a long name Del Sailune Greywords, approximate age fifteen, identical to Zelgadis... Elijah Yugian etcetera I hate royal people Del Xoana, age seventeen, got her, she looks like MARTINA, that can't be good, Rei Lyssa Inverse-Gabriev, age 14, got her, no question that she's Lina's, that's all fo- what the...?" At that point, a bright flash of light had come through the sky, which could only mean one thing.
Down in the school courtyard minutes before, Elijah, Kinsei, Alin, and Rei were standing in their usual set off group. Elijah was bored, Kinsei was nervous, Alin was serene, and Rei was very cold. Alin kissed Rei's forehead. "I wonder if that bomb threat is real today." He remarked quietly, for the sake of some sound in the silence of panic.
"Ch." Elijah snorted.
"Well, Elijah, you never know." Kinsei giggled. "They say the voice sounded like that of an American voice actor, David Moo." Rei giggled too.
"Torture to the ears." Rei suddenly shivered violently. "Brrr..."
"Rei, don't get frustrated. It's not that cold. Last time you got angry, you get sent to the office for starting to say some weird hob-gob spell that probably wouldn't have worked." Elijah laughed.
"I AM calm, Elijah!" Rei growled.
"You forgot the time she set the science lab on fire."
"Who could forget the time Elijah started ranting about some made-up god and how it would take its vengeance on the teachers? You got suspended for a week!" Rei cried.
"Calm down, there's a lot of funny stuff about us four, why compare experiences?" Alin murmured. "I've got bleeding rocks all over my face, for christ's sake, and you think a few supernatural occurences about yourselves is weird." Just then, Rei started visibly shivering. Her skin has goosebumps, and she grew paler. Her eyes slightly glassed.
"It's happening again."
"What, the tingle feeling?" Elijah perked. The 'tingle feeling' was the one supernatural occurence the group conformed by. Every time she got it, the other three would get on their guard for anything. The 'tingle feeling' meant immediate danger. They had decided to believe in it the second time it came- she'd woken up in the middle of the night with it and saved them from a fire that was started a minute later. Rei sometimes ignored it, but one of them would trip or something petty a minute later. Elijah suddenly began to shiver too. Elijah only felt this sensation in a case of extreme danger. "We should move, take cover, something."
"Elijah, it's too late." Rei's eyes grew wider. "We can't protect ourselves from this danger." Just then, the grey sky lit up with what seemed like a burst of thunder.
A gentleman in a solid canvas cloak and hood leapt out of the light burst, sword in hand. He leapt into the group of orphans. His eyes focused on the littlest one, with the bright red hair. "You..." He grabbed her by her jacket. Rei's eyes suddenly turned red. The group froze in fear as Rei struggled to get out of his grasp.
"DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN!" She was speaking in a voice that was not hers. It was a slightly lower voice, a more mature one. "HE'S GOT HIS FACTS WRONG, YOU HAVE TO FIND SOME WAY TO STOP HIM! STOP HIM BEFORE HE DOES TOO MUCH DAMAGE!"
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! LINA, SHUT UP!" The older man hit Rei.
"SOMEONE IS WAITING FOR YOU, HE'S COMING FOR YOU, XELLOSS! XELLOSS! DO SOMETHING!" Rei had turned to stare at a figure on the roof. Xelloss panicked.
"My, my, this was unexpected!" His smile faded, and he jumped off the roof, and started playing tug-of-war with Rei.
After a few seconds of the two tugging on both arms, Lina's voice cried nervously, "This is pointless, Xelloss, give in. Get the other three to the future. I will save this girl myself." Xelloss let go. Rei's eyes flashed back to blue.
"What the-" At that second, the cloaked man leapt into midair. There was another huge burst of light. Rei screamed as she vanished.
Xelloss watched in horror as he lost Lina again.
Alin was staring at the ground, shuddering.
"Alin-"
"Alin-"
"Don't TALK to me." He growled. The remaining strange person smacked Alin upside the head. "OW! What the fu-"
"Can it." He sighed, and began to smile. "I know your names."
"Well, that gives you the advantage, doesn't it?" Elijah quipped.
"You remind me of your father." Elijah's scowl faded.
"You know my father?"
"I know all of your fathers. Not to mention your mothers. And most of your relatives."
"They're alive?" Alin frowned.
"No, goodness know, all but two are dead."
"Which are alive?"
"Why Alin, I'm surprised you don't recognize your own father! He just vanished." Alin's eyes widened. "And also, Kinsei's father is alive." Xelloss smiled. "It's me! Sort of."
"What?" Kinsei blinked. "You... you're..."
"I'm from about twenty-one years in the past. I'm not in a relationship with your mother in my time. It'll be a few more years. But I /will be/ your father." Kinsei's eyes filled with tears, and she hugged him. Xelloss was surprised. "Just like your mother..." He smiled bigger, patting her on the back. "There, there. Look, I'll explain this all later. We have no time to spare if we're going to save Rei. Everyone, come a little closer to me, I'll explain this when we get there! We're going on a little time travel!"
"I have to go to the bathroom already!" Elijah growled sarcastically. Xelloss murmured a quick spell, and there was another light burst, as the three children were transported into the past before they were born. ____________________________________________________________________________
The Earth year is 1981, but we're not on Earth anymore. Gourry Gabriev snaps awake in the Inn he and his friends are staying in. Frowning in a confused way, he scratched his head and tried to remember the details of his dream, trying to make heads or tails of it. The most he could remember was four kids, one getting kidnapped, and a few big bursts of light. He scratched his head again, as if it'd help.
"Huh." Lina burst into the room.
"Wake up Gourry! Oh! Hey! You're awake!" Lina grinned.
"Yeah." Gourry replied.
"Get dressed, I wanna get moving by nine!"
"Hey, Lina... "
"Yeah?"
"Do you know anyone named Rei?"
"No, afraid not! Why?"
"Never mind." Gourry smiled, and leapt out of bed.
"I've got this funny feeling today, Gourry. I think something big is coming."
"How big, Lina?"
Lina paused, and grinned widely. "HUGE!" ____________________________________________________________________________
Nayru: Please review!
or
BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE
Nayru: Here is my Slayers opus. I've been told by my peers that it's worthy of a doushinji. I don't know. I think I'd just like to put it here and see what everybody thinks.
Xiao: Hey, even I liked it.
DISCLAIMER: The Slayers characters aren't mine. Rei, Elijah, Kinsei, and Alin ARE mine.
_____________________________________________________________________
Introduction: Xelloss' Mission
The year in Earth time is 2003. A lone figure sits on a school roof. He'd put down a cell phone five minutes ago. The conversation he had went as follows: "There is a bomb in the school. I'm going to detonate it in five minutes and thirty seconds. I suggest you run."
"Who is this?! Who's calling?!"
"Bye!"
Xelloss watched pandemonium unfold as the school was evacuated. "For all the bad I've done, I'm still pinned with the task of finding four wayward children who are supposed to be on the side of good. Why did Zelas give me this task? Oh, wait, that's right... "
Two nights before, Zelas had called Xelloss to her.
"Xelloss, I've recieved a message from seven years in the future." She spoke calmly.
"That's wonderful. Did it tell you to quit smoking?" Xelloss was peeved that she'd interrupted his dinner with the Slayers; rather, stealing dinner from the Slayers.
"No, you idiot." Zelas pursed her lips. "It seems someone has decided to interefere with the way time and lives are supposed to progress. And you are involved."
"Really. How nice." Xelloss rolled his eyes. He wanted to go back to torturing Lina and Gourry, poking holes in various sexual protection products owned by Zangulus and Martina, dulling the spikes on Mace-sama, and being all around evil and slowing his 'friends' journey to "wherever the road leads them". "What does this have to do with me?"
"Well, apparently, it's about you and those 'Slayers'. It seems that they're being attacked by an evil overlord who has come from the future to this time era. Your future self sent the message. It seems that all of you except for 'Zelgadis' die."
"How terrible." Translation: I don't care.
"I have one question before I continue: HOW DO YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A GOLDEN DRAGON?!" Xelloss jumped.
"But, Zelas, I-"
"No ifs ands or buts. It seems that in the future, the Slayers marry, settle, and procreate. YOU procreate with a Golden Dragon... name of... FILIA." Zelas glared at Xelloss. "All matters aside. Read the message. I want you headed for the Earth in the year of 2003 to retrieve the four children who were sent there when their parents were brutally murdered or, in the case of the Golden Dragon, shipped to a different dimension. Your guidelines from your future self are there. I want you to change ONE thing: DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THE GOLDEN DRAGON. Everything you need to know,is there. As assistant will join you when you reenter this era."
"Fine by me!" Xelloss continued smiling. He hadn't flinched as his deepest, darkest secret was revealed. He simply bounced away to read the rest of the message.
Xelloss scanned the crowd, looking at the message again. "Red hair, bright red hair, the youngest had red hair." He noticed a group of four set off from the rest of the children. A shock of bright red seemed to glow from it. There was a slightly duller red color of hair as well, like a mix between purple and gold, along with dark blue and dark green. "Bingo." He ran along the buildings to get closer. The group was pulled close together. The redhead was smallest, about 5 feet tall. The only boy was tallest, almost 5 and a half. The green haired girl was only a little shorter than him, while the last girl, with maroon hair, was only a little over 5 feet. All of them wore school uniforms with jackets over them. The smallest girl was enclosed in the boy's jacket, while the other two simply stood close together. They were in quiet conversation. "Oh, this is definitely them. Odd, that they all band together." He looked at the message again. "What's this...? A fifth...? Oh, the assistant, right... I'll have to examine that later." He looked carefully at the maroon haired one. "Kinsei Zelas- tch, who'd name her that?- Ul-Copt Metallium, approximate age sixteen. Wow, she does look a lot like Filia. Checks out." He examined the boy. "Alionel 'Alin' Marik Wil Tesla etcetera jesus christ that's a long name Del Sailune Greywords, approximate age fifteen, identical to Zelgadis... Elijah Yugian etcetera I hate royal people Del Xoana, age seventeen, got her, she looks like MARTINA, that can't be good, Rei Lyssa Inverse-Gabriev, age 14, got her, no question that she's Lina's, that's all fo- what the...?" At that point, a bright flash of light had come through the sky, which could only mean one thing.
Down in the school courtyard minutes before, Elijah, Kinsei, Alin, and Rei were standing in their usual set off group. Elijah was bored, Kinsei was nervous, Alin was serene, and Rei was very cold. Alin kissed Rei's forehead. "I wonder if that bomb threat is real today." He remarked quietly, for the sake of some sound in the silence of panic.
"Ch." Elijah snorted.
"Well, Elijah, you never know." Kinsei giggled. "They say the voice sounded like that of an American voice actor, David Moo." Rei giggled too.
"Torture to the ears." Rei suddenly shivered violently. "Brrr..."
"Rei, don't get frustrated. It's not that cold. Last time you got angry, you get sent to the office for starting to say some weird hob-gob spell that probably wouldn't have worked." Elijah laughed.
"I AM calm, Elijah!" Rei growled.
"You forgot the time she set the science lab on fire."
"Who could forget the time Elijah started ranting about some made-up god and how it would take its vengeance on the teachers? You got suspended for a week!" Rei cried.
"Calm down, there's a lot of funny stuff about us four, why compare experiences?" Alin murmured. "I've got bleeding rocks all over my face, for christ's sake, and you think a few supernatural occurences about yourselves is weird." Just then, Rei started visibly shivering. Her skin has goosebumps, and she grew paler. Her eyes slightly glassed.
"It's happening again."
"What, the tingle feeling?" Elijah perked. The 'tingle feeling' was the one supernatural occurence the group conformed by. Every time she got it, the other three would get on their guard for anything. The 'tingle feeling' meant immediate danger. They had decided to believe in it the second time it came- she'd woken up in the middle of the night with it and saved them from a fire that was started a minute later. Rei sometimes ignored it, but one of them would trip or something petty a minute later. Elijah suddenly began to shiver too. Elijah only felt this sensation in a case of extreme danger. "We should move, take cover, something."
"Elijah, it's too late." Rei's eyes grew wider. "We can't protect ourselves from this danger." Just then, the grey sky lit up with what seemed like a burst of thunder.
A gentleman in a solid canvas cloak and hood leapt out of the light burst, sword in hand. He leapt into the group of orphans. His eyes focused on the littlest one, with the bright red hair. "You..." He grabbed her by her jacket. Rei's eyes suddenly turned red. The group froze in fear as Rei struggled to get out of his grasp.
"DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN!" She was speaking in a voice that was not hers. It was a slightly lower voice, a more mature one. "HE'S GOT HIS FACTS WRONG, YOU HAVE TO FIND SOME WAY TO STOP HIM! STOP HIM BEFORE HE DOES TOO MUCH DAMAGE!"
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! LINA, SHUT UP!" The older man hit Rei.
"SOMEONE IS WAITING FOR YOU, HE'S COMING FOR YOU, XELLOSS! XELLOSS! DO SOMETHING!" Rei had turned to stare at a figure on the roof. Xelloss panicked.
"My, my, this was unexpected!" His smile faded, and he jumped off the roof, and started playing tug-of-war with Rei.
After a few seconds of the two tugging on both arms, Lina's voice cried nervously, "This is pointless, Xelloss, give in. Get the other three to the future. I will save this girl myself." Xelloss let go. Rei's eyes flashed back to blue.
"What the-" At that second, the cloaked man leapt into midair. There was another huge burst of light. Rei screamed as she vanished.
Xelloss watched in horror as he lost Lina again.
Alin was staring at the ground, shuddering.
"Alin-"
"Alin-"
"Don't TALK to me." He growled. The remaining strange person smacked Alin upside the head. "OW! What the fu-"
"Can it." He sighed, and began to smile. "I know your names."
"Well, that gives you the advantage, doesn't it?" Elijah quipped.
"You remind me of your father." Elijah's scowl faded.
"You know my father?"
"I know all of your fathers. Not to mention your mothers. And most of your relatives."
"They're alive?" Alin frowned.
"No, goodness know, all but two are dead."
"Which are alive?"
"Why Alin, I'm surprised you don't recognize your own father! He just vanished." Alin's eyes widened. "And also, Kinsei's father is alive." Xelloss smiled. "It's me! Sort of."
"What?" Kinsei blinked. "You... you're..."
"I'm from about twenty-one years in the past. I'm not in a relationship with your mother in my time. It'll be a few more years. But I /will be/ your father." Kinsei's eyes filled with tears, and she hugged him. Xelloss was surprised. "Just like your mother..." He smiled bigger, patting her on the back. "There, there. Look, I'll explain this all later. We have no time to spare if we're going to save Rei. Everyone, come a little closer to me, I'll explain this when we get there! We're going on a little time travel!"
"I have to go to the bathroom already!" Elijah growled sarcastically. Xelloss murmured a quick spell, and there was another light burst, as the three children were transported into the past before they were born. ____________________________________________________________________________
The Earth year is 1981, but we're not on Earth anymore. Gourry Gabriev snaps awake in the Inn he and his friends are staying in. Frowning in a confused way, he scratched his head and tried to remember the details of his dream, trying to make heads or tails of it. The most he could remember was four kids, one getting kidnapped, and a few big bursts of light. He scratched his head again, as if it'd help.
"Huh." Lina burst into the room.
"Wake up Gourry! Oh! Hey! You're awake!" Lina grinned.
"Yeah." Gourry replied.
"Get dressed, I wanna get moving by nine!"
"Hey, Lina... "
"Yeah?"
"Do you know anyone named Rei?"
"No, afraid not! Why?"
"Never mind." Gourry smiled, and leapt out of bed.
"I've got this funny feeling today, Gourry. I think something big is coming."
"How big, Lina?"
Lina paused, and grinned widely. "HUGE!" ____________________________________________________________________________
Nayru: Please review!