What? Is it true? Xellos has a daughter?
Chapter One. Unexpected Fatherhood.
Having been relieved of his duties for a well deserved, and perhaps even a century long, vacation by a very insistent Lord Beastmaster, Xellos continues his partying at a locale tavern. Girls, attracted to his mysterious demeanor and ungodly looks, google and giggle with awe as he prepares his super concoction. He takes a large empty barrel for use and begins gathering up his secret ingredients. First he pours in a bottle of fine red wine then a cup of ale followed by a dash of cider. Next he adds a quart of martini, making sure not to grab a Martina =P, immediately mixed with two tall glasses of Bloody Mary. Xellos tosses in some vodka, not even keeping track of how much he puts in along with a six pack of ice cold beer. After adding a dash of whiskey and champagne he is almost finish. To top his concoction off, he adds one freshly brewed pot of coffee. Don't ask about the coffee.
Xellos stirs the mixture well with his staff while a few other, male, drunken patrons mock him with, "Boil, boil, toil and trouble!" "Heh...I'll deal with those idiots later.", Xellos contemplates and downs the whole barrel. The bar falls under the spell of a hushed silence as Xellos wipes off the remaining beverage from his lips. He gives a slight bow to the ladies around him. Certainly no human could have survived drinking such a concoction, and a large portion at that. However, they didn't know that Xellos is far from being human. "It's a wonder I'm still alive," Xellos admits in his thoughts, "that concoction could have killed a golden dragon instantaneously! Maybe I should send a brew to Filia." Xellos smirks at the devious thought then heads upstairs to his room walking perfectly as though he had not drank a drop of alcohol. He opens the door and shuts it behind him and immediately passes out onto the floor.
In the middle of the night, a mysteriously cloaked individual silent creeps up the stairs of the tavern where its guests and patrons reside. The figure walks down the hallway slowly, seemingly looking for one room in particular. It stops in front of one room and quietly sets something down on its doorstep. As swift and silent as possible, the individual slips away and back into the cold and starry outdoors.
In the morning, Xellos makes a futile attempt to crawl to his feet. His hangover subdues him. "Deso wanto duu tatal.", Xellos slurs. Suddenly, Xellos disappears and immediately reappears laying on his bed. "Ah, much better! I feel refreshed! Well now to see what I can do next." Xellos heads for the door and opens it, which happens to open inside and into the room, and notices a strange basket at the doorstep. "A basket of goodies from Little Red Riding Hood to Xellos?", Xellos ponders taking the basket inside and setting it on his bed. He notices a note attached to the soft red blanket and takes it off and reads it.
Dear Xellos,
This is your child. I can't handle it anymore. You raise it! Ha,
as if you could! I'm fed up, so she's all yours! Happy father-
hood...not! Oh, by the way, I've named her Demonic
Spawn of Ultimate Evil, but you can change the name if you
want. Not that I care!
Sincerely,
The unfortunate mother of your child.
Xellos slowly lifts up the blankets and peeks inside. "There's no WAY I can be a father! There MUST be a mistake."
Xellos shakes his head in disbelief. "This baby doesn't even look a thing like me!", Xellos denies looking away from the baby. The baby sneezes, with only a small blanket and a smaller tuft of purple hair for warmth. "Well...it looks innocent enough....", Xellos comments shrugging as he reaches his hand down towards the infant. Immediately she bites his hand causing Xellos to recoil. Unfortunately, for Xellos, she keeps a tight grip for a baby with only two sharp pointed teeth in her mouth. (Don't ask why she's already got teeth, she's a half-mazoku for crying out loud!) Xellos attempts to shake her off, but to no avail. "Help! HELP! Someone get this Demonic Spawn of Ultimate Evil OFF OF ME!", Xellos pleads as he futilely attempts to separate the obviously his baby from his hand. Eventually, his little daughter lets go. "You BETTER be glad that I can regenerate. Now then, how about a more suitable name. Ah, I know, Mesuinu. It suits you well." For some odd reason, she likes it, thus sending shivers down her father's spine. Then again, she's way too young to even realize what that name really means.
Suddenly a most foul aroma seeps up into Xellos's nose. "What is that smell?!", Xellos exclaims with a justified disgust. He looks at Mesuinu who seems to have a very evil look on her face for a baby. Fearing the worst, afterall, Xellos doesn't know what fatherhood is like, he cautiously peeks into the diaper nearly passing out from the massive poop aroma. "Now we'll have to do something about that!", Xellos comments and teleports away.
Xellos appears walking down a forest path. "Well that solved more than one problem." However, a hideous scent still lingers near Xellos. Xellos looks left, right, behind, and down but sees nothing. Only when he looks up does he see the baby Mesuinu clutched atop his staff. "Get DOWN!", Xellos orders and begins to shake the staff. After several minutes, the baby finally flies off and Xellos teleports again and appears in a desert. "She won't find me now!" "Piiiiiiiipuuuuuuuu!", a familiar baby voice exclaims causing Xellos to jump several miles into the air. "There's no escaping you, is there?!" Xellos reluctantly picks up his baby and teleports back to his room.
The smell has not left, and clearly there is no escape from this baby that is apparently his even in power. "Very well then. I suppose I better acquire some baby supplies for you. I can only hope that Val's giving Filia more hell than you're going to give me!", Xellos comments and teleports out. A few minutes later, he teleports back in, arms full of diapers, baby food, baby clothes, and various other essentials that he'd be sooner a happy-go-lucky defend of justice than be without! Not that he EVER wanted to be Amelia! He sets the supplies on the floors and looks on the bed. No baby.
"Mesuinu? Mesuinu? I KNOW I wasn't hallucinating! Mesuinu! Mesuinu!" Xellos falls into a panic. First he could not get rid of her, and now he could not find her. Surely nearly wiping out entire species wasn't THAT horrific of a sin, was it? "Mesuinu! Mesuinu! Doko ni arimasu ka?" Xellos looks under the bed, under the sheets, out the window, in the closet, out in the hall, on his staff, on his leg, and in all of the drawers, but finds no trace of his baby girl. Suddenly a very stinky and poopy diaper falls splat on his face. He disintigrates the diaper and grabs several wet wipes to clean his face. He looks up to see Mesuinu floating on the ceiling. She gradually floats down in a taunting giggle. "I hope you haven't wandered out of this room while I was gone. I can only IMAGINE what Lord Beastmaster would do if she were to find out I had a kid.", Xellos mutters.
Chapter One. Unexpected Fatherhood.
Having been relieved of his duties for a well deserved, and perhaps even a century long, vacation by a very insistent Lord Beastmaster, Xellos continues his partying at a locale tavern. Girls, attracted to his mysterious demeanor and ungodly looks, google and giggle with awe as he prepares his super concoction. He takes a large empty barrel for use and begins gathering up his secret ingredients. First he pours in a bottle of fine red wine then a cup of ale followed by a dash of cider. Next he adds a quart of martini, making sure not to grab a Martina =P, immediately mixed with two tall glasses of Bloody Mary. Xellos tosses in some vodka, not even keeping track of how much he puts in along with a six pack of ice cold beer. After adding a dash of whiskey and champagne he is almost finish. To top his concoction off, he adds one freshly brewed pot of coffee. Don't ask about the coffee.
Xellos stirs the mixture well with his staff while a few other, male, drunken patrons mock him with, "Boil, boil, toil and trouble!" "Heh...I'll deal with those idiots later.", Xellos contemplates and downs the whole barrel. The bar falls under the spell of a hushed silence as Xellos wipes off the remaining beverage from his lips. He gives a slight bow to the ladies around him. Certainly no human could have survived drinking such a concoction, and a large portion at that. However, they didn't know that Xellos is far from being human. "It's a wonder I'm still alive," Xellos admits in his thoughts, "that concoction could have killed a golden dragon instantaneously! Maybe I should send a brew to Filia." Xellos smirks at the devious thought then heads upstairs to his room walking perfectly as though he had not drank a drop of alcohol. He opens the door and shuts it behind him and immediately passes out onto the floor.
In the middle of the night, a mysteriously cloaked individual silent creeps up the stairs of the tavern where its guests and patrons reside. The figure walks down the hallway slowly, seemingly looking for one room in particular. It stops in front of one room and quietly sets something down on its doorstep. As swift and silent as possible, the individual slips away and back into the cold and starry outdoors.
In the morning, Xellos makes a futile attempt to crawl to his feet. His hangover subdues him. "Deso wanto duu tatal.", Xellos slurs. Suddenly, Xellos disappears and immediately reappears laying on his bed. "Ah, much better! I feel refreshed! Well now to see what I can do next." Xellos heads for the door and opens it, which happens to open inside and into the room, and notices a strange basket at the doorstep. "A basket of goodies from Little Red Riding Hood to Xellos?", Xellos ponders taking the basket inside and setting it on his bed. He notices a note attached to the soft red blanket and takes it off and reads it.
Dear Xellos,
This is your child. I can't handle it anymore. You raise it! Ha,
as if you could! I'm fed up, so she's all yours! Happy father-
hood...not! Oh, by the way, I've named her Demonic
Spawn of Ultimate Evil, but you can change the name if you
want. Not that I care!
Sincerely,
The unfortunate mother of your child.
Xellos slowly lifts up the blankets and peeks inside. "There's no WAY I can be a father! There MUST be a mistake."
Xellos shakes his head in disbelief. "This baby doesn't even look a thing like me!", Xellos denies looking away from the baby. The baby sneezes, with only a small blanket and a smaller tuft of purple hair for warmth. "Well...it looks innocent enough....", Xellos comments shrugging as he reaches his hand down towards the infant. Immediately she bites his hand causing Xellos to recoil. Unfortunately, for Xellos, she keeps a tight grip for a baby with only two sharp pointed teeth in her mouth. (Don't ask why she's already got teeth, she's a half-mazoku for crying out loud!) Xellos attempts to shake her off, but to no avail. "Help! HELP! Someone get this Demonic Spawn of Ultimate Evil OFF OF ME!", Xellos pleads as he futilely attempts to separate the obviously his baby from his hand. Eventually, his little daughter lets go. "You BETTER be glad that I can regenerate. Now then, how about a more suitable name. Ah, I know, Mesuinu. It suits you well." For some odd reason, she likes it, thus sending shivers down her father's spine. Then again, she's way too young to even realize what that name really means.
Suddenly a most foul aroma seeps up into Xellos's nose. "What is that smell?!", Xellos exclaims with a justified disgust. He looks at Mesuinu who seems to have a very evil look on her face for a baby. Fearing the worst, afterall, Xellos doesn't know what fatherhood is like, he cautiously peeks into the diaper nearly passing out from the massive poop aroma. "Now we'll have to do something about that!", Xellos comments and teleports away.
Xellos appears walking down a forest path. "Well that solved more than one problem." However, a hideous scent still lingers near Xellos. Xellos looks left, right, behind, and down but sees nothing. Only when he looks up does he see the baby Mesuinu clutched atop his staff. "Get DOWN!", Xellos orders and begins to shake the staff. After several minutes, the baby finally flies off and Xellos teleports again and appears in a desert. "She won't find me now!" "Piiiiiiiipuuuuuuuu!", a familiar baby voice exclaims causing Xellos to jump several miles into the air. "There's no escaping you, is there?!" Xellos reluctantly picks up his baby and teleports back to his room.
The smell has not left, and clearly there is no escape from this baby that is apparently his even in power. "Very well then. I suppose I better acquire some baby supplies for you. I can only hope that Val's giving Filia more hell than you're going to give me!", Xellos comments and teleports out. A few minutes later, he teleports back in, arms full of diapers, baby food, baby clothes, and various other essentials that he'd be sooner a happy-go-lucky defend of justice than be without! Not that he EVER wanted to be Amelia! He sets the supplies on the floors and looks on the bed. No baby.
"Mesuinu? Mesuinu? I KNOW I wasn't hallucinating! Mesuinu! Mesuinu!" Xellos falls into a panic. First he could not get rid of her, and now he could not find her. Surely nearly wiping out entire species wasn't THAT horrific of a sin, was it? "Mesuinu! Mesuinu! Doko ni arimasu ka?" Xellos looks under the bed, under the sheets, out the window, in the closet, out in the hall, on his staff, on his leg, and in all of the drawers, but finds no trace of his baby girl. Suddenly a very stinky and poopy diaper falls splat on his face. He disintigrates the diaper and grabs several wet wipes to clean his face. He looks up to see Mesuinu floating on the ceiling. She gradually floats down in a taunting giggle. "I hope you haven't wandered out of this room while I was gone. I can only IMAGINE what Lord Beastmaster would do if she were to find out I had a kid.", Xellos mutters.