Author Notes: I don't own anything here really. The idea that inspired/generated this fic was half mine half Zee M. And I definitely don't own the Slayers, otherwise there would be more than 3 seasons. *cackles*
Filia: I don't have to take this! I may be a muse but can't you at least get different other muses that aren't a mazoku! *furiously points over to Xellos and Dolphin*
Xellos: Why Filia, I didn't know you could care. And here I thought you were just a selfish dragon. *grin* ^_^
Filia: I am not! Like you would know anything about caring you namagomi mazoku! *tail has popped out and currently swishing around*
Xellos: *twitch* More than you would ever know!
Dolphin: *takes a sip of tea as Filia and Xellos fight in the background* The traditional love/hate relationship… *she sighs happily and watches*
Riven: Ack… will you all behave! Let's get on with the fic. Go on, go! *the muses stalk off (Dolphin danced off)* Why can't I have muses that know how to behave…
~ ~ ~ (Muses… they never behave…) ~ ~ ~
We join the Slayers at a restaurant. Everyone was doing the normal meal routine. Lina, Gourry, and Amelia were savagely attacking the any food in the vicinity, Zelgadis was enjoying a new coffee flavor, and both Filia and Xellos were waiting for tea.
'Good thing this isn't Glanvar. We just missed it, though it is in the area.' Xellos mused until a waiter handed him a cup of tea. Taking a sip he looked at it curiously 'Strange this tastes familiar. I must be mistaken this isn't Glanvar.' He drank more while Filia still was on her first cup.
Soon everyone was full, and the waiter came by. "Did everyone like the meal?" he panted.
"Yeah it was good." Lina said. "I haven't heard of this town though. Why is that?"
"We just changed our name recently. It was Glanvar, but now it is Nipperton. Do you like our new name?" Unnoticed to everyone Xellos blanched when the waiter mentioned the name change.
"Yeah sure." Lina waved him off.
'Oh…no…' Xellos looked at the empty teacup. 'I just hope I haven't had too much…' WHAM! Xellos found himself partially embedded in the wall. He pulled himself out, stood up, and glaring the at others he yelled "Why in Mei-ou's realm do you do that for?!"
Everyone blinked at the sudden out burst from him. Filia quickly put away her mace.
"You were just sitting there, and didn't answer us when we talked to you…" Amelia mumbled.
"We're ready to go look at the museum." Lina shrugged and walked out with everyone soon following her.
Xellos walked out last. 'I think I can handle this. I hope I can handle this…' Walking out he almost tripped on a stair. He flailed his arms for a second to catch his balance. He then glanced at the others and sighed in relief when they didn't notice. 'I'm not going to be able to handle this, but I can't leave either… orders.'
~ ~ ~ (Blast those orders, but it is more fun this way *evil grin*) ~ ~ ~
"This is the legendary staff off Rezo the Red Priest. Many believe it has magical powers that only he knew about…" The guide droned on to the group of six people.
Zelgadis was quietly seething at seeing the staff. After all it helped turn him into chimera, but maybe it held the key to reversing the curse.
Lina was remembering the battle with Rezo. Maybe after Zelgadis was done with it he'd let her have it…
Gourry was thinking about a chicken. The weird little chicken called Fibula or something like that. It later grew to be a bigger chicken.
Amelia thought about how just it would be if Zelgadis could break the curse on him. She didn't really remember why he wanted to do that. He looked so cool with it though…
Filia was interested at how strong a magic sense she got from the staff. This Rezo must have been powerful to create it. He was only a human…
Xellos was looking from his staff to Rezo's. He liked his staff but the other one could make noise… It could jingle, and that was cool.
"Could we possibly have the staff?" Zelgadis asked.
"The guide stopped and looked at him. "No, this is a holy relic since Rezo mysteriously vanished years ago."
"But I'm his great grandson/grandson." Zelgadis tersely replied.
"I can't allow anyone to take it." The guide repeated.
"He was carrying a fragment of Shabranigdo." Amelia said. "So he was evil."
"What?!" Filia's tail popped out. "He was!"
"I repeat, this staff doesn't leave the area." The guide flatly said.
"Now listen here…" Lina shouted.
Xellos only paid half attention to the others. Shrugging he made his staff vanish, and teleported over behind every single ward put up to protect the staff. (Hey being a high-leveled mazoku does have its perks…) Reaching out he took Rezo's staff.
"Hey how did he get past all the shields and traps?!" The guide shouting pointing.
"Oh no! Xellos you get back here with staff!" Lina and Zelgadis shouted.
Xellos opened his eyes, turned around slightly and giggled still holding the staff.
"…" everyone blinked in surprise. He did look kind of creepy, and he never acted like this before.
Xellos giggled again and then in a blur sped past everyone out the door.
"… Get back here you… arrrghh!!!" Lina and the others sped out.
Only to stop when they didn't see where he had gone.
"Excuse me?" Everyone turned to see the guide. "Is your friend a mazoku by chance?"
"Yeah." Zelgadis cautiously said.
The guide whipped out a book. "That explains a lot. Did he eat any plant, it has a pale green stem with bright blue flowers that have a black center."
Everyone shook his or her head no.
"Any special food or tea?"
"Well we did have some tea at the restaurant…" Filia said.
"That explains it. We grow a plant called Verin and it has some very strange magical properties. First of all is it only grows in this area, secondly it helps you sleep , thirdly for some it can act as a truth serum, and there are so many more… But the one I'm thinking about is if a mazoku eats it, they have unusual side affects. It has earned it's nick name of mazoku-nip, acting like cat-nip, but for mazoku. Your friend must have gotten into some accidentally..."
A loud sound came from the east and everyone ran that way.
~-~-~ (Mazoku-nip!!!) ~-~-~
Xellos was hanging up-side down from a tree branch in a forest nearby Nipperton. Holding Rezo's staff, which jingled much to his delight, he shouted "Four!" and swung it. The boulder went flying. Dropping down from the tree and landing on his feet he half ran, half skipped after it with the staff slung over his shoulder.
The boulder whistled through the air for a minute, before plummeting back in the forest. Soon Xellos came to where the boulder landed. Standing next to it, he took Rezo's staff, aimed, and swung again. "Five!" Then like before he half skipped half ran after it.
This time the boulder landed on top of a hill, startling a bunny that it narrowly missed. When Xellos came along and spotted the bunny, he picked it up.
"Awww… poor thing did I scare you?" Xellos sat on top of the boulder cuddling and baby talking to the bunny with Rezo's staff still slung over his shoulder.
And that is how everyone found him. The Slayers jaws dropped when they saw the Trickster Priest cuddling a bunny.
Xellos soon noticed the others and stood up. "I will not allow you to take away Fluffers! By all that is unjust and evil you can not kill him!!" Xellos somehow managed to do a justice-type pose while holding the bunny.
Amelia leapt up on a nearby tree and posed. "I stand for all that is just and good! Never in my life would I hurt a bunny!" Amelia dropped her pose and got a closer look at the bunny. "Especially such a cute little bunny."
Everyone by now had face-faulted.
Xellos blinked. "Well okay. Take good care of him then." Xellos teleported over, handed Amelia the bunny, and then teleported back onto the boulder where he began spinning around.
"This is scary…" Lina said when she pulled herself off the ground to see Xellos doing something that vaguely resembled ballet.
"Awww… isn't Fluffers cute?" Amelia snuggled the bunny.
"What do we do?" Gourry said looking at Xellos with a confused expression.
"Maybe we can snap him out of it." Lina said . "Fireball!" The orange-red ball of fire missed the dancing mazoku.
"Awww…" Xellos stopped and threw a pouting expression at Lina. "You're mean, I'm going to go somewhere else." He somersaulted off the rock, over the group, and as soon as he landed began to skip-run to a field.
"Ah that's not good!" The guide stammered. "That where the Verin grows! If he eats anymore…"
Lina and bolted after the mazoku without hearing the rest of the sentence or a second's thought.
~ ~ ~ (Xellos skips by. "Wheee!" Riven glances up from her computer. O.o) ~ ~ ~
Xellos was having a blast. Literally. After dodging all the Ra Tilts, the Dragon Slave or two, and anything else they cast after at him, he got to see the pretty explosions.
Eventually he came to a field of pale green plants with bright blue flowers that had a black center. He stopped to sniff one.
"Hey… this smells nice." He then decapitated the flowers and sniffed them. Then he sat down and happily bit into them. "They taste good too." Then for no apparent reason he leapt into a different section and rolled in it.
"Stop!!!" Lina anyone else that followed her.
Xellos looked up with flowers that were randomly stuck to him. "Why?" He asked in very cheery voice. He knew Zelgadis had circle behind him and was about to charge.
"Slee-" Lina charged just as soon as Zelgadis did.
Xellos just stuck out his tongue and leapt straight up. Lina and Zelgadis crashed into each other. Lina's sleep spell made Zelgadis fall asleep, while Zelgadis's inertia knocked Lina down and out.
Xellos landed several feet away and giggled. He then leapt into another section.
Filia stared at Lina and Zelgadis. "Ok it's up to us three." Filia turned around and found out she was alone.
Scene flashes and Gourry and Amelia are playing with Fluffers. They didn't follow.
Filia gritted her teeth and went in the direction to where Xellos headed. She prepared herself for the worst. She peeked through the plants ready to see mass chaos.
She saw a frolicking mazoku trying to chase a butterfly. Filia blinked.
Xellos stopped, scooped up a bunch of flowers, and bounded over to a startled Filia.
"Here." He dumped the flowers on her and began chasing another butterfly.
"Eh?" Filia looked down at the messy bouquet of flowers. "I... err... what are you up to namagomi?!" she yelled standing up.
Xellos froze mid-step and looked at her with huge watery eyes. "What did I do?"
Filia was still confused by his behavior. "You know what you did namagomi."
Xellos's eye's seemed to get a little bigger and wetter. He then threw himself at Filia sobbing. After he had latched around her waist he wailed "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" He paused and looked up. "What did I do?"
"Rrraaaarrrgggghhhh!!!!" Filia then tried to pry the mazoku off of her, but to no avail. She eventually sat down red in the face. "Baka namagomi mazoku..."
Xellos wailed harder.
Filia growled and fumed. "Great I'm stuck to namagomi mazoku who won't get off of me."
Xellos looked up ate her with his huge watery eyes and sniffed. He let go and teleported a short distance away with his back towards her. "You're mean." He sat down and fiddled with Rezo's staff.
Filia stared at the mazoku's back. Hearing a soft rustling she turned around to see the guide.
"I just came to see if I can help."
"Like there's anything we could do for him." Filia pointed towards Xellos who was still sulking.
"Why are you covered in flowers?" The guide stared at the flowers that had stuck to her.
"He dropped them all on me." Filia was now a light crimson.
"He must like you."
"No! He's an evil namagomi mazoku! He can't! It's a evil scheme!" Filia shouted growing fangs.
Unseen by both of them Xellos cringed. Turning around for a second he looked at the two others, before radiating a hurt puppy dog aura. Whimpering he slunk away.
"Wait calm down, calm down…" The guide placated her. "Verin is like a truth serum, remember." Filia nodded and he continued "So he isn't hiding anything."
"So he really likes me?" she squeaked after a minute of stunned silence.
"Yeah. And since he likes you, why don't you get him to calm down. He'll listen to you. I'll go check on the two sleeping beauties."
Filia stood up and brushed herself off as the guide left. Looking over to where Xellos was she was surprised to not to see him there.
Filia stood there thinking. Then she heard a soft clanging jingle in the distance. Filia walked, following the sound until she came to a large tree at the edge of the forest. Peering up into branches she saw a distracted Xellos absently turning the staff in his hands.
'I'm here, now what do I do?' she thought. "Ummm can you come down here Xellos?"
Startled Xellos looked down at her. After a moment he said, "No, you don't want me to."
Filia ground her teeth together. "I said come down here right now!"
Xellos teleported down a several feet away from her with his head bowed.
"Now come over here." Filia calmed down a little.
"Last time you yelled at me." Xellos looked up with huge watery eyes again.
"I promise I won't this time, come on come over here." Filia held her arms out. The next thing she knew Xellos had reattached himself to her waist.
Filia almost angrily yelled out but she took a deep breath and tried to calm down. She sat down and leaned against the tree. "Now I want you stay here with me." She said.
"Okay…" Xellos mumbled.
Filia looked down and saw Xellos yawn before he scooted a little bit closer with a content expression on his face. Looking back up she tried to come to grips that Xellos was laying down and partially on her. And it wasn't that bad actually...
Filia reached out and took Rezo's staff. It jingled and Filia couldn't help but grin. She shook it again, and giggled. No wonder why someone would carry a staff like that around, it was fun to jingle it.
She leaned it next to her. "Xellos?"
She didn't get a reply.
"Xellos?" This time Filia looked down and saw he had actually fallen asleep.
'I didn't know mazoku could fall asleep.' Filia though. She then looked around to check if the coast was clear. When she knew no one else was in the area she softly smiled and put her hand on his head.
She nearly jumped and took her hand off when Xellos began to purr. She grinned a little and scratched his head, and Xellos nuzzled closer and purred louder. Filia giggled and leaned back lazily.
~ ~ ~ (Purrrr…^-^ ) ~ ~ ~
Wherever he was it was warm and comfy. Very warm and comfy. And someone was gently rubbing his head, and that was nice. Very nice. But how did he get here… The last thing he remembered clearly was seeing a staff.
All of a sudden whatever he was on moved and he heard a yawn. Opening his eyes a crack he looked up. It was only Filia. He closed his eyes and sighed. Only Filia… Only Filia?! His eyes snapped open as he sat up very quickly and looked around. How did he get here?
"Have a good nap Xellos." Filia smiled.
"…" Xellos just stared at her for a second before looking around again. How did he get here under a tree alone with Filia? It also appeared to be late afternoon.
Filia giggled quietly and leaned forward. When Xellos wasn't looking at her she began to scratch his head again.
"Filia…" Xellos whined after he whirled around.
Filia giggled again and leaned on him.
"Eh?!" Xellos's eyes widened when Filia snuggled against him.
Just then everyone else came and were shocked again.
"Wait Filia had a little of the tea too! What does it do to dragons?!" Lina shook the guide.
"Takes some time but it acts like a tranquilizer, it looks she didn't get that much." The guide's teeth rattled as he spoke.
Filia grabbed Rezo's staff and ran off back into the fields, everyone followed.
~ ~ ~ (Filia darts by "Here I go!" Riven glances up from her computer again. O.o ) ~ ~ ~
Later after everyone found Filia curled up on a rock in the middle of a stream. They found out the staff wouldn't cure Zelgadis. They carried Filia back to the inn. And the rest of the night went smoothly.
The next morning both Filia and Xellos avoided the tea. They then began to gather supplies and went their separate ways.
'I should get some more of this mazoku-nip and give it to Xellos more often. Just enough to loosen him up.' Filia thought impishly as she skipped into the Viren fields.
~ ~ ~ (Sneaky Filia…) ~ ~ ~
Author's Notes: Ack! This turned into a romance! And I didn't mean for it too! *shrug* Oh well. ^-^ Any way like it, hate it, didn't understand it? (ihvnnm I know you don't, you never understand my fics. Even my normal ones. *background fades to black as single spot light shines on the author* )
Started : 4/12/02 Finished : 4/12/02