Slayers Nightmares

We find our hero dressed in her usual robes in a bush

It's night, Day 4 of my hoard. In the city of Lydon, in the outer world of course, there have been a major bandit group stealing treasure left and right. Naturally, I felt challenged and decided to stick around and hoard them.

I has spent a few days scoping out the camp. It was the most heavely guarded camp Lina has ever seen. This is going to be difficult, I thought. Ever since she destroyed Darkstar, her talismans haven't worked at all. So she's been attacking bandit camps left and right to find another set.

"Heh," I whispered to herself. "I feel a little powerless without the power to cast the Ragna Blade, but I plan on getting it back ASAP." As I spoke, I was preparing to take her plan into action, when suddenly, I was grabbed and dragged a little bit away from the camp. The grip was strong, stronger than Gourry's, so she couldn't look at who grabbed her.

The grip finally let go of me. When she whirled around, she was face to face with, what she thought, a kid.

He was definitely a kid. He was just a little shorter than me, and medium build. He was wearing a typical pair of robes and pants, except they were green. A green cape was loosely worn on his shoulders.

The oddest part of his feature was his hair. It was light blue with a hint of silver. Then there was his staff. It was taller then him, pure iron, and had crescent blades on both ends.

"Who the –"

"Shush up or you'll reveal our hiding place," he whispered.

"Who are you and what the hell are you doing?" Lina whispered back.

"My name is Ian, and as for my purpose, I'm here to help you break into that camp you were about to go into," he responded.

That got Lina furious. "Who said I needed your help?!"

"From what I assumed, you were going to cast a fireball into the camp and blow everything up. The problem with that plan is each bandit can cast barriers on themselves, even if that is the only spell they can cast. A mere fireball won't work on three quarters of them."

"What?" was all Lina could sputter out. Bandits with magic? That's like saying Gourry has a brain. He was asleep at the hotel, of course.

"My idea is much more effective," he started to explain. "We have to look like merchants so they think we have something valuble on us. As an extra bonus, we also have a girl almost any boy will drool over." He looked at Lina with a bit of lust.

"Okay, Number One: Don't flirt with me like that again or I'll blast you into next century! Number Two: If we're working together, I want at least sixty percent of the plunder!"

"It's fifty-fifty or no deal," he stated. This was not light talk..

"Okay, but the treasure better be big," Lina replied.

After a little preparing, they were walking near the camp in merchant clothes. Lina was wearing a rare looking cape with silver lining. Other than that, she was wearing what she usually wore. Ian was wearing a vest over his basic clothes and had a good sized sack over his shoulder.

"Hey," a bandit said as they passed by. "Give us everything you have or die."

Lina had to swallow some pride for that one. Ian looked like it didn't bother him at all. "And if we don't?" Ian replied.

"Than we'll sell you to slavery while we do in your girlfriend, bastard."

In unison, me and Ian did a left and right uppercut right in his smug face.

"New plan!" Ian shouted. "Blow up every bandit you even glance at!" He seemed enraged.

"Hell Yeah! That's my kind of plan!" I yelled back. "Dynast Bras!"

"Freeze Arrow!" Ian shouted.

"Fire Ball!"

"Flare Lance!"

"Burst Flare!"

"Dam Bras!"

After millions more explosive, every bandit was slain. Once we finished nosing around, we found a whole room full of treasure.

"About time," I stated, starting to divide up the treasure. There was lots. Gems, gold, clothes scrolls, and almost anything else you could think of. "Okay, I get the rubies and amethysts. You get the sapphires and emeralds."

"Deal!" he said. "Next on business, this is a magic short sword that deals more damage than a normal short sword and doesn't break by extreme pressure. While this necklace powers up shamanism water spells, my specialty. I suggest you take the sword while I keep the necklace."

For the next hour, we divided the treasure by the two of us. "Well, that covers all the treasure I can carry."

"Really? But there's still quite a bit," Ian said.

"And it's all mine!" said an oh-so familiar, yet scary voice.

"Oh god…" I said and turned around slowly to see a scary figure before me.

"We meet again, Lina Inverse! OH HOHOHOHO!!" laughed Naga the serpent. "How dare you break into my bandit camp!"