Disclaimer: You know the drill, Slayers isn't mine, blah, blah, blah... enjoy (hopefully at least).

Most of the group thought about her proposal all that night, except for Gourry who didn't know what was going on. Most of the group had come to the decision that they wouldn't do anything for Xellos's birthday, other than Gourry, who didn't even think to begin with.

"It would make him feel important," Lina decided

"He's not worth our time." Zelgadis grumbled

"It wouldn't serve justice!" Amelia pronounced

"I STILL don't know what you guys are talking about!!!!!" Gourry whined

They headed off for the next village, hoping to be able to trade some of their gold for more valuable things, like food for instance.

While they were walking however, a familiar Mazoku shadow appeared behind them. And as usual, his usual goofy grin was plastered onto his face. Zelgadis, was, you could say, was not happy

"What are YOU doing here!?" Zelgadis growled angrily

"Sore wa Himitsu desu"

"Oh, why did I even ask!" Zelgadis yelled as he turned back towards the road.

The Slayers group continued onward completely forgetting that they were being followed by the trickster priest. That was, until a medium size stone hit Zelgadis on the head with a large clunk, as rock hit rock.

"Ow!" Zelgadis yelped more out of shock than pain. "Darn you, you stupid Mazoku" he grumbled annoyedly and glared back at Xelloss.

Eventually everyone forgot about the whole ordeal until a large branch suddenly appeared in front of Amelia and instantaneously tripped her, making her land flat on her face.

"What was THAT for?!" She yelled at Xellos's face, very angrily. He only grinned back.

By this time of course, everyone was watching out for Xelloss or his next prank.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! It's LUNA!!!!!" A voice called out, reaching Lina's ears very quickly. Causing her to instantly run behind a big rock for cover. Seconds later, she realized who owned the voice and came stomping out, VERY angry.

"Xelloss... you.... errr..." Lina looked as though she wanted to skin him alive. "Fireball!" she yelled as a ball of fire collided with Xelloss, covering him in soot and catching his cape on fire.

Every group member other than Gourry, wanting to kill Xelloss.

"Hey, Gourry, look, a sword farm!" Xellos's voice rang out yet again.

Instantly, Gourry started looking around for it, unaware that it didn't exist.

"Where? Where? I don't see it, show me!" Gourry spoke as he frantically looked around the countryside looking for the 'sword farm'. Although Gourry was just plain confused and disappointed, by the end of the day, everybody else was having second thoughts about playing tricks on Xelloss on his birthday.

"It would finally lower his ego," Lina said thoughtfully

"It'd be worth our time to teach that... fruitcake a lesson...! Zelgadis said, feeling the bruise on his head.

"It's time we serve justice and get even with him!" Amelia said strongly

"I still want to see the sword farm!!!!!!" Gourry whined

And so it was decided, the Slayers gang was going to pull tricks on the trickster priest on his birthday and teach somebody a lesson... the only question is... who?







ok! so? how do you like it so far? tell me what you think!

Ch. 3 coming soon!

~Anakara