Slayers: Darkness
I do not own Slayers at all, but I wish that I did so that I had a job and a lot of money.
Chapter VII: Finally an attack! What is wrong here?
They were about a month away from where the map said that where the staff of light was, when a big funny loud roar sounded from the group.
"Man, I am soooooo hungry! I need food!" Lina yelled out after her stomach growled again.
"But Miss Lina you have the map. Do you know when we will hit another town for supplies?" Amelia asked just as hungrily.
"Two more days that way." Lina said pointing to the direction that they are traveling.
"Oh no, so I guess we have to send someone ahead." Amelia said without meaning.
"Naw, how would they know where we were." Lina stated bursting Amelia's bubble.
"Hey, what's that?" Gourry asked pointing at the sky.
"It's a bird, and it is to far away for us to get at it." Lina sighed out.
"But Lina, it is coming straight for us. And I think it is a little larger than a bird." Gourry said back with a slight whine.
Lina looked up and saw that he is right, it was not a bird and it was getting ready to attack them.
"Darn it, when I'm this hungry I can only do a few spells." Lina mumbled to herself.
"Who killed Tiva, the great bird demon?" The hawk like demon asked throwing dust into the group.
"Um, I don't know." Lina said since that fight was so long ago.
"Oh, you mean the one Rezo turned into a giant chicken. He died of embarrassment." Xellos said making the group look at him and then to the hawk.
"Ack, no one calls Tiva a chicken and gets away with it." The hawk cried out and started to target Xellos. Xellos dodges most of the feathers, but when he tried to phase away he couldn't.
"Xellos, why did? OH I remember now, how did you know that the giant chicken that was before we met?" Lina said making the hawk stop and look at Lina.
"Well, that is a secret." Xellos said trying to figure out why he didn't disappear.
"Darkness beyond twilit, Crimson like blood that flows, Buried within the stream of time is where your powers grow, I Pledge myself to conquer, all those who stand before the mighty gift you bestow in my unworthy hands, Dragon Slave!" Lina cast the spell right into the hawk demon and poof the enemy was gone.
Xellos was on the ground trying to figure out how he could not phase, so he tried again, he landed on his face.
"Oh, my, my, looks like he can't use his powers." Dolph said making them all jump because they had forgotten her.
"Dolph, don't scare us like that! And what do you mean that Xellos cannot use his powers?" Lina yelled out at the smiling happy woman.
"Well, it was bound to happen, given to what he is." Dolph said making them all start.
"What do you mean what I am?" Xellos asked looking quite peeved.
"Oh, you mean you don't know. Ask your master, she should tell you." Dolph said making Xellos sweat drop.
'Why, why, why? I cannot tell Lina who she really is, or mistress will kill me. What does she know about me that I do not know?' Xellos thought as the group started back on the journey.
Unfortunately the rest of the journey to the town held no more battles.
"Food, Food, Food." Lina, Gourry, and Amelia said running towards a restaurant that seems to Xellos to shrink. Luckily for the poor 'mysterious priest' Zelgadis, Sylphiel, and Filia ran after to make sure that Lina and Gourry doesn't eat the town out.
"So, what am I, oh mysterious one?" Xellos asked the new member of the group.
"Oh why haven't you asked your master?" Dolph asked back with a smirk.
"I cannot, I can only cast spells, and I can no longer even touch the astral plane. You knew that didn't you?" Xellos stated after thinking if he should tell her.
"Ah, so this is faster than I thought. I feel that it might be this prophesy that is speeding up your, unknown secret." Dolph said knowing that Xellos will growl like the beast-general he is.
"Why are you really here, and why did you fake dieing? Was it to get away from your husband that my bet set you with?" Xellos said trying to get a rise out of her.
"I am here to look for my daughters since they both left home. I faked the death because no human could have survived the attack that had happened to me. And I heard that you saved my husband a few times since it kept you in good graces of the sorcerers that we are traveling with." Dolph said ending the conversation.
'Huh, now I know who her daughters are, but I cannot tell mistress until my powers come back.' Xellos thought as he made it to where Lina and co is currently eating the restaurant.
"My food Gourry! Oops I mean Amelia!" Lina said making Zel who was drinking coffee spit.
"When is my tea coming?" Filia asked while having her book on her lap reading, tea at her spot and never noticed.
"Fi-chan, it is right next to you." Xellos said hoping that Filia will respond in kind.
"Namagomi, why did you just do that?" Filia said getting angry, no she did not spill the tea on the book, that's wrong of a book lover like me, the teacup fell onto the floor.
"You asked for your tea, silly dragon." Xellos said mockingly knowing that she will get madder at him.
"Namagomi, I will spill a certain secret of yours if you do not keep civil with me." Filia said just loud enough to stop the food fight in progress, Lina and the others saw that Filia just blackmailed the killer of her race with something and Lina wants to find out.
"What secret?" Lina asked looking at the two. Xellos actually went pale, Filia's smirk turned into an evil smile.
"Filia, you wouldn't," Xellos started then stopped when Filia's smile got wider. "You would, and I will tell people of the something in your home." Xellos said back hoping that will stall her.
"Oh, I did tell someone of my 'something' in my home. So my threat is bigger than yours." Filia said the childish but oddly true statement.
"What secret, c'mon you two, tell me." Lina said trying to get some paydirt on the one that keeps skipping out when the times get tough.
"Fine, I will be more civil you blackmailing gold." Xellos said making them all realize that he knew what she just did.
"Wow, Filia just did a mizoku thing, and Xellos just did a dragon thing. Hey that was part of the poem thing!" Gourry said with his mouth full but everyone heard that sentence clearly.
"Yeah, dragon and demon walking in peace, wow, that one started early. Well we are close in finding the staff of light, so that must be it." Lina said trying to figure out what the secret that Filia knows about Xellos.
"Waiter, two tea over here, I made her drop the cup." Xellos said when the frightened waiter popped out of the kitchen. 'Why fear? That gives me a bellyache. I'd rather have anger any day. Well different Mizoku, different tastes.'
A/N: Now how is this? I wonder what Filia has over him?
