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Chapter 11 – Xelloss in Zoamelgustar Land?
Oh dear.
Xelloss sighed as he looked out at the large city of Zoana, taking in the empire's odd fashion and overly tacky décor. The kingdom was known as one of the most prospering kingdoms around, a rare site for any traveler, aside from its tasteless appearances.
Statues, murals and bust all over the kingdom paraded the "Monstrous Lord, Zoamelgustar" in display at every store, building and home. It was a in the history of the town, that the "Great Lord" Awoken over a thousand years ago and protected the Queen of Zoana, then brought great prosperity and wealth to the kingdom, and protected it from invasion.
Xelloss knew this was all a farce. The kingdom made a turn for good after the Queen met her husband, then years later, together they lead the kingdom out of dept and drove it to the land it was today, and the reason the kingdom hardly ever got attacked was because the kingdom had the highest level of black magic from around. Of course the practice of sorcery and magic was lost many years ago.
Lord Zelas informed Xelloss this morning that she had heard a whisper that there was a practicing sorcerer in Zoana. So he was sent to investigate to find this proclaimed sorcerer. He chuckled to himself. Any sorcerer that would be around these day's would be a hollow ghost of the mage's of the past.
Xelloss walked down the street of the city looking for any kind of leads to his crusade, smiling with his eyes closed. In his long life of working for Zelas, he found he had incredible luck finding what he was searching for quickly. And after a whole day of searching the streets for information, he found none.
Most of the town's people were looking forward to the Lord Zoamelgustar festive that would be taking place in two days and the Kingdom was in an uproar getting everything prepared. Xelloss wandered the streets looking for any clues or hints to magic and found none. He amused himself with the thought of Filia and her seeing how much the world had changed since she had been staying at Wolfpack Island.
Almost a millennia ago, when the Mazoku barrier was destroyed, and technology began to spread around the world. The growth of the technology grew from weapons to many bigger things, and the human race along with the technology grew. Humans today were far better educated then they were in the old days.
Only a few places in the world were free from technology, mostly any homestead of Monsters and Dragons, but Xelloss had a hidden suspension that his Mistress had a hidden room where she stored her little toys. So if it was hidden, Filia would have never seen it. She had been sheltered from the world for many years. He laughed to himself, imagining if she were to just wake up one day in the midst of a technological town, having no clue what was going on around her.
Xelloss smile slowly faded as he looked around the large city of Zoana. It was time for business. Then as if on cue there was a loud shout from behind him.
"Look out!"
Xelloss turned his head to see a small girl with flaming red hair up a way's rolling around on a pair of shoes with wheels. The girl had a black backpack on, and she just barely missed running in to a man who just walked out of a coffee shop. The redhead bowed to the man she had almost hit and resumed to roll toward Xelloss.
Xelloss sighed to himself, of course she wasn't yelling at him, he was currently invisible so the human could not have seen him. He chuckled to himself, serves him right for getting distracted by thinking of Filia. He calmly stood in the path of the young girl who was coming his way.
She got closer and closer to him, her face serious as she looked around with her sea green eyes, with her spirally curled red hair bouncing behind her. She looked like she was about ten, maybe younger. She held on to the lose straps of her backpack as she rolled around locals.
Xelloss smiled as she came real close to him, as she was about to roll right through him. When he peeked an eye open to stare at her, he noticed her eye locked on to his, and right before she reached him, she veered to the right, shifting her balance, turning around him, and rolled backwards after she passed him, looking at him quizzically, before she turned back around and continued to roll away.
Interesting, Xelloss thought grinning to himself. Perhaps he was lucky after all, the giggled to himself as he followed the girl.
"I can't take all of this silence." Lina shouted loudly, staring up at the screen. "How are we suppose to know what he is thinking, he is smiling one minute then he is frowning. It's annoying!"
"Not as annoying as knowing that he has not rushed to Miss Filia's sided after she was kidnapped by the horrible Mister Kurokei!" Amelia yelled, glaring at Xelloss, who was sitting by a fuming Filia, as he was braiding random pieces of her hair.
"Why are you glaring at me?" He asked grinning innocently with his eyes closed.
"Because you're a heartless,-" Amelia paused looking for the right word to describe how she felt.
"Monster?" Zelgadis helped her out, looking at her apprehensively.
"YES! A heartless MONSTER!" she shouted pointing her finger at him.
"Uh, Amelia, I am-"
"And Furthermore,-" Amelia continued ignoring Xelloss, "Why couldn't you sense Filia's fear when she was in trouble, is your Master so important that you would ignore Miss Filia?" she demanded self righteously.
Xelloss looked down at Amelia in dead seriousness. "Yes."
"Hold on," Nexus intervened. "I think we are all missing one crucial point right now."
"And what is that Mr. Nexus?" The short princess asked glaring down at the book.
"In future Xelloss time, Filia has not yet been kidnapped. What you are watching now happened on the same day Filia met with the Supreme elder, so she informed Zelas about the sorcerers in Zoana, and then went to the Kataart Mountains, which means she would not be kidnapped till the next day." He informed her.
"Wait,-" Gourry interrupted. "So then, to the Xelloss in the future, Filia hasn't been kidnapped yet?" He asked.
"That is correct." The book answered.
"So then, uh," Gourry looked down at the book in pain, "We went back in time, in the future?" he asked his eyes unfocused.
"Yes, try not to think about it much; even I have a hard time understanding it sometimes." Nexus replied to the drooling blonde.
"So then Xelloss hasn't betrayed Miss Filia." Amelia said feeling relieved, looking back at the Monster with dazed eyes, as she stared at him, as he was tying knots in to Filia's hair, grinning evilly to himself.
Filia's veins popped around her eyebrows as she began to shake.
"XELLOSS! STOP MESSING WITH MY HAIR!" she shouted as she began to hit the giggling Mazoku with her mace.
The girl continued to roll around the city, on a set destination, that Xelloss realized, was toward the palace. When she got close, she snuck around the entrance and headed to the back. The castle was very large, and heavily guarded, and she slipped past the guards as a pro, Xelloss watched in awe.
She reached the garden, and crept down and crawled toward the stone wall of the castle, while Xelloss followed behind her invisible. When she reached the castle, Xelloss noticed on one of the stone's there was a drawing of a smiley face. The red head touched it, and pushed it in, and slipped in the castle. Shrugging Xelloss followed her in.
Inside the room was dim, and cluttered. They were inside a closet. Light flooded the room, and Xelloss looked up at the red head staring down at him, her finger over a light switch her eyes glaring down at him.
"Who are you evil spirit? Why have you followed me?' She spoke not looking away from Xelloss. She looked even smaller with her wheeled shoes off, now looking closer to an eight or nine year old. Xelloss smiled to himself and made himself visible.
"I guess I cannot hide myself from someone as powerful as you." He said in his fake cheery voice as he looked up at her with eyes closed. He's sweat dropped as her face went pale, and her eyes grew large, apparently, she wasn't expecting someone to answer back.
"T-That's R-right!" she shouted after a few seconds, regaining her composure, removing her hand from over her wildly beating heart. "Now why have you followed me?"
"I am traveling in search of someone powerful to help protect my lady." Xelloss said, stretching the truth, grinning evilly to himself. "And you caught my eye today, and I felt like I need to follow you, in hopes that you were the one I was searching for."
The young red head looked down at him and sighed in disgusted. Shaking her shock aside. "That's nice." She replied simply and opened the door. "You better get out of here before my older brother finds you, if he thinks I brought home a boy he will be furious." She shrugged him off, stepping out of the closet.
Xelloss looked up at her in shock. This little girl was ignoring his story, and was now asking him to leave. Well, he wasn't having that. He stood up and followed her out of the closet.
"Now, why would your brother think that, it is obvious to see that I am much older than you." He added lightly.
The red head looked up at him, "How old are you then?" she asked annoyed that he was following her.
"Well I'm over twenty five." Xelloss said, grinning.
"Well that's not that big of a deal, my parents are fifteen years apart, so we are closer in age then they are." She replied, as they walked down the corridor.
"How could that be, are you not ten or something?" Xelloss asked amazed, the girl stopped walking, her face turned bright red, in fury.
"You better get lost, before someone finds you and you're escorted off the premises." She spat at him, and began to stop away, her red hair bouncing behind her. He followed her as she stomped forward.
This girl, reminds me of someone, Xelloss thought to himself.
She continued to walk till she came up to a large door, then she turned around and glared at him, her cheeks flushed, "Why are you still following me?"
Xelloss made his best pouting face. "But I told you I was searching for a po-"
"Oh please," the girl rolled her eyes. "Do you really think I would believe that?" she asked honestly.
Xelloss was slightly taken aback. "It's not a lie." He said.
"It's not the truth either." She replied certain. Xelloss looked over the tiny girl in amazement. Just who was she.
"Why do you suggest that?" Xelloss asked in his fake cheery voice.
"Anyone who can turn invisible, and come through the magic field my sister casted isn't a normal person, so I knew that you would try and trick me, and since I cannot use magic, I lead you to inside so you could not wander the castle." She replied, and swiftly knocked on the door.
Xelloss looked down at her in confusion, as she crossed her arms. Her bright sea green eyes never left his closed ones.
When the door opened a young woman walked out, she had short even cut raven hair, with bangs and rose colored eyes. She looked over Xelloss and turned to the girl.
"What have you brought me Thalia?" The woman asked in her low voice, and Xelloss felt a chill he looked at her.
Odd.
"This stranger was able to enter through your barrier sister." Thalia replied looking over Xelloss. "He is not human."
The young woman looked at Xelloss with calm calculating eyes, and then turned to the younger girl.
"Thalia," She spoke, causing the younger girl to stiffen, "Did you leave the palace again?" she asked the girl in a dead serious voice.
"Gah, Tzeitel, is that really important right now?" the girl asked in horror.
"There are rules, and you have broken them." Tzeitel said looking down at her sister, with emotionless eyes.
"There are more important things right now than rules." Thalia said weakly under her sister's gaze.
Tzeitel looked back at Xelloss, and walked up to him, staring at him never blinking, and tried to pluck a hair from his head, and when the captive hair was unmoved, her eyes unchanging turned to Thalia.
"He is not human as you said; a hair would easily be removed if it was really hair." She said walking past both of them, returning to her room. Xelloss and Thalia looked at each other in confusion, as they watched her walk in to her room. Xelloss almost paled at what he saw.
The room was very dark, and taking up almost half of one of her vast walls was a large replica of Zoamelgustar. The room had many magical artifacts in it, mostly items you would find in a room for someone who specializes in cursed.
Tzeitel returned with a very old looking book. It was large, and bound in leather. She opened the book quietly and looked for the page she searched for. Then she looked up at Xelloss and read aloud.
"His skin is flawless, and his hair perfectly straight. His smile is bright and misleading, and when he speaks, he will distract you with his charismatic demeanor." She read out loud.
"All of these defenses hide his true monsters nature, the enemy of women, the devil in disguise." She continued, as Thalia took a step away from him nervously.
"His royal hair, and always shut eyes, reflects the face of an angel, while they mask the soul of a monster. He prays on a pure girl's heart as he feeds of her pain. The Mazoku Xelloss, enemy of the women of Zoana." Tzeitel finished reading from the book, then calmly looked up at Xelloss.
Xelloss smiled up at them quietly. Well, well, it seems Miss Martina left a warning to her descendents of me. He giggled to himself. She still is amusing me from the grave.
"You're a Mazoku." Tzeitel said, not phrasing her statement as a question. "Why have you traveled to our lands Xelloss?" She asked.
Thalia looked at him in fear, then said, "Wait, Tzeitel, how can you be sure this warning is about him? Martina, our great ancestor left us many warnings." She said trying to reason with her sister, who turned the book around and showed a hand sketched drawling of Xelloss, in perfect detail, with a chibi drawling of a threatening Martina in the corner where the warning was written.
This was too much for Xelloss as he broke down in a fit of giggles. "Oh how like Martina." He giggled.
Thalia's eyes looked like they were going to pop out, as Tzeitel continued to look down at him unemotionally.
After Xelloss was done laughing, he looked up at the two girls and cracked an eye open at them, knowing that even if this book said he was the great sea witch of the Dead sea, due to his reaction, they would not believe any different. He placed a hand over his chest and bowed to the girls.
"Yes my name is Xelloss; I am very pleased to meet you. I am to assume you are the descendents of Miss Martina, therefore the princesses of this land."
Tzeitel bowed slowly to Xelloss, to her sisters fear. "Hello Xelloss, My name is Princess Tzeitel Zoana Lahda Navratilova, and this is my younger sister Princess Thalia Zoana Rei Navratilova. We are the descendents of the Queen Martina Zoana Mel Navratilova." She said then straightened up.
Thalia looked from her sister to Xelloss in panic, then hesitantly bowed to Xelloss, if you want to call it that, it was more like a shaky jerk.
"Would you like to follow me out of the hallway into a more comfortable surroundings, where we can converse over tea?" Tzeitel asked him, unsmiling.
"Tea would be heavenly." Xelloss grinned at the dark haired girl, as she nodded and turned away from them and began to lead them down the hallway. Xelloss curiously followed. He felt a small tug on his shirt as he looked down at Thalia's big blue green eyes.
"She is a little scary." She whispered to him, pointing toward Tzeitel, "More than you."
Xelloss continued to smile his goofy smile, it seemed the girl got over her fear of him.
"So you're not afraid of me?" He asked her matching her volume.
She looked up at him confused. "Why would I have been? Queen Martina's book has a bunch of ramblings in it, it was mostly warnings toward men, I think she was a big flirt actually, I was more surprised that someone she wrote about is still alive, over twenty five my ass." She laughed loudly, and then paused, "Well I guess you didn't lie though did you?" She asked looking up at him.
"Thalia, watch your language." Tzeitel said from in front of them, causing Thalia to jump.
"So,-" Xelloss asked gaining her attention again, "Your sister must be a powerful sorceress."
"She is really creepy, more like." Thalia whispered looking up at her sisters back and visibly shivered. "It's like she was born with a dark aura that causes even the foulest of men to run in fear." She said mystically. "She has a knack for curses and predicting bad things, like when our parents were captured twelve years ago." she whispered.
Xelloss listened as she ranted, and sighed, this female couldn't be the sorcerer he was looking for. He decided to move to topic on. "And your brother?"
"Which one?" She asked as they turned a corner.
"You have more than one?" Xelloss asked.
"It's me, then my brother Erik and my older brother Orin. Tzeitel is the oldest." She replied.
"And are your brothers powerful?" Xelloss asked.
"Orin is really powerful; he has never been defeated in combat. People say it is because he had such a strong ancestor. I think he is a big headed fool." She said frowning. "He is always telling me what to do, and he is the one who said I could not leave the palace. Ever since I was one year old, I wasn't allowed to leave the castle grounds, and it was because our parents were captured. He didn't want the town's people to know who I was, in order to protect me. So I started sneaking out when I got older." She fumed.
Xelloss stopped walking and stared back down at her. That would mean. . .
She was really short, and very flat, he mistaken her for a nine year old, but if what she just told her was true; this young girl was really, Thirteen?
"Of course, he thinks since he is so strong he can force me to stay in the palace, that's why I tried to learn magic with Tzeitel, but I just don't have enough magic capacity she said. Most humans have a very small capacity to use magic, and I was born with very little, maybe enough to sense things." She sighed heavily, "I seemed to be cures in being undeveloped in a lot of areas." She spouted bitterly.
Yes, she defiantly reminded him of someone.
Tzeitel stopped in front of a room, and opened the door, which lead to a furnished sitting room, and asked the guard at the door to inform someone to bring them tea and sweets. The three sat down and waited for their snack.
"So then Xelloss," Tzeitel asked, calmly staring up at him. "How would you like to play a little game?" She asked.
"Oh?" Xelloss asked her intrigued.
"I am rather gifted in reading someone's palm, would you like to give it a try while we wait for our tea?" she asked.
Xelloss thought this over and smiled brightly. "I am not very fond of knowing the future." He said seriously, smiling up at her.
"I find that hard to believe, you seem like a person who likes to be in control of everything that you face." She said darkly.
Xelloss slightly recoiled, this woman had an uncanny intuition, she seemed to pin him after just meeting him, and she had barely spoken to him. She was something, if anything, interesting.
"Well, I have little control over anything, but yes, I do like to have control over what I have, and the future, is something that seems to be set in stone." He replied.
"What makes you say that?" Thalia asked as she twirled her curly hair in her fingers. "The future could always be changed."
"Hmm?" Xelloss encouraged her.
"For example, Tze did a reading on me before that my I would choke on blueberry ice cream that day, so when I had some, I was careful while eating it, unlike how I usually eat, and whala! No choking." She stated cheerfully.
"Ah, but who is to say it wasn't fate for your sister to tell you that, and the future truly meant your you to not choke, or in other words it was your destiny to be warned, and then it was your destiny to not choke." Xelloss asked her his finger pointed upward.
Thalia stopped twirling her hair and thought about what he said. "That could be true, but only if you want to believe it I guess." She said crossing her legs and began to bounce her leg up and down.
"So are you saying you believe in destiny?" Tzeitel asked him staring him down with her blush colored eyes.
"I don't believe in either, I cannot claim to know something, without knowing it." He replied simply.
"That makes sense," Thalia said, "So why don't you let Tzeitel read your palm for fun? Or do you have another reason for declining"
Xelloss sighed, these girls, were persistent, and hard to fool. Not like most humans he encountered.
The door to the room opened and a tall man stood there looking down at the three, he had dark royal purple colored hair and bright copper colored eyes. His short hair was spiked all around his head, his eyebrow arched in fury as he looked at Xelloss.
"Who is he?" He asked in a dark tone.
"Who is who?" A cheery voice came from behind him as a taller man walked in to the room. This man was very tall, with short spiked blonde hair that covered his right eye, as his left green eye was exposed. His hair fell past his chin, and he had a goofy expression as he looked in the room.
Xelloss looked at the blonde in shock.
"Gourry?"
