Surpression Cure Ch3

Surpression Cure Ch3:

Chiryo Suru: Is It For Real?

Zelgadiss awoke in the middle of the night with a start, sweating buckets thanks to a dream he had just had. In this dream, his ojiisan[1] had approached him with an offer to make him stronger. He had always strived for power ... It was an offer he couldn't refuse. He was sick of being to little runt who bigger kids beat up just for the hell of it. He'd get his power, and when he did ... Oh, he'd make them pay allright. Okay, so his lust for power bordered on megelomania, but he didn't care if he got a bit obsessive about it, just as long as no one noticed.(a/n:^^;;)

In the dream, he hadn't actually said yes: maybe because he thought it was too good to be true, or maybe he was scared of the evil feeling aura that emmited from his ojiisan Akahoushi Rezo. But, as with most dreams, it was strange: the dark, crimson mass of the priest's robes extended, billowing cloth wrapping around him while the electricity-like magical energy fist just crackled in the air, increasing his apprehension, until finaly it focused on him. That was when he had woke up. What was that about? he thought. Creepy.

At that moment, the door slid open, revealing a slim, petite figure. His head quickly turned to find that someone standing hesitantly in the doorway with a candle: it was the red-headed "Lina" girl from before. She opened the door further, and took a meek step inside."Ano...Can I come in?"

He simply looked at her candle-lit face and nodded in reply.

She nodded back and walked in, closing the door to a crack. There was a long and rather unconforable silence.

It just kind of happened: a barrage of questions."What's going on? Where am I? What am I doing here? Why am I dressed in these un-fasionable clothes? When--" His third-degree outburst was cut off by a sharp thud of her elbow to his head. He let out a stifled cry of pain and rubbed his head vigorously."ITAI!! What the hell was that for?!"

"GEEZ!!" she exclaimed, he mood swiftly changing,"I liked you better when you hardly talked at all!" Her expression softened and became thoughtful."But then again, I can't get hurt by hitting you anymore..."

"Excuse me?" he asked in a casual manner,"Mind telling me what in the name of L-sama is going on here??" His voice was now bordering on annoyance; nobody would tell him what was going on!

"Huh?" she said quizzicaly, becoming thoughtful again,"I guess Xellos was right...You've gone back to..." she trailed off mumbling incomprehensibly.

"I've gone back to what what what??" he said, acting like a curiously annoyed 6-year-old.

"Ohhhhh, boy..." she said exasperatibly."This is gonna take a while..." she sighed."Yareyare...okay, here's the deal..."

She then proceeded to explain everything: from Rezo to him searching for a cure, and up to the presant. It took a while, but at least now he had a bit of a grasp on what was happening. But it left him open-mouthed, and wanting more information.

"So," he started,"What will happen when you get him back? To me, I mean."

"You?" she asked,"Nothing bad'll happen to you, I promise. If the solution involves somethin' bad happening to you, we'll just have to find another one!"

"What if there is no solution?" he asked grimly.

"There IS one!!" she yelled, but then noted her volume and the time of night, and quited down."Weren't you listening?? We have to go back to where the spell took place!! We'll be heading out in the mourning," she looked briefly outside at the sky through the window, the sky now a light shade of dark blue,"and the others will be waking up very soon now, maybe in an hour or so. Ja!" She abruptly hopped off of her seating on the bed, and ran out the door to her room.

A few hours later everyone was down at the breakfast table as Zelgadis walked downstairs. The girl he had talked to the night before and the blonde swordsman where TOTALY pigging out, much to Zel's astonishment. How can they...?! His questioning thoughts were cut short by a chirp of "Ohayo, Zelgadis-san!" from the raven-haired girl.

"Ohayo..." he replied quietly. Then he remembered: the Zelgadis from this time had met and befriended these people, as Lina had explained: the "baka kurage blonde", Gourry Gabriev; the "dark-haired justice-freak princess of Seyruun", Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun; and Lina Inverse herself, the "beautiful sorcery genius" as she had arrogantly put it. Strange group of people.

He walked over to the table and sat down in an empty set next to Amelia, who was smiling brightly at him. He attempted to smile back, but fail miserably, for there was just too much on his mind at the time.

"Do you want something to eat?" she asked politely.

"Kekko desu." he said just as politely.[2]

"If you insist!" she said with an even bigger smile.

About an hour later when the plates created a kind of fort around Lina and Gourry, Lina spoke."Allright, you guys, we still need to get that map and head out to wherever the hell this forest is that this happened."

"Ano, Lina-sensei?" Gourry said, acting like Lina was teaching(or trying to) one of Gourry's magic lessons,"Can I ask you a question?"

"Hai, Gourry-kun. What is it?"

"Can't we just ask Other Zel over there where it is?" he jerked is thumb over a Zelgadis.

Lina and Amelia just stared.

"Wow, Gourry-san!!" Amelia said,"That was exceptionaly smart for you!"

"Yeah, for a kurage..."

Gourry blushed and said,"Awww, t'wasn't nothin'..."

Lina smacked him upside the head."You're not THAT smart, baka!!!

"Itai..."

"Err, what was it that you guys wanted to know?" Zelgadis asked.

"Aa, sou..." Lina said[3]."Well, you know we need to go back to the place where it happened, right?"

He nodded.

"Okay, then we just need to find where that is. Zelgadis, was there anywhere IN PARTICULAR that you spent a lot of your time--"

"The Gurin Forest!" he replied immdietly. How could he NOT remember it? It was where he spent his time training, sword and spell, and was where he was last before all of this.

Lina just out of her seat with joy and flashed a victory sign."YOSHA!!! I guess we lucked out!! That forest isn't far from here!! LET'S GO!!!!!!" she grabbed Gourry's arm and dashed out: no dobt she thought there would be a ruin there where she could find treasure.[4]

Amelia sighed."They always do this...Oh, well." she started off through the door, and noticed Zelgadis had not left his spot, his eyebrow raised."C'mon! They just weirder, you'll get used to it!" she ran out to catch up, as did he.

The entrance to the forest was at the end of a winding but straitforward, making it easy to find the forest's fasade. It was a nearly tropical forest, vines and lush green plants and trees: the entrance was covered with a wall of thick vines from only the few years that it had been inhabited; but it wasn't anything Gourry's Hikari no Ken(a/n: please excuse my interchanging of 'Hikari no Ken' and 'Sword of Light', not to mention the occasional 'Zelgadiss' and 'Zelgadis') couldn't cut through.

"It looks like nobody's been here for a while..." Zelgadis commented with a hint of sadness.

"Oh, you think?? It looks like nobody's been here for a hundred years!!" Lina barked.

"These vines definately have a mage-accelerated growth spell on them...a strong one too." he said, touching a vine."I think it might have been put on these vines to seal off something."

"Nevermind that! We'll find out when we get to it!" And with that, Lina skipped off into the forest.

"That's Lina-san for you..."

They reached a large dirt clearing, one that Zelgadiss recognized. His training grounds. He'd come here everyday, only stopping to study, eat, and sleep. He didn't need friends if he had power, right? His sword and the little magical power he could muster were his only true friends. He had great talent for white magic, he WAS the great Akahoushi Rezo's omagosan[5] after all, but all that did was heal, but it couldn't heal his past. Nothing could.

They walked for another half-hour or so, and stopped in the middle of a large dirt clearing.

"Hmm...looks like a good place to rest!" Lina said as she proceeded stetch and yawn.

"Hey, what's this?" Amelia picked up a ragged piece of parchment, and Gourry leaned in to see what it said.

"Ano...'incubus'?? What's that??"

"Incubus," Xellos annouced as he popped in, dictionary in hand." "An evil spirit belived to decend upon and have sexual intercorse with women as they sleep." Hmm, seems like my kinda evil spirit!"

"WHAT?!?!?! Lemme see that!!" Lina snatched the piece of paper from Amelia's hand and read it, mumbling aloud."...hm hm hm huh...travelers beware...blah blah blahhh...icubus spirit...da da da...prevention:...HUH??!!!!!!!?????!!!!!????"

Next Time:

Chapter 4: Fukano na! It's One Thing After Another!

"Nani??"

"So...we have to...ah..."

"Huh?"

"Bakana..."

"This'll be interesting."

You'd better watch or I'll REALLY start some trouble!

Another cliffhanger! I didn't even give a clue in the preview!^^;; I bet you'll never guess what's gonna happen...^o^

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