"Gunning Down
Romance" (a Slayers songfic)
Author's notes: I don't own Slayers, or Xellos, or
any of the songs from Savage Garden. Lyrics written by Daniel Jones and Darren
Hayes. Hope you like!
Love and other moments are just chemical reactions
in your brain
And feelings of aggression are the absence of the
love drug in your veins
In your veins
Xellos walked nonchalantly behind the rest of the
group, seemingly the happy-go-lucky trickster priest. But he was mentally busy
– working out plans, inwardly commenting. Like how much of a pain that Amelia
was. He was getting his thirteenth headache that morning just by looking in her
direction.
Or how beautiful Lina looked, the sun glinting and
refracting off her fiery-red hair.
Fiery-red hair to go with a fiery temper –
L-Sama, what am I
thinking?
Right away, a small inner voice told him that he
was attracted to Lina Inverse. That he wanted to be trusted by her, to hold her
and say he loved her.
I set myself up for that one. He sighed.
Thanks SO much, L-Sama.
Love come quickly
Because I feel my self-esteem is caving in
It's on the brink
Love come quickly
Because I don't think I can keep this monster in
It's in my skin
Could Mazoku feel fear? Yes, of course. Xellos
felt it now. The fear of having his Mistress, Zelas Metallium, get rid of Lina
– simply to teach him a lesson. That Mazoku should not become as weak as humans
– ever. They were to feed off the negative emotions of others, to manipulate
and cause disasters. They were to obey their masters, for the dark lords could
take away even easier than they could create.
He had lived millennia. If his extensive powers
were stripped away, he could deal with it. If his own existence was snuffed
out, he would have no more concerns.
But if anything like that ever happened to Lina –
Love and other socially acceptable emotions are
morphine
They're morphine
Cleverly concealing primal urges often felt but
rarely seen
Rarely seen
Love I beg you
Lift me up into that privileged point of view
The world of two
Love don't leave me
Because I console myself that Hallmark cards are
true
I really do
Could a Mazoku feel love?
Xellos did. Maybe it was what had survived out of
his humanity, the fact which had made him such a powerful monster. Other Mazoku
badly misjudged humans. He didn't.
He knew them all too well.
I'm gunning down romance
It never did a thing for me
But heartache and misery
Ain't nothing but a tragedy
During the last millennium, the string of humans
and Mazoku he had come close to had died – either by Zelas herself, or him
being forced to kill them. His love had crumbled through his fingers like sand
pouring out of a hole in a broken hourglass. His amethyst eyes held darkness,
the only promise the promise of despair, and his hands were stained with the
blood of those he had killed.
Yet he loved Lina Inverse.
Love don't leave me
Take these broken wings
I'll take these broken wings
And learn to fly
And learn to fly away
And learn to fly away
On a whim, he teleported next to Lina and waited
until she was finished yelling at another one of Gourry's all-too-obvious
comments.
She noticed him first.
"Leading us somewhere, Xellos?"
He resisted the urge to give her a cheeky smile
and say "There's so many ways that could be twisted around". But he simply
smiled, wagged a finger, and said, "That's a secret!"
"You little – "
Before she finished the insult, he let some of his
secretive expression fade.
"Lina, I'll ask you a serious question."
Everyone – including Lina – got a good view of the
ground as they crashed into it.
"A SERIOUS QUESTION??!!!" The redhaired sorceress
pulled herself up from the ground and stared into his eyes. "Oookay, ask this
'serious' question."
"Have you ever wanted to say something important
to someone, but that person probably would only laugh at you?"
What those ruby eyes held, Xellos could not tell.
They seemed to look into his own as Lina pondered the question.
When at last, her features brightened, his little
blackened heart seemed to rise a fraction out of hope. Had she figured it out?
The sorceress wasn't dumb, she could've –
"That, Xellos – is a secret!"
Xellos sweatdropped. Evading the question was HIS
trick – but that was the first time Lina had actually done that. There was
still opportunity to know, to tell her –
Before his Mistress, whom he was bound to obey,
went after her.
I'm gunning down romance