Zel: begrudgeingly Hello, my name is Zelgadis Greywyrs. A typical manic depressant human-turned-chimera by my grandfather/greatgrandfather Rezo the Red Priest. In trying to find my cure I have unknowingly transported myself to the mysterious world of El Hazard without a means of return home. What is going to happen to me in this unpredictable place?
"Oh, my head..." Alielle muttered as she started to recover. She was just minding her own business, continuing her travels as she searched for a girl who... shared her interests. And all of a sudden, the birds flew away very quickly. Alielle spun around expecting a bugrum attack, but nothing happened. She looked up and saw a large blue object falling on her. Everything had turned black after that.
"Um, sorry about falling on you." said a voice. Alielle opened her eyes. What she saw was a face that appeared to be made of stone. But what she noticed most was the blueness of that stone face. She had never seen anyone with blue skin before. (remember, the El Hazard series this is based off of is not the same series with the phantom tribe) "I didn't have time to stop my fall with a Ray Wing."
Although she had no idea what this 'ray wing' was, he was rather good looking, kind, and genuinely sorry for what he did. Odd... she never felt this way about a guy before. But before she could figure out what was causing her to have these feelings, those damn bugrum she had feared from the beginning attacked.
While someone like Makoto would panic on seeing strange new creatures appeared on the scene, Zelgadis had experience with creatures of various types making an attack on seemingly helpless people. Not only had he commanded some one these creatures to attack said people before, he also knew a few that were stupid enough to try to attack him. The fact that he never saw those things before didn't matter - if they needed to die a special way the girl would surely know what that was. The laws of the universe demanded it. If they died as easily as most other creatures he could more then handle them anyway.
"Astral Vine!" Drawing his sword, Zelgadis took a swing at the nearest bugrum. The large gap in it's chest, and the fact that it fell down, told Zelgadis that these giant bugs are pushovers. The second one went down before anyone else could react to the death of the first one. He didn't notice the third one until it started to fly away quickly to escape the fate of his comrades. "He thinks he can get away... I'll show him. Ray Wing!" And off into the air he goes in hot persuit.
Alielle watches them go. "So that's what a ray wing is. But... I never heard of any wind priests before. And what was the deal with the sword if he has power over the wind? Oh well, he did save me from those bugrum..." She ran off to try to catch up to the strange man who fell on her.
Zelgadis was not happy. This damn bug was fast, too fast. With the fact that it was letting him follow him, he could tell that it must have some buddies it wanted to introduce to him. If it was anything like a normal sized bug, it probably had an overwhelming number of friends. As he concentrated only on getting in front of the bug so that he can get that thing before those friends arrive, he blinked. At least, he thought he closed his eyes. Because when they 'opened' again he was not only ahead of the bug but heading straight for it.
He stopped as abruptly as he could. The bugrum did the same. It couldn't comprehend how the strange enemy could not only fly without wings but suddenly appear in front of it. Zelgadis had it worse, and the bugrum was able to make it's escape. This time it didn't go so slowly. Zelgadis was left alone, and soon his confusion as to what transpired made his Ray Wing lose power. He literally dropped like a rock, and ended up falling on Alielle again.
When Alielle came to again, she realized that whatever had caused her to almost fall in love with this mysterious guy wasn't worth it if he kept falling on her. "How nice of you to drop in again," she teased, "And to think we don't even know each other's names."
Zel nodded. If he was going to look for his cure to his condition, he'd need some sort of guide. Since this girl didn't seem anywhere near as annoying as Lina or Amelia, she'd do for now. "Zelgadis... And you?"
She started to feel it again. That name sounded so mysterious and unusual that it seemed to draw her heart closer to him. It took her a moment to remind herself about the falling on her being something that she NEVER wanted in anyone she felt for. "I'm Alielle. So what's your excuse this time? I know you were using that ray wing this time..."
"It... was something the happened when I was chasing that third bug. I lost my concentration. I don't want to talk about it if you don't mind." With that, there was a moment of silence.
'He sure has a lot of secrets', Alielle thought to herself, 'that must be it. He discovered some means of attracting almost every girl in the world. If I can stick around and learn how he does it...' "So where are you headed, Zelgadis?"
He sighed. "I'm looking for a means to cure my condition. I was human at one time, and would like to be human once again. Are there any really powerful magicians of any sort nearby?"
"The nearest person to what you describe would be the water priestess. I can show you the way." Alielle smiled. 'Not that she can help you,' she schemed, 'but it gives me time to learn how you wrap girls around your little blue finger.' "By the way, where are you from? I was pretty sure I knew every town and village in El Hazard."
Zel chuckled a little. With this girl, he should have no trouble finding everywhere that his cure would hide here. "You probably still do. I came here from my world because I ran out of leads to follow there. That was when I fell on you the first time."
"From your world? That makes it sound like you came here on purpose." Zel's hopes sank a little when he hears her word it that way. Makes it sound like this was intended as a prison world, a place to put anyone you didn't like but couldn't take care of any other way. That would mean that there might not be a way to get back. After all, the spell had said it sent people TO El Hazard, nothing about returning them. Something as fiendish as that wording gave Zel no doubt that if anything, Xellos was the very one who made this spell. "Makoto and his friends came here because of a scientific mishap."
Science, that power Rezo had once looked into with Zelgadis while trying to find a means to summon Shabranigdo so Rezo could gain his sight once again. If it had the ability to send people to other worlds, maybe it wasn't as worthless as Rezo had thought. A... talk with this Makoto might aid Zelgadis greatly when it was time to leave this place.
"I never heard of anyone named Makoto in my world. Would you tell me more as we head to this Water priestess?" With that they started out.
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"Nani? Xellos, are you sure about this?" Lina shouted as he told her and Gourry that Zelgadis was as good as dead. "How did it happen?"
"Well, You know how I was always destroying books that Zelgadis thought might have his cure? He somehow got hold of one of them. I had no idea he had it until he did something completely not Zel - claim to have given up on finding his cure. But even then I was too mad from the visit I had that I didn't realize the problem in time."
Gourry somehow added something intelligent to the conversation. "Where was Zelgadis when this happened? Does Amelia know?"
"She better not know about this! It'd break her heart!" Lina was furious, but had a plan. If they went to where Zel died, they should find enough to make a copy of him. Now sure all her previous encounters with clones - the ten Nagas, Kopii Rezo, and Vrumuguen (or whatever his name is) - were horrible, but that doesn't mean a Kopii Zel would be the same if they worked hard enough to convince that Kopii that it was really Zel and not just a copy.
"First, to answer Gourry's question, he was in his castle which is now destroyed. That was part of his given up on the cure act. Before you ask, Gourry, the blowing up his castle was NOT part of his plan, just going to the castle. And I already told you it's Zel's castle we're talking about. Second, it's sort of pointless to tell me not to tell Amelia about Zel now..." This was not because Xellos had told her already, but because he decided beforehand to tell her and wasn't going to listen to anyone asking him to do different.
"Oh, well. I'm sure if we hurry Gourry we can still relieve Amelia's grief. Come on!" Lina grabs Gourry and starts heading for Zel's now ruined castle. Xellos tagged along like he always does.
"Lina, exactly how do you plan on easing Amelia's grief?" Xellos needed to know this so that he could find a way to stop her.
"That's a secret!" Unfortunately, Lina knew that was his reason for asking.
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Amelia: Hi! Amelia here! There have been two episodes so far, and for some reason I - the Main Character's one true love - havn't had any lines yet... You know that I'm a Princess!!! Maybe the stupid writer just forgot about me...
"Oh, my head..." Alielle muttered as she started to recover. She was just minding her own business, continuing her travels as she searched for a girl who... shared her interests. And all of a sudden, the birds flew away very quickly. Alielle spun around expecting a bugrum attack, but nothing happened. She looked up and saw a large blue object falling on her. Everything had turned black after that.
"Um, sorry about falling on you." said a voice. Alielle opened her eyes. What she saw was a face that appeared to be made of stone. But what she noticed most was the blueness of that stone face. She had never seen anyone with blue skin before. (remember, the El Hazard series this is based off of is not the same series with the phantom tribe) "I didn't have time to stop my fall with a Ray Wing."
Although she had no idea what this 'ray wing' was, he was rather good looking, kind, and genuinely sorry for what he did. Odd... she never felt this way about a guy before. But before she could figure out what was causing her to have these feelings, those damn bugrum she had feared from the beginning attacked.
While someone like Makoto would panic on seeing strange new creatures appeared on the scene, Zelgadis had experience with creatures of various types making an attack on seemingly helpless people. Not only had he commanded some one these creatures to attack said people before, he also knew a few that were stupid enough to try to attack him. The fact that he never saw those things before didn't matter - if they needed to die a special way the girl would surely know what that was. The laws of the universe demanded it. If they died as easily as most other creatures he could more then handle them anyway.
"Astral Vine!" Drawing his sword, Zelgadis took a swing at the nearest bugrum. The large gap in it's chest, and the fact that it fell down, told Zelgadis that these giant bugs are pushovers. The second one went down before anyone else could react to the death of the first one. He didn't notice the third one until it started to fly away quickly to escape the fate of his comrades. "He thinks he can get away... I'll show him. Ray Wing!" And off into the air he goes in hot persuit.
Alielle watches them go. "So that's what a ray wing is. But... I never heard of any wind priests before. And what was the deal with the sword if he has power over the wind? Oh well, he did save me from those bugrum..." She ran off to try to catch up to the strange man who fell on her.
Zelgadis was not happy. This damn bug was fast, too fast. With the fact that it was letting him follow him, he could tell that it must have some buddies it wanted to introduce to him. If it was anything like a normal sized bug, it probably had an overwhelming number of friends. As he concentrated only on getting in front of the bug so that he can get that thing before those friends arrive, he blinked. At least, he thought he closed his eyes. Because when they 'opened' again he was not only ahead of the bug but heading straight for it.
He stopped as abruptly as he could. The bugrum did the same. It couldn't comprehend how the strange enemy could not only fly without wings but suddenly appear in front of it. Zelgadis had it worse, and the bugrum was able to make it's escape. This time it didn't go so slowly. Zelgadis was left alone, and soon his confusion as to what transpired made his Ray Wing lose power. He literally dropped like a rock, and ended up falling on Alielle again.
When Alielle came to again, she realized that whatever had caused her to almost fall in love with this mysterious guy wasn't worth it if he kept falling on her. "How nice of you to drop in again," she teased, "And to think we don't even know each other's names."
Zel nodded. If he was going to look for his cure to his condition, he'd need some sort of guide. Since this girl didn't seem anywhere near as annoying as Lina or Amelia, she'd do for now. "Zelgadis... And you?"
She started to feel it again. That name sounded so mysterious and unusual that it seemed to draw her heart closer to him. It took her a moment to remind herself about the falling on her being something that she NEVER wanted in anyone she felt for. "I'm Alielle. So what's your excuse this time? I know you were using that ray wing this time..."
"It... was something the happened when I was chasing that third bug. I lost my concentration. I don't want to talk about it if you don't mind." With that, there was a moment of silence.
'He sure has a lot of secrets', Alielle thought to herself, 'that must be it. He discovered some means of attracting almost every girl in the world. If I can stick around and learn how he does it...' "So where are you headed, Zelgadis?"
He sighed. "I'm looking for a means to cure my condition. I was human at one time, and would like to be human once again. Are there any really powerful magicians of any sort nearby?"
"The nearest person to what you describe would be the water priestess. I can show you the way." Alielle smiled. 'Not that she can help you,' she schemed, 'but it gives me time to learn how you wrap girls around your little blue finger.' "By the way, where are you from? I was pretty sure I knew every town and village in El Hazard."
Zel chuckled a little. With this girl, he should have no trouble finding everywhere that his cure would hide here. "You probably still do. I came here from my world because I ran out of leads to follow there. That was when I fell on you the first time."
"From your world? That makes it sound like you came here on purpose." Zel's hopes sank a little when he hears her word it that way. Makes it sound like this was intended as a prison world, a place to put anyone you didn't like but couldn't take care of any other way. That would mean that there might not be a way to get back. After all, the spell had said it sent people TO El Hazard, nothing about returning them. Something as fiendish as that wording gave Zel no doubt that if anything, Xellos was the very one who made this spell. "Makoto and his friends came here because of a scientific mishap."
Science, that power Rezo had once looked into with Zelgadis while trying to find a means to summon Shabranigdo so Rezo could gain his sight once again. If it had the ability to send people to other worlds, maybe it wasn't as worthless as Rezo had thought. A... talk with this Makoto might aid Zelgadis greatly when it was time to leave this place.
"I never heard of anyone named Makoto in my world. Would you tell me more as we head to this Water priestess?" With that they started out.
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"Nani? Xellos, are you sure about this?" Lina shouted as he told her and Gourry that Zelgadis was as good as dead. "How did it happen?"
"Well, You know how I was always destroying books that Zelgadis thought might have his cure? He somehow got hold of one of them. I had no idea he had it until he did something completely not Zel - claim to have given up on finding his cure. But even then I was too mad from the visit I had that I didn't realize the problem in time."
Gourry somehow added something intelligent to the conversation. "Where was Zelgadis when this happened? Does Amelia know?"
"She better not know about this! It'd break her heart!" Lina was furious, but had a plan. If they went to where Zel died, they should find enough to make a copy of him. Now sure all her previous encounters with clones - the ten Nagas, Kopii Rezo, and Vrumuguen (or whatever his name is) - were horrible, but that doesn't mean a Kopii Zel would be the same if they worked hard enough to convince that Kopii that it was really Zel and not just a copy.
"First, to answer Gourry's question, he was in his castle which is now destroyed. That was part of his given up on the cure act. Before you ask, Gourry, the blowing up his castle was NOT part of his plan, just going to the castle. And I already told you it's Zel's castle we're talking about. Second, it's sort of pointless to tell me not to tell Amelia about Zel now..." This was not because Xellos had told her already, but because he decided beforehand to tell her and wasn't going to listen to anyone asking him to do different.
"Oh, well. I'm sure if we hurry Gourry we can still relieve Amelia's grief. Come on!" Lina grabs Gourry and starts heading for Zel's now ruined castle. Xellos tagged along like he always does.
"Lina, exactly how do you plan on easing Amelia's grief?" Xellos needed to know this so that he could find a way to stop her.
"That's a secret!" Unfortunately, Lina knew that was his reason for asking.
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Amelia: Hi! Amelia here! There have been two episodes so far, and for some reason I - the Main Character's one true love - havn't had any lines yet... You know that I'm a Princess!!! Maybe the stupid writer just forgot about me...