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?
"An interesting story," Zel told her when she finished. "I guess I should tell mine now. Like I said, I was human once. But like a fool I wanted power. I constantly practiced , training myself to be the best. But it wasn't happening fast enough for me. Then my grandfather Rezo took an interest in me. He offered to give me all the power I sought. You can see how he did that..." He paused for dramatic effect, then went on. "I was forced to serve him in exchange for his so-called 'gift' for many years. But whenever I had the chance, I tried to find my cure. When I finally got free from him completely, I have pretty much searched for that cure full time. And now I'm looking for it here."
'Keep stories short to avoid boring the audience...' Alielle's memory quickly jotted down. Her story had been rather long, and probably would have put Zelgadis to sleep if he wasn't trying to listen to it so intently. She know her story had been really long due to the fact that they were here at the bottom of the cliffs that lead to the Shrine of Water. (formerly the Shrine of Water Park) Taking a deep breath she started to climb.
Zelgadis grabbed her and pulled her down. "It's a long climb, let's do this the easy way. Ray Wing!" The two of them started to float upward in what could best be described as some sort of air bubble. "Alielle, why are you holding on to me?" Zel frowned at her as he said this.
"Whenever you go up in the air, you always fall on me!" She replied, "This time I'm making sure that doesn't happen. If you start falling, I'll swing you around so you're on the bottom this time!" Zel sweatdropped. In a way, he deserved that. Even if he didn't fall on her intentionally. Seeing as Alielle wasn't forcing herself on him like certain Justice-crazed Princesses, he wished he could do something to make it up to Alielle. Falling on, falling for, either way he was still falling and Alielle was involved somehow. Poor Zelgadis.
Amelia: Poor Zelgadis?!? Poor me! He's a no-good cheating B@$%@^D!!!!! How could he pick someone like HER over ME? When I get my hands on that no good man-stealing Alielle's neck.... suddenly blushes Um.... oh dear. Such behavior is unfitting a Warrior of Justice like myself. No wonder Zelgadis doesn't want me anymore... Waaaa!!!! cries fade as we return to the story
He set down with Alielle still clinging tightly to him. "Ok, you can let go now," even though he didn't really want her to just yet. "Come on, let's go see the water priestess."
"Work, work, work. Clean, clean, clean. Fix, fix, fix." the water twins called out as they ran past Zelgadis and Alielle. Big N's Shrine of Water Park idea had made a huge mess of the place, and they were still not finished. Zelgadis had a bad feeling that his search wasn't over yet.
"Excuse me," he called to the two. They stopped and stared at his strange yet somehow charming facial features. "But is the water priestess around by any chance?"
Alielle nudged one of them back to reality. "Oh, um no..." the girl stammered. "She is currently staying at Princess Rune's palace until we finish repairing the shrine." She could tell that wasn't the answer this strange and apparently single man (considering that he was traveling with Alielle and not a girlfriend) was looking for.
Zelgadis but asking the water priestess if she knew about his cure aside. Seeing as Makoto was also there, he could ask her right before he asks Makoto to help him find a way home. "Well I'm looking for some information. Are there any books I can look at?"
By now the second girl recovered from his charm. "Sorry, but the library as small as it was got completely flooded when this happened." She pointed to the parts of the shrine that were still damaged. "All of our books were destroyed."
Zelgadis sighed. "Alielle, let's move on." Now knowing the terrain, and a little more confident about his newfound ability since Alielle had explained to him about people coming to this world gaining strange powers, he just held her hand and teleported right to where they had left the horse-like creatures.
* * * * *
"Lord King Jinnai, I still don't understand this latest plan of yours... You already tried kidnapping Princess Rune Venus, but that didn't work. What makes you think kidnapping this worthless girl will be different?" Queen Diva liked the kid she made her general, but so far all the power and lands he promised her have yet to appear before her on that silver platter he said they would. She was still running out of patience.
"Well it's simple, my dear Diva. Makoto cares for all his friends. By chosing to capture one who is undefended I can concentrate completely on foiling their attempts to rescue her."
Diva lets out a little shiver. "Oh Jinnai, it's so clear now, I can't believe I wasn't able to think of it before! You are brilliant!"
But before Jinnai could reply to her praise, a certain bugrum who somehow escaped Zel's wrath rushed in to report.
"Chico! Where's Alielle? I wanted to tell her why I captured her before throwing her in the dungeon. Tell those other two who went with you to bring her here!" Jinnai hadn't been this mad since the last time his tea was one degree too hot.
Chico went on to tell him and Diva, in the way only bugrum do, about how this strange blue stone man killed the others and was flying around after him.
When he was finished, Diva frowned. "A blue stone man? Chico, I must admit that there have been rumors concerning your loyalty..."
"Diva, as strange as his story is, he may be telling the truth. No doubt Makoto has found an ancient weapon whose legend was forgotton. We will have to forget about the kidnapping plan until I've figured out a way to get this new weapon into our hands..." He thought for a moment. Chico's description of the new weapon seemed familiar, but he just couldn't put his finger on it. "Ifurita! Come here!"
The black-haired bimbo ran up to Jinnai and saluted. "Here I am, master! Ready and willing to do any evil deed you ask of me!"
"Good, Ifurita! I need you to go on a secret mission. Chico will bring you as close as he dares to Alielle and this blue man she is with. You are to observe the blue man and learn as much as you can about the blue man. His name, what he can do, anything that sounds important. Do you understand?"
"Yes, master... Do you think I should bring some of that lovely tea to them?" Ifurita didn't have a chance to explain her idea any further, even though it was actually a rather good idea and might have worked.
"Ifurita! You're not going to make friends! I don't want them to know you are watching! Start writing this down so you don't forget!" She got out her notebook. "It's a SECRET mission! Now go do it!"
Ifurita was still writing, forcing Chico to start draging her away. Diva was right - there were rumors concerning his loyalty, and he couldn't risk confirming those rumors just yet. Oh the horrors of falling in love with the enemy! "Wait! I didn't catch that last word!" Chico told her to forget about it and start flying around on her own.
* * * * *
"No, it can't be!" Amelia shouted at Xellos. He would have told her sooner, but all of the magical artifacts that Garv's minions had managed to get in strategic positions were gone. Seyruun was once again a Mazoku-free city. "You're lying, Xellos! Admit it!"
Xellos lowered his head. "I wish I was, but the fact is that Zelgadis had a magical accident and is no longer on this world." Anyone who didn't know better might actually think that Xellos was telling Amelia that Zelgadis was dead. Amelia happened to be one of those people.
"Well, if you insist on telling me your stupid lie, I'll just have to go to Zelgadis and prove to you that he's still alive." After a short pause she added, "Um... Where was the last place you said you saw him?"
"Like I said before," Xellos sighed, "I was talking to him in his castle just a few minutes before it was destroyed."
"And... where is this castle? I've never been there before." As Amelia said it, she thought, 'He has his own castle? I never knew that...'
Xellos was wondering when she'd get to that part, and tossed her the map he had prepared just for this moment. "I still don't get why a justice loving person like you would unjustly assume that someone would lie all the time, even when it's about something as serious as this..."
Amelia went into Lina's accurately-guessing-the-villan's-plan stance. "Because you Mazoku feed off of negative emotions, that's why. And if I fell for this lie, not only would I be sad about Zel's 'death', but I'd be mad at you when I learn that you lied to me." Unfortunately, Amelia doesn't know that Lina's stance is nothing more then something she happens to do when she accurately guesses the villan's plan and doesn't have any effect on her ability to do so.
"I guess that would be a good reason to doubt me..." Xellos waited for Amelia to get on her best horse, don't confuse this with her favorite horse, and ride off before he finished, "But... lies are things created by humans because the truth hurts so much more..."
"An interesting story," Zel told her when she finished. "I guess I should tell mine now. Like I said, I was human once. But like a fool I wanted power. I constantly practiced , training myself to be the best. But it wasn't happening fast enough for me. Then my grandfather Rezo took an interest in me. He offered to give me all the power I sought. You can see how he did that..." He paused for dramatic effect, then went on. "I was forced to serve him in exchange for his so-called 'gift' for many years. But whenever I had the chance, I tried to find my cure. When I finally got free from him completely, I have pretty much searched for that cure full time. And now I'm looking for it here."
'Keep stories short to avoid boring the audience...' Alielle's memory quickly jotted down. Her story had been rather long, and probably would have put Zelgadis to sleep if he wasn't trying to listen to it so intently. She know her story had been really long due to the fact that they were here at the bottom of the cliffs that lead to the Shrine of Water. (formerly the Shrine of Water Park) Taking a deep breath she started to climb.
Zelgadis grabbed her and pulled her down. "It's a long climb, let's do this the easy way. Ray Wing!" The two of them started to float upward in what could best be described as some sort of air bubble. "Alielle, why are you holding on to me?" Zel frowned at her as he said this.
"Whenever you go up in the air, you always fall on me!" She replied, "This time I'm making sure that doesn't happen. If you start falling, I'll swing you around so you're on the bottom this time!" Zel sweatdropped. In a way, he deserved that. Even if he didn't fall on her intentionally. Seeing as Alielle wasn't forcing herself on him like certain Justice-crazed Princesses, he wished he could do something to make it up to Alielle. Falling on, falling for, either way he was still falling and Alielle was involved somehow. Poor Zelgadis.
Amelia: Poor Zelgadis?!? Poor me! He's a no-good cheating B@$%@^D!!!!! How could he pick someone like HER over ME? When I get my hands on that no good man-stealing Alielle's neck.... suddenly blushes Um.... oh dear. Such behavior is unfitting a Warrior of Justice like myself. No wonder Zelgadis doesn't want me anymore... Waaaa!!!! cries fade as we return to the story
He set down with Alielle still clinging tightly to him. "Ok, you can let go now," even though he didn't really want her to just yet. "Come on, let's go see the water priestess."
"Work, work, work. Clean, clean, clean. Fix, fix, fix." the water twins called out as they ran past Zelgadis and Alielle. Big N's Shrine of Water Park idea had made a huge mess of the place, and they were still not finished. Zelgadis had a bad feeling that his search wasn't over yet.
"Excuse me," he called to the two. They stopped and stared at his strange yet somehow charming facial features. "But is the water priestess around by any chance?"
Alielle nudged one of them back to reality. "Oh, um no..." the girl stammered. "She is currently staying at Princess Rune's palace until we finish repairing the shrine." She could tell that wasn't the answer this strange and apparently single man (considering that he was traveling with Alielle and not a girlfriend) was looking for.
Zelgadis but asking the water priestess if she knew about his cure aside. Seeing as Makoto was also there, he could ask her right before he asks Makoto to help him find a way home. "Well I'm looking for some information. Are there any books I can look at?"
By now the second girl recovered from his charm. "Sorry, but the library as small as it was got completely flooded when this happened." She pointed to the parts of the shrine that were still damaged. "All of our books were destroyed."
Zelgadis sighed. "Alielle, let's move on." Now knowing the terrain, and a little more confident about his newfound ability since Alielle had explained to him about people coming to this world gaining strange powers, he just held her hand and teleported right to where they had left the horse-like creatures.
* * * * *
"Lord King Jinnai, I still don't understand this latest plan of yours... You already tried kidnapping Princess Rune Venus, but that didn't work. What makes you think kidnapping this worthless girl will be different?" Queen Diva liked the kid she made her general, but so far all the power and lands he promised her have yet to appear before her on that silver platter he said they would. She was still running out of patience.
"Well it's simple, my dear Diva. Makoto cares for all his friends. By chosing to capture one who is undefended I can concentrate completely on foiling their attempts to rescue her."
Diva lets out a little shiver. "Oh Jinnai, it's so clear now, I can't believe I wasn't able to think of it before! You are brilliant!"
But before Jinnai could reply to her praise, a certain bugrum who somehow escaped Zel's wrath rushed in to report.
"Chico! Where's Alielle? I wanted to tell her why I captured her before throwing her in the dungeon. Tell those other two who went with you to bring her here!" Jinnai hadn't been this mad since the last time his tea was one degree too hot.
Chico went on to tell him and Diva, in the way only bugrum do, about how this strange blue stone man killed the others and was flying around after him.
When he was finished, Diva frowned. "A blue stone man? Chico, I must admit that there have been rumors concerning your loyalty..."
"Diva, as strange as his story is, he may be telling the truth. No doubt Makoto has found an ancient weapon whose legend was forgotton. We will have to forget about the kidnapping plan until I've figured out a way to get this new weapon into our hands..." He thought for a moment. Chico's description of the new weapon seemed familiar, but he just couldn't put his finger on it. "Ifurita! Come here!"
The black-haired bimbo ran up to Jinnai and saluted. "Here I am, master! Ready and willing to do any evil deed you ask of me!"
"Good, Ifurita! I need you to go on a secret mission. Chico will bring you as close as he dares to Alielle and this blue man she is with. You are to observe the blue man and learn as much as you can about the blue man. His name, what he can do, anything that sounds important. Do you understand?"
"Yes, master... Do you think I should bring some of that lovely tea to them?" Ifurita didn't have a chance to explain her idea any further, even though it was actually a rather good idea and might have worked.
"Ifurita! You're not going to make friends! I don't want them to know you are watching! Start writing this down so you don't forget!" She got out her notebook. "It's a SECRET mission! Now go do it!"
Ifurita was still writing, forcing Chico to start draging her away. Diva was right - there were rumors concerning his loyalty, and he couldn't risk confirming those rumors just yet. Oh the horrors of falling in love with the enemy! "Wait! I didn't catch that last word!" Chico told her to forget about it and start flying around on her own.
* * * * *
"No, it can't be!" Amelia shouted at Xellos. He would have told her sooner, but all of the magical artifacts that Garv's minions had managed to get in strategic positions were gone. Seyruun was once again a Mazoku-free city. "You're lying, Xellos! Admit it!"
Xellos lowered his head. "I wish I was, but the fact is that Zelgadis had a magical accident and is no longer on this world." Anyone who didn't know better might actually think that Xellos was telling Amelia that Zelgadis was dead. Amelia happened to be one of those people.
"Well, if you insist on telling me your stupid lie, I'll just have to go to Zelgadis and prove to you that he's still alive." After a short pause she added, "Um... Where was the last place you said you saw him?"
"Like I said before," Xellos sighed, "I was talking to him in his castle just a few minutes before it was destroyed."
"And... where is this castle? I've never been there before." As Amelia said it, she thought, 'He has his own castle? I never knew that...'
Xellos was wondering when she'd get to that part, and tossed her the map he had prepared just for this moment. "I still don't get why a justice loving person like you would unjustly assume that someone would lie all the time, even when it's about something as serious as this..."
Amelia went into Lina's accurately-guessing-the-villan's-plan stance. "Because you Mazoku feed off of negative emotions, that's why. And if I fell for this lie, not only would I be sad about Zel's 'death', but I'd be mad at you when I learn that you lied to me." Unfortunately, Amelia doesn't know that Lina's stance is nothing more then something she happens to do when she accurately guesses the villan's plan and doesn't have any effect on her ability to do so.
"I guess that would be a good reason to doubt me..." Xellos waited for Amelia to get on her best horse, don't confuse this with her favorite horse, and ride off before he finished, "But... lies are things created by humans because the truth hurts so much more..."