Zel: That's it, Demonheart. I'm done with that intro.
Demon: smiling I understand completely. You think it's pointless to keep giving an intro/summary of the first chapter once we're well into the story, right?
Zel: Excited Right! I mean, even Pretty Sammy changed up it's intros.
Demon: curious Really... I didn't know you liked Pretty Sammy.
Zel: attempting to recover I don't really. It's just that Pretty Sammy and El Hazard are both sprinkled with cameos of each other, that's all.
Demon: drops large stack of papers on desk Anyway, this should easily solve your problem with the story.
Zel: glancing through it And what's this?
Demon: informative Xellos pose Well, ever since you first complained about the repetive intro, I've been toying with the idea of a different story, 'Pretty Zelly', that... sees Zel has already gone off to start the usual intro worked like a charm...
Zel: even more 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?
"So you ever gonna tell me what happened back there?" Alielle shouted at Zel. All she knew was that one minute she was talking with the two assistant water priestess, and the next she was back where they left their stuff. By all logical reasoning, travelling from the top of the cliff to the bottom in such a short amount of time should have been fatal. And yet she at least seemed to be still alive.
"No." That was all Zel was going to say on the subject. Even if he gained a cool new ability without becoming even less human, he wasn't going to take any chances like starting to say "that's a secret" or other wonderful Xellos quotes. "Now where are we going, Alielle?"
"The Shrine of Wind. Seeing as you talked about wanting to look at books. It has the largest library in all of El Hazard. And Afura Man is the most scholarly of the three priestesses." Alielle should know about the library, when she had traveled here with Makoto he had her read and translate all of the books that were written in languages he couldn't understand. She knew that he wouldn't find his cure here either, but she was still trying to learn how he attracts so many women without apparently trying.
"Well, well... If it isn't that little girl again..." A bandit muttered to his two friends. "I knew if we waited long enough one of those two brats would return for us to have our revenge upon." Brace yourselves, this is going to be a poorly-done drawn-from-memory flashback.
(Flashback begin)
"Oh dear," some unnamed waitress commented at what she saw, "there those rough-looking men go after a couple of kids... And from the outfit on that one you can tell one of them's a forigner. They're going to kill them if someone doesn't do something."
"So it's the start of the tourist season..." Nanami retorted. "The only thing I wanna kill is dirt." Just then a large pile of dishes was dropped next to Nanami's sink.
The man who put them there gave out an opulent huff. "Then don't go so slowly. We have a lot of customers to serve."
Nanami growled at him as he left. "Dirt, you're mine!" She pushed the dishes into the sink and went to work.
Alielle was huffing and puffing as she carried the purchases up to the Shrine of Wind. "Makoto, I'm tired."
Makoto, being ever-friendly, smiled at her. "Ok, Alielle. We can have a little rest here."
"We've been waiting for a little rest ourselves..." The bandits who started this damn flashback greeted the two.
"Oh, is this a rest stop?" Makoto was completely oblivious to the situation.
Alielle explained it to him very sarcastically. Think 'Clueless' for the tone of voice. "Nooooo.... These guys are bandits...."
"That's right... Now just hand over the bags and nobody gets hurt."
"No way!" Makoto shouted. "This stuff is worthless, it doesn't have any value!"
The bandit smiled. "You never know... There's hidden value in all merchandise."
Makoto had to think fast. "Hey look, it's a UFO!" He pointed behind the bandits.
The bandits turned to look, but saw nothing. "A trick like that isn't going to fool us..." He noticed a certain lack of victims, and also a lack of loot. "...The next time."
(to keep this chapter from being too long, end flashback)
One of the other bandits nudged his boss. When the boss snapped out of the flashback sequence he started, he looked to where the other guy was pointing. It was then that they noticed that Zel was traveling with Alielle.
"Hmmm... So the little girl isn't completely stupid. Oh well. Those two will eventually split up and we can grab her then." The three nodded in agreement and started to follow and observe them for a favorable moment of attack.
Zel could tell that there were three bandits following him and Alielle. Bandits are only good at sneaking up on people who are too busy making some sort of noise on their own to notice the sounds that shouldn't be but are and a lack of sounds that should be there. He knew he could easily get rid of them, but was concerned that if Alielle felt that he 'saved' her from them that she might think it's destiny that put them together. He never felt that such storybook romances ever had true love contained within them, which is exactly why he has no interest in Amelia whatsoever.
No, Alielle was a kind, respectable, attractive girl. (try not to laugh, all you El Hazard fans.) Zelgadis didn't want to risk Alielle falling in love with him just because everyone thinks the girl should love her hero. That would cause him to lose interest in her as quickly as she would gain interest in him. What Zel needed was to get rid of these bandits silently somehow, without Alielle knowing. His speed alone could probably get a fatal blow to them without a sound, but he still needed to distract Alielle before he could make his move. An ideal distraction would also have an effect on the bandits, so that they had no chance to make a noise as he ran up to give that fatal blow.
Just then he heard a strange sound. Looking up, he saw something that looked like it came off of a dome rooftop flying around by means of a funny-looking ornament on the top. Of course, Zelgadis didn't know that. "Oh, look! It's a UFO!" He exclaimed.
The bandits just snickered. "Does he really think we'd fall for that silly old thing a second time?" But then they saw Alielle point up in the sky just like Zelgadis was doing.
"Oh, wow! I didn't know those things actually existed! So that's what they look like!"
At that 'proof' that a UFO existed, the three looked to where all the action was taking place. The apparent leader through all this let out a tear of joy. "It's so beautiful... I think I've died and gone to heaven..."
Then Zelgadis and Alielle continued on their journey alone.
* * * * *
Ifurita and Chico approached the Shrine of Water. Seeing as Chico would easily be identified as a bugrum upon entering the grounds, he stayed behind while Ifurita tried to figure out where Alielle the the strange blue man went. They had gone to where Chico last saw them, but by then of course Zelgadis and Alielle had already begun thier journey.
"Work, work, work. Clean, clean, clean. Fix, fix, fix." The water twins were too busy workig to notice Ifurita fly in.
"Um, excuse me... Wait a minute... Oh, it's no use..." Ifurita flopped down on the ground and sat there all alone. For amusement she twirled her power staff around in her fingers. As she did this asmall whrilwind slowly emerged from the top of the staff as unnoticed as Ifurita was. It grew in strength as Ifurita twirled the staff without any idea what the staff was doing. Taking a life of it's own, the whrilwind went to a stage abandoned when the Shrine of Water stopped being the Shrine of Water Park. Now very large, it smashed the stage to pieces, and discarded Love-Love Monster costumes that were backstage began to twirl around within the chaotic winds.
"Work, work, Oh no!!!" The water twins dropped what they were doing. "That whirlwind is going to destroy the Shrine of Water again!!! We'll have to start completely over!!!" They started to cry.
Ifurita heard the crying and looked up. "Oh dear," she sighed, "Did I create that? What to do, what to do... Oh, I know! I'll just put my staff in the wind, then I can carry it around like I did that giant fireball when I first fought Shayla Shayla! Then I'll take it to that wind priestess and ask her to get rid of it for me!"
So Ifurita got up and walked to the giant whirlwind. As she stabbed her staff inside at first nothing appeared to happen. Then Ifurita tried to take her staff out. The whirlwind went with it. Ifurita staggered back, not wanting the whirlwind to suck her up to. But because she was holding onto her staff the whirlwind just followed her every move. Paniced now Ifurita turned to run, but clung tightly to her staff. She wanted to drop it and run, but for some reason she knew that it was a bad thing for her to be so far away from it. She wasn't sure what would happen, but knew she wouldn't like it whatever it was.
Demon: The episode will end here simply because I don't want Zel to feel that I am not doing any Slayers cameos. Running away is SO Slayers...
Lina: angry Nani? Are you trying to say that I'm nothing more then a coward?
Demon: in deep trouble Why no, I didn't mean it to sound like that at all, honest!
Lina: not any less angry Fireball!!! now a little less angry, but not much. Now if you're going to give a true Slayers ending to this episode, you do it my way.
Demon: having a vague idea what Lina means If I'm not mistaken, you and Gourry are about to pass by that town with the All-You-Can-Eat-For-A-Silver-Piece restaurant. I'm buying. Hands her the two silver pieces.
Lina: delighted You guessed! And to think I had you mistaken for yogurt-for-brains...
Gourry: flip-tops head Wanna taste?
Lina: smacks Gourry for being so gross Didn't you hear him, we're going to the All-You-Can-Eat-For-A-Silver-Piece restauraunt! turns back So stop acting dumb and let's go! turns back around and makes a dramatic pose in the direction of the town. Gourry is far in the background, running as fast as he can to get there before Lina eats it all Hey!!! Wait for me!!! Runs after him
Demon: smiling I understand completely. You think it's pointless to keep giving an intro/summary of the first chapter once we're well into the story, right?
Zel: Excited Right! I mean, even Pretty Sammy changed up it's intros.
Demon: curious Really... I didn't know you liked Pretty Sammy.
Zel: attempting to recover I don't really. It's just that Pretty Sammy and El Hazard are both sprinkled with cameos of each other, that's all.
Demon: drops large stack of papers on desk Anyway, this should easily solve your problem with the story.
Zel: glancing through it And what's this?
Demon: informative Xellos pose Well, ever since you first complained about the repetive intro, I've been toying with the idea of a different story, 'Pretty Zelly', that... sees Zel has already gone off to start the usual intro worked like a charm...
Zel: even more 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?
"So you ever gonna tell me what happened back there?" Alielle shouted at Zel. All she knew was that one minute she was talking with the two assistant water priestess, and the next she was back where they left their stuff. By all logical reasoning, travelling from the top of the cliff to the bottom in such a short amount of time should have been fatal. And yet she at least seemed to be still alive.
"No." That was all Zel was going to say on the subject. Even if he gained a cool new ability without becoming even less human, he wasn't going to take any chances like starting to say "that's a secret" or other wonderful Xellos quotes. "Now where are we going, Alielle?"
"The Shrine of Wind. Seeing as you talked about wanting to look at books. It has the largest library in all of El Hazard. And Afura Man is the most scholarly of the three priestesses." Alielle should know about the library, when she had traveled here with Makoto he had her read and translate all of the books that were written in languages he couldn't understand. She knew that he wouldn't find his cure here either, but she was still trying to learn how he attracts so many women without apparently trying.
"Well, well... If it isn't that little girl again..." A bandit muttered to his two friends. "I knew if we waited long enough one of those two brats would return for us to have our revenge upon." Brace yourselves, this is going to be a poorly-done drawn-from-memory flashback.
(Flashback begin)
"Oh dear," some unnamed waitress commented at what she saw, "there those rough-looking men go after a couple of kids... And from the outfit on that one you can tell one of them's a forigner. They're going to kill them if someone doesn't do something."
"So it's the start of the tourist season..." Nanami retorted. "The only thing I wanna kill is dirt." Just then a large pile of dishes was dropped next to Nanami's sink.
The man who put them there gave out an opulent huff. "Then don't go so slowly. We have a lot of customers to serve."
Nanami growled at him as he left. "Dirt, you're mine!" She pushed the dishes into the sink and went to work.
Alielle was huffing and puffing as she carried the purchases up to the Shrine of Wind. "Makoto, I'm tired."
Makoto, being ever-friendly, smiled at her. "Ok, Alielle. We can have a little rest here."
"We've been waiting for a little rest ourselves..." The bandits who started this damn flashback greeted the two.
"Oh, is this a rest stop?" Makoto was completely oblivious to the situation.
Alielle explained it to him very sarcastically. Think 'Clueless' for the tone of voice. "Nooooo.... These guys are bandits...."
"That's right... Now just hand over the bags and nobody gets hurt."
"No way!" Makoto shouted. "This stuff is worthless, it doesn't have any value!"
The bandit smiled. "You never know... There's hidden value in all merchandise."
Makoto had to think fast. "Hey look, it's a UFO!" He pointed behind the bandits.
The bandits turned to look, but saw nothing. "A trick like that isn't going to fool us..." He noticed a certain lack of victims, and also a lack of loot. "...The next time."
(to keep this chapter from being too long, end flashback)
One of the other bandits nudged his boss. When the boss snapped out of the flashback sequence he started, he looked to where the other guy was pointing. It was then that they noticed that Zel was traveling with Alielle.
"Hmmm... So the little girl isn't completely stupid. Oh well. Those two will eventually split up and we can grab her then." The three nodded in agreement and started to follow and observe them for a favorable moment of attack.
Zel could tell that there were three bandits following him and Alielle. Bandits are only good at sneaking up on people who are too busy making some sort of noise on their own to notice the sounds that shouldn't be but are and a lack of sounds that should be there. He knew he could easily get rid of them, but was concerned that if Alielle felt that he 'saved' her from them that she might think it's destiny that put them together. He never felt that such storybook romances ever had true love contained within them, which is exactly why he has no interest in Amelia whatsoever.
No, Alielle was a kind, respectable, attractive girl. (try not to laugh, all you El Hazard fans.) Zelgadis didn't want to risk Alielle falling in love with him just because everyone thinks the girl should love her hero. That would cause him to lose interest in her as quickly as she would gain interest in him. What Zel needed was to get rid of these bandits silently somehow, without Alielle knowing. His speed alone could probably get a fatal blow to them without a sound, but he still needed to distract Alielle before he could make his move. An ideal distraction would also have an effect on the bandits, so that they had no chance to make a noise as he ran up to give that fatal blow.
Just then he heard a strange sound. Looking up, he saw something that looked like it came off of a dome rooftop flying around by means of a funny-looking ornament on the top. Of course, Zelgadis didn't know that. "Oh, look! It's a UFO!" He exclaimed.
The bandits just snickered. "Does he really think we'd fall for that silly old thing a second time?" But then they saw Alielle point up in the sky just like Zelgadis was doing.
"Oh, wow! I didn't know those things actually existed! So that's what they look like!"
At that 'proof' that a UFO existed, the three looked to where all the action was taking place. The apparent leader through all this let out a tear of joy. "It's so beautiful... I think I've died and gone to heaven..."
Then Zelgadis and Alielle continued on their journey alone.
* * * * *
Ifurita and Chico approached the Shrine of Water. Seeing as Chico would easily be identified as a bugrum upon entering the grounds, he stayed behind while Ifurita tried to figure out where Alielle the the strange blue man went. They had gone to where Chico last saw them, but by then of course Zelgadis and Alielle had already begun thier journey.
"Work, work, work. Clean, clean, clean. Fix, fix, fix." The water twins were too busy workig to notice Ifurita fly in.
"Um, excuse me... Wait a minute... Oh, it's no use..." Ifurita flopped down on the ground and sat there all alone. For amusement she twirled her power staff around in her fingers. As she did this asmall whrilwind slowly emerged from the top of the staff as unnoticed as Ifurita was. It grew in strength as Ifurita twirled the staff without any idea what the staff was doing. Taking a life of it's own, the whrilwind went to a stage abandoned when the Shrine of Water stopped being the Shrine of Water Park. Now very large, it smashed the stage to pieces, and discarded Love-Love Monster costumes that were backstage began to twirl around within the chaotic winds.
"Work, work, Oh no!!!" The water twins dropped what they were doing. "That whirlwind is going to destroy the Shrine of Water again!!! We'll have to start completely over!!!" They started to cry.
Ifurita heard the crying and looked up. "Oh dear," she sighed, "Did I create that? What to do, what to do... Oh, I know! I'll just put my staff in the wind, then I can carry it around like I did that giant fireball when I first fought Shayla Shayla! Then I'll take it to that wind priestess and ask her to get rid of it for me!"
So Ifurita got up and walked to the giant whirlwind. As she stabbed her staff inside at first nothing appeared to happen. Then Ifurita tried to take her staff out. The whirlwind went with it. Ifurita staggered back, not wanting the whirlwind to suck her up to. But because she was holding onto her staff the whirlwind just followed her every move. Paniced now Ifurita turned to run, but clung tightly to her staff. She wanted to drop it and run, but for some reason she knew that it was a bad thing for her to be so far away from it. She wasn't sure what would happen, but knew she wouldn't like it whatever it was.
Demon: The episode will end here simply because I don't want Zel to feel that I am not doing any Slayers cameos. Running away is SO Slayers...
Lina: angry Nani? Are you trying to say that I'm nothing more then a coward?
Demon: in deep trouble Why no, I didn't mean it to sound like that at all, honest!
Lina: not any less angry Fireball!!! now a little less angry, but not much. Now if you're going to give a true Slayers ending to this episode, you do it my way.
Demon: having a vague idea what Lina means If I'm not mistaken, you and Gourry are about to pass by that town with the All-You-Can-Eat-For-A-Silver-Piece restaurant. I'm buying. Hands her the two silver pieces.
Lina: delighted You guessed! And to think I had you mistaken for yogurt-for-brains...
Gourry: flip-tops head Wanna taste?
Lina: smacks Gourry for being so gross Didn't you hear him, we're going to the All-You-Can-Eat-For-A-Silver-Piece restauraunt! turns back So stop acting dumb and let's go! turns back around and makes a dramatic pose in the direction of the town. Gourry is far in the background, running as fast as he can to get there before Lina eats it all Hey!!! Wait for me!!! Runs after him