Zel: due to technical difficulties, this is a recording from a previous episode 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?
Amelia wiped her brow. All this exhausting work moving pieces of the castle to try to see what's hiding below was taking it's toll on the young girl. But she didn't care. The only way to rescue Zelgadis was to find out how he got to that other world. She just HAD to rescue Zelgadis, because if he was lost to her forever... her heart would break into a thousand pieces!
Amelia looked over to the Lina. Cupping her hands over her lips, she shouted, "Find anything yet?"
Lina paused in her work. 'you asked me that seventy-nine times already, and the answer is still the same... If I find anything, I will tell you.' But out loud, Lina shouted back, "Not yet! How about you, Gourry? Did you find anything?"
Gourry shook his head. "Sorry, all I've seen is this old book with funny writing all over it." He held it up for them to see. When he saw both girls dropping their pickaxes and running toward him at full speed, he gulped. It clicked already that the book must have been what they had been looking for. Now if only he could remember why they were looking for it...
Lina reached the book first. Snatching it from Gourry's fearfully quivering hand, she looked at the cover. The runes and circles that decorated the outside would have been taken by a third-class sorcerer as nothing more than decoration, placed there only to please the eye of the novice this magic book was intended for. But we are talking about Lina Inverse, the greatest sorcery genius in the universe. She reconized the intracate patterns hidden within the seemingly random placement of the 'decorations' for what they were.
"It has a powerful protection spell on it. One that would allow it to survive a Dragon Slave if it had to. The spell is set up to activate whenever it detects a sharp increase in magical power, but lies dormant otherwise. Whoever wrote this spell didn't want this book to be destroyed... ever."
Lina then opened the pages with Amelia moving about behind her, trying to get a look at the pages. Lina carefully read every page as if she didn't know the spell being taught in it. The way she saw it, the book might only say it's teaching you one spell when it's really teaching you another. That other spell might be what Zelgadis needs to get home. Eventually she reached the page with God's Eye, the spell that started this mess.
"Well, here's a spell that brings people to the world of El Hazard. I've never heard of this world, but that's probably why Zelgadis used the spell to go there."
Amelia went into a dramatic pose on top of some of the wreckage. "Allright! What are we waiting for? Let's go to El Hazard and rescue my dearest Zelgaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" *Thud* The wreckage fell over, taking Amelia with it. She quickly got up and reached for the book, but Lina kept it away from her.
"Amelia," Lina told the desperate lovesick girl, "you seem to forget that Zelgadis used this spell and is now stuck there. This spell might bring someone TO El Hazard, but it doesn't say anything about bringing them back. If we want to rescue Zelgadis we have to find a spell that takes people from there to here. Which is a reason why Xellos tried to destroy this book. Without it, we would have thought he went to the Overworld and looked there for him there once we found a way to go."
Amelia allowed herself to be defeated by those words and went off to sulk. Gourry decided to follow her and try to cheer her up. As a result, Lina was left with the book all to herself. She continued to pour through the God's Eye spell, hoping for a clue to what the return spell might be. Then she turned the page and found what she was looking for hiding in plain sight.
"Amelia! Gourry! I found it! The way to bring Zelgadis back!"
* * * * *
Makoto sat down next to his childhood friend, who was looking forlornly over the side of the river as Miz and Shayla Shayla used their elemental powers to make a path across the whirlpools and icebergs that attempted to block their way. "Nanami, don't worry. We'll save Chico, you'll see. Everything's going to be all right."
She turned to look at his kind face. During all the time she knew him, Makoto had never made a promise he couldn't keep. No matter how impossible the situation seemed when he made that promise, he worked as hard as he could and never gave up, never stopped until the job was done. And yet, knowing all that didn't make her feel better. "Are you sure, Makoto?" Nanami turned back to the waters and sighed.
Just then a small rock landed on Makoto's head. "Ow!" He cried out. "Who just hit me?"
Nobody owned up to the offence. Just then, another stone fell on Alielle's head. She let go of the controls for a second to rub her head, and the entire vessel nearly crashed into the water before she was able to put them back on course.
Mr. Fujisawa noticed the rock that landed on Alielle when it rolled towards him. He wondered where a rock came from when they were in the middle of a very wide, very deep 'river'. Eventually he looked up just as the Bugrum started to really start dropping rocks in them.
"Incoming from above!" he shouted as he grabbed Miz and tried to protect her with his body. Deep down he truly loved her, it was just that she expressed her love for him so greatly that... if he openly showed his love who knows what would happen?
"I'll handle this." Afura told the group. She moved her left arm, which held her element lamp outward to her side. "Hiya!" As her shout echoed out, the wind began to pick up, ready and willing to aid it's mistress. "Hunh!" With this shout echoing about, she raised her hand high.
The winds forming around her changed into three tornados that spead out to envelop the Bugrum attacking. The stones that were intended for the boat now repeatedly slammed into them. Too busy trying to brace for the onslaught, the Bugrum were unable to hold their position. When the tornados went off into the distance, they took the attackers with them.
Mr. Fujisawa got up off of Miz. Or tried to at least. As soon as he started to move, she jumped into his unexpecting arms, and caused them to still be on the ground, with Miz on top this time.
"Oh, my dearest Fujisawa... You risked your own life just to protect me! How valiant!" She giggled as her fingers affectionately passed through his hair around his ears.
Makoto understood his teacher's uneasiness about this situation, and decided to bail him out. "Miz, another whirlpool!"
Miz quickly got up, ready to use her powers to calm the waters once more, but found them already quiet. She turned back to Mr. Fujisawa, but he was now standing and the mood had been broken. Because her love was watching her, she had no choice but to secretly promise to 'discuss' this incident with Makoto the next time she could find him alone.
They soon reached shore, and now Mr. Fujisawa was able to better help the priestesses as they fought off the Bugrum. Makoto, Nanami, and Alielle stayed in the center of the mess as they headed for the capitol Bugrum city within the empire, the one place they knew would have the captive. Princess Rune Venus was not present on this mission, mostly because Lons, the captain of Rashtaria's royal guard, had passed by Makoto while he was helping Nanami make her box lunches. Makoto had convinced Lons to take whatever steps necessary to keep the princess from trying to come along on the mission. She had been locked in her chambers by him after he asked her to change into a different outfit more suitable to the environments she would be submitted to on the mission.
"My, how well you all work as a team..." Xellos said to the seven who came to face an entire empire without any army. He noticed that the three priestess seemed to have the only magic of any sort in this entire world, and with all three fighting the Bugrum an army wasn't necessary. He also was quick to notice that each priestess only seemed to use magic of a single element. It would be easy for him to isolate and defeat each one seprately.
"Xellos... I should have figured that wherever Zelgadis went to find a cure, you would come to watch him fail." Makoto actually HAD figured that Zelgadis didn't come here alone, which was why he didn't want Princess Rune to come along.
"Oh? Have we met?" Xellos tried to look innocent. "Forgive me if I don't remember you, but I can't be expected to quickly recall every short moment of my long life..."
"We've never met, Xellos. I just happen to have heard of your adventures with Lina Inverse..." And just to see the reaction, he added, "and a certain golden dragon who seems to be the perfect match for you."
"And how did someone from a worthless world like this hear about Lina Inverse? Oh, and if you know me so well, don't try to quote me."
Makoto heeded this advice. In fact, he started to form a plan to send Xellos packing. "It's just a very detailed story from where I come from. If you like I'll show you exactly how detailed..."
This perked Xellos' interest. "Really... Very well, I'll humor you. Show away." It should be noted that the fighting had stopped, everyone interested in Xellos and Makoto, though in Makoto's case it was only because Xellos was interested in him.
Makoto smiled, then began his chant. Xellos was smiling as well for a moment, but stopped when he realized what the words were. This worthless boy was trying to cast the Giga Slave. And judging from the emotions he was getting from Makoto, the boy actually thought it might work. The only thing Xellos knew about that might give the boy such detail was a Clair Bible manuscript that had contained knowledge of the future.
He considered trying to kill him, but he remembered how well THAT sat with L-sama the last time it was tried. So instead he just sat there, trying desparately to locate Lina Inverse's life force back on his world so that he knew where his world was. He didn't bother to learn the spell Zelgadis used to come here, and didn't know that the spell to go back was also contained in that book. He had come here by following Zelgadis' life force, and was trying to use Lina's to return because he wanted to see how they were doing.
When he finally located Lina, his concern turned into terror. She was HERE, on this world! If he knew L-sama, he knew that nowhere on this world would be safe for him once that spell was cast. He instead began his search for Beastmaster, but knew it was in vain. The young boy would finish the spell before he found her.
"Giga Slave!" Makoto thrust his hands out in what he was sure to be a position that would send L-sama's power out and into Xellos, getting rid of him once and for all. But nothing came out. Xellos noticed Makoto's confidence turn to hopelessness, and stopped his search.
"A very good bluff, young man." Xellos lightly scolded Makoto, "But... unfortunately it was nothing but a-"
Just then, the ground began shaking. The River of God churned with ever more vigor then usual. The clouds darkened, and gave out a rumble of thunder. Makoto, his friends, the Bugrum, and Xellos all looked at one thing at the same time - the Eye of God.
Xellos started to panic. The energy he felt coming from that floating sphere of metal was unmistakeable. It was L-sama's power, and it didn't seem to be very happy to be here. That was also something Xellos could tell about it. He began to think that this boy actually did succeed in casting his spell, but didn't have control of it. He had to leave... now. And as soon as he found his master's lifeforce, that's exactly what Xellos, the cowardly priest did.
Amelia wiped her brow. All this exhausting work moving pieces of the castle to try to see what's hiding below was taking it's toll on the young girl. But she didn't care. The only way to rescue Zelgadis was to find out how he got to that other world. She just HAD to rescue Zelgadis, because if he was lost to her forever... her heart would break into a thousand pieces!
Amelia looked over to the Lina. Cupping her hands over her lips, she shouted, "Find anything yet?"
Lina paused in her work. 'you asked me that seventy-nine times already, and the answer is still the same... If I find anything, I will tell you.' But out loud, Lina shouted back, "Not yet! How about you, Gourry? Did you find anything?"
Gourry shook his head. "Sorry, all I've seen is this old book with funny writing all over it." He held it up for them to see. When he saw both girls dropping their pickaxes and running toward him at full speed, he gulped. It clicked already that the book must have been what they had been looking for. Now if only he could remember why they were looking for it...
Lina reached the book first. Snatching it from Gourry's fearfully quivering hand, she looked at the cover. The runes and circles that decorated the outside would have been taken by a third-class sorcerer as nothing more than decoration, placed there only to please the eye of the novice this magic book was intended for. But we are talking about Lina Inverse, the greatest sorcery genius in the universe. She reconized the intracate patterns hidden within the seemingly random placement of the 'decorations' for what they were.
"It has a powerful protection spell on it. One that would allow it to survive a Dragon Slave if it had to. The spell is set up to activate whenever it detects a sharp increase in magical power, but lies dormant otherwise. Whoever wrote this spell didn't want this book to be destroyed... ever."
Lina then opened the pages with Amelia moving about behind her, trying to get a look at the pages. Lina carefully read every page as if she didn't know the spell being taught in it. The way she saw it, the book might only say it's teaching you one spell when it's really teaching you another. That other spell might be what Zelgadis needs to get home. Eventually she reached the page with God's Eye, the spell that started this mess.
"Well, here's a spell that brings people to the world of El Hazard. I've never heard of this world, but that's probably why Zelgadis used the spell to go there."
Amelia went into a dramatic pose on top of some of the wreckage. "Allright! What are we waiting for? Let's go to El Hazard and rescue my dearest Zelgaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" *Thud* The wreckage fell over, taking Amelia with it. She quickly got up and reached for the book, but Lina kept it away from her.
"Amelia," Lina told the desperate lovesick girl, "you seem to forget that Zelgadis used this spell and is now stuck there. This spell might bring someone TO El Hazard, but it doesn't say anything about bringing them back. If we want to rescue Zelgadis we have to find a spell that takes people from there to here. Which is a reason why Xellos tried to destroy this book. Without it, we would have thought he went to the Overworld and looked there for him there once we found a way to go."
Amelia allowed herself to be defeated by those words and went off to sulk. Gourry decided to follow her and try to cheer her up. As a result, Lina was left with the book all to herself. She continued to pour through the God's Eye spell, hoping for a clue to what the return spell might be. Then she turned the page and found what she was looking for hiding in plain sight.
"Amelia! Gourry! I found it! The way to bring Zelgadis back!"
* * * * *
Makoto sat down next to his childhood friend, who was looking forlornly over the side of the river as Miz and Shayla Shayla used their elemental powers to make a path across the whirlpools and icebergs that attempted to block their way. "Nanami, don't worry. We'll save Chico, you'll see. Everything's going to be all right."
She turned to look at his kind face. During all the time she knew him, Makoto had never made a promise he couldn't keep. No matter how impossible the situation seemed when he made that promise, he worked as hard as he could and never gave up, never stopped until the job was done. And yet, knowing all that didn't make her feel better. "Are you sure, Makoto?" Nanami turned back to the waters and sighed.
Just then a small rock landed on Makoto's head. "Ow!" He cried out. "Who just hit me?"
Nobody owned up to the offence. Just then, another stone fell on Alielle's head. She let go of the controls for a second to rub her head, and the entire vessel nearly crashed into the water before she was able to put them back on course.
Mr. Fujisawa noticed the rock that landed on Alielle when it rolled towards him. He wondered where a rock came from when they were in the middle of a very wide, very deep 'river'. Eventually he looked up just as the Bugrum started to really start dropping rocks in them.
"Incoming from above!" he shouted as he grabbed Miz and tried to protect her with his body. Deep down he truly loved her, it was just that she expressed her love for him so greatly that... if he openly showed his love who knows what would happen?
"I'll handle this." Afura told the group. She moved her left arm, which held her element lamp outward to her side. "Hiya!" As her shout echoed out, the wind began to pick up, ready and willing to aid it's mistress. "Hunh!" With this shout echoing about, she raised her hand high.
The winds forming around her changed into three tornados that spead out to envelop the Bugrum attacking. The stones that were intended for the boat now repeatedly slammed into them. Too busy trying to brace for the onslaught, the Bugrum were unable to hold their position. When the tornados went off into the distance, they took the attackers with them.
Mr. Fujisawa got up off of Miz. Or tried to at least. As soon as he started to move, she jumped into his unexpecting arms, and caused them to still be on the ground, with Miz on top this time.
"Oh, my dearest Fujisawa... You risked your own life just to protect me! How valiant!" She giggled as her fingers affectionately passed through his hair around his ears.
Makoto understood his teacher's uneasiness about this situation, and decided to bail him out. "Miz, another whirlpool!"
Miz quickly got up, ready to use her powers to calm the waters once more, but found them already quiet. She turned back to Mr. Fujisawa, but he was now standing and the mood had been broken. Because her love was watching her, she had no choice but to secretly promise to 'discuss' this incident with Makoto the next time she could find him alone.
They soon reached shore, and now Mr. Fujisawa was able to better help the priestesses as they fought off the Bugrum. Makoto, Nanami, and Alielle stayed in the center of the mess as they headed for the capitol Bugrum city within the empire, the one place they knew would have the captive. Princess Rune Venus was not present on this mission, mostly because Lons, the captain of Rashtaria's royal guard, had passed by Makoto while he was helping Nanami make her box lunches. Makoto had convinced Lons to take whatever steps necessary to keep the princess from trying to come along on the mission. She had been locked in her chambers by him after he asked her to change into a different outfit more suitable to the environments she would be submitted to on the mission.
"My, how well you all work as a team..." Xellos said to the seven who came to face an entire empire without any army. He noticed that the three priestess seemed to have the only magic of any sort in this entire world, and with all three fighting the Bugrum an army wasn't necessary. He also was quick to notice that each priestess only seemed to use magic of a single element. It would be easy for him to isolate and defeat each one seprately.
"Xellos... I should have figured that wherever Zelgadis went to find a cure, you would come to watch him fail." Makoto actually HAD figured that Zelgadis didn't come here alone, which was why he didn't want Princess Rune to come along.
"Oh? Have we met?" Xellos tried to look innocent. "Forgive me if I don't remember you, but I can't be expected to quickly recall every short moment of my long life..."
"We've never met, Xellos. I just happen to have heard of your adventures with Lina Inverse..." And just to see the reaction, he added, "and a certain golden dragon who seems to be the perfect match for you."
"And how did someone from a worthless world like this hear about Lina Inverse? Oh, and if you know me so well, don't try to quote me."
Makoto heeded this advice. In fact, he started to form a plan to send Xellos packing. "It's just a very detailed story from where I come from. If you like I'll show you exactly how detailed..."
This perked Xellos' interest. "Really... Very well, I'll humor you. Show away." It should be noted that the fighting had stopped, everyone interested in Xellos and Makoto, though in Makoto's case it was only because Xellos was interested in him.
Makoto smiled, then began his chant. Xellos was smiling as well for a moment, but stopped when he realized what the words were. This worthless boy was trying to cast the Giga Slave. And judging from the emotions he was getting from Makoto, the boy actually thought it might work. The only thing Xellos knew about that might give the boy such detail was a Clair Bible manuscript that had contained knowledge of the future.
He considered trying to kill him, but he remembered how well THAT sat with L-sama the last time it was tried. So instead he just sat there, trying desparately to locate Lina Inverse's life force back on his world so that he knew where his world was. He didn't bother to learn the spell Zelgadis used to come here, and didn't know that the spell to go back was also contained in that book. He had come here by following Zelgadis' life force, and was trying to use Lina's to return because he wanted to see how they were doing.
When he finally located Lina, his concern turned into terror. She was HERE, on this world! If he knew L-sama, he knew that nowhere on this world would be safe for him once that spell was cast. He instead began his search for Beastmaster, but knew it was in vain. The young boy would finish the spell before he found her.
"Giga Slave!" Makoto thrust his hands out in what he was sure to be a position that would send L-sama's power out and into Xellos, getting rid of him once and for all. But nothing came out. Xellos noticed Makoto's confidence turn to hopelessness, and stopped his search.
"A very good bluff, young man." Xellos lightly scolded Makoto, "But... unfortunately it was nothing but a-"
Just then, the ground began shaking. The River of God churned with ever more vigor then usual. The clouds darkened, and gave out a rumble of thunder. Makoto, his friends, the Bugrum, and Xellos all looked at one thing at the same time - the Eye of God.
Xellos started to panic. The energy he felt coming from that floating sphere of metal was unmistakeable. It was L-sama's power, and it didn't seem to be very happy to be here. That was also something Xellos could tell about it. He began to think that this boy actually did succeed in casting his spell, but didn't have control of it. He had to leave... now. And as soon as he found his master's lifeforce, that's exactly what Xellos, the cowardly priest did.