Shampoo: What you want? Why you bring me here?
Demon: I have someone here who lost a few of his memories. points to Zelgadis I was wondering if there is any way you might help him regain those memories.
Shampoo: Why Shampoo want do this?
Demon: I am told you want to get Akane out of the way, so that you and Ranma can be happy together, is this right?
Shampoo: Ranma not let Shampoo destroy obstacle.
Demon: You don't have to even touch her, to get her out of the picture... I'd say more, but I want his memories restored. points to Zelgadis again
Shampoo: Very well. Shampoo do this. pulls out a bottle of herbal formula No. 119, the memory-restoring shampoo. gets to work on Zelgadis' head with her most dreaded attack
Demon: admiring work Very good. Now this is what you have to do... after Shampoo leaves, turns to audience Sorry about this, but I'm having a playful little war with another fanfic writer who's been reading this as I write the story. She keeps doing things to me because Zelgadis doesn't like doing the opening bit for each chapter. Her latest thing done to get Zel out of this was to wipe his memory of the part he is supposed to say. This 'worked' because before she stole the portion of the script that would tell him the words.
S.M.M.P: Senile Member of Monty Python And now for something completely different...
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?
"Now let's see..." Gourry said out loud to himself, "I remember standing with Lina and Amelia on the destroyed castle... Lina said we were going to rescue Zelgadis... Then she said some wierd stuff like she was casting a spell... And suddenly I was here. What happened?" Gourry scratched his head, this was a toughie.
The other person in the prison cell, who Gourry hadn't noticed yet, sweatdropped. Of all the people to suddenly appear out of thin air, Chico ended up with the stupidest. Beyond being able to speak Bugrum, his visitor was a complete idiot.
"Maybe if I find Lina, she can tell me where I am." Gourry started to shout out loud, hoping that Lina would hear him. "Leeeeeeeennaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" LEEEEEEEENNAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
Finally, Chico decided to make himself known to the blonde-haired person. "I don't think Lina can hear you in here..."
Gourry turned to the voice he heard. He didn't seem to mind that the owner of the voice was a giant bug. This person probably knew where here was. "And where are we?"
"In a prison of the Bugrum Empire. And until someone rescues us, we are prisoners."
"Oh..." Gourry said. He was going to use his sword to get himself out of the prison, but this other guy said they're supposed to be prisoners until someone rescues them. Prisoners waiting in prison to get rescued sounded about right to him. After all, if the prisoners weren't in the prison when the hero came to save them, he wouldn't know where to find them. "So what's your name?"
"Chico... And you?"
Gourry's stomach grumbled. "I'm hungry.... No, I mean I'm Gourry Gabriev. And at the moment I'm also hungry. Did they serve dinner yet here?"
* * * * *
"Lons!!! Let me out of here!!! This is treason!!! How dare you lock me up in my own room?"
Lons lowered his head from outside the room. "I'm sorry, princess. But Makoto doesn't want to put you in danger. He loves you deeply, you know that. He asked me to do my job to keep you safe, and that's what I'm doing."
Princess Rune let out a sarcastic laugh. "Well, Makoto and the others have already gone off, havn't they? Can't you let me out now?"
Lons considered this, but suddenly there was a commotion outside. One of the normal guards started to run past Lons, but he stopped him. "What's going on?"
The soldier saluted his superior. "Sir, an intruder has appeared in the gardens. She attacked the guards who ordered her to surrender."
Lons turned to the locked door. "I'm sorry, princess, but until this intruder is defeated you are safer in here." He ran off with the soldier to the gardens, leaving a very ticked off Princess still locked in her room.
"Lons, you get back here and let me out!!! I want to know what's going on!"
Lons was horrified by what he saw as he got near the gardens. A young red-haired girl was blasting anyone who got too close with something she called a "Flare Arrow!!". She just blasted yet another guard. If Lons didn't do something soon, he wouldn't have any guards left.
"Everyone, stand down!" He ordered. His remaining troops obeyed with relief, they didn't want to get blasted by this witch. They were only getting blasted because it was their duty to lay down their lives if it helped protect the princess.
Lina too went into a friendlier stance. She appeared here all alone, except for the bandits that attacked her. While their treasure would be nice to own, she really needed to find Amelia, Gourry, and Zelgadis. It would be rude for her to put business before friends, and they would tell her exactly that when they found her. She wanted to avoid such a speech from Amelia especially.
Lons realized that she was willing to talk, and walked closer until Lina showed indications that he was close enough. "Who are you to attack the Royal Palace of Rashtaria?"
Lina was taken aback by this accusation. 'Palace??? I thought you guys were bandits...' "I'm Lina Inverse, and I'm only defending myself from your men." Somewhat true, considering that she thought them to be bandits at the time and were running at her with their weapons out.
"Defending yourself? You entered the palace without permission!"
"I didn't chose the place I'd appear in your world..." Lina muttered, loudly enough for Lons to hear.
"Another visitor from a distant world..." Before, Lons would not have believed that Lina was from another world. But it's kind of hard for him to explain her great skill in the element of fire she used against his men any other way. Besides, he already knew that others have come before from other worlds, so why couldn't she?
"Another?" Lina looked hopeful. "You mean you've met Zelgadis?"
"The name is unfamiliar..."
"That's who I'm looking for. He accidently brought himself here a few days ago, and we just found a way to bring him back with us."
"We? Where are the others you came with?" Lons looked around, but saw nobody.
Lina scratched her head. "I'm not sure exactly... Maybe they appeared in other places on your world."
It was at the time that the clouds went dark, with the ground and thunder and everything else from the scene where Makoto and everyone he was with turned to look at...
"The Eye of God..." Lons quivered with fear as he uttered those words.
Lina looked to the Eye. It was obviously the source of all this commotion. She thought about what Lons called it, and slowly smiled. "I think we just found where Zelgadis is..."
* * * * *
"Come on, Ifurita... keep searching. It has to be in there somewhere..." Zelgadis was getting bored. While it seemed like Ifurita could easily interface with the Eye, she had been hooked up to it for some time and still hadn't found any means to send Zelgadis back to his world.
"Master, what if it isn't here?" Ifurita was afraid that she would fail her new master. And because of the ways Jinnai used to punish her, she didn't want to get on this master's bad side.
Zelgadis took Ifurita's hand again. "It has to be. The spell I used to get here was called God's Eye. The spell and this thing wouldn't have similar names unless they had something in common. Take your time if you have to. I'm not in that much of a rush to get back... It's just something I'd like to do." At that moment someone fell on Zel's head.
"Oh, hi Mr. Zelgadis..." Amelia said meekly, knowing he wasn't very happy at the present situation, "I hope you don't mind that I dropped in..."
'Just great, now she's here... I know I told Ifurita to take her time, but now I hope she finds it quickly.' To Amelia, he said. "How'd you get here?"
After getting up and brushing herself off, she told him. "Well, Xellos came to me saying that you were no longer on this world. I didn't believe him and went to where he said you last were, a castle that he destroyed after you left."
Ifurita started to jerk around in the ihterface chair, but neither Amelia nor Zelgadis were paying any attention to her.
"He... DESTROYED... my... castle?!?" Zelgadis fumed. "Please tell me that Lina hasn't killed him yet. I would really like to have that honor."
Amelia smiled. "No, he hasn't shown his face since he told me you were gone. On the way over to your castle, I ran into Lina and Gourry. They helped me find the book you used to get here."
Zelgadis interrupted, "And before you figured out how to get back, you cast the spell and are trapped here with me."
Amelia stuck her tounge out at him for that. "Actually, we turned the page and found the return spell right there."
Zelgadis grabbed Amelia and spun her around in joy. "Great! So... How about casting away and getting us home?"
Amelia shook her head. "We can't... Lina was the one who memorized the spells to come here and back.
Zelgadis sighed. He knew that if he meet Lina again he'd end up being forced by her to go on some extremely dangerous mission to save the world. Oh sure they'd survive if L-sama is in a good mood, but there's always the risk that she won't be when they need her to beat the villian for them.
"Oh all right... Come on, Amelia. Let's go find them so we can go home." He takes her by the hand, and teleports them to the Shrine of Fire. "Oops, I should have warned you that I can do that now... But don't tell anyone else yet. I'd like to be able to suprise Xellos with it when I'm about to kill him."
Amelia nodded. Something as suprising as that would be useful against the trickster. And she felt that Xellos deserved to pay for unjustly trashing Zel's castle. "So... where should we look first?"
"We can start looking for them tomorrow... It's getting late."
"But... the sun's only beginning to set!"
"Yeah, but would you rather sleep in a nice soft bed, or somewhere outdoors on the ground?"
"You have a point... But are you sure we can get a room here?"
Zelgadis corrected her. "Of course we can get some ROOMS here. This girl I've been traveling with here is friends with the priestess that owns the shrine. I'm sure she can convince her friend to let us stay for the night."
Amelia was happy on the outside, but deep down she was thinking of all the things she was going to do to this slut who was with HER Zelgadis all alone. A girl Zelgadis seemed to be rather friendly towards.
Demon: I have someone here who lost a few of his memories. points to Zelgadis I was wondering if there is any way you might help him regain those memories.
Shampoo: Why Shampoo want do this?
Demon: I am told you want to get Akane out of the way, so that you and Ranma can be happy together, is this right?
Shampoo: Ranma not let Shampoo destroy obstacle.
Demon: You don't have to even touch her, to get her out of the picture... I'd say more, but I want his memories restored. points to Zelgadis again
Shampoo: Very well. Shampoo do this. pulls out a bottle of herbal formula No. 119, the memory-restoring shampoo. gets to work on Zelgadis' head with her most dreaded attack
Demon: admiring work Very good. Now this is what you have to do... after Shampoo leaves, turns to audience Sorry about this, but I'm having a playful little war with another fanfic writer who's been reading this as I write the story. She keeps doing things to me because Zelgadis doesn't like doing the opening bit for each chapter. Her latest thing done to get Zel out of this was to wipe his memory of the part he is supposed to say. This 'worked' because before she stole the portion of the script that would tell him the words.
S.M.M.P: Senile Member of Monty Python And now for something completely different...
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?
"Now let's see..." Gourry said out loud to himself, "I remember standing with Lina and Amelia on the destroyed castle... Lina said we were going to rescue Zelgadis... Then she said some wierd stuff like she was casting a spell... And suddenly I was here. What happened?" Gourry scratched his head, this was a toughie.
The other person in the prison cell, who Gourry hadn't noticed yet, sweatdropped. Of all the people to suddenly appear out of thin air, Chico ended up with the stupidest. Beyond being able to speak Bugrum, his visitor was a complete idiot.
"Maybe if I find Lina, she can tell me where I am." Gourry started to shout out loud, hoping that Lina would hear him. "Leeeeeeeennaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" LEEEEEEEENNAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
Finally, Chico decided to make himself known to the blonde-haired person. "I don't think Lina can hear you in here..."
Gourry turned to the voice he heard. He didn't seem to mind that the owner of the voice was a giant bug. This person probably knew where here was. "And where are we?"
"In a prison of the Bugrum Empire. And until someone rescues us, we are prisoners."
"Oh..." Gourry said. He was going to use his sword to get himself out of the prison, but this other guy said they're supposed to be prisoners until someone rescues them. Prisoners waiting in prison to get rescued sounded about right to him. After all, if the prisoners weren't in the prison when the hero came to save them, he wouldn't know where to find them. "So what's your name?"
"Chico... And you?"
Gourry's stomach grumbled. "I'm hungry.... No, I mean I'm Gourry Gabriev. And at the moment I'm also hungry. Did they serve dinner yet here?"
* * * * *
"Lons!!! Let me out of here!!! This is treason!!! How dare you lock me up in my own room?"
Lons lowered his head from outside the room. "I'm sorry, princess. But Makoto doesn't want to put you in danger. He loves you deeply, you know that. He asked me to do my job to keep you safe, and that's what I'm doing."
Princess Rune let out a sarcastic laugh. "Well, Makoto and the others have already gone off, havn't they? Can't you let me out now?"
Lons considered this, but suddenly there was a commotion outside. One of the normal guards started to run past Lons, but he stopped him. "What's going on?"
The soldier saluted his superior. "Sir, an intruder has appeared in the gardens. She attacked the guards who ordered her to surrender."
Lons turned to the locked door. "I'm sorry, princess, but until this intruder is defeated you are safer in here." He ran off with the soldier to the gardens, leaving a very ticked off Princess still locked in her room.
"Lons, you get back here and let me out!!! I want to know what's going on!"
Lons was horrified by what he saw as he got near the gardens. A young red-haired girl was blasting anyone who got too close with something she called a "Flare Arrow!!". She just blasted yet another guard. If Lons didn't do something soon, he wouldn't have any guards left.
"Everyone, stand down!" He ordered. His remaining troops obeyed with relief, they didn't want to get blasted by this witch. They were only getting blasted because it was their duty to lay down their lives if it helped protect the princess.
Lina too went into a friendlier stance. She appeared here all alone, except for the bandits that attacked her. While their treasure would be nice to own, she really needed to find Amelia, Gourry, and Zelgadis. It would be rude for her to put business before friends, and they would tell her exactly that when they found her. She wanted to avoid such a speech from Amelia especially.
Lons realized that she was willing to talk, and walked closer until Lina showed indications that he was close enough. "Who are you to attack the Royal Palace of Rashtaria?"
Lina was taken aback by this accusation. 'Palace??? I thought you guys were bandits...' "I'm Lina Inverse, and I'm only defending myself from your men." Somewhat true, considering that she thought them to be bandits at the time and were running at her with their weapons out.
"Defending yourself? You entered the palace without permission!"
"I didn't chose the place I'd appear in your world..." Lina muttered, loudly enough for Lons to hear.
"Another visitor from a distant world..." Before, Lons would not have believed that Lina was from another world. But it's kind of hard for him to explain her great skill in the element of fire she used against his men any other way. Besides, he already knew that others have come before from other worlds, so why couldn't she?
"Another?" Lina looked hopeful. "You mean you've met Zelgadis?"
"The name is unfamiliar..."
"That's who I'm looking for. He accidently brought himself here a few days ago, and we just found a way to bring him back with us."
"We? Where are the others you came with?" Lons looked around, but saw nobody.
Lina scratched her head. "I'm not sure exactly... Maybe they appeared in other places on your world."
It was at the time that the clouds went dark, with the ground and thunder and everything else from the scene where Makoto and everyone he was with turned to look at...
"The Eye of God..." Lons quivered with fear as he uttered those words.
Lina looked to the Eye. It was obviously the source of all this commotion. She thought about what Lons called it, and slowly smiled. "I think we just found where Zelgadis is..."
* * * * *
"Come on, Ifurita... keep searching. It has to be in there somewhere..." Zelgadis was getting bored. While it seemed like Ifurita could easily interface with the Eye, she had been hooked up to it for some time and still hadn't found any means to send Zelgadis back to his world.
"Master, what if it isn't here?" Ifurita was afraid that she would fail her new master. And because of the ways Jinnai used to punish her, she didn't want to get on this master's bad side.
Zelgadis took Ifurita's hand again. "It has to be. The spell I used to get here was called God's Eye. The spell and this thing wouldn't have similar names unless they had something in common. Take your time if you have to. I'm not in that much of a rush to get back... It's just something I'd like to do." At that moment someone fell on Zel's head.
"Oh, hi Mr. Zelgadis..." Amelia said meekly, knowing he wasn't very happy at the present situation, "I hope you don't mind that I dropped in..."
'Just great, now she's here... I know I told Ifurita to take her time, but now I hope she finds it quickly.' To Amelia, he said. "How'd you get here?"
After getting up and brushing herself off, she told him. "Well, Xellos came to me saying that you were no longer on this world. I didn't believe him and went to where he said you last were, a castle that he destroyed after you left."
Ifurita started to jerk around in the ihterface chair, but neither Amelia nor Zelgadis were paying any attention to her.
"He... DESTROYED... my... castle?!?" Zelgadis fumed. "Please tell me that Lina hasn't killed him yet. I would really like to have that honor."
Amelia smiled. "No, he hasn't shown his face since he told me you were gone. On the way over to your castle, I ran into Lina and Gourry. They helped me find the book you used to get here."
Zelgadis interrupted, "And before you figured out how to get back, you cast the spell and are trapped here with me."
Amelia stuck her tounge out at him for that. "Actually, we turned the page and found the return spell right there."
Zelgadis grabbed Amelia and spun her around in joy. "Great! So... How about casting away and getting us home?"
Amelia shook her head. "We can't... Lina was the one who memorized the spells to come here and back.
Zelgadis sighed. He knew that if he meet Lina again he'd end up being forced by her to go on some extremely dangerous mission to save the world. Oh sure they'd survive if L-sama is in a good mood, but there's always the risk that she won't be when they need her to beat the villian for them.
"Oh all right... Come on, Amelia. Let's go find them so we can go home." He takes her by the hand, and teleports them to the Shrine of Fire. "Oops, I should have warned you that I can do that now... But don't tell anyone else yet. I'd like to be able to suprise Xellos with it when I'm about to kill him."
Amelia nodded. Something as suprising as that would be useful against the trickster. And she felt that Xellos deserved to pay for unjustly trashing Zel's castle. "So... where should we look first?"
"We can start looking for them tomorrow... It's getting late."
"But... the sun's only beginning to set!"
"Yeah, but would you rather sleep in a nice soft bed, or somewhere outdoors on the ground?"
"You have a point... But are you sure we can get a room here?"
Zelgadis corrected her. "Of course we can get some ROOMS here. This girl I've been traveling with here is friends with the priestess that owns the shrine. I'm sure she can convince her friend to let us stay for the night."
Amelia was happy on the outside, but deep down she was thinking of all the things she was going to do to this slut who was with HER Zelgadis all alone. A girl Zelgadis seemed to be rather friendly towards.