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?
Lina stared up at the celing. She didn't really have a choice considering the condition she was in at the moment. And until now she was having no better ideas then the princess was with her bath-time puppet.
'If only I had a hand free I could get out of these stupid bandages... Something's bound to come to me then.'
Lina turned her eyes to Gourry, who was still sitting by her side. When he noticed her looking at him, he smiled softly. "Gourry, can I please hold your hand?"
Gourry was confused at this request. "Arn't I already holding your hand?"
Lina sighed calmly. Getting mad at him now would only ruin her chances of ridding herself of these stupid bandages. "Yes, I know... But with all these bandages on my hand I can't hold yours in return."
Gourry accepted this answer. In a way, he wanted her to hold his hand right now. But just as he was about to free Lina's hand he got a whiff of something in the air. He stood up and looked to the door to get a better noseful.
"So that's it, is it Lina?" He told her. "You don't really want to hold my hand, you want out of those bandages so you could eat all the food! I can just see it all now - once I unwound your hand you heal yourself and use those very bandages wraped around you to tie me up so you get all the food to yourself! Well I'm not falling for it, Lina. I'm going to eat."
"Gourry, wait! You got it all wrong!" But Lina could only watch as her 'guardian' walked out of the room and followed his nose to a balanced breakfast. With her only clear escape route stuffing it's face, she was still at the mercy of anyone around here.
Makoto was the next to enter Lina's room. He went right up to her and untied the bandages on her right hand and arm. "I'm sorry. But they don't know you can heal yourself."
Lina looked at this new person giving her a hand. "And how do you know about me... excuse me, what is your name?"
"I'm Makoto, and the reason I know about you is because the world I came from had stories of your adventures. I pretty much know all of your deepest secrets, Lina Inverse." To prove it, he tried his best to impersonate Naga's laugh. "Oh hohohohoho!!!!!" He did an almost too perfect job at it.
'So this is that Makoto I heard about... I guess he's the only sort of person you can trust with a weapon that can destroy the world.' He finished freeing her arm, and she began work healing her wounds properly. "And I take it you know I'm hungry, is that it?"
Makoto nodded. "Yeah, they won't believe how much you can eat at once unless they see it for themselves. If you couldn't heal yourself they would end up starving you to death with a diet that even Zelgadis could lose weight on."
Lina laughed. "You sure about that? Sometimes I think he only eats at all because it's the polite thing to do when you're in a tavern."
"Yeah, you're right. I'm just joking there."
'Ok, he knows about Naga and Zelgadis... And I'm sure he saw Gourry before he came here. But how much does he really know about me?'
"But I'm not really here just so you can beat Gourry to the food, Lina."
That perked her interest. 'He better know I expect to be paid for whatever he wants to hire me for...' "And just what did you come here for?"
"Well, before I met your friend Gourry I had the misfortune of running into Xellos."
"What? Xellos is here?" In her shock from hearing this news, she moved a little too quickly too soon and flops back onto the bed in agony.
Makoto lowered his head in sorrow. "I'm afraid so. And El Hazard will have no defence against him if you leave. The sort of magic you use doesn't exist here or even on my old world. If you could stay long enough to teach some of the people here some of your spells we might stand a chance against him if he tries anything else."
Lina bit her lip. "It could take a lifetime to teach someone who had no idea magic existed even something as simple as a flare arrow. The best I could do is write some spellbooks and hope they can figure out how to use them. Even then, my magical secrets arn't cheap..."
Makoto responed to this by placing a stack of bills next to Lina's head. Stopped casting her healing spell to pick them up and examine them carefully. "What's this?"
"The first payment for your services. I'm sorry, but El Hazard doesn't use gold coins for currency. It's all paper money here."
Lina started crying when she heard this. 'Paper money?!? No wonder the princess wanted to cheat me out of my fee for destroying the Eye of God. I must have been asking for all the gold in the kingdom!' "Forget it, Makoto," she managed between tears, "but paper money is worthless anywhere outside this world, which is exactly where I'm going once me and Gourry find where Zelgadis and Amelia are."
"You knew exactly where I was, Lina. You just didn't care. And now, thanks to you, she's dead." Zelgadis stepped out of the shadows, sword already drawn.
"Y-you mean Amelia was... In that thing?" Lina realized that she needed to hurry up with her healing spell if she was going to get through this.
"No, not Amelia." Makoto told her. "Ifurita..."
Lina turned to Makoto. "Who?"
"Ifurita, the demon god. She was a weapon designed by the ancients of this world to destroy everything."
Zelgadis glared at him. "Liar! She wasn't evil! Ifurita had no desire to destroy anything!"
'Geez...' Makoto thought to himself, 'was I really like this when I talked about Ifurita being good? No wonder nobody believed me.'
"Normally you're right. Ifurita for the most part is good and kind. But when hooked up to the Eye of God she becomes a totally different person!"
"Maybe," Zelgadis sad sadly, and apparently seemed to lower his guard. "But Lina didn't even bother to check!!!" He suddenly readied his sword and ran at Lina, who was still bedridden for the moment. Without thinking, Makoto jumped at Zel, slamming his shoulder hard into the chimera and causing Zelgadis to veer him his intended path.
Though still mostly bandaged, Lina could at least cast spells with her freed hand. "Fireball!" She knew it couldn't really hurt Zelgadis, but hoped it would knock him back enough for some help to come. It wasn't her fault really that she didn't see Makoto knocking Zel aside and coming into it's path until it was too late.
"Makoto!" Lina shouted as the flames engulfed his body. She tore at her bandages, trying to reach him in time. Her desparation to save Makoto made her forget about the pain that most of her body was still experiencing with every move she made.
For a while Zelgadis just stood there, watching the scene as it happened. His anger was with Lina, not this other guy who got in the way. He had considered killing her now, but didn't want this guy's blood on his hands. It didn't matter really if he killed her now or once he was certain that the charred body on the floor would live.
Even though Lina was forcing herself to ignore the pain mentally, her now even weaker physical state had it's effect on her spellcasting. Makoto's wounds were severe, and steadily growing worse. She just couldn't keep up with them. She could clearly see his life ebb away from his hopeful eyes. "Zelgadis, please... Help me!" She shouted as the sight forced tears to roll down her face.
* * * * *
"Demon God, what are you doing here?" Afura asked as she floated in front of Ifurita. All her thoughts that Ifurita might be good faded when the Eye of God activated this most recent time. That thing needed Ifurita to activate it, and that meant she was there when it started on it's rampage once again. Now that Afura thought about it, she'd have to have a talk with that Zelgadis character as well. But one thing at a time here.
Ifurita scratched her head. "Well, my master wants me to find out all about this strange blue man he heard about."
Afura was really mad now. In his mind, this statement meant only one thing - that Ifurita had only been pretending that Zelgadis was her new master so that she could spy on him. All of her anger for Zelgadis faded as she figured that Ifurita probably tricked him into having her activate the Eye. But that anger didn't exactly go away. It just all turned into anger at Ifurita herself.
* * * * *
"Zelgadis, please... Help me!"
Zelgadis shook his head. This was even better then killing Lina. He was making her feel everything that he had felt about Ifurita on his way over here. An eye for an eye, as it were. He had no intent on helping the guy Lina accidently blasted get better.
At that moment a portion of the celing came crashing down, carrying Ifurita with it. She brushed herself off and looked at Zelgadis. "Oh hello there!" Then she looked at Makoto and Lina. "Oh dear, did I came at a bad time?"
Lina stared up at the celing. She didn't really have a choice considering the condition she was in at the moment. And until now she was having no better ideas then the princess was with her bath-time puppet.
'If only I had a hand free I could get out of these stupid bandages... Something's bound to come to me then.'
Lina turned her eyes to Gourry, who was still sitting by her side. When he noticed her looking at him, he smiled softly. "Gourry, can I please hold your hand?"
Gourry was confused at this request. "Arn't I already holding your hand?"
Lina sighed calmly. Getting mad at him now would only ruin her chances of ridding herself of these stupid bandages. "Yes, I know... But with all these bandages on my hand I can't hold yours in return."
Gourry accepted this answer. In a way, he wanted her to hold his hand right now. But just as he was about to free Lina's hand he got a whiff of something in the air. He stood up and looked to the door to get a better noseful.
"So that's it, is it Lina?" He told her. "You don't really want to hold my hand, you want out of those bandages so you could eat all the food! I can just see it all now - once I unwound your hand you heal yourself and use those very bandages wraped around you to tie me up so you get all the food to yourself! Well I'm not falling for it, Lina. I'm going to eat."
"Gourry, wait! You got it all wrong!" But Lina could only watch as her 'guardian' walked out of the room and followed his nose to a balanced breakfast. With her only clear escape route stuffing it's face, she was still at the mercy of anyone around here.
Makoto was the next to enter Lina's room. He went right up to her and untied the bandages on her right hand and arm. "I'm sorry. But they don't know you can heal yourself."
Lina looked at this new person giving her a hand. "And how do you know about me... excuse me, what is your name?"
"I'm Makoto, and the reason I know about you is because the world I came from had stories of your adventures. I pretty much know all of your deepest secrets, Lina Inverse." To prove it, he tried his best to impersonate Naga's laugh. "Oh hohohohoho!!!!!" He did an almost too perfect job at it.
'So this is that Makoto I heard about... I guess he's the only sort of person you can trust with a weapon that can destroy the world.' He finished freeing her arm, and she began work healing her wounds properly. "And I take it you know I'm hungry, is that it?"
Makoto nodded. "Yeah, they won't believe how much you can eat at once unless they see it for themselves. If you couldn't heal yourself they would end up starving you to death with a diet that even Zelgadis could lose weight on."
Lina laughed. "You sure about that? Sometimes I think he only eats at all because it's the polite thing to do when you're in a tavern."
"Yeah, you're right. I'm just joking there."
'Ok, he knows about Naga and Zelgadis... And I'm sure he saw Gourry before he came here. But how much does he really know about me?'
"But I'm not really here just so you can beat Gourry to the food, Lina."
That perked her interest. 'He better know I expect to be paid for whatever he wants to hire me for...' "And just what did you come here for?"
"Well, before I met your friend Gourry I had the misfortune of running into Xellos."
"What? Xellos is here?" In her shock from hearing this news, she moved a little too quickly too soon and flops back onto the bed in agony.
Makoto lowered his head in sorrow. "I'm afraid so. And El Hazard will have no defence against him if you leave. The sort of magic you use doesn't exist here or even on my old world. If you could stay long enough to teach some of the people here some of your spells we might stand a chance against him if he tries anything else."
Lina bit her lip. "It could take a lifetime to teach someone who had no idea magic existed even something as simple as a flare arrow. The best I could do is write some spellbooks and hope they can figure out how to use them. Even then, my magical secrets arn't cheap..."
Makoto responed to this by placing a stack of bills next to Lina's head. Stopped casting her healing spell to pick them up and examine them carefully. "What's this?"
"The first payment for your services. I'm sorry, but El Hazard doesn't use gold coins for currency. It's all paper money here."
Lina started crying when she heard this. 'Paper money?!? No wonder the princess wanted to cheat me out of my fee for destroying the Eye of God. I must have been asking for all the gold in the kingdom!' "Forget it, Makoto," she managed between tears, "but paper money is worthless anywhere outside this world, which is exactly where I'm going once me and Gourry find where Zelgadis and Amelia are."
"You knew exactly where I was, Lina. You just didn't care. And now, thanks to you, she's dead." Zelgadis stepped out of the shadows, sword already drawn.
"Y-you mean Amelia was... In that thing?" Lina realized that she needed to hurry up with her healing spell if she was going to get through this.
"No, not Amelia." Makoto told her. "Ifurita..."
Lina turned to Makoto. "Who?"
"Ifurita, the demon god. She was a weapon designed by the ancients of this world to destroy everything."
Zelgadis glared at him. "Liar! She wasn't evil! Ifurita had no desire to destroy anything!"
'Geez...' Makoto thought to himself, 'was I really like this when I talked about Ifurita being good? No wonder nobody believed me.'
"Normally you're right. Ifurita for the most part is good and kind. But when hooked up to the Eye of God she becomes a totally different person!"
"Maybe," Zelgadis sad sadly, and apparently seemed to lower his guard. "But Lina didn't even bother to check!!!" He suddenly readied his sword and ran at Lina, who was still bedridden for the moment. Without thinking, Makoto jumped at Zel, slamming his shoulder hard into the chimera and causing Zelgadis to veer him his intended path.
Though still mostly bandaged, Lina could at least cast spells with her freed hand. "Fireball!" She knew it couldn't really hurt Zelgadis, but hoped it would knock him back enough for some help to come. It wasn't her fault really that she didn't see Makoto knocking Zel aside and coming into it's path until it was too late.
"Makoto!" Lina shouted as the flames engulfed his body. She tore at her bandages, trying to reach him in time. Her desparation to save Makoto made her forget about the pain that most of her body was still experiencing with every move she made.
For a while Zelgadis just stood there, watching the scene as it happened. His anger was with Lina, not this other guy who got in the way. He had considered killing her now, but didn't want this guy's blood on his hands. It didn't matter really if he killed her now or once he was certain that the charred body on the floor would live.
Even though Lina was forcing herself to ignore the pain mentally, her now even weaker physical state had it's effect on her spellcasting. Makoto's wounds were severe, and steadily growing worse. She just couldn't keep up with them. She could clearly see his life ebb away from his hopeful eyes. "Zelgadis, please... Help me!" She shouted as the sight forced tears to roll down her face.
* * * * *
"Demon God, what are you doing here?" Afura asked as she floated in front of Ifurita. All her thoughts that Ifurita might be good faded when the Eye of God activated this most recent time. That thing needed Ifurita to activate it, and that meant she was there when it started on it's rampage once again. Now that Afura thought about it, she'd have to have a talk with that Zelgadis character as well. But one thing at a time here.
Ifurita scratched her head. "Well, my master wants me to find out all about this strange blue man he heard about."
Afura was really mad now. In his mind, this statement meant only one thing - that Ifurita had only been pretending that Zelgadis was her new master so that she could spy on him. All of her anger for Zelgadis faded as she figured that Ifurita probably tricked him into having her activate the Eye. But that anger didn't exactly go away. It just all turned into anger at Ifurita herself.
* * * * *
"Zelgadis, please... Help me!"
Zelgadis shook his head. This was even better then killing Lina. He was making her feel everything that he had felt about Ifurita on his way over here. An eye for an eye, as it were. He had no intent on helping the guy Lina accidently blasted get better.
At that moment a portion of the celing came crashing down, carrying Ifurita with it. She brushed herself off and looked at Zelgadis. "Oh hello there!" Then she looked at Makoto and Lina. "Oh dear, did I came at a bad time?"