Slayers Mystic
Episode 17
Return to the Future: Face off (1)
"Shouldn't we at least tell them we're going to the future?" Charity asks.
"Pip??" Bobo says as Charity picks it up. "Pipipipipipipipipip!!!"
"Shut up!" Vee says to Bobo.
"Don't say that to Bobo!" Charity kisses the purple face. "You're hurting him."
Vee checks that the sword is secure to her belt and starts chanting the spell.
"Listen to me!" Charity pushes Vee and breaks her concentration.
"What?!!" Vee is annoyed.
"You are always ignoring me."
"So? Just because you are my godsister doesn't make it so that I hang onto your every word."
"I'm a human being too," Charity stomps her foot angrily. Then she adds, "Don't make me use my
status to make you listen to me."
Vee turns and looks evilly at Charity, "You don't have the guts to try it." Vee starts chanting,
"Light beyond darkness, life beyond death, lead me to the future, back to my home..."
"Stop it! I command you in the name of Peace Kingdom!" Charity shouts and Vee stops and looks at
Charity, confused. "Now, I order you to march straight into Amelia's room with me and say that
we will be going home, and thanks very much for the food."
Vee turns blue, but she says nothing. Charity walks out of the room and Vee follows her.
"You go in, first," Charity says. Vee sighs and steps in.
A second later, she is out.
"What are you doing?" Charity asks.
"There's noone in here."
"Where is she?"
"How would I know? You're the one who pulled her to 'be with Peace'."
"Oh, yes, I forgot."
Sweat drops.
"What are you two doing here in this early morning?" Lina yawns.
"Er, we were going to see the Princess," Vee replies.
"Oh good, I was going to see her too," Lina looks morose.
"Is anything wrong?" Charity asks.
"Oh...Nothing."
"Anyway," Charity continues, "She isn't in there. I locked her up with Prince Peace."
"You did what?" Lina and Vee choke.
"Then why was her room lit the whole night?" Lina wonders.
"It was lit?" Charity asks.
"That means, someone is in the room..." Lina walks in and pulls back the blankets on the bed. She
stares.
"Who is it?" Vee asks Lina as she walks into the room after Charity.
"Pipipipip." squeaks Bobo on Charity's shoulders.
"What the--??!!!!" is all Lina says.
In the bed Patriot snores, saliva dripping out of his mouth.
"What the?!" Vee follows suit.
"You traitor!" Lina blows up. "You were trying to attract me and then you sleep in someone else's
bed!! TRAITOR..."
"So you like him........" Charity mumbles.
"NO, I DONOTLIKEHIMANDIWILLNOTLIKEANYONEELSEANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lina screams and Patriot
wakens.
Vee covers her ears with her hands.
"What's that racket??" Gourry stumbles into the room. He looks vaguely at the girls gathered
around the bed and he charges to them. "Did anyone try to take advantage of any one of you?"
"NOONEDID!!EXCEPTFORHIM!" says Lina, still in the high pitched voice.
"What is going on here?" Patriot asks sleepily. Then he sees the gang and he screams. "Are you
all trying to assasinate me?"
"I could arrange that for you," says Vee coolly.
"WHAT! ARE! YOU! DOING! IN! AMELIA'SBEDROOM??" screams Lina.
"Calm down," Charity whispers.
Patriot looks puzzled for a minute, and then groaned, "Ahh, I must have slept at the wrong room.
Got drunk yesterday...headache..."
"No, you did it on purpose," Lina accuses him, after somewhat being calmed. "You were waiting for
Amelia, didn't you??"
"You weren't drunk. You turned the wrong corridor," Vee continues, "You were waiting for Lina,
and when she didn't come back, you fell asleep. I told you not to mess with my mother's affair!!"
Vee is about to kick him into low-earth orbit when Gourry jumps on Patriot.
Charity shakes her head and Bobo does the same.
"NONONONO!" Patriot screams. "I REALLY got drunk and got into the wrong room. I DO honour a
truce."
"Hmm! Let's go, Charity." Vee says.
"Where are you going?" Lina turns from glaring at Patriot.
"Find the Princess," Vee replies.
"Well, I'm going with you," Lina decides.
"I'm going with you too," Gourry gets up from the ground and dusts himself. "I've been wanting to
see Amelia too."
"Oh." Patriot commented. "What am I _suppose_ to do now?"
Vee looks and him and smiles evilly. "Wait for a marriage to occur. I'll defeat you then."
"Oh, do come on Vee," Charity calls. "I thought you are in a hurry to go home."
Vee casts one last cold glance and walks hurriedly away.
The rest of the gang, except for Patriot, follows.
"Well." Patriot says and went back to sleep. "That's something you don't see every dawn."
*o*
The door is unlocked and Amelia sits straight beside Peace.
"I have something to announce," Amelia says as she looked at Charity (and Bobo), Vee, Lina and
Gourry.
"We all have something to say too," Vee says. "Charity and I are going back to the future to see
what we can do to save our time."
"Amelia, I'm sorry," Lina and Gourry says at the same time.
"Well, I was going to apologise to you too, Miss Lina, Gourry."
"Why?" Lina asks. "I'm the one who sould be apologising. I've been a horrible person, to come
between you and Gourry--Destiny or Not," Lina looks at Gourry.
"No! You can't mean that." Vee says. She turns to Charity. "Am I getting unborn??"
"Oh." Amelia looks startled. She turns to Lina. "I'm sorry to come between you and Gourry. I knew
you two should be married in the future, but I've been a rotten, selfish person."
"Amelia..." Lina says.
"And Gourry," Amelia sighs. "Can I talk to you alone?" She looks at the others, who hurriedly
leaves the room.
"By tradition," Amelia starts, "More than one person can court me. I do...hope that..." Amelia
turns away. "I want to tell you this--I can't..."
"Just say what you want to tell me Amelia," Gourry persuades her. He leans at the window.
"That no matter what happens...I..."
The glass cracks beneath Gourry's weight.
"That I..."
"Ahh!!! Amelia!!" Gourry falls out of the window. "Help!!!"
"What is going on?" Lina rushes in and sees Gourry clutching at the broken window, his hands
getting all bloody.
"Gourry!" Amelia turns pale. "He's fallen. Help him!"
"Gourry!" Lina shouts and rushes to help him. She holds his wrists. "Raywing!" She floats and
and says, "Gourry, let go of the the glass. Let go now!"
"Do I have a choice?" Gourry yells and let go of the broken window. He gulps as he looks at the
ground way below him.
Amelia peeps over the edge of the ceiling-to-floor window nervously. "Gourry!"
Lina floats down onto the grassy patch below.
"You," Gourry pants. "Saved me."
"Well...it was nothing. I just happened to be there," Lina sweat drops.
"But you saved me..." Gourry looked up at the room and gulped again. Amelia looked as small as
a rat from where Gourry was standing. "I could have..."
"That reminds me," Lina says. She pounces on him and choke him. "Don't you ever, EVER DO THAT
AGAIN!!! Youscaredmetodeath! Youknowwhy? Youwanttoknowwhy!! ILOVEYOUDAMMIT!!!"
"Lina?" Gourry cocks his head to the side, looking extremely confused. "What did you just say?"
"I SAID I LOVE YOU!!!" Lina screams into his ears then backs away, red with embarrassment. "Er...
I meant to say..." she whispers. "That I've grown used to you and I don't want you to suddenly
stop hanging around with me."
"Oh." Gourry says. "Lina, I..."
"Gourry! Gourry!" Amelia calls out as she raywings to him at fullspeed. "I thought I had lost
you!" she hugs him tightly, tears spilling out of her eyes. She kisses him.
"I thought," Gourry forgets all about Lina witnessing them, "that I had lost you too. When I was
hanging from there, thoughts of you were swimming in my mind."
"I couldn't do anything. I...was shocked to see you suddenly down there," Amelia cries. "Why was
I so stupid!"
"It's okay Amelia," Gourry comforts her. "I'm still here, thanks to Lina," he looks at Lina's
direction, but realises that Lina has disappeared. "Hmm. Where did Lina go?"
"Gourry, I have to say this. Please, listen," Charity sobs into his shirt.
"Just...say it," Gourry says.
"I've decided that to let Peace to court me."
"You what?!" Gourry is shocked for a while.
"Please, please don't be angry. It doesn't mean that..." Amelia pleads. "I love you Gourry. No
matter what happens, I'll always love you. It's only now, only after you were hanging on the edge
of the window that I've realised how much I don't want you to leave me."
"I'm not angry," Gourry says gently.
"And I've decided to let Destiny lead me to whoever I'm supposed to married to, and which path
the future takes." Amelia pulls away from Gourry. "That means--"
"I know what it means, Amelia," Gourry interrupts. "I guess it's for the best."
"Yes, it is..." Amelia embraces him. "What ever happens, will you promise not to leave me?
Please?"
"I promise...Amelia." Gourry looks away. "I guess this is for all our future's best."
Amelia only sniffs into his shirt.
"When will you be getting married?" Gourry asks.
"I don't know. Maybe in a few years' time."
"I'll stay. I'll stay with you until you get married. And I'll help you rebuild Saillune."
"Thank you Gourry." Amelia looks at him.
*o*
"What are you doing?" Charity asks curiously as she looks on.
"I'm leaving," Lina replies as she packs her stuff in a bagpack.
"Ahh...I knew it! I KNOW it! I'm getting unborn!" Vee screams hysterically.
"Pipipipi!"
"You look well enough to me," Charity stares at Vee. "Where are you going?" She asks Lina.
"I don't know...do some good looting and saving people from bandits, I suppose. I can't stay too
long in this place."
"I'm getting unborn!" (AN: No prizes for guessing who's the one who screamed that.)
"You ARE NOT!" Charity snapped at Vee. "Oh!" Charity gasps. "Your horrible attitude is
rubbing off onto me. Gosh, I better be leaving this place as soon as Lina."
"You are still with me in the future," Vee's eyebrow twitches.
"Oh no, there's bad karma in this place that is influencing me to follow your behaviour."
"What's karma?" Vee and Lina asks, sweat-dropping.
"Well, anyway," Lina says, "I'll be going off right now. Goodbye."
"Where are you going?" Patriot asks Lina as she walks through the corridor.
"None of your business," Lina answers him.
"I'd like to follow you," Patriot says.
"No." Lina turns around. "You go back to the future where you belong."
"But."
"Yeah," Vee appears on the scene with Charity. "Don't you want to fight me? We'll go back to our
present where there had been a marriage and Charity was borned."
Vee and Charity and Bobo disappears into thin air as the last word of the time spell was spoken.
He turns back, but Lina is already gone. Sighing, he decides that it was time for him to go home
and tell his father about his failure.
---------------------------------2 B Continued
Episode 17
Return to the Future: Face off (1)
"Shouldn't we at least tell them we're going to the future?" Charity asks.
"Pip??" Bobo says as Charity picks it up. "Pipipipipipipipipip!!!"
"Shut up!" Vee says to Bobo.
"Don't say that to Bobo!" Charity kisses the purple face. "You're hurting him."
Vee checks that the sword is secure to her belt and starts chanting the spell.
"Listen to me!" Charity pushes Vee and breaks her concentration.
"What?!!" Vee is annoyed.
"You are always ignoring me."
"So? Just because you are my godsister doesn't make it so that I hang onto your every word."
"I'm a human being too," Charity stomps her foot angrily. Then she adds, "Don't make me use my
status to make you listen to me."
Vee turns and looks evilly at Charity, "You don't have the guts to try it." Vee starts chanting,
"Light beyond darkness, life beyond death, lead me to the future, back to my home..."
"Stop it! I command you in the name of Peace Kingdom!" Charity shouts and Vee stops and looks at
Charity, confused. "Now, I order you to march straight into Amelia's room with me and say that
we will be going home, and thanks very much for the food."
Vee turns blue, but she says nothing. Charity walks out of the room and Vee follows her.
"You go in, first," Charity says. Vee sighs and steps in.
A second later, she is out.
"What are you doing?" Charity asks.
"There's noone in here."
"Where is she?"
"How would I know? You're the one who pulled her to 'be with Peace'."
"Oh, yes, I forgot."
Sweat drops.
"What are you two doing here in this early morning?" Lina yawns.
"Er, we were going to see the Princess," Vee replies.
"Oh good, I was going to see her too," Lina looks morose.
"Is anything wrong?" Charity asks.
"Oh...Nothing."
"Anyway," Charity continues, "She isn't in there. I locked her up with Prince Peace."
"You did what?" Lina and Vee choke.
"Then why was her room lit the whole night?" Lina wonders.
"It was lit?" Charity asks.
"That means, someone is in the room..." Lina walks in and pulls back the blankets on the bed. She
stares.
"Who is it?" Vee asks Lina as she walks into the room after Charity.
"Pipipipip." squeaks Bobo on Charity's shoulders.
"What the--??!!!!" is all Lina says.
In the bed Patriot snores, saliva dripping out of his mouth.
"What the?!" Vee follows suit.
"You traitor!" Lina blows up. "You were trying to attract me and then you sleep in someone else's
bed!! TRAITOR..."
"So you like him........" Charity mumbles.
"NO, I DONOTLIKEHIMANDIWILLNOTLIKEANYONEELSEANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lina screams and Patriot
wakens.
Vee covers her ears with her hands.
"What's that racket??" Gourry stumbles into the room. He looks vaguely at the girls gathered
around the bed and he charges to them. "Did anyone try to take advantage of any one of you?"
"NOONEDID!!EXCEPTFORHIM!" says Lina, still in the high pitched voice.
"What is going on here?" Patriot asks sleepily. Then he sees the gang and he screams. "Are you
all trying to assasinate me?"
"I could arrange that for you," says Vee coolly.
"WHAT! ARE! YOU! DOING! IN! AMELIA'SBEDROOM??" screams Lina.
"Calm down," Charity whispers.
Patriot looks puzzled for a minute, and then groaned, "Ahh, I must have slept at the wrong room.
Got drunk yesterday...headache..."
"No, you did it on purpose," Lina accuses him, after somewhat being calmed. "You were waiting for
Amelia, didn't you??"
"You weren't drunk. You turned the wrong corridor," Vee continues, "You were waiting for Lina,
and when she didn't come back, you fell asleep. I told you not to mess with my mother's affair!!"
Vee is about to kick him into low-earth orbit when Gourry jumps on Patriot.
Charity shakes her head and Bobo does the same.
"NONONONO!" Patriot screams. "I REALLY got drunk and got into the wrong room. I DO honour a
truce."
"Hmm! Let's go, Charity." Vee says.
"Where are you going?" Lina turns from glaring at Patriot.
"Find the Princess," Vee replies.
"Well, I'm going with you," Lina decides.
"I'm going with you too," Gourry gets up from the ground and dusts himself. "I've been wanting to
see Amelia too."
"Oh." Patriot commented. "What am I _suppose_ to do now?"
Vee looks and him and smiles evilly. "Wait for a marriage to occur. I'll defeat you then."
"Oh, do come on Vee," Charity calls. "I thought you are in a hurry to go home."
Vee casts one last cold glance and walks hurriedly away.
The rest of the gang, except for Patriot, follows.
"Well." Patriot says and went back to sleep. "That's something you don't see every dawn."
*o*
The door is unlocked and Amelia sits straight beside Peace.
"I have something to announce," Amelia says as she looked at Charity (and Bobo), Vee, Lina and
Gourry.
"We all have something to say too," Vee says. "Charity and I are going back to the future to see
what we can do to save our time."
"Amelia, I'm sorry," Lina and Gourry says at the same time.
"Well, I was going to apologise to you too, Miss Lina, Gourry."
"Why?" Lina asks. "I'm the one who sould be apologising. I've been a horrible person, to come
between you and Gourry--Destiny or Not," Lina looks at Gourry.
"No! You can't mean that." Vee says. She turns to Charity. "Am I getting unborn??"
"Oh." Amelia looks startled. She turns to Lina. "I'm sorry to come between you and Gourry. I knew
you two should be married in the future, but I've been a rotten, selfish person."
"Amelia..." Lina says.
"And Gourry," Amelia sighs. "Can I talk to you alone?" She looks at the others, who hurriedly
leaves the room.
"By tradition," Amelia starts, "More than one person can court me. I do...hope that..." Amelia
turns away. "I want to tell you this--I can't..."
"Just say what you want to tell me Amelia," Gourry persuades her. He leans at the window.
"That no matter what happens...I..."
The glass cracks beneath Gourry's weight.
"That I..."
"Ahh!!! Amelia!!" Gourry falls out of the window. "Help!!!"
"What is going on?" Lina rushes in and sees Gourry clutching at the broken window, his hands
getting all bloody.
"Gourry!" Amelia turns pale. "He's fallen. Help him!"
"Gourry!" Lina shouts and rushes to help him. She holds his wrists. "Raywing!" She floats and
and says, "Gourry, let go of the the glass. Let go now!"
"Do I have a choice?" Gourry yells and let go of the broken window. He gulps as he looks at the
ground way below him.
Amelia peeps over the edge of the ceiling-to-floor window nervously. "Gourry!"
Lina floats down onto the grassy patch below.
"You," Gourry pants. "Saved me."
"Well...it was nothing. I just happened to be there," Lina sweat drops.
"But you saved me..." Gourry looked up at the room and gulped again. Amelia looked as small as
a rat from where Gourry was standing. "I could have..."
"That reminds me," Lina says. She pounces on him and choke him. "Don't you ever, EVER DO THAT
AGAIN!!! Youscaredmetodeath! Youknowwhy? Youwanttoknowwhy!! ILOVEYOUDAMMIT!!!"
"Lina?" Gourry cocks his head to the side, looking extremely confused. "What did you just say?"
"I SAID I LOVE YOU!!!" Lina screams into his ears then backs away, red with embarrassment. "Er...
I meant to say..." she whispers. "That I've grown used to you and I don't want you to suddenly
stop hanging around with me."
"Oh." Gourry says. "Lina, I..."
"Gourry! Gourry!" Amelia calls out as she raywings to him at fullspeed. "I thought I had lost
you!" she hugs him tightly, tears spilling out of her eyes. She kisses him.
"I thought," Gourry forgets all about Lina witnessing them, "that I had lost you too. When I was
hanging from there, thoughts of you were swimming in my mind."
"I couldn't do anything. I...was shocked to see you suddenly down there," Amelia cries. "Why was
I so stupid!"
"It's okay Amelia," Gourry comforts her. "I'm still here, thanks to Lina," he looks at Lina's
direction, but realises that Lina has disappeared. "Hmm. Where did Lina go?"
"Gourry, I have to say this. Please, listen," Charity sobs into his shirt.
"Just...say it," Gourry says.
"I've decided that to let Peace to court me."
"You what?!" Gourry is shocked for a while.
"Please, please don't be angry. It doesn't mean that..." Amelia pleads. "I love you Gourry. No
matter what happens, I'll always love you. It's only now, only after you were hanging on the edge
of the window that I've realised how much I don't want you to leave me."
"I'm not angry," Gourry says gently.
"And I've decided to let Destiny lead me to whoever I'm supposed to married to, and which path
the future takes." Amelia pulls away from Gourry. "That means--"
"I know what it means, Amelia," Gourry interrupts. "I guess it's for the best."
"Yes, it is..." Amelia embraces him. "What ever happens, will you promise not to leave me?
Please?"
"I promise...Amelia." Gourry looks away. "I guess this is for all our future's best."
Amelia only sniffs into his shirt.
"When will you be getting married?" Gourry asks.
"I don't know. Maybe in a few years' time."
"I'll stay. I'll stay with you until you get married. And I'll help you rebuild Saillune."
"Thank you Gourry." Amelia looks at him.
*o*
"What are you doing?" Charity asks curiously as she looks on.
"I'm leaving," Lina replies as she packs her stuff in a bagpack.
"Ahh...I knew it! I KNOW it! I'm getting unborn!" Vee screams hysterically.
"Pipipipi!"
"You look well enough to me," Charity stares at Vee. "Where are you going?" She asks Lina.
"I don't know...do some good looting and saving people from bandits, I suppose. I can't stay too
long in this place."
"I'm getting unborn!" (AN: No prizes for guessing who's the one who screamed that.)
"You ARE NOT!" Charity snapped at Vee. "Oh!" Charity gasps. "Your horrible attitude is
rubbing off onto me. Gosh, I better be leaving this place as soon as Lina."
"You are still with me in the future," Vee's eyebrow twitches.
"Oh no, there's bad karma in this place that is influencing me to follow your behaviour."
"What's karma?" Vee and Lina asks, sweat-dropping.
"Well, anyway," Lina says, "I'll be going off right now. Goodbye."
"Where are you going?" Patriot asks Lina as she walks through the corridor.
"None of your business," Lina answers him.
"I'd like to follow you," Patriot says.
"No." Lina turns around. "You go back to the future where you belong."
"But."
"Yeah," Vee appears on the scene with Charity. "Don't you want to fight me? We'll go back to our
present where there had been a marriage and Charity was borned."
Vee and Charity and Bobo disappears into thin air as the last word of the time spell was spoken.
He turns back, but Lina is already gone. Sighing, he decides that it was time for him to go home
and tell his father about his failure.
---------------------------------2 B Continued