Slayers Mystic
Episode 20
Shocking! When You Cannot Accept
"I know who you are," Amelia says.
"You do?" Lina asks.
"Peace." Amelia says.
"PEACE????" Everyone is surprised.
"Peace. Peace. How could you?"
"It can't be him," Gourry says. "I saw him dead, myself."
"How could you, Peace?" Amelia walks towards him, looking really sad. "Why Peace? Why?" She
reaches out to touch him.
"Watch out!" Vee shouts as she gets ready for another attack from Monthzie. It does not come,
though, and Patriot watches Amelia within inches of his 'father'.
"Peace--Peace Justice," Amelia says sadly. "Why all this?"
"Of course! Restoration of JUSTICE!" Lina concludes. "He wants to be the most powerful person in
the continent; even more powerful than Amelia. It is his name: Justice, that is referred to in
his 'cause', and not the real thing."
"You are the king of the continent, why the need to destroy everything you own and then claim it
as your own?" Amelia asks. "Why?"
"FOOL!" Monthzie swipes Amelia out of the way easily. Amelia falls onto the ground, her face
scarred by its claws. "I am NOT Peace."
"You were." Amelia is persistent. "You were my Peace Justice. My husband, my king. The lord of
the continent."
"Let's just vaporise it," Vee says, and starts to chant the 'Purify' spell.
"No," Zel stops Vee. "Let them work this out themselves. Let all the tension be straightened out.
Please. Vee."
"IT can't be my father!" Charity adds in. "My father is not an evil person. He is human, and he
will never be like this..."
*0*
flashback
Peace stood over the cradle which held his tiny baby daughter inside. Slowly, he touched her
small fingers. She stared at him with her large purple eyes and cooed.
"Our daughter," Amelia looked at Peace, tiredly. Her face had an inner radiance as she looked at
the cradle from her bed. "Isn't she pretty?"
Peace nearly smiled. That was the nearest thing to not scowling or looking cold all the time as
he always did.
"We shall have more children," Amelia informed him. "It will make such a good difference for you.
We won't be lonely when we are old--"
"No," Peace turned to her, his face cold again. "We shan't. I'm making an exception for her, and
only her," Peace pointed to his daughter. He carried her and looked at her and nearly smiled
again.
"But--" Amelia started.
"She shall be called Charity...Charity Peace."
"But isn't your family name..."
"Who cares about my family name? I will call her Charity Peace."
"Alright Peace," Amelia sighed.
*0*
"Don't you remember Peace? Don't you remember how you loved Charity. You loved her more than me,"
Amelia sounds bitter. "You never loved me..."
"Mother?" Charity looks surprised.
"I've always wanted...more children, but...we had...some misunderstanding between each other,"
Amelia looks at Monthzie. "You never wanted any more children. That was why I adopted Vee as my
god daughter. You were only obsessed in conquering lands. Don't you remember? And you never came
back home unless you really had to."
Monthzie stares down at her with its red eyes. "NO."
"When the monsters attack, you weren't there. You hadn't been back home since a month with
excuse of going on a pilgrimage. No...I knew that something was amiss, but I didn't say
anything." Amelia stands up slowly, "Why do you hate me? Why do you hate me so much? It's not my
fault that the people in the kingdom listens to me more than you. I DIDN'T asked to be the most
powerful person on the continent."
Monthzie swipes Amelia off her feet again, causing more cuts on her face and part of her
shoulder.
"Amelia!" Gourry shouts and goes to her. "Don't do it," he says. "Please."
"I have to, Gourry. I have to. Or he'll never stop."
"You'll get killed!"
"I will get killed even if I don't try to stop him."
"Amelia..."
*0*
Flashback
Peace stood before the tall man. "What...?" Peace frowned. "What--"
"I will fulfil your every desire," said the man.
"How would you know what is my desire?! You are just a blind priest! Now, get out of your King's
way!" Peace glared at the man.
"I may have lost my sight, but I know what you really want. You want to be the most powerful
being. I can make you that."
"If you can, why can't you make yourself not blind?"
"It is a curse that I live with blindness," he replied, leaning on his metal staff. "However, it
does not affect my powers."
"I don't want to hear your lies anymore. Now get out of my way," Peace ordered.
"If you do change your mind, burnt this, and an army shall come forth for you. And if you drink
this, you will have magical powers and strength such that you have never seen before," the
strange red-robed priest pressed a dark stone into Peace's hand. "You will not regret your
choice."
*0*
"Watch out, the two of you!" Zel calls out as Monthzie swipes at Amelia and Gourry. Gourry leaps
back, pulling Amelia with him. "Are you alright, Amelia?" Zel asks.
"I...am..." Amelia is breathless. She looks at Monthzie in the eye.
"That's it, I am not taking any of this anymore," Vee says. "I'm going to kill you."
"I am with you," Lina nods her head.
"You are not my father," Charity says. "You are NOT! I will kill you."
"I don't understand, who am I then?" Patriot asks himself.
"You. Are...." Vee glances at him sideways, but says nothing more.
"Let's go, Vee," Charity says. "Light thunder!"
"Purify!" Vee shrieks.
"Dragu Slave!"
"STOP!!!!" Zel shouts, but it is too late. The attacks hit Monthzie and its aftermath is a rubble
and ashes heaped behind Monthzie--that is what that is left of Monthzie's castle.
"I can't believe this," Lina is shocked. "My dragu slave didn't work..."
"Freaky," Vee comments. "Your dragu slave is really a strong spell, but..."
"NOTHING CAN STOP ME!" Monthzie booms.
"Yes." Amelia says.
"What did you say?" Gourry asks Amelia. The others just looks at her.
"Yes. Yes I can, and I will," Amelia repeats.
"What can you do..." Lina asks.
"You must have faith in her," Zel advises. "I've worked with her for so long, and I believe she
can do it. I know you can, Amelia."
"Thank you, Zel." Amelia smiles. "Come here, Charity."
Charity walks to her mother hesitatantly.
"Don't worry," Amelia assures her, then looks at Monthzie. "See your daughter, Peace. Aren't you
proud of her? That she is beautiful, and that she has learnt a lot? She takes after you sometimes
and sometimes when you were away, I'd swear that I thought it was you that was standing in the
corridor, not her. If she were to have a short hair, she would look like you..."
"Eww..." Vee gags.
"Come back to us, Peace. I know you want to. I know..." Amelia continues.
*0*
Flashback
Peace looked at the lit window one more time before he rides off. His daughter would be in there,
weaving again. She always does.
"Someday, I will bring you with me, Charity. I'll make you part of my life, trully," Peace
thought to himself as he entered the forest.
He felt a sharp pain in his side and he got down from his horse. The pain grows and as he looked
at his hands, he realised that he had begun to transform.
"About time," he said breathlessly. He had burnt that orb a long time ago. And it had melt into
a strange silver liquid. The smoke from the burning had morphed into a whole army and there were
three generals for him. One with green hair, another with blue hair and a third with red hair.
They were all babes, but they grew at an astonishing speed--faster than a normal human infant
would.
Recently, as he plotted all the attacks against the kingdom, he drank the liquid. And now, he
felt his skin ripped and getting all bloody. His skin was getting too tight, he realised, and he
took his sword and cut himself up. And he got out of his human skin, pulsating with energy. And
he dropped his sword as he turned away to leave his old life behind.
*0*
The fingers snap once again and Amelia is thrown and pinned onto the ground.
"Peace, please don't fail me..." Amelia pleads with tears in her eyes. "Please come back."
"Amelia, don't waste your time, he is not worthy of your love...or anyone's love."
"Don't say that, Gourry," Amelia looks at him sadly. "He had never loved anyone in his life. He
just needs to be shown what is love."
"Well, you've given him 18 years and look at what 'love' means to him," Lina loses her temper.
"Lina..." Zel looks sideways at her. "Lina."
"What Zel?" Lina says. "I know, I should give her a chance to snap him out of it, but this is
really too much."
"I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO YOU..." says Monthzie. "Yes...I am Peace Justice..."
"No! NO!!!!!!!" Charity shouts. "It can't be! It can't be!!! My father..." Charity falls to the
ground. "My father is never like this...LIAR! LIAR! You are not my father!!!! Purify!!!!!!!!"
Charity screams and points at him.
Her body glows and is covered with black and bright fire and they twist around her. Charity
screams as she picks herself up. The fire surges around her.
"No, Charity!" Amelia turns and looks at her daughter. "You can't use that spell without a...Zel!
Do something."
"I can't!" Zel shouts back. "The spell is out of control without its power point. And looks like
Charity is the point."
"No!" Amelia cries out.
"Get out of the way, everyone!" Lina yells as she pushes Vee onto the ground.
"Charity!" Vee calls out. She throws her sword at Charity, and amazingly her godsister managed to
catch the weapon. "POINT at him!!!!"
Charity couldn't hear Vee. She is overwhelmed by the power of the spell that she did not realise
that the sword is in her hand.
"POINT!!!" Vee yells again from a far.
A dark figure struggles to Charity as the fire rose higher into the sky.
"Who's that!" Lina yells over the roar.
"It's PATRIOT!" someone yells back.
Patriot ignores the heat of the fire and clasps his arms around Charity and his hands on the
sword. He is getting burnt, but he tries to point the sword at Monthzie. The fire gets too hot
for him and he falls back onto the ground.
In meantime, Charity continues to scream, her voice rises with the roar of the fire around her.
"Charity..." the monster blinks. "My daughter...my daughter..." his arm extends. "NO!"
"She will die! SHE WILL DIE? Do you hear that, Peace?" Amelia shouts. "Your daughter will die!"
"No, Charity." Peace is startled. "Not Charity. Not the only one I love."
Tears roll down Amelia's cheeks. "Peace..."
The arm grabs Charity's hands and the sword is turned to him. The fire shot out to him in a beam
and a dome is formed around him.
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." Peace says as light overcomes him. "I love you...Charity. I am your
father, and I love you very much..." He fades away in the fire.
Charity stops glowing and she drops to the ground with the sword in her hands.
"Charity!" Amelia calls out and runs to her daughter. "Charity!" she hugs the limp body. "My
child."
"She's dead..." Amelia whispers. Everyone looks sad.
"This is the time that I pay back for the deeds that I have done," Patriot crawls towards the
gang. "Suck my life and give her what's mine. Restore," Patriot chants as he touches Charity's
hand. And he falls onto the ground, lifeless.
Charity's eyelids flickers open and she looks around. "Mother?"
*0*
"The least we could do is to give him a proper burial," Amelia replies Lina's question. "He gave
up his life to save Charity."
"Isn't it sad, that he doesn't actually have a family?" Vee comments.
"Yes it is," Lina holds Vee close as she looks at the crystal tomb which contains Patriot.
"Nobody to mourn for him." Vee says. "I wonder, how he came about into the world anyway, since
Monthzie turned out to be King Peace and is not his father."
"I don't know," Lina replies. "I don't think we'll ever know."
"I'm really sad about the King, my Queen," Vee turns to Amelia. "I'm sorry for you."
"It's okay," tears start to roll down her cheeks again. "At least he finally knows 'love'."
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