"Lina! Gourry! Zelgadis! Amelia! Somebody!
Let me out of here." Lina, Gourry, Amelia and Zelgadis were deaf to the
cries of Xellos and Filia.
2 days later
"I… need… to get… out... of… here…" Filia
gasped.
"Yes... need… to… get... out!" Xellos said.
Both of their voices were hoarse from yelling at each other.
"Why don't we call a truce?" Filia asked.
"Agreed." Xellos and Filia shook hands.
"Yay! Let's throw a party!" They heard Lina
and Amelia's voices from outside of the door. The door to the huge closet,
where Xellos and Filia were, was opened. Lina looked at her watch.
"Three hours till midnight, if you two can
hold on till then, we'll be out of here!" Lina exclaimed.
She and Gourry jumped up, grabbed hands, and
started dancing around, While Amelia jumped on top of a counter and recited
a Justice speech to Xellos. Zelgadis smirked; trying to keep his cool then
gave it up and jumped on the counter with Amelia.
Xellos and Filia sighed.
11:00 PM, That night…
"Su.. goi… one hour left…" Xellos muttered.
Filia swallowed an insult.
"Go fish." Lina muttered to Gourry. Amelia
was sprawled on the floor next to Zelgadis, while Filia and Xellos were
propped up on the side on the couch.
"I think I'm going to go to sleep for awhile...
wake me up at midnight." Amelia yawned. She closed her eyes, turning to
her side and fell asleep.
To which Gourry followed, then Zelgadis, then
Lina, leaving Xellos and Filia up last.
"This is a weird place they found." Filia
spoke up.
"I wonder how they fit a bowling alley and
all that other stuff in here." Xellos said.
The house was consisted of one room, and if
you needed a different room all you had to do was use a remote control,
which was always on the wall near the door.
"I'm sure Lina-san would like a big house
like that." Filia said. She let out a yawn.
"You tired?" Xellos asked her. He was about
to mock her, then remembered their situation.
Filia nodded a bit and sighed and laid back,
and closed her eyes. "So Xellos. Tell me about your work?" She suggested.
"Are you sure you want to hear it?" Xellos
warned.
"Don't mind." Was the simple answer.
"Well ok..." Xellos leaned back, placing an
arm behind his head.
"My normal day is spent torturing old ladies
and confusing people. Playing cops and robbers with the villagers. Every
once in a while Zelas let's me punish the low minions that haven't been
doing right."
Xellos grinned sadistically, making Filia
shiver a bit. "Ah... to hear there screams right now would satisfy me.
Well oh well. So what about your work?"
"Inspecting vases in the morning and selling
them in the afternoon. On the weekends I go to the Valley of the Dragons."
She said shortly.
"Oh? What do you go to the Valley of the Dragons
for?" Xellos asked innocently.
"They have clan of Gold Dragons there." Filia
answered. She decided to adopt Xellos' tactic and not tell everything.
"Hmm..." Xellos hummed, deciding not press
the matter. He could find out later... when they were separated.
There was a big moment of silence before Xellos
spoke up.
"So uh… how's Valgarv doing?" He asked. He
wasn't used to being this awkward. Especially with a dragon, let alone
Filia.
"He's doing pretty good. He's at a summer
camp, so that's why I'm on vacation." Filia explained.
"Pretty good planning…" Xellos said. This
was way to weird for him.
He took a look at Filia, who had her eyes
closed. Her blond hair was brushed till it shined a golden blond, thanks
to Amelia. Amelia brushed her bangs, so they leveled with the rest of her
hair, making her bangs about mid-back length. Her face was clear and soft
almost like baby's skin. She looked very peaceful when she wasn't mad.
Xellos chuckled to himself. Of course when
she was angry that didn't bother him either. Filia looked over at him.
"What are you staring at?" Filia asked, looking
at Xellos strange.
"Uh nothing… Just staring into space... ya
know?" He stuttered, very un-Xellos like.
"Well OK. I'm going to sleep." Filia said,
she closed her eyes again, a few minutes later you could hear her snoring
softly.
Xellos frowned. He was the only one awake
and he couldn't do any mischief. He surveyed the group. Amelia sleeping
delicately on Zelgadis' chest, with Zelgadis' arm around her, Lina sprawled
on the floor near the TV, she and Gourry practically have a fight with
each other in their sleep.
He looked back at Filia, whose head was to
the side, so all you could see was a head full of golden locks. She
took her and Xellos' hand and halfway folded her arms. Xellos was
going to put up a fuss, but remembered that he wanted to get out of this
place.
Instead he moved around quickly so that Filia
was sitting in his lap, laying her head on his shoulder. He looked down
at her, her face tilted towards him. Her lips were slightly parted, just
asking for him to kiss her. Xellos opened his amethyst eyes, looking more
intently at her face.
He traced a finger down her face, wondering
what has gotten into him to think like this. Just then, two beings appeared.
One looking Cephied and the other like Shabragnigdo.
Author's note: We interrupt this program to
bring you a commercial on Xellos-pops. Give one to your neighbor and have
fun watching them… Oops wrong script. Since we never seen a devil and an
angel for a conscience, I'll just use the Gods in Slayers. So Cephied stands
for the Angel and Shabragnigdo stands for the devil.
'Maybe you're in love.' A longhaired
female, the size of a fairy, popped up on the left side of Xellos. She
had a gold dress on, with the print of the Dragon Kings.
"Who are you?" Xellos asked quite rudely.
"She is the God over the Dragons, the person
I shall defeat in the next war." A red haired fairy sized man popped up
on the right side. He had black jeans on, with a black shirt that said,
'The devil's angels.' with the Dark Lords underneath the lettering.
"Aaah!" Xellos backed up a little, recognizing
the Dark God, Shabragnigdo.
"We are your conscience for the day." Cephied
told Xellos, glaring at Shabragnigdo a bit.
"My conscience?" Xellos asked, sweatdropping
a little.
"Sure son. All I have to do is convince you
to do the wrong thing, while Cephie over here convinces you to do the right
thing." Shabragnigdo explained.
"What Shabby-chan said was true." Cephied
shot back at the Dark Lord. Xellos sweatdropped. Why did these two's arguments
seem vaguely familiar?
"Anyway, as I was saying when I first popped
up…" The fairy-looking girl smiled, looking very friendly.
"Oh yeah. What do you mean you think I'm in
love. With that no less." Xellos frowned, pointing at Filia.
"Spoken like a true demon." Shabragnigdo chuckled.
"We mazoku do not fall in love anyway. Maybe in lust…" He said, letting
the sentence trail.
Cephied folded her arms. "Says who? True love
could be found anywhere. Even in the heart of a evil, disgusting, dirty,
nasty, mazoku."
"Well come to think of it, I do love pain…"
Shabragnigdo grinned.
"You know what I'm talking about." Cephied
said.
"But you know Xellos, you may be in love with
the girl."" Shabragnigdo continued.
"What?" Xellos asked, a bit surprised.
"Well she has a lot of negative energy." Shabragnigdo
cast a 'look' over to Cephied. "Plus you are mazoku. Whenever you want
to leave you could leave."
"True to some extent, my dear Shabby-chan.
However, they may get bonded? Then what happens?" The girl grinned, looking
superior.
"Well I'll admit. You got me there. But then
aren't you forgetting that Xellos is a mazoku? One of my race?" Shabragnigdo
pointed out.
"True, but I don't think Filia would ever
be convinced to join the mazoku." Cephied argued.
"Aren't you two supposed to be helping me?"
Xellos asked, though not heard by either of the two Gods.
"Are you saying that we are trying to take
a dragon?" Shabragnigdo asked, curling his lips in disgust.
"Even if you tried, who says you would win."
Cephied answered him, turning away from him.
"I don't know why L-sama wants me to work
with you. All you do is crab, crab, crab, crab, crab." He turned away from
Cephied.
"I thought you liked negative emotions." She
retorted.
"I do. Just not yours." He replied.
This went on for a little while longer; Xellos
ended up falling asleep in the mist of it. The two Gods decided they didn't
want to be in the presence of such a person as the other, so they teleported
out of there.
