Chapter 3: Mysteries of the past
revealed! Ryoko and Valrii make they're big entrance.
It was a
sunny morning. Everyone awoke refreshed and invigorated. Liam and Lina wasted
no time in getting downstairs for breakfast, and they made sure to drug Gourry
so he wouldn't get any food. "Yum! This schtuff great! Want s'more sausage
lina?" Liam said while scarfing down another sausage. "Yeah!" she said while
stuffing her face. "Hey can I have a piece of your waffle I'll give you
two bagels and another sausage for it!" Liam offered. Lina gave him a
suspicious glare. She cut the waffle in half.
"Gimmie the other food first." She said, while holding on to half
of the waffle.
"You're so not trusting ...here," he said. He gave her the
food plus a muffin, giving her a sheepish look. Lina sighed and gave him the
whole waffle. "It comes from traveling with people who fight over food." She
said in slight apology. "Yeah...but your lucky
though. I wish I had someone to travel with." He said as he slurped some
noodles. "You can come with us if you want." Lina said before she realized
what she was saying.
Liam's eye lit
up. "Really thanks lina, it's great to
know that there are people out there that still like adventure. I mean ever
since the alliance, no one wants to travel or see things anymore..." Lina
didn't have the heart to say no to him at that point. But something about what
he had said intrigued her. "Alliance? What's the alliance?" she
asked. "Yeah…you see the world has
become so unstable now that any evil looking to destroy our world can just walk
right in! So the gods and the dark lords made an alliance to fight anything
that may invade this world, ever since then no one wants to seek danger because
I guess they think that the danger will come to them...but I wanna be an
adventurer Lina, I wanna be more than just a grocer or a farmer...I wanna be a
part a something great..." Lina, feeling a little more inspired after that
speech (inspired to do what, I have no clue) decided to add a little more fuel
to his spirit's fire.
Well you've found the right group!
Adventure is my middle name!" she said enthused. Just then Filia and Val walked
in. The walked over and joined them at the table. "Good morning" Lina managed
to say between bites. "Good morning miss Lina,
Liam! Did you sleep well?" she inquired. Liam gave her a smile. "Best ever" he
nearly shouted. Lina just ate. "It's such a nice morning, where's
Gourry?" she asked while taking a sip of tea (of which appeared out of nowhere
^_^) Liam winked at Lina. "He's still...asleep," Lina snickered a little, "And
hopefully he'll be asleep till after breakfast."
Suddenly
a shady lady in a hood and cape walks in, Val freezes and shivers violently as
she walks by. Filia became worried fast. "What's wrong Val?" she asked. He
could barley talk he was shaking so badly. "Nnnni
nnii dddont know I'm sssss aaa" he grabbed his head in pain, the lady looked at
him, then walked on. Lina stopped eating. "Val? Are you ok buddy?" she put her
hand on his shoulder, but she couldn't stop him.
Filia was starting to panic. "What's
wrong with him?!" she shouted. Val screamed. Unrenowned to the rest of the
gang, flashes of something hidden deeply in
Val's past flickered in his mind; he saw a girl, a baby boy crying, and a woman
being
incased and ceiled in ice… (Yes
people, like Han solo ^^) Val passed out and fell to the floor shacking. Filia
rushed over to his side, nearly knocking Lina out of her chair. Oh my Seified!
VAL!" she was even more panicked now. She cradled him, unknowingly still being
watched but the lady in the cloak. The lady turned and walked into the back
room.
Lina
stared at the lady in the cloak as she walked by. A chill ran down her spine. "There's
something weird is going on here." She whispered. At that moment Xellos decided
to grace them with his presence. "Hello all!
Good-" he stopped at the sight before him, "Grief...what happened to him?" he
asked. Lina stood up and walked over to the trickster. " I
don't know, but I'm going to go find out, Xellos come with me..." she grabbed
his arm and literally dragged him with her. Liam was about to protest about being
left behind, but Lina was too fast for him. "Liam,
stay here and help Filia." Before he could say anything she dragged Xellos off,
leaving him to deal with Filia.
At this point
the purple priest was more than a little confused. What happened miss Lina, what happened to Val?" he asked. "A lady
in a cloak walked in and Val started literally spazzing. The end result is what
you just saw." She said seriously. "Hmm…you
didn't sense any magic?" Xellos asked curiously. Surely the great sorceress
could tell if there was any weird magic involved. "No." she answered flatly. "Odd...very
odd…" he mumbled, "And it doesn't help the fact that I had a discussion with
her the other day..."
Lina
stared at him curiously. "What was that?" she asked. "It's nothing... nothing
you need to worry about Lina" he laughed nervously. " She went in there…" Lina
stating the obvious as usual. They both went deep into the under ground bowls
of the inn. They finally saw two people, the shady lady and a lady who looked
too much like Xellos for her own good! "Xellos, is that an associates
of yours?" she asked, almost smirking? Xellos was very confused indeed. Lina
motioned to move a little closer; they hid behind a beam.
"Damn I couldn't find anything; we'll haft to
strip the whole town now!" the shady lady said with a grunt-hiss. She took out
her anger on a poor defenseless demon Lama, which after being struck with one
of her iron punches was reduced to dust. The Xellos lady sweat dropped. "Aww c'mon, you know you like that part
best!" she laughed nervously. Obviously a little unnerved by the lady in the
cloak's truck driver mannerisms.
"You gotta point there but, still it's a big hassle and we
have better things to do ya know?" she half sighed. The Xellos lady gave her a
classic puppy dog pout.
"But this is important, in order
to eradicate the problem, you need to help me!" she said in an almost chibi
voice. Lina blinked. What did she mean by eradicate the problem? "I know I
know, we gotta fumigate... damn, there's no fun in doing this any more! As soon
as this thing's over, I'm working for Genean...
The
purple girl perked up a little. "Oh no
problem, I just need you help on this one that's all. I appreciate you help,
Val!" she chirped. The woman sneered as she pulled of her hood, to reveal spiky
teal hair, two amber like eyes, and two small horns on the sides of her head
(you know Ryoko from Tenchi muyo? Kinda like that.) "Hey now, what have I told
you about calling me that, the name's Valrii! VAL-RII, not Val, that's a male's
name and I am certainly NO male. She stated with a prudish tone. The other one
sweat dropped. "Hmmm sorry, in most races it unisex," she laughed a
little nervously. Just the lina noticed a striking resemblance of Val in the
Valrii girl. The resemblance was frightening really.
"Well not
in mine tootz! I'll see ya at sun set in the usual spot." Valrii stated. The
Xellos impersonator clapped her hands together in delight. "Ok then, we'll clean up this mess at
sundown then tata!" As she said that she teleported away, Cheshire cat style.
Valrii teleported away shortly there after. Lina just looked dumbfounded at
Xellos. "Is she a friend of yours Xellos?" she snickered. Xellos
looked unusually nervous, especially for him. "N-no! I've never met her before but..." his
eyes grew wide open in shock, "Such power, Lina we need to find out what's
going on and fast." He said in the most worried sounding voice he was
capable of making. Lina was stunned. " Why's that Xellos?" she was barely able
to ask.
"All I
know is I sensed something weird from the purple one...she's so strong..." he
trailed off. Lina smirked. "She reminded me of you." She snickered.
Xellos blushed a little. " Really? You think so?" he laughed uneasily. Lina
nodded. "Just something about her screamed "Xellos"" she stated
as a matter of factly. Xellos became increasingly uneasy. "Well that might be
but we have more important things to worry about right now!" he fidgeted. Lina
acknowledged him and she started to run back, but she didn't realize that it
was so dark. She turned around only to find that Xellos had teleported away. "HEY!
Don't leave me here! Awww! Now which way is the way back…" she stumbled around
in the dark for a while.
When Lina eventually
found her way back, she smacked Xellos, then quickly told everyone about what
she and Xellos had seen. Filia was in hysterics. "Somebody tell me what happened to Val!" she sobbed.
Val was sitting at the table, he seemed to be ok, but Filia was still very
shaken. "Mother I'm so sorry for worrying you.
I'm ok now really..." he assured her, but to no avail. Filia just shot look
after evil look at Xellos. "You had something to do with this
didn't you!" she accused. Xellos became very serious.
"I had nothing to do with this..."
he stated firmly. Just then Lina decided to intervene. "Filia
leave Xellos alone." She commanded them as is they were children.
Val tried
desperately to keep the piece, and to prevent Filia from passing out.
"Mother I'll ok now really..."
Lina spoke up. "He had nothing to do with it. He maybe mean and play tricks on
you and make fun of you, but he wouldn't ever do anything to hurt you or Val or
any of us…" Xellos was touched. " Lina…that's so sweet…" Lina gave him a sly
stare. "Not unless if it would be to his
advantage anyway…" Xellos fell over. Liiiiiiiiinaaaahaaaaaaaaa!!!" he whined.
Val fidgeted…and coughed a little.
"Mother, I have something to tell
you..." he said barley above a whisper. Filia rushed over to his side. "What
is it Val sweetheart?" she asked.
"When I had that 'attack' I saw things, disturbing things,
about that lady I think..." he looked around nervously. "What
kinds of things?" Lina asked.
"I couldn't make most of it out
but there was this girl, a baby crying...and..." he trailed off…the last vision
was the most strangely painful. "A woman being condemned to a frozen death?" he
said with grave seriousness. "Yeah, how did you know, Xellos?" Val was caught a
little of guard. How on earth did Xellos know about his vision?
"I knew who she was from the
moment I saw her, all I needed was to confirm it was her..." Lina quirked a
brow.
"So who
is she? -" Lina was cut off by a worried Filia. "Who
did this to my Val?" she demanded. "Her name
is Valrii Maad Valcrii, she is one of the most powerful ancient dragons that
ever were born. After she was excommunicated from her race, she became angry,
and through this world into chaos. Finally she was captured and given the
frozen death..." Filia blinked. "Valrii Maad Valkrii?" she asked,
obviously not knowing a thing about her. "Have you herd of her?" Xellos asked. "Only
in a few stories I happened to hear pieces of." She stated. "Well the reason why Val has had these dreams is because he
also carries the name Maad Valkrii..." he stated nonchalantly.
"WHAT?!
What did you say?" Filia screamed in disbelief. Xellos Removed the two cones he
had shoved in his ears conveniently before Filia screamed. "They are
related, how I am not sure, he would have been a toddler at the time she was
imprisoned..." she said. Val looked sad for a moment. "Sister...she's my
sister...I can remember her somewhat. I feel like I knew her, she's not bad,
not evil at all...at least I think so. "That may be the case, but she's working
for that woman now... she may want vengeance of some kind..." after that was
said there was silence. Then Val spoke up. "When I had the vision, all my
visions that she was in.they were so happy and filled with joy, she's not evil
I know she's not..." The tension grew more as time went on; no one realized
that the sun was slowly setting. "Lina the sun..." Xellos said. There was no
telling what would happen later on that night, they'd just haft to go and find
out the answers for them selves.