Ok.......after much egging from my friends, I have submitted my first fanfic. Yes....I am pleading for kindness when reviewing *pathetic isn't it?*, and yes, I know that Xellos is slightly out of character. My apologies, but he is a hard one to do imho. I have also tried to get good editting, but it's hard to find someone that is good in english and knows enough verbs. I've searched, and this seems to be the only slayers/dragoon with current plotline that I can find in fanfiction.net/. If however, I missed a fic that I'm copying, I want to be told this immediately and I'll pull this out. Now.....I could give a disclaimer saying that I don't own Slayers or Legends of Dragoon, but come on people, you should know that. I'm not making money off this. It's very unprofessional and newbie, so I doubt anyone would be interested in buying this, let a lone reading this. But I digress, I'll say it anyways, I do not own any of the characters, plot ideas, setting that Sony has made with Legends of Dragoon. I also do not own the characters, ideas, and setting that hajime owns with Slayers. So......enjoy.
SLAYERS DRAGOON: Prologue - 7 balls!? Has DBZ captured Slayers!?
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It was another glorious morning! The golden sun rising between the trees granting a beautiful hue on the land, animals awoke as well as the bandits. Grants Maaclorn, grand bandit lord of the Sairaag area yawned as he stretched. Yes, today would be a great day. He had always considered banditry a true calling, and gathering others to assist him soon gave him a formidable group.
The fortress the bandits that held their items was nothing special, wooden towers and walls, and a cave to hold the loot. Doing his daily exercise, the bandit lord looked out to the sun shining it's ray, the birds flying, and the fireball heading his way.
Wait. A fireball?
KABOOM!
Fire swept the fort as the bandits clamored about calling for arms. Within seconds another volley appeared in the sky, the bandits shrieking from the fiery pain inflicted upon them. Then she arrived. Grants quivered as he looked at the figure.
"No bust......bean stalk build.....red hair. Oh god.......SHE'S HERE!" Lina Inverse, bandit slayer supreme stepped straight into the center of the bandit camp grinning as a cat would when it caught the mouse caught in the trap.
*
"You know, for a supposedly dangerous group of bandits, you guys sure are easy to beat." Lina sighed, several flare arrows exploded from her fingertips towards and oncoming group of bandits quickly wiping them out with a chain of explosions. "You holding out Gourry?"
"I'm fine!" the blondes swordsman smiled, holding off multiple bandits with his sword. "Not that much of an exercise, but it'll have to do."
"Great!" Smiled Lina, jumping to avoid multiple arrows and swords. Another fireball took care of the rather vagrant brutes. Lina never believed in killing bandits, just to harm them enough so that they learned their lessons. A "career" change motivation mostly. "FIREBALL!"
Within five minutes the entire camp was reduced to a smoking ruin, Grants sobbing as he and his other partners in crime remained bound as they watched Lina pry open the cave.
"Hey Gourry, wanna give me a hand?" Lina asked, pushing the boulder with all her might, nothing moving. The swordsman grinned as he pulled out his sword, easily cutting through the boulder and segmenting it multiple times. A cliche pose done and ready.
"Wooh, great going Gourry!" Lina cheered, smacking Gourry in back as he yelped.
"Do you have to hit so hard Lina?" Whined the swordsman.
"That's how I show my appreciation!" Lina grinned. "Now come on, considering how long I let these thugs do their dirty deed, they must've made quite of bit of cash."
"You little witch, get away from my hoard!" Grants spat, the looming death of darkness that is Lina Inverse immediately appeared before him as he felt all courage in him melt away faster than an ice cream in front of the sun. "Please?"
"Ooh, this one is quite feisty isn't he Gourry?" Lina maliciously grinned. Grants felt his soul go numb as he imagined all sorts of horrible things the legends of Lina Inverse spoke up. "I'm wondering, should I kill him to show that no one messes with Lina Inverse and calls her a witch, or should I.....torture him?"
"Oh gods! Please have mercy on me!" Grants sobbed. Lina blinked as she watched the bandit groveling in the most embarrassing way due to his constraint.
"Fine, whatever." Lina snapped, punting the bandit several yards out of disgust. "Just stop doing that! Gourry, time to loot this place."
"Right!" Grabbing a nearby bag the two entered the room to find a small mountain of coins.
"Wow." Gourry stated.
"Eh........I thought I'd see more, but beggars can't be choosers." Lina sighed, placing the loot inside the box. "Hello, what's this?" pushing aside several gold coins, and ornate box covered in silver ruins and a bloody red jewel as a seal showed itself.
"Pretty." Gourry commented.
"Looks like we may of found something worth much." Lina smirked, trying to open the box to no avail. "It's magically sealed."
"So just cast a magic spell and break it." Gourry said. Lina just rolled her eyes as she braced herself for a meaningless conversation.
"It's not that easy Gourry, this is definitely a magic lock I've never seen before. I can't even start to imagine what kind of magic is being used to seal this." Tapping the box the sorceress tossed the box into the sack as she continued pilfering err..........borrowing money from the place.
"H-hey! Stop, that's mine!" Grants bemoaned.
"Mine now." Lina replied, walking out without a hitch with Gourry.
*
"Victory!" Lina giggled, dropping the sack in her room, counting out the treasure. "Now what else did I get?"
Gold emptied from the bag, small artifacts bouncing out as well as the box once more.
"......? You know, maybe I should try and break this." Lina mumbled, her mind interested, tapping the box once more. Almost as a child would to a shiny object. "Unlock."
Green light laced about the box before fading, the spell repelled.
"Weird. It's almost as if it's orihalcon.......but that's impossible, orihalcon absorbs magic so a magic lock is impossible."
"Oooh, looks fun." Xellos stated as he appeared next to Lina. Lina back flipped him to the wall on instinct. "Moou.....that's mean Lina."
"You little fruitcake! What are you doing here!?" Lina demanded.
"Owie owie.......Lina, that's mean!" Xellos pouted. "Can't a dear old friend say hello once in a while?"
"Yes, but you? NO!" Lina barked, Xellos back peddled for a moment. "I'd trust a mazoku as far as I can spit a rat."
"Which is far isn't it?" Xellos grinned, Lina only glared at him more hostilely. The mazoku zipped his mouth quickly, figuratively of course.
"Ok Xellos, what are you doing here now? Every time you show something bad happens." Lina asked. Xellos gave another sly grin, causing Lina to scrutinize.
"Ooh, your mean Lina. You always accuse me." Xellos pouted again as Lina felt her nerves ready to blow. "Can't I watch you open that box? Pretty please?"
"......."
"Pweeeze?"
".......fine." turning around Lina immediately tapped the box again as she attempted to look for the latch. "Ok....let's see. This is definitely a weird lock, I can't find a single way to open this thing. Every time I scan this thing, I get nothing."
"Oooh, a mystery!" Xellos clapped. "Why don't you just click the gem lock?"
"Don't be silly Xellos, locks don't just work that wa–" clicking the gem the box opened quickly with a swish. "........"
"Wow, it works!" Xellos quipped, Lina simply stared.
"Erk, just like you to do that to me." Lina frowned. "Let's see what's in here."
Turning around Lina lifted the box examining the contents. Seven multicolored orbs shined in the light as Lina gazed at them sharply. Dark amethyst, ruby, gold, silver, emerald, sapphire and a black pearl.
"Definitely something I've never seen before." Lina muttered. "I'm sensing a lot of unnatural energy coming from these things. I wonder what they are?"
"Looks fun!" Xellos smiled.
Giving Xellos a credulous look, Lina grabbed the ruby sphere, it felt warm in her hands as she held it semi tightly.
"Gee, it feels kinda wei–"
*
Fire swept everywhere as children, adults ran screaming. A couple and their child ran twoards the woods as the unholy demon slaughtered everyone near it.
*
"What was that!?" Lina gasped, dropping the orb back into the box.
"What was what?" Xellos asked, intrigued by the situation.
"Didn't you see?" Lina asked, the mazoku priest shook his head no.
"....I must be losing it." Lina sighed, lifting another orb, it shown gold in the light. "Wait, I see something."
*
Arrows rained from the sky as giants fell, humans were sieging the city as more defenders fell to the attacks. Children cried as did one, fighting off the invader, but it was all for naught. A lone child giant stood afraid, as a man of dark integrity appeared for him and held out his hands.
The entire situation felt wrong to Lina. "Don't!" She warned, no one gave heed as the boy went into the mans arms.
*
"Don't want?" Gourry asked as he entered the room. "Oh, Xellos!"
"Hi Gourry!" Xellos greeted. Lina only shook her head as she dropped the orb, her hands shaken from the vision. "Something wrong Lina?"
"No.....of course not." Lina muttered. ["This is weird......nothing gets to me, nothing! Well.......except for big sis, but that's besides the point!"]
"Interesting." Xellos commented, lifting the silver orb. Lina waited for the mazoku to respond, but Xellos only smiled before pouting and dropping the orb. "Nothing important here, I don't know why your reacting like that."
'I must be losing it." Lina scowled, grabbing the emerald sphere. She shuddered.
*
"And a one!" A young man laughed, jumping across a rock in a rushing stream. The laugh echoed from the cave as he the man continues on.
"Lavitz, better be careful." another man warned.
"Weird." Lina muttered, skipping along as well.
SPLASH!
Looking ahead Lina watched the man lift Lavitz up from the small water fall with a smile as a girl behind them sighed.
"Thank you Dart, If it were not for you, I doubt I would of made it. I'm sure we'll be great friends." Lavitz smiled, the other two simply followed suit as they left.
"Ok.....now I'm insane." Lina stated. Before the sorceress could turn about she felt a cold pain in her heart, the scenery changed to a sick and twisted tower, the dawn rising. Lavitz was rushing towards a cloaked figure, fiery in his eyes. A glint in the cloaked figures eyes caught Lina's attention.
"W-watch out! STOP! It's a trap!" Lina warned, Lavitz continued until the cloaked figured pulled out a fiery sword, impaling the rushing man.
"LAVITZ!" A man in bondage sobbed. Lina felt her stomach cramp as she watched the murderer jump off the tower and fly off. Reacting quickly she ran to the dying man attempting a healing spell before she felt herself fading.
*
"Yoohoo, Lina!" Xellos poked, Lina yelp before standing up and laughing nervously.
"Ahh, your finally awake." Xellos grinned. "Thought you died on us for a moment there."
"Huh?" Lina looked out the window only to blink as she watched the ebbing sun fade away to give in to the darkness. "How long have I been out?"
"Three hours give or take." Xellos answered. "Gourry was worried, but I sent him to fetch dinner considering that your probably overdue for your meal."
"Dinner!? Oh man, gotta go!" A blaze trail left Xellos in a daze before he lifted the emerald sphere smiling.
*
"So, what exactly is the problem then?" Gourry asked between the chewing, Lina following suit as multiple people watched the two eat six times their body mass.
"Nothing really, but those artifacts are really weird." Lina sighed. "I'm seeing things."
"Things?"
"Yeah, it's weird, sorta like a dream." Lina replied. "It may be memories that I'm seeing."
"Ahh, I see." said Gourry.
"You actually understand?" Lina gawked.
".......nope, not a clue!"
"GAH!" Falling over Lina stood up and rubbed her head in frustration. "Oh, I don't know why I even bother."
"Hey, you going to eat that?" Gourry asked, poking the fatty sausage goodness.
"Yes, I am!" Lina snapped swallowing the sausage immediately.
*
"Ahh, much better." Lina sighed, patting her stomach as she opened her inn room. One of the spheres bounced off her forehead snapping her head back slightly.
"Oops." Xellos apologized, Lina rubbed her forehead while grabbing the orb.
"Don't do that again."
"Okie dokie."
Rolling her eyes Lina grabbed the emerald sphere expecting more visions, but nothing came.
"Huh...strange." Placing the orb back into the box, Lina scrutinized the others.
"Gonna do it again?" Xellos egged.
Lina looked at the remaining orbs without a clue of understanding and grabbed the silver colored one. Closing her eyes Lina felt herself drifting......to nothing. Opening her eyes Lina glared at the object.
"Why isn't it working now?" giving a sigh the sorceress put the orb back in.
"Did you break it?" Xellos asked.
"Don't know, perhaps only a few of them work."
"I see, say....are they starting to get a bit dull?" Xellos pointed out, Lina blinked as she noticed, yes, the spheres were losing their lustrous appearance.
"H-hey! What's going on? They seem to be weakening!" Lina swore, grabbing another one, a dark purple. Nothing happened. Grabbing the sapphire, nothing happened again. "What's going on?"
"Maybe you should try the last one Lina." grabbing the black pearl, Xellos gave it to Lina, a unnerving grin on his face.
"Hmph." Holding the twilight jewel, Lina felt it's warmth. "Strange, this one seems to be doing fine...."
"Really now?" Xellos asked inquisitively.
"Yeah." Lina replied, something caught her attention. A heartbeat echoed the room.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Xellos asked. Another beat.
"That! The heartbeat!" Lina repeated. Another beat echoed in the room.
"I'm not hearing a thing Lina."
"Oh man, it must've been the food then." Lina bemoaned, the beating of the heart growing only louder. "I should've known better then to order the house special."
"Yes, it was rather strange that chicken soup would be green." Xellos nodded.
"She said it was just coloring!" Lina rebutted. "After all, it's Greens day*."
"Uh...Lina........they use vomit inducing drugs on Greens Day." Xellos sweatdropped.
"............."
"Just kidding!" Xellos joked.
"Oh shut up." Lina sighed, turning back her attention on the sphere. Nothing happened.
"Ok....I'm not getting anything from this now. That's it, I'm probing this thing." she announced.
"Is that such a good idea?" Xellos asked instantaneously, his bruises gone.
"Of course it is!" Lina grinned, her divining spell lighting up slightly on her index finger. "With this one spell, I'm going to break this secret!"
"Gooo Lina!" Xellos cheered, wearing a short fitting cheerleaders outfit. Pom poms in his hand, the mazoku priest managed some moves supposedly equaling to LINA.
".......ew." Lina blurbed, noticing his unshaved legs as well.
"What?" Xellos asked innocently.
"N-nothing." Lina cringed, turning around immediately hoping for the gods to kill her for the horrible image. With a sigh, cough, and other general annoying habit actions people do prepping themselves, Lina sat down and touched the orb trying to see what was inside. The divining spell tapped into it as Lina felt herself go numb.
*
"Well?" Xellos asked, his voice merely an echo in the darkness Lina found herself in.
"It's......weird.....like a void." Lina echoed. Looking about, the sorceress found herself in her normal clothing. "It's weird....I don't even remember seeing a version of myself in the astral plane, just an....existence....and...I feel safe here. I don't know WHY considering that this is my first attempt. Yet I seemed strangely attracted in trying to figure this mystery out. I wonder why."
"Ah....interesting......."
"Hold on......there's something here." images popped into Lina's head too quickly to grasp. Seconds, minutes, hours, days seemed to pass when she blinked.
"Lina?"
"...nothing...." Looking about Lina felt herself touch solid ground. "....?"
A form took shape before her, something massive. Scales of silver seemed dulled in the ashy and sooty land. Lava flowed about as like attempted to struggle to continue on. Looking up Lina only continued to see more scales, until a neck, and finally the head. The dragon held one eye beneath it's jaw, and the eye blinked at her.
"........" Lina felt a tinge of fear. The dragon hissed.
"Lina?" Xellos asked, his voice fading.
"........."
"Lina??"
The dragon howled as Lina covered her ears in pain. The entire scene melted away to nothingness as Lina felt limp.
"Uh....Lina.....yoohoo....you alive there?"
"Huh?" Lina stammered. Her voice weak as she attempted to wake herself up.
"Oh, good, your alive then!" Xellos rejoiced, his voice becoming more sound and louder as Lina felt herself awakening. "What did you see?"
"It was...huge...and..." A glint caught Lina's attention, turning around a spot in the void shown like a flicker of a star. "Hold on....I saw something."
"Holding...."
Almost floating towards the light, Lina felt something tugging her, pulling back the sorceress continued. The light grew brighter, and larger as Lina grew closer to it.
"What is this thing?" Touching the object Lina felt a slight warmth and drawing to it.
"Lina? Uh....what are you doing?" Xellos asked in a worried tone, Lina ignored the question as she continued to touch the light.
"What is this..." Lina saw something. And she screamed.....
SLAYERS DRAGOON: Prologue - 7 balls!? Has DBZ captured Slayers!?
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It was another glorious morning! The golden sun rising between the trees granting a beautiful hue on the land, animals awoke as well as the bandits. Grants Maaclorn, grand bandit lord of the Sairaag area yawned as he stretched. Yes, today would be a great day. He had always considered banditry a true calling, and gathering others to assist him soon gave him a formidable group.
The fortress the bandits that held their items was nothing special, wooden towers and walls, and a cave to hold the loot. Doing his daily exercise, the bandit lord looked out to the sun shining it's ray, the birds flying, and the fireball heading his way.
Wait. A fireball?
KABOOM!
Fire swept the fort as the bandits clamored about calling for arms. Within seconds another volley appeared in the sky, the bandits shrieking from the fiery pain inflicted upon them. Then she arrived. Grants quivered as he looked at the figure.
"No bust......bean stalk build.....red hair. Oh god.......SHE'S HERE!" Lina Inverse, bandit slayer supreme stepped straight into the center of the bandit camp grinning as a cat would when it caught the mouse caught in the trap.
*
"You know, for a supposedly dangerous group of bandits, you guys sure are easy to beat." Lina sighed, several flare arrows exploded from her fingertips towards and oncoming group of bandits quickly wiping them out with a chain of explosions. "You holding out Gourry?"
"I'm fine!" the blondes swordsman smiled, holding off multiple bandits with his sword. "Not that much of an exercise, but it'll have to do."
"Great!" Smiled Lina, jumping to avoid multiple arrows and swords. Another fireball took care of the rather vagrant brutes. Lina never believed in killing bandits, just to harm them enough so that they learned their lessons. A "career" change motivation mostly. "FIREBALL!"
Within five minutes the entire camp was reduced to a smoking ruin, Grants sobbing as he and his other partners in crime remained bound as they watched Lina pry open the cave.
"Hey Gourry, wanna give me a hand?" Lina asked, pushing the boulder with all her might, nothing moving. The swordsman grinned as he pulled out his sword, easily cutting through the boulder and segmenting it multiple times. A cliche pose done and ready.
"Wooh, great going Gourry!" Lina cheered, smacking Gourry in back as he yelped.
"Do you have to hit so hard Lina?" Whined the swordsman.
"That's how I show my appreciation!" Lina grinned. "Now come on, considering how long I let these thugs do their dirty deed, they must've made quite of bit of cash."
"You little witch, get away from my hoard!" Grants spat, the looming death of darkness that is Lina Inverse immediately appeared before him as he felt all courage in him melt away faster than an ice cream in front of the sun. "Please?"
"Ooh, this one is quite feisty isn't he Gourry?" Lina maliciously grinned. Grants felt his soul go numb as he imagined all sorts of horrible things the legends of Lina Inverse spoke up. "I'm wondering, should I kill him to show that no one messes with Lina Inverse and calls her a witch, or should I.....torture him?"
"Oh gods! Please have mercy on me!" Grants sobbed. Lina blinked as she watched the bandit groveling in the most embarrassing way due to his constraint.
"Fine, whatever." Lina snapped, punting the bandit several yards out of disgust. "Just stop doing that! Gourry, time to loot this place."
"Right!" Grabbing a nearby bag the two entered the room to find a small mountain of coins.
"Wow." Gourry stated.
"Eh........I thought I'd see more, but beggars can't be choosers." Lina sighed, placing the loot inside the box. "Hello, what's this?" pushing aside several gold coins, and ornate box covered in silver ruins and a bloody red jewel as a seal showed itself.
"Pretty." Gourry commented.
"Looks like we may of found something worth much." Lina smirked, trying to open the box to no avail. "It's magically sealed."
"So just cast a magic spell and break it." Gourry said. Lina just rolled her eyes as she braced herself for a meaningless conversation.
"It's not that easy Gourry, this is definitely a magic lock I've never seen before. I can't even start to imagine what kind of magic is being used to seal this." Tapping the box the sorceress tossed the box into the sack as she continued pilfering err..........borrowing money from the place.
"H-hey! Stop, that's mine!" Grants bemoaned.
"Mine now." Lina replied, walking out without a hitch with Gourry.
*
"Victory!" Lina giggled, dropping the sack in her room, counting out the treasure. "Now what else did I get?"
Gold emptied from the bag, small artifacts bouncing out as well as the box once more.
"......? You know, maybe I should try and break this." Lina mumbled, her mind interested, tapping the box once more. Almost as a child would to a shiny object. "Unlock."
Green light laced about the box before fading, the spell repelled.
"Weird. It's almost as if it's orihalcon.......but that's impossible, orihalcon absorbs magic so a magic lock is impossible."
"Oooh, looks fun." Xellos stated as he appeared next to Lina. Lina back flipped him to the wall on instinct. "Moou.....that's mean Lina."
"You little fruitcake! What are you doing here!?" Lina demanded.
"Owie owie.......Lina, that's mean!" Xellos pouted. "Can't a dear old friend say hello once in a while?"
"Yes, but you? NO!" Lina barked, Xellos back peddled for a moment. "I'd trust a mazoku as far as I can spit a rat."
"Which is far isn't it?" Xellos grinned, Lina only glared at him more hostilely. The mazoku zipped his mouth quickly, figuratively of course.
"Ok Xellos, what are you doing here now? Every time you show something bad happens." Lina asked. Xellos gave another sly grin, causing Lina to scrutinize.
"Ooh, your mean Lina. You always accuse me." Xellos pouted again as Lina felt her nerves ready to blow. "Can't I watch you open that box? Pretty please?"
"......."
"Pweeeze?"
".......fine." turning around Lina immediately tapped the box again as she attempted to look for the latch. "Ok....let's see. This is definitely a weird lock, I can't find a single way to open this thing. Every time I scan this thing, I get nothing."
"Oooh, a mystery!" Xellos clapped. "Why don't you just click the gem lock?"
"Don't be silly Xellos, locks don't just work that wa–" clicking the gem the box opened quickly with a swish. "........"
"Wow, it works!" Xellos quipped, Lina simply stared.
"Erk, just like you to do that to me." Lina frowned. "Let's see what's in here."
Turning around Lina lifted the box examining the contents. Seven multicolored orbs shined in the light as Lina gazed at them sharply. Dark amethyst, ruby, gold, silver, emerald, sapphire and a black pearl.
"Definitely something I've never seen before." Lina muttered. "I'm sensing a lot of unnatural energy coming from these things. I wonder what they are?"
"Looks fun!" Xellos smiled.
Giving Xellos a credulous look, Lina grabbed the ruby sphere, it felt warm in her hands as she held it semi tightly.
"Gee, it feels kinda wei–"
*
Fire swept everywhere as children, adults ran screaming. A couple and their child ran twoards the woods as the unholy demon slaughtered everyone near it.
*
"What was that!?" Lina gasped, dropping the orb back into the box.
"What was what?" Xellos asked, intrigued by the situation.
"Didn't you see?" Lina asked, the mazoku priest shook his head no.
"....I must be losing it." Lina sighed, lifting another orb, it shown gold in the light. "Wait, I see something."
*
Arrows rained from the sky as giants fell, humans were sieging the city as more defenders fell to the attacks. Children cried as did one, fighting off the invader, but it was all for naught. A lone child giant stood afraid, as a man of dark integrity appeared for him and held out his hands.
The entire situation felt wrong to Lina. "Don't!" She warned, no one gave heed as the boy went into the mans arms.
*
"Don't want?" Gourry asked as he entered the room. "Oh, Xellos!"
"Hi Gourry!" Xellos greeted. Lina only shook her head as she dropped the orb, her hands shaken from the vision. "Something wrong Lina?"
"No.....of course not." Lina muttered. ["This is weird......nothing gets to me, nothing! Well.......except for big sis, but that's besides the point!"]
"Interesting." Xellos commented, lifting the silver orb. Lina waited for the mazoku to respond, but Xellos only smiled before pouting and dropping the orb. "Nothing important here, I don't know why your reacting like that."
'I must be losing it." Lina scowled, grabbing the emerald sphere. She shuddered.
*
"And a one!" A young man laughed, jumping across a rock in a rushing stream. The laugh echoed from the cave as he the man continues on.
"Lavitz, better be careful." another man warned.
"Weird." Lina muttered, skipping along as well.
SPLASH!
Looking ahead Lina watched the man lift Lavitz up from the small water fall with a smile as a girl behind them sighed.
"Thank you Dart, If it were not for you, I doubt I would of made it. I'm sure we'll be great friends." Lavitz smiled, the other two simply followed suit as they left.
"Ok.....now I'm insane." Lina stated. Before the sorceress could turn about she felt a cold pain in her heart, the scenery changed to a sick and twisted tower, the dawn rising. Lavitz was rushing towards a cloaked figure, fiery in his eyes. A glint in the cloaked figures eyes caught Lina's attention.
"W-watch out! STOP! It's a trap!" Lina warned, Lavitz continued until the cloaked figured pulled out a fiery sword, impaling the rushing man.
"LAVITZ!" A man in bondage sobbed. Lina felt her stomach cramp as she watched the murderer jump off the tower and fly off. Reacting quickly she ran to the dying man attempting a healing spell before she felt herself fading.
*
"Yoohoo, Lina!" Xellos poked, Lina yelp before standing up and laughing nervously.
"Ahh, your finally awake." Xellos grinned. "Thought you died on us for a moment there."
"Huh?" Lina looked out the window only to blink as she watched the ebbing sun fade away to give in to the darkness. "How long have I been out?"
"Three hours give or take." Xellos answered. "Gourry was worried, but I sent him to fetch dinner considering that your probably overdue for your meal."
"Dinner!? Oh man, gotta go!" A blaze trail left Xellos in a daze before he lifted the emerald sphere smiling.
*
"So, what exactly is the problem then?" Gourry asked between the chewing, Lina following suit as multiple people watched the two eat six times their body mass.
"Nothing really, but those artifacts are really weird." Lina sighed. "I'm seeing things."
"Things?"
"Yeah, it's weird, sorta like a dream." Lina replied. "It may be memories that I'm seeing."
"Ahh, I see." said Gourry.
"You actually understand?" Lina gawked.
".......nope, not a clue!"
"GAH!" Falling over Lina stood up and rubbed her head in frustration. "Oh, I don't know why I even bother."
"Hey, you going to eat that?" Gourry asked, poking the fatty sausage goodness.
"Yes, I am!" Lina snapped swallowing the sausage immediately.
*
"Ahh, much better." Lina sighed, patting her stomach as she opened her inn room. One of the spheres bounced off her forehead snapping her head back slightly.
"Oops." Xellos apologized, Lina rubbed her forehead while grabbing the orb.
"Don't do that again."
"Okie dokie."
Rolling her eyes Lina grabbed the emerald sphere expecting more visions, but nothing came.
"Huh...strange." Placing the orb back into the box, Lina scrutinized the others.
"Gonna do it again?" Xellos egged.
Lina looked at the remaining orbs without a clue of understanding and grabbed the silver colored one. Closing her eyes Lina felt herself drifting......to nothing. Opening her eyes Lina glared at the object.
"Why isn't it working now?" giving a sigh the sorceress put the orb back in.
"Did you break it?" Xellos asked.
"Don't know, perhaps only a few of them work."
"I see, say....are they starting to get a bit dull?" Xellos pointed out, Lina blinked as she noticed, yes, the spheres were losing their lustrous appearance.
"H-hey! What's going on? They seem to be weakening!" Lina swore, grabbing another one, a dark purple. Nothing happened. Grabbing the sapphire, nothing happened again. "What's going on?"
"Maybe you should try the last one Lina." grabbing the black pearl, Xellos gave it to Lina, a unnerving grin on his face.
"Hmph." Holding the twilight jewel, Lina felt it's warmth. "Strange, this one seems to be doing fine...."
"Really now?" Xellos asked inquisitively.
"Yeah." Lina replied, something caught her attention. A heartbeat echoed the room.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Xellos asked. Another beat.
"That! The heartbeat!" Lina repeated. Another beat echoed in the room.
"I'm not hearing a thing Lina."
"Oh man, it must've been the food then." Lina bemoaned, the beating of the heart growing only louder. "I should've known better then to order the house special."
"Yes, it was rather strange that chicken soup would be green." Xellos nodded.
"She said it was just coloring!" Lina rebutted. "After all, it's Greens day*."
"Uh...Lina........they use vomit inducing drugs on Greens Day." Xellos sweatdropped.
"............."
"Just kidding!" Xellos joked.
"Oh shut up." Lina sighed, turning back her attention on the sphere. Nothing happened.
"Ok....I'm not getting anything from this now. That's it, I'm probing this thing." she announced.
"Is that such a good idea?" Xellos asked instantaneously, his bruises gone.
"Of course it is!" Lina grinned, her divining spell lighting up slightly on her index finger. "With this one spell, I'm going to break this secret!"
"Gooo Lina!" Xellos cheered, wearing a short fitting cheerleaders outfit. Pom poms in his hand, the mazoku priest managed some moves supposedly equaling to LINA.
".......ew." Lina blurbed, noticing his unshaved legs as well.
"What?" Xellos asked innocently.
"N-nothing." Lina cringed, turning around immediately hoping for the gods to kill her for the horrible image. With a sigh, cough, and other general annoying habit actions people do prepping themselves, Lina sat down and touched the orb trying to see what was inside. The divining spell tapped into it as Lina felt herself go numb.
*
"Well?" Xellos asked, his voice merely an echo in the darkness Lina found herself in.
"It's......weird.....like a void." Lina echoed. Looking about, the sorceress found herself in her normal clothing. "It's weird....I don't even remember seeing a version of myself in the astral plane, just an....existence....and...I feel safe here. I don't know WHY considering that this is my first attempt. Yet I seemed strangely attracted in trying to figure this mystery out. I wonder why."
"Ah....interesting......."
"Hold on......there's something here." images popped into Lina's head too quickly to grasp. Seconds, minutes, hours, days seemed to pass when she blinked.
"Lina?"
"...nothing...." Looking about Lina felt herself touch solid ground. "....?"
A form took shape before her, something massive. Scales of silver seemed dulled in the ashy and sooty land. Lava flowed about as like attempted to struggle to continue on. Looking up Lina only continued to see more scales, until a neck, and finally the head. The dragon held one eye beneath it's jaw, and the eye blinked at her.
"........" Lina felt a tinge of fear. The dragon hissed.
"Lina?" Xellos asked, his voice fading.
"........."
"Lina??"
The dragon howled as Lina covered her ears in pain. The entire scene melted away to nothingness as Lina felt limp.
"Uh....Lina.....yoohoo....you alive there?"
"Huh?" Lina stammered. Her voice weak as she attempted to wake herself up.
"Oh, good, your alive then!" Xellos rejoiced, his voice becoming more sound and louder as Lina felt herself awakening. "What did you see?"
"It was...huge...and..." A glint caught Lina's attention, turning around a spot in the void shown like a flicker of a star. "Hold on....I saw something."
"Holding...."
Almost floating towards the light, Lina felt something tugging her, pulling back the sorceress continued. The light grew brighter, and larger as Lina grew closer to it.
"What is this thing?" Touching the object Lina felt a slight warmth and drawing to it.
"Lina? Uh....what are you doing?" Xellos asked in a worried tone, Lina ignored the question as she continued to touch the light.
"What is this..." Lina saw something. And she screamed.....
