Star-chan.
******************************************************************** A few days later…'So Casper, you might as well tell us about yourself.' Kai'ila said, sitting next to the depressed ex-Mazoku.
The group was sitting around the cap fire, L'risia in a tree with a new laptop she'd produced out of a pocket dimension and Xelloss in a branch on the opposite side, trying to read as her fingers flew over the keyboard. Cleo was examining her shopping with a sort of starry-eyed pride, the bags piled up around her. Lina and Gourry were talking about something (er. That is, Lina was talking and Gourry was listening.) Zelgadis was leaning against the trunk of a tree and talking to Amelia and Filia, as Amelia turned the sausages on the fire. There was a musical tinkling sound and a giggle from Xelloss.
'Xel!' L'risia said, sounding irritated, as music started. 'I told you not to click that button!'
Xelloss giggled, but L'risia smiled nastily as she edged out of his reach.
'You'll regret that.'
'How, L'ri chan?' Xelloss asked, and his face paled as a cheery voice sang out in a manner that suggested the owner had a bad cold and had inhaled helium one TOOO many long hours…
'I love you, you love me, we're a happy-'
Xelloss fell out of the tree, unconscious and an interesting shade of green. Kai'ila burst out laughing, and a satisfied smile twisted Filia's face. Zelgadis looked a bit pale himself.
'What was that horrible tune, L'ri?'
'The Barney Song.' She said gravely, shutting the lid of the computer, and saying the name as if it were some kind of genocide weapon (actually…I think it could be. If it was played loud enough)
'OH NO!'
Eyes turned on Cleo.
'What's up?' Lina asked, taking a time out of bashing Gourry.
'THE SPARKLES ON MY NEW SINGLET TOP ARE PEELING OFF! I'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF!'
L'risia fell out of the tree and Zel facefaulted.
'I've been Dynast's priest for a little longer than Xelloss has been Zela's. I'm about one thousand and fifty years old. I don't remember the time when I was human, except that I was very unhappy and mistreated. All I can remember was a burning rage and sadness, and pain. Lots of pain.'
'Poor baby.' Kai'ila said automatically. Cleo rolled her eyes and L'risia sighed, barely pausing in moving her fingers across the keys of her computer to give her friend a Look.
'Excuse me?' Casper said. Kai'ila giggled.
'Sorry, its just a habit I have, I say that to everyone- how's Xelloss doing?'
'He still hasn't woken up. I'd say he's having a bad dream.
'I can't blame him.' L'risia, Val and Zel said at the same time, and grinned sheepishly at each other. Lina rolled her eyes at Amelia.
Suddenly the world went black.
'Not this AGAIN.' Cleo groaned, sliding her new shoes back into their box in the darkness.
'Yeah. Everyone here? Sound off!' Gourry said in a rare moment of coherence.
'Lina!'
'Amelia!'
'Filia!'
'Zelgadis.'
'Kai'ila!'
'Cleo!'
'L'risia.'
'Val.'
'Xelloss!'
'Oh, you're awake now? Where's Casper?'
'Yes I'm awake. I have no idea!'
'I'm here.' Casper's grudging voice said. He picked himself up and squinted, waving his arms around.
'Where is every-'
'Excuse me.' Kai'ila said, moving out of his arm range.
'Sorry.'
'You'd better be.'
Lights suddenly rippled on around them, revealing their location to be in a long, narrow passageway that seemed endless. Doors stretched on each side.
'Well. Thankyou Dynast.' L'risia said, closing her computer. 'I wonder when he'll show up?'
'Oh, I don't think he'll be bothering us for a while, I thin this is to delay us.' Xelloss said cheerfully. He was looking with some interest at a magazine.
'Why not?' Cleo asked him curiously. Xelloss waved the programme.
'Because there's a Dragon Ball Z Marathon on-'
L'risia abruptly vanished and so did Kai'ila, with an excited squeal.
'Wait! Oh never mind.' Cleo grumbled. 'So what do we do now?'
'I guess we go and look in the doors.' Zel said. 'We can't do anything else except look for a way out now that we're in.'
'Okay. Come on Gourry!'
She flung open the nearest door, holding onto her fiancé's hand. She and Gourry blinked .
'Wha-YAAAAAH!'they yelled as an invisible hand yanked them though.
'Lina!'
'Gourry!'
The door slammed shut. Dead silence fell, and Cleo sent out a call to her friends.
GET YOU ASSES BACK HERE NOW!!!
'We should explore in pairs,' Zel decided, leaning on a door, 'that way we'll always be with someone and two stand a better chance than one.'
'But there's five of us.'
Cleo's mouth twisted in an evil grin, thinking about the possibilities. A very pissed Kai'ila and L'risia pooped into existence.
'What?' L'risia demanded, waving a Coke bottle.
'We're going to split into twos.' Xelloss said cheerfully, obviously not thinking about who would have go with who.
'And as of now,' Dynast's voice giggled, 'YOU FOUR CAN'T TELEPORT!'
'WHAT?!'
'NO!'
'YOU BASTARD!'
'KISAMA!' L'ri shouted to the ceiling. She calmed down.
'All right. Who's going with who?'
'Well- Lina and Gourry have gone-' Filia looked worriedly at the door the pair had been pulled into.
'I'll go with Amelia.' Zel said a little quicker than he had intended, blushing.
'Aw you look so CUTE when you blush Zel!' Kai'ila grinned. Amelia giggled.
'Well- that leaves Filia, myself, Val and you three- and Casper.'
Val seemed to consider his options.
'Hey, L'ri?'
'Yes?'
'Did you want to come with me?'
'What? Ah- I mean- um-' L'risia tinged pink and glared at her grinning friends. 'Sure, okay, I guess.'
'Filia, Xelloss, Cleo, Kai'ila and Casper now-'
'I'll go with you,' Kai'ila said cheerfully to Casper, 'do you mind?'
'No, its fine.' The ex-Mazoku smiled, 'I'd rather be stuck with you than the others.'
'Aw Casper-chan.' Xelloss pouted. Casper rolled his eyes at Kai'ila.
'Which door?'
'Pick one.'
Casper flung open a door, letting Kai'ila in first. 'See you in a few!' He said cheerfully before shutting the door. L'risia rolled her eyes.
'What about you three?'
'Three?' The blonde woman, unearthly in her beauty and aura frowned at the scene, barley wrinkling her perfect skin. 'This won't do. And it's about time My Son got a love life. Any life!'
She looked with star-filled eyes at the image of the shaggy-haired Dark Lord Dynast, flopped in front of his TV, and snapped her fingers, more for theatrical effect than anything else.
Dynast crashed to the floor of the corridor.
'Dynast?'
'WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?'
'Do we look like we know?' Val asked.
'Do we look like we care?' Cleo clarified.
'That too.' L'risia nodded. 'Dynast, what-'
'He's getting a life. I promise to tape Dragon Ball Z. One of you had to look after him and make sure he brushes his teeth before he goes to bed.'
'L-sama!' Xelloss squeaked, sounding exactly like Amelia.
'…'L'risia managed.
'YOU MEAN WE'RE STUCK WITH DRAMA-BOY?' Cleo shouted.
'Yes.'
'Eep.'
'I don't think I can take this.' Zel muttered, and opened a door at random. 'Come on Amelia. Ladies first.'
'Thanks Mr Zelgadis!' Amelia said, stepping through the door. Her comment, 'oh look at all the flowers!' could be heard before the chimera shut the door.
Val and L'risia looked at each other and the four disgruntled girls and boys left. A smile threatened to curve L'risia's mouth.
'Well? Who's going with who?'
Xelloss and Filia looked at each other, and Cleo caught a meaningful glare from L'risia.
'Er- I'll go with Dynast!' she forced out cheerfully, grabbing the startled Dark Lord's arm and dragging him towards a door. 'See you all later then!'
The door slammed behind them, and L'risia's grey and Val's amber gaze fell on the Mazoku and Golden Dragon left, staring at each other.
'ARGH!' Filia screamed.
'Fi-chan…' Xelloss groaned.
'Mum, you can't do anything so you might as well try and live with it.' Val said calmly, opening a door into a cobbled street.
'After you, my lady.'
'Er- thanks.' L'risia said, tinging pink as she stepped through the doorway. Val grinned at his mother and stepped through after the girl. Filia and Xelloss glared at each other, feeling some definite deja vu.
'We might as well get this over with. We go in, we explore we come out.' Xelloss snapped, opening a door and bowed low, sarcasm hanging over him like a inseparable mist. Filia's blue eyes narrowed, but remembered the tactic Amelia used on Xelloss.
'Thank you Xelloss.' She said pleasantly, stepping past him into the world beyond the door. Xelloss's amethyst eyes widened in shock as he stepped after the blonde.
'Fi-chan? Are you feeling all right?'
'Never better, Xel.'
Argh! What to happen next?!? I don't know! It will come to me in a nightmare!!
Hehe
I should be studying -_-; what's study?! Oh man…
Ja ne
StarChibi-chan
