Author Notes: I'm sorry this took soooo long to come up I'm on summer holz now (yes!) so I'll try and finish this as quick as I can! Ideas for character set-ups (these aren't going tooo well) /ending/how I get them back to the slayers universe will be welcome! ^_^
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Chichi and her family had gone out. Bulma had gone home with Trunks and Vegeta had disappeared (surprise). Chichi had made sure Filia understood that no matter how annoying Xelloss was, no matter how suggestive he got, the house STILL had to be standing and its insides intact when she, her husband and sons got home. Filia sat ungraciously in her chair and looked disgustedly at her charge, currently white, covered in sweat and looking increasingly uncomfortable. Filia felt a pang of compassion and gingerly smoothed his purple bangs out of his eyes, wincing as her fingers stroked away the wetness on his forehead. With a resigned sigh, Filia stood up and went to get a damp cloth.
Xelloss felt absolutely disgusting. His mouth was dry and his head hurt like hell, he couldn't focus on anything and he was hot and cold at the same time. Someone was wiped his forehead. Who? He opened an eye and almost fell out of the bed. Filia!
'Fi-chan?' he murmured, shocked to hear his voice sound so cracked and pitiful.
'Hm? How do you feel?'
'Like crap.' Xelloss said heatedly.
'You've gotten a very nasty cold.'
'HOW?!' he demanded, trying to sit up. The room swam and he flopped back on the bed. 'Dear L-sama-'
'Namagomi, we're in a world in a world created by L-sama and watched by an audience of Dolphin and Shabarnigdo. There IS no reason. And don't think that I'm enjoying this.'
'I'd have thought you'd love to see me bedridden F-chan.'
'Not if I'm the one who has to look after you!!'
They sat in silence for a little while. Then- 'Filia, who the HELL took my shirt off?!'
'Chichi.' Filia said calmly. Xelloss relaxed.
'Oh.'
'You don't think I'd touch you, do you?' she said disgustedly. Xelloss groaned.
'I bet Zelas really does think this is hilarious.'
'We're BOTH suffering here, if you don't mind, and if you give ME your cold YOU'LL have to look after ME so just make sure you get better!'
'Fi-chan!' Xelloss protested. She glared at him and for once he gave up.
'Whatever.' He really didn't feel at all well. Soon the annoying Mazoku was asleep again, leaving Filia to sit alone in shock.
Everyone's favourite priest wasn't better by that night either, in fact he was decidedly worse, and even Filia was starting to get worried. She was up until two am, at which point the purple-haired weirdo woke up screaming his head off.
'Xelloss?' Filia said, gently pushing him back down on the pillows and sitting down by his side. She was beginning to think of him, as less an annoying Mazoku, now, he just needed someone to help him. 'It was just a dream-'
Xelloss let Filia's cool hand brushed his hair away from his face like a cool morning breeze on his skin.
'Why are you doing this, Filia-san?'
'Because- because Lina will kill me if you don't come back alive. And, most likely, so will your mistress. And Val, because for some reason he seems quite fond of you.'
'I'm touched.' Xelloss said, raising a hand dramatically. 'I'm the father he never had! Sob!'
'You're a terrible actor.' Filia said, trying to keep a straight face. It was too early in the morning for her to act normally, and her inner self cursed as Xelloss, looking at her struggling expression, continued his emotional act.
'WAAH! It's just sooo moving-'
'Shut up namagomi!' Filia scolded, knowing it sounded more an affectionate scolding as one would a son or- she stopped as Xelloss glanced at her. Fila shook her head. She'd have to stop THINKING like that or she'd gone insane. It was too early for the namagomi's tricks…
'Fi-chan, you look tired, have you been sitting there all day?'
Filia nodded and rubbed her eyes. Argh this was Xelloss being a baka again- she was letting down her guard! Not good!
'Filia?'
'M fine Xel's..'
'No you're not, you're exhausted, I can feel it. How am I supposed to tease you properly if you're too tired to hit me?' he pouted, poking her playfully. 'Get to sleep. I won't die.'
Filia snorted and wrapped a blanket around her. 'Well- maybe a few hours then-'
Xelloss watched the dragon quickly fall asleep. Hm. His vision swam, and Xelloss like the fever take him over again.
Gohan and Goten peeked into the room before they left for school the next morning. Xelloss was sleepily restlessly on the bed, his purple hair a mess and the covers kicked off. Filia sat near his pillow, her hand resting lightly on his forehead and the other loosely grasped in his hand. The brothers looked at each other and quietly shut the door.
'How is Mr Xelloss?' Chichi asked them as they came downstairs.
'He doesn't look much better. Filia's sleeping by the bedside-'
Chichi nodded.
'Well, it's understandable she's been looking after him for twenty-four hours.'
'Yeah, she needed a rest.' Goku agreed.
In the room Filia and Xelloss were in, a computer siting on the table suddenly lights up in life, windows flipping up and filling the darkened room with the blue-white light of electronic confusion…
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'OH MY GOD!
'WHAT THE HELL?!?!"
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'FOR THE LOVE OF L-SAMA!'
'Lina, what- AAAAAAAHHHHH!
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'I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!'
'BLACKMAIL! HAHA! YES!'
'….'
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'THIS IS GREAT! LOVE AND JUSTICE TRIUMPH OVER ALL!!'
'….Hehe…haha…. MWHAHAHAHAHAHA!'
L'risia sat down heavily on the floor where Val had crashed in shock. The sound of Zelgadis and Casper laughing echoed through the speakers, to where Lina and Gourry were looking at each other trying to figure out what the hell had happened. Kai'ila just gaped at the screen and swapped a look with Amelia, who was grinning and wide-eyed.
'What the HELL is going on?!?!' shouted Val, accurately summing up the situation for Lina, L'risia, Kai'ila and Zelgadis, who was over his initial hysterics and was trying to figure out why Filia was sitting so-cough- close to Xelloss. In the same room, for that matter. On the same bed.
'Is there a problem?' Matt asked as Lina began muttering under her breath very un-ladylike swear words.
'Yes- well no, not really but- the blonde there is a dragon and the purple-haired guy is s Mazoku- a demon. They don't- or should I say didn't- get along because there was this little issue of him destroying an entire clan of golden dragons…anyway she calls him 'Namagomi' etc-' L'risia jabbed her finger at the other image, 'and now, as you can see they're in the same room and not fighting. And holding hands, I might add.'
This abbreviated explanation was enough to lose the listening digi-destined and give the Lina-tachi some time to recover. Suddenly, two familiar and rather annoyed looking faces popped up onscreen. The blonde's face lit up.
'KAI'ILA! L'RI!'
'Oh no,' L'risia said immediately, and then grinned at her friend's expression. 'Hi Cleo- how's it goin' Dynast?'
'You and I are going to have a little talk after this is over, L'risia, and only one of us will survive.'
'Really?' L'risia grinned, and it wasn't exactly innocent. A better term would, perhaps, be predatory. 'What kind of flowers would you like at your funeral, Dynast?'
'Break it up you two-' Lina ordered, 'Okay Cleo- just how did you guys get on here anyway?!'
'Hi Lina!' Cleo said brightly, and grinned as Dynast looked a bit sick. 'Well Washu here-'
'Heellloooo! I'm Washu, only the most brilliant scientist in the entire universe!'
'And modest.' L'risia noted. Val snickered. The rest of them just sweatdropped at the pink-haired woman, who asked,
'WHAT?!'
'A-hem.' Dynast said, pushing her out of the way. 'Anyway- since we've established communications, we need to find a way to all get in the same dimension.'
'Hi boss!'
'Casper? Why the hell are you so cheerful.'
Casper counted on his fingers.
'One- I'm under this Mazoku-binding spell so I'm mostly human. Two, I'm still a bit drunk, three, I think Kai'ila's personality is contagious, and four- I didn't spend hours shopping.'
'How did you-'
Casper grinned and pointed at the pile of shopping behind the pair.
'oooo-' L'risia and Kai'ila moaned. Cleo appeared to notice the Xelloss-Filia image down the bottom of the screen, which, Kai'ila noted now that she was over the initial shock, kind of sweet. Casper was taking evidence photographs and Lina was coercing Izzy into printing off images. Cleo's reaction was to stare, her blue eyes bugging out and she nudged Dynast, pointing. He looked. And giggled hysterically, like a psychotic scientist on crack.
'That sound is going to give me nightmares for a month.' Amelia said to Zel, who smirked.
'Er-' Cleo looked at the eight friends onscreen, who just shook their heads. 'WELL WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!'
'Ssh!'
'Cleo!'
'Uh-oh-'
'HIDE!'
'WHERE, GENIUS?'
'Shut up!'
'Now we've done it…'
'Eep-'
Filia and Xelloss woke up. Filia shot back across the room so fast she cracked her head on the wall.
'Ooh that's gotta hurt.' Casper and Dynast said, not looking the least bit sympathetic. Kai'ila hit Casper over the head.
'Don't be so insensitive.'
'Sorry, old habit.'
'You know you're nicer when you're drunk.'
'Was that a compliment or an insult?'
'I think it was more an observation.' Ruri said, resting her chin in her hands. Casper rolled his eyes. Meanwhile Filia and Xelloss both dived to the computer screen, Xelloss still flushed from his fever and the blanket pathetically hugged around him.
'What the HELL are you lot doing on this- THING?!' Filia demanded.
'It's a computer, Filia-chan.'
'Shut UP! Well?'
'Xelloss, you don't sound too good.' Kai'ila observed, 'Are you okay man?'
'She's right,' Val agreed, 'You sound-' he paled as a voice cooed,
'Oh VAL-CHAN!'
L'risia covered her mouth as the aqua-haired youth disappeared out the window at light speed. Xelloss blinked.
'What was all that about?'
'Oh a woman here's become obsessed with him.' L'risia sighed, jerking a thumb at the pouting Megumi. 'Do you have a cold or something Xel?'
'Yes I did get a bit ill.' The priest conceded. 'I haven't a clue why.'
L'risia's fingernails drummed the table. 'Maybe the dimensions weaken out magical fields or composition or something. We can figure it out later. You need to get better and we all need to get into the same place.'
'But where?' Cleo asked. 'We don't know what we're doing.'
'So we'll go somewhere where there is someone who does.'
'And where's that?' Casper asked snidely. L'risia shrugged and directed Megumi out the back door. A few seconds later Val jumped in the window ran out into the street and headed for the Akabeko. L'risia turned back the to computer.
'Dunno. Assuming we can get into any anime show- we should have one with geniuses in it.'
There was a collective silence broken by Lina and Gourry eating their way through the picnic, and having a race with Davis and Yolei. A nerve began to twitch on L'risia's head as sounds of Megumi's incessant lamenting for her lost love drifted around the dojo.
'Uh-oh she's getting pissed off.' Cleo said, producing an army hat.
'Is that a problem?' Ryoko Subaru asked.
'Yes.' Cleo and Kai'ila answered firmly. L'risia now had her eyes screwed shut and she suddenly disappeared.
'What the-'
'L'risia?'
'Where'd she go?'
'L'ri? Uh-'
'….'
L'risia crashed to the dark stairs and stood up, grumbling. 'Ow- where the hell am I- oh noooo-' she said as her gaze fell on a wide-eyed blonde teenager in front of a computer, a badge with A.D.P on her arm. 'Oh NO-'
'You- just came out of the computer!' Nene Romanova gasped.
'Yah.' L'risia agreed. 'I'm kinda getting USED to it now oh I am going to KILL someone I really, really need to- IZZY!' she leaned over Nene's stall and waved. 'Hi!'
'L'risia! Lina, Miss Washu and I found your friend! She's in another anime called Bubblegum Crisis!'
Washu popped up onscreen. 'Yes, that's right kid. I've monitored the kind of energy you're transmitting and-'
'It's similar to the energy released when something comes through a Chulip.' Inez Fresange interrupted.
'I was saying it's similar to teleportation.' Washu said, looking a little irate. 'If I'm correct then I believe I can get you all into one anime show. Which one?'
'Wait- why did I- teleport here or whatever?' L'risia said. 'I'M IN BUBBLEGUM CRISIS L-SAMA DAMMIT!'
'Calm down L'ri,' Kai'ila said, 'deep breaths- breathe in, breathe out- breathe in-'
L'risia's face turned to it's normal shade. 'Right. Okay. Well- since I'm here- how about Nene and Sylia? They're smart!'
'You bet I am!' the eighteen-year-old cop behind L'risia said. 'But wait- how do you know that? And who are all these people on the screen?'
'Well you see Nene dear,' Cleo said, resting her chin in her hands. 'It's like this-'
