Author's note::: I'm so sorry this chapter took forever to put up. We just bought 'The Sims'. I swear they game must have subliminal messages or something. You could spend all day playing it, and feel like you didn't accomplish anything….*sweatdrop* But I finally finished this chapter because I found out people were reviewing it after all. I was checking via email, and hadn't received anything *sniffle* But I found out I had 3 new ones, and I'm very happy ^_^ So I finished chp 7, and I hope all of you are enjoying the story so far!
~Destiny Dreamer
Disclaimer:::Slayers doesn't belong to me, as everyone should know by now. I'm just writing about them….
"HHEEELLLPPP!"
"Gee do you think that could be Amelia?" Lina asked.
"Yes."
"I was being rhetorical Gourry."
"Oh."
"I think we'd better hurry." Zangulus said, pulling out his sword, "That sounded like she was in big trouble." "Gee you think?" Lina asked sweetly, but quickened her pace down the dark stone corridor, illuminated only by Lina's and Filia's spell.
Suddenly it ended, leaving the group in a cavern-like chamber, with the screaming coming from the far end, and Elerot at a wooden table nearby, humming, with his back to them. "Flare Arrow!" Martina shouted. It hit his shoulder, and he turned around, "No! You can't be here! I'm almost done! It's not fair!" He pouted, "Fireball!" The group scattered, to take him on from all sides. He put up a lousy fight, Being as there was only one of him, and 6 of them. "Fine. You won. But you can't have Amelia back, she's probably already eaten." "I- whoa!- am not!" Amelia shouted from down the corridor. "Fine, but you will be in a moment. No one can get near you without the dragon eating them." The group ran over to the screams. It was a huge cage, with no top, that a large cable ran though. "What are we going to do?" Martina looked up at the huge dragon trying to snap up Amelia. "Would everyone mind closing their eyes?" Filia asked. The original group dutifully closed them but Martina and Zangulus stared at her as if she had sprouted a horn. Lina kicked them in the shins lightly, "Just do it." They shrugged and do so. A bright yellow flash fills the area, blinding them temporarily, even with their eyes closed. When they opened their eyes, Martina gasped and jumped into her husbands arms, "There's two of them!" "Relax. That's Filia." Zelgadiss said. "Oh." was Zangulus' reply.
The yellow dragon walked over to the Cage, melted a hole into it with a laser. The other dragon stopped snapping at Amelia long enough to look at the intruder. It snorted. Filia shook her head, and gave a tiny roar in reply. The other dragon's eyes narrowed, and Filia said something else. It nodded, and seemed to smile. Filia sighed in relief, and transformed back. "He says he'll let her go." She grinned. "How come? I wouldn't listen if I had to give up food." Lina remarked.
The other dragon leaned his head down and rubbed it against Filia's shoulder. She blushed, "I think it likes me." "What's his name?" Zelgadiss asked, obviously amused.
"Bob."
"Bob?"
*nod*
"Bob…the dragon?" "Look he didn't get to name himself! Elerot did!" Filia rolled her eyes. "Can…Can he turn human?" Martina asked. Filia shook her head, "Only Golden dragons and ancient dragons are capable of that. This is just a average black dragon." "So do you finally have a husband?" Lina teased. Filia flushed scarlet, "No of course not. He's intelligent, but he has no humanity."
"Demona Cry- AAAHH!" A resounding shriek echoed throughout the chamber . They turned around to see Elerot slumped on the floor, with Gaene over him, sword drawn. "Gaene?" Everyone asked quizzically. "It's a long story." He answered. He walked into the cage and cut down Amelia. "Uh thanks." She then glared at him, "How did you get out jail!?" "Amanda and Gregory let me out, if you can believe that." He answered walking back to where Elerot lay. "I knew he was up to something. But if I acted like I was on your side, he would have killed me. So I was acting. I was hoping you all realized that, when you said you knew what was going. I saw you in corner, but I couldn't let you know that because he would have known too." Gaene said. Elerot sighed, "Bleah, I knew I should have just killed you. I was going too, you know, right after I killed Amelia." "Why were you willing to go to so much trouble, just to feed her to Bob?" Lina asked. "Because." Elerot lifted his chin and refused to say anything else. Then started speaking really fast when Lina made a fireball, and held it uncomfortable close to his face. "I found a spell in an abandoned temple to some lord. It was hard to translate, but it spoke of linking people to one another, and the things you could do with that. It said if the person you were linked too, had she/he died at the hands of another, that person who killed them would be linked to you also. So if Bob were to eat Amelia, not only would I have the blood of the Seyruun royal family in me, I would have the immortality of a dragon. I figured I could come as a long lost link to Sayruun after I killed everyone, and rule Sayruun. But that was just a side plot." He said quickly at Amelia's look, "I mostly just wanted to be immortal." He gasped softly, at the exertion of talking. "Then why not just link yourself to Bob?" Filia asked. "Because. You have to start the spell with a human. Had I drank the potion with the blood of a dragon in it, I would have died." "Nice plan. A couple flaws, but hey." Lina shrugged. "So what are we going to do with him?" Martina asked. "I say we just finish him off cleanly." Zangulus said "Wait." Zelgadiss held up a hand, "Where was the temple you spoke of? Had anyone been there besides you?" Elerot shook his head, "It could have been hundreds of years since anyone did. I found it in the mountains of Kersiin." Zelgadiss' eyes sparkled. "Cure?" Lina asked him, but he just stood up and strode towards the exit, "C'mon Elerot, you're showing me this place." "Zelgadiss, wait. You can't just leave." Lina ran after him. "What? You were just going home now that we rescued Amelia right?" "And we promised we'd help you find your cure." Lina finished. "You can't argue against Lina if she wants to help you Zel, you should know that by now." Gourry said, with a slight smile. "Very well." Zel said, "You may come along." "And don't worry, we promise, nothing will get in the way like all the other times." Amelia said, bouncing up beside the others. Martina, Zangulus, Gaene, and Filia came up on the other side. "Lead on." Zangulus gestured to Elerot. "You know I would, But I'm still, kinda, BLEEDIN" to death!" He rasped. "Oh." multiple sweatdrops all around, as Filia started casting a healing spell on him.
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*Knock knock* Zelas rapped impatiently on the wall of dimension that served as a house. "Dynast?" "Dynast, are you there?" Finally in frustration, she blasted it down. It crumbled way too easily, which made her wary as she stepped over the bounds. "Dynast? You have a visitor!" She cried out gaily. The place was in shades of red and gray, which was very stark to Zelas' taste, but that wasn't really important right now. She went up the staircase, calling out his name every so often.
When she reached the top she was struck with a foreboding feeling. There was the taint of magic, Magic of even L-Sama's caliber. She followed it, opening the door to which was obviously his bedroom. Dynast was there. Xellas walked over to him, "Dynast?" His eyes were open, and he was stiff, with dried blood around him. "Damnit! I'm too late!" Zelas cried, falling to his side. Now she and Dolphin were the only two left. She stood up, casting a spell for fire. As Dynast's body was consumed, creating black sparkles, Zelas made her way out.
"Can he help?" Xelloss asked, as his master opened the door slowly and collapsed on her couch. "No." Was her only answer.
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"So this is it?" Zelgadiss asked doubtfully. Elerot nodded, 'Through those trees right there." He gestured to a clump of plants at the side of them. "You may go first." Zangulus said distrustfully. He shrugged, and pushed the bushes away to squeeze through the trees. Everyone else filed through one by one, and suddenly they were in a dark, stone, dusty, temple. "Wow." Filia whispered. Thin streams of light filtered through the cracks in the ceiling, but Lina cast a light spell anyway. Their footsteps made imprints in the dust as they trudged through room after room. "What are we looking for Zelgadiss?" Gaene asked. "Anything. A book, tablets, I don't know." He answered shortly, scanning the area, and leafing through worn books on the shelves. Martina scanned the titles. Most of them were in another language, but she found one the looked good. Picking it up, she opened it. It crumbled to dust in her hands. "Oops." She whispered. The chimera glared at her. "I'm sorry! It just crumbled!" she protested. "Just please don't touch anything." Zelgadiss grumbled, and he continued rummaging. Zangulus rolled his eyes, and walked over to Martina, and wrapped his arms around her.
"Guys! Come look at this!" Lina shouted. She had wandered off through one of the stone archways and found what looked like a small temple of worship. "Wow, this place looks ancient." Amelia said in awe, looking at the crumbling walls of what used to be a beautiful place. "I wonder who this temple was for?" Filia asked. Gaene examined the alter set in the middle, "It looks like it might be for a mazoku lord…" he trailed off. "And how would you recognize a temple for a Mazoku lord?" Zangulus asked, eyes narrowed. "I studied Prince Philionel's books in the library." Gaene said smoothly. He earned another distrustful stare, from Zelgadiss this time.
"What would a temple for a mazoku lord be doing this far in the middle of nowhere?" Lina asked, to no one in particular. "There was a town here." Elerot answered her anyway. She looked to look at him, "When? And how do you know?" "I read the hieroglyphics." He gestured at the far wall where faint markings had been scrawled across them. Filia traced a finger over them, "How? They're so faint, and I don't recognize the writing." "You have to be proficient in all old languages that could have to do with dark evil stuff, otherwise a person like me could get no where." Elerot giggled. He got a strange look from everybody at that. Elerot looked at the group around him, and flushed red, "This is a style of writing that is privileged only to L-Sama's high priests and priestesses." Elerot said seriously, "This temple was built above the town in the valley, but when the town was destroyed in guess this place was abandoned. "This is a temple…to the Lord Of Nightmares?" Zelgadiss asked incredulously. "L-sama? He called him L-Sama?" Martina whispered to her husband. Zangulus shrugged. "This temple had to be keep under wraps because of all the high levels of spells and information here." Elerot continued smugly, "I found this on my travels through the mountain." " The power of the Lord Of Nightmares?" Now it was Lina's turn to be excited. He nodded, "That is, if you can translate the books…" "Oh I don't need too.." Lina grabbed the back of his robes and handed him a book. "You're going to read them to me."
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"She's up to something!!" Deep Sea Dolphin wailed, "I just know it!!" She turned around and grabbed Dee's arm, "Do you think she knows?!?" She demanded hysterically. Dee sipped her tea calmly, "Well you made it pretty clear you were planning to be the last remaining Mazoku lord, did you not?" Dolphin scowled, "Of course!" "And if she knows that, she has to be able to defend herself against anything you might try, therefore of course she's up to something. You shouldn't be so worried. What could she do to help herself against what you have." "Oh." Dolphin grinned, "Of course." She let go of her priest's arm, and giggled. Dee sighed, and took another sip of her tea nervously. Despite her reassurances, this was a delicate plan. If Zellas interfered too soon, or if something went wrong… Dee excused herself, feeling sick, and hearing her master laughing happily and talking to herself in the back room. "I don't want to die. What do I care if we're the last remaining Mazoku?" She cursed to herself, setting the tea on her dresser with jittery hands. She wasn't made to be a Mazkoku. When Dolphin had made her subordinates, she had them made them the exact opposite from her. So although Dee was logical, and serious, she was also a worrywort, and (although she hated to admit it) a scaredy cat. The thought of fighting Xelloss scared her out her wits, and made her sick to her stomach. "Why couldn't I be more like Doll?" She asked the ceiling, after she had collapsed on her bed. Doll was Deep Sea Dolphin's warrior. She had died at the hands of one of Ceiphied's warriors a while ago, But had been everything Dee hadn't, brave, reckless, and a true warrior. Dee was…well Dee." She sighed again, and fought back tears. "No." She sat up, "I am The top subordinate of Mazoku Lord Deep Sea Dolphin, I do not cry." She said angrily, punching a pillow.
She cried anyway.
There. That's not really a cliffhanger….^_^;; hehe anyway I'll try and get the next chp out soon! I already have it planned, I just have to find the time to do it….
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