1 A little Disturbance
(It is I again, the great Narrator! So, you wanted more? Well then why the hell would you be here if you didn't want more! Things have been getting boring in Steffi's bedroom so now I'm here to create some havoc. Ark, I'm not in the mood for talking much, just shut up, sit down, and read -_-)
Steffi Anderson got a new idea. She got up from her bed that she had rightfully retaken from Xellos after he had fallen off it. There had been a one-sided yelling match to follow with Steffi doing the rare thing and giving Xellos a tongue-lashing. Given the fact that the Trickster Priest couldn't telaport his way out of the room he had subdued to the floor to listen. When everything had fallen silent, Xellos had taken to amuse himself with some Guyver mangas, while contemplating on a way out of there. Steffi had done the same only without the Guyver mangas, at first. Then she remembered how relaxing reading about alien bio weapons slicing up supper humanoid monsters was.
But now she decided to try one of their only connections with the outside world. The telephone. Xellos raised an eyebrow when she picked it up, although didn't seem the least bit surprised when Steffi sighed and replaced it on its hook.
"No line." She sighed again.
"Hmm, no surprise there." Xellos muted from his position in front of the bookcase.
"Easy for you to say!" Steffi's blood had begun to boil again, "If we are stuck in here forever I refuse to make a new colony with you, you hentai!"
"Will you stop calling me that." He replied, "Just because some 'fanfiction' writers have twisted minds."
There was a rumbling noise that came in the direction of Steffi's stomach.
"Oh damn! I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast at Tori's place." She complained. "And I need the bathroom."
"Oh my, it appears we are a bit unprivileged." Xellos remarked
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious."
Xellos continued to stare at Steffi through closed eyes, then suddenly opened them.
"Oh, I get it. My, my, it effects them in the strangest manners."
"What?" Steffi asked.
"That time of month, hmm?" he closed his eyes again.
"What the hell! You really are a little pervert!" Steffi screamed.
"Eh heh, I only meant an explanation to your not so chirppy mood." He defended himself, holding up one of the mangas as a barrier.
(Narrator is pleased about the absence of long sentences that had plagued the last chapter.)
Xellos was saved from a certain second round of tongue lashing by the echoing sound of the telephone ringing. Both Mazoku and human looked at the source of the sound. Piku, piku.
"I thought the line was dead." Piku, piku, piku.
Steffi carefully made her way over to it with Xellos watching from behind a manga on the floor. She picked it up and held it to her ear.
"Uh, hello?"
Steffi let out a sigh of relief when Tori's voice bounced down the telephone line.
"Oh hi Steffi. Um you said to ring if you left anything behind, well I got your- Yikes!"
"Tori? Tori?"
The line had gone dead again. Steffi slammed the phone back down in anger.
"Ouch."
Xellos and Steffi stared at the girl's walk-in-robe that Xellos had spent most of the time in before and now appeared to be talking again.
"Tori?"
Sure enough a slim girl with waist length blond hair tied back in a ponytail and large anime blue eyes stepped out rubbing her head where Steffi's junk had proved to fail in a soft landing.
"Steffi? What the hell am I doing here?" She caught sight of Xellos lying on the ground with his staff by his side. "Xellos?" she groaned, "I must have hit my head harder then I thought."
"No, he's really here." Steffi replied.
Tori lifted her hand to her cheek, "Ok this may be cliché way to check, but…" She pinched her cheek softly. "Nope, I'm not dreaming."
Xellos who had been watching the arrival of the new girl in silence, having returned to the bed, remarked at this point.
"Your method seems a bit better then hers." He cocked his head towards Steffi, "She hit herself on the head with a stick."
"Hey! Shut up!" Steffi yelled
"Would anyone mind explaining what is going on here?" Tori interrupted the pair's bickering.
"Uh, I wouldn't mind knowing the same thing." Steffi added fixing her eyes on Xellos again.
"What?" He asked.
"I don't think saying that 'It's a secret' is going to help in this situation." Tori jumped in before the Mazoku could answer in his trademark. Xellos smiled at her and lifted one of his fingers to his nose and waggled it at the slightly peeved girls.
"Sore wa himitsu desu" He winked.
"Ah you stupid crazy pervert of a henti!" Steffi yelled, "And will you get off my bed!"
"What? I haven't done anything, yet." His smile having lengthened
"What do you mean yet!?!"
"Oh great, this is really helping." Tori folded her arms and lent against the wall.
"Oh my, I think I am sensing a Zelgadis here, in female form too." Xellos' eyes lit up.
"Oh no you don't!" Tori yelled dashing into the walk-in-robe with great haste, staring up at the roof. "Take me back! Take me back! Get me away from this henti!"
"Well she seems to be taking the fact that we are all trapped here with no food or hygiene measures, and in anime form really well." Steffi mused.
"Anime?" Tori stepped back out of the walk-in-robe. As Steffi had done her instinct was to look at her hand then rush over to the mirror. "Hey I don't look too bad as an anime character." She admired
"I agree." Xellos piped up from the bed, enjoying her discomfort.
"I thought you said you weren't a henti?" Steffi asked from her place by the wall at the opposite end of the room, as far as possible she could get from the Trickster Priest.
"Now then, I would have been lying." Xellos winked again.
"Hang on a sec, rewind," Tori looked over at Steffi ignoring the Mazoku, "What do you mean by 'trapped'?"
Steffi moved over toward the door and threw it open, revealing the large amount of nothing again. "That's what I mean by trapped."
Xellos, who had every so sneakily crept up behind the pair, a soft toy in hand, peered over their shoulders.
"Well there's one way to find out." He said freaking the hell out of the two girls, Tori's arms performing windmills as she tried to regain her balance. It was Steffi's hand on the back of her collar that was keeping her from falling.
All three ended up on the floor in pile on top of each other. Tori pushed her self off from the top, her head enlarged in that anime style rage.
"You crazy namagumi of a fool! What exactly did you have in mind creeping up like that!" She yelled at Xellos along with a couple of very un-lady like words, concerning a farm animal and its refuse, that could not be repeated here incase some little innocent child happened to stumble across this story.
(Narrator is annoyed at the sudden long sentence, but likes its usage ^.^)
Xellos smiled and let the whole thing flow over him without a care, holding up a yellow teddy bear with the word FRIENDSHIP printed across its stomach.
"I didn't mean for you to fall through, I meant for this." He reassured, although his facial expression didn't help in the least. A groan from under him wiped the smile from his face rather quickly.
"Steffi?" Tori looked down at her friend in concern.
"Oh my dear, it appears the Lina double is about to go off again." Xellos was frozen to the spot, a hand behind his head again, sitting right on top of Steffi. The girl groaned again, opened her eyes, blinked, waited a second for everything to sink in, then groaned again. In a matter of a split second what had sunken in was processed and the first thing to be delivered was that something was on top of her, which happened to ware the black cloak that dangled in front of her face.
Like a bomb having gone off Xellos was flipped over at the sudden movement of Steffi leaping up, her head enlarged to a size to challenge what Tori's had been, shouting all kinds of insults also un appropriate to write down.
(Anyone who would like to know what those words are, then lets just say you are sick -.-*cough cough* It's the plague of the long sentences back again!!! *a long and strained 'noooo' and an unexpected pointless evil laugh* had to get one in sometime ^.^ )
Tori feeling to be the voice of reason after experiencing Steffi perform in a manner that she did not think possible for the daughter of a Math teacher, cut in. "Can't we all just calm down a bit?"
"Calm!" yelled Steffi from her position of standing over a rather abashed Mazoku. "I am bloody well calm!"
Tori and Xellos sweat dropped. Steffi noticed and burst out in fits of giggles, pointing at Tori. "You should see yourself!" she managed through gasps of air, "You sweat dropped at the same time!"
By now Steffi's anime eyes were beginning to well up with tears of laughter. Tori's face had moved from a picture of worry to an almost frightened, skeptical, annoyed look, managing to show all signs of expression. "You've been having a lot of mood swings lately."
"Well it is that time of the month." Xellos' unwelcome voice popped up having been held back by a tidal wave of insults. Tori turned to him in surprise.
"How do you know that?" She was giving him a look that would have sent any descent person into stammers of excuses. But Xellos, having regained much of his old charisma with Steffi sidetracked, was no decent person.
"Now that's a secret." This sort of trademark line could have passed if it weren't for the wink he gave Steffi. Tori looked revolted.
Before anyone could have gotten in another word, action or duck for cover, Steffi grabbed the music stand which was sitting near by, and swung it up above her head dislodging a stuffed kola whom had taken residence on the stand.
"At least you could have kept that to yourself!" She yelled and banished the music stand throwing sheets of 'An English Country Garden' about the room.
"Just what were you two doing before I came in?" Tori managed in a disgusted voice.
"Sore wa himitsu desu." Managed Xellos, but the next second had to lift his staff in time to intercept the music stand. "You have to be better then that."
Steffi yelled out in rage and swung again. Tori leant against the wall again in an attempt to ignore the twos petty fighting. "The calm. The peace and tranquility."
(I think I am beginning to enjoy this myself. *evil laugh* Ah Xellos rubs off on all of us. I, the Narrator am the worst ^.-)
In a fight to fallow with Xellos barley lifting a finger, Steffi getting more upset by the minuet and Tori off in some peaceful dreamland, which after a while began to show side effects. "I'm not here. I'm off in my Happy Place." Her voice sounding strained and stoned. A staff to the shoulder soon brought her out of it. "Oww! Take your stupid fight someplace else!"
"And where do you suggest that might be?" Steffi asked, pausing a minute to lean against the upturned music stand. Xellos was lying on the ground appearing disturbingly calm and right at home. Tori, now feeling her own spark of rage, leapt toward him. Xellos, who's mind was always on other thoughts when looking at a Zelgadis-alike was expecting her to attack him, and was looking forward to it. But was in for a terrible shock. "My staff!!!!!!" He was then reduced to unexplainable mutterings and gasps. Tori had proceeded to snatch up the long wooden stick and throw it out the door. Even Steffi was shocked.
"Go fetch." Was all the girl had to say on the matter of her actions. Steffi was looking at Xellos with her head on the side.
"I have never seen him without his staff before." She mused, "He looks but half complete." Her own music stand was lying on the floor now long forgotten.
"How would you like it if I threw your arm out the door." Xellos asked. (This was not a question to take lightly, especially when coming from a Mazuko, with their eyes open and fixed on you. ^.^)
Tori's face which had lasted in a pleased look for only a second now looked around desperately. Without thinking she grabbed Steffi by the arm and held her in front.
"Yikes! Hay, go take your fight someplace else." The girl accused Tori and Mazuko, but words began to die in her mouth at the look on Xellos's face. "On second thoughts, carry on. I'll just be over here." She lent back to whisper in Tori's ear. "Good luck."
Tori's face had produced lines of what one could guess was sweat and her face had began going blue. From no where she produced a sign that read YIKES!, but did not lesson her grip on Steffi's arm.
"Oh my, looks like we made a mistake." Xellos said turning side on in a crouch which could only be a positioning for pouncing or casting a very dangerous spell.
"You know if this wasn't happening to us…it could be funny." Steffi pointed out in a last attempt of humor.
"Well it is bloody happing to us!" Tori's yell nearly burst Steffi's eardrum been so close.
"Great going Tori. You get one of the most powerful Mazuko in the Slayers world mad at you." Steffi whispered, "No, rephrase that. You have gotten the most powerful Mazuko totally pissed off at you. In fact, I think he is ready to commit murder."
There is a tense scene to follow when a camera should be panning around the three showing the distance, expressions and the deadly calm of Xellos.
(I, the Narrator, have suddenly discovered business else where of great importance and are going to be the evil little thing that I am and leave you all in suspense. *evil laugh held longer then physically possible* Now for my lovely cliché: Will Tori survive the Mazuko's wrath, Will Xellos regain his staff? And will Steffi ever get to go the toilet. Has she already gone to the toilet? Tune in sometime when I get around to the next one, for I am a big fan of suspense, for the rest of my wonderful story.)
(It is I again, the great Narrator! So, you wanted more? Well then why the hell would you be here if you didn't want more! Things have been getting boring in Steffi's bedroom so now I'm here to create some havoc. Ark, I'm not in the mood for talking much, just shut up, sit down, and read -_-)
Steffi Anderson got a new idea. She got up from her bed that she had rightfully retaken from Xellos after he had fallen off it. There had been a one-sided yelling match to follow with Steffi doing the rare thing and giving Xellos a tongue-lashing. Given the fact that the Trickster Priest couldn't telaport his way out of the room he had subdued to the floor to listen. When everything had fallen silent, Xellos had taken to amuse himself with some Guyver mangas, while contemplating on a way out of there. Steffi had done the same only without the Guyver mangas, at first. Then she remembered how relaxing reading about alien bio weapons slicing up supper humanoid monsters was.
But now she decided to try one of their only connections with the outside world. The telephone. Xellos raised an eyebrow when she picked it up, although didn't seem the least bit surprised when Steffi sighed and replaced it on its hook.
"No line." She sighed again.
"Hmm, no surprise there." Xellos muted from his position in front of the bookcase.
"Easy for you to say!" Steffi's blood had begun to boil again, "If we are stuck in here forever I refuse to make a new colony with you, you hentai!"
"Will you stop calling me that." He replied, "Just because some 'fanfiction' writers have twisted minds."
There was a rumbling noise that came in the direction of Steffi's stomach.
"Oh damn! I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast at Tori's place." She complained. "And I need the bathroom."
"Oh my, it appears we are a bit unprivileged." Xellos remarked
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious."
Xellos continued to stare at Steffi through closed eyes, then suddenly opened them.
"Oh, I get it. My, my, it effects them in the strangest manners."
"What?" Steffi asked.
"That time of month, hmm?" he closed his eyes again.
"What the hell! You really are a little pervert!" Steffi screamed.
"Eh heh, I only meant an explanation to your not so chirppy mood." He defended himself, holding up one of the mangas as a barrier.
(Narrator is pleased about the absence of long sentences that had plagued the last chapter.)
Xellos was saved from a certain second round of tongue lashing by the echoing sound of the telephone ringing. Both Mazoku and human looked at the source of the sound. Piku, piku.
"I thought the line was dead." Piku, piku, piku.
Steffi carefully made her way over to it with Xellos watching from behind a manga on the floor. She picked it up and held it to her ear.
"Uh, hello?"
Steffi let out a sigh of relief when Tori's voice bounced down the telephone line.
"Oh hi Steffi. Um you said to ring if you left anything behind, well I got your- Yikes!"
"Tori? Tori?"
The line had gone dead again. Steffi slammed the phone back down in anger.
"Ouch."
Xellos and Steffi stared at the girl's walk-in-robe that Xellos had spent most of the time in before and now appeared to be talking again.
"Tori?"
Sure enough a slim girl with waist length blond hair tied back in a ponytail and large anime blue eyes stepped out rubbing her head where Steffi's junk had proved to fail in a soft landing.
"Steffi? What the hell am I doing here?" She caught sight of Xellos lying on the ground with his staff by his side. "Xellos?" she groaned, "I must have hit my head harder then I thought."
"No, he's really here." Steffi replied.
Tori lifted her hand to her cheek, "Ok this may be cliché way to check, but…" She pinched her cheek softly. "Nope, I'm not dreaming."
Xellos who had been watching the arrival of the new girl in silence, having returned to the bed, remarked at this point.
"Your method seems a bit better then hers." He cocked his head towards Steffi, "She hit herself on the head with a stick."
"Hey! Shut up!" Steffi yelled
"Would anyone mind explaining what is going on here?" Tori interrupted the pair's bickering.
"Uh, I wouldn't mind knowing the same thing." Steffi added fixing her eyes on Xellos again.
"What?" He asked.
"I don't think saying that 'It's a secret' is going to help in this situation." Tori jumped in before the Mazoku could answer in his trademark. Xellos smiled at her and lifted one of his fingers to his nose and waggled it at the slightly peeved girls.
"Sore wa himitsu desu" He winked.
"Ah you stupid crazy pervert of a henti!" Steffi yelled, "And will you get off my bed!"
"What? I haven't done anything, yet." His smile having lengthened
"What do you mean yet!?!"
"Oh great, this is really helping." Tori folded her arms and lent against the wall.
"Oh my, I think I am sensing a Zelgadis here, in female form too." Xellos' eyes lit up.
"Oh no you don't!" Tori yelled dashing into the walk-in-robe with great haste, staring up at the roof. "Take me back! Take me back! Get me away from this henti!"
"Well she seems to be taking the fact that we are all trapped here with no food or hygiene measures, and in anime form really well." Steffi mused.
"Anime?" Tori stepped back out of the walk-in-robe. As Steffi had done her instinct was to look at her hand then rush over to the mirror. "Hey I don't look too bad as an anime character." She admired
"I agree." Xellos piped up from the bed, enjoying her discomfort.
"I thought you said you weren't a henti?" Steffi asked from her place by the wall at the opposite end of the room, as far as possible she could get from the Trickster Priest.
"Now then, I would have been lying." Xellos winked again.
"Hang on a sec, rewind," Tori looked over at Steffi ignoring the Mazoku, "What do you mean by 'trapped'?"
Steffi moved over toward the door and threw it open, revealing the large amount of nothing again. "That's what I mean by trapped."
Xellos, who had every so sneakily crept up behind the pair, a soft toy in hand, peered over their shoulders.
"Well there's one way to find out." He said freaking the hell out of the two girls, Tori's arms performing windmills as she tried to regain her balance. It was Steffi's hand on the back of her collar that was keeping her from falling.
All three ended up on the floor in pile on top of each other. Tori pushed her self off from the top, her head enlarged in that anime style rage.
"You crazy namagumi of a fool! What exactly did you have in mind creeping up like that!" She yelled at Xellos along with a couple of very un-lady like words, concerning a farm animal and its refuse, that could not be repeated here incase some little innocent child happened to stumble across this story.
(Narrator is annoyed at the sudden long sentence, but likes its usage ^.^)
Xellos smiled and let the whole thing flow over him without a care, holding up a yellow teddy bear with the word FRIENDSHIP printed across its stomach.
"I didn't mean for you to fall through, I meant for this." He reassured, although his facial expression didn't help in the least. A groan from under him wiped the smile from his face rather quickly.
"Steffi?" Tori looked down at her friend in concern.
"Oh my dear, it appears the Lina double is about to go off again." Xellos was frozen to the spot, a hand behind his head again, sitting right on top of Steffi. The girl groaned again, opened her eyes, blinked, waited a second for everything to sink in, then groaned again. In a matter of a split second what had sunken in was processed and the first thing to be delivered was that something was on top of her, which happened to ware the black cloak that dangled in front of her face.
Like a bomb having gone off Xellos was flipped over at the sudden movement of Steffi leaping up, her head enlarged to a size to challenge what Tori's had been, shouting all kinds of insults also un appropriate to write down.
(Anyone who would like to know what those words are, then lets just say you are sick -.-*cough cough* It's the plague of the long sentences back again!!! *a long and strained 'noooo' and an unexpected pointless evil laugh* had to get one in sometime ^.^ )
Tori feeling to be the voice of reason after experiencing Steffi perform in a manner that she did not think possible for the daughter of a Math teacher, cut in. "Can't we all just calm down a bit?"
"Calm!" yelled Steffi from her position of standing over a rather abashed Mazoku. "I am bloody well calm!"
Tori and Xellos sweat dropped. Steffi noticed and burst out in fits of giggles, pointing at Tori. "You should see yourself!" she managed through gasps of air, "You sweat dropped at the same time!"
By now Steffi's anime eyes were beginning to well up with tears of laughter. Tori's face had moved from a picture of worry to an almost frightened, skeptical, annoyed look, managing to show all signs of expression. "You've been having a lot of mood swings lately."
"Well it is that time of the month." Xellos' unwelcome voice popped up having been held back by a tidal wave of insults. Tori turned to him in surprise.
"How do you know that?" She was giving him a look that would have sent any descent person into stammers of excuses. But Xellos, having regained much of his old charisma with Steffi sidetracked, was no decent person.
"Now that's a secret." This sort of trademark line could have passed if it weren't for the wink he gave Steffi. Tori looked revolted.
Before anyone could have gotten in another word, action or duck for cover, Steffi grabbed the music stand which was sitting near by, and swung it up above her head dislodging a stuffed kola whom had taken residence on the stand.
"At least you could have kept that to yourself!" She yelled and banished the music stand throwing sheets of 'An English Country Garden' about the room.
"Just what were you two doing before I came in?" Tori managed in a disgusted voice.
"Sore wa himitsu desu." Managed Xellos, but the next second had to lift his staff in time to intercept the music stand. "You have to be better then that."
Steffi yelled out in rage and swung again. Tori leant against the wall again in an attempt to ignore the twos petty fighting. "The calm. The peace and tranquility."
(I think I am beginning to enjoy this myself. *evil laugh* Ah Xellos rubs off on all of us. I, the Narrator am the worst ^.-)
In a fight to fallow with Xellos barley lifting a finger, Steffi getting more upset by the minuet and Tori off in some peaceful dreamland, which after a while began to show side effects. "I'm not here. I'm off in my Happy Place." Her voice sounding strained and stoned. A staff to the shoulder soon brought her out of it. "Oww! Take your stupid fight someplace else!"
"And where do you suggest that might be?" Steffi asked, pausing a minute to lean against the upturned music stand. Xellos was lying on the ground appearing disturbingly calm and right at home. Tori, now feeling her own spark of rage, leapt toward him. Xellos, who's mind was always on other thoughts when looking at a Zelgadis-alike was expecting her to attack him, and was looking forward to it. But was in for a terrible shock. "My staff!!!!!!" He was then reduced to unexplainable mutterings and gasps. Tori had proceeded to snatch up the long wooden stick and throw it out the door. Even Steffi was shocked.
"Go fetch." Was all the girl had to say on the matter of her actions. Steffi was looking at Xellos with her head on the side.
"I have never seen him without his staff before." She mused, "He looks but half complete." Her own music stand was lying on the floor now long forgotten.
"How would you like it if I threw your arm out the door." Xellos asked. (This was not a question to take lightly, especially when coming from a Mazuko, with their eyes open and fixed on you. ^.^)
Tori's face which had lasted in a pleased look for only a second now looked around desperately. Without thinking she grabbed Steffi by the arm and held her in front.
"Yikes! Hay, go take your fight someplace else." The girl accused Tori and Mazuko, but words began to die in her mouth at the look on Xellos's face. "On second thoughts, carry on. I'll just be over here." She lent back to whisper in Tori's ear. "Good luck."
Tori's face had produced lines of what one could guess was sweat and her face had began going blue. From no where she produced a sign that read YIKES!, but did not lesson her grip on Steffi's arm.
"Oh my, looks like we made a mistake." Xellos said turning side on in a crouch which could only be a positioning for pouncing or casting a very dangerous spell.
"You know if this wasn't happening to us…it could be funny." Steffi pointed out in a last attempt of humor.
"Well it is bloody happing to us!" Tori's yell nearly burst Steffi's eardrum been so close.
"Great going Tori. You get one of the most powerful Mazuko in the Slayers world mad at you." Steffi whispered, "No, rephrase that. You have gotten the most powerful Mazuko totally pissed off at you. In fact, I think he is ready to commit murder."
There is a tense scene to follow when a camera should be panning around the three showing the distance, expressions and the deadly calm of Xellos.
(I, the Narrator, have suddenly discovered business else where of great importance and are going to be the evil little thing that I am and leave you all in suspense. *evil laugh held longer then physically possible* Now for my lovely cliché: Will Tori survive the Mazuko's wrath, Will Xellos regain his staff? And will Steffi ever get to go the toilet. Has she already gone to the toilet? Tune in sometime when I get around to the next one, for I am a big fan of suspense, for the rest of my wonderful story.)