1 Follow that Staff
(Well, you couldn't stand the suspense, eh? *evil laugh which receives only disbelieving looks* I, the great Narrator, am the only one who can cure you of your need for more. As I remember it the last we left Steffi's bedroom things were getting rather heated, although in two cases are about to be dead cold *weird noise that resembles an evil laugh tried to be held under restraint followed by a series of coughs to discise it* Fine then, on with the tale.)
Steffi Anderson was not in the least bit comfortable. That could have something to do with the death grip that held her arm, or maybe the fact that she was confronting a murderous Mazoku, minus one staff. If matters could be made worse, they were. This particular Mazoku happened to be none other then Xellos who had wiped out a large number of the dragon race with the slightest of ease. And just to make it unfair, she wasn't the reason for his rage.
Her friend Tori was the reason of his rage, and also why Steffi couldn't move out of the way and why her right arm held no felling.
"Next time you feel the need to piss someone off, check how many people they have killed before hand. And whether or not they enjoyed it!" Steffi called back to her friend.
"I was caught up in the moment." She defended.
"Well then," Xellos' cynical voice said, "catch this." His hands began to form a ball as he drew on power.
"Oh Shit!" Tori screemed, "what the hell did I do to deserve this?"
"Just think for a second baka." Steffi hissed.
('Baka', by the way means idiot! *holds up her hand in intelligence* See, I know a thing or too. Also 'kisama' means basted and…Oh never mind..)
"I don't know why he is getting so upset!" Tori wailed, "People were always beating him up in the series and he never did this!"
Steffi sighed and tried her best to control her cool. It failed. "Yes, well I guess he was pretty attached to THAT PART OF HIS BODY!!!"
"Lets see how you handle loosing part of your body." Xellos interrupted.
"Oh Shit!"
"Is that all you can say!" Steffi yelled, "I've had enough of this." She managed to duplicate Lina's stance as much as she could since her right arm still was not free. "Darkness beyond twilight, Crimson beyond blood that flows, Buried within the flow of time-"
Both Tori and Xellos sweat dropped. The Mazoku appeared to have forgotten about his spell. Tori released her grip on Steffi.
"She knows the Dragon Slave!?!" He exclaimed. Steffi stopped mid sentence and produced a peace sign.
"Nope, fooled you though."
Both human and Mazoku facefold. Steffi took a step to the left, rubbing her arm to try and bring life back into it. "But if you are that strong Tori," She said holding her arm up, then letting it flop back down lifelessly, "You should have tried taking him on yourself."
"What are you? Nuts!" Tori yelled leaping back into a standing position. She then put on a smug face and leant against the nearest wall, holding Steffi's stuffed koala in hand. "At least I didn't get you to impersonate this little guy."
"That I can be thankful for."
"Ahem!" A rather neglected feeling Mazoku sounded.
"Oh right, forgot about you." Steffi mumbled.
"Forgot about him! How the hell could you forget about him? What are you, Goury?" Tori took hold Steffi's front.
"Now who's having mood swings?"
"He is trying to kill us! Or did you miss out on that minor detail?" Tori questioned.
"Correction," Steffi smiled, "he is trying to kill you." She pushed herself out of her grasp. And not a moment too soon.
A ball of pure energy hurtled itself across the room catching Tori in the stomach. She was thrown back out of the door. The door that was left open. The door that led to nowhere.
(It was dragging on too long. In fact its resemblance to a DBZ episode is disturbing. Besides, I like Xellos with the upper hand ^.^ (notice the absence of an evil laugh))
"Tori!" Steffi screamed as her friend vanished. She stood in the doorway, hands holding onto the frame in shock. Somewhere the annoying little voice at the back of her mind reminded her that she had school tomorrow. Bad timing.
"Well, that's got her out of the way." The voice of a true basted of a weasel intruded her sensation of a lost form of shock.
Steffi turned.
She saw Xellos.
Their eyes met.
It was far from love at first sight.
"You are going to regret that." Her voice was tight but still shook.
"Really?" Xellos grinned.
"Yes. Do you know why?" She continued in that tight voice. Suddenly the air was full of roses and love hearts and bright colours to dazzle ones eye. "Because life is wonderful! It's fantastic! Just the thought of the sun rising each day and the birds singing-"
"You ripped that off Amelia." Xellos struggled from his position on the floor, withering about to try and shut out the deadly words of happiness.
"I know, ain't it cute?"
"Far from it."
"Now where was I?" Steffi paused for a second, "Ah what the hell, I'll just make it up." She retook her position standing on the bed and the flowers and hearts once more intrude the air. "Life is the gift of God, even if that ain't your religion, and to take another's life is unjust. Evil doers of this bedroom shall perish…what the hell. This is making me sick." She jumped down and looked pitifully at Xellos. She gave him a good kick in the stomach.
"Ah," He groaned, "Could you do that again, only a little harder."
Steffi sgihed. She put down a rough hand and pulled him to his feet. "You stupid idiot." She grumbled and shoved the Mazoku in front of her. "Now it is time to follow your own staff." She gave him a hard push out the door. "As Tori said, go fetch."
"Not without you." A hand grabbed her by the ankle and yanked off her feet. And out the door….
(Now I could be me and stop right now. *evil laugh* I don't care what you think of my evil laughs! If you dislike them then I will stop right now. *pouts* I hate it when I get the better of me. Fine, on with the show. What will happen to Tori, Steffi and our beloved Xellos now that they do not exist, theoretically speaking, Well THIS time you don't have the anguish of waiting. So if you want to know, read on.)
Zelgadis Greywords was in the middle of his nightly routine nightmare when he was awakened by a loud scream. And a thump. Followed by another thump. A thud. A groan that distinguished the object as living.
He sat up and stared toward his closet. He had experienced a number of nightly intrusions but this had to be the stupidest. Who the hell intrudes through a closet?
Slowly, so as not to make a sound he took grasp of the hilt of his sword.
"Internal organs…Ow." A distinctly female voice spoke from within the closet. Before he had a chance to protect his dignity, the closet toppled over, depositing its occupant at his feet.
A girl with long blond hair tied back in a ponytail, large blue eyes and warring the strangest outfit he had ever seen was crumpled over on the floor clutching her stomach.
(I could not but notice that these stupid annoying idiotic namagumi long sentences have returned with vengeance *a long strained 'ah' which the audience is becoming used to its inability to remain within a logical time limit* I have just proven myself corrected.)
The girl looked at his feet.
Paused.
Looked up at his chest.
Paused.
Looked at his face.
Blushed.
As did he.
Quickly Zelgadis turned around and becoming consciences yanked his shirt back on.
"I'm sorry." The girl said. "I didn't mean too. I mean, your…uh."
"You can go now." He said not wishing to turn and face her again.
"I'm sorry."
"You said that."
"I know, I just thought it needed repeating." She said, then quickly added, "I tend to babble when I'm embarrassed. Ow" She winced at the pain of trying to stand. Zelgadis was aware of blushing again, but turned around anyway. Something must have hit her hard in the stomach for she clasped it in unmistakable pain.
"How did you do that?"
"Er, I kind of got the wrong person pissed off at me." She managed to make it to her feet. Both blushed, then sweat dropped. "I'll go now."
Somehow she made it out through the door leaving Zelgadis in complete shock.
Meanwhile, not too far away at all, Xellos landed headfirst into a hard wooden floor. Steffi followed, landing on top of him. The world toppled over and both were thrown from a closet.
Fortunately this room was empty for the explosion Steffi gave realizing again that for the second time Xellos was far too close for comfort. After exhausting herself she took the liberty of looking at their surroundings.
"Ah, where are we?" She asked. Xellos smiled in a way that Steffi had long since forgotten.
"Sore wa himitsu desu."
"Oh don't start that again!" She warned, "Besides, you are still minus one staff. And I think I have got some really good happy speeches this time."
The smile fled and was replaced by a look of worry. For about half a second. Then the smile was back rather disturbingly.
"Yes," he said, "That would be so. My, my it has been a while. Now if you'll excuse me." And with that he got up and exited the room. Steffi followed after a second's pause.
She found herself standing in the hallway of an inn. Xellos, she noticed walked straight into the room across the way, without bother for the decency of the couple within. Somewhere up the hall a door opened. Then closed.
Tori came dragging herself down the hall towards her. A hand clutched her stomach.
"It hurts, but I'm happy." She said adopting the voice a fan would get at their hero's concert.
"What? Tori? Are you Ok? Can you hear me? Where are we?" Steffi continued to ask questions. Tori looked up at Steffi with a crazy grin on her face.
"I saw Zelgadis without his shirt on." She chanted.
"WHAT!?!!!!" Steffi exclaimed. Somehow it made things fall in place. They had been transported to the Slayer's world and Tori had gotten to see what every female fan dreamed of. It was not fair.
"Slap me now. Giggling hurts too much." She broke into hysterical giggles. Steffi for some reason felt good about slapping her. "Thank you. Ow, that hurt. Ow, this hurts. Ow, I hurt." She then proceeded to fall to the ground. "I sounded like a real idiot just then, didn't I?"
Steffi nodded.
"Damn it. And I wanted him to think I was intellectual."
"You sound as though you're dying." Steffi said.
"Yeah, I am because of stupid fruitcake!" Tori managed a half yell, "By the way where is he?"
"Good news!" Xellos interrupted them, ignoring the half-dressed man who was throwing his shoe at him. "I have my staff back!"
Neither Steffi or Tori were impressed.
"I'm so happy for you." Tori hissed.
"Oh my, aren't we a sorry little thing." Xellos tormented her.
"Not in the least." She tried to stand up, but failed. "You deserved that and everything else I am going to give you once I come back to life."
Xellos looked disbelieving. "Uh Tori," Steffi whispered, "You don't come back to life."
"I know that, I just wanted to say that line!"
"Well," Xellos remarked, "If you feel that way, there is plenty more where that first one came from."
But before he could carry out this threat, the door from which Tori had appeared opened. Zelgadis stared at the group. Tori finally collapsed.
(So now are you happy? I bet you didn't see that coming, eh? Didn't think they would make it to the Slayer's world, and I would reveal Zelgadis once more with no shirt. Yes, well I get to do what ever I want because I'm the great Narrator. *laughs maniacal* See, I have a range of laughs. Anyways, now that I have dragged Zelgadis into this mess, and fearful Xellos has regained the rest of his body and Tori is dying from internal bleeding and Steffi is standing around like a goose. What will happen to the four?)
(Well, you couldn't stand the suspense, eh? *evil laugh which receives only disbelieving looks* I, the great Narrator, am the only one who can cure you of your need for more. As I remember it the last we left Steffi's bedroom things were getting rather heated, although in two cases are about to be dead cold *weird noise that resembles an evil laugh tried to be held under restraint followed by a series of coughs to discise it* Fine then, on with the tale.)
Steffi Anderson was not in the least bit comfortable. That could have something to do with the death grip that held her arm, or maybe the fact that she was confronting a murderous Mazoku, minus one staff. If matters could be made worse, they were. This particular Mazoku happened to be none other then Xellos who had wiped out a large number of the dragon race with the slightest of ease. And just to make it unfair, she wasn't the reason for his rage.
Her friend Tori was the reason of his rage, and also why Steffi couldn't move out of the way and why her right arm held no felling.
"Next time you feel the need to piss someone off, check how many people they have killed before hand. And whether or not they enjoyed it!" Steffi called back to her friend.
"I was caught up in the moment." She defended.
"Well then," Xellos' cynical voice said, "catch this." His hands began to form a ball as he drew on power.
"Oh Shit!" Tori screemed, "what the hell did I do to deserve this?"
"Just think for a second baka." Steffi hissed.
('Baka', by the way means idiot! *holds up her hand in intelligence* See, I know a thing or too. Also 'kisama' means basted and…Oh never mind..)
"I don't know why he is getting so upset!" Tori wailed, "People were always beating him up in the series and he never did this!"
Steffi sighed and tried her best to control her cool. It failed. "Yes, well I guess he was pretty attached to THAT PART OF HIS BODY!!!"
"Lets see how you handle loosing part of your body." Xellos interrupted.
"Oh Shit!"
"Is that all you can say!" Steffi yelled, "I've had enough of this." She managed to duplicate Lina's stance as much as she could since her right arm still was not free. "Darkness beyond twilight, Crimson beyond blood that flows, Buried within the flow of time-"
Both Tori and Xellos sweat dropped. The Mazoku appeared to have forgotten about his spell. Tori released her grip on Steffi.
"She knows the Dragon Slave!?!" He exclaimed. Steffi stopped mid sentence and produced a peace sign.
"Nope, fooled you though."
Both human and Mazoku facefold. Steffi took a step to the left, rubbing her arm to try and bring life back into it. "But if you are that strong Tori," She said holding her arm up, then letting it flop back down lifelessly, "You should have tried taking him on yourself."
"What are you? Nuts!" Tori yelled leaping back into a standing position. She then put on a smug face and leant against the nearest wall, holding Steffi's stuffed koala in hand. "At least I didn't get you to impersonate this little guy."
"That I can be thankful for."
"Ahem!" A rather neglected feeling Mazoku sounded.
"Oh right, forgot about you." Steffi mumbled.
"Forgot about him! How the hell could you forget about him? What are you, Goury?" Tori took hold Steffi's front.
"Now who's having mood swings?"
"He is trying to kill us! Or did you miss out on that minor detail?" Tori questioned.
"Correction," Steffi smiled, "he is trying to kill you." She pushed herself out of her grasp. And not a moment too soon.
A ball of pure energy hurtled itself across the room catching Tori in the stomach. She was thrown back out of the door. The door that was left open. The door that led to nowhere.
(It was dragging on too long. In fact its resemblance to a DBZ episode is disturbing. Besides, I like Xellos with the upper hand ^.^ (notice the absence of an evil laugh))
"Tori!" Steffi screamed as her friend vanished. She stood in the doorway, hands holding onto the frame in shock. Somewhere the annoying little voice at the back of her mind reminded her that she had school tomorrow. Bad timing.
"Well, that's got her out of the way." The voice of a true basted of a weasel intruded her sensation of a lost form of shock.
Steffi turned.
She saw Xellos.
Their eyes met.
It was far from love at first sight.
"You are going to regret that." Her voice was tight but still shook.
"Really?" Xellos grinned.
"Yes. Do you know why?" She continued in that tight voice. Suddenly the air was full of roses and love hearts and bright colours to dazzle ones eye. "Because life is wonderful! It's fantastic! Just the thought of the sun rising each day and the birds singing-"
"You ripped that off Amelia." Xellos struggled from his position on the floor, withering about to try and shut out the deadly words of happiness.
"I know, ain't it cute?"
"Far from it."
"Now where was I?" Steffi paused for a second, "Ah what the hell, I'll just make it up." She retook her position standing on the bed and the flowers and hearts once more intrude the air. "Life is the gift of God, even if that ain't your religion, and to take another's life is unjust. Evil doers of this bedroom shall perish…what the hell. This is making me sick." She jumped down and looked pitifully at Xellos. She gave him a good kick in the stomach.
"Ah," He groaned, "Could you do that again, only a little harder."
Steffi sgihed. She put down a rough hand and pulled him to his feet. "You stupid idiot." She grumbled and shoved the Mazoku in front of her. "Now it is time to follow your own staff." She gave him a hard push out the door. "As Tori said, go fetch."
"Not without you." A hand grabbed her by the ankle and yanked off her feet. And out the door….
(Now I could be me and stop right now. *evil laugh* I don't care what you think of my evil laughs! If you dislike them then I will stop right now. *pouts* I hate it when I get the better of me. Fine, on with the show. What will happen to Tori, Steffi and our beloved Xellos now that they do not exist, theoretically speaking, Well THIS time you don't have the anguish of waiting. So if you want to know, read on.)
Zelgadis Greywords was in the middle of his nightly routine nightmare when he was awakened by a loud scream. And a thump. Followed by another thump. A thud. A groan that distinguished the object as living.
He sat up and stared toward his closet. He had experienced a number of nightly intrusions but this had to be the stupidest. Who the hell intrudes through a closet?
Slowly, so as not to make a sound he took grasp of the hilt of his sword.
"Internal organs…Ow." A distinctly female voice spoke from within the closet. Before he had a chance to protect his dignity, the closet toppled over, depositing its occupant at his feet.
A girl with long blond hair tied back in a ponytail, large blue eyes and warring the strangest outfit he had ever seen was crumpled over on the floor clutching her stomach.
(I could not but notice that these stupid annoying idiotic namagumi long sentences have returned with vengeance *a long strained 'ah' which the audience is becoming used to its inability to remain within a logical time limit* I have just proven myself corrected.)
The girl looked at his feet.
Paused.
Looked up at his chest.
Paused.
Looked at his face.
Blushed.
As did he.
Quickly Zelgadis turned around and becoming consciences yanked his shirt back on.
"I'm sorry." The girl said. "I didn't mean too. I mean, your…uh."
"You can go now." He said not wishing to turn and face her again.
"I'm sorry."
"You said that."
"I know, I just thought it needed repeating." She said, then quickly added, "I tend to babble when I'm embarrassed. Ow" She winced at the pain of trying to stand. Zelgadis was aware of blushing again, but turned around anyway. Something must have hit her hard in the stomach for she clasped it in unmistakable pain.
"How did you do that?"
"Er, I kind of got the wrong person pissed off at me." She managed to make it to her feet. Both blushed, then sweat dropped. "I'll go now."
Somehow she made it out through the door leaving Zelgadis in complete shock.
Meanwhile, not too far away at all, Xellos landed headfirst into a hard wooden floor. Steffi followed, landing on top of him. The world toppled over and both were thrown from a closet.
Fortunately this room was empty for the explosion Steffi gave realizing again that for the second time Xellos was far too close for comfort. After exhausting herself she took the liberty of looking at their surroundings.
"Ah, where are we?" She asked. Xellos smiled in a way that Steffi had long since forgotten.
"Sore wa himitsu desu."
"Oh don't start that again!" She warned, "Besides, you are still minus one staff. And I think I have got some really good happy speeches this time."
The smile fled and was replaced by a look of worry. For about half a second. Then the smile was back rather disturbingly.
"Yes," he said, "That would be so. My, my it has been a while. Now if you'll excuse me." And with that he got up and exited the room. Steffi followed after a second's pause.
She found herself standing in the hallway of an inn. Xellos, she noticed walked straight into the room across the way, without bother for the decency of the couple within. Somewhere up the hall a door opened. Then closed.
Tori came dragging herself down the hall towards her. A hand clutched her stomach.
"It hurts, but I'm happy." She said adopting the voice a fan would get at their hero's concert.
"What? Tori? Are you Ok? Can you hear me? Where are we?" Steffi continued to ask questions. Tori looked up at Steffi with a crazy grin on her face.
"I saw Zelgadis without his shirt on." She chanted.
"WHAT!?!!!!" Steffi exclaimed. Somehow it made things fall in place. They had been transported to the Slayer's world and Tori had gotten to see what every female fan dreamed of. It was not fair.
"Slap me now. Giggling hurts too much." She broke into hysterical giggles. Steffi for some reason felt good about slapping her. "Thank you. Ow, that hurt. Ow, this hurts. Ow, I hurt." She then proceeded to fall to the ground. "I sounded like a real idiot just then, didn't I?"
Steffi nodded.
"Damn it. And I wanted him to think I was intellectual."
"You sound as though you're dying." Steffi said.
"Yeah, I am because of stupid fruitcake!" Tori managed a half yell, "By the way where is he?"
"Good news!" Xellos interrupted them, ignoring the half-dressed man who was throwing his shoe at him. "I have my staff back!"
Neither Steffi or Tori were impressed.
"I'm so happy for you." Tori hissed.
"Oh my, aren't we a sorry little thing." Xellos tormented her.
"Not in the least." She tried to stand up, but failed. "You deserved that and everything else I am going to give you once I come back to life."
Xellos looked disbelieving. "Uh Tori," Steffi whispered, "You don't come back to life."
"I know that, I just wanted to say that line!"
"Well," Xellos remarked, "If you feel that way, there is plenty more where that first one came from."
But before he could carry out this threat, the door from which Tori had appeared opened. Zelgadis stared at the group. Tori finally collapsed.
(So now are you happy? I bet you didn't see that coming, eh? Didn't think they would make it to the Slayer's world, and I would reveal Zelgadis once more with no shirt. Yes, well I get to do what ever I want because I'm the great Narrator. *laughs maniacal* See, I have a range of laughs. Anyways, now that I have dragged Zelgadis into this mess, and fearful Xellos has regained the rest of his body and Tori is dying from internal bleeding and Steffi is standing around like a goose. What will happen to the four?)