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Slayers: Chaos

Chapter 2: What If?...

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Disclaimer: I don't own the Slayers characters. I own the following characters: Calth Htlac, Karn the God of Blood/Chaos, Pyzinn Maul, Holly Mistwinder, Dvinn Reala, Jeana Mallone, and Mau'rau are mine. This story has graphic blood/gore, language, and sexual content. If your a minor, get the bloody hell outta here! You've been warned...oh yes...happy 4'th of July, and let the beer flow freely. ^_^

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The group had been walking for nearly five hours straight. They were all moaning in discomfort, with the exception of Gourry and Zel. Xell floated over the ground with his eyes closed and a smile on his face. Lina suddenly stopped and knocked her own head.

"Guh! I'm such a blonde sometimes...er...no offence, Gourry.." she extended one hand above her for a second.

"Levitate!" she slowly began to lift off the ground, along with the rest of the group.

"Smart move, Lina." Gourry said.

"Why, thank you!" Lina said cheefully.

Zel chuckled softly.

At least their not fighting anymore

Calth looked over one shoulder as everyone beamed happy smiles at Lina.

"Hmf..you think levitating is special?" he said, unimpressed.

"Well, I could fly us somewhere..." Lina shrugged.

"Or you could just do it this way..." Calth said. In a split second he was gone, he simply phased out of existance.

Everyone went wide eyed...with the exception of Xell, of course.

"Hmm...teleportation....big whupp..." Xelloss said, unimpressed himself, this time.

Calth suddenly appeared in front of Xell.

Xelloss fell back from his sitting/levitating position.

"Imprssed now, Mazoku?" Calth said with a smirk.

"H-h-how did you do that?!" Lina said. She was staring at at Calth. He was upside down in mid-air..even she couldn't do that!

"You...didn't even say a spell!" she said, again.

"I don't need to. I use magic, yes, but most of my techniques are moves I learned from training...and if you think this is impressive...wellll...I'll show you something.."

He drew his short, curved blade from his side holster. Everyone tensed noticeably.

"Peace..." Calth said, "I'm not going to hurt you.."

He extended his arm with the sword in it.

"This..." he said, "is a Short Sword of the Nem-Ank...a powerfull weapon that only paladins can wield..it gives us...quite an amazing ability.." he smirked.

He raised the sword above his head.

"Tra zuol o' nem-anko's!" he yelled. The sword began to glow a bright, white light, and Calth began to...change. His eyes turned from their normal grey, to a deep sea green, his brown hair spiked up, and flashed golden for a brief moment, an ethereal golden glow surrounded him...he gritted his teeth and his eyes flashed green, again...and stayed they're new color. His hair spiked up and did not go down, and retained its yellow-ish color, and his muscles bulged, and the golden glow enveloped him. A large explosion of powerful energy erupted from him and his yell of primal fury echoed in everyone's ears. When the dust settled, Lina looked at where he was standing. And her jaw dropped.

What she witnessed before her was something unlike she had ever seen. A new step in human evolution, perhaps? No. Calth was not from this world. He said so himself. If not...what then in L-sama's name had he done? He was standing with spiked golden hair, and green eyes. His muscles were at least double they're original size. The golden glow was rising upward around him..and...engulfed him, it seemed. The glow also caused dust to fly up in the air...(rip off of DragonBall Z! : P)

Everyone stared wide-eyed at Calth. He simply smiled at them, and in a brief second, he went back to his ''normal'' self.

He chuckled. "Simple, really...any fully fledged paladin can do it...it was simply channeling magical engery through the sword.." he raised the once again, non-glowing curved blade, "and willing it into myself. I transformed...from a normal human..to an extremely powerful warrior."

"So..." Lina said after a long pause, and in a small voice, "...you can...will magic power into yourself?!"

Calth nodded.

"Thats crazy!" Lina said, "how are you able to do that!?!"

Calth laughed out loud.

"Sore wa himitsu desu!" he said with a smirk.

Everyone face faulted right into the ground.

"Gah! Stop stealing my quotes!" Xell fumed.

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It had been a few hours after the group had witnessed Calth's...transformation. Everyone was still having a hard time accepting it....it was madness...the amount of magic energy Lina had felt coming from that man..how could anyone have that much strength? Even when fighting pieces of Shabby...she couldn't feel that much power...it was just madness. She simply sighed and walked over to her bed roll when she bumped into a familiar body...

"Mmp!" Lina and the body said..

Lina fell on her backside, and the body caught its balance before it fell.

"Hey! Why don't ya watch where yer goin!?" Lina said, now in a bad mood.

"Oh my...I'm so sorry..." a familiar voice said.."...wait a moment.....Lina?" the familiar voice said again.

"Yea...thats my name...wait a second..." Lina jumped up and moved forward to see the familiar voice. She smiled happily when she realized who it was.

"Filia-san!" she said.

"Lina-san!" Filia said, hugging Lina. Lina returned the embrace.

"Filia...what are you doing here? In the middle of no-where? What about Garvos and Jilias?...and baby Val!"

Filia chuckled. "I felt your magic energy...your not all that far from the town that my shop is in ....soooo..I thought I'd stop by!...I also felt a tremendous amount of magic energy released about three hours ago...scared the day lights out of me..."

Lina sighed. "Yea...that was one of our guys...a new person actually..."

"Oh!" Filia said happily, "your traveling again! How wonderful! And with a new person? Even better!.." Filia was about to say something else, but Lina cut her off.

"And Xelloss is here to..." she slumped

"What?!? That NAMAGOMI?!" Filia screamed.

Lina winced. Obviously no love lost between those two.

Filia's tail popped out of her skirt.

"Whats he doing here?.." she scowled.

"He's actually helping us with a new mission...Filia..I think you better come back to camp..." Lina said.

Filia moved uncomfortably.

"...alright..." she said...

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Lina strolled over to the campfire where everyone was.

"Uhm...everyone...there is someone here who would like to say hiiii..." Lina chirped.

Filia stepped behind her.

"Hi! How is everyone doing?" she said.

Amelia's jaw dropped.

"Filia-chan!" she said, pouncing on the dragon priestess.

"Aie!" Filia yelped. She then giggled and hugged the girl. "I missed you to, Amelia."

Xelloss' eyes widened a little.

"Well well..if it isn't Fi-chan...how goes it, my lil dragon princess?" Xelloss said with his smile.

Filia growled and glared at Xelloss.

"Don't call me 'Fi-chan'..." she said, "And I'm not your Dragon, either!"

"Just making conversation, Filia!" Xelloss said, with an even bigger grin, "No need to show everyone those nice, long legs of yours by whipping out Mace-sama and bea-" Xelloss didn't have time to finish before an extremely heavy object bonked his noggin. Mace-sama, of course.

Everyone sweat-dropped. Filia blushed when she realized she had done exactly what Xelloss had wanted.

She growled low in her throat, "Baka....nama....gomi.."

Xelloss smiled up at her, "Gomen nasai, Fi-chan! Its just so much fun to annoy you!"

Calth cleared his throat.

"Excuse me if I missed something...but what the bloody hell is going on here?" he grumbled.

Filia looked his way and smiled sweetly and blushed a little. He was handsome...very handsome.

"I'm sorry..." she said, "but my name is Filia Ul Copt...and I'm a Gold Dragon...the last, in fact..." she looked at the ground with a sad look at bringing up the subject again, "but...what is your name?"

"Oh yea! We didn't even get your name, Mr...?"

"Calth...Calth Htlac..no mister, by the way..." He said.

Filia sighed and whispered softly, making sure that no one could hear her, "Such a handsome name..."

"Eh?" Lina said, "did you say somethin, Filia?"

"Nothing at all!" Filia blushed.

Calth chuckled and looked at Filia.

"And thank you for the compliment, young lady."

Filia blushed so that everyone could see.

"You mean..you...heard?"

Calth chuckled again, "Yes, I did..I have very good hearing, even for a paladin.."

"Pala-what?" Filia asked.

"Filia...I think you better sit down..." Lina said.

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Calth had just got done explaining his story to Filia.

It took a few beats before she gasped in some air...she was very surprised...even horrified at what Karn was.

"Goodness...how horrible..." she said. "And...your mission is to destroy this portal, so he cannot come into this world?"

Calth nodded.

"And...in fact..since your a gold dragon...doesn't that mean your have magic abilities?"

Filia nodded, "Strong ones, in fact."

"Then you would be a grand asset...will you join us?" Calth asked.

"I...don't know..I have the shop to run...and...something else...I just don't know.." she said.

Calth frowned. "Well..if you must attend to other things...then so be it..."

"No! Don't get me wrong, Mr. Calth...I do want to help you..I just..." Filia sighed. "Lina....do you think Garvos and Jilias can take care of...the other thing?"

"Hm..oh...I'm sure they can handle it.." she replied.

Filia thought for a second. She then sighed loudly.

"Well...ok..I suppose...this is the fate of the world..."

"Splendid!" Calth said. "By tomorrow, we should arrive at the portal opening...then we can end this, and all should be well!"

Cheers went around the camp, with the exception of Filia, who sat and thought for a second before asking a question.

"Uhm...Mr...uh..Calth..." she said.

"Hm?" he replied.

"...What if...Karn does enter this world?" she asked. The cheering stopped. All eyes turned upon Calth.

"Yea...what exactly does happen if Karn enters this world?"

Calth sighed. "It would simply be the end of this world...all life would cease to exist within a week if Karn enters this realm..I cannot allow that to happen..."

Everyone was silent. Calth then said, "Come on then...no need to be somber..remember..we're going to destroy him before he even has a chance to enter this world...right?"

"Right!" Gourry said, happily.

Calth smiled. "Then lets get some sleep."

Nods of approval went around the camp. Calth got out his bundle and quickly fell asleep when he took his swords off. Lina found a spot by a tree and called Gourry over. He went over to her with a confused look on his face, and before he could object, she drug him down, and laid her head on his chest, softly asleep a few moments later. Gourry wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep soon there after. Amelia snuggled into Zel's arms while the chimera objected quietly with a blush on his face. She was already asleep before he could really object. Xelloss teleported up into a tree, above Lina and Gourry, of course, and rested his head on the trunk. Filia was the only one left. She glanced around at the other ''couples'' and lowered her head. Now she remembered why she hated traveling with them...even though they were her best friends. She was alone. She didn't have a signifigant other in her life. Tears welled up as she curled up by the fire, but she did not shed them. She whimpered a little, but not so as anyone could hear them..or so she thought.

Xelloss gazed down at the figure below him. His eyes opened and actually...appeared to soften at Filia's body.

Poor Fi-chan... he thought. Maybe I should try to comfort her...of course, she'd just bash me over the head for talking to her...eh well...I might wake everyone up in the process. He smiled at the thought. He teleported down behind Filia, and wrapped his arms around her. She jolted.

"huh?!" she said quietly, but still alarmed.

"I could hear you whimpering up in my tree...something wrong, Filia?" Xelloss said.

She tensed when she realized who had his arms around her.

"Xelloss!? What are you doing, namagomi!" she hissed at him, quietly.

"Why..comforting you, of course...now...whats wrong?" he said with his trademark smirk.

"Absolutely nothing." she scoffed.

"Your a horrible liar, Fi-chan..." he said.

"Gah....what do you care, bastard namagomi?.." she replied with a sad look in her eyes.

"Cause I don't want to see you depressed....most Mazoku can feed off the negative emotions people give...but your...different..don't ask, you just are.." he said quietly.

"...oh..." Filia said.

"Now..." Xelloss said, tightening his grip around Filia's waist and moving a little closer, "tell me whats wrong?"

She blushed at him being so close, but decided to tell him..

"Truthfully..." she sighed and closed her eyes, "I feel so alone...I mean I have Garvos and Jilias and baby Val....but...what about that...special someone...someone to hold you when your down...someone to dry your tears...someone to laugh with...look at all them.." she motioned toward everyone else, "They have each other...what do I have? Nothing...absolutely...nothing..." she choked out the last words as tears came forth.

Xelloss turned her over and let her cry in his cloak.

"Thats...not true....Filia..." he said.

"what do you mean?.." she squeaked, still crying.

"I mean...you have me...I know..I'm a 'bastard namagomi'...but isn't having at least me better than really being alone?...I know how that feels....its...not fun...." he said quietly.

Filia remained silent...She had..Xelloss?...of course...she finally figured it out...

She smiled slightly and blinked back her tears.

"X-x-xelloss...." she said, "Thank you...I..I..don't know what to say..." she said.

"Don't say anything..." he said..."Just stay here...I'm always going to be your friend, Filia..no matter how much we fight...deep down..I'm here for you..."

With that, she fell asleep in the arms of someone of her own.

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Touching, isn't it? Now...whats gonna happen next? Well...we'll see, of course! If you review, that is! ; ) Ja ne! oi!