Slayers Dream : Chapter 6
Purin-chan : ^^;;; Sorry for the long wait. I had this chapter done, just never got around to typing it. *sigh* I'm getting less enthusiastic about writing this ficso chapters will probably be getting up really slowly
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Xellos
laid Lina back down on the bed, taking the orb from her limp
hands and inserting it back into his staff. He looked down at her
pale body, feeling a slight twinge of pain in his chest. He
reached down gently and caressed her cheek, his hand pausing near
her now white lips.
"You got here too late,
Zelgadis-san. She's already gone."
Amelia
sat down in a chair in front of the fireplace. She ordered a
nearby butler to light the fire, then leave the room.
"Please sit down," Amelia said,
gesturing to the seat near her. Sylphiel nodded and sat down.
Amelia watched her silently, sipping politely at her tea. The
butler handed Sylphiel a cup, bowed, and left the room.
Placing her cup back down on her plate,
Amelia began, "You are wondering why I brought you here, are
you not?"
Sylphiel placed her cup down on the table.
"Yes I am, Amelia-san"
Amelia's gaze hardened. "I want
you to tell me how Lina-san has been taking his
disappearance."
The
young man walked quietly over to her bed, his cloak hiding his
soft, kind face. Xellos watched cheerfully, his orb glowing
brightly due to the energy it had felt and consumed as it rested
in her hands.
"It's a pity, really,"
Xellos said. "If only you hadn't given her up in
exchange for your cure"
His hand reached out instantly, grabbing
Xellos by the collar. "Kisama I should never have
trusted you with her." His hood shifted slightly, giving
Xellos a better view of his face.
Xellos smiled, "You know, if you
wanted me to, I could turn you back into a chimera so you can
save her." He opened one of his eyes, searching
Zelgadis's soul and drinking all of his misery. "And
there's no reason for you to hide your face anymore.
You're human again remember?"
Zelgadis scowled at him. "I'll do
whatever I want, you double-crossing mazoku," he said,
pressing the mazoku against the wall. "If she's dead, I
swear I will"
"Oh no she's not dead,"
Xellos said, interrupting his threat. "I would never kill
Lina-san, you know that."
Zelgadis backed off slightly. "You
mean you weren't"
Xellos shook his head slowly, turning to
Lina. "But orders are orders, even if they are orders I do
not wish to take." He looked back at Zelgadis.
"It's odd really. Lina-san did not fall to any of the
other mazoku, yet she fell easily to me."
Zelgadis glared at him again.
"Forget that. Tell me how to get to her," he said.
"Are you willing to give up your
body again?" Xellos asked. He looked into Zelgadis's
cerulean eyes, even though they were still shadowed by his hood.
Zelgadis paused, then slowly nodded.
"If that will allow me to reach her I'm willing
to do it." He glanced at Xellos warily, not sure if he
should trust him or not.
Xellos smiled and said, "Good. Just
leave the rest to me"
"How
Lina-san has been?" Sylphiel asked, repeating
Amelia's question. She saw the young queen's
acknowledgement, and in response, said, "But I just found
her yesterday."
"You have still been with her longer
than I," Amelia said, contradicting her. "She has been
travelling alone for some time now, and you are the first person
to come into contact with her for over a year now."
Confusion was written across
Sylphiel's face. "Amelia-san But how did
you?"
"I have my sources," Amelia
replied, sipping at her tea quietly. "None hat you need to
know of."
"Amelia-san? You
seemdifferent," Sylphiel said slowly, wondering why
Amelia was acting so distant from them.
Amelia simply looked at her, shook her
head, and said, "It is Lina-san who is trying to break away
from me. I've simply been feeling uncomfortable with her
around." She sighed. "I suppose now you're
wondering why she's trying to break away from me? It's
rather simple actually. She knows I love him too."
"Stand
still," Xellos ordered, pointing the orb end of his staff at
Zelgadis. It flared up brightly, turning a bright, neon green in
the process. He began to recite a spell, muttering it quietly
under his breath.
Zelgadis stared at the orb. It felt warm,
comfortable even, but that moment ended quickly as he felt an all
too familiar pain coursing throughout his body. Instead of
panicking as he had done the previous time, he stood still and
welcomed the transformation
Sylphiel
stared at Amelia with some sort of horrific shock written across
her face. "Oh dear Ceiphied this can't be
good" she murmured, placing a hand over her mouth.
Amelia shook her head. "Please do
not worry, I will accept Zelgadis-san's decision either
way." She sipped at her tea again, pure confidence in her
eyes.
Sylphiel's thoughts twisted
together, making her feel suddenly sick. "Amelia-san, can I
step outside and get some fresh air? I feel a bit
faint"
Amelia nodded, motioning for a servant to
guide her outside. She watched Sylphiel leave the room and waited
patiently for her to return.
Zelgadis
looked down at his hands, blue and covered with small rocks once
again. He touched his hair, finding it had turned into wire.
"So how do I get to her?" he
asked, returning his attention to Lina.
"I'll take care of it. First,
though, you have to stop suppressing your mazoku power,"
Xellos said, chuckling lightly at Zelgadis's surprised
expression.
Zelgadis growled slightly, baring his new
fangs at the mazoku. "And why do I need to do that?" he
asked.
"Because only one who's part
mazoku can travel in the astral plane," Xellos replied,
lifting his index finger in an intellectual way.
Zelgadis sneered, but slowly obliged to
the offer. His pupils became unusually slitted, rather similar to
Xellos's.
Xellos held his staff in both of his
hands, charging it with dark power. He whispered a spell in some
foreign language, then slammed the end of the staff into the
ground directly in front of Zelgadis.
He stood in a void of darkness. Glancing down at his hands, he began to notice a strange ghost-like aura surrounding them. "Where am I?" he thought. He was rather surprised to find his thoughts echoing in the void, feeling uncomfortable as he floated around.
"Well?
So how do I find Lina?" Zelgadis asked, looking around. His
voice alternated, sounding harsh at times because of his mazoku
side.
A while passed before he received a
response.
"Look down."
Zelgadis couldn't tell which way was
up or which way was down. On instinct, he looked towards his feet
and saw doors of light below him. "Well? Which one?"
A pause. "I can't tell you. You
have to make the decision yourself, Zelgadis-san. However, pick a
wrong path and you may be stranded here forever"
"Just what I needed to
know" Zelgadis muttered. He floated down, completely
surrounded by lit doorways now.
"Lina"
Xellos sat down on the bed beside Lina's lifeless body. "He's so gullible isn't he?" He reached over and slid the hair from her face. "Noble and honest too, but he doesn't realize he has lost his chance to be human. He does not realize that his mazoku form is slowly taking over his body"
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