Cloak*and*Dagger: Hi everybody!!!! Well I'm back, not that's been long
since I left. I don't have too much to say other than I hope you like this
chapter. Oh yeah, and I'd like to thank and dedicate this chapter to my
first two reviewers: Kyoko (I'm glad you liked it, that makes me happy ^_^)
and Niriko Inverse (You're going to get sick of hearing me say this, but
thank you for the help, though I'm afraid that I'm too lazy to start
incorporating it in this story until later. What I think I'm going to do is
have this story set at the middle of Slayers like right after they defeated
Shabranigdu, but before they reached Atlas City, the next one set in
Slayers Next, and if I get gusty enough the last one set in Slayers Try.
Basically I'm just stalling long enough to get a really good grasp on what
the other two seasons are about.) Well enough of my ramblings, on with the
story!
Disclaimer: I own Lakota, all her friends, and her family, (though I don't think we'll be seeing them much anymore.) The town Lakota lives in, Elensvale, is based on the town Hopewell Jct. in New York. And finally I DO NOT own any and all characters, settings, and/or situations from the Slayers.
Chapter2: I Don't Believe You!!! (But How Could You Argue With That Kind Of Evidence?)
So where were we? Oh yes, I passed out....again. Hey, I'd like to see you keep your cool when there's a cartoon character in your family room! Anyway, the next time I woke up it was light out again, and I had written the whole incident off as a weird dream as the result of not taking my medicine and watching the entire Slayers first season, nothing seemed to prove otherwise either. As soon as I woke up I scanned the room, just in case, and then shakily got to my feet (I still hadn't regained all of my strength yet) with the intention of going to the kitchen for something to eat. It took me longer to get there than it should have, and once I *was* there I noticed, in a dazed sort of fashion, that there wasn't anything to eat. Now, I'm not talking about the kind of nothing to eat as in there wasn't anything that I would bother making, oh no, there was no food *at all*! *Nothing*, well, except for a few stew mixes in the back of the pantry, but what good is powdered beef broth when there isn't anything to mix it with? Feeling, and probably looking, very baffled I just started to boil a pot of water so that I could make some tea, (Yeah there actually was some tea left in the back of one of the cabinets, and with my caffeine dependency I was thanking god with all my might, because I was starting to shake for reasons other then straining my weak muscles.)
I'm not quite sure how long I just sort of sat there staring off into space (in the general direction of the large kitchen window) and drinking my tea, but when I finally started to become aware of the things around me again, I realized that I wasn't alone. Right across the counter, sitting at the kitchen table, were two guys and a girls, all of whom I did not recognize. Oh and get this! One of them was drinking some of the tea that I had made (I have a tendency to make a rather large pot of Chinese tea, and when I say large I mean something along the lines of a pot big enough to serve to an entire hotel for breakfast!) meaning that he would of had to have walked right in front of me! I tell ya, when I stare off into space Godzilla could walk right in front of me, and would never notice. Now I'm usually a calm person, but when things startle me, well what can I say, I have a tendency to overreact. Fortunately (for them I mean) I was so wiped out from simply standing there for so long that I didn't do much else than blink at them stupidly.
One of the guys was tall, somewhere between 6 and a half to 7 feet, and looked to be in his early twenties. He was well built, had extremely long blond hair, and was wearing a pair of jeans and a shirt that said "Glazed and Confused" with a picture of a doughnut on it. The girl sitting across from him was maybe only a few inches shorter than me, but she looked about my age. She had about the same physical structure as me, but her hair was orange and went down to the middle of her back, what she was wearing really caught me off guard, her pants were simply just a pair of faded blue jeans, but her shirt had to be the weirdest thing I had ever seen. The bottom layer was basically a black tank top, on top of that was a red tank top that had been cut off so that it only went down to the top of her stomach, and then over both was a black vest that said "Fire Princess" with a crown made out of flames underneath it on the back. The other guy was something else entirely. From what I could see of him, he must have only been about a head or so taller than me, and somewhere in his late teens, like an upper- classmen. His hair was a dark cross between black, blue, and purple, his bangs covering half of his face, while the rest of it tried to flip out in opposite directions. His eyes were an even darker blue than mine, with and odd oriental-ish upward slant to them that looked odd compared to his pale European complexion. He was wearing something that looked like it belonged in my closet, a pair of black, only slightly baggy jeans, a gray t-shirt that said "Caffeine Junky" with a picture of a large steaming cappuccino cup on it, and a pair of black semi-fingerless gloves. He was also wearing a hat that covered most of what his hair didn't.
I sat (or rather stood) there for a few minutes, and if I hadn't known any better I would have said that they all looked vaguely familiar, but couldn't quite place were I had seen them all before. The mysterious looking one, the guy who seemed to be trying to cover all visible parts of his body, (except for his arms which he seemed to have missed somehow) must have been able to tell that he was being looked at, because he turned his head to look over in my direction, and so we just kinda stared at each other for a few awkward moments, until the orange haired girl noticed and then waved me over to sit with them. A few more tense moments of silence passed between the four of us, until the girl finally asked me, "So.... What's you're name?"
I raised an eyebrow, and I imagine that I must have looked somewhat bemused as I replied, "I should ask you the same, as well as how and why you're in my house." I looked around the table to indicate that I meant all of them and not just her when I said this, and noticed that the Blondie was off in his own world, and that Mystery Man had turned his attention back to his tea, which was *exactly* what *I* wanted to be doing right then.
Unfortunately it looked as though my tea would have to wait, as well as anything the other two had in mind as orange head kicked both of them under the table (earning quite a glare from Mystery Man, and a weird sounding 'oof' from Blondie) to command every ones attention. "My name is Lina, this is Gourry, and that's Zelgadis," she said pointing to each of them in turn. "Why we're here and how we got here, well, I don't know." Here she paused to sigh. "We just kind of... appeared in your house, and we can't leave."
"Why not?" I asked, sounding a lot more skeptical than I felt. Actually I was starting to freak out. I would have thought that this was some big prank that Sahra had organized, but these people looked and sounded too much like who they claimed to be, with the exception of Zelgadis who looked to be 100% human to me.
"Don't get me wrong, we tried! All three of us, but every time we touched the door handle we passed right through it, with the exception of Zel here who got shocked," Lina said, grinning at that last part, and earning another glare Zelgadis.
"Ok, so all doubts aside, and let's assume that you're *actually* Lina Inverse-" I started but was cut off but Lina's indignant exclamation, "What do you mean 'assuming that I'm ACTUALLY Lina Inverse?!? And how did you know my last name?" she added that last part as more of an after thought.
I sighed, rolling my eyes slightly, and burst out with, "Oh come on!!! You may look and sound the part, but honestly! Do you actually expect me to believe that you all just popped out of your cartoon, so you could chill in my kitchen and drink tea with me?!?"
They all looked rather confused and slightly taken aback. Gourry was the first one to recover from his shock. "What's a cartoon?" he asked, saying the foreign word slowly.
After 30 minutes I had finally gotten it through to them what cartoons were, when I was then asked what a TV was. Some 50 minutes after that my brain was starting to go into over drive, this was just too much for me after what had happened the day before. It must have been pretty obvious too because once Gourry started to ask how electricity worked Lina hit him up-side the head while Zelgadis silently kicked him from under the table. I smiled a small thanks to the two of them, and then laid my head down on top of the table, none too gently might I add (It made a pretty loud 'thud'!) I couldn't see it, but I was pretty sure that they were all looking at me funny.
"You never did mention your name," Zelgadis spoke for the first time.
I moaned slightly, thinking about what I might get myself into if I actually showed that I believed or trusted them enough to give them my name, and then got suck in an inner debate about whether I cared or not, and finally conceded that I would only give them my middle name. "Killian," it was slightly muffled because I was still right up against the table, but I could tell by the awkward silence that followed the statement that they had heard it all the same. After two minutes of absolute silence and stillness I looked up to see all three of them looking like I had grown another head.
"You're kidding me, right?" Gourry asked. "I mean isn't Killian a boy's name?'
THUD. I was probably going to have a large red mark on my forehead for that, but it was all I could do to keep myself from getting all worked up about it. "Yes," I gritted through my teeth, (and the table) "Killian is a boy's name."
"Well you don't look like a boy, so why is your name Killian?" He sounded genuinely confused.
I had to admit though, for a complete idiot his reasoning did make quite a bit of sense. I was saved from having to answer him by Lina, who told him to stop bugging me. Of course at that point it wouldn't have mattered if he asked why they called it Earth, I was too lost in my thoughts. They really did seem like the real deal, but it just didn't make any sense. The Slayers were a cartoon, not a breakfast club! I was interrupted halfway through my thoughts though, by someone poking the back of my head. When I looked up I noticed that it was Zel who did it, and he was currently pointing at the phone on the wall, which I had somehow managed not to notice that fact that it was ringing.
I got up as fast as my body would let me, noting the confused looks on the other three's face's, to answer the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Kota, it's me James. Ford, Roamanthony, and I were heading out to the mall. We were wondering if you wanted to join us?"
"Uh...... James could I call you back in few?"
"Sure."
"Bye."
"Bye."
'Oh great! Now what to do? I'm a know shopaholic, so if I say no James will figure something's up, but if I say yes then that would mean leaving *them* at my house *alone*. There's only one thing to do, I'll have to take them with me. I just hope that they can get through the front door if I open it for them,' I thought. I sighed then started to speak, "Ok listen up, that was my friend James, and he and the gang are going to the mall. Now if I don't go they'll know something is wrong, but if I do that means one of two things. The first being leaving you here, and to be perfectly honest I don't trust you enough to take that kind of risk. So here's the deal, you tag along with my friends and me, I'll just say that you're my cousins or something. Alright?"
"Where's the deal in that?" Lina asked sarcastically.
"It's a figure of speech," I groaned.
"What's a mall, then?"
"It's an extremely large, two story, building filled with stores and restaurants, and stuff."
At the mention of restaurants Lina's and Gourry's eyes both lit up, but Zel beat them to actually say anything. "Are there lots of people there?" he asked calmly.
"Well, yeah. Maybe less than usual since it's a weekday, but there's usually a pretty good crowd."
"Count me out then," he said in the same manner as before.
At this point I must have looked completely blank, when I finally understood his sudden aversion to people. "Chill out Zelgadis. You look like everybody else now. There's nothing to worry about." I paused and taking in the appearance of all three of them just to make sure that it wasn't a lie, and suddenly realized something. "Where did you get those clothes? When I first saw you," here I pointed at Lina, "you were still wearing your sorceresses outfit."
"They just kinda appeared, I guess. It was kind of weird though, one moment I was wearing what I always wear, and the next I'm in *this* strange get up." I thought she was taking this just a bit more lightly then *anyone* should have, but could I do? Tell her that it just doesn't work that way? I snorted at my own stupid thought. 'Yeah and cartoons aren't supposed to come to life, but it's happening anyway, isn't it?'
After a few more minutes of nursing any doubts that they may have had (especially Zel, who just couldn't seem to grasp the fact that he was human again) I called James up, and told him that I needed a ride there, and that a few out town friends of mine wanted to come. So after all of that was taken care of, I wobbled my way to the staircase (having refused to accept any help from the three) so I could change my clothes.
I came out of my room looking almost the same as before I went in. I was wearing a pair of only slightly baggy jeans, but that was because they were too big, so I had to wear a think black belt, with metal circles in it, as well. My shirt was a black tank top with a multi-colored Japanese symbol on it that stood for luck. I had managed to pull my hair back into to two small pigtails, (my bangs are as long as the rest of my hair, but they just refuse to be put up in any kind of way so they were just framing my face like always) and I had my West Point bucket hat on. All that was left now, was to brief the Slayers gang on the do's and don'ts of mall going, and to pray that everything went well. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cloak*and*Dagger: So what did you think?? Man, it took me a long time to type this! Anyway I hope you all like, but I guess I'll never know unless you REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: I own Lakota, all her friends, and her family, (though I don't think we'll be seeing them much anymore.) The town Lakota lives in, Elensvale, is based on the town Hopewell Jct. in New York. And finally I DO NOT own any and all characters, settings, and/or situations from the Slayers.
Chapter2: I Don't Believe You!!! (But How Could You Argue With That Kind Of Evidence?)
So where were we? Oh yes, I passed out....again. Hey, I'd like to see you keep your cool when there's a cartoon character in your family room! Anyway, the next time I woke up it was light out again, and I had written the whole incident off as a weird dream as the result of not taking my medicine and watching the entire Slayers first season, nothing seemed to prove otherwise either. As soon as I woke up I scanned the room, just in case, and then shakily got to my feet (I still hadn't regained all of my strength yet) with the intention of going to the kitchen for something to eat. It took me longer to get there than it should have, and once I *was* there I noticed, in a dazed sort of fashion, that there wasn't anything to eat. Now, I'm not talking about the kind of nothing to eat as in there wasn't anything that I would bother making, oh no, there was no food *at all*! *Nothing*, well, except for a few stew mixes in the back of the pantry, but what good is powdered beef broth when there isn't anything to mix it with? Feeling, and probably looking, very baffled I just started to boil a pot of water so that I could make some tea, (Yeah there actually was some tea left in the back of one of the cabinets, and with my caffeine dependency I was thanking god with all my might, because I was starting to shake for reasons other then straining my weak muscles.)
I'm not quite sure how long I just sort of sat there staring off into space (in the general direction of the large kitchen window) and drinking my tea, but when I finally started to become aware of the things around me again, I realized that I wasn't alone. Right across the counter, sitting at the kitchen table, were two guys and a girls, all of whom I did not recognize. Oh and get this! One of them was drinking some of the tea that I had made (I have a tendency to make a rather large pot of Chinese tea, and when I say large I mean something along the lines of a pot big enough to serve to an entire hotel for breakfast!) meaning that he would of had to have walked right in front of me! I tell ya, when I stare off into space Godzilla could walk right in front of me, and would never notice. Now I'm usually a calm person, but when things startle me, well what can I say, I have a tendency to overreact. Fortunately (for them I mean) I was so wiped out from simply standing there for so long that I didn't do much else than blink at them stupidly.
One of the guys was tall, somewhere between 6 and a half to 7 feet, and looked to be in his early twenties. He was well built, had extremely long blond hair, and was wearing a pair of jeans and a shirt that said "Glazed and Confused" with a picture of a doughnut on it. The girl sitting across from him was maybe only a few inches shorter than me, but she looked about my age. She had about the same physical structure as me, but her hair was orange and went down to the middle of her back, what she was wearing really caught me off guard, her pants were simply just a pair of faded blue jeans, but her shirt had to be the weirdest thing I had ever seen. The bottom layer was basically a black tank top, on top of that was a red tank top that had been cut off so that it only went down to the top of her stomach, and then over both was a black vest that said "Fire Princess" with a crown made out of flames underneath it on the back. The other guy was something else entirely. From what I could see of him, he must have only been about a head or so taller than me, and somewhere in his late teens, like an upper- classmen. His hair was a dark cross between black, blue, and purple, his bangs covering half of his face, while the rest of it tried to flip out in opposite directions. His eyes were an even darker blue than mine, with and odd oriental-ish upward slant to them that looked odd compared to his pale European complexion. He was wearing something that looked like it belonged in my closet, a pair of black, only slightly baggy jeans, a gray t-shirt that said "Caffeine Junky" with a picture of a large steaming cappuccino cup on it, and a pair of black semi-fingerless gloves. He was also wearing a hat that covered most of what his hair didn't.
I sat (or rather stood) there for a few minutes, and if I hadn't known any better I would have said that they all looked vaguely familiar, but couldn't quite place were I had seen them all before. The mysterious looking one, the guy who seemed to be trying to cover all visible parts of his body, (except for his arms which he seemed to have missed somehow) must have been able to tell that he was being looked at, because he turned his head to look over in my direction, and so we just kinda stared at each other for a few awkward moments, until the orange haired girl noticed and then waved me over to sit with them. A few more tense moments of silence passed between the four of us, until the girl finally asked me, "So.... What's you're name?"
I raised an eyebrow, and I imagine that I must have looked somewhat bemused as I replied, "I should ask you the same, as well as how and why you're in my house." I looked around the table to indicate that I meant all of them and not just her when I said this, and noticed that the Blondie was off in his own world, and that Mystery Man had turned his attention back to his tea, which was *exactly* what *I* wanted to be doing right then.
Unfortunately it looked as though my tea would have to wait, as well as anything the other two had in mind as orange head kicked both of them under the table (earning quite a glare from Mystery Man, and a weird sounding 'oof' from Blondie) to command every ones attention. "My name is Lina, this is Gourry, and that's Zelgadis," she said pointing to each of them in turn. "Why we're here and how we got here, well, I don't know." Here she paused to sigh. "We just kind of... appeared in your house, and we can't leave."
"Why not?" I asked, sounding a lot more skeptical than I felt. Actually I was starting to freak out. I would have thought that this was some big prank that Sahra had organized, but these people looked and sounded too much like who they claimed to be, with the exception of Zelgadis who looked to be 100% human to me.
"Don't get me wrong, we tried! All three of us, but every time we touched the door handle we passed right through it, with the exception of Zel here who got shocked," Lina said, grinning at that last part, and earning another glare Zelgadis.
"Ok, so all doubts aside, and let's assume that you're *actually* Lina Inverse-" I started but was cut off but Lina's indignant exclamation, "What do you mean 'assuming that I'm ACTUALLY Lina Inverse?!? And how did you know my last name?" she added that last part as more of an after thought.
I sighed, rolling my eyes slightly, and burst out with, "Oh come on!!! You may look and sound the part, but honestly! Do you actually expect me to believe that you all just popped out of your cartoon, so you could chill in my kitchen and drink tea with me?!?"
They all looked rather confused and slightly taken aback. Gourry was the first one to recover from his shock. "What's a cartoon?" he asked, saying the foreign word slowly.
After 30 minutes I had finally gotten it through to them what cartoons were, when I was then asked what a TV was. Some 50 minutes after that my brain was starting to go into over drive, this was just too much for me after what had happened the day before. It must have been pretty obvious too because once Gourry started to ask how electricity worked Lina hit him up-side the head while Zelgadis silently kicked him from under the table. I smiled a small thanks to the two of them, and then laid my head down on top of the table, none too gently might I add (It made a pretty loud 'thud'!) I couldn't see it, but I was pretty sure that they were all looking at me funny.
"You never did mention your name," Zelgadis spoke for the first time.
I moaned slightly, thinking about what I might get myself into if I actually showed that I believed or trusted them enough to give them my name, and then got suck in an inner debate about whether I cared or not, and finally conceded that I would only give them my middle name. "Killian," it was slightly muffled because I was still right up against the table, but I could tell by the awkward silence that followed the statement that they had heard it all the same. After two minutes of absolute silence and stillness I looked up to see all three of them looking like I had grown another head.
"You're kidding me, right?" Gourry asked. "I mean isn't Killian a boy's name?'
THUD. I was probably going to have a large red mark on my forehead for that, but it was all I could do to keep myself from getting all worked up about it. "Yes," I gritted through my teeth, (and the table) "Killian is a boy's name."
"Well you don't look like a boy, so why is your name Killian?" He sounded genuinely confused.
I had to admit though, for a complete idiot his reasoning did make quite a bit of sense. I was saved from having to answer him by Lina, who told him to stop bugging me. Of course at that point it wouldn't have mattered if he asked why they called it Earth, I was too lost in my thoughts. They really did seem like the real deal, but it just didn't make any sense. The Slayers were a cartoon, not a breakfast club! I was interrupted halfway through my thoughts though, by someone poking the back of my head. When I looked up I noticed that it was Zel who did it, and he was currently pointing at the phone on the wall, which I had somehow managed not to notice that fact that it was ringing.
I got up as fast as my body would let me, noting the confused looks on the other three's face's, to answer the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Kota, it's me James. Ford, Roamanthony, and I were heading out to the mall. We were wondering if you wanted to join us?"
"Uh...... James could I call you back in few?"
"Sure."
"Bye."
"Bye."
'Oh great! Now what to do? I'm a know shopaholic, so if I say no James will figure something's up, but if I say yes then that would mean leaving *them* at my house *alone*. There's only one thing to do, I'll have to take them with me. I just hope that they can get through the front door if I open it for them,' I thought. I sighed then started to speak, "Ok listen up, that was my friend James, and he and the gang are going to the mall. Now if I don't go they'll know something is wrong, but if I do that means one of two things. The first being leaving you here, and to be perfectly honest I don't trust you enough to take that kind of risk. So here's the deal, you tag along with my friends and me, I'll just say that you're my cousins or something. Alright?"
"Where's the deal in that?" Lina asked sarcastically.
"It's a figure of speech," I groaned.
"What's a mall, then?"
"It's an extremely large, two story, building filled with stores and restaurants, and stuff."
At the mention of restaurants Lina's and Gourry's eyes both lit up, but Zel beat them to actually say anything. "Are there lots of people there?" he asked calmly.
"Well, yeah. Maybe less than usual since it's a weekday, but there's usually a pretty good crowd."
"Count me out then," he said in the same manner as before.
At this point I must have looked completely blank, when I finally understood his sudden aversion to people. "Chill out Zelgadis. You look like everybody else now. There's nothing to worry about." I paused and taking in the appearance of all three of them just to make sure that it wasn't a lie, and suddenly realized something. "Where did you get those clothes? When I first saw you," here I pointed at Lina, "you were still wearing your sorceresses outfit."
"They just kinda appeared, I guess. It was kind of weird though, one moment I was wearing what I always wear, and the next I'm in *this* strange get up." I thought she was taking this just a bit more lightly then *anyone* should have, but could I do? Tell her that it just doesn't work that way? I snorted at my own stupid thought. 'Yeah and cartoons aren't supposed to come to life, but it's happening anyway, isn't it?'
After a few more minutes of nursing any doubts that they may have had (especially Zel, who just couldn't seem to grasp the fact that he was human again) I called James up, and told him that I needed a ride there, and that a few out town friends of mine wanted to come. So after all of that was taken care of, I wobbled my way to the staircase (having refused to accept any help from the three) so I could change my clothes.
I came out of my room looking almost the same as before I went in. I was wearing a pair of only slightly baggy jeans, but that was because they were too big, so I had to wear a think black belt, with metal circles in it, as well. My shirt was a black tank top with a multi-colored Japanese symbol on it that stood for luck. I had managed to pull my hair back into to two small pigtails, (my bangs are as long as the rest of my hair, but they just refuse to be put up in any kind of way so they were just framing my face like always) and I had my West Point bucket hat on. All that was left now, was to brief the Slayers gang on the do's and don'ts of mall going, and to pray that everything went well. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cloak*and*Dagger: So what did you think?? Man, it took me a long time to type this! Anyway I hope you all like, but I guess I'll never know unless you REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!