Disclaimer: I don't own either Zelly nor Xelly or any of the slayers crew, if I did... well... they'd be a LOT more! ^-^
One sunny day in the Slayers world, Lina Inverse, beautiful and talented sorceress, with a temper that even most mothers would find formidable, ambled along in the sunshine, eating her favourite type of pie. Behind her was the handsome yet dumber than err... just plain dumb Gourry Gabriev who was also munching on Lina's pie.
Justice heroine Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruune skipped along with the group enjoying the general all round niceness and just-ness of the day. Behind then, last but not least, Zelgadiss, the cold-hearted chimera swordsman dragged his feet walking behind them, watching as Lina and Gourry became a moving dustcloud fight for the want of pie.
All in all, it was a fairly normal seeming day.
Ahead of the Slayers gang was a forest, deep and dense and dark. The sunshine pierced the canopy in very few places. Yet in one such rare spot of sunshine in the forest, the other participant of this tale, Xelloss, slung a small haversack down and rooted through it. The object he was looking for seemed to have vanished. Not more than a few seconds later he was distracted. A small green goblin ran into the bushes clutching a small brown paper wrapped parcel. The mazoku had little choice.
"SQUEE!" He yelled, running after the irritating little goblin, forgetting the haversack. Being an errand boy was hard work.
Meanwhile, the dustcloud with the occasional Lina fist or Gourry head popping out of it moved on into the forest, leaving a perfect trail of deforestation behind. Amelia continued to skip and hum, happy with the lovely day so far. Zelgadiss shook his head and carefully stepping over fallen trees, leaves, bushes, prickles, rabbits and the like. The dustcloud continued on past the haversack, yet Amelia stopped to look at it. It was purple with neon yellow, orange and green stripes.
"Strangely out of period for our time." Zelgadiss commented, walking on by as Amelia began undoing the bag. Seconds later the green goblin crashed into the tree the sack had been leaning against.
"I shan't let you take that bag!" Xelloss yelled flying through the bushes and crashing into the previously unseen Amelia. Seconds later, Amelia fell into the depths of the bag, leaving only a pair of green boots sticking out. The mazoku continued his collision course with the goblin... no wait... he moved... the course was now set for the...
BASH!
..tree.
"Ehehehehe!!" the squeakly annoying goblin dragged the bag away before the purple haired mazoku could join Amelia in the depths of, well, what was in Xelloss' new bag? Why, that would be a secret, wouldn't it?
The goblin turned and grinned at the Chimera swordsman before bouncing one, twice, three times then disappearing through the ground complete with sack, the princess and the top secret contents of the odd futuristic bag.
Zelgadiss blinked looking at the area the goblin had disappeared in. Xelloss slid down the tree gracefully landing head first on the ground. The reaction from both men ( the term 'men' is used loosely here) was pretty much the same for the first few seconds.
"..."
Then a few seconds later...
"Amelia!" Zelgadiss hollered. "Amelia!!!"
"Squee!" Xelloss yelled, louder than Zelgadiss, yet unruffled and unmoving from his upside-down position.
"Squee?" Zelgadiss shot a side glance at the upside down mazoku, who incidently was gripping on to a brown paper bag, the same one he'd saved from the goblin.
Xelloss nodded. "Squee!" he yelled again.
Zelgadiss shook his head and took the brown paper bag and peeked in, then looking across at the mazoku. "Do you often run around drunk?" Zelgadiss asked, removing the bottle from the bag.
Xelloss grinned and vanished from by the tree, reappearing the right way up next to Zelgadiss. "Zelly!" he exclaimed, grin firmly in place as he put one arm around Zegadiss' shoulders.
"Get off." The Chimera growled, pushing the cheerful mazoku away. "What's happening? Who is that goblin? You better tell me or I'll tell Lina you promised to buy her breakfast for the next year!"
"Squee." Xelloss said simply, still smiling.
"Can't you say something useful for once?" Zelgadiss pushed the still smiling Xelloss aside.
"Squee happened, and that's the goblin's name." Xelloss said following Zelgadiss for a few steps. "Now I must get my sack back from him."
"Where is he?!" Zelgadiss asked, spinning round to face Xelloss, who simply shrugged and made the 'I dunno' noise. "He has Amelia." Zelgadiss grumbled, dragging Xelloss by his cape, following the trail of deforestation.
Strangely enough, and just maybe this was a coincidence, both Zelgadiss and the dragged Xelloss found a restaurant at the end of the trail of deforestation.
Zelgadiss dumped Xelloss in to a seat next to Lina, immediately, Xelloss tried to shelter his immaculate hair from flying food debris.
"This goblin has captured Amelia." Zelgadiss said, only to be ignored.
"What about my sack?" Xelloss asked Zelgadiss. Once again the only response was flying food.
"Who cares?"
"Amelia is in there."
The food spluttering continued to be the sole reaction from the other two.
"Lina! Amelia has been kidnapped." Zelgadiss exclaimed, smacking a fist against the table.
"Who'll pay the bill?" Xelloss tried. It was of the utmost importance he got that sack back, whether or not Amelia returned with it was not his concern. But, Lina's help would be useful.
Still no response.
Gourry took the last sausage, ready to bite in to it, when all of a sudden a red headed blur went to tackle him to the floor. Ready for this, he upped and ran from his chair out of the restaurant, with the sausage wanting Lina in hot pursuit.
Zelgadiss and Xelloss nodded to eachother curtly and then, whilst the chase was still going on outside, the two scoffed the rest of the meal between them at a speed that would have put the other two eaters to shame.
"Where'd our food go?!" Gourry exclaimed, returning to the table minus the sausage. Lina looked between Zelly and Xelly a few times, then suspiciously across at the next table.
"There will be no more food until you listen to me." Zelgadiss told the two. "Amelia has been kidnapped, we must save her."
"KIDNAPPED?!" Lina asked. "When did this happen?"
"While you and Gourry were fighting." The ever helpful mazoku added to the discussion.
"We were fighting?" Gourry asked.
"Jellyfish!" Another fight ensued. The fight left the building, then the town.
"Pay the bill Xelloss." Zelgadiss said, leaving to follow yet another trail of destruction.
"Me?"
The chimera left unresponding leaving the mazoku facing a rather hopeful looking waitress. The bill was enormous, so, Xelloss vanished.
I'll be back for the sack!