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Chapter one- The Phoenix
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Amelia stared at the scene before her. An evil looking woman was viciously attacking what looked like a half-human half-phoenix in armor. The woman was tearing through the phoenix/human like a knife though butter, but the phoenix/human was putting up a fight, with magical spells and sword, so the evil woman rarely got a hit, but when she did it was deadly. The look on the face of the phoenix/ human was so determined… what was she fighting for?
Amelia tore her gaze from the fight and started to move in a circle trying to figure out where she was. The rocky ground was stained with blood and there were two people lying on the ground drenched in blood each in armor and each horribly beaten. Amelia turned again and saw a three little girls tied to a rock, two of them were crying loudly for the remaining fighter and those who had fallen. The third one was much more silent but was still crying her eyes out.
The scene switched to what looked like the end of the battle. The evil woman had seemingly won and she was heading towards the children who were tied to the rock. With one long finger the woman raised the chin of the silent child and then spoke in a snake like voice, "I will never forgive your mothers for what they did to me so long ago. I will destroy what is most precious to them…" The woman's eyes widened, "YOU!!!"
The scene switched again, this time to a busy street; people were hurrying around but didn't appear to notice Amelia at all. Amelia turned around and found herself standing in front of the silent girl, people seemed to purposely leave a gap between her and the girl. The girl began to glow slightly and Amelia found herself glowing as well. She then heard a voice in her head,
'Help… Please…Cepherio… needs… your… help'
The whole dream went blank.
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Amelia woke up suddenly and looked out the window. The sun had risen already and there was a large bird perched in a tree across the street, it looked like a regular bird, but there was something familiar about it…that look in its eyes… Amelia shook her head. "Silly Amelia, so what if that bird's eyes have the same emotion as the little girl from my dream." She said to herself. Amelia froze, she remembered, the bird had eyes like the little girl, the one that had asked her to help some place called Cepherio. She had never heard of Cepherio before, it wasn't in any of the books in the library in Seyruun, she knew that, so how was she supposed to help a place she hadn't knew existed. Then something came to Amelia. That was just a dream! It couldn't be real could it? Amelia's thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. Amelia opened her mouth to tell them to come in when the door burst open and Lina stood in the door way.
"Miss Lina, what are you…"
"No time Amelia, just get dressed and get down as fast as you can!" Amelia knew better than to argue. As soon as Lina had left Amelia got dressed in her usual uniform and then ran down the staircase that led directly to the restaurant on the first floor. Lina and Gourry were eating their hearts out and Amelia had a funny feeling that Lina had simply wanted her to eat so they could get going to nowhere. Zelgadis was having his usual cup of coffee (or is tea?) and Xellos was floating in a sitting position waiting patiently.
"Amelia, eat something already so we can get going!" Yep. She was right; Lina just wanted her to eat.
"Lina, where are we going again?" Gourry asked. Lina opened her mouth as if to answer but closed it quickly and turned to Xellos.
"Where are we going Xellos?" Amelia immediately knew the answer so she blocked out the conversation, (which was quickly turning into a Fireball situation) and looked out the window. What she saw stunned her so bad she felt like she was frozen to the spot. She didn't feel Lina and Gourry trying to shake her awake all she did was…stare out the window. Out side in the hustle and bustle was the girl from her dream. The girl stood there and looked back at Amelia piercing her with her gaze. Amelia suddenly felt the need to go out side and speak to the girl.
"I need to go outside for a bit." Amelia said ripping her gaze from the girl.
"We'll all go then." Lina said. She patted her stomach. "Any ways… I'm full!" The whole of the Slayers gang (minus Lina) produced major sweat drops.
"You know, I didn't think it was possible for Miss Lina to be full."
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Author's notes: Like it? If you do that's ok if you don't… that's ok too. Next chapter: Enter Cepherio!