Cyris: Hello! I didn't have any dreams last night!

Xellos: *waves little flag* Yay!

Cyris: ...Wait... I did but I don't remember it!

Xellos: *still waving flag* Yay!

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Filia woke up to something in her face.

"Hmph?!" It was Xellos' hand. It had fallen across her face overnight. Filia opened her mouth to bite it when Xellos pulled it back.

"Hey, what are trying to do, bite it?" Filia nodded.

"That's what you get for putting it in my mouth." Filia looked around the room. It reverted to what seemed like a child's bedroom: teddy bears on clouds as wallpaper and blue covers. "This is sick," Filia said, sticking out her tongue.

"No doubt," Xellos responded, yawning. The converted to normal once realizing the guests didn't want it that way. Xellos shivered. "It's cold!" The room converted to... red! Flames were painted on the walls, magic fireballs for lights, etc.

"Now it's hot in here!" Ice cubes were now on the walls and a light snow was falling.

"I'm not even going to risk taking a shower with this hazardous room!" Those words were fatal. Police and fire truck alarms filled the room, and the words 'caution' and 'hazard, stay out' were now the wallpaper.

"With that, you could have an indoor field of flowers," Filia mumbled. Wish granted. The shortest of grass made the floor with animated designs of flowers over the wall, and a light breeze went through the room.

"Now look what you've done," Xellos grumbled as he went in for his shower. "Just try not to change the scenery. I'd like my shower normal." With those words, the room reverted TO normal.

"Normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal..." Filia started. Xellos shrugged and walked into the bathroom for a shower. Ten minutes later, when Xellos came back, the room was looking a little weirder, and Filia was still on the bed. "Abnormal, abnormal, abnormal, abnormal, abnormal, abnormal, abnormal..." she muttered, smiling faintly.

"Let's go and get something to eat," he announced, startling Filia, who seemed to be lost in thought.

"Okay," Filia said, sitting up and stretching. They made their way downstairs and stopped on sight of the wedding cake, which hadn't moved.

"This is enough!" they yelled at the innocent cake. It disappeared instantly. The two went downstairs. Xellos made his way to the kitchen to try to figure out what's up with the alarm system. Filia, who was just as interested, followed. Till Xellos was blasted back by some unknown force, careening into Filia.

"Ow!"

"It looks like...someone doesn't what me in the kitchen." Filia shoved Xellos off.

"That's your problem!" Then they heard pounding footsteps. The two darted behind the counter as they watched Lina and Gourry pummel down the stairs and seat themselves at one of the tables and gape open-mouthed as the food magically appeared on the table. The food, obviously, was there when they came into the inn. After two seconds of gaping, Lina and Gourry devoured every piece of food in sight. More kept on coming, so they were able to eat a week's worth.

"We are in trouble. And you can't even teleport! Oh, we are dead..." Xellos whispered.

"You always think on the negative side, don't you?"

"It's my job. If I did otherwise, I would've been dead already," Xellos whispered sarcastically. Filia frowned. "I've got an idea."

"Brilliant. Fire away."

"Oh, it's so dreary in here, I wish it would be a little lighter in here..." Xellos started. Filia gagged.

"THAT'S your idea?" Everything started to change. The walls and ceiling became blue, picturing the field of flowers like before. "This is sick..." Lina and Gourry looked around in confusment at the changing landscape. Filia and Xellos took advantage of their confusment and sneak upstairs.

"This place is weird..." Lina muttered.

"Where'd the second door come from?" A second door had appeared in the hallway.

"And the third?"

"Third?" Filia asked, lifting her head from the second door where she was listening for any life. Xellos pointed to the door at the end of the hall. He opened it up to see a small closet with a ladder that led up. High up. Xellos shrugged and started up it.

"Why are you going up there?"

"Well there isn't other place where we're safe, is there?" Filia got his point and followed him, shutting the door behind her. "It's dark."

"Obviously." They went for about five minutes climbed up the ladder, till there was a soft thump.

"What was that?"

"Ow... my head." Xellos said sarcastically. "I think it's a door."

"Then open it!" Xellos pushed against, sending light pouring down the tower- like room. Xellos let it fall with a soft thump before poking his head into the room. Filia looked up beside him. A girl was at a computer consul pushing buttons.

"They don't seem to like that... how about... TURKEY!! MASHED POTATOES!!! CORN!!! Oooo, they like that! CHICKEN!! These people are easy to please..." On the computer screens around the madwoman, Lina and Gourry showed up, gobbling down the food, every once in a while new food appears, or they get in a fight. Then she stopped, pressed a certain button a few times, and the screens cycle through.

"Cameras?" Xellos muttered in amusement. They watched it cycle through each of the rooms (where they spotted Zel and Amelia :P), the dining room, the hallway, the kitchen.

"Where are they? Where'd they go?" the woman asked herself. She cycled through the cameras again, faster each time. Xellos climbed off the ladder and looked at the madwoman. "Where are those two? Did they leave? No, my sensor would've picked them up! Unless..." She turned her seat around and blinked.

"Why HELLO!!! I see you have STUMBLED across my lab!!" Blink blink.

"Erm...who are you?" Xellos asked. The woman's eyes widened.

"Oh, I'm sorry," she muttered blushing. "I am MORNING GLORY!!! A magician!!!"

"A magician?" Filia muttered, still on the ladder, leaning on the floor of the room. "She looks more like a librarian. And when did magicians have labs?"

"Were you, by any chance, the one who kept me out of the kitchen?"

"Of COURSE it was me!! I have powers beyond you WILDEST dreams!! And you seem to have less self-control then your friend their, trying to get into MY kitchen!!"

"I don't have much of an appetite," Filia cleared. "Plus you would be pretty hungry if you were in his position." Filia added, pointing to Xellos. Morning Glory's eyes widened in understanding, the clearing up of murky waters.

"Oh." Then a loud buzzing sound came from the machine. Talking also came from it.

"Where's the food? The instant food? Where'd it go?" Lina screamed in the machine. Glory went on working to supply the human vacuums with food. The two smiled greatly with their satisfaction before sucking up the rest of the food.

"Is there any way to get out of here without being discovered?" Xellos asked.

"You mean you want to leave my inn?"

"Yes...erm... we want to know why there isn't any people here."

"You're detectives?"

"Erm..."

"Oh! Use the door." Xellos blinked.

"The front or the one down there?" he asked, pointing down the ladder.

"No, that door!" Glory said, pointing to a hidden door. The two looked that way and shrugged. Filia got off the ladder and followed Xellos to the door. Glory opened it and they got on a platform, a balcony, really. Filia looked over the edge.

"We're fifty feet from the ground, and we can't fly. How are we going o get down without getting killed?"

"Easy. Bottom floor!" Glory chirped. The balcony seemed to drop, but it wasn't moving.

"Aren't we supposed to go down?" Xellos asked, also looking over the edge.

"We ARE going down. I'm... er... afraid of heights. It's a hologram." After about two minutes of an odd dropping sensation, the balcony finally reached ground. The two hopped off, and Glory waved to them. "Bye!!" she said happily. Filia and Xellos waved back and continued on down the street. Soon they came upon a puppy. (:P) He trotted up to Xellos and sniffed him before looking up and wagging his tail. He bent down and scratched behind his ears. Filia shook her head and walked on. When she realized Xellos wasn't following, she turned around. Xellos was still kneeling beside the puppy, but he was on his back and Xellos was rubbing his tummy. Filia shook her head and walked over to them. The puppy looked at her (which involved looking upside-down), with his tongue out, which ended up on his nose. Filia scratched under his chin, so the puppy liked her. Filia wiped the drool off and continued scratching his ear. The puppy seemed to like that and showed it by kicking his back feet hard, scratching Xellos.

"Ow..." The scratch wasn't big, but it did draw blood. It seemed to be deep. Very deep. Xellos quickly tore off the ripped sleeve and wrapped it around the wound. The puppy, realizing that he wasn't being petted anymore. He took off towards the inn, pushed the door open, and walked in.

"Well whaddya know..."

"Stop worrying about the dog!" Xellos snapped, trying to figure out what to do about his scratch.

"Why don't you just heal it."

"You EXPECT me know how to do that???"

"Oh..." Filia muttered. "Well, repeat after me: Oh, blessed and humble hand of God," Filia winced.

"Oh blessed and humble hand of God..."

"Life and breath of Mother Earth..."

"Life and breath of Mother Earth..."

"Come before me and show your great compassion and deliver us: RECOVERY!"

"Come before me and show your great compassion and deliver us: RECOVERY!" Xellos waited. Those words seemed really strange... Xellos slowly removed the sleeve from his wound. "Hey, it worked!!"

"It's supposed to, but it's not very powerful right now, so you may need to practice."

"I hope I don't," Xellos sighed. "Well, we ARE going to investigate this castle, aren't we?" Filia nodded and they both stood up and continued on down the street. (Together :P)

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Cyris: Sorry it took kinda long to get this written. But it's long for your enjoyment! I think I'll take a few days off from writing this one, and hopefully update my other two a bit, jot down my two original stories, an maybe start my original anime that stayed for three years bored into my brain ( :P). Chow!