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=Detention! What's This Labyrinth Doing Here? PART 1=
Lina, Xelloss, Zel, Filia, and Syphiel were the lucky five who all their finals done on the first day. How did that happen? Talk to scheduling. This means, that the five had NOTHING to do until school got out.
Since they were still on school grounds, they had to stand by the school rules. It only took them an hour to break half of them.
Yes, they were bored. Boredom makes any student do something stupid, including chewing gum, passing notes, upstaging the teacher, blowing up the chemistry lab and doing unnatural things to the trees outside. Zel was still in shock after watching Lina try to eat a teacher using a spork…
Luna stared at the five who sat innocently in front of her in her office. "How the heck can you guys get into so much trouble so soon?"
"That's a ---" Filia tackled Xelloss and hogtied him before he could finish his answer.
"Not now, trash," she hissed in his ear.
Xelloss grinned. "Filia, when you get kinky like this--"
"I have no choice but to put you guys on detention," Luna cackled. "But since I'm busy looking after the other students with no more finals--"
"I thought we were the only five," Zel muttered under his breath. Lina elbowed him and shook her head: Shut up!
Luna glanced at Zel. "Is everyone done interrupting each other? Since I'm busy, I'll have to stick you in the Labyrinth."
"THE LABYRINTH?!" They all yelled…including Luna just to mock them.
Xelloss tapped his chin with his index finger. "I heard a monster live down there."
Luna nodded. "Good luck with that."
Filia slapped him in the back of the head. "SHUT UP! AND HOW'D YOU GET OUT OF THAT ROPE?"
Luna pushed a button at her desk and they all fell down a large hole.
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Syphiel landed on something soft. She patted it and smiled to herself. I guess I'm lucky.
"Would you mind getting off?" asked a flattened Lina.
Syphiel jumped off, surprised. "I--I--I'm sorry, Lina." Syphiel looked away and was about to wander off.
Lina rubbed her head and stared at Syphiel. "Is there something wrong, Syph? You've been actin' funny to me ever since we finished finals."
Syphiel glanced at Lina. "Oh. Of course not."
Lina frowned. "You're a terrible liar."
Suddenly, the ground began to shake. Rocks tumbled down the walls as the halls became hotter. Lina held a protective arm around Syphiel and looked about her. From the ground emerged a smiling Xelloss. "You better watch out!" he said cheerfully and skipped off in the back. Behind him, an angry Zel and Filia stormed down the hallway.
"WHERE IS THAT EVIL FRUITCAKE?" Zel screamed. "HE STOLE MY PANTS!"
Filia's eyes were red and glowing. "He spit on my head and used Zel's pants to polish it." Filia's screams echoed down the cavern and caused a cave in.
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Xelloss tried on Zel's pants. "OoooH! Roomy!"
From behind him, something growled.
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Filia and Zel calmed down just a little, Syphiel spent most of her time healing everyone and Lina was making pants out of the 80 gallon hat. Why's Syphiel acting like that?
Lina glanced at her long time friend. What had happened around finals? She tried to remember anything really important, but nothing came up. Then she remembered--The letter!
"Syph, that letter…"
Syphiel's hand froze above Filia's head. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"That was just a joke from Martina."
Syphiel grinned. "It's okay, Lina. You can have him." She finished up and walked off. Lina watched her go and took a step after her. She knew that Syphiel didn't want to see her right now, but Syphiel shouldn't be alone with a monster about.
Zel saw the trouble. "I'll go after her," Zel said. Lina smiled her thanks and watched as Zel disappeared after Syphiel.
Suddenly, Filia jumped up. An eerie wind picked up her dress and she smiled crazily. "I smell that fruitcake. He's close by."
She pounced on the ground and began to sniff it. "He's close to me. I can smell his fear."
Lina shook her head. "Filia, you should lay off the green mashed potatoes. They're doing something to your mind."
"This from the teacher eater," Xelloss whispered. He fell from the roof and smiled. To Filia, he said, "That's not fear. I, apparently, had too much beans. And by the way, nice panties. I didn't know you liked Barney."
Filia blushed as Lina raised one eyebrow. "Where were you and why exactly did you decide to come back?"
Xelloss wagged a finger in front of Lina's face. "Ask a silly question, get a silly answer."
Lina felt a monster headache start at her temples. This was about all that she could handle; she was ready to find a way out. "I'm leaving. Who's with me?"
Filia raised her hand and followed Lina down a tunnel. Xelloss glanced around, an evil smirk started at the corner of his lips. Quietly, he snuck off in another direction.
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It took Zel only a few seconds to track Syphiel down. She was staring at a wall, and her shoulder's were shaking slightly. He knew that she had a crush on Gourry--who didn't.--and from what he heard Lina say to the girl, it had something to do with that letter that was past around. It didn't take an idiot to figure out what happened. He lay a consolatory hand on Syphiel's shoulder and asked, "Are you going to be okay?"
She turned around and Zel slowly backed away. That wasn't Syphiel…
Zel tried to take a few steps back, but stumbled on Xelloss' foot. He growled at the other man and said, "What the heck are you doing?"
Xelloss blew Zel a few kisses and went to find a new victim. Before Zel could follow, the monster had taken his leg and dragged him into the depths of the cave.
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Lina stopped short. Something didn't seem right. She sniffed the air. It smelled exactly like what Filia had called, "Xelloss' fear."
Filia sniffed the air and made a disgusted face. "Do you smell what I smell?"
"I wish I didn't."
They continued on their path as the smell became really, really powerful. So powerful in fact, that it made the two girls' eyes water.
"Maybe it's the monster," Filia whispered.
From behind her, two arms engulfed her and dragged her away. In her ear, she heard the words, "You're right."
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Lina found her way out of that place into fresh air. Their were little paintings on the walls of what looked like a chibi Zel and a chibi Filia being dragged off by a pink smudge. She grinned and began poking the wall repeatedly. "Hey, Filia, you gotta take a look at this…" Lina trailed off into silence when she realized that Filia wasn't behind her. "Xelloss?" she called out.
Turning back to the wall, she noticed a few more pictures. There was a chibi Syphiel tied on a rope hanging above a pit and a chibi Xelloss handcuffed and surrounded by a bunch of hearts. Lina started to get worried.
Moving down the hall, she noticed one more picture. It was a picture of herself, in chibi form, pointing at a picture of herself, in chibi chibi form, pointing to a…well you get it. Above the chibi Lina's, something pink was hanging over her. Lina slowly glanced up.
There was the monster. Lina let out a long scream as it swooped down on her and captured her.
(Evil piano: DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN)
=End Chapter=
OH NO! A CLIFFHANGER! IN A HUMOR TALE? HOW'D THAT HAPPEN? Anyway, find out what happens next to our group of Slayers in: UNLIKELY HERO?! AMELIA SAVES THE DAY?! Part 2.
~LaTz~
