Chapter two
"Get up! You've got to practice with the rest of the cast!" Meturu yelled as he came into Natsuko's and Amelia's room.
"Alright , hold on." Natsuko said.
"Oh I almost forgot! Here are your costumes. I've got to go give Zelgadiss his costume. Bye! Oh the stage is only five minute walk from here, just keep walking strait and you will see it." He said as he walked out the door.
Natsuko looked at her costume it was white and it was lined with blue and it had large pouffy sleeves. Natsuko also had to wear a little tiara, which looked a lot like the one Amelia wears sometimes. Amelia costume looked like a sailor moon outfit with armor.
"Oooo!!! I like my costume!" Amelia said. She turned and looked at Natsuko. "Hey no fair! How come you get to wear the pretty dress?"
Natsuko did not think she wanted to wear this front of an audience. " Because I'm supposed to look pretty I'm a princess!" Natsuko yelled. "I feel so weird though!"
"Oh well, let's go get Zelgadiss." Amelia said as she opened the door, Natsuko followed.
"Hey Zelgadiss we should leave soon!" Amelia yelled as she knocked on his door.
" All right. Just don't say any thing about the costume!" Zelgadiss said.
"Okay." The girls said in unison. He came with a huge cape with weird armor and a breastplate, and then he was wearing a white blouse thing and strange puffy pants.
"Ohhh Zelgadiss! You look so great and dashing!" Amelia said as she snuggled against him. Zelgadiss shook her off. " I told you not to say anything!" Zelgadiss said angrily as he blushed.
"Sorry." Amelia said "Anyway we should be going now!" So off they went to go practice the play. When they got there, Meturu was standing next to a a middle age woman who looked very exicted.
"And her they are! Our main actors!" Meturu said.
"Oh they look just like I wanted! You the female justice fighter, look beautiful and brave, you the princess look lovely and melancholy, and you the male justice fighter look handsome and daring." The woman said. At this Zelgadiss rolled his eyes, Natsuko was having a hard time keeping the laughter back and Amelia smiled and said. "Why thank you!"
"Oh! I am so rude! I have not told you who I am! I am Neria, director of this play!" She said. "And I had my assistant Meturu find new actors, since the old ones quit. Well anyway let us start practice now!"
"Wait I am beginning to regret I choose that girl her chest size is a little too small." Meturu said.
"SHUT-UP! JUST SHUT-UP! OKAY ?" Natsuko yelled in a freaked-out voice nearly punching Meturu..
"Calm down Natsuko, You are beginning to sound like Lina!" Amelia said.
"How can I? I mean that pervert is looking at my chest! And noticing the size!" Natsuko said.
"Well, some guys like to look at that." Zelgadiss said.
"Well still, I'm mad...AND YOU WOULD KNOW WOULDN'T YOU?" Natsuko said.
"Alright! All right! Let us just start the show! Places everyone! Everyone break a leg!" Neria
So they all took there places and everything ran smoothly (Well err. Kind of). Until the play involved the first love scene between Amelia and Zel, Amelia was putting enough emotion into it, but Zelgadiss was not.
"Oh my love....we must go to the demon's land.what if we do not prevail?" Amelia said dramatically.
" We will my dear, you just have to believe in justice.." Zelgadiss said in a monotone voice. "why me?" he thought.
"No! Robert put your heart into it!" Neria said.
So those agonizing days of practice went on and it was finally the day of the play.
"Alright everyone! People from everywhere are coming to see this play. So do the best you can!" Neria said.
So the play was going all right.until Zelgadiss came out on stage, and looked into the audience and saw Xelloss.
"Oh could my luck be any worse?" Zelgadiss thought.
So they continued on with the play. When Zelgadiss kissed Amelia and Natsuko, Xelloss was in the front row making faces and snickering, fortunately all went well and the play ended. The audience loved it (they must been really lame.) Zelgadiss, Natsuko and Amelia all walked of the stage and in to the audience. Xelloss walked over them.
" Interesting play..did you join this play to express your true feelings?" Xelloss asked.
"Of course not." Zelgadiss said angrily.
"Oh good." Xelloss said bringing him close.
Amelia nearly fainted. Natsuko was expecting something like that to happen, but she was a tad surprised.
"XELLOSS GET OF ME!" Zelgadiss said blushing.
"Awww...Zelgadiss you're blushing." Xelloss said.
"Hey guys come over here!!" Meturu yelled.
"We've got to go Xelloss." Amelia said.
"Oh, but I want to come!" He said running after him.
"Okay, Natsuko later on you can come to my store and get what you want, and well Zelgadiss, here is the Clair bible." He said handing it to him. Just as Zel began to open it, Xelloss opened his eyes (no one was looking at him at the time.) and the Clair bible burst into flames. Zelgadiss turned to him, he was very mad.
"Xelloss..damn you." He said starting to do a spell, but then Xelloss disappeared. Zelgadiss just truned and started to walk away.
"Poor Zelgadiss" Amelia said.
"Let's just get out of here." Zel said.
Natsuko figured she'd better not say anything about going to the art store. So they went back the Inn, and stayed for the night. As soon as they settled down Amelia said " Hey Natsuko, do you think one of us should go see if Zelgadiss is okay?"
"No, don't you think he'd get mad?" Natsuko asked.
"Well I don't care! I'm going to see what's wrong." Amelia said as she slammed the door.
Natsuko looked out her window. " I would like to go talk to him.but he may get mad at me.and I don't want that. Well maybe I'll go listen to what there saying, because I do want to know if he's okay." Natsuko hopped out of bed, and pressed her ear against the zel's bedroom door.
"Zelgadiss-san?" Amelia asked.
"Hai?" Zelgadiss asked.
"Are you going to be alright?" Amelia asked.
"Hai." Zelgadiss said, but it did not sound to convincing.
"Good, because I was really worried about you." Amelia said.
"Oh.okay." Zel said
"Zelgadiss-san?" Amelia said.
"Yes?" Zel said.
"I err.never mind." Amelia said blushing. Walking out " Well good night." Natsuko ran to her bedroom and leaped into bed. Amelia closed Zel's door and he muttered "Good-night Amelia."
Natsuko was feeling sad."He must be okay with Amelia.if he didn't get angry at her for coming into his.room, he would have got mad if I did that.I guess there pretty close." She turned over and went to sleep sadly.
Valgaav looked up at Xelloss "Why do you want to do this?" Valgaav asked.
"Well I could certatly use your power." Xelloss said
Valgaav turned to Elizabeth and Natsuko "Only you two can stop him." He said.
Xelloss looked over at two girls opened his eyes , there was a small explosion, and he and Valgaav were gone.
Elizabeth and Fillia were yelling a lot screaming after him Lina, Zelgadiss, Natsuko, Amelia and Gourry just stood there in shock wondering what they would do.they all looked and Natsuko and Elizabeth , remembering Valgav's words.. "You have to save him." Fillia said.
Natsuko woke up from her dream. It was still dark out side. "What the heck was that? Liz? Val? Fillia? Lina and Gourry? HUH? Well, how I am supposed to get to sleep with all this on my mind?" Natsuko pondered this for hours, then she settled down again.
"Natsuko, hey NATSUKO!" Amelia said shaking Natsuko.
"Wha-?" Natsuko asked.
"Get up, we are leaving now." She said walking out the door. So Natsuko gathered up all her things and went down stairs where Zel and Amelia were waiting for her.
"Sorry for taking so long, but I couldn't get to sleep because of dream." Natsuko said.
"Oh? What was the dream about?" Amelia asked. Natsuko explained.
"Odd, isn't? Natsuko said.
"Could it possibly have something to do with Xelloss being after her?" Amelia asked Zel.
"Don't think so, I wouldn't rely on a dream." Zelgadiss said. "However, ever, we should be careful around Xelloss."
"Well any way let's get going!" Natsuko exclaimed.
"Right." Zel said, as they walked out the door.
"Hey what about the art store?" Natsuko asked.
"Just forget it.we need to keep on moving." Zel said
"But.that's not fair." Natsuko said.
"Well, you're traveling with me, and teaching you to deafened yourself, or would you rather be on your own?" He asked while yelling.
"N-no, but I bet your just angry 'cuase you didn't get that Clair bible" Natsuko said , looking down at her feet. He just looked at her angrily and turned "Alright then, let's go." He said.
Natsuko sighed. "I Kinda wish I hadn't said that...but still he is such an ass sometimes." She thought. As they walked along, Natsuko and Zelgadiss to each other for the whole time. Once thy got settled in, Amelia asked Natsuko why she had said what she Said to Zel.
"Well it's not like he was being nice." Natsuko responded.
"Well he gets like that." Amelia said. "Don't worry about it, well I'm hungry, I'm going to go eat something."
"Okay." Natsuko said flopping on to the bed. She wasn't even hungry, which was unusual, so she just turned over and tried to go to sleep, but she couldn't.
"Where's Natsuko?" Zelgadiss asked Amelia as she sat down at the he was at.
"Oh in her room." Amelia said. "She's upset."
"Oh." Zel said.
"Well, she'll be okay, I'm sure." Amelia said. Just then Natsuko came down and sat at the table.
"I'm sorry..about today." She said.
"Well I'm err ....okay" He said. Natsuko was kind of mad he didn't say sorry, but she knew that was just the way Zel was.
"Well , can we start training again tomorrow?" Natsuko asked.
"Well maybe.if we have time." Zel said. Natsuko sat there and grumbled to her self, it had been a long time since she had last trained..well, maybe it was to soon to ask. Natsuko headed back up stairs she was still not used to walking around so much, it was going to take a while to use to, so she just went to sleep.
"HEY? Where the hell are we?" Lina asked.
"I dunno." Gourry replied.
"Well we are here to save Val, well Elizabeth and Natsuko are." Fillia said.
"Well I can't see him!" Elizabeth yelled.
Suddenly Xelloss appeared with Valgaav, he was knocked out.
"Well, do you want him, then come get him." he said dragging him into a room.
Fillia ran over to the door, she tried to open it, but she could not.
"Elizabeth, Natsuko get over here and help me." Fillia said.
Amelia and Zelgadiss began to leave, followed by Lina and Gourry.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Elizabeth yelled. They didn't answer, they kept on walking, until they couldn't be seen.
Natsuko woke up. "What the heck is up with these dreams? Xelloss, Fillia, Lina , Elizabeth, Valgaav? What? I doesn't make any sense. I don't know if I want to go back to sleep....I do not want to have that dream again till I figure it out." She sighed, and fell back to sleep, and she dreamed no more that night.
"Get up! You've got to practice with the rest of the cast!" Meturu yelled as he came into Natsuko's and Amelia's room.
"Alright , hold on." Natsuko said.
"Oh I almost forgot! Here are your costumes. I've got to go give Zelgadiss his costume. Bye! Oh the stage is only five minute walk from here, just keep walking strait and you will see it." He said as he walked out the door.
Natsuko looked at her costume it was white and it was lined with blue and it had large pouffy sleeves. Natsuko also had to wear a little tiara, which looked a lot like the one Amelia wears sometimes. Amelia costume looked like a sailor moon outfit with armor.
"Oooo!!! I like my costume!" Amelia said. She turned and looked at Natsuko. "Hey no fair! How come you get to wear the pretty dress?"
Natsuko did not think she wanted to wear this front of an audience. " Because I'm supposed to look pretty I'm a princess!" Natsuko yelled. "I feel so weird though!"
"Oh well, let's go get Zelgadiss." Amelia said as she opened the door, Natsuko followed.
"Hey Zelgadiss we should leave soon!" Amelia yelled as she knocked on his door.
" All right. Just don't say any thing about the costume!" Zelgadiss said.
"Okay." The girls said in unison. He came with a huge cape with weird armor and a breastplate, and then he was wearing a white blouse thing and strange puffy pants.
"Ohhh Zelgadiss! You look so great and dashing!" Amelia said as she snuggled against him. Zelgadiss shook her off. " I told you not to say anything!" Zelgadiss said angrily as he blushed.
"Sorry." Amelia said "Anyway we should be going now!" So off they went to go practice the play. When they got there, Meturu was standing next to a a middle age woman who looked very exicted.
"And her they are! Our main actors!" Meturu said.
"Oh they look just like I wanted! You the female justice fighter, look beautiful and brave, you the princess look lovely and melancholy, and you the male justice fighter look handsome and daring." The woman said. At this Zelgadiss rolled his eyes, Natsuko was having a hard time keeping the laughter back and Amelia smiled and said. "Why thank you!"
"Oh! I am so rude! I have not told you who I am! I am Neria, director of this play!" She said. "And I had my assistant Meturu find new actors, since the old ones quit. Well anyway let us start practice now!"
"Wait I am beginning to regret I choose that girl her chest size is a little too small." Meturu said.
"SHUT-UP! JUST SHUT-UP! OKAY ?" Natsuko yelled in a freaked-out voice nearly punching Meturu..
"Calm down Natsuko, You are beginning to sound like Lina!" Amelia said.
"How can I? I mean that pervert is looking at my chest! And noticing the size!" Natsuko said.
"Well, some guys like to look at that." Zelgadiss said.
"Well still, I'm mad...AND YOU WOULD KNOW WOULDN'T YOU?" Natsuko said.
"Alright! All right! Let us just start the show! Places everyone! Everyone break a leg!" Neria
So they all took there places and everything ran smoothly (Well err. Kind of). Until the play involved the first love scene between Amelia and Zel, Amelia was putting enough emotion into it, but Zelgadiss was not.
"Oh my love....we must go to the demon's land.what if we do not prevail?" Amelia said dramatically.
" We will my dear, you just have to believe in justice.." Zelgadiss said in a monotone voice. "why me?" he thought.
"No! Robert put your heart into it!" Neria said.
So those agonizing days of practice went on and it was finally the day of the play.
"Alright everyone! People from everywhere are coming to see this play. So do the best you can!" Neria said.
So the play was going all right.until Zelgadiss came out on stage, and looked into the audience and saw Xelloss.
"Oh could my luck be any worse?" Zelgadiss thought.
So they continued on with the play. When Zelgadiss kissed Amelia and Natsuko, Xelloss was in the front row making faces and snickering, fortunately all went well and the play ended. The audience loved it (they must been really lame.) Zelgadiss, Natsuko and Amelia all walked of the stage and in to the audience. Xelloss walked over them.
" Interesting play..did you join this play to express your true feelings?" Xelloss asked.
"Of course not." Zelgadiss said angrily.
"Oh good." Xelloss said bringing him close.
Amelia nearly fainted. Natsuko was expecting something like that to happen, but she was a tad surprised.
"XELLOSS GET OF ME!" Zelgadiss said blushing.
"Awww...Zelgadiss you're blushing." Xelloss said.
"Hey guys come over here!!" Meturu yelled.
"We've got to go Xelloss." Amelia said.
"Oh, but I want to come!" He said running after him.
"Okay, Natsuko later on you can come to my store and get what you want, and well Zelgadiss, here is the Clair bible." He said handing it to him. Just as Zel began to open it, Xelloss opened his eyes (no one was looking at him at the time.) and the Clair bible burst into flames. Zelgadiss turned to him, he was very mad.
"Xelloss..damn you." He said starting to do a spell, but then Xelloss disappeared. Zelgadiss just truned and started to walk away.
"Poor Zelgadiss" Amelia said.
"Let's just get out of here." Zel said.
Natsuko figured she'd better not say anything about going to the art store. So they went back the Inn, and stayed for the night. As soon as they settled down Amelia said " Hey Natsuko, do you think one of us should go see if Zelgadiss is okay?"
"No, don't you think he'd get mad?" Natsuko asked.
"Well I don't care! I'm going to see what's wrong." Amelia said as she slammed the door.
Natsuko looked out her window. " I would like to go talk to him.but he may get mad at me.and I don't want that. Well maybe I'll go listen to what there saying, because I do want to know if he's okay." Natsuko hopped out of bed, and pressed her ear against the zel's bedroom door.
"Zelgadiss-san?" Amelia asked.
"Hai?" Zelgadiss asked.
"Are you going to be alright?" Amelia asked.
"Hai." Zelgadiss said, but it did not sound to convincing.
"Good, because I was really worried about you." Amelia said.
"Oh.okay." Zel said
"Zelgadiss-san?" Amelia said.
"Yes?" Zel said.
"I err.never mind." Amelia said blushing. Walking out " Well good night." Natsuko ran to her bedroom and leaped into bed. Amelia closed Zel's door and he muttered "Good-night Amelia."
Natsuko was feeling sad."He must be okay with Amelia.if he didn't get angry at her for coming into his.room, he would have got mad if I did that.I guess there pretty close." She turned over and went to sleep sadly.
Valgaav looked up at Xelloss "Why do you want to do this?" Valgaav asked.
"Well I could certatly use your power." Xelloss said
Valgaav turned to Elizabeth and Natsuko "Only you two can stop him." He said.
Xelloss looked over at two girls opened his eyes , there was a small explosion, and he and Valgaav were gone.
Elizabeth and Fillia were yelling a lot screaming after him Lina, Zelgadiss, Natsuko, Amelia and Gourry just stood there in shock wondering what they would do.they all looked and Natsuko and Elizabeth , remembering Valgav's words.. "You have to save him." Fillia said.
Natsuko woke up from her dream. It was still dark out side. "What the heck was that? Liz? Val? Fillia? Lina and Gourry? HUH? Well, how I am supposed to get to sleep with all this on my mind?" Natsuko pondered this for hours, then she settled down again.
"Natsuko, hey NATSUKO!" Amelia said shaking Natsuko.
"Wha-?" Natsuko asked.
"Get up, we are leaving now." She said walking out the door. So Natsuko gathered up all her things and went down stairs where Zel and Amelia were waiting for her.
"Sorry for taking so long, but I couldn't get to sleep because of dream." Natsuko said.
"Oh? What was the dream about?" Amelia asked. Natsuko explained.
"Odd, isn't? Natsuko said.
"Could it possibly have something to do with Xelloss being after her?" Amelia asked Zel.
"Don't think so, I wouldn't rely on a dream." Zelgadiss said. "However, ever, we should be careful around Xelloss."
"Well any way let's get going!" Natsuko exclaimed.
"Right." Zel said, as they walked out the door.
"Hey what about the art store?" Natsuko asked.
"Just forget it.we need to keep on moving." Zel said
"But.that's not fair." Natsuko said.
"Well, you're traveling with me, and teaching you to deafened yourself, or would you rather be on your own?" He asked while yelling.
"N-no, but I bet your just angry 'cuase you didn't get that Clair bible" Natsuko said , looking down at her feet. He just looked at her angrily and turned "Alright then, let's go." He said.
Natsuko sighed. "I Kinda wish I hadn't said that...but still he is such an ass sometimes." She thought. As they walked along, Natsuko and Zelgadiss to each other for the whole time. Once thy got settled in, Amelia asked Natsuko why she had said what she Said to Zel.
"Well it's not like he was being nice." Natsuko responded.
"Well he gets like that." Amelia said. "Don't worry about it, well I'm hungry, I'm going to go eat something."
"Okay." Natsuko said flopping on to the bed. She wasn't even hungry, which was unusual, so she just turned over and tried to go to sleep, but she couldn't.
"Where's Natsuko?" Zelgadiss asked Amelia as she sat down at the he was at.
"Oh in her room." Amelia said. "She's upset."
"Oh." Zel said.
"Well, she'll be okay, I'm sure." Amelia said. Just then Natsuko came down and sat at the table.
"I'm sorry..about today." She said.
"Well I'm err ....okay" He said. Natsuko was kind of mad he didn't say sorry, but she knew that was just the way Zel was.
"Well , can we start training again tomorrow?" Natsuko asked.
"Well maybe.if we have time." Zel said. Natsuko sat there and grumbled to her self, it had been a long time since she had last trained..well, maybe it was to soon to ask. Natsuko headed back up stairs she was still not used to walking around so much, it was going to take a while to use to, so she just went to sleep.
"HEY? Where the hell are we?" Lina asked.
"I dunno." Gourry replied.
"Well we are here to save Val, well Elizabeth and Natsuko are." Fillia said.
"Well I can't see him!" Elizabeth yelled.
Suddenly Xelloss appeared with Valgaav, he was knocked out.
"Well, do you want him, then come get him." he said dragging him into a room.
Fillia ran over to the door, she tried to open it, but she could not.
"Elizabeth, Natsuko get over here and help me." Fillia said.
Amelia and Zelgadiss began to leave, followed by Lina and Gourry.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Elizabeth yelled. They didn't answer, they kept on walking, until they couldn't be seen.
Natsuko woke up. "What the heck is up with these dreams? Xelloss, Fillia, Lina , Elizabeth, Valgaav? What? I doesn't make any sense. I don't know if I want to go back to sleep....I do not want to have that dream again till I figure it out." She sighed, and fell back to sleep, and she dreamed no more that night.