I don't own Slayers. *Warning* I'm new to this If it looks weird, give me break; I'm learning.

Setting in an inn the Slayers group was having a "normal" meal; Lina, Gourry and Amelia were once more fighting over their food while Zelgadis, our favorite man of stone, was sipping his coffee and looking out into space, thinking. Thinking about his inward battle, and how that war was going.
The Darkness is slowly creeping in

I fight it but

I'm growing tired of fighting

in fact sometime I feel like giving in

but for their sakes

I can't

but I'm tired

The Darkness knows this

that's why it buys its time

Darkness enjoys my pain

I HATE Darkness

But for now Darkness sleeps

letting me regain strength

Darkness never strikes when I'm weak.

Why?

To tired to think

Must sleep; keep Darkness at bay

So tried, why doesn't Darkness take me?

What is it waiting for?

My submission

It shall never have my submission

For their sakes

Darkness shall never have my submission

Darkness shall never own me

Yet one day, I'll fall

I fear that day

Until then I'll fight

I must fight

So tried, but I must fight

For their sakes, I'll fight.
"Zelgadis-san?" asked Amelia "Are you alright you, look really tried all of sudden."

Zelgadis yawn and stretched "Yeah, I'm fine, just tired," had said I grow tied of fighting, but I can't let them know about this inward fight, this is one battle I must fight alone. "I think I'll go bed see you guys in the morning." And with that he head up the stairs. For their sakes I must fight.
For how long?
You know that they won't be around forever

and when they fall

so shall you.

That's why I wait

You know their smiles are lies

That their words are fake

So why do you fight for them?

You'll tried, soon

Soon you won't fight me.

Nay you'll accept me with open arms

for I shall end all your pain.

So fight Human,

feed me your hurt
make me strong as you weaken

To say the I delight in your agony

is to sell your heartache short.

Hate me with all your might

It well make your take over just that more sweeter.

So tell me

Human

How long will you fight for their sake?
Forever and longer

You shall never have me

By L-sams's grace I'll die taking you with me.
Zelgadis tossed in is sleep as another battle took place in the landscape of his mind. Demon and human fighting to control the same vessel, ones there do to birth right, the other, implanted, like a weed in a garden. The only one to know of the fight now hovers in the space above the bed, his head just brushing the ceiling, Xellos frown. How much longer would this human last and when he finally falls what kind of demon will he let into this world. Xellos shuddered for being demon himself (full not just a third) he knew that what the human fought nightly was a demon he would never like to meet. He smiled, him, Xellos: the killer of dragons (killing them with just one monition, I remind you), was afraid of this construct, this chimera? As hard as it was to swallow, he was, so in that small space above he hoped, beyond all hopes that the human would once more win this fight to night. For their sake (Lina, Gourry, Amelia) no for the sake of the world he must win this fight against Darkness. So it is that nearly nightly Zelgadis Greywood fight, for his humanity, for his friends, he fights, but a soul can grow tried of fight. How long can he fight the Darkness he asks himself with the rising of the new sun. How long until the Darkness well finally be welcome in your heart? How long can you run from your shadow? When shall you fall? L-sams help them, when shall you fall?