Visitor! The Story Begins!

No bird dared chirp on the island, many of the animals there lived in fear; the only exception were the wolves. It was a common event to see one or two slinking by. The forest was dense, filled with vines and underbrush, rarely anything brown but vibrant greens as well as a flower every so often. The best place to observe the forest happenings were from the arch shaped windows of the large luxurious mansion northwest on the island. The mansion was made of some kind of red stone and had some turrets. It stood on the highest part of the island, out of the dense forest below and looked out at the nearby cliffs. All the animals did not enter unless invited, so it was the perfect place to watch without worrying about a ravenous predator leap on your back.

You just had to worry about a 'slightly' different type of predator inside. All seemed quiet on the island today.

A small hand reached up and grabbed the windowsill, and a minute later a figure hopped inside the mansion, landing on the pale green carpet, breaking the 'do not enter unless you are invited' rule.

The blue haired figure crouched near the window looking around with bright blue eyes. Her outfit was also a blue, though lighter in color than her hair or eyes. "Dolphin sneaky…" she tittered quietly as she stood up, being none other than Deep Sea Dolphin herself. She put her hands behind her head and strolled down the burgundy walled hallway, "Ahhh… Dolphin so bored."

The figure stopped for a moment and sniffed sadly, "Dynast kicked Dolphin out." (u.u)

So absorbed in her thoughts she didn't notice a violet haired, mostly dressed in black figure up ahead briskly walk down the hallway and into a room. Coincidentally, the other figure didn't notice the Dark Lord who is rumored to be insane.

(0.o) "Who that?" the blue haired mazoku peeked into the room, which appeared to be the library. (o.o)

"Yeah?" the other figure, who was none other than Xelloss Metallium, Lesser Beast, and all those other titles was looking out of the window. "What is it?" he continued not looking over at the door.

(0.o) "…" Deep Sea stood there for a second before whispering, "Dolphin just go look for other room. Must be quiet…." She nodded to herself before slamming the door closed.

Hearing the door slam, Xelloss wondered what lower minion would dare to do that in his presence, it was probably the one who was... He grumbled and went over to the door opening and looking outside. "Is that…" he did a small double take that most would not notice, "Hey. What are you doing here?"

(0.o) "Ummmm… looking for someone?" the confused Dark Lord replied looking lost. Who was that odd looking guy? She wanted to poke him…

"And who might that be?" She was strong, and wasn't hiding her astral signature. Best be polite to someone stronger than you, especially if they may be a Dark Lord, though he had never really met the Deep Sea Dolphin, who had supposedly lost all her marbles courtesy of Zelas.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeaugh!" Dolphin pointed over in Xelloss' direction before running off. There's a mazoku over there!!!" She unknowingly opened the throne room door and dove under the carpet, managing to hide half under it.

"Okaaaaaay." Xelloss shook his head and turned off to walk the other way, and most people thought he was strange.

Meanwhile Dolphin happily giggled to herself, she had escaped the mazoku. "Dolphin hidden…"

"What?" a cool voice asked smoothly.

The blue haired Dark Lord pulled out from the carpet to look and see a tanned woman wearing a short white dress. With a few feral marking on her face, and gold-silver hair, there was only one person who looked like that. (0_o) "Meanie Zelas!" Dolphin pointed before diving behind a nearby chair and cowering.

(-.-;;) "Go away." Zelas said flatly, she did not want her sister hanging around. (And she used the term 'sister' loosely, she preferred to think that she was an only child if mazoku can be referred to in a family manner.)

"Go visit Gaav." Zelas rolled her eyes at her oneesan. She could get one one's nerves like that.

"Gaav? He dead." Dolphin processed this thought more and gasped. (o.o) "Zelas didn't know?"

"No, that was sarcasm." Zelas growled, why did she even bother? She hopped off her throne and teleported behind the other mazoku grabbing her sister by the shoulders and marching her out of her throne room before she could even make a startled peep. "Go." That should get the message across.

"But, Dolphin wants to visit lil Xellie…" Dolphin tried to turn around and look at Zelas, momentarily forgetting her fear.

"Lil Xellie doesn't live here. Now go." Zelas was making sure to take the quickest route to her front door.

"But Dolphin really wants to see him…" Dolphin's expression fell, her face the very epitome of disappointment. "Dolphin even brought him something."

"I don't care." Zelas shoved the other Dark Lord outside onto her doorstep. She dusted her hands; glad to be rid of the annoying blue haired menace.

"Awwww… Dolphin just go dump wine in sea then." Her expression went back to its usual innocent bright smile. She stood up and loped off to the nearest shore on the island.

"…what kind of wines?" Zelas called out after hesitantly, last time what Dolphin had called 'wine' had turned out to be a very powerful sleeping potion with a hangover once you woke up. That was not a fond memory.

"Dolphin off to go give the…" She stopped her singsong tirade skipping to think about an answer. A moment passed before she remembered what it was. "Zephialian wine from the year…" she paused again to think about the odd things called number years, "224 or 225?" She dropped her thoughtful look to smile, that year had been fun, there had been a lot of big waves to ride! No one else seemed too happy about it, they said the tidal waves were bad… but there were only tsunamis… tidal waves were the ones you poked and fell asleep on. The sea made them; the sea was her friend… wait she still had to go give that wine to it. (^-^) "Dolphin hopes the sea likes it since it's rare!"

"Ahhhhhhh, leave it then." Zelas waved and pointed at her doorstep. "He's out back somewhere." She pointed out at the forest in a random direction.

"No the sea wants it!" Dolphin ran the rest of the way to the shore so she was ankle deep in the incoming tide. "…besides, lil Xellie no live here no more." The blue haired mazoku opened a bottle of the rare wine slowly. "Meanie Zelas told me so." So she tipped the bottle so it's contents splashed into the sea much to Zelas' horror.

"XELLIE!" Zelas howled, a moment later her features twisted into shock as she realized Dolphin's speaking habits were sometimes too catchy for their own good. "XELLOSS!" She had to save that wine, it was hers by… some law or other she could say later, but it was hers. "YOU HAVE A VISITOR!!!!!"

"Dolphin do this with…" She sat down in the sea as she thought just how many would satisfy the sea. "10 crates…" (^^) That would make the sea happy! But sitting where she was giving the wine to the sea made her smell funny. Hey, her clothes were turning a bit more purple now from the wine, the sea was drinking messily today.

Xelloss phased in next to Zelas, coming as soon as he heard the summon. Although he thought it a bit odd that he personally would have a visitor, upon seeing the scene even after having more than 1000 years behind him, he had only one thing to say. "…" (o.0)

Dolphin, however, did have a lot to say. (0_o) "Eeeeeeeeeeeaugh!!" She frantically pointed at Xelloss. "Mazoku!!" She turned tail and dove into the sea, leaving the half empty bottle to wash up upon the shore.

Zelas glared at the sea, wishing her sister wasn't so difficult at times. "That's who you wanted to see idiot." () Really, sometimes Dolphin astounded her by being as dense as she was.

"…" Xelloss meanwhile had just stood there with an 'okaaaaaay' face, but if wine was at stake, then he was sure Juu-ou sama would win. She loved her wine, he had just finished re-stocking and re-ordering it this morning.

"No Dolphin wants to see lil Xellie…" The blue haired 'not-quite-right-in-the-head' mazoku resurfaced a little, mainly just enough so she could see. "That a mazoku…" She lifted a hand out and pointed at the slightly confused violet haired mazoku, "a stranger!"

"Aha but he's still lil…" Zelas reached over and patted the side of Xelloss' face, "just a bit more grown up."

Xelloss stood there, still confused a little, but put out that he had been called 'lil'. (.) It had better be wine related, or Zelas just trying to irritate him.

(0_o) "That's Xellie?" Dolphin said incredulously, not believing Zelas one bit. Only one thing to do in this situation… one of her infamous 'tests' that would determine if that stranger really was 'Xellie'. The 'loopy' mazoku crawled back onto land and hesitantly poked Xelloss' foot.

Though he had an idea of who this was, this was just odd. Xelloss sweat-dropped and looked down as Dolphin poked his foot.

"Yup." (^-^) Zelas used her strongest servant as an armrest, he also made a good footrest, and a table, he was good at being an errand boy too, although even she did drew the line at having him cook… but he was mostly useful otherwise.

"…" (o.o) Dolphin slowly looked up at 'Xellie' and blinked once. It could be him, best try another idea. (^0^) "Xellie!" She launched herself at the momentarily startled Xelloss and glomped him.

Xelloss mentally winced at this odd mazoku, and then tried to pry her off of him.

Zelas daintily coughed, "Wine first, then you can see him."

Dolphin let go and stuck her hand into an astral tear, looking around and pulled a bottle, not noticed that her 'Xellie' had stepped away from the 'strange' mazoku. Her face lit up when she pulled out a bottle, and held it out for Zelas to see. "Wine?"

Zelas shook her head, "Not enough." She had to try to get as much wine as she could without pushing her luck.

Dolphin went back in her tear and pulled out a medium sized crate and held it out to Zelas, "Wine!"

Eh, good enough she thought, "Okay that'll do." She could afford to temporarily lose Xelloss for this excellent vintage. She phased out happily holding her new catch, before she did, she gave an unspoken order to Xelloss, mostly by a 'look' she gave him.

"Xellie, you've grown!" Dolphin once again glomped the silent violet haired mazoku who sweat-dropped once again. She was quite content to just hang there, glad… no, ecstatic to have found the 'Xellie' she was looking for.