Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Slayers for all you sue happy lawyers. (And I do not own the bible either.)
Author's Note: Do not read this story if you are offended for my use of the bible in the story ( Remember you have been warned. I believe in the bible and definitely do not believe this is how the actual world was created.)
Time: During the Flood (Genesis 5-10) and then in NEXT
Season of Slayers Summary: (My little version of how the Earth was created in Slayers.) What happened after The Lord of Nightmares created the Heavens and the Earth.
Slayers Beginning
New International Version
Genesis
When the Lord of Nightmares created man and woman she created them as the in-between beings of Mazokus and Dragons. She created them and blessed them. Telling them to grow and increase in number in her own "unique" sort of way. Lina and Gourry had followed the Lord of Nightmares wishes in increasing in number. And from their descending lineZelgadis Greywords was born.
He married a wealthy daughter named Amelia and they had three sons, all in the name of justice as his wife would say.
The Lord of Nightmares noticed the evil living inside the humans and decided to take action. After all, since she was a being of chaos, she needed both good and evil to survive. And equality of both which had been her reason to create humans in the first place. "I must destroy mankind in order for chaos to be served." However, Zel and his house found favor in her eyes as the Amelia and Zelgadis were like sun and rain, chaotic in their own way, much like the rest of his family.
Zelgadis had been cursed to look and becomea monster by his great-grandfather, Rezo the Purple Priest. It took many years for his wife to convince him that she loved him, not pitied him.
One day as Zelgadis was visting the library, the Lord of Nightmares came to him. "I will destroy all people, for they are beginning to become corrupt. And chaos isn't based on evil but is the basis of both good an evil."
"What does that have to do with me?" Zelgadis asked, distrustfully.
"Unless you want to perish with the rest of the world, make yourself an ark. Everything on earth shall perish under the Giga Slave as you will remain untouched in the sea of chaos. You must bring two of every king of animal, monster and dragon. It would be too much of a pain to create them all again. Bring your family and your sisters siblings and father with you. I will provide for Shabranigdo and Cephied as well as the Mazoku lords and the Water and Flare Dragon Kings." With that a bunch of fizzy gold fireworks surrounded her as she exited.
"Dramatic exit much?" Zelgadis said, letting out a breath of relief. Some would say it was an honor to meet the Lord of Nightmares. Zelgadis, on the other hand, found it plain creepy. Actually, it reminded of being with Lina Gabriev, Amelia's sister. His sister-in-law was just about as annoying as Amelia's other sister Gracia, who preferred to be called Naga the White Serpent. And he had to be on the same ark with Amelia's insane sisters, her father, and Gourry, the poor fool who ended up marrying Lina. Zelgadis gave the pair two years at most. Even giving them that much time was a stretch, seeing as it wasn't entirely certain how long Gourry could survive a wife like that.
"OH HO HO HO HO HO! SO THE LORD OF NIGHTMARES WANTS TO DESTROY THE WORLD, AND SAVE US, DOES SHE?IT MUST BE BECAUSE OF MY INFINITE BEAUTY! YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL BEING MY FAMILY MEMBERS. THE LORD OF NIGHTMARES WOULDN'T HAVE CHOSEN YOU IF THE GREAT NAGA THE WHITE SERPENT WASN'T ASSOCIATED WITH YOU! OH HO HO HO HO HO! " Naga said, bringing her hand up in a lady like manner that such ladies would use to shield quiet laughter notobnoxiously loudlaughter.
"I swear Naga, if we do plan on going through this, we're either gagging you or throwing you over board!" Lina told her nastily. She could already feel a headache coming on. Imagining how it was going to be for the supposed month they stayed on the boat with Naga's laughter,wasn't exactly the thing she wanted to think about.
"Well Lina," Zel said, taking a sip of his coffee, "You really don't have a choice to go through with this. It's either you go or don't which means you'll get obliterated from existence."
"Yeah Miss Lina, we have been chosen by the Lord of Nightmares herself to go through this act so that this world may be a world filled of justice!" Amelia said striking a justice pose.
"Argh! Amelia I'm your sister for cryin' out loud! Stop calling me Miss Lina!" Lina shouted at the young girl.
"Sorry Miss Lina. I mean.." Amelia said closing her mouth.
Two passing travelers heard a faint cry of "Fireball" followed by a rather large explosion.
"Just one more board and we're finally finished Gourry," Zelgadis said, sighing a breath of relief. After a month of work, the ark finally neared completion. They had already collected all the animals, which took about two weeks with Filia's help.
"Wow it looks great so far, Zel!" Lina called, waving cheerfully as she--along with Naga, Amelia, and Filia--relaxed in a chair, drinking fruity drinks and soaking up the sun's rays.
"No thanks to you," Zelgadis mumbled, eyes narrowing.
"Gourry! Hold this." Zel said indicating the board as he positioned it in the empty space, which would finish the boat. Holding the nail he swung the hammer down on it.
"Boo!" Xelloss said as he appeared. Startling Zelgadis, Zel accidentally hit the boat instead of the nail. With the force put behind it he tore out a good chunk of the ark.
"XELLOSS!"
It took the another week to finish it, because they had to take out the broken torn pieces of would and sometimes in doing so would rip the wood next to it out of it's socket. When they finally finished, the Lord of Nightmares came back down to Zel and the others. She ordered them to board the ship with the animals.
"Why does he have to come along," Xelloss said as he materialized in. He was pointing at Valgaav. "Isn't one dragon enough? Well I guess Filia isn't much of a dragon anyways. I've seen better.Oh well."
"NAMAGOMI!" Filia shouted as she began to hit Xelloss with her mace. The Lord of Nightmares decided then to clear her throat, which equaled to the sound of thunder 10x over. Needless to say, it got them working again.
After they accomplished that task, the Lord of Nightmares ordered them inside. Safely inside, she cast a chaos shield over them and sent them on their way to the Sea of Chaos. That done she began to collect the Mazoku Lords, and the Water and Fire Dragon King and sent them off to the Sea of Chaos in two separate prisons just in case they got the stupid notion to try to kill each other. Then she made another two more prison, slightly bigger for Shabby and Cece, sending them as far away from each other as possible. Cece was still touche about the dress that Shabby had ruined and Shabby about his sister's taunting attitude and for taking his doll.
About a month later, the slayers were far from restless. They were reaching the point of insanity.
"OH HO HO HO HO!" Naga laughed for no reason whatsoever.
"That's it," Lina said, a crazed look in her eyes," Darkness beyond twilight.."
"LINA YOU'LL KILL US ALL!" Gourry yelled, covering her mouth before she could try to finish.
"FINE!" Lina yelled, she stood up and walked over to Naga, picked her up (despite her size) and attempted to blow the door to the ark open and throw Naga outside.
"LINA DON'T!" Zel said finally getting into action. He already knew Gourry would stop her before she tried to cast the Dragon Slave, this however, was another matter, entirely. " Look Lina," he said blocking the door, "I'm not exactly against throwing Naga out, Amelia please don't look at me like that. Opening that door would let the sea of chaos come in and literally crush us. Only we won't just die like we would in any old ocean. We would, literally, get obliterated from existence."
Shoulders slumped, Lina sat down, and together they waited it out until the moment where they could see the sun shining again.
"58 swords of light in my hands. 58 swords of light. Take one down pass it around. 57 swords of light." Lina mumbled as she rocked back and forth. Another month had passed and still the Lord of Nightmares hadn't let them out.
"Miss Lina?"
"What!" Lina said, looking up at Amelia.
"Um.well.." Amelia began.
"SPIT IT OUT!"
"We ran out of food."
Hands clenched, a stress mark appeared on Lina's forehead as she tried hard not to throw a fireball at Amelia. "No food, you say?" she said, a sly grin appearing on her lips. "Now I wouldn't say that."
A couple days later the Lord of Nightmares shifted them back to the newly improved world, which kind of looked exactly like the old one. She finally let them out.
"Finally! We finally get out of here," Lina said as she pushed past everyone to get out.
"Sorry everyone," the Lord of Nightmares said sheepishly, "I kinda forgot about you."
Lina faltered in her bouncy step slightly as her grin turned ugly. "How long has it been since youwere done destroying everything?"
"Oh it was done on the first day," the Lord of Nightmares said automatically, "I was going to pace myself, But I found destruction to be quite fun to create. I always wondered why you and the Mazoku loved creating it."
"Excuse me for a second," Turning around, Lina shouted a Dragon Slave letting off some steam.
"Anyway, you're gift for following my wishes Zelgadis Greywords is to be human." Snapping her fingers, she turned him human.
"Waitaminute. Just like that. I spend years searching for my cure and you turn me human just with a snap of you're fingers?" Zel said, disbelieving what just occurred.
Obviously not registering the fact that the Lord of Nightmares just turned him human she replied, "Honey, I'm the creator of the world. What do you expect?" After she didn't get a reply she asked, "Would you rather I revert you to your other form then?"
"NO!" they all cried in unison.
"Alright then?" and with that she left, a slight smiling playing itself on her lips.
"Zelgadis, are you alright?" Amelia asked.
Although happy to be human he asked Amelia to remind him never to go on another ship again.
(NEXT)
"Mr. Zelgadis?" Amelia said, worriedly, thinking that I guess using him as our anchor wasn't such a good idea. But what about their Dragon Cuisuine?
"Amelia could you do me a favor?" Zelgadis said between breaths.
"Sure Mr. Zelgadis," she said shaking herself out of her train of though.
"Remind me to never go on another ship with Lina again."
Author Note's
Finally after many months I got a new Part! Here are some notes:
Yes I realize Zel does go on another boat in TRY (even though I haven't seen the season myself) I've seen the picture. I don't TRY to involve TRY too much in my stories though.
The Flood was the Giga Slave instead. While the Giga Slave was occurring the Slayers were on the sea of chaos. They were protected from getting destroyed on the sea of chaos because of the protection the Lord of Nightmares put them under. In other words she fought chaos with chaos (neutralizing it) by putting a chaos shield around the boat.
She took the Mazoku lords to the Sea of Chaos as well but in specially made prisons. The reason she didn't put the gang in the prisons was because unlike the two Gods and their servants they wouldn't be able to survive in such a close space together along with the rest of the animals in the world. Creating those prisons take alot of work. And the Lord of Nightmares is pretty lazy.
The reason I turned Zel human in the past is this: Just as I make history repeat itself in this story, by making Zel turn human in the past, I'm creating hope for dear Zel that he might be human. It was the only way I could make Zelga-bunny sign the contract in the first place to agree to do the story.
Also this story tells us why we don't have the wide variety of animals they had back then. Not because they became extinct by natural means, but because Lina ate the last ones of their kind. So it isn't fossils archaeologists find. It's the leftovers of the Dramatta's dinner.
Ivan Inverse Just a comment but did you change your nickname from Ivan of Chaos? Or am I thinking of someone else? Anyway thanks for the comment.
Filing SlothI'm glad you like the first additon. Both you and Ivan Inverse had similar ideas about this story coming off dull at first glance, butI'm glad I didn't bore you to much.