The Dreamlighter
Part one........
*The words of darkness...........*
In the plane between Earth and time, I stood there.......
Facing her as if it was first time I had ever seen her.
She looked different. But I knew it wasn't her, it was *me* that had changed.
I guess in other's opinon, not for the better. She stood there staring at me in
disappontment and discust. Can't really blame her though......
I was going to kill her...
And she knew it......
Our finally words to each other constently ring inside of my head...
* "You can not take over....!" *
But I did.
* "NO! You can not do this!!" *
And I destoryed her in the process.
Sometimes I can't believe I did that. Killed my own flesh and blood. We were both created
by the Lord of Dreams and Imagenation. Both spawned for the same pod.......
Her firey red and my auqa blue. You would think that Lord got us mixed up. You would think
that red is for nightmares and blue is for dreams......but I guess she knew what she was
doing.......
Why am *I* doing this?!
I'm doing it for the power. Also 'cause the Lord of Nothingness and Evil is such a hottie!
But that's not such a good excuse is it?
* "Oh...my poor, poor creatures....." *
Oh man......
********
"Hey Lina!! That's *my* cookie!!"
"Well it didn't look like you were going to eat it, Gourry!"
"It was in my hand!"
"Well it wasn't in your mouth."
Ahh, lunch! The time of day in school where you socialize, relax, and--
"Hey get your own sandwich!
"You got *five*!"
"SOOO!"
umm....and let's not forget *eat*....
"Mfmhm fmm mnferd"
"What?"
"I said" *gulp* "There goes your buddy" he repeated, pointing to a pale young boy with
dark purple. He had just exited the school building and was looking for a place to have
his lunch.
"Oh it's Zelgadiss!" Lina exclaimed.
She quickly got up from her seat on the ground to meet her friend.
"Wait!" Gourry called before she got too far "I thought you were going to have
lunch with me"
"Don't worry I'll be back, just goin' to tell him somethin'"
"Gourry-Dear!!"
Lina mentally flinched..
"Oh, hi, Slyphiel" he said cheerfully to the older girl.
"D..do um..do you mind if I spend the rest of the lunch hour with you..,Gourry-dear?"
"Well, sure, Slyph! The more the better!"
He moved over to give her a spot by the shade. As she sat down, the blush she had
previously had turned from pink to deep red
"Um...don't you work with Mr Xelloss at lunch time?" Lina asked eyeing the two uneasly
"Nope, he didn't need me today" she answered, not taking her eyes off of Gourry
"Didn't you say you were going somewhere?"
"U..yeah.." the red head replied turning away from them "Gotta met up with a friend...."
*******
Zel stared at his lunch, not touching it. For some reason he wasn't hungery. So many
things had happened that he could keep his mind straight....
"What am I going to do?" He whispered to himself
"Do about what??" asked a familar voice
"Do about how you are always in other people business" he answered, not turning around.
He knew who was behind him.
"You're such a crab!" Lina said sitting herself next to him
"And you are annoying"
"Don't I know it!"
"What do you want?" he asked but then seeing her eyeing his un-touched lunch he added
"You aren't getting my meal"
"Actually..." she reluctantly took her eyes off his food "I came to tell my *partner*
something..."
"What?"
The red head smiled wickedly before answering in a sing-a-long voice....
"I know something that *you* that you did!"
"And what might that be.....?
*insert another wicked smile*
"Yesterday you almost got your silly dream guardain butt smashed by a *Suburou Outback*
or maybe it was a *Mersaties* I don't really remember...but all *I* know is that you looked
like you where drunk or even high!!"
"What the--!! How did you find out?! Did she--"
"No Amelia didn't tell me dummy! She wouldn't go around tellin' peoples' business like that,
*I* would."
"Then how--?"
"How did I know?" she finished for him "Well you see....grown-ups talk alot. And I mean a
lot! Officer Gabriev told Principal Sailoon, then he told his brother, the assisant
principal, then he told the secretary, and the she told my sister."
"And why, pray tell, did she tell you sister?"
"Well she just so happens to own the best restaurant *and* night bar in all of Slayville.
And the secretary can't hold her liquor"
"So does the rest of this ridiculously small town know about my business in only 24 hours?"
he replied coldly
"Nope....but not unless I want them to"
"Are you trying to blackmail me?!"
"Yeah! Oh..um I mean no!"
Zel looked at her supisiously.
"Listen Zel," she said with pleaing eyes "I just want to know what's going on.
You're my partner. We're in this for the long hall. You need to tell me if there is
something wrong. And if I have to resort to blackmail, so be it! But if it does.......don't
even *think* I won't enjoy it! Cause, baby, I will!"
"Fine....I tell you. But not here"
His gathered up his stuff and started to walk twords the school building.
"Go get you things and meet me at in the gym" he said over his shoulder "This might take
a while"
******
"What??"
"You heard me, I got to go"
"But you said you were gonna have lunch with me"
Disappointment clearly crossed Gourry's face as Lina finished up gathering her stuff.
"Sorry G' but this is important"
"So having lunch with *him* is more important than having lunch with *me*?"
"No! Gourry it isn't like that! It's just that--...um listen, I'll meet you after school
like we planned Ok? Then I can see your new Playstation game, Swords and Sorrcery, K'?"
"Ok...." he sighed
"What's wrong with having lunch with me, Gourry-dear?" Slypheil said, grabbing his arm
warmly "You can finish the rest of the cookies I made for you"
"Oh yeah!!" Gourry exclaimed, the disappontment vanished from his child-like face at
the mention of food.
Once again the uneasyness of the two other people being so close to each other started
to creep up on Lina. Yet she didn't know why.
******
"This better be good, I think I got Gourry upset at me for taking off like that"
"You two seem to be spending alot of time together" Zel replied putting his bookbag
on the bleachers. He sat himself down and then gestured to Lina to do the same.
"Yeah well.," she said sitting down "He's fun to hang with, unlike *most* boys I know"
"Are you trying to say I'm not fun?"
"You'er a 16 year old who acts like he's 40! Howda ya exspect me feel?"
"So I'm guessing you have a better time on you dates with Gourry"
"DATES?? Who said anything about dates??! He just a cool dude I hang with. His not my
boyfriend!"
"Yeah right" Zel said under his breath, this situration was really making him cross...
"Hey! It's your own fault that you're a stick in the mud!"
"Hold on a minute! Unlike most teens, we, meaning *you* and I, have a lot of serious
things to do and worry about.....and that leads to our problem at hand......."
"Well cut to the chase!"
Zelgadiss looked at her for a minute, uncertain. He seemed to be having a hard time trying
to find the right words
"I....I think that the battle between you and Dreamdarker is going to be sooner than
I thought....."
"What??! I've only had *one* fight between a Hoshi-kin and *that* didn't even go
that well!! I'm not ready!"
"I know. That's why we need to find Dreamstar and fast"
"Yep, you're right. Maybe with the three of us together, might just stand a chance!"
"Actually Just the *two* of you. After we find Dreamstar I'm leaving......."
"No way Zel!! We're going to need you!!"
"I've made my decision. I'm going back to the Dreamscape and see if I can find any clues
to how to beat Martina." He looked down and stared hard at his hands
"It'll be better that way"
"Do you really hate me that much?" Lina whispered, she tried not to sound too hurt but
she couldn't pull it off "And go away when I'm really going to need you?"
To Be Continued............
Part one........
*The words of darkness...........*
In the plane between Earth and time, I stood there.......
Facing her as if it was first time I had ever seen her.
She looked different. But I knew it wasn't her, it was *me* that had changed.
I guess in other's opinon, not for the better. She stood there staring at me in
disappontment and discust. Can't really blame her though......
I was going to kill her...
And she knew it......
Our finally words to each other constently ring inside of my head...
* "You can not take over....!" *
But I did.
* "NO! You can not do this!!" *
And I destoryed her in the process.
Sometimes I can't believe I did that. Killed my own flesh and blood. We were both created
by the Lord of Dreams and Imagenation. Both spawned for the same pod.......
Her firey red and my auqa blue. You would think that Lord got us mixed up. You would think
that red is for nightmares and blue is for dreams......but I guess she knew what she was
doing.......
Why am *I* doing this?!
I'm doing it for the power. Also 'cause the Lord of Nothingness and Evil is such a hottie!
But that's not such a good excuse is it?
* "Oh...my poor, poor creatures....." *
Oh man......
********
"Hey Lina!! That's *my* cookie!!"
"Well it didn't look like you were going to eat it, Gourry!"
"It was in my hand!"
"Well it wasn't in your mouth."
Ahh, lunch! The time of day in school where you socialize, relax, and--
"Hey get your own sandwich!
"You got *five*!"
"SOOO!"
umm....and let's not forget *eat*....
"Mfmhm fmm mnferd"
"What?"
"I said" *gulp* "There goes your buddy" he repeated, pointing to a pale young boy with
dark purple. He had just exited the school building and was looking for a place to have
his lunch.
"Oh it's Zelgadiss!" Lina exclaimed.
She quickly got up from her seat on the ground to meet her friend.
"Wait!" Gourry called before she got too far "I thought you were going to have
lunch with me"
"Don't worry I'll be back, just goin' to tell him somethin'"
"Gourry-Dear!!"
Lina mentally flinched..
"Oh, hi, Slyphiel" he said cheerfully to the older girl.
"D..do um..do you mind if I spend the rest of the lunch hour with you..,Gourry-dear?"
"Well, sure, Slyph! The more the better!"
He moved over to give her a spot by the shade. As she sat down, the blush she had
previously had turned from pink to deep red
"Um...don't you work with Mr Xelloss at lunch time?" Lina asked eyeing the two uneasly
"Nope, he didn't need me today" she answered, not taking her eyes off of Gourry
"Didn't you say you were going somewhere?"
"U..yeah.." the red head replied turning away from them "Gotta met up with a friend...."
*******
Zel stared at his lunch, not touching it. For some reason he wasn't hungery. So many
things had happened that he could keep his mind straight....
"What am I going to do?" He whispered to himself
"Do about what??" asked a familar voice
"Do about how you are always in other people business" he answered, not turning around.
He knew who was behind him.
"You're such a crab!" Lina said sitting herself next to him
"And you are annoying"
"Don't I know it!"
"What do you want?" he asked but then seeing her eyeing his un-touched lunch he added
"You aren't getting my meal"
"Actually..." she reluctantly took her eyes off his food "I came to tell my *partner*
something..."
"What?"
The red head smiled wickedly before answering in a sing-a-long voice....
"I know something that *you* that you did!"
"And what might that be.....?
*insert another wicked smile*
"Yesterday you almost got your silly dream guardain butt smashed by a *Suburou Outback*
or maybe it was a *Mersaties* I don't really remember...but all *I* know is that you looked
like you where drunk or even high!!"
"What the--!! How did you find out?! Did she--"
"No Amelia didn't tell me dummy! She wouldn't go around tellin' peoples' business like that,
*I* would."
"Then how--?"
"How did I know?" she finished for him "Well you see....grown-ups talk alot. And I mean a
lot! Officer Gabriev told Principal Sailoon, then he told his brother, the assisant
principal, then he told the secretary, and the she told my sister."
"And why, pray tell, did she tell you sister?"
"Well she just so happens to own the best restaurant *and* night bar in all of Slayville.
And the secretary can't hold her liquor"
"So does the rest of this ridiculously small town know about my business in only 24 hours?"
he replied coldly
"Nope....but not unless I want them to"
"Are you trying to blackmail me?!"
"Yeah! Oh..um I mean no!"
Zel looked at her supisiously.
"Listen Zel," she said with pleaing eyes "I just want to know what's going on.
You're my partner. We're in this for the long hall. You need to tell me if there is
something wrong. And if I have to resort to blackmail, so be it! But if it does.......don't
even *think* I won't enjoy it! Cause, baby, I will!"
"Fine....I tell you. But not here"
His gathered up his stuff and started to walk twords the school building.
"Go get you things and meet me at in the gym" he said over his shoulder "This might take
a while"
******
"What??"
"You heard me, I got to go"
"But you said you were gonna have lunch with me"
Disappointment clearly crossed Gourry's face as Lina finished up gathering her stuff.
"Sorry G' but this is important"
"So having lunch with *him* is more important than having lunch with *me*?"
"No! Gourry it isn't like that! It's just that--...um listen, I'll meet you after school
like we planned Ok? Then I can see your new Playstation game, Swords and Sorrcery, K'?"
"Ok...." he sighed
"What's wrong with having lunch with me, Gourry-dear?" Slypheil said, grabbing his arm
warmly "You can finish the rest of the cookies I made for you"
"Oh yeah!!" Gourry exclaimed, the disappontment vanished from his child-like face at
the mention of food.
Once again the uneasyness of the two other people being so close to each other started
to creep up on Lina. Yet she didn't know why.
******
"This better be good, I think I got Gourry upset at me for taking off like that"
"You two seem to be spending alot of time together" Zel replied putting his bookbag
on the bleachers. He sat himself down and then gestured to Lina to do the same.
"Yeah well.," she said sitting down "He's fun to hang with, unlike *most* boys I know"
"Are you trying to say I'm not fun?"
"You'er a 16 year old who acts like he's 40! Howda ya exspect me feel?"
"So I'm guessing you have a better time on you dates with Gourry"
"DATES?? Who said anything about dates??! He just a cool dude I hang with. His not my
boyfriend!"
"Yeah right" Zel said under his breath, this situration was really making him cross...
"Hey! It's your own fault that you're a stick in the mud!"
"Hold on a minute! Unlike most teens, we, meaning *you* and I, have a lot of serious
things to do and worry about.....and that leads to our problem at hand......."
"Well cut to the chase!"
Zelgadiss looked at her for a minute, uncertain. He seemed to be having a hard time trying
to find the right words
"I....I think that the battle between you and Dreamdarker is going to be sooner than
I thought....."
"What??! I've only had *one* fight between a Hoshi-kin and *that* didn't even go
that well!! I'm not ready!"
"I know. That's why we need to find Dreamstar and fast"
"Yep, you're right. Maybe with the three of us together, might just stand a chance!"
"Actually Just the *two* of you. After we find Dreamstar I'm leaving......."
"No way Zel!! We're going to need you!!"
"I've made my decision. I'm going back to the Dreamscape and see if I can find any clues
to how to beat Martina." He looked down and stared hard at his hands
"It'll be better that way"
"Do you really hate me that much?" Lina whispered, she tried not to sound too hurt but
she couldn't pull it off "And go away when I'm really going to need you?"
To Be Continued............