Dreamlighter Episode 9
*Tick* *Tock*
...went the clock in th biology room of the 4th floor of the Sailoon Privite High School
building on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
The fact that it was completely beautiful outside made the occupants of the room feel even worse. For this was Detention, one of the torcher chambers of S.P. High as one firey redhead liked to put it. The *S* standing for "Satan".......
"Well....."Zelgadiss sighed as he put his head on the desk "I guess it could be worse...."
It wasn`t really what he had expected(being that it was his first time there). Just a two
page essay on approperate behaveour(which he finished in 20 minutes flat) and sitting at a desk from 10:30 to when ever the teacher gets tired of looking at your sorry deliquant face.
It was the hours that was killing our poor hero, he was absolutely bored!!
After torchering him for about an hour, just by his stomache turning presents over Zel`s
shoulder, Satan..er I mean *Mr Xelloss*(hehhe) suddenly left the room, whispering something tothe Teacher`s Aid at the desk before going out.
"Man, Slyphiel isn`t even here" Zel grumbled mentally "At least she is someone nice to talk to, and sweet too. That is, when she is not hanging and drowling over Gourry. Now *that`s*almost a stomache turning as Mr Xellos!!
Wait a minute!!
Why *is* Mr Xelloss so stomache turning??
There was something, Zel felt, not right about that grown-up`s aura. It felt...wrong. *He*
felt wrong. And in other words just like Gourry said, "Creepy"
But there was something familar about that creepiness, something frightfully familar and ......dangerous...like.......
"Excuse me, Zelgadiss" a voice said interupting the young boy`s thoughts.
He looked up from his desk and saw an older girl walking twords him with a small package in her hand.
She was tall and had a very grown-up -like way in her behavior. The only way one could tell that she was still in high school was from her uniform, which was black, meaning she was a 12th grader. And also was one Mr. Xelloss`s T.A.s.
"Yes" he answered
"I want you to run an errand for me."
Zel blinked at her in surprised. Was she allowed to do that? The girl tucked a piese of her short, spiky black behind her ear impaitantly as she waited for a responce.
"Um...Ok I guess....."
"Good. Now take this to the Principals office and if anyone asked, tell them that Eris sent you"
"So I presume that *you* are Eris?"
"Bingo. You catch on quick. Now hurry up and go" she added in an athoritive sort of manner.
The dream guardian took the package as ordered and left the room. He wasn`t going to let *her* sassy attitude ruin his chance of brief freedom. So he knew it was better to keep his mouth shut. *He* wasn`t stupid!! So he took the package with a curt nod and went out the door.
The hall was empty and quiet as he strolled along. It was Saturday, of course there would be hardly anyone here. But that didn`t take away the unpleasent feeling of sound of the empty echoes ringing through the hall as he walked. And also didn`t keep him from walking a tad bit faster.
"Uhg!! I can't believe how human I am acting!!!" he grumbled in self-disgust
But even so, the dark hallway reminded him of a time long ago, a *place* long ago.....
"The castle....of the Lord of Nothingness...."
*Sudden Flashback*
"Why are you doing this, Rezo!!??"
"You do not understand"
"Of course I do not understand! "
"If you shan`t join us....." Rezo turned to him and gave him a cold glare, rarely seen in his usually kind looking blue eyes "Then I shall have to be rid of you"
"No...." Zel choked, trying not to let the tears of sorrow spill from his eyes "F...Father....."
*End of Flashback*
Zel stopped walking and held his head at the sudden flash of memory. Unlike the others, he remembered everything. The destruction of the Dream Castle, the finally battle between his misteress and the Dreamlighter, the pain of his flesh as the stone sealing spell started to engulf his dream guardian body.
And of course....the betrayal of his father.
At the moment Zel suddenly remembered something else. Himself stating that he was going back to the Dreamscape.
As he began walking again, he whispered furiously to himself, "I`m not running away. It doesn`t matter if Dreamstar is Amelia. Why should I care if Dreamstar is here? What`s done is done. She is here to help Lina and I am not needed anymore. That`s it! I`m not needed anymore! So why should I stay here? I am not needed......
****
"Where in world is Zelgadiss when you need him??!!!"
DreamLighter cursedtherself for being unprepared. Here she was thinking that she would only be taking down one lowly Hoshi-kin, and what happens? *Two* of them show up!! Can a dream guardian`s life get any harder?!
"Well there is nothing we can do about it now!" DreamStar responed summoning her ninja stars to her hands,
"But to fight for justice and the way of the dream!!"
"As corny as that sounds Dreamstar, your right!" DreamLighter looked furiously at the sword-armed human-like monster she nick-named Raden and drew her own sword. "Prepare to Die, destroyer of Dreams!!"
"I think it is *you* who should "prepare to die", dream guardian" Raden countered as he charged at her
"Ok Stary!! I got Raden and you get Godzila!!!!" she cried also charging
"Right!!"
DreamStar swiftly through her stars at the lizard like creatures arms which were occupied by holding the young girl by the neck. But not for long! The stars hit there mark with such force that they made it drop the girl and pinned it to the ground!! DreamStar quickly ran to the girl to see if she was ok.
"Are you alright?" she asked softly as she crouched down and lifted the girl`s head to her lap.
"Luci...." she coughed
"Don`t worry will get her back safely"
"Who...are you..? What`s going on..?"
Star smiled at her gentlely before saying "Nothing....it`s all.... just a dream"
And with that she reached inside of her pouch drew out a handful of what looked like shiny rainbow colored dust.
"What..what are you--"
But before the girl could finish her sentence, Star blew the dust into her face. And DreamStar`s reasuring smile was the last thing she saw before she drifted into a peaceful deep sleep.
"And now.." Star stood up and stared angerly at the pinned Hoshi-kin a few feet away from them "as for you Monster, prepare to meet the rath of Justice!!!"
****
"Zelgadiss!" a green haired boy called running towards him.
"Hey Val!" Zel said with a smile. He stopped walking to let the other boy catch up. Val Gaav was one of Zel's roommates at the boarding house he stayed in. Since the first day he met him, Zel felt a sort of connection to the other boy. Sure they were opposite in the way they act and the way they looked, Val being loud and brash, and Zel being quiet and conservative, but they both were on the soccer team, had similar difficulties with their past, and they absolutely LOVED cherry tapioca pudding that, luckly, Val grandma sent him every week and shared with Zel.
"So what's up? Ditching D-time?"
"No, just delivering something for the upperclassman in charge to the princpal"
"Brief moments of freedom, eh?"
"Correct" the smaller boy smirk and began walking again
"Speaking of the Principal... what's up with you and his daughter?" Val asked, walking beside him
"What?!" Zel scoffed unintentionally turning pink at the cheeks "Nothing!"
"That's not what I heard!" the other laughed following his friend up the stairs
"And *what*, pray tell, have YOU heard, Val?"
"Well people have been saying that you have be *secretly* meeting her at the park after school. Some even have been saying that you, my dude, have broken her heart or something like that, and THAT'S why she hasn't been at school for the last two days."
"That is totally crap and you know that Val. Besides if it was such a secret randevue then WHY does half of the school seem to know about it? And about her absence....well it's DEFINITELY not my fault!"
Hmmm...then why did a little voice in the back of his mind say that he was lying to himself??
"Oh really now?" Val chuckled "Then why are there so many key witnesses saying that they have seen you two together at the park more than once?"
"Coincidence.."
"You know there's another theory too? This one says that she's beridden with grief because her father forbids her to see you anymore, sorta like a Romeo and Juliet kinda deal and other one says---"
"Would you come off it Val!!!" Zel yelled in fustration "She doesn't like me OK?! And even if she did before she doesn't NOW! I'm the last thing that's on her mind right now, so would you just SHUT UP???"
"God! You don't got to all Psycho on me dude! It's just a girl..."
"I know....sorry man. I didn't mean to get upset...It's just that---"
"No need for explainations, my dude, I can see that this has you wound up a bit too tight, am I right?"
"Yeah...you know me to well..."
"So did you hear about your girl Lina?" his friend asked, changing the subject
"No. What about her?"
"She asked Couch if she could join the soccer team"
"What?!" Zel looked at his teammate in shock
"Yeah, ya heard me! She mention something about her sis wanting her to take up a school activity or something like that. And can you believe it? Our captain is the one that suggested it to her!"
"Gourry??"
"Yep. The one and only. Though I have to admit, she may be small and annoying but she's a pretty strong chick! Remember when she punch out Zangalus?"
Zel sighed at the memory of his other roomate and teamates recent black eye.
"Man that was quite a punch! Zang was out cold for about an hour!"
"She needs to learn to control her temper.."
"Very true. Well anyway, the couch said that he had never had a girl on the team BUT that he will let her be the manager of the team, AND he quickly added before she could snap at him, that he would let her train with team so she could try out next year."
"Huph, *that* smart of him"
"Wasn't though? Anyway she agreed on the condition that she would be seen as an official team member and all that other crap so her sis wouldn't be on her back"
"Well this is ..to put it mildly...*suprising* news. So Lina Inverse is going to be our team manager.."
"Hey don't hold your breath dude. Knowing her, by next year, she gonna be our teammate!"
"I do know her" Zel sighed opening the principal office door "And THAT'S what scares me!"
*****
"Well now THAT was some excerise, now wasn't it?" Dreamlighter smirk looking over the damage she and her dream partner did.
"Yep! It sure was!" Dreamstar smiled back
Just a few moment ago, the dream guardians had battled their Hoshi-kin enemies with a vengence! Dreamlighter fighting the human-like one with her sword and Dreamstar slaming the lizard-like one all over the place!!! In the end Dreamstar was able to parelize both of the monsters with her *Star Dust Blast* attack with Dreamlighter finishing the battle off with her ultimate attack *Light Beam*!
The hoshi-kin didn't even have a chance with this dynamic duo!
Roasted...toasted....and burt to a satisfing crisp!!
"So what do you do now?" Dreamstar asked. She suddenly held her head as she began to de-tranform "Whoa...what a rush..."
"Oh you'll get use to it" an already de-transform Lina smiled. She then dragged the unconcious teenaged girl to a near by tree and set her there in a comforable position. Amelia followed her example and picked up the passed out 3 year old child and set her onto her older sister's lap.
"Wow...."Amelia whispered " pushing a piece of child's hair from her face "I just saved someone's life...."
"Amelia.." her best friend laughed putting her hand on her shoulder "your good at that kinda of thing."
Amelia smiled brightly.
"And you know what, kid? Now with you around...it doesn't seem so bad.."
"But what about...Zelgadiss?"
"Well if he was here we would have gotten rid of those jerks in 10 minutes instend of the hour that it took us. But about him sticking around....*sigh* I don't know.. He's his person and choses his own path...."
Amelia looked down at her feet saddly.
"But remember Amelia " Lina lifted her friend chin with a gentle finger "We're all in this together. We're all trying to protect the human race."
"I know....."
"And maybe once he get's that through his head then we can REALLY get this party started right?"
"Right, Lina..."Amelia agreed with a small smile
"We just need to work on him that's all..."
"I hope so Lina.....I hope so..."
Whoa!! Lina and Amelia saw caught some action today didn't they? But will this expriance be enough to prepare them for their ultimate battle?? And what about the prophecy? Is it true? And who are these three humans who might one day determain the destiny of the Dreamscape?? And what about Zel??? Is he still determained to leave? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the next episode of the Dreamlighter!!
*Tick* *Tock*
...went the clock in th biology room of the 4th floor of the Sailoon Privite High School
building on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
The fact that it was completely beautiful outside made the occupants of the room feel even worse. For this was Detention, one of the torcher chambers of S.P. High as one firey redhead liked to put it. The *S* standing for "Satan".......
"Well....."Zelgadiss sighed as he put his head on the desk "I guess it could be worse...."
It wasn`t really what he had expected(being that it was his first time there). Just a two
page essay on approperate behaveour(which he finished in 20 minutes flat) and sitting at a desk from 10:30 to when ever the teacher gets tired of looking at your sorry deliquant face.
It was the hours that was killing our poor hero, he was absolutely bored!!
After torchering him for about an hour, just by his stomache turning presents over Zel`s
shoulder, Satan..er I mean *Mr Xelloss*(hehhe) suddenly left the room, whispering something tothe Teacher`s Aid at the desk before going out.
"Man, Slyphiel isn`t even here" Zel grumbled mentally "At least she is someone nice to talk to, and sweet too. That is, when she is not hanging and drowling over Gourry. Now *that`s*almost a stomache turning as Mr Xellos!!
Wait a minute!!
Why *is* Mr Xelloss so stomache turning??
There was something, Zel felt, not right about that grown-up`s aura. It felt...wrong. *He*
felt wrong. And in other words just like Gourry said, "Creepy"
But there was something familar about that creepiness, something frightfully familar and ......dangerous...like.......
"Excuse me, Zelgadiss" a voice said interupting the young boy`s thoughts.
He looked up from his desk and saw an older girl walking twords him with a small package in her hand.
She was tall and had a very grown-up -like way in her behavior. The only way one could tell that she was still in high school was from her uniform, which was black, meaning she was a 12th grader. And also was one Mr. Xelloss`s T.A.s.
"Yes" he answered
"I want you to run an errand for me."
Zel blinked at her in surprised. Was she allowed to do that? The girl tucked a piese of her short, spiky black behind her ear impaitantly as she waited for a responce.
"Um...Ok I guess....."
"Good. Now take this to the Principals office and if anyone asked, tell them that Eris sent you"
"So I presume that *you* are Eris?"
"Bingo. You catch on quick. Now hurry up and go" she added in an athoritive sort of manner.
The dream guardian took the package as ordered and left the room. He wasn`t going to let *her* sassy attitude ruin his chance of brief freedom. So he knew it was better to keep his mouth shut. *He* wasn`t stupid!! So he took the package with a curt nod and went out the door.
The hall was empty and quiet as he strolled along. It was Saturday, of course there would be hardly anyone here. But that didn`t take away the unpleasent feeling of sound of the empty echoes ringing through the hall as he walked. And also didn`t keep him from walking a tad bit faster.
"Uhg!! I can't believe how human I am acting!!!" he grumbled in self-disgust
But even so, the dark hallway reminded him of a time long ago, a *place* long ago.....
"The castle....of the Lord of Nothingness...."
*Sudden Flashback*
"Why are you doing this, Rezo!!??"
"You do not understand"
"Of course I do not understand! "
"If you shan`t join us....." Rezo turned to him and gave him a cold glare, rarely seen in his usually kind looking blue eyes "Then I shall have to be rid of you"
"No...." Zel choked, trying not to let the tears of sorrow spill from his eyes "F...Father....."
*End of Flashback*
Zel stopped walking and held his head at the sudden flash of memory. Unlike the others, he remembered everything. The destruction of the Dream Castle, the finally battle between his misteress and the Dreamlighter, the pain of his flesh as the stone sealing spell started to engulf his dream guardian body.
And of course....the betrayal of his father.
At the moment Zel suddenly remembered something else. Himself stating that he was going back to the Dreamscape.
As he began walking again, he whispered furiously to himself, "I`m not running away. It doesn`t matter if Dreamstar is Amelia. Why should I care if Dreamstar is here? What`s done is done. She is here to help Lina and I am not needed anymore. That`s it! I`m not needed anymore! So why should I stay here? I am not needed......
****
"Where in world is Zelgadiss when you need him??!!!"
DreamLighter cursedtherself for being unprepared. Here she was thinking that she would only be taking down one lowly Hoshi-kin, and what happens? *Two* of them show up!! Can a dream guardian`s life get any harder?!
"Well there is nothing we can do about it now!" DreamStar responed summoning her ninja stars to her hands,
"But to fight for justice and the way of the dream!!"
"As corny as that sounds Dreamstar, your right!" DreamLighter looked furiously at the sword-armed human-like monster she nick-named Raden and drew her own sword. "Prepare to Die, destroyer of Dreams!!"
"I think it is *you* who should "prepare to die", dream guardian" Raden countered as he charged at her
"Ok Stary!! I got Raden and you get Godzila!!!!" she cried also charging
"Right!!"
DreamStar swiftly through her stars at the lizard like creatures arms which were occupied by holding the young girl by the neck. But not for long! The stars hit there mark with such force that they made it drop the girl and pinned it to the ground!! DreamStar quickly ran to the girl to see if she was ok.
"Are you alright?" she asked softly as she crouched down and lifted the girl`s head to her lap.
"Luci...." she coughed
"Don`t worry will get her back safely"
"Who...are you..? What`s going on..?"
Star smiled at her gentlely before saying "Nothing....it`s all.... just a dream"
And with that she reached inside of her pouch drew out a handful of what looked like shiny rainbow colored dust.
"What..what are you--"
But before the girl could finish her sentence, Star blew the dust into her face. And DreamStar`s reasuring smile was the last thing she saw before she drifted into a peaceful deep sleep.
"And now.." Star stood up and stared angerly at the pinned Hoshi-kin a few feet away from them "as for you Monster, prepare to meet the rath of Justice!!!"
****
"Zelgadiss!" a green haired boy called running towards him.
"Hey Val!" Zel said with a smile. He stopped walking to let the other boy catch up. Val Gaav was one of Zel's roommates at the boarding house he stayed in. Since the first day he met him, Zel felt a sort of connection to the other boy. Sure they were opposite in the way they act and the way they looked, Val being loud and brash, and Zel being quiet and conservative, but they both were on the soccer team, had similar difficulties with their past, and they absolutely LOVED cherry tapioca pudding that, luckly, Val grandma sent him every week and shared with Zel.
"So what's up? Ditching D-time?"
"No, just delivering something for the upperclassman in charge to the princpal"
"Brief moments of freedom, eh?"
"Correct" the smaller boy smirk and began walking again
"Speaking of the Principal... what's up with you and his daughter?" Val asked, walking beside him
"What?!" Zel scoffed unintentionally turning pink at the cheeks "Nothing!"
"That's not what I heard!" the other laughed following his friend up the stairs
"And *what*, pray tell, have YOU heard, Val?"
"Well people have been saying that you have be *secretly* meeting her at the park after school. Some even have been saying that you, my dude, have broken her heart or something like that, and THAT'S why she hasn't been at school for the last two days."
"That is totally crap and you know that Val. Besides if it was such a secret randevue then WHY does half of the school seem to know about it? And about her absence....well it's DEFINITELY not my fault!"
Hmmm...then why did a little voice in the back of his mind say that he was lying to himself??
"Oh really now?" Val chuckled "Then why are there so many key witnesses saying that they have seen you two together at the park more than once?"
"Coincidence.."
"You know there's another theory too? This one says that she's beridden with grief because her father forbids her to see you anymore, sorta like a Romeo and Juliet kinda deal and other one says---"
"Would you come off it Val!!!" Zel yelled in fustration "She doesn't like me OK?! And even if she did before she doesn't NOW! I'm the last thing that's on her mind right now, so would you just SHUT UP???"
"God! You don't got to all Psycho on me dude! It's just a girl..."
"I know....sorry man. I didn't mean to get upset...It's just that---"
"No need for explainations, my dude, I can see that this has you wound up a bit too tight, am I right?"
"Yeah...you know me to well..."
"So did you hear about your girl Lina?" his friend asked, changing the subject
"No. What about her?"
"She asked Couch if she could join the soccer team"
"What?!" Zel looked at his teammate in shock
"Yeah, ya heard me! She mention something about her sis wanting her to take up a school activity or something like that. And can you believe it? Our captain is the one that suggested it to her!"
"Gourry??"
"Yep. The one and only. Though I have to admit, she may be small and annoying but she's a pretty strong chick! Remember when she punch out Zangalus?"
Zel sighed at the memory of his other roomate and teamates recent black eye.
"Man that was quite a punch! Zang was out cold for about an hour!"
"She needs to learn to control her temper.."
"Very true. Well anyway, the couch said that he had never had a girl on the team BUT that he will let her be the manager of the team, AND he quickly added before she could snap at him, that he would let her train with team so she could try out next year."
"Huph, *that* smart of him"
"Wasn't though? Anyway she agreed on the condition that she would be seen as an official team member and all that other crap so her sis wouldn't be on her back"
"Well this is ..to put it mildly...*suprising* news. So Lina Inverse is going to be our team manager.."
"Hey don't hold your breath dude. Knowing her, by next year, she gonna be our teammate!"
"I do know her" Zel sighed opening the principal office door "And THAT'S what scares me!"
*****
"Well now THAT was some excerise, now wasn't it?" Dreamlighter smirk looking over the damage she and her dream partner did.
"Yep! It sure was!" Dreamstar smiled back
Just a few moment ago, the dream guardians had battled their Hoshi-kin enemies with a vengence! Dreamlighter fighting the human-like one with her sword and Dreamstar slaming the lizard-like one all over the place!!! In the end Dreamstar was able to parelize both of the monsters with her *Star Dust Blast* attack with Dreamlighter finishing the battle off with her ultimate attack *Light Beam*!
The hoshi-kin didn't even have a chance with this dynamic duo!
Roasted...toasted....and burt to a satisfing crisp!!
"So what do you do now?" Dreamstar asked. She suddenly held her head as she began to de-tranform "Whoa...what a rush..."
"Oh you'll get use to it" an already de-transform Lina smiled. She then dragged the unconcious teenaged girl to a near by tree and set her there in a comforable position. Amelia followed her example and picked up the passed out 3 year old child and set her onto her older sister's lap.
"Wow...."Amelia whispered " pushing a piece of child's hair from her face "I just saved someone's life...."
"Amelia.." her best friend laughed putting her hand on her shoulder "your good at that kinda of thing."
Amelia smiled brightly.
"And you know what, kid? Now with you around...it doesn't seem so bad.."
"But what about...Zelgadiss?"
"Well if he was here we would have gotten rid of those jerks in 10 minutes instend of the hour that it took us. But about him sticking around....*sigh* I don't know.. He's his person and choses his own path...."
Amelia looked down at her feet saddly.
"But remember Amelia " Lina lifted her friend chin with a gentle finger "We're all in this together. We're all trying to protect the human race."
"I know....."
"And maybe once he get's that through his head then we can REALLY get this party started right?"
"Right, Lina..."Amelia agreed with a small smile
"We just need to work on him that's all..."
"I hope so Lina.....I hope so..."
Whoa!! Lina and Amelia saw caught some action today didn't they? But will this expriance be enough to prepare them for their ultimate battle?? And what about the prophecy? Is it true? And who are these three humans who might one day determain the destiny of the Dreamscape?? And what about Zel??? Is he still determained to leave? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the next episode of the Dreamlighter!!