I'm trying to make up for the fact that I haven't written in a while with two whole chapters! Please review! Enjoy! (I don't own Slayers!)

~Kara Metallium ^_~!

Chapter 7 - Spells are Tricky Things

The trickster priest appeared, kneeling, before a pair of well-tanned long legs adorned with strappy, high heel sandals. The legs were crossed and connected to a slender body laid-back in a well-cushioned chair. So grandiose was the chair, that it could be classified as a throne. Traveling up the body, one could see it was encased in a gauzy, near transparent, white dress. Golden gauntlets encased slender wrists, over which were several golden bangles. Long, sharp fingernails decorated with white nailpolish adorned each hand. In one of these hands, a cigarette was held.

Well, where is it? asked a rich, buttery-golden alto.

Here it is, Mistress, Xellos said, extending his arms in which appeared a staff he had been carrying. The hand put down the cigarette and extended toward the weapon. The staff disappeared and reappeared in the slender hand.

And the guardian? Asked a pair of dark red lips that sipped a crystal glass of dark red merlot. Xellos bowed his head lower.

Being taken care of as we speak.

By your minion, I presume.

Hai, Mistress.

Xellos, you have served me for over a millennia, have you not? asked the female mazoku dark lord, gesturing for Xellos to stand and face her. Xellos rose and looked at his mistress.

I have, Juuou-Sama.

Never once, have you left something undone like this. You must place great faith in your minion. That is, considering you've never had one.

Why yes, Juuou-Sama, said Xellos with a smile, cocking his head to the side. Miss Kara is very resourceful, I have no doubts in her abilities. She should be able to handle herself.

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Oh shit!' Kara's mind screamed. This bastard's going to kill me!' Kara had been chased across a huge junglelike forest, over mountains, through valleys, and even over a river or two. Now she was dodging powerful attacks from the ancient dragon, who was chasing her, through a titanic canyon. Just then, Kara ducked out of the way of another laser breath blast, which brought down an immense rock slide into the canyon.

L-Sama be damned! she spat, as she narrowly teleported out of the way of a boulder at the last second. Kara was losing blood from a wound in her side, when she had been too slow at one moment and was knicked by a laser breath attack. The ancient dragon's sleek, black feathered wings were slick with blood. There were also two large gashes on its left flank and its graceful neck.

Uh oh,' thought Kara as she teleported and slammed right into the wall at the end of the canyon. She turned to face the ancient dragon. Its green glowing eyes bored down into her. Both mazoku and rhyzoku paused in their flight. Kara levitated thirty stories above the canyon floor while the dragon's wings beat steadily to maintain its matching altitude.

Well, it's now or never' Kara started to draw power which gathered in her hands. There was only one spell she hadn't tried yet.

The rhyzoku also started to draw power for its final attack. Blinding green energy gathered in its mouth.

Kara smiled grimly. She was going to cast Lina's specialty attack. The dragon slave? No. Kara had already tried three times and had thrice failed. No, Kara was going to cast all mother of attacks, one that called on the Lord of Nightmares. The spell we all know. The one which we love and fear at the same time, one fitting to be classified as a spell of chaos magic. The most powerful destructive spell ever known.

GIGA SLAVE! Kara yelled and released the giant ball of chaotic energy at the dragon, as it simultaneously let loose its own spell. Somewhere in the back of her mind, Kara realized that she probably wouldn't survive this. The dark ball of energy hit the dragon, completely absorbing it. The shock wave and radiating a miasma of energy hit Kara head on. Agonizing pain ripped through her astral and physical bodies. Then suddenly, the pain stopped.