Disclaimer: I own none of the characters from the Slayers series. And although I made up the Inverse Hunters I'm sure official versions of them exist somewhere in some form, belonging to someone else. Honest.

Note: The main bulk of this is between NEXT and TRY, maybe a week or so after the end of NEXT.

INVERSE HUNTERS

The War of the Monster's Resurrection/Fall

Phibrizzo, Hell-master of this world, leader of Shabranigdo's generals and second mightiest Mazoku of them all, was having a rather good century. He had located and resurrected a piece of the Dark Lord himself, located the Water Dragon King and had gotten a barrier established to prevent him from escaping. Things were going quite well…

 Of course, that was if you ignored the incursion of the three Overworlders and the subsequent destruction of his generals and priests at their hands, or rather, their appetites. Of course Phibrizzo had found a way of getting some decent entertainment out of the situation.

How? Simple, he had gotten the Golden Dragons of Dragon's peak to come aid him in the hunt of the intruders and made them do all the work mostly. Oh, he could've just called on Xellos seeing as how Zelas' owed him a favor. But he decided against it. He might need that favor to borrow Xellos for some other important occasion down the road, also, the Overworlders were apparently had sunk to a Vampirism of sorts. They needed to suck the life energies of powerful magical beings in order to remain strong in this world, even though most magicks worked rather pathetically on them. Phibrizzo learnt this well when he saw his generals and priests reduced to dry empty husks before their astral forms faded away when he decided to have these intruders investigated. Of he had learnt certain things about them but the cost was too high.

So he was fully content to call a temporary cease-fire between his forces and the Golden Dragons and whip up some silly drivel to them of how the Overworlders posed a great threat to all races in this world. He went on to speak of how they were searching for a means to destroy everything both sides had worked for; they could not be allowed to be left alone, etc. He really needed to thank Dynast for those lessons on Oratory. Maybe he would name him his successor or something like that. As if he would ever need one, it was rather laughable to think that Hellmaster would ever be destroyed by anything less than the Lord of Nightmares!

He had allowed a dragon army to be decimated by two of them while he moved in at the last moment to capture the weakened duo. He had allowed the last one to run around in the Human realm of Lyzeille, he had heard that the Dragons had sent three of their greatest Golden Dragon warriors there and no one had heard from any of them in quite some time. Oh well, poo-poo for the Dragons, less trouble for the Mazoku in the long run.

He looked down from his throne, the Golden Dragons, or at least the survivors anyway, had sent a representative to make sure that Phibrizzo truly sealed them away and not just tried to convert them. It was a nice thought but they probably would have been too much expensive to keep around, what with the vampirism and all. The Dragon, some silly hippy named Mallgizio or whatever, simply observed and then walked off as fast as possible after the sealing was complete.

"You two have caused quite the ruckus, but for what it's worth, I think it's a tragedy you were born to the wrong world. I know I would've liked having you two around. Anyway, I hear Gaav is having some trouble concerning some spell the Aqualord got off at him. So toodles…" the child spoke with a smirk as he zipped away.

Time passed on, the War of Monster's Fall came to it's end with the betrayal of Gaav and Aqualord's destruction. The Demon King of the North had his Headquarters established at the Kataart Mountains. The Barrier area was established and the Swordsman of Light slew Zanaffar and created Flagoon. The second awakening of Shabranigdo via Rezo occurred, and a certain redhead caught Phibrizzo's attention. He called in that favor from Zelas and decided to resurrect a city of the dead when he got tired of sitting around waiting for her.

Then he died.

But that is a story already told, this tale is of what happened in the aftermath of the Shoveler giving Phibby a spanking to remember and of the two sealed away.

Oh yeah, it also features some people called the Slayers…