Chapter Seven: Celebration Ritual.
Xellos sat on the roof top looking down as Filia and the others made their way towards the small resturant that Lina and Gourry had gone to. He was tingling still just watching Filia walk. The memory of the kiss he had just stolen from her was still fresh in his mind. But he shouldn't have been feeling this way. It was after all just a joke. He really should have been concentrating on what his next move was.
Yet still he found his mind wandering towards her. Somehow he couldn't help but think about it. She was suppose to hate him, and that hate is what he loved most. Maybe it was nothing. He should just get back to the task of before. He needed to find out who Minori's heir was. He grinned and then dissapeared from the roof top.
*******
Filia sat down beside Zelgadis and Amelia. She was feeling quite exhausted after running, after the rock. She just wanted to relax but all her mind could think about was that aragont monster kissing her, and after she had said no. She wanted to hit him so bad she could almost taste it. Why was he always like that? Why could she not even hold a decent conversation without him interrupting it with somthing rude?
She looked towards Val. He was looking up at Lina with great intrest. Most likely the fact that she could wolf down a whole meal within a matter of seconds and he just didn't want to miss a single moment of this momentious occation. She loved the way his whole face lit up with something intresting happened. He was nothing like that selfish monster. He was always as polite as he could be. Suddenly her thoughts were interuped by Amelia shouting.
"Look at this!" She cried, pinning a piece of paper in the middle of the table with her hand.
Lina peered over her cup at it.
"It's a celebration. So what?" Lina replied, setting her cup down and grabbing at the spagetti.
"Not just any celebration!" Amelia exclaimed. "Do you know where we are?"
Lina shook her head.
"We are in the lost city of Argoth." Amelia stated.
Zelgadis turned towards the piece of paper suddenly full of intrest. "Lost city."
Filia looked at her shooked. She had been too busy worrying about Xellos to even consider she didn't know where they were. She glanced over at the paper herself.
"What's the celebration for?" asked Lina.
"Excellent question Lina."
Filia groaned. Xellos always came in with useless information about this time. Why couldn't he just vanish and stay vanished?
He walked up to the table and took a seat beside Zelgadis.
"So?" asked an impatint Zelgadis.
"It's a celebration for Iola and Minori," he said, eyeing Filia. "This is the town they met in."
Filia felt like she was going to throw up. How did Xellos know about Iola and Minori. Only the people in the town knew, and the direct decendents. Did he kill or torture someone for the information. He was a monster for god sake, he had to have done something evil to find out.
"Don't look shocked Filia," Xellos replied, "Mistress Zelas told me."
The others looked at Filia.
"They were the two that fell in love right?" asked Lina.
"Yes." Xellos replied.
"It's a once in a lifetime thing." Amelia cried, jumping up and knocking over the table infront of her.
"What do you mean once in a lifetime?" Lina said.
"This town is always changing." Xellos anwsered.
"Umm...right, but people must come here all the time."
"No." Amelia cried.
"Why, it must be a popular tourist attraction, being the town that the two met in and all." Lina said, finally finished with her meal.
"Why?" Zelgadis asked.
" It's ever moving." Filia said.
They all looked towards her except for Xellos. Lina smiled, finally someone else she could ask questions to besides Xellos.
"So you mean to tell me that this town, never stays in the same spot. So people can't place it on a map or anything?"
Filia nodded. Xellos still watching her.
"Well if it's a once and a life time thing we might as well go." Gourry said, finishing up the last of his meal.
"What!!!" Lina cried. "I thought we were on our way to see Malgasia, or have you all fogotten the prophecy?"
"I think it would be quite intresting." Xellos said, grinning in his normal manner.
"Well, fine then, but don't blame me if it's the end of the world." She sighed.
"Thank you Miss. Lina." Amelia said, dancing in a circle.
*****Later that night. As in Night time.*******
Filia walked out of the Inn they had got rooms in, following an exstatic Amelia. There were people everywhere. Crowds were just swarming the streets. Lights were set up all around so everyone could see everyone else's costum. Filia couldn't help but feel a little Jeleous, that they all got to dress up and she didn't.
Her attention drifted from the costums towards a large stage in the middle of the street. There were three different parts to it. The smallest level was in the middle, and then there were two towers set up on either side. In the middle there was an elderly man talking to a woman and a man.
"It's for the ceremony." Amelia explained, then turned towards Zelgadis. "Do you want to dance?" she asked, blushing as he accepted and followed her towards the area where everyone was dancing.
Lina almost immediately followed prosuit, dragging Gourry who had little knowledge of what was going on.
Filia smiled at her friends, when a woman walked over towards her looking down at Val.
"Hello there." She said.
Filia turned towards the woman, she saw that she was wearing a brilliant red gown and her hair was curled just to hang life like from her head. Val looked up at Filia and then turned back to the woman.
"Hello." He said.
The woman smiled, then looked up at Filia. "Are you his mother?"
Filia nodded.
"I was wondering if I could borrow your son for the ceremony. You see, we need a boy about his age, and my son recently got sick so he wasn't going to be able to preform tonight," the woman explained. "I promise he won't be hurt. You can come up to the stage after the preformance to get him."
Filia looked at Val. "Do you want to?" she asked.
Val looked at the stage then between the two women. "Sure." he replied.
The woman smiled. "Thank you."
With that the woman and Val dissapeared into the crowds with Filia watching them. When suddenly a hand fell apon her shoulder.
"Do you really want to dance?"
She sighed, knowing all to well who the voice belong to. She knew that the only one that she would most likely get to dance with was Xellos.
"Might as well." She said, letting him lead her out where others were dancing.
She slung her arm onto his shoulder, as he wrapped his around her waist. She shuttered a bit making him chuckle.
"I thought you hated me." He said.
"I do." She replied, looking away, as they entwined there fingers.
"Then why are you dancing with me?" he asked.
"Because your the only one left." She glared at him.
He smirked. "Really, well apparently you didn't see all the other avaliable men that would be willing to dance with you."
Filia thought about it for a moment. He was telling the truth. Why did she choose to dance with him when she could have danced with someone else? Someone that her race didn't hate. Someone she might actually get along with and have a civialized conversation with?
She didn't reply to that, so Xellos decided to change the subject.
"I didn't think you were so brave." He said.
"Was that a compliment?" she asked.
"I suppose it was, if you want it to be."
Filia didn't know what to say that was the first time something like Xellos would have ever complimented her.
"Why do you say I'm brave?" she asked.
"You let a total stranger, come and take Val." he said.
Filia who had thought it to first be a compliment now thought it to be something dreadful. He was talking about her parenting skills. How she let Val go because she didn't care what happen to him but she did care about Val. More then her own life.
"Val wanted to go. They just needed someone for the ceremony since the boy was sick." she countered.
"Speaking of the ceremony." Xellos turned his head to the stage.
Filia turned and looked just as two fireworks went off. The crowds errupted in cheers, and she let go of Xellos to find the others.
"Ladies and Gentlemen," the elderly man that had been on stage earlier was holding a microphone. "If we could have your attention please. We are going to start the ceremony."
The lights went off just as Filia reached the others.
"The town of Argoth has always lived in the legend of two peoples love. One of evil."
A light shot around the one tower and the girl he had been talking to earlier through her hands up in the air then brought them down as if to bow.
"And one of good."
Another light turned on around the other tower and a young man stood doing the same movements.
"But," the old man's voice said, as both lights went out again leaving the crowds in darkness. "That was then."
Another light shot on this time in the middle. Another couple stood there. They looked at each other and turned away as if discusted.
"And this is now."
The lights started to flash on and off, trying to create a strobe light effect for the stage. The old man walked up behind Val, who was standing in the middle. He held an old necklace in the air.
"At this time, in three days the real ceremony of the worlds begin. That which will determine the fate of mankind."
He lowered the necklace and placed in around Val's neck.
As soon as he did though Xellos fell to one knee. It was as if his skin had been ripped right from him. The pain was unbearable. Like someone was pushing him to the ground.
Then a voice range out in his head.
"Iola, where are you? I'm looking for you. Come back to me!"
Almost as sudden has it had started Xellos felt the release. He breathed in for a moment before standing up. He hadn't the slightest clue what was going on.
*****
Filia screamed out and collapse into Zelgadis's arms. This caught the attention of some of the crowd and the other slayers. Lina rushed over to her friend.
"Filia what's wrong?" she cried.
Filia gasped for air. "I don't know." she exclaimed.
The voice suddenly came into her mind.
"Minori. I'm right here. Can't you see me? Can't you reconize me? I'm waiting for you?"
Then all the pain the dragon had just felt vanished from her whole body.
"I'm all right now." Filia said, slowly standing up.
There was a bright flash of light and Val dissapeared. Filia and the others watched as a young man appeared in Val's spot. He had silver hair that was short and he was wearing the strangest robes. Filia had never seen anything like them but Xellos had. They were the robes of the enemy of The Lord of Nightmares. The one enemy that had started a war against her. The enemy of the scroll.
The man suddenly spoke. "There will come a controller of the world's destiny. When two beings are to join. A power possessed beyond anything seen. And if they should fail. The darkness will surround the light in pain...."
They all looked at the stage in shock.
"The Prophecy!" Lina cried.
Sorry about the chapter taking so long to put up. It got deleted twice right off the hard drive, so we had to re-write it about three times now.We are trying to keep up with this story. It just doesn't tickle our fancy at the moment. Don't worry though. We are not quiting on it because we still love slayers and we want all of you to enjoy the fanfiction. Thanks for your reveiws. We love to hear from you.
Xellos sat on the roof top looking down as Filia and the others made their way towards the small resturant that Lina and Gourry had gone to. He was tingling still just watching Filia walk. The memory of the kiss he had just stolen from her was still fresh in his mind. But he shouldn't have been feeling this way. It was after all just a joke. He really should have been concentrating on what his next move was.
Yet still he found his mind wandering towards her. Somehow he couldn't help but think about it. She was suppose to hate him, and that hate is what he loved most. Maybe it was nothing. He should just get back to the task of before. He needed to find out who Minori's heir was. He grinned and then dissapeared from the roof top.
*******
Filia sat down beside Zelgadis and Amelia. She was feeling quite exhausted after running, after the rock. She just wanted to relax but all her mind could think about was that aragont monster kissing her, and after she had said no. She wanted to hit him so bad she could almost taste it. Why was he always like that? Why could she not even hold a decent conversation without him interrupting it with somthing rude?
She looked towards Val. He was looking up at Lina with great intrest. Most likely the fact that she could wolf down a whole meal within a matter of seconds and he just didn't want to miss a single moment of this momentious occation. She loved the way his whole face lit up with something intresting happened. He was nothing like that selfish monster. He was always as polite as he could be. Suddenly her thoughts were interuped by Amelia shouting.
"Look at this!" She cried, pinning a piece of paper in the middle of the table with her hand.
Lina peered over her cup at it.
"It's a celebration. So what?" Lina replied, setting her cup down and grabbing at the spagetti.
"Not just any celebration!" Amelia exclaimed. "Do you know where we are?"
Lina shook her head.
"We are in the lost city of Argoth." Amelia stated.
Zelgadis turned towards the piece of paper suddenly full of intrest. "Lost city."
Filia looked at her shooked. She had been too busy worrying about Xellos to even consider she didn't know where they were. She glanced over at the paper herself.
"What's the celebration for?" asked Lina.
"Excellent question Lina."
Filia groaned. Xellos always came in with useless information about this time. Why couldn't he just vanish and stay vanished?
He walked up to the table and took a seat beside Zelgadis.
"So?" asked an impatint Zelgadis.
"It's a celebration for Iola and Minori," he said, eyeing Filia. "This is the town they met in."
Filia felt like she was going to throw up. How did Xellos know about Iola and Minori. Only the people in the town knew, and the direct decendents. Did he kill or torture someone for the information. He was a monster for god sake, he had to have done something evil to find out.
"Don't look shocked Filia," Xellos replied, "Mistress Zelas told me."
The others looked at Filia.
"They were the two that fell in love right?" asked Lina.
"Yes." Xellos replied.
"It's a once in a lifetime thing." Amelia cried, jumping up and knocking over the table infront of her.
"What do you mean once in a lifetime?" Lina said.
"This town is always changing." Xellos anwsered.
"Umm...right, but people must come here all the time."
"No." Amelia cried.
"Why, it must be a popular tourist attraction, being the town that the two met in and all." Lina said, finally finished with her meal.
"Why?" Zelgadis asked.
" It's ever moving." Filia said.
They all looked towards her except for Xellos. Lina smiled, finally someone else she could ask questions to besides Xellos.
"So you mean to tell me that this town, never stays in the same spot. So people can't place it on a map or anything?"
Filia nodded. Xellos still watching her.
"Well if it's a once and a life time thing we might as well go." Gourry said, finishing up the last of his meal.
"What!!!" Lina cried. "I thought we were on our way to see Malgasia, or have you all fogotten the prophecy?"
"I think it would be quite intresting." Xellos said, grinning in his normal manner.
"Well, fine then, but don't blame me if it's the end of the world." She sighed.
"Thank you Miss. Lina." Amelia said, dancing in a circle.
*****Later that night. As in Night time.*******
Filia walked out of the Inn they had got rooms in, following an exstatic Amelia. There were people everywhere. Crowds were just swarming the streets. Lights were set up all around so everyone could see everyone else's costum. Filia couldn't help but feel a little Jeleous, that they all got to dress up and she didn't.
Her attention drifted from the costums towards a large stage in the middle of the street. There were three different parts to it. The smallest level was in the middle, and then there were two towers set up on either side. In the middle there was an elderly man talking to a woman and a man.
"It's for the ceremony." Amelia explained, then turned towards Zelgadis. "Do you want to dance?" she asked, blushing as he accepted and followed her towards the area where everyone was dancing.
Lina almost immediately followed prosuit, dragging Gourry who had little knowledge of what was going on.
Filia smiled at her friends, when a woman walked over towards her looking down at Val.
"Hello there." She said.
Filia turned towards the woman, she saw that she was wearing a brilliant red gown and her hair was curled just to hang life like from her head. Val looked up at Filia and then turned back to the woman.
"Hello." He said.
The woman smiled, then looked up at Filia. "Are you his mother?"
Filia nodded.
"I was wondering if I could borrow your son for the ceremony. You see, we need a boy about his age, and my son recently got sick so he wasn't going to be able to preform tonight," the woman explained. "I promise he won't be hurt. You can come up to the stage after the preformance to get him."
Filia looked at Val. "Do you want to?" she asked.
Val looked at the stage then between the two women. "Sure." he replied.
The woman smiled. "Thank you."
With that the woman and Val dissapeared into the crowds with Filia watching them. When suddenly a hand fell apon her shoulder.
"Do you really want to dance?"
She sighed, knowing all to well who the voice belong to. She knew that the only one that she would most likely get to dance with was Xellos.
"Might as well." She said, letting him lead her out where others were dancing.
She slung her arm onto his shoulder, as he wrapped his around her waist. She shuttered a bit making him chuckle.
"I thought you hated me." He said.
"I do." She replied, looking away, as they entwined there fingers.
"Then why are you dancing with me?" he asked.
"Because your the only one left." She glared at him.
He smirked. "Really, well apparently you didn't see all the other avaliable men that would be willing to dance with you."
Filia thought about it for a moment. He was telling the truth. Why did she choose to dance with him when she could have danced with someone else? Someone that her race didn't hate. Someone she might actually get along with and have a civialized conversation with?
She didn't reply to that, so Xellos decided to change the subject.
"I didn't think you were so brave." He said.
"Was that a compliment?" she asked.
"I suppose it was, if you want it to be."
Filia didn't know what to say that was the first time something like Xellos would have ever complimented her.
"Why do you say I'm brave?" she asked.
"You let a total stranger, come and take Val." he said.
Filia who had thought it to first be a compliment now thought it to be something dreadful. He was talking about her parenting skills. How she let Val go because she didn't care what happen to him but she did care about Val. More then her own life.
"Val wanted to go. They just needed someone for the ceremony since the boy was sick." she countered.
"Speaking of the ceremony." Xellos turned his head to the stage.
Filia turned and looked just as two fireworks went off. The crowds errupted in cheers, and she let go of Xellos to find the others.
"Ladies and Gentlemen," the elderly man that had been on stage earlier was holding a microphone. "If we could have your attention please. We are going to start the ceremony."
The lights went off just as Filia reached the others.
"The town of Argoth has always lived in the legend of two peoples love. One of evil."
A light shot around the one tower and the girl he had been talking to earlier through her hands up in the air then brought them down as if to bow.
"And one of good."
Another light turned on around the other tower and a young man stood doing the same movements.
"But," the old man's voice said, as both lights went out again leaving the crowds in darkness. "That was then."
Another light shot on this time in the middle. Another couple stood there. They looked at each other and turned away as if discusted.
"And this is now."
The lights started to flash on and off, trying to create a strobe light effect for the stage. The old man walked up behind Val, who was standing in the middle. He held an old necklace in the air.
"At this time, in three days the real ceremony of the worlds begin. That which will determine the fate of mankind."
He lowered the necklace and placed in around Val's neck.
As soon as he did though Xellos fell to one knee. It was as if his skin had been ripped right from him. The pain was unbearable. Like someone was pushing him to the ground.
Then a voice range out in his head.
"Iola, where are you? I'm looking for you. Come back to me!"
Almost as sudden has it had started Xellos felt the release. He breathed in for a moment before standing up. He hadn't the slightest clue what was going on.
*****
Filia screamed out and collapse into Zelgadis's arms. This caught the attention of some of the crowd and the other slayers. Lina rushed over to her friend.
"Filia what's wrong?" she cried.
Filia gasped for air. "I don't know." she exclaimed.
The voice suddenly came into her mind.
"Minori. I'm right here. Can't you see me? Can't you reconize me? I'm waiting for you?"
Then all the pain the dragon had just felt vanished from her whole body.
"I'm all right now." Filia said, slowly standing up.
There was a bright flash of light and Val dissapeared. Filia and the others watched as a young man appeared in Val's spot. He had silver hair that was short and he was wearing the strangest robes. Filia had never seen anything like them but Xellos had. They were the robes of the enemy of The Lord of Nightmares. The one enemy that had started a war against her. The enemy of the scroll.
The man suddenly spoke. "There will come a controller of the world's destiny. When two beings are to join. A power possessed beyond anything seen. And if they should fail. The darkness will surround the light in pain...."
They all looked at the stage in shock.
"The Prophecy!" Lina cried.
Sorry about the chapter taking so long to put up. It got deleted twice right off the hard drive, so we had to re-write it about three times now.We are trying to keep up with this story. It just doesn't tickle our fancy at the moment. Don't worry though. We are not quiting on it because we still love slayers and we want all of you to enjoy the fanfiction. Thanks for your reveiws. We love to hear from you.