What looked like an intelligent and exceptionally attractive young lady sat at an outdoor table outside a quaint cafe, quietly sipping tea. She was very relaxed that morning, as she had been for sometime. Taking a vacation, she was sure of this now, was absolutely the best thing she could have done in the present situation. Lina Inverse and her gang of lackeys, while usually in progress of eating food ten times their size and incidently destroying villages, were in the part of the anime you don't make a show about. The boring part. Where you travel aimlessly, eating food only two times your size and go through life without ahh, um adventure, shall we say?
Yup, the so-called slow life of the characters. But this is something the writers forgot to write about and totally let it go by them! An adventure not documented? (Well, maybe this isn't an adventure. But it should be written about, because for once that pur--...) Um, well, we shall see about that! (Don't give the plot away Filia!)
Ahem! I, insert author's current pen name, hereby vow to document this down, Filia! So you just keep the teapot flowing. This will become known. I promise! It shall! It will! Upon my soul, body, and heart, I will make it kno--. Uh, whoops. Got a lil' carried away. Okay, Filia, don't hit me with the mace. I'm not Xel--, AGHHH! Sorry, so sorry, so sorry...back to the story, I promise I won't do it again. Heh heh, I won't have to...
Filia was in heaven. Or a place of very close comparison. She had taken a week's vacation and would join the gang again when there was need. Until then, she was enjoying some good ol' R & R in this town. This town was so, so.. wonderful! It was like any other town, make no mistake about that. What she loved about it was what it didn't have. Lina Inverse, trouble, and ...
Filia suddenly tightened her grip on her teacup, breaking its handle. No, she told herself. Just thinking about him only led to him. And having him there would ruin everything. Think positive, he doesn't like that. Pink, pink, pink! Pink, not purple! Uhh, fields of flowers! Black eyed Susans, not violets! Eek, he's black eyed! Sort of, umm... Filia closed her eyes and desperately tried to image beautiful gowns and dresses and lots of flowers without any black eyed Susans OR violets, just trying to keep her mind clear of thoughts of him. C'mon, keep hold of it. Don't think about--! Xelloss suddenly appeared in the chair opposite her. "Filia! You thought?" Filia let her head crash down onto the table and slowly tightened her grip on her cup, crushing it. 'Now who's the masochist?,' she thought sourly to herself. Xelloss smiled at that thought, giving her his happy-eyed countenance. Filia allowed herself to stay in position for a few seconds before she shot up, upsetting her chair. "XELLOSS! YOU PURPLE HAIRED CREEP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Xelloss held his hands up, pretending to try to calm her down. "Now Filia, there's no need to get so upset..." "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?," Filia grabbed mace-sama and pointed it right at his face. "ANSWER ME!" "Why, Filia dearest...you called for me." "I MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT!" Xelloss kept pretending to attempt to calm her, while easily making her angrier. Ahh, did she know what bliss she gave him? All those yummy negative emotions. "But yes you did." "HOW?," asked Filia dangerously. Xelloss spoke sincerely and almost kindly, while struggling not to fall over laughing... "You thought." "I thought..." Xelloss nodded slowly and a little uneasily. She was a bit frightening when she spoke calmly to him. Oh, well, he was a masochist. He would endure this... Filia swung the mace in the high pop position. "MY THOUGHTS ARE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, NAMAGOMI!" Xelloss succeeded in breaking through the awning above, going straight on course and crashing into a nearby window, where a shocked couple lay in bed, now awake... "Oho! What do we have here?," said Xelloss, grinning at them and ready to tease... "NAMAGOMI, YOU GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU, AND I DON'T THINK MY MACE IS EITHER!" Xellos looked out the window at her, smirking as she trembled in complete rage and teleported in front of her. "Ahh, Filia..." Xelloss moved quickly to safe grounds as she swung hard and heavy. "NAMAGOMI..." Xelloss gave her his happy-eyed look again, which is coming to be known as the "Filia Special", and stuck his tongue out at her. "DIE, NAMAGOMI!" "Oh, you almost had me that time!" "I'M GONNA MAKE YOU PAY DEARLY FOR THIS!" "Well, you're the one who wrecked the cafe..." "IT'S YOUR FAULT!" "Oh, I forgot. Dragons always love to push their problems onto others." To make things shorter, this continued until they were in the town's outskirts. And, may I add, it appears like Filia is very capable of destroying towns by herself, without Lina's or any of the others' help. In any case, after the destruction of yet another innocent and helpless community had been completed, Xelloss stopped giving the Dragon Priestess the chase. Filia was ready for that. She swung Mace-sama above her head. "AHA! I'VE GOT YOU NOW!" ...And she charged. And Xelloss waited until she had just almost reached him, moved to the side and tripped her. Filia landed on her face and lost her mace. (Hey, that rhymes! I'm a poet!) Xelloss was sniggering by that time. "Oh, dear. You should really watch those bumps in the ground." Filia popped up and got ready to transform. "THE ONLY BUMP IN THE GROUND IS GONNA BE YOU, XELLOSS!" Xelloss opened one eye. "Oh, so it's Xelloss now?" Filia's hair swarmed all around her, her jewel-fastening lit up, she became incased in golden light and... Nothing happened. Filia looked down herself. "Huh? What's...?" Filia was about to try again when she heard an odd noise and looked up. There was Xelloss rolling on the ground, scarcely able to laugh, almost choking. "Eh heh heh HEH! EH HEH HEH HEH! EEE HEE HEE....." This sound (which can be compared to fingernails on a blackboard for Dragon Priestesses) continued for about 3 minutes before Filia was even able to move, so rigid in anger. She clenched her teeth, walked over, and soundly gave him a stomp on his head. And continued to stomp on 'poor' Xelloss until he was unparalyzed (Xelloss's fanclub: Poor poor Xelloss... --AHH, SHUT IT! He can do with some pain! He likes it!) Xelloss finally caught her foot and almost had to struggle to keep it from hitting him again. "Lighten up, Filia..." "DON'T YOU GIVE ME THAT, YOU FILTHY MAZOKU! YOU RUINED MY TEA, YOU RUINED MY MORNING, YOU RUINED MY WHOLE DAY! AND NOW I'M GONNA RUIN YOU!" Filia struggled to get her foot out of his grasp, eventually managed it, and was about to give him the beating of his life when, of course, he teleported and appeared with his feet on the ground, rubbing his head, leaving Filia to stumble from missing her mark. "SO YOU TRY TO ESCAPE, YOU FRUITCAKE?" Xelloss continued rubbing his head. "Namagomi, Xelloss, filthy Mazoku, and now fruitcake? Don't you think you're over doing it, Filia?" Filia took a deep breath, mad as ever, and tried to compose herself. "Why don't you just take your punishments like a man, Xelloss?" "Oh please. Like I wanted to look up your dress any longer." Filia's eyes went wide with angry and she ran to retrieve her mace, while "YOU FRUITCAKE" instantly followed her, using his teleportation method. She picked up her mace, turned around and gave a tremendous battle cry. "DIE!!!!!!!!" Fortunately for Xelloss, he was able to grab her arms, instead of his usual approach of playing "Catch That Xelloss." "Fil-i-a, don't you want to know why I'm here?," Xelloss asked, trying not to be harmed as Filia struggled with him. After no immediate success, she gave up. "I DID NOT WANT YOU HERE!" Xelloss became sort of sincere with the "Filia Special" on his face. "Oh, 'course you didn't. I know that--" "THEN WHY DID YOU COME?" "Quiet it down and I'll tell you." Xelloss winked at her.
October 2nd, 2004: We're back in business, baby! I recently bought a set of the major three seasons of Slayers, I've got the desire to finish this fanfic, and I've got some ideas! Let's hope we can keep this rolling. As of this date, more editing has been done, hopefully improving the overall composition of this fic. Don't worry, I'll keep my head in the game..if I can keep a deadline of writing one chapter (or at least working on one), I'll be golden.