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Sorry this took so long, I had to watch a few episodes of Try again before I got any ideas. Please, R/R, and also, tell me what you'd like to see next, or which character. Thanx!
A Slayers Christmas, Filia's turn!
As she entered the Dining room of the inn, Filia looked on to what might have been a battlefield. In the center of the room, there was a large table, usually seating parties of 12 people. However, despite the amount of food and empty plates that would suggest 12 had recently eaten, there were, at the moment, only three seated. One of the occupants, a heavily cloaked man with blue hair and skin, wasn't actually eating much, but rather there just in case an argument broke out between the other two and someone had to intervene. The other two, a short redheaded girl and a tall man with a mane of long blonde hair, were eating enough food to throw a banquet, and then some. Sure enough, as Filia moved to sit down, Lina and Gourry reached for the same drumstick.
"HEY!" Shouted Lina. "That's mine!" "You've eaten more than I have!" argued Gourry. "Besides, you don't need it. It's not like you or any other part of your body is going to be growing any time…OWW!!!" Lina smashed the master-swordsman over the head with her fist as he touched on one of the more delicate subjects. Filia sighed. It was people like Gourry that gave support to the stereotype of dumb-blondes.
"Hi Lina." She said as she sat down "How's the food?" "Pretty good" Muttered Lina, somehow talking despite the constant flow of food into her mouth. Filia's brow knitted. "Is…he alright" She asked, indicating Gourry, who was lying face down in a bowl of soup. "Oh sure!" Lina said, "He's pretty much used to it, see?" She smacked him across the side of the head, spilling the soup all over him in the process. "OW! Lina, what was that for?" "See?" Lina smiled at Filia. "If there's nothing in there to be damaged, it can't get damaged."
Her eyes suddenly dropped to the floor. Um…Filia?" "What?" The golden dragon asked. Lina whispered in her ear. "Tail." Filia blushed and quickly pulled it back around her waist, hoping no one had noticed. It had an annoying habit of popping out from under her dress when ever she was angry, something that was happening with alarming frequency now that she kept running into that purple haired demon. "So, you just had an argument with your boyfriend?" Lina teased. Filia turned red, almost losing control of her tail again. "That demon is the cause for my peoples destruction! To even suggest we are…together" She shuddered. "Is unspeakable" Privately to herself, she thought, "Even if he does have a certain charm about…. NO!" She mentally clubbed herself over the head with mace-sama. Imagine the uproar if any of the remaining Gold dragons heard she had feelings for a mazoku. Suddenly she realized that Lina was smiling with a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Sure …and I suppose that dreamy eyed look you had there was dreaming about someone else?" "What's that supposed to mean!"? Yelled Filia, losing control over her tail. Luckily, she managed to direct it under the table so no one saw. She was about to continue, but was interrupted as Lina suddenly noticed Gourry, who, while the two girls had been arguing, had helped himself to Lina's food and was now picking his teeth with a bone.
"HEY! That was mine!" The sorceress tackled Gourry to the ground, and proceeded to twist and stretch his face in every direction possible, all the while yelling. Zelgadis sighed, got up, went over to the brawl, and pulled the hotheaded sorceress off of Gourry. Despite Lina's constant thrashing around to get at Gourry, Zelgadis held her suspended in mid-air as Gourry got up. The Chimera was a lot stronger than he seemed, due to both his demon and Golem parts. Filia sighed and got up. "Zelgadis, I'm going for a walk. See if you can prevent her from blowing up the inn." Zelgadis nodded and rolled his eyes as he held the struggling redhead captive.
Filia walked out of the dining room, grabbing a heavier cloak on the way. She stepped out of the now ruined doorway, making a mental note that one of them would have to pay for that. "Oh miss Filia!" She heard a cheery voice ring out. Amelia came running towards her. However, of course, her being the clumsiest character in slayers aside from Martina , she hit a patch of ice and went skidding towards Filia, arms flailing. Filia caught the young princess, steadying her before she let go. "Oh, thank you miss Filia!" Exclaimed Amelia. "You're a lot nicer than mister Xelloss…he just moved out of the way when I did that." "Xelloss?" Asked Filia, raising her eyebrows. "Yes" replied Amelia. "I was talking to him about how wonderful this time of the year is, and then I asked him what he usually does during this time, and he did his little finger and "that's a secret" thing. He always seems to run off when I start talking about how wonderful things are…" she said. But Filia wasn't listening anymore. Xelloss. . . in a little town like this. . . that was a recipe for trouble. "I should probably find him then." Said Filia. "Knowing him, he's up to something"
Sure enough, Filia found Xelloss up to no good. The demon was teleporting from rooftop to rooftop, using his magic to cause the snow on them to slide off, burying anyone unlucky enough to be walking nearby. His aim and timing was unnervingly good. "Alright you pile of garbage, get down here now!" Filia shouted up to the grinning mazoku. In a split second, Xelloss had teleported right in front of her. "What, can't a guy have a little fun? No? So, if I'm not allowed to have fun up there, can I have fun down here?" "What?" Asked Filia, confused. With that, Xelloss was now sneaking around, looking under women's skirts, knocking off hats, tying shoes together, and always teleporting away as the victim turned around. Soon, everyone was accusing everyone else, turning the street into one big argument. Xelloss appeared next to Filia with his characteristic closed eyes smile "Ah, the holidays are so much fun" he joked.
Filia had had it. "Alright you Namagomi!" she yelled, causing Xelloss to twitch slightly "that's enough! Don't make me blow you away here and now!" she threatened. Even demons could be harmed by an enraged dragon. "You'd actually turn into a dragon here in the middle of the square?" asked Xelloss "you'd risk the lives of everyone else just to get at me?" Then he went on with a grin "Ah yes, that's the dragons for you. Always using their superior strength to get what they want." At this, Filia's tail shot out and she almost pulled out mace-sama. Luckily everyone was still busy arguing, so no one noticed that the blonde haired priestess had suddenly sprouted a tail. Just as she was about to smash him across the horizon, she realized what he was doing.
"No" she said to herself "I must remain calm…to let myself get out of control is just what namagomi-san wants…I am a golden dragon, I must be serene, polite…" She murmured, sipping tea at her port-a-table (the one she seems to tote around everywhere with a complete tea set, where does she keep it all?) and curling her tail back under her dress. Xelloss just smiled. This was exactly what he'd been hoping would happen. He knew her. Whenever she came that close to losing it, it only took just a little bit more provocation to get her going. And when she lost it. . .well, this wouldn't be the first town to be ravaged by a crazed golden dragon. This was one of the reasons he followed her around. The sheer terror emanating from a village as a dragon rampaged through it was so delightful to savor. Now all he had to do was to push the right buttons.
"So you're being good now, are you?" he said, kneeling down at the table, much to her dismay. "Or have you just lost your touch?" She twitched slightly. "I mean, I destroyed your entire race, and yet you let me stand here untouched" She slammed the teacup down, trembling as she tried to control herself. "So, you're afraid now, yes that must be it. I suppose you know that you're no match for a Mazoku." Her tail shot out, actually hitting a passerby in the head and knocking them over. He opened his eyes. "Yep. So much for the golden dragon. I guess you're just another cowardly cold blooded lizard." "AIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!" Filia shrieked, the stone at her neck glowing. As her clothes disappeared, somewhere inside her head her sane self was weeping over the fact that she was naked in the middle of a crowded square. But she didn't care. This demon was going to pay. How dare he insult her race like that? Her? WEAK? COWARDLY? She was about to show him what a golden dragon could do.
As she turned into her true form, she heard screams and yells of fright and terror as a dragon suddenly appeared in the middle of a crowded square. "Where are you Xelloss!!" she bellowed, and then spotted him standing on a rooftop on the other side of the square. His eyes were open, a dangerous smile on his face. He was clearly enjoying the raw emotions of fear coming from the town. Filia roared and fired a bolt of high-powered energy from her mouth. Xelloss suddenly realized that he was about to become a target, and immediately flew into the air so that the energy bolt missed and instead turned several buildings in its way into kindling material. Filia leaped into the air and the sky above the town was soon a fireworks display as he proved to be an extremely difficult target for Filia to hit. Finally, he flew straight beneath her, and as she fired, he teleported to places unknown. The bolt slammed into the ground in the middle of a street, producing quite a large crater in what used to be a marketplace.
As she realized that Xelloss was no-where to be seen, she came back to her senses, suddenly realizing the crater and the row of buildings that her first shot had turned into matchsticks. A sick feeling descended into her stomach, and as she landed in a forest outside the town and turned back into humanoid form, she broke down into tears. This was all her fault. Why did she always lose her temper? Maybe that stupid demon was right. Maybe dragons were no more than a race who used brute strength to accomplish their means.
"Don't worry about it." A familiar voice said, startling Filia out of her self-pity. She whipped around with mace-sama out, only to see Lina and the rest of the group (except Xelloss, who was cracking up with laughter in his own dimension), of which Gourry was still chomping on a drumstick from the inn. "But Lina" lamented Filia. "I almost destroyed another town…I probably killed people! And to top it off, I was naked in the middle of a crowded street!" She broke down into tears again. Lina sighed and put an arm around her. "Really. That Xelloss gets on all our nerves. Besides" she said with a slightly sheepish look. "I've probably obliterated more towns with the Dragon-slave than you have in dragon form, and I'm only 16." Filia thought about it and said, "Maybe, but that still gives me no excuse!" "I know, but still" Lina said, suddenly looking cheerful "the best part is no one knows who we are so we can get away with it!" Causing Filia to fall flat on her face. "But shouldn't we at least try to repair the damage we caused, or heal the wounded?" Fillia wept as she got back up. Lina sighed and directed Filia to the edge of the forest. "Three reasons I say no" the sorceress explained. "One, look at the town. You honestly think that we can pay for all that damage? Especially since mush for brains over here wouldn't pay for dinner?" Lina glared at Gourry who was clueless to anything that was going on. "Second reason. See all those torches?" Filia looked and sure enough, a very large group of people was leaving the town with torches, pitch forks, and all manner of sharp objects. "I don't know about you, but if you remember the last time people found you were a dragon…be my guest if you want to repeat that experience." Filia shuddered. That was one of the most painful memories she had…not only had she destroyed the town, but that was also the first time that she'd transformed in front of so many mortals. Half the blood on the ground afterwards was from the nosebleeds that all the males present had spouted. "And my third reason" continued Lina. "I hear there's another town just a few miles down the road that's famous for roast turkey. Lets go!" She, Gourry and Amelia then started off at a run arguing over who would get the drumsticks, leaving an astonished Filia behind with Zelgadis. As he helped her to her feet, she asked, "How to you live with them?" Zelgadis just sighed and said, "If I didn't come, those two would drive Amelia nuts. Now, I suggest we catch up so that they don't give the cook a heart attack."