The Slayers: Spectacular
By, Lman90245
Prologue:
All turned to white as Lina Inverse pierced the heavens with a single arrow and with the help of her companions Gourry Gabriev, Zelgadis Greywords, Amelia wil Tesla Saillune, Filia ul Copt the golden dragon, the two Overworlders one of which was killed in battle, and Xellos the Mazoku they destroyed Dark Star. The dark lord of the Overworld who was merged with Valgarv the ancient dragon that was bent on the destruction of the golden dragons. After killing Dark Star Valgarv now Val was reborn and given a second chance at life in the care of Filia the golden dragon.
After the battle everyone split up and went their separate ways. Gourry followed Lina, Amelia went back to her kingdom to help her father King Philionel rule Seyruun, Zelgadis continued to look for a way to turn his one third golem, one third demon, and one third human body back to just human, Xellos went back to his master, Filia opened up a weapons shop and takes care of the not yet hatched Val and Valgarv's old friends Jiras and Glavos, who help her operate the store. The Overworlder, who survived, returned to his world with the five Dark Star weapons that were used to kill Dark Star. One of which included the Sword of Light, that was Gourry Gabriev's old weapon but Gourry gave it to the Overworlder because it was originally from his world. It has been four years since then and an evil that was unseen since the battle slipped through the gate that held Dark Star before it was destroyed.
Chapter 1: Aftermath
It seemed like a normal day in the peaceful town of Ciered, a town that since the monster race's barrier broke when Phibrizzo the Hellmaster was destroyed has grown quite popular. Ciered's food is irresistible to the people that smell it and people also go there for the beautiful sunsets, many weddings take place in the town. Birds were singing and people were moving through the busy streets.
"Fire Ball!" Someone yelled as some people flew out of a restaurant with pieces of the building flying with them.
"Gees Lina, did you really have to get that angry I mean, I was still eating that!"
"No one talks about my breasts like that!" Lina said with a Vein sticking out of her head.
"Well you have to admit Lina, they aren't what I would like to call big." Gourry said while holding his chin. Lina stared at Gourry for a few seconds.
"Just shut up Gourry!" She said while pounding him relentlessly into the ground with her fists. The store manager came running to the front.
"What the… damnit I just had this place remodeled!" he said while staring at Lina and Gourry. "Well, aren't you going to say something?" Lina pointed to the other side of the room, and the manager looked to see what she meant by that. Lina grabbed Gourry as they ran from the restaurant. "I still don't see… hey get back here you thieves, vandals!"
"Why do I always get myself into these situations with you?" Gourry said while being dragged by Lina.
"Oh, quit your whining Gourry were almost to the Inn anyway."
Since the battle between Darkstar, Lina continues to hunt for treasure and occasionally help the innocent for a price. Gourry continues to stand by his vow to be her protector even though it seems sometimes Lina protects him. There was a Rumor that the blood talismans she wore could become even stronger when amplified by a simple spell lost to the manuscripts of the Clair Bible and that a copy of this manuscript lies somewhere inside the mountain near Ciered, which besides the food is why they are staying at the Ciered Inn. The talismans call on the power of the four worlds to amplify magic spells making them more powerful and making the wearer able to cast magic at an alarming rate.
"Finally, we escaped that owner." Lina said while leaning against the walls of the Inn.
"Yeah, luckily for us he was pretty slow."
"Well lets face it Gourry you can't run too fast when you have more rolls then the bakery shop." Lina said.
"I don't get it." Gourry said looking confused.
"I guess by now I would have learned, oh well lets go inside Gourry." Lina and Gourry walked inside to the room they had been assigned for the evening. Lina had taken a treasure map from some bandits near the town to the supposedly undisclosed location of the manuscript copy inside the Cieren Mountains.
"I still wonder what bandits would be doing with this old map, I bet they don't even know what the manuscript does."
"Maybe we could nicely ask them next time we meet them, eh Lina?"
"Huh, and here I thought you might have forgotten to take your moron pills this morning, we destroyed their base Gourry remember. I seriously doubt they would be willing to tell us, but it doesn't really matter at the moment we have the map and that's all that matters."
"Oh yeah now I remember… but you were the one that destroyed the base Lina not me." Gourry said pointing at Lina.
"I see how it is, place the blame on an innocent girl like me!"
"That is such a load of crap!" Gourry said while sneaking away from Lina.
"In any case lets get some sleep, I want to be able to read this thing tomorrow." Lina said while yawning.
The night was cold and the moon was almost as bright as the sun. A lone figure was walking for what seemed years but had only really been a month or two. Zelgadis had been searching for a cure to his self-described sickness, he can barley remember what it was like to be human again. Ever since Rezo the Red Priest put this curse on him to 'become more powerful.' Zelgadis had no idea he would be turned into a 1/3 golem, 1/3 demon along with his remaining 1/3 human.
"I just had to ask for more power, why couldn't I have just said get out of my way." Zelgadis said to himself while walking along the curving mountain paths. He looked down at his water bottle around the nozzle and saw the wrist bracelet Amelia gave to him as a gift, hoping they would one day meet again. Zelgadis stopped in his tracks as he looked around what appeared to be a raided fort.
"Stop… right there!" someone screamed out with a shaken voice. "Now d…don't move, we kind of got our stuff stolen and we need to get our reputation back for the boss."
"I see, your nothing but a small group of thieves are you?" said Zelgadis.
"Well we used to be much bigger, now drop your valuables!"
"If you keep on persisting I will use force." Zelgadis said with a modest look.
"F…force, what kind of force can a freak like you dish out… attack!"
"Oh, well I tried to reason. Burst Flare!" Zelgadis caused a huge explosion to occur from the ground taking out all of the thieves.
"Did we win yet captain?" said one of the thieves.
"Oh just shut up." The captain said while lying fried on the ground.
Zelgadis spotted part of a treasure map near the burnt fort and examined it. "Could it be, …air bible part of its missing but. If this leads to a Clair Bible manuscript it could very well have the information I need to turn myself human again."
"No… another damned demon looking to steal the other half of our map!"
"Another demon, hmmm." Zelgadis said. "What other demons."
"Ha you'll never get any information from me you freak show."
"That does it, Bomb Di Wind!" Zelgadis yelled as the thieves went unwillingly flying into the mountain's forests. Zelgadis examined the map for a while and determined that it was worth taking a peak to see what was inside the caves of the mountains, and set a course for a town nearby to search for this entrance the torn map speaks of.
"Wait, I might have a deal for you." A man said speaking to Zelgadis.
Lina sat awake too excited to sleep, she was thinking about what kind of high-level seals she could open up into tombs of great treasure with that manuscript.
"I'm the swordsman of justice." Gourry mumbled in his sleep. "Can we stop now Amelia?"
"I wonder what he's dreaming about." Lina said to herself. "I need to go for a little walk." She walked outside of the hotel and look up at the sky. "I can't wait for tomorrow!"
"Help!" someone cried out.
"What the… what's wrong, what's your name kid?" Lina asked.
"My name is Roan, there are a couple bandits chasing me… they think I was helping someone find their base!" the boy said.
"Huh, hey hand over that boy!" a bandit said. "Wait a minute do I know you lady?"
"Damnit I knew it that kid led us strait to one of the people who destroyed our base, he really was working for her!" another bandit said.
Lina looked around and remembered the faces of the two bandits, the ones that she got the map from. "Oh, your not getting this boy here." She said.
"You… we'll get our secret weapon and… you will be sorry." They both said running into the distance.
"Thank you uh…"
"The name is Lina Inverse, and no need for thanks kid I messed them up awhile ago myself. Might as well teach them there place again eh?"
"Thank you miss Lina, I have to go now… I hope I can repay you sometime." Roan said as he ran into the city fading from view.
"That was strange, secret weapon hmm what are those idiots up too." Lina decided to go back inside and try to rest. She walked back to her room and saw Gourry sitting up and looking frightened. "Bad dream Gourry?"
"Well more like a re-enactment of something that once happened." He said.
"You know for one of the greatest swordsman that I've ever known, you sure are a weird one Gourry."
"Speak for yourself I was struck by lighting four years ago when Amelia tried to teach me her ways of justice."
"Well she does have a knack of trying to convert people to her cause doesn't she, oh well." Lina said. "Anyway we might have some trouble tomorrow, I ran into a couple of those bandits we stole the map from and they mentioned a secret weapon that they were going to try to use on us."
"Well, if I know bandit gangs it's probably just all talk." Gourry said.
"Maybe, but we can't underestimate them, we should keep an eye out tomorrow. But your right its probably nothing." She said as she yawned. "Ok Gourry I need sleep goodnight."
"If you don't mind Lina I'm going to stay up just a bit longer." Gourry said still shaken from the dream.
"Ok, try not to make too much…n...noi." Lina didn't finish her sentence as she started to snore.
The sun dawned as Zelgadis started to walk with the bandits to the mountain. They had said that Demons had stolen the other half of the map and most likely would be looking for the treasure as well. They made a deal with him that if he got rid of the demons that they would give him the whole map so he could find what he was looking for.
"We might as well grab a bite to eat." A bandit said.
"No, we keep moving." Zelgadis said.
"But, we need food!"
"Don't make me turn you into walking charcoal again." Zelgadis said while putting on his hood.
"L…later we get food then!"
"Fine with me, but my interests lay inside that mountain." Zelgadis said. They finally reached the entrance that was halfway on the map and saw a magical seal was there.
"Well, that's it then time to go home." The bandit boss said.
"Stand back, I remember these old seals… weak against fire." Zelgadis said. "Fire Ball!" He cast it right at the seal and it broke into pieces.
"That was amazing."
"Lets keep moving." Zelgadis said as they entered the temple at the side of the mountain. There were many cobwebs as well as lots of dust, it seemed no one had been here since it was sealed. As Zelgadis read the map he and the bandits watched out for these Demons he was suppose to get rid of in turn for the other half of the map which would be torn in two if he didn't cooperate, it also had the combination to a high level magic energy field that guards the treasure, but the first task was to find it.
"You know, they say that the treasure had something to do with a piece of paper… Guarded by a huge field of energy." The boss bandit said.
"Just what I want to hear, but I surly hope your not just using me to rid you of some pests."
"Mr. Greywords I'm shocked you would think such a thing." The boss replied.
"We'll see." Said Zelgadis. They continued onward further into the depths of the cave and one of the bandits stopped in his tracks.
"I heard Rumors that the Gods once tried to seal up something horrible in this cave." The bandit said.
"If that was the case, they wouldn't have such a weak seal on the entrance to begin with." Replied Zelgadis.
"I suppose your right, but I still can't help but think about the Rumors."
"According to the map it should be somewhere around here, but nothing is here." Zelgadis said as he stopped in his tracks. He heard some whispering going on behind him that soon became an argument.
"That's the stupidest story I've ever heard, the Gods wouldn't want a thing to do with this old cave!" A bandit said.
"Its true I tell you!"
"Lies!" The two bandits got into an argument that soon became a fistfight.
"Take this!" the bandit swung at the other and the other back at him. Soon they were on the ground and rolling around. Suddenly they both fell through the ground, but continued fighting anyway.
"So that's it, an illusion of a floor." Zelgadis said as he also jumped into the hole.
Zelgadis passed the two fighting and came to an opening. The inside of the opening was like a coliseum, and in the middle was a large flat rock with a large energy dome protecting what was on top of the rock, which appeared to be a box.
"Seems the map is correct after all." The boss bandit said as he came running to Zelgadis's side.
"The writing on the stone I can almost make out, but it appears to be in another language." Zelgadis said as he approached the barrier. The boss noticed that the other two had stopped fighting and went to check on it.
"I'll be right back, err Zelgadis." He said.
"Fine." He replied. Zelgadis tried to examine the box through the barrier, but it was too dense. He walked around it a few times when he heard an explosion coming from the hallway the boss bandit ran to check out.
"Its… its… the demons ahhhhhhh!" The boss said as he ran toward Zelgadis.
"So, they've arrived have they, good now we can break this seal." Zelgadis said. He saw the other two bandits running for safety behind the barrier.
"Ha, you thought we were just joking last night about our weapon didn't you?" a bandit said. The two figures stepped out of the hallway and into the cove area with Zelgadis and the dust cleared from the explosion.
"What!" Lina said as she walked into the room more.
"Zelgadis, hey it really is you. How are things going?" Gourry said.
Zelgadis looked stunned for a moment as he gathered his thoughts.
"Don't tell me… you're the secret weapon right Zel?" Lina said.
"Lina, Gourry… you guys must be the so called demons." Zelgadis said smacking his forehead. The bandits looked puzzled as they stared at Zelgadis.
"You… know these people?" the boss said.
"Yeah, we go way back actually. Well it looks like I have to get the map from you guys." Said Zelgadis.
"Whoa Zel, why not work together like we always do?" Gourry said holding up the other half of the map.
"You would be willing to help me, hey the other half of the map!" Zelgadis said.
"Duh, Zel were friends remember… lets work together." Lina said.
Zelgadis looked at the bandits. "Sorry guys, I'm with them. Looks like I've double-crossed you… kind of ironic actually."
"Wh…what are you talking about we made a deal damnit!" the boss said.
"Yeah, but such is life, and I really don't like being lied to you see." Zelgadis replied.
"That's it my men and me hate traders and were going to tear you a new one!" the boss said.
"How about I give you and your men five minutes to get out of my sight before I use a huge Fire Ball." Zelgadis said as he raised his hand.
"Sounds good to me!" One bandit said as he ran.
"Ok men attack, men?" the boss saw that all of his men left dust trails and left him. "Wait for me!" He said as he followed them out of the mountain.
"HA, Zelgadis great to see you again!" Lina said.
"What brought you guys here?"
"Actually Lina was looking for this thingy that modifies the power of her uh…" Gourry said thinking.
Lina let out a sigh. "Nice try Gourry but let me explain. We heard Rumors of this mountain that was near Ciered, we overheard a local bandit gang talking about how this spell that could amplify amplifiers and was marked on the map… so I wanted to use it on my blood talismans." Zelgadis looked puzzled.
"An amplification spell… is that all it is?" Zelgadis said.
"Oh, I see you thought it might be able to turn you back to normal right Zel?"
"Well…"
"Good old predictable Zelgadis."
"Oh, shut up Gourry." Zelgadis replied.
"We don't know what it is yet anyway… we have to break that magical seal still." Lina said. Zelgadis nodded and they brought the two pieces of the map together.
"Hey wait Lina… your side of the map didn't have the entrance, how did you find it?" Zelgadis said.
"Uh, well… we knew it was in this mountain so…"
"She blasted the mountain side." Gourry said while taking a deep breath.
"Oh, Gourry your just the life of the party aren't you, I wouldn't say blasted exactly… more of a gentle breeze to make a new entry hehehe." Lina said while acting innocent.
"So, in other words… you totaled the mountain side." Zelgadis said.
"Yes, exactly." Gourry replied.
"Don't worry I don't think people will miss that side anyway Zel, it was ugly plus they don't know it was us." Lina said.
"Try to be more careful next time." Zelgadis said.
"Aww, didn't know you cared Zel." Lina said while smirking.
"No, but being around you two will attract unwanted attention most of time." Zelgadis replied as he also smirked.
"I guess that much is true, anyway lets get back to the instructions on the map." Lina said. Lina, Gourry, and Zelgadis read the inscription.
"Hmm I see, looks like we have to be in a triangle position around the dome where the three red marks are." Zelgadis said.
"Yeah and chant the stuff it states here." Lina mentioned.
"Gourry you don't say anything just stand, Lina and I will chant." Zelgadis said.
"Ok… works for me." Gourry replied. They got in the formation while Lina and Zelgadis started the chant. The barrier flickered a bit and fizzled out like a candles flame.
"It worked!" Lina said as her and the others walked to the center of the room. Zelgadis opened the box on top of the flat stone.
"It's a piece of paper…" Zelgadis said.
"Yeah… but I don't recognize the writing." Said Lina.
"Wait, isn't that the stuff that was all over the ruins that crashed into the temple of the Fire Dragon King?" Gourry said.
"Gourry is right!" Zelgadis said. "The only word Filia taught me in her language was Clair Bible, the inscription is right there. Which means this is an actual manuscript from it!"
"Then its written by the Golden dragons, if that is true how did those stupid bandits even get that map?" Lina said.
"I'm not sure, but I know of at least one that can help decode the manuscript." Zelgadis said.
"Yeah, lets set a course for her shop!" Lina said with excitement.
"Just to remind you Lina… Filia moved her shop to another town." Gourry stated.
"I know that Gourry, how is it you can remember these things but have trouble with the most important tasks at hand?" She said.
"Then its settled, in order to decode this manuscript page we travel to Holerfan and ask Filia." Zelgadis said as they darted out of the cave.