Disclaimer

I, WFCBarly, hereby proclaim that I do not own the rights to the Slayers or to the Warcraft series. The story is entirely mine though to do with how I wish.

Within a dimly lit room a hand could be seen slowly tracing along a row of books as of looking for the title that it seeks.

"Why do you have to leave us again?" a shocked lady yelled as she stared at the back of a shadow that was walking away, "You just returned and you are leaving us again."

"Let her go," another said he placed his hand on her shoulder.

"I must find out the truth," the shadow said as it started to depart, "I will return."

The shadow stood looking up at the books that lay in front of it as it stared from volume to volume.

'The truth must be in here,' it thought as it lifted the light spell and continued to search, 'I will find it even if it kills me. I will even take on the lord of nightmares if it will lead me to what I must find, I will have him BACK!'

Within a second later, the sight of the shadow quickly starts to disappear as the room rushs backward to disappear into complete darkness.

Slayers
Resurrection

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING GOURRY?" Lina yelled as her last three pieces of steak got snatched from her plate, "I WAS GOING TO EAT THOSE!"

"You were just staring into space and I didn't want good food to go to waste," he said as he patted his stomach.

"Why you…….." Lina growled as she pounded him upside the head for the umpteenth time.

"Would you two calm down for once," Zelgadiss said as he sat across from the table of them both as he sipped his tea. Amelia sat next to him and only nodded in agreement.

"You broke three tables here in just yesterday with all your fighting," Zelgadiss continued, "If you keep this up then they will throw us out."

"Well its all Gourry's fault," Lina said in a huff.

"Me? What did I do?" Gourry said in an ignorant tone.

"The question is 'What didn't you do?' Jellyfish," Lina barked out from his stupidity.

"I don't understand," Gourry replied yet ducked as a fist came flying at him.

"Owww…." Came a voice from a man that was standing behind Gourry with Lina's fist implanted firmly in his face.

"Huh," Lina said as she saw what she struck.

"You alright mister?" Amelia asked as she saw the man tumble to the floor from the blow.

"Way no mommy, I don't want to go to school today," the man said as he had stars circling his head.

"He's alright," Lina said as she sat down with her arms crossed over her chest, "I actually threw my punch on that one."

"Ughhh," he said as he slowly started to sit up and shake the dizziness from his head. "That really hurt," he whimpered out as he held his face in his hand, "I think my nose is broken."

"Serves you right for walking up from behind us while we are eating," Lina snared as she looked at the unknown man, "Now who are you and what were you doing behind Gourry?"

"Who I am will be told later once I find a certain group," he said as he looked along all the faces of the group, "Will you help me find them by chance?"

"Depends," Lina said as she stood up from the table and continued to stare the man down. As she looked at him she started to look at the way he looked. He was a tall man about six foot two and had slim shoulders. He wore a light brown cloak that was wrapped around his body and a hood that drapped over the back. On his shoulders he wore dark blue shoulder guards that came to a point to his sides and had a red jewel incased at the tips with the emblem of a rune drawn around them. His face showed scars from many battles and a small beard grew among his chin. He had long black hair and dark blue eyes yet within his eyes, much to her surprise, showen a sign of wisdom and knowledge known only to a few. From what she could grasp about this man was that he was to be either a priest, a mage, or some kind of warrior. She could not really tell.

"Depends," he repeated back towards her and looked her in the eyes with a sign of determination.

"Depends on how much you pay us," Lina said as she started to put on her merchant act, which made everyone at the table face fault.

"Who are you looking for?" Zelgadiss asked as he started to pick himself up off the floor.

"I'm looking for a traveling party consisting of a mystical swordsman with a heart of stone, a busty sorceress, a dimwitted swordsman, and the one know as the bandit killer," he said as he started to look over the crowd.

"Why do you need to see them," Lina asked as she sat back down and crossed her arms over her chest again and looked up at the man. Everyone else took their sets again. 'What does this guy want with us' she thought as she looked at the faces of her travelers.

"I need them to help me on a mission," he said as he took a set amongst them reveling that he was wearing a dark suit of plate mail underneath his cloak, "I need their strength to help me get what I must collect."

"What did he say he needed to collect?" Gourry asked as he tried to follow the conversation.

"Nothing yet pudding for brains," Lina growled as she held back from hitting him while he replied "Want a taste?" while pointing at the top of his head. Lina just let out a growl and sat back down and turned her attention to the man now sitting with them.

"I will ask again. Do you know where I can find them?" he asked as he looked at them in the faces again.

"He seems kind enough," Amelia said as she removed her head from resting on her fists, "I think we can trust him."

The man looked at the young sorceress with a sign of confusion.

"Hmm…" Zelgadiss thought as he looked at the face of the new comer and with a sign just signaled with a shrug.

"The group you are looking for is us," Lina said as she looked at the man who now shot up in his seat and with awe looked over the young crowd.

"But your all so young," he said in shock, "You can't be them." Suddenly a hand shot out and knocked him over the head.

"That had to hurt," Gourry said as he cringed in pain as if it hit him as well remembering how hard Lina could hit.

"You better explain yourself," Lina demanded as she glared at the man who was rubbing the top of his head.

'Damn had to leave my helmet in my room,' he thought as he looked her over. "Well okay if that's true then," he said as he steadied himself and looked at Zelgadiss, "So I take it your in charge."

Zelgadiss just shook his head and pointed towards Lina, which caused the man to cringe in fear. He's fought many battles and always came ahead but it was beginning to look like he might lose this one.

"Now that you found us, I think introductions are in order," Lina said as she uncrossed her arms and rested them out in front of her on the table, "my name is Lina Inverse and this idiot next to you is Gourry."

"Hello," Gourry said as he set his mug of ale down on the table.

"This man is Zelgadiss and the other traveler is Amelia," Lina said as she pointed to each of the other table guests, "Now who are you?"

"My name is Barlathomin Gallant but you can call me Barly," the man replied as he ordered a mug of his own to drink, "I am a paladin of the Holy Order of Stormwind. Now to explain the mission to you all."

The entire table tensed up and started to listen even Gourry started to take this seriously.

"I am on a mission to find the Tome of Resurrection," Barly said as he pushed his cloak aside and reached into a pouch on his side, "I was told it was part of a book called the Claire Bible. It has the power to not only resurrect the dead but also to restore ones own being."

"Restore ones own being?" Zelgadiss asked with a raise of an eyebrow, "You mean like turn someone back into being a human even if he was turned into something else?"

"Maybe," Barly said as he placed what he was looking for out on the table. It was a rather large map, pictured on it was a detailed map of the country he was from.

"Whats that a map of?" Amelia asks as she looked over the map, "I've never seen anything like this."

"Opps, wrong map," Barly said as he quickly rolled it up and put it back in his pouch and then drew out another map.

"What was that a map of?" Lina inquired with a sharp tone in her voice.

"Oh that old thing. That was a map of the land that I'm from," Barly said as rolled out the other map, "This is your land map right?"

"Here is where we are right now," Lina pointed down at the map at the location in Seyruun, "Where do you think we should start looking?"

"There you are my friend," another voice butted in.

"Who's there?" Lina said getting a fireball spell ready to be cast. Amelia just jumped up while both Gourry and Zelgadiss went into a combat stance with their swords drawn.

"Relax," the voice said, "I'm a friend of this man. I will not harm you."

"Then come out of the shadows where we can see you," Zelgadiss added as he kept his sword in the ready.

"Shadows?" the voice said as they noticed it was close, "I'm not in the shadows but at the top of the stairs if you would only look."

"Well hello there Maximullian," Barly said as he just sat there with his arms crossed over his chest and look up at him, "This is not the time to play around. I found them."

"Well," Max said as he stepped down from the stairs allowing everyone to see just what he looked like. He was wearing full platemail just like Barly but his was grayish in color and his hair was blond and cut short. Across his back was slung a travel cloak which he used mostly to hide his armor. He looked them all over as he walked towards the table. "Nice crew you got here Barly," he continued as he waved his hand palm up out from in front of him and planted it on his side, "So this is them, then."

"I take it you're a friend of Barly's here," Lina inquired as she threw the half casted fireball in the air for it to safely dissipate. Gourry released his combat stance yet Zelgadiss kept his.

"I don't like this", Zelgadiss said as he watched the two new people that they just met.

"Mister Zelgadiss," Amelia cried as she saw him keep his stance, "They are doing nothing bad right now. You don't need to be ready to attack them."

With a long sigh, Zelgadiss put away his sword and sat back down at the table.

"Thank you for standing down," Max said as he approached the group. "Now how about we take this talk to a more private room. Hmmm..." he said as he leaned over Amelia's shoulder and gave her a myschivious smile.

"Ecchi," Amelia shreaked as she quickly turned around and punched him in the gut, "Justice Punch!" Max flew ten feet back and slammed into a wall.

"Damn and I thought Lina hit hard," Barly said as he stared at the busty sorceress with amazement, "Can you all hit that hard?"

"Nah only Lina and Amelia can," Gourry replied as he placed his hand on Barly's shoulder, "It has something to do with focusing their magical energies into their hands or something like that."

"Huh," Lina said as she stared at Gourry in amazement, 'I can't believe it. He actually said something smart.'

"Or It could be that their both just tomboys," Gourry continued, "I mean look at Lina. She looks like a man at first sight, do to how flatchested she is."

"Goooouuuurrrrrryyyyyyyy!" Lina growled under her breath in anger while having her back turned to him and holding her fist up in front of her face.

"Not to mention how short she is or how much of a temper she has or how much force..." Gourry was saying only to be cut short by a kick in the face by Lina.

"That had to hurt," Barly said as he jumped out of the way, "I must admit your fast."

"NOW WHAT WAS THAT YOU TWO WERE TALKING ABOUT!" Lina yelled as she turned her attention towards Barly.

"Ummmm... How beautiful you were... hehehe... he... he... (gulp)," Barly said as he started to crawl backwards away from Lina.

"Beautiful you say," she said as she looked at him, "Well if thats the case then I will let you go this time but if I catch you at it again then there will be no tomorrow. GOT IT!"

"Erh. Yes ma'am," Barly said as he let out a long sigh.

"Now everyone lets get some rest and talk about this tomorrow," Lina said as she looked over the tavern. The place was destroyed. Tables were broken, chairs were smash, walls were dented with people still in them, and food was splattered all over the place. 'There goes our room and board again,' she thought as she placed her head in her hand and sighed. "Well see you all tomorrow," she said as she placed a fake smile on her face and departed up the stairs to her room.

"Sure thing Lina," Gourry called out as he was helping peel Max from off the wall.

"Ughghgh..." was the sound coming from Max as soon as he was layed on the floor.

"Which room is his?" Amelia asked as she stood up and help Barly to his feet.

"Third one on the right if I remember correctly," Barly said as he placed his chin in his hand and thought.

"Well then if you could please take him up there for us," she asked with the most innocent look.

"Fine," Barly replied while letting out a sigh, "Zelgadiss was it? Help me with him if you could."

author notes

I fixed one of the problems that Anonym talked about in the reviews with a discription of Max and reposted this chapter due to the fact that I looked at it and half of it was gone. I don't know what happened but I apologize to all my readers out there and promise to keep a better eye on the story for now on so this doesn't happen again. Later