SLAYERS: WARPED
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DISCLAIMER: The Slayers aren't mine. Rei, Alin, Kinsei, and Elijah are mine.
Chapter 1: Never Be The Same Again
It was late at night. All there was in the dark was a single stream of moonlight through the broken window and the darkness itself. The only sound was that of a girl catching her breath. The white light streamed onto a pair of chains hung from the ceiling, ending seven feet above the ground binding and hanging Rei by her wrists, and her ankles were tied to the floor, giving her no chance of escape. Rei didn't know how long she'd been asleep, but she'd just woken from a terrible nightmare hanging in midair. Rei mentally panicked. Her clothes were gone, changed into something that wasn't hers, and she had no idea where she was.
"This is a familiar scene." Came a very cold voice from nowhere. A lantern went on in the corner where Rei was facing. The figure in a canvas cloak stood, leaned against the wall as if he'd been waiting for her to wake up. He had. Rei shrieked. "Shut up. Nobody can hear you anyway." He continued, in his detached voice. He slowly removed his cloak, revealing light peach skin patched with pink scars in some places, wide, staring amber eyes, and wiry honey brown hair. Rei frowned.
"You look like Alin. A little. Cept his skin is blue, with purple marks. And his hair is blue. But if your hair were blue, and your skin, you'd- HEY!" The man had smacked her lightly.
"And you look like your mother when I first met her. My name is Zelgadis. It's a pleasure to finally be meeting you," He paused between each word, as if each one disgusted him as it rolled off his tongue. "Rei. Lyssa. Inverse. Gabriev."
"That's not my name, take me home!"
"I have my ways. But it's expected you wouldn't even know your name. Why, you were only a few days old when your parents died." Rei's eyes widened.
"You... it was you that killed my parents!" Rei thrashed against her holds. "Bastard! Let me go!" She was infuriated.
"Shut up now. I'm not afraid to hurt you."
"You're a murderer! You probably killed all my friends' parents too! HATEFUL, WORTHLESS, DISGUSTING-"
Throughout the town, a terrible female shriek echoed. Young Zelgadis Greywords, laying awake at an inn in the middle of the town, looked out the window. "What the hell was that?"
"You don't know what you're talking about." The lantern light reflected across Zelgadis' scars. He looked very dangerous. Rei's cheek was raw and bleeding. Zelgadis tossed a heavily spiked gauntlet aside. "Girl, girl, stupid girl. It's your own fault your parents are dead. My wife is dead. My best friends are dead, and the only living one has gone insane. My son and my friends' daughters-" Rei mouthed "Elijah and Kinsei" "-are all far away from me. I have lost all I held near and dear to my heart because of YOU. If YOU had never come into existence, everyone but you would be alive and happy! Lina Inverse wasn't meant to have a child! EVERYTHING I KNEW WAS LOST IN AN INSTANT AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Rei started shaking. "I didn't kill anyone... if I did, it was unintentional... I'm innocent!"
Zelgadis' voice went from enraged and hateful to insane and euphoric. "No matter what you say, you won't escape this time. Your mommy and daddy aren't going to rescue you this time, because they're dead. Dead, dead, dead. Death will take you too, but you won't die yet, oh no, not just yet. You and I together are going to prevent your existance. That will solve our little problem of you." He began to laugh. It was like no laugh anyone had heard before in their life. It was the laugh of a madman, the laugh of someone whose life had been thrown away, mirthless and hateful. Rei began to cry. She had never been more afraid in her life.
Down in the town, Zel and Amelia were both standing at the window. Zel stared around as he heard the laughter, and focused on a broken down cathedral about 6 hundred yards away, on the ledge of a cliff. "Hear that, Amelia?"
"Yeah, but what is it?"
"Sounds like there's a madman in there, or spooks." He picked up his sword. "We should check it out."
"Mr. Zelgadis, it's the middle of the night! Besides, if it's spooks, there's not much you can do. You'd need Lina to perform an exorcism, and you know what happens when you interrupt her sleep. Just drop it, and we'll check it out in the morning." That's when they heard the crying start. "Then again... I can't help but worry. That sounds like a little girl, and if it is a little girl..."
"It's spooks. A madman would have lights on. There's little more than one lantern, and that might just be the reflection of the moonlight. Go back to bed, Amelia." The 17 year old princess pouted at the 23 year old chimera. "Don't make that face; it makes you look like a little girl. In fact, you are a little girl." He patted her cheek affectionately. "Go back to bed."
"Oh, Mr. Zelgadis!" Amelia giggled, flustered. "Alright. Good night." She left the room. Zelgadis stared in silence as the lights in the church went off.
The next afternoon, Xelloss burst into the church with a flash of light. The three teenagers, Elijah, Kinsei, and Alin, stood behind him. They were confused. It was bright. Xelloss took a bag out of nowhere and began to toss clothes at them. "That purple dress and white cloak are yours, Kinsei. So is this skirt thingy, and this other stuff..." Xelloss tossed various things over his shoulder out of the seemingly fathomless bag. Within minutes, Kinsei looked like a miniature Filia. He continued to dig, this time tossing at Elijah. "This bra thing, these almost see through slacks, these knee boots, and a cape... yours, Elijah." Elijah looked almost like Martina. This time, clothes were flying at Alin. "A pair of khakis, a simple white shirt, a pair of boots, and a pair of gauntlets... that oughta make you look like a chimera." He surveyed the teenagers, who had quietly cooperated, and grinned. "Not yet. You don't look ready yet." As Xelloss dug out another bag, some other clothes were tossed out of the first. There was a blue shirt, lined with white, blue slacks, white overarmor that should be underwear, a pair of black boots, and a black headband.
"That's for Rei, isn't it?" Xelloss nodded. Elijah frowned. "Mr. Xelloss, where is she?"
"I don't know, Elijah. We'll find her, though." Alin stared at the ceiling, at the chains.
"Hey, Mr. Xelloss, what's this?" Xelloss looked up.
"Oh my." Xelloss' smile flickered. "You three, check every room for signs of human habitation. Anything that shows that someone lived here recently." The trio ran off, as Xelloss continued to dig in the bag.
Alin ran into a makeshift bedroom. "Geez, he's not making this hard." The room had clothes and health care items strewn everywhere. Alin grabbed a full wallet. "Whoever was here was in a rush to leave and forgot all their stuff."
Elijah entered a privy chamber. "Ugh!" Vomit covered the floor, and a soiled pair of underwear lay in the corner. "No question, whoever was here was sick and dirty, an alcoholic maybe!"
Kinsei found a storage chamber, and screamed. Elijah and Alin found her. She pointed at what she saw. "Whoever was here had Rei with them!" Rei's torn school outfit was on the floor. It was covered in blood. Kinsei grabbed the outfit. The trio entered the main chamber. Kinsei lay the uniform in front of Xelloss. Xelloss continued smiling.
"Just as I suspected. We came a few hours too late." Alin scowled.
"How can you keep smiling?"
"Because I know that in the end, all will be well!" Xelloss lay several items from the second bag before them. "Elijah, this set of shoulder armor and the crown of Xoana; these are yours. I could find nothing of your father's. Kinsei, your mother's crown and this amulet of mine; these are yours. Alin, this hooded cloak which was your father's and your mother's lucky rabbit's foot-" Elijah and Kinsei snorted-" it really is lucky! These are yours. The remaining artifacts, a set of talismans that I sold to Lina, and Gourry Gabriev's sword hilt... those were meant for Rei." The three teens took what belonged to them, and began to equip themselves. Xelloss began to put Elijah's dark green hair in pigtails.
"I suppose you all wonder what all of this means, right?" They all nodded. "Of course. You would. Well, let me explain where you are and why you're here. You three are in the country of your birth, on the planet of your birth, far from Earth. Your parents are extremely famous. They're collectively known as the Slayers, with the exception of myself, and Zangulus. Martina technically is not, but she follows Lina all the time anyway. so she's included. In about, let's see... " Xelloss thought hard. "Zel is 23, 5 years, then two years earlier, yes... Three years time, Martina will concieve Elijah. She'll be born, but in the meantime, Filia and myself marry and have Kinsei a few months after that, then comes Alin in 5 years, then Rei in about 6. So, in 6 years, while you are all extremely young, under four, something terrible happens. An evil overlord, a mere boy, but given horrible powers, devises a plan to absorb Lina Inverse's power; by drinking her blood. He fails miserably three times. On his last try, he burns your home, the Castle Sailune, which Alin is heir to. That terrible night, all of your parents, except Alin's father, were in the castle. Fortunately, my adult self, in 6 years, manages to rescue your four children as infants. Unfortunately, all of your parents, including my wife, Kinsei's mother, perish in the flames. The overlord had Lina cornered, she could have survived, but she chose not to let him win. Too much pride in her, she wouldn't give in. My future self was the only one left. An old friend, Syphiel, helped me gather what you see before you. She asked me a favor in return; she wanted a child herself. She did have one, who will meet you in the next town. Her name is Chocolate, true to her name, she has chocolate brown hair and loves chocolate. That's beside the point. When Zelgadis returned to what used to be Sailune City, he was greeted by his wife's grave. His mind was twisting, and he was searching for a reason why. He looked on the memorial stone to the five escapees- us- and saw one unfamiliar name. His mind twisted, turning everything he knew upside down. I don't know what he thought, but it gave him the insane idea that the fire was Rei's fault. He vowed revenge on her. After hearing a few twisted versions of the story, saying that Lina would have been able to save them all if she hadn't had Rei- which was partially true, as Lina would have been able to use magic if she hadn't given birth four days before- his suspicions were set in his twisted little head. Now he's captured Rei, and what he wants to do, I don't know. But I do know this: the evil overlord who wanted to drink Lina's blood is in this era now, and he's out for Rei's blood. That overlord will be born in a year; we have to stop the cycle of death before it starts by eliminating his powers, eliminating him. We need to enlist the help of the Slayers!" For ten seconds, the world seemed to freeze, as they were silently trying to absorb it all. Slowly, the teenagers all nodded, comprehending what Xelloss had just run off.
"For our friends..." Elijah whispered.
"For the future..." Kinsei continued, in a hushed tone.
"For justice and for the world... it's up to us!" Alin finished, his voice gradually growing louder. The trio leapt to their feet. "Which way is it, Xelloss?" Xelloss smiled wider than before, and pointed.
"The Slayers left in that direction! Run, and you might catch up with them in a few hours!" The teenagers ran, with their cloaks and capes flying out behind them.
"Thank you, Xelloss!" Elijah and Alin called back.
"Thank you, father, goodbye!!" Kinsei cried. Xelloss smiled and waved. If he hadn't been smiling, he would have been crying tears of joy.
"Father." He repeated the word. "That word has never meant anything until now, and it's never felt better to say it." He teleported away, to catch up with the Slayers.
Lina looked behind them. Three figures were following them. "Gourry, we're being watched." Xelloss, hovering a few feet behind Lina, grinned wider than he usually did.
Gourry looked back. His mind gave a flash to the dream he'd had the night before. He "thought", or stared into space, briefly. "Let them come. They're probably just headed the same path as us."
"You're right, they're not following us. They're just headed to this town. I'm too paranoid, sometimes."
"You're not a parachutist!" Gourry cried.
"Don't worry about it, stupid." The Slayers walked on, as Alin, Kinsei, and Elijah followed.
To Be Continued
Nayru: Shibbyness!
Xiao: Please review, everyone!
Nayru: Okay, so I wasn't recieved very well. Meh, I'll get more readers.
Ran-Ran: We're sure you'll love it eventually!
DISCLAIMER: The Slayers aren't mine. Rei, Alin, Kinsei, and Elijah are mine.
Chapter 1: Never Be The Same Again
It was late at night. All there was in the dark was a single stream of moonlight through the broken window and the darkness itself. The only sound was that of a girl catching her breath. The white light streamed onto a pair of chains hung from the ceiling, ending seven feet above the ground binding and hanging Rei by her wrists, and her ankles were tied to the floor, giving her no chance of escape. Rei didn't know how long she'd been asleep, but she'd just woken from a terrible nightmare hanging in midair. Rei mentally panicked. Her clothes were gone, changed into something that wasn't hers, and she had no idea where she was.
"This is a familiar scene." Came a very cold voice from nowhere. A lantern went on in the corner where Rei was facing. The figure in a canvas cloak stood, leaned against the wall as if he'd been waiting for her to wake up. He had. Rei shrieked. "Shut up. Nobody can hear you anyway." He continued, in his detached voice. He slowly removed his cloak, revealing light peach skin patched with pink scars in some places, wide, staring amber eyes, and wiry honey brown hair. Rei frowned.
"You look like Alin. A little. Cept his skin is blue, with purple marks. And his hair is blue. But if your hair were blue, and your skin, you'd- HEY!" The man had smacked her lightly.
"And you look like your mother when I first met her. My name is Zelgadis. It's a pleasure to finally be meeting you," He paused between each word, as if each one disgusted him as it rolled off his tongue. "Rei. Lyssa. Inverse. Gabriev."
"That's not my name, take me home!"
"I have my ways. But it's expected you wouldn't even know your name. Why, you were only a few days old when your parents died." Rei's eyes widened.
"You... it was you that killed my parents!" Rei thrashed against her holds. "Bastard! Let me go!" She was infuriated.
"Shut up now. I'm not afraid to hurt you."
"You're a murderer! You probably killed all my friends' parents too! HATEFUL, WORTHLESS, DISGUSTING-"
Throughout the town, a terrible female shriek echoed. Young Zelgadis Greywords, laying awake at an inn in the middle of the town, looked out the window. "What the hell was that?"
"You don't know what you're talking about." The lantern light reflected across Zelgadis' scars. He looked very dangerous. Rei's cheek was raw and bleeding. Zelgadis tossed a heavily spiked gauntlet aside. "Girl, girl, stupid girl. It's your own fault your parents are dead. My wife is dead. My best friends are dead, and the only living one has gone insane. My son and my friends' daughters-" Rei mouthed "Elijah and Kinsei" "-are all far away from me. I have lost all I held near and dear to my heart because of YOU. If YOU had never come into existence, everyone but you would be alive and happy! Lina Inverse wasn't meant to have a child! EVERYTHING I KNEW WAS LOST IN AN INSTANT AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Rei started shaking. "I didn't kill anyone... if I did, it was unintentional... I'm innocent!"
Zelgadis' voice went from enraged and hateful to insane and euphoric. "No matter what you say, you won't escape this time. Your mommy and daddy aren't going to rescue you this time, because they're dead. Dead, dead, dead. Death will take you too, but you won't die yet, oh no, not just yet. You and I together are going to prevent your existance. That will solve our little problem of you." He began to laugh. It was like no laugh anyone had heard before in their life. It was the laugh of a madman, the laugh of someone whose life had been thrown away, mirthless and hateful. Rei began to cry. She had never been more afraid in her life.
Down in the town, Zel and Amelia were both standing at the window. Zel stared around as he heard the laughter, and focused on a broken down cathedral about 6 hundred yards away, on the ledge of a cliff. "Hear that, Amelia?"
"Yeah, but what is it?"
"Sounds like there's a madman in there, or spooks." He picked up his sword. "We should check it out."
"Mr. Zelgadis, it's the middle of the night! Besides, if it's spooks, there's not much you can do. You'd need Lina to perform an exorcism, and you know what happens when you interrupt her sleep. Just drop it, and we'll check it out in the morning." That's when they heard the crying start. "Then again... I can't help but worry. That sounds like a little girl, and if it is a little girl..."
"It's spooks. A madman would have lights on. There's little more than one lantern, and that might just be the reflection of the moonlight. Go back to bed, Amelia." The 17 year old princess pouted at the 23 year old chimera. "Don't make that face; it makes you look like a little girl. In fact, you are a little girl." He patted her cheek affectionately. "Go back to bed."
"Oh, Mr. Zelgadis!" Amelia giggled, flustered. "Alright. Good night." She left the room. Zelgadis stared in silence as the lights in the church went off.
The next afternoon, Xelloss burst into the church with a flash of light. The three teenagers, Elijah, Kinsei, and Alin, stood behind him. They were confused. It was bright. Xelloss took a bag out of nowhere and began to toss clothes at them. "That purple dress and white cloak are yours, Kinsei. So is this skirt thingy, and this other stuff..." Xelloss tossed various things over his shoulder out of the seemingly fathomless bag. Within minutes, Kinsei looked like a miniature Filia. He continued to dig, this time tossing at Elijah. "This bra thing, these almost see through slacks, these knee boots, and a cape... yours, Elijah." Elijah looked almost like Martina. This time, clothes were flying at Alin. "A pair of khakis, a simple white shirt, a pair of boots, and a pair of gauntlets... that oughta make you look like a chimera." He surveyed the teenagers, who had quietly cooperated, and grinned. "Not yet. You don't look ready yet." As Xelloss dug out another bag, some other clothes were tossed out of the first. There was a blue shirt, lined with white, blue slacks, white overarmor that should be underwear, a pair of black boots, and a black headband.
"That's for Rei, isn't it?" Xelloss nodded. Elijah frowned. "Mr. Xelloss, where is she?"
"I don't know, Elijah. We'll find her, though." Alin stared at the ceiling, at the chains.
"Hey, Mr. Xelloss, what's this?" Xelloss looked up.
"Oh my." Xelloss' smile flickered. "You three, check every room for signs of human habitation. Anything that shows that someone lived here recently." The trio ran off, as Xelloss continued to dig in the bag.
Alin ran into a makeshift bedroom. "Geez, he's not making this hard." The room had clothes and health care items strewn everywhere. Alin grabbed a full wallet. "Whoever was here was in a rush to leave and forgot all their stuff."
Elijah entered a privy chamber. "Ugh!" Vomit covered the floor, and a soiled pair of underwear lay in the corner. "No question, whoever was here was sick and dirty, an alcoholic maybe!"
Kinsei found a storage chamber, and screamed. Elijah and Alin found her. She pointed at what she saw. "Whoever was here had Rei with them!" Rei's torn school outfit was on the floor. It was covered in blood. Kinsei grabbed the outfit. The trio entered the main chamber. Kinsei lay the uniform in front of Xelloss. Xelloss continued smiling.
"Just as I suspected. We came a few hours too late." Alin scowled.
"How can you keep smiling?"
"Because I know that in the end, all will be well!" Xelloss lay several items from the second bag before them. "Elijah, this set of shoulder armor and the crown of Xoana; these are yours. I could find nothing of your father's. Kinsei, your mother's crown and this amulet of mine; these are yours. Alin, this hooded cloak which was your father's and your mother's lucky rabbit's foot-" Elijah and Kinsei snorted-" it really is lucky! These are yours. The remaining artifacts, a set of talismans that I sold to Lina, and Gourry Gabriev's sword hilt... those were meant for Rei." The three teens took what belonged to them, and began to equip themselves. Xelloss began to put Elijah's dark green hair in pigtails.
"I suppose you all wonder what all of this means, right?" They all nodded. "Of course. You would. Well, let me explain where you are and why you're here. You three are in the country of your birth, on the planet of your birth, far from Earth. Your parents are extremely famous. They're collectively known as the Slayers, with the exception of myself, and Zangulus. Martina technically is not, but she follows Lina all the time anyway. so she's included. In about, let's see... " Xelloss thought hard. "Zel is 23, 5 years, then two years earlier, yes... Three years time, Martina will concieve Elijah. She'll be born, but in the meantime, Filia and myself marry and have Kinsei a few months after that, then comes Alin in 5 years, then Rei in about 6. So, in 6 years, while you are all extremely young, under four, something terrible happens. An evil overlord, a mere boy, but given horrible powers, devises a plan to absorb Lina Inverse's power; by drinking her blood. He fails miserably three times. On his last try, he burns your home, the Castle Sailune, which Alin is heir to. That terrible night, all of your parents, except Alin's father, were in the castle. Fortunately, my adult self, in 6 years, manages to rescue your four children as infants. Unfortunately, all of your parents, including my wife, Kinsei's mother, perish in the flames. The overlord had Lina cornered, she could have survived, but she chose not to let him win. Too much pride in her, she wouldn't give in. My future self was the only one left. An old friend, Syphiel, helped me gather what you see before you. She asked me a favor in return; she wanted a child herself. She did have one, who will meet you in the next town. Her name is Chocolate, true to her name, she has chocolate brown hair and loves chocolate. That's beside the point. When Zelgadis returned to what used to be Sailune City, he was greeted by his wife's grave. His mind was twisting, and he was searching for a reason why. He looked on the memorial stone to the five escapees- us- and saw one unfamiliar name. His mind twisted, turning everything he knew upside down. I don't know what he thought, but it gave him the insane idea that the fire was Rei's fault. He vowed revenge on her. After hearing a few twisted versions of the story, saying that Lina would have been able to save them all if she hadn't had Rei- which was partially true, as Lina would have been able to use magic if she hadn't given birth four days before- his suspicions were set in his twisted little head. Now he's captured Rei, and what he wants to do, I don't know. But I do know this: the evil overlord who wanted to drink Lina's blood is in this era now, and he's out for Rei's blood. That overlord will be born in a year; we have to stop the cycle of death before it starts by eliminating his powers, eliminating him. We need to enlist the help of the Slayers!" For ten seconds, the world seemed to freeze, as they were silently trying to absorb it all. Slowly, the teenagers all nodded, comprehending what Xelloss had just run off.
"For our friends..." Elijah whispered.
"For the future..." Kinsei continued, in a hushed tone.
"For justice and for the world... it's up to us!" Alin finished, his voice gradually growing louder. The trio leapt to their feet. "Which way is it, Xelloss?" Xelloss smiled wider than before, and pointed.
"The Slayers left in that direction! Run, and you might catch up with them in a few hours!" The teenagers ran, with their cloaks and capes flying out behind them.
"Thank you, Xelloss!" Elijah and Alin called back.
"Thank you, father, goodbye!!" Kinsei cried. Xelloss smiled and waved. If he hadn't been smiling, he would have been crying tears of joy.
"Father." He repeated the word. "That word has never meant anything until now, and it's never felt better to say it." He teleported away, to catch up with the Slayers.
Lina looked behind them. Three figures were following them. "Gourry, we're being watched." Xelloss, hovering a few feet behind Lina, grinned wider than he usually did.
Gourry looked back. His mind gave a flash to the dream he'd had the night before. He "thought", or stared into space, briefly. "Let them come. They're probably just headed the same path as us."
"You're right, they're not following us. They're just headed to this town. I'm too paranoid, sometimes."
"You're not a parachutist!" Gourry cried.
"Don't worry about it, stupid." The Slayers walked on, as Alin, Kinsei, and Elijah followed.
To Be Continued
Nayru: Shibbyness!
Xiao: Please review, everyone!
