SLAYERS WARPED
Nayru: Without further ado, here is chapter three!
Disclaimer: The Slayers people aren't mine. Kinsei, Alin, and Elijah are mine. Chocolate is mine.
Chapter 2: Sore Wa JUSTICE Ja Nai!
On top of a gate post, a 10 year old girl sat. The post was fifteen feet high, and she was four feet tall, and the post wasn't meant for climbing, so only L-sama knows how she got up there. She had wavy brown hair the color of chocolate that reached her shoulders. She was eating a chocolate cupcake, wearing the biggest smile imaginable. The Slayers gang, except Xelloss, ignored her. Xelloss stopped, and waved. The girl waved back entusiastically. "Hi, hi, hi!"
"Hey there, little one!" Xelloss called. Lina stopped.
"Xelloss, what are you doing and why are you following us?"
"Sore wa himitsu desu! Sore wa himitsu desu!" Xelloss grinned even more. Lina blinked; the girl and Xelloss had the exact same smile.
"Chocolate is here like she was told to! Chocolate knows where Lina and her party should go! Chocolate knows a very good inn with great food at a low price! They even gave little Chocolate a cupcake!"
"Chocolate should refer to herself in the first person." Zelgadis rolled his eyes.
"Hidoi!" Chocolate stuck her tongue out at Zelgadis. "It's got the symbol of a clock on the sign, you can't miss it. It's quiet, but you get a lot of weird people. This one guy came by asking for you, Lina Inverse!" Lina frowned. "He left though. Go on, they have the BEST cupcakes!" Lina thought a moment.
"Good, cheap food... okay, we'll go to that clock place for dinner!" The Slayers walked off. Xelloss winked at Chocolate, and followed them.
After about half a hour, Elijah, Kinsei, and Alin caught up. Alin wiped sweat from his forehead.
"That's injust!" He grumbled. "They run faster than we do!"
"Well, we're not built for this. They've been doing that all their lives, this is our first day." Elijah flicked a soaking wet strand of hair behind her ear. "We'll get stronger if we keep it up."
"Yeah..." was all Kinsei could manage as she tried to rest her aching muscles; she was a little bit flimsier than Alin and Elijah, not as strong, so the twenty mile walk was rough on her. "We need some sorta special powers so we can move faster."
"Well, you ARE Ryuzoku, so you should be able to transform into a dragon and FLY! Oh, and you're also Mazoku, so you can just teleport. That's why daddy gave you the light-dark pendant, you know!" Chocolate was still perched on her gate post. She had long finished her cupcake, and had been entertaining herself by jumping around on the posts.
"Daddy, what do you mean?"
"Sore wa himitsu desu!" Chocolate continued to grin. "You'll find who you're looking for at the Clock Face. Bye!" She simply vanished.
"Who are we looking for?" Alin mused. "Our enemy, or the Slayers?"
"Don't know. This town doesn't seem to have a big clock, so the Clock Face must be a restaurant or something. Somehow, I don't think she likes us too much." Elijah stepped through the gates. "Come on!" The trio walked into the town.
Lina looked over her plate at a trio of odd children sitting in a corner of the otherwise empty room. They hadn't ordered anything, simply sat there speaking in low voices. There was a girl dressed as Martina, another dressed as Filia, and a boy dressed as Zel. Lina frowned. "Filia, go check them out."
"Why me?" Filia sighed, stirring her tea. Lina blanched, remembering Filia's extremely short temper when tea time was interrupted.
"Okay, Zel, you do it!" At that point, the girl dressed as Filia scowled. Suddenly, she had a tail. She failed to notice, as she flicked the boy's hood off, revealing chimera characteristics. Scowling more, the girl began desperate attempts to put her tail into her skirt. Filia and Zel both approached the table.
"Hi." Filia said.
"Why didn't he tell me I had a ta- Oh, hi." The golden dragon blinked up at Filia in a confused way. "My name is Kinsei, who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me?" Filia turned her head curiously.
"No."
"That's odd, even a highly alienated dragon should recognize a former Priestess."
"I'm afraid you're my first contact with another Ryuzoku since I was three."
"You're rather young, aren't you?" Filia frowned. "Only 200, I'd expect."
"Actually, 16."
"1600? Wow, you're older than me!"
"No, 16. I'm sort of... not full Ryuzoku. I'm half Mazoku."
"What?! What type of Ryuzoku would get into an affair like that?!" Filia cried, appearing angry. She was obviously faking it, as her tail hadn't materialized. She easily lifted Kinsei into the air. "Taboo! Taboo!"
"Wow, Filia, quite impressive, throttling a baby Ryuzoku." Xelloss materialized behind Filia, smiling. In the meantime, Zelgadis and the chimera boy were staring at one another.
"... You want coffee?"
"... Sure."
"... Name?"
"... Alin... you?"
"... Zelgadis... searching for a cure?"
" ... sorta..." The two returned to Lina's table, talking in ellipses. Filia had entirely forgotten Kinsei, and was attempting to bash Xelloss with Mace-sama. Finally, Kinsei reached into the fight and grabbed the mace with impressive ease.
"Stop! Why can't you be more like my parents?! They worked out their differences, just bury the hatchet!" Lina and Filia blinked in quiet surprise.
"She doesn't look powerful or endurant, but she proves to be quite strong." Lina noted to herself. Amelia was ignoring the situation, and on a long rant about justice and Mace-sama with Gourry.
Xelloss continued to smile. "I will if she will."
"When have you been so willing to agree, Namagomi?!"
Xelloss grinned, and extended his hand. "Friends now?"
"NO!!" She whacked him with her mace. "Now, little taboo child, I'll show you how to properly make tea at any time!"
"Just call me Kinsei."
"Some things never change." Lina giggled as Filia bashed Xelloss once more.
"Well, anyway, it seems you have upset our three young guests." Xelloss continued, in his oh-so-fruity voice.
"Guests?" Amelia asked, curious.
"Yes. I think it's only fair, Filia, that you keep an eye on the young one you enraged." Xelloss patted Kinsei on the head. "Oh, and Zelgadis has made a new friend? Wonderful! I don't think Zelly will mind watching him at all!" Zelgadis glared at Xelloss over the top of his coffee. "And this last one... hm..."
At that very moment, Martina burst in.
"LINA! I FINALLY FOUND YOU!" She squealed. "Oooh, who are your new friends?" Martina looked at Elijah. "Oh! A follower of Zoemlgustar!" She gestured wildly to the armor on Elijah's shoulder, which was the same armor Martina was wearing.
Elijah blinked. "I wondered what the skull and feathers on my shoulder armor meant." she muttered to Kinsei in a low voice.
"Tis an odd combination, but you've ranted about old Zoeml- whatshisface a few good times." Kinsei spared Elijah a Xelloss-like grin.
"Perfect match." Xelloss smiled as widely as Kinsei was.
"Have not." Meanwhile, Martina was babbling on about Zoemlgustar... in Elijah's face. Finally, Martina began to squeal about boys. Excited at the prospect of babbling about boys, Elijah joined her. "And gods, don't you just LOVE those swordsmen?!" The two continued talking spiritedly.
Lina slowly surveyed the pandemonium that had unfolded before her. Alin and Zelgadis were sitting next to each other, speaking in low voices, and drinking coffee simultaneously. Filia was showing Kinsei how to make tea. Kinsei seemed as equally interested as Filia was. Elijah and Martina were both on a rant about Zoemlgustar. Chocolate had joined them, and she and Xelloss were both trying to steal Amelia's food. Lina narrowed her eyes. "Xelloss, explain this."
"Sore wa himitsu desu, Lina!" Xelloss and Chocolate both cried simultaneously.
"Miss Lina." Alin looked up from his coffee. "Guys, help me." He nodded to Kinsei and Elijah.
"Right... We're actually looking for someone." Elijah started.
"She's a little shorter than me, and she has bright red hair, and diamond-blue eyes. She wears her hair loose most of the time, and she's kind of pale. She's a ditz on occasion, but she can be a hardass too. Oh, and she has small boobs, really small." Gourry looked like he wanted to say something, but refrained at a glare from Lina. "Have you seen her?" Kinsei finished.
"Y'see, it's his-" Elijah gestured to Alin- "girlfriend. She... vanished... a while ago." Elijah lied. "And we're kinda desperate to find her."
Lina narrowed her eyes again, deep in thought. "I haven't seen her."
"But we'd be willing to look!" Amelia giggled. "We're sorta bored wandering anyway, it'll be fun!"
"How much are you three gonna pay us?"
"That's another thing; we're all broke." Elijah lied again; in reality, she had a wallet with about 1000 yen in it tucked in a pocket in her cape. Was yen worth anything in this world?
"Hnnnnnn..."
"Lina... for justice's sake, they're kids."
"What're ya talkin' about, kids?! Amelia, that one's probably as old as you!" Lina gestured to Elijah. "And the other two aren't far behind!" She pointed at a sorrowful looking Alin and Kinsei. The trio looked at each other in a depressed way; if Lina had her way, they would never find Rei.
"But Miss Lina... In the name of justice, I'LL pay you to help them." Amelia gave Lina a practiced puppy-dog look.
"Oh, FINE... We'll help them for FREE. Ugh... I hate that word." The trio instantly brightened up. "Sore wa justice ja nai, Amelia." Amelia giggled.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Kinsei jumped up and down eagerly.
"But you're not gonna be extra luggage. Oh no, you three are gonna work as hard as us at everything we do." Lina glared at Alin, Kinsei, and Elijah. They shrugged.
"We didn't wanna be pampered anyway." Alin folded his arms.
"We intended on learning from your greatness, Miss Inverse." Elijah laughed mockingly. "No, really. We want to be adventurers..."
"Just like our parents were."
"Where are your parents, anyway?" Gourry asked, saying something almost intelligent. The trio looked at each other in rapid thought. Like mindreaders, they all answered at once... with something different.
"Dead." Elijah stated.
"Missing." Kinsei sighed.
"Insane."Alin replied.
Lina frowned. "Which is it?"
They looked at each other again. "My parents are dead." Elijah finally sighed. Time to tell a few big lies and truths, she was thinking, as she slowly contested, "Kinsei's... well, her mother vanished, and her father sort of abandoned her." Xelloss looked briefly hurt. "Alin's mother is dead as well, and his father is undeniably insane." Alin's eyes quickly flashed to Zelgadis, and back onto Lina.
"Oh." Lina sighed. "Story of life these days. Well, we'll see what we can't do." The trio went back to eating. "I still don't think they're trustworthy, Gourry." She murmured to her male friend. Blankly, Gourry stroked her hair. "I mean, they seem friendly, but there's just something... fishy about them."
"I dunno... they're definitely weird, but they seem trustworthy. Just three kids with a rough reality." Gourry smiled cheerfully.
"Yeah..." Lina trailed off, and continued eating.
To Be Continued
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Nayru: Without further ado, here is chapter three!
Disclaimer: The Slayers people aren't mine. Kinsei, Alin, and Elijah are mine. Chocolate is mine.
Chapter 2: Sore Wa JUSTICE Ja Nai!
On top of a gate post, a 10 year old girl sat. The post was fifteen feet high, and she was four feet tall, and the post wasn't meant for climbing, so only L-sama knows how she got up there. She had wavy brown hair the color of chocolate that reached her shoulders. She was eating a chocolate cupcake, wearing the biggest smile imaginable. The Slayers gang, except Xelloss, ignored her. Xelloss stopped, and waved. The girl waved back entusiastically. "Hi, hi, hi!"
"Hey there, little one!" Xelloss called. Lina stopped.
"Xelloss, what are you doing and why are you following us?"
"Sore wa himitsu desu! Sore wa himitsu desu!" Xelloss grinned even more. Lina blinked; the girl and Xelloss had the exact same smile.
"Chocolate is here like she was told to! Chocolate knows where Lina and her party should go! Chocolate knows a very good inn with great food at a low price! They even gave little Chocolate a cupcake!"
"Chocolate should refer to herself in the first person." Zelgadis rolled his eyes.
"Hidoi!" Chocolate stuck her tongue out at Zelgadis. "It's got the symbol of a clock on the sign, you can't miss it. It's quiet, but you get a lot of weird people. This one guy came by asking for you, Lina Inverse!" Lina frowned. "He left though. Go on, they have the BEST cupcakes!" Lina thought a moment.
"Good, cheap food... okay, we'll go to that clock place for dinner!" The Slayers walked off. Xelloss winked at Chocolate, and followed them.
After about half a hour, Elijah, Kinsei, and Alin caught up. Alin wiped sweat from his forehead.
"That's injust!" He grumbled. "They run faster than we do!"
"Well, we're not built for this. They've been doing that all their lives, this is our first day." Elijah flicked a soaking wet strand of hair behind her ear. "We'll get stronger if we keep it up."
"Yeah..." was all Kinsei could manage as she tried to rest her aching muscles; she was a little bit flimsier than Alin and Elijah, not as strong, so the twenty mile walk was rough on her. "We need some sorta special powers so we can move faster."
"Well, you ARE Ryuzoku, so you should be able to transform into a dragon and FLY! Oh, and you're also Mazoku, so you can just teleport. That's why daddy gave you the light-dark pendant, you know!" Chocolate was still perched on her gate post. She had long finished her cupcake, and had been entertaining herself by jumping around on the posts.
"Daddy, what do you mean?"
"Sore wa himitsu desu!" Chocolate continued to grin. "You'll find who you're looking for at the Clock Face. Bye!" She simply vanished.
"Who are we looking for?" Alin mused. "Our enemy, or the Slayers?"
"Don't know. This town doesn't seem to have a big clock, so the Clock Face must be a restaurant or something. Somehow, I don't think she likes us too much." Elijah stepped through the gates. "Come on!" The trio walked into the town.
Lina looked over her plate at a trio of odd children sitting in a corner of the otherwise empty room. They hadn't ordered anything, simply sat there speaking in low voices. There was a girl dressed as Martina, another dressed as Filia, and a boy dressed as Zel. Lina frowned. "Filia, go check them out."
"Why me?" Filia sighed, stirring her tea. Lina blanched, remembering Filia's extremely short temper when tea time was interrupted.
"Okay, Zel, you do it!" At that point, the girl dressed as Filia scowled. Suddenly, she had a tail. She failed to notice, as she flicked the boy's hood off, revealing chimera characteristics. Scowling more, the girl began desperate attempts to put her tail into her skirt. Filia and Zel both approached the table.
"Hi." Filia said.
"Why didn't he tell me I had a ta- Oh, hi." The golden dragon blinked up at Filia in a confused way. "My name is Kinsei, who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me?" Filia turned her head curiously.
"No."
"That's odd, even a highly alienated dragon should recognize a former Priestess."
"I'm afraid you're my first contact with another Ryuzoku since I was three."
"You're rather young, aren't you?" Filia frowned. "Only 200, I'd expect."
"Actually, 16."
"1600? Wow, you're older than me!"
"No, 16. I'm sort of... not full Ryuzoku. I'm half Mazoku."
"What?! What type of Ryuzoku would get into an affair like that?!" Filia cried, appearing angry. She was obviously faking it, as her tail hadn't materialized. She easily lifted Kinsei into the air. "Taboo! Taboo!"
"Wow, Filia, quite impressive, throttling a baby Ryuzoku." Xelloss materialized behind Filia, smiling. In the meantime, Zelgadis and the chimera boy were staring at one another.
"... You want coffee?"
"... Sure."
"... Name?"
"... Alin... you?"
"... Zelgadis... searching for a cure?"
" ... sorta..." The two returned to Lina's table, talking in ellipses. Filia had entirely forgotten Kinsei, and was attempting to bash Xelloss with Mace-sama. Finally, Kinsei reached into the fight and grabbed the mace with impressive ease.
"Stop! Why can't you be more like my parents?! They worked out their differences, just bury the hatchet!" Lina and Filia blinked in quiet surprise.
"She doesn't look powerful or endurant, but she proves to be quite strong." Lina noted to herself. Amelia was ignoring the situation, and on a long rant about justice and Mace-sama with Gourry.
Xelloss continued to smile. "I will if she will."
"When have you been so willing to agree, Namagomi?!"
Xelloss grinned, and extended his hand. "Friends now?"
"NO!!" She whacked him with her mace. "Now, little taboo child, I'll show you how to properly make tea at any time!"
"Just call me Kinsei."
"Some things never change." Lina giggled as Filia bashed Xelloss once more.
"Well, anyway, it seems you have upset our three young guests." Xelloss continued, in his oh-so-fruity voice.
"Guests?" Amelia asked, curious.
"Yes. I think it's only fair, Filia, that you keep an eye on the young one you enraged." Xelloss patted Kinsei on the head. "Oh, and Zelgadis has made a new friend? Wonderful! I don't think Zelly will mind watching him at all!" Zelgadis glared at Xelloss over the top of his coffee. "And this last one... hm..."
At that very moment, Martina burst in.
"LINA! I FINALLY FOUND YOU!" She squealed. "Oooh, who are your new friends?" Martina looked at Elijah. "Oh! A follower of Zoemlgustar!" She gestured wildly to the armor on Elijah's shoulder, which was the same armor Martina was wearing.
Elijah blinked. "I wondered what the skull and feathers on my shoulder armor meant." she muttered to Kinsei in a low voice.
"Tis an odd combination, but you've ranted about old Zoeml- whatshisface a few good times." Kinsei spared Elijah a Xelloss-like grin.
"Perfect match." Xelloss smiled as widely as Kinsei was.
"Have not." Meanwhile, Martina was babbling on about Zoemlgustar... in Elijah's face. Finally, Martina began to squeal about boys. Excited at the prospect of babbling about boys, Elijah joined her. "And gods, don't you just LOVE those swordsmen?!" The two continued talking spiritedly.
Lina slowly surveyed the pandemonium that had unfolded before her. Alin and Zelgadis were sitting next to each other, speaking in low voices, and drinking coffee simultaneously. Filia was showing Kinsei how to make tea. Kinsei seemed as equally interested as Filia was. Elijah and Martina were both on a rant about Zoemlgustar. Chocolate had joined them, and she and Xelloss were both trying to steal Amelia's food. Lina narrowed her eyes. "Xelloss, explain this."
"Sore wa himitsu desu, Lina!" Xelloss and Chocolate both cried simultaneously.
"Miss Lina." Alin looked up from his coffee. "Guys, help me." He nodded to Kinsei and Elijah.
"Right... We're actually looking for someone." Elijah started.
"She's a little shorter than me, and she has bright red hair, and diamond-blue eyes. She wears her hair loose most of the time, and she's kind of pale. She's a ditz on occasion, but she can be a hardass too. Oh, and she has small boobs, really small." Gourry looked like he wanted to say something, but refrained at a glare from Lina. "Have you seen her?" Kinsei finished.
"Y'see, it's his-" Elijah gestured to Alin- "girlfriend. She... vanished... a while ago." Elijah lied. "And we're kinda desperate to find her."
Lina narrowed her eyes again, deep in thought. "I haven't seen her."
"But we'd be willing to look!" Amelia giggled. "We're sorta bored wandering anyway, it'll be fun!"
"How much are you three gonna pay us?"
"That's another thing; we're all broke." Elijah lied again; in reality, she had a wallet with about 1000 yen in it tucked in a pocket in her cape. Was yen worth anything in this world?
"Hnnnnnn..."
"Lina... for justice's sake, they're kids."
"What're ya talkin' about, kids?! Amelia, that one's probably as old as you!" Lina gestured to Elijah. "And the other two aren't far behind!" She pointed at a sorrowful looking Alin and Kinsei. The trio looked at each other in a depressed way; if Lina had her way, they would never find Rei.
"But Miss Lina... In the name of justice, I'LL pay you to help them." Amelia gave Lina a practiced puppy-dog look.
"Oh, FINE... We'll help them for FREE. Ugh... I hate that word." The trio instantly brightened up. "Sore wa justice ja nai, Amelia." Amelia giggled.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Kinsei jumped up and down eagerly.
"But you're not gonna be extra luggage. Oh no, you three are gonna work as hard as us at everything we do." Lina glared at Alin, Kinsei, and Elijah. They shrugged.
"We didn't wanna be pampered anyway." Alin folded his arms.
"We intended on learning from your greatness, Miss Inverse." Elijah laughed mockingly. "No, really. We want to be adventurers..."
"Just like our parents were."
"Where are your parents, anyway?" Gourry asked, saying something almost intelligent. The trio looked at each other in rapid thought. Like mindreaders, they all answered at once... with something different.
"Dead." Elijah stated.
"Missing." Kinsei sighed.
"Insane."Alin replied.
Lina frowned. "Which is it?"
They looked at each other again. "My parents are dead." Elijah finally sighed. Time to tell a few big lies and truths, she was thinking, as she slowly contested, "Kinsei's... well, her mother vanished, and her father sort of abandoned her." Xelloss looked briefly hurt. "Alin's mother is dead as well, and his father is undeniably insane." Alin's eyes quickly flashed to Zelgadis, and back onto Lina.
"Oh." Lina sighed. "Story of life these days. Well, we'll see what we can't do." The trio went back to eating. "I still don't think they're trustworthy, Gourry." She murmured to her male friend. Blankly, Gourry stroked her hair. "I mean, they seem friendly, but there's just something... fishy about them."
"I dunno... they're definitely weird, but they seem trustworthy. Just three kids with a rough reality." Gourry smiled cheerfully.
"Yeah..." Lina trailed off, and continued eating.
To Be Continued
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