Slayers Fanfic Novel by Isabel M. aka Ameban. The disclaimer belongs to Hajime Kanzaka&Rui Araizumi, Tokio Soft TV. This story is the English translation of an original "Slayers" novel wrote in Spanish. Special thanks to Kamapon, who translated this chapter into English for first stance, and Ichiban Victory (http/ who beta-read this chapter for me The original story can be found on my domain (http/ along the illustrations I did for this story. In the original Spanish version, this chapter has a Map of Slayers word in order to put clear the characters' situation.


Chapter 3:

"Starting a New Journey"

Amelia caressed the little horse's dense mane as the helpful stable servant put the saddle on her horse. Martina watched her with sad eyes.

"Ooooh! So, are you going? Reaaaally?"

"Yes, I am, Martina." Amelia confirmed. "I have to meet my sister; it is very important for Seyroon's sake." The princess-priestess tried to justify her decision to Martina, "Since she left Seyroon, I have occupied her site and, if she doesn't appear one day, I'll be the next queen of Seyroon…"

Martina was offended somehow by this kind of cooperation.

"And what is wrong with this?"

"No… No, nothing… never mind!" answered Amelia quickly. "You already had seen the situation in my family; I can't let this go too far. If it happens, Seyroon's Royal Crown will disappear… Understand it! Now that I know where I can find Gracia, I have to do it."

More than anything, Martina was disillusioned of her 'Occupation Associate' leaving so soon, and Zangulus, knowing her feelings, tried to console her.

"Amelia is right, Martina." he said to her. "It is important for her country that she finds her sister."

"But… Do you have to leave so soooon?"

"Yes…" Amelia answered, "I have to arrive in Sadgria as soon as possible. We'll see each other again when I come back."

And saying this, she rode her white little horse, pressed her heels in its sides and started to gallop; but Martina said suddenly,

"Wait a minute!" Amelia pulled the reins. "Before you go, take this; it will help youuuuu…"

"What's this?" asked Amelia while she reached her hand out.

"Zomerstherth's emblem!" Martina answered.

Amelia turned pale; she didn't imagine Martina would give her that creepy emblem, but she didn't know how say "no, thanks" to her.

"Tha… Thanks, Martina!" Amelia answered, in a fix.

"Zomerstherth will help you in your journey. If I tell him to, he'll do it…" answered the princess of Xoana completely sure of herself.

Amelia felt more disturbed; she couldn't say "no"; Martina gave it to her in a good will, so, not to prolong the situation, rode her horse again and went quickly across one of the gates in the palace.

"Zomerstherth bless you!" Amelia heard Zangulus say.

"Thank you; see you!" said Amelia.


Very far from there, what was known as the 'Outer World' outside of the Demons Barrier, in a ceramics shop an ex-priestess of Vrabazard, the Fire Lord Dragon, tried to give her meal to a little reborn dragon.

"C'mon Vargaarv!… Say 'Aaaaah'!" said the priestess.

The little dragon shook his little feathered wings and made a guttural noise as he opened his mouth; Phiria gave him a bit of meat and the little dragon ate it quickly. In that way, the ex-priestess repeat this till the baby finished his meal.

"Lady… Will he really grow up and be Vargaarv again?" Jiras asked.

Phiria was going to answer her helper when a known voice answered him for her.

"Yes, of course. Remember Vargaarv is a dragon!"

All the people in there looked for the owner of this characteristic voice; suddenly Phiria felt bad inside without any good reason… till she saw the guilty one of all this.

"Xelloss!" she exclaimed in an unfriendly tone.

The demon-priest appeared from nowhere in the middle of the back-shop where Phiria put Vargaarv's cradle, who embraced the little dragon in a protective position.

"What… What are you doing here?" she asked, scared.

Xellosss went close to her calmly with his characteristic smile and friendly expression on his face; Phiria embraced the little dragon who started to growl, annoyed by Phiria's manners and Xellosss' presence.

"Don't worry!" the demon soothed, "I'm only here for a moment: I want to see how my old enemy was." He answered simply.

Phiria turned around in a protective way, while Jiras was on guard.

"Xellosss… I don't rely on you!" said Phiria.

"Oh, c'mon! Is that the way you talk to an old companion?" answered Xellosss with that annoying tone of his "When we fought against Dark Star you weren't so suspicious."

"This isn't true! I never relied on you!" Phiria answered, protecting herself. "Why don't you say what you want?… And don't tell me 'It's a secret'!"

"No, it isn't." answered Xellosss calmly, "I told you: I want to see to my favorite little dragon." he corroborated.

"Wh… What?" Phiria asked.

"Of course; I only obey orders from my Lady and great demons… and now I'm not carrying out a mission. Why do you think I'm going to hurt you?" explained Xellosss.

Phiria stared at him confused, losing part of her defensive posture and shook her tail in front of him trying to put all her nerves on something. Xelloss went close calmly and stopped to see the little dragon. Vargaarv growled when the mazoku approached him.

"Hi, Vargaarv! How are you? Don't you remember uncle Xellosss?" asked the mazoku in a singing tone unknown to Phiria. Without anything else she could do, Phiria showed him the little tiny dragon embraced between her arms, and the mazoku extended his forefinger in front of his jaws like an affectionate gesture. Vargaarv followed the finger with his face and tried to bite him in self-defense; Xellosss pulled his hand away quickly.

"Hey! He's got the same bad temper as the original!" said the mazoku in a humorous fashion. Phiria shook her tail in front of Xellosss again.

"Move away from him! Don't you see he's just a baby?" said the dragon furiously.

"OK, OK…!" Xellosss soothed. "There's no need to go in that way. You're not very kind." and saying this, he disappeared.

Phiria sighed deeply and relaxed.

"Are you OK, my Lady?" Jiras asked worried.

"Ye… yes; now he's gone…" Phiria answered, but she couldn't finish the sentence.

"Ah! I forgot it!" Xelloss exclaimed appearing again. Phiria and Jiras jumped in surprise and looked at him, not sure what to do.

"Wh… What do you want, Xellosss?" asked the dragon trying to be polite.

"I was about to ask you if you sell tourist guides in your shop… Because I want one about this city." Xellosss answered naturally.

Once Xellosss had gone for sure, Phiria felt as if she was relieved of a terrible weight… She, like all Golden Dragons, hated the mazoku-priest, and she had enough reasons, personal and because of her specie for it, but the fact was she was confused: Xellosss made fun of her lots and lots of times, but even with this, she had to admit even if it comes from an evil mazoku like Xellosss, he was friendly and nice… when he wants; and maybe because of that, this little group of humans who went with him when they fought against Dark Star, tolerated him in that way so… friendly. Phiria was afraid to think perhaps she was starting to appreciate that mazoku, too. He saved her on some occasions and sometimes, he provoked her anger when the situation was very dangerous; but she was troubled about the time he excused himself with her sincerely because he did. The truth was she didn't know what she could want from this mazoku.

Then Jiras brought her out of her thinking.

"My Lady; there is someone who calls himself Milgazia asking for you in the main door."

"What? Milgazia?" exclaimed the dragon very surprised.

"Yes... He says you don't know each one in person, but he knows who you are and he wants to see you."

Phiria left little Vargaarv in the cradle, who slept peacefully after his meal, and wrapped him up in a way no stranger could see him. Golden Dragons inside the Barrier weren't Varbazard's relatives, but she still bore in mind her specie killed Vargaarv's, and even the Great Elder was dead, she preferred to hide the Ancient Dragon from strangers eyes.

Once she hid him, she went to the main door.


Naga was really unbearable; since she and Zelgadiss left Sadgria, she was talking without stop along two hours about how great she was as a woman, as a person and as a sorceress while they both walked across a road that crossed hills with some trees dispersed on them. During all this time, she only praised herself in all ways possible, and for Zelgadiss that situation was unbearable… Naga was, really, like Lina in a lot of ways: she ate a lot and liked money and power like the most one, for count two examples only. But, under Zel's point of view, there was a little difference: Lina was like this because she wasn't sure about her womanhood and sorceress condition at all, so all these barbarities she did were because she wanted to demonstrate how good she was; as Naga's cause was because she was so satisfied with herself and she wanted everybody she could know how wonderful she was, making all her pompous pride get more full than it was now. So because of different things, they both made all in their way go "Boom".

But it didn't justify all Zelgadiss had to deal with.

"Are you going to shut up?" he asked, annoyed. "We aren't getting anywhere this way."

Naga looked at him annoyed and stopped.

"What's wrong with you?" she growled. "Don't you know the next town is Moziquita? What do you think you're going to find there?"

"I know it! People called it Arts City… but there isn't anything to find." declared the sorcerer-swordsman. "But…" Naga whispered.

Naga seemed to be thinking about something while she touched her cheek with a forefinger.

"Have you got an idea where can we start to search?" Zelgadiss asked definitively. "…I think the best thing we can do is analyze the possible places we could find a copy." Naga declared as she sat on a beech tree.

Zelgadiss stared at her and sat near her.

"What are you thinking about?" Zelgadiss asked in a nicer tone. "Where do you think we could start to search?" he finished hoping Naga had better ideas than him.

The sorceress crossed her arms behind her neck and leaned back on the beech tree while she looked up and stare at the top of the tree.

"Well… At first, I would choose the places where we could find a copy." she declared.

"I thought about it before!" Zel growled "And believe me when I told you it could be easier in the least suspicious place." He said thinking of Moziquita again.

"I that case, I think we must find the originals for no problems." Naga said finally, satisfied with her idea.

"No!" answered Zel suddenly, "The original Board can't be read and we would need Lord Water Dragon's permission to read them... I doubt we could get it." answered the chimera preferring to hide the true reasons of it's inaccessibility.

Naga was surprised again because of all the things he knew.

"Oh! You must have been looking for it for a long time." She declared in a self-merciful tone, "But I think we must go to the place where they are; we can't lose anything for it." Suggested the sorceress.

Zel looked away and stared into the distance for a moment as he though of the last possibility.

"Ok! Let's start our journey again, then." he said standing up.

Naga smiled in satisfaction, it seemed like she was starting to understand the annoying chimera, but when she was going to stand up, she noticed his wrist: he wore a chalzen bracelet like Seyroon's White sorceress'. He didn't realize it before, he wore it hidden… but this bracelet had something strange.

"What are you doing?" he asked "Stand up and let's go." Zelgadiss said like an order.

Naga clicked her tongue, annoyed; she was about to say something, when she stared in something shining in the middle of the road. Her pupils grew wide in happiness because of the though she had just found and, before Zelgadiss could talk again, the sorceress jumped up and ran in an amazing sprint to that shining thing.

"I knew it; I knew it!" she shouted while laughing that creepy laugh of hers. "It was a gold coin!"

Zelgadiss looked at the scene completely amazed; it was more than he could imagine, he never knew someone so greedy, that girl was even more than Lina was. But he wasn't there for her nonsense; he shook his fist, annoyed, and went to that humorous sorceress who wasn't paying attention, completely satisfied with her find… A big wrong: Zelgadiss, fed up with all this nonsense, hit her with a great punch on the top of her head, and Naga finished falling onto the ground. The sorceress turned to the chimera; Zel held up her angry look

"Come on!" he ordered "Do what you want with that coin, but go faster. We have to arrive in Moziquita before the end of the week! Perhaps we could find something there!"

"Oh, yes?" asked Naga sarcastically, annoyed because of the punch, it still hurt a lot. "How? We are still very far from Moziquita."

Zelgadiss looked at her indifferently and said a spell.

"Levitation!" he shouted.

Suddenly a white light covered his body and the chimera flew up; Naga looked at him amazed, she wasn't use to traveling by flying. She wasn't hesitant.

"Let's go!" said Zelgadiss and smiled with sarcasm. "In Moziquita you'll find all the gold coins you want."

Naga looked at him furiously: who did he think he was? Did he doubt her sorceress ability? She said the same spell as he had, and flew up. Zel watched her with a shy smile and started to fly following the same way from the air, followed by Naga with her aerial acrobatics.


Very far from there, in a town in ZePhiria, a discussion like the previous, was going on.

"But, Luna…" Lina complained "Why do I have to do that? Grape harvest isn't for a month and we haven't any cultivation."

"Yes, but every woman in town does it every year and I was doing it while you were gone, so it's your duty." Luna answered sharply.

"But I can't be here too long…" Lina still moaned.

Gourry looked at the discussion without understanding it at all, the only thing he was sure about was that Lina had change incredibly since they were there. It being the reason of that discussion, the truth was Lina wouldn't accept orders from anyone in that way; but it seemed as if Luna could do all she wanted with Lina. And Gourry was more interested in what was going to happen with the other thing.

"Hey, Lina!" he interrupted, "What is that grape harvest your sister is talking about?"

Wanting to know, Luna looked at him with a confused expression; can't that boy open his mouth if it wasn't to say nonsense? She was going to say something when her younger sister interrupted her.

"Let me do it, Luna…" Lina asked her, sighing, then she turned to Gourry. "Look, Gourry; here, in ZePhiria, all the economy is based on the vineyards and all about grapes. So, during the grape harvest, all the people in town collect grapes." she explained, "and my sister wants me to do it too." She finished with a sigh.

"Aaah!" Gourry answered, "Then, we can't go to get a new sword." he complained.

"I see!" Luna exclaimed "So that's the reason why you can't stay here any longer; it's more important for your friend's sword than the duty to your people…"

Lina became white when Luna went close to her with a furious expression.

"Lu… Luna; wouldn't you… You're not going to believe Gourry's words, are you?" she tried to defend herself.

"Ah!" exclaim Gourry in surprise, "But weren't we looking for a new sword for me?" he asked.

That made Luna get angrier, but Lina, even knowing it, looked at Gourry furiously for his big mouth

"Gouuurrry! Jellyfish brain!" Lina muttered.

Then, she received a great punch in the top of her head and, once again, she smashed onto the ground.

"That's because you've lied to your older sister." Luna said.

"Oh! Excuse me! Am I interrupting something?" they heard a singing voice.

Lina raised her head from the ground looking for the owner of this voice and Gourry did the same, but it was Luna who found it. Through the gate of the farmyard they saw a young man dressed in black velvet holding a staff with a big red jewel at the tip, and he had a happy face.

"WHO are you?" Luna asked surprised by the suddenly apparition.

"Xellosss!" her sister and Gourry exclaimed at the same time. Luna stared at them surprised.

"Do you know him?" Luna asked.

"Yes… more or less." Lina answered standing up on her foot while shaking the dust off her clothes "What are you doing at my home, Xellosss?" she asked, turning to him.

"What a welcome!" complained the mazoku "It was so hard to find you!"

Luna was glaring at the newly arrived man with some distrust: there was something in him she didn't like at all… And she knew so well she must trust in her feelings.

"Who is that man, Lina?" Luna asked, "Is he a friend of yours?"

Xelloss did the same, he was looking at her with curiosity, but he did it very discreetly.

"Who is that girl, Lina? It's the first time I have seen you with her… " he announced.

Lina sighed and answered them both.

"Ok; I'll introduce you two." she said, "Xellosss, this is Luna, my older sister… Luna, this is Xelloss, the mazoku-priest who fought against golden dragons a thousand years ago." She explained introducing them both.

"WHAAAT?" Luna exclaimed very surprised.

"Liiina. " complained Xellosss, stooping at her with his staff placed behind his back. "You can't go and say it everywhere, people get scared…!" then he turned to Luna. "So she's your sister…" he said.

Luna glared at the mazoku completely amazed, in a mix of fear and respect; Lina knew her sister well and she knew that it was becoming an uncomfortable situation for her, even Xelloss looked at her without an external emotion, but that was normal for him. Then Gourry, who was looking at the scene with curiosity, started to laugh.

"Have you seen that, Lina?" said the blond swordsman with a laugh.

"What happened?" asked Lina, curious.

"…It's your sister. She is exactly like Xellosss, but with breasts!" Gourry said.

Everyone's reaction was a show: starting from the two sisters and Xellosss who jumped and fell to the ground, then, the mazoku rose, completely confused.

"Gourry, really I never…!" Xellosss started to say and then he stared at Luna who was standing up slowly, so slowly; her head looking up off the ground, and a glance that made Xellosss get scared.

"Gooooouurrryyyy!" Luna announced dragging the name.

The next could be resumed in a blaze of explosions, spells and a lot of shrieks.

"Is she really your older sister?" Xellosss asked, Lina dolled up now while he looked at the show. The sorceress nodded obviously afraid "Man; what a temper!" Xelloss exclaimed giggling.