Sylvia

Alandra: here is our fic of the Slayers.

Maliska: this time focussing on Zel and Amelia.

Ramon: And Slayers does not belong to us

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Chapter 2

Zel finally regain consciousness and found himself in one of the palaces living room, rested on one of the sofas.

"So you are finally awake, sleepy rock-head?"

Zel freaked out when he heard that voice, but he calmed down when he saw that it was just Lina and Gourry. "W-What happen?"

"You fainted!" responded Gourry.

"Yeah, this is the second time you fainted Zel!" joked Lina.

"Zel has fainted before?" Gourry asked curiously.

Zel just got up from the sofa and sits on it, back to the seriousness that is always trapped on his face. "Is it true, you guys?"

"What is what true?" asked Lina

"The child……the little girl………is she Amelia's daughter……and mine?"

"Of course it is!" Lina responded like if Zelgadiis just asked a stupid question.

"But………but………how did this happen?"

"Well….." started Gourry. "When a man and a woman love each other so much they some times have……"

But Gourry was interrupted when Lina bong him on the head. "Shut up Gourry! That is not what Zel meant!" the she turn back to Zel "And I was hoping that you might tell me that Zel, after all it was your doing!"

"I don't know!!!!!!!! I swear I don't know!!!... but how can she be my daughter? After all she isn't even haft chimera! She is one hundred percent human!"

"That is not important Zel! The important thing is that you must make up for all you have done to Amelia ever since your daughter was born!"

This took Zel by surprise. "What? what do you mean?"

"Amelia has been really sad these last years, well ever since she found out that she was pregnant, I think." Said Gourry.

"Exactly!" said Lina. "She has not been her Always-happy-Justice-freak-always-cheerful-Amelia-self ……… hell, she never even smiles no more! She only gives fake smiles to her daughter!"

Zel was in chock, Amelia changed so much because of him, he completely ruin her life……… that would explain why Price Phil was so angry at him. "Where is Amelia?"

"She is putting Sylvia to sleep. It's night time after all Zel. You miss lunch."

"I'm not hungry!"

"Suit your self. Amelia said that she will talk to you after she puts the kid to bed. Gourry and I are going to sleep too and……." Lina was interrupted when she felt that someone as hugged her leg. It was little Maia.

Lina smiled at him and pick him up. "What is it sweetie?"

"I though you were sleeping, little guy." Said Gourry very softly, as he tapes his son gently on the head.

"I…..I………" Maia was too timid and too embarrassed to even talk. And Lina and Gourry knew why. Maia never like to sleep on palaces like this, he thinks that it is too scary.

"How about you sleep with Daddy and me tonight?" asked Lina very softly to her son.

Her son gives her mother and father a smile off his own.

"Ok, let's go then." Lina Said, then turns to Zel. "And good luck Zel. You're going to kneed it."

Zel watched his friends leaving the room, he really envy them, they have their own son and with out any problem with it. But he…….he has his own daughter…………ever since Rezo die his only principle was to find a cure for his cursed body, that was the only thing in his mind, he never even stop to thing what he will do after he was cured. But now he has a daughter, and what shattered him the most is that he wasn't there with Amelia to see her tiny little life starting to expand. He is a bad father. How can things ever be the same again?

Zel was so lost in his thoughts that didn't notice that Amelia has sit down in front of him. Over the years she dreamed of this day to come, but she was never prepared for the real thing.

They have been in silence for more than five minutes, until Zel finally decided to speak. "How……how did this happen?"

Amelia took a deep breath. "Well………after our victory against the Dark Star……..you stayed in Seilune almost a year…….trying to find a cure……on that night when you told me face to face that you were going to leave, I gave you my bracelet…….and then you hug me and………and…….we start kissing………and………and then , it happened."

Zel finally looks at Amelia, and at last memories of what happened that night comes to his mind. "I……..I thought it was all just a dream."

"So did I. Only after you left I discover that I was pregnant. I even send some of my people to find you, I even ask Lina and Gourry, but you are a very hard man to locate Zelgadiss. But the fact of a matter is that we have a daughter."

Zel saw that Amelia is trembling. He wanted to go there and hug her to make her pain leave, but after all that has happened these last years how can she accept his console. "Does Sylvia know about me?"

"No………I didn't want to give her hopes up waiting for you to come back."

Zel's body was all stressed as he remembered how his daughter looked at him for the first time, she was terrified of him, his own daughter was frightened of him. "I'll………

I'll leave immediately."

"Excuse me!?!?" Amelia demanded as she got up. She could not believe what she just heard.

"You and Sylvia are better off with out me."

"How can you say that!?!?"

"For heaven's sake Amelia, look at me!!!!" screamed Zelgadiss. "How can a child be happy on having a monster as a father?"

SLAPP.

Zel could not believe it. Amelia slapped him. Amelia slapped him hard on the face. Even if it hurt more to her than to him, Zelgadis was taking out of his guard. Amelia never slapped him before.

"So that is it Zelgadiss? You are going to deny her the right to decide for herself if she wants or not you being part of her life? You are her father!!!"

"Amelia please, it is not right for a child to……."

"BE SILENT!!!! Don't you give me lessons about was right and what is not! I am the one who saw my baby growing up with out seeing her own father. I am the one who prayed every night for you to come back so that we all can be a real family. I thought that if I was patient, you would finally let me be part of your life. But I guess I was wrong. You are nothing but a selfish bastard!"

"Wait Amelia!" cried Zelgadiss as he grabbed her by the arm when she was about to leave.

"DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!" screamed Amelia as she slapped Zel arm, and ran to her room, crying.

Zel sank on his knees, he could not believe what just happened, then punched the ground with his fist, furious with his own stupidity. "Oh no……I really mess things up………I just hope that deep in your heart Amelia, you will find a way to forgive me."

To be continued………

Alandra: so how do think of the story so far?

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