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 3

Zel enters Amelias room very quietly, she is sleeping, and saw that by the way she was laying on the bed and the way her eyes look that she's been crying all this time. Zel picks up from his pocket the bracelet that Amelia had given to him, and put it in her hand, it is very obvious that Zel does not deserve it anymore; he has made her endure a terrible pain. Zel took one last peek at the woman he loves before he walked out of her room. "Goodbye Amelia……forgive me….."

Then he took a peek from the room where are the first friends Zel has ever made all by himself, Lina and Gourry. Zel saw that little Maia is sleeping peacefully in his mothers arms, and Gourry has one arm surrounding them, even as a father and a husband he is still playing the part of protector. All three of them, with smiles on their faces. "Goodbye you guys……… good luck with your new life……and please take care of Amelia and Sylvia." With that, Zel close the door quietly.

Finally he took a peek at his daughter's room, sleeping peacefully in her own giant size bed surrounded with dolls, she has her mothers eyes and Zel's hair when he was human, more than ever Zel wanted to live his life with Amelia and Sylvia but by the way Sylvia looked at him in the garden he could tell that she is afraid of him, he did not want to live with a daughter who is frightened of him, he had enough of his life when he lived as a slave for Rezo. Silently Zel closes the door of the room of the child of his own flesh and blood.

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Zel walked down the hall, lost in his own thoughts, thinking of the life he wanted to start but he end up losing it forever. Suddenly he hears a sound from behind him, when he turns around and saw that is none other than his own daughter in front of him. Zel heart is pounding like mad.

"Hello!" greeted little Sylvia.

"He-Hello. Shouldn't you be in bed, young lady?"

"I wan to drink water! Where are you going?"

Zel turn his back at her. "I'm going away."

"Why?"

"Because I must!"

"Why?"

"Because it's the best thing to do!"

"Why?"

"Because yes!"

"Why?"

Zel growled. Is it already that time when kids start to ask so many questions?

"BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!!" Zel put on his best terrifying face, a face that would make a grown mans wet their pants. But ……surprise, surprise, surprise. That did not affect Sylvia at all. In fact she was giggling at Zel.

"You're so funny!"

"Funny?" Never in his life has any child looked at Zel and thought that he was so funny, they were always afraid of him because e of his freakish looks. "You are not afraid of me?"

"Nope, Mama always says that you must not judge a person by his looks." Sylvia replied to him with a smile in her face.

Zel smiled back at her, she even has her mothers smile. And she defiantly has her father's courage.

"My name is Sylvia, what is yours?

"Zelgadiss."

"Ze……..zedi…….zedes……….gassz……."

Zel sighed. Why is it so hard for people to memorize his name? "You can call me Zel!"

"Can I call you Rocky?"

"ROCKY???? No you can't!"

This made Sylvia giggle some more. "You are so funny!"

Zel was so humiliated, he was making a fool of himself in front of his daughter. "Alright, alright! You should be asleep, young lady!"

"I want some water Rocky."

"DON'T CALL ME ROCKY!!!!!"

"RockyRockyRockyRockyRocky!"

"OK, OK, OK!!! You can drink water, after that is right back to bed with you!"

"Ok!" smiled little Sylvia as she grabbed Zelgadiss hand and walk with him directly to the kitchen.

"What are you doing?"

"I don't wanna go to the kitchen alone!" said Sylvia in her most innocent face she could give to her own father that she doesn't know about.

After she had her drink she returned to her room with Zel, Zel putted her on her bed and put the sheets on her. "Now go to sleep!"

"Tell me a story Rocky!" begged Sylvia in her most sweetly tone of voice.

"Story? I don't know any stories!"

"Aunt Lina and Uncle Gourry always tell me stories of their adventures."

"But I'm telling you that I don't know any stories!" said Zel, trying to reason with her.

"Pleeease Rocky." Sylvia begged with an innocent puppy face.

Zel could not resist, with her doing a face like that. And why not, after all she is never going to see him again "I'll do it. But why do you want me to tell you a story?"

"Because yes!"

Zel just smiled, and grabbed one chair and put in near Sylvia's bed. "Ok………once upon a time….Hey!" Zel was interrupted when Sylvia jumped to Zel's lap. "What are you doing?"

"Aunt Lina and Uncle Gourry always tell me stories like this!"

Zel sweat dropped and continues with his story "Once upon a time, there was this young warrior, who's only wish was to become the most powerful person in the world, he trained hard for years but he was never content, he only wanted more power, no matter what…… One day a sorcerer came to him and told him that he knew a spell that could make him much more powerful than he is now, like a fool the warrior accept the sorcerer spell, which in the end………." But Zel could not go on with the story because only now he saw that his daughter was sleeping in his chest.

With out realizing, Zel wrapped his arms around his daughter and hugged her closely to him. After 10 minutes of holding her daughter, he put her to her bed and finally gives her a kiss on her forehead.

When he turns to leave, his legs just stay still on where they were. This was just great, he thought. Now it is becoming harder for him to leave. But then he hit himself on the face. "Wait a minute! Why must I leave? After all, the child accepted me completely and with no fear. She needs me! Amelia needs me! I can not leave!

To be continued……………

Sunny: such a sweet moment with Zel and his daughter, no?