Sylvia

Alandra: here is our fic of the Slayers.

Ramon: And Slayers does not belong to us

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Chapter 5

Zel walked the corridors of the castle, his mind lost on Amelia. She never acted like this, she is becoming so reserve from him. In the past Zel was the lonely wolf of the group and Amelia nearly never left him alone and thanks to her he never felt so lonely. At first it was a little annoying, but in the end the more time he spanned his time with her the more he like it and enjoyed. Now the tables have turn, Amelia is playing the lonely one. Zel thought that if he stayed things would work out, but it didn't, Amelia has a problem and she won't even tell Zel.

After beating the bandits this morning, Lina spend the afternoon with Gourry and little Maia in the city in Seylune. Zel really envies them. They were so happy together, Maia holding his parents hands, all three of them laughing and playing, eating ice-cream, having a good time like a real family. Zelgadiss only imagine how it would be like if it was him, Amelia and little Sylvia.

And speaking of Little Sylvia, she just now holds Zelgadiss leg, and of course this made Zel wake up from his dream land.

"Hi Rocky!" greeted Sylvia with a big smile.

"Hello little one!" Zel could not help but to smile back at his daughter, a small smile, because Zel isn't use to smile very much.

"Watch ya doing?"

"Nothing."

"Nothing, nothing?"

"Nothing, nothing."

"Why?"

"Because I have nothing to do." Replied Zel, tapping Sylvia in the head and hoping that she doesn't start with all the questions again.

"Would you like to have a tea party with me?"

"WHAT!!?!? Of course not!"

"Oh please Rocky!"

Of course Zel didn't want to go, what possible tea party he could have with a little four year old girl, only to drink a tea that it isn't there. "Forget it Sylvia, I'm not going!"

"Pleeeease."

"NO!!!! No matter what you say, I'm not having a tea party with you!!!! AND STOP CALLING ME ROCKY!!!!!"

15 minutes later in Sylvia's room:

Sylvia was enjoying her tea party with her staff-animals surrounding her small pink table, and her special guest is none other than Rock……ups, I mean Zelgadiss, who is wearing a big pink hat on his head, and sitting in a chair that is not meant for his size and that it is crushing his butt.

"I've fought Mazokus, faced Gods, destroyed copies, but when she give me that sad look in her face………. This is the second, no, third most humiliating thing I ever done in my life. It's so hard to be a dad." Murmured Zel, felling so humiliated.

"More sugar Rocky?" asked Sylvia very happily.

"No thanks." But the smile in Sylvia's face made him forget the humiliating position he was in. I guess it isn't so bad passing some quality time with your own daughter, he thought.

Suddenly Sylvia gets up from her chair. "Hey Rocky, I wanna show you something!"

"What is it?"

Sylvia's body starts to glow, and her skin starts to modify, that was all that Zel notice before a large light surrounded her. When the light finally despaired, it showed Sylvia again. Zel gasped in horror when he saw Sylvia. Her skin is all blue with bits of dark blue stones, her hair is all purple, and she has pointy ears. She's a chimera.

"S-S-Sylvia……what……what……"

"I'm a Rocky, like you! Isn't it cool?"

"NO IT'S NOT!!!!!" yelled Zel very furious, he yelled so hard that it scared Sylvia so much that made her fall to the ground.

"I'm………I'm ……I'm sorry, R-Rocky!" sobbed little Sylvia "I thought that you'd be happy to know that…….that I'm a Rocky too."

Zel felt culpable for yelling at his own daughter, so he gets up (only after managing to get that kid size chair out of his butt) and hugged Sylvia, trying to calm her down. "I'm sorry for yelling girl. I was so astounded."

Sylvia managed to put a big smile on her face.

"But." Started Zel. "Have you always been like this?"

"No, I can be a person or a Rocky anytime I want. Look!" And Sylvia turns back into her human form.

"Very impressive!" that was all that Zel could say. This little girl with just four years has an amazing power of turning into a chimera or a human anytime she wants. It must be the fact that she is half human and half chimera. "Does anybody know that you can do this?"

"Only mommy, and Grandpa."

"I see."

"Do you want to see my dollies?"

Zel sweat dropped but accepted anyway. He starts to wonder if Amelia ever told her anything about her father, namely him. But he didn't want to ask, just in case if Sylvia starts to get suspicious and discovers that Zelgadiss is her father.

In the library:

Amelia walked into a special room in the library of the castle, the only place in the entire castle where she feels calmer even with all the bad things that has happened to her because in this room is where there is a painted picture of her family on the wall, a picture of her father putting his hand on her sister Garcia's shoulder and the other hand on her mothers shoulder, who was holding a four year old Amelia. This is the only place where Amelia feels that she is closer to her mother.

It is so unjust to her, her mother was killed by a bandit, who is now the most wanted bandit on the country, but he is still alive and free, felling proud of what he has done.

Every day she feels that she only live just to suffer.

She walked closer to the picture and memories of the night that has change everything in her life comes to her mind.

Flashback

Amelia was about ready to go to sleep when she hears a nock on the door, she puts on her white silk robe and opens it. It was Zel.

"Amelia, can I talk to you?"

"S-Sure, come in." Amelia let him in but she feels a little shy because she only has that robe and her summer time pyjamas in her.

Once inside the room Zel took a deep breath and started to talk. "Amelia, I'm going to leave tomorrow."

"What?" Amelia didn't want to believe, after the defeat of the Dark Star Zel went back to Seylune with Amelia, he stayed here almost a year, and during that time Amelia helped him a lot trying to find a cure, talked to him more, trying to make him come out of that shell of his, making him feel more relaxing and more essential than ever before. But it seems than none of that had any meanings for him. "But why?" what a stupid question.

"I need to find my cure Amelia, I need it so I can be human again. Don't you understand that? I'm a freak!"

Amelia was in stillness for a moment. "Mr. Zelgadiss………do you remember after that incident in Zoana, when we all were eating in that inn, I told you I like you just the way you are, I didn't care if you are a chimera or not back then and I still don't care ."

Zelgadiss didn't know what to say, it is true what she said, she said that she didn't care about her freakish look, but Zel was so frustrated and so angry that day that he didn't pay attention to her. "Amelia………why are you always so nice to me? I……I don't understand."

"Because we are friends, Mr. Zelgadiss! And friends look up for each other!"

Zel didn't know why, but he felt a little disappointed with her answer, he expected to be something more to her. "I thank you Amelia, but I still must go."

Amelia wanted to cry, but she didn't want to sound so weak , even in front of him, so instead she takes out her bracelet and gives it to him. "Take this with you!"

"Me? But why?"

"I want it to give good luck to you Mr. Zelgadiss, it always gave me fortune in our past battles, and I want this bracelet to give you fortune on finding the cure you want so much."

Zel just stood there unmovable, holding Amelia's bracelet, no one has ever gave him anything, he didn't want so sound so emotional weak but he hugged Amelia, resting her head on his chest.

"Mr Zelgadiss?" said Amelia, her face as red as Lina's hair.

"Thank you Amelia, this means a lot to me." Said Zelgadiss in a soft voice, in that same tone of voice he used when he said that he would protect her from Copy Rezo.

"Mr Zelgadiss, I………" Amelia was silent when Zel locked his lips with Amelia's. Amelia was in shock at first but she let him continue with the kissing.

After a few seconds of sweet kissing, he stooped and looked at her. He was expecting her to slap him but she just looked at him with passion eyes. "Do…..do you want me to stop?"

"No…………please continue."

And once again their lips are connected again, with even more passion this time, and Zelgadiss stared to remove Amelia's rope, and………and the rest just happened.

End of Flashback

A single tear ran down Amelia's cheek as she remembers waking up and Zel was no longer there, a few days later she found out she was pregnant.

Once again Amelia looked up at the picture on the wall, directly at her mother's image. "Mother, I'm so scare……… Zel is back, I was hoping that things would, somehow, get better, but after what he said to me last night…….I lost all hope."

Amelia could not help herself, she covered her face with her hands, crying and kneeling in front of the picture.

Unknown to her that she is being watched by two mysterious figures who have been watching her from a secret passage way in the library, it was a woman with long dark hair, using a black leather clout and spike shoulder-guards, accompanied by a man who was holding a small little white dog, the man was wearing dark-blue jeans, and a white shirt, his hair was also long but on the top he wear such a strange punk hair that its hard to describe it. Booth of them looking at Amelia who is still crying.

"She is suffering a lot, all of this because of that man, Zelgadiss." the mysterious woman said, still looking at Amelia.

"It looks like it babe." the mysterious man said. "How about I go and kill that Zel bozo for good, and then we go get our revenge on Lina?"

The mysterious woman looked back at the mysterious man "No, we have agreed that we will take care of Lina when we are strong enough! And has for Zel, we are going to wait a few days, if by then things keeps the way they are now, you can kill Zelgadiss!"

The mysterious man let out an evil grin. "Oh yeah! The Rock-head is going to die?"

To be continued……

Maliska: who can these mysterious people be?

Ramon: this is going to be rad!