Sylvia
Sunny: here is our fic of the Slayers.
Ramon: and the Slayers series does not belong to us, it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi.
Air Jay: the only characters that belong to us are the Air Jay and the Kiko of this fic
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Chapter 22
Zel lands on his knees, he could not believe what just happened here, this Air Jay person who his personal hate is for Lina or Phill, challenged him for a fight. When Amelia fainted Lina ordered Sylphill to take Amelia and the kids to Amelias room, Lina wanted Syl to go because she knows that Sylphiel is disturbed right now because Air Jay reminded in her face the destruction of Sairagre, like if she hadn't suffered the enough, the poor girl.
"This is your whole fault!!!" Shouted Prince Phill punching Zelgadis on the back of his head, but of course that does not harm Zel thanks to his chimera body. "If Air Jay challenged you it is because you have done something to him in the past. Curse you! All of this is your fault, ever since you returned to Seylune you have been nothing but disgrace! If Sylvia was kidnapped it is because of you!"
Zel could not take it anymore. "IT IS NOT MY FAULT!!!!" Shouted Zelgadiss so loud that Phill almost flew away. Zel was about to attack Phill if Gourry didn't hold him. "Phill……you shut your mouth or I'll shut it for you!"
"Take it easy Zel! Take it easy!"
"Let him go! I'm not afraid of him!" demanded Phill.
"ENOUGH!!!!" shouted Lina putting herself between Zel and Phill. "Stop it booth of you! Fighting each other will not help! We have to think about this so we can get Sylvia back, Amelia would be very upset if she saw you two fighting each other!"
Booth Zel and Phill calm down, with made Gourry leting go of Zel so that he would not kill Phill.
"Alright……." Said Lina first thing first, how did Air Jay ever managed to get inside the castle? Do you know Phill?"
"No, I don't……unless……" Phill runs to the curtains that are behind the throne. "It can not be……."
Every one ran to where Phill is looking at and they saw a secret passage way that it is right behind the throne.
"A secret passage way?" asked Martina "I got to get me one of those!"
"But how?" asked Filia.
Phill sighed "Like Air Jay said, he destroyed my castle when he was just twelve, he destroyed all the memories that belonged to my ancestors so I ordered to make another one but this time with secret passages ways for me and my family."
"So Air Jay must have found those secret passages ways some how!" said Lina.
"But that is impossible! Only my self, my wife and my daughters know about these secret passages way, no one else knew. And the ones that have made the new castle have sworn secrecy."
"That is not important!" interrupted Zelgadiss. "I've been challenged by that man, and I need to find his weakness. Lina you have fought him before, so you must know his weakness."
"No I don't!" said Lina. "I might have fought him and beat him, but I don't know his weakness. I'm still puzzled of how he survived!"
"I believe that the situation is very much complicated, Lina." Said Filia. "Air Jay seems to know a lot about us. He knows about the Dark star and many other things."
"He could probably be a Mazoku himself to know so much about us!" pointed out Zelgadiss.
"A Mazoku?" asked Martina in discus.
"I don't think so." Said Lina. "When I fought Air Jay the first time he didn't made comments about Rezo, Phibrizio and many others. Because simply he did not know about them. It is probably that someone has been informing Air Jay about all that has happened to us."
"Well, why don't we ask Xellos?" asked Gourry. Every one turns to him.
"What are you talking about Gourry?" asked Lina.
"Well, it looked like that Air Jay and Xellos had meet before, so….."
"Hey, you are right Gourry!" said Lina. "I was so stressed about all this that I have forgotten about that point."
"Oh no….." murmured Xellos when every turned to him.
"Alright Xellos! What do you know about Air Jay?" Zelgadiss demanded.
"Me? I don't know him, Honest!" Xellos said, trying to act innocent.
"Don't give us that Xellos!" said Filia with her mace already in her hand. "The guy knew you!"
"Really! You people know that the guy is crazy, he could say that by product of his own madness!"
"You also know him Xellos!" snapped Lina. "You were hiding under the table when you saw him!"
Xellos gulped in defeat "Alright I know him but please don't force to tell you guys! He is the one that turn me into a Golden Dragon, if I say anything that upsets him he might turn me into something worst, like a human!"
Zelgadiss grabs Xellos by his neck "My daughter's life is on the line here! If you don't start talking I'll kill you NOW!" in this last one Zel grabbed his sword so that Xellos could understand that Zel means business.
"Alright! I'll tell! Just point that thing somewhere else!" said Xellos very quickly and Zel lets him go.
Xellos took a seat and started to explain. "Well…..Air Jay's family are known as Andrades, Air Jay's story begins 500 years ago in another country, in Portugal. The man I will be talking about is Air Jay's ancestor, he was a very lonely man with hardly any statement to civilization, some call him a Man in the woods because that is where he lived and his only friends were the animals, he lived so much with the animals that some people say that he learn to communicate with them, and he even developed his very own fighting style but this man was suffering from a strange disease and each passing day made him go near and near to his death. one day that man found an injured bird, the man took the bird to his home and started to take care of the birds wounds, bringing him food and water, but the next day the man was surprised to see that the bird he was taking care of was with out any injuries at all, he was completely cure, that is when the man found out that the bird he was taking care of was a phoenix."
"A Phoenix?" interrupted Lina not believing what she just heard.
"Come gain?" said Zel, he did not wanted to believe as well.
"Unbelievable!" said Zangulos.
"What is a Phoenix?" asked Gourry and every falls on the ground.
"You moron, don't you even know what a phoenix is?" asked Lina.
"No I don't."
"A phoenix is an immortal bird that lives and breaths fire, which has mysteriously disappeared. They say that no maters how many times someone tries to kill it, the phoenix can always come back to life by the ashes of fire." Explained Lina then turns to Xellos. "But what does that has to do with Air Jay?"
"If you people let me finish, you will know!" complained Xellos. "Well, continuing the story, the phoenix wanted to reward the man for his kindness for helping him and knowing that the man was going to die by some disease the phoenix transmitted some of his blood to his, which gave that man incredible powers, the powers of the phoenix. And that power has been transmitted to every new generation of the Andrade family, even to Air Jay who is now the last member of the Andrade Family."
Every one was amazed to find out that Air Jay has the blood of the phoenix in his veins.
"So that is how Air Jay managed to survive my Dragon Slave, it was all thanks to his special blood." Lina said with her hand shaking.
"Yes." Said Xellos. "That is how the Andrsde Family are almost Immortal."
"One thing I don't understand here Xellos." Said Zangulos. "Portugal is on the other side of the world, so how come Air Jay, who is Portuguese, managed to get into our country?"
"You know, that is a very good question, how did he do it Xellos?" asked Filia.
"The Portuguese are also known has great sailors and adventures of the sea.100 years ago all of the Andrade family has set out to sea, but one night there was a terrible storm which made them all land into our country."
"I see." Said Zelgadiss in a low voice.
"That is how does monsters came to our world." Phill Cursed.
"Hold it here Xellos!" said Lina. "Portugal is on the other side of the world. There would not be any storm so big that would make them land here, it would only make them sank on the ocean, and besides back then there was probably that big force field covering our country, it would be impossible for the Andrades to get in!"
Xellos laughed nervously. "W-w-what is your point Lina?"
"My point is that you are the one who has brought the Andrades to our world!"
"WHAT?!?!?" shouted Phill.
Xellos gulped "Well, I might as well confess…… yes I made that terrible storm that night and brought them here by order of my mistress, you people know how we Masokus were always looking for strong people to join us, and the Andrades where no exception! I brought them to our country because we believed we would have the upper hand."
"Damn You Xellos!!!!" Phill was about to attack Xellos if the gang did not stop him. "This is your entire fault! You have brought those monsters into our world, all the evilness that they have made was all because of you! It is because of you that my wife is dead!"
"Hold it Phill!" demanded Lina. "We are still going to need his information" Lina turns to Xellos. "You probably know something more about the Andrades, didn't you Mazokus face them in the past?"
"We did, millions of times, but they have always managed to defeat us!"
"How is that possible?" asked Zel. "Didn't you people feed on their negative energy?"
"That was the problem. I don't know how they did it but they have complete control of their emotions, making it impossible for Mazokus like me to feed on their negative emotions. Air Jay also possesses that ability."
"Are you sure?" asked Lina in a scary voice, it is quite obvious that Xellos could be lying here. The times that Lina faced Air Jay she could see the aura of anger of Air Jay.
"I swear it is the true!" said Xellos in a trembling voice. "How do you think I was defeated by Air Jay? It is all thanks to his complete control of emotions!"
"Maybe when the Andrades came to our world they must have suspected that the Mazokus could be the reason of their crash here, so they must have prepared them self's in case they would face any." Filia Said.
"Yes, it might be that!" Xellos agreed. "And when Air Jay was defeated by Lina I though that he would be weak enough to fight me. But I was wrong, and look of how I end up."
"WHAT!?!?" shouted Lina. "You mean that you were there watching me and Gourry fighting Air Jay? And you saw when Gourry almost died in his hands and you didn't even move a muscle to help us?"
"Well………yes." Xellos cursed himself for talking too much.
"WHY YOU……" Lina was about to punch Xellos but Gourry stop her.
"No Lina, you can not punch him."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm gonna do it!" and Gourry punches Xellos right on the face.
"Damn, how Gourry is such a different man since he married Lina." Xellos said mostly to himself.
"Alright, we know the history of Air Jays family but we still don't know anything about how to defeat him!" said Zelgadiss. "You must probably know a way to defeat him Xellos!"
Xellos got up again. "Well there are two possible ways to defeat Air Jay, but they are worthless right now!"
"Tell us anyway!"
"The first possibility would be if Air Jay could die of old age, even if he has the Phoenix blood in him he can die like any other human thanks to his human side. The second possibility would be giving him a poison that it is deadlier even for phoenixes, but that poison was destroyed along with all the information about it, even the sorcerer that made that poison was killed, by Air Jay."
"You should be dead Xellos!" Phill snarled with an angry voice. "You are the one who brought those monsters to our world and me and my family had to face them. If you just knew how much they have made my family suffer!"
Every one turns to Phill, remembering what Air Jay said, saying that Phill killed his little brother who was just 4 years old. They still can not accept as true that Phill could do such a thing, but it seems that his hate for the Andrades is very strong.
"Xellos, how did the rivalry between the Seilune family and the Andrade Family started?" asked Filia.
Xellos took a deep breath "Their rivalry started the stupidest way imaginable. It also started 100 years ago, the Andrade's had come to Seilune to start their own business and to make some money, on that day the Seilune's ancestor was giving a justice speech to his people and one of the Andrade's family called the Seilune's ancestor an idiot, and of course the Seilune's ancestor heard him and accused him of being evil, of being a monster. Ever since that day the Seilune family putted a bounty on the Andrade family, and the Andrade Family has sufferer a lot and became outlaws because of them, and they have sworn revenge. Which made the Andrades and the Seilune going into a Family war, the Andrade Familiy always took the best, they have humiliated the Seilune Family and destroyed them on their own pride. Phill here was the one who was humiliated the most, which is why he hates them a lot."
Every one sweat dropped. "This war started because of an unimportant insult?" asked Lina, she imagines what would happen to her if she ever called Phill a moron.
"And it gets better! Air Jay is the last member of the Andrades Family thanks to Phil!" said Xellos "One day the Andrades were having a family reunion and Phill found out about it, so he had the idea of poisoning their food with that special poison I talk about, he poisoned them all except Air Jay who was not hungry that time, he was eight years old. And if it wasn't enough Phill took the advantage of their weakness to kill them all, not even one survived his attack, not even the women and the children, Phill slay them all with no mercy. Air Jay survived thank to his mother who died trying to save her son."
Every one turns back to Phil, shocked by his actions, it is a good thing that Amelia was not here or else she would be devastated of what she might hear.
Phill is just confused of why everyone is looking at him like some kind of evil villain "What is it with you people? All I did was for the good of man kind. The Andrade's are evil creatures, and unlike you people I am not afraid of doing justice!"
"How dare you!" growled Zelgadiss then throws a big punch to Phill stomach, this time no one stopped him.
Phill looks up at Zel with angry eyes "How dare you do this to me? Me, a justice hero!"
"You don't deserve to be called that!" said Zelgadiss as he grabs Phill by his collar. "You never understood the meaning of justice in your life! You never even taught Amelia about that because you never understood the true meaning of it!"
"HOW DARE YOU……!"
"……And it almost cost Amelia's life once!"
"What?" this caught Phills attention here.
"When we were fighting Garv, he told Amelia that Lina was an important part for Hell masters plan and he said that for Amelia to be helping Lina it also made her evil. Amelia was confused back them, something that she should not be but she was because you never taught her the real meaning of Justice, and because of that Amelia only believed in what she heard!"
Phill growled "And who are you to talk about justice? You have abandoned Amelia when she was pregnant of……"
"Shut up Phill!" demanded Gourry, every one looks at him in surprise. "Zel did not know that Amelia was pregnant of his child and believe it or not Zel truly cares for Amelia, if it wasn't for him Garv might have kill her!"
"That is right Phill!" said Lina. "Every one has their own way of making justice but you did to the Andrade's was unforgivable! You killed them all because they always humiliated you, you just keep on fooling your self saying that you were doing for the good of others but you kill them for revenge!"
Phil shocked his head, he did not wanted to believe that. "No…..no, no, no that is not true!"
"But it is!!" said Zelgadiss forcing Phill to look at him. "You have been blaming me, Lina and Xellos saying that we are the ones responsible for Air Jay's evilness but the real guilty one her is you! You started this personal war! You are the one who created Air Jay! And because of you he destroyed the lives of your wife and your brother, and it might end up costing the life of my little girl!... I swear you this Phill, If my daughter dies, I will kill you my self!"
After saying that Zel throws Phill to the ground and left the throne room with all of the others following behind him, leaving Phill alone.
He was devastated, no one has ever talked to him like that but the worst part of all is that Zel might be right. Tears begin to form in Phill eyes now that for the first time in his life he is confronted with reality. "Oh no……….what have I done?"
To be continued……
Alandra: this is getting intense, no?
Air Jay: just to remind you people that the Kiko and the Air jay in this fic are characters made by our self's which we have created to fit in the Slayers world.
Kiko: that is correct!