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 38

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In the Gabrieves room.

Lina is sited in her bed with her little boy, Maia, sleeping peacefully in her arms, looking out the window thinking about Amelia's condition, she can not believe that this has happen to her. In the beginning Lina thought that Amelia was so annoying because of her justice philosophy and her clumsiness, but with time she and Amelia have grew to become close friends, almost like sisters. Lina begins to thinks that maybe she should have not let Amelia join them to stop Air Jay, but she knows that Amelia would never forgive her if she did. Still Lina was surprised that her old rival is Amelia's sister.

Suddenly Gourry enters the room. "Hey Lina, is the kid already a sleep?"

"Yeah," said Lina looking to her little angel sleeping peacefully in her arms. "He is a fast sleeper, like his old man." Said Lina with a giggle.

"I am?" asked Gourry, then he sited in the bed, next to Lina. "Lina, can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Do you promise not to hit me?"

"Well….that depends on the question." Smirked Lina.

Gourry was not very confident with Lina's respond. "Well…..I was wondering, why you never told me or anyone about, about this Naga character?"

Lina almost froze when Gourry asked that, but she keep on a firm face. "I already told you Gourry! She was just some one I travelled with! She was so annoying that you would not believe! She was more annoying that Martina. That is why I never told anyone about her!"

Gourry could tell that there is something more than that by Lina's voice, he knows her very well and he knows when she is hiding something, so he decided not to talk about it, for now.

Lina turns her head around; she doesn't want Gourry to look at her right now. True that Lina and Naga were travelling companions, sometimes best friends, but always rivals. Has much that Lina hates to admit, Naga has a much better body than her, and it was driving Lina insane, she was starting to lose confidence in her beauty when Naga was around her, which is one of the reasons why Lina left her. She never told anyone about Naga because she was afraid that they might compare her with Naga, and she especially didn't want Gourry to see her, he might defiantly compare some parts of Lina's body with Naga's, witch would make Naga laugh like crazy, and she would take another opportunity to make fun of her.

Suddenly Lina starts to feel a chill in her body; it is a freezing night today, making her body tremble, So Gourry wraps a blanked around him, Lina and the sleepy Maia. Lina blushes and looks up at Gourry who is looking at her with a gentle smile.

"G-Gourry…."

"Lets get some rest, it has been a long day."

"Yeah, sure." Even if they are married, Lina could not understand why Gourry still manages to make her blush this much, in fact she still could not understand why Gourry is the only one who makes her blushes more. But she did not care about that, she just leads her back on Gourry's chest and rests her head on his shoulder.

And Gourry takes that chance to wrap his arms around his wife and son, and kissed Lina of her forehead.

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After putting Val to sleep, Filia walks slowly in direction of Xellos room, even if they live together they have separated rooms, even in the Seilune Castle they have separated rooms. She has been keeping a secret from him these last weeks, something that she never expected to happen, but it did, and she must confessed to him if she wants their relationship to go to a better level.

Filia knocks on Xellos door, after a few moments of silence Xellos opens the door, and Filia notices that he is packing his stuff. "Are you going somewhere?"

"I'm leaving!" replied Xellos very coldly. "I am sick and tire of putting up with you people. I am leaving so that I would not have to at your ugly faces anymore!"

Filia felt like someone had stabbed her in the heart when Xellos said that. "What? You can't!"

"Why not? Must I stay so that you people keep on humiliating me?"

Filia didn't know how to reply on this one. "Well, if you are going to leave, can we at least have a conversation?"

"Why should I?"

"You sound scare."

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT! Alright, we will have our little talk! After that is over! I will be leaving and you will never see me again." Xellos was surprised that Filia would want to have a decent conversation with her; normally she would want to hit him with her mace.

Filia sited on the bed with a sad look on her face for what Xellos had said.

"What's the matter, are you going to cry now?" mocked Xellos, expecting some reaction or reply from Filia, but she gave him nothing.

"I have no more tears, I saw my people being executed in front of me and I didn't do anything. I am all alone in the world, I have no more tears left." Said Filia in a very sad voice. A voice that Xellos never heard from her before.

"So what do you want?"

"All I want is for you to accept us! To accept me."

"What?" laughed Xellos. "That is some kind of a joke? All you ever do is ridiculing me."

"What do you expect after all the times you have trick us when you were a Mazoku!"

"I was following orders. I was an evil Mazoku, after all."

"But I can also tell that there was some part of you that was good. I never realised before but I can tell it is true."

"What are you talking about? All the times I saved Lina and the others was for my plan to work, I didn't do it for compassion!"

"Then why did you saved me when you were fighting Valgarv?"

Xellos turned around so that Filia could not see him blush. "That does not matter! And speaking of Valgarv, why were you so preoccupied about him, even after all the things he made you suffer? He was your enemy, he wanted to bring the Dark Star to our world, but now you are taking care of him now that he got turn into a child. So why?"

Filia let out a small grin. "You seem jealous."

Xellos blushed some more. "Answer my questions!"

"I felt pity for Val, even after all the things he has done, it was also our fault for what the Golden Dragons have done to him and his people in the past, so I believe that he deserves a second chance. And so do you, you have been giving a second to show your good side."

"I don't have a good side!" shouted Xellos. "I was created to be evil, but now my life is ruin because I got turn into a Golden Dragon!"

"I know that, but this might all work out for the better, if you only could accept us, trust us!"

"Filia, my master Zellas did not even help me to return me into my Mazoku form. After all the hard work I have done for her, she abandoned me! And you people just love to ridicule me now that I am a Golden Dragon!"

Filia starts to feel desperate, looks like there is no way to convince Xellos not to leave. "Please Xellos, I am sure that there is some good of you that you can offer us."

"Why do you care Filia?" shouted Xellos again. "In the past all you ever wanted was for me to be dead! You hated me, and now you expect me to care for you? You can forget it, I am still leaving!" and Xellos turn his attention to his suitcase.

"But….that is not fair!" said Filia in a weak voice.

"Nothing is fair girl!" replied Xellos packing his stuff. "I have nothing to offer you!"

"But you already did."

"What?" Xellos stopped his packing and turn back to Filia who now turn her back on him. "What do you mean?" he is very curious now, what did Filia meant by that?

Filia could help herself any more, and she promised herself not to cry, but she could not help it. "I………I………..I'm pregnant!"

"What?" asked Xellos in a disbelieve voice, there were times when he and Filia had slept together, but he never imagined that things would turn to this level.

"I am pregnant, damn you!" cried Filia, letting out more tears. "But go ahead; run away for all I care, like you said you have nothing to offer me. I start to understand what Amelia must have felt these years. But go on, run away from us, run away from me. All these years that we have lived together probably meant nothing to you right?" Filia could not help herself has she continues to cry.

But Xellos wraps his arms around Filia in a warm felling and compassion, and Filia hates to admit it, but she always felt safe in his arms.

"I thought you said that you have no more tears left." Said Xellos in a soft voice.

"I lie." Replied Filia in the same soft voice.

During the entire night, they have rested in each other arms, but Xellos kept one arm on Filia's stomach.

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Naga, Air Jay and Kiko are travelling down the road to a new destination.

"Naga, don't you think we should camp for tonight? Kiko wants some sleep!" informed Air Jay.

" RUF AUuu! (And I am hungry!)" barked Kiko.

"Air Jay, you have been caring him all this time! But I think you are right, we should camp for tonight." Said Naga.

Air Jay putted down his bag, ready to set up the camp. "So Naga, how long will it take to get to the city of Stoner?"

"In about two or three days!"

"Alright, and what is the name of that Famous Golem-Maker we are going to visit?"

"His name is Galia. He needs to make a very important thing for us, so that the final part of the plan can work perfectly. OOOOOOOOH OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!"

To be continue………

Sunny: still more to come.