sigh I didn't expect THIS many reviews in one night! So I updated fast since I have lot of time on my hands. I'm one who likes to get into plots fast, so I'm already getting into the main plot that leads to others! I'm horrible at stalling, but who needs it? That last chapter was three pages of my already more than 50 paged story, and it's not done. Soooooooo, I might have short chapters, but I'll update very very frequently! Spectle spectle!
Onto the next chappie! (with a horrible name!)
Bound Souls: The Spell Part Two
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The next couple days went by veeery veeery slowly. Firia spent the whole day trying to memorize the spell, and whenever she heard the bell ring downstairs, she had to rush down and help them. by the end of the first day she was exausted, and it took longer to memorize the spell. So by the end of the second day, she decided that she would wake up early, study it, then help customers the whole day, then finally at night she would have some really long looking-at-the-spellbook time. So, at the end of the fifth day, she put a bookmark at the page, and practiced the hand gestures without looking at the book. She did very well. With the chant she stumbled, but quickly got those words righted with the book. She was pleased with herself.
But right now it was night, and she was exausted. Thank god it was close day for her tomorrow. She could cast the spell then. But right now, she needed sleep. Firia quickly got dressed into her nightgown, and was knocked out before her head even reached the pillow.
Xelloss quietly teleported back into the shop, being careful not to wake up Firia. He know how grumpy and angry she could get when she was woken up on close days, and as much as he liked her anger, he couldn't feed AND dodge her mace now could he?
He snuck upstairs. Good, still sleeping soundly. Xelloss stepped past her bed so he could get to her book. She must have been exausted last night, because she always locked up the book. He walked over so he could look at it, but first poked it. How ignorant could a dragon get? She didn't even put a sealing charm on it! Xelloss snuck back downstairs again to take a look at the marked page... but the bookmark wasn't in the book. He mentally slapped himself for being so stupid for dropping the thing, and fetched the bookmark. The book wouldn't be of any use to him now, because he didn't even know what page it was on, or the spell title. He could only wait for the spell to be cast in order to see what it was.
Xelloss teleported inside of Firia's room, quickly placed the book, since he saw Firia stirring, and teleported out. Quickly, he went to the kitchen to get some tea. He really wanted some, and might as well get Firia some so she didn't ask her scary questions of why he got himself some and not her, and where his manners were. To tell the truth, they were somewhere else!
Firia came down just in time to see Xelloss pouring himself and her a cup of tea. She slowly walked to the table and picked up the cup, glaring at it.
"You did something to it, didn't you?" she said, looking back and forth from Xelloss's smiling face to the cup. She had a right to ask: It smelled funny.
"Why would I do anything to it Firia-chan? Yours and mine came from the same teapot!" Xelloss answered, still having a smile on his face.
Firia sat down. She didn't want to drain her energy on hating Xelloss right now. She needed all the energy she could get for the spell. It would take a large portion of her magic capacity. She also needed to try to not get angry today. Feeling negative emotions really made her tired.
She involuntarily swished her tail that she could no longer keep hidden due to the conservation of food and days of staying up late and getting up early. This was a sign that Firia was content right now... Xelloss was silently drinking his tea on the other side of the table with his eyes safely closed, the tea was really good, and she felt more refreshed than she had in days.
"I'll be right back," Firia said, standing up so suddenly that the chairs was knocked over. Xelloss spacily nodded, and she ran upstairs.
Xelloss put the two cups and the teapot in the sink. He didn't want to wash them, Firia could. Then he sat on the bed to wait for Firia.
"Xelloss!" Firia yelled from upstairs, "Make this circle!" She threw the book down at him from the railing next to the stairs.
Xelloss caught the book easily and examined the page Firia had marked. A circle with a star that had six points and was 7.45 by 7.45 feet. With a snap of his fingers, there was a glowing version of that circle on the floor. He glanced at it, making sure he had did the circle right, then cursed as he corrected the star from five to six points. He really needed to practice his magic on something really soon. He was making mistakes more often in his magic, and Juuou-sama (did I spell that right?) would not approve of that.
A couple minutes later, Firia came out with a handful of supplies that she would need for the spell. She had Rose Dust, Black Crystals and White Crystals that were not in the slightest bit transparent, and orichalcon. Xelloss was confused about the Black Crystals. They were only used for very powerful Black Magic spells.
"I only need one more thing," Firia said to Xelloss,"and I was hoping you could get it for me. They're the talismans that Lina always carries around. Could you... borrow them from her?"
"My, my Firia-chan, you would go that far to cast this spell? Tsk tsk!" Xelloss scolded with a wag of his finger, "Buuuut... taking it from Lina-san is another thing! This should be fun!" Xelloss laughed, and with a quick wave of his hand that meant 'bye', he teleported off.
When Xelloss disappeared, Firia layed out the supplies. With a random rock she got from outside, she crushed up the crystals and orichalcon, the sprinkled in the Rose Dust. She swirled around the mixture by rotating the bowl, then carefully put the dust on the outline of the star and circle.
Right then, Xelloss was having quite a bit of fun...
"Hello everyone!"
Lina and Co. stopped dead in their tracks. They could reconize that voice anywhere.
"What are you doing here Xelloss?" Lina asked, spinning around quickly and pointing at the comfortably floating Xelloss, "We won't fall for your tricks this time! Every time you're here with us it means trouble."
"Oh Lina-san, I don't have any plans of the sort!" Xelloss innocently said.
"If you don't have any business here, then go!" Zelgadiss snarled. Oh how he HATED that Mazoku!
"But what's wrong with hanging out with some old friends?" Xelloss replied, "Right Gourry?"
Gourry smiled, "Oh, hi Xelloss! What did you say?"
After recovering from a facefault, Xelloss talked again. "Anyways, I just needed to get something that I needed!"
Lina protectively went in front of her friends. "Don't think I don't remember the time with Gourry. You aren't taking anything!"
"Who, me? Why, I would never dream of taking anyone! I was more interested in... an item that you possess."
After saying that, Xelloss teleported to Lina, taking off one of the talismen off her wrist, and in turn, took the others. Before Lina could say anything, she didn't have any talismen on her.
"Whaa-- XELLOSS! GIVE ME THOSE BACK! Oh... I swear, if you ever show your face here again, then I'll blast you into the Astral Plane with my Ragna Blade!" Lina furiously yelled at the spot where Xelloss last was.
Xelloss was quite near, hidden in a tree right next to the group, and he projected his voice to where it sounded like it was coming from everywhere. "I'll eventually give them back Lina-san, be a good girl until then!" With that said, he teleported back to Firia.
"He is SO going to get it!" Lina fumed.
"Fiiiiiria-chaaaan! I got it!" Xelloss sang, "But I don't understand why you would need such powerful Black Magic items to perform that White Magic spell!"
"Those are optional items that power up the spell and give it tons of strength," Firia explained, "The spell might be White Magic, but can be much more powerful with the Black Crystals and the talismans."
"Oh," Xelloss simply replied.
Firia clipped on the talismans to various parts of her body. She told Xelloss to stand (or sit) in the center of the star, and not to touch the powder. Then she started the spell.
As Xelloss listened, he tried to see what the spell would be by listening to the chant and looking at the gestures. After all, a spell was made by understand its characteristics and power, and putting that information in the chant. When discoveries were made about spells, the information gathered could even be added to a chant, making the spell more powerful.
The spell was indeed powerful, and it had something to do with binding, but the rest Xelloss couldn't understand. So all he could do was sit there and wait. But as he waited, he got a little more nervous about what the spell could be. It could be an attack for all he knew. But it was a binding spell, so probably not that.
Finally, Firia finished off the spell with a "Soul Bind!" and an aura of white light surrounded her. She pointed her hands at Xelloss, who looked terrified, and immediatly the aura surrounding her gathered to her hands and shot like a beam at Xelloss. Xelloss, who was now convinced it was an attack, tried to teleport out of the way, but the spell hit him and he cried out in pain. He was using his Black Magic to try and teleport, and the White Magic that hit him gave him great pain because of that. He couldn't concentrate on teleporting when he was in pain. After a couple seconds though, Xelloss's vision went black, and he fell limply to the ground. Firia went to him and put him on the bed.
"Stupid Mazoku! He tried to teleport and knocked himself out because of it!" she cursed, "That was incredibly dumb of him."
Firia was now really tired, but knew she had to stay up to make vases and maces (it rhymes!) for the customers that custom-ordered. She went to a side room she had stuffed full of arts and crafts things, and zoned out everything that happened around her while she absent-mindly made various orders.
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Hm. I think this chapter turned out OK... the beginning was a little odd when I typed it. Well, I hope you liked this, even though all she did was cast the spell and that's it. I managed to take a page and streeeeeeetch it! A lot! Hopefully this chapter was long enough for you, because this is probably the longest I'll make of these things, because I update every other day. I can type oh so much you know!
ahem Yeah! I know the relationships are a BIT far ahead, but I'm not one to have things slow (as you could understand well Hitteh Pitteh) Just to tell you, right now the plot would be down to a K rating, because absolutely nothing bad is happening! But it gets worse a little more on (bad grammar! X.x) You'll just haveta wait and find out what!
Replies to my reviewers from heaven:
Maddy02: Yes yes... you couldn't, could you? Especially for one that's that short. Well, I don't mind critiques, it's the flames and things I mind. o.o no one shall flame, for my little doll of Hitteh Pitteh shall eat them all!
Dairokkan: Oh, I love Xelloss! He's my favorite character! -- a random fact
Hitteh Pitteh: Yeah, I finally put something up, and now, that's all I want to do! -.- But for those other people who haven't seen this since it's only been up for a day or two, I'll try to keep my updating down. Also! Let me take this moment for a bit of explaining from your review! First of all, this is YEARS after Try, so yeah, Firia is a good deal along in her relationship with Xelloss (but keep it a secret from him! . ) buuuut not THAT far along... GOD! I need to plan better. So... Lina would be in about her high twenties to low thirties, and... just base everyone elses age off of her. a long pause o.o pfft, the first thing, that's all I really needed to explain. OK, update yours soon, and I'll update really fast also, because my chapters are short. And they will stay short. But I will update often. Buuut don't ask me for them to get longer, because they wooooooon't! T.T
Mistress DragonFlame: Awwww, oh well. You can't exactly judge a fanfiction by it's first chappie, but there will always be some people out there who don't like this fanfic, hate this pairing, etc. ;.; oh well, but if you try the next chapters, I hope it will make you want to see more!
o.o I give myself too much credit. BAD YEXIS BAD! slaps herself in the face I shouldn't make myself be so happy... I'll force myself to be sad FOREVER! And look up to the bad things in life... O.O what if people HATE my fanfiction! I could never live with that! T.T