GOMENASAAAAAAI! repeatedly apologizes I'm SOOOO sorry this didn't go up as soon as you guys wanted it to! To hopefully lower the bashings I get, let meh tell ya three reasons why this update took so long! (And it's a short chapter)

1) This week was sooooo crammed! (kinda) I worked on it (a little) but I couldn't get to it very much (maybe)

2) It took two days to write the first chapter of my Spirited Away fanfic! That's a good reason... for two of the days...

3) I was just plain lazy! I play on Runescape too, so my friends want me on, I might be playing on Ragnarok soon (if my stupid computer full of viruses will allow it to load, and it doesn't take SIX HOURS TO DOWNLOAD) AND I have school. Wow, school. And homework.

SEE! I kinda had a busy week!... and... week before that! Oh my, it's been that long...

Disclaimer: There once was a (lazy) person named Yexis. She loved Slayers! In fact, she loved Slayers so much that... THE PEOPLE GAVE THE COMPANY TO HER! But then, Yexis woke up and faced reality. She didn't own Slayers... Yexis doesn't like her real life...

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In the morning, Firia woke up being extremely cold, but she couldn't understand why. Her thick covers were over her, and the bed felt warm... she was just really really cold! She sighed. Dragons had to mate sometime, and this was probably a side effect of not mating.

Firia clambered down the stairs and called for Xelloss. After waiting about a minute, he still wasn't there. Firia shrugged, knowing he must have gone for a walk, and made herself tea and muffins. As she waited for the tea to heat up and the muffins to bake, she called Xelloss again. She waited for a few seconds, then turned her head when she heard the familiar teleporting sound. Xelloss was there with a jacket wrapped tightly around his body. He threw the jacket over a chair, mumbled something about the house being really warm, then sat in a chair to wait for tea. Firia looked him over carefully, trying to find out why she was still so cold. If the house and her bed were warm, then Xelloss must be cold, causing her to be. She quickly found her answer by seeing ice clinging to Xelloss's gloves and jacket, then turned to pour themselves some tea. That would help to warm them.

When Firia put the cup in front of Xelloss, he drank it eagerly. Almost immediatly after Xelloss taking a sip, Firia felt much warmer. She too then sat down, and drank, only getting up to get the muffins out of the oven. She wanted to freeze them the night before, because frozen poppyseed muffins tasted really good, but right now all she wanted to do was get warm. So, she set the tray in the middle of the table and took a muffin.

After an hour of eating and silence, Firia got up and walked out to set up the shop. Xelloss heard as she opened the blinds, raised them, opened the windows, and even the clank of metal against glass as Firia put the closed sign to 'open'. Without saying a word to Firia, or even putting his dishes in the sink, Xelloss got up from the table and headed to the craft room. There, he took a lump of iron, a hammer, and a stick of ironwood, then started hammering the iron.

While she was looking over the shop, Firia heard clanking sounds. Puzzled, she locked the door, took the sign off the door, then went into the back part of the shop. She didn't see anything, but still heard the clanking sound of metal on metal. She walked over to the craft room, then smiled and giggled softly when she saw Xelloss making a mace.

"Hello Firia-chan," Xelloss mumbled, obviously absorbed in his work. The pounding finally stopped when Xelloss put down the hammer and started attaching the spikes onto the mace with magic.

Firia said a hello back, then watched as Xelloss put on the last spike, then took the piece of ironwood and attached that onto the bottom of the mace, securing it with magic.

When he finally finished, Firia asked, "Why did you want to make a mace?"

Xelloss shrugged, put the mace down, then picked up a lump of clay. Seeing this as a good opportunity, Firia gave him a list.

"It would be a huge help if you could get a couple of these done," Firia said, then added quickly, "For other people of course." Xelloss was tricky sometimes, and he might claim the vases for himself. Xelloss nodded and started making the vases, starting with an order of a tall, skinny red vase that had a picture of a waterfall wrapped around it.

To make sure she had chosen the right person to do the vases, Firia picked up the mace and was immediatly impressed. The mace was incredibly light- light enough for a small child to use- and was extremely durable. He had made the mace able to last 1000 years of use without it breaking with a spell, and it was made in such a way that no one but Firia, who was very skilled in mace fighting, could use it. It might be light, therefore not having the ability to crush people, but you could strike at someone so fast, that you could break through their sword and bones in a single swipe.

She put the mace back down on the anvil, then watched in wonder as Xelloss controlled and centered the vase perfectly. He was as good-- well, almost as good-- as herself! I guess a thousand years of practice could do that to you.

Confident that Xelloss could do well by himself, Firia turned and walked away, taking the newly made mace with her to examine to pass the time. She set the mace on the counter, unlocked the door, then put the sign back on the door. Then she waited, looked at the mace, and helped customers throughout the whole entire day.

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Firia slumped off the chair behind the counter and closed shop. After shutting the blinds, she trodded through the beads and sighed. She really wanted to go to bed, but she had dinner to make, the house to clean up, and Xelloss to look after!

"I wonder how many vases Xelloss made before getting bored," Firia wondered aloud. She walked into the craft room and squeaked with surprise.

Xelloss had made the whole list worth of vases, then somehow got a hold of the mace list and made those too. Vases and maces littered the floor to such an extent that Firia had to clear a way in order to walk to Xelloss. He was just finishing the last mace.

"Xelloss... how did you--- what--- how did you do all this?" Firia studdered. She had never made that many vases OR maces in one day, let alone that much of both!

"I was bored," Xelloss simply replied, not bothering to look up.

Firia was overjoyed. He had made all the customers' orders within one day. That was an extreme help to Firia, especially because she was falling behind in the crafting. She couldn't help but hug Xelloss.

"Thank you SOOOO much! This helped out a ton!" Firia said after hugging the dazed Xelloss. Then she skipped away to make dinner for them both. Xelloss shook his head, then went back to the mace. "I was just bored..." he said to himself.

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Wow. EXTREMELY short chapter alert! I will make sure to update faster next time... of course, Hitteh Pitteh might not believe meh, since I've said "I'll update today" for the past week. But this time I kept my promise! nods vigorously (I don't know if I used that word right o.o;;;) SO! I'll update before my other fic this time, but then I update that, which puts this aside about a week after I put one more chapter up.

Oh, and if you have seen Spirited Away and like the fanfictions about it, then please check out mine! C/H, and it's called Forest Slave. It's an alternate ending too! Actually, another plot that built off the end of the movie...

Hey look! Reveiws... and responses to them!

Hitteh Pitteh: Uhh... where to start... OK! Ameria shall come in later chapters! I promise! I double-wouble pwomise! I know, I ABSOLUTELY HATED Xelloss's dream. But, everybody loves dreams, so even though I hated it, I put it in. An answer to your question! Since Xelloss caused the pain during the spell, Firia didn't feel it, because the soreness was due to the teleporting during the spell. Yesh, 'tis true ('tis is the craze ya know) lol, didn't go up to your expectations for less than a week, huh? Oh well. I guess I can't make any promises to NEXT time I update either, cause I have no idea, and you won't believe meh anyways. Thanks for the awsome-possum review, and hope you update soon, cause I'll try!

Dairokkan: o.o oh my... hyperness... ahem anyways, Xelloss MIGHT be falling for Firia... Oh come on, he is! Otherwise this wouldn't be a X/F fanfiction! Gosh... some people... jk