Christmas in Seilune

Sunny: here is our new Slayers fic, for the holidays.

Alandra: for the Christmas spirit, and peace on earth.

Ramon: and the Slayers series does not belong to us, it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi. Miguel belongs to Maurice A. Nigma who let us use his character.

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Chapter 2

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"And guess what? My little Alice has made the most impressive sound after her dinner last night, in fact she makes the same noise after her feeding time before she goes to bed, can you imagine? My little girl is a genius!" blabber Xellos.

"Great……" moaned Lina, Gourry, Amelia, Sylphiel, Miguel and Jiras. Xellos is more annoying ever since he became a father, he never stops talking about his daughter Alice, talking about all the little things that a baby girl can do, like if she has made the wonder of the world. He never stops talking about it. Xellos was much better when he was a Mazoku.

"Say…..Gourry, do you want to see pictures of my little girl?" asked Xellos with the pictures already on his hand. Once he starts showing the pictures there is no stopping him, only after two hours of showing the pictures and talking about them will be the only thing that stops him.

And this tires the gang a lot, always have to listen to the same thing, over and over again.

Gourry started to panic. "Me? Why me? Why won't you show to the others? They are right here." Gourry turns around to point at the others, but the problem is that hey are all gone, they ran away. "Hey you guys, come back here you cowards! Don't leave me alone with this maniac!"

"Hey look at this picture here." Xellos shows up a picture of Alice to Gourry. "Isn't she precious?"

"Someone please, save me!" begged Gourry to some one, but no one is hearing him.

"Now that I remember, I must go give Alice her bottle." Said Xellos snapping his fingers.

"YES! Thank you!" thanked Gourry.

But Xellos grabs Gourry by the hair when he was about to get away. "Come along! I want you to see how precious she can be when she wakes up."

"Why me?" wined Gourry.

"Because you're the only one present here! Now come on!"

The gang hided the entire time behind a pillar, the one thing they don't want is to put up with the annoying father Xellos, as impossible as it might seem, Xellos was much better as an annoying Mazoku.

"Man, is that guy always this annoying?" asked Miguel after Xellos was gone.

"He can be worst!" responded Lina with a sigh.

"Damn, I pity you guys."

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Moments later Gourry and Xellos reach to Xellos and Filia. "Alice-chan!" called Xellos as he enters the room with Gourry " Daddy's here, and he brought along a visit! Time for your feed. Time for my little devil to getup!" Xellos pushes out the sheets but…..there is Alice there.

Xellos starts to panic. "Alice? ALICE!" cried Xellos as he runs over the room looking for his daughter

Gourry also starts to get worry and helps Xellos looking for Alice. "Where could she be?"

"What's going on here?" asked Filia as she enters the room and saw Xellos and Gourry running all over the room looking for something.

"Alice is missing! We are looking for her!" responded Gourry still looking for the baby.

Filia gasped and started to get worry herself. "Missing? How she be missing?"

"I don't know!" cried Xellos getting all stress out. "I just came to the room to feed her, but she was not here! AAAAAH!"

"Uncle Xellos, uncle Xellos!" called Maia as he got in the room.

"Shut up kid!" snapped Xellos still looking for the kid. "I have no time to put up with you!"

"But I just wanted to say that Alice is on the pool and she's drowning!"

This made Xellos and Filia panic, big time.

"ALICE!" Xellos waited no time and runs to the pool area.

Seconds later Xellos reaches the pool area "Hold on Alice, Daddy's here!" and jumps to the water. Xellos looks around the pool, but there is no Alice, no in or out of the water. "Alice! Where are you?"

Suddenly Xellos hears a laugh, and saw Val holding up little Alice, sleeping peacefully in her brothers arms.

"Got you, Uncle Xellos!" Maia joined the laugh when he arrived to the pool area.

"Yeah, you look so Silly, Uncle Xellos!" laughed Val, still holding Alice.

"You……you…..little brats!" yelled Xellos, very furiously as he got out of the pool, but he slipped and falls on the water again. He could not believe that the kids would play such a dirty prank on him.

"Val!" shouted Filia very furiously at Val, and then takes the baby away from him. "This is just despicable!"

"But….but…."

"NO BUT'S! Go to your room young man and think of what you have done!" Filia points to the castle so that Val could go inside.

"Yeah mom." Murmured Val, very annoyed, and walks away.

"Uau, Val is sure in a big jam!" said Maia.

"MAIA!" yelled Gourry from behind his son.

Maia jumped when he heard his father shouting right behind him, the only time when Gourry shouted at him like that was when Maia bonged Sylvia on the head once, and his father shouted at him saying that a gentleman must never hurt a lady. Maia hated when his father got angry at him like that. "Y-y-yes father?"

"You disappoint me a lot! I never expect this from you!" said Gourry, with a tone saying that he's very ashamed of his son.

And Maia felt very sad about this. "But….but dad, I was just……."

"Enough! You and I must have a serious talk! Meet me in my room in haft an hour!" after saying that Gourry turn around and walks away.

Lina watched the entire scene and stopped Gourry on his tracks. "Gourry take it easy! I know that the kid was a little rude but you don't need to act this way!"

"I just want to have a serious talk to the kid!" replied Gourry with a serious tone and continues his walk.

Lina recognizes that tone from Gourry's voice. It was the same tone he used when she faked her death here in Seilune.

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Sylvia walks in direction of Val's room, she heard about the prank that he and Maia played on Uncle Xellos and Val got grounded because of the prank.

Without knocking at his door, Sylvia gets in and sees him sited on his bed, with his hair covering his eyes. "Val?"

Val rises up his head. "Oh, hi Sylvia."

"So the prank didn't go well?" asked Sylvia as she sited next to Val.

"Nope." Replied Val with and angry tone

"I told you that this prank was too cruel."

"CRUEL?" shouted Val. "We always play prank at Xellos! Why is this one so different?"

"Remember when we wanted to play that prank at Uncle Xellos but then my father came alone because he thought that I 'm was in trouble? This prank was almost similar to that, so I didn't want any part of it."

"But we didn't harm Alice! Now they are so on to Alice that they forgotten about me!"

"Huh?" this one confused Sylvia. "What do you mean?"

"Ever since Alice was born, every paid more attention to her. Always spooling her, baby talk her and so many stuff, completely putting me at side. It is upsetting me! Big time! Just because I used her on a prank, they grounded me. I wish that Alice was never born!"

There was a moment of silence between them, but Sylvia broke up the silence. "Val, I think that you are being selfish!"

"Huh?"

"I always wanted a big sister but I never got one, but you got a baby sister Val and you can consider yourself lucky. Aunt Filia and Uncle Xellos are taking care of her because she is a little one who need lots of care, and most of all they are giving their love to her, just like they gave their love to you, and most important giving her a good direction in life so that little Alice wont turn up becoming someone rude and bad with out any respect for anyone or anything, just like they did with you. And it will also be your job as a big brother to guide her as well."

"Really?"

"Really, and maybe you can teach her something as she gets old. Don't you have anything you would like to teach her?"

Val rubs his chin at Sylvia's question, she really has a good point, and he could also be teaching some things at Alice, and starting to like it, a lot. "Yeah…..I can teach her how to play good pranks at Xellos! Yeah, that is a great idea!"

"See."

"I can hardy wait to teach how to use a slit shot. That would be so cool!"

Filia listened to the entire thing. She never thought that Val was so jealous of Alicia, but Filia promises that from now on she will not leave Val at side, he has suffered a lot because of thoughts like that. But is amazing that it was someone like Sylvia who made Val to act like a real brother, Sylvia really has the ability of changing other peoples mind.

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The 30 minutes passed and like Gourry ordered, Maia is at his door so that they could have a serious talk. Maia felt very nervous, he never saw his father act this way, he's even angrier then when Maia hit Sylvia on the head a long time ago, but in the end Maia learn his lesson. But Maia does not understand why his father is so angry at him, they have played lots of pranks at Xellos, so why was this one so different?

"MAIA!" called Gourry from behind the door, it is very obvious that Gourrys senses of a swordsman have alerted him of his son's presence. " Come in!"

"Y-yes father." Maia enters the room to see his father sited on a chair near the window.

"Sit down! We have a lot to talk!" ordered Gourry pointing to a chair.

"Yes father!" Maia immediately sits down, it is time to find out why Gourry is so upset.

To be continue……

Alandra: I wonder why Gourry is so angry at Maia.