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. Air Jay and Kiko belongs to us
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Chapter 6
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In Xellos and Filias room
Jiras and Garos sits near the bed taking care of little Alice who was sited in it because in that moment Filia is taking a bath. For the past haft an hour Garos has been making funny faces to the baby, but she only gave him nothing, in other words, she just look at him with a face saying Huh?.
"Come on Garos, the kid wont laugh at you , you been making those funny faces for an haft an hour and the kid dint even gave you a smile!" said Jiras, so tire of Garos faces.
"Oh shut up Jiras!" snapped Garos. "I might sound like a brute but I have a way with kids!"
In that moment Xellos returns with a rolling table full of food and a hot bottle. "Alice dear! Daddy is back!"
"Hueee Hueee!" cried Alice lifting an arm to her father, like if she is saying Help me daddy! This mean man is just acting weird to me!
Xellos saw that and pointed a deadly, angry, scary face at Garos, a face he had when he was a Mazoku.
Garos gulped when Xellos gave him that look.
"What were you doing to my little baby?" asked Xellos as he walks to Garos with heavy steps.
"Nothing, nothing! I was just playing with the kid and giving her funny faces!"
"Alice hates funny faces!" shouted Xellos then he lifts his foot up, transforms it into a golden dragon foot and steps on Garos two feet.
Garos just stood there with his eyes wide open, with out saying a word, not even a cry of pain. Jiras was amazed him self, that step was enough to make an entire army cry, but Garos stood there with out saying a word.
But Garos lefted the room with Jiras following him.
"Uau Garos! I'm proud of you; you acted like a man when Xellos stoop on you. It takes a lot of guts to support something like that." Said Jiras as he left the room.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Garos finally cried in pain, even tears are coming out of his eyes. "AU AUUUUUU, my feet's! Is there a doctor in the house?"
Jiras sweet dropped. "I should have known……"
"Is that Garos crying?" asked Filia from the bathroom.
"No of course not." Lied Xellos who is holding his little girl.
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Zel walked around the streets of Seilune, it is Christmas Eve and he hasn't managed to get something for Amelia and Sylvia. Well, for Sylvia he got a teddy bear that looks like him, but he hasn't got anything for Amelia. He didn't want to gave her something ordinary or dumb, he wanted to gave her something special to pay up for all these years that he's been out. But what can he give her?
"Who would ever thought that Christmas was so complicated?" grumbled Zelgadiss, still walking down the streets, but then he stops when he noticed something in a store that sells Christmas stuff.
He looked by the window and saw a crystal ball with smoke inside of it. "I wonder what could that be?" Zel's curiosity got the best of him and he enters the store.
"What can I do you for?" asked the store keeper very politely, not caring if Zel is a chimera because Zel is know a very well know person in Seilune, because he is that man who married Sylvia.
"Yes, I was just wondering what that strange crysltal is." Said Zel. "I see that you have many Christmas stuff here in your store, so I was wondering what the deal with that crystal is."
The store keeper picks up one of those crystals and shows it to Zelgadiss. "This my friend is a magical Crystal ball. Observe."
The smoke inside the crystal stats to show an image and Zel saw an image of a woman and a little boy. "Amazing, this crystals are magical. But what is that?" asked Zel.
"You are right my friend, this is a magical Crystal ball, and the persons that he is showing are my dear family." Said the Store keeper. "These crystals kind of works like if it is a photo."
The store keeper passed the ball to Zelgadiss, and the moment that Zel touch it the smoke inside the crystal stars to form into another image, it show the image of Amelia and Sylvia. "It…it is showing my family, how does it do it?"
"The crystal shows to the ones who are holding him, the ones that are very important to you, friend and family. In your case it shows your family. But the crystal also show to you moment that have already happen in your past or people that you haven't saw in a long, long time."
"Really? How does it work?"
"You just simply remind your self of it!"
"Is that it?" Zel starts to thing of something that has happen to him in the past, but then the smoke inside the crystal starts to show up another image, showing an image of Zel being used has an anchor and throw down the river, and showing the part when he was giving mouth to mouth by the stupid old man Ashford.
"What the…." The store keeper looked at the image with his mouth wide open.
"SHUT UP!" shouted Zel very embarrassed then he covers the crystal with his cape, true that Zel was remembering the accident he had when he and the gang were Sea-dragon hunting, but he never thought that the crystal would show such a thing. He remembers back when Lina wanted to try out the dragon cuisine and they all end up with out trying it. He mostly came up with that memory in his mind because he remembers when he was faking to be knock out so that Amelia would give him mouth to mouth, but it didn't happen that way. "So, can I ask where did you got these crystals?" asked Zel, trying to change the subject.
"But of course, I made them my self!" said the store keeper, very proud of himself. "I have study magic in my youth, and I have manage to created these magic crystals balls."
Zel looks down to a crystal ball in his hand with a smile, it seems that he has found the perfect gift for Amelia. "I'll take it."
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Zel walks back home, with Amelia and Sylvias gifts in one bag, he sure hoped that he had really found the perfect gift for his family, he wants things to go out just fine because this is the first time he celebrates Christmas with his family.
Zel was so lost in his thought that he didn't noticed a carriage stopping right near him with all the slayers gang in those carriages.
"Hey Zel!" called out Amelia who was dress up has a reindeer, and she was not the only one, Lina, Gourry, Sylphiel and Miguel were also dressed as reindeers while Maia and Val were dresses as elf's, and Sylvia was all dressed in red "Where are you going?"
Zel hides his bag. "Just heading back to the castle, where are you guys going?"
"We are going to the orphanage, for a little Christmas celebration."
"Christmas celebration?"
"Yes, we are just going to give presents and Christmas joy to the ones who have lost their parents." Said Lina.
Zel blinked in confusion. "And you are into this Lina, dressed up like a reindeer? How much are you getting paid for it?"
"Nothing."
"NOTHING? You are accepting on doing this job with out getting paid? This is sure not like you Lina."
Lina glared furiously at Zel. "What is that suppose to mean? Are you saying that I'm some kind of heartless monster?"
"Easy now, Lina." Said Gourry, trying to calm down his wife.
"This is Christmas Zelgadiss." Said Sylphiel very sweetly. "A time of year of joy and where we must help those in need, like the orphans that we are going to visit."
"But why are we dress up like this?" asked Miguel, so embarrassed of being dress up like this. "This is so embarrass."
"Well you look cute dress up like that." Giggled Sylphiel. "You should dress up like that more often."
"Sylphiel, please……." Wined Miguel.
"Hey, do you want to come with us Daddy?" asked Sylvia.
"Well….." of course Zel could not say no to his little angel. "Sure why not? I have nothing else to do."
"Can you dress up like a reindeer Daddy?" asked Sylvia, passing a reindeer suit to her father.
"WHAT?" shouted Zelgadiss. "No way!"
"Please Daddy….." pleaded Sylvia with her usual sad eyes the she uses to convince her father.
"NO! Forget it, I will not humiliate myself like this! And you can stop making those sad faces because that will not convince me this time!"
Zel just never learns, does he?
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"Why me….." grumbled Zel who is already in the orphanage with the gang, all dress up has a reindeer and with a red round fake nose on his nose. Once again Sylvia convinced him to do a humiliating thing. "This is just as worst as being dress up like a rabbit. I can still hear Lina and the others laughing at me!"
Zel looks up to Lina, Gourry and Maia, who seems to be having a good time, With Lina giving presents to the kids and Goury and Maia playing with them. Lina and Gourry seems very happy on helping the kids, it must be their parents side witch makes them work like this. Zel then turns to Sylphiel and Miguel who are also playing with the kids, Sylphiel seems very happy around them, in fact she seemed more different ever since she got hook up with Miguel, who she had meet ever since the end of their conflict with Air Jay. Miguel seems like a good person, sometimes he acts like a tough guy, but deep inside he is a good person, and to prove all that he is also playing with the children with Sylphiel, they might end up being good parents as well.
"Having a good time Zelgadiss?" asked Amelia walking to Zel.
"Well, with out counting the fact that you people made me dress up like an idiot, again, I'm alright." Said Zel, trying not to sound very sarcastic. "Say, where is Sylvia?"
"She is right over there with Val."
"Val?" Zel looks back to where Amelia is pointing and what he saw surprises him. He is seeing Sylvia dress up has Santa Clause, with Val has her personal helper.
"Merry Christmas!" said Sylvia very sweetly to the group of kids surrounding her, and giving each one of them presents.
"Why is she paying Santa Clause?" asked Zel. "I thought that Sylvia believed in Santa clause."
Amelia giggled at Zelgadiss silly question. "Of course she does, every kid does. But Christmas is a time for giving, and last year Sylvia went to the orphanage dress up like Santa Clause to give present to the kids and she loved it."
"But why did she do it?"
"I don't know, she just loved it." Said Amelia, pointing a smile to her daughter who is still giving presents to the kids.
Zelgadiss also pointed a smile to Sylvia, once again that child manages to surprise him, most kids would just love to receive than to give. But Sylvia is different, she loves to give to the other, she truly has a heart of an angel.
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Night time.
Every one in the palace is getting ready for the Christmas Eve party that is going to be held in the Castle of Seilune.
Lina, Gourry, Sylphiel, Miguel and Zelgadiss are walking down the hall going to the place where the party is being held.
"Yummy, I can't wait for the party, lots of food to be held in may stomach." Said Gourry in delight, already thinking of all that food.
"You are always thinking about food Gourry." Said Lina with a sigh.
"Look who is talking."
Sylpheil giggled. "These two will surly never change."
"That's true." Agreed Miguel. "When they eat, it almost sounds like they are not human. Those two are completely out there"
"You have no idea." Joked Zelgadiss.
"What was that?" asked Lina with a threatening tone.
"Nothing!" replied Miguel and Zelgadiss at the same time.
"Say Zel, what is it that you are going to give Amelia for Christmas?" asked Gourry trying to change the subject, because it would defiantly ruin the day if Lina gets mad enough to cast a Dragon Slave.
"Well that……is a secret." Responded Zelgadiss with a grin.
Sylphiel and Miguel freaked out when Zel said that. "AAAAAAH! Don't say that!"
"Huh?"
"Yeah Zel, it almost makes you look like Xellos." Taunted Lina.
"LINA DON'T YOU DARE COMPARE ME WITH THAT FRUIT CAKE!"
"AU AU!" barked a dog from right behind them.
The gang turn around and their skin turn pale when they saw who is the dog, it is Kiko.
"What is it you guys? it is just a dog, so why are you acting like this?" asked Miguel, totally confused with the gangs reaction when they saw the dog.
"It can not be….." said Zel in a trembling tone.
"No way, he can not be here!" said Lina in the same tone.
"Who are you guys talking about?" asked Miguel.
In that moment Kiko makes a run for it.
And Lina and the other followed Kiko, because if Kiko is here, so is Air Jay, witch means that he has brought more problems for every one again.
"I should have kill him when I had the chance, well it won't happen again, this time I will finish him for sure!" thought Lina.
The Slayers followed Kiko who just entered into a room, witch is the throne room to be more precise, but they did not enter the room, they stand there in silence with out entering
"Will some one explain me what is going on here?" asked Miguel again, getting tire for not getting his answer.
"We believe that a known criminal is right behind that door." Explained Sylphiel. "His name is Air Jay."
"We fought him a few mouths back, we defeat him but he manages to escape." Said Lina.
"And he kidnapped Sylvia and almost destroyed Seilune." Added Zel.
"Kidnaping Sylvia? That's cruel!" said Miguel, already hating this guy.
"What are we going to do Lina?" asked Gourry. "We are totally unprepared for this."
"I know Gourry, but what choice do we have, Air Jay challenged us, and who know what he might end up doing if we just back away." Responded Lina.
Zel grabs up his sword. "I say we attack him now, this man almost destroyed my family once and I won't let him do it again. It was a mistake to let him live the last time, but this is our chance to correct that."
After saying that Zel kicks the door open and there they find Air Jay sited in the throne with his hand holding his head and he still has that evil smirk on his face.
"Hello you guys. How are you doing?" asked Air Jay, but it almost sounded like if it is a challenge.
To be continue……
Alandra: Air Jay is back. That means trouble is back.
Sunny: how will Lina and the others defeat Air Jay this time?