Slayers Betrayed
Alandra: Here is a cool fic about the Slayers.
Maliska: A dramatic all, angus tic one.
Sunny: And for last, the Slayers and Lost Universe series does not belong to us, it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi.
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Chapter 9
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Crystals Grindes, is a very powerful source of energy used by many, even a small fragment can charge an entire ship, or even a time machine.
These white crystals get their energy by absorbing every natural resources of an entire planet. When the crystals are green is when they are in their full power.
Planet Zoidst, conquered by the Horde a few days ago, the planet now is nothing but an endless desert, witch is had his entire resources absolved by the Horde's crystals Grindes. And in that planet there is a small factory or a warehouse for the Crystals, if you may. The entire factory has almost a 100 mans in silvered armor with helmets, a personal war clouts of the Horde, guarding the factory. And guarding that factory is also the 2º in command of the Horde, Gourry Gabrieve.
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Five of the guards, walk inside with precaution, not to be found by any one.
Once they got inside:
"We got inside!" said one of the five guards as they hide behind one of the enormous pillars of the factory (now come on, don't tell me you don't know who they are!)
"It's about time." complained Lina, taking off her helmet "Didn't you have a better disguised than these armor of the Horde, Kain? They are as hot as they can get, and it is difficult to breathe in here"
"Well…." Kain takes out his helmet "It worked for me when I got into one of these factories and steal one of the crystals to power up my time machine to get you guys."
"You got no complain from me!" Zel taking out his helmet "its better than to use a stupid bunny clout, or have to dress up as a woman!"
"You dress up has a woman Zel?" asked Millie with a lot of curiosity.
Zel felt embarrassed by stupidly telling all that happen to him "nothing, nothing, just forget what I said!"
"So what do we do now?" asked Amelia.
"Well, to bad Canal's sensors could not find where's the flour that the Horde is keeping their crystals. So we have no choice but to check every flour." Said Kain.
"Not a smart thing Kain!" complained Lina "You forgot that……Gourry is here!"
"The reason that Gabrieve is here is because the security system here is not yet full operational!" said Millie "So it's a perfect opportunity to steal a crystal now so that you guys can return back to your time!"
"True, we'll have to be extra careful this time, Lina" said Zelgadiss.
"I know…..I know……." Whispered Lina, she know very well what she must do when she returns back to her time.
"Alright" said Kain "let's put our helmets on and let's go to that elevator…."
"Elevator?" asked Amelia confused
"Just come with me….. Amitytytyti!"
"AMELIA! A-M-E-L-I-A!"
"Such Amelia!" ordered Zel as he covers her mouth. "You what to get us caught?"
"Sorry."
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After that every put on their helmets back and followed Kain to a nearby elevator, once they got there Kain pushed a button, and immediately it came, with a person in there it was a bald man with a scar in his left eye, his entire bode is covered by a cape, and with his right hand holding a staff.
The gang had no choice but to get in so that that man would not suspect a thing. Once they all got in, the man pushed the button to close the doors, and then he turns to the others with his eyes closed and with a smile in his face. In that moment Lina started to fell like she knows this man from some were.
"It has been a long time, Lina-san." said the man, and in that moment Lina recognized the man.
"Xellos?" asked Lina in disbelieve
"Yup!"
Both Lina and Amelia laughed hysterically when they saw Xellos. Kain , Millie and Zel sweat dropped and Xellos felt so embarrassed.
"Mr Xellos, you're bald!" Amelia managed to say between the laughts.
"You look so stupid!" said Lina after taking her breath.
"Will you two shut up! You want us to get caught?" yelled Zel.
"And who here is yelling?" replied Lina. Zel blushed in embracement.
"What do you want Xellos?" demanded Kain taking out his Psycho Sword
"Now, now Kain, my friend, I'm not here to kill you, I'm here to help!" said Xellos, backing away from Kain's blade.
"I don't believe you!"
"Wait a minute!" interrupted Lina "Kain, you know Xellos?"
"Of course I do! He is one of Gabrieve's minions!"
"What's that?" asked Zel amazed "Now Xellos works for Gourry?"
"I was forced to……." Said Xellos a little ashamed. "But he let me live for some strange reason!"
"What are you talking about Xellos?" asked Lina, confused.
Xellos took a deep breath and started to explain. "After your disappearing Lina, Gourry changed a lot, and he started to kill some of your friends, as well has some very powerful Mazokus, he became so powerful that……you will not believe this……he defeated all the remaining parts of Shabrimingdo, with just one blow, he didn't even had the Sword of Light to do it! After that he eliminated the entire Mazoku race, not one was left alive."
"Well, at least that is some good news." Said Zel.
"Oh shut up!" murmured Xellos
Lina could not believe it, Gourry managed to defeat Shabrimingdo so easily, she practically almost die when she faced him, she didn't even imagined that Bastion would made Gourry so powerful at this point. This is getting very complicated, how will she defeat a man who can kill the King of Mazokus so easily.
"After that he started to organize the Horde all under the instructions of Bastion. I never saw Bastion myself, only hear his voice or saw him on the screens."
"Alright Xellos" interrupted Lina "We are not here to talk about Gourry, we need is some Crystal Grindes so…"
"So that you can return back to your time Lina-san" finished Xellos.
"How do you know?"
"Well, now, that is a secret! (Man, I miss saying this!)"
"XELLOS!"
"Alright, alright, Gourry told me that you have been taken by some people from the future, when he was about to kill you." Xellos turn his looks to Kain "That is why he has been haunting you family, Kain Blueriver. You told him your name so he's been hunting you."
"Curse him" murmured Kain.
"So I'm here to help you guys to destroy Gourry and…." Xellos was interrupted when Zelgadiss grab him by the collar of his cape."
"Why should we trust you Xellos?"
"That's right, after all, you work for Gourry!" said Millie.
"And plus…" added Zel "This could be some one of your sick plays, how can we be sure that you are the ONE that has made Gourry change so much………"
"Excuse me!" interrupted Xellos removing Zel's hand. "I know that you guys never trusted me, but I'm not the one responsible for Gourrys changes, I hate him as much as you all do right now!"
"Still, why should we trust you Xellos?" asked Lina.
"Why? Why? Because he did THIS to me!" Xellos removed his cape, every one gasped of what they saw, Amelia looked away horrified of what she's seeing. Xelllos entire body is noting but a robotically structure, mechanical, and tubes showing oleo replacing the blood. The only flesh he has is his right arm, neck and head. "He removed my Mazoku powers and forced me to work for. I always executed all of his orders and work perfectly on each mission, but as appreciation of all my work he decides to blast my body and turn me into a cyborg. Did I win your confidence now?" Xellos almost sounded like he wanted to cry.
Every Slayers gang was amazed, Xellos probably deserved this, but considering the fact that he was a height level mazoku, who would have thought that he would be reduced to this.
"Alright Xellos, you won!" said Lina putting a hand on Xellos mechanical shoulder. Xellos just smiled and put on his cape.
"So where must we go to get the Crystals?" asked Kain
"I will take to the flour!" Xellos pushed one button and they went to the flour where the Crystals are. Once they got out Xellos make sure that no one would be on the look out, assuring them that the cost is clear. "Go to the end of that corridor, it will take you at least 5 minutes to get there, but you will find an golden door, that is where the an enormous room with our crystals."
"Aren't you coming with us Xellos?" asked Lina noticing that he wasn't following them.
"I'll be making sure that Gourry won't find you!"
Lina said nothing more as she followed the other, leaving Xellos with his usual grins in his face. "You've always been such a fool, Lina Inverse."
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Xellos teleported back to the chamber to where Gourry is.
"What do you want Xellos!" asked Gourry, annoyed by Xellos presence.
"My lord, I've came to inform you that Lina and her friends are running to your trap." Say Xellos as he bowed.
Gourry face was replaced by his evil look and despicable grin. "Excellent, call my guards on room 13 and 45 to meet me in room 53."
"Yes, my Lord."
Gourry immediately rushes to room 53. "Finally, the day of my revenge has come. Today, Lina Inverse will die!"
"I will not allow it!" cried the mysterious voice. "If you dare to touch Lina I swear I'll kill you!"
Gourry just laughed at the mysterious voice treats. "Stop with your insignificant treats, you miserable imbecile! You may have protected Lina in the past, but today you will witness her demise."
Still in Gourrys chamber, Xellos contacted his troops like Gourry ordered, with his usual evil grin in his face. "This is all going according to MY plan, Lina and Gourry are running into my trap. Gourry doesn't know that I have prepared a special surprise for him and the others. Never again will I bow, or be ridiculed by you, you demented freak. Go ahead and hunt Lina if you want, but I will be the real hunter."
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The gang has finally arrived to golden door that Xellos said. When they got there, they notice that door isn't locked, it is open.
"I have a bad felling about this." Said Amelia.
"I agree." Said Zel.
"Well, lets just get inside and get this over with!" said Lina entering the room, with all the others following behind. Once they got inside every thing was dark.
"We sure could use some light in here." Said Millie
"I guess this call for LIGHTNING!" said Lina casting a lightning spell.
But all they have found was nothing but and empty, enormous white room.
"WHAT!"
"We have been tricked!" growled Zel.
"You got that right!" said a voice from behind them. When they turn round they saw Gourry with a thousand solders pointing their guns at Lina and her friends.
Lina felt like she had seen a ghost, when she looked at Gourry with that evil look at his face. This is a moment the true, a moment she promised to do, but she hates to do it. "I guess it was inevitable."
"But it will end today!" said Gourry releasing some of his dark aura. He had been waiting for this for a long, long time.
Never in her life has fate such a horrible game on Lina, here she is in front of the man that has been more than a friend to her, but now he hates her more than anything. Every little thing that she has done to him has come back to haunt her. But what really scares Lina is that he has the looks of a wild man, ready to attack at any moment.
"This is not good, this is defiantly not good!" trailed off Kain with his psycho sword already up.
Gourry just looked at his former friends with a very evil smirk. He has been waiting for this in a long, ling time.
With out any warning his shoots a fire ball at one of his troops, burning him to ashes and killing him instantly. Every one was shocked of the way Gourry killed one of his own men, cold-blooded.
"Gourry……" whispered Lina.
"You kill your own men just to show how powerful you are Gabrieve!" protested Kain "You are a monster!"
"Thank you!" said Gourry, then turns to his troops, all looking at him with fear. "Troopers, out! Lock the door properly on your way out, I want to finish them all by my self. And find the Sword Breaker and destroy it! LEAVE US!"
Immediately the troops obeyed him, they know that Gourry was not to be disobeyed. Then he turns back to Lina and the others
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Unknown to them some one is spying on then in that precise moment. It is Xellos watching them on the screen of his monitor, in another room. "I'm the one who will end up wining here. Poor Gourry. You've always been a worthless fool!" said Xellos, in one of his usual evil smiles. "I never told you that I have implanted special tubes in the air vents of that room you build for your trap, and those tubes will unleash a poison gas, and you and Lina will not escape. The walls of that room are made of a very resistant material, it can even resist the Giga Slave, you should not have ordered your troops to lock the doors, and you made a big mistake. Good bye, Gourry Gabrieve and Lina Inverse." In this last phrase he pushed the button to unleash the gas, but nothing happened. "What's going on? I don't understand!" Xellos keep on punching the button but still the gas was not unleashed.
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Gourry begin to walk to his opponents but they all took one step behind, this entertained Gourry, a lot. "What's the matter? Are you people afraid of me? I understand that!" Gourry then turn his looks to Lina "Well Lina Inverse, don't you have anything to say? No smart ass comment, now that you see how powerful I have become?"
"Indeed you become powerful Gourry! We have been told of how you destroyed Shabrimingodo" said Zelgadiss.
"But to use that power to torture innocent people is unforgivable!" Protested Amelia.
"So what?" said Gourry very coldly. "My Master Bastion, gave me all this power, I have to use in some way!"
"But Why Gourry, Why?" snapped Lina, waiting for a straight answer from him, he doesn't know how mush he has made her suffering these last days because of him. "You betrayed me so that you could become powerful?"
"My dear Lina Inverse, after I put my life on the line for you a million times, how did you ever repay my loyalty? You keep on treating me like crap!" replied Gourry "So who betray who?"
Lina didn't know how to reply back, it is true that after all he has done for her she always insulted him and punching him all the time, but that is something she can not help it. Still, her attitude has destroyed their friendship. "Gourry……"
"Curses!" Kain thought to himself. "This is something I wanted to avoid at all cost. We should never have trusted that bastard Xellos!"
Gourry started to concentrate his hand, every on thought that he was about to attack them but all he did was throwing his spell to the ground. "Before I destroy you all there is a traitor that needs to be kill." in the smoke a figure started to appear, it is Xellos.
"Xellos?" they were all amazed of how Gourry managed to teleport Xellos to where they are.
"Wha-What….." Xellos was more surprised than every one, he was just in another room trying to activate the gas, and now……"S-salutation, my master……"
"Don't give me your song and dance Xellos!" Snapped Gourry "You were trying to activate the poison gas that you putted on here!"
"WHAT?" gasped Amelia.
"Xellos was trying to kill us all!" said Millie.
Xellos was in silence for a moment. Busted. Never in his life has anyone ever caught in the act. He was completely losing his touch. "Well, it is best that I confess it all. True, I set up every thing up so I could kill you all, it was all so easy……"
"Damn you!" growled Zelgadiss.
"I figure that you would try something Xellos, so I sent my spies to look at you!" said Gourry "Still Xellos, you haven't notice something right?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Gourry lifts his fingers up, and something comes out of Xellos robotic shoulder witch caused him some pain.
"AHHHH! What was that…..WHAT?" Xellos gasped in surprise when he saw what come out of his robotic body, it was a small glowing ball.
"It's a Bon-Bond spell!" said Zelgadiss, in a tone saying that he was amazed to see such a spell.
"What's that?" asked Amelia.
"For what I know, it's a spell from the ancient world. It may look insignificant but it is a very powerful and dangerous spell. That spell can only be used once in a life time, it works by putting it inside of your victims body, it absolves all his life force, once its done it explodes, destroying his victim as well."
"Oh my God!" gasped Millie nearly dropping her gun.
"But…..but……but how did a Bon-Bond spell got inside of me" asked Xellos.
"Why don't you ask Lina?" Asked Gourry with an evil smirk, destroying the Bon-Bond spell.
"What?"
Every one look at Lina, the look in her face absolutely says that she had something to do with this. "Its true I put it. I put when I touched Xellos in his shoulder. I knew that he was up to something, so I put that spell on him so that he wouldn't try one of his tricks!"
Xellos laughed "You surprise me Lina! This is probably the only time you have tricked me!"
"Are you sure Xellos?" Asked Gourry with that smirk on his face never fading. Xellos knew that Gourry was hiding something.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you really believe that Lina discovered that you were a Mazoku when we fought Garv for the first time, Xellos?"
Xellos didn't know how to answers that, the true is that when we meet Garv in that desert place, Lina didn't sound so surprised when she found out that he was a Mazoku, that always puzzled him. Xellos turns back to Lina waiting for her to answer to Gourry's question.
"Well" Lina started "I had my suspicion the first time we meet, but it was all confirmed when there was that incident in Atlas city. Seygran sounded so afraid of Xellos, for him to be so afraid was because Xellos was a very Powerful Mazoku himself. I was just surprised to find out that Xellos was a high level Mazoku, when we fought Garv."
"He he, very smart Lina." Said Xellos.
"If you knew that, why did you let him travel with us Lina?" asked Zelgadiss.
"I know I should have killed him, but he might be of a use to us, since he knew so much about the Clair Bible."
"Very smart Lina." Said Xellos "My congratulations, you surprise me again Lina, it's becoming a horrible habit, still I always had the best of you all."
"You still don't understand Xellos!" laughed Gourry.
"What?"
"Your mission back then, was to study Lina and use her has bait for Garv. She might not know about the bait part, but tell me. She found out that you were a Mazoku very early; don't you think that she had evaluated your character back then? After all, she tricked you on selling her your Demon Blood Talismans so that you might not use any trick on her. The irony of it all Xellos is that you always believed that you had her under control, but it was always the other way around, she is the one that use you has a puppet, made you believe that you were always one step ahead, and you always ended up were she wanted you to be."
Xellos just looked at Gourry in horror, could be that he was right? Xellos turns his head to Lina, and by looking at her face he saw that there were no lies of what Gourry just said.
"HOLD ON!" said Zel and Amelia.
"What?" ask Lina.
"You mean to tell me that, I dress up has a bunny, a woman and made such stupid figures so that you could trick Xello?" asked Zel
"And you pretended that you didn't know how to use the Demon Talismans, when that piece of land was about to fall in Seilune?" added Amelia.
"Well…….yes." answered Lina, a little nervous.
"DO YOU KNOW THE HUMILIATIONS YOU PUT ME IN, LINA?" yelled Zel.
"AND DO YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE YOU TRICKING XELLOS YOU ENDED UP DESTROYING ¼ OF SEILUNE?" yelled Amelia.
"Calm down guys, please." begged Lina with a sweat drop. "It was all to make Xellos believe that he always had the best of us, I knew that if we were patient he would finally lead us to the Clair Bible!"
"What are they talking about Kain?" Asked Millie with a sweat drop.
"I don't know." said Kain, also confused himself.
"DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" growled Xellos, he could not believe, all this time he was the one who was being used, he felt so ashamed, him, the general priest, being fooled by a mere human. He should have understand Lina's intention when she made him sell his Talismans
"Poor Xellos, the Trickster Priest, you have been trick!" laughed Gourry, in his evil laugh, and lifted up his hand and witch made a sphere trapping Xellos inside. "But you are no longer useful to me!" and with that he closed his fist, making the sphere shrink to the absolute small size.
"NO GOURRY HAVE MERCY!" cried Xellos as the sphere shrieked, hearing the sound of Xellos body cracking and his cries of pain as it does.
Every body look at Gourry in horror, he killed Xellos like if he was an insect. Lina could never get used of Gourry's cruelty.
"To bad," said Zel "I always hoped that I could kill Xellos myself." Every one fall, anime style.
"Xellos was nothing but a puppet, even in the end" Said Gourry, very coldly.
"I see." Said Zel " Xellos always knew how to find us, so you have used him to lure us here!"
"So that is why you spare Xellos all this time!" added Lina.
"Yes. Yes, it's true, now if you don't mind, I'm going to kill the rest you." Said Gourry in an evil voice.
Every one backed away, getting ready to defend them self.This is it, the moment of true. A true that Lina can not escape.
To be continued…….
Air Jay: I bet all you Xellos fans must hate us now.
Alandra: Shut up Air Jay!
Sunny: Gourry is going to fight the Slayers and Lost Universe gang.
Ramon: The big battle that every one's been waiting coming right up!