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 12
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"WHAT?" yelled the evil Gourry, then he laughed "FOOL! You've always been an idiot, it's been a million years, in case you have forgotten, and your body can not live with out me."
"I don't care about that!" replied the Another Gourry. "You have made me do the most despicable things ever imagined, and you did it in my name. You are the worst kind of creature ever!"
The evil Gourry just laughed coldly. "Really? What about your revenge on Lina? The deep hate you have for her?"
"I NEVER HATED LINA! It's true that I was mad at her at that time, but I never, NEVER hated her."
"You know very well that she never respected you……."
"That's a lie, I heard what she said!"
"Yes I know and you were crying like a baby."
"Enough! Because of you I saw the way you kill all my friends, I saw you beat Zel and Amelia, you try to kill Lina, and you killed million of innocents, all of this saying that you are me. All these years I was powerless to stop you but it all ends today!"
"What?" that was all the evil Gourry said as the Another Gourry transformed into gas and entered the Evil Gourry's body.
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"Gourry?..." whispered Lina as the golden sphere despaired and revealed Gourry on his knees, his hands holding himself, with a look that sounded like he's in deep concentration and pain, but sweating like hell.
"L-L-Lina……please help me……I need your help!" called Gourry, in a suffering tone.
Lina of course ran to Gourry.
"No Lina wait! It's another one of his traps!" Shouted Kain, but Lina didn't listen to him.
"Gourry, What's going on?" asked Lina as she knelled near Gourry.
"Lina……I……I can't hold him for ever." Said Gourry still in suffering tone.
"Who Gourry, WHO?" asked Lina, wondering who is Gourry talking about
"There isn't much time…….. You kneed to stop him for good!"
"What must I need to do?"
Gourry lifted his head and looked at Lina. "Kill me Lina! Kill me now!"
"What?" Lina backed away. What is Gourry asking her? To kill him? The one thing that Lina could never do. "No……No Gourry you can not ask me that!"
"Please Lina, it's the only way!" begged Gourry as he lifted his hand tryig to reach Lina.
"NO! You can not ask me that!" cried Lina, feeling more devastated than before.
"Please Lina! You don't know how much I've been suffering! For once in your life do has I say and Kill me! Please!"
Lina shocked her head, she can not do that, not to the man she loves.
"Then I'll do it!" said Kain as he jumped to the air, really to kill Gourry with his Psycho Sword.
Gourry let out a smile. His torment is almost over.
"NO!" cried Lina as she jumped to the air and punched Kain, stopping him from killing Gourry. This made Kain drop his sword near Gourry.
"Lina, you stupid idiot!" yelled Kain as he got up to his knees.
"I won't let you kill Gourry!" Lina yelled back.
"Pity!" mocked Gourry in an evil voice and an evil face. Lina turns to him and saw that he is once again covered by a dark aura and holding Kain sword. "This is your first and last mistake! FIREBALL!"
The fireball was going directly at Lina, but she slapped the Fire ball, making it disappear.
Booth Kain and Gourry were shocked with amazement.
Gourry took one step back, this is the first time that Lina was fighting back at him. And the look in her eyes…… Anger. Gourry never saw that look in Lina's eyes before.
"Who are you?" asked Lina with a dangerous voice and pointing her finger at Gourry.
"You don't know who I am?" replied Gourry very coldly and putting Kain sword in his pocket "Well, let me remind you. I am the second in Command of the mighty Horde! I am Gourry Gabri……."
"NO YOUR NOT!" Shouted Lina so loud, almost making Gourry fall down.
"Huh?"
"I don't know who you are, but you are not Gourry Gabrieve! The Gourry I know would never do the things you do. You are just a dirt bag using Gourrys image. The jig is up pal! Tell me who you are!"
Kain looked at Lina strangely. What is she talking about? Has she gone mad?
Gourry just looked at Lina with an evil smirk. "You took a long time to find out Lina. I was hoping on sending you to hell, thinking that you have been killed by the man you love. But I might as well confess."
Dark smoke started to come out of Gourry's body, making him land on his knees again, and breathing heavily and with much difficulty. Lina was about to Gourry when she notice that the smoke was taking a form, some part of that smoke is still connected to Gourry's body. Finally the smoke took the form of the one person that not Lina or Kain expected to see.
"Bastion?" said Lina.
"Yes, Lina Inverse. It is I. The emperor of the Horde!" Said Bastion looking at his enemies.
"You dirty bastard! All this time it was you, it was you not Gourry! All this time you have been inside of Gourry body, passing out has him!"
"No it can't be!" said Kain, shaking his fist. "Gabrieve was always present when ever Bastion appeared on the screens or on the monitors!"
"It is amazing what a person can do with Holograms!" replied Bastion.
"Holograms? So that is why I never saw you in real life!"
"But how did you survived, Bastion?" asked Lina "I'm sure that you were dead, the last time we met!"
"True, the ones that have defeated me the first time could not destroy me, not even with that sword that had weakened me. So they have imprisoned me in that crystal ball that would drain my power, and eventually kill me. Lucky for me when the explorers came to the temple they accidentally sent me free, but my body was weak that is when I realised that I needed another body to survive."
"I see." Said Lina "So that is why you have been kidnapping the people of Vedras! Not only you needed an army, but you also needed a body to habitat in."
"You are nothing but a parasite, Bastion!" insulted Kain. "To think that all this time, I've hated to wrong guy!"
"When Lina destroy the crystal ball I was in, I had no choice but to pick up a new body, but this fool released them all" Bastion pointed at the exhausted Gourry. "I hade no choice but to take over his body. The process was almost impossible because this man was caring the same sword that has defeated me."
"Weaken you?" asked Lina confused, and then it hit her that probably it must have been one of Gourry's ancestors that have help defeat Bastion the first time.
"So the first thing I managed to do was to make him throw away his sword, then I completed the process of controlling his body. I was amazed at first, I've gain a incredible power just by controlling Gourry's body, don't ask me how I did it, I personally don't know, still it is a incredible power that helped destroy Shabrimingodo in a blink of a eye. Then I made a research on Gourry's memories trying to find out if there could be anyone that could represent a menace to me. That is how I found out about your friends Lina, and to be in on the safe side I decided to kill them all."
"Gourry's memories?"
"Yes Lina Inverse, don't be surprised about Gourry having memories, because he has, that is how I managed to learn about the Ratil and the Dragon Slave. As well as I managed to learn about the hidden pain in his heart, witch is about you people never respecting him!"
"What?" does that mean that what Gour…..Bastion said was not a lie? it was all the deep sadness inside Gourry's feelings. Lina shocked her head, she must talk to Gourry later after she defeat Bastion.
Kain looked at the expression on Lina's face, she is finally determent to kill him.
"Bastion…….." said Lina in a challenging but furious tone. "Today is the day you are going DOWN!"
"Really?" mocked Bastion as he entered Gourry's body again. "So how do you expect to do what others have tried to do in so many moons and so many suns?"
"Bastion……I have faced so many bandits, so many Mazokus and dark lords in the past, but you, you are the Worst of all! You killed all my friends, you kill so many innocents, and you destroy the honour of a great swordsman by making people believe that he became a heartless killer. And worst of all, you make me pass a living hell by believing in it! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE BASTION!"
"Spare me of you menaces Lina Inverse!" said Bastion-Gourry as he charged at Lina, punching her hard in the head.
"Damn it!" murmured Kain. "Not only is he powerful, but he is also fast. he is invincible...wait a minute here. Lina got hit by the punch but she didn't even move."
Lina looked back at Bastion-Gourry slowly, still with look of anger in her face.
"You want some more Lina? Then take thiPUFFFF!" Bastion-Gourry was interrupted when Lina punched him hardly in the stomach making Bastion-Gourry fall on the ground.
Kain is chocked and amazement. He is finally seeing Lina in action.
"Damn youHeARFFFF!" Bastion-Gourry tries to get up again but he landed on one knee, holding his injured stomach, for the first time in his life he's spilling blood out of his mouth. "Impossible, but how? In just one punch she took me down! I DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Bastion –Gourry's body is shaking because of the pain. For the first time Bastion-Gourry feels fear.
"Get up you fitly pig!" demanded Lina "That punch was for Shylphiel! Now I must avenge the others."
Bastion –Gourry could not believe what just happened to him, with just one punch Lina Inverse almost killed him, never in his life had he received a treatment like this. The look on Lina's face is still full of anger, and Bastion hates to admit it but he's afraid. Her power is getting bigger, is it the power that the Mazokus have been afraid for so long? "Ghaaaa!" gasped Bastion-Gourry as Lina walked slowly at his direction.
"Get ready Bastion, your end is near" threatened Lina.
"What? You believe that? You think that you can defeat the powerful Bastion? How dare you speak to me this way! Don't you understand that if I use all my powers you will not escape me?
"SHUT UP!" shouted Lina has she ran to Bastion-Gourry, and she launched a Fireball directly at his face.
"ARGH!" Bastion –Gourry was blinded because of the fire, and Lina took that chance to lance an Elmikia Lance at Bastion-Gourrys body, making him fall violently at the ground.
Kain is so amazed that he could not even move, he has heard about Lina's power but he never imagined that it was this big. "Unbelievable! Bastion is getting the beating of his life, victory is ours Lina can beat Bastion!
"That was for Zel and Amelia!" said Lina walking slowly at Bastion-Gourry again.
Bastion-Gourry's vision was getting better now, being able to look at Lina with so much hate that the veins on his forehead pulsed angrily. "You are still making fun of me? I have a lot of patience with you but you're getting on my nerves!"
Bastion-Gourry's body begins to power up, and he formed with his hands a gigantic dark energy ball, and launched at Lina "What do you say about that?"
"No big deal." Lina slapped at the energy ball, destroying it completely.
Both Bastion-Gourry and Kain gasped in amazement, to destroy such spell this easily.
"YOU ARE GOING TO PAY!" Yelled Bastion –Gourry has he fire millions of red blast at Lina.
"TRAP SHIELD!" and immediately a shield is formed around Lina and all the red blasts got stuck in Lina's shield.
"What the heck is that?" asked Bastion-Gourry, not believing in his eyes.
Lina smirked "Just a spell, I've been studding for quite some time. It makes a shield that catches any spells that is thrown against me, trapping it just like a spider web. And the best thing is that I can throw it back at my opponents with even more intense power.
"NO!" cried Bastion-Gourry, feeling that he made a stupid mistake.
"This is for all the innocents you have killed!" and all the red blast that were trapped in Lina's shield are launched against Bastion-Gourry. Each blast hitting him, injuring his body.
As incredible as it sounds Bastion-Gourry didn't die, his clouts are almost shredded, with injuries in every part of his body. "Curses! I'm an invincible creature, insensitive to pain, but she is treating me like an amateur, this almost sounds like a punishment! How can she be so powerful? What's her secret?"
"Come on Bastion!" demanded Lina "This isn't over yet!"
"I admit that you are a beast!" snarled Bastion-Gourry.
"And what are you? An Angel?" replied Lina.
Once more, Bastion-Gourry body turns red, with an incredible aura surrounding him.
"Oh no!" gasped Kain. "He is doing a Dragon Slave!"
"Let's see witch Dragon Slave is more powerful" challenged Bastion-Gourry. "My perfected Dragon Slave, our yours Lina Inverse!"
Lina didn't say anything, she just walked at Bastion-Gourry with red aura surrounding her as well.
"DRAGON SLAVE!" shouted Bastion-Gourry, and his Dragon Slave marched directly at Lina.
Lina just lifted one hand and Bastion –Gourry's Dragon Slave stopped right in front of Lina.
"WHAT?" Bastion-Gourry could not believe on what he is seeing, Lina just swinged her hand and made his powerful Dragon Slave stop right near her "This can not be! Nobody can do a thing like this! I must be having a nightmare!"
"It is very simple, Bastion" said Lina "My mother taught me well. I worked hard on this spell for years, I worked so hard that I have become a master of it, I also learn how to use other peoples Dragon Slave, using them against themselves. And that is exactly what I'm going to do to you!"
"NO!" never in his life has Bastion-Gourry felt fear, but now that Lina is about to destroy him he fells sorry for ever messing with her.
"Dragon Slave!"
"No stop!" cried Bastion Gourry in despair. "Stop, don't you see that you will kill Gourry if you keep on like this!"
But Lina launched the Dragon Slave at Bastion-Gourry, Bastion-Gourry felt the end coming near, but he was more surprised when the Dragon Slave just passes right near him.
BOOM
The explosion practically almost destroyed part of the room.
Bastion-Gourry laughed like a maniac. "You just can not do it right? You know if you keep this up you might end up killing you precious Gourry!"
Lina grinned "True, I was hoping to force you to leave Gourry's body, but I can see that that is useless. I have no choice but to use my last trick."
Bastion-Gourry didn't like this reply "What do you mean?"
"I know the spell that you are using so that you can be in Gourry's body. There exists a special connection for such spell to work, and that connection is powered in another dimension, all I have to do is to destroy that connection and Gourry will be free of you"
"Really? FOOL! You really think that you can destroy such connection? Do you really believe that you can find such dimension and break the connection?"
But Lina didn't pay attention to him because she was preparing a spell, darkness surrounded her hand. Bastion-Gourry didn't like this at all.
"RAGNA BLADE!" and the enormous sword of darkness appeared.
Bastion-Gourry looked terrified to see such power, a power that he never dreams on seeing it. "The Ragna Blade? The power of the Goddess of eternal Nightmare. How come I never knew of this? Could have been that that moron Gourry kepted some of his memories away from me?"
"You sound to know a lot about the Ragna blade, Bastion." Taunted Lina "I'll let you know that I have destroyed a lot of Mazokus that try to escape me by switching dimensions"
"Bravo Lina, bravo." cheered Kain, he have waited for this day for years, finally the curse that it is the Horde will soon end.
But Bastion-Gourry didn't sound worry, in fact he was laughing again.
Lina did not like this one bit "What so funny, Bastion?"
"Simple, you will not use the Ragna Blade against me."
"And why is that?"
"Don't forget that is thanks to me that Gourry has remained Immortal all this time, if you destroy the connection his body will get old, very old until he dies in old age."
"What?" Lina gasped, can it be true? Will she kill Gourry if she breaks the connection?
"But if you want to kill this worthless swordsman, then go ahead, kill us!" challenged Bastion-Gourry with a grin in his face.
Lina is once again facing another dilemma, in one hand she can end this nightmare once and for all, in the other hand she will end up losing the man she loves.
What will she do?
To be continued………………….
Ramon: What will Lina decide? Will she break the connection or not?
Alandra: Place your vote's people.
Sunny: The Goddess of eternal Nightmare, that is how the Lord of Nightmares is known here in Portugal.