Disclaimer: I don't own 'The Legacy of Kain' series. And I still don't have enough money to own Slayers. ( I'm saving to buy Ameria atleast u)
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Chapter II: First encounter
After the group made their mind, they all went to pack. Ameria and Zelgadiss managed to talk Phil into letting them go as a 'diplomatical mission'. Lina and Gourry closed the shop and Silphiel did the same to hers. In the same afternoon they were all ready and standing infront of the palace gates. All except Ken.
"Where is he!" screeched Lina with glowing red eyes "We've been waiting for half an hour now!"
"Maybe he forgot where we said to meet." said Gourry while TRYING to seem like he was thinking.
"Amnesia doesn't work like that Gourry-san." said Silphiel with an index finger raised.
"Hey guys! Missed me?" huffed Ken while dashing in. Just when he arrived Lina hit him in the head with a slipper.
"Aowie" Ken exclaimed while rubbing his head "Why did I get that for?"
"Being late." said Lina with a pokerface.
"Anyways, I'm ready so let's go!" he shouted while pointing high up with an index finger and with his cape flapping in the wind. A few seconds passed and none of them moved.
"So... where DO we go?" asked Ameria while poking Ken.
"I have absolutely no idea." -everyone facefaulted.
After they all got up Ken seemed to have an idea. "The green guy from the amulett said, that I can sense the crystals and the enemy."
"And do you sense anything?" asked Zel while dusting Ameria off.
"Let's try..." he than reached back under his cape and pulled out the Reaver. He held it with both hands and closed his eyes. The air was filled with pulsating energy and than he opened his eyes, wich were lighting, though only for a second. When it all died down, he put the sword away while all of the gang watched with wide eyes.
Ken made a grin and pointed at a direction, wich was direct west.
"Well... atleast we know that it works." Lina stated.
"Okay people, the world won't save itself, so let's get moving." said an enthusiastical Ken.
They all broke off direction West, though they hadn't realised they were watched. A dark figure kept his eyes on the performace Ken just gave, and it seemed it was quite amusing to the stranger. He was in a dark alley, but after the team walked off, he just faded away while taking a step backward.
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Lina-tachi crossed the gates of Seiruun and were on the good-old dustpath. After a few minutes of silence Lina noticed that Ken was wearing a large backpack.
"Where'd you get that?" asked Lina directly as always.
"I went shopping. By the way, I was late because of this." explained Ken while holding an index finger infront of him.
"And how far is our goal?" asked Ameria, who had quite enough of silence.
"No idea... I suppose I sense it when we're close."
"So, as much as we know, we can walk like this 'till we hit an ocean. Is that what you're saying?" said Lina with an undertone wich could kill someone.
"Well... if you put it that way... yes."
He again got slippered by Lina.
"Aowie. Why did I get THAT for?"
With a pokerface again "Being stupid."
Silphiel just sighed and walked on. She WAS used to such company, but that was a long time ago. They were walking in silence for a few minutes, but than Zelgadiss seemed to notice something.
"Is it just me, or is everything too quiet here?" asked the ex-chimaera while he had an arm around Ameria, who after his comment, started to look around.
"You're right. There's no bird chirping or whatsoever." confirmed the princess while she had a bit concerned expression.
After that Ken stopped in his tracks, making the whole group run into him and the one's before them.
"What is it now?" asked Lina with annoyance in her voice.
"Remeber, that the green guy said I can feel the presence of the crystals and the servant of the deamon." Ken tried to give them a hint of what happened.
"Yeah, you said that before." said Gourry with absolutely no idea of what he wanted to tell them.
"It's here."
As he finished his sentence a ball of energy hurled towards them. Silphiel was first to cast a windy shield than everyone, except Gourry, joined in. The energy burst bounced off their combined shield as a gumi-ball off a wall would, sending an area of trees on fire on their left.
"Who did that!" shouted a now really angry Lina with a fireball already in hand.
On the hill before them, a dark figure walked out from technically out of nowhere and turned from translucent to solid. He then pulled off his hood and showed his face, wich was a bit more frightening than what Lina-tachi expected.
He had short black hair and a normal built, but his eyes were totally grey. He didn't had any pupils. On his forehead, he had the sign of the etherial realm, like Moebius had the sign of eternity. He carried a staff almost like Moebius'. It was two metre long with an orb on the end, and a snake biting the orb and spiraling down till the midle of it. The only distinction was, that the orb was golden.
"You!" the guy said with a voice that startled the whole gang, "Pull out your weapon!" shouted the guy while pointing his staff at Ken.
"The servant of god I presume." Ken said with a sarcastic undertone.
"You" the guy stepped closer "shall" he threw his cloak on the ground "show" the orb of the staff started glowing "your weapon."
"If you want your butt kicked so badly, then you can have it." And with that he pulled the blade out from under his cape. As soon as he did, the reaver started to glow with blue energy. He held the sword with both hands and pointed the sword at the man.
"Wow, you are good with that sword." said Gourry with sparkling eyes.
Ken sweatdropped -"I think it's more the other way around."
"What'?" said Lina while she tilted her head to the side.
"I said-" and he was cut off by his own sword wich thought that it would be better to attack the stranger. Ken started to struggle with the blade and it seemed, that the sword was winning.
"Kain may have given you a weapon capable of destroying us, but he surely made a great error." said the stranger with a laugh on the end. Than in a second, his expression changed and he attacked the group.
Gourry was first to counter-attack. He quickly pulled out his sword and tried to strike the man from the right, but he was unhumanly quick and strong. He blocked his sword with his staff than quickly turned 360 degrees and hit Gourry in the back with the orb of the staff making a small flash escape it. He than fell to the ground and his sword slided a metre away from him.
"GOURRY!" Lina exclaimed with concern and rage in her voice. She enhanced the fireball spell to a maximum level and threw it at the intruder, who was by now almost beside them. The group was in a new formation and tried to make a half circle around the attacker. The fireball spell was blocked by the orbed staff and catapulted way off.
By now Zel and Ameria both finished their chant. They instantaniusly shouted Elmekia Lance and tried to hit the attacker, who was a bit surprised. He turned aside and could get out of the way of the first spell, wich shot by an inch away from his face, but the second hit him. It wasn't a direct hit, but it did some damage to his left arm.
You could tell that he got angry from the sound of his teeth screaching. He strenghtened his grip on his staff and pointed it at the pair. In the same instant a golden ball of energy shot with supersonic speed and hit the ground under them, sending the two flying with an explosion.
Lina ran to see if they're alright and tried to keep one eye on the attacker. By now Ken got some practise with his sword and tried to strike the guy with a slash from above. The man was surprised, but still, he could block the attack by placing his staff above him and holding it with both hands.
As the two weapons collided a huge shockwave flew from the collision point making the dust under them flying out in waves. They both were than tossed back by an unseen force. After a second they were on feet again and ready to strike.
As the battle continued Silphiel got an idea. She didn't knew any, now helpful, battle spells, but she remembered a spell she used as a healer wich could help. She pointed her hand at the staffed warrior and started a chant.
"...Ray freeze!" the shout of her startled both of the fighters, but it was the attacker, who got the surprise part of it. Her spell hit him in his right upper chest and lamed his right arm. He than took a glance at his left arm, wich was still damaged on the astral plane "Damn, I can't win with only one injured arm." He than started to roar and whammed his staff in the ground with as much power as he could, making the whole landscape shake and making everyone on foot fall to the ground.
He bowed slightly and started grinning "We shall, meet again." and while he said that he faded away.
A few seconds passed and nothing happened. It was then, when they realised he was really gone.
Everyone, except Gourry who was unconscious, sighed and let their muscles rest. They still layed on the ground where they fell.
"Good thinking, and thank you. I don't know if I could defeat him with this sword running amok." said Ken while turning a bit to Silphiel.
"Don't mention it. Are you injured?"
"No, but I think you should see the others." said Ken while standing up.
They noticed that Zel already started healing Ameria's slight injuries while he gave the "it's only a scratch" number to her. The one that seemed to need help was Gourry. He was still lieing on the ground with an unusually concerned Lina kneeling beside him. Silphiel walked to them and took a look at Gourry, than turned to Lina.
"Don't worry, it seems to be a normal sleeping spell." explained Sil while starting to ready a counter-sleeping spell. When she finished it Gourry opened his eyes slowly.
"What happened? Why am I on the ground? ...Did we win?" Gourry started to ask.
Lina's expression turned to a shy smile "We've won. Next time... try to stay awake." said Lina with an uncharacteristically soft voice.
"No we haven't. We were only lucky, and that's... not good." said Ken with a serius expression and while putting his sword away.
"Some day... we got beaten up by one man." added Zelgadiss to the conversation.
"I don't think he was human... atleast not completely." Ameria joined in.
"Whatever he was, he'll be back and we have to get ready." Ken finished.
They all got up slowly and resumed their journey.
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After an hour of travel they reached a town, and because it started to get dark they wanted to spend the night there.
"Stop being so slow people! The guy said the inn's this way." Lina tried to keep the spirit up, not to mention get to food.
After they turned into a new street they froze in their tracks. The inn was there, but the roof was technically shot down.
Zelgadiss gave a nasty look at Lina.
"Don't look at me like that! It wasn't me... this time."
Ken raised an eyebrow at that comment.
Lina took a look around and grabbed someone who was walking past them.
"What happened here?"
"A fireball hit the inn from the east. We still don't know who did it... would you let me go, I have to go?" the young man struggled, than Lina let him fall and go. She was frozen again.
"You were saying..." Said Zel with his voice reeking with sarcasm.
"Can it. Let's find another one."
Ameria sighed and they all turned to find a stay for the night. After a half an hour search they actually did it. They found another inn, a smaller one, but it was enough. As they went in Lina's first action was to run for the desk and get rooms, not to mention asking where's the dining room.
"Oooookay, guys we have a problem." Lina turned to the group.
"What? It can't be worse than getting trashed." said Zel with his usual sarcastic undertone.
"Because ...er... someone... had blown up the other inn, they're quite full. But I managed to get three rooms. I'll sleep with Gourry, and I'm sure you two" said Lina while pointing at Zel&Ame "want some time for yourselfs too, and that leaves you two." and she glanced at Ken and Sil.
Ken glanced at Silphiel and tried to hide his blush, than he used his most irrelevant voice he could make "I don't mind... that is, if you don't either."
She walked to Lina and took the key from her "It will be fine."
Zel did the same, and when he did, they could only see a flash as Lina and Gourry made their way to the dining room.
"What was THAT!" exclaimed Ken.
"A hungry Lina." explained Zel.
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Everyone was hungry after the fight and the travel, so they decided to give Lina and Gourry some company. As they walked into the room, they instantly found the two, already trying to tell the waitress that they want triple portion of everything plus one.
Lina and Gourry sat at one end of the table, and Ken decided to sit next to them, than came Ame&Zel and last, but not least Silphiel. Ken was quite surprised, when the waitress showed up with all that food.
"I don't think we can eat that much, Lina." said a sweatdropping Ken.
"WE?... This is just MINE." she explained, while stuffing her face.
He couldn't believe his eyes. The food was disappearing faster than phisically possible. And that wasn't everything, just then, Gourry got his food and joined Lina in quick-eating.
Ken couldn't do anything for a minute, but try not to forget his hand on the table so that they can't eat that too.
"Aaaaaaaalright. Do like it's normal." said Ken below his voice, so that no one could hear it.
He than stopped the waitress.
"Excuse me, can I have a roast chicken?" asked Ken with his most polite voice.
"I'm sorry, but your friends ate that already." answered the waitress.
"Than... fish?" Ken tried, but only got a shaking head as an answer. They both sweatdropped.
"Than something that they haven't eaten... yet."
"For us too." added Zel, while pointing at himself and the girls.
"And tea, please." added Silphiel.
After a minute or so, the waitress came back with some soup and put it before Ken and gave Ameria some salad, than explained that that was everything they had.
"Oh, and your tea will be ready in a few minutes." said the waitress before going to the kitchen.
"What happened to the law of material remain?" thought Ken while trying to figure out where all that food went. He than sighed and tried to eat from his soup, but than stopped when he saw that Lina's trying to eat that too.
"HEY!" exclaimed Ken, than he raised his hand above the plate and made a magical shield around it "You already eaten everything here, besides this is MINE."
She hadn't looked like she heard that and still ate like there's no tomorrow.
Ken than raised his plate, grabbed his chair and walked to the other end of the table and squeezed in between Silphiel and Zelgadiss at a corner.
"'You sure they're human?" he aked from Sil. She only giggled at that "They've been like this since I know them."
He sighed again and tried to behave normal. Just than Zel's stomach started growling. "You're not a chimaera anymore, you need to eat something." and with that Ameria tried to feed Zel with her salad, but Zel stopped her, half beacause it was a bit ambarresing and he didn't like salad anyway.
"You can have this" with that Ken gave Zel his soup "I'm not hungry, besides who can eat with them around..." his voice trailed off "Hey, did you just say he was a chimaera?"
Even Lina and Gourry stopped eating for a second to sweatdrop and look at him.
"Yes I was cursed, but it was broken about a month ago." Zel explained while making invisible circles in the air with his index finger.
"That's interesting. How did you break it?"
"It wasn't me, but that's a long story. Maybe later I'll tell you, but for now..." his voice trailed off when the waitress came with their tea.
"Now this is something I could die for." explained Ken while filling his mug.
"Watch out, wishes can be tricky." Said Zel before tasting his soup.
Lina stopped eating for a second "What's with you? You haven't eaten since we met."
"I don't know, I'm just not hungry." he than took a sip from his tea and Lina resumed eating.
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After they consumed everything eatable or not, they all went to their rooms one after another. The rooms were next to eachother and Ken and Silphiel took the one in between. As they walked in, they realised there's only one bed.
They stood there looking at the bed for a few minutes, than they looked at eachother.
Ken than crossed his arms "Hmmm." He walked to the closet and after looking trough found a pluss sheet and a pillow. "You can take the bed, I'll sleep on the ground."
Silphiel blushed a bit "You needen't... I mean we could share the bed."
"It's alright, I like to sleep under the stars." and he directed his gaze out the large window, into the starry night.
They both turned their backs at the other and changed into their pyjamas. After Sil blew the candle out, only the weak moonlight lit the room.
Ken made a smile, wich Silphiel could see because of the moonlight "Good night."
"Nighty night." Sil did the same and they both layed back.
A few minutes passed and Ken couldn't even keep his eyes shut. His brain was working overtime "I need to get control over that sword. We almost didn't make it." That wasn't the only thing that kept him awake "If it wasn't for her..." he blushed at his own comment.
"How could someone sleep with a girl like her in the same room... though I have to." with that he turned to his side with his back at Sil. It was than, when he noticed something. He could hear the wind slowly waving around the houses and trees. He could smell the food from the ground floor, and the smell of the candle wich was out for almost ten minutes.
"Since when is my hearing so good..." he tried not to think and resumed relaxing, but was interrupted once again. He didn't only hear the sounds from out of the room, but from the rooms next to them. The slow squeaking of the bed and some explicit sounds. He knew it was Ameria's and Zelgadiss' room, and after he got REALLY red he turned around and tried to cover his ears, but on the other side in the other room, where Lina and Gourry were, the same sounds came, only a bit faster.
"ARRRRGH" he jerked into a sitting position. Not wanting to wake Silphiel, he slowly got to the door and went downstairs.
"What's with me... How can someone sleep with all that..." he shook his head and went into the kitchen. No one was awake so he tried to fix himself some tea.
He sat alone in the dinig room with a candle and a mug of tea. After taking a sip, the sound of squeaking stairs got his attention. Silphiel wasn't asleep either. She joined him with her usual shy smile. They sat in silence for a few minutes, than Ken broke the silence "I still don't know exactly why you came with us. I know that Lina want's to blow something up and Gourry's following her, and Ameria said something about justice, though I didn't really understood, and Zel's guarding her like his own life..." his voice trailed off and his gaze stopped at her eyes.
"But you seem to be... motivated by something very different." he tried to redirect his eyes, but couldn't. Everyone could of seen that her eyes were than filled with sorrow.
"My father... was killed by someone, who wanted to destroy everything. If I can stop that from happening to someone else, than it's worth it."
"I see..."
Again silence overtook the whole room. After a few minutes Ken put down his mug with a bit louder sound as normal and stood up.
"I have an Idea. Stay here, I'll be right back." with that he ran upstairs and after some waiting, came back with his backpack.
"I told you I went shopping." and pulled out a map from his bag and put it on a table. He sit down on a bench and pulled the amulett from his bag too.
"What are you trying to do?" asked a curious Sil, and sit next to him.
"I want to pinpoint the crystals." and he held the amulett above the map and tried to concentrate. After a minute, nothing happened and he opened his eyes. Silphiel put her hand on his shoulder "Don't worry, we'll find them." at that Ken went red again and the amulett in his hand released a flash and five beams wich burned small black spots into the map.
They both closed thier eyes at the flash and jerked a bit backward. When they slowly opened their eyes, they got a nice surprise.
"Wow. I think that's it! We have the crytal's positions!" Ken stated with a large smile.
They both leaned closer to the map and examined the marks. "This is Seiruun city, where we started... and here's the crystal to the west." Ken explained.
"If these ARE the crystals, than we'll be at the first one tomorrow."
"Thank you." Ken said with a smile in the end, wich got Sil off-guard.
"For what?"
"Just so..."
They both made themselfs comfortable and started a chat wich streached into the night, until they both drifted to dreamland.
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Morning came slowly to the small inn, where Lina-tachi was sleeping, and doing censored things.
The first beams of the sun showered trough all windows and gaps and there was no escape. Gourry was first to react and rolled over, but went out of bed and hit the floor.
"AUU-" his shout was stopped by his own hand, because he saw Lina while still sleeping and he surely didn't wanted to wake her.
He walked to the closet while rubbing his head, where he hit the floor. He got his pants on and reached for his shirt, when he heard a distinctable yawn. He turned around to see Lina awakened by the sunlight.
"Good morning sunshine." he greeted than gave a large smile to her.
She grinned at the sight "To you too."
She went into a sitting position making the blanket fell off her chest, revealing that she had no upper clothing on.
Just than something really unplanned, not to mention unwanted, happened. Xellos materialised before the door in the room of Lina&Gourry. His usually closed eyes were larger than saucers.
"X-XELLOS!" Gourry exclaimed.
After that a high pitched and powerful scream ran through the building along with the sound of an explosion and shaking walls. Almost everyone awakened at that and a few of them opened their doors to see what's going on. Ameria and Zelgadiss did the same, after quicly putting on some clothes, but it seemed it was a bit too quick.
Zelgadiss was wearing a pink pyjama with JUSTICE written on the breast and it seemed to be a bit small. Ameria on the other hand only wore a blue shirt wich was obviusly too big for her, but none of them realised they mixed up.
Zel quickly ran to the source of the smoke and found Lina's door blown off. On the other side of the corridor in the place of the door layed a big hole with still burning spots. Zel poke his head into the room and saw a man shaped black figure half-way integrated into the brick wall, while Ameria looked in the room of Lina&Gourry and saw a Lina red with rage and no clothes.
Zel tried to turn around, but Ame quickly put both of her hands over his eyes. She surely didn't wanted to get his husband incinerated. Zelgadiss pointed in the room "I don't know who that was, but it's still moving."
He couldn't see anything, but he surely remembered that sound. It was a fireball spell with maximum energy. He hasitantly grabbed Ameria and ran a few paces before the flaming ball flew from one room to the other. Zel put Ame down and tried to cover her with his body from the flaming pieces of wood and brick shards.
The explosion thore a hole in the wall and Xellos, along with half of the inn, fell to the street.
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In the ground floor Silphiel was awakened too. She took a look around and realised she was sleeping on a table... with Ken next to him. She discerned, that her left hand was laying in something wet. She looked at Ken and saw, that it was drool.
She brushed it into her pyjama and shook Ken. He didn't even budged. After Sil shook him twice, she managed to get him awake.
"Aowie... my neck's killing me!" he got up and realised he was drooling.
"Sorry."
"Didn't you hear the explosion?"
"What explosion?"
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On the street, in the middle of a pile of ruins, Xellos was regenerating. After a while he raised his hand to his face and rolled it into a fist. It made the ash fall down form his gloves. Than large grin crept over his face "It was worth it."
He slowly got up, than snapped with his fingers. In the same second strong wind blew from under him and blew the ash off of him.
He started to near the inn, wich was overfilled with Lina's rage and anger. In his eyes, it was a large table full of goods. "I think I'll take the door this time."
He turned the doorknob and slowly walked inside. A few people were watching him from the street. People don't fly trough walls than walk back inside everyday, you know. A few seconds pass and you could hear Xellos' voice from the street. "A dowmo, Lina-cha-" again a large explosion. The windows flew out and smoke came from the holes where they were.
"Girl problems..." a guy said from the street who saw the whole thing.
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Inside the inn Xellos, again, was laying on the ground half-way incinerated. Only the combined power of Zelgadiss and Gourry kept Lina, who was dressed this time, from destroying the landscape and of course Xellos.
"Lina... I think he got your point." said Zel with such a sarcastic voice that it hurt.
"Arghhh... A-alright." Lina finally gave up, and quited down. They than let her go, but She instantly hit Xel with one last Digu Volt spell, making a nice firework.
"You had to do it." Gourry was by now fed up with it.
"Is that..." Ken's voice trailed off while he looked at Silphiel.
"That's normal." answered Sil "He's Xellos, the general priest of Jyuu-ou Zellas."
"WHAAAAAAT!" his expression was so frightened, that it fell from his face.
"Don't worry, Lina usually handles him easily." stated Gourry.
"Okay, I officially want to go home now." said Ken while almost crying.
Xellos got up again and examined the area. Lina's anger was almost more than what he could handle so his usual smiling expression was a bit disrupted. He than looked at Ameria and Zelgadiss and almost started laughing.
"Oh my. You really changed more than I thought when the curse was broken, Zelgadiss-chan." said Xellos with sarcasm and something unreadable in his voice. You could of seen that he olmost couldn't hold back the laugh.
Zelgadiss stood there a bit confused, but than he caught up. He took a better look at Ameria, than at himself and went really red. He grabbed Ame's hand "We need to change." and led her up the stairs.
"It wasn't very polite of you to drop in like that." Gourry stated.
"Next time I'll knock."
He than directed his sight to the last pair. What he found made him open one eye. It startled Ken more than The servant of the deamon did.
"My my, Lina-chan. I Didn't knew you had another dragon travelling companion."
Everyone there exclaimed in union "W H A T ?"
They all directed their eyes at Ken, who just sat there with big eyes and with his head tilted to the side.
"Me?" he said while pointing at himself.
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A bit of property damage always makes me happier. Anyways, if I spelled the japanese name of Zellas wrong than tell me. I hope you all liked it. I have more than too much jokes and a plotline wich is almost as hard to follow as the Soul Reaver story, so this fic will go on for atleast tweolve more chapters. I'll put in a bit of romance, a bit of angst, not to mention the situation-comedy's I thought up, pluss a bit of pre-destination and paraphisics. Oh, and I have a dozen of jokes from Steven Wright, Groucho Marx and Dave Barry etc,etc...