Steve Martin once said "Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke." I'm trying to do that, and if I'm on the wrong way than tell me. I NEED reviews! And if you don't like them, than mail me, or try pigeon mail, or shout as loud as you can, just tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'The Legacy of Kain' series, and because I went shopping in the electro-tech shop, I still don't own Slayers. (but now I own a multi-meter)
This chapter is dedicated to A/Z fluff, just because they are my fav couple.
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Chapter III: The crystal of beginning
Everyone's eyes were pointing at a very disrupted Ken, who only sat there in a state of shock. But than he pulled himself together and broke the silence.
"You must be wrong. I don't remember much, but I know I'm not a dragon. I mean, do I look like one?"
After that Silphiel leaned really close to him so, that their noses almost touched, and started to survail his unique features. His white hair and eyes were more than strange, and at a closer distance, his nails looked more like claws.
At that Ken blushed like hell and turned to the other side, but stopped when he saw Gourry doing the same, so he just sat still and tried not to move.
"You're right!" exclaimed Gourry to Xel, than turned to Ken "You're just like Firia!"
Ken sweatdropped at that "Excuse me! Do I look like a girl to you?"
"You have to know, Firia is a golden dragon whom we were travelling with for a while." explained Lina.
"Oh... Still, I am no dragon." and with that he stood up and tried to look confident.
"I'll go and get dressed." and he walked upstairs.
Lina got near Sil and a mischievfull smile crept over her face "And what were you two doing here alone and in pyjamas?" she asked with a matching voice.
She blushed a bit, closed her eyes and tried to act natural "We were talking." than she opened her esyes "By the way, we found out where the crystals are." she stated trying to get the conversation under a rug.
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After a few minutes Ken returned with Zelgadiss and Ameria, with normal clothes on this time, and joined the others. They than told them the news.
Ken again sat down at a table and everyone else ran a bit further, formed a circle and started a chat. The private conversation made Ken sweatdrop again.
"Hey! It's not polite to talk about someone like that!" he shouted with a wein popping out on his head
They all broke up the talking and turned to look at Ken, but than resumed like nothing happened.
Ken sighed and tried to behave normally. He folded his arms and started to think trough everything that happened to him lately. Mostly because that was all he could remember.
"An apocalypse, a deamon, a servant, five crystals, a mazoku, golden dragons, a prince and a princess, and now this... What have I gotten myself into this time."
"Okay, we'll do it." Lina's voice snapped Ken out of his trance.
"I still don't get it." said Xellos while scratching the side of his face.
Than evryone started to push Xel to the table where Ken was sitting and Lina made Xellos sit down next to Ken.
"You two stay here." and with that Lina dragged everyone else to the other side of the dining room.
"What was that all about?" asked Ken, while sweatdropping, from no one in particular.
"Sore wa himitsu desu." Xellos' voice chimed.
"Secret? ...Ah well."
They sat there for a few seconds.
Ken's thoughts were a bit confused and it all sat on his face "What are they trying to pull..." he thought to himself.
He than took a look at Xel and something unexplainable hit him. It was like something told him to hit him and go far away. He shook his head and tried to stay put, but couldn't loose the feeling and after a minute, stood up.
"Excuse me." and he walked to another table, but than...
"AHA! I KNEW IT!" Lina's voice startled everyone in the room. "No dragon can stay near Xellos for too long!" she shouted while pointing at Ken.
"Now that was tricky, and not too polite... I like it!" stated Xel with a grin.
Ken folded his arms and tried to look confident "Think what you may, I am sure I'm not a ryuzoku."
"Let's leave the topic. If we want to get to the crystal before that... thing does, than we have to go." Zel dragged everyone back to the problem at hand.
"But before..." Lina's voice trailed off, than She rolled her hand into a fist.
" B R E A K F A S T ! " Gourry and Lina cried in union.
After that the sound of breaking dishes and someone dashing trough a closed door could be heard. Lina and Gourry didn't even noticed it.
Lina ran to sit at a table and shouted for the waitress, but no one came. Gourry joined in, but still nothing happened. After a minute or so, the chéf came to their table.
"Sorry for the delay, but our waitress ran away, don't know why, and we sent someone for the other waitress, who's at home right now." axplained the cook.
"No food?" asked Lina with big teary eyes.
He sweatdropped at that.
"You just have to wait." answered the chéf. With that he left them. Lina tried to pull herself together and started a conversation to bind her time.
"So... Xellos, why are you here in the first place?" she asked while she underpinned her head with her hand and pointed an eye on him.
He walked next to the table, a grin crept over his face and he started his trademark line.
"Sore wa hi-" but he was cut short, because Lina's fist was technically IN his face.
"Finish that and you won't say anything for atleast a century." Lina's eyes were killers enough, not to mention her fist.
"I'm not in the mood, so spit it out!"
"Well..." his voice trailed off "I suppose I could give you a small hint." His usual smile grew to a grin. "Let's play with them a bit" he thought to himself.
"It's about crystals." he said with an index finger raised.
"You mean" Ken's voice trailed off, than he took a deep breath "Thosefivecrystalsscatteredwichadeamonusestoopenaportaltroughdimensionstodestroytheworld." and inhaled, because he said that with one breath.
Again, Xellos' usually closed eyes were open and as big as saucers.
He tilted his head to the side "Am I so old? So easy to see trough?"
"Hey! That's funny." exclaimed Gourry startleing the whole group.
"What?" a curious Lina asked.
"Xellos is as old as Ken is!"
"Except for the fact that I spent the last thousand years in an amulett."
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Meanwhile in a large, dark, underground room the deamon's servant was regenerating after the battle. The room had the same magic circle the deamon's lair had, but this one had five, one metre long, altar's in equal distances around the circle. On one of it, layed a red crystal wich released a weak glow.
"This world is... unlike ours, master." the voice of the servant echoed trough the room.
"In this world, the etherial realm is too close to the material. I can't travel too far or too long, and the people here... Even the humans are a great threat."
Again, an eye appeared, but this time it was translucent. The voice of the ancient daemon rumbled the room "The stronger the people, the stronger their souls."
"There is one more problem... Kain has found a way to send the reaver here. Someone already found out what we want and gathered a group of mages to stop us."
"Mortals can't stop me."
"Yes, of course... but... there are other beings, like the Hylden here. They call themselves Mazoku and are strong."
A bit of silence came, wich was followed by more silence.
"Than it is time to let this world feel the deamons wraith."
"Yes, my master." With that the servant walked to the crystal and raised his hand above it. He chanted something and it lit up.
"The portal's open. It has begun... Eirus, make sure you get the next crystal." with that the eye faded away.
Eirus than took a step away from the altar, and his staff materialised in his right hand. "I'll make sure, master." and he faded away too.
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After Lina got a piece of the inn-keeper's mind, and she got Ameria to paying for the damage, they broke off direction west again. An eventless afternoon passed, than they finally saw something, resembling a pile of stones. Wich was probably what it was, something resembling a pile of stones.
"Is that where the crystal supposed to be?" asked Lina from a deeply concentrating Ken, while walking.
"It really looks like it."
They all dashed there. It was in a large circle formation, and there was a small circle in the middle with a larger one in the outer part. On the four sides it had four large pylons and in the middle, an altar. Ken slowly walked to the altar and his eyes went large.
"Hey guys!" he exclaimed and the others dashed next to him.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but a crystal is a glass like coloured piece of rock right?"
Gourry looked like he was in deep thinking "Yes... I think so."
Ken raised an eyebrow while Lina rolled her eyes "Whatever. Do you see anything like that here?" he asked.
They all took a look around and than everyone shook their heads.
"Maybe we're in the wrong place" Ameria tried.
"Definetely not. Maybe... we're too late."
As he said that the four pylons started to glow red, and than they broken into pieces. It startled the gang, but not as much as, when the pieces transformed into four golems.
"Hmmm... Something tells me, they're not the friendly type piece of moving stones." stated Ken.
Gourry charged one of them and chopped it down with his sword.
Lina was a bit stressed by the travel-for-nothing, so she just blasted one with a fireball, not even bothering to be afraid or anything.
Ameria shot one back with a Bomb di Wind, and Zel finished it off with a Ra Tilt.
The last one was a bit more of a trouble for Ken, who tried to get his sword under controll. After a bit of practise, he managed to take his agressor down. Xellos was watching it from the distance.
"Now that wasn't so bad. I expected more from a world conquering deamon." said Zel in his usual sarcastic tone.
After they relaxed a bit, Ken sat down on the ground and went into a deeply thinking position again.
"Hmmm... what to do now." He than took his backpack off and searched for his map. After finding it, he unfolded it and everyone gathered around him.
"There are two crystals at equal distances from here." he explained.
"Really? And what's that?" Gourry pointed with childish curiosity in his voice.
"Seiruun."
"Oh. And that?"
Ken sweatdropped "Drool stain."
"Oh. And this?"
He pulled off the spot Gourry was pointing at and gave him it "A bug."
"Oh. and-" he was cut short by Lina's slipper, who really had enough of it.
Just than Xellos appeared next to them.
"And where have YOU been?" asked Lina with an undertone that could kill.
"I just checked something." answred the startled mazoku.
"It's too late to start going anywhere." sighed Ken.
"There's a city not far from here." stated Ameria.
"Let's find an inn for the night." and with that Lina started to march, but stopped suddenly and turned to the others "In wich direction is the town?"
Everyone facefaulted, and Ameria raised her hand in the air and pointed at a direction while she still had her face on the ground.
They all pulled themselves together and followed her.
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The setting sun's light painted the sky to a crimson ocean. As the wind blew trough the fields the temperture went down making Ameria shiver a bit. Zelgadiss put an arm around her and rubbed her upper arm to make her feel better. At that Xellos shrugged and tried to leave some distance between himself and them.
He directed his sight to the new member and smiled. "Let's have some fun." he thought and teleported next to him. That startled him and he almost fell to the ground because of it "Don't do that again!"
His smile turned into a grin.
"Do what?" Xellos asked in his irritating manner.
Ken sighed in response "Never mind."
They walked a few paces and Xellos' sheer presence made Ken nervous.
"By the way... why did you came along?" he asked from the mazoku while trying to decifer his expression.
He grinned in response "Sore wa himitsu desu." he chimed again.
This simple sentence seemed to have a great effect on every member of the Shinzoku race. Xellos enjoyed the confusion and that deep fear he radiated.
"You have an interesting weapon there, dragon." he said with a grin on the end.
He could feel that his anger grew "I told you a few times... I am NOT a dragon." he said slowly but confidently. "I am normal."
"Oh, I don't make mistakes. I know you are, maybe not a complete one, but still... You ARE a dragon." he fed his annoyance.
Ken had a wein popping out on his forehead, but managed to have himself under control. He slowly turned to Lina an started to shout to her "Hey Lina!"
She turned her head to him, than he continued "Mind if I kill him?" and he pointed at Xel, who's levitating next to him.
She grinned and faced foreward "Nop."
Ken than took a look at Xellos who really enjoyed the ammount of anger he had by now.
"Just one more thing..." Ken thought to himself.
"You know that I killed hundreds of your kind in the Kouma-sensou, dragon?" Xellos tried to get him to an outburst, and got what he wanted.
Ken reached back under his cape and pulled his sword from it. He held the end of the blade and tried to hit Xellos in the head with the hilt, like a club. He was expecting it and dodged the blow without a problem.
"How can one being be so... annoying?" he asked form himself while aiming his next shot.
"Yare, yare Ken-chan. You dragons are so short tempered." he waved a hand and it made him more annoyed, if possible. This went on for a few minutes and it really dug up some old memories. Some memories that everyone tried to forget.
"Like in the old days..." Gourry stated.
"Too much like it." said Lina with annoyance in her voice and a hand on forehead.
Zelgadiss seemed to be annoyed by all this as well. Ameria noticed it and gave a kiss on his cheek to get his attention "Think happy." she said with a smile that could kill any mazoku.
It had it's effect on Xellos too. He stopped for a second and twiched. Ken caught on the moment and gave him a direct hit on the head. He stood there for a moment, than he fell back like a board.
"Serves you well, mazoku." he than put his weapon away and resumed walking.
"Are you sure?" Silphiel's voice made Ken to slow down and walk at her pace, in the back of the group.
"Of what?" he asked back.
She blushed a bit "You know... that you are not from the Shinzoku race." she tried to be sensitive on this topic.
"I remember being human... noramal. Strong sorcerer, but still a normal human." he tried not to be rude.
"I didn't ment to..." she tried to defend herself "Xellos-san really thinks you are one, and he does the same he did to Firia-san. Atleast Lina-san said he did these things."
"Hmmm..."
That was his only answer.
A few minutes passed and silence took over the area. Though not for long, because Silphiel broke it "Isn't it beautiful?" she said, while looking at the setting sun.
Ken wanted to direct his eyes at the sun, but couldn't, because they stopped at Silphiel. "Yes... beautiful." than he realised what he did and quickly snapped foreward and tried to hide his blush. He didn't notice, that Lina saw the whole thing. It got a cheerful smile on her face.
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They reached the town and took the shortest road to the nearest inn. Another unforgettable dinner with Lina and Gourry passed and everything went smoothly. Xellos still hadn't shown up since Ken knocked him out so everyone was cheerful, except...
"Ameria!" Lina shouted technically into her ears.
"What?" she asked like she just came back from another universe.
"What's with you? Usually you are the most cheerful thing I can think of. Did Zelgadiss' gloomcloud infected you or what?" Lina with her sensitive manners...
"You should tell him." Silphiel joined in, while she sat into the hot water next to Lina and Ameria. They were all in the inn's natural hot-water bath.
"Oh... so that's all about." Lina said than took a look at her not so cheerful friend.
"You know..." she started a sentence, than her voice trailed off to get her attention, than resumed "Zel's pretty smart when it comes to technically everything, BUT, these things are way off that list."
"I'm just waiting for the right moment." she said with a weaker than usual voice.
"Well... he ought to catch up sooner or later. This is one thing you can't hide for too long." Lina stated with her eyes closed.
"Life is too short to waste. Besides, what can possibly go wrong?" Silphiel tried to pour some confidence into her friend.
Ameria than took a deep breath and rolled her hand into a fist "I'll do it!" she stood up and wanted to walk for the door, but Lina stopped her "I think you should get dressed first. Despite his ability to concentrate, I don't think Zel could listen to you while you have no clothes on."
She blushed and sat down into the water again.
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Zelgadiss opened the door to his and the other guy's bedroom. This time Lina wanted to sleep and chat with the girls for some reason.
He thought about what Lina said they were doing... "Girl stuff." her voice still chimed in his ears. Zel knew it was the time to leave, and fast.
As he walked into the room, he saw Gourry already snoring and Ken with pillows on his ears. He than gave up and sat up on his bed.
Zel walked and sat on his bed too. His eyes were pointing at the floor, but his thoughts were way off from it.
"What's wrong?" Ken asked with a childish face like Gourry used to make.
Zelgadiss sighed... "I'm concerned about Ameria... She worked so troubled lately."
He than raised his head, than shook it "Just... forget about it."
"Sometimes it helps to talk, no matter to who." Ken stated while he played with his pillow.
Silence started to overcome the room, despite Gourry's snoring, and Ken thought it would be better to talk.
"What were you like as a chimaera?"
Zel raised his gaze at him "... blue ...and rocky."
Ken raised an eyebrow at that "You're not the rhetor in the family, eh?"
Now Zel raised an eyebrow.
"By the way... you said you'll tell me how you broke your curse, remember?"
Zel closed his eyes "That's a long story."
Ken glanced left than right "We have time."
Maybe it was the way he looked at him, or maybe it was his concern he wanted to push away with talking, but still, he started his story.
"All I wanted to have, was my own body. Despite that little voice that told me to accept Ameria's invitation and come to Seiruun, I had no other motivation, so I went off on a long trek to find my cure."
Than he took a journey into his memories.
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It was a beautiful landscape with a small forest in the background and fields of flowers covered everything. The sun was shining and the only thing that was gloomy was our very own gloom-chimaera.
He sat on a log and ran his eyes trough his newest lead-for-a-cure. It was an ancient book wich he got from a gang of bandits wich were unlucky enough to attack him.
"Nothing... Nothing! ...NOTHING!" he clapsed the book closed and sighed in exesparation.
After a few minutes of self pity, Zelgadiss' attention was directed at a being wich ran at him with high speed.
He jumped out of the way, and the being demolished the log on wich Zel was sitting.
After that Zel had some time to survail his attacker. It was partially human.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Zel demanded.
"My name is of no use to you. Now give me that book!" the demonic being said with determination in his voice.
He hidden his body well, just like Zelgadiss, though he could see that he had green scaly skin.
"It won't be of any use to you." Zel said and threw the book to him.
He too read it trough and found nothing. He threw it on the ground and released a growl.
This startled Zelgadiss a bit. "Were you human too?"
"Human?... Yes human... I was human. Now a deamon. Not human. Not deamon." and he shook his head, like he was argueing with himself.
Zelgadiss saw he had some problems with his head.
"Maybe you should rest for a while."
"Rest? No rest! I had enough!" he started to go ballistic.
"Look. I don't want to hurt you..." Zelgadiss started to reach for his sword.
"Searching for soo long... soo long..." he seemed to quiet down a bit.
"Searching? For a cure, to your state?" Zelgadiss tried to get some info from him.
"For fifty years..." the green half-deamon murmured.
"What?" Zel seemed to be in shock at that "Fifty... years..." he thought to himself "He went crazy by all of it."
"I am... I was Dumah. I don't have friends, nor a name now." he seemed to have an outburst again.
"The humans think I am a deamon. Maybe the deamons like me if I be a deamon." he again seemed to have a conversation with himself.
"What? You don't want to act like a monster, do you?" Zel reached for the hilt of his sword.
"A monster... Yes! A MONSTER! I KILL, I DESTROY!" He again roared and his eyes started to glow red.
"I was cursed. Now I am the curse!" and he started to run.
But not at Zelgadiss. He ran in the direction of the nearest town. Zel tried not to think about the parallelism between them. He shook his head and ran after the now uncontrollable monster. He reached him just before the town.
He jumped infront of him and pulled out his sword.
"Don't do it." Zel tried to get some sence into him.
"I kill everyone!" he roared and his eyes were gleaming red by now.
He attacked Zelgadiss, who jumped out of the way. Dumah caught on the chance and ran for the town.
He jumped into a street, where children were playing. In an instant he appeared behind a small girl. The others who were playing with her ran away screaming, but the little girl was too frightened to move.
Dumah raised his claws above his head and as he slashed foreward, time seemed to move in slow motion. His claws stopped and made a sound like it hit stone. Wich it did, because Zelgadiss jumped between his claws and the girl. He punched Dumah away and gave him last glance.
"Elmekia Flare!" with that Zel shot a blue-white beam of light from his hand, and destroyed the astral body of the now monsterous Dumah. He fell to the ground lifelessly.
Zel got a chance to see what his future can hold for him, and it did it's purpose.
"He searched for fifty years... No friends, no family... He lost his humanity."
He was dragged from his trance by a pull on his cape. He turned around to see, that it was the little girl who he just saved. He leaned down to get on her level.
"What is it? Are you hurt?" He said in his softest voice. He noticed that the little girl had short black hair and deep blue eyes. It startled him a bit as he remembered someone.
Just than the girl kissed him in the cheek than ran a bit further. She turned around and waved to him. "Thank you!" she shouted than ran probably to her parents.
Zelgadiss rose to stand and took a look around.
"Maybe... it isn't worth it..."
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"Hey, hey hey!" Ken snapped Zel out of his story-time mood.
"What does this has to do with your curse?" Ken asked.
"I'm just getting to that."
He scratched the side of his face.
"So I had the worst case scenario, and realised, there are worst things than a stone body."
He than took a look at his human hand and smiled.
"Though I still wanted to find a cure, I couldn't loose the... feeling... of..."
He tired to formulate but couldn't.
"Try phrases and sentences." Ken suggested with a sarcastic undertone.
Zel blushed a bit and continued "So I had this voice in me that said I can live a normal life, and that I should come back to Ameria. With time it grew stronger and stronger. After three years of travelling, I couldn't loose the feeling and took my way to Seiruun city. It was hard, I mean I only sent her a few letters, and she wrote every week to me..."
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Just after Zelgadiss first opened the doors to the Seiruun palace after more than three years, he got a nice surprise.
He was in a waiting room and the door just creeked open. Ameria's smile was the first he saw, and then a flash of pink as she tackled him to the ground in a hug.
"It's soooo nice to see you. It's been sooooo long." she squeaked in her usual voice.
"You haven't changed much." Zel stated with a bit of red on his cheeks.
Ameria than got off him and took a closer look at him. It was like she only realised Zel was still a chimaera.
"Yes, I'm still stone." he said with a sigh.
At that Ameria's eyes got teary "And you came back?"
"I learned some things the hard way." he said with sorrow in his eyes.
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"After a year of... wooing, I asked her to be my wife." and with every word his face got redder and redder.
"I still don't know how this effects your curse." Ken got a bit annoyed and confused.
"Wait it out." Zel said with an index finger raised.
"As I said, I asked her, and she said yes in her own way. She gave me a hug that would kill any normal human."
"Phil didn't like the thought of her daughter being married to a chimaera, but Ameria told him it was what she wanted."
"And this is, where it started. On the wedding night..."
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Zel was only minutes away from being married, and it really frightened him.
"Inhale, exhale... In... Out..." he tried everything he knew to get his adrenaline down, but nothing seemed to have an effect. He stood next to the altar and took a look around.
He instantly saw Lina with the largest grin her face could handle. And Gourry, who pointed a thumbs-up at him. Strangely, it cooled him off a bit.
Just than the music started and the large double-doors slowly opened. Ameria walked down the lane with her father at her side.
Zel forgot every bit of nervousness he had when he saw her. He even forgot to breathe for a few seconds.
When she was at his side Phil gave a look at the chimaera wich Zel answered with a nod. Phil than took his place and the ceremony started.
When the priest said the line "If any of you knows something wich can cause the marriage to disrupt, please call now or remain silent for ever." some people started to talk and it caused Zel to get nervous again.
Phil than coughed and everyone silenced. Ameria gave a 'thank you' smile to her father and the priest continued.
"I here by pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride." the priest turned to Zel.
Zelgadiss and Ameria turned to look at eachother. His adrenaline hit the roof again. He hadn't kissed anyone before... atleast not like this.
He took a deep breath and raised the veil that hung before her face. She than closed her eyes and Zel raised her head a bit with his hand under her chin.
He closed in, and his heart beat harder with each second.
As their lips collided Ameria could feel Zel's hard body soften. A gentle breeze flew from Zelgadiss and a few people started to talk. This made Ameria open her eyes, and she got the biggest surprise she could get.
He saw Zelgadiss. Still in his tuxedo, still red from nervousness, still he had his blue eyes, but... His hair was more of a purple colour and the rock pieces that were on him disappeared. His blue skin-colour disappeared before her eyes and was replaced by a normal pink one.
"Ze... Zelgadiss?" Ameria got confused, but than it turned to happiness in a second.
Zel only blinked once slowly, than twice, faster. He raised his hand and took a look at it. His opened mouth turned to smile, than to a laugh.
Ameria jumped at him and hugged him. Zel gave back the hug, and didn't even flinched that he wasn't from stone and his back cracked when she grabbed him.
Phil gave a sigh that the future king and son in law of his was human.
The crowd cheered the new couple as this was the most moving and kawaii wedding they ever seen...
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"Despite the fact, that I was less nervous when we were fighting Shabranigdu, that was the most beautiful day of my life." Zel finished his tale.
"Um-hmm, um-hmm, um-hm... So you only had to get a maiden's kiss." Ken analyzed the story with his hand on his chin.
"I think it was more than that, but you can say that."
"And... do you feel better now?" Ken asked with curiosity on his voice.
Zel managed a smile and layed back on his bed "Yes... You were right."
"I usually am." he said with confidence.
Just than, they were disturbed by a knock on the door.
Ken sighed and stood up "I'll open it."
He walked to the door and yawned a few times in between. He than opened it and saw Ameria with a bit concerened expression. He raised an eyebrow at that.
"Is... something wrong?"
"Nnnot really." she answered with a weak fake smile.
Zelgadiss jumped up and walked to her. Ken got out of the way of the two and thought it would be better to get back to his bed. "I can hear it, whether I want to or not..." he thought.
Ameria took a look around and grabbed Zel's hand.
"We need to talk... but not here." and with that she dragged Zel to the girl's room. As she pushed the door open and walked inside, Zel noticed that Lina and Silphiel weren't there.
While he done that Ameria turned to him and tried to get some courage. Zelgadiss noticed it and tried to break the ice.
"Does this has to do something with your mood lately?" you could of seen that he only poke about in the dark.
She took a deep breath and put a tinch of wet hair out of her face.
"Yes... and do you remember that flu I had?"
He nodded slowly.
"Well... I think, you should sit down."
This sentence made Zel more nervous than a mazoku in a care bear conn.
"Zelgadiss... Weregoingtohaveababy." she babbled quickly.
Zel's right eye flinched for a second.
"Excuse me, but could you repeat that. I thought I heard that we're going ot have a baby." he said with his voice weak.
"You heard right. You're going to be a father."
Her expression mirrored her feelings, wich were reliefed and happy. But than she noticed that Zelgadiss hadn't said anything, nor moved.
"Are you... alright?" she asked while she waved a hand before his eyes. He didn't moved and it frightened her.
She dashed out of the room and ran down the hallway. She saw Silphiel walking at her and she grabbed her hand.
"Silphiel-sanZelgadissisintrouble!" she babbled.
"Wha-" and she was cut off by Ameria who started to drag her into the room where Zel was still standing.
After Sil took a look at him she turned to a very concerned Ameria "What did you do to him?"
"I told him..." she answered her wih teary eyes.
She than redirected her ayes at him "I think he's not breathing." Sil said while she had an ear before Zel's mouth.
Then they both jumped back as Zel took a large breath and took a step back. He blinked twice and turned to a quite frightened Ameria.
"Ameria! You..." his voice trailed off as he pointed at her. She answered with a cheerful nod. "And me..." She nodded again. Zel's mouth turned to a smile and than he started a laugh and grabbed Ameria in a hug.
She did the same, than Zel picked her up and made a few circles with her in the room until he got dizzy. They ended the performance with a passionate kiss.
"Ahhh..." Silphiel awed in sympathy "I'm so happy for you."
She than thought it would be better to leave them alone for a while and silently left the room.
As she walked down the hallway she released a lonely and weak sigh. In his room, Ken followed the happenings. As he sat on his bed, he moved his ears like a cat does when it want's to hear something.
After Silphiel walked down the stairs, Ken slowly got up and followed her down.
As he arrived into the dining room, he saw Sil as she walked to Lina with a seemingly cheerful smile.
"What's up?" Lina asked.
"She did it."
"Aaaaand... how did he take it?" Lina sat on the edge of her chair.
"There was a bit of confusion in the beginning, but he got it well." Sil said while she sat next to Lina.
Ken walked passed the girls, for the kitchen "Well? He was more like shocked, than like he just found a million gold coins." he said before disappearing into the kitchen.
"Was he there?" asked a bit confused Lina.
"No. Atleast I haven't seen him."
After a few minutes Ken walked out of the kitchen with a large teapot and three cups.
As he sat down to the girls Lina coughed to get his attention.
"I'm a bit curious... how did you know Zel's reaction?"
He took a sip of his tea with closed eyes and than glanced at her. A bit of silence came.
"... It's a bit wierd. I notice-" but he was cut off by an explosion wich came from outside.
Lina technically jumped up and almost started to run for the door, but Ken stopped her.
"WAIT!" he said while she grabbed her hand. She glanced back at him, and noticed that he's looking at his teacup on the table.
She too took a look at the half empty cup and noticed something frightening.
A small quake shook everything with a thud in the distance. It made the tea in the cup wave a bit. Than there it was again. And again louder.
"This is definately NOT good." Ken stated with a bit of sarcasm in his voice.
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The door of the inn flew out and three figures dashed out till they reached the middle of the street. They waited for the next quake, to know where it came from.
In a second, a huge green demonic head poke out from behind a large building some two streets away from Lina-tachi.
Lina than took a step back as she took a better look at the deamon wich walked slowly from behind the building to reveal his full body.
"Ciefied help." Silphiel babbled with fear in her voice wich she hadn't even bothered to hide.
The deamon was four metres tall with a long face and needle-sharp teeth. It had two hoofed legs and two arms. But instead of hands it had blades on it's arms. It scanned the area with red eyes and noticed the trio.
It streached it's bladed arms to the side, leaned foreward and streached it's neck foreward too for about two metres, like it was from plastic. It released the most frightening growl wich was deamonically possible.
Ken snapped out of his shock and reached back, but stopped when he realised he didn't had his cape.
Just than, Eirus teleported right behind the trio and started to laugh. At that they all turned around.
As Ameria and Zelgadiss ran out from the inn to find what caused the raquet, they stopped right after they stepped out the door.
Eirus than stopped laughing and replaced his expression with a deadly one "Now you shall see, what the crystal of beginning has for you."
"What! ... So we were too late." Ken stated, than turned to Lina "Keep the deamon busy, I'll get the sword."
As he finished his sentence, he pointed his hand at Eirus and shouted. In the same moment an unseen and unhumanly great power blasted him trough a few brick walls. Ken then started to run for his room...
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Someone once said, "Stop on the tip." I rellay hope you enjoyed to read it. That reminds me of what Groucho Marx once said "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read."
I'm really sorry it took me so long to update, but it seems that every internet connection in the city is failing at the same time.