The Trio
Ramon: The sequel of To the end, but a little based on Naga and her family.
Sunny: The Slayers and all its characters don't belong to us, not even the story about the Seilune family; it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi. We are just fans who like to make fan fics.
Maliska: only Air Jay and Kiko belong to us.
Alandra: we hope that you people can enjoy this new fic.
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Chapter 5
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From behind a secret passage way, Booley, Jooley and Looley take a quick look to see if no one is around.
"The coast is clear!" Jooley informed. "Let get the move on!"
And the three bandit brothers come out of the secret hiding place, making the short sounds and taking light steps. "Looley, do you have the map of this place?" Booley asked.
"Right here!" Looley responded showing the map of the entire Seilune Castle. "We are here, Phill's room is on this hall, Amelia's is one this one and Gracia's in this one." He informed pointing the places where are their targets are being held.
"Alright! Looley, you will take Phil's room! Jooley, you'll kill Amelia! I shall finish Gracia." Booley said. "Now put on your wigs!"
And the three brothers put on wigs of a long hair in the back with a strange punk hair on the top, the wigs are the exact copy of Air Jay's hair.
"So why are we using these wigs again?" Jooley asked.
"Because every one knows about the personal enmity between Air Jay and prince Phill, so if any one catches us with these wigs they will instantly presume that Air Jay is the blameworthy responsible for the death of Phill and his daughters!" Booley explained.
"Yeah….." Looley said, liking the idea. "He gets the blame while we get the rewards!"
"Aright, let's get a move on!" ordered Booley and each one of the walked to different direction.
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"Damn him, damn him DAMN HIM!!!!" screamed Phill. "He humiliated me again, he made me look like a fool! I HATE HIM!!!!"
"Phill, will you calm down? No one was harm, and Air Jay didn't hurt our daughter." Sylvinia said as she continues to read her book in her bed.
"But he ruined Gracia's weeding once again!" wined Phill. "How can I make my daughter happy if Air Jay just keeps on ruining everything?"
"What makes you think that you know what your daughters want?" Sylvinia whispered.
"Huh? What did you say dear?"
"Nothing…. I think I'll go for a walk, I'll be right back." Sylvinia said as she gets out of bed and leaves the room.
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Sylvinia walks the halls of the castle, her eyes paying close attention around her and looks out the window and sea's that it is a dark stormy tonight with no so much soldiers out side, tonight is a perfect night to make an assassination. That is why Sylvinia is going to have a look at her daughters to see if nothing happens to them. Amelia is still young and she doesn't know any spells yet, Gracia knows a little of white magic and knows some black magic that she secretly learn from her self and from spells that Sylvina taught her herself, and Phill is still to anxious after what happen tonight that he will possibly massacre any assassin that gets in his way.
Suddenly some lightning's and thunders come out from the sky, lightning the entire hall, in that moment Sylvinia sees a person standing right in front of her. "Jayson?" Sylvinia asked but it is Looley with air Jay's wig, it is too dark for Sylvina to have a close look at his face. "What are you doing here?"
Looley remains silent and walks closely at Sylvinia with a dagger hidden behind his back, Sylvinia seems to have some kind of trust on him and he wants to take that chance to kill her.
As soon as Sylvinia was just two steps away Looley took his dagger and stabs Sylvinia right on her hips.
"AAAH!!!" cried Sylvinia when she got stabbed. He lands on her knees with one hand on the place where she got hit. "Jayson….why?"
"You were just a fool to not defend your self!" Looley mocked as he lifted his dagger to the air, ready to kill Sylvinia.
But in that second something hits Looley in the back with blood coming out of his mouth.
Looley looks back to see that the real Air Jay is right behind him with his hand stabbed right on Looley's back.
"Jayson?" Asked Sylvinia staring to understand what is going on here, this person here must be one of the assassins hired by Christopher disguised as Air Jay.
"You……you are the real Air Jay?" Looley asked between the pain he is suffering right now. "How can it be……"
Air Jay smirked. "You really like to kill don't you? Christopher possibly said that he didn't wanted Sylvinia to die, right? Or maybe you are just too stupid to remember things. Anyway, you are about to kick the bucket!" after saying that Air Jay burns Looley's body with his power. Burning with such a powerful fire that Looley didn't had the chance to scream and he was reduced into dust.
"I see…."Sylvinia said as she got up. "This must be the assassin that Christopher has hired to kill Phill and my daughters but he disguised him as you so that you can get the blame."
"Yes. At least one of the three!" confirmed Air Jay with Kiko now appearing right beside him.
"Three?"
"Yes, me and Kiko found out a bandit camp that said that Christopher has hired them to kill Phill but only three of them were chosen to do the job."
"Damn it!" Sylvinia cursed. "Then there are still two of them. Jayson, you watch over my daughter Amelia and I'll look over my daughter Gracia."
Air Jay just shaker his head. "Why can't you ever call me by the name I'm using now?"
"I like to call you by the name your parents have elected for you!" Sylvinia responded with a soft smile. "Now go! There is no time to waist!"
After that Air Jay wasted no more time and rushes over to Amelia's room with Kiko along side him. Sylvinia rushes over to Gracia's room with one hand covering her stabbed hips.
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In Amelia's room.
Jooley enters Amelia room very swiftly with out making any sound and walks slowly and noiseless to her bed where she is sleeping calmly and peacefully. When he was just two steps away from Amelia he picks up his knife
"I've never killed a child before, but for the reward that we are about to receive it is a sacrifice worth taking." Jooley lifts up his knife ready to kill Amelia, suddenly he feels a cold on his spine and he hears a growling from behind him a growling of a wild beast, this frightened Jooley so much that almost paralysed him. "L-Looley?"
"He's dead!" responded the voice.
The answer only made Jooley tremble some more that he even starts to sweat. "B-B-Booley?"
"No. Air Jay!" Air Jay responded.
Jooley finally turns around and sees Air Jay right near the door, his eyes glowing in the dark and in a deadly position, like a lion ready to attack his prey. Never in his life Jooley has ever felt such fear, he doesn't know who this man is but according to the rumours he is a merciless killer that can do the worst. "You…..are the real Air Jay?"
"Yes." Air Jay Responded, walking closer to Jooley. "Do you know what I hate the most?"
"W-What?" Jooley walks to the window to try to make his escape, never taking his eyes off of Air Jay.
"I hate people that tries to frame me for crimes I never committed, and I hate people who try to copy my fantastic hair do!" with that Air Jay launches a fireball at Jooley.
Jooley manages to escape in the last minute and the fireball hit the wall, making a huge hole which Jooley used to escape.
"Get back here so that I can kill you!!!" Air Jay shouted and runs right after Jooley with Kiko right behind him.
"AUUUUUU? (Why can't you people ever keep your feet on the ground?") Kiko howled as he flies after Air Jay.
All that noises and commotions were enough to awake Amelia and she only got a glitch of Air Jay's long hair as he left, still the war area in her room was enough to scare her. "Mommy……Mommy!!!" Amelia cried as she left her room to go to her mother
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Gracia was also awaked with the explosion and runs to the window of her room to what has happen. "What's going on out there?"
In that moment Booley takes a peek on Gracia's room and sees her looking out the window. "Damn it. Here I thought that she was still asleep……no matter, all I have to do is kill her and I'll get the reward!" so he enters the room unleashing his sword.
Gracia looks back at her intruder and immediately believes that it is Air Jay because of the wig. "Air Jay? What are you doing here with that sword?" she asked a little frightened, she never saw her best friend with a sword before and looking this creepy.
"I am here to kill you!" Booley responded as he lifted his sword to slash Gracia in haft.
Gracia managed to escape in the last moment, she's in state of disbelief right now, she just refuses to consider that her best friend is here trying to murder her, tears start to form in her eyes. "Air Jay…...Why are you doing this."
Booley did not respond, he just slaps Gracia on the face so hard that makes her bash against the door, falling out of her room.
Gracia slowly gets up with one hand on her cheek because of the slap of the man she believes that it is Air Jay. "Why……why did you do it?"
"Money, my dear!" Booley responded, ready to try to slash Gracia.
Gracia didn't say anything, she is to shocked to say something at all. Her best friend wants to kill her for money? After four years of friendship he wants to end it all because of the money? "No……"
"FIRE BALL!!!" shouted a voice as a big fireball runs directly at Booley and hits him strong enough to make him back away from Gracia.
Gracia looks back at the direction where the fireball was fired and she sees her mother with one hand on her hips. "Mother!!!!"
"Gracia, are you alright?" Sylvinia asked as she tries to walk to her daughter.
Gracia did not respond, she just got up and runs to her mother. "Mother….Air Jay has gone insane, he's trying to kill me!"
Sylvinia shakes her head. "No Gracia, that is not……"
Sylvinia is interrupted when Booley stands between Sylvinia and Gracia and punches Sylvinia on the stomach and slaps Gracia again, making Sylvinia crash against the wall, opening the wound on her hips even more and making Gracia fall to the ground.
"Enough of this!" Booley shouted. "I am going to end this once and for all!" he grabs his sword and runs to Gracia, ready to kill her.
The last slap was strong enough to weaken Gracia so much that she could not get up.
Booley starts to make the movement with his sword, ready to slash Gracia.
"NOOO!!!!" Sylvinia screamed as she runs in front of Gracia.
Booley could not control his actions and he ends up slashing Sylvinia very deep with blood coming out of her body.
Gracia watched the despicable horror in front of her and sees all that blood coming out of her mother, she refuses to believe it, her mother is dead. "MOTHER!!!!!"
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From out side in the city Air Jay and Kiko are still after Jooley, jumping from roof to roof until Jooley is finally trapped in a dark alley. "Oh no….oh no…..NO!!!!"
"The little fly here is caught." Air Jay taunted as he walks near to his prey.
Jooley picks up his sword and turns to air Jay with his legs shaking. "Stay away, or I'll kill you!"
Air Jay chuckled sinisterly. "So go ahead, kill me!" he challenged lifting his arms up
Jooley wasted no more time and runs to Air Jay and slashes him. "I GOT YOU!"
Air Jay smirked and the wound that Jooley made starts to burn and slowly starts to disappear healing the wound that Air Jay got.
That made Jooley droop his sword with the astonishment, he never saw anything like this before and once more he starts to shake in fear. "It can't be…..it can't be!!!!"
"But it is!" Air Jay confirmed with a grin as he points the palm of his hand at Jooley.
"NO PLEASE!!!! I BEG YOU!!!!" Jooley begged when Air Jay lifted his hand up. "Why are you doing this? All we are trying to do is kill Phill and his daughter's, the same family that you hate! Why are you trying to stop us?"
"Why, you ask? Simple! I am the only one who disgraces and humiliates Philly-dork and no one takes that hobby away from me! But most of all, no one menaces my family!" after saying that Air Jay fires a fire blast at Jooley, burning him to ashes and killing him instantly. "Another one bits the dust!"
In that moment Air Jay and Kiko hears Gracia's screaming Mother´, this made them worry.
"That is Gracia!" Air Jay said looking directly at the castle.
"(Something must have happen to Sylvinia.)" Kiko said telepathically.
"Let's go then!" Air Jay said as he picks up Kiko and starts to jump from house to house directly to the castle.
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Gracia runs to her mother lying on the ground with a pool of blood surrounding her, Gracia just could not stop her tears with the horrible vision in front of her, she refused to believe that her mother is going to die, the one person she most admired in all her life, the one person who allowed her to be her truth self, the one woman whose kindness and elegance is matchless. "Mother, please don't go……"
Booley on the other was furious with himself, he mistakenly killed Sylvinia, the one person that he was not allowed to kill, and the shouting that Garcia let out was loud enough to awake every one in the castle, and worst of all his sword is right beside Sylvinia's almost dead body. "Curses, the entire job was a big breakdown! I have no choice but to run and regroup." After saying that, Booley starts to run away.
Gracia notices that the man who she believes to be Air Jay is starting to run away, in that moment the anger starts to invade her mind. "Air jay!!! Don't you dare run away from me, you traitor!!!!"
Gracia starts to run after Booley with her hands preparing a spell.
Booley notices that Gracia is right after him so he starts to run faster but of no use, Gracia is ready to launch her spell.
"CHAOS STRING!!!!" Gracia Shouted as she launched the spell at Booley.
Booley was caught in surprise that he didn't had the chance to move and he got hit on the head with the spell, the spell was so strong that it even made Booley crash against the wall, creating a big hole which made him fly to the woods right out side the Kingdome, his screams of pain hear all the way as he flew away and as soon as he landed on solid ground a big explosion is heard.
After disposing of Booley Gracia runs back to her mother and gently rested her head on her lap, but Gracias eyes just can not stop trembling with the horror she is seeing, the entire flour is covered with her mother's blood.
"G-Gracia….." Sylvinia gasped for air.
"Y-yes Mother is me!" Gracia said after weeping out her tears.
"You got him…..you got him?" Sylvinia managed to ask.
That question only unleashed more tears out of Sylvinia. "Y-yes mother, I got him….."
"What spell?...what spell?..."
"Chaos String…..a spell of my invention by learning magic on my own…."
Sylvinia let out a small laugh. "Good….Good…."
"Mother please, don't go….." Gracia begged. "We still have so much to do……."
Sylvinia turns her hear to Garcia "You are ready Gracia….."
"Mother….what are you saying?"
"I love you girl…..I love you….." Slowly Sylvinia's eyes start to close slowly
"Mother?" Gracia shakes her mother, her instincts are telling her that her mother just died but she refuses to believe it. "Mother….mother please wake up….mother please….." Tears start to invade Gracia's eyes and she hugs her mother closer. "Mother please don't go, we still have so much to do…...please…..."
In that moment Amelia appears on the scene. "Mama, what hap….." she stopped on her tracks when she saw the dead corps of her mother with Gracia hugging her. In that instant her entire world crumbled, there she sees her mother on the ground with the horrifying vision of the blood around her and the dreadful weapon responsible of taking her life right near her body. Amelia could not stop shaking because of the trauma she experience right now, she is just eight years old and she is already facing the sad reality of seeing her mother dying.
"What happen here?" Asked Phill as he finally entered the scene and he stopped in horror when he saw his wife on the ground, dead. "No……it can't be!" he said in disbelieve, then he looks down at Amelia who is still shaking in trauma, so he immediately hugs her and turns her around so she could not see this horrible vision. "Don't look my dear, don't look." He said in a soft but sad voice but still Amelia cries on her father's chest.
From one of the windows of the hall Air Jay and Kiko saw Sylvinia on the ground, dead. Just like all the others they just could not believe that Sylvinia is dead, the only woman who has ever helped them when others could not, the same woman who treated them like part of the family. Kiko let out a small sad howl for Sylvinia, Air Jay closed his fist in fury, he just could not believe that he lost the woman who became like a second mother to him, he made this entire journey to save Gracia and Amelia but he ended up losing Sylvinia.
Suddenly Kiko looks back, to the direction where Sylvinia's killer landed. His animal instincts have alerted him of something
"What is it Kiko?" Air Jay asked.
"(The killer! I can feel his vibrations, he's still alive!)"
Air Jay looks at the direction where Booley landed with a raged look. "Monster…..your alive!" he then picks up Kiko and flies to where Booley landed.
In the hall Phill ordered his guards to take Amelia to her room so that she could not see this horrible vision, and Christopher is there present when he learned that Sylvinia died, he just could not believe that this happen, his plan was to kill Phill and his daughters but Sylvinia ended up paying the price, guilt finally took control on Christopher when this happen and he promised that he will make anything possible to repair the horrible crime he committed, it is the thing he can do to honour Sylvinia's memory.
After Amelia was gone Phill walked to Gracia and gently puts his hand on her shoulder. "Gracia……what happen? Did you saw who killed your mother?"
"Air……Air Jay……he did it!" that is all that Gracia could say, she is still very traumatize over her mother's death.
"Air Jay!?!?!" screamed Phill. All this time Air Jay never has done anything like this, but it seems that his evil really doesn't have any limits. "Curse him! CURSE HIM!!!!" he shouted with all his agony. "Air Jay, this time you have gone too far, I give you my word that I will make you pay, I SWEAR!!!!"
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In the wood Air Jay and Kiko are still looking for Booley, unknown to them that Air Jay is being accused of murder. They were a little surprised to see that Booley was not on the place where he landed even when he got hit with Gracia's spell, they followed his trail to a river.
"(It ends here; he must have caught a boat!)" Kiko Informed, sniffing the place.
"Damn it!" Air Jay complained. "But how could he have caught a boat if he was so weak from Gracia's attack? Some one must have saved him! Isn't there any way to find him?"
"(No, I can't find his trail because of the stormy air that it is coming up.)"
Air Jay bashed his fist against a rock. "Maldito seja! (Curse him!) He got away this time but one thing is for sure…..he has the curse of the Air Jay on him! I will not rest until I find him and cut out his head!"
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The days passed and Sylvinia was given the proper funeral with all the dignity, after the ceremony was done only Gracia remain near her mother's grave, deep inside her she feels guilty over her mothers death, feeling that if she acted much sooner her mother might still be alive. In these last days since her mother died Gracia gain a deep hatred on weapons and blood and became found on alcohol when she could not find any consolation from anyone, not even from her younger sister. she stay there for hours until she decided to leave.
But she didn't go directly to the Seilune castle, she returned to the house where she, her mother, Amelia shared. "Oh mother…..it is not fair……we were betrayed…….Air Jay used us all this time and has hidden his true nature even when we treated like one of our own. And now Father will not leave me alone and he will use all his might to force me to take the throne, which is the one thing I don't want, I don't be imprisoned in this cage. You said that I was ready Mother, and I will start a new life!"
Gracia runs back to the house and walks right in her mother's room and opens up the secret door where her mother's old clouts were being kept. "You said that I was ready mother, I am ready to become the most powerful sorceresses in the world. I will make others crumble at the mere mention of my name and the mere sight of my beauty. I will travel in disguised all over the world to gain treasures, magic knowledge and fame most of all. I could take Amelia with me but she is still suffering over mother's death, and besides she will be much safer in Seilune."
After saying that Gracia picks up the mannequin and removes the clots out of her, she dresses up the outfit and puts on the skull necklace and puts on the spiky shoulder guards, she then notices a small journal that possibly belongs to her mother. Gracia opens it and sees that it is a big list of spells that her mother has learned, so she keeps it to learn them much later. She then looks at a sword, the sword that belonged to her mother, Gracia gain a big dislike for weapons, especially swords sine they were the one that has taken her mother's life, but since it belonged to her mother she decide to take it as well.
After she was done Gracia look at her self in the mirror, a little haft naked but she didn't mind, she wants to wear this dress because it made her feel much close to her mother. "I am going to start a new life where I will let my past behind me, for that I will change my name as well! From now on I will be…….Naga! Naga the……." Gracia, now identified as Naga, thought for a moment about her name. "Naga the Serpent! Yeah that's it, Naga the White Serpent, the white Serpent because I know that the Seilune Symbol has a white serpent on it. Yeah that it! Watch out world, Naga the Serpent is born! OOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!!!!"
After all is said and done, Naga open the window and started to faly away, away from Seilune.
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Two days passed since Naga left the kingdom, Phill has send many soldiers to find her with no success.
Air Jay and Kiko took that opportunity to visit Sylvinia's grave.
Air Jay put a rose on her tomb and backs away, on his back he has the same sword that killed Sylvinia.
"(Hello old friend……)" Kiko said telepathically. "(Sorry for the delay but Phill has sent more people after us and we didn't got here in time.)"
"Kiko, can I talk to her alone?" Air Jay asked.
"(Yes, of course.)" Kiko backs away, giving Air Jay and Sylvinia a moment of privacy.
Air Jay looks back to Sylvinia's tomb when Kiko was far away. "Did you know that this was going to happen? Maybe you did but you never expected to die have you? I wondered why you have asked me to take care of your kids but now I understand. And speaking of kids, Gracia ran away and I don't know where she is, she is out there on her own but I was amaze to know that she is the one who blasted the guy who killed you, but sadly the guy survived and escaped to who knows where, I still think that he was saved by someone. Never the less I will find him and kill him, which is why I have his sword so that Kiko can pick up his trail. As for Gracia, I won't forget my promise and I'll take care of your girls, Amelia will stay here where she can be save, when I find Gracia we will both go after Christopher and finishing him for what he has done. I promise! Rest in peace my friend." After saying that, Air Jay leaves with Kiko following him behind.
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After Sylvina's death Air Jay never attacked Seilune again, he continues with his criminal activities and secretly continues his search for Gracia and Booley.
Amelia continues in Seilune with her father and Phill has ordered a sorcerer to put a spell on Amelia so that she could not live with the memory of the horrible vision of her mother's death, the spell worked very well, it even made her forget about Air jay.
And Gracia, now known as Naga, has made quite a name for herself in the world of sorcerers until the age of 19 when she heard about another sorceresses named Lina Inverse who many say that is much powerful than her. So she had meet her to challenged Lina for a fight where Naga lost and since that day Lina and Naga became travel companions for a while, where they shared some crazy adventures and treasure haunts and most of the time they fight each other to determinate who is the best sorceresses, in each of those battles Lina wins.
Two years later Lina met up with Gourry Garbrieve who is a great swordsman, Zelgadiss Greywords who is a man cursed with a chimera body and the Princess of Seilune herself, Amelia. Togheter they have fought many foes like Rezo, Shabrimingo, Phibrizio and even the Dark star himself.
A few weeks later after the defeat of the Dark Star, Lina and Gourry finnaly encountered with Air jay where they challenged him for a fight to collect the bounty on his head. The fight was horrible until Lina finally summoned the hidden power inside her which she used to obliterate Air Jay for good.
Little did she know is that Air jay is still alive thanks for his phoenix blood.
End of a long FlashBack.
Naga closes her fist very hard when she remembered all that has happen in that fateful day. "After all this time I found you at Last Air Jay! Ever since that day I made a secret promise to my self, I promise that I would find you and kill you, but I haven't found the spell that would be strong enough to kill you, now with the Crystal that Zurten mentioned I shall defeat you for good. Just wait Air Jay, my mother and I will have our revenge of your betrayal!" and Naga starts to walk away to accomplish her mission.
What she doesn't know is that Zurten and his bodyguard were watching her from a window. "It is done; she is going to carry on with this dangerous mission." Zurten then turns his head to his body guard. "And I must say that I was surprised that you didn't attack her, Booley my old friend."
Booley takes out his hood, revealing his face that has an enormous scar on his face covered with a silver plate "I admit I had a big desire to finish her for good, but I managed to hold my desire!"
"You better! Remember that if it wasn't for me you would have died on that day!" Zurten reminded. "Remember that it was me and my people who found you lying on the ground all bloody and injured and saved you from fatality. In return of my generosity I demand your loyalty."
"Until I can finish with Naga and Air jay!" Booley reminded back. "But do you think that she can find that Crystal? There are many people looking for it and they are not people you want to mess with."
"Only the future will respond to that answer.
To be continued……
Sunny: now the adventure will really start.
Ramon: what do you people think so far? Read and Review please.