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 7
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Xellos and Air Jay stay face to face with Kiko long side Air Jay. Booth Xellos and Air Jay had despicable grins on their faces.
"So you know me, it is an honour for me to identified by an unfamiliar one!" said Xellos bending over mockingly at Air Jay.
Air Jay laughed. "Ha ha ha! It is true when they said that you like to make strange jokes, Xellos Metalium!"
"Metalium?" Naga repeated, still inside the cave. "I've heard that name before……Yes, that's it! Zellas Metalium! This guy must be a mazoku, one of the servants of Zellas Metalium!"
"I've waited a long time to beat you Xellos Metalium!" Air Jay said, cracking his knuckles. "My family waited a long time to destroy you!"
"What are you talking about?" Xellos asked acting innocent.
"Don't play innocent! I know that all that has happen to me and my family here in this country was your entire fault! A hundred years ago my family was out on the sea but one night there was a violent and terrible storm and it has brought us to this country where we became haunted and destroyed by the Seilune family, in the end my ancestors discover that it was a mazoku by the name of Xellos Metalium who created that storm and leaded us to this country, that is why we made a promise to destroy you!"
Xellos applauded. "Very good, I give a round of applause to your family's ingenuity! It is true, we Mazokus could not come to Portugal because it is protected by a Holly power that can destroy us, so I made that storm on that day when your family to make them come to this country where we can have the advantage. You see, we mazoku's are always searching for strong humans to join us and the Andrade family really caught our attention, humans that have the power of the phoenix in their veins is something that we could not look aside, but sadly that was hopeless for the reason that your family always defeated us, it seems that your family learned how to control their negative emotions in a way that we Mazoku's can not reach. That is how they always managed to destroy us, we Mazokus get stronger in a fight because of the negative emotions we feed ourselves in a fight but every time we faced the Andrades we ended up losing because we could not feed ourselves of their negative emotions and get stronger."
"Bingo clown! My family and I defeated and destroyed every mazoku that stand in our way. So I wonder Xellos, how do you think that you can defeat me when all your other buddies ended up in a body bag?" asked Air Jay, sounding more like he was challenging him.
As a response, Xellos let out a sinister chuckle. "Well then, do you think that I set up the fight between you and Lina for nothing?"
This one really caught Air Jay by surprise. "What are you talking about?"
Xellos looks at Air Jay with killer eyes. "Do you really think that Lina and Gourry would found you so easily if I didn't lead the way for them? Huh? It was no measly coincidence, you two fought against each other because it was all designed by me. Lina was after you because of the money so I gave her a little help, I always knew that she would defeat you Air Jay but I never thought that you would make her bring up her true power, a power she is not aware off!"
"Her true power?" Naga asked to herself. "Lina has a hidden power? I really need that crystal if I ever hope on defeating Lina once and for all!"
Air Jay smirked. "So let me get this, you used Lina to weak me up?"
"Bingo!" Xellos responded lifting a finger. "It was very easy."
"You seem to know Lina very well."
"Of course! I know her for quite some time now; it was always easy for me to manipulate her and her friends. Let me tell you a little secret, you can feel proud of your self because it is very rare for me to share a secret, I have been spying on Lina and her people ever since they fought 1/7 of Shabrimingo and destroyed a genetic abomination that held the power of Zanafer!"
"What?" Naga screamed in her mind. "Lina fought Shabrimingo and Zanafer? Man, she has done a lot since we last departed."
"But there is more!" Xellos continued. "I have travelled with her on two occasions to defeat Garv, Hellmaster and The Dark Star, in those moments I've learn a lot about her strong and weak points, which is why it's so easy for me to use Lina against you. I wasn't going to be like all the other Mazoku's that you defeated and destroyed, I am going to overwhelm you and turn you into a devoted servant of my master Zellas."
"Kiko, did you heard that?" Air Jay asked, entering in a telepathic contact with his dog.
"(Yes, he knows a lot about Lina Inverse!)" Kiko responded also entering in telepathic contact with Air Jay.
Air Jay smirked "The information that he has can help me defeat Lina for good. Kiko, can you like….get his memory or something?"
"(I can copy his memories in a magical sphere, but you'll need to keep him busy for a moment)"
"That's easy!" Air Jay let out a sinister chuckle. "You think you can beat the all mighty Air Jay, Xellos?"
Xellos points his sceptre at Air Jay. "Poor little Air Jay, you have been caught in a powerful Dragon Slave and you are not a hundred percent, you really think that you can defeat a high level Mazoku like me?"
As a response, Air Jay points the finger at him, then he disappears and appears right in front of Xellos, and hits him with his elbow, making Xellos fly against a tree. "Burro! (Dork!)"
"Uau……" Naga said in amazement. "Air Jay is just as strong as I remember, I hardly saw him going to the other guy."
Xellos got up and looks at Air Jay who is in a fighting position, daring Xellos to attack him. "He caught me by surprise, I never though that he would still have so much power in him even after his defeat. I need to be more careful." Xellos hands starts to form a dark energy ball and throws it at Air Jay.
In the moment that Air Jay was about to get hit by Xellos attack he disappears and reappears right in front of Xellos and gives him a strong punch that buries his head to the ground. "And don't bug me again!"
Naga I the other hand is also grinning. "Air Jay will sure be a big help to defeat the Aviar Army. With his power I can get that crystal and defeat booth Lina and Air Jay."
Xellos got up to his feet ready to stab Air Jay with his sceptre, but Air Jay dodged the attack and throws a big upper cut at Xellos, making him fly to the air. "ESTRELA!!!" Air Jay shouted, throwing a fire ninja star at Xellos, hitting him directly and making him bash to the ground.
Xellos slowly gets his head out of the ground. "I don't believe this, I'm supposed to be more powerful than him, I tire him off for this but he still manages to treat me like a dool? This is just like my fight with Garv!" Xellos finally looks back at Air Jay and notices that he's holding a book, Xellos recognises the book, to make sure he watches from under his cape and it is confirmed that that book is his, the same book he stole from Rezo's laboratory a few years ago. "Hey give that back!"
Xellos runs to Air Jay to attack him but Air Jay bashes Xellos head with his own sceptre.
Xellos lands on the ground and he sees his own sceptre destroyed, the same sceptre that he used for so very long, he turns to Air Jay and sees that he's still reading Rezo's book.
"I'll get you for this!" Xellos jumps to the air to attack Air Jay but Air Jay just kicks Xellos right in the face.
Xellos was getting so tire of this humiliation. "THAT'T IT!!!!" Xellos lift booth his hands to the air and a gigantic dark energy ball starts to form.
Air Jay completely ignores that and continues reading the book he just stole from Xellos. "Damn, this guy really makes a lot of experiments to cure his eyes……"
"DIE!!!" Xellos throws his attack but Air Jay simply slaps the attack away with his left hand, throwing Xellos attack to the air. Xellos got terrorised with what he just saw. "I don't believe it, he just swatted my powerful attack like if it was noting but a fly……I must be having a nightmare……"
Air Jay sighed and guards the book in his jacked. "Looks like I won't be able to read this book in peace until I beat you up good."
"AAAAH!!!" Xellos cried as he throws another attack at Air Jay.
And just like the other attack Air Jay slaps it to air. "Sorry bud, no can do!"
Xellos grunted. "How can this be? How can you still be so powerful after that brutal fight you had against Lina?"
"You don't know much about the phoenixes, do ya?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Every time that a phoenix gets back from the death he is reborn in a more powerful and more bright fire, which means that I am more powerful than before. Here you thought that you planed everything up to weak me up but all you did was make more powerful!"
"Oh no……" thought Xellos. "My plan has completely back fire, what can I do? I can not retreat because my master demands me to bring Air Jay to her."
" É melhor acabar com este monte de lixo! (Its time to kill this piece of trash!) " said Air Jay as he cracks his knuckles again.
"Speak English for crying out loud!!!!" Xellos demanded.
Air Jay was about ready to kill Xellos, when he took out a knife from his cape and stabs Air Jay right in his forehead.
"AAAAAARH!" cried Air Jay in pain with blood coming out of his fore head.
Naga's eyes got wide open when she saw all the blood coming out of Air Jay's head. "Blood…….blood….blood….." Naga could not hold on anymore and faints.
Air Jay cried some more but then looks back at Xellos with a grin. "Just joking!"
Xellos could not believe it, Air Jay himself removed the knife from his forehead, the blood that's on the knife quickly turn in to flames, running to Air Jay's fore hear and curing his wounds. For the first time in his life Xellos is afraid, he just can not stop shaking.
Air Jay breaks the knife and looks back at Xellos "Looks like you've come prepared, Xellos! This knife's enchanted, it would be enough to turn me into a mazoku, but once again you underestimate my phoenix blood. Now I'm going to give you a punishment that for you it will be worsts than dead itself!"
Xellos backs away, he just could not believe that his tricks did not work this time. "Filia…….."
"(Alright Air Jay, I already copy all of Xellos memories!)" Kiko announced, entering in telepathic contact with Air Jay. "(And check this out, this guy has eliminated a massive number of Golden Dragons, but he's in love with a female Golden Dragon by the name of Filia!)"
Air Jay lets out a small chuckle. "I see…. That is why Zelas hire me to finish Xellos for good; a mazoku in love always means trouble for their own race. That gives me an idea, say Kiko, can you transform Xellos here into a golden dragon?"
"(Sometimes you ask me the stupid things Air Jay!)"
"Sorry, I just thought you could do it……"
"(OF COURSE I CAN!)"
"He he, sometimes I wonder what I would do without you Kiko."
"(Stupid things!)"
"Alright, stay behind me so he doesn't find out it was you, just in case." Air Jay turns his attention to Xellos. "Let's get this over with!"
Xellos tried to make his escape but an unknown force is stopping him to teleport away. "Oh no I'm done for!"
A golden aura starts to from in Kiko, making it sound that it is formed by Air Jay.
Air Jay starts to laugh sinisterly. "I told you I am going to make your life a living hell, Xellos. I could kill you know but that would be too good for you, I want you to suffer like you have made me and my family suffer. So I am going to turn you into the very creature you helped destroy so many years ago!"
"What? What are you talking about?" as a response the golden aura runs to Xellos surrounding his body. "AAAAH!!!" Xellos cried in pain, he feels a big pain in his body like if it is suffering a big change, it is like being born again.
After a few moments of pain the golden aura disappears and Xellos lands on his knees with smoke coming out of him and breathing heavily. Xellos opens his eyes and looks at his hands and his entire body, nothing changed. In the end he gasped when he look behind him and saw that he has a dragon tail, just like Filia. "NOOOOO!!!!!" he freaked out. "What have you done to me!?!?!?"
Air Jay just laughed at Xellos reaction. "Like I said, I turn you into the very creature that you hate so much and helped destroy. Now live all eternity as a golden dragon, HA HA HAH AHAHAH! So goodbye……. Xellos the Golden Dragon!" Air Jay turns to leave, laughing as he did.
"No……no!!!" Xellos pleaded. "You can't do this to me! Change me back, CHANGE ME BACK!!!"
Xellos ran after Air Jay, but Air Jay ended up being caught Xellos by his shirt and throws him to the ravine.
"NOOOO!!!!" Xellos cried as he falls down to the ravine and landing in the river.
"And another one bites the dust!" says Air Jay with a smirk. The he turns to Kiko. "So did Zelas saw this fight?"
"(Yes, I sensed her presence. She was watching this fight the entire time and I bet she planed something to turn you into her minions, but I scare her away with my powers.)
"She's a sneaky one."
"But what about Xellos? Don't you think that you killed him when you throw him down the ravine?"
"Nope. I'm sure he'll survive the fall, and I hope he does because I have so much evil plans for him! But right now, let's go see that Naga babe!"
Once they reached the cave they saw Naga on the ground.
"What happen to her?" Air Jay asked as he kneels down next to her and puts two fingers on her pulse. "She is still alive, maybe she had fainted because of the fight."
"(What ever!)" Kiko yawned. "(This was very boring, and I'm hungry. Let's go find a place to eat.)"
"Alright, alright, I'll just……." In that moment Air jay looks closer to Naga's face; now that he is looking to her much closer he has a shaking feeling like he knows her. "Kiko is right, she does seem familiar. Where have I seen her before? And damn, she really looks hot!"
Naga slowly opens her eyes and the first thing she saw is Air Jay's face a few inches away from hers. "HEY!!!!!" she then punches Air Jay on the face, making him crash his head to the roof and landing to the ground.
"OUCH!!!! What was that for?" Air Jay complained.
"What do you think you were doing, you little pervert?" Naga replied.
"Shesh! I was just waking you up! And who are you calling little?"
"Never mind that, you have a lot of explaining to do!"
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A few minutes later, Air Jay, Naga and Kiko arrived to a nearby town and reached the first inn they could find a place to eat and sleep.
After they got a bite to eat they went to Naga's room for a little talk.
"So let me get this straight." Naga said. "You are telling me that you were hire by Zelas, Zelas Metalium, Zelas Metalium herself to kill one of her own minions? The Zelas Metalium, who is one of the big generals of the dark lord Shabrimingo?"
"YES!!!" answered Air Jay for the million time. "How many times must I have to say it?"
"But why did she want to kill one of her own minions? And why didn't she do it herself?"
"Xellos had a terrible malfunction which Zelas did not forgive, he had fallen in love. She didn't want to kill him herself because if she did the rumours would be spread out in the Mazoku world and she would be mocked, so she decided that it would be much easier to make it look like Xellos died in combat." Air Jay let out a small sinister chuckle.
"So that is where you come in, but what would be your payment in the middle of all this?"
"I would have Xellos head. He had given a big disgrace to my family and we sworn that we would get him. But now enough about Xellos and lets talk about our assignment! Who are these people that we are going to face in the island?"
"They are the Aviar Army, undoubtedly you have heard of them?"
"Hum…..yes. I have. It is a malicious and cruel army that gathers mercenaries, fighters and all kind of people that were thrown out of many kingdoms. Very strong and powerful soldiers, with no limits."
"Exactly, they also collect many riches and many powerful items for their needs so I am sure that they must be after the Unknown Crystal."
"So I guess that is why I am needed, hum baby?" Air Jay asked in a seduce tone.
Naga bonks Air Jay on the head. "Don't call me baby! And yes that is why I need you. All we need to do is beat those guys, get the crystal and get out of there!"
"Just that? For a moment here I thought it would be difficult!"
"OOHOHOHOHOHOH!!!! Nothing is difficult with the brilliant intelligence of Naga the serpent!"
"Please don't laugh!!!" Air Jay pleaded covering his ears.
"Auuuuuu! (My poor sensitive ears!)" Kiko cried.
"Well now, we better get some rest, our journey begins tomorrow morning!"
"Alright then." Air Jay said as he rests on Naga's bed.
Naga glares at him. "What are you doing?"
"C'mon baby, rest here!" said Air Jay as he taps on Naga's bed sexually.
"GET OUT OF HERE NOW!!!!" and Naga kicks Air Jay and Kiko out of her room.
"Ouch, my butt!!" Air Jay wined, rubbing his butt.
"(Well, we better got to sleep as well.)" Kiko suggested as he and Air Jay start to walk back to their room. "You know Air Jay, I'm surprise that were wiling on going on this treasure haunt with Naga, you were never the type of guy that looks after powerful objects to get strong.)"
"Who said that I was interesting on that Crystal? I am more interested in one thing." Air Jay responded with a pervert look.
Kiko sighed, now he knows what its Air Jay true purpose in this journey. "(Damn it Air Jay, you always go after any girl who is just like Naga.)"
"What can I say? I am just a poor victim of circumstances."
"(I thought you call it your sword´.)"
"Yeah, that too. But since I am not sleepy, let's make some research on Xellos memories to learn more about Lina Inverse."
"(Don't change the subject here Air Jay! I still don't trust that Naga women, she seems familiar but I have a strong feeling that she is trying to trick us!)"
"Relax. What ever that it is her game she will need us in the end. Besides I can tell she has the hots for the big bad man here." Air Jay assured as he enters the room.
"(I hope your right.)" Kiko said telepathically as he follows Air Jat. "(I just hope that in the end beauty doesn't try to kill the beast.)"
To be continued……
Sunny: the journey begins in the next chapter.
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