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 8

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The first lights of day shines on Naga's room, assaulting her eyes viciously, forcing her to wake up.

She yawned and stretches herself up. "Its morning already?...oh well." She picks up her bottle of wine and starts to drink it, or maybe she would if there was anything left in it. "Darn it, why is it that my drinks always end up empty when I wake up in the morning?" She then gets out of bed and moves around like a drunken woman and lands on her knees. "Oh yeah…..that's why….."

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After she was all dress up and ready Naga went to Air Jay and Kiko's room and knocks on their door. "Hey Air Jay, its time to go!" she called from the door but there is no response, so she knocks on the door again but with no response. "Air Jay, are you in there?!?!?" once again she got no reply. "Don't tell that buffoon ran away….." she knocks on the door again more violently. "That's it I am coming in!"

Naga enters Air Jay's room and she gasped when she saw the horrible display in front of her, there is Air Jay and Kiko sitting in front of each other with the entire room in fire and Air Jay's face in covered with an alarming anger. She never saw him like this and she starts to wonder if it was a good idea to use him to get the crystal. "A-Air Jay……."

Air Jay said noting but he only lifts his hand up with a finger up. "Naga!" he said in a grim voice. "I'm in a real bad mood right now baby, so you better wait for outside the inn……I'll talk to you later……and don't mind the fire, I like it this way. Now go!"

Naga slowly closes down the door, a little alarm, the look of Air Jay's eye are the eyes of a true killer, she knows that he is a terrible outlaw and an assassin with no heart but she will need all caution when to use him to get the magical object that she wants that will give her the power to defeat Lina and Air Jay once and for all.

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Air Jay is breathing with so in a low but dreadful anger, but with saliva coming out of his mouth, he and Kiko have been all night searching all over Xellos memories until he came across the times she used the most dangerous spell of them all, the Giga Slave.

"(Air Jay will you calm down!!!!)" Kiko demanded telepathically but he has to admit that he is frightened himself, he never saw him like this, only when he killed an entire city when he was just eight years old because that same city was celebrating his families demise, that infuriated him so much that he did not hesitate to eliminate everyone there.

"CALM DOWN!?!?!?" he shouted in a very dreadful voice. "I just found out that Lina holds a very powerful spell and you want me to calm down?" the he screams very loud that made all the windows break apart. "Not only had I found out that Lina has an impressive strength but now I find out that she holds a very powerful and ultimate spell, and she did not even use it against me! Me, the all mighty Air Jay, the man who obliterated dozen of men and Mazokus and she did not even used that spell against me! It is humiliating!!!!"

"(One of these days your pride will be the death of you Air Jay! Did you not hear what the human woman Sylphiel said? That spell is so powerful that is one self loses control he can destroy the entire world; Lina did not use the spell against you because of that awareness!)"

"She also knew that when she faced the Hell Master and when her dumb blond lover was about to get killed. She used that spell to save that stupid fool but she didn't use it against a very prevailing adversary like me? For me it is humiliating!!!" he screamed again as he got up and picks up the sofa and throws it out the window. "AAAARGH!!!! She ridiculed me again."

Kiko remained in silence for a moment here before speaking. "(So what are your plans then?)"

Air Jay did not say anything yet, he first forced himself to cal down then he turns to Kiko. "I have no choice……I will help Naga finding that magical Crystal that can make us stronger that we are now."

"(You are? But I though that such stuff did not interested you!)"

"After knowing that Lina can perform such spell I have no choice! Lets go!"

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Outside the inn Naga stayed there waiting for Air Jay and she watches many people around the inn with buckets of water to put out the fire provoked by Air Jay.

Naga puts on her best grin on her face. "Let him be as scary and ugly as he can, I am the most powerful sorceresses in the world. I beg that he attempts to challenge me, because when he does he will learn the accurate might of my power! The Power of Naga the Serpent! OH OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!!!"

In that moment she stops laughing when she noticed some people backing away in fear, she turns around and sees Air Jay and his dog Kiko walking out of the inn.

Air Jay passed by them very coolly, but none of the town's people lets their eyes on him, they are all staring at him with dreadful fear. Sudently Air Jay stops right in the middle of them. "Now hear me up you gutless cowards. I'm going away for a few days for a fieldtrip, in the mean time I don't want you people to go around saying that I am still alive, because if I hear a whisper, for as small as it might be, about me who is still alive and kicking, I will be back to this town and kill every last single one of you." Air Jay threatened the he points his palm to the burning inn and fires a fireball destroying the inn completely. "You people don't want to die, do you?"

No one respond, their fear stop them to speak.

"Good then, until I see you all another day." And Air Jay walks back to Naga.

"Smart……" Naga thought. "He threatened these people so that they don't tell the tale about his whereabouts, that way Lina and my father won't know that he is still alive and it will give him the advantage of attacking them by surprise, and these people won't say a word because of the fear they feel for him. He might be a pervert idiot but he is also intelligent."

"Alright then baby, where do we go?" Air Jay asked as he and Kiko reached her.

"Well then, now that it is all said and done we get a ship to the Island." Naga responded as she starts to walk away. "This town has a port, we can use one of their ships to get to the island."

"Alright then. All three of us we roll to the island by sea." Air Jay said as he and Kiko follows Naga directly to the port.

"Not only us but also the crew of the ship!" Naga corrected.

"No need sweet baby, I am Portuguese. We Portuguese are known to be great sailors; we are adventurers of the sea. I can navigate any ship that comes to my hand."

Naga stops on her tracks and turns to Air Jay. "Is it true, you can commandeer any ship?"

"Yeah baby, but only if you……...seduce me!" Air Jay finished in a seductive tone.

Naga twitched her right eye. "I think that it is best that you, little pervert pig, do as I say and ask for nothing in return or I'll……." She slowly approaches her face to Air Jay, approaching her lips to his. "Laugh!"

"(OH NO!!!!)" and Kiko lowers his head and covers his hears with his paws.

Air Jay looked to the left for a moment then looks back at Naga. "Like I said sweetheart……seduce me!" He said with a grin.

Naga narrowed her eyes. "Alright….." and takes a step back. "FREEZE ARROW!" and throws a freeze arrow at Air Jay, turning him into a human ice sculpture. Then Naga wraps a rope around Air Jay frozen body and drags him along.

"(Thanks goodness she didn't laugh.)" Kiko said in relive.

"She froze me good! That was cruel, wicked, depraved, nasty and double cruel!" Air Jay said from inside his ice casket. "I'm beginning to love this girl."

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The trio arrived to the port and sadly there was just one ship.

The captain of the ship and his crew frozen in fear when they saw Air Jay. "I-Its Air Jay!!!! W-What's he doing here?"

Air Jay walked to the captain with his murderous eyes that made him quite famous. "I want this ship, I need it to pay a visit to an island! So pick up your bunch out of it and load the ship with all the supplies we need, our you and your people won't live long enough to travel to the sea again!"

"Y-yes sir!" the captain said with a trembling voice then turns to his crew. "All right the lot of you, fill the ship with all the supplies we need and abandon ship!"

And the entire crew started to load the ship.

"I love being the bad guy!" Air Jay said with a smirk then sneezed.

"It seems that you caught a cold." Taunted Naga as she walked to Air Jay.

"And who's fault is that?" he replied as he sneezed again. "Don't ever Freeze Arrow me again!"

"Well…..I'll think about it. If you promise to be good, do you promise?"

"Of course not, baby!"

"Alright then. FREEZE ARROW!"

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It is night time with the sky clear and the stars shinning and Naga, Air Jay and Kiko are already on the Sea on the way to the Island to get the Crystal.

Naga is on the captains private quarters to find a compass, she searched the entire room but the compass is no where to be found. "Darn it, I search this entire hole and there is no compass and nothing to drink." She then sits on a chair. "Every thing is working well so far, but I need to be careful with Air Jay so that he doesn't find out who I am." She then starts to remember the old times she spend in the past with her former friend, her first and only crush. "Funny, if I didn't know him any better I would say he didn't change at all, but he's still as cruel as ever. But sometimes as I look at him it is hard to believe that he killed my mother. I promised that I would get him and that is what I am going to do!"

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Air Jay is staring the ship and sneezing very loud. "Darn it! She really needs to stop that, if this keeps up I'll turn into a human ice cube."

"(You have problems?)" Kiko growled telepathically, resting right behind Air Jay. "(Here I am on the middle of the ocean and I'm already in a bad mood.)"

"We are in the sea for about two hours and you're already complaining?"

"(I hate water, and you know that!)"

In that moment Naga appears and walks near to Air Jay. "Air Jay we have a crisis! There isn't any compass in this ship!"

"So?" Air Jay asked very comfortably.

"SO…… the island that we are heading is on the north, we'll need a compass to direct us to the north!" Naga responded furiously.

"Relax girl, there is another way to go to the island without using the compass."

"Like what?"

Air Jay points up. "The stars, we'll navigate by the stars!"

Naga blinked in confusion. "The stars?"

"Yes, let's say it's like following the dotted lines. Sailors have been using the method for centuries; they follow the constellations to direct themselves." Air Jay then points back. "Some places or cities have constellations of their own, for example, Seilune, it has a constellation of her own, right above the city there is a group of stars forming the symbol of the Kingdome it self, that is how the symbol of Seilune was made centuries ago." Then he points to his left. "And according to the stars, north is right over there."

Naga picks up her binoculars and looks to the direction that Air Jay is pointing and she is seeing the island a little far away. "I can see the island!"

"See, who's the man?" Air Jay said with an arrogant smirk.

Naga had a vein in her forehead; she hates it when Air jay takes the best out of her. "OOOH OHOHOHOHOHOHOH! Don't fatter your self poor simple minded Air Jay! Do you really think that such knowledge would pass unknown to the great Naga the Serpent? I was merely testing you to see what your wisdom of the sea is! OOOHOOHOHOHOH!"

"(Someone please shoot me so that I might not hear that banshee laughter!)" Kiko whimpered telepathically.

Air Jay also had his hands covering his hears. "Damn, if I am going to keep up with Naga here I'll need hear-monks!"

"Direct the ship to that direction Air Jay!" Naga ordered and Air Jay sails the ship to the left.

"In this speed we'll be there by the first morning light." Air Jay said turning the ship to the direction of the island.

"We will be wasting time, I know of a way to make the ship go faster!" Naga said with one of her wicked grins.

"Huh? How do we do it?" Air Jay asked as he saw Naga standing in front of him and the steering wheel.

Naga simply let out small versions of her loud laughs then points the palm of her hand to the sails. "DIEM WIND!!!!!"

The wind spell hits the sails and the ship starts to run directly to the island at full speed.

"OHOHOHOHOHOHOH!" Naga laughed as she continues to make the ship runs faster.

"AAUUUUUU!(This is too fast!)" Kiko howled holding up to Air Jay's leg.

"Naga! We are going to fast!!" Air Jay shouted.

"Yes I know." Naga shouted back. "OOOHOHOHOHOHOH!"

"But with this speed we won't stop in time!"

Naga blinked. "Oh yeah………then use the breaks!"

"Ships don't have breaks, you banshee lunatic!"

"Then drop the anchor, you talking hairball!"

"Oh yeah, the anchor!"

But Air Jay did not have the time to go for the anchor, the ship crashed against the beach of the island.

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Naga wakes up to find herself in the captain private quarters, she saw that her cape and her shoulder-guards are removed and the cape was used as a sheet. "Air jay must have remove it. I remember of using a spell to make the ship go faster and then we crashed against the beach." She then starts to panic. "Air Jay did not do what I think he did, did he?"

She then gets out of the room to find Air Jay, once she was out she sensed a smell coming from the kitchen. She ran as fast as she could to the kitchen and she breaks the door down. "AIR JAY!!!!!"

Air Jay looks back at Naga with a metal plate in his hand with some pastries in it. "Yo baby, you're awake."

"Don't you baby me! What happen last night?"

"We crashed against the shore and you booked your head against one of the posts. So I rested you in the captain's room." Air Jay responded, picking up a cup.

"Just that?" Naga asked not believing what Air Jay said. "Last night would have been a perfect opportunity for you. And YOU, being the king of perverts that you are did take the chance?"

Air Jay almost dropped the pastries. "What kind of a man do you think I am, woman?" to tell the truth, Air Jay had that in mind but something in him stopped him and he felt guilty for trying to take advantage. "You were hurt so I took care of you."

Something in Air Jay voice made Naga understand that he's being truthful. "Well alright." She said as she sits on a chair. "So what are you doing?"

"Breakfast, sweetheart!" he responded as he heats up the plate, heating up the pastries with his fire powers.

"What is that?"

"Cream pastries from Belém, the best pastries of my country, and they're good when their hot!" Air Jay passes a pastry to Naga. "Try it baby, they are delicious!"

Naga takes the pastry and she sees that Air Jay is right, they are hot. She actually remembers tasting some of Air Jay's pastries in the old days when her mother was still alive, she actually love it, they were really delicious. She finally takes a bit and the taste starts to run all over her memory, they are as delicious as she remembered. "They are quite good."

"Yes, my mother taught me how to do it……..before she die." Air Jay responded turning his back on Naga. He hates to talk about his families demise.

Naga did not say anything; she just continued to eat her pastry. "It is hard to believe that a famous bandit like you can cook."

"I am an outlaw!" Air Jay corrected. "And I am full of surprises, baby."

"Well me too! Do you have more pastries?"

"Yeah, sure."

"So….what happen back there in the inn yesterday?" Naga asked suddenly remembering what happen yesterday.

"Yesterday?" Air Jay puts the plates of pastries on the table. "I discover that Lina holds a very powerful spell called the Giga Slave and she didn't even use it against me! It really hurt my pride!"

Naga almost choked on her pastries with the news, Lina knows how to use a Giga Slave? The spell created by the Lord of Nightmares? "She knows how to use that Spell? I never knew that!"

Air Jay punches the table, almost breaking it apart. "Not only I was defeated by her but now I found out that she didn't even use all her might against me! I swear that I will make her pay!"

Naga blinked, Air Jay almost sounds like her when she is determinate to defeat Lina. "You know, it almost sounds like Lina is your unicorn." She said with a grin.

Air Jay looks back at her confused. "Unicorn? What are you talking about?"

"Don't tell me that you don't know what a unicorn is? The horse with a horn on his forehead and people say it is impossible to catch!"

"I know what a unicorn is, I just want to know what you meant by that!"

"It is an old expression some people say. All I am saying that Lina might end up being your unicorn. It doesn't matter how many times a person might work it self up he comes back down or something ends up happening."

Air Jay closed his fist hard. "Don't worry baby, Lina will not be my unicorn!" then he looks back at Naga with a grin of his own. "And what about you? Isn't Lina your unicorn as well?"

"OOOHOHOHOHOHOH!" Laughed Naga. "Of course not! Just look how much I am attractive than her."

Air Jay nodded his head. "That's true, you have a much better figure than her." Then he grins again. "But how many times have you defeated her?"

Naga almost fell down when Air Jay asked her that. How much she remembers that times she got defeated by Lina. She remained in silence hoping that Air Jay would forget the question.

"Well then, how many times?" Air Jay asked again with the same grin.

Naga growled in her mind, looks like she has no choice but to answer him. So she gets up and turns to him. "You really want to know? Alright then……FREEZE ARROW!!!" and she turns Air Jay into a human ice cube again and she starts to eat peacefully once more.

"NOT AGAIN!!!" Air Jay screamed from inside the ice. "This is the third time she does this to me!"

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In the mean time Kiko was out side the ship in the woods, doing some stuff behind a tree.

"(Man, I really needed to let the dogs out.)" Kiko said telepathically in relive. "(I really needed some time alone, without having to hear that crazy woman's laughs!)"

Kiko sites down and rests his head on the ground. "(Still…...why does that woman seems so familiar to me? She does not smell familiar but she seems familiar, and also her laughs……I know I heard her laughs before, but where?)" Kiko thought about it for a moment until he finally remembers. "(That's it!!!!)" Kiko stands on his feet when he finally remembered. "(It's her, its Gracia! The one that me and Air Jay have been looking for all these years! Now I am sure of it, Naga the Serpent is Gracia, Sylvinia's oldest daughter! I got to tell Air Jay the good news!)" Kiko was about to go back to the ship but he stopped in his tracks. "(Hold on a second here! If she is Gracia why didn't she told us who she is? Why did she introduce her self with a fake name? And how come she didn't smell familiar? She must have used a spell to trick my nose, but why did she bother herself with all that stuff just to trick us? I think its best I don't tell Air Jay yet, I better see how things are going to take place, maybe that way I can find out by myself why she is doing this, if I tell Air Jay he will act a little different and Gracia might suspect that. Never the less I better have a good look on Gracia's stuff to make sure she doesn't have anything that might endanger Air Jay's life.)"

"Hey Kiko!!!" Air Jay called, and Kiko immediately went back to his crew.

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Kiko returned back to see Air Jay and Naga already out of the ship with Naga eating a pastry and Air Jay rubbing his arms, trying to warm himself up.

Kiko sweat drooped. "(Why are you rubbing your arms Air Jay? Don't tell me she did it again….)"

"Yes….."Air Jay responded with a sneeze.

Kiko tapped his paw on his face. "(I don't believe it, you never let anyone push you but you let her? Unbelievable.)"

"Give me a rest dog…..I think I caught the cold."

"Hey Air Jay! Move up! We have a lot to do!" Naga called as she starts to walk to the wood.

Air Jay and Kiko follow her.

"Do you know where you're going?" Air Jay asked.

"Of course I do!" Naga responded in an all mighty tone.

"Does that mean that you have been in this island before?"

"Hum……no!" she responded a little embarrassed. "But hey trust me! I have a perfect sense of orientation. Follow me!"

And so the Trio arrive to the island and already started their search for the Unknown Crystal and preparing for their battle against the Aviar Army.

To be continued……

Sunny: more stuff coming up soon, with Naga and Air Jay doing crazy stuff.

Ramon: and we wish you all a Happy new Year.