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 17
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Orland walks near to the Trio, his expression is difficult to read because of his black mask covering his entire face. "I must say that are different since the last time I saw you two, you are all grown up!"
Air Jay and Naga look at each other confused.
"Say Naga, do you know who this guy is?" Air Jay asked.
"Of course I do!" Naga responded, acting all mighty and wise. "He's a man in a mask!"
Air Jay fell down to the ground because of that response. "Olha obrigadinho! Isso também já vi! (Well thanks a lot! I could figure that by myself!)"
"Hey, don't talk Portuguese to me that way, boy!" Naga complained back.
"Did you just call me boy?"
Orland laughed. "How pitiable, it is so unreasonable when associates can not get along."
"Pitiable? Now there's a word you don't hear every day." Air Jay taunted.
"You still don't remember me, Air Jay? Do you remember the Troupes of Seilune? I was the captain until I was fired by Prince Phill because of his wife!"
with those words Naga remembers who this guy, he was the captain of a group of Soldiers that her father trained, and they became justice maniacs like him. She remembers perfectly the day when Air Jay first attacked Seilune and these guys were whiling on sacrificing anyone to get him, even her sister Amelia. Luckily Naga's mother managed to convince Phill to dispose off all those fools, especially Orland here.
"Oh Yeah, I remember you! You were that clown Philly-dork-want-to-be!" Air Jay laughed. "I remember Sylvinia kicking your butt! You were so lame that it made me sick, but I remember that you didn't wear any mask back then!"
Orland puts his right hand on his face. "That's true. I've suffering some sever changes since the last time we meet. After I was fired I walked around the road with no destination at hand, but I was distraught because of what happen to me. I was the top commander of the most powerful and imprudent troops in history, my pride and honor was take apart as quick as I was fired, I walk around the road like a living zombie for days; I refused to eat or drink or even sleep, I just crave for my own death. I was at the doors of death until the day I met him! Xellos Metallium!"
"Xellos?" Naga repeated. "That's that Mazoku you destroyed a few days ago, Air Jay."
"Indeed!" Orland said as he took his hand out of his face. "The accursed Mazoku priest promised me power, strong authority to destroy the ones who took my honor. That offer really trapped my attention in a way that I immediately said yes, I didn't even thought about the consequences. Xellos indeed make me quite potent but with a terrible cost, I became one of his subordinates and slave, just like he was the slave of Zellas Metalium, in other words I became a Mazoku myself, until now I lived a cursed live!"
"(So that is why I could not smell him!)" Kiko said telepathically.
"You were a dork when I meet you, you were a dork when you left Seilune, you were a dork when you made the deal with Xellos and you still are a big dork! It seems that being a dork is you pontential." Air Jay taunted, taking all of Orland's pain as a joke.
"Maybe, but I should thank you Air Jay. I thank you for destroying Xellos once and for all!"
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Naga asked.
"Are you insane man?" Air jay asked.
"Let me explain. The day when you defeated Xellos for good something has happen to me. I don't know how this happen but I collected all of Xellos, now I posses all his powers multiplied with my own! And now with the power of the unknown Crystal I shall become powerful enough to overthrown Shabrimingo himself and take his rightful place as the king of Mazokus!"
Air Jay laughed at Orland's plans "Now I must say that you've became quite creative. And to think that you were just a stupid moron back then!"
"OOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOH! And for what it seems you are also after the crystal like us!"
"My mission at the beginning was to join the Aviar Army and collect the Crystal to offer it to Master Zellas, but I changed my mind when I gain Xellos powers, I finally have a chance to avenge myself and make the entire world respect me!"
"Yeah, yeah." Naga yawned. "I keep hearing those kinds of stories all the time. Shesh! It is so boring, can't you people think of anything original?"
"You gain some ambitions of your own Orland, but you won't take it for long because we are the ones who are going to take the crystal for ourselves and use it to defeat Lina!" Air Jay said as he cracked his knuckles. "So hit the road!"
"I think not!" Orland challenged as he levitated to the air a little.
"I'll take care of him Naga!" Air Jay said as he pushed Naga a little far away and walks to Orland. Let see what you got, jack!"
"Of course!" Orland then shoots a dark energy ball at Air Jay but Air Jay jumps to the air to escape it. Orland immediately appears right in front of Air Jay and throws another energy ball at Air Jay, hitting him this time and making him fall to the ground.
But Air Jay managed to fall on his feet ready to restart the fight but only to see that Orland is nowhere to be found. Air jay finds him standing right in front of him without even noticing, Orland takes that chance to throw another dark ball at Air Jay, hitting him hard, making him crash against some trees.
Air Jay got up again and charged against Orland ready to beat him, but Orland points both his hands at Air Jay and dozen of blasts come out, hitting Air Jay really hard, forcing him to go down.
Naga is in shock, ever since she met Air Jay she never saw him being overpowered like this. It seems that the combination between Orland's Mazoku powers and Xellos powers are quite greater that she can imagine. All this time that they have been fighting the Aviar army believing that they are the only ones standing in their way of getting the crystal but it seems that the real threat has remain hidden until now.
"You are so getting on my nerves, pal!" Air Jay said with a dangerous voice as he got up.
Orland remains in silence for a moment. "I can not feel your dark emotions, Air Jay. It seems that it is quite impossible to reach it even when you are furious, like now. I must applaud you Air Jay, you have an impressive control of your emotions, so good that not me or any other Mazoku can feel, now I understand why you and your family were always capable of destroying all the other Mazokus in your past time. Even with that cocky attitude of yours you are quite talented."
"Will you just stop cheering me and get on with the fighting? KATRAPUMB!!!" Air Jay presses his fist on the ground and a fire explosion emerges from the ground, running directly at Orland.
Orland lifts a hand up, creating a force field blocking Air Jay's attack; the he took that opportunity to attack Air Jay, punching him on the face with his elbow and making Air Jay fly to the air. Orland took that chance to throw another dark blast at Air Jay, this time making him fly really high into the air until he was no where to be found.
Kiko immediately teleported himself to Air Jay.
"Air Jay!!!" Naga cried, she is now alone with this Mazoku. She glares at him only to see him walking directly at her. Naga immediately puts herself in position, ready to throw a spell at Orland. "Don't think I am like Air Jay there, I am far more powerful than him!"
Orland ignores her threat and chuckles. "I must say you have changed a lot, Gracia Will Naga Seilune!"
Naga gasped when Orland called her by her real name, a name she hasn't heard for so long, she was so caught up with the surprise that she undo her spell, but immediately gain her composure "Say what? You are absolutely mistaken; it is only natural for Mazokus like yourself. I am the most powerful sorceress in the world, in fact from the entire universe. I am Naga The White Serpent!"
"Do you take me a fool?" Orland screamed, his dark energy making all the trees shaking and many rock fly to the air, even the grass tightly stuck on the ground starts to fly to the air. "I know very well who you are! Naga the Serpent shows her face on the world in the exact time when Phill's oldest daughter ran away from the kingdom of Seilune, coincidence? I think not! Only an idiot would not put two and two together. But I must say I am very impressed, you've made quite a name for yourself. You are just as destructive as Lina Inverse herself."
Naga did not say a word, she would never imagine that anyone could have guess who she really was but it was quite obvious for some people, she just never expected for any one to discover it, not even Lina figured that out, secretly she is glad that Air Jay and Kiko were not here, she really does not want them to know who she is or else her plan would be ruin, but she must finish Orland before he can tell Air Jay who she is.
Orland then stops just two feet away from Naga. "All these years that I served Xellos I have dreamed of the day that I would kill Air Jay and all the members of the Seilune Family, especially your mother. I admit that I was heartrending when I heard the news of your mother's death, I always dreamed of killing that filthy tramp myself!"
Naga growled when Orland insulted her mother. "How dare you!!!! FREZZE ARROW!!!" she shoots the spell at Orland but he lifts his hand to block the attack and then shoots a sparkle spell at Naga and grabs her by her neck.
"But since you are holding the memorial tribute of your mother I can kill you in her place. Let me tell you a little secret, soon your sister and your father will join you in the world of the dead, you should be happy that you'll all be reunited and a happy family again:" Orland taunted, holding Naga's neck tighter.
"You……stay …..away from……my sister!" Naga managed to say even with the pain.
"Spear me of your threats; they are nothing more than a waist of last words right about now!" Orland lifts his remaining hand up and the fingers of his hand turns into blades.
In that moment Air Jay is landing from the sky with Kiko right near him.
"(You better be careful Air Jay, it seems that the combination of his powers with Xellos has made him quite powerful!)" Kiko advised telepathically.
"I am so going to break that guy in haft!" Air Jay in a furious tone, then he forms his fire wings in his back. "It still isn't born the Mazoku that can take out the mighty all Air Jay!"
Air Jay flies down at all speed to catch Orland, only to find him strangulating Naga. In that moment Air Jay's cold dark heart stops to beat when he saw Naga like that, like he's losing some one cares again. "NO!!!!! LET HER GO!!!" He flies again at all speed at Orland, like a bullet. In his mind he can still hear the screams of his family getting murdered by Phill and his man, he still has the horrible vision of Sylvinia lying on the ground dead. He will not let the same thing happen to Naga.
Orland looks up to the air to see Air Jay charging directly at him. Orland lets go of Naga and jumps away from Air Jay's attack.
Air Jay got up to his feet with Naga in his arms and with his eyes burning in flames. He looks back at Orland with his eyes burning in rage. "You…… if you ever, ever, touch her again……"
"Enough threats!" Orland demanded. "I could dispose of you all myself but it seems that today is not the day designate for me to eradicate you all. We shall settle this another day, on the day when the crystal is finally out of the grave. Yes, that will be a fine day settle old scores that have lasted for so many years!" after saying that Orland teleports himself far away.
Air jay grunted for Orland running away, it seems that this guy is the real threat in this island. He then looks down at Naga and checks her pulse. "She's alright, she just fainted because of the lack of air. Lets get her to the village Kiko, she needs to rest there." Air Jay picks up Naga and starts to walk. "I swear when I find that Orland guy, I will kill him so bad that he'll wish to be in hell!"
Kiko follows Air Jay in silence, once again Air Jay amazes him. He never concerned for anyone in his dark life. The way he acts, the way he cares for this girls is really like if Air Jay is in love with her. Kiko wonders how this will all turn out when Air Jay discovers that Naga is Gracia.
From the dark Orland heard what Air Jay said. "Make me wish that I was in hell? Poor short minded Air Jay, thanks to you and to the Seilune family my life has turn into hell! And the price that I paid for becoming a Mazoku is far much worst, much worst that anyone can imagine, all because of you all. I swear that the day will come when I will be the one who will make everyone feel the pains of hell!"
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Two hours later Naga wakes up to find herself in one of the houses back in the village with Air Jay sitting right next to her.
"Air Jay? What happen? I remember that Orland guy and the next thing I knew everything went black."
"I saved ya from him!" Air Jay responded as he got up from his chair. "It means you own me big time!" he said with a perverted smile.
"Take your horses from the rain Air Jay! You start thinking perverted stuff and I will Freeze arrow you again!" Naga threatened, which made Air jay back away a bit. "So did you finish that Mazoku?"
"Nope, he managed to get away:" Air jay responded in no much of delight. "Damn that guy is strong! I hardly managed to lay a finger at him!" he growled as he punched the wall. "This is the second time I get beat like this! Oh but this is going to end, I promise that this is going to end!"
"Ease up Air Jay. A little humiliation can do you good, it clears the soul and makes us motivated!" Naga said as she rested her head in her pillow. "I faced Lina millions of times but I never gave up challenging her for the title of the best sorceress! She defeated and humiliated me a thousand times but that always motivated me to go after her, but I don't lose my temper the way you do. So calm down!"
Air Jay looks curiously at Naga. "You….you are trying to cheer me up?"
Naga blushed when Air Jay ask her that, but it is true, she is trying to cheer him up, she doesn't understand why, why she would feel sympathy for the man who murdered her mother. "What ever. Look, just go downstairs and bring me something to eat!"
"Alright." With that Air Jay left the room.
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In the kitchen Air Jay finds his dog eating all the food in the kitchen. "Kiko! I know that you left something for me and Naga!" he shouted
"(Oh yeah, I left you guys a box of cookies!)" Kiko points his paw to the box.
Air Jay shakes his fist in fury. "Why must you always have to eat everything?"
"(Because I'm the dog in this group.)"
"Oh brother….."
"(Air Jay there is something I want to talk to you.)"
"What? What is it?" Air Jay asked, a little surprised by Kiko's sudden telepathic change of tone, he seems more serious.
"(Well it is about Naga, do you trust her?)"
Air Jay blushed with the question. "Me?...well….why do you ask that?"
"(you seem to care for her a lot, and I must say that you two really work well as a team, you guys beat and humiliated in the most wacky way all the ones who stand up against you guys. When ever she gets herself in trouble you are always there to defend her, something that you have never done to anyone!"
"So what's your point?"
(You always killed, humiliated, beat, bruised and destroyed everyone you meet, that is your hobby. When you meet this girl your original plan was to go to bed with her, but you communicate with her very differently, in fact it is the first time you have a friendly conversation with anyone. Most of all you let her push you around, you never let anyone do that to you, she has already punched you more than once, throw Freeze arrows at you and she has insulted you a few times already. I would like to know why you are you letting her do this? Why do you let her push you this way?)"
Air Jay didn't responded immediately, he just scratches his head nervously. "I….I don't know…..but for some strange reason I could not slap her or even kill her. It is so strange, it feels like…..like she's special to me, and I fell like I know her for so long. I just don't know…..I feel so good when I am with her….."
Kiko grinned. "(Air Jay….I think you are really in love.)"
"WHAT!?!?!?! No way! I am the all mighty Air Jay. I am the big bad boy and the living dream of all the hot babes! I don't fall in love! The ladies fall in love with this big bad sexy boy!"
"(Stop acting all macho and cool, why you don't just admit that….)" Kiko was interrupted when he and Air Jay felt that there is someone is near the house. "(Air Jay, I feel someone is coming, but it is not that Mazoku guy.)"
"It could be someone from the Aviar army. I shall take care of the goon!" Air Jay leaves the kitchen to find who it is that it is spying on them.
"(Alright, I will continue to chow down.)" And Kiko continues to eat his food
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Naga walks to the window to look at the sun set, she is so confused. She wants to kill Air Jay for taking her mother away from the world but in the same time she is feeling attracted by him, once again, things were so much easier for her when she traveled with Lina, she was always competing against her or even taunting her but she never had to deal with anything like this. She wants to kill him but she is also feeling bad about it, as much as she hates to admit it Naga and Air Jay really do work well as a team, just as good when she was traveling with Lina, but with Air Jay it is different, she feels in a certain way, more alive.
Naga then notices Air Jay leaving the house, he seems to be looking for someone. This caught Naga interest and she decides to follow him to make sure he doesn't try anything funny against her.
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Air Jay walks around on the streets of the empty village, not knowing that he is followed by Naga. Air Jay's eyes are searching the entire area to see if he could find the intruder. "Where are you, you little piece of trash?"
Air Jay continues to walk a little further until the intruder himself comes out, it is none other than Arn.
Naga managed to hide in the dark Alley and she sees Air Jay and Arn , face to face, Naga just wonders why the former member of the Aviar Army is here. He is now on our side against the Aviar Army, right?
Air Jay smirked when he saw that it is just Arn. "So it's you, for a moment here I thought that it someone very important."
"You always have a very insolent idiom." Arn replied. "You are still the same heartless monster that everyone knows and hate."
"I'm glad to hear that!" Air Jay replied back with a cocky attitude. "I am the Portuguese bad boy, and I love it. But for some reason I have the feeling that you don't like me very much. Why is that? Did I humiliated you from somewhere or did I kill someone you liked?"
Arn glares more furiously at Air Jay. "You mean you don't remember me? Don't you remember my village? The village you destroyed?"
"I destroy a lot of places, I don't remember them all. so why don't you just give me some hits!"
"Well I remember!" Arn screams furiously. "I remember the dreadful day when you invaded our village! You just came and bossed everyone around and you started to beat some of the locals until the headmaster of our village came to you and started to mention the vampire Styndorn."
"Styndorn?" Naga thought. "I remember him. Back then when I first met Lina I remember coming to this village and the Village headmaster came to us to asked us to save some locals that were trapped in some ruins that was overrun by some monsters, but in the end we discovered that the local villagers trick us and they send us there to use us as sacrifices for the idiot vampire Styndorn. After we got all of Syndorns treasures Lina left me in the ruins and when back to the village to blow them up. Arn is from that Village?"
"Oh yeah!" Air Jay screamed, snapping his finger. "Now I remember! Your village boss mentioned about a Vampire that could be quite of a challenge for me, I of course welcomed the challenge and went to the ruins he mentioned. I faced the Vampire that he mentioned only to find out that he was weaker than a sick kitten, later I found out that the village people were always tricking people into coming to the ruins and use them as sacrifices to the Vampire which I ended up killing him. What really drive me crazy is that the village people were planning on using me as a sacrifice. So I returned back to the village and killed every one I could find. I must say that I found it fun!"
Air Jay's last words infuriated Arn. "You found it fun?"
"Yes, that is what happens to those who try to trick me. I slaughter them until they are no more!" Air Jay replied with a grim voice.
"You are proud of it? You came to my came back to my village and you killed everyone in sight! My wife was in the middle of those victims! You ruin my life!" Arn screamed, releasing and the fury and pain that he's been enduring all this time.
Naga gasped when she heard that. Air Jay killed all the people in that Village? She knows that he's a cold hearted criminal but she was not excepting this.
"And what does that mean to me?" Air Jay taunted very coldly.
Naga heard that and got revolted with what she heard.
That only enraged Arn some more and he remained in his position, shaking in fury.
"What's the matter bud? You want to kill me? Well I am right here, come and get me!" Air Jay challenged. "What's the matter? Aren't you angry at me for killing your woman?" he taunted again, irritating Arn some more who still remain in his spot. "Oh, are you afraid of the big bad guy?"
Arn wanted to punch Air jay really hard, but he is afraid of him, he knows that Air Jay can crush him easily like a bug, his original plan was to come here to spy on Air jay to see if he could find anymore weakness from his part.
"Just as I thought!" Air Jay turns his back at Arn. "Get out of my face. I'll let you go this time because I am not in the mood right now but if I ever catch you in my sight again I will make sure that you join your fellow villagers. AHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
Just before Air Jay could walk away Arn calls him out. "Hold it right there, Air Jay! Because of you I joined the Aviar army in the past so that I could seek revenge on you, I left the Army but my desire for revenge still flows inside of me. I promise you this, one of these days you are going to regret for all the evilness that you have done!"
Air Jay turns his head to Arn with an evil smirk. "I don't think so pal. I never regretted for all the things that I have done." After saying that Air Jay starts to walk away, leaving Arn alone with his anger.
The one who got more enraged with Air Jay's last words is Naga, it is like Air Jay is saying that Air Jay has no regrets about killing her mother.
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Air Jay returns back to the house and brings the box of cookies to Naga. "You baby! I have here your food!" Air Jay said as he knocked Naga's door. "It is only a box of cookies because Kiko ate everything else."
"Go away!" Naga shouted from inside the room.
"Huh?" this confused Air Jay. "But weren't you hungry?"
"I lost my appetite, now go away!"
"Baby, what's wrong? Are you sick or something?"
"Air Jay, I said go away!"
"But….."
"Air Jay, I won't say it again, go away or I will Freeze arrow you so bad that you won't be able to melt it down with your fire powers!" Naga threatened, with a very deep, sincere, serious voice.
Air Jay only stayed there in front of the door for a moment, and then he goes downstairs again, he wonders what could be wrong with Naga.
In her room Naga sits down, leaded against the wall with her hands holding her face, so much anger in her face. Luckily Naga managed to get back to the house before Air Jay but she is a little tire because of all the running. She starts to hate herself for ever starting to feel sympathy for Air Jay, but after what she hears what he said to Arn her hate returned back. "You have no regrets, do you Air Jay? Well I won't have no regrets myself when I use the crystal to obliterate you once and for all!" Naga said in a low voice, more determinate then ever.
To be continued……
Maliska: damn, now things are getting to hard and difficult for The Trio.
Ramon: but more big stuff on the way. The search for the Unknown Crystal is more firm then ever. Who will obtain it?
Sunny: read and review please.