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 19
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Aviair and Air Jay stare at each other for a moment until Aviar decides to break the silence "Speak damn you! Tell me what you meant by that?"
Air Jay smirked. "Ever since I meet you and fought your army I've been wondering why you surrounded yourself with worthless soldiers that you gathered by recruiting bandits. Even if your army is considered the big mean ones I wonder why you needed them."
"I needed them to form the most powerful force of the world!" Aviar replied.
"Bull! That's all bull, man. I made a research on the memories of a Mazoku named Xellos and it said that anyone who hold the power of Zanafear gain an impressive power, strong enough to destroy an entire city. That power can be gain by breaking the seal where Zanafear was buried and gain his power, that happen once to a copy until he was defeated by Lina Inverse. That power can be gain by the sword of Zanafear, the same sword you are holding right now, the same sword that only a few people know about it. That sword is a blessing but also a curse, The Mazoku never bothered to find it because they know of the terrible secret of the Sword of Zanafear, anyone who gains it gains all the powers of Zanafear but his life gets shorter until he eventually dies. That is why you and your army always gathered powerful magical objects, in hopes to find something to save your life, and I bet the Unknown crystal is your last hope." Air Jay said with a grim smirk. "What good is power if you end up dying, right?"
Aviar remained in silence for a moment until he returns back that insane smirk. "It is all true; I don't need worthless weakling like the ones you and your girl defeated, I only used them to achieve my goal but I still want to destroy Seilune and his people." Aviar let out a vindictive laugh. "But when I do it I will do it on my own. The Unknown crystal is my last hope, I'll need to catch it and bring it to the same man who informed me about the Crystal, he seems to know how to activate it. When I hold the powers of the Unknown Crystal I'll be rid of the curse of Zanafear for good!"
"So it seems but by your looks you don't have much time" Air Jay pointed out. "But you're at your weakest point. That is why I said that I won't waist my strength on you!"
"YOU FOOL!!!" Aviar shouted and pressed his sword on the ground. "I have been in more battles that you and I have more experience! Just like you I am a warrior, the strongest of it all. If I die I rather to pass away in combat! I forbid you Air Jay to deny me a warrior's end!"
Air Jay remains in silence for a moment until he puts himself in a fighting position. "It's your funeral, bud. You want some? Then come get some!"
"I am glad to hear that!" Aviar pulls his sword up and puts himself in a fighting position. "If I die today, I'm going to make sure that you'll breathe your last breath today as well!"
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In the Temple Naga finds the door where the Crystal is being held, she touches the door and she can feel that there is a strong powerful Magic. Naga could not put her finger on it but she feels something very familiar in this magic, it is like she had felt it before. "Why do I have the feeling this magic is so familiar? Well never mind I better get to work, Air Jay won't be able to hold Aviar for ever."
Naga closes her eyes and starts to perform an incantation; her body starts to glow and points the palm of her hands to the door, her hands lets lose a glow that surrounds the door, after the door was completely surrounded by the glow the door finally opens. "That was easy, I have open many enchanted doors but this one seemed quite familiar…I wonder why…."
Naga then creates a lightning spell and a she sees the Crystal right in the middle of the room, the room was quite small for such an enormous door. Naga notices the Crystal, the famous Cryatal that everyone is after, after all these years that the crystal has been under the ground it still shines like a pretty penny and with out any dirt around it.
"Wow! That crystal sure shines pretty, I hope it will be very usefull for me in the end or else I will sell it for the better price." Naga said enchanted by the crystal but then she notices a shadow right next to her and she sees the other shadow about to attack her.
Naga ducks down when she was about to get hit and performs a spell. "MEGA BRAND!!!"
The attack explodes in the ground but Naga's attack manage to jump back to escape it.
"Orland?" Naga said when she recognized her attacker, is that same accursed Mazoku who use to work for her father when he was human.
"Now, now, Naga…you should not use your explosive spell in here." Orland warned in a mocking tone. "Don't forget that we are in a cave a few miles under ground, any big explosion can burry us alive."
"Hump! I admit that I completely forgot about you but no matter!" Naga replied in her arrogant way. "But I'm glad you came, I have old scores to settle with you. You caught me off guard the last time but this time you are going to get what's coming to ya!"
"You are so blind and arrogant Naga. I will truly enjoy destroying you."
"Other filthy rats said the same thing but they are the ones who parish." Naga said as she prepared a spell.
"It's a good thing I am not a filthy rat." Orland taunted as he runs to Naga.
"FREEZE PISTOL!!!!" Naga shouted and releases an ice spell that creates an enormous block of ice that runs directly at Orland.
Orlands stops in his tracks and transforms his fingers into blades and cuts the ice block into pieces
"DAMU BRASS!!!" Naga shouts as she throws the spell at Orland.
Orland jumps to the air to escape the attack.
Naga takes that chance to make another attack "FREEZE ARROW!!!"
The ice spell runs directly at Orland who is stopped in mid air. He points his hand to the spell and creates a force field that blocks Naga's attack.
Naga gasped when she saw that, Orlands seems stronger than before. "Darn it……"
"You finally understand that you have no probability against me?" Orland mocks.
"Says you!!!" Naga screams and prepared to make another spell.
But Orland vanishes and appears right in front of Naga and punches her right on the stomachs. The hit was so strong that made Naga crash against the wall.
Naga them collapse on the ground and remain unmoved, it seems like she's dead.
Orland chuckles sinisterly. "It is over, Gracia Will Naga Seilune. Go join your mother in the world of the death."
Naga slowly gets up to her feet, laughing her famous insane laugh as she did. "OOOH OHOHOHOHOH! I don't think so. I, Naga the Serpent don't fall down and die that easily!"
For the first time Orland grumbles with annoyance. "Why….why must you persist to struggle? Why must you continue when you know you don't stand a chance? You have faced Lina many times, countless of times, you always been beaten, still you continued to hunt her in order to be known as the supreme sorceresses. With all your efforts, all your brawls you never managed to obtain victory. Why don't accept reality and admit that you can't win? You are worthless!"
Naga never lose her cool with all of Orland's comments, she remains with her usual and cofident grin. "Hump! You are such a fool, Orland. You were a fool when you worked with my father, you were a fool when you worked with Xellos and you still are a fool. The answer to your question is obvious; I am Naga the Serpent! I have faced many dares in my life and I always came out on top. All the efforts I have made in my life are enough proof that I am not a failure like you acknowledged, Orland. Besides I made a promise that I would never give up, no matter what. Most of all, I am Naga the Serpent, Not Gracia! Naga the Serpent is unique and powerful and I refuse to be defeated by someone who has always been noting but an insignificant minion!"
Orland growled with Naga's last words. "I have enough of you! DIE!!!!" Orland charges against Naga with a dark energy ball in his hand.
He throws it against Naga but she jumps to the air and grabs Orland's head with her hand and makes him fall to the ground with her hand still holding his head.
"MEGA BRAND!!!!" Naga shouted, performing the ground spell with the same hand that it's holding Orland's head.
"AAAH!!!" Orland screamed in pain when he got hit and roles out of the way, he then gets up to his knees with both his hands covering his face, he's in terrible pain since Naga's spell destroyed his mask.
"OOOHOHOHOHOH! Now you know it is not wise to challenge the magnificent Naga the Serpent!" Naga said very smugly.
"I am so ashamed of myself. I thought that I could gather enough negative energy from you but all I hear is your cocky talk. But that is going to change; I am going to obliterate you once and for all!" Orland said as he removed his hands from his head.
Naga freaked out when she Saw Orlands face, his head is nothing but a skull, his neck is all bones, he only has the right eye and a little piece of flesh around his eye. "Man….did I do that to your face."
"No you did not!" Orland snapped. "What you are seeing before you is the price that I paid for supremacy. Xellos said that he would make quite potent but he never mentioned that I would have to sacrifice my entire flesh for it! That is what I hate about people like you, Lina and Air Jay, you all achieve powers with out giving anything of yourselves but I had to give my flash for power. I hate you all, I hate you all! My Mazoku powers are very agonizing but believe me it is worth it! Worth it to have my revenge and to destroy the likes of you!"
"OOOHOHOHOHHOOHOHOH!!! Orland, you are such a fool!" Naga laughed. "It was your own greediness and egotism that drove you into what you are today but you use lame excuses and blame everything on the others. You are so scrawny, no wonder why my mother had no trouble beating you!"
"I have had it with your insulting mouth! I am going to kill you once and for all!!!" Orlands skeleton body starts to emerge a powerful dark energy and right behind him a portal starts to open.
The portal starts to grow bigger and larger and a mystical force is sucking everything into it, except Orland who seems to be immune to the power.
Naga feels herself being dragged to the Portal by force, so she freezes her legs with an ice spell, making her being really stuck to the ground, but the power of that portal seems to be immense, she won't last forever.
"It is all pointless now! Your fate is sealed, Naga the Serpent!!!" Orland laughed.
"What is that Portal? What are you doing?" Naga demanded using more ice spell to trap her to the ground.
"This, my dear, is the Fear Zone!"
"Fear Zone?"
"It is a forbidden spell that I have learned! Every one who is trapped inside in the Fear Zone will be lost forever in an empty void and of course they will end up dying in matter of minutes because of the poison air floating around, and your soul will be floating around with out never finding a resting place. This can affect Human or Mazokus, even their Astral bodies can suffer the same effects, which is why many mazoku are afraid to use it. I was hoping to use this on your family but you forced me to use it on you, you are quite lucky, congratulations."
Naga did not know what to do, she has never been in a difficult situation like this but she refused to go down. Like she said before she battled many obscurities in her life and she just refused to go down, now when she found her mothers killer and she plans to exterminate him as well. "Well I also have something to give to you Orland, I was hoping to use it against Air Jay but you forced me to use it against you first!"
"Huh?"
Naga points her hands at Orland. "CHAOS STRING!!!" and the spell hits Orland really hard, making him fall to the Portal.
"NOOO!" Orland screamed for dear life as he holds on to the edge of the Portal, but the portal is starting to close down with Orland in it. "No!!! I can not die, I must have my revenge!! It is not fair!!!" Orland screams in desperation as he finally gets sucked in the Fear Zone and the portal closes for good.
The ice on Naga's legs finally breaks and she lands on her knees, breathing heavily as she did. "Man……That was really close….I wish Lina was here so that I could scorn at her face……" Naga then gets up and takes a deep breath. "Well time to get the crystal and get out of here."
Naga walks inside the room and slowly takes hold of the crystal with her hands; it is a small crystal with the size of her fist but crystal clear. "Such a small thing, it is hard to believe that this thing can make a person strong. Oh well, I better get out of here."
"I have other plans." Said a voice from behind Naga, she turns around to see Arn.
"Arn? How did you get here?"
"I manage to get in while Air Jay and Aviar are fighting each other like maniacs." Arn responded, and then puts out his knife out and Naga gasped when she saw the knife. "Now you have something that I want! Revenge!"
Naga takes a step back. "Everyone wants revenge now a day. But what does that has to do with me?"
"It seems that Air jay is quite found of you. So I am going to take from him something he treasures!" Arn said in a threatening tone.
Naga blushed when she hears that, then she shakes her head. "What makes you think that I will go on that easily? In case you haven't notice I just take down a strong Mazoku!"
"I know, but I know your weakness." Arn then cuts his arm, revealing some blood.
Naga gasped when she saw the blood, the horrible memory that has been tormenting her all these years is invading her mind. "Blood……Blood….. BLOOD!!!!" She screamed very emotionally, she tried her best to stay up, she knows that this man wants to kill her but the outrageous remembrance that she suffered all these years is just too strong for her to seize or resist, she faints and falls to the ground but with one hand still holding that crystal.
Arn had a smirk on his face and looks behind him. "I can hear Air Jay coming, I told him I was going to make him regret for all that he has done and now he's going to lose all he holds dear, just like he has done to me!"
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Outside Air jay and Aviar are fighting with all they got, at least Aviar is, Air Jay is hardly moving at all. Kiko is simply watching the fight and yawning, he considers this a boring fight.
"What's the matter old goof? Is your age coming up to ya?" Air Jay mocked coldly, taking Aviar's pain as a joke and then kicks him on the face.
Aviar falls down to one knee but immediately get up to his feet and holding his sword tight.
He looks up at Air Jay but he's already seeing everything all blurry and his legs are all weakening. "No….not now……Not when I am so close!" Aviar screamed in his mind. "To think I was so close to archive my goal…..I was so close to be the most powerful man in the world……but I won't go down with out a fight….I refuse to go down with out a fight!"
"What's the matter old timer? Don't have the guts to stand up against the all mighty Air Jay no more?" Air Jay mocked at Aviar again.
Aviar roared like a wild beast and stares at Air Jay with the eyes of a beast as well. "If I die….I'm taking you with me!"
This only made Air jay laugh. "Oh man!!!! If I could have a gold coin for every time I heard that I would be rich!"
"I am going to end your scorns once and for all!" Aviar points his gigantic red sword at and the swords starts to glow with an intense energy surrounding it.
Air Jay did not move from the spot he's in, he only dared Aviar to attack. "Come on pal! Face the big AJ man if you think you can. I'm right here and I ain't going no where!"
"You will pay for all your irritating disrespect!" Aviar yelled and then shoots a gigantic red blast at Air Jay.
Air Jay did not move from the spot, he simply waits for the attack with a smirk on his face.
The red blats hits Air Jay but he did not screamed in pain, he got hit with the blast and he remains on his feet.
As soon as the blast was gone, Aviar saw that it is left of Air Jay, only his legs and waist. Air Jay's torso, arms and head are completely gone, destroyed by Aviars blast.
Aviar lands on his knees, he's completely tire, he feels that his life is about to end, in any time he will finally fall and his life will end. None the less he is grinning because of what he has just done. "Yes, at last! I have finished you once and for all! You see what happens when you face the might of Aviar?"
Suddenly Aviar starts to hear laughs coming from what's left of Air Jay's body.
And fire starts to emerge from Air Jay's wound, taking the form of Air Jay's arms, torso and head. The flames starts to evaporate and regenerating Air Jay's body until he is in one piece again.
"No…it can't be…." Aviar said in disbelieve.
"Yeah, it bites, doesn't it?" Air Jay taunted. "Don't tell me that have forgotten that I can regenerate my body thanks to my phoenix powers. Your memory is so short, bud. But the funniest thing is that your blast did not scare me one bit, after getting hit with Lina's Dragon Slave, your attack was like a mosquito's bite. But look at this man, you ruin my coat and shirt, even my gloves, luckily I still have my pants."
"I lost……" Aviar said in a defeated tone and drops his sword. As soon as the sword feel down to the ground it started to crack until it was noting but little fragments and evaporating. The sword of Zanafear is no more.
"Well look at that." Air Jay said with a grin. "Looks like the Sword can only be used once in a life time, after that it self destroys. Xellos's memories were right."
"So this is my end then……I was always the strongest and always defeated everyone who faced me…… but no matter, I enjoy my life." Aviar said very weakly, his life is almost ending. "Kill me Air Jay!"
"Come again?"
"If I am going to die I prefer to die in a warrior's demise, not dying like this so that people might find out the true nature of my power and that was that same power the ended my existence. So please kill me now!"
Air Jay puts on that smirk on his face and walks to Aviar, in that moment it seems that Air Jay was going to kill Aviar but instead he just passes by Aviar.
"Why? Why don't you kill me?" Aviar demanded.
Air Jay just turns his head to Aviar. "I don't do any favors to my adversaries. Besides I Just want to see you suffer with end that you fear so much, destroying your honor completely and every one will see how puny you are." Then he laughs cruelly and walks away.
"CURSE YOU AIR JAY!!! Not only you destroyed my pride but you took away my warriors end! Damn you Air Jay damn you to……" Aviar could not continue with his curses, because his life has finally end.
"(It's about time that guy died.)" Kiko said telepathically. "(For a moment here I thought he would become a challenge. They guy was all cocky and all talk.)" Then he follows Air Jay directly to the cave.
"Yeah!" Air Jay agreed. "I was hoping to find some challenge in this island but this entire army was all talk and no brawn."
In that moment Air Jay hears Naga's scream. "Blood……Blood….. BLOOD!!!!"
This panicked Air Jay, when he heard Naga's scream. "Naga? Oh no!" And he runs at full speed to the direction where he heard the scream.
"AUUUU, AUUU! (Air Jay, wait for me!)" Kiko barked.
Air Jay ran as fast as he could to the tunnel to find Arn with an arm around Naga's neck and with dagger near to her head.
"You…." Air Jay said in a dangerous voice. "Let her go now!!!"
"Why should I?" Arn replied. "Do you feel it? Do you feel the pain of losing someone you love? I felt that, I felt it terribly! I felt it on the day you destroyed my village and killed every one, including my wife!"
Air Jay puts on a calmer face and puts a smirk. "I killed many people, killed many villages even killed many wife's. I believe that you and I are very much the same."
"What?"
"You and your people have tricked many people and use them as sacrifices for that vampire what's-his-name. How many husbands and wife's have you sacrificed for your own protection? How many people have you saved for your own salvation? You people are just as evil as me."
"THAT'S A LIE!!!!" Arn screamed as he prepared to stab Naga.
But Air Jay throws a fire ball right at Arn's hand.
"AAAARGH!!!!" Arn screamed in pain when his hand got hit with the fire ball and rolls away from Naga.
Air Jay took that chance to take a look at Naga's condition to see that she is alright and that she still has pulse. Air Jay then looks back at Arn who is on the ground holding his burned hand. He gets up to his feet and walks to Arn. "I guess I made a big mistake leaving you alive on that day. Well I'll be damn if I ever make that mistake again."
Air jay garbs Arn and lifts him up to the air with both hands, one holding Arn's neck and the other holding his waist. Air Jay then throws Arn down and making him crash his back against one of Air Jay's knees.
"AAAARGH!!!!" Arn screamed in pain when he felt that his spin is broken.
"There we go……" Air jay said as he dumps what is left of Arn to the ground and walks back to Naga.
"(Damn that's really got to hurt.)" Kiko taunted telepathically.
"Hey Naga, wake up baby!" Air jay said as he taps on Naga's cheeks.
Naga slowly opens her eyes to see Air jay holding her. "Air Jay? What happen?"
"Dirt-bag over there made you faint. Did you get the jig?"
Naga looks down to her hand to see that she is till holding the Crystal, she then shows it to Air Jay. "If you mean the crystal then yes I hav……" Naga then realizes something. "Why are you with out a shirt?"
"Huh?" Air jay looks down. "Oh yeah, I…."
Air Jay was interrupted when Naga slap him on the face. "You pervert! You think you take advantage on the Great Naga the Serpent? You still need to eat a lot of soup to be able to be with the supreme sorceresses, Naga the Serpent!"
"I haven't done anything, and I still can not believe I haven't yet!" Air Jay replied as he rubbed his chin. "And look how you look all the time! You are more naked than me!"
"Like it is my fault you are too ignorant."
"Ignorant? What does ignorance has to do with our gears?"
Kiko sighed. "(Looks like things are getting better between those two again.)"
"I'm not done yet!" Arn said in a near death voice.
Naga, Kiko and Air Jay look back at Arn who is on the ground whit only his arm picking up something from his pocket.
"What happen to him? He's paralyzed." Naga asked in a shocked tone.
"Oh, I just broke his spine." Air jay responded very simply. Naga looks at his with a stunned look.
"If I die…..I will make all of you come with me!" Arn then picks up a small bomb.
Naga and Air jay simply laughed.
"You don't have anything to light it." Air jay laughed.
"Smashing it is a different story!" Arn replied as he smashed the bomb against a rock.
BOOM.
To be continued……
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