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 22
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In another room, Zurten is o the edge of a fountain with a a different clouts and a servant right beside him and other servants all around the fountain, each one of them holding little bags that hold hair samples.
"Very well the ingredients are in place, now put the crystal in the fountain." Zurten ordered and one of the servants throws the Unknown Crysta into the fountain. "Splendid! Now throw the hair samples!" and all the servants throw the hair samples from the bags to the fountain, Zurten himself throw the hair samples from Naga, Air Jay and Lina.
After all the hair samples were in the fountain and the fountain itself glow in a great white glow that illuminated the entire room. After the glow was gone Zurten shakes in emotion. "Finally, after so many years, I have the elixir. How long I waited for this moment……"
In that moment the door explodes, and from all the smokes comes out the Trio.
"Knock, knock. Room service." Air Jay taunted as he, Naga and Kiko enter the room.
"You've been a really bad boy here, Zurten, it is not nice to trick people, especially the Great Naga the Serpent." Naga taunted with a spell forming in her hand.
"Curses, I thought that you two would be lifeless by now! Get them get them now!" Zurten ordered and all his servants rush against the Trio. "And you, throw me to the fountain, then attack those two meddlers!" he ordered to the servant that was behind him, and the servant removes all the tubes that were stuck in Zurten's, picks him up from his wheal chair and throws Zurten to the fountain.
Naga and Air Jay remains in their place while the servants are rushing to attack them.
"So now we are going to face these clowns?" Air Jay asked with a grin.
"Hum….we have minions here that are armed with swords against the two of us. Who do you think that will win?" Naga taunted.
Two seconds later.
The Servants are all lying on the ground with the devastating beating that they got from Air Jay and Naga.
Kiko was stunned with what he saw, those two only need two seconds to defeat all these guys. Now that Air Jay and Naga are a team, more than ever, their forces combine are now even more devastating and powerful.
"OOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!!!!" Naga laughed. "This fools must be joking, do they really think that they had the enough power to even stand against the mighty Naga?"
"Yo, yo, yo there Naga, I help too!" Air Jay reminded. "Don't forget that the might of the big bad boy here crushed these buffoons."
"True, but it was my leadership that won our victory here."
"WHAT!?!?!? Like who made you the leader here?"
"Well it can't be you."
"Why not?"
"Because you're the bad guy."
"Now don't start that again!"
Kiko sighed, he can not believe that even in a moment like this, these two are still giving in to their vanity. It is almost like is they didn't try to kill each other a few minutes ago.
"Where's the old man?" Air Jay asked.
"I saw that he fell on that fountain." Naga responded, pointing to the fountain.
"You mean the old man killed himself? Too bad, I wanted to rip his head out."
"But where's the crystal? We're still going to need it."
In that moment Zurten's right hand emerges from the water, this made Naga and Air Jay let out a big WOW, and Zurten's right hand starts to change, his wrinkles starts to disappear until his skin starts to gain some colour until it was completely young and strong.
"What's up with that?" Air Jay asked completely puzzled, he never saw anything like this before.
In that moment, Zurten starts to emerge from the fountain and he shocked the Trio, they were expecting a very old very sick old man with an elevated age but what they saw is a young man, more or less of their age with a purple long hair.
"Zurten?" Naga asked, not believing that the guy right in front of her is Zurten.
Zuretn did not respond, he just looks at his hands with a grin. "Yes, it is me. It is me and young once more!" he responded without looking at Naga.
"But how?" Air Jay asked. "How did you get so young? You were just a sick old man."
Zurten finally looks back at his foes. "Because I created an elixir of Immortality, a Fountain of Youth if you may."
The Trio Gasped with the news.
"You did what?" Naga asked in shock.
"No way man, those things don't exist!" Air Jay stated.
"I heard about those things but I always believed that it was nothing but a silly fairy tale." Naga said.
"But it exists!" Zurten assured. "I've waited countless and countless of years to obtain all the ingredients to make the fountain but finally after all the set backs and al the pain I am created the fountain of youth for the second time!"
"(Second time?)" Kiko repeated telepathically.
"You have done this before?" Naga asked.
"Damn….the guy is much older than 182." Air Jay said with a disgusted look.
"But where's the crystal? Didn't you use it to make yourself stronger?"
Zurten just laughed at Naga's question. "You fool! You really believed in that story I told you! Do you really believe that there was another object that would have the same purpose as the Philosophy stone? That was all a lie that I made so that you would not learn the true story of the Crystal. The Unknown Crystal is actually an important ingredient for the fountain, in order for the fountain to work it needed a sample of a younger person, like a hair sample, the crystal generates that youth to me, powering all the cells of my body and making it young and powerful. If the person whose hair sample was taken had an important ability or even any strong power, all that power would be transferred to me, that is why all over the years I collected hair samples from strong warriors and even powerful sorceress or sorceresses, but the hair sample that I got from you two and Lina has gave me a power that can match Shabrimingo, I can feel it!"
Air Jay closes his fist in anger. "We work our butts for a crystal whose only purpose is to make a person young again? It doesn't make us stronger?"
Naga glares at Zurten. "You used us to do your dirty work!"
Zurten smirks. "Of course I did, I used you two just like I used the Aviar Army!"
Air Jay blinks. "Huh?"
"How do you know the Aviar army?" Naga asked.
"You deprived fools!" Zurten insulted. "Did you really believe that Aviar and his militaries would ever be in that desolate island if someone hadn't fooled him and told him that the crystal was there?"
Air Jay then snaps his fingers. "Of course! Aviar did say that he had an informer who told him that the Crystal was in the island."
"I see." Naga said, and then she looks back at Zurten. "Aviar also believed that the Crystal was useful to make a person stronger. You used the Aviar Army to do all the heavy work on finding the crystal, after the crystal was found we would just show up and steal it from them."
"Yes, that is one of the main purposes why I hire you, Naga the Serpent. But the real main reason why I really hire you, and not Lina Inverse, was because the crystal was guarded in a magical seal which no one could open, only the one who made the spell or a direct family member could break the seal."
"A direct family member? What do you……" Naga gasps when she finally realises what Zuretn is talking about. "My mother!"
"What do you mean Naga?" Air Jay asked.
"It was my mother! My mother was the one who has hidden the crystal in that Island and burry it in that underground temple!"
"So that was the sorceresses that Ashley and her friends mentioned?"
Naga then glares at Zurten again. "So you lied to me! You said that my mother use to work for you!"
"She did." Zurten assured. "I employed her to find the crystal but when she found out that I was going to use it to become youthful again she hide it in an unknown place where I could not find it, it took me years to find it but at last I discover its whereabouts and here I am before you, all young and mighty again! Now Sylvinia's failure is absolute."
Kiko, Air Jay and Naga growled at Zurten for those comments.
In that moment all of Zurten's servants started to get up, but Zurten lifted a finger to the air. "MONO VOLT!!!" he shouted, releasing a devastating electric spell that killed all of his loyal servants.
Naga gasped with the devastating killing that Zurten has just done. Air Jay remains emotionless, he didn't care if the servants were dead or not, he would possibly end up killing them himself.
"(I don't believe it, with just that spell he killed all the people in this room except us. What worries me more is that Zurten can control all the power that he just gained, he must have a lot of experience to be able to control it all)" Kiko said telepathically.
"Why did you kill them?" Naga demanded in a firm voice.
Zurten just smirks at her. "Do try to understand, my dear Gracia. Those men know about my youth elixir and I don't want anyone after it, not my faithful servants or even you people."
Naga then smirks. "No wonder why my mother hided the crystal from you. You are a selfish scoundrel!"
"That matters not! Now my only concern is to eliminate you two!"
Air Jay smirks as well. "Eliminate us? HAHAHAHA!!! Now that's the funniest joke I ever heard."
Zurten just chuckles. "Laugh all you want, I am now much more powerful than the booth of you together!"
"Maybe but first it's time for you to pay the price by using us!" Naga said as she and Air Jay prepared an attack.
"Go ahead then!" Zutren challenged. "I really needed to test my new power."
"GARV FLARE!!!" Naga shouted as she throws the spell at Zurten.
"ESTRELA!!!" Air Jay shouted as he throws a fireball by the form of a star at Zurten.
The two attacks rush over to Zurten but both attack just passed by Zurten and they both hit the Fountain of Youth, destroying it completely.
"NOOOOO!!!!!" Zurten cried. "My fountain of youth!!!! You destroyed."
"Oh, did we do that?" Naga taunted.
"We are so mean." Air Jay taunted.
Zurten looks back at his adversaries with a furious glare. "You miserable fools! You fool just destroyed the only key for eternity! Don't you realise the outrageous inaccuracy you've made?"
"Oh please, we just destroyed the very thing you've made with the ingredients that you tricked us to obtain it for you." Naga replied.
"You idiots. Not even you people are blind with stupidity! Even you people can comprehend the usefulness of immortality!"
"Why do I need Immortality?" Air Jay replied.
"Fools! Every one fears death, even those who claims that they don't fear them, I might not be like those fools who make deals with Mazokus but I too desire immortality." Zurten stated, he speak like if he was talking to people with no vision.
"You fear death Zurten, that is what makes you weak. Even with my phoenix power I can die of old age, but I die one I will die happy because I know that I enjoyed my life." Air Jay said with a grin.
"And I Naga the Serpent, am already Immortal! My accomplishments have become legendary and my name will always be remembered in history!" Naga said, acting all mighty.
Kiko sweat dropped. "(If you became known in history it's for your insane laugh.)"
"This is a sacrilege! This is foolishness!" Zurten yelled but then he forced himself to calm down. "No matter, I can gather all the ingredients again and make a new youth elixir!"
"That is if you live long enough to make one." Air Jay said as he cracked his knuckles.
"I have no desire to lead this battle in my own home, we shall settle this outside. DIEM WIND!!!!" Zurten released a strong wind spell which made Naga and Air Jay crash against the wall and falling right in the wood near the castle, Zurten wasted no more time and follow them with a ray wing spell.
Only Kiko remained in the castle. "(Damn it, now I must walk down the stairs to help them.)"
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Zurtens lands right next to Naga and Air Jay to see them already on their feet. "This will be the perfect battle field for us."
"Looks good for me, I would not want to accidentally destroy your home as well, Zurten. I bet there many treasures or any magical knowledge in there that might be useful for me." Naga said with a smirk.
"I am more than ready to take out the trash!" Air Jay said as he puts himself in a fighting position.
"I will enjoy testing my new powers and might on you two and make you all pay the price for your lack of vision! Come on!" Zurten challenged.
Air Jay charged against Zurten with his fist covered in fire and throws two punches.
But Zurten creates a field to block Air jay attack and throws a spell at him which Air Jay jumps away to escape it.
Naga takes that chance while Zurten was distracted to throw a Freeze Arrow at him.
Zurten covers his face with his arms and then presses his hand to the ground and making it explode.
The impact of the explosion was enough to make Naga fly to the air.
"Damn it!" Nag cursed but then her throat was grabbed by Zurten as he starts to squeeze her neck.
Immediately, Air Jay kicks Zurten violently on the back, making him cry in pain and release Naga.
Naga took that chance to press her hand on Zurten's. "ELMIKIA LANCE!!!" the spell stabs Zurten on the chest, making a big hole in it.
The impact was strong enough to make Zurten fly down to the ground but he stops in mid air.
Air Jay and Naga were shock to see that Zurten is still alive even with that hole on his chest that it is enough to kill an ordinary person.
Zurten lands softly to the ground and laughing sinisterly. "if you fools are surprised then watch this!" Zurten's hole starts to be cover in fire, then it fades away and the hole in Zurten's chest is no more.
"But how?" Air Jay said in disbelieves. "He has the same power as me!"
"Of course I do!" Zurten replied. "Why do you think I wanted your hair sample, Air Jay? Like I said, the fountain transmitted the skills of the owners of the hair samples to me, and yours Air Jay is just perfect, I can regenerate my body from any wound I might receive in battle."
"You copy cat!" Air Jay growled.
"We need to attack him with a better attack." Naga said, and then suddenly she thought of an idea. "Air Jay, lets do that attack we used to get out of that big hole."
Air Jay looks back at Naga with a confused look. "What? You mean that combination of powers? But we don't even know how we did it."
"We just simply hold our hands, that's all that we did."
"Even so it will be difficult to defeat this guy; he has the same phoenix powers I have. But then again if we wound him the enough to make him tire, we can beat him good!" Air Jay said with a smirk.
"Alright, let's do it!"
Air Jay and Naga hold their hands and once again they are covered with and enormous aura of magic and fire taking the forms of a serpent and a phoenix. That enormous power is so wondrous that it is making some pieces of the ground and some trees flying to the air.
The force of that attack is so strong that it is making Zurten being dragged away. "But…what is this?"
"OOHOHOHOHOH! You made a big mistake when you tricked me, Zurten!" Naga said with a grin.
"You made an even bigger mistake to make us fight each other!" Air Jay said with a grin.
"And now you made the biggest mistake to try to kill us!" Air Jay and Naga said at the same time, then they charged against Zurten.
"Back away from me!!!" Zurten shouted as he holds the aura that surrounds Naga and Air Jay, but all that made was for Zurten to be dragged along side with it. "NO, NO,NO!!!!"
"Now we got you!!!" Naga said as she lifted her hand up which made the serpent aura grab Zurten's torso with her teeth.
"You're going down old man!" Air Jay said as he lifted his hand and made the phoenix aura grab Zurten's head.
Zurten cried in pain with all this.
"Later loser!" Air Jay and Naga said at the same time as they made the serpent and phoenix aura to land forcefully to the ground with Zurten still in their grasp.
As soon as Zurten touched the floor an enormous explosion occurred, so big that it made a devastating earthquake.
"Ouch! I bet that hurt!" Air Jay taunted. "I love being the bad guy."
"That is what happen to those who dares to face the great Naga!" Naga said with her superior attitude.
Air Jay was about to complain but he decided not too, it's always the same old chitchat.
Suddenly a new earthquake starts to emerge.
"Yo Naga, did you do this?" Air Jay asked.
"No I thought it was you."
In that moment the ground explodes and coming out of that explosion comes out Zurten with his shirt completely destroyed. He looks back at his foes with a calm face but angry eyes and veins in his forehead. "You two will pay for this! I've been going easy on you two but it seems that you are more dangerous that what I believed!"
"That's what you get when you face with the big man here!" Air Jay said with a smug.
"Only fools like you would challenge the real pros like me!" Naga said with an conceited tone.
Zurten was in silence for a moment until he let out a sinister chuckle. "Don't get cocky, you fools! This time I'm going to fight more seriously!"
To be continued…..
Sunny: the final battle is on the way.
Ramon: what other surprises can Zurten reserve for us?
Maliska: read and review please.