The Mystery of Kanzaka Manor- Part 3
For a split second, no one did anything. Then Lina spoke. "Where are Zel and Gourry?" she demanded.
"And don't you dare think of tricking us," Amelia added emphatically. "We have the power of Justice on our side!"
Ignoring both outbursts, L asked in an almost bored tone of voice, "I suppose Jeeves fed you that load of bull about me being some moping ghost who thinks anything male and breathing is my long lost lover or something?"
Lina and Amelia blinked, surprised. He had been lying? L continued. "Once, when I was nothing but an ordinary ghost, that was true. But then a Mazoku, beaten and close to death, was sealed into this mansion by a sorcerer, in the hopes that by trapping it here where few humans went, it would starve to death from a lack negative emotions. But he did not know of my presence, and I was able to save the Mazoku's life by merging with it.
"Although I am now stronger because of this merge, I still cannot break through the seal. That is why I took your friends." L smirked evilly. "With the power of their negative emotions, and now yours as well, I can finally leave this place."
A cold feeling of dread sank into Lina's stomach. When a Mazoku wanted lots of negative emotions from a human, and they wanted them fast, there was one way they got it.
Slow, agonizingly painful torture. Things were suddenly looking bad, very bad, for all four of them. "What have you done with Zel and Gourry?" she growled in a menacing tone.
"Oh they're still alive. Barely. You can see them if you want." L waved her hand, and the two men in question appeared, lying on the floor.
L couldn't help but grin as the two sorceresses rushed to check their comrades. As she had said, both were still alive, but unconscious, and showing signs of torture. There were cuts, bruises, gashes, etc. covering their bodies.
To be honest L, was a little surprised by the level of anguish coming from the two sorceresses. A friend wouldn't be this upset, which could only mean… they were more than friends.
She smiled. Normally the lovey-dovey feelings humans often had just made her sick, but in this case they created more negative feelings for her to feast on. So much the better. She was going to be really fat after this.
Then L noticed the black-haired girl was trying to cast a healing spell on her friends. Now that just wouldn't do.
"Amelia!" Amelia looked up just in time to see a magical shockwave coming at her, before she was blasted backwards into the wall. She groaned as she slowly stood up.
"Are you alright?" Lina asked worriedly.
"I-I'm fine," she replied, forcing a small smile. She started to chant a spell, but before she could finish, L sent a beam of magic energy in her direction. Amelia frantically leaped to one side, but the beam still hit her right arm, and she couldn't suppress a yelp of pain. Without missing a beat, L shot another beam at Lina, who, caught off guard, was hit in the side.
"Aah!"
Amelia clenched her fists, angry. No one hurt her friends and got away with it! So she unleashed the second most deadly weapon in her arsenal. A speech. "Hear me villain who hath strayed from path of Justice!" she roared, pointing her left finger at L. "Repent your ways, see the true light of Justice, and perhaps I will spare you! If you refuse, no force on this earth will spare thee from the righteous wrath of the Flames of Justice that burn in my heart!"
Amelia's speech, although extremely corny (but kinda funny), did serve the purpose of buying Lina time to chant a spell.
"Aasha Dist!"
L screamed as she was a hit by the blast of Astral energy. The two sorceresses tensed, waiting for the smoke to clear…
L was still standing, only now considerably more pissed off. "I'll make you pay for that," she said in a dangerously quiet tone. She snapped her fingers.
Zel and Gourry, still lying on the floor, stirred. Gourry groaned, while Zel weakly got up onto his knees.
"Lina? Amelia?" he breathed, "When did you get here?"
Before they could answer, L carried on, "Now you can all feel the anguish and agony of having to watch each other be tortured to death." And with that she released a series of energy beams at Gourry and Zel.
"Gourry! Zel!" Lina cried. Angrily, Amelia raised her hands to spell-casting position, but before she could do anything, L turned to her and released a wave of electricity. Amelia screamed as the pain coursed through her body, before everything went dark…
"No!" A feeling of horror went through Zelgadis as he watched Amelia crumple to the ground. Enraged, he turned to L and charged at her, sword drawn. "Astral Vine!" he bellowed, and swung at the ghost-mazoku hybrid. L merely dodged out of the way, and, yelling something Lina couldn't understand, blasted him with a magical shockwave. Zel flew across the room before hitting a wall and falling to the floor. He groaned. Good. He's still alive at least. But she couldn't say the same about Amelia.
As Lina dashed over to check on her fallen comrade, she was stopped midway by a sudden cry of "Lina!" before she felt someone slam into her, knocking her sideways. It was Gourry. As Lina saw the blood spilling from his side, she realized he must have knocked her out of the way of one of L's energy beams, and wound up taking the hit himself.
"Gourry…" This was bad. L was slowly killing them through her rapid casting of relatively weak attacks spells. Lina ran through her list of spells she could use. Judging from what she'd seen, L was a very powerful mazoku, and would therefore require some serious firepower to take her down. The Ra Tilt would probably do the job nicely. But Lina didn't know that spell, and Zel and Amelia were in no condition to cast it. Her next option would be the Dragon Slave, but that would kill her friends as well as L. She immediately ruled out the Giga Slave for obvious reasons. Which only left the Ragna Blade.
Lina got up and began to chant. "Sword of cold and darkness, free your self from the heavens bonds…"
L looked up at her, having noticed her chanting. "What spell is this?"
"Become one with my power, one with my body…"
L frowned, clearly not recognizing the spell. She began to chant a defense spell.
"And let us walk the path of destruction together, power that can smash even the souls of the gods. Ragna Blade!" As the familiar blade of darkness formed in her hands, Lina lunged at L, and slashed with everything she could muster. L's dying scream faded away as she was cleaved in two and dissolved into nothingness.
Lina fell to her knees, exhaustion dragging at every part of her. She could hardly believe it. They had won.
The last thing she remembered as she drifted out of consciousness was the sound of Gourry calling her name…
A/N: Well, this fic is turning out much darker than I expected, so I upped the rating to T. Still one or 2 chapters left. What did you think? L didn't turn out quite as OOC as I'd originally intended (at first, what Jeeves said was true. But then I got rid of the idea. Less fun to write).
As for when my next update, I've found the best time for writing is late at night, when my brain is only half awake. The only days I can stay up that late are Friday and Saturday, when there's no school. So the next chapter will either be up tomorrow or next weekend. Please leave reviews! They make me happy and wanna write more!