Ghost Slayers

Chapter Eight

By Relm

Sylphiel looked everywhere trying to find Zelgadis. "Where could he have gone?" She mused as she pulled out her cell phone to fail Lina's number. "I should let Lina know of the situation. She's bound to be angry either way." Much to Sylphiel's dismay, the line was busy.

Hanging up Sylphiel let out a sigh. "I guess all I can do it try Filia's cell." Sylphiel dialled up Filia's number and waited for it to ring. But like with Lina's number, Sylphiel got a busy signal. "Hmm… well maybe they are talking to each other. I'll try Amelia's next." She dialled the number and waited for it to ring on her end, which it did.

In the room.

Sylphiel looked around for the source of the ringing. After search she spotted Amelia's cute pink cell phone sitting right next to the computer monitor on the desk. Sighing in defeat Sylphiel sat back at the chair. "Guess I'll have to wait and try them later."

...

"Wow that's a strange story Lina." Filia said over the phone to her boss whom just finished explaining what happened to her. "So I guess that means Mr. Greywars is still with you."

"Yeah. And I don't think it's a good idea to take Zelgadis to the library. After not seeing him at all these past months seeing a ghost version of him might freak them out."

"For sure. But what are you going to do?"

"Well I'm still going to do some more readings and then go back to the car and meet you two later. If I can get Zelgadis to stay in the car I'll come in."

"Do you think it's a good idea to leave a ghost along in a car during the day?"

"Um Filia he's a ghost not a dog."

"You know what I mean."

"Yeah okay I'll be careful."

"Okay well I'd better go. Talk to you later."

"By Filia."

Filia hung up her phone.

"So what happened with Miss Lina?" Amelia asked with curiosity.

"Lina had a strange thing that happened to her. She had a vision of what happened to our ghost before he disappeared." Filia explained.

"What Miss Lina is psychic now?" Amelia frowned in confusion.

Filia just looked at Amelia for a moment. "No Amelia, she's not. Apparently Mr. Greywars followed us and ended up with Lina. He walked through her and she had a strange black and white vision of him at his home and work. She couldn't move, couldn't talk and the only thing she saw that was in colour was a strange misty hand that came out of one of the books Mr. Greywars had on his desk. It seems that the misty hand grabbed him and might be why he became what he is now."

Amelia shivered. "And we have to go in there too. I hope we don't have the same fate."

"And what fate would that be?" A tanned man with long wavy black hair asked walking up to the library stairs. He was dressed in a police uniform and wore a big smile.

"Well hello there Officer Zoana. You're quicker then I'd thought you'd be." Filia smiled back at him.

"Yes well I do like to be prompt."

"Where's Officer Gaberieve? I thought he was coming with you." Amelia observed.

"He is-" Officer Zangulus Zoana looked around in confusion. "Where the hell did Gourry go now? I swear I need to get a leash for him." Zangulus shook his head.

"Zangulus! Where did you go?" A voiced called from across the street.

"Over here Gourry! What are you doing over there for?"

"I um… don't know…" Gourry came over sporting a sheepish smile.

"Nevermind." Zangulus shook his head again.

"I thought Sylphiel was going to be here." Gourry commented with a hint of disappointment.

"I'm sorry Officer Gaberieve, she's back at our headquarters manning the phones. Since Amelia had been doing that all day Lina wanted to give her a rest." Filia explained suppressing a giggle. She will have to bug Sylphiel about this later on.

"So Gourry tells me you're dealing with a case involving Zelgadis Greywars. Something about him being dead but not dead at the same time?"

"Yeah he appears and acts similar to a ghost, but he gives off thermal energy like he's a living person." Filia explained.

"Why do you want to look around his office for?"

"We just want to get some readings. To see if there's any clues to explain what happened to him."

"Well I can assure you Greywars wasn't killed in that room, or at least not by conventional means. We searched that place from top to bottom. No sign of a struggle or any sort of foul play. And no blood."

Filia frowned. "Still whatever happened to him that caused his change might be linked to that room."

"Alright I'll let you know there are only two reasons why I'm letting you go in that room. One because Gourry has been bugging me to help you guys out. And two because I'm at a loss with the Greywars missing person case, and there might be a small chance that you guys might be able to shed some new light on the case. That being said you still can't touch anything in the room or move anything. Everything is to be left as it. And you can't take any photos. You can go in, look and take your readings. That's it." Zangulus said very sternly.

"They can't take any pictures at all?" Gourry asked.

"No Gourry they can't."

Gourry frowned. "How big is that office anyway? Will it fit 4 people?"

"Three people, Gourry you're going to stay outside the room."

"Huh?"

"Because it's not a big place and I don't want you messing anything up. You have a tendency to do that."

"Aww…" Gourry sighed.

"Alright lets go."

...

"Okay Zelgadis, I'm done here. I think it's about time we head back to meet the others." Lina ushered Zelgadis towards the street. "What are we going to do about you? If people see you they might freak out." Lina checked to see if the street was clear. Despite the fact that it was sunny and it was daylight there wasn't a huge number of people walking on the street. "Okay follow me." Lina motioned for him to follow as she lead him down the street.

As people passed by Lina, Lina made Zelgadis hide behind things to avoid being seen. Which went pretty good considering the people driving cars were too concerned with their driving then the people on the sidewalks, and the people walking on the sidewalks were too absorbed in worlds of their own. For the most part no one noticed Zelgadis. And if they did, they didn't bother to even give him a second glance.

"You know I never knew just how unfriendly the people are in this city…" Lina thought out loud.

Zelgadis made no motion to comment on that or if he did it wasn't enough that Lina noticed it.

"Okay we're almost to the car." Lina informed Zelgadis as they got closer to where Lina had parked.

The Ghost Slayersmobile was parked right in front of the Sailune Library. Even though it was farther away from the apartment complex it had been the only spot Lina could grab.

The closer Lina got to the car the more her scanner started to go crazy. Even though Lina had folded it up and clipped to her belt it was still beeping. It only beeped when there was a ghost in the area.

"Huh why's it beeping?" Lina pulled out her scanner and checked the reading. She scanned the area outside the library and got nothing. The source was coming from behind her. Lina looked behind her and pointed it at Zelgadis, it was coming from him. "What the…?"

The scanner's reading was showing a sharp decline of thermal energy from Zelgadis and Zelgadis' face reflected that. He seemed to be in a great deal of pain and his hands were starting to vanish. He took a few steps back and it seemed to lessen some of the pain. And Zelgadis' thermal readings started to go up again.

"Zelgadis come with me, we're going to go far away from the library." Lina tried to get Zelgadis to listen to her. She was very concerned with what was going on. 'There is definitely something wrong here.'

At first Zelgadis didn't seem to hear her, but then nodded in understanding as they walked towards a park and sat down.

"Okay looks like you're readings are back to normal, or normal for you that is. And you look a little better too." Lina commented while frowning.

Zelgadis didn't make any motion to acknowledge her. He just seemed to be sitting back taking deep breaths which was strange, he wasn't exactly letting out any air as he was still a ghost like thing.

Lina pulled out her cell phone. "I think I'd better call Filia and tell her." Before Lina could dial her phone started ringing. "Sylphiel's calling. I wonder what she wants. Hello?"

"Hi Lina, it's Sylphiel."

"Hi. What's up?"

"Mister Greywars seems to have gone missing."

"Yeah I know he's with me right now."

"He is?"

"Yeah he just popped up out of nowhere. There's a big long story to do with that. Can I tell you it later? I need to call Filia about something important."

"Sure. I just wanted to let you know about Mister Greywars."

"Okay bye Sylphiel."

"Bye Lina."

"Looks like you staged a prison break there. Sylphiel really sounded concerned. You should have told her you were leaving." Lina half joked at the ghost.

Zelgadis again didn't respond.

"Okay fine I'm calling Filia. There is something strange at that library that's for sure."