Ghost Slayers

Chapter Twenty-Eight

By Relm

For Filia sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor wasn't always the most comfortable thing to sleep in. She wasn't a camper so she rarely used the thing. That being said Filia slept so soundly that you'd swear that she was sleeping in a luxurious king size bed complete with Egyptian cotton sheets and a feather comforter. She was incredibly comfortable as she slept. But then again Filia wasn't exactly sleeping directly on the floor.

Also sleeping in Filia's sleeping bag was a man who seemed to be sleeping as peacefully as she was. He slept on his back while Filia slept on top of him. The man's arms were snaked around the blue eyed blond keeping her safe and warm as the two slept. If you knew nothing of these two people you'd just assume they were lovers sleeping in the comfort of each other's arms. If you did know these people and saw this sight you'd frightened.

And you'd stay far far away.

Amelia who was standing watch wasn't aware of what was going on with Filia. The only reason the mayor's daughter was staying awake was to look after Lina. When Amelia woke to take the last watch she was handed a book to read to pass the time. It was the same book that Filia had tried to read and that Sylphiel had been enjoying on her watch.

The problem with Amelia reading this book was that she loved fantasy adventure tales and this was her favourite author to boot. So when she started to read it it was very hard to stop periodically to check on Lina. Amelia practically had to tear her eyes away from the pages to check on her boss. So needless to say unless you were Lina you were being completely ignored.

Lina was the first to wake up. She felt quite good despite what had happened to her the previous day. As she woke she stretched getting the kinks out of her shoulders and arms. Doing and action like this would surly get the attention of the person who was supposed to be looking after you. Except that person who was supposed to be diligently keeping tabs on Lina was so engrossed in her book that she didn't hear or see anything around her.

When faced with this sort of situation one had a few options. You could politely and calmly let the person reading the book know that you were awake. Or you could get angry with the person's lack of attention towards your condition. And of course you could just use the person's distractedness to your advantage and scare the crap out of them.

Which do you think Lina chose?

"BOOOOOO!" Yes you guessed right Lina chose to scare Amelia yelling quite loud.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Amelia screamed throwing the book into the air. "Miss Lina! That was mean!" She whined almost on the verge of tears.

"Well that's what you get for getting too into a book. You were supposed to be looking after me."

"I was checking on you from time to time." Amelia grumbled while picking up the book.

"Yeah at the end of a chapter."

"What's going on?" Sylphiel woke rubbing her eyes sleepily. She wasn't the only one woken by the noise. Both Zelgadis and Slimer were also awake and curious.

"Miss Lina scared me!" Amelia cried out miserably.

"She deserved it." Lina declared. "When you're supposed to be watching over someone's health then you shouldn't get so engrossed in a book that you don't notice what's going on around you."

"Well I suppose it was good for us to get up now anyway." Sylphiel mused getting out of her sleeping bag.

"Filia is still sleeping." Zelgadis observed while frowning. The sight was a bit alarming. Filia snuggled up in a sleeping bag with some random man. What made it alarming was that you could see right through that very same man. And even though the man's eyes were closed Zelgadis knew he was that purple eyed man that scared him previously. This was Professor Xellos.

"Someone get a gun we have to shoot him!" Lina hissed.

"We can't when he's holding Miss Filia!" Amelia exclaimed.

"We'll wake her up before we shoot him obviously. But get a gun ready." Lina commanded.

Because of everything that happened the previous day Sylphiel had decided before going to bed that it was better to be prepared. So she had a gun in the room just in case there was another poltergeist that had followed them home. Sylphiel got the gun and charged it up.

"Are you sure that will work?" Zelgadis wondered. "It wasn't the guns that gave me back my consciousness. It was your big ghost containment machine that changed me. Do you think the gun will have enough electricity?"

"Only one way to find out." Lina got out of bed and went over to the sleeping couple. 'Filia is going to have a fit when she wakes up.' Lina thought as she went over her options for waking her blond worker up. Filia may not have been an extremely light sleeper but she really should have been woken up by the yelling and screaming between Lina and Amelia earlier. For Filia not to wake was a bit out of character. But then sleeping curled up against a man you hate was also out of character for the blue eyed blond too. It looked very strange as you could see right through the man she was sleeping on. 'How did he get into the sleeping bag without her knowing? And how is he able to hold her as if he was solid? Zelgadis was only able to do that briefly and that was after he got his conscious thoughts back. Maybe being able to touch things is something they can only do unconsciously. That would explain why Zel can pick up things when he's not really trying to.' Lina wanted to study this phenomenon further but she knew she had to wake Filia up. In Xellos' current state he was a loose cannon. He didn't have the mental capability to know that he couldn't wander off to one of the buildings. If the ghostly form of Professor Xellos woke and wanted to explore Lina didn't have any means to reason with him. So even though she didn't want to Lina gently shook Filia on the shoulder to wake her up. "Filia get up!"

As Filia mumbled while she woke Xellos also woke as well. A pair of purple eyes met with Filia's blue ones as the two woke.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Filia screamed desperately trying to get off the man she hated. Since she and Xellos were in a sleeping bag that was still zipped up that was a futile effort.

Lina wanted to laugh. She wanted to just sit there and laugh at Filia's franticness. It was even more amusing since Xellos smiled at Filia amused still holding onto her. But Lina knew that wasn't nice. So Lina unzipped the zipper freeing Filia from her sleeping bag prison.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" Filia yelled once she got out of the sleeping bag and Xellos' arms. Her face was beet red her hair a mess. The blond was so flustered with embarrassment and rage that she couldn't manage to grasp what had just happened.

"You were sleeping with Mister Xellos." Amelia answered very sincerely with a slight blush gracing her cheeks as well. "I guess that's one way to make sure he didn't run off."

"I WASN'T SLEEPING WITH HIM!" Filia screamed her whole face and body flushed with rage and embarrassment.

"Filia shut up!" Lina yelled. "Sylphiel shoot him!"

Sylphiel shot the gun and the ray beam hit Xellos causing him to convulse in pain. She had only meant to just quickly shoot him and turn the gun off but as soon discovered that wasn't about to happen. Once the beam made contact with Xellos it didn't matter how many times Sylphiel flicked that switch, the gun wasn't going to stop.

"Sylphiel turn it off!" Lina screeched.

"I can't! I flicked the switch off already but it's going on its' own!" Sylphiel cried out.

Filia ran over to Sylphiel and disconnected the battery source from the gun.

The beam flickered out as the gun went dead.

Xellos stood there looking extremely confused. "Where am I?"

...

Gourry whistled happily as he entered the police station. He was quite pleased with himself. For once in his life Gourry had actually woken up early and breezed into work on time. It was a glorious feeling to be able to walk into the station with his head held high instead of lowered with shame. Everyone expected Gourry to be late. He always was. Gourry was late so often that on certain days of the week the guys had a pool going as to what time Gourry would end up showing up.

Usually on those days Hallas was the big loser. Ever the optimist the rookie officer always chose to pick that Gourry would show up exactly on time. It didn't matter what day it was Hallas always lost. Gourry was never on time. And each week the betting got higher. So each week Hallas just lost more and more of his money. This particular day Hallas had made the biggest bet he'd made yet. Everyone knew Hallas was going to lose big time so they saw the bet.

So as Gourry waltzed his way into the station everyone stopped what they were doing and just stared. Gourry was on time...? Some looked out to the window to see if pigs were flying or if the world was coming to an end.

Hallas on the other hand so ecstatic that he was crying. "I won! I WON!" He ran to Gourry and gave him a big hug. "THANK YOU THANK YOU!"

"You're welcome?" Gourry mumbled in confusion. He was used to hearing groans and cheers when he came into work but he wasn't aware of the station pool. He just figured that everyone was disappointed with him showing up late. Even though he wasn't aware of what was going on he was still happy with himself. Gourry had a feeling that it was going to be one of those days where everything was going to go right for him.

"You couldn't have shown up five minutes later couldn't you?" Zangulus spat out from his chair as Gourry sat down at his desk.

"Huh?" Gourry looked at his partner blankly.

"Nevermind. I'm going to get some coffee." Zangulus got up and walked away.

Gourry blinked in confusion. But the blond officer didn't dwell on it too much as he had something to draw his attention away. Laying close to the edge of the desk was a strange book. He tried to remember if the book had been on his desk before he left the previous day but for the life of him he couldn't remember. 'Maybe this is a new computer manual.' Gourry he picked up the old looking book and looked through its' pages. The writing was in a strange red ink and the language was old and unreadable to the officer. 'Bleh it's in French.' He observed putting it back down. Of course the book wasn't in French but Gourry couldn't read French or any other language so it all looked like gibberish to him anyway. 'I'm hungry. Maybe I'll go see if there are any donuts.' Gourry got up and left his desk unattended with the book lying open. Its' red stain pages were exposed and so was the evil it contained.

...

"Let me shock him again so I beat the crap out of him!" Filia screeched trying to get the gun away from Sylphiel.

"Miss Filia stop it!" Sylphiel protested trying to keep the gun away from Filia.

"Mister Xellos what do you remember?" Amelia asked ignoring Filia's antics.

"I don't remember anything really... except for following her around." Xellos mused with a sheepish smile. His eyes remained closed as he did so, making him seem like the professor the girls knew. Professor Xellos was a strange man and though he often kept his eyes closed he was still able to move around as thought he could see quite clearly. As creepy as he was, it was when the professor's eyes were open that he seemed the creepiest. His sinister purple eyes were always filled with mischievous intent.

Filia stopped what she was doing and glared at him. "So it was you! You evil annoying bastard! I had been getting so irritated because I felt like I was being watch and it was you the whole time!"

"Yes it would seem so." Again Xellos sheepishly smiled. Though confused the professor didn't seem to be too concerned with what was going on. Or perhaps was still trying to grasp the situation.

"Why they the hell were you doing that?" Filia spat out.

"I don't know..." Xellos admitted. Though now with conscious thought Xellos still couldn't make sense of his muddled mind. There were faint glimmers of memories of the blue eyed blond in the back of his head but he couldn't grasp them. They were too far away for him to reach and pluck them back into his thoughts. "But we were sleeping together so perhaps I'm just fond of you?" He suggested.

"WE WERE NOT SLEEPING TOGETHER!" Filia screamed at the top of her lungs.

"I was holding you and you were sleeping against my chest. That by literal definition was sleeping together. Are we lovers?" He opened eyes to look her up and down.

"NOOOOOO!" Filia screamed once more while throwing things at the new 'ghost'. Her face was still red and now she was practically frantic as she felt Xellos undressing her with his eyes.

Having objects come flying at you and go right through you was a strange thing to feel. Xellos couldn't help but be amazed the phenomenon. "I do feel... 'connected' to you. Are you sure we've never-"

"NEVER! NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I EVER SLEEP WITH YOU!" Filia screamed cutting off Xellos' sentence.

"But we've obviously wanted to seeing how we have all this unresolved sexual tension." Xellos observed with a sly grin.

Filia almost exploded right there. "THERE IS NO SEXUAL TENSION! I FIND YOU AS ATTRACTIVE AS A PILE OF RAW GARBAGE!"

"Shouldn't we do something?" Zelgadis wondered feeling very uncomfortable with the situation.

"Yeah let's pop some popcorn!" Lina said gleefully as she enjoyed the 'show' playing before them.