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Chapter: Prologue
Deep down low in the britches of the night, lingered nothing,
except for a single raven. It peered out over the city in search for prey.
It looked up at the sky and there was no moon due to the heavy clouds.
The raven looked down, continuing its search, disgusted. It flew
off when the clock struck midnight, leaving the town again inaudible.
* * *
Xellos bowed down to a figure of a woman overshadowed by the
dead of night and awaited for a voice. "You're late," a large voice surged
from the shadows. Xellos said smirking,"I had my reasons." She
retaliated with a smirk, "Xellos, you're toying with fate, dear boy." She
sighed then continued. "I have buisness for you to attend to. Since
you're so close to Ms. Inverse, this mission will work just fine for you. I
need you to distract her. That's it. Just distract her. I have... a..."
friend" that has work to do. Knowing Inverse, she'll try to get in her way.
Just keep her busy as she attends to her buissness. Got it?" He got up,
smiled, and asked, "So just who is...this... "friend" of yours?" She was
taken by surprise by the question and she sat there flustered and
thinking. Finally, she came to a conclusion and said, "As you would say
... 'Sore wa hitsumitsu desu'!" His smile faded and he looked down at the
ground, shuffling his feet. "You don't have to rub it in." Then he turned
and teleported away. "Hm... Now this should be interesting," she said after
he disappeared.
* * *
At an eatery, by a seaport, only sounds of slurping, gulping,
gorging, glushing, and destruction could be heard. Inside were the
demolishers of all food... the couple of Lina and Gourry. "OOSHII!!!
(Delicious) Seafood is sooooo gooood!" Lina squealed in delight. Gourry
agreed by stuffing his face with more and grunting. "Good grief
... You two never change, thank goodness," a young, quiet voice said by
the entrance. Lina and Gourry looked up in surprise and watched as an
unfamiliar figure came towards them. When the stranger approached the light
of the candleflame on the table, Lina easily reconized who it was. It was
Amelia. "Amelia! How are you? Sit down and let's talk!" Lina invited.
"Amelia, long time no see!" Gourry greeted. Amelia sat and began,
"It's very nice to see you two again. It's been awefully quiet without
you guys around, not meaning that as an insult. Yes, it has been quite
some time since we've last met. Two years... both of your weddings."
"Ah, yes. How old are you now, by any chance?" Lina asked. "Oh... I'm
nineteen." "N-N...NINTEEN?! Sheesh! I've known you for eight years. Wow.
It's been such a long time. You've grown a lot! What brings you in these
parts anyway?" She looked down and blushed.
"Well...uh...um...
my father sent me on my own to see the world, of course make peace
treaties, and um... well..." "Yes?" Lina asked nudging a tiny bit closer.
"Um... find... a, um... husband." She blushed an even deeper color of red.
Amelia obvisiously seemed to be uncomfortable so Lina tried to help
her by sipping up some coffee and casually saying, "Oh. That's
nice." Of course her purpose was defeated when Gourry dumbly blurted out
saying, "Hey, what about Zelgadis?" Amelia's head snapped up immediatly
and she watched Lina jump on Gourry, pull his hair, and threaten to throw
a fireball in his face if he didn't shut up. They both sat up and Lina began
thinking rapidly. She saw Amelia was looking at the ground and was
clentching a napkin in her fists, until the point where her knuckles
were white. She got a small idea and tried it out. "Yes, what about
Zel. It's been a while since we've seen him as well. The last I heard he
went to Camos Islands to look for another thing that could cure him. Who
knows where he's at now?"
The truth actually was that he wasn't too far away. He was a town
away headed in the direction and of the current town the others were
located in. People began throwing things at him but he just dodged them,
and others called him names but it just pretty much went in one ear
and out the other. After being a chimera for more than half his life he
got use to it. He saw the bar and went inside. Everyone inside
turned to gap at the strange looking stranger. He looked around the
room and thought, 'Sheesh, tough crowd'. He went up to the bar-tender and
quietly said, "Vodka-bourbon, please, sir." The tender's eyebrow
just shifted and said, "What if I don't? Ya' see... We don't take to kindly
to freaks here." Zel shifted uncomfortably at the harsh word. 'All
right plan B,' he thought.
Without looking up, his hand shot forward and grabbed the tender
by the shirt and tugged it closer to him. Calmly Zel said looking up,
"Look pal. I relize you people don't care for me, but I've had a tough
day and would like something to cut through the chill with. I don't want
to hurt you, I would just like some God-damned service. You abide
to your job, get me a drink, then you won't have to look my ugly face
again, and I yours." He turned his head and saw a bunch of men around
him with swords threatening to pierce. He carefully let the man down
and turned towards them. "You have something to say?" he questioned. "Get
out," one man said lifting his sword to Zel's throat. "You better
ease up out of my face, before something bad happens to you." A man from
behind struck Zel in the back. Zel didn't do anything but looked behind
and watched the man's sword fall apart. The other men looked at that man
in wonder of what happened leaving their defences open. Zel took out
his sword and quickly hit each of their swords and they fell into pieces.
"Too late," he muttered.
In the meantime, Xellos was in the same town and thinking quietly
to himself, 'Keep Lina busy? How so? I truthfully don't want to fight
Lina. I'm definatly not in the mood for it today. Maybe if I send someone
in to provoke them to fight. They'd fight him and if they defeated him
then I just keep sending more. That should keep them busy a while. Then
I won't have to get my hands dirty.' He smiled. 'You're a
genius.' He walked by the bar but was stopped when a whole bunch of men
walked out grumbling about some blue freak breaking their swords. This
of course interested Xellos and he peeked inside and saw Zel. 'Speak of me,
there they are.' Xellos thought as he jumped onto the roof and began
summoning a monster.
The bar-tender gave him the drink he requested and just as he was
about to gulp it down he heard it. A roar of a hideous monster. "Hmph. Long
time no see," he said getting up to go fight it. Xellos observed him
on the roof as Zel left the building. "Hm... It's just him. I wonder where
the others are. Well, perhaps after he relizes how strong it is, he'll
go after the others, leading me to Lina." Zel observed the beast a moment
and he relized the town wasn't a good place to fight. He would have to lead
it into the woods. He thought a moment and it came to him. 'No. Nevermind.
It's ridiculous. Heh heh. Actually, why not? You've done more crazier
things in your life before, right? So this one wouldn't be any
different. All right, I'll do it.'
He shot forward and took the monster by the horns and hopped onto
its back. It was an ugly creature. It looked like a cross of Shabradnigdo,
a fly, an elk, and a tranasorous-rex, that was about three times the size
of Zel. At first the creature bucked and kicked trying to get the little
man creature of it. Zel pushed on its horns and much to his surprise it
went into that direction. He directed it into the forest and jumped
off. It turned snarling with saliva dripping down its razor sharp teeth.
It looked like if he made one mistake fighting that thing, the results
would be unforgiving. This battle would certainly be tricky.
Zel thought a moment, considering the attacks he could do. Then it
came down to one. His first bet was Astral Vine. He summoned it unto his
sword then stood staring at the snarling beast, ready to spring into action.
The monster moved first with incredible speed. Zel moved back and tried
to strike it. It teleported away and almost landed atop of Zel but he
dodged. He tried again. It was too fast. Too fast for Astral Vine, however
Zel didn't want to go to spells just yet. It lunged at him but he jumped
back and this time actually hit it. It didn't even puncture the skin
however. It turned around quickly and almost hit him. Zel put his sword
away and decided to try his hand at spells.
"DAMU BRAS!" he yelled and sacred light burst out and hit the
creature. This it stopped at and shook it off. "DUG HAUT!" The ground
bursted up and the land underneath the creature collapsed. Zel sat
there a moment catching his breath a moment then the monster came back up.
This time he was on the defensive while the monster started trying to
catch Zel with one of its twelve-inch-saber claws. Finally, it stopped
and it began to shake. Zel thought it was tired or something, but he
was terribly wrong. The monster opened its mouth and a Zel-sized beam came
from it and shot him.
Back at the eatery, Amelia snapped strait up in her seat then looked
around as if something had just bit her. "Amelia... desu ka? (Are you ok?)"
Amelia nodded. "Yes, I'm alright, it's just... I- I feel like there's
something wrong with Zelgadis-san. L-Like he's hurt or something. In some
type of... danger or trouble." Lina looked at her a moment. "Are you
sick?" Amelia darted a look back, feeling somewhat insulted. "N-nani?
(W-what?)" "I'm wondering if you're thinking right." After seeing Amelia
beggining to glare at her she decided to continue. "I disagree with you.
You said 'Zel...in trouble.' Just those three words don't mix together.
Knowin' Zel, he's alright."
He lifted himself up slowly, still recovering from the shock of
the blow, however he wasn't ready to give up. Even if he knew it meant
killing himself he wouldn't give up. He ran towards the monster and
shouted, "FLARE BIT!" and a whole bunch of small fireballs shot out
towards the monster. It was able to dodge most of them so it wasn't a really
good hit. It returned with another full fledged Zel-sized beam. It hit
Zel with such force that when he hit a tree it exploded into tiny
sharp splinters, many cutting his face. "Damn you," he choked.
He got up and the monster was already running towards him. Zel
quickly charged up and shot out, "RAH TILT!" It hit the monster hard and
a cloud of dust flew up blinding Zel. For a moment, nothing happened,
leaving Zel to think he killed it. He turned and started walking away
but he heard a growl. He pivoted around. "Son of a-!" he started but was
cut short when the monster pounced on him, forcing him up against a stone
wall. he tried to scramble loose however it bit him on the one place on his
body that wasn't embedded with many stones: between his left shoulder
and neck. Zel screamed in excrutiating agony, while the monster savored
the taste of his blood and pain. It pulled back, taking that large piece
of flesh with it.
Normally, the battle would have been relitavly easy if Lina and the
others were there, but they weren't and now Zel was paying for it. He
couldn't take it any more. He began what he knew might easily be the end of
his life.
"Darkness beyond twilight,
Crimson beyond the blood that flows,
Buried in the flow of time.
In thy great name,
I pledge myself to the darkness.
Let the fools who stand in our way be destroyed,
By the power you and I possess!
DRAGON SLAVE!"
He took the powerful red ball of condensed strength into his
right hand and released it into the monster's face. There was a massive
explosion that shook the ground, even the town Lina, Gourry, and Amelia
were in. Zel fell to his knees, then onto the ground, screaming at the
pain of his wound. Tears drifted onto the ground and he felt himself
become faint. He was losing blood and fast. The injury was bad enough, but
since he was so close to the dragon slave when it went he had a third degree
burn, in and around it. 'So, this is it then, huh?' he thought. 'This is how
it's going to end. This is where it is all over. And I never got... my flesh
back...Everyone... What about everyone... Amelia... I never... got to...
Amelia... no... I should... have thought... about her... before doing
this stupid mission... Amelia... I never... was able...never... got
... to...' "Amelia," he gasped then he fainted.
The others had left the eatery after they heard the explosion.
They looked around in confusion, trying to find the source of such power.
Gourry spotted out large cracks in the ground that led to the forest, so they
went on in. They followed the cracks until they reached a large
creator. Lina and Gourry started inspecting the creator, while Amelia
searched around the area. She was walking cautiously, looking at every
detail as she went, however one detail missed her, because she had stepped
on him. She stepped down and felt something that was very hard... harder
than the ground. See didn't want to look down because she was afraid of
what she might see. She gathered her strength then quickly looked down.
She stepped on Zel's arm. She fell back screaming because she saw how
bad he was bleeding.
She immediatly started a recovery spell, but it had little effect.
Lina and Gourry came running over and Lina began assisting her with
another recovery. This time it worked definatly for the better. It cleared
up most of the blood and the burn, however the shoulder wound stayed.
"That one's gonna have to heal on its own," Lina said. Gourry picked him up
and they walked back to the town. Xellos appeared and said, "Well... yes,
he did destroy it on his own... however he did lead me to her. His purpose
served." Then he felt a small slashing feeling at his stomach. "Eiyuck...
bad gas," he said smiling. "That's enough, you dunderhead. Come back. I need
to see you," the female voice said.
Xellos teleported in and bowed, the same way as he did before.
"I said I want you to do it! Didn't I say that? I don't want someone
else doing your dirty work. Now, I'm out a monster. Go on, get out! Do your
own work!" she yelled peevishly. "Sure, whatever you old hag," Xellos
grumbled under his breath as he was about to leave. "What did you say?!"
she screeched. "I said my mother was an old bag!" "Oh... mine too."
Xellos just shook his head and teleported away.
Zel awoke from a horrible compressing feeling on his wound. His
eyes snapped open and he saw it was Amelia. "Oh, Zelgadis-san. Gomen
(Sorry). I didn't mean to wake you. Are you okay?" she asked softly. He
groaned in pain as she took the bloody bandage off. "I know it hurts. You
just have to be strong." She took a new towel and pushed it against
the wound. To try to stave off the pain he tried talking to her.
"So... it's been a while, hasn't it. Here I am, at the age of twenty-five,
Gourry twenty-eight, Lina twenty-four, and you, the only one still in
teens but just barely, nineteen." "So you do remember my age. Lina forgot."
"Typical LINa," he said with a grunt as she pushed a little harder.
He studied her a moment. She became more attractive since
the last time they met. Her face was still ever so gentle. Sun-kissed
soft skin she had, her eyes;the most beautiful sapphire that spoke
with kindness, love, and justice;her body was slender and lean; her hands
were graceful, her silky violet hair reached down to her shoulders now,
and she wore the outfit she always had when they fought together in
the earlier days. He looked back up to her face and the word beautiful
came into his mind. While thinking about her his gaze lowered somewhat to
chest area. When he realized he was staring at her breasts, he quickly
snapped his gaze back up, meeting hers. A violet eyebrow was arched
knowingly. Mortified that she knew what he had been staring at, he felt
the heat of a blush warm his cheeks. Amelia returned to her work, half-
smiling and blushing.
"So what did happen to you out there?" she asked breaking the
deafening silence. "Well, there was a monster in the town I was in so I
led it into the forest and we fought. Normal methods didn't work to well
without you guys around, so I left with nothing but a dragon slave. It bit
me and threw it right in its face," he replied. Amelia looked astonished.
"A-A dragon slave, Zelgadis-san?! Zelgadis-san! That could have killed you!
No one knows how to fully control that thing except for Lina-san." "Look,
I didn't even want to use that thing. I only used it because I had to kill
it before it did me. Normally, I wouldn't have even considered it." "All
right. Just make me one promise." "What's that?" "Promise me you won't use
it again until you completly learn how to, okay? I just don't want to
see you get hurt." He smiled then replied, "All right. I promise." She
finished bandaging him up. His whole left arm was bandaged up too so
he wouldn't use and injure himself more.
Later that night, Xellos decided to "distract" them. He went to
their inn. He saw a maid walking down the hallway and he called her
attention. "Oi, Onna-chan!(Hey, miss!) Have you seen a red-haired girl,
accompanied with a blonde idiot? Could you tell me where their room
is? I'm a friend. We agreed to meet here." She turned to talk. She
appeared to be having some trouble with the tower of towels she was
holding. "Well, here let me take those off your hands a moment," he said
taking the mountainous towels. "Ah, arigatou.(Thank you.) Those things
weigh a ton. Well, yeah. I've seen 'em. I believe that's their room.
That's right. Over to the left. I think that's their room. I can't be
sure. I saw them enter that room together, so it must be theirs. Today's
my first day of work," she said scratching her head. He helped her put
the towels away then left to that room. "Arigatou for the help!" she
called to him. "Iie.(No.) Arigatou," Xellos smiled as he approached the
room.
He opened the door and went inside. He realized that he
enveloped completely in fog. 'What are they doing?' he pondered to himself.
He squinted hard to try to make out something in the mist. Lina and
Gourry were in the same hotspring! The bubbles were rising up on their
quivering theighes, and they caressed each other in places others
shouldn't even imagine. Lina opened her eyes to gaze upon her lover,
however what she saw behind him infuriated her. She screeched, deprying
herself away from Gourry. She looked at Gourry a moment then pushed
him under the water. She grabbed a towel and began yelling, "HENTAI!!!
(PERVERT!!!) GET OUT!!! GET OUT NOW! GET THE HELL OUT, RIGHT NOW!!!"
Xellos quickly started backing away towards the door however he got a
bar of soap thrown in his face. The force of the hit caused him to hit
the door, jamming it shut. Xellos quickly turned to try to open it.
The beast came closer and closer screaming, "What the hell are you
waiting for, you sick demented freak?!!!"
Finally, he was released free from the evil beasts clutches,
however not without being seriously disturbed for the next thousand years
of his life. He wobbled out of there. His manhood......(mazukohood) would
be scared for a long time. He had a black eye and he was certain that
he have nightmares for several years to come. He walked into Lina's
room and tried to talk to her. "Ya!(Hi!) How are you? It's been a while
^_^. Gomenusai(I'm very sorry) about that little incident back there.
I never knew what that room was!" Lina decided to play dumb and said, "Oh,
that's okay Xellos! Things like that happen, you know!" Then she
turned around and put him in a headlock and screamed, "NOW!!!"
After that Gourry popped out of nowhere, tied Xellos to a chair, shook
him violently, then threw him into a tank of pirhanas.
After a minute or so, they let him out. He all torn up, however
he looked still relitively happy. "Why are you here, Xellos?! You only
pop out something bad is happening, the Mazuko are involved in something,
or just to piss us off. So, what reason is it this time?" Lina asked.
Xellos responded, "Well, if you must know, all three reasons actually."
"ALL THREE?! Okay, tell me, what is the Mazuko up to? And what is bad
that is going to happen?" "Hm... well.. You see... Sore wa hitsumitsu
desu ^_~!(That is a secret!)" Lina swung to hit him but he dodged,
sending her flying into the wall. Strangly after that happened, the
ground began shaking violently. Lina and Gourry fell to the ground while
Xellos stood staring at ceiling. His expression wore confusion... yet it
seemed like he was trying to figure out if it was something familiar.
Suddenly, the room began flooding in with water. His expression
morphed from confusion into fear and hatred.
"Dolphin," he wispered
as he teleported
away. The room was now filled with water and the pihranas were raging free.
Lina and Gourry were bitten by them violently left and right. They would have
to get out of there before they drownd, Lina realized. She saw the window
and she swam over to it and kicked it open. Water began spilling out
of the room. She grabbed Gourry then they were sucked out. Outside it was
dry and dark. Zel and Amelia were already out as well. They looked at each
other as if asking 'what happened?'
They heard a large explosion, Xellos came flying at them, and
crashed into Gourry. Still lying on the ground he teleported again.
They heard loud crashing above their heads and they realized the
battling was happeningg above them, so they ran into the brush to
avoid the fight. The fight was happening so fast they couldn't even
see them. Suddenly, a blast stared hurling towards them but Xellos
stood in front of them and got hit. The force hit him hard and he
coughed up blood but immediatly covered it up. "Xellos!" Lina yelled.
"Who are you fighting?" Gourry asked. Slowly Xellos got up and responded,
"Dolphin, war lordess of water. She is obvisiously strong, that's why
I must fight her... She can follow me anywhere I run. I'm not going to
give up." He teleported back into battle and the battle began again.
Xellos was punching at her vigerously. She took a swipe at him
and he accidently dropped his staff, immediatly dropping his guard.
She kicked him in the stomach and bent over to ease the pain. He backed
off a little and recomposed himself. He went forward to try to punch her
but she grabbed his fist and crushed it in her grasp. The grotesque sound
of cracking bones filled the air. Everything seemed to stand still in that
moment, yet everything seemed to billow or die. The tree sunk over, the
grass died and shrivled up, and felt faint.
Vaguely they got a glipse of Dolphin. She was tall and pretty,
long blue hair, icy cold eyes, and she wore a light blue kimono. Xellos'
arm began freezing over with ice after a few seconds. He screamed and
whithered in pain. It seemed the whole earth shuddered with his cry. He
pulled back quickly from Dolphin's icy grasp, nearly tearing his arm off.
"Omare...(Bastard...)" he rasped grabbing his arm. She shot forward and
headbutted him, knocking the mazuko unconscience and hurling towards
the ground. When he landed he began coughing and sputtering up
blood. "Xellos-san!" Amelia cried. She began a recovery spell
but Lina stopped her. "Lina-san!" "Amelia! He's a mazuko and white
magic hurts him, even if it is a recovery spell or not!" Dolphin flew
for him to finish the job but Lina intercepted with her sword. "Chooto
maate! (Hold on!) He's got nothin' left to give. How 'bout tryin'
someone with more spunk?" "Execution accepted," Dolphin said with
an icy pitch.
They fought off, the two in a ravishing frenzy of punches and hits.
Lina threw a FIREBALL and Dolphin screamed although it missed. "Anata chisai
onnainu!(You little bitch!)" she screeched, throwing a FREEZE ARROW but Lina
threw a FLARE ARROW melting it in midair. 'Ah, I get it now! Her weak
point is fire!' Lina thought. She sent another FIREBALL towards
Dolphin but this time she blasted a large whirlpool of water out,
extingiushing it. 'Gah! I was wrong!' Lina corrected herself. "I have
had enough of this!" Dolphin excliamed. She jolted forward and grabbed
Lina by the arms. Lina stood stunned and then she shivered feeling
extremely cold.
She looked down and realized that her body was begining to freeze
over just the same way Xellos' arm did. She screamed and tried to struggle
free from the evil frost. Slowly all sound went to an end as Lina's
struggling did. It was all over as quickly as it began. She had
stopped screaming, struggling, breathing, and living. All were silenced.
Gourry's eyes burned with tears as he looked at his encased lover.
He ran towards her and took out his holy sword Gorun Nova. Just he was
about to strike the ice with a freeing blow but Dolphin stopped
him. She grabbed him and flinged him into a wall. When he made contact
with it she froze him to it.
"Son of a-!" Zel screamed as he arosed to go fight her, but
Amelia held him back. "Iie, Zelgadis-san! You can't! Your arm needs to
heal! I'll take her." "How can I just sit here and watch you fight? I'm
going with you!" "Stay here and watch Xellos-san. Dolphin might come
back and try to kill him." Zel let out an exasperated sigh. "Hai. (All
right.) Just look out for her freezing blasts please." Amelia smiled and
ran out to go fight Dolphin. Zel watched her fight and she was doing well.
He heard a grunt behind him and he turned to see Xellos awake and
observing his broken arm. "It's going to have to come off," he said grimly.
"You'll have to help me get it off," he continued. Zel shot
him an icy glare and coldly said, "I wouldn't help you even if my life
depended on it." "Maybe not yours... but what about your friends?" He
pointed to Amelia and she got kicked. Zel sighed and accepted defeat.
"Fine, what do you need?" "Your sword. You're going to have to strike it
right here, next to the elbow and-" "Chooto maate! (Hold on!) You
expect ME to-...?" "Hai. I obviously can't." Zel reached for his
sword but hesitated a moment and wanted more reassurance.
"Ano, (Uh,) nothing will happen when it comes off right?" "Iie.
It'll just hang there a moment and I'll have to break it off the rest
of the way." Zel akwardly took his sword and raised it above his head,
then it came down.
When it hit Xellos, nearly all speed left and Zel's blade with
extreme slowness sliced through Xellos' arm. Xellos began screaming
in sheer pain, revealing large sharp fangs. His scream was nothing anyone
had ever heard before, not even another mazuko, not even Dolphin.
Dolphin and Amelia had stopped fighting and watched this painful
session take place. The earth beneath their feet began crumbling as
almost it seemed to be at fear from Xellos' cry. His hair began
billowing and his eyes were opened and glowing blood red. It seemed
like the world stood still in this moment and all that was heard on
earth was the cry of Xellos. Finally, Zel's blade reached the end
of Xellos' flesh and black blood flowed everywhere. Xellos came out
of his trance-like state and his body fell limp for a few moments then
he regained conscienceness. He grabbed the possessed thing and began
tugging it off but it came slowly breaking seemed to be strands of
black. Each time one snapped, Xellos would flinch and his hair began
billowing again. Finally it came off and he threw it at the ground
and it disinergrated, leaving dead blackened grass.
Zel looked at Xellos in disgust. "Does that always happen when
you loose somthing like that?" he asked. Xellos couldn't respond
for the pain was too imense but he just nodded, holding the stub
to keep the blood from flowing. Slowly he arised and starting walking
off towards the battle. "Chooto! (Wait!) You're actually going to
fight instead of running off to heal?" Zel asked. "Should I? I can't.
She can follow me wherever I run. And my arm I can't heal it. It grows
back on its own." Xellos responded painfully as he limped off to battle.
Amelia began growing tired and she fell to the ground exhausted.
Zel looked up to examine what Dolphin was doing in response to this
and she was preparing for a freezing blast. Zel sprinted to
Amelia's aid, his intentions were to tackle her out of the way, however
Dolphin saw past his plan and she hurled the blast immediatly, the
moment they came in contact with each other they were silenced as one.
Xellos limped forward and Dolphin stood with a hand on her hip
grinning. She flew forward and grabbed Xellos by his shirt. "Hmph!
Let's all feel sorry for little Xellos. The one who has been rejected
as a dark lord over and over and over. Too bad you're too weak to save
your friends, who are slowly dying in their ice coffins!" Dolphin
teased. Then she laughed in his face, then threw him into a tree breaking
in half. She floated on top of him and said, "It's over." She got a
large blast ready and was about to shoot it however something stopped her.
"STOP!" a voice thundered through the darkness. The force
of the voice was so powerful it knocked Dolphin against the wall,
bringing up a large veil of smoke. The smoke cleared a bit and Dolphin
could be seen again. Blood had trickled out the side of her mouth.
"Who's there?! Show yourself!" Dolphin ordered. Xellos looked behind him
and saw who it was. It was a woman... a beautiful woman at that.
She had long silky blonde hair, her body was long and slender, her skin
a soft buttermilk color and it looked soft to the touch, lips that
could shame a red rose, however her bangs shaded her eyes and they
couldn't be seen. She wore a white shirt, black leather pants,
a violet suede fabric was tied around her waist, feathery shoulder
guards that were connected to a black velvet cape. She looked about the
age of twenty-two.
"How dare you be so insolent to attack me!" Dolphin screamed.
When the bonde headed girl didn't move, Dolphin struke. She swiped
at her but the second her fist came in contact with the girl's flesh
she vanished. Dolphin looked around in total confusion. "Where
is she," Dolphin wispered, looking around. Suddenly, she got punched
from behind. She flew into a wall. She turned and saw the girl standing
behind her. "Shimatta. She's fast." She tried again. She started punching
hastilly at the girl however she didn't move. When Dolphin punched her
it went right through. Dolphin fell back in total mystery of how she
did that.
She looked at the grass and saw skid marks in the grass. 'That
means she was moving! It's just it's too fast for the eye to see! SHIMATTA!
She really is that fast!' Dolphin concluded. 'Fine there always is
one way how to do it. A one hit K.O. which means a one hit Kill Out!
Instant Death!' For some reason it seemed like the girl heard her
thought and she knew she was in trouble. "How much does it take to
satisfy your hunger for war?!" the girl screamed. "War is pointless!
It means nothing but hatred and death!" Her hair began billowing and now
her eyes were visible because they started glowing red. Dolphin
started charging up for her most ultimate attack, an attack that would
freeze a heart then shatter it.
The blonde girl began screaming and she was now extremely angry.
The ground beneath her sunk in and the ice surrounding Lina, Gourry, Zel,
and Amelia shattered off. Lina looked around in total question. Xellos
teleported and quickly grabbed each of them and put them to safty.
"What's going on Xellos?!" Lina yelled over the sound of the girl's voice.
"The blonde girl, I think is charging up to kill Dolphin!" Dolphin's
attack was finished and she was ready to shoot it. The girl however wasn't
even near ready. Xellos saw that and he saw to that the girl could do it.
He teleported by Dolphin and held her by a lock. "Xellos! You
baka! (idiot!) Let me go!" The girl hunched over and huge demon wings
sprouted from her back.
"A-A DEMON?!!!" Dolphin screeched. "A-A MAZUKO?!!" The
girl's wings expanded and she begun chanting something.
"Above the plain so deep,
Beyond the darkest night,
The final cry of angels,
Shall be heard,
Only by those of death!
I hail to you thee great demond,
Crush those of peace,
Destroy those of virtue,
Let death overcome the life,
And let the world be overcome with chaos!
Blood shall be drenched upon Earth!
CHAOS' C-....!"
A black barrier surrounded her as she chanted. Her eyes gleamed red
and a flickering clash of black surrounded her hand. She took and raised
it above her head. Before the world had seemed to have been full of sound,
but now there wasn't a single sound except for the clashing of the power.
When she screamed, 'Chaos' was about to shoot it at Dolphin, but her
eyes suddenly lost their gleam and she covered the power. It let out
a huge blast knocking her unconscience and the power hit the ground.
It had obviously lost control. Lina ran over to the girl and tried to
awaken her. "Oi! (Hey!) Wake up! C'mon! That thing you shot has lost control!
C'mon! You have to do something!" Slowly she regained conscienceness. When
she realized what was going on she said, "Oh God! What have I done?!"
she exclaimed as she teleported away. Lina looked around frantically,
paniced that she was in front of this raging power, stronger than the
Giga Slave, by herself.
She reappeared after a second. "Gomen. It's your turn now,"
she said then she grabbed Lina's wrist and teleported with her. They
were suddenly in the middle of the desert. The young girl dropped
Lina and was just about to leave but Lina said, "Chooto! What's
going on?!" "I would tell you but things are desperate. The answers
will come. Trust me! They will come when we meet again!" Then the
mysterious girl left. 'Who is she? She's much more powerful than I am
obviously. Chooto... Xellos couldn't even stop Dolphin, but she
could... Is SHE more powerful than Xellos?!' Lina thought. Lina
turned at the sound of Gourry's voice. "Lina! Lina, what's going on?!"
"I-I don't know Gourry..."
Back on the battlefield, Dolphin hammered her way into Xellos'
ribs but he still held her tight. "Baka mazuko! Let me go! You do realize
that if you don't we're both going to die? Trust me, you let me go,
and I'll let you live," Dolphin reasoned. "Why? Dying, knowing you're
dead too, would be a great honor!" Xellos rasped. She tried stuggling
again but it still failed. Xellos looked across the power and he knew
it would his destiny so he held tighter. Suddenly, he saw the blonde
girl by the power. Slowly, she placed her hand on it and it looked
like she said something, then she vanished again.
Suddenly, the power vanished and there was nothing but silence
again. Quickly, she appeared in back of Xellos.
She put her hand on
his shoulder then vanished with him. Dolphin
looked around in
confusion. As fast as the silence had came, it left with the sound
of clashing from the power. Dolphin turned and saw the power coming
towards her. It was to fast for her to react. It hit her and she screamed.
She looked at herself and saw pieces of her disinergrating into
nothingness and she knew this would be it.
* * *
Several weeks had past since the incident that night. Zel's shoulder
was still a little injured but it was getting better. Xellos or any mazuko
hadn't been seen since. They assumed he was caught in the blast and he was
dead. They hadn't a single clue of where the blonde girl had gone and
they didn't know if they'd ever see her again. But Lina had said, with
power like that, they'd see her again real soon.
To: My Best Friend and Brother
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Aqua Tenshi
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