Chapter 1

Chapter 1


By:Weir Tenshi

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				How Mysterious!
			Mischievious Phantoms At Work
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	A raven flew galliently through the sky. Its heart was falling 
weak. It searched for a place to perch. It soared overhead and 
nearly hit Lina's head. She dodged it but just barely. "Damn 
birds," Lina muttered. It was a peaceful day, sunny, warm, yet a small 
gentle breeze blew across the plains making the day extra comfortable. 
The raven was about the most wildest thing that happened that day. 
Amelia, Gourry, and Lina laid lazililly staring at the sky on the soft 
grass. Zelgadis of course wasn't so easilly comforted and instead he 
was on a nearby cliff doing strange calculations.
	Normally, the summer was harsh and made everyone weak and 
hot, however this summer was gentle and wasn't too hot. Suddenly, 
Lina heard a sound from the trees behind them. See looked to the 
cliff to see if Zel was still there to make sure it was him. It 
wasn't; he was still on the cliff, but he was sitting down and shaking 
as if something scared the hell out of him. Lina immeadiatly got 
up and prepared herself for battle. The other two stood in wonder 
of what Lina was doing. Out of nowhere, someone dressed in all 
black ran out of the brush, jumped over Lina, onto her head, then kept 
running. "OH HO! So you want to play it that way and then just run?! 
Not a chance, buddy!!!" Lina screamed as she started running after 
the person. Gourry followed and Amelia went after Zel. 
	Lina stopped when the person swung upside down from a tree and 
nearly headbutted her. The person swung off the branch and looked at 
Lina. Lina realized she didn't see any identifying marks whatsoever 
on this person. They wore a black shirt, black pants, black shoes, black 
gloves, a black cape, and a black hood covered their face, while 
sunglasses covered the eyes. "Okay, you! Who are you and what the 
hell is your problem?!" she questioned the mysterious person. They 
shrugged and turned to run but Lina grabbed the cape. "I don't 
think so! You best answer me or you'll be at the wrong side of a 
fireball!" The person just raised a gloved hand and shook their 
finger 'no', then tore loose and shot into the woods. Lina just watched 
him go. Gourry came up behind Lina and asked, "Who was that?" 
"Good question," Lina muttered.
	The group came together and headed back to camp. When they 
made it back Lina got super pissed when she heard a noise in the trees 
again. "Ho ho! Not this time!" Lina cackled as she hurled a huge 
fireball into the trees. Instead of the person in black, Xellos 
popped out screaming, running in circles, then he sat down to extinguish 
the flames on his butt. "I-I-Ideo! (O-O-Ouch!)" he muttered rubbing 
his butt. "Xellos! You're alive?! How?! I thought you died with Dolphin 
with that- that..." Lina sputtered out. "Hm? Iie. That blonde girl came 
back and teleported me out of there. I had some buissness to 
settle with my master. It seemed that Dolphin wasn't supposed to be 
there obviously... So don't ask me any questions. All I know is, my 
master sent me to go talk with you people. Dolpin wasn't on my 
schedule. So I'm just in the dark as much as you guys are."
	"Oh. Hey, Xellos, did you see that person in all black?" Lina 
asked. "Hm... Actually, yes, I did. What of him?" "That's a guy?" 
"Well, to tell the truth, I'm not sure..." He scratched the 
back of his head. "I assume that's a man. However, on my way to find 
you, there I saw him. He stood staring at me for a moment, then he 
took off. I tried to keep up with him but all the trees were in 
the way. He jumped over them quickly, almost like he knew where every 
single tree was. So he finally outsped me and it seems he ran into you." 
	"So you don't know anything about that girl then-_-?" Lina 
asked. "Not a thing..." Xellos responded. Amelia and Zel exchanged 
confused looks. "Well, that's no good," Lina muttered. "Well, 
you coming with us, Xellos? We're on our way to an inn in town."(Try 
saying that ten times fast! '^_^) "Nah, I have some buissness to 
attend to... Ja-ne!" Xellos said, teleporting. No one knew what he 
meant by 'bussiness to attend to', however, what he was going to do, 
wasn't buissness at all.
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	Around a mountain, the sky seemed to be speckled gold and black, 
for swarms of dragons filled the air; Filia was one of them. She flew 
galliently through the sky. Filia was thrilled at her new position in 
the world of the dragon. She was no longer a high priestess of 
golden dragons but she was now going to be corrinated to Queen of the 
Golden Dragons. She smiled as she flew towards the Kingsmon Temple
(corrinating place of the dragons). She had to be prepared early, 
before everyone started coming. 
	An hour later, dragons of many sizes and shapes came flying 
into the temple to witness the corrination. The high priest of all 
dragons was present and he would be doing the corrination. 
All became silent when Filia entered the room. There wasn't a single 
sound, not even Filia's footsteps could be heard as she made her way 
up to the alter. (That was the corrination rules. It had to be silent.) 
Suddenly, as quickly as the silence came, it disciplated. CRUNCH!!! 
silence... CRUNCH!!! silence again... Filia stopped and looked around 
the auidience to see who it was making the noise. CRUNCH!!! 
	It was actually Xellos, munching on potato chips as loud as 
he could. He was up on a vacant balcony, where no one could see him. 
He smirked in spite of himself. Another potato chip... CRUNCH!!! Filia 
began walking again. Everyone bore a sweat drop as she approached the 
alter finally, with the sounds of crunching with her every step. Xellos 
looked at the bag and there wasn't any chips left. Filia let a sigh 
of relief as now it was quiet. Xellos wasn't going to give up so easilly. 
He began coughing loudly. Filia hunched over and turned once again 
to see who the perpatraiter was. Xellos fell short of breath so he 
stopped. The high priest began the ritual. 
	Xellos teleported to the left side of the alter, by the 
wall in the shadows. He threw a rock at the high priest. He stopped 
speaking and everyone gasped. Then he threw another at Filia. She tried 
to ignore it. When Xellos saw this, he giggled to himself and threw 
more. Filia kept dodging them, moving as less as possible, until 
WHAM!!! She got smaked right in the head by one. The high priest began 
again, but this time he was reading as fast as he could. He didn't 
care if anyone understood, he just wanted to get over with it. After 
he finished, Xellos began screaming, "BOOOOO!!!" The high priest 
quickly grabbed the red sword of the Astral, and he placed it on 
Filia's shoulder. He said the holy sayings that would make her the 
Queen. She glew a brillient red a moment then she was back to her 
original color.
	"Now you're Queen of the Golden Dragons, congrats!" he 
said bluntly, leaning over to her ear. He then wispered, "Find 
that son-of-a-bitch and fry like bat out of hell! Got me?" She nodded 
slightly. Xellos smiled feeling rather proud of himself as he was 
about to teleport away, but the person in all black tackled him. They 
started punching each other and wrestling, completly unaware a pissed 
off Filia was behind them. The person in black saw her shadow when "he" 
was on top of Xellos and was strangling him, while Xellos had a hold 
of "his" arm and was about to break it. The person turned and saw 
Filia. "Well, well, well... two little mischievious phantoms we have 
here!" she growled, fire spouting from her nose. The person pointed at 
Xellos then got up and ran, leaving Xellos vunerable to Filia to kill 
him...	  
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	Back at the inn, Lina and Gourry were having... "fun". 
Xellos lurked in the shadows, silently giggling, watching the two 
"wrestle" naked. Lina snapped strait up and she turned to her side then 
she growled, "WHO'S THERE?!!!" Xellos slowly came only letting enough 
light on his face so she would know. "I have a nickname we can call 
that mysterious, mischeivious person in black... Mystrivious... 
Strange name, yes, I know. It's mysterious and mischeivious 
together," Xellos said. "Why do you say that?" Lina asked humoring 
herself. Slowly, he stepped forward revealing more light on himself. 
He was all battered up. His clothes were burnt and shredded; he had 
two black eyes; and there many little cuts and bruises all over him. 
"Just because..." he muttered. In a sense, Lina felt rather happy to 
meet this "Mystrivious". Maybe "he" wasn't all that bad after all.

To My Best Friend and Brother:
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				Aqua Tenshi
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				Weir Tenshi