(Small precaution: From paragraphs 3-6 is JUICY. If you don't care about 
that, then be my guest! >=D) 
Chapter 8:
				Dangerous Misson!
			Mystrivious' Father Shows Up	

	The days flew by turning into weeks. Xellos didn't even dare to go 
back to the Beastmaster. Strangely enough, she didn't even come after him. 
That worried Xellos. He knew she was planning and that she was going to kill 
him. He knew that if he didn't return he would share the same fate of 
Dominious. However, that was irrelevant to him now, for Mystrivious' 
and his realationship was growing. Xellos found himself waking in 
the morning looking foreward to seeing her. He knew he didn't have long to 
live so he spent each day as best as he could with her. However, Xellos' 
part of the promise was to help her in fights to provent her strength 
from being provoked and that was about to be put into action.
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	For some unknown reason everyone had been passionate towards 
another lately, especially Zel and Amelia. It was a the night of Lina 
and Gourry's first anniversary, so now they had their own rooms, Amelia and 
Zel shared theirs, and Mystrivious and Xellos had their own. Lina and 
Gourry were in their room sensuasly feeding each other exotic fruits while 
flirting and making "plans" for later in the night while Mystrivious and 
Xellos were sitting upon the roof looking at the moonlit sky conversing 
about different ways to fry wild boar alive.(Author's Note: . . . Sorry 
about that... My brother chose that one! ^_^')

 	Meanwhile, in Amelia and Zel's room, she and Zel were engaging in 
a deep passionate kiss, slowly getting carried away into a land of sexual 
fantasies. Still kissing, Amelia put her hand upon his chest. She felt him 
moan and she began unting his shirt, pushing him towards the bed. He 
sat upon the bed, held her close and resumed kissing her. She freed the 
shirt from his broad shoulders. She caressed her hands down his strong built 
chest, exploring every ridge of his ribs. She reached a certain spot of his 
chest that made him giggle. Amelia smiled sweetly and and continued tickling 
until he fell over onto his back. She stopped when he got a very playful 
twinkle in his eye. He lunged forward, growling playfully, grabbed 
her shoulders, and wrestled her onto the bed. They caught each other 
in yet another long kiss. 
	They stopped a moment while Amelia tugged her shirt off, revealing 
her two cream-white breasts. Again they kissed and made-out. Slowly Zel's 
lips departed from hers as his persistant kisses ran down to her neck then 
he began to suckle it. As he did this, she ran her hands down his chest, 
to his ribs, to his abdomen, then onto her "final" destination. She felt 
him shudder and moan in indescribable pleasure as she began to slide her 
hand up and down, back and forth on his erection. Just as she was on the 
brink of ripping the remnants of their clothes off and giving herself into 
the burning desire growing deep inside her, she felt resistance, and she 
was torn away from this splendor by the soft sound of Zel's voice. "We 
need to stop," he said sounding undoubtedly dissappointed.
	 "Do shite?" Amelia asked, antsier than ever. "We're getting 
carried away." "That's good!" Zel blinked a couple of times then rised off 
her. "Iie, it's not," he said reaching for his shirt. "Why do you 
want to stop?" "We have to. First of all, we're not even married so we 
are not free to do that. Would your father be happy to know that his daughter 
isn't a virgin before she gets wedded? I think not... but that isn't the 
issue." 'Isn't the issue?' Amelia thought. "What's the issue then?" she 
asked. Zel blushed a light lavender. "Ano... you see... you know...
I don't want to hurt you," he said as he signaled around his "lower 
anatomy". 
	"Hurt me?" Zel stood astounded that she was so clueless. He raised 
the sleeve of his shirt showing embedded stones upon his arms. "Does this 
ring a bell?" For a few seconds she didn't comprehend what he was applying 
to her, but when it dawned on her, it hit her over the head like a mallet 
on a wooden stake. "Ohhhhh! I see. Yikes, that would hurt." Amelia put her 
shirt back on, then they sat on the bed in total silence. "So... did 
you like it while it lasted?" she asked. "Hm? Oh, uh... hai... Did you?" 
"Every minute of it." "That's good.... So now what?" "How about a 
game of chess?"
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	"Iie, you boil it!" Mystrivious said. "Iie! I say you bake it!" 
retaliated Xellos. They were still arguing over how to fry boar(obviously!). 
"You are too much! How could you possibly destroy something so insignificant 
like THAT with the technique you speak of?" "Easy, tie it down so it won't 
move much then stick it in!" "That's it! I'm not talking to you 
anymore!" "Good, then don't! Demo.... I know how to make you see it my 
way..." She turned towards him and he grabbed her and kissed her. Suddenly, 
the ground began to shake and they stopped. 
	"Xellos! What's happening?!" Mystrivious yelled grabbing him 
for support. As he began holding her, the ground stopped shaking. 
Xellos listened closely and heard a sound he never heard before nor 
could explain. It was like a tearing sound and it was coming from the East 
of them. Quickly, a black tornado tore its way through the trees around them 
and stopped directly if front of them. Mystrivious first looked upon the 
funnel as a foreign object, until she realized what this was. The 
frightening realization made her turn her face as if she were trying not 
to be reconized. Xellos' eye began twitching, for the the same reason but 
not the same purpose.
	Finally, the torando took shape, the shape of a human. It formed 
the shape of a man with nearly pure-white skin shrouded in a blood 
red cloak. His eyes were the same color as his cloak and his hair was 
silver with golden strieks. "Ah, Shatarea. There you are. You hid well 
from me for what now...? Nearly 18,000 years now? Amazing that you were 
able to keep your power low enough that I couldn't sense it," he said 
in cold chilling voice. Xellos looked at Mystrious whose head was still 
turned as if she looked at this man she would be blinded. "Xellos... 
Did you assist on keeping her hidden?" "None of your damned bussiness, 
Snaridion!" Xellos snaped. "Touchy, aren't we?" "What bussiness do you 
have here?!" "I've just come here to require my daughter, Xellos-chan. 
Don't worry, this has nothing to do with you!" Xellos felt Mystrious shudder 
underneath his arms so he shifted his sights to her. 
	"Daughter? You mean to tell me you're Mystrivious' father?!" 
"Mystrivious? What the hell is that name? Her name is Shatarea. Hmph... how 
strange it is... A much hated rival of mine is the same person whom my 
daughter meets later in life. Don't you remember? How those days were back 
then, Mysterious Black Priest of Darkness of the Beastmaster Zelas?" 
"Hai... how could I forget? Our rivalry has gone back for milliniums of 
milliniums, Blood Red Priest of Evil of Hellmaster Phibrizzo." 
	"Xellos, you never changed. Always the little jerk you were and 
just as stubborn. Just give me back my daughter and I'll leave you at 
peace. However, if you act contrary to this, than instead of leaving you 
in peace then it will PIECES I'll leave you in!" "Then you just do that then! 
This girl is not just a piece of property you can take from whomever and 
whenever you want! She is a true person who does own the third part of a 
human's heart, so she most definatly has feelings, feelings that I 
won't let you crush! Besides I made a promise to keep her safe, and I always 
stay true to a task!" 
	"NANI?! Alway stay true to a task?! HA! From what I hear, your 
last task was to bring her to your master, your God! Obviously you didn't 
follow that through very well!" Xellos looked down at the ground, his eyes 
shadowed. "I also heard the Beastmaster decreed your place from General 
and Priest! HA! I knew you wouldn't amount to anything!" Xellos 
looked up, tears of fury in his glare. "You just sealed your fate 
Snaridion... I swear on it... I swear upon my mazoku pride... You shall 
be buried in those words... So help me...even if I have to die trying!" 
Xellos screamed in all his wrath. He let go of Mystrivious and shot 
forward challenging Snaridion. Shatarea just watched helplessly as the two 
kept shooting at each other then quickly vanashing.
	'Zelas... decreed him from General Priest? Do shite? Why would he 
let her do that? Was it because he didn't take me to her? That's crazy! 
She would have killed him! Chooto! She already tried to! That's why he was 
so beat up that one day! Do shite! Why would he do that for me?! That 
crazy baka! He would sacrafice his life to keep me safe?! Is because of 
my power? It must be! That must be what she wanted me for! She must have 
wanted to kill me for my power! That's the same reason... Father 
wants me,' Shatarea thought. 
	In a flash, there was a large crash and Xellos reappeared reeling 
through the air. He crashed into the wall creating a huge crevace. He fell 
onto the ground and Shatarea cried, "Xellos!" going after him to his aid. 
Blood began seeping from the back of his head. Quickly, Snaridion 
appeared behind her and there was a small struggle that was quickly lost 
when Snaridion knocked Shatarea unconscience and abducted her. 
"SHATAREA!!" Xellos screamed reaching out for her but only grasping emptiness.
	Finally, Lina, Gourry, Zel, and Amelia came out of the inn. 
"Xellos-san!" Amelia screamed running over to him. "Xellos! What 
the hell happened?! Where is Mystrivious!" Lina asked kneeling down next 
to him. Slowly he got up and explained everything that happened. "The Astral 
Plane?! Are you sure?" Zel asked sounding really concerned. "Hai. 
Knowing Snaridion as well as I do, that's the only place he'd take her," 
Xellos answered. "Do shite?! Why would he take her to where any mazoku can 
just walk right in at any time?" Lina asked. "That I'm not too sure, but I 
know it's to provoke me." "I don't get it... Why can't we all just go and 
save her together?" Gourry cluelessly asked. (Author's Note: Thank the Gods 
Gourry is here. He's always a good excuse to get things explained! 
'^_^)
	Everyone face-faulted. Lina sighed and looked at everyone with the 
look that said 'Who's turn is it to tell this dimwit?' Then she said with a 
sigh, "Oh, forget mina... I'll do it. Gourry... The Astral Plane is a 
place that is like a total replica of this world which a mazoku will tranform 
into their original shape then go to wherever they want then they can 
choose however long they wanted that travel to be then they come back into 
this world and it will be the time they wanted it to be. In other words it's 
a teleporter for time and location for mazokus." Still Gourry wore the same 
confused and mindless expression. "Ohayoo! Did you get all of that?!" Lina 
asked waving her hand over his face. "Huh? Gomen, did you say something?"
	Zel and Amelia then turned and faced Xellos because they knew 
that what they would have seen was going to be nothing but violence. "So 
are you going to go help her? You're the only one who can," Amelia said. 
"Hai. I know there is going to be a battle except I don't know how well 
it'll go. He does have a slight advantage," replied Xellos. "How? How 
could he have an advantage? Everyone else and I know perfectly well how 
powerful you are!" Zel added. "Well, you see, sadly, power isn't everything 
I'm afraid. I have the power to defeat him easilly, grant it, however 
regardless how much power I possess he can defeat me with his speed, 
hands down. Before I would even be able to get a move in he'd have me 
dead."
	Everyone stood still, including Lina and Gourry, with their 
faces grim. "Xellos-san... don't you realize that if she dies he'll 
get her strength and then... you know where that would put us... Please 
Xellos-san, you have to at least try! I know it's selfish for me to 
ask you this but... we're all counting on you. You can't give up..." 
Amelia said. "Yeah, come on, Xellos! We know you can do it so you should 
too!" Lina added in. "Well, I'm not quite sure how bad this situation is, but 
you have my support!" Gourry encouraged. "You are our last hope. You 
better not dare say that you aren't going to help!" Zel growled.  
"Whoever said that I wouldn't try? I'm going regardless what you 
people say or whatever dangers may lie ahead. Besides, Shatarea will be 
there. If I can set her free from whatever trap he may have her in in time 
then this shouldn't be a problem," Xellos answered confidently. "Well, 
it's time for me to go now. Ja-na!(Bye!)" Then quietly Xellos whispered so 
they couldn't hear him, "My friends," Then he vanished onto his way to 
what he knew would be a nearly victory-impossible battle.
	
To my best friend and brother:
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					Aqua Tenshi
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