Chapter 3: Withdrawal

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Steph returns to the Temple with her nose in a Slayers manga, and the-basic-neccessities-of-life-grocieries-plus-coffee-for-Zel in her backpack and stops in front of where the door used to be and reaches up with a key to feel for the door. After missing about three times because the door isn't there, she looks up from the manga. It takes about three nano-seconds for her to register the fact that the Temple is now different piles and grades of rubble, before she reacts.

Steph: Someone is DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::casts spell:: AVATAR UNLEASHED!!

Steph the Avatar is now on the warpath. Ifni help the perpetrators.

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Zel sits in the TV room drinking coffee as Suboshi keeps tabs on the amount he's drinking. Zel downs the cup in a gulp and pours some more. Suboshi marks a notch on a very notched covered sheet of paper tacked on the newly created wall.

Suboshi: 96. We're going to run out of coffee again. ::shouting:: DUO!

Duo walks into the room.

Duo: What?!

Suboshi motions at the covered table in front of Zel.

Duo: Oh. We need more coffee.

Suboshi: Duh.

Duo: I'll get the credit card.

Duo leaves as Zel makes a coffee float with coffee, coffee ice-cream, and a coffee bonbon and then downs it in one gulp.

Suboshi: ::notch:: 97. You know, it really isn't that awful. Sure, you blew up the Temple, Steph had to fix it, and you're banned from the TV (like us) but it's not that bad.

Zel gives Suboshi a look before flare arrowing him and downing another cup of coffee.

Suboshi: ::from semi-fried heap:: 98.

Xellos floats in and surveys the situation, before settling on the back of the couch.

Xel: With all that coffee, you think you'd be wired. ^_^

Zel pushes Xel off the couch. Xel lands with a bonk and SD's before resuming his perch.

Xel: But nooooo ... you're just more violent. Not that that's a complaint. ^_^

Zel gets chokehold on Xel without pausing in his coffee-thon.

Suboshi: ::notch:: 99. ::muttering:: Who would have thought you'd go into withdrawal.

Zel downs another cup.

Suboshi: ::notch:: 100!

Duo returns with more "supplies" and dumps them on already coffee paraphernalia covered table. Noting the notch increase, Xel in chokehold, and Zel + coffee, he decides to get something to eat. He walks into the kitchen and:

Duo: What is that smell?!

Suboshi and Zel with Xel in chokehold tow go to the kitchen to see what's up. The smell of melted plastic was so thick it could cut it with a knife, which Duo was attempting to do (and not succeeding, if it may be added). Various Xellos dolls were all over the kitchen. In various states of being tortured.

Zel: I see you found my "work".

Suboshi: Your what?!

Zel: Maybe "expression of revenge" would be more accurate.

Xel finally frees himself from Zel's grasp and floats about the kitchen, checking it all out.

Xel: This is sick. I LIKE IT!! ^__^

Xel dashes back to Zel and jumps into his arms.

Xel: You're my new special friend! ^_~

Zel SD's and jumps around shouting:

Zel: Let go of me, you hentai!!!!

Zel succeeds in shaking off Xel, who lands on the floor with a thwack. Zel stomps on Xel a few times just to make sure he stays down.

Xel: ::from stomped on heap on floor:: Just for the record: Mazoku like pain.

Zel bangs his head on a conveniently located wall a few times in frustration, leaving Zel shaped marks in the wall.

Suboshi: What is all this?

Zel stops hitting his head against the wall and downs some more coffee.

Suboshi: ::notch:: 101.

Zel glances around before starting.

Zel: Beach Barbie Mazoku is tied to a brick in the sink. Malibu Mazoku is in the boiling pot. I'm A Girl, Too Xellos Barbie is in the microwave. Nighty Night Fruitcake (complete with Rezo teddy bear) is in the oven. And I drowned the Torture Me Xellos doll in the coffee pot (hated to ruin a good pot like that, but ...)

Duo: ::referring to the dolls:: Where did you find them?! ::to self:: I mean, one Xellos is bad enough. But, do they have to make more of him?

Zel: Mazoku R' Us.

Duo and Suboshi facefault.

Xel: I shop there. Nice place, excellent taste in merchandise. ^_^

Zel: Figures. ::downs more coffee::

Suboshi: ::notch:: 102.

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