"Sylpheel!! NO!!" cried Gourry as he catched the priestess limp body, a bloody hole on her chest.
"Gou...Gourry-sa" Sylpheel coughted twice before her body collapsed lifeless in Gourry's arms.
Lina ran to them calling the priestess' name. Xellos saw Zelgadis try to Ra-Tilt the Mazoku who had attacked them but it had already dissapeared. Zel ran to join the others. Gourry had laid Sylpheel's body on the ground so that Lina could try a healing spell.
"It's too late." Zelgadis voice could almost not be heard.
Xellos saw them cry, Lina screamed for someone to help the priestess while Gourry had gone into some sort of shock. Zelgadis closed with his hand the priestess' eyes. Xellos walked towards them and picked up the lifeless body from the ground ignoring the others.
"Xellos!! What are you doing?!" screamed a very suspicious Lina tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Sore wa himitsu des."
"XELLOS!!"
Xellos considered the mental condition Lina was in and decided it was not a good moment to mock her, them again, he couldn't tell her what he was going to do.
"You asked for help, I'm going to help her." and with those words the trickster dissapeared, the dead body in his arms.