Xellos was walking down the road with Lina ant the others. She had been thinking the whole day about ways how to tell Zelgadis about her little secret, but she had trown all the ideas away.
Why is this so difficult? It not I'm telling him I'm his lost twin sister or something like that... She sighted.
Lina walked behind Zelgadis to whom Amelia was clinging. Amelia was trying to convince Zel to marry her and to admit how much he loved her.
Gods! I want to blow her up!! Why can't she let him alone?
Lina turned her gaze towards Gourry who was talking with Sylpheel as Xellos caught her attention. The Mazoku had been afull quiet today, besides he was walking instead of floating. He hadn't even tryed to tease anyone, he was acting so unlike him,
...strange..
The trickster priest seemed to be lost in thoughts.
What is going on in your sick Mazoku mind, Xellos? Lina wondered as she watched him walk gaze fixed on the ground. Xellos sighted... BUFF ...before he walked into a tree.
Xellos had been somewhere else with her thought that she didn't noticed the tree in her way and had just walked into it.
She found herself lying on the ground and saw Sylpheels face. The priestess asked if she was alright. Xellos noded and smiled her usual smile at them as she picked her staff up.
Well he's defenetly not paying any attention to where he is going... thought Lina.
Gourry helped Xellos up and said something about paying more attention so he wouldn't crash into something again. The trickster noded.
Look who's talking. Mr. Jellyfish-brain...
"If he's alright we should keep going on." said Zelgadis who had managed to get away from Amelia and was now standing next to the red-haired sorceress. Xellos felt a strange feeling as she saw the two of them standing so close to each other.
Is this what humans call jealousy? She wondered as she forced her smile to stay on her face.
"Zel is right. I'm hungry and I want to reach the next inn befor nightfall." said Lina as she started to follow Zelgadis down the road.
Amelia saw Xellos open his amethyst eyes and watch Zel and Lina walk side by side talking. She saw his eyes filled with something she had never thought she would see ina Mazoku's eyes. Pain.
Pain? Can it really be pain? Is Xellos-san jealous of Zelgadis-san because he's spending so much time with her lately? Is he in love with Miss Lina? How can that be? He is a Mazoku....
Xellos noticed the princess looking at her, she closed her eyes and started to float after the others.
They had reached the inn about two hours ago. They had eaten and then everybody had left to their respective rooms to rest.
It's now or never... thought Xellos as she took a deep breath and teleported herself into Zelgadis room.
She was standing in the shadows of the closet as Zel walked out of the bathroom his shirt over his shoulder. Xellos pressed herself against the wall as she stared open eyed at the chimera. She was about to melt.
Oh L-sama why hadn't I tought about spying earlier? Xellos wondered as she walked toward Zel.
Zelgadis heard someone behind him and swirled around sword in his hand. Xellos stood a few inches from the sword.
"It's only me Zel-kun." said the trickster smiling.
"What do you want fruitcake?" he asked suspicious not lowering his sword from where it was not far from Xellos troath.
The priest pushed the sword to the side with his finger.
"I have to tell you something." he told Zelgadis.
The trickster's smile had disapeared and had been replaced by a serious look.
Xellos had it all planed out, she would tell him how it had all been a mistake, how she was a woman and finally she would explain her feelings to him.
Wait! That won't work. Zelgaids is a very suspicious person, he will not believe I'm a woman in the first place, he will think it's all a trick.
Xellos damned herself for beeing a trickster, if she wasn't this would be a lot easier.
"Well it's easier if I just show you..." she said at last.
She shed her cape and put it on the chair, Zelgadis backed a step.
"What are you doing Xellos?" Zel demanded, but she didn't answer.
Xellos continued and took her gloves of. Zelgadis took another step back.
"Hentai! Bastard! Gay Mazoku!! Fruitcake!! GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!" Zelgadis was pressed agianst the far wall of the room, as far away from Xellos as possible.
Xellos sighed, "It's not what it looks like" yet "I'm not gay."
"Oh? You're not gay?! A man comes into my room in the middle of the night and starts taking of his clothes and HE IS NOT GAY??!"
Xellos took of her shirt, she was wearing nothing underneath. Zelgadis eyes bugged out. The reaction was expected, Xellos knew she had a nice body and didn't really mind showing it form time to time.
"You're... you... those?..."Zelgaids fainted.
Xellos smiled satisfied with herself. At least she has the worst part behind her, or so she thought at the moment. She walked over to Zelgaids and sat down next to him.
"Zel-kun wake up." she said caresing his cheek.
"Zel it's me." she ran her hand trought his hair and stopped suddenly.
If Zel-kun wakes up and finds me half-naked caressing his hair, it will not improve matters.
She stood up and put her shirt and gloves back on, then she levitated Zelgadis to his bed and sat next to him.
"See you tomorrow Zel-kun." she said sofly as she leaned forward and kissed his forehead before disapearing.
Some hours later Zelgaids woke up. His first ipression was that it had all been a nightmare, but then he didn't remember going to sleep. He sat up in his bed and looked around. No it hadn't been a dream, Xellos had forgoten her cape on the chair. Zelgadis laid back on his bed. What was he going to do now about the trickster? How was he going to tell the others that Xellos was actually a woman? He sighted. This whole thing had to be some bad joke. It couldn't be true... But then agian he had seen her. Zelgadis blushed at the memory.
Luckly it didn't occure to Zel what reason Xellos had for telling this to him instead of Lina or Amelia, or he would have gotten a heart-attack.
The trickster was back in her room. This hadn't turned out that bad afterall. Sure she hadn't told Zelgadis about her feeling towards him, but when he got used to the idea of her being a woman she would tell him.
Xellos reached up to her neck to take of her cape when she noticed that it wasn't there. She remembered having laid it down on a chair in Zel's room.
Oh well... I can ask for it tomorrow.
The next morning Zelgadis collected all his courage and went to Xellos room carrying her cape. He knocked and waited. After a few seconds Xellos opened the door.
"Here." said Zelgadis extending his hand and giving Xellos his cape," You forgot this in my room last night."
"Aw! Thank you so much Zel-kun." she smiled and took the offered garment.
Zelgadis turned red, Xellos was defenetly taking this the wrong way.
"Morning Zel! Morning Xellos!!" said Gourry as he passed the two of them and went downstairs for breakfast. Zelgadis was glad it hadn't been Lina, Amelia or Sylpheel who had seen them, they would have gotten it all wrong.
"Well,... I think I'll go now." Zel said blushing. This whole thing with Xellos was making him uncomfortable and nervous around the priest.
Priestess... he reminded himself.
Lina had noticed the tense air around Zelgadis during breakfast and even right now while they were traveling. It also didn't escape her that Xellos seemed to have retuned to his normal behaviour. Maybe a little more annoying around Zel now than before...
The trickster was floating next to Zelgadis and babbleing non-stop and Zelgadis blushed from time to time.
He's looks so cute when he blushes...
Zelgadis was acting strange with the Mazoku, he hadn't even insulted Xellos. She didn't know what was going on, first Xellos and now Zelgadis... Easiest way to find out was to ask one of them and since Xellos was surelly going to answer "Sore wa himistu des", it only left Zelgadis.
The sorceress wasn't the only one who noticed the chimeras strange behaviour towards the Mazoku.
"Gourry-sama?" she asked.
"Yes?" asked Gourry.
"Do you know what is wrong with Zelgadis-san?" Sylpheel asked concerned.
"I don't know. When I saw them this morning Zelgadis was giving Xellos his cape and said somthing about Xellos having forgoten it in Zel's room last night" the swordsman told her.
Sylpheel stopped walking, with wide eyes and open mouth she stared after Xellos and Zelgadis.
Could it be possible? The two of them are... she didn't even want to think about it.
"Sylpheel? Sylpheel are you okay?" Gourry was waving a hand infront of her face to get her attention.
She noded slowly,"Y...yes" and started to walk after the others still starring at the floating Mazoku and the chimera to whom Amelia was clinging again.