"Why must I do this? Save the life of one who nearly killed my entire race!" Filia moaned. She looked at him. He occasionlly opened his eyes, winced, and closed them. "Stupid namagomi" she grunted. It was pitch black now, past 1 AM, and the charcals of the fire was the only light."If I only had my magic back..." She wanted to sleep.Valteria was already sleeping, as was everyone else."no fair" About an hour later, Filia was at the very point of sleep, when Xelloss sat up. He was awake. She went over to him, put some sticks in the fire, eventually flaming it up again, and felt Xelloss' forhead. He was fine, although his body was completly bruised up. (from falling) Xelloss looked around, his eyes showing he was in complete pain. "Let me see your arm" Filia plainly stated. He was surprised. 1.- he didn't know anyone was there 2.- it was Filia, of all people
"why, so you can rip it off? Just because it's totally numb - " Xelloss stopped. then he remebered. "god, why did I have to loose all my powers?! why?"
"we all did" Filia said grabbing Xelloss' arm and changing the bandages. She looked at the huge, deep scar, and was proud of Valteria, she had tought him well. But at the same time, she felt sorry for Xelloss. GET A GRIP!!! she hissed to herself. Feel sorry for this baka, this namagomi, this - this - this MAZOKU!?!
"ow!ow! I said OWWW!!" Xelloss lightly yelled. FIlia stopped. she realized her anger tightened her grip on Xelloss' arm - right where Valteria bit him.
"sorry" she said finishing the bandages for the filthy mazoku's arm
"yea, right"
Filia smiled.
"so what happened? why did we all lose are magic?" FIlia asked Xelloss who was still lying down.
"ah, well, you see... The place Lina dragged us all going to, it has a curse. Now I guess we have to choise but to go there and see how to undo it."
"yea, I namagomi mazoku like yourself would know more, just won't tell us cuz you enjoy seeing us struggling, you feed of it, ne?" Filia said, glaring at him.
Xelloss just barley managed a smile, through his twitching. So is this how it feels to be mortal, ne? He almost felt sorry for humans. He felt.. weird. After a while of silence, Filia just of in space, he realized that somhow his lack of emotion left him, he assumed it was because of his lost magic. He was soon to be prooved wrong.
"Filia?" He asked. It was nearly hours later. To his surprise, she was awake.
"what?" she sounded tired.
"uh, nevermind"
"stupid baka" Filia realized he was shivering. She wasn't cold, she was next to the fire. Stupid stuck up mazoku. He refused to admit he was cold. Hardly making a sound, she got up and moved his sleeping bag with him on it next to the fire. She put her blanket on his and took a seat.
"what are you doing?"
"your frozen Xelloss. You'll catch a cold or somthing."
"mazoku like myself don't get colds" just then, he sneezed."just great, ok, maybe if I lose my magic, I can" he mumbled. Being mortal was miseralbe. Her nearly forgot what it was like...He felt a soft hand on his head.
"As I thought, namagomi, you have a fever"
"damn it all"
"don't worry, just sleep, you can only get better if you rest"
"what about you?"
"forget about me, now sleep"
"whatever. stuborn dragon"
smack
"owww..." Xelloss moaned
"sleep before I get mad"
"fine"
Xelloss finally, or what Filia thought, went to sleep in about five minutes. She slowly moved closer to him, inhaling his somwhat soothing scent, and put his head on her lap. As she started to cool the fever - she stopped. What was she doing? She felt weird. I can't fall for him... she thought. SHe shuddered. eew. what was she thinking? She moved away and watched him the rest of the night, until dawn when Gourry met her, being the first one up.
"hey Filia! How are you?" Gourry said in his cheery voice. He took a seat next to her.
"fine, an hour or two of sleep wouldn't be too bad thuogh"
"I'll cover you, you should sleep anyway" GOurry said willingly.
"oh would you? thanks Gourry!!"
Gourry gave Filia his sleeping bag, and he stood watch while Filia slept for a couple hours.