MINNA-SAN!!!!
I hope you like it so far. I was pretty excited in typing out chpt 9...I hope I didn't miss anything out...I like to thank everyone again for their patience and reading these chapters....the fic is getting close to the end....and I'm already typing another fic.
Anywho....Disclaimers: Just like everybody else, I don't own Slayers but heck....we can sure dream about it, ne? (^_~) On with the fanfic.....Adios!! ~~Miss "L".
"........?"
"Oh....no."
"Wha...bbbut...h...h..how?"
"It's not even singed!"
Hallis grinned and spoke...
"Just like I theorized....."
The surprised adventurers turned to the direction where he kept bragging.
"...that you might want to try to destroy the marriage certificate so, I took the liberty on arranging extra precautions, my dear wife." his eyes steadily fixed on the scarlet sorceress.
Lina growled as she narrowed her eyes at him with such anger and wishing that saying, 'if looks could kill' would work in her favor. Zelgadis quickly jumped in between the glares, making the mazuko lose his lustful thoughts. Soon both former humans were locked in a hateful staring contest. Zel gritted his teeth and growled as well. He snapped on the spot where the scroll is still lain.
"FLOW BREAK!" a white, thin fiery line formed into a six-pointed star, encasing the sheet in the middle of it. Soon the star disappeared....
"FLARE ARROW!" ..and followed Lina's example...
Nothing. Hallis laughes.
"How foolish to waste your powers and my time."
Lina pushed herself up front next to Zelgadis, she can feel herself getting flushed from anger and disappointment.
"Why you oversized, egotistical, son of a b***h! We haven't even tapped in our real powers, you prick!"
Hallis smirked and his slitted eyes were on Lina once again.
"So you say. Is there anything else you would like to add before I turn you into one of our powerful kind, honey?"
"DON'T. YOU. NEVER. EVER. CALL. ME. HONEY. DEAR. WIFE. LOVE. AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S EVEN CLOSE TO THEM. GOT THAT??!!!"
"But Lina, my love, what else do I call you?" he whined and pouted.
Everyone minus Lina and Zelgadis: O.o;; Lina and Zel stressmarked. All backed away from the whimpering mazuko.
"Nothing...as I said it before, I Am Never Yours and Never Will Be."
She walked over to the scroll, muttering under her breath, picked it up from the floor and threw it directly at his face...or at least tried to, but he caught it.
"My, my, such tem...."
"DRAGON SLAAVVE!" she used the scroll as a distraction so that she may cast it against Hallis since her friends and her beloved quickly departed from the opposite direction of the target once they heard the DRA part. They definitely didn't want to be caught near it again.
He yelled out in pain as he started to feel the black magic scorching him.
"Consider that as my divorce." she dusted her hands and let out a relieved sigh.
"Why do I always have bad guys come on to me?" placing her still ungloved left hand on the side of her forehead as she closed her eyes, she can feel a headache ready to torment her within her skull.
Zel, Sylphiel, Filia, Amelia, Val, Aez, and Xellos gave her a quizical look, Gourry was too busy looking at all of them, confused at their facial expressions. Yet, no one noted something gold from her left hand, glinting from the setting sun's rays, she still bears the wedding ring.
"First, it's that black-patched bandit guy, then the wealthy and the wimpy Hallis Ryzo, ::naming more bad guys:: (a/n: help! my brain isn't working....seriously folks, I can't remember who else were hitting on her.) and now a converted, obsessive mazukofied Hallis."
"Don't forget Noonsa." he smirked as he saw Lina's blue blush tinted her face as she cringed.
That's for pulling that dirty trick on me, Lina. remembering when she placed her "light" sleep spell on him during their first encounter with Dynast's servant.
She shook out her repulsive memory when she was first captured by Zel, she then levitated over to the crater. She stood directly where he once were at. She saw his tattered green garment and starts to stomp on it a couple of times.
"You ::stomp:: Damn ::stomp:: Bastard ::stomp, stomp::. I belong to no one, especially not to you ::stomp, stomp, STOMP::!" after she finished her leg exercise, she spat to the burnt ground, then she kicked the soil. She stopped any further actions....
"....???!" ...when her red garnet eyes spotted something white.
Her boot sifted thru the dirt, making the something white more visible.
"Huh?" she picked it up.
"What do we have here?" the young redhead starts to clean off the dirt and soot from its surface.
Her fine eyebrows and her ruby eyes start to twitch...
"Ugghh....NO! This can't be happening to me!....It's still in one friggn' piece!" she screamed.
In her fury, she tries to tear it up with her hands, nothing. She tried with her fanged teeth, still nothing, not even a puncture mark.
"AH DAMN IT!!" and flung the resilient scroll to the ground.
A laughter echoes around her. The rest of the crew heard it as well and starts to levitate to where Lina's at. The laughter sounds like it's getting nearer, she whips around to its direction.
"My dear, lovely wife, what makes you think you got me and the marriage certificate." Hallis' faded voice was getting nearer by the second.
Dark clouds were forming, hovering over her as a dimensional portal starts to open from the unseen side, the clouds were there to distract her. Zel's widened in fear and in realization, used his demonic speed to get to Lina first. Hallis walked out from it and right behind Lina.
"LINA! WATCH OUT!"
Just when Lina was ready to turn around with a Fireball at hand, Hallis laid his hand on her right shoulder, and gave her something like a Mono Volt, she screamed and her spell flickered out...
"AAAIIEEAAAHHHH...."
Lina felt the electrical surge within her body, both of her legs and her knees were buckling, her eyes closed as she is ready to pass out and into darkness, her body almost fell to the ground if it wasn't for Zelgadiss who caught her right before she was nabbed by Hallis. Like his demonic speed, he rapidly casted Raywing on Lina and manuevered the bubble shield over to the group and out of harms' way. Then a spell came into mind....
"GARK RUHAAD!"
His shamanist/spirit spell targeted the demon, its strong wind knocked him out of range. The young cursed man walked towards the befallen damned once-proud braggart. Hallis noticed him coming closer to him.
"Hhh...how...did yyou ::cough::." he slowly raised himself up, his slitted violet-blues full of detestation, glared at the mere 1/3 human,1/3 golem,1/3 mazuko chimera. He straightened himself up as Zel stopped a short distance away from each other, Zelgadiss sneered at him.
"I will return...I just got caught with that lil' spell of yours ::cough::. But believe me, stone boy, I'll be back....as that saying goes..'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." he laughed, created another dimensional portal, and went in before the mystical swordsman would take advantage of his weakness by casting a stronger spell on him.
He raywinged himself to wear Lina and his fellow travelers were at. He mentally kicked himself for not attacking him while he had the chance. Once he touched ground, he went to the small huddle surrounding the unconscious Lina. Gourry and Val moved out of his way, the girls were trying to find the sleeping sorceress' affliction. The three shrine maidens looked at one another.
"Anything Slyphiel...Amelia?" Filia asked.
The two dark hair ones bear the same frown as the flaxen hair maiden and shook their heads no.
"Where does that monster learn of these things of old."
The three looked at Zelgadiss, their eyes say it all.
He looks at her, his oceanic blues were ready to respond to his heart's ache, yet he refuse to cry because now it's not the moment for him to be emotional, knowing that Hallis will come back full force. The three females stood up and slowly backed away about two feet away from Lina, knowing he would want to be right next to her, he nodded a thank you to all three and knelt on one knee.
"Bastard. What have you done to Lina." he placed his stone yet warm hand unto her forehead, he got nervous, he checked her pulse, he let out a sigh of relief.
"Good, at least she's still alive." trying to reassure everyone.
"Do not fret Zelgadiss-kun. He gave her a spell very much similar to a Mono Volt." Xellos trying to reassure the shaman sorcerer.
"However, she will be, how you humans would say, 'knocked out' for a good couple of hours." he grimaced after he finished speaking.
The group sadly glanced at the lain sorceress and looked back at the pondering blue man.
"That's what he was planing to do....he wanted Lina to be unconscious so that she won't be able to defend herself or run away as he tries to convert her into a mazuko when he kills her after he kills all of us." he looked at Xellos for confirmation on his theory.
The purple hair priest only nodded his reponse. Zelgadiss started to grit his teeth, his hands begins to clench.
"Why that no good, f*****g moth*******r!" his anger flares up his emotions, he starts to go down a list that would make Lina even blush.
However, she's still asleep and the girls blushed harder than the boys.
"Please Zelgadiss, please calm down. We won't let anything happen to Lina." Slyphiel calmly and concerningly disrupted Zel's continuous flow of colorful words.
He had forgotten his buddies were with him, especially the young ladies, he could care less when it comes to Xellos though. He blushed and starts to apologize.....
"I'm sorry for my rude behavior and terrible manners, friends." the young man's cheeks blushed from the embarrassement.
"Studying Lina's Colorful Insults book, I see." Val tried to lighten up the situation.
It helped a bit, there was a pause of silence. Each thought were of Lina's predicament. Gourry, on the other hand, were thinking of situation that everyone will be in if they don't plan something quick.
"But how do we kill that Hollows gu....."
"IT'S HALLIS!!" each of the adventurers corrected Gourry's misprouncing his name.
They couldn't help it....they felt exhausted and lost without Lina's leadership skill. They sighed and apologized to the hurt blonde man for their behavior. All are now standing and gathered in a circle with their fearless leader in the middle, and all are thinking on the same level once Lina's big brother's sentence sink in.
Sylphiel, Filia, and Xellos looked at each other, then nodded once. The two priestess and one priest turned to the curious group.
"Well..." Filia was interupted by Xellos.
"As it was mentioned before, he does have more powers than Gaav's two servants combi....."
Filia glared at the rude priest, thinking horrible acts on him as he was talking, she inwardly smiled, then she interrupted him.
"...combined. The advantages for becoming a Second-in-Command General. He may even have the same powers as Namagomi...::smirk:: so don't worry...if it's the same level as his...then we can easily defeat him since this one's bark is worse than his bite!"
Xellos faces the golden hair priestess, stressmarked, his closed eyes and brows twitching as the corners of his smile were jerking.
"Are you trying to insinuate that I only use my extraordinaire powers just to showoff?!"
"If the shoe fits, wear it!"
Filia and Xellos are in a staring contest, little bolts of lightning go back and forth between the two's eyes. They're gloved hands clenched at each of their sides.
"Well. At least I am not a selfish, snobbish, tempermental, bratty, little golden dragon who is excommunicated from a certain dragon god!"
"WHY YOU EVIL, CONNIVING.......!" her tail popped straight up, her pink bow is a flag of war, her tail swishes furiously from side to side.
The two argued back and forth the group sweatdropped. If Lina wasn't unconscious, she would of find a way to focus their attentions on something else....as in avoiding her Fireball or trying to gasp for air when s/he is in one of her sturdy chokeholds. So someone else have to do the job.....
"WILL THE BOTH OF YOU QUIT IT!" Val yelled at them, his greyish black horn sticking out like a sore thumb, from his mint green hair and blushing, feeling a little jealous as Filia and Xellos were in a little-too-close space.
Zel and Aez smirked as they understand why he was blushing while the others were just looked at him as if he had switched back to his old vengeful, half mad ancient dragon, half mazuko self.
"Aww...you're blushing." Zel being the closest one to him, couldn't resist telling him so.
"Shutup." trying to hide his face til his face turned back to its natural color again.