Zelgadis felt like he was floating in nothingness. He wasn't sure where he was anymore. He had remembered when he had first gone in, but after a few minutes, everything started to go. He could barely remember anything. His memory was rapidly deteriorating. Just a few memories, images and names were all that were left.
Lina, Mr. Hender and Popo sat in the lab staring at the machine that was supposed to help Zelgadis.
"Mr. Hender how long is it going to take?"
"I'd say that it will take twenty-six hours." Mr. Hender avoided looking at her. When Mr. Hender started up the machine he found out by the readings that there was going to be problems creating this koppi and that it would take much longer to make then their estimated time.
"Twenty-six hours?! You said it would only take a few!"
"That's what I had initially thought until I started up the machine. From what I can tell Mister Zelgadis isn't entirely human originally." The read outs from the machine told him that much. He couldn't tell exactly what else was in Zelgadis' genetic make up besides human blood.
"What? What do you mean by that?!"
"I'm not sure what he is exactly. From what I can tell he is more then half human but whatever else is in his blood is affecting the rate at which the koppi can be created. You see when I had set this all up and made my calculations I had assumed that Mister Zelgadis was completely human. I had no idea that there was something else in his heritage. Did you know that he wasn't originally completely human?"
"No. And when I saw him in the dream and walking around after the dream, he looked human. He had never told us that he wasn't anything but human originally, so chances are that he didn't even know himself. But why would him not being completely human change the time of the koppis creation so much?" Lina looked back to the pod that Zelgadis was in with a worried face. Lina knew from what Zelgadis had told her and from what she had seen in her dreams that Zelgadis didn't have that long. Will his mind be able to hold out that long?
"When making a koppi of anything there are different times for each races koppi creation period. Like making a koppi of a bug would take a significantly less amount of time compared to an elf. And since Mister Zelgadis is more then half human then the time it would be to make a human koppi should be relatively close to what it would take to make one of Mister Zelgadis. But for some weird reason that's not the case here. It seems whatever that small portion of his genetics that isn't human is dominating the time period. I can't even begin to guess on what it could be. I've never seen a case like this before." Usually the koppis that Mr. Hender had dealt with or studied about were usually koppis of pure blood. Meaning humans that were completely human with no other blood influences, pure blooded animals as well as other things. He had studied some cases were the subject being cloned wasn't fully human, but never had the creation time been altered that much.
"But will Zelgadis be able to hold out that long?"
"I hope so, but even I'm a little skeptical. But all he needs to be able to do is just remember one thing by the end. Like just a name and it will work."
"But what happens if his memory gives out totally before the process is complete?"
"Then the koppi that will come out of the machine will be dead."
There was a silence among the three.
"Mr. Hender can I ask you a question?"
"Yes?"
"What happened to Zel's demon and golem parts to his chimera body? What happened to them?"
Mr. Hender sat there musing on that thought. "I assume that they disappeared. Why do you ask?"
"I've seen Zelgadis' demon part, it tried to kill me and steal the lock of hair."
"Oh my! Well then I guess that would mean that the three of them have been physically separated. And since a golem is nothing more then a man made creature made from the earth that is control by a person, when they were separated the golem with no human to control it would have returned back to earth like it was before. But how were you able to stop that demon? You shouldn't even had been able to see it let only touch it anyway."
"I first saw it in my dream last night. I can't remember that much about the dream but Zelgadis filled me in on it. It had nearly killed me but Zelgadis had managed to stop it using his sword. Earlier this morning it attacked me and tried to get the lock of hair. As far as I can tell and from what I've been told, I can't harm the thing but Zelgadis is able to." Lina thought back to her encounter with that demon. She was still very peeved and wanted very much to blast it into nether realms.
"So you can see it but not harm it, but Mister Zelgadis can harm it. I guess that goes with the whole situation Mister Zelgadis is in. Meaning you are probably the only one who can see that thing. But however was Mister Zelgadis able to stop the demon?" Theoretically humans could kill demons but to take one on and manage to win with a sword alone? That was nearly impossible because some demons were incredibly fast. Like the demon that was part of Zelgadis' form. Once Mr. Hender had seen Zelgadis he knew exactly what type of demon was part of Zel's chimera form.
"I don't know it was kinda weird. He really shouldn't have been able to strike the demon but somehow he had this strange aura appear around him and both his strength and speed seem to increase out of no where."
"Sounds like the mysterious other part of Mister Zelgadis' genetics. Hmm… it's very intriguing, but it's still a tad confusing. I wonder what Mister Zelgadis' non human part is?"
The demon stat in his spot grumbling again. He was mad, very mad. He couldn't believe that Zelgadis had been able to stop him a second time. And the demon knew that Zelgadis shouldn't have that sort of power. Zelgadis had been born with no special speed, strength or magic abilities which was the reason Rezo had turned him into a chimera in the first place.
"Rezo gave him my power because Zelgadis had none. So where is this strange power coming from?! And now he's going to be brought back. Well Zelgadis if you survive I'll just get you in your dreams when your guard is down. Of course I think I'll start off with that annoying little brat Lina Inverse instead. But not till after you are revived. Wont that be fun? You wont be able to stop me because most if not practically all your memory will be gone and you wont be able to hurt or see me nor protect her. But then Zelgadis this is all your fault anyway." The demon cackled darkly with his plans brewing in his mind.
Zelgadis felt a strong sense of coldness in his floating state. It was such a shock because up until then he had been feeling nothing but warmness. Sure it had been dark, but it was warm. He felt free and he felt like nothing at the same time. It was both gratifying and making him feel uneasy. But when that coldness swept through he became tense and rigid even after the warmness returned. Something was going to happen, and it wasn't good.