navy = flashback
Zelgadis floated in his warm darkness. He was calm with most of his worries forgotten. Every now and then images would flash through his head, brief memories but they never lasted long enough for Zelgadis to make sense of them. Like he saw a dark lavender haired man with dark red garnet colored eyes standing over him. Man did say something, but Zelgadis was having trouble making it out. And Zelgadis was small very small as if he was the size of a baby. The man smiled at him only this one was a sad smile. He looked like he was regretting something that he was going to do. Then the man put his hand on Zel's head. A strange light surrounded Zelgadis making him feel weaker. And then the image fades away. Who was he? Should I have known him? Zelgadis asked himself, but he couldn't come up with any answers. Suddenly Zelgadis felt very tired. Sleep tried to get it's large claws into Zelgadis but he tried to stay awake. Somehow he knew that he needed to stay awake and try to remember or something bad might happen but as the minutes poured on Zelgadis was having to remember that.
Hours had passed since Zelgadis had been put into the machine. Lina paced around the room, while Popo floated around behind her equally as worried. Mr. Hender whom was up in the library section was trying to occupy himself by doing work, but he wasn't having much luck. He was having trouble trying to concentrate on anything besides what was going on down in his lab. What happens if something goes wrong? What happens if Mister Zelgadis doesn't make it? How can I face them knowing that I promised that I could help if he doesn't live? Mr. Hender sighed in helplessness. There was nothing more that he could do now except wait.
"Mister Hender are you there?" Amelia and the others came into the library looking for the librarian.
"Uh, yes Miss Amelia I'm in here."
"So who are things? Where's Miss Lina? Will Mister Zelgadis be alright?" Sylphiel, Amelia, Gourry and Xellos looked to Mr. Hender with hopeful eyes. Well maybe not Xellos, his eyes were closed.
"Miss Lina is down in lab with Popo watching over the machine. As for Mister Zelgadis, well um there is a problem." Mr. Hender lowered his eyes away from the groups gazes. The four of them joined Mr. Hender at the large table that he was sitting at.
"What's wrong?"
"Well when I had made up my original calculations, I had assumed that Mister Zelgadis was completely human before he had been turned into a chimera. But that was in error to assume that."
"What do you mean?"
"When Mister Zelgadis was put into the machine with the hair sample the machine gave the read outs on how long it would take to make a suitable koppi of him. Only instead of it saying that it would take a few hours it instead told me that it would take around twenty-six hours."
"What?!" Everyone looked at Mr. Hender with shock. "Why would that happen? Can he last that long?" Sylphiel worriedly looked towards the way over to the lab. Poor Mister Zelgadis and Miss Lina.
"To be honest I really don't know. It's been a few hours now so we have twenty-three or so left to go. But like I said I had assumed that Mister Zelgadis was completely human, but from my readouts I can now see that, that he isn't. He's more then half human, but there's an unknown part of his blood heritage that I wasn't aware that he had." Mister Hender sighed and took another sip of his coffee.
Xellos frowned. Zelgadis not completely human? And how exactly is that possible? Xellos many years ago had been sent to spy on the great Rezo the red priest by his master Zellas. At that time Rezo was insane and seeking a cure for his eyes, but he was also traveling two men and nine year old boy. Xellos knew that boy to be Rezo's great-grandson Zelgadis but that wasn't much of Xellos' concern. Zellas was only interested in Rezo but then at the same time there wasn't much to be concerned with, with Zelgadis. Xellos from his magic abilities could sense that Zelgadis was nothing more then a normal weak human. There wasn't any evidence physically for spiritually to prove otherwise. And there was no indication that Rezo or anyone else was hiding something. How could be not be completely human? No one could hide that from that well. And why would someone want to hide Zelgadis' not being fully human. No wait a better question would be who could hide Zelgadis' heritage? "Do you have any idea what that other part could be?"
"I can't even begin to guess. I have no idea what it could be. I don't know of anything that could alter a koppi creation period by so much. I just hope that Mister Zelgadis' mind can hold out that long." He fingered the rim on his mug with a frown on his face.
"Is there anything we can do?"
"Sit and wait for the machine finish creating the koppi of Mister Zelgadis." Mr. Hender under Lina's instructions didn't tell them about the demon running around amuck.
"Miss Lina you aren't serious are you? Shouldn't we
tell them about Mister Zelgadis' demon part out and on the loose?" Zelgadis had
been in the machine for nearly a half an hour now.
"What good would telling them about a enemy that they can't even see or
touch? They'd just get paranoid and lose sleep over it and for nothing.
Because they can't see it or hurt it, they wouldn't be able to do anything
against it. What could they do?" Lina herself was worried about what might
happen if the demon decided to attack again, but there wasn't much else she
could do about it. So at this point she wasn't going to bother worrying
about it and instead concentrating on the matter at hand.
"I don't know... I still think that they should at least be warned about it..."
"Believe me it's better that they don't know. And besides how do you think
Zelgadis would feel if we were to tell them that they might have to fear
their lives because an ex-part of Zelgadis might be trying to kill all of
us? I don't know about but I'd feel pretty bad. And for all we know the
demon part could be listening to everything we say so even if we warn them
it might be a futile effort."
"I guess so... Alright then Miss Lina I wont say anything."
"Thank you Mr. Hender."
It was against his better judgment but Mr. Hender kept his mouth shut. "Would anyone else care for some coffee?"
Lina had stopped pacing and was sitting on the stairs. She was absentmindedly-petting Popo whom had fallen asleep in her lap. Lina wasn't even aware on what she was doing; she was so lost in her thoughts. What are we going to do if Zel comes out of this alright and he can't see or attack his ex-demon part? Then only I would be able to see the creature and I'd still wouldn't be able to anything. Lina frowned. Things were a hell of a lot more complicated then what they had been just yesterday.