More hours had passed away with no sign that there was anything wrong with the koppi process. But the problem was that they wouldn't know that there was anything wrong until the machine finished and Zelgadis came out. Would he be alive? Or will he be dead? Those were the two questions that nagged at all of them. But no one had the answer. All they could do was wait and hope with their faith that Zelgadis was going to be okay.
Since it wouldn't be till the next day that the machine would be finished, everyone went off to do their own things to keep their minds occupied and to waste time. Xellos disappeared into god knows where, Amelia went shopping with Sylphiel and Gourry in tow and both Lina and Mr. Hender stayed at the library. Mr. Hender was dealing with his normal business of running the library, and Lina was absentmindedly leafing through books in search of new spells or special information. But for a person who has done as much research and treasure hunting she wasn't finding much that she didn't already know. Come on there has to be something here that I can find that something new to me. But still the more she looked the more of what she already knew lay before. Of course Lina was limited to the books of which languages that she could read. There was probably tones of new and useful things in some of the books in the library, only Lina didn't have the patience to try and learn a new language.
"Miss Lina perhaps you'd might find reading some fiction might be a good way to pass the time."
Lina sighed and picked up a book. She wasn't sure on what it was but she didn't really care.
Amelia was buying things left right and center only no matter how much she bought she wasn't feeling any satisfaction from it. The same with Sylphiel. They weren't really enjoying themselves and they were very aware of the time passing. Another person who wasn't enjoying himself was Gourry because he was the one being forced to carry all the bought items purely because he doesn't know how to turn Sylphiel down.
But back to Xellos. Now where did he go? Actually after hearing that Zelgadis wasn't completely human he wanted to do some investigating. So where was he? At Zelgadis' home, his real home. It took Xellos a little while to find it, but with direction he found where Zelgadis' was originally from. Because of Rezo's search for his cure, Zelgadis as a young kid had been dragged from one place to another. What Xellos was looking for was information about Zelgadis' father's side of the family. Basically the reason being is that what ever Zelgadis is, he's more then half human. Meaning whatever that other part of his heritage comes from, it comes from at least a generation back in Zelgadis' family. And since Xellos was damn certain that Rezo was nothing more then a pure human he was pretty sure that it wasn't from that side. The reason being was that the woman that Rezo married and had Zelgadis' grandmother with was a full human as well. What he suspicious about was Zelgadis' grandfather. The man came out of no where and married Rezo's daughter May. Xellos was certain that it was him where Zelgadis got this part of him that wasn't human. That unless it came from Zelgadis' mother's side. And if that was the case then Xellos wouldn't be able to find out anything. Xellos could find no information on Zelgadis' mother. Where she was from, what she did, not even a name. The women was a phantom, it was almost as if she never existed.
Xellos stood at the graves of May and William Greywers. They had both died together without remains left to show of their bodies. But oddly enough Xellos was able to sense a body presence in May Greywers' grave. It was a dead body, but still there was a body in her grave.
Now what is this? Xellos was puzzled. Who could have found her body and put it her without anyone knowing? And how was there able to be a body? With an explosion like that nothing should have been saved? Of course Xellos was aware that the body laying the grave as in fact May Greywers. The explosion that the two of them died in was a magical induced one that was both destructive and poisonous. If the blast didn't kill you the fumes would instantaneously. And why would someone put her in her grave and not put him in his? At this time Xellos wished that he had Fibrizo's powers. Trying to figure out stuff about the dead was very difficult.
Zelgadis in his warm void was seeing images again. Only these were images of a man with dark lavender hair and garnet red eyes, these were just images of color. Red all around him. All he saw was red. And not just any shade of red but a specific shade of red. And it danced around his in mind like fire. Who is this? No what am I thinking? A color can't be a person. But then I also see blue. A man, why is that he seems familiar? The image of blue fire replaced the red one until things regained their shape and came into focus. Zelgadis was laying on a bed. He felt tired, sore and heavy as he woke up. He couldn't remember what had happened before. All other things were gone. He got up and looked into the mirror. Zelgadis couldn't remember what he saw, but he did remember that he had been angry, shock and mortified when he had looked in the mirror that day. What was wrong with the way that I look that would get me to feel that way? What is wrong with me? What am I? Suddenly Zelgadis in his void felt sharp pains all through his body like something was happening to him.
It was well after lunch and Lina still was in the library. She had long given up on the books in the library to read. She was finding the fictional books in Mr. Hender's library not that entertaining. And Mr. Hender apologized for that. His library was more or less used for it's non-fictional content and had been used like that long before Mr. Hender's father's running of the library. So there hadn't been much effort put in to get good fictional books. In fact Lina had been reading this one that was so old and boring that she fell asleep while reading it. She was taking her little nap tucked away in the little corner that she had put herself to read in. Her dreams her haunted with various images. Doubts and fears that she had. Different scenarios played out in her dreams and in the waking world Lina's face was contorted into that of a frown and her body was curled up into a ball.
Now if Popo or Mr. Hender had been aware of what Lina was doing then they probably would have woken her up. But since they were Lina continued on with her unpleasant dreams. But just because Popo and Mr. Hender weren't aware of Lina's slumber didn't mean that no one was. Oh no, there was a certain someone standing over her with a dark devilish smile. Zelgadis' ex-demon part decided that he was too hasting in his decision on not doing anything until Zelgadis gets out of he machine. Besides what if he doesn't make it or doesn't remember anything? I might as well have some fun while the opportunity knocks. Now let's see I can make her dreams worse then they already are... The demon refrain from cackling. All he did was evilly smile at the slumbering sorceress.