Lina felt cold all of a sudden. Like everything around her was turning to ice. Only there wasn't ice, there was darkness. All she could see was darkness. But it was so cold and it was getting worse. And she was alone, all alone. She felt this strange emptiness as well.
A dark voice cackled from all around her.
"Who are you?! What is this place?!"
That just caused the dark voice to cackle louder. The voice seemed familiar to Lina in a way only she couldn't remember from where. And that was another thing that was wrong. Lina was having trouble remembering anything.
"Answer me!"
What's wrong Lina? Don't you know who I am?
Lina stared blankly into the darkness and then her memory came back to her. "What do you want with me?!"
Why to kill you of course... And the dark voice cackled once more.
Xellos like everyone else was completely unaware of the danger that Lina was in. He was still slogged around in Zelgadis' past trying to find answers. Since he was more or less determining that William Greywers was the source of Zelgadis' non human heritage, Xellos was now searching for information on Zelgadis' grandfather. The information that Xellos managed to find out was that William was a traveler that worked on trading ships. He was both a merchant and a mercenary. It was apparently when William was going to meet his dying mother that he met Rezo's daughter May. Only what Xellos found wasn't quite what he was expecting. At the grave of Helen Greywers, the mother of William Greywers he found in a grave next to her William Greywers body. And from what Xellos could figure out was that it was in fact William Greywers, and that there was a body in that grave. Because you see the William Greywers that was in the grave and the William Greywers that was Zelgadis' grandfather, were in fact two different people. William Greywers, the real one had died on his way to see his dying mother. He never got the chance to meet her. He had died in some accident on the way. But then if that who was it that met Helen? An imposter. One that Xellos didn't know the identity of and wouldn't be able to because of that explosion years back. This pretty much leaves me almost back where I started from. And for all I know the person posing as William Greywers could have been human himself. Which leaves me to check out information on the women that doesn't seem to exist. Well Zelgadis you sure have an odd family.
Zelgadis sneezed and wasn't sure why. He was still warm in his void. Things seemed to float away in Zelgadis' mind, but he didn't care. The images appearing in his head were less frequent now. And aside from those sharp pains he'd felt a few moments ago everything seemed fine. He didn't know if he should be worried about something, but he was feeling strangely tired. He was so close to falling asleep, but every time he was about a small voice in his head screamed at him not to do it. At first he would question the voice on why he couldn't go to sleep and at first the voice would give him a valid reason. But as time went on, the voice was getting fainter. And the reasons were getting harder to hear. Even though Zelgadis didn't want to listen to the quite voice in his head and go to sleep he still kept himself awake. But it was getting harder and harder as the time went on. He was the only thing that was keeping him awake. There was no one else to help him. And he didn't know where he was and he didn't care. But he was so sleepy. His eyes drooped feeling sleep finally take it's toll on him. But then all of a sudden those sharp pains he felt earlier came back, but this time far more worse. But it wasn't his pain that he feeling this time. It was someone else's. It was Lina's...
For the first time since he had been put in this machine his memory was clear like it was before he went in. And knew what was going on. He could feel his ex-demon part inside Lina's dream.
"Lina's in danger! And I can't do anything! She'll die if he isn't stopped soon or if she doesn't wake up! Wait a minute wake up? That's it! Oh please let you still be able to hear me!" And as loud as Zelgadis could yell he yelled, "POPO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Popo was sleeping when he heard some weird sound coming some unknown place. He was slumbering down in the lab like before. What he heard was Zelgadis' voice. It woke him up even though the sound itself wasn't so loud. But the thing was that Popo wasn't really hearing the voice in his head. It was very faint but he knew who it was.
Popo...can hear...Lina...danger... That was all Popo could hear, only bits of it. But it was enough to know that there was something wrong with Lina.
Lina was pinned up on an invisible wall in the darkness. What was she pinned up with? Long icicles that that had been impaled into her arms and legs. And slowly her blood was being turned into ice.
How do you like the pain Lina?
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Stop it! Or you'll be sorry." Lina hissed out in pain.
Or what? I'm sorry to tell you this Lina, but no one can stop me! The demon cackled away and to prove his point he jabbed her in the stomach.
Popo floated over Lina's sleeping form. She was screaming silent screams and her face connived how much pain she was feeling in her dream.
"PODOPODOPODOPODOPODOPODOPODO!!!!!!" Popo screamed into her ear. Lina woke up with a start.
"Wha-what happened? Popo?" Lina looked at the blue floating ball creature. He started to cry waterfall tears while throwing himself at Lina in what would be a hug that is if he had arms and hands. Lina remembered what had happened. Her ears were still ringing but it's not like she was going to get angry at him. He was the reason she was still alive. Man what would that demon had done if Popo hadn't woken me up? Lina shuddered at that thought. "Hey-hey! Popo you can stop crying now! I'm fine really." She tried to calm Popo and he did stop crying but then he looked Lina in the eye and started crying again. Lina raised an eyebrow at him and laughed.
Zelgadis felt the pain disappear. Lina she's safe now... but how long till she's in danger again? Then all of a sudden Zelgadis' mind muddled over like it was before...