Now Lina was alert and awake determine not to fall asleep again. But what am I going to do when I need to go to sleep? I don't think I can rely on Popo to wake me up again, and I don't even know that I will be attacked again. For all I know he could go after Amelia or Gourry or Sylphiel. Lina's brow creased and she stared over to the machine that had what was left of Zelgadis in it. Since that whole incident with Zelgadis' ex-demon part, Lina decided it was best that she stay downstairs. Popo was with her also. He was determined himself not to let Lina out of his sight. Not that Lina minded much; it was kinda cute in a way. But Lina was also grateful towards the blue floating ball creature. If it weren't for him she would be dead. But how did Popo know to go wake me up? "Popo how did you know that I was in danger?"
"Podopapu peekkudopeen." Popo said. Lina just stared at him. Then it occurred to Popo that Lina couldn't understand what he just said. So instead he just motioned towards the machine.
"Huh? What you mean Zelgadis told you?"
Popo nodded.
"And just how the hell did he manage to do something like that?!"
Popo just looked overly frustrated, because he knew that there was no way he'd be able to explain it.
"Oh well don't worry about it. Maybe I could ask Zelgadis how he did it, that is if he lives through this and still has his memory." Lina sighed and both of them looked over to the machine. Time would decide Zelgadis Greywers' fate.
Now Zelgadis was seeing blue all around him. Yet somehow this was familiar, being surrounded by so much blue. And it changed too into silver and back into blue and then white and other colors. But this was a person he knew that. Who the person was, was the question that his memory couldn't answer. It was because of his failing memory that the person appeared as colors and not as a person. One thing that Zelgadis didn't have happen before when he saw these color people was that he heard sounds. A voice, a female voice singing a song that Zelgadis couldn't hear words to. It was only the melody with no words, and yet it was calming to Zelgadis. He felt better when he didn't even know that he was feeling bad. Then the singing stopped and the colors changed. It was now purple everywhere. And red, purple and red. Suddenly Zelgadis felt cold. Everything around him was cold. And chimes, he was hearing chimes. They sent chills down his spine. Why would chimes be a bad thing? Then he went through the same scene again where he awoke in his bed, only everything was fuzzier then it had been the last time he had been through it. Again Zelgadis was left in confusion about what was so bad about his reflection in the mirror. There was something different this time; he felt a stab of loneliness. Everything seemed to just get worse, until he started to see red again. Only this was a different shade of red and for some reason he felt better. Just as these colors had appeared, they vanished and Zelgadis was left in darkness again.
Though it seemed like an impossible task Xellos attempted to track down Zelgadis' mother. But the only information he could gather was that Zelgadis' mother was from outside the original barrier and had been outside there for her whole life. Xellos knew that that had to be wrong. The barrier had been destroyed only after Lina had killed Fibrizo. There was no way that Zelgadis' mother could have Zelgadis when the barrier was still up. In fact it should have been completely impossible. Yet every piece of information that he found pointed in that direction.
It's not possible, how could she be from outside the barrier? And how could she have Zelgadis and have him grow up on the other side?
This was confusing Xellos quite a bit. And what was worse was that he couldn't get any more information then what he already had because he didn't have a name to ask about. All he had was the name Mrs. Greywers and most of the time if he got anything he was told information about Helen Greywers and not Zelgadis' mother.
Of course another logical thing that he could do was look up Zelgadis' father and get some information from him, only finding anything about him proved to be harder then finding out any information about his wife. First of all Xellos also couldn't get a name. What he did know was that Zel's father's first initial was 'K'. Besides that he knew nothing.
"Maybe I should give up." Xellos finally declared to himself.
"Give up what?" A voice asked from behind. Xellos whirled around to see a man with dark lavender hair and garnet red eyes. Then man was tall and by his pack and his sword you could tell that he was a traveling mercenary.
"Oh I'm just searching for some information on some people. Have you heard anything about a Mrs. Greywers?" Though Xellos wasn't expecting much information from this guy, but he figured that there was no harm in asking.
"I'm assume you are talking about living Mrs. Greywers and not the Helen Greywers whom who has been dead for quite sometime. Well from what I've heard that she stays in her homeland that is just outside where the barrier used to be and that she hides so well that sometimes her husband has trouble finding her. Only nowadays since the barrier has been destroyed she's doing some sight seeing. So even if you find her home chances are she wont be there."
Xellos just gaped. That was not the answer that he was expecting. In fact he didn't say anything to the man. "Um yes I guess so. Ah do you know anything about a K Greywers?"
"Hmm... K Greywers? Well the only thing I've heard about him is that he hates his grandfather Rezo the Red Priest with a passion."
"You mean he did hate him."
"How so?"
"Well Rezo the Red Priest died a few years ago."
"He did?"
"Yes."
"Thank you. You've been most helpful." The stranger said with a smile and walked off behind Xellos. Xellos went to turn around to ask the stranger what he meant only when Xellos looked the stranger had disappeared.
Now how did he do that? Xellos mused with a smile and shock his head.
Mr. Hender was in his library researching something. He was trying to find information on chimeras and what happens if different parts are separated. Basically Mr. Hender was concerned about what Lina had told him about Zelgadis' ex-demon part. Only though she hadn't told him about the latest incident, but perhaps it's better that she didn't. Basically Mr. Hender was trying to find a way to stop, trap or kill the demon part, but everything that he found lead to nothing. But then isn't a normal case anyway now is it? I doubt any of the people from the band that made that spell that caused all this mess even had something like this happen. If only I had looked at the book more closely then maybe this wouldn't have happened. Until Zelgadis came out of this situation alive and cured and the ex-demon part was contained or dead then Mr. Hender would blame himself for what was going on. Though he wasn't his fault at all. There was one problem to researching on trying to kill an invisible beast, the beast could be reading over your shoulder and you wouldn't even know it. So that's why the ex-demon part was smiling his evil smile. He had found it's next victim.