Zelgadis' ex-demon part stared down at Mr. Hender with amusement. The demon didn't quite like the fact that the librarian was plotting to try and destroy/trap him. But he thought it was amusing due to the fact that it was trivial and pointless. Especially since you aren't even going to get a chance to even try anything on me. The demon smiled. Yes he had chosen Mr. Hender as his next victim, but was he going to kill him? That is a secret...
Now Zelgadis would have sensed something wrong and that his ex-demon part was up to something, only that wasn't the case here. Zelgadis' mind had forgone so much that he was no longer even slightly aware of anything that happened outside his little dark void. He had to many things to entertain him there. Zelgadis still didn't know the meaning of the color people, but at this point he no longer even thought about it. He didn't care there was nothing that mattered to him right now. Only he still knew that he couldn't fall asleep. The voice in the back of his head that told him not to fall asleep had long since silenced, but Zelgadis still knew that he must stay awake. He had nothing to rationalize on why he must stay awake, but he still couldn't ignore the gut feeling he had in his stomach.
Xellos had two options in front of him. Continue with the search for information on Zelgadis' family history, or go back and see how the others are doing. The problem with continuing his search was that he was practically at a dead end. All that time that he spent was practically a waste, he had figured out much. All that Xellos had done was confirm what he had already suspected. But then there was that scene with the man who had told Xellos information about Zelgadis' mother. Xellos was suspicious of that man and after his little disappearing act, Xellos decided to see if he could track him down. Only after the dark red-eyed stranger had vanished Xellos was unable to even find the slightest clue on where the stranger could have headed. So really Xellos had nothing more to do there.
On the other hand he could back and wait with the rest of them. Only that would be on the boring side for Xellos and he wanted to return with secret knowledge of Zelgadis' family heritage to gloat in their faces. Going back not accomplishing anything, made Xellos feel a bit empty. This was practically a waste of time, but I guess considering that I have nothing else to do I should go back anyway. Perhaps I can amuse myself by irritating them a bit. Xellos smiled. Maybe he didn't really have any solid information on Zelgadis' non-human heritage but who says that he couldn't pretend that he does?
The first place Xellos decided to go and see was the little justice loving Sailune Princess. And like Xellos figured she was sitting her room a bit depressed. Xellos phased in right above her. Amelia wasn't even aware that Xellos had entered her room. She was sitting on her bed not thinking much and she flopped down on her bed lying down with her eyes closed. She lazily opened her eyes to see Xellos right above her head. Amelia's initial reaction? She screamed at the top of her lungs and started throwing random magic spells like flare arrows and fireballs.
Gourry and Sylphiel who had heard Amelia scream came rushing into her room.
"Amelia what's wrong?!" Gourry said with concern with his sword already unsheathed. Xellos who was still floating in the air was laughing his head off.
"Oh don't worry about her. Little Amelia just needs to switch to decaffeinated coffee." Xellos said with another laugh and Amelia threw a pillow at him.
"How dare you scare me like that! Appearing in my room out of no where! That was a really mean and unjust thing to do!" Amelia fumed and pouted.
Xellos floated over to her and gave he a pat on the head. "There, there Amelia. If it's any consolation, I got a good snack out of your emotions." Xellos laughed again and Amelia emitted a nice large burning battle aura of anger around her. Her eye was twitching and fists clenched. She glared a deathly glare at the annoying trickster priest whom was too busy laughing to notice what was about to happen. Sylphiel and Gourry knew this was there cue to get the hell out of the room.
Outside the inn from a far distance even outside of town a loud sound cracked through the air as a certain battered up monster was sent flying through the air on a collision course with a large mountain face.
Lina looked up wondering what the hell was the sound. Popo was confused too. But they both figured that they were better off not knowing.
Xellos removed himself from the rock face in quite a considerable amount of pain. "Well what do you know, little Amelia knowing a spell to make a monster feel pain like a mortal..." Xellos smiled despite the pain. Amelia had casted the very spell that Xellos just mentioned and then she used a modified fireball spell to batter him and send him flying. "Maybe I should ease on irritating her for a little while, or at least keep my guard up. Though I have to say she's becoming more like Miss Lina everyday." Xellos smiled at that thought while his body healed up to normal. Though the spell that Amelia had casted had been effective it wasn't going to last forever.
He dusted himself off. He decided that Lina would he the next person to bother. I guess I could use that information baiting on Zelgadis' non-human heritage on her. Xellos smiled and phased into the library. Or so that's where he thought he was phasing into. Only instead of the library he ended up a dark and cold void of nothingness.
"Where am I?" Xellos said in wonder. He tried to float around to get a better look only he wasn't able. He panicked. I don't care about exploring right now I'm leaving. And Xellos tried to phase out back into the town somewhere only to find himself still in the black void of nothingness. Now Xellos was scared. He couldn't float or teleport out, but could he still use his magic? Xellos tried to use dark flare and nothing happened. His magic was gone and all of his abilities were gone too. Suddenly Xellos felt claustrophobic. He tried to run someplace hoping that the void would end but he was repelled backwards by some invisible force.
Lina and Popo went upstairs to see if there was anything new had happened. Lina wasn't surprised to see Amelia sitting in the library. Only she was surprised to see Amelia very angry.
"Hey Amelia what's wrong?"
"I'm so mad at Mister Xellos! He made a fool of me and all he did was laugh at me! He didn't even apologize!" Amelia fumed.
"So I take it that that sound earlier was due to something you did to Xellos?" Lina asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes."
"I don't think he'll be showing his face anytime soon, Miss Amelia so I don't think you need to worry about that." Mr. Hender said with a smile. Amelia smiled back at him and she went with Lina and Popo back down to the lab. With them gone Mr. Hender's smile turned evil and his eyes glowed a dark blood red.