Xellos sat in his dark blue prison wondering if his so called savior had forsaken him. It had been two hours since that mysterious voice had spoke to Xellos promising freedom. He had been positive about getting out for a full hour, but now he worse off then before he had promised freedom.
Basically he concluded that the person who had spoken to him was in fact the very person who had trapped into his blue prison and was trying to torment him with false freedom. He had very little doubts that it wasn't the case. Because if he was in his captors position he'd definitely take the time to torment his prisoners. Hopelessness was always more of the more tastier emotions to snack on.
Even though he was certain that was someone was just torturing him, there was still a small part of him that still had hope that maybe he was going to get freed. How ironic a creature such as I holding on to a pathetic little emotion such as hope. A weak human emotion. Xellos laughed darkly and collapsed on the ground in a heap.
Considering what time it was Lina, Amelia, Sylphiel and Gourry had left the library to go and have dinner. Amelia though not exactly angry at Xellos for what he had done earlier was now very annoyed with him due to the fact that he hadn't shown his face since then. According to Amelia, Xellos was being cowardly and pulling his same old tricks. Probably wont even show his face again until after Mister Zelgadis is done in the machine.
They all sat down at their table with their food ordered. Everyone made conversation with everyone else as they sat there waiting for their food. But no one really noticed how preoccupied Lina was. She was in deep thought and not really paying much attention to what was going on around her. The only thing that was on her mind at that moment was Zelgadis' ex-demon part. Ever since Lina had found out about this little problem all she had been thinking about was what was she going to do? But no matter how hard she thought about it she just couldn't think of a solution to deal with this problem. She did have hopes that Zelgadis might be able to do something once he was out of the machine. Of course there was always the possibility that Zel might not be able to do anything in his newly acquired cured form. The worse was though that he might even be able to live through it though Lina nor anyone else wanted to think about that possibility. Though Lina was aware that Mr. Hender was researching on a way to stop Zelgadis' ex-demon part but she didn't have much faith in him finding a solution.
"Miss Lina! Miss Lina!"
Lina snapped herself back into reality and saw that the Gourry, Amelia and Sylphiel were staring at her
"Oh what?"
"The food, it's here!" Amelia motioned to the now full table of food. The luscious spread looked highly appetizing.
Amelia and Gourry dived right in while Sylphiel got her bird like proportions. Lina suffering from both a headache due to thinking too hard and stomach cramps do to another reason wasn't as hungry as she usually was. But she still ate anyway, keeping a very watchful eye on her surroundings.
Lina didn't need to worry too much because Gar wasn't up to anything at the moment. He felt pretty powerful at that moment. Though he had no real physical body he felt like he was invincible and that no one could stop him with his plans. In reality Gar wasn't as invincible as he thought himself to be. Thinking that no one could see him Gar walked about freely without even knowing that his every move was being watched.
Another thing that Gar wasn't aware of was how little time he had left. Like Zelgadis if he stayed in this ghostly form for too long without a memory to hold his conscious together then he would cease to be. Only unlike Zelgadis, Gar could last a lot longer. His memory hadn't even begun to waver and all his memories lay entwined with hatred and vengeance. As long as he kept his anger towards Zelgadis strong his memory wouldn't go on him as fast. But all this didn't matter too much for what Gar had planned. He darkly smiled knowing that he would be able to get true revenge in the end.
Gar pulled out the dark blue crystal that had the trickster priest encased in. He threw it up into the air almost not bothering to catch it before it hit the ground. Gar was very aware that if the crystal fell to the ground and shattered that the life force of the monster trapped within would be destroyed as well. But still he juggled around with the crystal throwing it way to high or way to fast. Almost as if not really caring if he accidentally killed Xellos along in the process. Well he didn't really care if he killed Xellos. The only thing that was really stopping Gar was the possible use that Xellos could have to him later. In truth Gar hated Xellos with quite a passion. That's what happens when you share a body with another mind, you both end up having similar hatred to people.
"Poor Xellos, doesn't even know exactly how much danger he's in. Doesn't know that just a slip of the hand and his life would be over." Gar laughed evilly sounding much like a madman.
From a spot not too far off from Gar but out of his view the same creature that had been watching Gar all this time shook his head.
Still as foolish and ignorant as always Gar? The creature darkly smiled. It knew very well of it's own limitations and that it was pointless to think of yourself as untouchable and all powerful. It didn't think of itself as being unstoppable and it also didn't think that any of its plans could go wrong. But Gar was foolish perhaps the only real difference between the two. But one thing was for sure it was going to meddle in every one of Gar's plans as possible.
It walked swiftly from shadow to shadow trying to keep itself as hidden as possible. It didn't care that Gar was the only one close that could even have a chance at seeing it, it wasn't going to take any chances. Eventually the creature reached an area of the town where Gar had opened a dimension pocket. It re-opened the pocket and fished out what Gar had stored away in there. The sword of light. Gar still on his power kick probably won't think to check on the sword. So he'll have no idea that it's even gone. The creature grinned mischievously. Normally it couldn't open a dimension pocket of any kind big or small. But because Gar had opened this one originally that it was able to re-open it.
Xellos was asleep laying on the ground of his dark blue prison. Monsters don't sleep, on a regular basis. So why was Xellos sleeping? One could say that he was doing it out of boredom but the real reason was that he was in trouble. During Xellos' whole search for answers of Zelgadis' family history he had not had the chance to properly feed himself. And expending so much energy as he had for the search Xellos needed food badly. Right now it wasn't life threatening but it would be eventually. And since he was trapped in this dark blue prison of his he had no access to any possible food source.
Somehow Xellos found himself drift off into sleep which did seem odd to him. But he did not fight his sleepiness, he not much else to do so why not dream? But Xellos not having much experience with dreaming didn't know that sometimes dreams could be unpleasant even for a monster.