Zelgadis tossed and turned in his sleep. Instead of just having too many images flashing through his head in his dreams he was actually having a nightmare. Everything was blurry around him, like as if he was looking through water. He was being hurt by unknown things that he couldn't see. He tried to scream only no sound would escape from his mouth. And even if it did he wouldn't have been able to hear his own voice because his voice would have been drowned by the many other sounds around him. Just like the images he couldn't make out the sounds clearly. There was voices talking, voices screaming and voices evilly laughing. Zelgadis wanted to scream and yell at the voices to shut up.
Gar glared into space. Being that he wasn't regenerated completely enough he was stuck staying where he was till his body was completely reenergized. So he was left sitting in his bleak hideout want to scream and break a thousand things. To say that Gar was angry was an understatement. He wanted to savagely kill whoever denied him of what he was after. He had been so close to killing Lina Inverse that he almost tasted her blood.
"Ten more minutes... ten more minutes then I can get out of here and find the bastard who did this to me..." Gar growled out. I know what I can do, I can take the sword of light that I cleverly sealed away and use that to do the job. No one can stop me with that in my hands.
The next ten minutes for Gar seemed to last like an eternity, but as soon the time was up he bolted from his captivity and straight back into the town.
He joyfully skipped his way over to the spot that he had made the dimensional pocket to store the sword while murderous thoughts of revenge filled his head. The thought hadn't occurred to him that he wasn't the only one who could have taken the sword from it's hiding place, nor did he think that anyone else knew where it was.
Reaching the spot Gar re-opened the dimensional pocket and put his hand in to fish out the sword. Only when he did so he found that he couldn't feel the sword with his hands. He took out his hand and put his head in to look around the pocket and all he found was nothing. The sword wasn't there.
"WHHHHHHAAAAATTTTT?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?!??!" Steam almost appeared to be coming out of his ears.
Figuring that maybe it was in a different spot Gar tried checking around in different areas. But that one pocket was the only one that existed there. There was no way that it could have been anywhere else.
How the hell did this happen?!? No one knew of the sword except me! Hell not even that dumb Gourry knows that his sword is gone!
Gar started to pace around while he sorted his thoughts. He was so flustered that he wanted to destroy the whole town in his fury of rage.
Who could have even been able to open that pocket in the first place? He couldn't think of anyone, but then a thought crossed his mind. Xellos could have... But that's impossible I have him trapped in my blue crystal!
Gar fished out his crystal that he thought held the infamous Xellos the Trickster Priest in it. He examined it and blinked a couple of times. Gar just stood there staring at the crystal for a long time before he took the thing and threw it to the floor, breaking it into a thousand pieces.
"HOW DID HE ESCAPE?!?!? I HAD HIM TRAPPED!!!!!" Gar yelled out in frustration.
The creature from his viewing point narrowed his eyes at the site of Gar on his yelling fit.
Well I'm surprised it took him this long to figure out that both his captive and the sword are not in his clutches anymore. The creature softly chuckled, knowing very well that if it made too much noise that Gar would hear it and spot the cause of his troubles.
The creature phased out into a different place so that it could sit and think. It was the in the inn in the same room where it had placed Xellos earlier.
Now that Zelgadis is cured and Gar has figured out that some of his plans are ruined, Gar is going to be rather dangerous. No doubt he's going to attack Zelgadis. But then Gar right now isn't even aware that Zelgadis is alive. He's been stuck in that void reenergizing the whole time. But it wont take long for Gar to find out. And if he attacks Zelgadis now in the way that he is, I wont be able to figure out what exactly Gar wants. Perhaps it would be better to make sure that Gar doesn't attack Zelgadis or any of them for now. The creature knew that if Gar was going to attack any of them, he was going to do it when everyone was sleeping. So in order for them to be safe the creature was going to have to repeat the same spell that it had done for Lina in her room the night before.
If Lina hadn't picked up one of those stones then the barrier wouldn't have broken in her room. But of course since she still has the remaining stone, I don't need to do much to reactivate the spell.
The creature gathered up the stones it was going to need to do the task and first started with Xellos. Xellos was still sleeping as he had been before when the creature had checked up on him. So much sleep for a monster was definitely not natural.
No matter I'll fix that when I get back. The creature once done in Xellos' room went and phased off into another room.
Gar didn't leave the area where he had hidden the sword. He was still so blinded with rage and disbelieving that this could have happened to him. If that damned fruitcake Xellos managed to get out then how did he know where the sword was?! And how did that fruitcake even manage to escape!??!?! There shouldn't have been no way that he could have!!!
Gar kicked at nearby pail on the floor only his foot went right through it. He was about ready to scream or something when he caught sense of something. He could sense Zelgadis' presence very closeby.
Zelgadis survived?!?!?! His eyes flashed with anger and rage once more but with something else in it too. There was an evil playfulness to his eyes. Heh heh, well now Zelgadis, I think it's about time I had a little fun... Gar grinned an evil grin that matched the evil glint in his eyes.
After doing everyone's rooms the creature was left with only Zelgadis' room to do. The creature watched the sleeping form of Zelgadis in his human state. Zelgadis wasn't sleeping peacefully; he was being gripped by a frightening and seemingly painful nightmare.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's demons from his past, back to haunt him. The creature almost looked at Zelgadis with an expression of pity before getting started on the spell.
After finishing placing the stones on the floor surrounding Zelgadis' bed, the creature began chanting the spell to activate the stones. When the creature finished and opened it's eyes it found itself staring at the now awakened Zelgadis, who seemed to be staring right back at the creature.