Everyone gathered in one of the larger rooms of the library to if anyone found anything that would be helpful, but instead of the starting the discussion they were all left waiting for Zelgadis to show up.
"Where the hell is he? We all agreed to meet up!"
"Miss Lina, I'm sure that Mister Zelgadis is just a little caught up with what he was doing that he isn't aware of what time it is." Amelia tried to calm Lina.
Lina just grumbled under her breath.
"Well how about one of us goes and brings him here?" Sylphiel suggested to the group.
"Fine, I'll go. I'll be back in a few minutes." Lina said while walking off.
After a little bit of wandering around Lina finally found the room that Zelgadis had been looking up information in. She was all ready to give him hell when she saw him in his chair. She was shocked to see that he was asleep.
Lina's first thought was about Zel's ex-demon part. Had he gone into Zelgadis' dreams and started causing hell? Or was Zelgadis just peacefully sleeping?
Lina walked up to Zelgadis and saw that he seemed to be sleeping fine. She sighed with relief.
"It's funny, I'd figure Gourry would be the more likely one to fall asleep in a library then Zelgadis." A voice stated from behind Lina.
Lina spun herself around to see Xellos standing behind her with a smug smile.
"Xellos! What are you doing here?"
"What's so wrong about being in a library? Maybe I wanted to go and look up something I wanted to know."
"You're a monster. There's probably nothing that you want to find out that you could find out here. Did you do something to Zelgadis?" Lina glared at Xellos with evil eyes.
"Now why would you think that?" Xellos faked innocence.
"I come in and find Zelgadis sleeping and you are here standing in the room watching him. You don't think that's suspicious enough?"
"No, not at all."
Lina shook her head. "Did you or did you not do something to him Xellos? I want a straight answer."
"Well when I came in Zelgadis was asleep. And I have only been here for a few moments."
Lina looked at him with a distrustful glare. "Of course I don't know if you are telling the truth or not."
"Yeah I guess that's true. Well then I guess I shall be off now." Xellos gave her one last grin before phasing off to places unknown.
Lina went over to Zelgadis and was half expecting him to already be awake from all the noise that her and Xellos were making, but she was surprised to see that he was still asleep. Man Zelgadis was always such a light sleeper before. But then he isn't a chimera before so his hearing isn't as acute as it is now.
Lina shook Zelgadis lightly and Zelgadis mumbled slightly in discomfort but continued to sleep. She shook him harder and Zelgadis continued to mumble but didn't wake up. Lina realized what she needed to do.
"WAKE UP!!!!"
Zelgadis woke up with a start. "AHH!! Huh?! What?!"
"Hi Zel, did you have a nice nap?" Lina asked in a sweet innocent little girl voice.
Zelgadis regarded her with a weird look. "Um yeah I guess. But did I really fall asleep?"
"Yup. Oh well come on we've got to go meet the others." Lina pulled him off his chair and dragged him through the library.
Xellos sighed. I guess I'm going to have to be a little more careful. They might be suspecting something already. I would have never thought trying to act like Xellos would be so hard... Xellos shook his head pondering what to do next. At least I don't have to worry about him attacking Zelgadis in his sleep since now that he's with Lina. Hmm... but what am I going to do about that thing?
Lina dragged Zelgadis into the room everyone was in. "I found him!" Lina triumphantly stated as she went to take her seat.
"Where was he Miss Lina?"
"He fell asleep in one of the other rooms."
Zelgadis glared at her with a little scowl as he went to join the others. "You just had to say something didn't you?" He mumbled under his breath.
"Well actually it's not surprising that Mister Zelgadis suddenly fell asleep like that. His body is still trying to properly adjust to the changes that have been done. It's probably going to be a little while before his body is completely adjusted. So until then Mister Zelgadis should expect sudden waves of hunger, fatigue, and sleepiness." Mr. Hender reassured Zelgadis.
"Well how about we get started? Did anyone find anything useful?"
Everyone was silent. No one answered Lina.
"You mean none of you found anything?"
"Well I did find something... only I lost the book." Amelia spoke timidly.
"Yeah well I already knew that. Sylphiel, Zelgadis, Gourry? Any of you?"
"I wasn't really trying to find anything about memory loss. I was just trying to see if there was anything I could find that seemed familiar in anyway."
"Was there anything?"
"Just a sense of déjà vu when I picked up a book about chimera curses. But that's about it."
"Not surprising. You've looked up tons of books about chimeras trying to find a cure for quite some time. What about you Gourry?"
Gourry smiled sheepishly. "Well when I went to go and look up the stuff I was supposed to go look up I forgot exactly what it was that I was supposed to look up."
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Um Sylphiel?"
"I'm sorry Miss Lina, I couldn't find anything useful."
"Oh well I was suspecting as much. There's something else I wanted to talk to you guys about anyway." Lina cleared her throat before starting. "Now I bet we are all wondering who it was exactly that put up those strange dream barriers last night. From what I've seen before, the next day after the barrier in my room disappeared a new one was there in place of the other one. So therefore the same thing that put up the barriers last night will most likely put up new ones tonight in place of the ones that are gone. So Amelia, Sylphiel I want you to try and stay awake and try and see who it is that's putting up those barriers."
"But Miss Lina what if the thing doesn't come if we are awake?"
"That's why I want you two to pretend you are asleep."
"But what if it doesn't show up?"
"Oh well just try to stay up as long you can."
Xellos sat on top of the rooftop of the library. He had been listening in on what Lina and the others had been talking about.
Hmm... now what am I going to do tonight? I can't very well go in and put up those barriers back up in this form. But I can't leave this form for very long either. I guess I'll just have to risk loosing control of him while I go and fix them up tonight. Hopefully he won't regain consciousness till I get back. It's too bad that I can't put these barriers up until they are in the room and it's nighttime. Oh well I guess I'd better get going to prepare for things later on. Xellos phased off to places elsewhere but hadn't be aware that he been watched.
Gar glared from his viewing point. How did that freak managed to get out? And there's something strange with him. Well when I get started with my plans that fruit cake is going to be one of the first ones to go. Gar smiled evilly.