Zelgadis frowned at the books in front of him. "So why exactly are we trying so hard to find a way to deal with the creature without hurting the person he's possessed when it's Xellos who he's possessing? Why does it matter if we hurt him or not?"
"First of all we don't know if the demon has possessed Xellos. It might have possessed someone else and in that case we'd still need to know how to deal with it without hurting someone. Second as much as I wouldn't mind hurting Xellos along with it, if we fail the demon might get really pissed off and use Xellos' body to its' advantage. And if we do succeed we don't know how Xellos might act. He might end up being very dangerous if we did get rid of the demon and hurting him in the process. He's a monster, and we really don't have any idea what goes on in his mind, what his orders might be, what his true intensions are." Lina spoke without even looking up from her book. "We don't know, maybe he's been planning on killing us off for a while now, and all he needs is a reason to."
"Well if that's the case then who cares if we hurt him or not. We might as well just kill them both."
This time Lina looked up. She stared at him with a confused glance but Zelgadis wasn't looking up to meet her gaze. I know Zel hates Xellos, but he wouldn't usually say something like that. But then Zel's been acting strangely ever since he got out of the machine anyway. Probably because he can't remember anything. "Um well it's not a good idea to kill a monster lord's general priest. Monster's can be very possessive over things that belong to them. Especially if that monster happens to be a monster lord."
Zelgadis pouted.
Xellos paced around in his green prison. He was very frustrated with his current situation. This was definitely a lot more different then the last crystal cage. It was much more solid and it had an anti-magic barrier that lined the inside of the crystal so there was no way that Xellos would be able to break the crystal with normal magic. But that's not saying that he wouldn't be able to break it at all.
All I need to do is to make a crack in the structure somehow and then I can get out. But why trap us rather then try to kill Xellos? It doesn't make much sense. I'm a bigger threat to him like this is if I can get out. Xellos mused in confusion. And then it hit him.
He doesn't know. He has no idea that I'm controlling Xellos. He probably doesn't even know that I exist. Well if that's the case then I have an advantage over him. Xellos laughed sinisterly. But I still need to get out of here first.
Lina sighed and closed the book she was reading. It wasn't any help as she had expected. Lina was started to get annoyed with constantly trying to find information that didn't seem to exist.
She got up from her chair and went to the door.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to get something to help us. I'll be back in a few minutes."
Lina left the room and went on the search for Gourry. After a little bit of searching Lina found Gourry with his face buried in the book that he was sleeping on.
"Hey Gourry wake up!" Lina yelled in his ear giving his shoulders a shake. But Gourry didn't wake up. He just grumbled slightly in his sleep. So Lina did the next best thing, she kicked his chair out from under him.
Gourry woke up as he went crashing down to the floor. "Huh...? Why am I on the floor...?"
"Because I woke you up. Now give me your sword Gourry." Lina demanded matter-of-factly holding out her hand.
"No! I told you once, and I told you a hundred of times, I didn't say you could have the sword! Am I'm not going to give it to you! It's a family heirloom." Gourry said defensively clutching his sword.
"I know, I know Gourry. But I just want to borrow it for a little while. So handing it over, I'll give it back to you."
"And how do I know that you aren't just going to borrow it and not give it back to me?" Gourry narrowed his eyes suspiciously at her.
"I just want to borrow it to see if I can help Zel. Do you want Zelgadis to get his memory back?"
"Yes..."
"Well then just let me borrow the damn sword Gourry!" Lina demanded.
Gourry reluctantly handed his sword to her. "You know you're scary when you want something."
Gourry got smacked on the head with his sword for his comment.
While Lina was gone Zelgadis quickly got up and went to the all the edges of the room. With soft chanting Zelgadis placed small stones at each of the corners of the room on the floor as close to the wall as possible. Immediately after he placed the stones on the floor they glowed softly in resonance with each other creating a light pattern all across the room that somewhat resembled a large magic square. Only it wasn't one and it was missing one line that was supposed to connect to the door that Lina had gone out of. In front of the door there was a stone as well but this one wasn't glowing with the rest of them.
Zelgadis quickly sat down where he was before; picked up the book he had been reading and waited for Lina to return. Just then Lina opened the door and the stone started to glow completing the pattern and as she stepped into the room the magic square like thing disappeared.
Lina didn't notice the light pattern on the floor before it disappeared and walked over to Zelgadis placing Gourry's swords right in front on him.
"Gourry's sword?"
"Yeah I had a talk with Mr. Hender and according to him we might be able to use it to help us."
"Really..." Zelgadis raised an eyebrow.
Inside the green crystal Xellos was putting the prison's magic barrier to the limit. What he was doing was using his raw energy to make a magic barrier around him and expanded it till it was up against the prison's barrier. The friction of the barriers going angst each other created lots of sparks. Xellos' barrier pushing outward while the crystal's barrier stressed to stay up. But with no one feeding extra power into the crystal's magic barrier it immediately cracked shooting Xellos' energy right at the crystal shell. Which caused a small crack in the crystal.
Once achieving this Xellos stopped right away. He stopped and waited for a few moments. But nothing happened. He was afraid that Zelgadis was going to realize that what Xellos was doing. But since nothing happened Xellos took this as an opportunity to escape.
Xellos teleported himself out of the crystal all ready to fend himself from Zelgadis but he was surprised to see that he materialized outside in a hallway rather then in the same room as Zelgadis. Now what the hell happened here? I should have appeared right where Zelgadis is since he has the crystal. Unless the crystal is somewhere out here...
Xellos looked around the hallway and the crystal was nowhere in sight. But then something hit Xellos, he couldn't sense either Lina or Zelgadis.
He quickly appeared right where Mr. Hender was. "Mr. Hender, where's Lina?"
"Um I don't know Mister Xellos."
"This isn't good..."
"Is there something wrong?"
"There might be. Come with me." Xellos grabbed Mr. Hender's arm and went and gathered everyone into one room.
"Where's Lina?" Xellos demanded from everyone.
No one was able to answer him.
"Come on, none of you saw her at all recently?"
Gourry thought very hard. "Oh I did! She wanted to borrow my sword."
"Why?"
"She said she wanted to borrow it so that she can help Zelgadis and then she left."
"Where did she go?"
"I think she went somewhere down that hall." Gourry pointed towards the hallway that Xellos had come from.
Without even saying a word Xellos sped off right towards the room he had appeared right in front. He felt a faint essence of magic coming from behind the door. When he tried to open the door he was repelled backwards and smashed right into a wall.
Everyone else came rushing over to where Xellos was.
"Mister Xellos what's going on?!"
"Lina's in danger."
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