"How? How is this possible?!" Zelgadis whispered to himself.
"Oh so then you do know who I am." The dark voice cackled again before taking shape in front of Zelgadis. The creature was blue and green with large odd looking eyes. The weirdest thing about the creature is that it had black shadows surrounding him and his eyes glowed red. The creature cackled once more before taking a slightly more human form with blue and green skin and blue hair. His eyes remained red.
"How can you be alive?! You should have disappeared -- "
"Along with our golem part? Oh no Zelgadis we've just been separated. I'm finally been freed." The demon cackled once more. When Zelgadis was still a chimera this demon was his demon part of him. The part of him that gave him most of his power but was controlled by Zelgadis' mind. "It's about time I got my chance to do what I please. You used my power and strength and you shut me out of anything not letting me have any say in anything we did."
"If I had you would have killed and tortured everyone you could!" Zelgadis advanced forward to the demon but he held up his hand towards Lina's sleeping form with a dark smile.
"You don't want to be responsible for something bad happening to the lovely red haired sorceress?" Zelgadis froze in his tracks.
"What do you want with her?!"
"I want to do the same thing to her that I've wanted to do her for a long time..."
"What?!"
"Make her suffer and die." The demon said as he turned into black vapor and surrounded Lina and disappeared.
"LINA!" Zelgadis ran to her but he was too late the demon was already in her dream. She was still breathing but her whole body had turned cold and blue. "Damnit leave her alone!" Zelgadis tried again to enter Lina's dream but as he did pain erupted in his senses and made him stumble back. "I can't do it! No this is my fault I have to do something!" Zelgadis braced himself and lunged himself into the dream ignoring his pain.
Meanwhile the rest worked hard on the setup, even Popo was helping out.
"Mr. Hender if Mister Zelgadis' is still in this spirit form exactly how would Miss Lina be able to get some of his hair?"
"After the dream Miss Lina could actually touch Mister Zelgadis, he had a physical form there. Now if she had tried to get his hair then it wouldn't have worked because it would have just disappeared after that. But if he goes in again the hair that Miss Lina would be able to get wouldn't be able to disappear because Miss Lina would still be able to see Mister Zelgadis."
"Really she'd be able to see him?"
"Yeah but she probably wont be able to actually to hear him though. There almost finished. If things keep on going as good as they are then Mister Zelgadis will be cured in no time!" Mr. Hender said in a small triumphant smile.
Inside the dreamscape everything was dark, cold and stormy. Parts of the place would crumble under the feet while others would appear dead. The trees were black and ground was dark gray and the sky was in-between. What really disturbed Zelgadis is that he didn't know if it was the demon's influence in the dream that was causing the dreamscape to go so nuts or if it was his own.
"Lina? Where are you?" Zelgadis called out in the hostile dreamland. But the wind and thunder took his voice and made it from not carrying far. He walked around aimlessly having no clue where to start looking. That is until he saw a faint flash of red far off to the distance. Zelgadis knew that it was Lina because the only color that he saw around him was that of him himself. The land bore no color.
He rushed over to her to find half her body from the waste down encased in ice. "Lina!"
"Zelgadis watch out magic doesn't work on him!" Lina yelled to Zelgadis while the demon threw another freeze arrow at her feet. Now she was up past her stomach. The demon appeared in front of Zelgadis.
"Oh so you braved the pain to save her huh? Well you are to late you can't stop me!" The demon cackled once more and was cut short when Lina threw another fireball at him. The demon just stood there as the fireball went right through him. "See? You can't hurt me with magic and I have no physical form for you strike!"
"I don't know about that, you seemed pretty afraid of me hurting you back in there." Zelgadis chanted under his breath while the demon got a fearful look in its eyes before it smiled again with a smug look.
"No you can't cast anything! Alright yes you could hurt me like that but if you do cast any magic you run the risk of doing some serious damage to little Lina's mind." Zelgadis lowered his hands and discontinued casting the spell. "Ha ha! I've won, you can't do anything to stop me!"
"Oh I don't think so." Zelgadis unsheathed his sword and charged the demon. Off course since Zelgadis was normal now and had lost it's demonic speed the demon managed to easily parry each of Zel's attacks. The demon smiled again knowing there was no way that he could be stopped. That was until something rather odd happened. A strange aura appeared around Zelgadis and his speed and strength tripled. Zelgadis pulled his sword out of the demon's stomach and the demon staggered back.
"You've think you have won? Mark my words I'll be back. On and a little parting message, this was all in vain." The demon gave one last cackle as he disappeared.
What did he mean by -- Zelgadis' thoughts were interrupted by Lina whom was shrieking. The ice starting to spread and was now almost at her shoulders.
"Hang on Lina!" Zelgadis yelled at her. The storm had picked up and had gotten worse. He tried to pull off the ice or something only when he touched her the cold sensation was too great and he had to pull back. "Lina I think I can free you."
"Then do it!"
"But the only way that I can think to do it is to cast a fireball on you, but that might affect your mind."
"I'd rather have something slightly messed up with my mind then be dead!"
Zelgadis complied and shot the fireball straight at her and oddly enough it got rid of the ice with no damage to Lina whatsoever.
"Thanks!"
Zelgadis would have said something in reply only his vision blurred and went dark and he collapsed. Lina tried to yell out to him but he disappeared and the dreamscape returned to a more stable form.
Zelgadis awoke on Lina's bed with her snuggled up against him. She was still very cold and blue but not so much as she had been before. She was still sleeping but Zelgadis didn't return back to sleep. Ever since he had been through this weird situation he had not felt much. Now since his encounter with ex-demon part he could feel its presence. It was far from him at the moment, but alive and could return at any moment. Almost oblivious to the possible danger, Lina smiled, obviously having a nice dream. Zelgadis looked at her with worried eyes and put a defensive arm around Lina and waited for her to wake.