Zelgadis was walking through a dark void. He was shivering and he didn't know where he was.
"Hello? Is anyone here?" The sound of Zelgadis' voice reminded him much of a small and frightened child. His voiced echoed throughout without stopping keeping on forever just getting softer till the sound couldn't be heard. "Where am I?" Zelgadis asked speaking louder but getting the same result. Wherever he was he was alone. The more Zelgadis spoke the colder it got. "How did I get here?" Zelgadis whispered to himself. His memory was totally gone, like as if there hadn't been any memories in his head from the start. But he knew that, that was wrong. He knew that something before this but it was all gone from him. His mind was as dark and bleak as his surroundings. "Anyone, please anyone, just answer me!" Zelgadis screamed out loud and collapsed to his knees. The coldness swept through him numbing every part of his body till he could feel no more. He couldn't even scream.
Zelgadis woke up in a shock. He was back in Lina's room, on Lina's bed still holding her. "I was dreaming again. Why wont they stop?"
"Are they really that bad?" Lina startled him. He had woken her up when he woke up from his nightmare so abruptly.
"You can hear me?"
"Yeah my guess for as long as I don't look at your face. Zelgadis are you alright?"
"I'm fine now."
"Good then this wont bother you too much." Lina said with a coy smile as she grabbed and ripped a chunk of his hair.
"OWWWWWWWW! You should have warned me you were going to do that!" Zelgadis grumbled at her and she laughed.
"Well you knew that I had to do it eventually so you should have been expecting it. Besides what difference would it make? It would still hurt the same." Lina grinned and Zelgadis muttered something under his breath that Lina couldn't make out. "Hey, Zel?"
"Hmm?"
"What happened last night? I know that you entered my dream but I can't remember what happened when you were there." Lina shuddered she was still feeling cold and she didn't know why. She wrapped the blankets closer around her and before she was aware of what she was doing she snuggled up closer to Zelgadis. When realization set in she wasn't cold anymore she was warm with embarrassment while blushing brightly. But Zelgadis didn't notice. He was stiff as a board thinking about what happened that night how Lina had almost been killed by something that used to be part of him. But he couldn't decide to tell her or not. He might not be able to do anything now and I could just kill him next time around. I don't need to worry her about things that wont matter right now. But what if he did come back and I wouldn't be able to stop him this time? Do I tell her or not?
"Um, Lina just forget about that it's nothing important."
Lina frowned in suspicion. She could easily tell by the tone of his voice that it wasn't anything important. "You're lying Zel. Tell me what happened!"
"You were almost killed but the person was stopped."
"Who almost killed me? And how was I saved?"
"A demon tried to kill you in your dream. And I stopped it."
"So the demon is dead right?"
"Um yeah right it's dead." That's not a total lie, it's almost like it's dead.
"Good then. Was that so hard? Anyway since it's so early in the morning and barely no one is up I'm going to take a nice long uninterrupted bath." Lina hopped her bed looked over to Zelgadis and was amazed, she could still him. "How come I can still see you?"
"You can still see me?" Zelgadis looked at her with wide eyes. Lina on the other hand frowned.
"Looks like I can still see you but I still can't hear you. As for touch -- " Lina went over to him and moved her hand right through him. She felt the same sensation of ice and fire only it seemed a bit more solid in a way. "The sensation seems almost the same but something is a little different about it. Can you feel it too?"
Zelgadis nodded. Lina looked down to the lock of Zelgadis' hair. It was soft and light lavender but most important it was solid and real. "Well I going to my bath now. See you downstairs later, oh and don't try and pull any funny stuff while I'm in the bath, because remember I can see you now. And I don't want any spirit like people peeping on me while I'm not wearing much clothes." Lina glared at him sternly but only half serious. While Zelgadis scowled.
"You really think that I'd do something like that?!" Of course Lina still couldn't hear him.
"Whatever Zelgadis I have no idea what you are saying nor do I care." Lina grabbed her stuff and skipped out of the room with that lock of Zel's hair in hand.
Zelgadis sat in the inn restaurant still scowling.
"How dare she imply that I'd do something like that?! Who does she think I am?! Xellos?!" Zelgadis yelled very loudly. One advantage to be walking around like a spirit you could yell as loud as you want and you'd have no one around you stare at you like you are nuts.
Lina relaxed in the nearly hot water. She had been so tense lately that all her muscles were cramped up so the warm water was welcome. She sunk in further with her eyes closed and her face conveyed her happiness as she sighed dreamily. Zel's lock of hair that had been tied with a piece of string lay next to her on the ledge.
The demon grumbled in a very unhappy manner. He couldn't believe that Zelgadis a mere human could have stopped him so easily in Lina's dream. It was if he wasn't even human or something. And he was even angrier at the fact that Zelgadis had managed to free Lina. "Well Zelgadis you think you had the last laugh? I said I would be back only this time I think instead of trying to kill Lina, I think I'll make it you can't become normal again!" He cackled while outside the woman's side to the public baths.
Zelgadis who had been so preoccupied hadn't noticed his ex-demon part so close to where Lina was. But as it entered the bath Zelgadis felt a shock to his system as he was shot back to reality. "Oh no why wasn't I paying attention?! I've got to warn Lina!"
Meanwhile Lina was unaware of the demon that also was in the bath. The demon went over Lina and was going to reach for the lock of hair when Lina opened her eyes. The first thing she did was scream out loud trying to through something at the demon.
"What how can you see me?"
"YOU PERVERTED DEMON! HOW DARE YOU PEEK ON ME WHILE -- wait a demon?" Lina suddenly recognized the demon from the same on in her dream.
"Well I don't know how you can see me but I'll kill you if I have to, because I'm going to get that lock of hair."
"I don't think so!" Zelgadis appeared in and charged the demon with the same odd aura that he'd had in Lina's dream. Demon got struck but only slightly and disappeared returning back to where he had been before.
"Lina are you all -- " Zelgadis started to say as he turned to look at Lina. Of course he stopped and gaped when he noticed that Lina wasn't wearing anything. All thoughts flew from his head while his whole face turned a very deep red almost the same shade as blood that came out of his nosebleed. But before Lina could scream at him he disappeared and reappeared in Gourry's room.