Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction / Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Sibling Rivalry ❯ Chapter 7

Ooh. Melyn is bad, she knows. She really must work on her stories! I really really wish I could do more, it's just I'm going through what one will call a 'writers block'. She is now trying to over come it by writing, so this chapter might be just a little bad. Please don't hold it against me...

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Sibling Rivalry

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Xellos smiled his fruity smile as he waltzed into the Kotu palace. This palace had no security. The six or seven guards at the front gate were nothing. He quickly beat them. Sure there were other guards patrolling the palace, but they too were far too easy to beat.

The mysterious priest pouted. The report in Konan made this place seem like a brutal country where everybody was seven feet tall and wore the dead skins of the animals they killed.

Now he believed this place was just a rival country.

Well, for lying to him, he would just have to destroy this place. Lying was bad, or so that freak Amelia always said. He would be doing her a favor by getting rid of the lying bastards.

"There! The intruder!"

Xellos sighed. Oh damn. They found him.

He shrugged it off and entered the palace with the hopes of there being more fun inside.

Xellos wandered the halls aimlessly. He enjoyed pocketing the occasional trinket that caught his eye. Who knows, these trinkets might just fetch him a pretty penny. Either that or her could just throw them at that stupid dragon girl.

"Stop!" A group of guards surrounded Xellos. He just smiled as their leader made their way into the middle. He stopped in front of Xellos.

He was a big man...A really big man...With long blond mullet hair. Xellos resisted the urge to laugh...for a split second. Then he burst into laughter. To keep himself standing he rested his arm on the blonde's arm. After a few minutes his giggle-fit calmed down.

"Who do you think you are?" The mullet man eyed him evilly. But not as evil as Xellos could glare.

"Xellos!" He composed himself. "The mysterious priest. And you must be from the boonies, John Bob Joe Jr." He smiled wickedly and watched the guards back away. He must have hit a sore spot. "I hope you realize you are not intimidating. I'm not intimidated by slack-jaw yokels."

The blond man glared and began to glow a slight blue.

Xellos was feasting. "Tell me, do blonds really have more fun? Or are you all idiots like the jokes say."

The blond man growled. "Take him to the dungeon."

"The dungeon? Will I be beaten there?" Xellos smiled and let the guards take him away. Oh boy! A beating! What a wonderful day to be a masochist!

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Xellos screamed as the whip hit his back again. "Come on, Blondie! A ten-year-old could hit harder than that!"

Of course the 'ten-year-old' in question was the master of hell, but that was just details. What the general didn't know would hurt Xellos.

The blond general growled again and hit Xellos even harder. "By the time I am done, you will be begging for mercy."

Xellos smirked. "I really hope you live up to your threat. I haven't had a good beating in ages." 'Those were the good old days.' Xellos thought as he felt the sharp sting of the whip against his flesh again.

"Have you broken my skin yet?" Xellos eyed his beater. "I do enjoy the sensation of being beaten, but is not worth it if you don't brake the skin...Do you have one of those whips with the metal balls at the end of them? Those are my favorite."

The blond man stopped his beating and eyed Xellos. "What are you?"

Xellos smiled widely. "Can you make these chains tighter? I can still feel my fingers."

"Gag him." The general ordered.

"But you miss out on hearing me scream!" Xellos pouted.

The man growled low in his throat. "Minor loss if it will keep you quiet."

Xellos pouted even more and made a sound a child would make when they found out they couldn't have desert. "I thought you might interrogate me! I mean, I did come from Konan...they are your enemies, right?"

"What do you know of Konan?"

Xellos smiled mockingly. "That would be a secret."

The general growled in anger. "Throw him in a cell. Bring him to me when he wants to talk."

The guards quickly unhooked Xellos' restraints from the ceiling and floors.

Xellos rubbed his sore wrist. "I was really expecting more from you. From the report in Konan, you were a real threat. You are the man called Nakago, am I right?"

Nakago glared.

"I'll take that as a yes. I was really hoping for more. I have seen short women with more bite than you." Ok, Lina was really scary, but he didn't know about her and pushing buttons were so much fun!

"Throw him with Ashitare."

"Sir..." The guard holding Xellos' upper arm paled. "Are you sure?"

"I think he's pretty sure." Xellos locked eyes with Nakago. "Or are you just trying to scare me?"

"Throw him to Ashitare." Nakago turned and walked away.

"So." Xellos looked at the two men taking him to his cell. "Who's this 'Ashitare'? Is he dangerous?"

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Tamahome looked both ways. No Lina in sight.

He turned his attention back to the red jewel sitting on the kitchen counter. Just from looking at it he could see it would fetch a pretty penny. The knowledge of it coming from a person from a far away lands would up the price tenfold!

"Don't even think about it." Lina growled and seized the jewel away.

"I wasn't thinking anything!" Tamahome laughed nervously. From what he knew of this woman, DO NOT mess with her. Gourry made that perfectly clear when he tried to eat the last egg roll. He was now in the care of Mitsukake.

"Wasn't thinking of selling it in the market place?"

"No."

"Weren't going to give it to your girlfriend?"

"No."

"Wasn't going to go to the emperor and claim to have found it and now want a reward?"

"No." Tamahome shook his head nervously. "I was only looking."

"Mine!" Lina smiled happily and stuffed the jewel in her purse.

"You just found that!" Tamahome jumped up and made a grab for her purse.

"No!" Lina pushed the other greedy individual away. "I took it from you fair and square!"

Tamahome lunged at her and they both collapsed to the floor. The jewel managed to fall out of Lina's pocket and slide across the kitchen floor.

"Mine!" They both scrambled to their feet and made a final lunge at the sparkly. Both hands hit it at the same time and the jewel slid farther away and down a crack in the floor.

"No!" Lina cried and tried to rip the floorboards out with her bare hands.

Tamahome ran out of the room and ran to the emperor's quarters. No one was there. He quickly grabbed the one item he was looking for and ran back to Lina. "I've got something!" He waved it over his head.

"Good thinking!" Lina pulled out her dagger as Tamahome lodged the emperors sword into the floor boards.

Greed does odd thing to people. And that is exactly what Nuriko saw as he entered the kitchen. Two greedy people, over a crack in the floor, one with a dagger sitting on the floor, the other standing with a sword. Both were saying very explicit words that would make Tasuki blush.

"What are you doing.."

Both looked up with innocent 'I-didn't-do-anything' eyes. "Lina dropped..."

"Tamahome dropped..."

Nuriko glared. "Is that the emperor's!" Nuriko put a hand over his mouth to keep from screaming. "Idiot!" He hissed.

Tamahome snapped back to reality and realized how bad his crime really was. "Oops..."

Nuriko snatched the sword away. "Go to your room! And no talking to Miaka!"

"Yes Nuriko..." Tamahome hung his head and sadly walked out of his room.

"And you." Nuriko turned his attention to Lina. "One more outburst like that and no supper!"

"No!" Lina screamed as Nuriko left the kitchen to return the emperor's sword before he got done with his bath.

Lina pouted and looked back to the crack in the floor. "Well...no one is here..."

She smiled as she went back to the task of jewel digging.

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Xellos allowed himself to be lead to the dungeons. With a little bit of luck, that Nakago will be straining himself to find out exactly what was up with the purple haired priest. Of course, after a short amount of time, Nakago would take him up and try to force him to speak. It seemed torture was part of his character. Just having one man rotting in a cell would not get him anywhere.

Xellos hoped he would be beaten again. The blond had a good whipping arm.

Besides, Nakago believed he had important information concerning their mortal enemy...or so he thought. Xellos actually had didily-squat.

"My these dungeons are dark." He mused to himself. "It's also musty and cold and smells of blood. Feels like home."

The guards exchanged looks of panic. It seemed to them, their captor was a few bananas short of a bunch.

They quickened their pace and shoved him into a particularly dark cell.

Xellos brushed himself off. "Thanks!" He waved to the guards, just to add more confusion into their original idea of what he was.

"Now...What is here." Xellos tapped his finger against his cheek. He felt another presence in here, but he didn't home in on it. He liked surprises.

He heard some chains rattle behind him and then a low growl.

Xellos turned and came face-to-face with a pair of very big, sharp looking teeth and a not to happy puppy.

"Oh boy..."

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That was actually longer than I expected... Wow. I'm good! What's going to happen to Xellos? That's for me to know and you to find out! Neah Neah!

*Melyn acts like a five-year-old out on the playground* I know something you don't know! I know something you don't know!

*Chiriko and Phibrezzo both shake their heads in shame at Melyn's taunts.* "Were we ever like that?"

"No..."

*Phibrezzo smiles wickedly and hold up a shiny yellow marble* "Can I break her life orb?"

"Uh...yeah. End her misery now...."

*Both boys look over and see Melyn dancing around Nakago and she is still singing those childish taunts.*

"She is going to die slowly and painfully..."

Disclaimer: I do not own it, but if you're willing, I will take both Fushigi Yugi and Slayers off your hands. I would like them. My birthday is coming up...