Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ age of changes ❯ shadow creature ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 2

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The infamous sorceress and bandit killer Lina Inverse , now wife and mother, and the legendary swordsman and former holder of the Hikari-no-ken Gaury Gabriv, now husband of Lina , were on the run…. Fallowed by a very pissed-of restaurant owner ,with a several miles long bill , flouting wildly behind him ,clasped tightly in one of his hand.

With the other palm, folded in a fist, that he shook furiously around in the air after the escaping 'thieves' , he dashed after them, shouting something about unpaid bills , cursing them now and then.

" Hurry up Gaury !!!" …pant…" faster !!!! " ..pant, pant…" he's gaining on us !! " Lina yelled madly at her husband, as they sprinted trough the crowded alley .

Gaury ,running in the rear behind her ,shafted, " but …pant…Lina ..I'm going as fast as I can …pant, pant…I really can't faster .." he whined behind Lina, as he fallowed and puffed harshly after her.

Cutting yet another angle, Lina suddenly dived behind a counter of one grocery store , dragging Gaury after her .

A sharp " iiiiaaaaaa.." could be hired from the swordsman before Lina could clasp her hand over his mouth and pined him down on the ground ,on the back , of their little hiding place. The sorceress , laying on top of him , still holding her palm over his mouth , pierced her gaze too the street ahead of her . As she spotted the owner coming down the path , she watered down even more . They both hoped he would not spot them down here. As the angry owner eventually moved past them , and around the next corner , they lastly took the liberty to let out their holdback-breaths .

" ooohhh , that was close , ne Lina ? " Gaury finally exhaled . He began to shift and sit up , holding her in his arms and than placing her in his lap . They began too dust each other of and chitchat cheerful over another one of their restaurant stunts .

" you say it , dear ." she agreed , " ahh…" the woman sighed , and then gestured with one hand " I don't understand why they always make such noise around that…I mean, it's not as we would eat the last straw from their heads or something. Our appetite is surely just little over the ordinary , ne ?", her breathing was becoming more normal. She pooled a little at his long flaxen hair , straightened them and tied the mane back again .

" thanks " he said with a smile as she finished , and bent down to give her a quick kiss on the lips. Then his blue eyes grew thoughtful and so he asked ,

" say sweetheart… who are we going too visit again? " he asked innocently ….for the last fiftieth times . Lina fecefaulted.

"Geez ! Gaury…" she gritted her teeth - composing slowly from the impact, and said slowly and angrily , forcing herself not to explode yet another time over such questions " … for the very LAST time …. " she heave a sigh as she run her palm over her face and tugged a little at her fire-red mane.

They stood up and were leisurely departing too the Sairag city -gates .

"…we are going to Filia.. ..you know …" she waited for him , that he eventually might remember…no such luck … "our friend for the last two hundred years " … nothing… " the dragon woman with bad temper and heavy mace ? " she stopped on a path that lead in the woods, awaiting she turned back at him .

Gaury stopped by her , scratching his temples " hmmm ". His face thoughtful, but all of a sudden he brightened up , as if he had caught a idea.

" Now I know ! " he exclaimed happily " and she lives out here in the woods , ne ? .. I wonder why …sheesh, I wouldn't live in a such creepy place …" and he kept babbling on and on about it , until Lina got too annoyed and Fireball-ed him some hundred yards ahead of her .

" really" she grumbled to herself " some times I wonder how he can remember too eat and drink …" She tugged yet a little more at her fiery red hair and started to walk after him.

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The place was in a dim light , nevertheless to the high and large windows, that were positioned on opposite sites in the great hall. As he finally appeared, a number of somewhat drunken penetrating voices of a crowd , sounding like hawing a good time, came too his ears . His closed-eye gaze roomed over the large room. He stopped at what seemed the center of this mysterious space , and started too strode thereof. The room was full of her minions, monstrous creatures , chattering with one another , grumbling, sneering, growling at ichother, and now their knife-like gazes were fallowing him - like one of a hungry dog that is snarling at his master - as he made his way trough the horde to the core, where he was awaited . A few , they looked like silver-furred wolfs, but weren't no animals however, more rather demons - he would say her elite-pack-, rested around a high bed wrapped in white silk sheets. The fabric pieces were flouting in a mild breeze. A faint sound of flute music and the stabbing sound of the drums muffled play , taped with a hypnotical rhythm, filled the hall . It gave the room a nice rich mystical touch - as it always did , all the tree and a half millennia that he had been kept teleporting into.

The hall had a line of grotesque ornamented pillars positioned in a dublle row before the high ancient shaped bed. A group of lesser demons , seated around one mast, on lots of old-fashioned-looking pillows, were chatting loudly, their scary laugh rang trough the entire room.

One particular word came too a mazoku in an awfully bad mood - 'garbage'. A single cold ametist colored eye turn half open , fallowed by the second one , an extremely annoying and rarely so angry look in them, as they searched for their soon-to-be victim . He spotted an ogre , settled in one pillow on the floor around a small fire with some other trolls. He burly patted the shoulder of his neighbor on his left, and grinned to him. But his eyes flickered to a human looking demon , clad only in black loose-fitting trousers , and a broad collar necklace around his neck , with a few blood-red orbs fitted in it , and with what seamed a broken staff that he hold in his strong hands . The human-looking walked calmly past him , … but stopped a few steps after.

Before one particular ogre began to slowly melt in acid , the juu-jinkan waived his hand in a slow special manner and murmured a few low words.

The ogre, thus frantically tried too hold his rotting flesh to his unfortunate self, but however ,the flesh kept decomposing further before the monsters very own eyes. In the end ,the acid burned trough the entire grotesque body,…and then his gaze fall to his boned fingers , still steaming and sticky from the liquid melted muscles , that were on them. With that his tortured life finally ended, and he rolled lifeless on the lap of his terrified neighbor , who whit a rapid movement pushed the decomposing cadaver in the fire and jumped frightened away , trembling on his entire body. His wide open-mouth gaze flickering between Xellos and his dead companion frantically . The demon , grinning with delight , as he heard and felt the cries of agony from the ogre, was making his way too his lord again , never looking at his victim .

He could not and would not tolerate , that ,one such a less creature , possibly could soil his image. Besides , he survived the hardest day since …ah…that escapade with the Lord DarkStar and that crazy Valgaav, and now he had lass patience then ever ,to endure their little sick jokes . …How could he had loose to that shadow …such insignificant creature….such humiliation ….little more and he would even betray his lord…unthinkable…he would get his revenge, this he would swear by the all mighty ruby-eye. Yes , he was so pissed of , and when this meting is over , he would go and tray too cool himself and break some shadow heads duing so .

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Water…lots of water ….an ocean of water….and it was her home, as she was the lord of this watery realm . It was so alluring , she could not duo different but too let it guide her in the sleep…innocent sleep…or was it something between. With a leap she would shake away her sleepiness , she could not take it being drag too this peculiar dreams , she knew that it drained more and more at her sanity . She could not make out her mind , was it a dream or was it reality . She kept on reaching for this blur of memories , that seemed to hide from her view every time she eventually draw close enough to reach out with her hand . She would be sad then …but at that time her sadness would turn into furry , she would then at any cost tray to get too thous damn visions of her hidden memories.

But that was many waves behind ,then again. Now….it was not better, but at least she recognized her sanity , and was hopefully, now less insane then before. For instance , she knew who she is and was …..an Lord, a demon, a mighty one…. She must grin at the thought , she had supremacy…So, it was not just imagination ….the memories came back, …but she could not be sure if she would take the price for it…or if she even had a choice from where too choose .

The odd demon-women strode barefoot and soundless down a wide glass-hallway . The light fabric of her , nearly transparent outfit was swaying with a hypnotic rhythm , thus to her movement, behind her. The light-reflection of the deep blue water above the clear glass was drawing an interesting pattern on her set face as she made her way down the corridor . Her black water-like eyes, that were once an color of ocean deep blue, sought the base of a liquid-like gate . The entrance grow too a massive structure , it seemed build out of a watery metal, it's color changed every now and then from deep blue too silvery white and back to transparent.

Her palms touched for an instant the surface of the cold metal-like water and then strode trough it calmly . As she moved trough her pearl wrist-bracelets jingled , like rain dropping down in a Tuolumne , making outspreading circles as it would came down .

Once inside her gaze searched for another ones presence. The Lord stepped a few footsteps then sighed closing her eyes , after that opening them slowly again. The black orbs looked expressionless at a appearing dark shadow-like creature before her. The creature , after entering the plane , folded its odd asymmetric wings and flouted down to the ground , its liquid eyes were locked with the demons all the time . The shadows eyes began to swirl , cosign the woman's eyes to swirl too. Time passed .

Coking her head too one side and with that breaking the hypnotic stare , started the woman to grin " wonderful …so, you say that you found out where the wolf-pack is ?" she said calmly . The shadow beast stretched its neck and let out an low hiss , its eyes swirled even wilder . The Deep Sea Lord giggled and looked around the cold room " ah…and you want it in ruins . Hmm, I wonder from who do you got the location…" . She twist sharply around too look in the beasts eyes , as it began to grumble , her own began to swirl. After a few moments , breaking the stare yet again, she began laugh hysterically.

Libele :so…another one chapter finished . This one is a bit longer, hope you enjoy reading it.