Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Faith's secret ❯ Kids will be kids, and dragons will be dragons ( Chapter 6 )

Faith's present

By: Dark fire angel

DFA: Yay for me!! I finished the chapter!! *Claps and cheers* I'm so happy I think I'm gonna burst!! *Dances around room* Exams are almost finished and I think I'm gonna pass!! Oh yeah!! *Suddenly notices readers and sweatdrops* Ahem… sorry you had to see that… oh! And by the way, the idea for it, ain't mine ^-^ it was Zee Metallium's, so credit goes to her as well.

Disclaimer: God… I gotta say it yet again *Depression lines* I don't own the Slayers… nor do I own Xelly and Fi. *Sulks at a nearby corner, cursing the injustice in the world*

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After their encounter with the young Dragons, Xellos flew away, to take his current `responsibility' to have some fun, but it didn't take long before she suddenly gave a little `eep' and tugged on the purple haired mazoku's cloak while still flying.

"Xel-kun! Xel-kun! Wait! I just remembered something!!" she continued to tug till the priest stopped in mid air and turned to look at her, "I need to go to Grandma's house," said the little Dragon as she pointed to the distance, "There's something I wanna pick up, please? I wasn't allowed out of the sanctuary and so never had the chance to reclaim it!! Pleasy, pleasy, sugar-coated please?"

Xellos looked up at sky, "Well… ok… but we can't stay long, there's somewhere I still want to take you, and it's getting quite late. Lina and the rest said we'd met in the clearing where we slept last night after sunset," he stopped when the blond girl giggled in his arms and hugged him, thanking him, and he couldn't help but smile, "Come on, where did you say your grandma lived?"

Filia smiled and whispered the address to him, and in seconds, they once again zoomed off to find whatever it was that the little Dragon had so much interest in reclaiming.

It wasn't long before they reached a small village, and Xellos descended and planted himself in front of a certain door, startling various humans as he did so, "Here we are Fi-chan, but I must warn you, I can't go into that house with this appearance…" he said as he rested his back against the wall of the house, "But if you want to… I can do this!" he suddenly closed his eyes, black-purple aura surrounding him…

The blond girl stared at him and coked her head to one side, for the moment his aura dissolved, she found a violet wolf which smiled up at her, tongue lolling out of his mouth, "Xelly? Is that you?" she asked as she neared him enough to stroke his fur, "You're a wolfie?"

For all answer, the wolf leaped at Fi, and licked her face as he yapped, causing the little girl to giggle, "Aww… you're so cute!! I love wolfies!" she cooed as she hugged him.

The wolf grinned and puffed out with pride, as the girl continued to stroke him, "Hum… Fi-chan?" he asked after a while, gaining the Golden dragon's attention, "Mind to do me a favor while we're at your Grandma's?" the blond smiled for all answer, "Would you mind not calling me Xellos while we're here?"

Filia smiled wider and shook her head, "All right!!" she suddenly stopped and looked at him with a confused face, "What will I call you then?"

Xellos sat on his back haunches and grinned, as he opened his amethyst eyes, "How about Wolfie? It ain't such a bad name!" he said as he swished his tail from side to side, "Let's go in?"

The blond nodded and rang the bell of the house, and the moment an old, white haired lady opened, she jumped into her arm, giggling as she did so, "Grandma!! Grandma!! Guess who?!" said Filia as the old lady blinked a few times.

"Filia? Filly? Is that you?" she asked before a broad smile spread across her face, "My, my! It's been a century since I last saw you!" she then held her in the air, much to Fi's amusement, "And you haven't changed one bit, I'm gonna have to talk to your mum… it isn't normal… it's almost as if time hadn't passed for you!"

A loud bark like sound interrupted the lady as she set her granddaughter on the floor once more before turning to find a violet wolf, "Who's that, Filly?" she asked as she pointed at Xellos, who grinned, tongue still lolling, "Is that a friend of yours?"

Filia nodded and hugged the `animal' to her, "This is Wolfie, he's my friend! Can he come in too?" the little Dragon didn't wait for an answer, and she pulled Xellos into the house, "Grandma, me and Wolfie, we're gonna go upstairs for a moment! Ok? We're gonna try find something in my old room!! Bye!!" and with that both of them disappeared up the stairs, leaving the old lady to blink and shake her head.

"Kids will be kids…" she said before she let out a sigh.

Once upstairs, Fi rushed into a particular room, followed by Xel, still in his wolf form, "It has to be here somewhere!" yelled the blond girl as she ran around, opening drawers, closets, and throwing everything to the floor in her attempt to find her missing object, "Aaaahh!! I can't find it!!" she turned to the violet wolf, who was by now blinking at the room, which could have been mistaken for a battlefield, "Xelly, help me! I need to find it!" she wailed.

Said mazoku closed his eyes and turned back to his normal self, "What is it you're searching for, Fi-chan?" he asked as he too began to look inside the drawers and closets, "I can't be of much help if I don't know…"

He was suddenly interrupted when Filia gave a little happy cry, "Here! It's here! I found it!! Yay!!" she said as she began dancing around Xellos while holding a little object in between her hands, "Look!" the little girl offered him her treasure and smiled when he took it from her.

The purple haired priest found himself looking at a little circular-like, yellowish crystal, which glowed with intensity, "What's this, Fi-chan?" he murmured to her as he turned it this way and that, "Where did you get it? It looks familiar…"

The Golden dragon smiled, "It's my favorite thing in the whole, wide world! I found it in the forest one day," she explained, "And you know what? After I found it, I began having those dreams in which I played with that boy!" she took the crystal from his hands as she continued, "This sparkly pebble allowed me to have a friend!! That's why I like it so much! Altough… I only dream those dreams when I sleep with it…" the little girl suddenly seemed to become sad, "I wasn't allowed to take it to the sanctuary, and so… it's been some time since I last dreamed about him…"

As the mazoku was about to open his mouth to talk, the door of the room was opened, and in came Filia's grandmother. The old lady's eyes widened the moment she saw who was in the room with her granddaughter, "AH!! Get away from her!! Filly, come here!"

Both girl and mazoku turned, blinked, and looked at each other again, "Granny… you know Xelly?" asked the girl as she coked her head to the side in confusion, while Xellos sweatdroped.

"Yes! I do! Now get away from that monster!" said the old lady as she glared, "Leave my granddaughter alone!! She's not yours to play with!! Leave my house this instance!" she yelled, only to be answered by Xel, who smiled politely and shook his head, "Why you…" she suddenly took out a bigger and scarier version of mace-sama out of nowhere as she advanced towards the smiling priest, who had hidden Fi behind him, "If you don't leave, I'll… I'll… I'll kill you with this. Stupid Namagomi mazoku!!" the old Dragon swung her mace and missed by inches when the mazoku teleported himself and Fi out of the way just in time.

"My, my…" he said as he opened an eye and smirked, "What a biiiiig mace you have there! I had always wondered where Fi-chan had got her mace-habit, not to mention her name-calling habit from!" he again teleported out of the way, mace nearly, NEARLY hitting the little blond girl this time, "You should be careful with that, you almost hit your own granddaughter."

The old lady blinked at the almost-hit while Fi hid herself behind Xel for all she was worth, "Granny! Stop! I'm scared!" she whimpered into the purple haired priest's leg.

Xellos shook his head as he opened and eye at the still fuming lady as he smirked, "Tsk, tsk! And you're calling me Namagomi? I think that you're the only one who's being a barbaric Namagomi!!" he said as he patted Filia's head, who was still cowering behind him.

That did it, steam came out of the old Dragon's ears as she glared at her opponent, "Barbaric…?! Namagomi…?! Why you!!! DIE!!" she said as she shoot a laser breath at him, which of course missed, hitting the far end of the room and opening an enormous hole in it.

The blond erupted into wails when she saw this, "Ah! My room!! My room!!" she wailed, "It's destroyed!!" her wails became high pitched, and she only stopped when Xellos patted her shoulder, trying to comfort her, "There, there Fi-chan," he said as he lifted her from the floor, "Your granny can't help being mean, don't worry."

"Me?! I'm mean?! Excuse me? I'm not the one who has suddenly appeared in your house unwanted and uninvited!!" shouted the poor Dragon as she twitched.

Only to be answered be a grinning Xellos, who wagged his finger and smiled, "Wrong!" he said in a contest-style like voice, "Sorry, but you're wrong! Fi-chan invited me to come, so I'm not uninvited!!" the mazoku smirked while Filia nodded her agreements, "Dragons will always be Dragons, huh? They act before they think!"

Granny blinked and heaved a sigh of defeat, "Oh, alright… I guess that if Filly invited you I wouldn't be very polite if I wouldn't offer you some tea at the very least, huh?" she said as she showed the grinning mazoku the kitchen, where a teapot was whistling, "And just in time too…" she muttered while taking two cups and pouring tea into them.

Meanwhile, Xellos sat himself on a chair, setting Fi on his lap, "You still have your pebble, Fi-chan?" he asked the giggling blond, who showed him her crystal, and began swinging her legs while on his lap, to which the mazoku responded by bouncing his knees, much to Filia's amusement.

The old Dragon turned to find them like that, and she sweatdroped as she handed Xellos his tea, "The Demon amongst Demons playing with a little girl, who happens to be a Golden dragon… this is new…"

The purple haired priest smiled up at the troubled lady, drank his boiling tea in one gulp, and stood up, still holding Fi, "I'm afraid that Fi-chan and I have to go now! It's been a pleasure to meet you!!" he smiled wider when the old lady blinked in confusion and before she was able to utter a word, Xel waved his free hand in front of her while muttering, "Sleep…" in a low voice, causing Fi's grandmother to fall back to the floor, snoring loudly.

"Why did you do that Xel-kun?" asked the startled little girl who the mazoku held, "Granny needs to go to bed? It's still early, look." She pointed to the sun, which still shined through the window as she finished.

Xellos shrugged, "I believe your granny will be better off thinking that all that has just happened was nothing but a bad nightmare… believe me," he suddenly smirked, "Plus, I still have to take you to see those wolfs, right?" he didn't wait for an answer, he teleported them away once more, leaving poor granny dreaming on the floor…

DFA: There! Done! *Big self-satisfied smile* Another chapter finished, good for me!! *Claps hands and does the victory dance* Anyhow, I'm hungry, I'm gonna go get me some lunch, I'll post this afterwards, bye! ^0^ *Runs off to fridge to gobble up something* akira_chan22@hotmail.com