Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Faith's secret ❯ llulaby... ( Chapter 7 )

Faith's present

By: Dark fire angel

Dark angel: Next chapter! ^.~ Finally I've had the inspiration necessary to continue, oh yeah! *Dances around and claps hands while giggling wildly* Yayness above! I think you can tell I'm hyper ^-^ *Lowers voice to barely above a whisper* I'm having a sugar rush… *Smile* Too much candy ^0^!!!

Disclaimer: *Continues dancing around room, chanting `I don't own Slayer nor song! Don't sue!' over and over again*

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The sun was about to hide itself behind the horizon as Xellos leaned against a tree to watch Filia run around in her Dragon form with several wolves behind her. They had reached Wolf Pack Island quite some time ago, and after he had talked to the Great beast master about Filia's dreams and crystal, he had only been able to discover that he too had had dreams like those of the little Golden dragon a long time ago. Not only that, Zellas had told him that the crystal that Fi had found, had once belonged to him…

It still didn't make sense to him… why the dreams? Why Filia of all creatures alive? Why? Why? WHY?! Questions flooded his brain, and he shook his head in an attempt to clear it, deciding that answers would reach him in the end… it was an impossible task to make sense out of destiny.

The mazoku lifted his gaze towards the giggling Dragon, and couldn't help but smile when he saw her roll on the ground, playing with the island's wolves. They rolled, then chased each other, then leaped on each other, then roared and howled, and so on. It was quite a sight, or so thought Xellos as he watched, until an idea came into his head.

"Fi-chan!" he called to her, gaining her attention immediately, "Do you want some candy?" he willed some candy to appear in his hand, and proceeded to wave it in the air while smirking.

The little Dragon's eyes shone, "Oh yes!! I do!! Gimme! Gimme!" she sat in front of him, waving her tail from side to side and begging like a dog would have, "Please!" she then began to jump up and down, shaking the earth wildly as she did so, "Please!!"

Xellos smirked and threw the candy to the air, "Catch, Fi-chan!" which she did gladly and nicely, munching it and swallowing it in a second while she let out a sigh, returning to her human form as she did so.

"I love candy…" she muttered as she stood up and went up to the mazoku, "Can I have a bit more? Please? I love it!"

Said mazoku smiled as he picked her up and off the ground, "Later Fi-chan. It's time to get back to the clearing where we spent the night yesterday… Lina-chan is about to return, and we better be there before she gets back," he patted her head and levitated a few centimeters from the floor, "Plus, it's time for you to go to bed, don't you think?" Xellos smirked as he teleported away, so as not to let her protest.

They both reappeared a few seconds later in the mentioned clearing, and the purple haired priest sat the girl on her sleeping bag, willing a long nightgown on her as he did so, "There. Now go to sleep… if you do, I'll give you candy later, ok?"

Filia frowned up at him as she crossed her arms over her chest, "No… I don't wanna go to sleep…" she went tried to fight a yawn while she continued to talk, "I'm not sleepy…" the poor dragon couldn't help it, she blinked sleepily… she had been running around during the whole day, she hadn't even stopped for one second, plus she had to give it in to him; it WAS kind of late. But she wouldn't give in! If she was going to have to go to sleep she would do it her way, "Plus, I can't go to sleep unless someone sings a lullaby to me."

Xellos blinked at her, "A lullaby? Humm… sorry Fi-chan, but I can't…" he was interrupted when she looked at the ground and gave a little sob, causing the mazoku to sweatdrop, "Look, I can't sing a lullaby… but if you want, I'll sing you a song, ok? And then you'll go to sleep, deal?"

This seemed to brighten her up immediately, and she got up from her sleeping bag to dance around the grinning mazoku, "Yay! A song! Yay!! What song will Xelly sing?"

For all answer, Xellos picked her up from the ground and flew through the ceiling that the branches of the trees made above them, shooting into the clear starlit sky while grinning at the startled blond girl he held in his arms, "Tell me, what it make the places you are in so special?" he began, singing in a low happy voice, "Of course. Since it's you we're talking about you've done your best to live heroically, right?"

Filia giggled and nodded even though she knew she wasn't supposed to answer the question, and this made the mazoku smirk as he held her tight and increased his speed and continued to ascend, "How about we finally head off into the new world?" he turned to her as he continued, "Together, hand in hand let's fly away!"

The blond suddenly felt herself being thrown up into the sky as her purple haired companion sang some more, "Come on! Let's go! Everything will be alright. Are you ok?" he then caught her as she began to fall, making her giggle wildly, for this was the best lullaby anyone had sang to her, "No doubt will be alright. I can't make any guarantees… but although I can't see into tomorrow, I'm really excited."

Xellos then proceeded to descend and fly above another clearing, where two beautiful unicorns were grazing, "So let's go on a little adventure… because I know you like adventures, right?" he grinned at her when he saw her staring at the magnificent animals, "Yes, it definitely might be scary…" he continued as he flew off again and into a darkened cave, making Filia hold on tight to him as she closed her eyes, "There is some truth in your words," light could be seen a little way ahead as he continued to cross the cave, "But for some reason I have a feeling that we can't turn back now."

The little girl took the chance to open her eyes again, and she found herself and Xellos flying over a waterfall, leaving the cave far behind, while Xel was still singing, "Will we lose or win? Will it turn out white or black?" he sang as he dove and flew alongside the waterfall, where Filia reached with her hands to touch the flowing water, smiling as she did so, "This doesn't fit my character too well, but it's ok once in a while, right?"

The little girl nodded yet again as the mazoku shoot up into the sky once more, tossing her above him as he did so, "Come on, alright! Everything will be alright," he then caught her in mid flight and grinned, "Are you ok? No doubt we'll be alright," his grin broadened when she giggled and he pointed towards the ground of the forest, where a pack of wolves were hunting, "I can't make any guarantees… but, although I can't see into tomorrow, my heart is beating fast," Filia smiled when she saw her white wolf run alongside his companions, "So let's put a little bit at stake, because I know you like gambling, right?"

Xellos then suddenly stopped in mid air and ascended so that they could see the whole forest and more spread below their feet, where he continued his song, lowering his voice, "Come on, let's go. Everything will be alright. Are you ok?" he watched her look around, holding her hands out, as if trying to grab the land that lay below her, "No doubt will be alright. There will be lots of delicious food there," as he said this, he descended towards the clearing where they had left the sleeping bags, and smiled as he gave her a lollipop, "Check… since you have unlimited hopes, let's persevere at this," he landed on the ground and grinned at her, "Because I know you're a real gourmet, right?" and with that, he finished off.

Filia smiled as she sucked on the lollipop, "That was great… lullabies won't ever be the same after that…" she then looked up into the sky, "Will everything really be ok?"

Xellos heaved a sigh for all answer and picked her up, "You promised to go to sleep after the song, remember?" he sat himself with his back to a tree, arranging the blond on his lap as comfortably as he could, "So go to sleep now…"

The little girl closed her eyes and yawned, falling asleep almost immediately, letting her lollipop fall from her hand in the process… and with her, the mazoku too couldn't help but fall asleep too…

~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ (Several hours later, at daylight)

Filia flustered her eyes open and moaned when the light of the sun hit her face, she hated when that happened, and so, she snuggled closer to her pillow, burrowing her face into it, in an attempt to block the mean light. Until she suddenly noticed something… `Wait a minute,' she thought, `Since when do pillows move and breath?' she removed her face from it's current position to stare sleepily at her `pillow', and the moment she saw that said pillow was none other than a sleeping Xellos, she screamed with all her might.

"NAMAGOMI!!!! How dare you!!" her shouts woke up the slumbering mazoku, who blinked lazily at her, just in time to see a fuming, blushing, adult Filia swing a tree branch at him, "Stupid mazoku! I'm gonna kill you!!!"

The purple haired priest's eyes snapped open as he teleported out of the way, "Fi-chan!" he said happily, "You're back to normal!" he ducked and dodged as the Golden dragon tried her best to make a home run, "I missed your temper, Fi-chan! But that tree branch just won't do, where's mace-sama?" he taunted, making the blond twitch and roar, more determined than ever to hit him, "Missed me!!" he smirked as the chase continued.

And that is how the Slayers gang found them when they entered the clearing.

Lina blinked and sweatdroped, "The book we bought said the truth I guess…" she said to Zelgadis who heaved at sigh, "The book said that a bite from the yellow, purple stripped snake called `Sinus' made you young for one day… only for one day… and Filia was bitten during the curse of the night before, so I guess that the effect has passed now…"

Amelia giggled, "We should let them be for now," she said as she pointed at them, "I think they're having fun, we'll explain to them later."

So, the gang sat down to watch and wait for the two non-humans to settle back…

Dark angel: Finished this chapter! And Fi's back to normal!! Poor Xelly *Evil grin* he's gonna get a BIG surprise next chapter ^0^ Oh yeah!!! *Suddenly remembers something* By the way, the song he sings in this chapter is none other than the English translation of his TRY image song, called `But But But' which I personally love! *Giggles and starts playing the song on her computer at full volume* LOVE IT!!! *Dances away*