Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Interesting Beginnings ❯ Chapter 1

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Interesting Beginnings

Another stab at Slayers fanfic writing by Xelan


(Certain characters copyright H. Kanzaka / R. Araizumi, as all fans
well know. Original characters belong to me. No copyright infringement
intended. Remember: suing people is a bad thing.) ^_^

This is not to be taken seriously and will most likely stay a one-shot
story.

-Nowhere in Particular-

Though contrary to popular belief, most epics, and many fireside
tales; Lina Inverse was not always a money-grubbing, bandit-stomping,
world-saving heroine. At one time, she was a young, sweet and innocent
little girl. During that time she played with dolls; read stories
about beautiful princesses, handsome princes, and evil sorcerers. A
completely normal little girl; except, she practiced magic as taught
by her sister.

Ah yes. Magic taught by Luna, human host of Ceipheed. Ceipheed, being
the god of light and eternal nemesis of Shabranigdo, was very used to
the magical abilities of Dragons and Mazoku. He had never in his
seemingly eternal existence tried teaching a human magic. This was
where things stopped being mundane and became... interesting.

Lina, who at the time was called Celina, was talented with human
magic. She had a terrific knack for shamanism, was fair to passable
with white and frankly terrifyingly deadly with black. However,
Ceipheed was not human, not human at all. And being inhuman, he
expected far more from poor little Celina than any other human magic
instructor ever would have. Thus, when Celina failed to match his
expectations, he, or rather Luna, would punish her.

The punishments were not life-threatening, nor were they permanently
debilitating. There would be no physical long-term damage to Celina.
She would be fine; however, since Celina was an Inverse, she possessed
an amazing amount of stubbornness. So much in fact that if a sorcerer
threatened to fireball her if she didn't get out of his way, she'd not
only remain in place and take the fireball she would even dare him to
up the ante. Such is the way of all the Inverse Clan.

This innate stubbornness combined with severe dislike of teasing over
physical failings forced Celina to improve immensely. Not only did she
gain several times the magical capacity of a normal wizard, she
also started casting spells beyond the ability of the head of the
local Sorcerer's Guild. It was just after she dragon-slaved
aforementioned Guild Director that she was awarded the title of Celina
the Pink. Not wanting to have that embarrassing color associated with
her name she promptly had them append the new title to include her
hastily created stage name of Lina. So, from then on it was not Celina
Inverse who was the up-and-coming Sorcery Genius, but Lina Inverse.
She was quite content to practice her skills and become stronger until
after Luna/Ceipheed decided to teach Lina god-magic.

God-magic is the opposite of the black magic that draws its power from
either a Mazoku lord or Shabranigdo himself. As would be expected,
god-magic comes from one of the four dragon lords or Ceipheed himself.
Since Lina was sealed in the god-sealing barrier, she could not draw
on the dragon lords' power due to the fact they were outside. However,
inside her sister was the god of the four dragon lords; she had no
problem finding a power source. Although, being the only one who had
the ability to draw on Ceipheed's power did make her stand out. Not
that that was a problem, unless Lina did something to make Luna mad at
her.

What a day that had been. It was quite a long time ago and I'm sure
Lina would prefer not to relive it. She had been drawing on Ceipheed's
power to create a realistic, three-dimensional, meter-sized illusion
of Luna taking a bath. It was purely fictitious and in retrospect, it
is very possible that Luna would have been pleased that Lina was
showing so much talent at creating such an original spell. If only
Lina hadn't decided to make the bath a cold one, and if only Lina had
not decided to charge 5 coins gold for a two minute showing to the
local boys.

While Lina had not actually seen enough of Luna unclothed to make it
truly accurate, for some strange reason, Luna took offense. Not to say
that Luna was perturbed; actually, she nearly leveled the town trying
to punish Lina. It was at this point Lina decided to selectively
forget god-magic and stick to the time honored spells of her
ancestors. Most likely because as long as she used god-magic, Luna
could track her anywhere; Lina promptly ran further then her legs
could carry her and as she collapsed, she was struck by the idea of
becoming a bandit hunter to fill her coin purse and her empty stomach.

To be quite honest, it wasn't an idea that truly struck her then. It
was an arrow. To be even more honest that arrow struck just slightly
to the left of her. However, her _flare_ arrow was right on the mark
as it impacted on the bandit that had shot the badly aimed arrow.
Suffice it to say, there had been more then one bandit, and suffice it
to say, she made short work of the other bandits. She also made short
work of all the bandits' coin purses and increased the weight of her
own a great deal.

On that day, when Lina's hometown was basically burning to the ground
and Luna was hunting for her missing little sister, Lina was having a
gigantic dinner. On the next day; however, she walked into a clothing
store, bought a sorceress' outfit and embarked upon a myriad of
adventures and harrowing journeys. Not because she felt the need to
continuously risk her neck, but because she feared her sister would
catch up with her. To that end, she is still adventuring, first with a
women in a black bikini and more recently with a blond swordsman, a
princess, a grumpy chimera, and a dashing trickster priest, as well as
a few others.

As for the reason I have told you this intimate tale of Lina Inverse's
childhood... _That_ is a secret... Bye Bye!

The End

Explanations:

This story was based on only a few points from canon. Everything else
was pretty much created by me. However, I am not sure whether I
created the "magically create picture of Luna and sell viewing time to
local boys" from canon or spliced it together from a fellow author's
fanfic. If it is the latter instead of the former, then my sincerest
apologies. *Gomen Nasai* If said author emails me with proof it is
their original creation then I will either change the story or include
credit to the author.

*It has been brought to my attention that the 'Luna bath' scene is not
technically canon, but discussed by the creator later on. So, in a way
it is kinda canon. Thanks to you wonderful people that read my story
and know where to find this stuff.

Mazoku are basically demons under Shabranigdo, the Demon king who is
himself under L-Sama, The Lord of Nightmares and creator of the whole
world. The Mazoku feed on negative emotions like anger, fear, and
hatred, that is the source of their power. As mentioned above, most
black magic comes from high level Mazoku; the white magic used within
the barrier is actually something entirely different from what it was
supposed to be. As far as I know, true white magic should come from
Ceipheed and other high Ryuzoku. I may, however, be wrong about this,
but it helps make the story better, so who cares?

Dragons or "Ryuzoku" are the enemies of the Mazoku. Their God is
Ceipheed who at the beginning of time fought Shabranigdo in a
supposedly eternal struggle. It, of course, did not last forever. He
used most of his power to divide Shabranigdo into several pieces, seal
him away, then went into a deep sleep. Later on, when Lei Magnus
reawakened a piece of Shabranigdo, Ceipheed, along with the Water
Dragon King, sealed him away in the North Pole. This thoroughly taxed
Ceipheed to his limits and he reposited his spirit into the body of
his Knight, Luna Inverse.

Glossary:

Mazoku = Demon Race
Ryuzoku = God Race (literally Dragon Race)

I have lousy grammar, but I do try. If you like my work and would like
me to write more fiction, please email me and encourage.