Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Slayers Generations! ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 7 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chapter 6

Zerena lay on her back, hands under her head, staring at the ceiling of the Inn's room. She sighed then closed her eyes. She stretched one arm above her head, then the other. Giving a grunt of frustration she sat up and placed her head in her hands and rested her elbows on her knees.

A knock sounded at the door, interrupting her silent fury. She didn't answer and the knock sounded again. And again she did not reply. The door was pushed open and Valterra looked in.

"Rena-Chan, you can't keep yourself cooped up like this."

"Oh, yeah? Watch me." She replied and lay back down, rolling over to her side so that her back was facing him.

"Rena-Chan?"

She didn't reply.

Valterra clenched his fists then shook his aqua hair and stomped around the bed toward her. He grabbed her shoulder, sat her up and stared straight into her sapphire eyes.

"Rena-Chan, Listen to me, Sitting here sulking isn't going to help anything. So we've got a Mazoku Lord chasing after us. We'll deal with it. L-Sama knows our parents did!" He looked toward the bedside table where a tray of food sat, nothing was missing from it, not even the pot of coffee. "You haven't eaten in days, not even coffee! You need to pull yourself together! We're all worried about you" He paused a moment "Especially me...."

She looked up at him, mulled over his words then smiled at him.

"You're right. I need to stop this, it's not going to help anything."

"Finally, come on, we're ready to leave."

"Leave?"

"Yeah, we're gonna go up to see Lina-Baasan. You know that she's faced, and killed, two Mazoku Lords. So now that we've got one after us, she's the one we need to see."

"You're right, again. Let's go."

Zerena quickly packed her few belongings and started out the door with Valterra. She paused for a moment.

"What I want to know is why we had to get the Insane Lord though?" She asked.

Valterra laughed.

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Kin-Kami set down his teacup, ran a slender hand through his gold hair, rested his elbows on his knees and clasped his hands together.

"Sakana failed to kill them."

"Yes, but we expected that. She was little more than Cannon Fodder to test their abilities." Gin-Kami replied, absently braiding a small piece of her long silver hair.

"Now we know a little of what they're capable of but we still need to learn more." He said and snapped his fingers, a kneeling figure appeared in the shadows.

"Their real test begins now." Gin-Kami said, smirking confidently.

"Yes." Kin-Kami turned to the figure. "Midori, follow them closely and report back all you see. Even the most insignificant thing can be used against them."

The Figure nodded and disappeared.

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"Z? I'm hungry." Gourrin whined.

"You're always hungry!" Zerena growled.

"Zerena-San, perhaps we should stop to rest soon." Milissa said.

Zerena growled. "Fine!"

"You just need to remember that not all of us are as resilient as you Rena-Chan." Gerik replied.

Zerena stopped, turned around, stomped over to Gerik and pounded him into the ground.

"Did I say you could call me that?"

She bent to hit him again when her fist was stopped by Valterra's gentle grasp.

"I think he's learned his lesson Rena-Chan." Valterra stated.

Zerena looked at him and sighed.

"Alright." She turned back around and continued walking. "Well? Let's go."

Valterra looked at the unconscious Gerik, then sighed and hoisted him over his shoulder and continued after the others.

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"Look, see, there's a diner. Go, eat and stop whining!" Zerena vented.

Gourrin wasted no time running to the diner, sitting down and placing his order. Leila, Gerik and Milissa followed.

Valterra looked toward Zerena.

"Aren't you coming?" He asked.

"No." She replied sitting on the edge of the ornate fountain in the center of the square. "I'm just going to stay out here and think for a little while."

Valterra turned and sat down beside her.

"Something's bothering you." He stated.

Zerena nodded. "I'm wondering why we, of all people, were targeted by Deep Sea Dolphin."

Valterra chuckled. "Consider who we are, or perhaps I should say who our parents are."

Zerena turned to him. "What do you mean?"

"Think about it Rena-Chan. You're a Seyruun princess, heir to the most powerful City-State in the world. If you're out of the picture, you're little sister will inherit the throne and that wouldn't be a good thing."

Zerena laughed. "Yeah, she'd probably repaint the castle in hot pink and make the guards wear frilly lace."

"Exactly, Justina is a sweet girl but she's just not suited to a position like that. She's not exactly diplomatic."

"That covers me but what about you and the others?"

"Gourrin's simple, his mother is Lina Inverse, the Bandit Killer herself, L-Sama's favorite mortal. Then, Leila is a one of a kind hybrid, Mazoku and Golden Ryuuzoku are mortal enemies, you know that, they always have been and always will be. Milissa's a Golden Ryuuzoku, that in itself gives the Mazoku reason to want to kill her. Gerik is a prince, but I don't see how him dying is necessarily a bad thing."

Zerena laughed.

"And there's me, an Ancient Ryuuzoku. I'm the last of a race already believed to be extinct." He looked down at the ground then leaned back to look at the sky.

"You're thinking about them aren't you? The rest of your people."

"Yeah, sometimes I wonder what they were like. What my parents were like. What they looked like. If I had any brothers or sisters. What jobs did they have?"

Zerena placed her slender hands on each side of his face. "You wonder too much. You need to stop living in the past and focus on what's here in the present."

"What's in the present?"

She looked him straight in the eyes. "Me." And she kissed him.

He was surprised at first, then slowly closed his and moved his arms around her waist as she moved hers behind his neck.

Midori watched a moment longer then disappeared.