Shindai Yo

Author: Larch Title: Shindai Yo

Shindai Yo
“And then we talked about a treaty between Seyruun and the kingdom of Yuusugure about trade routes and revenues and they wanted more and we convinced them it wasn’t just for that to happen and …”
“Lina, I’m confused. I didn’t even know there was a kingdom of Yuusugure.”
“I thought you were talking about Atlas city, Amelia,” Lina complained.
“No, no, that was an hour ago. We were negotiating laws and regulations in Atlas city and we decided…”
“I don’t wanna hear about Atlas city!” Gourry complained.
“That’s why I started talking about Yuusugure.”
“But I don’t wanna hear about Yuusugure or Atlas city or anywhere else!”
“What about Amalthea?” Amelia asked.
“I don’t care what Seyruun traded or made laws with or against or for or if they took over Amalthea! I don’t care! No more politics or royal treaties or anything!” Lina cried.
“Amalthea is where we are headed, Lina-san.”
“Oh, yeah.”
“Remember, we were going to meet Zelgadis-san and Xellos-san there.”
“Lina, was that in the plan?” Gourry asked.
“No, look, it IS Xellos!” Lina yelled. “Let’s go see what he’s up to and stop him!”
“Is that part of the plan?” Gourry asked.
“It is now!” Lina yelled and ran towards Xellos, who had yet to do anything but sit on a rock.
Gourry looked at Amelia and, having no bright ideas between them, shrugged and ran after Lina.
Xellos just sat there, Lina ran, and he sat there, until she got close enough for him to calmly swing his stick into her head, smacking her to the ground.
Gourry and Amelia, having brakes slightly better than their brains, but not much, tripped over her and all three were face-down in the dirt.
“I’m sorry if I happen to be sitting on the tombstone at the moment, but running over a grave nonetheless is not polite,” Xellos said.
“What are you talking about?” Lina yelled, shoving Gourry and Amelia off of her.
“Oh, yes, I’m sorry,” Xellos said, and hopped off the rock.
Amelia screamed, in fear that is, not just because she was saying something.
Gourry just stared at the rock, taking a few moments to put one and one together (and not get three).
The rock was a gravestone, a modest one. The grave had been filled in last night by the looks of it, but the shocking thing was the name on the gravestone: ZELGADIS GREYWERS.
“I hope I spelled his name right,” Xellos mumbled. “It’d be pretty bad if I went to all this trouble to respect his wishes and then spelled his name wrong. I take it by your silence I didn’t get it wrong.”
“He killed Zel?” Gourry asked.
“If I killed him, would I go to all the trouble of digging a grave for him?” Xellos asked.
“I don’t know, Mazoku don’t make much sense sometimes,” Lina said, preparing a spell.
“I didn’t kill him. I’m truly appalled that you accused me of doing something like that.”
“You gonna tell us who did this?”
“We have to take revenge on those who committed such an unjust crime!”
“I’m not sure what she’s talking about but I’m just curious,” Gourry commented.
“Well, it’s kinda a long story but there was this fire and to make a long story short, I destroyed the entire town.”
“YOU WHAT?” Lina yelled.
“All those innocent people, Xellos-san!”
“Well, I was mad, and what’s happened, happened.”
“What do you mean, ‘what’s happened, happened’? Can’t you just resurrect him or something?” Lina yelled.
“First of all, you can stop yelling. Zelgadis is dead and can’t hear you and I can hear you quite perfectly. Second, he asked me not to. Third, it’s actually a disadvantage to me if I resurrect him. I’d have to teach him the rules of being a Mazoku, and he’d hate me, and I don’t really have any use for him-- alive.”
“So-- you can’t do a thing?” Amelia asked.
“Sorry, I guess you’ll just have to save the world without him. Unless, of course, you want to destroy the universe, that would be okay too.”
“We aren’t destroying the world, Xellos,” Lina said.
“We would never do such an unjust thing!” Amelia screamed.
“I don’t think destroying the world is a good idea,” Gourry said.
“Fine, be that way if you want to, I was just paying my last respects to him, something you wouldn’t understand.” With that, Xellos disappeared.
“So Amalthea’s gone, and so is Zelgadis-san.”
“And I know Xellos isn’t telling us something.”
“I’m all confused and depressed.”
Xellos appeared again. “By the way, I don’t have anything to do right now, can I follow you guys around?”
“So then the king said he didn’t have enough gold, so we agreed ….”
“Stop, just stop. Didn’t you do anything over three months OTHER than talk to boring kings?” Lina asked.
“Well, there was this really interesting Queen, and then we talked to the prince of …Femile …You know, the one Zelgadis ….Wahhhhh!”
“Great, now she’s crying,” Lina said.
“I don’t think that was a good thing to ask her,” Gourry said.
“How was I to know she was going to start crying her head off?” Lina asked. “Hey Xellos, you start talking.”
“Huh?” Xellos asked, turning his head and consequently smashing into a tree. “Oww!”
“I am surrounded by idiots!” Lina yelled. “Just tell us anything, anything at all, please, Xellos!”
“Oh, piss off!”
Lina said nothing, she was stunned.
“I think there’s something wrong with him.”
“Wrong with who?” Gourry asked.
“I am surrounded by idiots!” Lina screamed.
“Grrr!”
“Who said that?” Lina asked.
“Said what?” Gourry asked.
“Wahh!” Amelia cried, literally.
“What was the question?” Xellos asked.
A monster (1), the one who was responsible for growling, crashed through the bushes (2).
“Whatever,” Xellos mumbled, waved a hand at the thing, and it burst into flames.
“What the hell is going on?” Lina asked.
“Waahh!”
(1) Y’know, just your generic monster.
(2) Well, a monster wouldn’t come strolling out of the bushes, now would it?
At dinner in the restaurant, things didn’t change much. Gourry was oblivious (3), Amelia said nothing, and Xellos seemed mad at everything. He even melted a fork for no apparent reason (4).
“Xellos, knock it off and do something else!” Lina yelled. She really didn’t want to be fined for destruction of silverware.
“Fine!” Xellos said angrily, turning his chair and glaring at the crowd.
“What in the hell?” he said, after three seconds.
“What now, you wanna burn a table?” Lina asked.
“Look over there!” Xellos said, pointing at some people at another table.
Lina spat her drink all over the table. Amelia gasped. Gourry got confused.
Sitting at the table was a tall girl with blue hair and a blue dress. She seemed to be dominating the conversation between her and a familiar looking blue and stony Chimera (5). The chimera was wearing a pink dress with pink ruffles on his shoulders, a low back, a bow and a short skirt, which he continually tried to pull lower.
“I didn’t know Zelgadis had a sister.”
Lina and Xellos smacked their heads against the table.
“That IS Zelgadis, jellyfish brains!” Lina yelled (6).
The tall woman turned around. “Oh, look, it’s some of your friends,” she said to Zel, who was extremely confused and scared (7).
“Hi! Zelgadis!” Go yel yelled.
“ZELGADIS-SAN!” Amelia yelled, lunging at him.
Calmly, the woman smacked Amelia in mid-air and Amelia went flying into a table, smashing it.
“I’m sorry, this is MY little chimera. Please keep your distance, he’s rather precious to me.”
“Dolphin, you bastard!” Xellos yelled.
“What kind of name is Dolphin?” Lina asked.
“Where’s a dolphin?” Gourry asked.
Dolphin blinked-- food, pieces of the table, and people went flying everywhere from the resulting explosion.
Gourry landed at her feet, all swirly eyed.
“Gourry, get out of here,” Zelgadis whispered.
“Shut up!” Dolphin yelled, slapping him (8).
“Oww!” Gourry said, his eyes still all swirly.
“You know, you’re kinda cute,” Dolphin said, grabbed Gourry, and disappeared with both Gourry and Zelgadis.
Lina crawled out of the wreckage and coughed up a piece of a cup. “Where’d she go?”
“I dunno,” Amelia said, crawling over to Lina (9).
“Okay, NOW I’m pissed,” Xellos said. “Wait, are my counting skills going bad, or was there one more of you?”
“Dolphin took him, didn’t you see?” Lina asked.
“Sorry, tables aren’t as transparent as they oughta be,” Xellos said.
“We’ll save them in the name of justice!” Amelia said.
“Two humans and a minor Mazoku as the hierarchy goes are going to take on a Mazoku lord and her mind-controlled minion?”
“Mind-controlled minion?” Amelia asked, timidly.
“If she wanted to, and she probably does, she could take over Zelgadis just like Rezo could.”
“That’s unjust! I won’t stand for it. I will punish this evil-doer –“
“By what? Falling on her?” Xellos asked.
“Maybe if you told her about the royal summit you went to,” Lina said.
“Maybe if we just recruit some friends from somewhere.”
“Where are we, anyway?” Lina asked.
“New Xoana. Hey-- that gives me an idea,” Xellos said.
“No. No way.” Lina said.
“I don’t think we have much of a choice,” Xellos said.
(3)Which means, he hasn’t changed a bit.
(4)Sore was himitsu desu.
(5)Hmmm.
(6)What do you think this is? An angst story?
(7)Hey, if some weirdo resurrected me and made me wear a dress, I’d be scared too.
(8)Poor Anthy, I mean Zel.
(9)And crawling … on the planets face … sore was himitsu desu!
“No. No way,” Lina said.
“I don’t think we have much choice, Lina-san,” Amelia said.
“Besides, I’ve never met her husband, and I’d like to see how she’s doing,” Xellos said. “Oh, look, here comes someone now.”
King Zangulus strolled into the room.
“Hi, look, we need some help with –“ Xellos started.
“Who are you?” Zangulus asked. “Where did Gourry get to?”
“That’s what I’m trying to explain,” Xellos said. “You see he and—“
“Who are you?”
“Hi, Xellos Metallium, generic priest at your service.”
“He’s a Mazoku,” Lina said, dryly.
“A monster! You called me over here so we could team up with a monster?”
“Look, you want Gourry back or not?” Xellos asked.
“Of course I do, I’d be glad to help people in trouble, just not monsters! The last time I ran into one, he killed me and my wife.”
“Well, you’re fine now, so it wasn’t that bad.”
“SHUT UP!” Lina yelled.
“We are asking you if you will join our fight for justice to help save our two friends from the evil clutches of a cruel Mazoku lord!” Amelia said.
“Well, um, it will save Gourry,” Zangulus said.
“And if he actually does something evil, you’re free to kill him,” Lina said.
“Zangulus-sama! Zangulus-sama!” Martina yelled, entering the room. “Zang –ahh!” she yelled, lunging at Xellos. “You dirty, lying, rotten Mazoku! You dare show up here?”
“Can’t … breathe …”
“Look, you can kill him later if you feel like it! Right now we have to save Gourry and Zel!” Lina shouted.
“Oh, so you’ve finally realized your feeling for him!”
“For who? What feelings? What are you talking about?”
“Oh, poor Lina. You just don’t get it. Oh, well, I guess we’d better form a plan or get going.”
“Martina! You’re coming?”said Zangulus
“Of course I’m coming you idiot! Just because I’m married doesn’t mean I can’t go on any more adventures! (10)”
“Besides, you just married into the royal family. I’m the queen and I’m in charge! (11)”
“Um, Gourry didn’t have a backup Sword of Light, did he?” Xellos asked.
“Why?” Lina asked.
“Well, we just might want something to kill this person, that’s all.”
“Leave that up to me and my sword,” Zangulus said.
“THAT thing’s going to kill her?” Lina asked.
“It’s been upgraded.”
“Look, Lina, Amelia, you go look for Gourry while the rest of us take care of Dolphin, if we can, if you can.”
“That’s your plan?” Lina asked.
“No, we’ll all turn into ice-skating mongeese and dance the bolero. (12)”
“I like your first plan better,” Lina said.
“What’s a bolero?” Amelia asked.
“That’s mongooses,” Zangulus said.
“Okay, then, get ready!”
(10) What do you think this is, Japan?
(11) What do you think this is, Japan?
(12) Red Dwarf rules!
Dolphin, Gourry and Zelgadis teleported into Dolphin’s lair. It was a large, cold, stone castle. This happened to be the bedroom.
“I think I’m gonna be sick!” Gourry said. “This spin is rooming.”
“’Poor baby, here, lie down on the bed,” Dolphin said.
“Ahh! What are you doing?” Gourry yelled, coming back to reality. (13) “Get off! Get off! Get off! I don’t even know you!”
“Well, maybe we should get to know each other then. (14)”
“Lady, you’re scaring me!”
“And that’s a bad thing?” she asked.
Gourry shoved her off, bolted to the door, and crashed straight through it (15).
“Phooey!” she said.
“Um, please stop looking at me like that, (16)” Zelgadis said.
“Why not? It wouldn’t work with the blonde guy,” she said, getting up. She stalked over to him. “And don’t even think of trying for the door. It leads to a maze, and I wouldn’t try navigating it while there are monsters in there. (17) Now come on.”
“What do you mean? Hey, leggo my arm!”
“I said come on!” she yelled.
“And I said what do you mean?” he yelled back.
“Fine!”
“What? (18)”
She twisted his arm, it made a popping and snapping sound (19). Then she threw him behind her, he smashed into the wall and crashed onto the bed. She walked over to the bed and sat down, but was interrupted from going any further by a large THUMP.
“Zanguluf, gef fer foof owfa fy fouf!” Lina screamed.
“What kind of landing was that, Xellos?” Martina yelled, untangling her husband from Lina.
“Hi, catch you at a bad time, Dolphin?” Xellos asked. “Amelia, get off!”
“Xellos, you bastard!” she yelled.
“Yup, that’s me,” he answered.
“In the name of justice—“
“No time, I’ll bet Gourry went through that door, get going.” Xellos said.
“What door?”
“The splinters.“Com“Come on, Amelia,” Lina yelled, and bolted for the door.
In response to that, Dolphin threw Zel at them (20). They were too fast and Zel smacked into yet another wall.
“No fair changing the game! It’s our turn to hide and your turn to find us,” Xellos said. “Unless you don’t want to play anymore, which would mean we won, so we’ll just collect our prize and leave.”
“If this is a game, it might as well be catch!” Dolphin yelled, and snapped her fingers. Cat sized black spiders started raining on the crowd of people (21).
“Ahhhhh! Spiders! I hate spiders!” Martina yelled.
Zangulus was too busy to say anything, he was busy whacking at spiders with his sword.
“What are spiders going to do to m– ow! These things bite! Hard!” Xellos yelled. “Ow! Oww! Get off! Hey! OW! #$%&!”
Dolphin just laughed at the scene. One monster and two humans losing a battle against a million spiders. “Attack!” she ordered Zelgadis forgetting his good arm had been broken three minutes ago.
Zel got up and ran to the crowd of screaming people, only to have Xellos punch him to the floor.
“You’re not playing, silly,” Xellos said. Zelgadis didn’t answer, he just lay on the floor all swirly-eyed.
Dolphin just thought that was funny and started laughing harder. “Hey! What the hell?” Dolphin screamed, as spiders flew in her face.
“I hate spiders!” Martina yelled, kicking and throwing the arachnids at Dolphin. Zangulus noticed this idea and started whacking spiders at Dolphin with his sword (22).
“That’s it!” Dolphin yelled, noticing that very few spiders were left alive, and most of them were on her. She threw her hands up and Zangulus, Martina, and Xellos were thrown against the ceiling. She threw her arms down and they landed even harder on the floor.
Xellos stood up, threw his arms up, and the skirt of Dolphins’s dress went flying upwards. “Ack!” she screamed. All males in the room developed nose bleeds.
“Sorry about this,” Xellos said to the semi-conscious Zelgadis, and threw him at Dolphin.
(13) At least she got his attention.
(14) In bed.
(15) So much for locking that thing.
(16) But you’re so cute in that dress Zel!
(17) And I don’t mean me.
(18) Zel, are you clueless or petrified? Oh, wait, you’re both
(19) One crackle away from being a cereal assault.
(20) Is throwing a cute guy in a dress at people considered a battle tactic?
(21) Spiderball? Arachnoball? Whack-a-bug? I don’t think they want to catch the spiders.
(22) Fore!
“Lina, this is impossible, how are we going to find Gourry-san if we’re lost in a maze?”
“We’ll deal with that later! Hey! Gourry, where the hell are you?!” Lina yelled.
“Grr.”
“Not again!” Lina said, and turned around. Standing behind them was a very large, pissed off, fish-man (23).
“It’s always something isn’t it?” Lina said, rhetorically. “Fine! Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blah blah blah blah Dragon Slave!”
The spell exploded and the wall fell apart. It smelled like cooked fish.
“Lina-san, there’s another one!” Amelia yelled.
“Shimata! Dragon Slave!”
“Another!”
“Dragon Slave!”
“I think this is another dead end.”
“Dragon Slave. There, no more wall. Dragon Slave! Dragon Slave! Dragon Slave!”
(23) Well, we all knew Dolphin was insane.
And now back to the ‘game.’ We won’t go into details here (24), but Zelgadis tried to choke Dolphin using Xellos’s cape, but it didn’t work, and the cape was over Dolphin’s eyes, not her throat, and Zelgadis was clinging to her back to stay behind her to avoid the barrage of missiles she was throwing in random directions.
Xellos was busy trying to put out parts of him that were on fire.
“Ahh! My hat! She killed my hat!” Zangulus yelled.
“And I really, really liked that hat,” Martina said, pouting and brushing a finger through his hair.
“Really?” he asked, blushing.
“Really.”
“That’s it, monster!” Zangulus yelled.
“You’re good,” Xellos whispered to Martina.
“You have to know these things when you’re queen,” Martina whispered back.
“Howling Sword, Ultimate (25)!” Zangulus yelled, and a bright glow shot out form the sword and hit Dolphin, who had really done a number on the left wall.
Like many Mazoku when they’re killed, she went out in a really cool way, exploding.
“That was so cool, Zangulus-sama!” Martina yelled, hugging him.
“’Scuse me, your highness,” Xellos said, shoving in and expertly catching Zelgadis, who had become airborne from the blast. “Excuse me, I would like my cloak back, thank you. Hey Zelgadis, are you okay?”
“Am I still wearing a skirt?” Zelgadis asked.
“Of course you are, and you look so cute!” Xellos said.
“Ahh! Get your h off off me!”
“Stop squirming!”
“Move your hands!” Zelgadis yelled, and fell on the floor face-first. “Ow.”
“I told you to stop squirming, now didn’t I?”
“Does anyone else hear something?” Martina asked.
CRASH!
“See Gourry, I TOLD you it would be faster going down using a Dragon Slave. Gourry, where’d you go? Gourry?” Lina asked, and started leafing through the remains of the ceiling, which happened to land on Xellos.
“Let’s take the stairs next time, please,” Gourry said, poking his head out of the rubble.
“I feel dizzy,’ Lina said, and passed out.
“I told her that was about five hundred Dragon Slaves too many,” Amelia said.
“Can I please have some real clothes?” Zelgadis asked, trying to pull his skirt down.
“But you’re so cute.”
(24) Awww.
(25) I am not calling it “part three.” I refuse to have any “part three’s” in anything referring to Slayers.
Martina said she wanted to be nice and let everyone stay in the palace that night, but she used this as an excuse to lecture Gourry and Lina on how they really feel about each other just to get blank stares and an occasionally waking audience.
Xellos was stuck with the job of consoling Zelgadis, who had finally changed into normal clothes (26).
So far it had been three hours, and Amelia was tired of waiting for Lina and Gourry to either figure out what Martina was talking about, bore Martina enough to make her stop, or Dragon Slave her. That or hear about how Zelgadis was doing. Lina said it was best if she stayed away until Zel got his things sorted out. Lina also said Xellos should talk to Zelgadis until he got everything straightened out.
Finally Xellos came out of the room.
“How’s Zelgadis-san?” Amelia asked, bouncing over to Xellos.
“Traumatized for life (27),” Xellos said, wiping off his tear-stained shirt. “I’m going to need some coffee, can you get some?”
“Sure! Anything for poor Zelgadis-san!” she said, and scampered off.
“Either I’m going to need it staying awake and listening to him cry all night, or it’ll be the thing that makes him stop crying.”
Xellos sighed and went back into the room. Zelgadis was still crying.
If it weren’t for two things, Xellos would have just sat around and watched and let Zel figure stuff out on his own. First, Zelgadis had been resurrected as a Mazoku. Mazoku can’t live off bad feelings of other Mazoku. If they did, they’d all hate each other, kill each other, and then there would be no more Mazoku left. Not very good for a species (28). Two, he liked Zelgadis. Hell, he wanted to tell Zel for a really long time, but Zelgadis wasn’t a Mazoku. Mazoku and other species relationships never worked out (29).
There was a knock on the door.
Having nothing better to do, Xellos opened the door. Amelia was there, holding a large pot of coffee and a cup. Xellos took the stuff and closed the door (30).
“Look, Zel, coffee. You like coffee, right?” Xellos said (31).
Zel stopped crying and looked at the coffee.
“Nice, hot, coffee . . . you want the coffee right?” Xellos asked (32).
Zel reached for the coffee, but Xellos pulled it away.
“No, no coffee until you start talking.”
“But I don’t want to.”
“Well then, no coffee for you.”
“What do you want me to talk about?”
“First of all, I have no clue why you’re upset.”
“I’m scared.”
“Of what?”
“Of her! She was mean! She was nuts. (33)”
“Well, Dolphin was always nuts.”
“I didn’t want to be brought back! I didn’t want to be a servant or anything again. Rezo was bad enough, but he didn’t try to put me in a dress so everyone could stare at me and how ugly I am or try to get me into bed!”
Xellos tried to get a really horrible image out of his head. “You don’t like those things? Well, the dress I can understand, but—“
“I hate it when people look at me! I’m ugly and when people look at me they think they have to tell me about it, and tease me about it. I don’t want people to throw things at me, or throw me out of stores, or try to hurt me!”
“It’s not your fault.”
“It is my fault.”
“How?”
“I don’t know, it just feels like my fault.”
“Well, it’s not your fault,” Xellos said, hugging the crying chimera. He rubbed his hand over Zel’s back, feeling the vertebrae under his palm.
“If it makes you feel better, I kinda destroyed that town.”
“Why?”
“I, um, kinda got pissed off.”
“Why?”
“Um, bad day?”
“You don’t have bad days,” Zelgadis said, most of his tears gone.
“I, uh, can’t tell you.”
“Why not?”
“That’s a secret (34).” Xellos gave Zel a pat on the back, rustled his hair, and then turned to the window. “Did that cheer you up, Zel, talking things out?”
“A bit.”
“Good. The others would be pissed if you were still going to cry. You aren’t are you?”
“No.”
“That’s good. Well, bye!”
“Wait, where are you going?” Zelgadis asked, standing up and reaching out to Xellos.
“Huh? Oh, I’m leaving.”
“Come back, please.”
“Why, I thought you hated me?”
“I don’t know how to be a Mazoku.”
“You want me to teach you?”
“I don’t know anyone else who could.”
Xellos turned away from the window, which he had one foot in, and walked towards Zel. “If I’m going to teach you how to be a Mazoku, you have to follow some rules.”
“Like?” Zel asked, scared. He didn’t want to do evil things, he just wanted to know how not to do evil things.
“First of all, you have to do what I say when I teach you. Second, we’ll have to be sleeping together.”
“You mean in the same room?”
“Well, we’d have to be in the same room,” Xellos said, standing close to Zelgadis.
“Third?”
“Third, let’s see, what was third?” Xellos asked himself, his hand tinkering with Zelgadis’s belt.
“What are you doing?”
“Oh, that’s right! Third is you can’t think you look like a monster because people are stupid, mean, and wrong.” Zelgadis’s belt fell to the floor.
“Um, what are you doing?”
“What’s it look like? (35)”
“I’m not— get your hands off me!”
“You don’t like me?”
“I—Yes, no, maybe. Can I get a do over?”
“Zel, I love you. I have loved you for a very long time.”
“Why did you keep annoying me then?”
“You’d ignore me if I didn’t.”
“But why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because you weren’t Mazoku. Ever since a Mazoku fell in love with a mortal, it’s been banned.”
“Why, what happened?”
“Big mess, lots of blood, mortal dead, janitor unhappy.”
“Oh.”
“But you’re a Mazoku now, and its not against the law and I love you and I really want you to love me!”
“You’re not going to make me kill anyone or hurt people, are you?”
“No, not unless they’re being rude.”
“I’m not sure about this.”
“Why? Don’t you like me?”
“I’m afraid you’ll hurt me.”
“Of course I will. But you have to ask nicely first, otherwise I won’t.”
“I do (36).”
“Good, now let’s get back to teaching you stuff,” Xellos said, taking Zel’s shirt off.
“But I thought—“ Zel stopped suddenly as Xellos kissed him.
“If we’re going to be sleeping together, you’d better learn the basics. I’ll teach you the less important stuff later.”
“I guess—eep!” Zel went silent when he suddenly felt Xellos’s hand in his pants (37).
Xellos leaned close. His free hand pressed Zelgadis against him, resting firmly on the small of his back. He buried his face in Zelgadis’s neck, licking at his pointed ear (38).
Xellos slipped Zel’s pants off the chimera’s hipd thd they fell to the floor in a heap. He let go of Zelgadis long enough for him to step backwards out of his shoes, who forgot the bed was behind him and consequently tripped over it.
“When in Rome, Xoana, wherever,” Xellos said, shrugging, and settled himself gently on top of Zelgadis.
Furiously, Xellos struggled with his clothing, trying to remove it as fast as he could, as if taking his time and not ripping the garments to shreds would make this all a dream and it would melt away.
Xellos delicately and slowly traced his hands up and down Zelgadis’s ribs, lower to his waist, tracing his way to Zel’s hips and to the slight bulge in his underwear.
Xellos grasped the swell in his hands, still over the blue briefs, and began stroking and roughly moving his hand, closed as tightly as he could.
He bent down and licked Zelgadis on the , tr, trailing his way down his chin, over his neck and past the sharp line of his collarbone. His lips traced their way down to Zelgadis’s flat nipple and stayed there, sucking and licking at it.
Zelgadis, meanwhile, wasn’t complaining. In fact he was enjoying it, and communicating his enjoyment loudly with gasps and long moans.
As he stroked and fingered the chimera, he used his other hand to tease Zel, caressing him on the inside of his thighs, over his hips, playing with the elastic band of his underwear.
Zel squirmed under the Mazoku. His hand grabbed the sheets in wrinkled bunches. His legs restlessly twitched and writhed on the bed.
Feeling the chimera about to come under him, Xellos bent down and captured Zel’s mouth, their tongues entwining in each others mouths.
Zel’s hips thrust forward further as he released, and Xellos found his hand resting on a spreading wet spot on the blue underwear.
Zel lay there, panting, shining as the candlelight swept over his features and glowing in the afterglow.
“Mazoku don’t like to disappoint; we’re nowhere near done tonight,” Xellos said, noting the confused expression on Zel’s face.
Xellos slipped off the underwear over Zel’s long skinny legs.
Xellos tasted the chimera’s tongue once more before gently turning him over on the bed.
“I prefer to do it this way. I’ll show you why.”
Xellos grabbed Zelgadis’s hip for balance and bent over far enough to lick at Zel’s ear.
He buried his head in Zel’s thick wiry hair, rubbing his cheek against the delicate wire strands, caressing the chimera’s neck as he did.
He fingered Zel’s pouting lips, dipping them into his mouth, gasping when Zelgadis started to suck at them.
He took his fingers from the chimera and worked his tongue over the contours of his neck. He parted Zel’s legs with one hand and dipped a wet finger inside with the other.
Zel tried to screaut fut found no air, so a strangled peep was all that came out.
“Calm down, Zel, it’s all right. Haven’t you ever done this before?”
“No, never.”
“I’ll try to be gentle.”
He thrust the finger back and forth. Zel was already gasping when Xellos pushed a second finger in, continuing the motion.
Zelgadis let out a small whimper as a deep crimson blush swept over his cheeks.
Xellos shoved a third finger in, shoving them deeper, rubbing hard against a sensitive spot, drawing long gasps and moans from the chimera.
He continued, pushing harder, reveling as the chimera’s body reacted. Zel’s hips moved forward, the moans were replaced by heavy panting and small screams, his member hardening and growing.
Xellos could hold out no longer. He removed his fingers, Zel let out an almost inaudible whimper. He drove into Zel, as deep as he could go in the slick hole.
Zel screamed, in pain and shock, but also in pleasure and excitement.
Xellos waited, going back to his post of foreplay at Zelgadis’s neck. Not only did it calm Zelgadis almost immediately, but the moans started up again.
Reassured that he was no longer causing his uke any pain, he began moving inside. He gently started rocking forward and backward, in and out, thrusting in rhythm echoed by Zel’s hips.
Both men, covered in thick glistening sweat, let out uncontrollable gasps and moans, neither in synch nor disharmonious.
Still tasting the sweet sweat on the new Mazoku’s neck, and caressing his hair gently with his face, Xellos’, Xellos’s right hand traced its way down his hip, along the steep V of his body, finally reaching where the hand needed to be.
His left hand traced along Zel’s face, gently holding his chin, tilting it towards him.
“This is why I prefer doing it this way. I can see your pretty little face, and the rare angle of light hitting your eyes.”
Xellos’s right hand began rubbing itself in gentle circle around the tip of Zelgadis’s inflamed member.
The two were already beyond pants and moans, they were now choking on air struggling to breathe fast enough, saying each other’s name whenever they got the chance, so loud that they were almost screaming and waking up people in the other rooms.
Zel clamped tighter, arching his back, his hips thrust forward in one final motion, and both screamed a garbled attempt at words or the other’s name as they came, spilling in and on each other, and on the sheet of the bed.
Xellos got off, both of them falling on the bed, spent. They curled up in each others arms, pulled the blanket that Zel had used as a security blanket earlier, and fell asleep, listening to each other’s breaths calming and slowing, until they sounded like a vague heartbeat.
Amelia woke up the next morning in one of the palace’s rooms. She stretched, dressed herself, and knocked on other rooms to see how other people were doing.
She knocked on Lina and Gourry’s door. There was no answer. She tried again. Still nothing. She quietly opened the door and peeked through. Gourry and Lina were sleeping on the floor, on opposite sides of the bed. Not wanting to wake Lina, she carefully closed the door and tried Martina and Zangulus’s room. When she was just about to knock, she heard a faint yell of ‘No, we are not having a baby!’ and decided to leave them alone. She got to Zelgadis’s door. ‘He never sleeps in!’ she thought. ‘And if he’s still upset, maybe I can talk to him.’
She knocked on the door. Nothing. She went in
Zelgadis was sound asleep, with an arms limply over Xellos, who was turning over, and trying to bat at an alarm clock that wasn’t there.
“Xellos sleep now,” he mumbled, as Amelia fell to the floor.
(26) Nuts
(27) What else is new?
(28) But great for a Shakespearean play
(29) Third, he really wants a lemon scene in this story
(30) Minus Amelia of course
(31) Go fetch the coffee, boy!
(32) You are awake, you are very awake, you will do my bidding
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(34) Duh
(35) Certainly not the Hokey-Pokey
(36) This is lemon scene, not a wedding
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(38) There will be no more comments in this story from the peanut gallery, who is taking a long cold shower during this scene.
(39) That came out wrong. No pun intended.

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