Another off the Original Sin storyline...
The Day After
Lina looked back again at Xellos and Amelia.
Something was nagging at the back of her head about
the two. She couldn't put her finger on it, not yet
anyway. Gourry had been on guard duty when they had
gotten back from...well Lina had some foggy memories
of the night she and Xellos had gotten drunk. This
really didn't coincide with her image of Amelia and
she decided she was better off NOT thinking about what
they had been coming back from. Curious as she was,
the pair and their odd behaivor were not on the top of
her mind. She looked up at the chimera walking next to
her, she playfully snapped her hand across the back of
his head.
"Ouch, damn it Zel, your hair cut me!" She sucked
on the thin cuts that the steel wire had inflicted as
she slapped him.
"Well, what did you slap me for?" he asked tightly.
"For not telling me about this sooner," she
answered. "Damn, do you pass a sharpening stone
through that hair?"
"Oh Lina-san, are you hurt," Sylphiel called from
ahead.
"Nothing I can't take care of myself, Sylphiel,"
Lina said tightly.
"There's no reason to be angry, Lina-san," Amelia
said, smiling.
"Syl-chan was only offering a little help," Xellos
added in his normal tone of voice.
"Thank you for the support guys," Lina growled,
rubbing her red-stained hands.
"Lina either cast Recovery or let someone else,"
Zelgadis said looking guiltily at where she had sliced
her fingers and the blood was easily flowing.
"This IS the hand I do most of the gestures with
you know," Lina complained.
"Oh, by Ceifeed," Zelgadis pauses in his walk and
took the slightly injured hand and examined it. "These
aren't too serious."
"I didn't say they were," Lina answered, then
Zelgadis smirked playfully and slipped the finger into
his mouth. Lina blushed furiously and glanced about at
the other four members of their troupe. As goosebumps
rose on her arms she spoke to him in embarrassed
whisper. "Zelgadis, what are you doing!?! Everybody is
watching us!"
"I'm just cleaning the wound," Zelgadis feigned
innocence, elliciting an exasperrated sigh from Lina.
"No we aren't, Lina-san," Amelia called back from
where she Xellos were ahead all of a sudden. "Go ahead
and enjoy him, unless you prefer yourself." Lina and
Zelgadis looked at her with blank-beet-red faces.
"Ame-chan, be polite," Xellos said cheerfully. Lina
and Zelgadis could almost feel the smile on the
otherside of his head.
"What's going on," Gourry asked.
"Nothing for us to worry about," Sylphiel spoke in
an embarrassed, scandalized tone.
"Oh fine, do it your way," Lina gave in as Zelgadis
cleaned the other cut finger and then licked the blood
from the small cuts on her hand. Lina gasped as the
edges of her cuts were gently pulled by Zelgadis's
tongue. She released her breath as lhe et go of her
hand and finally cast recovery on the cuts.
"There you go, all better," Zelgadis said with a
cat-like smile.
"Thanks, Zel," she said embarrassed. Then they
moved to catch up with the other four.members of their
party. She remained silent over the next few minutes.
She knew that she should have been thinking about the
quest they were currently on, but she instead kept
coming to the question of this new relationship with
Zelgadis. "We aren't moving too fast are we?"
"You don't want me?" Zelgadis started, mood turning
black with a speed of emotional descent only he could
achieve.
"No! No! That's not what I mean," Lina stammered.
"I don't want to....hurt you." Zelgadis smiled grimly.
"I'll take the risk," he answered,
"And you'd want a little runt like me?" Lina
asked.nervously.
~Hmm, Lina-chan seems a little nervous about this.~
~I never realized that she was so...~
~Fragile?~
~Yes, that's what I was looking for.~
~Only in some situations, Ame-chan, usually she's
tough as iron.~
~Should we do something?"
~Give Zel a couple more lines.~
~Well, the angst IS delicious~ Amelia actually
licked her lips.
~Wait until you taste some true anger.~
~Actually I think we can arrange that.~ Then both
of them smiled and leaned close while they walked.
"You are NOT a runt," Zelgadis corrected her in
frustation. "And you are NOT flat-chested. You
certainly proved that last night." He said the last in
a whispered undertone that still invoked a flood of
red into Lina's face.
"Zelll..."
"Now you'd want a fre..." Lina covered his mouth
and prevented him finishing.
"I heard this yesterday, and I'm not going to let
you call yourself a monster freak, if you don't let me
call myself a runt." Zelgadis arched an eyebrow, and
she removed her hand.
"That has got to be the silliest sentence I have
ever heard," Zelgadis said. "Why would some one WANT
to insult themselves?"
"That is pretty silly," Lina laughed. Then she
looked up. "Hey, Zel, why are Amelia and Xellos
smiling at us like that?"
"You know, now that I think about, they're both a
lot more alike than I thought," Zelgadis said. "Still
since last night Amelia's been acting.....weird."
"What's the matter with you two?" Amelia asked
suddenly. "You're both so afraid of nothing. It is
kind of amusing, but its going to get very boring,
very quickly. So could you please get on with your
emotional discoveries and then we can go kill some
bandits or something." Everybody stared in outright
shock at Amelia.
~Think that'll get them wondering?~
~Oh, one of them will be figuring it out any minute
now.~
"Amelia, what did you and Xellos do last night?"
"Well," Amelia rolled her eyes up towards the sky
as if in thought. "First I got undressed and then I
undid Xellos's belt and..."
"WITHOUT THE DETAILS!!" Lina, Zelgadis and Sylphiel
shouted at once. Xellos and Amelia flashed matching
smiles.
"Ouch, that hurt my ears," Gourry mumbled.
"We did everything I wanted to do," Amelia said
cryptically.
"Yes, but what did you do?"
"Well, after Ame-chan finished..."
"NO DETAILS!!!"
"Could you please stop doing that?" Gourry asked.
"So you want to know what we did," Amelia started.
"But you don't want any details."
"I'm not really all that..." Sylphiel looked at the
disbelieving faces directed toward her. "...okay, yes
I AM interested."
"So out with it," Lina snapped. Xellos and Amelia
smiled at each other and then leaned toward everybody
else, in unison, wagging their fingers.
"Sore wa himitsu desu," they said in unison. Lina
arched an eyebrow in frustration as she stared at the
pair, looking from Amelia to Xellos. Then suddenly the
sorceress cried out and pointed at the raven-haired
girl.
"What is it?" Zelgadis asked anxiously.
"Amelia...you're...you're..."
"Mazoku? Yep!" the former princess finished
cheerfully. Everybody but the mazoku face faulted.
"Xellos, you, sick-bastard, how could you do this
to such an innocent young woman..." The two mazoku let
their friends rant and rave about Xellos's evil ways
and Amelia's ruined innocence. They were already
beginning to accept it, though, and in another half
hour or so of ranting they would calm down and be back
to what the slayers considered normal.
~oooooo, this IS tasty~ Amelia restrained herself
from shivering with delight at the wave of anger and
shock coming from her friends.
~And I notice they're less doubtful of their own
feelings.~
~Yes, well they do need each other.~
~Still can't give up the justice kick can you
Ame-chan.~
~Nope, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun
getting there~
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"Caffeinated Kender? What's that, a berserk spell?" -
Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
Signed
He of Too Many Names (Thrythlind/Thryth/Luke/Hyperbole/Pika/Pooka)
http://members.aol.com/thrythlind/snake.html
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