The Legend of Smiling Jack

Chapter: 6

The End of Legends

Time to have start tying things together.

Lina shot up as she cried out, "Zelgadis!"

As Lina came too she found herself in a hospital bed with a green plastic gown around her body. She felt something move beside her and she looked to her left to see Sylphiel waking up from sleeping in the chair next to her bed. The purple haired teacher opened her eyes to see that Lina was wide awake and looking at her. She moved quickly and hugged her friend before sobbing out, "OH...Miss...miss...Lina thank god your okay."

Lina wrapped her arms around Sylphiel's quivering body and tried to soothe the pain away. She looked around before asking, "Sylphiel what happened to Xellos and Zelgadis?"

Sylphiel looked at Lina as two tears ran from her eyes. She sobbed again before replying, "Mr. Xellos was found dead in the gym...and...that...that murderer...Zelgadis as you call him...disappeared and cannot be found."

Lina stroked Sylphiel's hair as she said, "It's okay...I don't think we will have to worry about him anymore."

"How can you be sure," Sylphiel asked as she cringed from thinking about the man that had brought pain to the town.

"I just have a feeling," Lina said as she looked out the window and into the morning sky.

The day had passed and Sylphiel had finally gone home to give Lina time to rest. Lina laid back and closed her eyes as she felt so tired. Her body had recovered quickly from the injury but she felt like she had no energy left. She closed her eyes and started to drift off when she heard a whisper, "Lina..."

She shot up in her bed as she looked around. No one was there, it was just her in her room, but she could have sworn that she had just heard her name. As she lowered herself back down onto her pillow she talked to herself, "There's nothing her...I'm just worn out from yesterday and hearing things."

Lina laid down again and began to get comfortable. As her eyes closed she heard the whisper again, "Lina..."

Lina looked around with out moving but still no one was there. She sat up and looked around while asking, "Who's there?"

There was no answer. Lina slipped out of her bed and moved to her window. She looked outside but saw no one out in the courtyard of the hospital. She sighed in relief before from behind she heard, "Lina.."

She spun to see nothing but her shadow. As she watched her shadow grew and changed until it resembled Zelgadis. The shadow stood there for a minute before tipping its hat and disappearing. Lina's eyes went wide as fear took hold of her. He was here. She quickly disconnected herself from the iv they had her on, which set off the nurses alarm, and she took off running down the hall. As Lina was about to make it to the nurses station she was stopped by an orderly as he asked, "Miss Inverse were are you going?"

"He's here, He's here...you have to get the others out," Lina yelled as she tried to start running again.

The orderly grabbed her and said, "Miss Inverse...you've had a bad few days and you are hallucinating. Just go back to your room and relax."

Lina beat and kicked against the orderly as she screamed, "I'm not hallucinating...He's here! He's going to kill all of you!"

A few more staff ran into the hall brought there by the commotion Lina was causing. Another orderly grabbed Lina's feet as the first one grabbed her arms. They began to slowly carry Lina as she kicked and screamed, "You have to listen to me! I'm not crazy he's here!"

The orderlies got Lina back to her room as a doctor came in with a syringe full of something. "Now, Miss Inverse we understand what you have been through but you have to relax," the doctor commanded as he came closer with the syringe.

"No," Lina screamed as she let froth one last burst.

Her kick caught one of the orderlies in the face and caused him to collapse and release her legs. Once Lina's feet hit the ground she threw the other man over her shoulders. She went to run but the doctor caught her wrist. As she fought with the doctor the two men were getting up and heading towards her. Lina quickly punched the doctor in the stomach and used the opportunity to take him hostage. Lina grabbed the syringe and held it to the doctor's neck before shouting, "Okay stop right there!"

The two men backed off as Lina posed a real threat to the doctor's life if she punctured the wrong spot. She began to back up with the doctor to make her way out. As she was about to exit the room she looked to the side at the mirror to see the most frightening thing she could imagine. Her eyes changed from red to sapphire blue as she looked at herself. To panicked to reason Lina dropped the doctor and took off at full stride for the door. One of the men chased after Lina as she sprinted down the hall and out the main door of the hospital. He continued to give chase into the parking lot but could not keep up with the young woman that ran like her life depended on it, "Damnit," was all he could say as he had to stop to catch his breath and watch Lina run off into the night.

Lina ran, not paying attention to where she was going, until her legs gave out and she collapsed on the ground. Luckily, she landed on grass and she laid there as she caught her breath. After a few moments Lina looked up to see a lake right next to her. She savagely clawed her way to the lake before looking into the water. She saw her reflection and those same blue eyes stared back at her from within herself. She quickly and frantically pushed away from the lake. As she backed away she lost her footing and fell. She hit her head on something hard and blacked out for a brief moment. After coming to, Lina grabbed her head and moaned as she wished she had some aspirin. After a few minutes she looked up to see what she had knocked her head on. She saw an old tombstone and quickly backed away. Lina looked around to see she was surrounded by the marble monoliths and had somehow wandered into the cemetery. "This night just gets better," Lina complained as the fear was starting to seep away.

As Lina picked herself up and started to walk away she heard something coming from within the grounds. "I know I'm going to regret this," Lina said as she headed towards the sound.

As she got closer Lina could make out the lyrics of a very morbid song, "If you see me better flee me, If you hear me better fear me. Na Na Na Na, Call me Mister Killjoy. I'm the death of every party. Na Na Na Na, Call me Mister Killjoy. And, I don't care if you don't like me."

Soon Lina came to where she could see who was signing. There, sitting on a tombstone, in the middle of the graveyard was Zelgadis Greywords. She walked in front of him and huffed to get his attention. He looked at her before saying, "Appears you got away."

"No thanks to you," Lina looked at him with anger in her eyes.

As Lina was about to tear into the man he reached out and grabbed her chin. Lina stared him down while he said, "Hmmm, blue eyes somehow suit you."

Lina pulled away from him and asked, "What the hell did you do to me?"

Zelgadis smirked before saying, "I gave you life...if I hadn't done what I did you would've died."

Lina grew quiet at the idea of she was that close to death. "That...that still doesn't explain my eyes," she said as she looked down and shuffled her feet.

"Well, that was an unforeseen side effect," Zelgadis replied before continuing, "I gave you some of my essence to keep you from dying...well apparently I don't know as much as I thought. Instead of just sustaining you and allowing me to leave it has bound us."

"What do you mean," Lina asked as she looked up at Zelgadis.

"Just what I said. You are now my link to this world. Thus, why your shadow changed into me. I was mainly answering your question of where I went but instead I got a little show," Zelgadis replied as he smirked.

Lina slapped him in the face before saying, "Listen, just because you saved my life doesn't give you free reign to terrorize me and cause me to harm people out of panic."

Zelgadis recovered before saying, "This is much more refreshing than that spare their lives crap."

"You are a monster aren't you," Lina shot back.

"I'm dead...it's not like it matters anymore," Zelgadis replied as he began to walk away.

"Wait a minute," Lina yelled as she walked after him, "If we are bound together then do I have to stay near you or something?"

Zelgadis turned and grabbed Lina hand before placing it over her heart. Lina was about to ask what was the point when she felt it. After her heart beat there was a slight skip or even another beat. She looked at Zel before he replied, "I'm a part of you. I'm going to be there no matter where you go. Just think of me and I will manifest...if I don't want to myself that is."

Zelgadis let go of Lina before turning and walking away. As he was walking he heard Lina ask, "Why did you safe me?"

He continued without looking back while saying, "Because I had no intention of killing you...you were innocent."

Lina gasped as she watched Zelgadis disappear. She walked towards the entrance of the graveyard while thinking, 'So there is some humanity left in you.'

Lina had made it back to her house without any problems. She knew that the police were more than likely hunting for her but she had no intention of stick around. 'If I stay then Zelgadis might try to kill more of the townsfolk...I have to leave.'

Lina quickly packed up what she needed before throwing it into her car. She then changed out of the gown and into a set of normal clothes. She then hoped into her car and drove to he bank. She drove to the ATM and withdrawing all of her savings. After, that she went to the gas station and filled up a container with five gallons of gas. She drove back to the house about went upstairs with the gas. She began to pour the gas out as she went downstairs and towards the door. After finishing Lina lit a match and said, "Time to end the terror," before tossing the match into the gas.

Lina walked out of the house as it caught fire. She got into her care and took off into the night. "I see your still being noble," came Zelgadis' voice as he appeared in the passenger's seat.

Lina looked at him to see he was just in his white shirt and black slacks. "Not, going for the full Jack the Ripper look I see."

Zelgadis shrugged before asking, "So what are you going to do now?"

Lina sighed as she continued to drive out of town and out of another life. "I don't know...but this way you will not be killing anyone else," Lina replied.

"We'll see," Zelgadis replied as they drove off into the night.

A/N: The End...I'm going to be doing more with this storyline but under a different story.

Disclaimer: Any characters or ideas from The Slayers do not belong to me. I am not selling this material, just writing for the heck of it as I go.

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