HOLA MINNA!!!!! How you all doin'? Anywho....I found an unfinished fanfic that I wrote a couple months back. I remembered being inspired by Elizabeth Smith's INCUBUS....so I decided to give a whirl myself....Thanks Miss Elizabeth! You know da business... [email protected]. Disclaimers: Slayers do not belong to me at all, I only purchase their videos, *sigh* all well...On with the fanfic......Adios!! ~~Miss "L"
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THE SUCCUBUS' CURSE
(1) A Man's Pride.
"ZZeelll.....how much further is it?"
A young vertically challenged redhead wearing a black cape and a maroon outfit with a yellow band around a certain part of a sensitive area, yowling to a young man, wearing an ivory outfit, who is a head and one fourth taller than her with grey and pebbles embedded on his cadet blue skin (a/n: and yes...I was looking in a box of crayons). His metallic lavendar-blue hair glistened in the sun while his twin liquid ice blues were checking the map for the third time.
'I don't get it....I simply just don't get it. How in the world did we end up here? And where is here anyway?' his ungloved fingers tracing the drawn roads, towns, villages, and natures' own creations, over and over again. Her abiding complaints are getting on his frazzled mind.
"Lina! Would you please stop with your compulsive whining? I need to concentrate." he was frustrated but didn't dare raise his voice against the short-tempered Dragon Slave expert.
"We're lost, aren't we?" the cranky redhead gave him a haggard glance.
His eyes refrained from moving from the infernal map to look at Lina. He's burned out, his eyes hurt, he's getting a migrane, and he didn't feel like asking to repeat her question nor go to the process in explaining the somewhat dire situation to her, so his manly instincts told him to only give a curtly nod.
"Oh for L-sama's sake Zelgadiss. I was expecting either Gourry, Amelia, Sylphiel, or even your cousin to get us lost....but you?" she put her arms up and let them fall to her sides.
"HEY!!!" the four mentioned people let out a weak protest.
"Don't worry Mr. Zelgadiss, for we, the crusaders of Justice, will triumph over this confusion that Evil had obviously done to us."
Princess Amelia Wil Tesla de Saillune is now on the utmost branch of a nearby tree, her right index finger pointing to the sky while her free left hand is on her left hip, everybody sweatdropped as they see her Justice aura surrounding her, even the tree she's climbed on, sweatdropped, that is if it could.
"Making us lost and misguided from our destination won't make us give up hope, love, and truth from our pure hearts. Instead, they will see the errors of their dark ways once they've see us full of confidence, courage, and *kerthunk* .. .. . OOWWIIEE!!! Miss Liinnaa...that was mean!" a pebble, the size of a potatoe, made its way to the bull's eye's raven head. The righteous princess was comforting a big lump that was apropriately on top of her head as she was forced to climb back down to both ground and reality provided by the scarlet sorceress who is currently thunking the princess' head at the moment.
"Ummm....Miss Lina...could you please stop that. You're giving poor Miss Amelia a headache." the youngest man of the group spoke out in defense when he watched the youngest woman of the group recieved another bop on her already bruised head.
"Do you want one too, Aez? glared at him for speaking out of terms to thee, Lina Inverse.
His green-blue eyes widened, took a step back, he quickly shakes his silvery light blue head furiously as he put his hands up defensively.
"Alright then, shut up." 'Well...at least he isn't glomping me.' she sighed, "I hope Val and Filia have better luck than we do." she continued.
"Uhh....Lina where are the...AAAACCCCK!"
"Oh please Miss Lina, please let Gourry-dear go. His face is turning blue!"
She looked at the worried, deep black-lilac long hair brunette then released him falling face first to the ground. She looked down on him, which I'm sure she feels pretty good right about now.
"For the last time, Yogurt Brain, they went to fly over this land for anything remotely civilized."
"Ano Lina, who's they?"
"Grrr.....BAKA!"
Just when Lina was going to lunge at Gourry, Sylphiel stood in front of him, her arms outstrected to either sides protectively.
"Lina, would you please refrain your many insults and assults to anyone until we can figure this out?" Zel, being the voice of reason spoke after he finally lifted his eyes from the acursed paper, rubbed his temples and the bridge of his nose, and regrettably saw their act.
He sighes then walks up next to her, thinking what he could have possibly done to merit such 'eccentric' characters for fellow travelers and friends.
"Hmph....Fine...Whatever!" she turned her nose upwards as she crossed her thin arms.
Their hair flitted over and the sides of their heads as they felt a gust of wind above and around them accompanied by flapping sounds. Moments later, two human quised tall dragons strided to join the rest of the group.
"Anything?"
Both shook their heads at their redheaded leader, the aqua green hair one spoke...
"I only saw more trees and mountains."
"I saw the same thing as Val but I found a river and a pond near here, to the left us." Filia pointed out the direction.
"That's it?! Not even a walking villager, a traveler, a miniture town, a cabin, or anything?"
"Oh! I did see a little cute hut-like house between the river and pond." the golden dragon clasped her white gloved hands together as her eyes happily squinted. (^_^)
Everyone but Val, Filia, and Gourry, sighed in disappointment.
"I guess we should go check for ourselves if there's anyone living there."
"And ask for directions while we're at it." Lina added her commentary to the chimera's sentence and glanced at her best friend's direction from the corner of her eye.
Zel shot her a dirty look.
"We don't need to ask directions, Lina. I have the map right here with me, I just wanted to go because I need.....some herbal tea to help me relax and clear this migrane so that I can think better."
"Just like a man not to admit that he got us lost and too stubborn to ask for directions." Lina grumbled, the girls agreed by nodding.
"In my opinion, Lina, Zelgadiss' reason holds good and true. We can use some rest and relaxation." the ancient dragon couldn't argue with that excuse.
"Yeah, Miss Lina, I'm sure cousin Zel will figure out the map once he has some caffeine into his system." Aezorl commented.
The girls just gave Val and Aez a disbelieving glare. The chimera was relieved to have all of his good male friends defending him, well, almost all of his male buddies....
"I think you're wrong here, guys. Besides, some men do ask for directions..."
All looked at Gourry, the young women smiled and gave a finally-a-man-admitting-when-he's-wrong look while the young men frowned and gave him a 'traitor' look, but he wasn't done talking...
"...just not in this case."
Their facial expressions were immediately replaced into the opposite reactions.
"What do you mean by 'Just not in this case', Moldy Brain?!"
"Yeah Mr. Gourry, Miss Lina is right. We are lost."
"Er..no. We're not lost Miss Amelia." still defending his older cousin.
"But Mr. Zelgadiss said we are." Slyphiel may have spoken meekly yet she knows when the guys are just being their adamant selves.
"I didn't say we are." he said it in his nonchalant tenor voice.
"But Lina asked you...." the ex-priestess was ready to voice in Lina's opinion.
"I didn't say anything of the sort." however, the chimera is making sure he gets his point ring true.
"Wait one minute here Zel..." 'If he thinks he can get away by being slick, he got another thing coming.' the leader lined up her mental footnotes, ready to throw them at him.
He already knows that he couldn't count on Lina to give up on the debate so easily, especially when she knows she's correct. He prepares for the worse when a miracle occured.
"Hey Lina, don't you usually say never jump to conclusions?" her blonde, unintelligible friend interrupted by bringing up an interesting thought and scoring one point to Zel's team.
She blinked at her brother-like friend. So did everybody else, shocked that he remembers one of her mottos from years back. However, some (guys) welcome back the reality and the others has not (gals).
'Oh great! Jellyfish Brains just had to remember my words at the wrong time. Geesh! It can't get any worse than this!'
"Well, yeah but..." she starts to speak before Zelgadiss interrupted her.
"But you only assumed that we are just because I nodded my head." inwardly smirking and thankful that Gourry got Lina's defenses down.
"So are we or not?!" her controlled temper is on a short, thin string due to the fact she was caught off guard by her so called long time best friends.
"I'm just ....a little disoriented with this map." his chibi self patted him on the back for finding the exact word that is not proving him wrong, yet at the same time, hoping Lina would settle it as being the truth in her intelligent reason. Hey, he got his pride to protect.
"Another words, we're lost, am I right?" she narrows her ruby eyes at him, acknowledging his hidden meaning.
"Miss Lina, he didn't say lost." Zel's ward refuse to give up on his cousin. Guess obsession, determination, and stubborness runs in the family
"Look Aez, everyone of us heard him say..." the young black magic user turns around at him, raising her gloved index finger up in the air, only to be interrupted again by another guy.
"He said disoriented."
"Define 'disoriented' then, Val." Filia couldn't believe how bull headed men are.
"Befuddled."
"Mr. Valtierra, you know perfectly well what Miss Filia meant." Amelia felt that Justice has not been equally used in this discussion.
"What does 'befuddled' mean?"
"Now is not the time Gourry-dear." she stopps the swordsman before he digs himself an early grave, compliments from Lina and quite possibly from Zel.
Better make that Lina's controlled temper, now on a very short and a very thin battle-aura-red thread. Xellos was hovering above them, enjoying a late lunch, thanks to his fellow and former suck..er..um...adventuring affiliates. He saw that without the crew even realizing, the bishoujo had moved to one side, face to face with the bishounen on the opposite side. Both showing stressmarks.
'Hah! Filia-chan, Lina-chan, and the rest couldn't even see nor sense me, they're too busy arguing.' He looked down at the group and felt their patience are running out, expecially Lina Inverse's.
'Oh well *sigh* I better stop the fun before anyone gets hurt or even worse. Besides...I'm full." He smirked and floated down and landed between the two divided and confronting teams.
"The first word's definition is 'to cause to lose orientation and the other is 'to confuse or muddle' it could also mean 'perplex'. So the two are quite similar but at the same moment, actually different Val-kun."
The whole group stared at him for a second, their brains are slowly registering who the interceding, strange referee is.
"XELLOS??!!" all but four said it in a 'what-are-you-doing-here' voice.
"MR. XELLOS??!!" said by two formal youths.
"FRUITCAKE?! Why are you doin' here?!" the two intelligent sorcerers have a feeling that he's only here to either cause more damage or to chase him into a well devised plan, or most likely both.
'Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse....poof...here's this pest!' Lina mentally kicks herself for just jinxing her and her fellow friends.
"Oh dear me....did I come in on a bad time?" Xellos' face bears the devil in a wolf's disguise with that smile of his. "Oh... as for your question my friends....is a secret!" he almost forgot to answer Lina's and Zel's question, the two growled, they were in no mood to put up with his jests. Well, she needed to vent out her anger and frustations, might as well be that annoying mazuko. However, she's not the only one who wishes to give the smiling demon, a 'surprise' welcome.
"NAMAGOMI!!!" Filia's tail popped from underneath her pink dress.
Just when Lina was going to lunge the purple priest from behind, Filia pulls out her mace and ready to send him to his creator, Xellos vanished.
WHOOOOSSSHHH! ....and missed her intended target, hitting air for a millisecond...
BAAMM! ....that is, until Mace-Sama hit something or someone. To be more exact, a certain reddish-orange haired sorceress. It was by accident of course!
"MISS LINA!!!!"
"LINA!!"
Everybody exclaimed as they saw her body fly clear across the left side of the forest until it became a red and black speck.
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I like to thank Webster's dictionary and Roger's thesaurus for helping me find the definition. And my gratitude goes out to the readers.....I still have more fics to finish, including this one. Enjoy!
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THE SUCCUBUS' CURSE
(1) A Man's Pride.
"ZZeelll.....how much further is it?"
A young vertically challenged redhead wearing a black cape and a maroon outfit with a yellow band around a certain part of a sensitive area, yowling to a young man, wearing an ivory outfit, who is a head and one fourth taller than her with grey and pebbles embedded on his cadet blue skin (a/n: and yes...I was looking in a box of crayons). His metallic lavendar-blue hair glistened in the sun while his twin liquid ice blues were checking the map for the third time.
'I don't get it....I simply just don't get it. How in the world did we end up here? And where is here anyway?' his ungloved fingers tracing the drawn roads, towns, villages, and natures' own creations, over and over again. Her abiding complaints are getting on his frazzled mind.
"Lina! Would you please stop with your compulsive whining? I need to concentrate." he was frustrated but didn't dare raise his voice against the short-tempered Dragon Slave expert.
"We're lost, aren't we?" the cranky redhead gave him a haggard glance.
His eyes refrained from moving from the infernal map to look at Lina. He's burned out, his eyes hurt, he's getting a migrane, and he didn't feel like asking to repeat her question nor go to the process in explaining the somewhat dire situation to her, so his manly instincts told him to only give a curtly nod.
"Oh for L-sama's sake Zelgadiss. I was expecting either Gourry, Amelia, Sylphiel, or even your cousin to get us lost....but you?" she put her arms up and let them fall to her sides.
"HEY!!!" the four mentioned people let out a weak protest.
"Don't worry Mr. Zelgadiss, for we, the crusaders of Justice, will triumph over this confusion that Evil had obviously done to us."
Princess Amelia Wil Tesla de Saillune is now on the utmost branch of a nearby tree, her right index finger pointing to the sky while her free left hand is on her left hip, everybody sweatdropped as they see her Justice aura surrounding her, even the tree she's climbed on, sweatdropped, that is if it could.
"Making us lost and misguided from our destination won't make us give up hope, love, and truth from our pure hearts. Instead, they will see the errors of their dark ways once they've see us full of confidence, courage, and *kerthunk* .. .. . OOWWIIEE!!! Miss Liinnaa...that was mean!" a pebble, the size of a potatoe, made its way to the bull's eye's raven head. The righteous princess was comforting a big lump that was apropriately on top of her head as she was forced to climb back down to both ground and reality provided by the scarlet sorceress who is currently thunking the princess' head at the moment.
"Ummm....Miss Lina...could you please stop that. You're giving poor Miss Amelia a headache." the youngest man of the group spoke out in defense when he watched the youngest woman of the group recieved another bop on her already bruised head.
"Do you want one too, Aez? glared at him for speaking out of terms to thee, Lina Inverse.
His green-blue eyes widened, took a step back, he quickly shakes his silvery light blue head furiously as he put his hands up defensively.
"Alright then, shut up." 'Well...at least he isn't glomping me.' she sighed, "I hope Val and Filia have better luck than we do." she continued.
"Uhh....Lina where are the...AAAACCCCK!"
"Oh please Miss Lina, please let Gourry-dear go. His face is turning blue!"
She looked at the worried, deep black-lilac long hair brunette then released him falling face first to the ground. She looked down on him, which I'm sure she feels pretty good right about now.
"For the last time, Yogurt Brain, they went to fly over this land for anything remotely civilized."
"Ano Lina, who's they?"
"Grrr.....BAKA!"
Just when Lina was going to lunge at Gourry, Sylphiel stood in front of him, her arms outstrected to either sides protectively.
"Lina, would you please refrain your many insults and assults to anyone until we can figure this out?" Zel, being the voice of reason spoke after he finally lifted his eyes from the acursed paper, rubbed his temples and the bridge of his nose, and regrettably saw their act.
He sighes then walks up next to her, thinking what he could have possibly done to merit such 'eccentric' characters for fellow travelers and friends.
"Hmph....Fine...Whatever!" she turned her nose upwards as she crossed her thin arms.
Their hair flitted over and the sides of their heads as they felt a gust of wind above and around them accompanied by flapping sounds. Moments later, two human quised tall dragons strided to join the rest of the group.
"Anything?"
Both shook their heads at their redheaded leader, the aqua green hair one spoke...
"I only saw more trees and mountains."
"I saw the same thing as Val but I found a river and a pond near here, to the left us." Filia pointed out the direction.
"That's it?! Not even a walking villager, a traveler, a miniture town, a cabin, or anything?"
"Oh! I did see a little cute hut-like house between the river and pond." the golden dragon clasped her white gloved hands together as her eyes happily squinted. (^_^)
Everyone but Val, Filia, and Gourry, sighed in disappointment.
"I guess we should go check for ourselves if there's anyone living there."
"And ask for directions while we're at it." Lina added her commentary to the chimera's sentence and glanced at her best friend's direction from the corner of her eye.
Zel shot her a dirty look.
"We don't need to ask directions, Lina. I have the map right here with me, I just wanted to go because I need.....some herbal tea to help me relax and clear this migrane so that I can think better."
"Just like a man not to admit that he got us lost and too stubborn to ask for directions." Lina grumbled, the girls agreed by nodding.
"In my opinion, Lina, Zelgadiss' reason holds good and true. We can use some rest and relaxation." the ancient dragon couldn't argue with that excuse.
"Yeah, Miss Lina, I'm sure cousin Zel will figure out the map once he has some caffeine into his system." Aezorl commented.
The girls just gave Val and Aez a disbelieving glare. The chimera was relieved to have all of his good male friends defending him, well, almost all of his male buddies....
"I think you're wrong here, guys. Besides, some men do ask for directions..."
All looked at Gourry, the young women smiled and gave a finally-a-man-admitting-when-he's-wrong look while the young men frowned and gave him a 'traitor' look, but he wasn't done talking...
"...just not in this case."
Their facial expressions were immediately replaced into the opposite reactions.
"What do you mean by 'Just not in this case', Moldy Brain?!"
"Yeah Mr. Gourry, Miss Lina is right. We are lost."
"Er..no. We're not lost Miss Amelia." still defending his older cousin.
"But Mr. Zelgadiss said we are." Slyphiel may have spoken meekly yet she knows when the guys are just being their adamant selves.
"I didn't say we are." he said it in his nonchalant tenor voice.
"But Lina asked you...." the ex-priestess was ready to voice in Lina's opinion.
"I didn't say anything of the sort." however, the chimera is making sure he gets his point ring true.
"Wait one minute here Zel..." 'If he thinks he can get away by being slick, he got another thing coming.' the leader lined up her mental footnotes, ready to throw them at him.
He already knows that he couldn't count on Lina to give up on the debate so easily, especially when she knows she's correct. He prepares for the worse when a miracle occured.
"Hey Lina, don't you usually say never jump to conclusions?" her blonde, unintelligible friend interrupted by bringing up an interesting thought and scoring one point to Zel's team.
She blinked at her brother-like friend. So did everybody else, shocked that he remembers one of her mottos from years back. However, some (guys) welcome back the reality and the others has not (gals).
'Oh great! Jellyfish Brains just had to remember my words at the wrong time. Geesh! It can't get any worse than this!'
"Well, yeah but..." she starts to speak before Zelgadiss interrupted her.
"But you only assumed that we are just because I nodded my head." inwardly smirking and thankful that Gourry got Lina's defenses down.
"So are we or not?!" her controlled temper is on a short, thin string due to the fact she was caught off guard by her so called long time best friends.
"I'm just ....a little disoriented with this map." his chibi self patted him on the back for finding the exact word that is not proving him wrong, yet at the same time, hoping Lina would settle it as being the truth in her intelligent reason. Hey, he got his pride to protect.
"Another words, we're lost, am I right?" she narrows her ruby eyes at him, acknowledging his hidden meaning.
"Miss Lina, he didn't say lost." Zel's ward refuse to give up on his cousin. Guess obsession, determination, and stubborness runs in the family
"Look Aez, everyone of us heard him say..." the young black magic user turns around at him, raising her gloved index finger up in the air, only to be interrupted again by another guy.
"He said disoriented."
"Define 'disoriented' then, Val." Filia couldn't believe how bull headed men are.
"Befuddled."
"Mr. Valtierra, you know perfectly well what Miss Filia meant." Amelia felt that Justice has not been equally used in this discussion.
"What does 'befuddled' mean?"
"Now is not the time Gourry-dear." she stopps the swordsman before he digs himself an early grave, compliments from Lina and quite possibly from Zel.
Better make that Lina's controlled temper, now on a very short and a very thin battle-aura-red thread. Xellos was hovering above them, enjoying a late lunch, thanks to his fellow and former suck..er..um...adventuring affiliates. He saw that without the crew even realizing, the bishoujo had moved to one side, face to face with the bishounen on the opposite side. Both showing stressmarks.
'Hah! Filia-chan, Lina-chan, and the rest couldn't even see nor sense me, they're too busy arguing.' He looked down at the group and felt their patience are running out, expecially Lina Inverse's.
'Oh well *sigh* I better stop the fun before anyone gets hurt or even worse. Besides...I'm full." He smirked and floated down and landed between the two divided and confronting teams.
"The first word's definition is 'to cause to lose orientation and the other is 'to confuse or muddle' it could also mean 'perplex'. So the two are quite similar but at the same moment, actually different Val-kun."
The whole group stared at him for a second, their brains are slowly registering who the interceding, strange referee is.
"XELLOS??!!" all but four said it in a 'what-are-you-doing-here' voice.
"MR. XELLOS??!!" said by two formal youths.
"FRUITCAKE?! Why are you doin' here?!" the two intelligent sorcerers have a feeling that he's only here to either cause more damage or to chase him into a well devised plan, or most likely both.
'Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse....poof...here's this pest!' Lina mentally kicks herself for just jinxing her and her fellow friends.
"Oh dear me....did I come in on a bad time?" Xellos' face bears the devil in a wolf's disguise with that smile of his. "Oh... as for your question my friends....is a secret!" he almost forgot to answer Lina's and Zel's question, the two growled, they were in no mood to put up with his jests. Well, she needed to vent out her anger and frustations, might as well be that annoying mazuko. However, she's not the only one who wishes to give the smiling demon, a 'surprise' welcome.
"NAMAGOMI!!!" Filia's tail popped from underneath her pink dress.
Just when Lina was going to lunge the purple priest from behind, Filia pulls out her mace and ready to send him to his creator, Xellos vanished.
WHOOOOSSSHHH! ....and missed her intended target, hitting air for a millisecond...
BAAMM! ....that is, until Mace-Sama hit something or someone. To be more exact, a certain reddish-orange haired sorceress. It was by accident of course!
"MISS LINA!!!!"
"LINA!!"
Everybody exclaimed as they saw her body fly clear across the left side of the forest until it became a red and black speck.
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I like to thank Webster's dictionary and Roger's thesaurus for helping me find the definition. And my gratitude goes out to the readers.....I still have more fics to finish, including this one. Enjoy!