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Crossover: Angel/Slayers

Date Written: 12/23/2011

Zelgadis couldn't believe he'd actually listened to the blutbad. Obviously, Monroe's species name was a better personality indicator than it had originally appeared.

Why else would he now, at Monroe's insistence, be trapped on this damned, floating death-trap?

At the blutbad's grimm-friend's information, Zel had traveled down the coast and met with the captain of a freight carrier. The grimm hadn't known why the man had been willing to take a chimera in, but one look and Zel knew that he was more similar to the captain than the grimm had known: the other man was half demon. Not the Asiatic strain he was used to (they mainly stayed within the Barrier), but a European breed that had lost most of its 'demonic' traits over the years.

At first, this had seemed like a dream come true. He could hitch a ride and get home on a ship where the captain would understand his situation. Then he learned that the man's entire family, all thirty something of them, was coming and that the 'ship' was more like 'a bunch of metal held together with rust'.

Then there was that business with the vampire and the other half-blood (a totally different European breed…a hellmouth must have opened up there sometime in the distant past) who got in a fight with a clan of full blooded demons (who were actually after the captain's family, for some reason) in the hold.

When the other half-blood was nearly killed saving all of them, Zel managed to use his abilities to yank him back from death at the very last moment. He saved his life, but in revealing his magical training, made everyone nervous.

So here he was, seasick on a pile of rust and bolts (that had sustained further injury from the battle) with a tribe of skittish half-blood demons, trying to sail to Japan from California.

Well, if he made it at least half of the way before sinking, he should be able to fly the rest of the way.

And if he ever saw Monroe again, he'd…well, Zel would wait for the end of the voyage to finish that sentence. But he doubted it would be good.

Comments:

Yeah, cop-out chapter, especially for the last chapter. I didn't really have time to go back and watch Angel episodes, to re-capture the characterization. But, there you go; Zel saved Doyle! Yay!

I hope you liked the fic; let me know what you think!

(Although I would be seriously surprised if anyone is still reading this)