Crushing my Swaying Feelings…

Prologue

	It has been a year since Zelgadis was killed.  Only a year….it seams 
much longer.  Ironically, I regret his death.  All suspicions fell upon me after 
he was murdered; after all, I had an eternity with my beloved Kosha to gain.
	My daughter, Raya, and her husband, Valgarv, will be returning soon.  
Their children, Vallos and Xelterria, were left in Kosha and my care.  
Tonight, I must tell them the story of Aurizlious, the boy who is truly 
Hellmaster Phibrizio….and what a sad story it is, and the story isn’t over 
yet.  A few more things have to happen.
	Raya doesn’t know that Aurizlious, whom she considers her brother, 
is Hellmaster.  Yet.  Or that he killed Zel.  Yet.  Or that she is destined to 
become his-ah, well, that I will leave as a secret!  After all, what fun would 
it be if I revealed all that is to come now?

							Xellos Metallium~
									Trickster Priest.


Chapter I

	Xellos closed the book he had been writing in and smiled.  His 
descendents would enjoy it, he was sure.  ( he was also pretty sure he would 
be around to tell them the tale himself, but just in case)  Thinking of his 
descendents, his smile widened.  Vallos and Xelterria, his beloved 
grandchildren, were waiting for him, and their nightly bedtime story.  
Tonight’s story was very important.
	Xellos walked out of the study and down the dimly lit hall to his 
grandchildren’s room.  By the door, a ten-year-old boy stood.  He was 
leaning against the wall, his arms crossed over his chest.  Xellos sighed.  He 
really didn’t want to deal with this particular person tonight.
	“ Phibrizio-sama, how can I help you?,” Xellos asked.
	“ Stuff it, Xellos,” Phibrizio snapped, “ Are you telling them tonight?  
Aneki (older sister) and her husband will be back soon.”
	“ Hai.”
	“ Good, and don’t mess this up Xellos!  Both of our futures hang in 
the balance,” Hellmaster sneered, then he walked off.
	“ What was I thinking bringing him back?,” Xellos asked.  Hellmaster 
didn’t like Xellos, due to some previous confrontations, and Xellos had no 
love for Hellmaster.
	“ I heard that!,” Hellmaster yelled back at the Trickster Priest.  Xellos 
sneered in the direction Hellmaster had gone, and entered his 
grandchildren’s room.
	“ Grandpa!,” Xelterria yelled happily as Xellos sat down in a huge 
black leather chair.  The two-year-old scrambled into Xellos’s lap as soon as 
he had gotten comfortable.  Vallos, who was five, came right after her.
	“ Tonight’s story is very, very important!  Promise always to 
remember it?,” Xellos asked.
	“ Hai!,” they chirped.
	“ Good.  Now, you remember the story of how your mother and Aunt 
Zela were born, ne?,” Xellos asked, and the children nodded, “ Now, I was 
gone for three years.  The first year, I did an extensive report on morning 
glories.  Very, very boring.  The second year, I was to look for the 
reincarnation of Gaav-sama.  The third year, this is where things start to 
become important, I was to look for the reincarnation of Hellmaster 
Phibrizio-sama.  I found him.  In a new born baby boy named Aurizlious,” 
Xellos paused, Xelterria’s eyes were wide with amassment, as were 
Vallos’s-but there was something else in the boy’s eyes as well, betrayal, 
perhaps?
	“ Aurizlious-chan in really Phibrizio-sama?,” Vallos asked.
	“ Hai,” Xellos nodded, “ Now, Aurizlious was only a month old when 
I found him.  His ‘father’ had died in a war, and his ‘mother’ was very ill.  I 
knew she would not live long, so I befriended her.  After all, I had time to 
spare.  She knew she was going to die, and made me take a blood oath that I 
would take Aurizlious in as my son and watch over him always.  I did.  I was 
going to take Aurizlious with me anyhow when she died.
	After she passed away, I still had six months before I was to return, so 
I looked for Gaav-sama some more, and wandered from town to town, and 
city to city with Aurizlious.  When I returned, Beastmaster took it upon 
herself to raise the boy, since she knew Dynast would want no part of it, and 
Deep Sea Dolphin is to insane by any standards to help raise a child.  
Besides, Xellas figured that she had had the best relationship with Phibrizio, 
and he would want her to make sure his new body was properly trained.”
	“ Mommy doesn’t know, does she?,” Xelterria asked.
	“ No, and I was just getting to that, my curious little one!,” Xellos 
laughed, “ No, your mother dose not know that Aurizlious is Hellmaster.  
Now, as you know, Aurizlious was raised as my adopted son, and Raya’s 
little brother.  Even now that Aurizlious has become Hellmaster, he still 
loves Raya as much as a Mazoku is capable of loving.  Strange, ne?”
	“ Mazoku can’t love?,” Vallos asked, confused.
	“ We can’t love like humans or dragons can.  We Mazoku feed and 
crave negative emotions, so the nice ones are harder for us to grasp, but we 
can obtain something very close to love, and at times, I think two Mazoku 
can love each other more then two humans can,” Xellos explained, “ Now, 
when Aurizlious turned sixteen, he was told of his past as Hellmaster, and 
Xellas restored his old memories.  He spent the next five years slowly 
regaining his powers.  When he turned twenty-one last year, he had almost 
all of them back, and assumed his old job as the leader of Hell, and he now 
goes by ‘Hellmaster Phibrizio’.  Do you have any questions?”
	“ Dose Phibrizio-sama ever go by Aurizlious anymore?,” Xelterria 
asked.
	“ Only to Raya and those who don’t know who he is.  All in all, 
Aurizlious died six years ago.”
	“ Is that the end of the story?,” Vallos asked.
	“ No.  There is more to tell,” Xellos said, “ Last year, when Phibrizio 
was preparing to reassume the leadership of Hell, somehow, Zelgadis 
discovered this.  Now, this didn’t bother Hellmaster that much, because Zel 
didn’t know Hellmaster was really Aurizlious.  Then Zel found out who 
Hellmaster really was, and that he hadn’t yet gained back all his powers.  
This ticked Hellmaster off quite a bit, but he decided a brainwashing spell 
would be enough.  Then Zelgadis’s curiosity and his digging around in 
Hellmaster’s plans went too far: he found out that Phibrizio was going to kill 
Lina Inverse for killing him.  In my opinion, the Lord of Nightmares was the 
one responsible for his death, but hey, there is no arguing with a mad 
Mazoku Lord!”
	“ Uncle Zel told Aunt Lina, right?,” Xelterria asked.
	“ He tried.  Zel was on his way to warn Lina, when Phibrizio and 
Beastmaster caught him.  Apparently, Hellmaster and Zel had a rather brutal 
verbal confrontation, then a magic battle started.  Hellmaster may not have 
had all of his powers, but he had quite enough of them to be more then a 
match for Zel.  In the end, Hellmaster Phibrizio killed Zelgadis,” Xellos 
sighed, “ Your Father feared that now that Hellmaster knew he could defeat 
him, Phibrizio would come after him, so he and your mother fled.  Kosha 
was turned into a Mazoku, and Hellmaster continues to gain power.  To tell 
you the truth, I don’t know how much he has.  In my estimate, it is well 
below half, so in twenty years, he should have all his powers.”
	“ Does Grandma Kosha know?,” Vallos asked.
	“ Hai, and she hates Hellmaster with a passion.  At least she did in the 
beginning.  He goes out of his way to be ‘kind’ to her, and she is now able to 
tolerate his presence.  Aren’t we all so lucky!”
	“ Aunt Lina….”
	“ Knows nothing,” Xellos sighed, “ Now it is time for you two to be 
off to bed!”
	“ Will Mommy and Daddy be back soon?,” Xelterria asked with a 
yawn as Xellos tucked her and her brother in.
	“ Hai.  Very soon,” Xellos smiled, “ Evil dreams, my little loves.”
	Xellos left the room and closed the door softly behind him.  He turned 
around and almost jumped out of his skin.  A pair of light green eyes was 
glaring at him from the shadows by the door.
	“ Well?,” the eye’s owner asked.
	“ They know.  I will tell them who to tell tomorrow night.  They were 
falling asleep, and we wouldn’t want them to forget, now would we?”
	“ No, we wouldn’t,” Hellmaster grinned as he stepped out of the 
shadows, “ I’m far more powerful then you think, Xellos.  You mess this up, 
and I’ll fry you.  You are nothing to me.  Quite frankly, if you didn’t mean 
so much to Aneki, I would fry you for fun!”
	With that, Phibrizio turned and walked down the hall.  The wolves 
that roamed freely in Beastmaster’s palace went out of their way to get out 
of Hellmaster’s path.
	“ What I wouldn’t give to kill him!,” Xellos thought as he walked 
down the hall to his and Kosha’s room.

Chapter II

	In his chambers, Phibrizio sat in front of a mirror, examining his face.
	“ Strange,” he muttered to himself, “ I thought my hair had more 
black in it.”
	Suddenly, there was sharp rap on his door.
	“ What!?,” he roared.  The door swung open, and Xellas Metalluim, 
better known as Beastmaster, walked in.
	“ Bad time, Phibby-chan?,” she giggled as she lit up a cigarette.
	“ What in Ruby Eye’s name do you want?,” Phibrizio snapped.  He 
wasn’t in the mood to deal with Xellas.  She was the youngest of the Demon 
Lords, and when you got right down to it, the Five Demon Lords were 
brothers and sisters in a way, and Phibrizio didn’t feel like putting up with 
his youngest ‘sibling.’
	“ To see how things went tonight,” Xellas asked.
	“ Fine.  I listened to him tell it from outside the door.  Fool.  I actually 
startled him when he left.  What did you ever see in him, Xellas?,” Phibrizio 
asked.
	“ Shut-up!  You don’t diss my servants, I wont diss yours,” Xellas 
said.
	“ I don’t have any,” Phibrizio shot back, “ and I’ll say whatever I 
damn well please.  He actually thinks I won’t have all my powers back until 
almost twenty years!”
	“ How long will it really be?,” Xellas asked as she sat down on the 
bed.
	“ Six months at the most,” Phibrizio said as he glared at her, “ Just 
what do you think you’re doing?  I don’t recall asking you to stay.”
	“ Answer one question and I’ll leave.”
	“ What?,” Phibrizio yelled.
	“ Why do you like that childish form so much?,” Xellas asked as she 
lit up another cigarette.
	“ It has many advantages, trust me,” Phibrizio said darkly, his arms 
crossed and his eyes narrowed, “ Now get the hell out.”
	“ But-“
	“ I said out,” Phibrizio said.  Xellas sighed and left.
	“ What’s got you so ticked off, Phibrizio?  Everything is perfect for 
you,” Xellas sneered on her way out.  For L-Sama’s sake!  All she’d wanted 
to do was get a little information out of him!  You’d think she’s asked him 
to-Xellas cut off that thought before she could even finish it, “ Eeewwww!,” 
she giggled.

Chapter III

	The next night, Xellos returned to his grandchildren’s room to finish 
the ‘story’.
	“ Now, you two are never, ever to tell anyone off this story,” Xellos 
said, “ Swear that you wont.”
	“ I swear,” Vallos and Xelterria said together.
	“ Good,” Xellos smiled, “ Now, one day you will meet your father 
when he was young.”
	“ How is that possible?,” Vallos asked.
	“ Don’t worry about that, just know that it is,” Xellos chuckled, “ You 
will see Aurizlious.  When someone asks you why you are concerned about 
Aurizlious, you may tell that person, and only that person the story.”
	“ Only them?,” Xelterria asked.
	“ Hai, only them,” Xellos nodded, “ Remember your promise, young 
ones.”
	“ We will,” they said as they climbed into bed.
	“ Good night, my little loves.  You’re parents should be back soon,” 
Xellos said as he tucked them in.  Then he quietly left the room.
	“ Well?,” a cool voiced asked from the shadows.
	“ They will do what they are destined to do,” Xellos sighed.
	“ Good,” Hellmaster grinned, “ Aneki will return soon, with that 
husband of hers.”
	“ Will you tell her?”
	“ No, I wont tell her till after they have gone back in time,” Phibrizio 
said, “ I’ll kill you if you tell.”
	“ My Mistress wouldn’t care for that.”
	“ I really couldn’t care less about what your Mistress thinks!,” 
Phibrizio laughed, “ There are only two beings alive that are worth anything 
to me are Shabernigdo-sama and Raya.”
	“ What about L-Sama?”
	“ Very funny.”
	“ I thought it was.”
	“ Get out of my sight,” Hellmaster sneered, “ Before you befall the 
same fate as Zelgadis.”
	“ Raya would hate you.  Forever.”
	“ HELLBLAST!!!!”
	“ Ouch,” Xellos whimpered as he crashed to the floor.  Hellmaster 
laughed and shook his head as he walked away.
	“ I should tell her,” Xellos spat.  Suddenly, Kosha charged around the 
corner that Hellmaster had just rounded.  He was running behind her in 
Aurizlious form.  Xellos opened his eyes and blinked, “ What the……”
	“ Raya’s back!!!!!,” they yelled simultaneously as they ran by the 
stunned Xellos.
	“ ‘Bout bloody time!!!!,” Xellos yelled as he joined the charge to 
Xellas’s throne room.
	Xellas was sitting on her throne, enjoying a bottle of wine and 
chatting away with Raya and Valgarv when Kosha, Xellos, and ‘Aurizlious’ 
burst in.
	“ Dad!  Mom!  Otoutosan!,” Raya yelled and ran over to them.  
Valgarv smiled and followed her.
	“ We missed you,” Xellos said as he hugged his daughter.
	“ I missed you too, Daddy.”
	“ Where have you two been?,” Kosha asked as she hugged her 
daughter then Valgarv.
	“ We spent a year on the beach,” Raya giggled.
	“ I really hate you sometimes, Raya,” Xellas sighed.
	“ It was her idea,” Valgarv grinned.
	“ You thought it was a great idea,” Raya laughed, then she turned to 
her parents, “ Where are the kids?”
	“ In their room,” Xellos said, “ They’re supposed to be sleeping.”
	“ Well, either way, they’ll be up in a minute,” Valgarv laughed, “ 
Raya and I will meet you guys in the library later on.”
	“ Of course,” Xellos smiled as Valgarv and Raya left.
	“ When are you going to tell her, Phibrizio-sama?,” Kosha asked.
	“ Get used to calling me Aurizlious in this form, and to answer your 
question, whenever I fell like it!”
	Kosha just sighed and shook her head sadly.

Chapter IV

	The years passed by in a blur.  Zela married a man from another 
dimension, Narse and Rezurla were born and most of all, she tried to forget 
her father’s murder.
	Raya, on the other hand, watched her children grow, and she and 
‘Aurizlious’ grew closer everyday.  Valgarv kept an eye on Hellmaster, and 
learned that he was almost fully dragon, and had very little Mazoku blood in 
him at all.
	Changer and Rezo were the best known healers in the land, and 
traveled all over the land.  Filia was often with them, and kept watch over 
her grandchildren.
	Kosha grew more tolerant of Hellmaster, and he, in Xellas’s words, 
‘softened up quite a bit’.  In other words, he wasn’t as mean as he used to be.
	Xellos watched all these happenings with a heavy heart and waited for 
the axe to fall and break the peace in everyone’s lives….it would take 
twenty long years to happen.

Twenty years passed………

	“ Well, they’re gone,” Zela sighed.
	“ It’s not like we don’t know where they are!,” Raya giggled, “ 
They’ll be back soon, it’s already been two days.”
	“ I finally understand that crack Vallos made about me dropping you,” 
Valgarv grinned.
	“ That was not funny!,” Raya yelled.
	“ I thought it was,” ‘Aurizlious’ grinned, “ It’s not everyday we get to 
see you fall from fifty feet in the air and land in the ocean.”
	“ You’re no help, Otoutosan!”
	‘Aurizlious’ sighed, “ I have to tell her,” he thought, the aloud he said, 
“ Aneki, I have to talk to you, alone.  It’s important.”
	“ Okay,” Raya said as the two of them walked off.
	“ Gods, he’s going to tell her!,” Valgarv whispered.
	“ Tell her what?,” Zela asked.
	“ Nothing.”
	“ You might as well tell her, Val,” Xellos said as he materialized, “ 
He is about to let the cat out of the bag anyhow.”
	“ Okay, Zela, it’s like this…..”
Meanwhile…..
	Raya started in shook at Aurizlious.
	“ No!  NO!  You ARE not Hellmaster!,” Raya screamed.
	“ Raya, please understand, I am,” Hellmaster sighed as he took on his 
true form.
	“ Why didn’t you tell me!!!!!!,” Raya howled, “ No!  I don’t want 
you’re worthless excuses!!!!! I HATE YOU!!!!!! Leave me alone!!!!!,” 
Raya screamed and ran from the room.
	“ Raya!,” Phibrizio yelled, “ Please!  Come back!”
	“ LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!,” Raya yelled back at him as she ran 
down the hall.
	“ Gods, what have I done?,” Hellmaster whispered, “ Raya, my Aneki, 
I will always love you.”
Soon…..
	“ Zela!,” Raya yelled as she ran into the room.
	“ Oh Raya!  Aurizlious-oh Gods!,” Zela sobbed.
	“ I know, I know,” Raya said as she started to cry too, “ He lied to us 
all.”
	“ I’ll kill him!  He murdered my father!  Now I see why Mom hates 
him so much!,” Zela said, “ We have to get the others!  They’ll help us!” 
	“ Let’s go then,” Xellos said as he and Valgarv walked over to the 
girls, “ We’ll all meet back here.”
Everyone but Raya left to get the other.  Raya just sat on the floor, crying.  
Phibrizio stood silently in the doorway watching her.
	In Raya’s mind memories of her and Aurizlious flew through her 
brain.  Then one caught her full attention…a promise that she and Aurizlious 
had made years ago, before he knew who he was….but then, after he found 
out who he was he still called her ‘Aneki’ and said he loved her.  Did he 
remember the promise too?  Could Hellmaster Phibrizio, the most powerful 
of the five Mazoku Lords, actually lover her?
	“ I remember our promise,” Raya whispered, “ and I think you do too, 
Phibrizio….,” she whispered then she vanished.
	“ Of course I remember the promise, Raya.  How could I forget?,” 
Hellmaster whispered to the now empty room.
Later in Xellas’s throne room….
	“ They’re coming for me,” Phibrizio said, “ and they actually think 
they can kill me.”
	“ Hai,” Xellas shrugged.
	“ We can!,” Zela yelled as she, Raya, Xellos, Kosha, Rezo, Changer, 
Valgarv, Filia, Xelterria, Vallos, Narse, Rezurla, and Lei Rezo stormed into 
the room.
	“ We want answers and we want them now!,” Rezo sneered.
	“ I’m flattered.  All of you came to kill me,” Phibrizio smiled.
	“ Hai!,” Zela yelled.
	“ You aren’t Aurizlious anymore!  We can kill you!,” Filia screamed.
	“ Ah, but can you do it when I am in this form?,” Hellmaster giggled 
as he took on his Aurizlious form.
	“ You may look like him, but you’re not him!,” Changer roared, “ 
You murdered Zelgadis!”
	“ You say that as if I enjoyed it,” Hellmaster spat.
	“ I bet you did, you Mazoku namogomi!!!!!,” Filia howled.
	“ Now, now Filia-chan, I thought that was my nickname,” Xellos said, 
“ He should be called something much, much worse!”
	“ Before you all end up killing each other in my throne room,” Xellas 
said, “ I would like to point out that if you kill Phibrizio, he’ll just be reborn 
in a few years anyway, and then he’ll just kill all of you for killing him.  Plus 
don’t you want to know what happened the day Zelgadis was killed?  
Murder isn’t the word for it.  I was there, you know.  I could tell you if you 
want.”
	“ Well?,” Rezo prompted.  Xellas smiled evilly.
	“ This may take a while, so you all might as well get comfortable,” 
Xellas said, “ Oh, and not interruptions or I wont finish this wonderful little 
tale.  Also, no fighting.  The second some one chunks a spell at someone, or 
a weapon is thrown, or some one uses their claws, tails, wings, morphing 
abilities ext., ext., I’ll turn the culprit into a crispy critter before anyone even 
knows what happened.  Okay?”
	“ I can’t believe I’m listening to you, Xellas,” Phibrizio sighed as he 
took a seat at the foot of her throne.
	“ Shut-up and enjoy the story,” Xellas said with a smirk as she began 
her tale.

Chapter V

	“ Well, I suppose it all really started when ‘Aurizlious’ turned twenty-
one.  He could now take on his true form for as long as he wanted, and he 
had enough of his powers back to reassume his old position as the leader of 
Hell.  Weren’t we all so lucky?  Anyway, that’s when Zelgadis began to dig 
around in our business.
	In a mater of months, Zel had found out that Aurizlious was really 
Hellmaster, and that he wasn’t at full power.  He also found out that 
Phibrizio had just retaken Hell.
	Well, Phibrizio didn’t really care that Zel knew all this stuff, but he 
was considering using a mind wipe spell to erase it from Zel’s memory, just 
in case Zel decided to open his big mouth and spill all of Phibrizio’s 
business to all of you wonderful people, and it wasn’t time for all of you to 
know the truth.
	Then Zel’s ‘curiosity’, that’s the nice way to put it, went too far.  In 
not so nice terms, Zel got his nose into business that NO ONE was supposed 
to know.  EVER.  You know, the kinds of stuff people get killed over.  Let 
this be a lesson to all of you: KEEP YOUR BIG NOSES OUT OF 
MAZOKU LORD’S BUSINESS!!!!!!  Anyway, Zel found out that Phibrizio 
was considering killing Lina Inverse for being one of the people directly 
involved in his death.  Considering, mind you, not going to, not ‘oh, I’ll get 
around to it next week’, not ‘hmm, that’s an idea for something to do when 
I’m bored!’, only considering.
Anywho, Zel did what any true friend would do, I suppose, he ran off 
to tell poor little innocent Lina Inverse, who had never done a darn thing 
wrong in her life and didn’t have any enemies or anyone who wanted 
revenge against her, that the big, bad, evil, Phibrizio, (who doesn’t even 
have all his powers yet) is coming to kill her.  In other words, Zel ran off to 
tell Lina that she was about to get to use the Giga Slave again.
	Well, Phibrizio couldn’t have that happen, now could he?  So, the two 
of us ran off to stop Zel and erase all of that juicy info from Zel’s brain.  
Well, you all know how Zelgadis was, he was stubborn and generally a pain 
in the ass.  Like I said, at first we had NO intention of killing Zelgadis.  
Then Zel called Phibrizio and I some rather colorful names.  I have no clue 
what so ever as to how I had gotten involved in the whole situation, I guess 
it was because I showed up with Phibrizio to stop Zel.  Anyway he called us 
some rather mean names, and it pissed us off, and we started insulting Zel 
right back.  Zel and Phibrizio kept getting madder and madder, and I kept 
forgetting to remind Phibrizio that we weren’t supposed to kill Zel, because 
Zel kept insulting little old innocent me!
	Then Zel chunked a Flair Arrow at us.  That was the last straw.  No 
more mister and miss nice Mazoku Lords!  Phibrizio started chunking spells 
right back at Zel, and I kept egging both the guys on…stupid me.  I’d totally 
forgotten that we weren’t supposed to kill Zel.  Phibrizio and I both realized 
what we were doing and that we weren’t supposed to be doing it at the same 
time, and we stopped throwing spells at Zel to have a little talk about what 
we were supposed to do now since Zel was all pissed.  There was no way he 
was going to let us cast a mind wipe spell on him now.
	Our little time out gave Zelgadis, who was still determined that we 
were trying to kill his best friend and him, time to cast the Ra Tilt.  It hit us 
head on, it wasn’t powerful enough to kill us, but it still hurt pretty bad, and 
Phibrizio who was already pretty beaten up, went into a rage and cast the 
biggest Hellblast I have ever seen in all of my life.  The Hellblast hit Zel 
head on and killed him instantly.
	Zel getting killed accomplished two things: One, it snapped Phibrizio 
out of his rage, and he realized that he’d just killed Zelgadis and started 
spazing out.  Second, I realized that everyone would think it was murder, 
and Xellos would probably get blamed for it.  It also meant that I was finally 
going to get to formally meet this Kosha person that Xellos was so in love 
with and was Xellos Raya’s mother.
	Since the only way to bring Zel back would be to resurrect him as a 
Mazoku, and we didn’t think that one would go over to well, and since the 
we didn’t know any white magicians that could cast a Resurrection spell, we 
did the only thing we could do, we left and went back to our regularly 
scheduled lives.  Well, at least I did.  Phibrizio, who was already a lot nicer 
then he used to be since he’d lived for sixteen years as a human, decided that 
it was up to him to watch over Zela and her children for Zelgadis since he 
wasn’t around to do it himself, and he decided to forget about killing Lina.
	Well, there you have our demented little tale,” Xellas finished and lit 
up a cigarette, “ Dose anyone have any questions or comments?  Donations 
to the wonderful storyteller would help too.  Phibrizio, why are you staring 
at me like I’m insane?  I told the story didn’t I?  So I may have added some 
of my opinions and such in, but I think that makes it that much more 
interesting ne?”
	“ Xellas, I really hate you sometimes,” Phibrizio sighed as he rubbed 
the bridge of his nose.

Chapter VI

	“ You still murdered him, weather you meant to or not!,” Filia yelled, 
“ and who cares if you looked over Zela?  You only did it because you felt 
guilty!  And you lied to us all!”
	“ I’m still going to kill you,” Zela hissed as she held up a knife.
	Phibrizio started to laugh, “ Blades can’t hurt me!”
	“ Oh, this one can, it’s got spells on it that’ll cut through you like a ht 
knife though butter!,” Zela roared as she heaved the knife at Phibrizio.  Raya 
ran over to Phibrizio using her Mazoku speed, and shoved him out of the 
knifes path, but she misjudged her timing, and the blade embedded its self 
into her side.
	“ Raya!!!!,” Valgarv screamed and ran to his wife’s side.  Everyone 
else stood staring at Raya in terror.
	“ No!!! Raya!!!! Gods, not her!!!!!  Aneki!!!!!!!,” Phibrizio screamed 
as he fell to his knees by her side, “ Don’t just stand there!  Help her!!!!,” he 
roared at Changer and Rezo.  They snapped out of their horrified trance and 
ran to their granddaughter’s side.
	“ Zela, what the hell did you cast on this knife?,” Changer asked.
	“ Um, some spells that can kill Mazoku.”
	“ Next time you try to assassinate me, don’t do it while there are so 
many people around!,” Phibrizio howled.
	“ There,” Rezo said, “ She’ll be fine in a minute.”
	“ I’m fine now,” Raya argued and pulled herself to her feet.
	“ Raya, be careful,” Valgarv said, “ You need rest.”
	“ No I don’t,” Raya said.
	“ Raya, why?,” Phibrizio asked her.
	“ I remembered our promise,” Raya smiled, “ I realized that you were 
always yourself around me, and all you really did was hide your true form 
from me, not your heart.”
	“ Raya…”
	“ It’s Aneki,” Raya told him with a smile, “ right, Otoutosan?”
	“ Right, Aneki,” Phibrizio grinned and they hugged.
	“ RAYA!!!!!!!!!,” Zela howled, “ He KILLED my father and you’re 
hugging him!!!!!!  And you’re still going to consider him your little 
brother!!!!!!!!”
	“ Hai,” Raya said.
	“ I don’t believe you!,” Zela yelled, “ I’ll always hate him!  And so 
will mother!”
	“ I really don’t care what you think about me!,” Phibrizio exploded, “ 
Maybe I should have let Deep Sea take your kids from you!”
	“ NANI!!!!,” Zela screamed.
	“ Deep Sea Dolphin wants your kids.  She sees them as fun little 
science experiments.  Phibrizio is the only thing stopping her from taking 
them,” Xellas said, “ I told you he was watching over you and your family!”
	“ Look, before we get in a big debate over weather I deserve to be 
hated for an eternity or weather I deserve to be forgiven, I need to clear a 
few things up,” Phibrizio said, “ First off, I need a Priest and a General.”
	“ Are you asking for volunteers?,” Filia rolled her eyes.
	“ No!  Actually, I already know who I want,” Phibrizio grinned, “ I 
want Raya as my Priest and Valgarv as my General.”
	“ Hai!,” Raya said without a moments hesitation.
	“ Only on one condition,” Valgarv said.
	“ Which is?,” Phibrizio asked.
	“ I NEVER have to do anything that will result in hurting or killing 
my mother.  She’s the only dragon I care about,” Valgarv said.
	“ Fair enough, I suppose,” Phibrizio said, “ You have my word, you 
will never have to do anything that’s end result will hurt or kill your 
mother.”
	“ Don’t we get some of your powers?,” Raya asked.
	“ I’ll talk to you both about that later,” Phibrizio said.
	“ Um, can I still call you Otoutosan?”
	“ Only when none of the other Lords are around.”
	“ Okay!,” Raya giggled, “ Um, I have to listen to you, don’t I?”
	“ That’s the general idea, yes,” Phibrizio said.  Raya began to giggle, 
“ What’s so funny?”
	“ I have to take orders from my little brother!!!!,” Raya laughed.

Epilogue

	That all happened yesterday…..what a day it was!
	Raya and Valgarv are now Hellmaster’s General and Priest ( or 
Priestess as Raya is insisting on being called)  An even stranger twist to the 
whole situation is that Phibrizio and Raya are still going to call each other 
brother and sister.  The other Lords are going to have a fit when they find 
out.  Raya is probably going to be able to get away with anything she wants 
too….I almost pity Phibrizio.
Zela, Narse, and Rezurla have moved to Zela’s husband’s dimension, 
permanently, from what I understand.  We will still see them every once in a 
while, but not nearly as much as we used to.
	Kosha and Phibrizio have started over, and oddly enough, I think they 
will end up becoming rather good friends…..what a strange world we live 
in!
	The rest of us have just gone back to everyday living….sadly that will 
not last for long.  Another war is coming in ten years or so.  Ten years is 
nothing to any of us.  How do I know about the war, you ask?
Sore wa himitsu desu!
						Xellos, Trickster Priest.

The End….
(until the war, that is!)

Phibrizio:  That’s more like it!  I have a big role!
Viv:  Glad you’re happy. ( rolls eyes)
Xellos:  I rather like how I’m telling the whole story!
Xellas:  I get to tell some too!
Zel:  You were rather mean about some of it!
Xellas:  Hey, Viv told me what happened, and told me to tell it any way
	   I pleased!  So I did!
Xellos:  Just like she let me write the prologue and epilogue.
Phibrizio:  How come I didn’t get to tell anything?
Xellos, Xellas, Viv and Zel:  BECAUSE YOU DO ALL THE 
		TALKING IN ‘VIV’S SLAYERS SECTION’!!!!!!!!!!
Phibrizio:  Oh, you didn’t have to yell!
Valgarv walks in.
Valgarv:  What’s with all the yelling?  Raya’s taking a nap.
Phibrizio:  Everyone be quite so you don’t wake up Aneki!!!!
Xellas:  You call her Aneki?
Phibrizio:  Hai….Do you have a problem with that, Xellas?
Xellas:  Nope!  No problem at all!  
Valgarv:  The war is next, right Viv?
Viv:  Yep!  I’m having fun writing it!
Zel:  Have a title yet?  And am I even it mentioned in it at all?
Viv:  No, I don’t have a title yet, and I think your name is mentioned 
	     once.
Xellos:  Maybe you should call it ‘Slayers: Just Plain Weird War’.
Viv:……..that could work!
Phibrizio:  You let him read some of the story, didn’t you!!!!
Xellos:  Only because I found out a secret, and so I wouldn’t tell anyone
	   she let me read what she had written.  It was only a couple of pages.
Valgarv:  What did you find out?
Xellos:  Sore wa himitsu desu!!!!!  ^_^
Phibrizio:  VALGARV!!!!!!!!  I can’t believe you asked him that.
Raya: ( yells from other room in sleepy voice)  Otoutosan!!! Be quite so I 
	can sleep!!!!
Phibrizio:  Sorry, Aneki!
Viv:  Speaking of quite, why don’t all of you go do something else and 
	      leave me in peace an quite so I can write!
Xellos:  What are we supposed to do?
Viv:  I don’t care as long as you don’t do it in here.
Five minutes later, Viv is typing away when suddenly her ears are almost 
blasted off by music coming from her living room.
Music:  Yugamu tsuki kakimushitta mune no naka sawagi tateru…..
Raya walks into the computer room, rubbing sleep out of her eyes.
Raya:  Do you want to help me kill them, or am I alone in this quest?
Music:  Shaking shaking in my soul
	   Tenshito akuma….
Viv:  I’ll help!
Viv and Raya leave room.  Soon…
Xellos:  Hey!!!!  We were listing to that!
Valgarv:  It was my song too…..
Raya:  The whole entire neighborhood could hear it and it woke me up!
Viv and Raya proceed to beat the heck out to the people causing all the 
ruckus.
The End!

( Note:  The music was the song Waru-Bad Blood.  It’s Valgarv’s song from Slayers Try.  Sorry if the 
Japanese is spelled wrong, that’s how it’s spelled on a set of lyrics I found on the Internet one day!~Viv