"Sylpheel!! NO!!" cried Gourry as he catched the priestess limp body,
a bloody hole on her chest.
"Gou...Gourry-sa" Sylpheel coughed twice before her body collapsed
lifeless in Gourry's arms.
Lina ran to them calling the priestess' name. Xellos saw Zelgadis try
to Ra-Tilt the Mazoku who had attacked them but it had already disappeared.
Zel ran to join the others. Gourry had laid Sylpheel's body on the ground
so that Lina could try a healing spell.
"It's too late." Zelgadis voice could almost not be heard.
Xellos saw them cry, Lina screamed for someone to help the priestess
while Gourry had gone into some sort of shock. Zelgadis closed with his
hand the priestess' eyes. Xellos walked towards them and picked up
the lifeless body from the ground ignoring the others.
"Xellos!! What are you doing?!" screamed a very suspicious Lina tears
rolling down her cheeks.
"Sore wa himitsu des."
"XELLOS!!"
Xellos considered the mental condition Lina was in and decided it was
not a good moment to mock her, them again, he couldn't tell her what he
was going to do.
"You asked for help, I'm going to help her." and with those words the
trickster disappeared, the dead body in his arms.
"Xellas-sama?" Xellos walked through the dark palace that was his home
when he was not traveling, the lifeless body still in his arms.
"I'm here Xell-kun." said a clear voice from a room on his right.
He walked into the room and saw his mistress partly sitting, partly
lying on a couch, a cigarette in one hand, and a glass of wine in the other.
She looked up at her servant.
"Oh! You brought me dinner!" She jumped from the couch and after a
graceful movement was on the floor changed into her beastform.
"Not exactly, she's a friend of Lina-chan, and I want your permission
to resurrect her."
"Aw..., well if you want to, but she'll be your servant, meaning she'll
be your responsibility..."
Xellos took a deep breath, he hadn't thought she would consent.
"...and, you'll have to paint my nails!" she extended a furry paw with
long wolf fangs.
Xellos sweatdroped.
Where am I? What happened? she looked around her, searching for
something familiar, but there was only darkness. She felt so cold. She
tried to put her arms around herself, but for some her unknown reason she
couldn't feel her body.
<You're dead.> she heard a familiar voice inside her mind.
Dead? She repeated confused.
<Yes.> replied the voice in her mind.
Who are you? Her voice showing fear and unsteadiness.
<Aw, Sylph-chan! Now I'm hurt! Already forgotten about me?>
Xellos!?
<Ah! So you haven't forgotten me after all we've been through?.>
she heard his amused voice. <Tell me Sylph-chan, do you want to come
back?>
Back?
<You were killed trying to save your boyfriends life, remember?>
If the priestess would have a body she surely would have blushed all
sort of different red shades.
<I can bring you back.>
As a Mazoku? She asked somehow suspicious.
<Yes.>
.........
<You could go back to your friends and Gourr->
What do I have to do? She interrupted him before he could even
finish his sentence.
Xellos sweatdroped and started to wonder if this was really such a
good idea...
<Wake up.>