Gracia still felt a little weak but all her injuries had been healed with a very powerfull white magic spell. When Gracia exited the room, she could see that she was in some kind of hospital. There were beds and injured everywhere. Sylpheel and another black-haired woman were attending them.
"That's Eris, she and Sylpheel take care of the infermary." said Ayla, leading Gracia through a long hallway.
"Where am I?" asked Gracia looking at her suroundings.
The building was strange, no windows, long corridors, all light was provided by lightspells that were fleating around.
"Oh... This is Kayless, headquarters of the resistence. Were're several feets undergroung. This used to be the catacumbs of a church, but it's been our base for almost 22 years. I was born here, you know."
It makes sence... Gracia thought, an undergroung facility would be difficult to find by the Mazoku...
Gracia had heard of the resistance, but had always thought it to be only a myth, a feary-tale desighned to lift the spirit of the survivors. And now she was walking through the headquarters of that myth.
Gracia and Ayla passed by many people on the hallways, many of them waving a hand at Ayla as a sign of greeting.
Ayla stoped in front of a wooden door and knocked.
"Yes?" answered a clear female voice from the other side.
"It's me Ayla. I've brought a survivor from Slesia, she has some important news." said Ayla.
A young woman opened the door. She had shoulderlenght hair with long bangs that covered her eyes when she looked down.
"Come in." she said gesturing them inside.
"I'm Luna Inverse, knight of Cephied." she said.
"I'm Gracia Will Tesla. That Mazoku took my sister, I have to go save her." siad Gracia.
Luna looked a little starteled, "I didn't know they were taking prisioners. Do you remember what kind of Mazoku it was?"
"Dunno. A woman with blue hair in a pigtail." siad Gracia.
"Blue hair in a pig tail you say?" asked Luna to confirm that she had heard right.
Gracia nodded and looked at Luna who seemed to be lost in thought for a moment, but then the knight shocked her head returning her attention back to them.
"Thank you... this defently is important information... Ayla, why don't you show her the town and get her something to eat? I'll see you later and don't worry about your sister. I'll see what I can do for her." said Luna and closed the door behind them.

Something moved in the shadows of the room.
"Hy Xellos." said Luna not turning around.
"Why is it I can never startle you sis?" asked the trickster priest coming into the light.
"Don't call me 'sis'. I'm not related to you." said Luna now turning towards him.
"Oh, but I've been alive almost as long as you have and we've been through so much toghether, and you know I've always wanted a big sister and be-"
"You're weird." she interupted him.
This was like a game to them. A game that had started about 1000 years ago. He would always call her 'sis' and she would always remind him that she was not, and he would try to convince her, and she would end up calling him wierd.
"Well...?" said Luna.
"That girl is probably one of Sherra's latest toys...." said Xellos walking up and down the room.
"'Toys'?" she asked rising an eyebrow.
"It's her latest occurence, she is collecting 'toys' to amuse her. I guess Valgarv isn't enough ."
"Can you do something about it?" asked Luna, not very pleased of the idea a girl being a Mazoku general's 'toy'.
"I'll see what I can do... but I can't promise you anything, Sherra likes to break her 'toys'... see you sis." said the Mazoku kissing her check. He knew he would tease her by doing that.
"Xe-" she started to protest but he had already disapeared.
Luna sighted. It was strange that the Knight of Cephied was best friends with a Mazoku general/priest and his lady, one of the Dark Lords herself.
They were powerfull allys to the resistence, ever since Shabranigdu had taken hold of the body of Xellas' lover Lei Magnus. The Lei Xellas loved had ceased to exist and the Beastmaster was determined to stop Shabranigdu from doing more harm, whatever the cost....
Powerfull allies indeed... tought Luna before her mind drifted towards another powerfull ally. She hadn't seen him in more than 20 years, but for a person that was almost inmortal, it wasn't such a long time....

Luna was holding her baby sister in her arms, only weeks old. Luna's mother had died giving birth to Lina leaving Luna to take care of the baby. Her mother had been the Knight of Cephied, so now the title was passed to Luna and with it all of the responsibilities as the head of the resistance.
Lina was sleeping, her little chuby fingers grasping Lunas' tumb.
"She's a healthy baby..." said a voice behind Luna.
There were very few people that could creep that close to her without her noticing it. He was one of them. Luna turned around towards the man with the red-purpel hair. He was holding a little boy , of about 4 years of age in his right arm, his staff on his left. She didn't ask about the boy he would tell her soon enough...
"I'm sorry about your mother." he said looking at her with his blue eyes. (Note: as Shabby is still in Lei, he cannot be inside Rezo, therefore Rezo's eyes are still open.^_^)
Luna put little Lina in her craddle.
"Nice to see you again Rezo, the years have treated you well." said Luna returning her attention to the man.
"Thank you. You're the same as always. I see the new base is coming along pretty well." said Rezo motioning around the room with his staff.
"Oh yes, this is a perfect location... and there's so much to do..."
"I have a favor to ask of you." said Rezo to her. "This is Zelgadis Greywords, my grandson."
Luna took a better look at the boy: blue skin, pointy little ears, little rocks here and there and big eyes looking everywhere. Luna had originally thought he was and elf.
"You made him a chimera." she said matter of factly.
"Malef was attacked, he was a weak child, he wouldn't haved survived..." Rezo said staring at the wall.
"Malef.... your daughter?" said Luna.
"Dead." said Rezo, no emotions showing, but Luna had known him for a long time and knew how to read the signs in his inexpresive face, he was mourning.
"I cannot take the boy with me on my next journey." he said, his glace turning towards her once again.
"I can arrange for someone to-" Luna started to say.
"No, I want you to train him. He's should be very skilled in magic and his chimera form will make him a good fighter."
"But I can't.... I alreay have Lina.... and the new base..."
Rezo extendet the arm carring Zelgadis towards Luna.
Little Zel looked from the weird man who had turned him into something blue towards the woman who looked like momy. He took his tumb out of his mouth and extendet his arms towards the momy-look-alike.
When Zel had put his small arms around Luna's neck, she knew she had lost the battle.

Luna shook herself out of the memory. Both Lina and Zelgadis had grown up into fine human beings, both were very skilled with magic. Zel had shown an aptitude for shamanism, while Lina had concentrated on black magic.
Filia and Xeres ahd been a great help teaching te children. The dragons certainly were very qualified teachrs. Luna had to smile at the mental image of a nine year old Lina,a fifteen year old Gourry, thirteen year old Zelgadis and Sylpheel and a four year old Ayla playing tag in the corridors. They had been the only children in the base back then, the community had grown a lot in the resent years from original 20 to over 70 now, and new refugees found their way to Kayless evryday. Luna sighted again, she had a lot of work to do....