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Chapter Seven

Khirah decided she liked tha warm feeling of Lashka's lips agianst her own. Khirah reached out her and and brushed an errant strand of Lashka's indigo blue hair away from his face. Lashka sat down next to her on the bed and his hands rested upon her shoulders. Any last sane thoughts fled Khirah's mind after that and she wrapped her arms around Lashka's neck.She stiffened slightly as he tried to deepen the kiss, and thankfully, sanity seemed to crash back down.
"Khirah?" Zelgadis whispered as he stood in the dorrway and looke dat Khirah kissing the other man. Then his face flushed with a blush of embarrisment, and something else..... sometihng that he had never felt before. Zel's voice broke through Khirah's fog filled mind and her head jerked up just as Zle slammed the dorr shut.
"Oh Gods." Khirah whispered as she stood up and wavered slightly. Lashka was immediately on his feet and at her elbow.
"Khirah you mustn't get up yet." Lashka whispered as he gently pushed her back on the bed. The blue haired man refused to look Khirah in the eyes, and his cheeks color slightly at her inquisitive stare. "I am sorry, I had no right to do that." Lashka murmured as he fled the room with his head bowed in shame.

Zelgadis swiftly walked down the hall, his heart on fire. He didn't notice Amelia even after he barreled past her down the hall, and the curious princess glanced after him as he continue on his way. Zel walked to the end of the huge hallway and burst through the door of the balcony. He stepped onto the ledge and jumped! Amelia's scream of protest caught in her throat and she watched silently as Zel jumped off the balcony. She had barely taken three steps toward the balcony when she heard him shout, no scream was more like it.
"Ray Wind!" And he flew away from the castle with a burst of speed that shocked Amelia.
"Zel." Ameila whispered.
"He will be alright." Ameila whirled around and stared in shock at Brannon, the youth she had met a few weeks before.
"How did you get here?" Amelia asked.
"I flew." To demonstrate, Brannon levitated afew feet off of the ground. Amelia looked at Brannon with a strange expression on her face. "I repeat, he will be fine, he is just having to deal with some unexpected developments is all. So how are you Ameila-chan?"
"I am fine I guess, but I can't seem to rember the last few weeks very well." Brannon's eyes narrowed and he murmued something. A golden light washed over Amelia.
"Someone tried to seperate your spirit from your body." Brannon said mildly as if talking about the weather.
"What do you mean?" Amleia squeked
"I mean there is a silver cord that connects all of us to our forms on this plane and that if our forms on the Astral Plane. Someone tried to sever yours, therefore trapping you in the Asteral Plane forever." Amelia paled and Brannon was struk by the sudden fear that she would faint.
"That's what I thought you ment." Ameilai murmured. "If you want Brannon, you are welcome to stay here, but I am tired and I am going to sleep." And with that,Amelia dragged herself to her rooms and slept like the dead.

Khirah woke up late the next morning with a pounding headache. She tried to cast a simple healing spell, but to her shock nothing happened. She knew it wasn't that time of the month, so why had her powers stopped working.
"Levitation!" Khirah cried with a slight touch of panic on her voice. But still nothing happened. "NNNOOOOOO" Khirah's scream echoed throughout the castle. Lina was the first to reach Khirah's room, and she found the young woman siting on the floor stareing down at her hands as if she had never seen them before.
"Khirah?" Lina murmued as she knelt down next to the distraught woman. Khirah looked up at Lina, and for a second, recognition didn't apear in her glazed lavender eyes.
"L....Lina!" Khirah cried as she burst into tears. Lina wrapped her arms aroung Khirah and comforted her."It's gone! My magick's gone!"

Lina heart went out to Khirah.
"What do you mean you've lost your powers?"
"There gone, and I...I can't even cast a light spell!" Ameila looked at Lina with a frightened look on her face
. "But that's not possible." she murmued. Lina sighed and place dher hand on Khirah's forehead
. "Sleep" Lina murmued and she and Amelia placed Khirah on the bed.Gourry came rushing in.
"What's going on?" he asked
"Khirah has lost her powers." Lina explained
. "Khirah!" An anguished scream echo down the hall and Lashka raced into the room. He knelt down next to Khirah side.
"I left her for a few moments and .... this happens. Please, is she going to be okay?" Lashka looked up at Lina with frightened eyes. Lina shrugged and the four of then crowded aroung Khirah's bed. Zel stood in the doorway with a strange expression on his face and then he stalked down the hallway. Zel walked to the library where Xellos was reading a book.
"What's the matter with Khirah?" Zel demanded. Xellos looked up and blinked a few times before resuming his read.
"I have no idea." Xellos murmured. The Chimera growled and left the room after he was gone, Xellos disapeared and reapeared in Khirah's room. He remained invisibe and he levitated over her bed and waited silently just like the others until she woke up. Sometime during his vigil, Zellas appeared and stood next ot her Trickster Priest.
"Whats is the matter with her?"
"I don't know Zellas-sama." Xellos admitted. "It seems that she tried to use her powers, and they where gone. The shock was too much for her and she is hidding within her mind." Zellas nodded her head and went in search of Zelgadis. She found the Chimeric youth seting up a massive spell in his quarters.
"Do you want to help my niece?" Zellas asked and Zel nodded his head.
"Good, then lets get started." Zellas walked over to Zelgadis as he knelt down in front of the small map he had placed upon the floor. "I will supply us with the power, you just worry about getting us there." Zellas murmued and she dropped her hands on Zel's shoulders. Zelgadis felt her power run into him, and he gasped at the strength she possesed. Zelgadis begain chanting unde rhis breath and threw some herbs into the brazeer he had sent up.

The pure wave of energy slamed into the barrier that surrounding the part of Khirah's mind that controled her magick, it suddenly shattered, and her power suddenly burst free in a white hot flash of energy. Searing both Zel's and Zellas'minds.
"That hurt." Zel muttered as he looke dover at the Beast Master, she was laying on her side. Zel suddenly realized that Zellas had taken the brunt of Khirah's backlash of power. She had saved his life, but why? And how did Khirah get some much power?