Round Robin story1, title to be determined

[hysteria82]

Rules for Round Robin 1

Special rules!

-If something voilates board policy, L-sama's word is law!

-This story started as a joke, teasing two members of the board. Therefore, in all fairness to them, Lina and Filing Sloth have special veto powers. If they feel something, no matter how innocently meant, comes too close to reality and they ask for it to be taken out it will be done. No questions asked.

-Generally with the voting, majority rules. If there is a tie the chairman will make the final decision.

General rules.

1) This writing exercise is open to any registered member of Slayersfan.com. However, the group as a whole has "creative control" and can censor, or, in extreme cases, ask to have a particular member blocked from participating, if they are out of line. Be warned, NO ONE is unblockable.

2) The group will decide what gets put up as the official chapter. Once the vote is cast and the chapter is pinned, please drop any objections you have. It won't help things.

3) Our primary couples are Lina/Xellos and Zelgadiss/Amilia. No trying to change this without the WHOLE group agreeing it is best for the story.

4) PG-13! (Some breast jokes, cross dressing jokes, and things of that nature are to be expected, but we don't need graphic and detailed descriptions of how anyone "get's it on" with anyone. We don't care! We are after character developement here NOT titillation. if you want that stuff type "Hentai" in your search engine and go elsewhere.)

4) We want to try and post a new chapter a week, so if it is your turn please do your best to be on time. If you can't meet your comitment please pass as soon as possible.

How it is supposed to work!

Whoever's turn it is to write is to take 3 days to write and post 6 paragraphs (which right now is being called a chapter for lack of a better word.) After that, the group has a maximum of 3 days to vote or put up objections to the chapter before it is posted. NB: This is NOT meant to be an exercise in re writing the chapter simply if you don't like it. It is meant to be a process to allow for correcting details, or censoring inappropriate material.

For example, if Lina meets a monster and you think she should fight, but the person actually writing thinks she should run, since Lina could do either, we won't rewrite the chapter to make her fight. Think of something else, perhaps the monster chases her and on your turn she can turn to face the monster. On the other hand if she meets a monster and Lina suddenly starts to compose a poem, unless you can show relevance, ie: the monster is controlling her mind, then yes we probably would want a re-write.

When all are in agreement, the chapter is posted as part of the story.

[hysteria82]

Submissions for the first part of Round Robin 1 go here.

You may only post here between the dates of 11/01/04 and 11/07/04. After that, this topic may be closed and the best section will be chosen to begin the story.

Please read the rules to RR1 before posting.

The person running this story has the final say in what's posted, and if they don;t chose your section, no complaining.

[Zelgadis]

It was a dark stormy night, in an abandoned castle. Abandoned? Maybe not, for the dim light of a lantern was being carried upon slowly at a windows, by a small and crouched ugly man, walking difficulty with his bad leg, until he arrived to an huge room, where he proceded in lighting all the candles around it.

In the middle of the room, a dark sorceress with crimson hairs was giggling, playing with volatile liquid and singing a little song. Then, she turned around suddenly, with a crazed look in her eyes, and adressed her servant:

Lina Inverse: I did it Igor! I have developped both the way to turn feeling into fluid, and to immune mazoku to positive feeling ilness! Now I can finally create the perfect lover, Mwahahahahahahahahaha! Open the tranfere pod at once!

Igor was put backward by the mad laughter, but didn't dare to oppose his terrible mistress, and so, he went in a corner of the room to remove the cover that hided two body freezed in green crystals! One was a tall and muscular blond guy, the other one a shorter purple haired man with an certain savagery hidden behind his closed eyes. Then, Igor pushed a lever, and the ceiling opened up, slowly, letting rain engulf within the room, has lightning menaced to hit them, a strange machinery, buzzling with electricity, slowly descended upon the two crystals.

Lina Inverse walked exitedly, casting the neccessary invocation, and getting ready for the transfer.
Lina: Soon, soon, I will transfer Gourry's love along with my vaccine into Xellos, and my perfect man will be a reality!

Igor: But mistress Lina, why don't you choose either of them?

The glare that she shot him made him back away prudently, but she deigned to answer him.

Lina: Because, my dear servant, I need something stored into both of these man in order to be fully satisfied, and taking that element from the tall blonde will leave him less sequel than doing so with the purple haired one, he will simply forget about me, and go on with his life. That will be...better for him.

And for an instant, the mad look of Lina's eyes softened, as she remembered all those times where Gourry and her had fought against death and overwhelming forces together...then she remembered how often he had been injured because of her, how often he had almost died...added to this the following best of of Gourry's blooper and other silliness, it was enough to have her eyes harden again, as she chanted the last incantation, lowering another lever, and then looking at the sky, her hand just over a button.

As some sort of liquid started to being exchanged from the two crystal, an electric wave of magic and science united started to form around the machinery, surrounded with multicolored sparkles. Soon enough, the waves of magic washed around the room, sending both a laughting Lina and a trembling Igor to the ground, but as she saw what she had been waiting for in the sky, she huriedly raised up to push the button. A small antenna raised from the machinery, had a strange rotating mechanisme started to turn extremely fast, an huge lightning fell from the sky, touching the antenna, and sending blast of power all around the machinery, part of it blowing up under the extreme pressure.

The lightning power kept circling together with the rotating mechanism, accelerating the liquid transfer, until all the machinery exploded in one huge firework, blue, green, yellow and red light filling the room and the sky above the castle, worrying the inhabitant of the nearby village, fearing of what the "enemy of all who live" might be doing in her castle up there.

As she was trying to blow up a part of the dust and smoke that now filled the room, she now saw the two mens slowly shake their head in confusion, trying to get up and adapt to their new sensations.

Lina laughted again, she did that a lot those days, some twisted tongue where spreading rumors about her taking this habits from a past associate of her, the famous Naga "Goldfish" White serpent, current queen of Saillune due to strange circumpstances, after the rightfull heir, Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune, ran away from home, supposedly with a demon.

Looking at her creation, she said:

Lina: Well, aren't I the greatest sorcery genius or what? "YOU" she said, pointing at the ugly little man named Igor, bring him here.

Igor: Yes mistress.

He said bowing has much has his handicape allowed him to. You really are good mistress. Say, how will you call it?

Well, Lina said, since he was created in order to fill up a place in my life that was empty, and his in most part Xellos, how about that we name him Xellsloth?

Igor clapped his hands. "Great idea mistress, you do are a genius!" He said, bringing nearby the mazoku, who was feeling all light and confused, near Lina.

Lina: I certainly am! Ever heard of anyone sucessfully giving the love of an human to a mazoku? I, Lina Inverse, have created my own soul mate! Hu?

Group suddenly bursting in: Yes, we DO have heard of this before!

Red headed slutty looking girl: Lina the Pink, surrender yourself!
Pink haired slutty looking girl: You have been convincted of use of forbidden magic!
Plain regular looking guy: Hand over your underwear, and I'll let you go!
*get bumped on the head*
Dashing looking long dark haired man: What my idiot brother meant to say, was that you are to surrender to us quietly if you want to live.
Brutal Looking warrior: And ye better do as we says girly!

Lina: The 9th hell be cursed, the Sorcerer Hunters! You guy's won't catch Lina Inverse alive!

Slutty looking red head: Ho, is that so?

Lina: *incant a fireball* Exactly, now get ready to be toasted!

Slutty looking pink haired girl: I wouldn't do this if I where you, our comrade here will absorb any magic thrown at him, and it will turn him into a fearsome invincible beast!

Remembering rumors that she had heard, Lina knew it wasn't just boasting. Quietly, she let the fireball dissipate, and tryed to think of a better plan.

Before she had a chance tough, a string of steel trapped her arms and lifted her in the air, as the long dark haired man was preparing a spell that would prevent her from being dangerous anymore, messing around with some paper bearing mystical symbols.

But just as he was about to finish his incantation, the purple haired man on the table opened his eyes...

Seing the crimson haired sorceress in such a dire situation, and acting solely on reflex, the mazoku launched a ball of black energy wich sent the pale sorcerer away, and then he teleported himself, avoiding the string and whip that stroke the space he had stood a split second before, he apeared between Lina and the sorcerer hunter.

Xeloss...kinda: I praise you for capturing the great Lina Inverse, I take it that you peoples must be the sorcerer hunter, correct? Unfortunately, this has to end now, so I suggest that you turn your tails before I teach you what powers his all about.

Then, the mazoku turned to Lina, whispering:
I'll help you now, but you will how me one...and don't think I forgave you for trapping me before with that weird artefacts of yours!

But has he was saying those word, his eyes suddenly became wide has he watched the visage of the captive sorceress, and a strange feeling started to burn within him, his non existant heart beating almost to the point that he could feel it. He had no time to question his feeling tough, for the sorcerers hunters had put themselves in a fighting formation, using Carrot, the young regular looking man, has a shield, holding his sword in front of him, with the huge fighter just behind him, and the two sexy sisters on the side, ready to launch an attack. In a corner of the room, the sorcerer, after dusting himself, had got up, and started to incant a new spell.

This his the scene that witnessed Gourry, as he woke up slowly, feeling dizzy for some reason, he observed his surrounding. He saw a kid, tied up, and being assaulted by the group I previously described, while a small man was standing alone between the warriors and the kid. Gourry raised up, took a few second to gain back the consciousness of his limb, and sprinted toward the wizard casting a spell, tackling him to the ground, has the fire that was launched went just above the head of Xellos and Lina, wich his what brought the mazoku back to reality.

Turning around, his usually calm mask distorted with something that ressembled rage, the newly named, but unknown to him, Xellsloth, spoke in a very cold tone:

Xellsloth: You worms dared to attack her? I will feast upon your pathetic souls humans!

And on these word, he floated at extreme speed in direction of the group, a staff appearing in his hand. With a slap, he sent the sword of the young man away, while the other slap sent the young man in question away as well, in the opposite direction.

Carrot: WOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo
SPLAF!!!

That was the sound his body made has he hit the wall, passing out.

Then, the gem part of Xellos staff collided with the huge man's chest, has he was sent flying in a straight line in front of Xellos. But, L Sama be thanked, the man's breath was cut off by the blow, and so we where spared from the terrible sound effect.

The sword Xellos had so violently tossed aside, embeded itself into the stone floor, just beside Gourry, and the blond swordsman didn't hesited from removing it, since it wasn't planted very deep, (the floor was made of stone, after all)and to charge toward the two womens, with his sligthly damaged sword, cuting a part of the whip and string that the two of them had sent their weapon in the direction of the still tied up (and cursing) Lina.

The sheer speed and agility these two womens had showed, avoiding Xellos while he was playing around with the guy's, and launching an attack directly at their intended target, showed that they where more than just scantily clad bimbo, and so Gourry stayed on his guard, even tough he was uncertain of what to do, given that they where womens, and he was supposed to be kind with womens, right? That was the last things he remembered someone, was it his grandfather? Told him, a few month ago...or was it years? His memory felt even blanker than usual.

But Lina, her hand tied up toward the ceiling, started to really have enough with all of this, has demonstrated by the fireball she launched at the string tying her hand, as well has at the ceiling, freing herself, but also creating a chain reaction, part of the ceiling falling on some of the pseudo magically enhanced scientifical machinery, creating even more smoke, electricity and explosion, that went from one machinery to the other.

The expression of anger of Lina was suddenly replaced by a very worried look. Even more has a flashing red light started to emanate from Ceipheed know where, has if to warn the inhabitants of the place of an incoming catastrophy...

[Zelgadis]

Round robin part 2, done by Nagafan.
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Xellsloth caught Lina's worried look and decided that maybe he had better lend a hand, at least until he had some answers from Lina and had figured things out. Lina was free of the ceiling, but her hands were still bound, thus she presented no problem, well, except for the ear splitting protesting, as he tossed her over his shoulder. He sauntered over to Gourry who was still busy with the magic hunters and caught him in a one armed embrace. The attackers were startled and stopped, wondering what the mazoku was up to. Xell gave a charming smile and said to them "Better run..." "Huh? Why?" demanded one of the attackers. "Oh, you make this too easy." replied Xellsloth, his smile widening. "That's a secret!" With
that he disappeared in a flash of purple light, and reappeared hovering about a quarter of a mile up in the air over the castle. "Hold on Gourry!" he smirked. He then added "Don't squirm Lina, I can't hold both of you if you do..." A few seconds later some ant-like figures were seen hustling out of the castle dragging other ant-like figures with them. The magic hunters had escaped. Xellos waited a short time more. Then it happened. Basically it could be called the worlds first machine made Dragon Slave. Lina shrieked something to the effect of "MY CASTLE!!!" then fainted. "Impressive!" said the remanufactured mazoku as he teleported the three of them to a safe landing by a little stream. For a moment he debated whether to revive Lina by tossing her in, but decided that in this case discretion was the better part of staying alive, and so he gently set the molten tressed sorceress down under a tree to keep the rain off of her. And who knew? Maybe there would be a stray lightning bolt, and let's see how she liked it for a change! He left it to Gourry to untie her as he went back to the ruin of the castle.

Digging around he soon found what he sought, the creature called "Igor". He had studied this bent and mishapen creature as best he could while caught in the crystal, now he wanted some suspicions confirmed. Finding the creature was the first confirmation, finding him alive was even more of a confirmation. But what really pleased him was seeing that his guess had been right, Lina had put a disguise spell on him. Now that Lina wan't around, the spell was gone. The creature before him was still bent and twisted, but it was now apparent that this was due to some sort of freakish injury from an explosion or some other accident. Now, instead of an old man, a young chimera lay at the feet of the mazoku. One with blue skin decorated with rocks. Although the same explosion that crippled him seemed to have knocked a few of them loose. "You..." said the mazoku, as he scooped the unconcious form up into his arms. He would live, Xellsloth determined. A few minutes later when he returned to Lina's side he found Gourry was gone and Lina was awake. He cocked an eyebrow and Lina chuckled. "I told ol' puddin' brains there that I was hurt and that we needed a healer. I know, cheap ruse, but it works out for the best because I happen to know Sylphiel is passing through the little village near here. She's on a pilgimage or something before committing her life to some sort of a secluded prayer cloister for virgins only. She won't be able to resist helping Gourry help me, and so, when they return and find us gone, someone will be there to stop him, eventually, from looking for me forever. He won't remember why he wants to, he'll just do it. She will stop him. And who knows, when she realises his love for me no longer resides in his heart, she may decide not to enter that cloister after all. I know they'll be happy." She got up and gave Xellsloth a seductive look as she walked over and hugged him tight, despite the fact that he still hads "Igor" in his arms. "Just like I know we're going to be too, my Masterpiece..." she cooed. "So you acknowledge me as your Master then, do you Lina?" smirked the mazoku. "Just because I love you enough to risk everything to get you doesn't mean I'm not prepared to fireball you into next week Xelly-poo" Lina cooed again, only this time making the coo sound deadly dangerous. It wasn't lost on Xellsloth, nor was the icky feeling he go from being called "Xelly-poo". He reflected for a second that
"Namagomi" would have been prefered. "You're starting to sound like Martina, I give up!" said the mazoku quickly. "Good Boy!" said Lina, hugging him again. They started to walk away into the stormy night.

"How 'bout some answers while we walk?" asked Xellsloth. "Sure," said Lina, "where do you want me to start?" "Good question, beloved." said Xell who then stopped and said "Did I just say that?" He walked on again and said "Um, okay, let's start with Zelga..." "IGOR!" Lina cut in sharply. "Right, thingy here..." said amost confused mazoku. "Well, the short story is that he injured himself trying a spell thet he hoped would cure him. Caused one hell of an explosion apparently. I've tried to heal him but his chimera body doesn't respond to
normal healing spells. So I've had to leave him twisted for now. But the real problem was that, well, she was with him, and no one found her after the explosion. He was in an agony of the soul thinking he had blown her up. In the end all I could do was slap a memory cap on him so he remembers nothing of his former life, and then a disguise spell so he wouldn't be recognised. I don't know what happened to the Princess, but he doesn't need vengful relatives or countrymen to deal with, at least until he can straighten out and heal, both physically and mentally. In fact, it was one of my experiments gone wrong looking for his cure that lead to finding the love vaccine that makes it possible for you to love me. Now we can get to that in a minute, but to finish up here. I don't know how strong that memory cap is, so don't call him by that other name, okay? Also, I'll have to wait till he wakes up and see if the memory cap was lifted by the blast back there. If it is, you may need to help me replace it." "And the disguise?" asked a horrified and facsinated Xellsloth. "Oh right, thanks for reminding me...," She mumbled a spell and the unconcious form in Xell's arms melted and changed before his eyes, until a wizzend and ugly old man now lay there. The trio walked off into the storm.Zel comment:Bastard! I made Naga a queen and you fused me with Igor! <(((_<))>
A short while later a sorry troop of magic hunters made their report. After the ritual abuse for failing they were dismissed. The leader turned to his assistant and said "What do you make of that?" "Only that Lina has succeeded. The Mazoku can now be made immune to love's negative effects on them." "I agree." said the leader. "Now we are in for it. If that formula is used on an even higher level mazoku there is no knowing where this will stop. Holy Cephied's greatest power, the one that Shabradnigdo could not withstand in the end wasn't his magic, it was his love for this world. If the ruby eyed one should ever be awakened, and this antidote used on him, the world will end. But perhaps worse, if this antidote should fall into the hands of a high lord of the mazoku, most likely now the Beastmaster herself since that is whom Xellos serves, we may find that she can impose a mazoku dictatorship on the world that none but L-sama herself can break!" "What was Lina thinking?" "That's why we need to find her, so we can ask." "How now? She has succeeded, and fled." The leader thought for a minute. "We could send her..."

In a secret chamber the masked young woman practiced. She had done little else for the past long while. She called on her power and set up the pentagram that she was using as a safe target. Today's practice was using only the thoughts of the mind to cast the Ra Tilt without having to speak the chant. She closed her eyes and concentrated. There was stillness for a minute. Suddenly, a blue sphere appeared above her head and discharged. Unfortunately, the leader had chosen just that second to enter without knocking, and the distracted girl fired a perfect beam of energy straight at him. Throwing himself to the floor he was narrowly missed by the burst which bounced off of the walls of the corridor a few times and dissapeared. A second later there was a bang and a scream, followed by several unmagical words. "I had the sign up..." the girl said. "My bad..." gasped the older man, getting slowly to his feet. "Listen, huntress, I have news for you." He quickly outlined the plight of the council with Lina Inverse. The girl wasn't interested until he got to the part where, just before fleeing the explosion of the machine, one of the magic hunters had noticed that the creature Igor had suddenly lost a disguise spell in the confusion, and was revealed to be a bent and mishapen blue skinned chimera. Alas, he didn't see the face, but it was possible..." "Enough!" snapped the petitie woman, cerulian eyes snapping open with a fierce light. "I am engaged!" The leader left and the young woman went into her room. She removed her mask and looked at her face in a mirror. She hated doing so, but forced herself once a day to do it, lest it become a weakness she could have turned against her. She was very pretty, pouty lips that could widen into a joyous smile, large blue eyes that seemed to have no end of depth, soft jet black hair that tumbled to her shoulders..., and a livid scar on half of her face, where an explosion had burned her as it had blown her out of a house, so long ago now. She remembered coming to, several miles from the explosion, where she had apparently run in a daze. She had found someone's house, and fainted at the door step. The Sorcerers Guild had a local chapter there, and so she had been healed as best they could, but they couldn't do everything. No one knew what had happened to the chimera she had been helping, no body was ever found. Somehow she had known he wasn't dead. Now, finally, there was a lead. Now she would end her training in the guild and go to seek him. Her own life meant nothing to her till she found him. She took a picture she had of him, one drawn from memory, and looked at it a long time. She hoped he was okay, she hoped he would remember her. She had to know. "Zelgadiss? Can you hear me in your heart, beloved? It's me, your Amilia, I'm coming for you..."

At the same time, and perhaps more ominously for the retreating trio, a pair of beautiful, but bitterly cold and unfriendly eyes were looking out of the Astral plane. They were searching, searching, always searching. He was late. He was missing, and something had happened to sever the link between them! Somehow it seemed tied to that Lina Inverse. Well,she was tired of waiting for Xellos. The owner of the eyes geve her blonde hair a toss, placed another cigarette in the long holder she liked to use and summoned her wolves. "Find him or else!" was her only command. The wolves left, they didn't desire to find out what the or else was. But the lady reflected a moment as she watched her best minions depart. "Or else what, Zellasmetallium?" The answer was swift and to the point. "Or else, I'm going to look for him myself!"

[smoriagrids]

Dallas - Keep the Story Going Game New Dallas game Use TWO SENTENCES in each posting to continue the story...

Once Upon a time there was a ranch called Southfork. Ellie and Jock Ewing lived there with thier sons Bobby and JR.


next?

[Nagafan]

This relates to Slayers, how???

[Zelgadis]

Looks like someones his lost here.

Okay, let's try his two sentence idea.

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Lina walk out of a restaurant burning in flames.

She carry a giant meatball on top of a stick.

[Nagafan]

Gourry walks behind Lina,twiddling a fork and eying the meatball.

"Say Lina, wasn't that a bit excessive? Where are you going to get any more world famous giant meatballs from?