• 1-Honto no Koi (rewritten)

Disclaimer: I don’t own Slayers or the song!

A/N: I figured out how to start it off better! Everyone cheer for me! I shall give warnings now to…so any flames
mean naught

Warning: No
Amelia/Zelgadis pairing

Warn Flu Fluff

Warning: No
Lina/Zelgadis pairing

Warning: Stupidity
and cheesiness Mmm…cheese

Warning: OC

Warning: May be taken
as Amelia bashing (But I’m TRYING to avoid that)

Warning: If you don’t
like Japanese names, deal. My story,
I’ll do what I like thank you!

Warning: Maybe a
little OOCness

Okay, does that clear everything up for
this? Can I continue now and say you
were warned?

Chapter 1: Village

Gl'>Grew up in a small
town

And when the rain
would fall down

Sometime in the past

“Hey, Cat!” Maru called out to me, “What’s
going on?”

“Don’t you mean what’s up?” I asked, “I’m
heading out on another trading venture.”

“Can I come?” she asked and looked up at
me with her bright eyes.

“You know I won’t allow it until you’re
much older,” I said with a grin.

“Aww…” she said, “And you’ll want me to be
better trained too, right?”

“You’re a dragon; you’ll be fine in no
time!” I said and ruffled her hair, “Have you begun to breathe fire yet at
all?” Breathing fire was something all
dragon clan members learned how to do, and it was one of a few abilities they
learned how to use when not in their dragon form. We weren’t gold dragons, black dragons, or
anything of that sort. The dragon clan
was something really different. If we
had to have a name we were Ancient Dragons, the oldest of the races. The village I stayed in wasn’t our only
village, but it was one of the biggest.
We were in a sense trying to remain hidden from the rest of the world,
no one knew this village held members of the dragon clan, save for a few.

“I haven’t even had my first time of the
month yet!” she exclaimed, “Mama said she won’t let me practice trying to
breathe fire until then!”

“I learned that when I was younger than
you were!” I exclaimed with a laugh, “But some parents can be protective.” I was only about 20, and the leader of a
clan, go figure.

“But you’re special!” she said, “You’re
our leader, not just a dragon!”

“And that makes me special?” I asked and
she pulled me down and I leaned in close.

“Yes it does, because you’re also a member
of the tri-clan!” she said, “And I heard you have really pretty wings, but you
don’t like to show them…”

“No, I don’t because they aren’t white
wings,” I replied.

“But any sort of wings are pretty!” she
said. I was a member of the fairy clan,
which was part of the tri-clan. It
consisted of the Dragon, Phoenix
and Fairy clans and was the most prent ent and powerful of all the clans. So in a way I was leader over all clans but I
didn’t really do much except stand as a sort of symbol. Anyways, I had been born with black wings
instead of white as the fairy usually had, so the fairy clan shunned me a
little, well, more than a little but I didn’t mind. The phoenix clan didn’t mind but I still felt
more at home with the dragon clan.

“It all depends on who sees them,” I said
with a sigh.

n
sn
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> “Can I see them please?” she asked and I
smiled at her sadly, giving in.

“Tell you what; if you behave yourself
while I’m gone I might just give you a little peek at my wings…” I said. The wings weren’t visible unless I
technically ‘spread them’ which consisted of me bringing them out of my
body. It wasn’t a bloody or painful
experience; it was just sometimes frightening to those that had never seen me
spread my wings before to see them just suddenly appear.

“Okay then,” she said, sounding slightly
disappointed. I tickled her a little and
she giggled.

spanspan>“Don’t be depressed!” I said, “C’mon,
cheer up Maru!”

“Okay then…you bring me back something
from your trading, okay?” she asked and I nodded, “Cool!” I stood up and brushed some dirt off of my ts ats and headed off out of town. Maru
and some of the other children followed for a while and then left by the time I
reached the edge of the forest.

“Hey sissy, wait up!” a familiar voice
called and I looked around until Piers, my brother greeted me.

“What is it?” I asked.

“Do you have any special orders you want
me to take care of while you’re gone?” he asked and I smiled at him and nodded.

“Like always, just protect our people…my
clan…” I said and he placed his hand on my shoulder before pulling me into a
hug.

“I always have and I always will,” he
said. We had this conversation every
time I was about to leave.

“Take care big brother,” I said and began
to break the hug.

“Stay safe sissy,” he said, “Stay safe
Cat. Don’t worry; I will protect our
people…”

“I
know…” I said and then headed off into the woods, “Keep the fires
burning!” It was a bit of a sarcastic
remark that I left him with, considering he was born under the element of
water. Everyone is born under an element
in our clan and our abilities and our dragon forms seem to represent that
element. I was born of the wind and
water, but my dragon form looked like that of a larger dragon that didn’t seem
to fit either of those categories. My
brother told me that was probably because I wasn’t ‘just a regular
dragon’. Oh well.

“I’ll put them out before you get back!”
he joked back and I smiled. I should
have known that when I returned things would be different, but I didn’t know, I
hadn’t realized at the time… I didn’t know I should’ve skipped this trip…

Returning

I’d just stare out my
window

Dreaming of what could
be

Destruction

“What has happened here?” I asked, running
forward. All the houses, destroyed. There wasn’t a building left standing. I ran to the town center and saw only
destruction. The fountain in the middle
of the town squirted water in every direction, and on the ground, the dirt and
what was left of the grass were stained crimson. I felt anger and frustration and confusion
and hatred. What had happened in the
time I was gone? All of this destruction
looked fresh! If I hadn’t taken my time
getting back home… Where was Piers? Where was my brother…oh god, my people, they
were all…dead?

Frustration

Death

“Sissy!” a weak voice called out,
“Sissy!” I followed the voice, so faint
and so distant, thanking god my hearing was sharp. My house, in the rubble of my house, I saw a
form, it looked…oh my god!

“Piers!” I cried and ran forward and began
to pull him out of the rubble. He was
bloody all over and I began to cast as many healing spells as I could. I would not loose him too, not him too!

“I’m sorry,” he said,
“Couldn’t…protect…them…Mazoku…”

“A Mazoku?” I asked, “Did a Mazoku attack
our village? Why?”

“…” he shook his head to say he didn’t
know why. My people…destroyed…I wasn’t
able to protect them!

Regret

Trying hard to reach
out

But when I tried to
speak out

Anger

“Don’t…cry…” Piers murmured, “Don’t…let
them…feed…off of you…”

“I know I shouldn’t…they aren’t here now
though!” I exclaimed and with a rush of anger my black wings stretched above
all and I let the tears fall, all my people, all the
clan in this village, murdered.

“Sissy,” Piers murmured before he blacked
out.

Desolation

Felt no one could hear
me

Wanted to belong here

But something felt so
wrong here

So I’d pray

I could breakaway

Fear

I don’t know how long it took me to bury
all the dead that I found as the fires died out. Piers couldn’t do much, being as injured as
he was. I made a sort of tent out of
scraps of wood and let him rest in it. an>Ian>I
made sure he rested and made sure the bandages and healing spells had worked as
they should have. He slowly regained his
appetite and never once I asked him for details on what had happened, not
once. I knew he knew I wouldn’t ask, I didn’t want him to suffer having to tell it to me,
telling what he saw. All I heard him
mention was in his sleep, he said the Mazoku forced him to watch, watch as our
people were murdered and then he let Piers live, just because Piers had tried
to stand up to him, to protect our people.
He muttered in his sleep if he had only been stronger…

Emptiness

I’ll spread my wings and I’ll learn how to fly

I’ll do what it takes
till I touch the sky

Loneliness

After Piers recovered, he went to a townne one of our towns, a smaller one though, very small. It was past the dark forest and he said he’d
go around that. I believed him. I offered to go with him too, but he said
that I should stay behind. Just for a
little while he had said, just to let him go on alone. He’d take all the th in in the cart with
him, the things I had traded for but he wanted to be by himself for a
while. I knew he’d be alright, I knew he
would. My wings remained spread; I wore
black like always, looking like some dark angel. I was nicknamed the Black Winged Angel by
some, by those that had seen these wings.

Loss

Make a wish, take a
chance

Make a change and
break away

Hardship

I stopped crying after the first day, my
people…sure I had to mourn them, but I didn’t feel like I could yet…I didn’t
feel like I could…

Broken

Out of the darkness and
into the sun

But I won’t forget all
the ones that I love

Despair

I couldn’t cry for them as I wished I
could. I wanted revenge…I wanted to find
who had killed, who had murdered my people and show them what it was like to
feel pain. I stayed behind for a time
when Piers left and built a monument in the town square, and made it so it
could never be destroyed.

Annihilation

I’ll take a risk, take
a chance

Make a change and
break away

Forgetting

I could never forget. I was cursed so I could never forget, and I
lived with it, hating it at times like these, wishing it could disappear for
one moment…only onmentment and then I would be back. Wishing for the release of death, to join
Maru and the others, to not feel so alone… Even with my brother, even with my
clan, I still felt alone…

Revenge

“I will avenge you…” I murmured and headed
into the forest, finding the path miles inward and starting my travels. So many times I had traveled this road; so
many times I had forged a path along this dusty track. So many memories that were my own. I was only 20, but I have seen much in my
time, and now I had more time than ever to do what I wanted, to wait for the
evil that struck down my village to come to me.
I couldn’t go searching for it; the Mazoku had left no trace, no way to
track it. I would become smarter,
stronger, and finally when the day came I would face the Mazoku and win. I would avenge my people and be able to cry.