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		   Converging Fates

		   By Kyle Emmerson


Chapter Three: The Second Meeting

****

	"Status?", the General asked, not even waiting until
the lieutenant was completely in the room.

	Closing the door, he began to speak. "We've found
the object in San Francisco, sir. However when we arrived
there, there was nobody else to be found. We've questioned a
few people in the area, and it seems whoever was inhabiting
it was human."

	"What can you tell me about it?"

	"We've managed to make our way into the cockpit. The
instructions are written in English, however we seem to
be unable to start it as of yet," he continued. "Another
thing. The metal is from a source we've never seen before.
Our scientists believe it may be a new element, but it
appears that, although it seems to be in working condition,
the craft itself may be in excess of five thousand years old.
Since we are unable to move the object at the present moment,
we've sealed off the area."

	The General looked at him. "Drape a clothe over it
and bring it to the Cedar Grove Facility. I'll be leaving for
it in under an hour. What is the status on the two teens?"

	The lieutenant swallowed. "Sir, they've escaped."

	"What?"

	"The guards were found unconscious outside of the
hospital sir."

	"Are you telling me two TEENAGERS managed to knock
out five United States Soldiers?!"

	"No sir. It seems a policeman did it to them."

	"A police officer?"

	"Yes. That's what the witnesses said, however we've
checked with the Cedar Grove police departments. There are
only two Asian police officers, and each of them were
accounted for at that time."

	"So the mysterious police officer was Asian as well,
eh? I think we may have found another one of our visitors..."

	"Eight, sir."

	"What?"

	"There were eight of them."

	"GET THEM! FIND THEM! NOW!"

	"Yes, sir," he said as he left the room.
	
	A moment of thought for the General led him to press
a button on his intercom.
	
	"Miss Wayans?", he asked.
	
	"Yes, sir?"
	
	"Arrange transportation to Cedar Grove, California.
I've got to check up on something."
	
	"Yes sir."
	
	"And Miss Wayans?"
	
	"Yes?"
	
	"Don't tell anyone."

****

	How it could be explained, he didn't know. How it
moved, how it worked without magic, he couldn't even
imagine. And yet, it did. He looked farther down the
road.
	
	Correction. THEY did.
	
	Zelgadis had never seen contraptions of the like
before. He couldn't even fathom how they worked without
magic.

	If given some time, he could probably design
something like it, and infuse it with magical force. At
least then, he would understand it.

	But without magic?
	
	Several of them were lying dormant near the side of
the road. He walked up to one, placing his hand on its
shell. The sleek, red, shiny shell of it. He could
almost feel the sensation of riding such a contraption.

	Lina seemed more interested in looking over
somebody's shoulder near a bench, several metres away.

	She was captivated by what was happening in his lap.
	
	What they had thought before simply to be a small
box, seemed to have an entire world trapped inside. With
sounds, sights. Even people.

	Lina had originally shrugged it off as a type of
crystal ball for fortune telling. Until Zelgadis pointed
out that he sensed no magic.

	Lina, after finally noticing it as well, immediately
became interested.

	The man, who obviously did not speak their language
looked nervous with an overeager redhead looking over his
shoulder.

	It was almost like a book. The contraption would open
as a book. But with control. He interacted with what was
happening.

	There was a small... something. An arrow of sorts
that he could control simply by placing his finger on a
flat surface. When he brought the arrow to another
image, and pressed down a button twice, at a fast rate.
The image changed.

	Lina was captivated.
	
	Gourry, however, seemed to be more interested in
what two men were doing at a stone table. He watched
them play the game with interest.

	For as long as he'd been watching, the two old men
regarded him as nothing more than an onlooker. They
didn't seem to mind him for the most part.

	Gourry watched with interest.
	
	So far, he had gathered the way they played. The
little pieces could only move forward one space, unless
they were to 'take' another piece, which allowed them
diagonal movement. The ones of the end only moves up and
down, and from side to side. The next ones moved
strictly diagonal.

	The pieces that resembled horses moved in
L-patterns. The tall crowned piece basically went
wherever it wanted, and the other one rarely moved at
all.

	Surprisingly, it didn't take Gourry long to figure
out how to play the game. Gourry may have been lacking in the
brain department, but he knew strategy all too well.

	Which is probably why, when the game was won, one of
the men invited him to play.

	"<Ever play Chess before, son?>"
	
	"What?"
	
	Zelgadis walked over to him. "I think he's asking if
you've ever played the game before."

	"Oh. No I haven't." Gourry shook his head.
	
	The old man shrugged. "<Ya don't speak English,
obviously. Oh well, what could it hurt?>"

	The man made the first move. He moved one of the
little pieces.

	Gourry knew what to do. He had to protect his small
crowned piece. And at the same time, try and get take the
other mans small crowned piece.

	Easily done. He smiled.
	
	Gourry moved a little piece out, to allow access for
one of his diagonal-movement pieces.

	"Hey, you guys should see this! He's got people
trapped in this thing!" Lina shouted. The man she was
looming over was getting even more nervous.

	"Lina, why don't you leave the poor man alone? He
looks nervous enough!" Zelgadis called over to her.

	Lina pouted. "I'm not hurting him. I'm just looking!"

	Zelgadis shook his head and continued his
investigation into the new land. The buildings were
intimidating in a way, the sheer size of them made him
somewhat nervous, but Zelgadis was more concerned of the size
of the city.

	It was huge.

	Zelgadis had been in large cities before. Sairaag,
Sailoon. A few others, but the city he stood in took
precedence over all of them.

	And the fact that he hadn't sensed magic. At all.

	That wasn't completely true. Actually, he sensed the
magic coming from Lina, and Gourry's light sword, but other
than that, nothing.

	Until a few moments later. Apparently the same thing
had attracted Lina's attention. They didn't know the source
until they looked to the north.

	And then they had seen it. It was merely a speck on
the horizon, gone unnoticed by everyone else. Even Gourry.

	But to two veteran magic-users, the sight was seen.

	"A dragon?" Lina asked.

	Zelgadis shook his head. "It's far too large to be a
dragon." He narrowed his eyes, trying to get a better view.

	"What is it, then?"

	"I don't know. But dragons breathe fire, too. This
one isn't. It's breathing... some type of beam."

	"You can see that from here?"

	Zelgadis laughed. "There are some perks to being one-
third Mazoku."

	Lina nodded. "I guess so."

	"I think we have our destination, Lina."

	"What makes you say that?"

	Zelgadis shook his head. "Since we've arrived here,
I've sensed no magic at all. All of a sudden, in a split
second, we see... something that resembles a dragon on the
horizon. If that isn't a sign of where we have to go, I don't
know what is."

	Lina blinked, and then nodded. "Raywing?"

	"I'd suggest that."

	"All right, but I carried Gourry last time. Now it's
your turn."

	Needless to say, Gourry was caught unprepared. As
were the rest of the people in the park as three people who
they had never seen before sped off into the sky.

	The old man at the chess table was too depressed from
losing to a foreigner kid to even notice.

****

	"Hey, take a look at this," the technician called.

	Professor Harjeet Sandhu was a very happy man. At
first, he had shrugged the mass sighting as hysteria, but
when the army had called him to that location in a wooded
area in the outskirts of San Francisco, and saw what he saw,
he changes his mind.

	"What is it?"

	"There seems to be language control here. Look," the
technician pushed a button that changed the language output
on the main screen.

	"German?" the doctor asked. He didn't know German at
all, but what he saw was a European language of sorts.

	"I think so. But according to the viewscreen, the
output language is... Solarian."

	"Solarian? What about the English output, what was
that?"

	"Lambling."

	Doctor Sandhu sighed. "Solarian and Lambling...
Solarian obviously denotes some sort of Solar civilization,
but Lambling... And it's English..." He looked up. "I've got
to think about this. Have you made any success in trying to
find the startup systems?"

	"I believe so," the technician pointed towards a
small hand-sized pad in the console. "This pad seems to be
the startup."

	The doctor examined it. "Yes, it seems to be some
kind of hand-print identifier. I'd assume that the pilot uses
his or her handprint as some sort of... key, to start the
ignition."

	The technician nodded. "Which means, we won't be able
to fly this thing unless we can find the pilot."

	"We can access the systems, though, right?"

	"Yeah, the systems are fully accessible. We just
can't start the blasted thing unless we have a pilot."

	The doctor examined the console in front of him
closely. "This is obviously a vessel designed for space
flight, and the humanoid design would suggest to me that it's
also meant for battle. It's probably safe to assume that
there is a communications system of sorts."

	The technician nodded in agreement. "Yeah, but do we
want to turn it on? For all we know, the people at the other
end of this thing may be ready to invade earth."

	The doctor shook his head. "Somehow, I doubt it.
Remember Roswell?"

	"Yeah, that's that movie with... whatsisname..."

	"Not the movie, blast it. The original Roswell. With
the original crash!"

	"Yeah. So?"

	"If they were going to invade earth, they would have
done it by now."

	"Ahh. Right."

	"Anyway, can you access the communications system?
Get a recording of sorts?"

	"I could try."

	"Do it."

	The technician sat at the console and began to punch
away at keys. Doctor Sandhu smiled as the telltale signs on
the screen.

	It read: 'Access Communications Log?'

	"That's what we want."

	The technician nodded, and entered the assent.

	'Playing last received message.'

	The voice was somewhat accented, it reminded the
doctor of his old University professor.

	"Fei, good luck."

	"That's it?" the technician asked. "Three lousy
words?"

	"Three lousy words spoken by someone not from earth,
in perfect English. In fact, he's even got an old English
accent."

	The technician looked up towards the doctor for a
moment. "What now?"

	"Replay the message, and look for others. I've got to
talk to General Leonard."

	The technician nodded, and then continued his work on
the computer console.

	

****

	"What a city," Fei muttered. "Look at the place! It
looks like the ruins at Zeboim!"

	Elly nodded. "I know. It's so strange. I'd almost
swear we were in Zeboim, if it weren't for the sky."

	Fei blinked. "What's wrong with the sky?"

	"It's the wrong colour."

	Fei looked up. "It's blue. That's the right colour."

	Elly laughed. "Fei, I grew up in the sky. I know the
colour. Yes, it is blue, but it's the wrong shade. The air
here seems to be more fresh, too."

	Fei took a deep breath. "Yeah, I noticed that."

	"And the gravity is off somewhat. I feel heavier
here."

	Fei nodded. "That too. Well, we know it isn't our
world. So it must be the world of origin, or another colony."

	"I doubt it's the results of another colony ship. Our
gears are thousands of years old, perhaps even dating back to
the days of the flight of Mahanon. These people don't seem as
advanced as that."

	"It was ten thousand years ago. Who knows what's
happened since then."

	Elly shrugged. "Could be anything I suppose."

	"There sure are a lot of buggies here, though," Fei
remarked, looking up the road at the passing cars. "They seem
to have a more intricate design, too."

	Elly nodded. "Yeah, we had inter-city transport in
Etrenank, but those were like mass transit modules, like what
we rode in at the tower of Babel."

	Fei nodded his agreement. "We've still got to figure
out what we're doing here. And I don't like the fact that we
left the Xenogears back in those woods."

	"For some reason, I'm not worried about that. Fei,
I'm not sure we'll even need the Xenogears anymore."

	Fei paused. "What? How are we supposed to get back
home without--"

	"Who says we need to go back home, Fei? Deus is gone.
Miang is dead for good, and Krelian... Krelian won't be a
problem anymore."

	Fei shook his head. "But we can't just leave the
others... I promised Bart I'd come back!"

	"Fei, please. They can take care of themselves.
There's nothing for us back there... Why... why risk our
lives to go back to that?"

	"Elly... you..." Fei shook his head. "What about
Nissan?"

	Elly stopped. "Nissan... it's gone, Fei."

	"What about the spirit? They called you the Holy
Mother, Elly. Sophia reborn, how can you just... leave them?"

	Elly looked down towards the ground. "Fei, I... When
I was in Miang, looking through her eyes, things happened.
Her thoughts leaked into my own." She looked up and shook her
head. "I'm sorry, I'm trying to rationalize this, when I
shouldn't be."

	Fei focused his eyes on the very spot Elly was
looking. "It's all right. We've been through a lot."

	"And you're about to go through a hell of a lot more,
freaks," another voice said from nearby.

	Fei and Elly looked up and gasped. They had
inadvertently walked into a deserted alleyway, right into the
waiting arms of several rough-looking characters.

	A gang.

	"Who are you?" Elly asked. "What do you want?"

	The leader smirked, and pounded an aluminum baseball
bat into the palm of his hand. "Relax, we ain't gonna do
nuthin' to you, sweetie. Provided yer boyfriend here gives us
yer cash. Now."

	Fei narrowed his eyes. "We don't have any money.
Leave us alone."

	Several gang members laughed. The leader smiled even
wider. "Oh jeez, guys. These two don't have any money...
Guess we'll hafta leave 'em alone!"

	Fei knew he was being sarcastic, but decided to play
along. "Glad you see it our way."

	The leader's smile dropped. "You see, things don't
work that way... you don't have any money, then that's fine.
We just hafta find ways for you to make money."

	"What are you gonna do? Get us jobs?" Fei joked, with
a serious look on his face.

	"You could say that. A sweat shop would pick you up
for a few grand, and the misses here could fetch a pretty
penny in the whorehouse."

	Elly smiled. "You'll have to catch us first."

	The leader smiled. "I was hoping you'd say that. Come
on guys. Oh, and try not to hurt her face. Butch'll dock us a
few grand if we do that."

	Fei took up a defensive stance. "Let's get this over
with."

	Elly pulled out her attack rod. A twelve inch piece
of metal.

	"Whatcha gonna do with that, bitch? Roll us to 
death?"

	"Something like that," Elly taunted.

	"Let's go."

	And the fight began. The gang leader took his bat and
swung it at Fei, but he managed to kick it out of his hands
easily. Another man swung a chain at him.

	Fei caught the chain with his hand, and then ripped
it out of the hands of the gang member. He swung the chain
around, smacking the leader on the side of the head. The
leader was sent flying into the side of the wall.

	Another bat-weilding gang member approached Elly with
a leer on his face.

	"Ready, sweetie? You gonna taste this real good, I
says."

	"Whatever," Elly replied.

	The gang member swung his bat towards Elly's
midsection. And it connected.

	And Elly smiled.

	The gang member looked on in confusion, as he tried
to figure out how Elly had stopped the swing of the bat with
a mere twelve inch rod.

	She flicked the rod lightly, and the bat flew out of
the gang members hands. Elly crossed the distance between
them and used her rod to hit him on the joints, dislocating
each one as she knocked them.

	She turned and began to work on the next.

	Fei had already knocked out the leader, and the
others were becoming easier and easier. Two had run off after
seeing what the both of them could do, which left two more
who thought they could take them on.

	Less than thirty seconds later, Fei and Elly walked
out of the alleyway.

	"Next time, let's watch where we're going?" Elly
suggested.

	Fei simply nodded.

	"So, I guess we should head back to the Xenogears?"

	"Yeah. As much as I... like this place, I think it
would be best that we go back where we came from."

	Elly nodded, and the two of them began to walk back
the way the came.

****

	"I hope you people know what you're doing. I'm gonna
catch a cold!"

	Ranma shook his head. "Is she always like this?" he
asked Shinji.

	Shinji nodded.

	"It might be an idea to refrain from talking to
loudly. We're attracting enough attention as it is," Cloud
said.

	"Easy for YOU to say. You've got a giant sword and
don't have perverts behind you looking inside of your
hospital gown!"

	Locke and Sabin narrowed their eyes.

	"I'm not a pervert," Sabin said, rather matter-of-
factly.

	"Yeah... Me neither!"

	"Cloud, there ARE ten of us. It would be rather hard
for us not to be noticed," Tifa mentioned.

	"Fine, should we spread apart then?" Cloud asked.

	"NO!" Asuka yelled.

	"I thought you didn't want us perverts looking inside
your gown..." Locke said.

	"Better you perverts than everyone else!" Asuka
replied.

	Akane could only laugh.

	"So, you people come from somewhere else, then?"
Shinji asked, trying to make conversation.

	"Yeah. We're from Japan originally," Ranma said.
"Place called Nerima. Ever heard of it?"

	Shinji nodded. "Yeah. Nerima was destroyed after the
second impact, as well as a lot of the other wards of Tokyo."

	Ranma paused. "Nerima was DESTROYED?!"

	Shinji nodded.

	"You know, I really, really think we'd better move,
Akane."

	"It's supposed to happen in six months."

	"What is?"

	"The second impact."

	Asuka blinked. "Six months... Shinji, do you think...
Do you think there might be a way to prevent it?"

	Shinji sighed. "I don't know... For some reason... it
doesn't feel the same."

	Asuka blinked again. "What do you mean?"

	"Well, feel the ground under your feet. Feel the wind
blow, breathe the air in... It's... different... I can't say
how or why, but it's different."

	Asuka breathed in the air. "It feels the same to me."

	"It's the same for us. When we first arrived here,
things didn't feel right. The air, the wind. Our centre of
gravity... Nothing about it felt right, and I couldn't place
it. Only that this isn't our world."

	"Hell, they've got plants here I've never even seen.
Entire fields of the stuff! Damn straight this isn't OUR
world," Sabin announced.

	"Yeah. Ditto," Ranma looked back on the rest of them.
"There's just something about this place. We're in the future
and all, that could be it... But theres something else... It
just doesn't feel right."

	"I feel something," Terra said.

	The entire team looked back on her. Cloud walked up
and put his hand on her shoulder. "What is it? Is it him
again?"

	"No. I still feel him. It's a dark feeling. But
there's... something else. From the south, near him."

	Ranma looked towards the south. "I don't see
nothing."

	Akane shook her head. "We're an hours drive away from
him right now, Ranma. Of course we wouldn't see anything."

	"They're approaching him."

	"They?"

	Terra closed her eyes, and let a gasp flow through
her.

	"Oh my..."

	"Terra?" Celes asked. "What's... oh my... God..."

	Sabin shuddered under some unseen force, which left
Locke looking at the three of them, confusedly.

	Terra opened her eyes.

	"It's back," Celes said.

	Locke looked at his hands. He snapped his fingers and
a spark flew from them. "It IS back!" he said.

	"What's back?" Ranma asked.

	"Our magic!" Sabin said, and then shoved a fist
triumphantly into the air.

	Asuka scoffed. "Magic? What are you guys smoking?"

	Locke smiled and placed his hands together. He stayed
calm as he closed his eyes and muttered a single word.
"Float."

	Locke rose two feet off of the ground.

	Asuka stared in disbelief.

	"How did we get our powers back?" Sabin asked. He
looked towards Terra.

	"I can only think of one explanation."

	"What's that?"

	"Close contact with the materia."

	Cloud raised his eyebrow in confusion for a moment,
and then let it dawn on him.

	"I see. If you guys are in close contact with a
magical item, then you get your powers."

	Terra smiled and nodded. "I don't suppose you could
be persuaded to lend us each a stone?"

	Cloud nodded. He plucked two stones off of his sword,
and Tifa did the same. They each handed them to the four
magic users.

	"Wait. There's something..." Terra said. She looked
back to the south. "They've found him."

	"What? Who?"

	"I don't know, but they've found him."

	The ten of them looked to the south, hoping for some
kind of sign.

	"Good luck," Terra said, before turning away.

****

	"Come on, slowpoke!" Lina taunted.

	Zelgadis shook his head. "You try carrying him, 
then!"

	Gourry, on the other hand, was ignoring the vocal
exchange between the two of them, and was busily trying to
keep his stomach from exiting by way of mouth.

	So he did the first thing he could think of. He
focused his eyes on something far away.

	That just happened to be the ground.

	The three of them were following a forest road since
leaving the city. They had already gone over several smaller-
sized cities, and were now covering ground faster than they
could have expected.

	They were even moving faster than some of the
vehicles down on the road.

	All of a sudden, Lina stopped.

	Zelgadis caught up to her and looked around.

	"This is the place," Lina said.

	"Yes, I can still feel the energy in the air."

	Gourry was still focused on the ground, but it seemed
to be something in particular.

	"What's going on down there?"

	Lina and Zelgadis looked down and immediately noticed
the gathering that was happening below.

	Several vehicles were lying dormant, with flashing
lights on the top, and there was a small crowd of people.

	Lina and Zelgadis began to lower themselves to the
ground.

	And then they both paused.

	"What's going on?" Gourry asked.

	"There's something... else," Lina said.

	Zelgadis looked towards the horizon. I feel it too.
Not too far.

	Gourry was desperately trying to find an excuse. "Why
don't we go down there and check it out, before we go check
out this new thing? Good idea?"

	"It smells of death down there, Gourry," Zelgadis
said, his eyes still scanning the horizon.

	Gourry narrowed his eyes and looked down. Three men
were making a white outline among a third lying on the floor.

	"Let's go."

	And then the three of them went. Lina and Zelgadis in
the lead, with a wildly flailing and screaming Gourry behind.

	And they went faster this time.

	"What is it?" Zelgadis asked.

	Lina shook her head. "I'm not sure. I feel
something... I can't place it."

	"I think I can. It feels like a disturbance in the
astral plane." Zelgadis closed his eyes for a moment. "I see
a trail of death."

	Lina sighed. "You're better off in the astral plane
than I am. But I think we should check it out. It's not our
place to get into anything, but if we brought this thing with
us from Sailoon, then it's our responsibility."

	Zelgadis blinked. "Lina... how noble. Now would you
tell me what your real motive is?"

	Lina laughed. "We're outside of Sailoon, Zel. For all
we know, we could be on another world. And to tell the truth,
it wouldn't surprise me. Look at these things. They travel
almost as fast as Raywing, but they stay on the ground and
don't require magic. That... thing the man was holding back
in the city. It was like a whole world opened up in his lap."

	"And the fact that nobody seems to speak our
language?"

	"That too. It's just strange, is all."

	"It's close. I can feel it. We're only a minute or
two away."

	"There's something else," Lina said, "Can you feel
it?"

	Zelgadis nodded. "From the north. It's a different
feeling. I can't sense anything from the astral plane on
it... yet."

	"Look. Down there," Lina pointed.

	Below them, speeding down the road at an amazing rate
was another vehicle.

	The three of them lowered themselves down.

****

	He was angry.

	The Nameless One was very rarely angry.

	In fact, he rarely showed any emotion whatsoever.
Worlds had fought against him in the past, but in the end,
they always lost. This is the first time in billions of years
that he had felt even an iota of anger.

	And now it was consuming him. He had to meet the ones
who had fought him, and destroy them.

	The new shell he was housed in was uncomfortable, but
he wold easily be able to fight in it. It was a female form,
wearing a long dress. Luckily, the form was in her mid-
adulthood.

	Her exact age was 32, her name was Priscilla White.
Her destination that day was the local church, so she could
participate in the youth meeting.

	However, the nameless one had other plans for her.

	She was consumed quickly, with minimal resistance,
and then he continued his way.

	And now he was heading north. He knew where they were
going. A military installation in Cedar Grove, as he had
learned from the knowledge of the law enforcement officer he
had consumed earlier.

	He would get there within the hour, provided there
were no further interruptions.

	There were.

	He almost didn't notice the three figures look in the
side windows of the car. He felt no need to check since the
car was going in excess of 125 miles per hour.

	And yet, there they were. Looking at him as if he
were a demon.

	He slammed the car's brakes to a halt and exited the
car.

	"Who are you?" the redhead asked.

	The shell of the nameless one sneered. "This is the
first time I've been introduced to such magics. Flying
dragons that appear from nowhere. Flying people that can go
faster than this wretched contraption," the shell looked
towards Zelgadis. "People of stone..."

	"That is no answer," the stone man said.

	"I give answers as I please."

	"She sure doesn't act like a lady," the blonde
muttered.

	"Are you from Sailoon?" the redhead asked.

	"I know of no such place," the shell replied. "Now
leave me be, before I consume you as easily as I have
consumed entire worlds."

****

	Zelgadis narrowed his eyes. The figure in front of
him didn't seem threatening in the least. At least, to the
naked eye.

	But the astral plane was another matter. He could see
a dark aura all around the figure.

	"We don't scare easily!" Lina announced. "Now tell us
who you are, or you can taste a fireball!"

	The woman sneered. "I have said this before, so shall
I say again. I have no name. I have no need of a name. I am
one who transcends mere names. I am the Alpha and the Omega.
I am the first and the last. I consume lives as you would
consume food. I am the destroyer of worlds."

	"I'm Gourry! Nice to meet you!" Gourry announced
cheerfully.

	Zelgadis shook his head sadly.

	"Indeed. Now I'm afraid I must take your lives and
your skills."

	"Not a good idea," Lina said.

	"I'll take care of this," Zelgadis said.

	The nameless one merely approached.

	"RAH TILT!" Zelgadis cried.

	All of a sudden, the nameless one stopped. The
flashes of energy that reached it sent it doubling over in
pain.

	His shell screamed.

	And then it collapsed.

	"What happened?" Lina asked.

	Zelgadis looked briefly into the astral plane. He
gasped.

	"RUN!"

	"Raywing!" Lina cried, and pulled Gourry into the air
behind her. They sped off to the north, with Zelgadis in
close pursuit.

	A moment later, the shell stirred to life on the
ground. It stood up, and looked menacingly at the retreating
forms.

	"Twice," it said. "Twice have I been defeated. You
all shall meet your doom at my hands!" It yelled.

	It stared at the retreating forms for a moment
longer, and then climbed back into the car. It sped off as
quickly as it could.

****

	Author's notes:

	WOW... It's been a while since I've written anything
for this, ne? Well, here it is.. Chapter three... just a
little proof that I will be continuing all the fics I've gone
past chapter one with... ^_^

	Anyhow, a lot of you are probably waiting for
Divinity and/or Trials of Destiny... I am working on them,
and there should be a chapter from each released sometime
this week. ^_^

	As always, C&C is welcome, Praise is VERY welcome,
Flames... Well, all right. But just make it private mail. ^_^


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