Yo! It seems some people actually liked Evaslayers! Wow! Never thought it possible, actually I thought comments would be more along the line of:
YOU @#$*&! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO EVANGELION! YOU PUNY...
Yeah, you get the idea.
Well, since it seems I won't be hanged for this one I'm going to continue it as long as I keep getting C&C on it, makes me feel important, you know... [sniff]
BTW, about the other fics you might have read: Masks and Dragons 9 will come out as soon as my pre-readers give it a go, Magic Knight Pokemon 3 is on the works right now, so... ah, never mind that now, here's the Fic!
Disclaimer: (Sort of)
The wolf with a jacket labeled 'GAINAX' bellowed: "Give it up! I know you're in there!"
"No! there's nobody here, Mr. Wolf!" Came the weak reply from the hay house
that protected poor little Wanderer D from the whims of nature.
"Okay then! I will blow up your car! Burn your crops! Paint Graffiti in your walls!"
"...no...." came the small whimper from the hay house.
The wolf sighed, then grabbed a small radio. "It's no use. Bring it, Asuka."
A large metal covered foot slammed down on Wanderer D's house, making it a part of the ground.
"Asuka! You were supposed to lift the house! Not step on it!"
"Sorry!" Asuka radioed back, as she tried to clean her EVA's foot on the spot where Wanderer D's former sanctuary had been.
"When will they ever learn to put disclaimers in their stories?" the wolf sighed.
"Well, at least we beat the Slayers gang to it, I don't want to imagine what they might have done!" Asuka said trying to cheer up the wolf. She just didn't understand why these writers did this without four thousand dollars to back them up...
Now, on to the story:
"Oooohhhh!! Do I have to wear this Misato?" Lina asked for the
third time.
"Yes. You do." Sighed Misato.
"But..."
"Listen, Lina, you have to go to school with Shinji, ok?"
"BUT I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL!!"
"So, Shinji, who's the new girl?" Toji asked glancing at Lina
from his position next to Shinji.
"She's Lina." He answered simply. "I think she might be one of the
new pilots."
"Another pilot?! Her!" Kensuke looked at Lina. "Oh man! why don't
they pick me! I wanna pilot an EVA!!!"
Lina looked at the teacher, as he droned on and on.
"Man! What a moron!" she muttered. This started some giggling among
the students seated next to her.
The teacher stopped to look at the laughing girls, then turned to
look at Lina.
"Is there something wrong, miss Inverse?"
Everyone stopped laughing. Lina sighed as she stood up.
"Yes. You are boring me out of my mind!! Do you realize you've said
thirteen, THIRTEEN TIMES, that the second impact was caused by a
large meteorite!!"
"So what's your point, miss Inverse?"
Lina was starting to turn red.
"What's my point?! My point is I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE!"
With a screech, she pulled her chair back as she started walking
towards the door.
The teacher walked towards her. "You cannot abandon class!"
"Shadow Snap!" Out of no-where Lina pulled out a small knife and
threw it at the teacher's feet. That stopped him cold, as everyone
looked at her in surprise. She smiled and left the room.
Rei looked at the new girl as she left the building. She hadn't seen
the knife before she pulled it out of no-where. Intrigued, she stood
and followed Lina out.
The old teacher could do nothing but watch them go out. He quickly
snapped out of it and tried to follow them, but, to his surprise he
couldn't move an inch.
Lina stopped and turned to look at the girl that was following her.
"What? I hope you didn't come to try to stop me!"
Rei only shook her head, frowning a little. "I came to ask you, where
did you pull out that knife?"
She said it flatly that for a moment Lina didn't understand it was a
question. "Oh... that knife is created when you cast the Shadow snap."
"Cast?" Rei asked in almost the same toneless voice as she caught up
with Lina.
"Yeah, Shadow snap is a spell that immobilizes the target for as long
as their shadow is in sight."
Rei nodded. Lina blinked. Lina's stomach grumbled. Rei stared. Lina
blushed.
"Um..."
"Are you hungry?"
"YEAH!! LET'S EAT! Oh... wait. I don't have money." Lina looked down,
beaten.
"Come. I'll pay." Rei said. She didn't know why, but she wanted to
learn more about Lina.
As the two girls walked down the street, a figure walked out of the
shadows, stood looking at them for a moment, then vanished.
Lina and Rei were seated in a small table talking, well Lina talked
and Rei answered with one syllable words, when Shinji found them.
He grabbed a chair and took a seat.
"Hey, Shinji! Good to see ya around here! How was class?" Lina asked.
"Well, the teacher couldn't move, so everyone just left. I spent all
morning trying to find you, in fact, if it weren't for a man that
told me you'd walked in this direction I wouldn't have found you!"
Rei passively sipped her water.
Lina shrugged. "Anyway, do you want anything Shinji?"
Shinji looked pensive for a moment. "Come to think about it... I do
feel a little hungry..." He grabbed a menu and beckoned a nearby
waiter.
"Yes? How may I help you, good sir?"
"I would like to order the soup of the day, what's it made of?"
"Ah... that is a secret."
Lina choked on her coke.
Shinji tried to ignore her desperate coughs for air. "Okay, what
makes the 'special curry' special?"
"That is also a secret." replied the waiter. Shinji looked confused
from the waiter to the menu then back to the waiter. Lina was by now
choking so bad that the waiter absently patted her in the back.
"Hmm." Shinji finally gave up. "Okay, what do you suggest?"
"About what?" The waiter asked patting Lina harder in the back.
"[Sigh...] Okay, what would YOU have for lunch?"
The waiter leaned forward to whisper to Shinji's ear. "That is a
secret!"
Finally Lina stopped choking and stood up pointing a finger at the
'waiter'. "Xellos!!!"
The waiter smiled. "Hello Lina! Long time no see!"
Xellos had been prepared for anything. From the physical attack to
a Dragon Slave, to bickering. He however was certainly not expecting
a hug.
Much to Xellos' surprise, Lina threw herself at him and hugged him
fiercely, he was further surprised when he felt tears through the
soft fabric of his fake uniform.
"L-Lina?!" he stammered. For once, in his whole life, Xellos didn't
know what to do or say. This was very much unlike the Lina Inverse
he knew... he honestly didn't know what to do.
"Xellos..." Sniffed Lina. "I'm so glad to see you..."
Xellos' brain was in override. "Ah...ah..." Mazoku weren't trained
for this... he tentatively hugged her back.
"Lina?" Shinji looked at the couple.
Lina finally got her bearings back, and pulled herself away, -much
to Xellos' relief- and turned, blushing, to face Shinji and Rei.
"Rei, Shinji... I want you to meet my favorite enemy; Xellos the
Mazoku."
"What's a Mazoku?" Shinji asked.
"I'll tell you later." Lina answered, for a moment it seemed she
would cry again, but then regained her composure.
"Xellos... what happened to... to the others? What happened to...
Gourry, Zel, Amelia, Naga? Are they...?"
Xellos suddenly found himself wishing he didn't have to tell her.
"Did you check you things, Lina?" When she nodded, he continued.
"There should have been a message sphere in there, did you find it?"
Lina nodded again. "Did you use it?" Lina shook her head no.
Xellos sighed. "We should go and have you watch it Lina."
They arrived to Shinji's and Lina's apartment. Misato was still
out so they walked inside without a problem. Xellos looked at the
two kids. "Listen, this will be hard to Lina," he whispered as she
went to her room to fetch the sphere. "I know you are her friends,
so I want you to swear that you won't mention any of this to anyone,
okay?"
Shinji and Rei looked at each other. Did they consider themselves
Lina's friends?
Lina came back with the crystal sphere and placed it on the table.
After a moment everything became black and ... two breasts covered
in leather appeared. Shinji bigsweated. The breasts pulled back to
show the image of a woman barely covered in a leather bikini with
spikes.
Naga sighed looking at the assembled group. "I hope this piece of
junk works..." she muttered darkly. Suddenly her face lit up and
she jumped back. Rei and Shinji both wondered why Xellos and Lina
were covering their ears when they heard their answer.
"HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" The windows of
the apartment threatened to break.
"Lina Inverse! I your greatest enemy, 'Naga the White Serpent' have
come up with a great plan to help you recover!"
She walked out of view, and the background moved as if they were
using a video camera. There, over a stone altar rested Lina's body.
Rei frowned. That woman looked like Lina, except she was obviously
older and had white hair.
Around the altar stood 4 more people. A blonde man in blue armor,
another man covered in white clothes, Xellos wearing a loose mantle,
and a girl with blue hair. Shinji was surprised to say the least,
they all dressed like people from the middle ages!
"As you can see, the second casting of the Giga Slave left you
without energy, if you had stayed like this, you would have aged in
a coma state for the rest of your days. Therefore I have devised a
spell that will stop time for you at the same time it lets you gather
back your energy, and recuperate."
"Each of us will give some energy to the cocoon which will -hopefully-
protect you until you regain your own energy." Naga's voice softened
a little. "We don't know how much time it will take, but it was the
only way. The healers were unable to do anything, and giving all the
energy back to you would kill you immediately. I'll turn this thing off
now, so it won't interfere with the casting."
The image seemed to blur for a moment, then the image of Naga was
replaced by Zelgadis.
Shinji jumped at the image of the golem, but remembering that it was
some sort of video, he quietly sat back down.
"Hey Lina, we've finished the spell..." The image shifted to the
altar where Lina was covered in a cocoon. The cocoon was opaque, then
semi transparent, inside it they could catch a glimpse of Lina before
it turned back to it's yellow-white color. Lina was able to see the
sword of light in her hands for a moment.
"I know what you're thinking Lina, but Gourry wanted you to have it.
Anyway, everyone is dead tired, specially Naga, but it seems it was a
success, I don't know how much time will pass before I see you again,
I hope it's not much, well, I'll see you later."
The image was immediately replaced by another of Gourry, he had scars
all over and his blue armor was dented.
"Lina, I don't have much time... all hell's broke loose, the dragons
and the Mazoku have started a war and we're caught in the middle of
it, it's been five years, and... well... anyway, I-I don't think we'll
walk out of this. Goodbye Lina."
The image was replaced by one of Zelgadis helping Gourry stand. A large
slash could be seen to the right of his waist as he tried to cover it
with his hand unsuccessfully.
"The war's over, Lina, Xellos was able to handle things so the attack
would not come here... we were fighting back at Sailoon, it's been
completely destroyed... Amelia's alright, she's waiting outside."
Gourry doubled over in pain. Suddenly Amelia came running in.
"Zel! The Mazoku are attacking!"
"Damn!" The Golem muttered. Gourry and him exchanged looks. Zel nodded
and gently put Gourry on the ground. He then ran outside following
Amelia.
"Lina... I wish I could've seen you... before...I... I love you Lina..."
The background shook and the image blurred then it turned dark.
Lina was now crying, holding the crystal sphere in her hands. She looked
up at Xellos.
"What happened?"
Xellos sighed. "Well, some idiot had the bright idea of waking another
part of you know who. Cephid had to come back since your sister was
unable to beat him and both dragons and Mazoku started fighting all
over the world, not sparing any place. If there was space to fight, it
was fought for, they eventually made it to Sailoon, where all of us
were at the moment, the magic destroyed most of the city, the few
survivors ran to the mountains, where the altar was hidden, we went with
them, but the Dragons and Mazoku eventually found us. We had to keep
fighting for almost a day, Gourry... he stayed by your side 'til the
end, Lina. Amelia died during the battle, which enraged Zel to no end,
when the fight ended he said that he didn't have anything else to stay
for, as he buried his wife next to Gourry and Luna, then left. I never
saw him again. Before he left, we built a small shrine for Naga next
to the others."
Shinji felt bad for Lina, but there was something nagging at him.
"When did all this happen? Dragons? Mazoku? Why swords and all that?"
Xellos looked at Shinji. "That is a secret."
Rei looked at Xellos steadily. "I would like to know."
"Oh well, I suppose you should know anyway. That happened before this
universe was created."
Rei arched an eyebrow. Shinji was a little more surprised.
"BEFORE THIS UNIVERSE WAS CREATED?! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! HOW CAN THAT BE?"
Xellos shrugged. "That's a secret."
Lina had cried herself to sleep. Xellos was a little spooked about that
since Lina had never, ever cried before. He couldn't do anything about
the conflicting emotions seeing her like that brought around.
He had left the house shortly after, leaving Lina in the care of the
two kids.
"What do you make of all that, Rei?"
Rei didn't answer, so he tried again. "Man, I... all this is impossible,
I mean, before this universe was created? You have to be kidding me!"
Rei stood up. "I have to go now, Shinji Ikari."
Shinji looked at her for a second. "Um, sure Rei..."
He opened the door for her and she walked outside without batting an eye.
Shinji sighed and closed the door.
It was night already, and Misato shouldn't take long to get back. At that
moment the telephone rang.
"Hello?"
"Shinji? Is Misato there yet?" Ritsuko's voice greeted him.
"No, she hasn't arrived yet, should I tell her something?"
"Yes, tell her that I'll be by later with some papers for her."
"Sure... say, Ritsuko, is it possible that there was another universe
before this was created?"
"Well... I really can't answer that question, Shinji, but... have you
heard about the 'Big Bang' theory?"
"Yes..."
"Well, then you know that the universe is expanding, however one of
the assumptions is that the Universe will one day start closing on
itself and that is called the 'Big Crunch' if that were to happen
then the 'Big Crunch' would start another 'Big Bang' again. Are you
getting this? Does this answer your question, Shinji?"
"Yes... sort of.."
"Well, I have to go now, remember to tell Misato my message, it
wouldn't do for me to get there and find her snoring like there was
no tomorrow. Bye, Shinji."
"G'bye, Ritsuko..."
Shinji hung up the phone. Later he repeated Ritsuko's message to
Misato and went to sleep. However sleep wouldn't come to him as
easily as he thought it would.
'Before this universe was created...' he thought to himself as sleep
finally claimed him.
End chapter 2
Okay, first off, I'm sorry for that disclaimer, it seems worse than the 'Roses are Red' one.
Second, I sugest you don't try to fit common sense into my story, it... just won't
work, trust me, I've tried.
Third, if you like it... TELL ME PLEASE!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!
Well. later!
-Wanderer D
... and NO I DON'T LIVE IN A HAY HOUSE! [Although sometimes I wish I did...]