Disclaimer: I do not own Slayers or the fictional characters portrayed here. They belong to Hajime Kanzaka, Rui Araizumi, Kadokawa Shoten, TV TOKYO, SOFTX, and Marubeni. Q belongs to Parmount and the Late Gene Roddenberry. I just decided to play with them for a while.
(Author's note: The prologue takes place during the battle with Copy Rezzo/Zanafar at the end of the first season of Slayers. I've taken a few liberties with the story-line to change the ending and lead into the story. Slayers is an Anime series following the travels and adventures of Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, and Zelgadis Greywolf. Its a hilarious series that I highly recommend to any anime fan. If you're interested in buying the VHS or DVD versions, www.animenation.com is an excellent site to order from. If you've never heard of Slayers, www.inverse.org is a great site that has info on all the aspects of Slayers.)
Prologue
Copy Rezzo stood at the edge of a small cliff, the ethereal tendrils of the demon beast Zanafar reaching out from his body like snakes. He had been trying to get Lina to cast the Giga Slave spell, the most powerful of all chaos magic, even more powerful than the Dragon Slave. She knew that if the spell was miscast the world would return to a state of nothingness, killing everyone and everything on the planet. Despite this, she had to try. There didn't seem to be any other way to beat Copy Rezzo. Lina stood up straight, her hands over her head, and started the spell.
"Darkness beyond blackest pitch, deeper than the deepest night," she started. Her friends recognized the words, and all turned to look at her, their faces all wore identical masks of horror. They knew the destructive power of the Giga Slave. The first time Lina cast the spell, it was to kill one of the 7 pieces of the Demon King, ruby-eyed Shabranigdo. It was so powerful that Shabranigdo simply crumbled to dust.
"Lord of Darkness who shines like gold upon the sea of Chaos," continued Lina, clearly speaking the words of the spell. She was putting all her concentration and power behind the words, praying not to miscast the spell.
"I call upon thee, and swear myself to thee," as a rolling black sphere began to take shape between her raised hands. It was so black that it appeared to drain the light from the surrounding area. At the same time, dark, ominous clouds moved in, obscuring the sun and crackling with lightning.
"Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess," she called, summoning the spirit of the Lord of Nightmares into her body. The Lord of Nightmares is the also called the Lord of Chaos, because she rose out of Chaos and created all the other gods and monsters. Now the sphere of the spell was as large as her head, and seething with darkness, randomly shooting out bolts of pitch black lightning.
Summoning up all her power and concentration, Lina let loose the spell with the final two words.
"Giga Slave!!!!"
When she intoned the final words, the black mass of chaotic energy should've streaked toward the combined Rezzo/Zanafar.
It didn't.
A horrible screeching sound suddenly started, appearing to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Amelia, Gourry, and Zelgadis covered their ears to try and dampen the awful noise, but to no avail. Lina's face twisted into an expression of excruciating pain as she screamed and collapsed to the ground. The failed spell was now growing in size and soon engulfed Lina in its black depths. The spell continued to grow, unencumbered, swallowing Rezzo/Zanafar, and all of Lina's friends. It didn't stop and feeding off the life-force of the planet, suddenly exploded, causing a shock wave of black energy that ripped through the planet so fast nobody knew what happened. One minute all the cities and towns were normal and bustling with business, and the next, nothing. The entire planet ceased to exist.
A few dimensions and a dozen light-years away, the entity know as Q to the United Federation of Planets sensed this horrible occurrence and decided to do something about it. And in typical Q fashion, did not do it in a straight-forward manner.
To Be Continued...
-------------------- Ok, the prologue is short, but aren't prologues supposed to be short? Anyway, you can send all comments/suggestions/criticisms to rpsdata@hotmail.com. Feedback is greatly appreciated and I will try to answer all emails as soon as I can.