Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:27:47 -0500
From: Jason Grim <rpsdata@hotmail.com>
Subject: Restoration of the Multiverse : Prologue

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...

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Ok, the prologue is short, but aren't prologues supposed to be short?
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