MSTed by: Majo-chan, Xelloss Metallium, Zelgadis Graywers, Valgarv
Guest reviewer: Natalia Stillrage
I'm writing this MST because I thought the original fanfic is too depressing, not to mention confusing and incomplete. Er...thank Mr.Psychiatrist/LinaFriend for letting me borrow Natalia for this, and for being supportive. Now, on with the show!
navy = document to be MSTed
Author's Note: This is a poemfic. The poem used here is Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. The poem is originally in Spanish, but I'm just going to work with the translations.
Xel: Majo-chan, you're so lazy
Majo: What?? The Mst started already!?( Frantically running around) I'm not ready! I have to find Natalia!
Natalia: Why am I here again?
Majo: Because I asked nicely. Besides, I need you to smack Xel into the Moon's orbit if he gets annoying.
It is going to be a dark fic, since the poem itself is rather depressing. I haven't decided on a specific time frame but it definitely takes time after TRY. Another warning, this is a Xel/Filia fanfic, and it doesn't have a happy ending. So don't read it if you a) Don't like Xel, Filia, or Xel and Filia together, or b) Don't like depressing stories. That's all, enjoy!
The setting: A large room with a huge movie screen, comfortable couches, and one hyper Harem host, a bunch of grumpy harem members and one Incomplete, whatever that is.
Natalia: are we getting started or what? The sooner this is over with, the better.
Xel: Aw, how sweet! You just don't want us to see you crying over it!
Majo: Xel, behave or I'll sic SD Naga on you!
Xel: Eep! I'll be good!( Snuggles up to Natalia) I want to sit here-
Natalia: (Smacks him with Filia's mace) Hands off, pervert!
Majo: You guys, the movie hasn't even started yet!
Val: So what else is new?
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Natalia: What?
Majo: I got it from a spanish poem, duh.
Zel: and what was the point of this again?
Majo:...
Zel: that's what I thought.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Xelloss sat down, his face expressionless. He was in his room, or what passed for his
room, on Wolf Pack Island. He made an attempt to smile, but failed. So he kept his face
expressionless.
Xel: That's awful! I couldn't smile? I can always smile!
Natalia: when'd you get back?
Xel: That is a secret. I see you guys started without me.
Zel: I wish we wouldn't have to live with him.
Majo: Sorry, can't be helped.
Xel: anyway, I can always smile because i have these! (Pulls out a smiling mask)
Majo: You're not Chichiri, where'd you get it?
Xel: I stole it from him.
Majo: Natalia-sama?
Natalia: (Hefts mace) My pleasure. (Whacks xel again)
Xel: ( Sigh happily) She's so evil...
The room had no windows. Technically, the room didn't exist either, but that wasn't important. He did wish he could look at the stars a bit though, they always calmed him down.
Val: Now that paragraph had no point!
Majo: Yes it did! I was setting the scene.
Zel: Xelloss? Look at the stars? Be CALM? I don't think so.
Natalia: They're almost as bad as the fruitcake. Want me to whack them too?
Majo: Natalia-sama's being scary...
Val and Zel:...Let's keep going!
Didn't she understand that she was making a mistake? A huge mistake. But why did he bother, everything was wrong from the beginning. Xelloss was beginning to understand why Valgarv wanted to destroy the world. There was just so many things wrong with it.
Zel: That is completely out of character.
Xel: What is completely out of character?
Zel: You.
Xel: Oh, I knew that. Majo-chan knew that too.
Majo: You guys! Can't you just IMAGINE Xelloss being confused and human?
Zel: No.
Xel: I don't think so.
Val: Hey, Lina talked me out of destroying the world, why didn't she do that for him?
Majo: Eh, plot hole? I think she didn't know that Xelloss was feeling that way.
Xel: Of course not, I don't.
Majo: This is a FANFIC! Will you guys be serious?!
Natalia: At this rate, we'll never finish.
Silently, he pulled a book out of thin air and opened it to a clean page. How long had it been since he had last written in this book? The date told him that it was too long. Too long ago. And it will be forgotten again once he was done with it. So why did he bother?
Xel: Attack of the Rhetorical Questions!
Majo: Grr...
Natalia: (Hands Majo the mace) Here.
Majo: NAMAGOMI!!!
Xel: Ah!!!!!!!
Zel: Really though. Xelloss, writing in a BOOK? That is a little farfetched.
Majo: (Crying) You are so mean...
Val: Look what you did, you got her started again.
Majo: I have no computer! I have no life! I still have tons of homework but I'm devoting my time to you guys, and you are all UNGRATEFUL BRATS!!! FIREBALL!!!!
Natalia: Scary...
Val: See?
Xellas-sama gave me a new mission, he wrote. This time I have to finish what I started. The war is coming and she said that we must win. In order to do that, I - He stopped, unable to go on.
Xel: - must make everyone into Mazoku! Must annoy them till they go postal! Must get a date with Natalia-chan!
Majo: Oh, dear. he's back and as crazy as ever.
Natalia: Get AWAY from me! Urg, you jerk! ( Smacks him)
Xel: I love you too, Natalia-chan.
Majo: That's it, MAJO-CHAN KICK!
Zel: Just out of curiosity, what was the new mission?
Xel: I dunno, I didn't write this. Majo-chan?
Majo: Ur...that is a secret.
Write for example, 'The night is shattered
Taking a deep breath, the priest continued. Anyway, I have new orders. And for the first
time in a thousand years, I doubted her. I don't know if I can do it.
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
Xel: I don't doubt that I can do anything. By the way, why isn't Filia here? She's in the story too.
Majo: She said she wouldn't get within three feet of you ever again.
Xel: I love being surrounded by adoring women.
Majo and Natalia: What?!
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
"Xelloss, what are you doing?" Filia asked curiously as the Trickster Priest covered her
eyes. She heard his light laughter.
"It's a secret, Filia-chan. Just be patient."
She allowed herself to be led by him. It felt like he was taking her through the sky.
Then they jolted to a stop.
Val: are you sure he's not going to kill her now?
Majo: No! Geez.
Val: Can I kill him?
Majo: NO!
Val: Drat..
Zel: Can I?
Xel: I love being surrounded by violent males.
Zel and Val: WHAT!!!
"Xelloss?"
He uncovered her eyes.
"Surprise!"
"Happy Birthday!"
Filia gasped as confetti fell and horns tooted. She was in the Royal castle of Sailoon
and all her friends, Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, Amelia and Valgarv were there. The castle was
decorated in festive colors and there was enough food to feed an army.
"What?" She looked at Xelloss, confused. He had told her he would keep this quiet. He
winked at her.
"You were getting depressed, so I thought the party would cheer you up." He whispered.
"Don't worry, tonight you're with all the people who see you as you, not as a dragon who has
betrayed her race."
"And you, Xelloss?" She asked, sapphire eyes intent."Do you see me as just me? Or am I
just another dragon?"
"Filia-chan is always Filia-chan in my heart."
Zel: Er...another OOC.
Val: The whole fic is OOC.
Majo: You guys...
Natalia: Ignore them. Men are idiots.
Majo: Why, you are completely right! Have you told Mr. Psychiatrist that?
Natalia: Many times. And if you call me Miss secretary again, I'll hit you.
Majo: (Gulp)
Zel: I noticed the food part. You're trying to keep Lina and Company in character, at least.
Xel: Why was the party at Amelia's castle anyway?
Majo: If I put it in Sairagg, it would've been destroyed.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
"Xellas-sama, what?" He couldn't have heard her right.
"Xelloss, you heard what I said." His master said firmly, letting out a waft of smoke.
"Leave her. Now."
"But Xellas-sama..."
"I am ashamed of you! You, my Priest-General! Falling in love with a Dragon. A Gold
Dragon. Leave her now."
He closed his mouth.
"I see you understand. Be grateful that I do not request you to finish her off."
"Yes, Xellas-sama."
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Majo: That is SO unfair!
Natalia: That he listens to Xellas and not to you?
Majo: No! That she ordered him to do such a thing!
Xel: You got the smoking part right, but she drinks too.
Majo: EXCUSE me for not knowing the private life of the Beastmaster!
Xel: You could've asked me.
Majo: and?
Xel: I would say it's a secret.
Zel: Xellas can't speak in complete sentences.
Val: Tsk, tsk. What's the Mazoku Hierchy coming to?
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
What was the best way to go about this, he wondered. Indeed, he had doubts the moment he
saw her again. Filia's eyes were so expectant and happy that he just couldn't bring himself to
do it.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
Zel: Do what?? This fanfic makes no sense.
Natalia: Majo-chan what are you doing-oh, damn, everybody get DOWN!!!
"Hello, Xel! Where have you been?" She laughed as she pulled him
inside, showing him the new things she added to her shop.
"Here and there," He answered vaguely.
"Oh? Tell me about it?"
"I...can't."
Filia noticed that something was wrong, after all, it was pretty obvious that Xelloss
wasn't all here."What's the matter? You're completely out of it."
Majo: There, I feel much better.
Natalia: (Surveying the damage.) Do you usually blow up your own Realm on a regular basis?
Xel: (under the rubble) The answer is Yes, actually.
"Nothing."
She got a stern, lecturing look on her beautiful face. "Now, Xelloss. I know you can't
tell me every single thing, but I do have a right to know what's bothering you."
Zel: Can we say Out Of Character?
Everyone: Out of Character!
Zel: Good job, kids.
Xel: When did Filia get the right to know what's bothering me?
Zel: another plot hole!
Majo: Ahhh!
"I..." He forced his smile back on his face. "I have some new mission I have to complete, so I won't be around for awhile." There, he said it. His first lie.
Xel: I thought I made this clear. I NEVER lie. I just don't tell the whole truth.
Zel: Xelloss is forcing a smile! That's the most absurd thing I ever heard!
Majo: Haven't you seen his face when Filia calls him Namagomi?
Xel: Majo-chan...
Majo: See? Like that.
"Aww...How long is awhile?" She asked, looking a little sad.
"I don't know, it's still up in the air."
"Is this mission dangerous?"
It tore at his inhuman heart that she was so worried over a lie. "No, I just don't know
how long."
"Oh." Filia said in a small voice."Well, be careful, okay?"
"All right."
She hugged him. "I'll wait for you."
Natalia: That's sweet.
Xel: I think I'll go throw up now.
Zel: See? He's definately Mazoku.
Val: It tore at his heart? I don't think so. It's kinda hard to hurt someone's heart if they didn't have one to begin with!
Xel: That's true! Another mistake!
Majo: YOU GUYS!!!
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
That was almost fifty years ago. He wondered if she was still waiting.
Xelloss thanked the gods that Mazoku don't need sleep, otherwise he would be plagued by
nightmares formed of his own guilt.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Zel: Fifty? And at the end of the Fic Lina and company show up as if five days had passed, not fifty. Another plot hole.
Val: Mazoku don't dream! Baka...
Majo: You guys are all so mean to me...
Natalia: there there. You want the nice mace thingy to hit the annoying fruitcake Mazoku?
Majo: Yes, Miss Natalia.
Xel: ( Blink innocently.) Me?
Why? He wrote. Why do I feel guilty? I'm not capable of that feeling. I'm not capable of loving. Am I?
Xel: The Second Attack of the Rhetorical questions!
Majo: Just shut up, will you?
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
And now this. He didn't know what he could take anymore. He didn't feel sane anymore. It
was just all wrong. All beauty and wrongness.
"This is such a screwed up world." He muttered, flinging the book away.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
Val: I agree, and I think you're the most screwed up one of all.
Xel: Why, how'd you know that?
Val: L-sama, what did I ever do to deserve this?
To hear immense night, still more immense without
her.
The night was dark. Moonless. Everything was silent, as if the world was waiting for his
next move. For the feather that will break the camel's back. The world held its breath.
Xelloss took a deep breath and held it for a long minute before letting it out.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.
Zel: That flowed wrong.
Majo: Stop picking on my writing!
Zel: Can't. I'm a perfectionist.
Majo: Then keep it to yourself.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The choice had been made. In the end, he had chose his Master over his Love. It didn't
matter if it was unfair, that was the choice he made. And as a Demon, a creature of Darkness,
he should've felt no guilt, no remorse. Why did he feel?
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
Xel: Another rhetorical question!
Majo: Okay, what did he have for breakfast?
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In
the distance.
Maybe this is supposed to be his ultimate punishment. This pain he had to endure because
of what he did to others. Someway to make up for all the wrong things he had done. But that
wasn't right either. He was doing nobody a favor when he goes through with this. It's all
wrong.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Xel: Well, that was probably what Majo-chan had in mind. She likes destruction.
Majo: Yes, it was meant to be punishment. And a test of loyality. But not to Xellas. try figuring that one out.
Natalia: Now you're confusing me.
Majo: Blame Mr. Psychiatrist for that.
His chest hurts. Where his heart used to be. But he's Mazoku. Mazoku have no heart, no soul.
Xel: Maybe it was from all those times Majo-chan hit me.
Val: This paragraph, if you can even call it a paragraph, is completely messed up. It's justa bunch of fragmented sentences!
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
Violet eyes with slitted pupils canned through the dark town. He needed no light to see.
Another testiment to his inhumanity. Was it so bad to be human? Was it so bad to not be
human?
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
Majo: Not one word, Xel.
Xel: Rhetorics aglore!
Majo: That's it! Dill Brando!
What is human anyway? Come to think of it, what is Dragon and Demon and Chaos? It was all wrong.
Natalia: I hate to agree with him, but there are a lot of these questions in here.
Majo: I think he's questioning himself and what he believes in. So he has to ask those questions in order to find the answers.
The same night whitening the same trees.
Stopping by the tree near her store, he sat down. Yes, he was close. This tree held
memories. He wanted to forget. Those memories were bad for him. They were filled with love and
caring. Bad for Mazoku. Loving hurts.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
Xel: Like a ten ton truck running into you. Yes, it hurts. Right, Natalia-chan?
Natalia: Come a little closer and let me clobber you.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I
loved her.
He wondered briefly if he could turn back. He could. But he couldn't. There was no way
back, from the moment that he fell in love with her. If someone asked him if he regretted it,
he wouldn't be able to answer in the negative. He had loved her so much.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Zel: Another paragraph of incomplete sentences.
Majo: Grr...
Xel: It's true though. I try to live without regrets.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses
before.
Filia opened her eyes. It was pitch black in her room, but she could see fine. Someone
was there. Someone familiar...someone...
A shadow detached itself from the greater darkness. "Hello, Filia-chan."
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
Majo:...
Zel: How'd he detach himself? Was he stuck?
Xel: Oh, you're so funny!
Val: Why does he call her Filia-chan? That is OOC too.
Majo: DRAGON SLAVE!
Natalia: And we're not finished yet..
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I
love her.
"Xel?" she whispered hoarsely.
"Yes."
She could see him now. The Priest smiled at her, but she could see something in his eyes.
Something that she didn't recognize. He was thinner, and the mask was off. The sunny face that
he showed to the world was hidden, and the real Demon was out.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.
Majo: Okay, that was weird.
Xel: The real Demon was always out. No one could see it, though.
Zel: I think she was talking about you.
Xel: I think I knew that.
Val: What was that something? The gleam of insanity?
Majo: Probably. I was planning for him to go crazy...(Looks at Xel trying to hug Natalia and getting his butt kicked for it) then again, I think he lost his marbles a long time ago.
Because through nights like this one I held her in
my arms
"Did you wait for me?" He asked softly, coming closer.
She looked at him, dark blue eyes unfathomable. Xelloss could feel himself drowning in
those depths. No! Remember the mission!
"Yes."
"Are you wondering why I'm back?"
"No." She smiled sadly."I know."
Gently, he touched her cheek."You know?"
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Zel: KNOW WHAT???
Majo: Shh, it's a plot thingy. A surprise.
Zel: This is so confusing.
Val: I agree.
"Yes. I missed you, Xel."
"Filia-chan, I missed you too."
She wrapped her arms around him, eyes understanding."What will happen now?"
"The world will end." He replied.
"Is that the only way?"
"Yes."
Zel: Okay, what is going on???
Majo: Just shut up and finish it. Where did Natalia go?
Xel: To get tissues.
Natalia: I did NOT! (Sniffles, then whacks him)
She kissed his forehead."Will I feel it?"
Xelloss looked at the only one he had ever loved. The one who taught him to feel again.
"It won't hurt."
Filia closed her eyes."Do it."
Xelloss sealed his lips against hers at the same time he shot a tight beam of dark energy
through her heart. Filia went limp against him.
Zel: He's mazoku.
Val: That's exactly something he'd do.
"I...love...you..." she whispered.
"I love you too." He said as he picked her up in his arms. She sighed quietly, then
stilled. Woodenly, Xelloss walked out.
Zel: ....
Val: ....
Natalia: I'm NOT crying!
Majo: I'm depressed.
Xel: Well, that was a surprise.
Dimly, the Mazoku heard a sound that sounded like running footsteps. He ignored that and continued his stroll. Before he leaves for good, he wanted to visit all the places they had been together at.
Zel: Left for good, not leaves for good.
Majo: Uh, didn't catch that...
Val: This is weird. Why are we here?
Majo: To comment, which you guys have been doing mercilessly.
"Xe-XELLOSS??"
Lina Inverse stopped dead in her tracks, causing Gourry and the others to run into her.
Xelloss looked at her blankly, holding Filia in his arms. Lina blanched at the sight.
"What did you do to Filia!?"
"I killed her." He replied with an eerie calm.
"What?" Lina choked."You-she LOVED you!!"
"I know."
"You BASTARD!" Lina slapped him as hard as she could, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"How could you?!"
Xelloss looked unmoved, except for the red welt on his cheek. "You'll understand later,
Lina."
Natalia: Is it almost finished?
Majo: you should know.
Zel: Why hasn't Lina changed in 50 years???!!!
Val: Yup, plot hole.
Majo: Grr...
Xel: What was it that Lina'll understand later?
Majo: That is a secret!
Though this be the last pain that she makes me
suffer
Two years later, the world as the human, Demons and Dragons had known it ended by the
will of The Lord of Nightmares.
and these the last verses that I write for her.
Zel: Hey, that sucks! We didn't even a chance to fight back!
Majo: Actually, I think you did. That's actually why I wanted to do a second part to Return to the Beginning. I want it to explain the ending part better, as to why the world was destroyed, who fought, what really happened, etc. What do you think?
Natalia: As long as you don't make me come over to MST it again.
Xel: Aww, but I like having you over!
Natalia: The feeling is absolutely NOT mutual.
Majo: ur, we'll discuss this later. VAL, ZEL, help me seperate them!!! Ack! Don't blow up my Realm! I'm the only one that can do that!