6. Incubus

It was beginning of her dream. SD Phil entered.

Ameria : I always felt easy be with you, I always calmed myself to be with you, I was always free to be with you, father...

SD Phil exited, and SD Zel entered.

Ameria : Zelgadiss is gloomy, selfish and always thinking about himself...
< SD Zel muttered 'hey, hey...' >

Ameria : And he doesn't care about me.

Ameria : Why I come to love this man?

Ameria : Oh, what I'm talking about?

Suddenly, a voice called her, and she ceased to think. There was a little girl looking dejected. She looked just like Ameria.... Then Ameria noticed that the girl's chest was flat as a boy. She seemed like a boy version of Ameria? No, HE was a boy! Ameria talked to the boy, feeling familiar with him. He said that he disliked his body.

Ameria : Why? I'm envious of your body.

Boy : Then, give your body do me. I'll give you mine, OK?

Ameria : What?

Boy : It's OK for you and me, right?

He took her hand and didn't leave it.

Ameria : Ouch! No! < Kurume : The voice of the boy was Fibrizo's. >

Zel : Ameria!!!

She looked back and found Zel sinking into the sea of mud. He sunk up to his chest and wriggled so hard.

Ameria : Zelgadiss?

She looked back at the boy, who turned out to be an incubus with a body made of something like a red mud... something like a huge ball of a spider's thread. The body became the sea of mud and swallowing up Zelgadiss.

Ameria : Zelgadiss!

She realized that she should act fast, for she could use her hands at her will, while he couldn't. < Kurume : Well, the heavier the thing is, the faster it sinks... oh, it's not the time for physics. >

Ameria : Elmekia...

When she was going to cast the spell, the incubus changed its form into a man who she knew well, in order to stop her.

Ameria : Father?!

She cried out.

Ameria : ::: It's a phantom, a phantom of the incubus :::

But her hands trembled and she couldn't complete her offensive spell. She knew that Zelgadiss was almost swallowed up to his head.

Ameria : ::: I will cast the Elmekia Lance with my eyes closed... No way, the lance of light won't be powerful enough to kill the enemy! :::

She closed her eyes for a few seconds as if she tried to made up her mind. When she opened her eyes again, there was no irresolute looks. She cast the spell at the incubus taking the form of HER FATHER.

A flash pierced the darkness through from the window or cracks on the walls of the shack. After the light was gone, all the thing fell into silence. On the floor of the shack, there were Zel and Ameria lying asleep, and also a burned larva.