Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Slayers or Yu-Gi-Oh characters, although I wish I did.
Author's Note: Just so you know, there are going to be hints of Lina/Gourry, Yugi/Tea and Zelgadis/Amelia coupling in this story.
When Spells Go Wrong
Chapter 1
Half Book, Full Price
Lina carefully examined the old book in her hands closely. The book seller leaned in right in front of Lina's face. He gave her a cheesy salesman grin. "So, do you want to buy the book Ms. Inverse." Lina gave the book one more look over, then she handed it back to the little old man.
"Forget it." she answered. "I've already read a copy of that book years ago and from what I have seen from your collection Al, none of them would be of any use to me."
Al appeared to be insulted. "How can you possibly said that?! At 'Big Al's Book Store', we have a book for everyone!"
Gourry sweat-dropped. "But you don't own a book store, you own a book cart."
It was true. Al was actually a travelling book salesmen. His so called book store was actually an old beat-up cart that was being pulled by an old tired mule, who had obviously had seen better days. The only reason that Lina, Gourry, and Amelia were even at his cart was because Al just happened to be passing by while the trio were taking a break.
Al raised an eyebrow at Gourry. "Oh sure, if you want to nick-pick at every little detail." he muttered.
Amelia put down one of the white magic books she was reading. "It's too bad Mr. Zelgadis isn't here." she thought. "He would probably want to do some research for a cure in these books." It had been about 6 months since the battle with Dark Star. Zel had once again went off on his own to find a cure to turn himself back from a chimera into a human. Amelia still remembered the day before he left when she had given him her bracelet, so he would be sure to return to Sailune someday.
After that, Amelia stayed in Sailune and performed her daily duties as princess. As time passed though, she soon found herself rather bored and exhausted. Her father suggested that maybe she should go on a trip to give herself a break. As luck would have it, Amelia soon ran into Lina and Gourry which was the reason why she had been standing at the book cart for over half an hour.
Lina turned to face Al. "Look Old Man, I have read almost every spell book known to man, so I very much doubt you have anything that would interest me."
Al grinned at her. "Well, I bet you have never read this." The old man held up an old book. This book did not look like the others ones that were in his cart.. It was so old the pages were completely yellow and it seemed the book was going to fall apart any minute by just looking at it. Lina took the book from Al.
"I have to say this does look interesting. Who wrote it?"
Once again, Al smiled. "It was written by Lukas Galstone and Tomas Lorgan."
Both Lina and Amelia gasped. "No way! It was written by them!" exclaimed Lina. The old man nodded.
Gourry scratched his head in confusion. "Uh.....who are they?" Everyone fell over.
Lina whacked Gourry on the head. "They just happened to be two of the most powerful sorcerers in history!"
Gourry raised up his hands in defence. "Ok! Ok! You don't have to be so angry."
Lina turned her attention back to the old man. "How much?" she asked.
Al thought for a moment. "For you 600."
"No way!" Lina replied. "For all I know this book could be a forgery. I say 300."
The man glared at her. "550"
"330"
"450"
"360"
"400"
"Sold!" said Lina as she shook Al's hand to close the deal. Amelia shook her head.
"I don't know which is scarier, Ms Lina's angry side or her business one."
Lina handed over her money to Al as he got into his cart.
"I hope you enjoy the book Ms. Inverse." Al said.
"Yeah, yeah whatever." Lina answered as she buried her nose into the old spell book. If she had looked up she might have noticed that Al muttered the word "Sucker" as he drove off.
Gourry glimpsed over Lina's shoulder. "Is there anything good in there Lina?"
"Hmmm.....nothing that I can see right now. Oh, wait here's something!" The sorceress pointed her finger on the tip of the page.
"The time and space spell?" Amelia read out loud. "I wonder what that does?"
Lina smiled. "It must explain it on the next page.........AARRGG!"
"What's wrong Lina?" asked Gourry.
"The page isn't here! In fact the entire other half of the book isn't here!"
Amelia blinked in astonishment. "How could have that happen?"
Flames started to encircle around Lina. "That bastard!! He only sold me half a book! If I ever ger my hands on him...."
"Too bad you can't do the spell now." said Gourry.
Lina took a breath to calm down. "Actually, I can still do the spell. The incantation is on this page, I just don't know what it exactly does."
"Well, it's a shame we can't try the spell out." expressed Amelia.
A mischievous grin grew across Lina's face. "Who's says we can't."
Both Gourry and Amelia stared at Lina in absolute horror. "NO! NO! NO! Ms. Lina don't even think about it! You absolutely can not use that spell! What if it turns out to be as dangerous as the giga slave!"
"Oh Amelia, don't be such a worry wort!"
"But Ms. Lina........."
With her mind made up, Lina stood up and went to a small clearing to chant the spell. She raised her hand and started to recite the spell.
"I call upon the power of Ceiphied.
With his holy powers
Brings us wanders from another world to this world.
DIMENSIONAL PORTAL"
Sparks of purple magic appeared on Lina's fingertips. Then suddenly, the sparks began to merge together and grew into a huge purple tornado. Amelia and Gourry were desperately trying to hold their footing as the wind tried to knock them off their feet. The tornado grew and grew and suddenly it disappeared into thin air. No one said a word; they all just blinked at the spot where the tornado had once been. "Nothing happened." Gourry pointed out.
Lina stamp her foot in frustration. "DAMMIT!!"
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Tea leaned on her hand in deep thought. She suddenly snapped her fingers. "I got it!" she cried. "We could do a play version of 'Sleeping Beauty'."
"I don't think that is such a good idea Tea." expressed Yugi.
"Why not?"
"Cause do you actually want to see what Joey looks like in tights?" asked Tristan.
"Hey!" Joey protested as he lightly punched Tristan in the shoulder. All of a sudden there was a knock on Yugi's bedroom door. "Yugi, are you in there?" said a voice.
"Yeah Grampa, come on in."
Grampa's head appeared as he opened the door. "What are you kids all doing inside on a nice day like today?" he asked.
"We're working on our English project Grampa." Yugi replied.
"Project?"
"It's an story assignment." Tea explained. "We have to come up with on original story as a group project."
"Yeah." Joey added. "And Ms. Anderson said if I don't get at least a 'B' on this assignment, I am going to have to go to go to summer school."
"Well, I am sure you'll come up with something. I am going out for a while Yugi, I should be back in a few hours."
"Ok Grampa." Yugi said as his Grandfather left the room.
"Hey Yugi, I don't suppose Yami has any ideas does he?" asked Joey.
Yugi shook his head. "He says he's the king of games not the king of stories."
Tea stood up from the table. "It's stuffy in here. I am going to open a window." The girl went over to the window and open it. She closed her eyes for a moment as she felt a cool breeze brush against her face. Tea slowly open her eyes, then unexpectedly Tea's face started to pale. "What's wrong Tea?" asked Tristan. She slowly turned to the boys with a worried expression on her face.
"Guys did the weatherman say anything about......tornados?" she asked nervously.
The guys gave her a confused look. "Uh.....no." Joey replied. "Why do you ask?"
"Cause there's one heading straight for us!" she cried.
"WHAT?!!" The boys instantly dashed over to the window and looked out. There was indeed a tornado coming towards them. A purple tornado, but a tornado none the less.
"Quick close the window!" cried Tristan.
"That won't do anything ya nimrod!" shouted Joey. "We got to go to a basement!"
"But I don't have a basement!" yelled Yugi.
"Then we'll stand in a doorway!"
"Joey that's for earthquakes!"
"Then what are we supposed to......" Joey's sentence was cut off as the tornado entered Yugi's room. Everybody screamed as they were being swept up by the wind. Without a word each person vanished without a trace.