Chapter I

There was a loud 'clinking' and 'clanging' coming from one corner of the inn. People were wondering if some clumsy waiter had dropped a set of plates. Turn's out not.

"I want another one of these," a very hungry red head with a so called petite body, big round eyes, a temper of a Dark Lord and an appetite of an whole army, Lina Inverse.

A waiter, with a surprised look on his face is scrambling about trying to remove all the stacks of plates from Lina and her comrades table. "But ma'am don't you think you've already eaten enough food?"

"Nobody tells me when I had enough to eat," Lina screamed with just a pinch of anger in her voice.

"Hey," a man with long blond hair wearing a black iron breast plate with leg guards of the same color and make, strong yet dumb as a tree stump (from a personal friend and author on this site) swordsman, Gourry Gabriev. "You shouldn't mess with her. When she wants her food she wants her food."

"Wow something actually intelligent came out of his mouth," Lina thought.

"But she already had at least five plates," The waiter said.

"Why don't you just quit while your ahead," a mysterious figure in a tannish hooded cloak said. He removed the hood to reveal a human chimera with hard light blue stone covered skin. His hair, also blue, shined as if it was made of metal and probably was too.

"Zel," Lina said surprised. "Long time no see! Why don't you sit down and join us for a little chow." Meanwhile Gourry is still shoving food in his face. He takes his fork and stabs one of Lina's meatballs and devours it all in one bite.

"Gourry, that was my meatball," Lina screamed as she hit him over his head with her fist.

"Well Lina, if you weren't busy babbling away with Zel the meatball still would of been yours to eat," Gourry said smartly. Bad idea.

"SHUT UP," Lina screamed as once again she smashed his face in with her fist.

Zel, just ignoring them all sat down at the table and picked up a menu looking for something to order. After a few minuets of looking the long menu over, still ignoring Lina and Gourry he chooses a seafood dish.

"Would you two just sit down and eat," Zel said. "It will save us all a lot of trouble."

"Oh common Zel," Lina whined. "It's fun!"

Zel didn't answer to this but just too a sip of the tea he ordered as well. Lina and Gourry got the hint and sat down and continued eating.

After a while and a few plates later Lina downed the last of her drink and leaned back and gasped for air.

"Man was that good," she said while she leaned back in her chair and patter her overly protruding stomach that looked as if it were bigger than her chest.

"Yeah," Gourry said. "Are we going to get dissert now?"

"NO," Lina screamed.

"You think that the only thing in his life is food," Zel said.

"Yeah," Lina said sighing. "Well there's nothing we can do about that."

"You have a point."

"Huh, what," Gourry said having no idea what was going on around him.

"Never mind Gourry," Lina said.

"Well I don't know about you guys but I'm going to sleep," Zel said.

"Yeah, sounds like a good idea," Lina said in a middle of a yawn.

"Goodnight."