Slayers Return
Chapter one
Well, for any bandits who had experience with the petite and underdeveloped red haired sorceress, they would definitely pack up their load and fled before any misfortunes would fall upon them. Though the next minute, they could realize that there was practically no way for them to escape as our dear bandit killer was already standing in their way, with a spell readied in her hand, preparing to strike. Unfortunately, today was no exception.
"Fireball!!"
Lina smirked as she proudly admired at her handiwork. The camp of the bandits was now smoldering in ruins, not to even mentioned those toasted bandits who were lying on the ground yelping out in pain. She rummaged through what was left in the camp, looking for any valuables that might fetch a good price for her. Stealing from the bandits was not big deal to her, as she was merely helping the authority to nail down those crooks, preventing them to disrupt the peace of the peasant. Oh boy, this was beginning to sound like one of the justice speeches of Amelia.
She held up a silvery pendant to the firelight for a better examination. "Well, this may sell for 10 gold." She mused to herself as she placed it into her pouch. The next she came across was a jewel entrusted hairpin as she pondered for a while. "15 gold."
"Hey, Lina. Are you done with that yet?" Gourry sighed. "I'm getting hungry."
"Can't you just wait?" Lina demanded, continuing rummaging through more loot. "I'm hungry too. But we probably need something to pay our dinner with, and that's what I'm trying so hard doing here." The next item she uncovered was a small statuette of a cat crafted from gold with two rubies as eyes. "Ohh…this will fetch a good price." She exclaimed.
"I think that you have enough to buy for ten meals." Gourry commented.
"So?" Lina raised her eyebrow. "The more the merrier. Haven't you heard of that?"
"Whatever." Gourry shrugged.
By the time they left, Lina was carrying enough to fill a king's treasury. "I guess I have enough." She commented. "So, where's the closest town? I'm starved!"
Gourry scratched his head. "I think Seryuun is down the road a couple of miles. We can be there in a few hours."
"That's great!" Lina beamed, strolling down the lane. "We can pay Amelia a visit. It had been a long time since we had not seen her. And Zel… I wondered that how they are doing now."
Gourry nodded. Two months had passed since they had gone into their separate ways after the destruction of the Dark Star. Amelia had returned to Seryuun and Zelgadiss was still obsessed in his search of his chimerical cure. Gourry smiled. "Well, I think that they're fine. How about Xelloss and Filia? Do you think that they are still fighting like cat and dog?"
"Not much of a possibility." Lina shrugged. She knew that Filia had gone to a small town and whereas Xelloss; the trickster priest was probably busily handling the task that his mistress had assigned to him. Lina sighed. Anyway, she was not that keen to meet up with Xelloss though she treated him as some sort of her friend. Troubles arose whenever he shown his face. And she was definitely not pleased about it.
"Well, I'm finally able to have a good night sleep." Lina said, taking in a deep breath. "No more camping outside."
"Ahh…" Lina leaned back in her chair and patted her belly. "The food is so delicious."
The waiter who was clearing the table sighed with relief when Lina and Gourry had finally stopped eating or else, he doubt that the chefs of this restaurant perhaps would be now writing resignation letters to their boss. He eyed at the impressive stacks of empty dishes left on the table, and started to wonder how could these two people managed to finish up so much food, not to mention that one of them was so skinny. Anyway, the dishwashers would be having a difficult time in clearing up this mess, and the both of them better had enough money to pay for their bills.
Lina slouched into her chair with her eyes closed in satisfaction, while Gourry looked at the poor waiter who was now taking away those dishes. He turned his head and stared through the window for a while, taking a sip of his orange juice. "What are you going to do now, Lina? Should we go and pay Amelia a visit now?"
Lina stretched, and stood up reluctantly. "Perhaps later," she said, "do you want to have some desserts now?" Her eyes sparkled when she turned to face Gourry. "The ice cream that is sold at that stall is really splendid."
"Sure." Gourry smiled as he followed Lina out of the restaurant. Needless to say, food was more important to them as compared to meeting an old friend. "Let's go!" He added.
"Well, I will like to have eight servings of fried ice-cream." Lina smiled.
The waitress stared at her in disbelief as she scribbled down her order. "Eight servings of fried ice-cream?" She finally managed to utter out, eyeing at Lina's tiny frame, as she continued. "Have I heard you wrongly?"
Lina smiled as she fixed her eyes at the waitress. "No."
"And I could like to have ten servings of fried ice cream." Gourry added.
"Sure." The waitress walked away while she gazed at the two big appetizers till they were out of her sight. Eighteen servings of ice cream? She thought disbelievingly, and started to wonder if the both of them had engaged in any eating contest.
Lina looked out of the window patiently while waiting her desserts to be served. The street was still bustling with life, as usual. Lina smiled. She never expected that someone like Prince Phil would manage to rule his country so well, not to mention that he was the little justice Amelia's father, he looked just like a crook who had committed many atrocious crimes and under warrant of the police.
Boom!!!
"What on earth had happened?" A huge explosion could be heard as Lina turned her head instantly. Smoke was now emerging now from the restaurant, as she finally noticed the whole place was completely destroyed. "Who is the one that cast the fireball here??" Lina demanded angrily, realizing that her hopes to having her dessert were all drowned. "Whoever did this will be very sorry for himself! I goanna to make him pay for this."
Surprisingly, Lina was not hurt from this explosion, whereas the other customers who were not as fortunately as her were all now lying flat on the floor, toasted.
"FIREBALL!!"
Lina yelped and jumped aside, as the fireball collided with the chair, causing a huge explosion that hurled her into air. "Levitation!" She managed to cast the spell before being crashed towards the wall. Negating of the gravity and rush of air, Lina did a tiny back flip and land on her feet. She cursed silently as a little globe of whirling orange flame flickered at her fingertip, pointing the burning darts towards her attacker. "FLARE ARROW!!"
Lina peered up and noticed the spell bounced off the figure without causing any damage. Not again. Lina rolled her eyes and gave a silent groan. Mazoku.
A young girl that was around sixteen with her blue hair tied in a braid was now staring at her with her icy emerald eyes. Her feet were hanging in the mid-air, and a shimmering sphere of energy was gathered in her hand. No doubt that she was not an ally, but Lina could notice that hatred that was blazing in her eyes.
"What the hell is going on??" Lina nearly wanted to shriek at the top of her voice. She was quite positive that she had never seen this girl before. Why on earth that the blue haired Mazoku was giving her that look like she had just done something unpardonable.
Mazoku. Trouble. Mazoku. That's why she hated to see Xelloss that much. Anything related with the Mazoku meant troubles.
"Who are you?" Lina finally managed uttered out, fixing her gaze at her. Gourry, on the other hand, had unsheathed his sword and standing by her side. He had been using a broad sword after returning the Sword of Light.
"None of your business." The Mazoku said coolly. "Just prepare to die, Lina Inverse."
"What's this?" Amelia asked the umpteen times that day. It was the beginning of the only thing that she had ever said. Forms and applications and scrolls and who know what else kept crossing her desk everyday. All these paperwork was now driving her go crazy, as her dear father had actually abandoned her and gone to somewhere else, leaving her all alone to deal with it.
"This is the request for asking that the application for sending the contract of allocation of request in order to permit the acquisition demand to be processed."
"Haven't I signed this yesterday?" She groaned.
"No, your highness."
Amelia sighed. Well, she knew that it was her duty as a princess to accept and abide it but it was really damn tedious. What the hell that she had to help her father to settle all those dull and boring paperwork whereas he was now enjoying himself in somewhere else. This was definitely injustice! Amelia grumbled silently as she clutched her fists so tightly till her knuckles turned white.
"Your highness!!"
Amelia swiveled her chair around and stared vaguely at the official who was now darting down the long hall, leading to her room. "What on earth happened again?" She demanded, beginning to feel frustrated and angry.
"Someone is creating trouble in the street." The guard gasped, as he took in a mouthful of air trying to regain his composure. "Their strong bombardment of their magic spells had caused many people in the street to get hurt and the damaging the private's property!! Please take some action!!"
Amelia paused as she stood up abruptly and hurried out of her room. Oh god, how come she had a feeling that Lina was involved in this matter?
Chapter one
Well, for any bandits who had experience with the petite and underdeveloped red haired sorceress, they would definitely pack up their load and fled before any misfortunes would fall upon them. Though the next minute, they could realize that there was practically no way for them to escape as our dear bandit killer was already standing in their way, with a spell readied in her hand, preparing to strike. Unfortunately, today was no exception.
"Fireball!!"
Lina smirked as she proudly admired at her handiwork. The camp of the bandits was now smoldering in ruins, not to even mentioned those toasted bandits who were lying on the ground yelping out in pain. She rummaged through what was left in the camp, looking for any valuables that might fetch a good price for her. Stealing from the bandits was not big deal to her, as she was merely helping the authority to nail down those crooks, preventing them to disrupt the peace of the peasant. Oh boy, this was beginning to sound like one of the justice speeches of Amelia.
She held up a silvery pendant to the firelight for a better examination. "Well, this may sell for 10 gold." She mused to herself as she placed it into her pouch. The next she came across was a jewel entrusted hairpin as she pondered for a while. "15 gold."
"Hey, Lina. Are you done with that yet?" Gourry sighed. "I'm getting hungry."
"Can't you just wait?" Lina demanded, continuing rummaging through more loot. "I'm hungry too. But we probably need something to pay our dinner with, and that's what I'm trying so hard doing here." The next item she uncovered was a small statuette of a cat crafted from gold with two rubies as eyes. "Ohh…this will fetch a good price." She exclaimed.
"I think that you have enough to buy for ten meals." Gourry commented.
"So?" Lina raised her eyebrow. "The more the merrier. Haven't you heard of that?"
"Whatever." Gourry shrugged.
By the time they left, Lina was carrying enough to fill a king's treasury. "I guess I have enough." She commented. "So, where's the closest town? I'm starved!"
Gourry scratched his head. "I think Seryuun is down the road a couple of miles. We can be there in a few hours."
"That's great!" Lina beamed, strolling down the lane. "We can pay Amelia a visit. It had been a long time since we had not seen her. And Zel… I wondered that how they are doing now."
Gourry nodded. Two months had passed since they had gone into their separate ways after the destruction of the Dark Star. Amelia had returned to Seryuun and Zelgadiss was still obsessed in his search of his chimerical cure. Gourry smiled. "Well, I think that they're fine. How about Xelloss and Filia? Do you think that they are still fighting like cat and dog?"
"Not much of a possibility." Lina shrugged. She knew that Filia had gone to a small town and whereas Xelloss; the trickster priest was probably busily handling the task that his mistress had assigned to him. Lina sighed. Anyway, she was not that keen to meet up with Xelloss though she treated him as some sort of her friend. Troubles arose whenever he shown his face. And she was definitely not pleased about it.
"Well, I'm finally able to have a good night sleep." Lina said, taking in a deep breath. "No more camping outside."
"Ahh…" Lina leaned back in her chair and patted her belly. "The food is so delicious."
The waiter who was clearing the table sighed with relief when Lina and Gourry had finally stopped eating or else, he doubt that the chefs of this restaurant perhaps would be now writing resignation letters to their boss. He eyed at the impressive stacks of empty dishes left on the table, and started to wonder how could these two people managed to finish up so much food, not to mention that one of them was so skinny. Anyway, the dishwashers would be having a difficult time in clearing up this mess, and the both of them better had enough money to pay for their bills.
Lina slouched into her chair with her eyes closed in satisfaction, while Gourry looked at the poor waiter who was now taking away those dishes. He turned his head and stared through the window for a while, taking a sip of his orange juice. "What are you going to do now, Lina? Should we go and pay Amelia a visit now?"
Lina stretched, and stood up reluctantly. "Perhaps later," she said, "do you want to have some desserts now?" Her eyes sparkled when she turned to face Gourry. "The ice cream that is sold at that stall is really splendid."
"Sure." Gourry smiled as he followed Lina out of the restaurant. Needless to say, food was more important to them as compared to meeting an old friend. "Let's go!" He added.
"Well, I will like to have eight servings of fried ice-cream." Lina smiled.
The waitress stared at her in disbelief as she scribbled down her order. "Eight servings of fried ice-cream?" She finally managed to utter out, eyeing at Lina's tiny frame, as she continued. "Have I heard you wrongly?"
Lina smiled as she fixed her eyes at the waitress. "No."
"And I could like to have ten servings of fried ice cream." Gourry added.
"Sure." The waitress walked away while she gazed at the two big appetizers till they were out of her sight. Eighteen servings of ice cream? She thought disbelievingly, and started to wonder if the both of them had engaged in any eating contest.
Lina looked out of the window patiently while waiting her desserts to be served. The street was still bustling with life, as usual. Lina smiled. She never expected that someone like Prince Phil would manage to rule his country so well, not to mention that he was the little justice Amelia's father, he looked just like a crook who had committed many atrocious crimes and under warrant of the police.
Boom!!!
"What on earth had happened?" A huge explosion could be heard as Lina turned her head instantly. Smoke was now emerging now from the restaurant, as she finally noticed the whole place was completely destroyed. "Who is the one that cast the fireball here??" Lina demanded angrily, realizing that her hopes to having her dessert were all drowned. "Whoever did this will be very sorry for himself! I goanna to make him pay for this."
Surprisingly, Lina was not hurt from this explosion, whereas the other customers who were not as fortunately as her were all now lying flat on the floor, toasted.
"FIREBALL!!"
Lina yelped and jumped aside, as the fireball collided with the chair, causing a huge explosion that hurled her into air. "Levitation!" She managed to cast the spell before being crashed towards the wall. Negating of the gravity and rush of air, Lina did a tiny back flip and land on her feet. She cursed silently as a little globe of whirling orange flame flickered at her fingertip, pointing the burning darts towards her attacker. "FLARE ARROW!!"
Lina peered up and noticed the spell bounced off the figure without causing any damage. Not again. Lina rolled her eyes and gave a silent groan. Mazoku.
A young girl that was around sixteen with her blue hair tied in a braid was now staring at her with her icy emerald eyes. Her feet were hanging in the mid-air, and a shimmering sphere of energy was gathered in her hand. No doubt that she was not an ally, but Lina could notice that hatred that was blazing in her eyes.
"What the hell is going on??" Lina nearly wanted to shriek at the top of her voice. She was quite positive that she had never seen this girl before. Why on earth that the blue haired Mazoku was giving her that look like she had just done something unpardonable.
Mazoku. Trouble. Mazoku. That's why she hated to see Xelloss that much. Anything related with the Mazoku meant troubles.
"Who are you?" Lina finally managed uttered out, fixing her gaze at her. Gourry, on the other hand, had unsheathed his sword and standing by her side. He had been using a broad sword after returning the Sword of Light.
"None of your business." The Mazoku said coolly. "Just prepare to die, Lina Inverse."
"What's this?" Amelia asked the umpteen times that day. It was the beginning of the only thing that she had ever said. Forms and applications and scrolls and who know what else kept crossing her desk everyday. All these paperwork was now driving her go crazy, as her dear father had actually abandoned her and gone to somewhere else, leaving her all alone to deal with it.
"This is the request for asking that the application for sending the contract of allocation of request in order to permit the acquisition demand to be processed."
"Haven't I signed this yesterday?" She groaned.
"No, your highness."
Amelia sighed. Well, she knew that it was her duty as a princess to accept and abide it but it was really damn tedious. What the hell that she had to help her father to settle all those dull and boring paperwork whereas he was now enjoying himself in somewhere else. This was definitely injustice! Amelia grumbled silently as she clutched her fists so tightly till her knuckles turned white.
"Your highness!!"
Amelia swiveled her chair around and stared vaguely at the official who was now darting down the long hall, leading to her room. "What on earth happened again?" She demanded, beginning to feel frustrated and angry.
"Someone is creating trouble in the street." The guard gasped, as he took in a mouthful of air trying to regain his composure. "Their strong bombardment of their magic spells had caused many people in the street to get hurt and the damaging the private's property!! Please take some action!!"
Amelia paused as she stood up abruptly and hurried out of her room. Oh god, how come she had a feeling that Lina was involved in this matter?