Author's Notes: Minor changes. I had originally written Lina finding the second eye and in later parts I had accidently changed it to the third eye. Which actually was what I had intended, so she finds the third eye in this not the second. And if you haven't ever watched 'Relic Hunter' it's about Sydney Fox, a university professor that when she's not teaching searches for lost relics and artifacts for her school with her klutzy brainy assistant Nigel Bailey. Concept of this story is similar but doesn't follow any events of the 'Relic Hunter' tv show. So you don't need to watch Relic Hunter for this to make sense. It's its own thing.
Ruins Raiders
Prologue
By Relm
"Ah-ha! Now I've got you my beauty!" A woman dressed in a dark tan and black outfit cried out in glee as she gingerly picked up the said item. It was something that she had been searching for, for many years. "I finally have it, the third eye of Trinibee!" It was a small oval gem that sparkled with three different shades of blue. The gem had a glowing design on the middle of it that resembled an eye.
"Professor Inverse where are you?" A loud voice boomed throughout the underground tomb.
"Shit!" The woman cursed as the room started to shake. 'Why can't that idiot be quiet?'
"Professor Inverse?" A tall blond man came up to master burial chamber room. He stood dumbfound squinting through his large glasses and his long hair tied back in ponytail.
"Damnit Gourry shut up! This place is going to collapse if you keep shouting." Lina grumbled tucking a few strains of her long wavy hair red hair behind her ear.
"Sorry Professor Inverse, but I got lost." Gourry apologized as he started to walk towards her.
"No you idiot, don't step on that!" Lina screamed.
But it was too late.
"Huh?" Gourry stepped on a faded purple circular panel on the ground that gave way under the pressure of his foot. The panel made a clicking sound right before the tomb started to rumble.
"You idiot now you've done it!" Lina screamed and bopped him on the head. She put her prize in her little shoulder bag.
"What's going on?" Gourry said as he rubbed the now sore spot on his head.
"The tomb is collapsing because of your stupidity. Come on let's go before we get killed." Lina grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him as she broke out into a mad dash.
Columns began crashing down and traps went off at every turn making it a very dangerous escape for Lina and Gourry. They ran all the way back through the tomb the way they came in but it ALREADY had collapsed.
"We can't get out! We're going to die!" Gourry screamed shrieking like a girl.
"Shut up! We'll find another way. Come on!" Lina dragged him again and they raced through the collapsing tomb.
They just barely made it out with their lives coughing on thick dust and sand.
"This is the last time I take you with me! From now on you're staying back at the school!" Lina screamed while punching the sand.
"I'm sorry Professor Inverse." Gourry lowered his head.
"For the last time, call me Lina not Professor Inverse!" Lina yelled at Gourry waving her hands in the air.
"I'm sorry."
"Stop apologizing you idiot!"
"I'm sorry."
"AHHHH!"
"Well at least you got what you were looking for right Prof Inverse?" Gourry said sheepishly while sweatdropping. "The school will be happy about that."
Lina grinned. "You're right! As long as I have the third eye of Trinibee no matter how bad this day is it will all be worth while." Lina went to get the gem out of her pack but found something else instead. The third eye of Trinibee was now reduced to a pile of crystallized dust. "What happened?" Lina was near to tears.
"You broke it on the way? I break lots of stuff." Gourry suggested.
Lina glared at him.
"Well there are three of them right? We could always go get one of the other two."
Lina narrowed her eyes further. "One of them is in the royal Sailune City museum. As for the other one no one knows of its location. This was the only one that we had any information on. It could take years to find the proper information that could lead to finding the last one." Lina's tone was a deadly one.
"I'm sorry?" Gourry squeaked an apology.
"You should be sorry you STUPID PEA BRAINED IDIOT!" Lina's voice echoed throughout the sand dunes of the desert.
The whole trip back to Dhawyn Lina was very quiet. She didn't say a word to Gourry unless it was necessary. And that was fine with Gourry. He knew once Lina was angry it was best not to talk to her. Or otherwise one might evoke Lina Inverse's wraith. A quiet brooding Lina is far less dangerous then a Lina seething with very vocal anger.
In a little over 12 hours they reached Yardly, a district which is located in mid eastern Dhawyn. From there they took a plane that flew them the rest of the way to Rixx City, the capital of Zarlia a northwestern district of Dhawyn.
During both plane rides Lina was quiet. She didn't say a word to Gourry at all. Not even when they took a taxi to North Rixx University. She was still silent.
North Rixx University was the school that both Lina and Gourry worked at. Lina was a highly regarded Professor that taught Ancient History and Gourry was appointed to be Lina's assistant much to her dismay. The only real reason why Gourry was supposed to assist Lina was because she was regularly required to go on expeditions that proved to be dangerous more often then naught. And Gourry's muscle and natural fighting ability came in handy in some situations. Though even then Lina would have preferred to not have him around. Of course another reason why Gourry might have been appointed as Lina's assistant might be the fact that his father was the head owner of the university.
"Hello Mister Gourry, Miss Lina, how did the trip go?" Sylphiel asked greeting Lina and Gourry as they came into the office. Sylphiel served as both a secretary and a teacher's assistant for Lina. She organized papers and answered phones as well as help Lina with her class. And whenever Lina was away Sylphiel would be the one teaching the class for Lina.
"No-t-t-t we-ll Miss Syl-ph-phiel." Gourry stuttered slightly. He always got all weak-kneed in front of Sylphiel. Gourry normally a very strong and brave man who can pull his own weight in a battle was turned into a stuttering klutzy mess whenever Sylphiel was around.
Sylphiel thought he was cute but she hadn't quite caught on yet. "What happened?"
"Because of that jellyfish brained idiot there we almost got killed and we lost the third eye of Trinibee." Lina finally spoke and her tone wasn't pleasant. Mainly because she had no idea what she was going to say the Headmaster Gaberieve.
"You lost it? And there isn't any way to get it back?"
"Well I didn't loose it, it's right here." Lina dumped the contents of her bad onto her desk for Sylphiel to see. Which ended up being dust in a pretty shade of blue.
"Oh my, so I guess this isn't the best time to read the morning paper…" Sylphiel mumbled under her breathe.
"What did you say?" Lina glared at Sylphiel.
"I said this isn't the best time to read the morning paper." Sylphiel said more clearly. She knew what was coming so she braced herself as she handed Lina the paper.
On the front cover was a picture of a man that Lina had grown to hate over the years holding a small oval gem with markings on the center of it that resembled an eye. The headline read, 'East Rixx University Professor Finds Second Eye of Trinibee'. "I can't believe it, HE FOUND THE OTHER EYE?" Lina started screaming.
"Professor Inverse, Headmaster Gaberieve wishes to see you in his office." A messenger said knocking on the open door.
Lina facefaulted. "I'm dead, I'm so dead."
Author's Notes: Again like Ghost Slayers, Gourry is crushing on Sylphiel. But in this case Nigel the character that Gourry is portraying in this fic crushed on Karen, Sydney's last teaching assistant/secretary in Relic Hunter. (Though I could have seen a Nigel/Claudia thing going on if they hadn't replaced her with Karen. I like Nigel/Claudia as much as Nigel/Karen) So in this fic since Sylphiel is Karen having Gourry crush on her just makes sense. Plus it feeds into my L/Z G/S addictions. ^_~