DISCLAIMER: I don't own the slayers characters, someone else does! The characters of Kai'ila, L'risia and Cleopatra are mine own, however. DO NOT TOUCH. Hehe.

Kai'ila brushed off her yellow dress as she stood by the roadside. Her long red hair blew in the wind and her green eyes watched the road run into the horizon. She turned around to face her two companions. One was lounging lazily in a tree. She was dressed in a dark blue dress and a black cloak, and had her long cobalt hair tied in a thick plait over her shoulder. She had her eyes shut.  Probably thinking about what story she could write next, thought Kai'ila. The girl sitting at the base of the tree met Kai'ila's green gaze with her own light blue. She had mid-length blonde-brown hair and wore a deep purple cape around her shoulders and a white dress with a little mauve angel on the front.

'Are they coming yet? This is boring.' She said.

'I think so, Cleo.' Kai'ila told her fellow priestess. The three of them where the three remaining priestess of Chaos, in a way related to the race of Ancient Dragons, of which Valgarv, now eight years old again, was the only one left. They too had powers of both light and dark, and for the last few thousand years had been watching the events of the world with mild interest, preferring to keep their existence a secret. But certain events two years ago (five, if you counted the first adventure) had persuaded them to influence slightly the events of the world.

Each of them had a annoying tendency to want to set people up. The friends responsible for the downfall of Shabranigdo, the Hellmaster, Chaos Dragon Gaav and Dark Star were increasingly getting on the nerves of the three matchmakers. After the fall of Dark Star, Xelloss had disappeared (huge surprise) Filia had set up her mace-and-pottery shop with Jiras and looked after baby Val, Amelia had gone back to the palace and Lina and Gourry- well, off travelling again. Zelgadis in particular was starting to piss Kai'ila and Cleo off. The third member of the party, the girl in black and blue, was also getting frustrated with him but, unlike the others, was still struggling with the idea of directly interfering. Finally she'd seen there was nothing she could do to stop her friends, so she went along for the ride and to stop them doing something completely crazy.

'L'risia, are you awake?' Cleo asked her, craning her neck to look up at the said person occupying a branch. Kai'ila noticed she looked like a certain annoying Mazoku, and made a mental note to tell her not to do this anymore.

'Mm? Yeah. Uh- Zel's run into Gourry and Lina, they'll be here in a couple of minutes.'

'Oh. You were scrying?'

'What did you think I was doing?'

'Sleeping.' Cleo and Kai'ila said sheepishly. L'risia looked annoyed and then shrugged.

'Under normal circumstances I probably would have been.'

Cleo looked down the path, an evil smile forming on her face as three figures appear. One is a short redhead, now twenty, dressed in her red and yellow sorceress ensemble. The figure to the right as an average-height young man, dressed in ivory. His steel hair glinted in the sunlight as he listened to his old friend tell him about her and her companion's adventures. This companion is very tall and with long blonde hair and dressed in blue. He has said hello to Zelgadis, even remembering how to say his name, and so now he feels Lina can do all the talking, since he can't remember half of what she's talking about anyway.

'Okay girls! Disguises!' Kai'ila clapped her hands, transforming her outfit into loose blue trousers and a yellow tunic. She tied a blue bandanna around her head and did a Lina-style-victory-sign-wink at her friends. Cleo, with a dramatic air, had little glitter sparkles formed around her and change her priestess clothes into purple flared pants and a white sleeveless top and a purple cape. L'risia shrugged, changing her clothes into black loose combat pants and a blue tunic.

'Could we please have a little colour, dear?' Cleo begged the girl.

'I'm wearing blue.'

'It's dark blue,' Cleo argued, 'and you never wear anything else!'

'Why, should I wear something different?'

Cleo scowled. Sometimes she wondered if L'risia had hung around Xelloss as a child. She said things like that on purpose. Zel, Lina and Gourry walked in front of them, and Kai'ila called out cheerfully,

'Hello!'

Lina turned around.

'Hi! Are you waiting for someone?'

'No, not really, we were just resting actually. Did you want to join us for lunch?'

'LUNCH?!' shrieked Lina, drooling. Zel sweatdropped as she and Gourry dived on the huge picnic basket Cleo had pulled out from a pocket dimension behind the tree.

'How embarrassing.' He muttered. 'Sorry if they eat all your lunch, ladies-'

'No problem.' Cleo shrugged. 'There's plenty in there. It's practically bottomless.'

L'risia winced from where she was still reclining on the branch.

'I'm not hungry.' She muttered. Cleo blinked at her.

'All right. Here, Lina, pass the chicken, don't eat it all! Want some Zel?'

'There's coffee in the thermos.' L'risia put in, having met Zel a few times in this form. He blinked at her.

'Don't I know you?'

'Ah- yes, I think we met north about a year ago.' L'risia said, pretending it just occurred to her. She'd been on a business trip to sort out Dynast of behalf of L-sama, and Zel had- interrupted. Luckily for Dynast.  'You're Zelgadis Greywords?'

'That's right-ah- these are my friends, Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev.'

L'risia raised an eyebrow as Cleo and Kai'ila stopped and looked rathe pointedly at Lina's hands. Lina became aware of the group's scrutiny of her left hand, and saw Zel's wide-eyed expression.

'And that,' L'risia said with a certain amount of shy satisfaction, 'would be about a 1000 carat diamond engagement ring, wouldn't it Lina.'

'Er-well-um-you see-ah-'

'YOU TWO ARE ENGAGED?!' Zelgadis shouted, and then grinned before falling over laughing, dropping the coffee cup. Kai'ila, Cleo and L'risia sweatdropped as the chimera struggled to get a hold on himself, while Lina and Gourry both went so red and hot Xelloss, had he been present, would have tried frying eggs on their heads.

'Zel- breathe!' Kai'ila advised, slapping his back. He coughed, and stopped laughing. He looked at the wildly embarrassed pair.

'How long?'

'A year and a half.' Muttered Lina.

'What's Amelia going to say?'

Lina's cheeks sucked into the sides of her mouth. 'EEP! I forgot how close we are to Sailoon! Oh no!'

'This should be interesting.' L'risia commented. Cleo looked at her suspiciously.

'Did you plan this, L'ri?'

'Me? I thought it was you!'

'Well, it wasn't me.'

They looked at Kai'ila, who made a rather poor attempt at whistling.

'KAI'ILA!'

'I didn't do it. I'm serious.'

L'risia started to smirk, drawing the attention of her two friends as well as Lina, Gourry and Zel.

'L'risia, are you sure you didn't have anything to do with this?'

'I didn't-much-'

'Well who did!?'

L'risia smiled, closing her eyes. She waggled her finger at the group, winking.

'That is a secret!'

They face faulted, yelling, 'XELLOSS!'

'I. Will. Kill. That. Stupid. Fruitcake. Mazoku.' Lina growled as Amelia bounced up to them, * someone * having told her where they were.

'Mister Zelgadis! Miss Lina! Mister Gourry! It's so nice to see you again!'

'Yeah, you two Amelia.' Lina smiled, happy at seeing her friend but trying nervously to keep her hand behind her back. Amelia, now nineteen, hugged Lina and Gourry and sort of hesitated when she came to Zelgadis, but eventually hugged him anyway. The chimera blushed a furious red. L'risia turned her face away so he couldn't see her grin, but Cleo and Kai'ila snickered openly.

'Ah- it's good to see you to Amelia.'

'Really?'

'Ah- yeah, sure.'

Amelia blushed happily and looked at Lina curiously. 'What's that you're hiding behind your b-'

'OH BY CEIFIED!' shouted a familiar female voice, 'MISS LINA, YOU'RE ENGAGED!'

Amelia blinked and looked at Lina, stunned, then shouted,

'WHAAA-AAT? To who?' she looked at Zel for a second.

'Gourry.' Zel reassured quickly. The thought of marrying Lina terrified him. Gourry was a brave man. Amelia looked somewhat relieved.

'That's so great! How are you Filia-san?'

Filia was standing in the pathway holding onto the eight-year-old Valgarv's hand.