" hey,Flattie,what'cha gonna do, Flattie? if it wasn't for your voice, I'd think You were a little boy." The creepy looking monster leered at Lina Inverse figuring wrongly that he had her right were he wanted her. She was looking at the ground eyebrow twitching arms straight out her entire body blazing with anger. If you listen close you can hear her mumbling.

"Darkness beyond twilight!"

"Crimson beyond blood that flows!"

"Lina? Lina, what are you doing? LINA, NO!" Gourry frantically tried to find shelter before he was blown away.

"Buried within the flow of time!

"In Thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness

"let the fools who stand before me be destroyed by power you and I possess!"

"DRAGON SLAVE!"

Lina stood breathing heavily, eyebrow still twitching,"Why do they always go for the thing I am most sensitive about!"she whined. "Did you REALLY have to do that?" Gourry says coming out of hiding and looking more than a little like a charred marshmallow.
" Why do I always wind up either protecting you or getting BBQ-ed!"
" It's not my fault you didn't move fast enough, or that those idiots would bring THAT up."
"Oh yeah, wasn't it something about you being flat chested?" "DO you LIKE pain or are you just that stupid? Honestly, I can't tell!" " Um..." whatever ingenious statement he was going to make was interrupted by A pink and white blur landing on Gourry's head. Lina forgetting that she was annoyed stared in surprise.

"OWWWWWW, Mr. Gourry you have a hard head!" Amelia whined.

Gourry just looks at her from his place on the ground 'like where did you come from?"
Amelia (sweat drops) " Mr. Gourry you should really get a clue! I ...erm...JUMPED out of the tree you are standing beside I didn't descend from heaven or anything!"
Gourry as usual is still a little slow on the uptake and is still looking at Amelia in wonder
Lina walks over to him still grumbling and hits him hard into the tree Amelia fell out of.

"That one, BAKA!" Lina yells.

" Why do people always show up after they can't help?' Lina grumbles Amelia a dirty look.

"Oh, you handled it just fine either way," came the reply from above them.

" Besides I am more interested in trying to figure out who is coming this way." Zeldadiss GreyWords says as he makes a graceful decent from the very same tree Amelia "JUMPED" out of.

" What are you talking about now?" Lina's ever-present temper was beginning to rise again (evident by the twitching of her eyebrow)

Just then Naga walked into the clearing. Lina sweat dropped and tried to hide.

" See I tried to warn you." Zel says to Lina who is spreading his cloak out in attempts to hide behind him from Naga the goldfish poo"
(Icky Naga laugh) " Ah Lina I have found you! I, Naga the white serpent, your Greatest Rival --Now we shall battle to prove I am the best!"
Lina (twitch, twitch) "FIREBALL!"
Naga looking much like about the same as Gourry earlier" Your a meanie Lina"

" Sister?" Amelia says blinking.
(Everyone but Amelia and Naga face plant)
" Ah Little sister, How are you? And how is it you travel with my Greatest rival?"
(You mean you hadn't guessed let's see both loud and oh so annoying and both mess up with their magic. Both mention a sister but you never see them together)

"I... Look OUT!"
A huge monster that looked like a winged worm comes out of the bushes; the thing eats Naga and proceeds to go after Amelia.

Lina starts putting together a Fireball (kinda not wanting to kill the thing since it got rid of her problems but anyway.)Amelia is throwing her Justice spells at it left and right they aren't doing much good Lina's Fireball hits it making it explode throwing green ooze everywhere.

(Group)"EWWWWWW!"
Amelia now being the only heir to the throne must now return home to tell her father of what has happened to her Sister but first...

SPLASH
"Ahhh Amelia would you help me get this ooze out of my hair?" Lina says with big pleading eyes.
"only if you help me with mine."
"Deal!"
" Mr. Zelgadiss is lucky this stuff will wash right off him."
" How much do you want to bet we will have to wash Gourry's hair?"
"Well your's is clean now so if you would start on mine, I will be able to help you get his clean before I leave to go home."

About ten minutes later Lina and Amelia are scrubbing away at Gourry's head and Zelgadiss is laughing at the expressions on Gourry's face (he is desperately trying not to cry).After they had finished with Gourry, Amelia took her leave begging them to come visit her kingdom soon. Lina decides she wants a nap telling the men to leave her be unless there was food involved in the reason she was being woken up. The men go a sit some distance away, neither care to admit they really don't want to make Lina grumpy.

" Zel tell me the truth, am I bald?" Asks a very clean, very worried Gourry.
" No, but there are pink ribbons involved." Smirks Zel.
Gourry (sweat drops, frantically trying to unbind his hair)

"H..Hello?" A timid voice form the woods calls.
"Who's there? " Zel says whipping around berating himself for letting someone sneak up on him.
" I am Arianna Tagel, I am seeking the aide of Lina Inverse or the Mazuko Xelloss. Have you seen them?"
"Maybe, Step out where I can see you."
" Could you tell the blonde man to...put his clothes on?"
( Gourry had been sitting there without a shirt)
Gourry goes red and yanks his shirt over his head.
" Many thanks" A young woman steps from behind some dense bushes.

Gourry's jaw hits the ground and Zel sits frozen eyes like silver dollars. Arianna was tall with shinning golden hair falling most of the way down her back. Her angelic face set off by the strange lavender eyes. She was wearing dark blue pants with silver trim with a matching sleeveless shirt and long cape.

" You never answered my question. Have you seen them or not?"
" Erm... Yes I know where Lina is and usually Xelloss is somewhere watching her. So why are you looking for her?"
" That I will not tell you not unless perhaps you are Xelloss."
"NO! I am not a mazuko!"
" Hey didn't you ask me if I was?" Gourry says indigently.
" You can not be anything other than human, sir ." She says not bothering to soothe his ruffled feathers.
" WHAT THE HELL!"
(Arianna looks alarmed)
(sweat drops and cowering on the parts of both males.)
(Twitch, twitch) " What did I tell you about waking me up?" Lina yells at them completely missing Arianna.
" Umm, excuse me... "
Lina whirls around at the sound of the unfamiliar voice.
" I think it was my fault. I was asking them if they knew Lina Inverse or Xelloss. Sorry to disturb your rest."
" You found her."
" NANI...?" ( what in Japanese)
" I am Lina Inverse"