*Authors note: HI everyone ^____^ yes I do have a Zel/lina bias... but i also like Val/lina and Xellos/lina.... O.o but i think me fav is zelgadis and lina... yes well im gonna attempt to write a chapter fic... we'll see how it goes...by the way this story is based on the origanial Beauty and the beast*

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There once lived a man named Gourry Gabereive, who was a inventor of many strange and fasinating things. when Gourry had turned of age he married a beautiful women named luna. and together they had 6 Children, 3 sons and 3 daughters. but this is not a story about gourry this is about his youngest daughter named lina. You see where Lina's sisters were tall, lina was short, where there hair was silky and curled, hers was plain and straight, the only thing that marked it as being unique was that it was sunset red. Linas sisters skin where a fair lily white, while linas was a tanned color since she spent so much time outside with her horse phillip. However everyone that lived in the village around said that by far lina was the prettiest, though no one ever bothered to tell lina this. so she grew up thinking herself plain and unimportant compared to her older sisters.

One Year when lina was around 16, Her father and mother had gotten into a quarrel and in a rage luna her, mother, hit gourry in the side of the head and cast him out into the streets. lina fearing that her father would get lost and hurt himself even more, followed him around and when he wondered into a inn lina felt that he would be safe and went home. "besides" she thought "its getting cold and it looks like its gonna snow soon".

Well, the next morning Luna sent lina to go get gourry, for she felt sorry for what she had done and wanted her husband back. so lina Ran to the inn where Her father had spent the night and to her shock and dismay, he was gone. Lina went to the Bar Keeper and asked him where Gourry might have gone.

"woke up around 3 this mornin' he did, said somethin' 'bout gettin' flowers fer his wife. said she liked roses. well little miss it bein' so close to christmas that it is, there just aint anyway that he was gonna get himself some roses, not unless he went to that enchanted castle out in the woods. though I highly doubt he would go there. only a fool would"

Lina sighed and nodded her head. Yep thats where Gourry was then. no matter how much she loved her father, she would be one the first people to admit that gourry was, well, simple. So lina not wanting to displease her mother by comeing home without her father, pulled her cloak around herself tighter and followed a dusty road out into a dark forest where the rumored enchanted castle was said to be.

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"damn its cold.... very very cold.... very very very very very very cold" Linas teeth chattered as she tried vainly to find something that looked atleast a little familer. you see about an hour into following the road it started to snow and lina had wandered off the road. she thought she would have been able to find it again but, she hadnt even seen a wild animal for the past 6 hours .... Lina rubbed her cold arms with numb fingers. she had lost feeling to them and her feet a while ago and now her legs and arms where also starting to freeze. A strong wind blew past knocking lina down into the cold, wet snow. not having the strength to go on lina just sorta rolled over and curled into a small ball, praying that it would all be over soon.

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~FINI to Chapter One~

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA ^______^ cliff hanger. well love, hate, want to throw rotten veggies? R&R.... and I will post chapter two soon.