A/N: Here's chapter two, which is a bit shorter than most of my chapters. Many thanks to Animejunkies'meow for sending a review, and a future thanks to anyone who reviews in the future. Please R&R, everyone!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Slayers or UP (which is what Phil is copying, basically. Just wait for it.)
A Battle of Will: Chapter 2
After the dust settles, Lina looks around and widens her eyes. "Oh, no...I owe Seyruun now."
Phil is twitching over in a pile of ashes and cinder blocks, but when he emerges, he is literally glowing red. "LINA INVERSE!"
The guilty redhead puts on her most innocent and adorable face, along with a blonde wig, blue contacts, and a whole different outfit. "L-Lina Inverse? I didn't know she was here! Where is she? I've always wanted her autograph!" The fake blonde aka Lina Inverse holds out a pencil and a pad of paper.
Phil sees right through it. "Lina, you owe me for building damage, city damage, citizen damage..." He begins to write on her notepad, finally finishing with a striking price of...
"WHAT?! Lina Inverse owes you 450,000,000,000 gold?! B-but...she can just blow you up again! What's gonna happen then?!" she cries, looking over the notepad.
Phil frowns, "But aren't you...?" He begins looking around the area, calling, "Lina!" and clapping his hands. "C'mere, Lina!"
She sighs in relief and wipes a sweatdrop off her forehead. "Thank Ceipheed..."
Zelgadis, Amelia, and Gourry are all standing outside of Seyruun, waiting for Lina to come back and eat Zelgadis, because after all, she is Lina Inverse, and just for being herself she was put under yet another "Wanted" sign.
Gourry is still singing. "...we're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again..."
And every time he sings a syllable, Zelgadis is smacking him in the face, so it sounds more like this: "...we're (ow) not (ouchie) bro(oww)ken (that hurts!) just (quit it!)..." Eventually the dumb blonde decided it was a good idea to stop singing love songs. So instead...
"Wake to see your true emancipation is a fantasy..." Soon he gets to the chorus and decides to show off his falsetto. "You...don't have long; I'm on...to you. The time...it has come...to destrooooooy...your SUPREMACY!"
And Amelia starts hitting him on the head.
"Okay, okay! How about this one?" Gourry asks as he starts singing a song Zelgadis can only guess at. "(It could be wrong, could be wrong,) But it shouldn't be right, (It could be wrong, could be wrong,) So let our hearts ignite, (It could be wrong, could be wrong,) Are we digging a hole? (It could be wrong, could be wrong,) This is out of control. (It could be wrong, could be wrong,) It could never last. (It could be wrong, could be wrong,) Must erase it fast..."
"GOURRY! JUST SHUT UP!" both of them yell.
"Fine," he whimpers, sitting down and nursing his poor, poor head.
Meanwhile Lina wanders around the rubble, still dressed in her disguise. Who knew that acting like a dumb blonde could be so effective? Well, maybe Gourry knows that, but then again, he is a dumb blonde, so maybe it doesn't work with him.
"Maybe I need to take some lessons from Gourry; Phil almost caught me..." Lina murmurs quietly. "Then again, what I said was true. I could just blow him up again." She curses loudly. "But 450,000,000,000? Even Phil wouldn't charge that much!"
"Lina!" Phil's voice is audible as he continues to call for the (innocent) redhead. He glances around. "Huh. I wonder where she went? It's not like Lina to vanish near a crime scene. I would guess she'd be busy robbing the secret vault over in the stack of rubble..."
Oh, Phil. Lina grins wickedly. You're so stupid, yet so brilliant.
The disguise works perfectly as the supposed blonde walks over to Phil and says, "Excuse me, sir, but maybe I could help you move Seyruun's vault to a safe place, because if Miss Lina is wandering around here, she'll surely find it!"
The king agrees and gives the blonde Lina the combination for the vault. "Thank you, young lady! It's very kind of you to offer to help me hide that vault. It holds a lot of gold."
"Of course it does," Lina grins before laughing nervously and rephrasing. "I mean, of course, sir! Seyruun is the white magic capital of the world, after all. It would only make sense for you to gain a lot of profit."
Phil smiles heartily, but then he pauses. "Oh, have you seen Amelia anywhere? I need to talk to her."
"You mean the crown princess? No, I haven't seen her around here." Where did they go, anyway? I owe Zel a certain 'apology'. Lina scowls.
"Okay, thanks, young miss! I'll be sure to keep a look out for Lina, just in case you're still hiding the gold."
"Of course, sir! I'll do the same." Lina smiles adorably, one eye closed as she flashes a victory sign.
Phil taps his chin for a second. "Oh, I almost forgot! What's your name?"
"Er...it's Emily. My name is Emily."
"Goodbye, Miss Emily, and good luck!" Phil skips away almost as cheerfully as his daughter would.
Lina unlocks the vault and stuffs half of the gold in her endless-pocketed cloak.
"Why's Lina taking so long?" Zelgadis wonders aloud.
"Yeah," Amelia agrees. "Normally she'd be back in all her mad fury by now."
Gourry looks thoughtful for a moment, which kind of scares the princess and the chimera. Then the blonde says carefully, "Wouldn't it be ironic if Lina dressed up as a dumb blonde with blue eyes and tricked Phil into giving her the combination to the secret vault that used to be behind the giant picture in the dining hall?"
Amelia exchanges a glance with Zelgadis.
"LINA!" they all yell, dashing off towards Seyruun and simply avoiding the fact that Gourry thought of something that was most likely correct.
Meanwhile Filia and Xellos stand beside the huge crater that used to be Seyruun's castle.
"Well, this looks familiar," Filia states, staring at the wreckage.
Xellos smiles in that overly cheerful way of his. "Of course, Filia! Remember that time...oh, right, you weren't there."
"What time?" The golden dragon demands, shaking Xellos until his head popped off.
"There was that time over in episode 1 where Lina blew up a town and all the townspeople chased after her..."
"Oh, right. That." Filia nods thoughtfully before yelling, "WHY WAS I ONLY IN SEASON 3?!"
"Because you're a Ryuuzoku."
"YOU FILTHY PIECE OF NAMAGOMI!"
"Aw, Filia, I'm wounded. How could you say that to your poor, poor, lonely husband?"
"YOU ARE NOT MY HUSBAND, YOU PERVERT!"
From around a mile away, Zelgadis, Gourry, and Amelia hear the smack of metal against bone. "Well, I guess Fiali and Soda are back," Gourry comments.
Zelgadis smacks himself in the face and mutters, "Stupid jellyfish-brain."
"Isn't that Lina's line?" Amelia asks innocently.
"Not anymore."
Gourry then adds, "Hey, were we looking for something?"
Zelgadis and Amelia then smack themselves in the faces before lifting Gourry up into the air and screaming, "LINA, IF YOU EVEN TRY TO HACK INTO THAT VAULT!"
Lina dashes towards her friends, out of her costume, and yells, "Hey, guys! How are you on this lovely day?"
Amelia lands beside her and growls, under high restraint, "Miss Lina, if you don't give Daddy back that money, I will make sure to drag you to Ruvinagald and stick you in a volcano. Give. It. Back."
"But if you stuck Lina in a volcano, wouldn't all the money melt and form golden lava?" Gourry asks.
Lina and Amelia blinks rapidly at him before their eyes glimmer with money signs. "Wow, think of all that money!" Lina mutters at the same time Amelia says, "We could stop world hunger!"
Then the two women resume glaring at each other.
"Um, Lina, you might want to run," Zelgadis mentions, pointing towards a troupe of guards running towards her with flaming pitchforks and country accents.
"Get back here, you!"
"Save the money, y'all!"
"Hurry! It's Lina Inverse!"
"No! Run away! It's Lina Inverse!"
Lina sighs and snaps her fingers. "Aqua Create."
The pitchforked guards fly into the air.
A/N: Phil clapping his hands and calling, "C'mere, Lina!" is based off of UP, the Disney movie. By the way, I happen to love Supremacy by Muse. I suggest you listen to it.
Oh, before I forget, I would really love a fanpic of a scene from either chapter 1 or 2. I would really like to see Amelia yelling at Phil (:P) or maybe Gourry pointing out something smart as Amelia and Zelgadis exchange looks. Please send it to my e-mail account, which is on my profile, and please tell me before you do, okay? 3 Thanks for reading!
