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finish! Please? *bambii eyes* Ano, sorry about da small spelling errors! ^^; Too lazy! And thank you keinami! ^^ I really think there is a lack on the best pair (L and G) Too! ^^ So keep reading! Hope you like this chapter!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SLAYERS! NOW STOP MAKING ME CRY!
You're Everything to Me
Chapter title: Musings and the Crimson Bird
(This takes place a few months later......)
A lanky and tall swordsman sat down at a beautiful garden, where now Sakura
blossoms were beginning to fall and die. His eyes were full of tears and in his hands was a
beautiful well polished golden loop earring. "I was such an idiot not to know, most of all
not to tell..." The man said to himself as he held the cool metal against his face. "Even if I
am an idiot.... I know when I'm an idiot Lina...." He mumured as he held the hoop to his
lips, kissing it.(But he wasn't sure if he loved her or not, not "yet") His eyes seemed
distant as a cool breeze hit his face and blew his hair. The last time he met Lina was three
months ago..... at the party.....
::Flash*back::
Gourry grunted as he made his way through the crowd. The engagement party
sure was big! Almost immediately he sighted a familiar crimson haired woman.... "Lina!"
He shouted through the crowd, he was exhilarated, he didn't know why but the sight of his
old friend made his blood pump faster. The crimson headed sorceress whirled around, her
eyes bewildered. "Nani?" She whispered. Gourry poked her small shoulders and chuckled
as she jumped. It had been a long time.....Lina stomped her foot, her silky red and black
ball gown rippling as she did so. "Gourry Gabriev!" She shouted.
"JELLYFISH-FOR-BRAINS!" She shrieked, her hands lifted to the air, "FIRE--" Gourry
winced and was surprised when nothing came. He looked down. Lina was smiling.
"Gourry." Lina said simply, her eyes seemed to glow as she looked at him. "I would've
recognized your voice even if I had myself blind folded and gagged." She said lispingly.
Lina turned away, a confused blush ran up my Gourrys cheek. What did she say? Lina had
turned away, her curtain of glossy silky red hair covering her face. "Hey Lina, hows it
going at home? Can I visit you yet?" "No..." A tired voice answered him. Lina looked up,
her eyes seemed tired. "Nothing is over at my house." Gourry did the thing he was best at,
smiling a really idiotic grin which usually got Lina ticked off. Lina smiled. "L-sama, I
missed that smile." Lina whispered to him, her body trembling. Gourry stood there, a
confused look on his face. Lina sighed. "Gourry, look..... I--" Gourry leaned forward and
listened to his old companion. "LINA~!" Lina jumped and a purple haired girl with the
bust the size of melons pushed her way through. "Sister?" Lina squeaked, her eyes
lowered. Gourry winced, why was Lina acting this way? Where was her old spunk? The
girl stared at her sister for a second, her eyes suddenly softening as she saw Gourry. "Lina
why didn't you tell me?" Lina looked up. "What Luna?" Luna sighed and frowned and
whispered something to Lina. Lina nodded, her eyes wide. "Gourry, please..." Lina
pleaded as she turned toward him. "Tell Zel and Amelia I could'nt make it? Tell them I
came but I wish them good luck, I must leave." Lina smiled faintly as she turned and
followed her sister out. Gourry just stared. A strange feeling came over him, he felt lonely,
and sad....... and some strange feeling he had never felt before.
::End Flashback::
Gourry let out a sigh. Zel and Amelia were so upset. He remembered the sad look
on Amelias face and Zels hard and stony glare. He looked up in the sky hopefully. 'Please
L-sama..... Let the crimson bird come.' He wasn't as stupid as people thought him to be.
He remembered everything...... Gourry looked at the sky with faint hope. He remembered
when they kissed after he saved her from Chaos....... and he remembered the promise.....
and the moments they had shared together. He sighed. No bird today...... As if L-sama
herself answered her prayer a flicker of red caught his eye. His heart skipped a beat. A
crimson bird with golden eyes glided down toward him. A parchment stuck to its leg. He
eagerly took the parchment off and held the bird on his wrist.
Dear Gourry Gabriev,
I know its been a while, but finally you can visit me, I suspect the trouble is gone now.
Use the old address I gave you to come to my home. Cya in a week or two!
Lina Inverse
P.S Feed Magenta for me?
Gourrys eyes were filling with happy tears. Maybe now he would see her? And.....
He could explain to her the strange feelings jumbled up in him. And she would help
unknot his knotted emotions. The emotions he could not understand.... Maybe even Lina
would help him identify wether the feeling he felt was "Love" (as Amelia claimed) or not.
He started. "Magenta?" He stared at the bird who cheeped at him, it ruffled its red feathers
and pecked him on his hand. "Ow!" He yelped, rubbing his hand over the peck mark. The
bird cheeped proudly as it made itself at home in his golden hair. Gourry scowled, but
smiled. He was going to see his old friend, maybe love at last!
-A few weeks later-
Gourry wiped his golden sweaty bangs off his sticky forehead. "Crimson Red
Avenue?" He sighed. This was hard, especially to someone as dense as him. He saw a lady
walk by him. "Excuse me Miss?" The woman stopped, staring at him. "Yes?" "Do you
know where Lina Inverse lives?" The lady stared at him some more, her mouth gaping.
"My dear boy." The lady said, her voice hoarse. "Poor boy, you loved her didn't you?"
Gourry stepped back. "Um..." He didn't know quite how to answer to that, and responded
with a total klutz freak out; The woman stared at him and slowly shook her head. "Poor
Poor child....." The womans eyes went teary. "My dear? Why are you searching for this
girl?" Gourry seemed preturbed. "I'm her friend." She looked away. "If I were you, and
didn't want any pain, I would walk away now, RIGHT now, and forget her." Gourry
walked forward, haltingly. "What?" The woman turned to her. "You're not giving up aren't
you?" She sighed and pointed at a direction. "Go there and I will meet you there. Then I
explain." Gourry was confused but followed the directions and came across some rubble
which was still smodering. "I wondered what happened here?" He said aloud. Magenta
chirped angrily and flew around twice before returning with something in its beak. Gourry
didn't pay attention to the bird as the old lady walked up to him. "Tell me young man.
What do you see?" Gourry racked his brain. "You." The woman nearly bent back twice
before regaining her composure. "No in front of you there." She pointed at the rubble.
"Stuff from a burnt house." Gourry said exaspherated. The woman nodded. "This is her
home." Gourry stared. "She lives here?!" Gourry wrinkled his nose. Then it hit him and he
stepped away from the woman. "This is just a nightmare....." He whispered and he
loooked up at the street sign. Crimson Red Avenue. Scorch marks were on the wood.
"What happened?" Gourry asked, his voice hard as granite. "A group o Mozuku demons
claimed that Linas father had been gambling and lost a fourtune and owed them." The
woman said tiredly. "Poor Lina... The Mozukus outnumbered them and here they are,
dead ." She pointed toward the church. "But I have to tell you one thing." Gourry started
to weep, his eyes brimming. "Yes?" he asked, his voice cracking. "Linas body was never
found." The woman smiled and walked away. Gourry walked to the rubble and dug
through it with his hands. "LINA!" He yelled so loudly it seemed as if the 4 worlds have
heard it. He wiped his tears and dug through the smoking rubble. "Stupid Mozukus!" He
growled and sobbed helplessly as he sat back, tears running down his face, as if to reflect
his mood rain drops started to fall dampinng his hair and his already wet face. "Lina......"
He whispered. "I promised to protect you..... I promised myself...... when you weren't
there.... I would protect you no matter how far.....and I failed myself." Gourry held in a
gut wrenching sob. The bird chattered near his, shirping angrily at something in the
shadows. The shadow moved and dissappeared. But the heart broken swordsman didn't
notice.
A rose. Gourry let the red flower drop on her grave. Red like her hair. He thought
mournfully. It was then something seemed to shatter something withing him, something
snapped. "LINA WHY?!" Gourry yelled, his eyes closed tightly. "YOU NEVER GAVE
ME THE CHANCE! YOU PROMISED WE WOULD MEET AGAIN!" He choked on
his tears. The bird next to him chirped sadly. "Lina....." He whispered. "Now I know why
my instinct told me to buy that ring..... Lina the day you got the parchment...... And I had
no money..... I used the money on a ring I wanted to give to you.... but I was too stupid to
understand Why I bought it, now I know!" His hand clenched a velvet box withing his
pocket and he threw it out onto the tombstone. "HAVE IT YOUR WAY!" He yelled
angrily at the tomb stone. "You left me now take that ring!" He shuddered once and was
silent. A strange gust whirled around him. "Gourry......." the wind seemed to call. Gourry
jerked up. "Whos there?" In his mind he pictured Lina, her eyes flashing.
'YOU-JELLYFISH-FOR-BRAINS!' She screeched at him in his thoughts. 'You think the
beautiful Lina Inverse would be defeated that easily?!' Gourry snapped his fingers. "Lina,
you can't be dead." He smiled tenatively. "Of course not! They didn't find your body!"
Magenta cheeped. Gourry saw something in its mouth. "Magenta give it here." The bird
obediently dropped the peice of something in his hand. A lock of red hair, Lina's hair.
"Lina?" He whispered.
A beautiful golden woman sat in front of the mirror, watching the golden haired
swordsman. "I've helped you once before, I'll help you again." She whispered. "Shes closer
than you think, and indeed, shes not dead, but her soul is." She snapped her fingers and
the mirror became a mirror, no longer a portal to look at mortal lives. "Such a pity."
L-sama said with a sigh. She smiled breifly. Oh how she did love romantic things, and
meddling as a cupid.
To be continued...............
Ok...... Hope you like? And Reveiw! ^^; Ah, L-sama decides to help poor Gourry, the
question is, is Lina DEAD? Or is she alive? Reveiw! PLEASE~! LOL Next coming outta
soon. Sorry about making Gourry sorta outta characther here, but I do belive he would act
like this in da real thing if Lina did do all theses stuff. Hm..... Ja ne! REVEIW
PLEASE!!!!!!!! Peace out, and Lina and Gourry forever!
~Peonyqt1004
finish! Please? *bambii eyes* Ano, sorry about da small spelling errors! ^^; Too lazy! And thank you keinami! ^^ I really think there is a lack on the best pair (L and G) Too! ^^ So keep reading! Hope you like this chapter!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SLAYERS! NOW STOP MAKING ME CRY!
You're Everything to Me
Chapter title: Musings and the Crimson Bird
(This takes place a few months later......)
A lanky and tall swordsman sat down at a beautiful garden, where now Sakura
blossoms were beginning to fall and die. His eyes were full of tears and in his hands was a
beautiful well polished golden loop earring. "I was such an idiot not to know, most of all
not to tell..." The man said to himself as he held the cool metal against his face. "Even if I
am an idiot.... I know when I'm an idiot Lina...." He mumured as he held the hoop to his
lips, kissing it.(But he wasn't sure if he loved her or not, not "yet") His eyes seemed
distant as a cool breeze hit his face and blew his hair. The last time he met Lina was three
months ago..... at the party.....
::Flash*back::
Gourry grunted as he made his way through the crowd. The engagement party
sure was big! Almost immediately he sighted a familiar crimson haired woman.... "Lina!"
He shouted through the crowd, he was exhilarated, he didn't know why but the sight of his
old friend made his blood pump faster. The crimson headed sorceress whirled around, her
eyes bewildered. "Nani?" She whispered. Gourry poked her small shoulders and chuckled
as she jumped. It had been a long time.....Lina stomped her foot, her silky red and black
ball gown rippling as she did so. "Gourry Gabriev!" She shouted.
"JELLYFISH-FOR-BRAINS!" She shrieked, her hands lifted to the air, "FIRE--" Gourry
winced and was surprised when nothing came. He looked down. Lina was smiling.
"Gourry." Lina said simply, her eyes seemed to glow as she looked at him. "I would've
recognized your voice even if I had myself blind folded and gagged." She said lispingly.
Lina turned away, a confused blush ran up my Gourrys cheek. What did she say? Lina had
turned away, her curtain of glossy silky red hair covering her face. "Hey Lina, hows it
going at home? Can I visit you yet?" "No..." A tired voice answered him. Lina looked up,
her eyes seemed tired. "Nothing is over at my house." Gourry did the thing he was best at,
smiling a really idiotic grin which usually got Lina ticked off. Lina smiled. "L-sama, I
missed that smile." Lina whispered to him, her body trembling. Gourry stood there, a
confused look on his face. Lina sighed. "Gourry, look..... I--" Gourry leaned forward and
listened to his old companion. "LINA~!" Lina jumped and a purple haired girl with the
bust the size of melons pushed her way through. "Sister?" Lina squeaked, her eyes
lowered. Gourry winced, why was Lina acting this way? Where was her old spunk? The
girl stared at her sister for a second, her eyes suddenly softening as she saw Gourry. "Lina
why didn't you tell me?" Lina looked up. "What Luna?" Luna sighed and frowned and
whispered something to Lina. Lina nodded, her eyes wide. "Gourry, please..." Lina
pleaded as she turned toward him. "Tell Zel and Amelia I could'nt make it? Tell them I
came but I wish them good luck, I must leave." Lina smiled faintly as she turned and
followed her sister out. Gourry just stared. A strange feeling came over him, he felt lonely,
and sad....... and some strange feeling he had never felt before.
::End Flashback::
Gourry let out a sigh. Zel and Amelia were so upset. He remembered the sad look
on Amelias face and Zels hard and stony glare. He looked up in the sky hopefully. 'Please
L-sama..... Let the crimson bird come.' He wasn't as stupid as people thought him to be.
He remembered everything...... Gourry looked at the sky with faint hope. He remembered
when they kissed after he saved her from Chaos....... and he remembered the promise.....
and the moments they had shared together. He sighed. No bird today...... As if L-sama
herself answered her prayer a flicker of red caught his eye. His heart skipped a beat. A
crimson bird with golden eyes glided down toward him. A parchment stuck to its leg. He
eagerly took the parchment off and held the bird on his wrist.
Dear Gourry Gabriev,
I know its been a while, but finally you can visit me, I suspect the trouble is gone now.
Use the old address I gave you to come to my home. Cya in a week or two!
Lina Inverse
P.S Feed Magenta for me?
Gourrys eyes were filling with happy tears. Maybe now he would see her? And.....
He could explain to her the strange feelings jumbled up in him. And she would help
unknot his knotted emotions. The emotions he could not understand.... Maybe even Lina
would help him identify wether the feeling he felt was "Love" (as Amelia claimed) or not.
He started. "Magenta?" He stared at the bird who cheeped at him, it ruffled its red feathers
and pecked him on his hand. "Ow!" He yelped, rubbing his hand over the peck mark. The
bird cheeped proudly as it made itself at home in his golden hair. Gourry scowled, but
smiled. He was going to see his old friend, maybe love at last!
-A few weeks later-
Gourry wiped his golden sweaty bangs off his sticky forehead. "Crimson Red
Avenue?" He sighed. This was hard, especially to someone as dense as him. He saw a lady
walk by him. "Excuse me Miss?" The woman stopped, staring at him. "Yes?" "Do you
know where Lina Inverse lives?" The lady stared at him some more, her mouth gaping.
"My dear boy." The lady said, her voice hoarse. "Poor boy, you loved her didn't you?"
Gourry stepped back. "Um..." He didn't know quite how to answer to that, and responded
with a total klutz freak out; The woman stared at him and slowly shook her head. "Poor
Poor child....." The womans eyes went teary. "My dear? Why are you searching for this
girl?" Gourry seemed preturbed. "I'm her friend." She looked away. "If I were you, and
didn't want any pain, I would walk away now, RIGHT now, and forget her." Gourry
walked forward, haltingly. "What?" The woman turned to her. "You're not giving up aren't
you?" She sighed and pointed at a direction. "Go there and I will meet you there. Then I
explain." Gourry was confused but followed the directions and came across some rubble
which was still smodering. "I wondered what happened here?" He said aloud. Magenta
chirped angrily and flew around twice before returning with something in its beak. Gourry
didn't pay attention to the bird as the old lady walked up to him. "Tell me young man.
What do you see?" Gourry racked his brain. "You." The woman nearly bent back twice
before regaining her composure. "No in front of you there." She pointed at the rubble.
"Stuff from a burnt house." Gourry said exaspherated. The woman nodded. "This is her
home." Gourry stared. "She lives here?!" Gourry wrinkled his nose. Then it hit him and he
stepped away from the woman. "This is just a nightmare....." He whispered and he
loooked up at the street sign. Crimson Red Avenue. Scorch marks were on the wood.
"What happened?" Gourry asked, his voice hard as granite. "A group o Mozuku demons
claimed that Linas father had been gambling and lost a fourtune and owed them." The
woman said tiredly. "Poor Lina... The Mozukus outnumbered them and here they are,
dead ." She pointed toward the church. "But I have to tell you one thing." Gourry started
to weep, his eyes brimming. "Yes?" he asked, his voice cracking. "Linas body was never
found." The woman smiled and walked away. Gourry walked to the rubble and dug
through it with his hands. "LINA!" He yelled so loudly it seemed as if the 4 worlds have
heard it. He wiped his tears and dug through the smoking rubble. "Stupid Mozukus!" He
growled and sobbed helplessly as he sat back, tears running down his face, as if to reflect
his mood rain drops started to fall dampinng his hair and his already wet face. "Lina......"
He whispered. "I promised to protect you..... I promised myself...... when you weren't
there.... I would protect you no matter how far.....and I failed myself." Gourry held in a
gut wrenching sob. The bird chattered near his, shirping angrily at something in the
shadows. The shadow moved and dissappeared. But the heart broken swordsman didn't
notice.
A rose. Gourry let the red flower drop on her grave. Red like her hair. He thought
mournfully. It was then something seemed to shatter something withing him, something
snapped. "LINA WHY?!" Gourry yelled, his eyes closed tightly. "YOU NEVER GAVE
ME THE CHANCE! YOU PROMISED WE WOULD MEET AGAIN!" He choked on
his tears. The bird next to him chirped sadly. "Lina....." He whispered. "Now I know why
my instinct told me to buy that ring..... Lina the day you got the parchment...... And I had
no money..... I used the money on a ring I wanted to give to you.... but I was too stupid to
understand Why I bought it, now I know!" His hand clenched a velvet box withing his
pocket and he threw it out onto the tombstone. "HAVE IT YOUR WAY!" He yelled
angrily at the tomb stone. "You left me now take that ring!" He shuddered once and was
silent. A strange gust whirled around him. "Gourry......." the wind seemed to call. Gourry
jerked up. "Whos there?" In his mind he pictured Lina, her eyes flashing.
'YOU-JELLYFISH-FOR-BRAINS!' She screeched at him in his thoughts. 'You think the
beautiful Lina Inverse would be defeated that easily?!' Gourry snapped his fingers. "Lina,
you can't be dead." He smiled tenatively. "Of course not! They didn't find your body!"
Magenta cheeped. Gourry saw something in its mouth. "Magenta give it here." The bird
obediently dropped the peice of something in his hand. A lock of red hair, Lina's hair.
"Lina?" He whispered.
A beautiful golden woman sat in front of the mirror, watching the golden haired
swordsman. "I've helped you once before, I'll help you again." She whispered. "Shes closer
than you think, and indeed, shes not dead, but her soul is." She snapped her fingers and
the mirror became a mirror, no longer a portal to look at mortal lives. "Such a pity."
L-sama said with a sigh. She smiled breifly. Oh how she did love romantic things, and
meddling as a cupid.
To be continued...............
Ok...... Hope you like? And Reveiw! ^^; Ah, L-sama decides to help poor Gourry, the
question is, is Lina DEAD? Or is she alive? Reveiw! PLEASE~! LOL Next coming outta
soon. Sorry about making Gourry sorta outta characther here, but I do belive he would act
like this in da real thing if Lina did do all theses stuff. Hm..... Ja ne! REVEIW
PLEASE!!!!!!!! Peace out, and Lina and Gourry forever!
~Peonyqt1004