Author's note: thank you very much for the reviews it's always a motivation to write faster than I planned. Here is the second chapter. Thanks to raywind who is my beta. I hope you will enjoy this new chapter

Chapter 2

Zelgadis and Naga were back at the village more precisely, they were at the restaurant. The owner was trembling as he was serving Naga 's wine. The restaurant was empty. They were the only two customers.

Naga was staring at a mute and annoyed Zelgadis. She was wondering what her little sister saw about this chimera that had her falling in love with him. He wasn't even a talkative person. He seemed so serious that it already bored her to hell. This calm, strange chimera travelled with her very alive sister. How could either of them stand the other, considering how different they were?

Zelgadis couldn't stand Naga's staring anymore. He didn't like this woman. She was too tall, she had oversized breasts, she was wearing an outrageous outfit, she had an unbearable laugh and she sure a high opinion of herself. That, and she kept staring at him.

"Can you stop looking at me like that! I know I'm a freak but it's still not polite" he glared.

Naga took a cup of wine and drank.

"You're not so bad for a chimera. I've seen worse."

"Can we start now? The sooner it's done the sooner I'll get the Claire Bible"

Naga took the bottle and served Zelgadis's cup.

" I don't drink wine…"

"You are so rude, boy! You are with the most beautiful woman in the world…enjoy the sight!" she said. She moved her breast and laughed evily.

Zelgadis frowned completely unimpressed. She was so not his type of girl he thought.

"Oh I see," started Naga. "Mister Zelgadis surely prefers innocent girls dressed in white, naïve, princesses types for example".

Zelgadis felt embarrassed and lightly blushed. Naga smirked.

"So what do you want to know? I don't have the all afternoon, " he said.

"I have," Naga replied. "Let's start with Gourry Gabriev…what is he like? "

"Gourry is a very nice guy. He is an incredible swordman. He was the owner of the Sword of Light."

Naga stood up!

"You mean Lina got that sword! Nooooo ! Damn you Lina!"

Zelgadis didn't correct her. He didn't want to tell all about the Darkstar battle and explain what happened to Gourry's sword.

Naga sat down and drank a second cup still cursing Lina.

"What does he look like?"

"Hum, a little taller than you, well, handsome I would say. Blond, muscular…"

"I see…"

"It's not what you think! I'm not gay! Who said that, by the way?" Zelgadiss needed to know. He maybe was a chimera, a freak, a monster but he had limit on what he could endure as insults.

Naga looked at him wondering what she could say. Then she remembered an annoying guy she had met a month ago and decided to do the same as he done with her all the time. She pointed her finger, closed her eyes and smiled and tried to mimick it:

"That's a secret"

This time it was zelgadis who stood up furiously.

"That bastard! Xellos! Next time I see him he is dead!" Zelgadis yelled.

Naga 's eyes went wide. So Zelgadis knew Xellos the mysterious priest, she thought.

"Can we go back at what I want to know?" she asked.

Zelgadis tried to calm down, sat back down in his seat, and crossed his arms.

"So this Gourry is the perfect guy.. " Stated Naga.

Zelgadis didn't reply. He wanted to be done with all of this as soon as possible. Unless she asked about particular details he was only going give very general answers.

"Lucky Lina … How can a charming knight stand her? Tell me."

Zelgadis sighed. "They just have a lot in common. They love to eat and Gourry is always following what Lina wants or says… and he doesn't mind being beaten by her if he does stupid things or makes stupid comments…"

Naga wasn't sure she understood.

" Hum… I never thought that one day she 'd find a man who could bear her, actually."

"They are a good team."

"What is Lina like when she is in love?"

"Huh?"

"Oh, no you don't. I want details."

"She's pretty much the same as she always is. I don't pass my time watching her and I don't care, really…"

Naga wasn't happy with the answer and she frowned. Zelgadis noticed the sorceress's mood was changing so he added, "but Amelia does . A lot. She told me than Lina is so cute when Gourry is near her and seems like he wants to talk about serious feelings. She noticed Lina turned shy, blushed, and suddenly she is very soft and girly…"

Naga laughed. "I would give everything to see that and tease her about it!"

"Well have we finished?" asked Zelgadis hoping he told enough.

"Finished? We just started. I heard they were engaged! Are they? How did Lina confess? I want to know all!"

The chimera sighed deeply. "Well they aren't yet…the last proposal was a mess. Poor Gourry got blown up again. I told Amelia we should have stayed out of their love matters, but she said true love must find a way and we were the true love justice angels and we needed to help." Zelgadis sighed again. "I wasn't able to convince her, but she got me at the last part of her argument: she said, 'besides if they don't get together soon they 'll drive us crazy with their behaviour'."

"So?" Naga was smiling.

"We convinced Gourry to propose to Lina. Well, we had to explain him again what it was before…"

Naga interrupted him. "What? Why did you have to explain?"

"Gourry is a little hum…simple…Slow…"

"Dumb?"

Zelgadis nodded.

"Ah!! Now I understand why he is with Lina." She had a huge smile. "Only a jellyfish-brain could put up with her for that long and fall in love with her. So what happened?"

Zelgadis didn't want to talk about this. He felt pretty ashamed actually because if Amelia and he had stayed out of Lina and Gourry's affairs, he was sure the temple wouldn't have been destroyed and Lina wouldn't have been so mad at the swordsman.

"We decided to help him write up his proposal to be sure it would be, as Amelia said, 'perfect romantic and unforgettable'. So we started but of course he couldn' t memorize it, so we decided to write the speech on huge signs. Amelia suggested that Gourry make his proposal in front of the Temple of Brides, and so Amelia and I climbed on the roof temple. From there Gourry could read the sign without Lina noticing. Everything was all set, and Gourry found this very amusing."

Naga looked at the serious chimera and wondered how he could have planned something so sure to fail, even with her sister's help.

"Then what?" Naga demanded.

"It all started off well, until Amelia lost her balance and was about to fall. I Droped the sign to catch her. Then I don't know what happened… What Gourry said to Lina during that time…I was too busy trying to bring back Amelia, while she was begging me to let her fell down for the sake of love and the proposal. She pointed out that the signs was more important than her fall, that she'd fallen from higher before and true love must win no matter the suffering she'd have to endure."

Naga 's eyed grew wide. Her sister was insane.

"You let her fall?"

"She was about to cry. She told me she would have time to cast Levitation, so…"

"You let her fall?" repeated Naga, hardly believing it.

"Well, she really insisted but when I was about to let her go, I caught Amelia's father who was walking toward the temple and he saw us on the roof. Amelia was still begging me to let her go to save Gourry from messing up with his proposal. But I couldn't let her go in front of her father. So I brought her back to the roof. I preferred to have Amelia be mad at me than to have her father hunting me down with his Pacifist Crush because I dropped his daughter."

Zelgadis nodded. He knew he'd done right.

"Amelia was not happy, and then we saw the first Fireball…That's really all I know"

"Poor Lina…" said Naga.

"Can you give me the Claire Bible now?"

"Not yet! Now I want to know about the princess of Seyruun. After what you just told me, I see the rumors are right."

"What rumors?" asked Zelgadis suspicious.

"Rumors that she is nuts, spoiled and a daddy's girl, that she's also a clumsy and useless little princess playing with white magic…." Naga smirked. She was saying all that about Amelia on purpose, to see Zelgadis's reaction.

Zelgadiss 's reaction wasn't disapointing. The chimera was furious. He stood up.

"Who dares say that? They absolutely know nothing about Amelia. She is not useless, far from that! She is very powerfull with white magic. She is brave and fought with us against Hellmaster and Darkstar. She is certainly not nuts! She is a very optimistic person who really believes in love and justice, and that's a rare quality in this world. Her heart is noble and pure and she's always seeing the bright side of the situation. She never let go and she cares about everybody. She is the most caring person I know, and it's not because sometimes she is a little too emotional and had tendencies to cry easily. No, she's the strongest person I know! She is genuine, she is absolutely not spoiled… Well, maybe sometimes when her dad is there… She really wants him to be proud of her, so she tends to do too much. The people who said such rumors are mean and I, Zelgadis Greywords, cannot let them go, for the sake of Amelia and justice …" Suddenly he stopped himself blushing. What was happening to him? Did he sound just like Amelia right now?

Naga couldn't believe his own eyes and ears. Zelgadis coughed and took back his serious apperance. He sat back, still shocked by what had happened. He had really spent too much time with the princess. He took his cup of wine and drank it straight down in one swallow.

Naga thought all of this very interesting.

TBC