AN: GOMEN NASAI! I'M SORRY! I thought I had posted the last chapter! I left you all hanging! But thank you for all the nice reviews! Sorry again... Here's the end...
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Tanil walked slowly across a bridge that went over a stream. He was still trying to figure out his past. He stared up at the sky as he walked, not watching where he was going. Everyone stepped out of his way, most of them used to him daydreaming as he wandered through town.
But someone else must not have been watching where they were going, because either he ran into them, or they ran into him.
Tanil looked down to apologize, but stopped with his mouth wide open. There was a red headed girl with bright eyes looking up at his with an expression surpassing happiness on her face.
Lina looked up into Gourry's eyes. Her own eyes filled up with tears at the sight of him. "Gourry..." she said quietly.
Tanil's mind was working overtime. Gourry... he remembered that name... Where? Was that his name? Yes! It was his own name! It wasn't Tanil, it was Gourry! This girl... Who was she?
Lina's heart sank when Gourry didn't seem to recognize her. "G-gourry?" she asked quietly. Now her tears turned to sadness. Maybe it wasn't Gourry. No! It had to be! It was Gourry! No one else had eyes like his! There was no one in the world that looked like Gourry, and this was him! "Gourry? It's me..."
Gourry started remembering. He remembered battling mazoku and dragons. He remembered a chimera named Zelgadis... A princess named Amelia... A shrine maiden named Sylphiel... A priestess named Filia... And... And... A sorceress named...
"Lina...?" he said, testing the name. He looked down at the petite redhead. "Lina?" Memories started flooding through him. He remembered everything. Her laugh, her shout, her smile. His heart jumped in his chest. "Lina!"
Lina smiled, and the tears flowed freely. "Gourry!" She rushed up, and threw her arms around his neck, crying into his shoulder.
"Lina!" Gourry said. He wrapped his arms around her comfortingly. He never remembered doing that before. They embraced there on the bridge. Gourry wanted to hug her tighter, but she seemed so frail under his arms, that he didn't dare.
Lina didn't care that she was crying. She had found Gourry. She found him at last. Tears of pain, sadness, anger, but, most of all, joy, ran down her face, and soaked Gourry's shirt. Neither of them cared. They were together again. And they would never be seperated, not ever.
Raiya watched this from a distance. She felt her eyes welling up with tears as well. She had hoped that Tanil would fall in love with her, and they would be married. It seemed almost about to happen, too. But then he remembered. She reasoned that he must have been in love with that young woman before his accident.
The waitress smiled, tears of joy in her eyes. She nodded to herself, glad that she could help Lina. The two of them were together again. That was all that mattered to the two of them.
Elderlies were coming out of taverns and houses to watch the couple embrace. They whispered amongst themselves that the ghost had claimed young Tanil to be her lover. They were disgusted and intrigued at the same time.
But Lina and Gourry didn't notice, and didn't care. They had found each other. "I'm so sorry," Lina sobbed, and she meant it. "I didn't mean what I said back then..."
"I'm sorry, too," Gourry said. "I shouldn't have taken you so seriously. Lina, I..." He hugged Lina tighter. "I love you," he whispered. He felt a single tears slip down his cheek as he said this.
In reply, Lina backed up, and kissed Gourry. The entire town was watching them. Lina found it extremely ironic that the most important times of her life had been spent in this little town, and she still didn't even know the name.
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AN: There! There's the end for you all who I left in terrible suspense! Again, I'm sorry, but I really did think I had uploaded this part... Gomen nasai! But, didja like it? R&R people!
-Shira ^_^