Hi again! this is the last part of the story. The ending is what the majority wanted. Please when you finish reading, write a review, so I can keep writing stories because I'm not sure whether you like them or not. Thanks Zelas for your advise about not putting -s!

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"Gourry!" cryied Lina with her arms around his neck. Gourry was happy to see her but he had never seen the girl so weak. She couldn't even walk. He took her in his arms and talk to Zelgadiss who was trying to get Xellos out of the cage to hit him.

"Zel!" shouted the swordsman "Come on! Let's go. This place is falling down and I've got Lina."

"Lina!" said the chimera and ran to were she was. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, Zel. Let's go now."

When they were going out of the cave, Lina saw Xellos trapped in the cage of stones.

"Wait!" said Lina, "we can't leave Xellos in here"

"And why not?" said Gourry and Zel at the same time.

"Because he defended me from..." her words were cut off with Zelas voice.

"You can't take her and you can't scape from me. If you want to preserve your own lives, leave the girl and go away."

"Never" shouted Gourry "I'm going to protect the woman I love". With that words Lina turn red and was very confused. `Two in a same day!' she though for herself. Zelgadiss bigsweat and couldn't believe that Gourry had declared his love before that he did.

In that moment, there was a flashing from Xellos cage. The whole place filled with a thick fog.

"Go now!" shouted Xellos. "I'll stop Zelas"

The blond haired man and the chimere glanced to each other. `what happens with him?' Zel thought `since when he wants to help us?' But he didn't make the question and took Gourry and Lina to the entrance of the cave. With a fast spell, Zelas made an invisible wall so they couldn't leave the place.

"Gourry..."said Lina quietly. "Take the hikari no ken and release Xellos. He's the only one who can save us"

"I don't know, Lina. Why do I have to release him when he was the one that took you away?"

"DO AS I SAY, GOURRY! SINCE WHEN DO YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT?!!" Shouted Lina and then smiled at the blond haired man. "Come on Gourry"

"Okay, Lina. But I do this only because you asked it for." Then he gave the girl to Zel. "Take care of her"

Zelgadiss hold Lina and looked her directly to the eyes. "I was very afraid of what could have happened to you".

"Thanks Zel" she smiled. Then the Chimera sat her behind a big rock where she couldn't be reahed by Zelas and whispered her softly "I love you too, Lina. And I hope that when we get out of this you accept to be my wife." Then he leaned over her and kissed her quickly on her lips.

Zelgadiss stood up and faced Zelas. "So you are Zelas. I won't forgive you for hurting my beloved Lina!" he shouted. Gourry and Xellos heard his words and bigsweated.

"Hey!" they said to the man who spoke before and then glanced to each others.

The Chimera recited spell after spell and hurried Gourry to open the cage.

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Behind her stone, Lina was more afraid of her feelings to the men that were fighting for her than of Zelas. He knew that after that, she'd had to choose between Gourry, Zel or Xellos. 'What to do?' She thought. 'I know I love one of them. I'm sure of that, but who is?'. But now she had to focus on the current situation. She knew that although Zel and Xellos were strong, they'd need her help. She began to cure her injuried body.

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Xellos got out of the cage and thanked Gourry.

"Don't thank me. Thank Lina. She asked me to get you out, because I wouldn't have done by myself."

Xellos ran next to Zelgadiss and explained the situation. "We can't kill her. She's too strong and fast. What we have to do is to seal her in the cave. You'll have to help me with that, Zel." Zelgadiss didn't like the idea of following the priest's orders, but what could he do?.

"We'll throw the magic to Gourry's sword, Okay?" he smiled and the other two nodded.

But they couldn't seal her because Zelas made a shield in front of her. Everything seemed lost. Xellos and Zelgadiss were getting weaker and weaker and the sword didn't help at all. Suddenly, a fireball apeared before Zelas. That made her lose her concentration and the shield was broken into pieces. It was Lina that stood weakly behind the three men.

"Now! Seal her!" she shouted throwing another Fireball.

Finally they caught Zelas and sealed her. Now, they had to make their way through the exit. Lina fainted in that same moment. Xellos ran to help her and the cave began to fall. There was a lot of dust and rocks after the collapse. Gourry found himself over Zelgadiss and stood up inmediatly.

"Hey! Where's Lina?" He souted.

"And where's Xellos?" asked Zel.

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The sun shone warm over the river. Xellos took some water and put it on Lina's head. Slowly, she opened her eyes and saw a pair of purple eyes. She had seen them before, but not like this time. They were full of love and it was so big that she could feel it too.

"Do you feel any better?" said a slightly smiling face. "I know that this is all my fault, but I'll take care of you till we find Gourry and Zel. I'm sure that you'll be well. I know that you love one of them." tears ran by his face. "I'm so sorry that we didn't meet in other way." Far away, a voice reached their ears.

"LINA!" It was Gourry. He and the Chimera were looking for the girl. Lina was weak even to talk. She was very confused about her feelings. It felt so well being with Xellos. He was so charming. But what about the others? Zel even had proposed to her. He'd been broken.

"I guess I've got to go now. If they find me, they'd kill me. And I'm too bad injured to fight".

Lina saw the blood coming down his neck. His hands had blood too. She just didn't know wether to heal him or letting him go.

"But before I go, I'd like to ask you one more favor."

"W-what is it?" she said.

"I just want to know who did you choose to make you happy."

Lina swallowed hard. She was missing him and have to do something to make him stay by her side.

"Xel" she said simply.

"I knew that Zel was the best for you. I hope you two..." a rock hit him in the face. Lina was laughing.

"I said Xxxxel!" she shouted and leaned forward to kiss him. He was very shocked and at first he didn't answered it, but then he did. It was a very passionate kiss. The kissed under a beautiful apple tree that grew by the river.

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"I don't think it's right to spy people, specially them" Zelgadiss said.

"You're right, let's go now. I hope he makes her happy."

"But what about us?"

"Come on, Zel. We'll find other girls. Look at you. You've got Amelia"

"Amelia?! why her?. I don't like her a bit."

"Then we still got each other"

"Get off me, Gourry"

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Did you like the ending? I really hope so, I enjoyed writting this, but I enjoy reading reviews most. So please...You know.

I think this is not going to be my last fic, but that depends on your thoughts. ^-^

Nah! I'll keep writting even if you don't like me.

Well that's all from here,

thanks for reading (and reviewing) your friend

Lina Inverse