Supression Cure Ch4:
Fukano na! It's One Thing After Another!
Sometime around what would be desert if they had any, things got reeeeeal quiet.
"If it weren't so damned dark..." Lina muttered.
"We don't know what else might be lurking around this forest, Lina," rang Zelgadiss's now-softer voice voice of logic and reason(as if the latter and former ever got them anywhere...logic and reason should take a trip to Hell!).[1]"This place has changed, probably for the worst...I've never even HEARD of those, ah, incubus spirits." The girls and boys minus Xelloss all shuddered in unision."And these thick trees don't help. It's like walking through Hell and back, just to avoid--"
""JUST TO AVOID"?!?!" the infuriated redhead screamed as she throttled Zel's poor, currently human neck(this Zelgadiss hadn't gotten used to the beatings yet)."You aren't serious are you?!?!" She let go of his neck just as his face began to turn the color of his hair, and collapsed, letting out a cry/sob/sigh/wail."I can't beliiiieve thiiiisss..." Everyone felt the same way, but Lina was better at expressing it, stuttering as she had been when they found out how do avoid, ah, unnessisary and unpleasant things...
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"What is it Lina-san?! Is it so horrible that it defies justice?!"
"WORSE!!!"
"Well, what is it, allready?"
"Yeah. Don't keep us in suspense."
"I'll take over for Lina-san while Amelia-san calms her down." Xelloss cleared his throat and read from the beat-up piece of paper.""Prevention: An incubus is an unholy creature and therefore is weak to light and good. If the fair maiden is held in the arms of their beloved within this area, the maiden will remained untouched..." And so forth."
Lina re-fainted while Amelia started cooling her with a fan.
"So ... we have to ... ah ..."
Gourry blinked in confusion."Huh?"
Although he was mildly blushing, Zelgadiss managed a comment that sounded like his future, pessimistic, depressed...ano, well, his future chimera self."B-bakana..."
"This'll be interesting."
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They had decided to draw straws to see who would go with who, boy to girl, of course, and it all was kinda like that time at the shrine to the god of marrige(I REFUSE to capitalize that!!). One guy would get off scotch free. He, of course, would be a Horrendously Lucky Bastard(although it depends how you look at the situation).
They tried to dodge and avoid The Task of Randomly Choosing the Person You'll Be Snuggling With Tonight(sorry v.v;), but Gourry cleverly(albeit exaggerated) remembered."Hey, we still have to pick straws!" Lina twitched and sighed.
"I guess we're gonna hafta do this ..." She took a deep breath."Okay, this is how it goes. There are five straws. There's five of us. One lucky guy gets to sleep alone. Two are just white on the bottom, two are white with a red stripe, and one is pink.[2] If a guy gets the pink one, he gets to sleep alone. A a girl gets it, then we'll have to repick."
"But, Lina, what if you get it? You don't count as a girl...ah, do you?"
You can guess who got that Dil Brand to the head.
"Itaiiiiiiiii..."
"CARRYING ON," Lina continued as she dusted off her hands, and the proceeding to shuffle the straws behind her back,"Everybody, close your eyes. When it's your turn, I'll tap you on the shoulder, and you can open your eyes. After you pick, you hafta close your eyes again and make sure nobody can see your straw."
"Is that closing-eyes-stuff REALLY needed? And what about you?" Zelgadiss inquired.
"No, but that way I can savor the look on your guys's faces all at once. And nevermind about me, I'll just get the last straw."
"You're starting to act like Mr. Xelloss, Miss Lina, and that scares me. A lot."
"That's nice, Amelia."
"Maybe we should just get this over with, like, now?"
"Zel, no offense, but you sound like a valley girl."
"Hey, hey, hey, let's not go about saying things that we can't take back."
"...You're right. That was low. Sorry, Zel."
"Apology accepted."[3]
"Allright then, let's get started...we'll go clockwise, starting with Zel."
Everyone closed their eyes, sans Zel and Lina, closed thier eyes(ever thought it really didn't matter to Xelloss either way...^^;), and Lina held her clutch of straws out to him. He took one out, and examined the bottom. Red stripe. He reclosed his eyes.
Lina hadn't noticed what Zelgadiss had got, for she had allready gone onto Gourry, who did the same and got a white one. He resumed his closed eyes after Lina reminded him to do so with a wrap on the head.
Amelia's turn. She took her straw and peered at it from under her hand so Lina couldn't see, then closed her eyes, and acted as if she were praying to Ceified.
Xelloss. Oh God, oh God, she thought, NOT him!! I'd rather get stuck in a bedroll with jellyfish brains over there, at least he's innocent, but Xelloss...ECCHI!!!
Xelloss smirked, not needing to open his eyes."I hope I get the color that you will, Lina-chan!!"
Lina shivered.
He took a straw.
She looked at the straw in her hand and laughed evily/triumphantly."AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! IN YOUR FACE, HENTAI!!! BOO-YAH!!!"
Xelloss's smirk didn't last that much longer.
"...OH CRAP!!!! ^&%^(%#$%&%&#@%#^&^#$$@#^&~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Amelia, Gourry, and Zelgadiss flinched and thier eyes snapped open at the strem of obcenities in 4 different laguages.
"Such language, Xelloss!" lina scolded, a broad grin on her face.
Xelloss fried the poor pink-ended straw."SHIMATTA!!!!"
The others(sans Gourry, as usual) where all grins, but yet again, brought up a "brilliant" question.
"Say, what did you guys get?"
They all held out their straws, and looked around for its twin.
Zelgadiss and Lina locked expressions, sighed and mumbled "....Whatever....".
Amelia and Gourry blinked at eachouther and their straws."Ano..." Amelia, no doubt wanted it to be her to Zel, Lina to Gourry."Lina-san..."
"Look, we've got to get some sleep. We're all adults and semi-adults right?"
"... ... ..."
"...FOR L-SAMA'S SAKE, GET INTO YER BEDROLLS WITH EACHOTHER AND GO TO SLEEP!!!"
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Later that night, they had finally, centimeter by centimeter, climbed into their respective bedrolls, and hesitantly wrapped their arms around their respective partner, occasionally fintching when they thought they shouldn't have(when they actually hadn't), but also looking at how the other pair was handling the situation. Very unnerving and rather awkward.
For that moment, Gourry seemed like Amelia's older brother: as they slept, his arms were around her in a protective way, which made them look like a puppy and a kitten, a.k.a. cute.
With Amelia's quite Sleep Justice Rants and Gourry's sound snoring in the background, Lina shuddered quietly, because even in Zelgadiss warm arms and their cloaks as extra blanketing , it was VERY chilly tonight, and Lina had very little on her build to keep her warm.
Shimata...!! I wish those stupid incubuses could've AT LEAST had an inn and resort out here, and hey, it would sure lure in the rich-as-hell fatcat customers and single virgins...
"You're still cold?" he wispered, his warm breath on her neck, causing her to blush a bit at his quiet, husky tone in her ear, the blanket of near-crimson blush made her a bit warmer.
"Ye-yeah, a little."
She felt his wrap his arms a little more securely around her, and his surprisingly warm hands cover her bare arms, tilting his head a little closer, close enough to entwine some of their hair , creating waves of violet and firey tresses.
She restrained her self from shivering again, but not from the cold.
This is gonna be a long night...but that's not nescissarily a bad thing...
[1] Just pretend that Crispen Freeman = Chimera and Dan Cronin = Human. ^_^ Dan Cronin's voice[for Zel] sounds like Rezo's(Charles Rolfe/someone else), ne?
[2] Kinda seems like the guy that gets the pink-bottomed straw is gay: he doesn't sleep with a girl, AND IT'S PINK FOR L-SAMA'S SAKE!!!^^; No, Xelloss isn't gay, he's just a fruit ... okay, maybe he's bi, but still, he's kawaii.^_^ Hey, that rhymes ... Please don't flame me for that, I LIKE Xelloss! *bugs bunny voice* Dere's sumpthin' reeeeaaaaallll mysterious an' sexy 'bout 'im...^_^ I still like Zel, tho.
[3] Yup, ya gotta hate dem valley girls! Strangely enough, the people in my class HATE valley girls, but I'm sure that'll change when I get into middle school...*shudder*
Note: And no, I don't care if they have drinking straws or not!!
Oh, and about that Lina wishing that she'd rather be with Gourry-kun than Xelloss : no offense to ANY L/X or L/G fan: you should know by now that I don't offend other couple bias fans, although some other fans flame people for thier bias which is RUDE and UNCALLED FOR. And besides, L/G is kinda cute, and I've written L/X fics.^_^ Yeah, I know, I need to quit apologizing and saying "no offense" all the time(it's the thing I seem to say most in a/n's).......
....................I'M ALSO TOO LAZY TO PROOFREAD, OR GET SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @_@
