"Who are you and what have you done to Lina

"Who are you and what have you done to Lina?" demanded Zelgadiss.

"I am Alaia. Lina? I suppose that was the soul who previously inhabited this body, she is locked away now." Lina/Alaia responded calmly, "Have I upset you my priest?"

"Your Priest? I am not your priest, return Lina to me at once!" Zelgadiss began preparing a RaTilt, but changed his mind since Alaia was in Lina's body.

"Oh dear, oh my. You did not purposely call upon me to take this sacrificial body? Where are my priests?" the woman was beginning to show the first signs of emotion.

"This temple has been abandoned for centuries! Anyone who would have remembered your name is long dead, GIVE ME BACK LINA!" Zelgadiss was beginning to wonder if the woman in front of him was sane.

"I'm afraid I can not do that." simply stated the woman.

"You can and you will. Regardless of what I have to do." Using his Chimeric speed, Zelgadiss appeared next to the woman while holding an enchanted sword to her neck.

"Now, don't be hasty, you wouldn't want to harm your friend's body. Well, I'm off, previous engagements." The woman waved goodbye before phasing out.

"Shit! LINA!" Zelgadiss roared while searching the room for any signs of who or what Alaia might be.

End flashback…

"Interesting story, Zel. What could have possibly made you think I would be involved in Lina's disappearance under such conditions?" boggled Xellos.

"Because, you are a high ranking mazoku. I'm sure if anything occurs regarding Lina in the mazoku hierarchy you would have at least heard about it." Spoke Zelgadiss slowly, as if to a small child.

"Yare yare, this is true. However, Alaia is not mazoku." Xellos answered while flecking imaginary dust off his cape.

"WHAT!?!?! WHAT THE @#*(%&#$@&% is she then?" ranted Zelgadiss while bashing Xellos' head into the table.

"Stop that ye morons, ye keep distracting the other patrons, and now get the hell out." the innkeeper promptly booted the two companions outside the inn.

"What teleports besides mazoku?" Zelgadiss continued questioning.

"Alaia."

"I know that! What is she!?!" A vessel in Zelgadiss face began to bulge and tick at this point.

"Ah, the correct question is asked for once Zelly-boy. Alaia is a god of sorts, she is L-sama's older sister." replied Xellos with his trademark raised finger.

"What!?!" exclaimed Zelgadiss before he promptly fainted.

On Wolfpack Island…

"Luna, please please please please please please please calm down." Whimpered the cringing Xelas from behind her throne chair.

"But Xelas, you ignore me for a month. I drop in for a visit only to find out my little baby sister is missing. How do you expect me to respond." Luna, the Cepheid Knight, sweetly stated before slamming her scythe inches from Xelas' head and causing marble chips from the floor to fly into the air.

"It's been busy, Luna! Dolphin has gone missing and Dynast has been insisting I help find her. I must help out fellow Mazoku Lords and I have Xellos on the case already." Stuttered the very, very frightened Xelas.

"Ah well." Luna spoke calmly while pushing back her bangs, "I suppose it is just Lina up to her tricks and will be found shortly. I have to get back; the dragons are in a panic. Milgazia is missing, supposedly."

"Milgazia? I fathom Dolphin probably just got lost on her way home, but Milgazia is usually very responsible." Xelas absently remarked while reluctantly coming out of her fetal position. "Although I doubt the two are connected."

"Well, I'll find him. Anyhow, make sure you find my little sister soon." With the parting threat, Luna swept out of the Beastmaster's chambers.

"Phew." Sighed Xelas' in relief of Luna's departure.

Elsewhere…

"Lina Inverse?" asked a baritone male voice.

"Who, who is there? Let me out of here you bastard!" screamed our sorceress with a voice raspy from weeping.

"It is I, Milgazia, how did you find yourself in this place, Lina-san?" inquired the handsome blond dragon in human form as he stepped into the sliver of light from the unending darkness.

"I don't know Milgazia. I am not sure where I am, tell me where this is so I can blast my way out." voiced Lina more strongly this time.

"You have retained your powers? Odd, mine have been stripped away." Milgazia appeared perplexed.

"Um, no, but I'll find a way out!" determined the sorceress.

"That is the Lina Inverse I remember, but to answer your other questions. No, I have no idea where we are the last thing I remember was flying through Dragon's Peak before being engulfed in a black hole" chuckled Milgazia.

"Same here, well, I wasn't flying. I was in a temple with Zel and next thing I knew the floor dropped out and I was here." Lina replied dejectedly, "But at least I have some company now!"

"Don't forget me, dearie!" sauntered in a pale women with long blue hair "Looks like I am here with you folks, yep, that is how it looks, but looks are deceiving, like this adorable pale green sheath makes me look centuries younger, isn't it darling, oooh I like your cape, want to try on each others jewelry?"

Milgazia and Lina looked at her with boggled expressions and asked in unison, "Who are you?"

"Me, I'm oh, I forgot, let me find it." Pulling out a small matching clutch, she began dumping contents on the floor. "No, that's a mace, that's someone's head, that's seaweed … oooh here's my ID card, Dynast said I should never leave home without it! I am… I can't find my glasses, will you read it for me?" the woman handed the card to Lina.

"Deep Sea Dolphin!" Lina screeched into Milgazia's ear.

"Yahoo! That is who I am, I knew it was something like that." giggled Dolphin at the blinking pair.

Meanwhile in Neo Sairagg…

"Where are we going again, Sylphiel?" asked Gourry for the umpteenth time that evening.

"We are going to find Lina-san, Gourry-sama." replied the shrine maiden while packing enough food for the journey.

"Why?" asked Gourry.

"Because she is missing and I'm worried and I've been having strange dreams." replied Sylphiel while packing two extra cows into the knapsack.

"Why?" asked Gourry.

"Stop asking why please, Gourry-sama. You know and I know you understand this, so quit playing dumb because no one else is here." Sylphiel sweetly smiled.

"Only if you insist upon it, my darling. Allow me to remove myself from being a hindrance so that you may finish packing. We must embark upon this journey immediately to avoid the prophecies." Gourry smirked before leaving the room.