Disclaimer: None of the slayers characters are mine, i'm just borrowing them.



The drizzly weather cleared up overnight and left the sky a bright blue color. A light breeze was blowing by all the freshly watered plants. The birds were singing and it seemed as though nothing could go wrong. Until the slayers gang woke up, that is.

A loud crash was heard as Gourry ran out of his tent. Unfortunately, the crash had woken everybody except Zelgadis up. Zelgadis had been drinking his usual morning coffee. When the tent crashed, his coffee found it's way to his face, rather unpleasantly.

"GOURRYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a very unhappy Lina yelled, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THIS TIME!"

"I didn't do anything! I promise!" Gourry said, still startled

Unknown to the slayers group, a snicker was heard from a nearby tree.

Groggily, everyone headed towards the measly campfire and started eating breakfast, while Zelgadis started wiping off his face. Lina looked up from her eating (which for Lina, is hard to do) and looked around.

"Hey, has anybody seen Xelloss this morning?"

"Nope" Gourry said between mouthfuls of food

"Luckily not." Zelgadis said thankfully, "He probably just left after last night. I say, good riddance to bad fruitcake"

"Aw, now that's not very nice." Xelloss said jokingly as he teleported right

Zel.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!" Zelgadis yelled as he once again spilled his coffee all over his face.

Xelloss held himself back from laughing at Zel and took a empty seat next to Lina. And Lina would have scooted away except that Gourry was on her other side, and she didn't want him to get any ideas why she was scooting, assuming of course that he had any ideas to begin with.

"Mr. Xelloss, can you tell us where Zombalaguaninkalifoniaa is, or at least in what direction?" Amelia asked, trying to ignore Zels grumbling.

"Well, I'd say that it's off somewhere in ... that direction." He said as he pointed his finger off into the forest.

"I guess we're going to have to take a detour around this forest to get there then..." Gourry said standing up.

His sentence was partially interrupted by a loud:

"Fireball!!!"

A large path through the forest suddenly appeared as Lina sat back down. Gourry just stood there looking speechless.

"Or, we could just go through that path right there." Zelgadis said, standing up and walking towards their supplies.

Lina was scarfing food like there was no tomorrow, when she finished her food, she glanced up at Gourry, who was still looking in awe at the line engraved in the countryside.

Then she ate his food too.









so, how was it? i haven't waited that long to post this one after Ch. 3, so i don't know if anybody thinks it's good. PLEASE give a review! Ch. 5 coming soon!

~Anakara