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Not Exactly Rapunzle
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Hello again! This is one of my favorite chapters in this story, because-- NEVERMIND! I can't tell you! Don't wanna spoil it, do I? Anyway, read on, peoples!^_^
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When Lina heard Zelas's voice, she panicked. But she obeyed, and cast a Ray Wing down for her. Zelas appeared at the window in moments, and stepped inside the tower.
"How dare you!" Zelas shrieked. "How dare you?"
Lina tried her best to look innocent. "What?" she asked in her most childish voice.
"You betrayed me!" Zelas screamed. She tugged at her long hair, and glared at Lina. "I tried to keep you safe from the rest of the world, and you go and betray me!! How could you? I'm your mother! The only family you have!"
Lina wasn't one to be yelled at. She yelled right back, "I have no mother, you snot-faced, selfish, pig-headed WITCH!!"
Zelas stormed forward, and smacked Lina with such strength that it knocked her to the floor. Fuming with anger, Zelas towered over her, and pointed down at her. "Mono Volt," she said coldly.
Lighting wrapped up the length of Lina's body. She screamed in pain as the lightning coursed through her. Zelas's heart returned to a cold lump of ice. How had she ever been so foolish as to think she could love that stupid little girl she raised?
When Zelas tired of Lina's screams, she dropped the spell, and pulled Lina up by her red hair. "You will pay for betraying me," she said. She didn't yell, but the ice in her voice sent a shudder down Lina's spine. Angrily, Zelas tossed Lina onto the bed with a strength Lina didn't know the woman possessed.
All through that night, Zelas sat in a chair right by the head of Lina's bed. If Lina even moved at all, she was hit with Zelas's lightning spell again. Lina felt tears soak her pillow. She didn't care that she had betrayed Zelas. She was glad she did. And she didn't regret at all meeting Gourry.
When dawn broke, Zelas started pacing. Lina wondered why she didn't leave. Was she going to stay there for the rest of her life? She got her answer eventually.
Outside the tower, Lina heard Gourry's voice call, "Lina! Ray Wing me up there!"
Zelas's face took on an evil grin, and she turned to Lina. Her eyes flashed wickedly, and said, "Bring him up here."
Lina sat up, and said boldly, "No! You're going to hurt him, and I won't let you do that!"
Sighing, Zelas snapped her fingers. The Mono Bolt spell ran up and down Lina again, but she didn't scream. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth. Her eyes watered from the pain, but she wouldn't scream.
Irritatedly, Zelas dropped the spell, and said, "Bring him up here, or he dies!"
"You'll kill him anyway!" Lina shouted. "You're a cold, lifeless monster!" Zelas stepped forward furiously, and smacked Lina again, sending her crashing into the wall. She pointed at the window, and Ray Winged Gourry up there.
As soon as Gourry stepped in through the window, Zelas reached over and grabbed him around the neck. She said, her voice like ice, "Mono Volt."
Gourry cried out in pain as the lightning ran through him. Across the room, Lina sat up, and saw this. Her eyes watered at the fact that Gourry was being hurt. She angrily stalked across the room, and shouted, "Fireball!"
The spell hit Zelas, throwing her to the ground. Gourry dropped to his knees, gasping for breath. Lina hurried over to him, and stood in front of him protectively.
Zelas sat up, half in shock. "Where did you learn that spell?" she demanded.
Flipping her hair haughtily, Lina replied, "I tought myself. I'm a lot better at magic than you thought I was."
Zelas gritted her teeth, and her eyes flashed something wicked. "You will pay, child," she declared. With that word, a Ray Wing bubble appeared around Lina, and Zelas sent her out the window. She halted the Ray Wing just outside the window so Lina could see what she would do next.
The white-haired witch pulled Gourry up by his hair, and then grabbed his throat again. She held him dangling out the window with a strength Lina never knew existed.
Loudly, Zelas began to chant. "Pain beyond the bounds of earth. Sorrow beyond the depths of time. I call upon your power to grant my request. Grant me your power to punish the fool before me. Grant unto me the power of Pain!" She glared into Gourry's eyes coldly before she said the final phrase. "With the power of Pain granted to me, I blind you." These last words were spoken with such ice and such malice that Lina stared in disbelief.
Gourry screamed in pain, and there was a flash of bright white-red light from his eyes. Zelas let og of him, and he dropped to the ground below the tower. His screaming stopped, and he didn't move.
"Gourry!!" Lina shouted. She pounded her fists against the Ray Wing bubble, but it didn't yield. She cursed Zelas's name over and over.
But Zelas wasn't finished yet. She locked her jaw, and glared up at Lina. With a wave of her hand, she sent the Ray Wing bubble floating away, across the trees.
Lina cried as she was taken farther and farther away. After about an hour of swift flying, the Ray Wing bubble started to drop. It was getting out of the range of Zelas to control it anymore.
The spell dropped Lina about three feet above the ground, and she fell to her knees, crying. She was certain that Zelas had killed Gourry, and she had no clue where she was.
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To Be Continued...
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