Hey guys! I know it's been a while but I've been busy, and I had surgery so it's been weird. Anyways I'm getting back to you. I hope you enjoy this next chapter! PLEASE REVIEW! And please, no flames ^_^;

Lina dragged herself up from her place, and went to her baby. It was early and she was tired. All she wanted to do was sleep, but no having a baby means not getting any sleep at all.

Lina sighed. Was she, Lina Inverse in over her head? She had defeated Shabrinigdo, Phibrizzo, and Dark star.

How could she not do this? Gourry was no help either, he slept like a rock so rousing him was hard. He did all he could in the day time and he usually awoke early. Amelia helped out a lot.

Zel was nervous around the baby. He usually slept away from the rest of them, but he also helped out in his own way. The baby's cries would attract the attention of several unwanted guests, and he usually was the one to take care of them. Lina was grateful for all of them.

The baby was almost 6 months old. She was getting more beautiful as she grew. They had almost reached Lina's homeland. It was in the outer world, and on the far edge, so getting there had been hard.

Lina was terrified of only two things in the world. Slugs, and her sister, and she hadn't decided which was most terrifying. Lina wagered probably her sister, but you could kill a slug with salt easily, but Luna, she could kill you just that easily. After a while she got the baby to sleep, and Lina went back to sleep.

Unknowingly, someone was watching them, and had been watching them. She was amused. She turned to a certain Purple haired trickster, and said, "That's the child?"

"Yes," he replied. The woman laughed.

"Hmm this will be very interesting indeed, well then come Lina, I'll be waiting for you," with that last comment, the two disappeared.

The next morning Amelia was the first to wake and tended Lily while Lina slept. She sighed; she hoped to have a family of her own someday. She thought of Zelgadis and blushed.

Gourry began to awake, and as soon as he did, Amelia handed him the baby. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and cradled his daughter, she cooed softly. Amelia had already made breakfast for all of them, and they would leave some for Lina.

Lina had told them that they were close to her home town and it wouldn't be much longer to get there, that was good, they had passed few towns in the past 2 months so they had to sleep outside a lot and he didn't think it was good for the baby but he didn't say anything, it seemed anything could incur Lina's wrath and he didn't want petty fights.

He was trying to get the hang of the dad thing. It was kinda working. He was trying his hardest, and he knew Lina tried to be patient with him.

Finally Lina awoke, Zel came around, and they were ready to leave. It was already about nine, they had to get going, they would have usually been traveling for an hour or two by now.

They all understood that with the baby it was harder. They had to stop continually in the beginning because Lina got tired, and had to take care of the baby. Now they didn't stop so much.

They had almost reached their destination, and Lina was getting antsy. She was not as happy as she seemed to be getting home.

After a few hours of traveling they came upon a town. Lina's eyes widened as she saw it but she didn't say a word.

They knew that they had reached their destination, by Lina's reaction. They walked into the town and Lina stopped and looked around.
She was home, she sighed; Luna already knew she was here, but she was probably working. She was hesitant to go into the town restaurant, but Luna would find her no matter what, and she needed to face her fear.

Lina took her daughter from Gourry, and walked towards the café. The others watched as Lina walked toward her destination with determination. They slowly began to follow her; they weren't going to miss a chance to see Lina's sister.
As Lina entered, she looked around, and did not see Luna, so she sat at a table. Moments later her companions joined her. They started to chat, when all of a sudden, a waitress came up to their table. They all looked up, and then out of the corners of their eyes watched Lina.

"Hello Luna, its been a while," she said calmly.

"What are you doing here," Luna replied as she scanned the table.

"Still hanging out with trash I see, hmm I never knew you to try and kidnap a child," she continued. Lina shook with anger.

"I would never, that is my daughter, and Luna if you touch one hair on her head I will make you regret it," Lina spat. Luna looked at her as if she were insane.

"Lina do you remember the last time you tried to threaten me?" asked Luna. Lina's eyes widened but she didn't calm down.

"Yes, you half killed me, but I promise you if you try to hurt my daughter there will be hell to pay," Luna cocked an eyebrow but said nothing, her silence told Lina that either she didn't care or she didn't want to make trouble.

"Um excuse me, can we order now? I'm hungry," stated Gourry. Luna looked over at him, "I suppose this means you're coming home tonight, hmm well whatever, just don't get in my way," Lina seemed to have calmed down.

"Yes, I want to see Mom and Dad; are they well?"

"As well as they could be, go visit them and find out, now what'll it be?" she replied irritated.

"They all placed their orders, and it was quiet for the rest of the meal. They paid but before they could leave, Luna came back over and said,

"Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, what's the baby's name?" Lina cocked an eyebrow but replied,

"Her name is Lily Anna Inverse, want to hold her," she said uncertainly. Luna glanced at the crowd, and the replied,

"Why would I want to hold her," Luna then saw the child and then sighed,

"Alright, just for a minute" Lina handed her the child but did not take her eyes off of her sister for a minute. Luna thought this act amusing, so she said,

"What are you afraid I'll drop her like this" as she said that she let go of the baby. Lina lunged for the child only to find herself on the ground without her daughter she got up and saw that her baby was floating right in front of Luna, who had a huge smirk pasted on her face.

Lina grabbed her child before Luna decided to try anything else. Lina got up and started to leave but before she could go she heard Luna whisper behind her,

"You know I'll deal with you later Lina," Lina knew but it wouldn't happen like it used to, she could fight back now and she would try her hardest. She wouldn't let Luna touch her baby again. She started to head toward her family home.

She did miss her parents, and she wondered how they were, probably pretty good considering Luna was here.