Waiting for the Moon


Nayru: Wow, an actual romance fic.

Xiao: Did I hear right? Romance! What has happened to your wit!

Nayru: No idea.

Ran-Ran: She's out of Pocky.

Nayru: Bingo.

DISCLAIMER: It's not mine, dammit. If it was mine, I'd be watching more of the series.

Waiting For The Moon: Hunger

Amelia woke up in a strangely sour mood. After yesterday's events, she'd expected
to wake up feeling so good. She'd been happy for three days straight, and justice seemed
to fill the world. Justice and happiness. Happiness that Zelgadis was still sleeping two
feet away from her. Amelia watched her innocent Chimera sleep for a few minutes, not wanting
to disturb his beautiful sleep with no coffee made. But...
"ZELGADIS WAKE UP NOW AND MAKE ME BREAKFAST DAMMIT!"
Like I said, she was in a sour mood.
Zelgadis opened a bleary eye. "Amelia, would your mood have anything to do with the
fact Lina is jealous of you? And that you two got into an enormous fight? And that Gourry was
still utterly confused when you spelled it out for him: 'I'M PREGNANT'?"
Amelia laughed, and quoted her blonde friend. "Is pregnant like a microwave?"
Zelgadis smirked. "That's right."
Amelia sighed. "We still haven't told daddy."
"And we won't until we're married. He'll murder me." Zelgadis stated.
"When is that?"
"In a few weeks, Amelia-chan."

A few miles away, in the middle of the forest...

Lina lay on a lawn chair in front of a large cabin. A house all her own, and her own
life far far away from Luna was all she needed. Well, it seemed to be. Gourry was something
she needed. As stupid as he was, Gourry seemed to understand love. Not quite common sense, or
actual intelligence, just nature. Not nature like what surrounded her, but built into you.
Now, a new hunger filled her, as she watched the sun rise. The hunger for more than
Gourry's eternal love and being his fiancee, or even getting married to him in three months,
like planned. There was more, as Gourry stepped out onto the porch to clean the various glass
ornaments he loved so much that decorated their porch. He looked for about ten seconds at the
smashed glass orb, sighing. "Did you have to throw these at him?"

LAST NIGHT FLASHBACK

Amelia and Zelgadis sat back as Lina and Gourry finished their meals. Lina watched as
Zel's hand creeped over to Amelia's, and held it. They smiled sappily at each other. Lina
rolled her eyes. She knew Zelgadis had only one true friend, and it was his wife to be. Lina
and Gourry had chosen to wait a few more months to get married. Finally, Lina finished, and
stared at her two best friends.
"So, Amelia, Zel, what's the big announcement?" Gourry asked.
"Well... it's kind of..." Amelia smiled up at Zel. "We're having a baby."
"What." Lina said softly. A cross between anger and jealously filled her voice.
Gourry smiled. "That's wonderful!"
"No it isn't." snorted Lina angrily.
"How can you not be happy!"
"Simple. I'm not. You're far too young to be having a baby!"
"I'd be happy for you if you were pregnant!"
"I have just one question..." Gourry said.
Meanwhile, Lina and Amelia had begun to catfight about pregnancy. Zelgadis joined
Amelia's side. "Is pregnancy like a microwave?"
"GOURRY, SHUT UP!" The entire group shouted. Angrily, Lina grabbed one of Gourry's glass
ornaments from the shelves on the porch, threw it at Zelgadis. He dodged, and the bauble hit the
wall and shattered into a thousand tiny pieces...

PRESENT TIME

"I was wrong." Lina stated simply. She had joined Gourry in cleaning the porch. "I
shouldn't take my aggressions out on them... It's not their fault I'm not pregnant."
"Lina, you want a microwave too?"
"No, I want to have a baby." Gourry stared at his beautiful redhaired fiancee in shock.
He had known that Lina absolutely loved children for the three years he had known her. But he
had known for about a month now that Lina wanted to remain abstinent until after they had been
married for several months.
"You're not serious... after the way you blew up at Amelia last night! That should be
the last thing on your mind!"
"Gourry, I don't want to wait forever. I'm tired of patience. Tired of waiting. Everyday,
when I walk in town, I see women. Women with little babies. Beautiful tender pink adorable
babies, cooing and crying and squealing... I want one of my own, Gourry!" Lina gasped. "I feel
the hunger to become a woman, I feel the hunger to be a mother, the hunger for... breakfast."
Gourry stared at her for a few seconds. "I agree with you on the breakfast thing... but
I'm not so sure about the whole baby thing... I mean, they're cute, but can't we wait just a
little bit longer? Are we ready for one?"
"YES." Lina said sharply. "But first... breakfast." The one thing Gourry and Lina always
agreed on: when to eat.

THREE WEEKS LATER

Amelia looked at her figure in the mirror. Only a slight bulge said anything about the
ten week old baby. Filia and Martina guarded the door. Lina stood in back of Amelia,
tightening the straps so nobody could tell she had gained weight. "So, you've forgiven me?"
"For the thousandth time in three weeks, Lina, yes!" Amelia giggled. "I'm glad you've
taken the initiative to have a baby. I knew you loved them."
"Don't tell Gourry this, yet, but... our attempts haven't been in vain." Lina laughed.
"Not pregnant yet, but I've finally lost my virginity!"
Amelia laughed. "It's a start, Lina-san!"

Outside the door, the best man Gourry, the ushers Zangulus and Xelloss, and of course the
anxious groom Zelgadis, were making attempts to pass a pissy Martina and a 8 month pregnant
Filia.
"Fi-chan, come on, I wanna see Amelia-san!" Xelloss begged.
"Ooooh no, last time I listened to you whine like that, I ended up with this!" She
gestured to her stomach.
"Martina, please move." Zangulus pleaded.
"Since when do you use please?" She growled. "Don't we already have a daughter?"
Gourry looked between the two women. "This is going nowhere. Can I at least see Lina?"
Zelgadis deathglared at Martina, as Xelloss would murder him if he glared at his lovely
wife of 4 months. Ever since a "booty call" eight months ago, while Amelia, Zelgadis, Lina, and
Gourry were so-called "chillin", Xelloss and Filia were tight as glue. Not like elmers glue, like
super glue that can stick your fingers together and you won't get them apart until you figure out
what dissolves the shit (Nail Polish Remover)! "I must see my bride. NOW."
Both girls shouted, "NO!!!!"

THE WEDDING

Ah, a wedding. A bond of holy matrimony. An unrepeatable, forever memorable event. The
little, 22 year old princess dressed in cream white, the 28 year old groom in black (which
comveniently complimented his blue skin) with a small white rose in the button lapel. Despite
their age difference, love was between them like a pair of rabbits in heat, and they kept on
making puppy faces and googly eyes at each other.
Lina didn't miss a bit. She leaned her head on Gourry's shoulder and sighed, as they
anticipated their own wedding. Gourry whispered, "What does matrimony mean?" Lina didn't even
hit him.
"It means... oh, I don't know what it means, but it's very special."
"That works." Gourry said with a smile. "So, explain those other two traditions to me
again?"
"The garter and the bouquet? Well, the bride tosses the bouquet over her head and the
woman who catches it is the next tp be married. Then, the groom removes the garter from the
bride's leg and tosses it. Whichever guy catches that is the next to be married. I don't know
where they originated, but they always predict right." Lina whispered back.
"Hey Lina, d'you think we'll catch the boo-kay and the garden?" Gourry asked.
"It's a possibility, Gourry. It's a possibility." Lina sighed.
"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife, king and queen! You may
kiss the bride!" And Zelgadis kissed his new wife, Amelia Wil Tesla Sailun Greywords.

"Amelia!" Lina shouted, as she saw the bride sitting at the table of honor, glowing like
a little star of justice... wait, she was a little star of justice. Still... "You look so
beautiful! Just like the brides in all the pictures, and paintings, you look like a goddess, and
you just glow!" Lina's eyes were bright, her face was flushed, her hair was flowing, and looked
as though she herself had just been married.
"Lina, you look good too, but you weren't so attractive when you were stuffing your face
during dinner." Amelia was too dazed to be excited. A glass of red wine was in her hand, and she
looked like she was miles and miles away, in a world of her own. "It's almost time for the
bouquet toss... I'll go round up all the girls, be there Lina!"
Lina stood amongst a crowd of unmarried young women, including the familiar face of
Syphiel. "Syphiel!" Lina called.
"Lina! Have you seen Gourry-dear anywhere around here?" She called back.
"He's over with the single men! But I wouldn't try it! He's engaged!" Lina yelled with a
smirk. A crowd of single men stood near the dance floor, waiting for the garter.
"To whom?!" Syphiel cried in surprise that her "Gourry-dear" would dare marry someone
other than her.
"Me!" Lina yelled. Just then, Amelia tossed the bouquet. All the girls watched it twirl
through the air... until Lina jumped up and caught it. Everyone clapped, but secretly thought,
"Lina Inverse has done it again..."
A few moments later, Zelgadis Greywords was faced with a daunting task. Amelia hung her
leg out. Zel stared down at her leg in utter shock. "Amelia... do I really have to?"
"Zel, just take it off and throw it!"
"But it's an undergarment!"
"Nothing you haven't seen before!" The closest people snickered, except for Gourry who
was oblivious. Zel grumbled, and bent down. He slowly removed the cream white band from Amelia's
thigh, while various perverts snickered at the sight, including a wrinkled old man, who was a
distant relative of King Phil's named "Happosai", or "Happy". Zel finally managed to get the
thing off, and tossed it into the crowd. Gourry didn't notice; yet the garter fell into his hands
anyhow. He held it up, and yelled to Lina;
"Hey Lina! What's this for!?" Lina silently banged her head against the table in
exasperation.
"He is SO not getting any tonight..."
"Get any what, Ms. Lina?" A 2-year-old girl asked Lina shyly. Lina looked down. Elijah
Del Xoana, the only heir to the Xoanan throne, had dark green hair, almost black, falling in
little ringlets to her shoulders, and beautiful hazel-green eyes. She was truly her father's
child, and adorable at that.
"Don't worry about it, dearie." Lina sighed, wondering if her hunger for an adorable
child of her own would ever be filled.

END CHAPTER ONE

Notes: The title of this story, a major part of the Three Preludes to "Mirai no Tatakai", has
significance to it's theme. I will be overjoyed if any science/home studies smartie can tell me.
(HINT HINT)


Nayru: That was entertaining!

Xiao: Be on the lookout for Chapter 2, minna-san!

Ran-Ran: Review, everyone!

Nayru: Peace out with the authoresses!