Hey everyone!!!!! I must thank my good friend Joe for this chapter. He wrote the end of the chapter, and fixed some things up. I wanted Naga to be in character! And another fan of mine was emailing me and reasoning with me to make Lina more in character, so I did, I hope. But...I guess you guys are the judge of that, ne?! Enjoy!!!!!
***The Next Day***
Lina was dreaming. She was floating in dream space.
"Darkness beyond twilight..."
Lina's eyes opened in the dream space. 'I've...I've heard that before. It's very familiar. Demo...'
"Crimson beyond blood that flows."
Lina sat up in the dream space and looked around her. 'This is...this is the Dragon Slave. It's that forbidden spell I found in the attic, in Ane-chan's trunk. There are few people who know this spell. Very few who can cast it as well.'
"Buried in the flow of time..."
Lina ran a hand through her hair. 'Who's casting this spell? This voice...doesn't sound familiar...yet, it does. Who would be here in my dream casting this spell? Why is this important?!'
"In thy great name I pledge myself to Darkness."
Lina turned around and was confronted by the image of a young girl. She was standing in front of the supreme king who resides in the north pole of the universe. One of the subordinates of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu Dynast Grauscherra. 'Why is she fighting Dynast? Dynast hasn't even come after me yet. The cold lord hardly ever shows his face. What is she doing fighting him?!'
"Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed...by the power you and I posses!"
Lina looked at the girl more closely. She had blonde hair that was as long as Gourry's. She was wearing a long sleeve, white, button up shirt, and blue biker shorts (spandex shorts). She turned once to look at Lina. She had red eyes, and wore Lina's gold earrings. She had a small jellyfish tattooed on the back of her left palm, and her nails were painted blue. She turned around ready to utter the last words of the spell.
"Dynast Bolt." Dynast cast his lightening spell at the girl, but she dodged it, spell in hand, and fired the Dragon Slave. It hit Dynast straight on, but you could tell it wasn't affecting him. He somehow absorbed the energy. The girl stood there looking perplexed. She didn't have many spells left that she could fight him with.
"Dynast Brass." Two simple words came out from a monotonous voice. The girl standing in front of Lina was blown back towards her. The girl laid sprawled on Lina's right side. A little blood trickled out of her mouth.
"O-ohayo...oka-san. I'm afraid I have to go. It's complicated for me to stay any longer. Gomen nasai...oka-san...demo...now you know what I would have looked like..." Lina was shocked. She was staring at the dying face of her daughter. She could tell that this wasn't a premonition. This would never happen. She was going to have a girl, but at this very moment...she could feel her dying inside of her. Lina wouldn't have a child, but...she wanted to show Lina what she would've looked like, and how much power she would've had. She wanted to show Lina...
"Sayonara...oka-san!" The girl stood up, and started walking away from Lina. After she was a meter away, she exploded. Just like that. Exploded like she had cast a spell inside herself and set it off. Gone...gone with the wind. Never to be seen again. Lina saw a few tears fall from her eyes.
"Nani?" Lina laughed at herself. "Why am I...why am I crying?" Lina sat there for a while and just cried. She felt a sharp pain in her side, and closed her eyes. Lina woke up from her dream and saw Kaji poking her with a yardstick. Standing at the end of the yardstick looking very scared of her. "Nani?" Shimo came up from behind him.
"Lina-chan...you were casting a spell in your sleep. It sounded powerful, and we couldn't wake you up to stop you, but all the sudden...you stopped saying the spell. And then you sort of laid there...and we were afraid you were going to start saying it again, so we tried waking you up. And here you are...awake..." Shimo laughed, but backed down behind Kaji again, still a little afraid of her.
"Shimo-chan...will you check to see if the baby inside me is ok?" Lina looked up.
"Nani? Oh...sure...Lina-chan...why?" Shimo stopped looking scared and stared at Lina.
"I just have this feeling that...that something bad has happened to it." Lina looked down at the sheets.
"Sure..." She ushered Kaji out, and started the check up on Lina and her baby.
***Half and hour later***
"A miscarriage...I thought so. Thank you Shimo-chan." Lina looked down at the sheets again.
"I'm sorry Lina-chan...I'm so sorry!" Shimo looked at Lina. She felt sorry for her. So many bad things had happened to her already. Life was going bad for her again, so terribly bad. Lina looked up at Shimo smiling.
"Ah...who wants a little brat to take care of anyway? Certainly not me...eh Shimo-chan? Kids just aren't for me. SO!!!!! Let's go shopping tomorrow! I need to get out of this dumps ville! OK?!"
"Lina-chan..."
"OK, Shimo-chan? Come on! Don't look so sad! I'm fine! I didn't want a kid in the first place. Kids don't have a place on the road, so...cheer up!"
"Alright, Lina-chan. We'll go shopping tomorrow, and you can tell me all about your dream later tonight, ok? I got work to do, so if you don't mind..."
"OH...no Shimo-chan...sorry to keep you away from your work. I'll let you go now! See you later!!!!!!" Lina smiled and waved as Shimo left the room. 'I shouldn't be that sad...I mean...I did get to see what she looked like...or what she would look like, and I did get to see that it turned out to be a girl, but...it's kind of sad to know that...a legend like that had to die even before she was born. I'm glad I'm back to normal now. I mean I didn't want to worry everyone, so I did my old Lina's just peachy keen routine (wow it rhymes). I wish Gourry were here. He would comfort me at least-'
"OH HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!" A hideous laugh resonated from the hallway. "Now show me to the room of my rival, Lina Inverse!" A couple minutes later, Kaji opened the door. His ears had tissues in them, and his hand was over his nose.
"Couldn't handle her, could ya, Kaji-san?" Lina looked at him and laughed. He looked pitiful. Lina couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh how nice of you to laugh in my moment of despair. Who is this woman?"
"Naga..." Lina had to pause because she was laughing so hard, "She won't leave you alone till you let her see me, and she'll keep laughing like that even if you ask her to stop. She's a pain, and she's keen on beating me in magic." Lina started laughing again.
"Is that you, Lina?" Naga appeared at the door. She stared at Lina. Sitting in a bed in the hospital. In pajamas looking like the same old Lina.
"Ohayo, Naga..."
"OH HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!" Kaji ran out of the room towards the bathroom. His ears were spouting blood again. "I finally found you, Lina!
OH HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!"
"Yeah...it's nice to see you too, Naga...please leave."
"Oh...Lina...aren't you glad to see me?"
"No..."
"Well...that's just too bad. I'm here to bust you out of this place"
"Naga...I'm not leaving. Not now...not until I'm cured."
"So...is that why you left me? Just because I found out that you had that silly old disease?"
"Yes. Now if you would please get the idea of busting me out of here out of your mind, we could continue our conversation."
"So...they're not holding you captive?"
"No...who told you that?"
"Well...this very helpful man named...well he didn't tell me his name, but he was always smiling, and had purple hair, and was rather amusing. He had a cane stick thing too. Although he wouldn't let me see it ..."
"That...would be Xellos. That kinifing bastard. When is he ever going to learn?!"
"Well...he seemed pleasant to me Lina..."
"Yeah...he only helps people who are going to help him in something he has to do."
"I refuse to believe that a commoner could use me!"
"Well.... He's evil Naga...but...he hangs around me anyway."
"He's evil?"
"HE'S A MONSTER, NAGA!!!!! COULDN'T YOU TELL?!"
"Well...actually...my powers of deduction are not as sharp on an empty stomach."
"Yeah...neither could I at first." Lina smiled. Naga was helping her in the process of getting to be 'Lina-like' again. "So...how long has it been, Naga?"
"Years I believe...and I must humbly admit that I've gotten stronger. I'm going to beat you this time, Lina!"
"I'm still waiting for that day to happen, Naga, and trust me...that day will probably never come. As long as I have the Dragon Slave, and the Ragna Blade...you can never beat me."
"Never? I think you're underestimating me abilities just a bit here, Lina!"
"Naga...do you know what kinds of spells those two are?"
"No, but it won't matter, Lina! You can't beat me this time!"
"Naga...unless you've found another spell that calls upon power from lord ruby eye himself, then I think you are exaggerating."
"So...the Dragon Slave and the Ragna Blade call upon power from the lord Shabranigdu?"
"No. The Dragon Slave does, but...the Ragna Blade calls upon power from the Lord of Nightmares. The creator who made nothingness into our world."
"Really? Lina your ability to lie has not improved. No such spell exists."
"Of course it could. It took me like a whole year to find the Claire Bible and find the whole spell in there!"
"The Claire Bible? Lina...we never went on a journey for that treasure!"
"No...we didn't, did we? That was Gourry, Zel, Amelia, and me, wasn't it? Oh well...guess you lucked out."
"LINA!!!!! How could you leave me behind on such an adventure?!"
"Easy...I didn't know where you were, wanted to keep it that way, and didn't want to bring you along." Lina stuck her tongue out at Naga.
"Well then...to make it up to me you'll just have to teach those two spells to me, won't you?"
"No...I don't. Amelia already tried that."
"Amelia?"
"Yes. Amelia Wil Telsa Sailoon; crown Princess of Sailoon. She wanted to learn the Dragon Slave, but she gave up once I told her that she has to know when and where to cast it, and she didn't and never would, so she knew she should give up."
"The...crown princess?"
"Yup. She's very...nice...yet annoying. Actually...you kind of look like her in a more skimpy outfit."
"This is very fashionable!"
"Oh right...and I'm not Lina Inverse, the Enemy of all who live."
"You...aren't?"
"I AM, BAKA!! Just never mind."
"So...who were the other people you mentioned?"
"Who? Gourry and Zel?" Naga nodded her head, "Oh...Zel is a Chimera who used to be a human who's the grandson of Rezo the Red Priest, whom I had to kill by the way, and he's kind of anti-social and everything, but he's very intelligent, and we talk for a while about all that goes round and such. And Gourry is just this dumb mercenary who thought I needed to be saved from a bunch of bandits, and later I found out he had the sword of light, so I followed him around trying to get it from him. He's stupid, but he makes a good traveling partner. Zel kind of goes on his own, and Amelia well...I guess we don't talk that much on the road. But...Gourry and me traveled alone for a while, and it was fun. We had some fun adventures." Naga noticed a blush creep across Lina's face.
"Ne, Lina...do you have a fever, or do you have feelings for this Gourry gentleman?" Naga asked as she felt Lina's forehead, "Nope...no fever." Naga got that evil cat person look, "You like him, don't you?"
Lina was taken back by Naga's last statement. " What makes you think I would like a dumb blond with an IQ rivaled by jellyfish?!"
Naga struck an informative pose and in a proud voice stated, "The ways of love and romance cannot escape the keen eye of Naga the White Serpent!" Naga winked at Lina and moved onto the bed so that they sat eye to eye. She smirked and than said," And at times I know you better that you know your self."
Lina blushed neon red but than snickered and looked back at Naga, " You know what Naga? That's probably the only thing I've ever heard you say that I can totally agree with."
Naga became lost in thought for a moment but then shot off the bed and looked at Lina with a strange conviction. "Your beloved Gourry shall never know how you feel if your cramped in this stuffy environment." With that Naga grabbed Lina's clothes and stuffed them in her travel sack, and then took hold of Lina, picked her up on piggyback, and then shot out the window. She landed with a thud.
Lina let go of her big-breasted companion and looked at her in shock, " Naga what the hell do you think-!" Before she could finish Naga cast sleeping on her. She fell into Naga's arms and began to loudly snore.
Naga smirked and picked up the sleeping woman. "You'll thank me later, and I want to meet this princess." With that Naga started off in search of Gourry and the others.
***The Next Day***
Lina was dreaming. She was floating in dream space.
"Darkness beyond twilight..."
Lina's eyes opened in the dream space. 'I've...I've heard that before. It's very familiar. Demo...'
"Crimson beyond blood that flows."
Lina sat up in the dream space and looked around her. 'This is...this is the Dragon Slave. It's that forbidden spell I found in the attic, in Ane-chan's trunk. There are few people who know this spell. Very few who can cast it as well.'
"Buried in the flow of time..."
Lina ran a hand through her hair. 'Who's casting this spell? This voice...doesn't sound familiar...yet, it does. Who would be here in my dream casting this spell? Why is this important?!'
"In thy great name I pledge myself to Darkness."
Lina turned around and was confronted by the image of a young girl. She was standing in front of the supreme king who resides in the north pole of the universe. One of the subordinates of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu Dynast Grauscherra. 'Why is she fighting Dynast? Dynast hasn't even come after me yet. The cold lord hardly ever shows his face. What is she doing fighting him?!'
"Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed...by the power you and I posses!"
Lina looked at the girl more closely. She had blonde hair that was as long as Gourry's. She was wearing a long sleeve, white, button up shirt, and blue biker shorts (spandex shorts). She turned once to look at Lina. She had red eyes, and wore Lina's gold earrings. She had a small jellyfish tattooed on the back of her left palm, and her nails were painted blue. She turned around ready to utter the last words of the spell.
"Dynast Bolt." Dynast cast his lightening spell at the girl, but she dodged it, spell in hand, and fired the Dragon Slave. It hit Dynast straight on, but you could tell it wasn't affecting him. He somehow absorbed the energy. The girl stood there looking perplexed. She didn't have many spells left that she could fight him with.
"Dynast Brass." Two simple words came out from a monotonous voice. The girl standing in front of Lina was blown back towards her. The girl laid sprawled on Lina's right side. A little blood trickled out of her mouth.
"O-ohayo...oka-san. I'm afraid I have to go. It's complicated for me to stay any longer. Gomen nasai...oka-san...demo...now you know what I would have looked like..." Lina was shocked. She was staring at the dying face of her daughter. She could tell that this wasn't a premonition. This would never happen. She was going to have a girl, but at this very moment...she could feel her dying inside of her. Lina wouldn't have a child, but...she wanted to show Lina what she would've looked like, and how much power she would've had. She wanted to show Lina...
"Sayonara...oka-san!" The girl stood up, and started walking away from Lina. After she was a meter away, she exploded. Just like that. Exploded like she had cast a spell inside herself and set it off. Gone...gone with the wind. Never to be seen again. Lina saw a few tears fall from her eyes.
"Nani?" Lina laughed at herself. "Why am I...why am I crying?" Lina sat there for a while and just cried. She felt a sharp pain in her side, and closed her eyes. Lina woke up from her dream and saw Kaji poking her with a yardstick. Standing at the end of the yardstick looking very scared of her. "Nani?" Shimo came up from behind him.
"Lina-chan...you were casting a spell in your sleep. It sounded powerful, and we couldn't wake you up to stop you, but all the sudden...you stopped saying the spell. And then you sort of laid there...and we were afraid you were going to start saying it again, so we tried waking you up. And here you are...awake..." Shimo laughed, but backed down behind Kaji again, still a little afraid of her.
"Shimo-chan...will you check to see if the baby inside me is ok?" Lina looked up.
"Nani? Oh...sure...Lina-chan...why?" Shimo stopped looking scared and stared at Lina.
"I just have this feeling that...that something bad has happened to it." Lina looked down at the sheets.
"Sure..." She ushered Kaji out, and started the check up on Lina and her baby.
***Half and hour later***
"A miscarriage...I thought so. Thank you Shimo-chan." Lina looked down at the sheets again.
"I'm sorry Lina-chan...I'm so sorry!" Shimo looked at Lina. She felt sorry for her. So many bad things had happened to her already. Life was going bad for her again, so terribly bad. Lina looked up at Shimo smiling.
"Ah...who wants a little brat to take care of anyway? Certainly not me...eh Shimo-chan? Kids just aren't for me. SO!!!!! Let's go shopping tomorrow! I need to get out of this dumps ville! OK?!"
"Lina-chan..."
"OK, Shimo-chan? Come on! Don't look so sad! I'm fine! I didn't want a kid in the first place. Kids don't have a place on the road, so...cheer up!"
"Alright, Lina-chan. We'll go shopping tomorrow, and you can tell me all about your dream later tonight, ok? I got work to do, so if you don't mind..."
"OH...no Shimo-chan...sorry to keep you away from your work. I'll let you go now! See you later!!!!!!" Lina smiled and waved as Shimo left the room. 'I shouldn't be that sad...I mean...I did get to see what she looked like...or what she would look like, and I did get to see that it turned out to be a girl, but...it's kind of sad to know that...a legend like that had to die even before she was born. I'm glad I'm back to normal now. I mean I didn't want to worry everyone, so I did my old Lina's just peachy keen routine (wow it rhymes). I wish Gourry were here. He would comfort me at least-'
"OH HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!" A hideous laugh resonated from the hallway. "Now show me to the room of my rival, Lina Inverse!" A couple minutes later, Kaji opened the door. His ears had tissues in them, and his hand was over his nose.
"Couldn't handle her, could ya, Kaji-san?" Lina looked at him and laughed. He looked pitiful. Lina couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh how nice of you to laugh in my moment of despair. Who is this woman?"
"Naga..." Lina had to pause because she was laughing so hard, "She won't leave you alone till you let her see me, and she'll keep laughing like that even if you ask her to stop. She's a pain, and she's keen on beating me in magic." Lina started laughing again.
"Is that you, Lina?" Naga appeared at the door. She stared at Lina. Sitting in a bed in the hospital. In pajamas looking like the same old Lina.
"Ohayo, Naga..."
"OH HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!" Kaji ran out of the room towards the bathroom. His ears were spouting blood again. "I finally found you, Lina!
OH HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!"
"Yeah...it's nice to see you too, Naga...please leave."
"Oh...Lina...aren't you glad to see me?"
"No..."
"Well...that's just too bad. I'm here to bust you out of this place"
"Naga...I'm not leaving. Not now...not until I'm cured."
"So...is that why you left me? Just because I found out that you had that silly old disease?"
"Yes. Now if you would please get the idea of busting me out of here out of your mind, we could continue our conversation."
"So...they're not holding you captive?"
"No...who told you that?"
"Well...this very helpful man named...well he didn't tell me his name, but he was always smiling, and had purple hair, and was rather amusing. He had a cane stick thing too. Although he wouldn't let me see it ..."
"That...would be Xellos. That kinifing bastard. When is he ever going to learn?!"
"Well...he seemed pleasant to me Lina..."
"Yeah...he only helps people who are going to help him in something he has to do."
"I refuse to believe that a commoner could use me!"
"Well.... He's evil Naga...but...he hangs around me anyway."
"He's evil?"
"HE'S A MONSTER, NAGA!!!!! COULDN'T YOU TELL?!"
"Well...actually...my powers of deduction are not as sharp on an empty stomach."
"Yeah...neither could I at first." Lina smiled. Naga was helping her in the process of getting to be 'Lina-like' again. "So...how long has it been, Naga?"
"Years I believe...and I must humbly admit that I've gotten stronger. I'm going to beat you this time, Lina!"
"I'm still waiting for that day to happen, Naga, and trust me...that day will probably never come. As long as I have the Dragon Slave, and the Ragna Blade...you can never beat me."
"Never? I think you're underestimating me abilities just a bit here, Lina!"
"Naga...do you know what kinds of spells those two are?"
"No, but it won't matter, Lina! You can't beat me this time!"
"Naga...unless you've found another spell that calls upon power from lord ruby eye himself, then I think you are exaggerating."
"So...the Dragon Slave and the Ragna Blade call upon power from the lord Shabranigdu?"
"No. The Dragon Slave does, but...the Ragna Blade calls upon power from the Lord of Nightmares. The creator who made nothingness into our world."
"Really? Lina your ability to lie has not improved. No such spell exists."
"Of course it could. It took me like a whole year to find the Claire Bible and find the whole spell in there!"
"The Claire Bible? Lina...we never went on a journey for that treasure!"
"No...we didn't, did we? That was Gourry, Zel, Amelia, and me, wasn't it? Oh well...guess you lucked out."
"LINA!!!!! How could you leave me behind on such an adventure?!"
"Easy...I didn't know where you were, wanted to keep it that way, and didn't want to bring you along." Lina stuck her tongue out at Naga.
"Well then...to make it up to me you'll just have to teach those two spells to me, won't you?"
"No...I don't. Amelia already tried that."
"Amelia?"
"Yes. Amelia Wil Telsa Sailoon; crown Princess of Sailoon. She wanted to learn the Dragon Slave, but she gave up once I told her that she has to know when and where to cast it, and she didn't and never would, so she knew she should give up."
"The...crown princess?"
"Yup. She's very...nice...yet annoying. Actually...you kind of look like her in a more skimpy outfit."
"This is very fashionable!"
"Oh right...and I'm not Lina Inverse, the Enemy of all who live."
"You...aren't?"
"I AM, BAKA!! Just never mind."
"So...who were the other people you mentioned?"
"Who? Gourry and Zel?" Naga nodded her head, "Oh...Zel is a Chimera who used to be a human who's the grandson of Rezo the Red Priest, whom I had to kill by the way, and he's kind of anti-social and everything, but he's very intelligent, and we talk for a while about all that goes round and such. And Gourry is just this dumb mercenary who thought I needed to be saved from a bunch of bandits, and later I found out he had the sword of light, so I followed him around trying to get it from him. He's stupid, but he makes a good traveling partner. Zel kind of goes on his own, and Amelia well...I guess we don't talk that much on the road. But...Gourry and me traveled alone for a while, and it was fun. We had some fun adventures." Naga noticed a blush creep across Lina's face.
"Ne, Lina...do you have a fever, or do you have feelings for this Gourry gentleman?" Naga asked as she felt Lina's forehead, "Nope...no fever." Naga got that evil cat person look, "You like him, don't you?"
Lina was taken back by Naga's last statement. " What makes you think I would like a dumb blond with an IQ rivaled by jellyfish?!"
Naga struck an informative pose and in a proud voice stated, "The ways of love and romance cannot escape the keen eye of Naga the White Serpent!" Naga winked at Lina and moved onto the bed so that they sat eye to eye. She smirked and than said," And at times I know you better that you know your self."
Lina blushed neon red but than snickered and looked back at Naga, " You know what Naga? That's probably the only thing I've ever heard you say that I can totally agree with."
Naga became lost in thought for a moment but then shot off the bed and looked at Lina with a strange conviction. "Your beloved Gourry shall never know how you feel if your cramped in this stuffy environment." With that Naga grabbed Lina's clothes and stuffed them in her travel sack, and then took hold of Lina, picked her up on piggyback, and then shot out the window. She landed with a thud.
Lina let go of her big-breasted companion and looked at her in shock, " Naga what the hell do you think-!" Before she could finish Naga cast sleeping on her. She fell into Naga's arms and began to loudly snore.
Naga smirked and picked up the sleeping woman. "You'll thank me later, and I want to meet this princess." With that Naga started off in search of Gourry and the others.