Slayers / Chrono Trigger

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to either Slayers or Chrono Trigger. Please don't sue.

Chapter One: The Millennial Fair

"Gourry. Gourry. Gourry! Get up Gourry." A blue eyed, pointy eared blonde woman snatched the covers off the young man trying desperately to stay asleep. Moving to the window she opened the curtains, letting the bright sunlight spill through into the room and ruining any chance for her son to go back to bed.

"Aw, Ma. Five more minutes, please?" the tall man whined.

"That's what you said an hour ago. Come on Gourry, you don't want to miss the fair do you?" with that his mother turned and started down the stairs. "Oh, one other thing dear. Lina has come over and if you want any breakfast, so you had better hurry." she called as she left. Gourry hurriedly strapped on his wooden sword and rushed downstairs just I time to see Lina wolfing down the last pancake.

"Lina, why didn't you save me any?" he whined,"You know it's my house." Lina just grinned at him.

"Gotta have energy if I'm gonna test my new theory at the fair today!" she proclaimed, starting in on the sausage. In 2.3 seconds, the plates were as clean as if they had just been washed. "You'd better show up today Gourry, or else!" was Lina's parting comment, along with a "Thank you for breakfast Mrs. Gabriev" and threatening look at the man.

"Well dear, here is your breakfast." said his mother, pulling another large stack of pancakes and sausages out of the oven. "I thought that would happen. Oh, and here's your allowance, try not to spend it all on snacks. Now finish up, and have fun at the fair!"

Gourry finished his breakfast and after petting his cat walked the half mile to the fair grounds. It was huge! There were tents everywhere with games and food and drink with vendors selling weapons and armor too. Gourry overheard some people say there was a golem trainer on one side, and a prehistoric dragon dance on the other. He also heard some uncomplimentary things about Lina hand her magical theories, but shrugged those off as normal talk. As he climbed the stairs to the main square, past the races he stared in awe at the huge Leene Bell in the middle of the square, just as he always did. Unfortunately he didn't see the short black haired girl in white cape and pants with pink trim until they were both lying on the ground.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Gourry said as he helped her up.

"No, no, it was my fault." She said,"I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Neither was I." chuckled Gourry, "So I guess were both at fault"

"Oh, no!" The young girl's eyes widened as she dusted herself off. "I lost my pendant! Daddy's not going to be happy with me, it's a family heirloom." She started to sniffle and Gourry told her he'd help look to forestall any tears. In a few moments he found a silver chain with a flat piece of engraved metal hanging from it.

"Hey, is this it?" Gourry asked holding it out for inspection

"Yes it is! Than you so much, Mr. uhhh. I'm sorry, I never even asked your name."

"Gourry. Gourry Gabriev."
            "Well, you can call me Amelia. Ummm, I don't really know my way around here, so would you mind if I came with you to see the fair?"

"Sure! The more the merrier!" With that the new friends wandered the fair, trying to guess the winner at the races, which Amelia did getting 20 game points, Gourry hit the "Test Your Strength" bell so hard it fell off, but only getting 1 game point, and generally having a good time. As they wandered over to the dance they heard a little girl crying.

"What's wrong?" Amelia asked her getting down on one knee.

*Sniff* "My kitty's missing. He was following me around and now he's,*sniff* now he's… WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

"That poor cat! I Amelia will not stand for this INJUSTICE! C'mon Mr. Gourry!"

"Sure, I don't like to see kids cry and besides, I like cats." Gourry wanted to check the dance out first, but Amelia was determined that it was in one of the two areas they hadn't checked yet, and since Lina was still setting up in the North end of the fair, that only left by the trainer golem. They entered the training area and sure enough, there was the cat, in the ring, watching the golem even though it wasn't doing anything. "There you are!" cried Gourry as he climbed through the ropes and reached for the little pet. And got clobbered by the stony fist of the golem. "Hey!" from Gourry and "Mmrow!" from the cat as it leapt off Gourry's shoulder and into Amelia's arms. She put the cat down and climbed into the ring to help her friend. Within a few strikes of Gourry's sword and Amelia's fists the golem crumbled into dust, leaving 15 game points. As the two left the rig the golem reformed, awaiting its next challenge. Amelia healed Gourry's bumps with some white magic and complimented him on his fighting skills. "Well, all the men in my family are swordsmen, and some day I hope to carry the family sword that has been passed through the generations. " With that the two picked up the cat ad brought it to it owner, who cried in joy. On the way to the much prolonged dance Gourry had to stop and have some soda. After chugging 8 cans the bartender declared him the winner of the contest and awarded 5 game points. "Contest?" Gourry blinked. "I was just thirsty. Rescuing kitties is hard work you know." After the dance, Gourry asked one of the guard at the north end of the square if they knew how long Lina was going to take. He was answered by a large explosion from the clearing and decided to give it a few more minutes.

"You know Mr. Gourry, we haven't been there yet." Amelia pointed to a black and purple tent with a skull shaped sign proclaiming "Martina Xoana's Lab"

"Well, I don't know Amelia; it looks kind of –ulp!" Amelia had grabbed him by the shirt and was dragging him along. For a 13 or 14 year old girl, she was awful strong. The inside was dimly lit with torches. A bone chilling laugh erupted from the darkness, and a green haired girl emerged.
            "Welcome valued customers! How much will you pay to play? 1 game point, 10 game points, or 30 game points?"

"Ummmm, all of them!" Gourry beamed. He liked games.

"Very well!" Martina laughed again. "The first game is Find the Zoemelgustar! I will hide my lord under one of these three cups and you must find it after I shuffle them. Ready? Go!" *shuffle, shuffle* "Now where is it?"

"Umm, that one."

"Correct! You win this!" Martina holds out a jellyfish plushie, which Gourry snatches and cuddles. Amelia sweat-drops. "Next, is the Mirror of Shadows! Mimic what you see." Martina pulls out a mirror, shows it to Gourry and another Gourry appears. It pulls out a chalkboard and piece of chalk and starts to explain why the world is square, but people can still travel in one direction and end up where they started. Martina whacks it on the head and gives it to Gourry, just to shut it up. Gourry told it to go home, go to bed, and not to eat his pocky. The shadow complies sulkily and stalks off, tripping over his sword. Amelia face-faulted. "Finally, you must save this girl!" A giant crane drops down, picks up Amelia and holds her over a fiery pit. "But be warned. A horde of monsters will try to stop you! Go!" A gate opened up in the back of the tent and Amelia began to drop towards the pit. Gourry drew his sword, slaughtered the monsters, cut the cranes rope, and grabbed Amelia in the space of Martina's next blink. "Ah. Well. Since you won you get this cat!"

"Mew!"

"And, because you won in record time you also win a lifetime supply of cat food!"

Gourry went home quick to drop off his prizes, and found his mom pacing franticly. "Gourry! Are you alright? How did you get down here? And who's your friend?"

"I'm fine mom, I came through the front door, and this is Amelia."

"Nice to meet you Mrs. Gabriev"

"A pleasure dear. But Gourry, I thought you had gone upstairs a half an hour ago."

"Oh, then, yeah, I'll take care it doesn't happen again mom. By the way, I won this cat at the fair along with a lifetime supply of cat food, so now Mousse has a friend. I named her Shampoo. I'll just run this upstairs now. Wanna see my room Amelia?" In Gourry's room the pair hogtied, gagged and sedated the shadow Gourry who was being a pain in the ass. "There. He shouldn't bother mom anymore. Hey it's getting dark. Do you want to stay the night? You can have my bed and I'll sleep on the couch downstairs." The next morning Lina showed up in time to miss breakfast, Amelia is an early riser, to tell Gourry that the demonstration was going to be ready at 10 o'clock and to be there no later than 11. After eyeing Amelia's figure she staled out of the house, giving Gourry a glare that promised fireballs in the future.

At 10:30 Gourry and Amelia arrived at Lina's area. She already had a substantial crowd, being the young sorcery genius she was, but most people were wary of an untested spell. "Gourry, there you are! No one wants to try the spell and who is that?" Lina pointed at Amelia.

"She's a friend from out of town here for the fair and so she stayed at my house last night. That's all." As Lina turned back to her scrolls, Gourry leaned over to Amelia and explained. "I have been Lina's only friend for many years now and she can get a little jealous of other girls, especially if they have a better figure than her. I just don't want you blown up because she has the wrong idea." He grinned at her, than grimaced as Lina grabbed his ear and pulled him over to a magic circle on the ground.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my good "volunteer" Gourry will now demonstrate the new location-to-location teleport spell!" with that Lina chanted and Gourry felt a strange sensation, ending up on the other side of the clearing in an identical circle. The crowd Ooohed and Aahed.

"That looked like fun Mr. Gourry! Let me try!" Amelia ran to the first circle and said, "Ok, Ms. Lina, cast the spell!" Gourry hastily stepped out of the second circle as Lina began the chant. "This…feels…funny…AHHHHHHHH!" The energy that Amelia had become swirled into a blue vortex that appeared in between the two circles, leaving only her pendant behind.

"I now that girl; and that pendant" Lina mused. Than noticing the unrest of the crowd she shouted "Show over! Go home! FIREBALL!" and the crowd scattered. "Gourry, where do you think your going?!"

"I don't want to be fireballed!"

"You wont be if you pick that pendant up right now and go get her!"

"Yes ma'am" Gourry picked up the pendant and stepped into the first circle.

"Here goes!" Lina began the chant. As Gourry's vision began to blur again he thought he felt the pendant vibrate and grow warm, so he clutched it even tighter. As he felt it slip through his increasingly incorporeal hands he heard Lina shout to him, "I'll follow as soon as I figure out what happened! Good Lu-" Gourry felt himself tumbling through a blue and green and red void, to land heavily o his face in a clearing in some mountains.

Authors Note

This is my first fic, so please R&R, no flames, only constructive criticisms and compliments.