Chapter 5
Lina skated onto the ice, with Zelgadis following. Several people waved to her and said hi, but she simply waved and glided up to two people. Zelgadis recognized them as the two in the picture, Sylphiel and Gourry. The two were standing there, talking idly, until Lina skated up.
"Hi Lina!" Gourry greeted her with a goofy smile, one in which he obviously had no idea how dumb it looked.
"Hello Lina," Sylphiel said with a warm smile. Lina offered them a wink and then turned to Zel.
"Syl, Gourry, this is my new partner, Zelgadis." Lina motioned to the chimera behind her, who was trying to get a feel for the ice.
"Hi, Gah!" Zel cried out as he slipped backwards. Lina giggled and offered him a hand.
"They zambonie the ice here once every two hours," She explained. "Hey, Gourry, Sylphiel, wanna go wing skating?" Lina nudged Sylphiel towards Gourry, who was completely oblivious towards the hint.
"W-why sure, G-Gourry, would you like to skate with me?" Sylphiel managed to stutter out, blushing wildly.
"Sure!" Gourry offered his arm to her, and Sylphiel's nerves calmed a bit as she accepted. Lina smiled as she watched them.
"So, Zel," Lina leaned forward towards Zel. "You wanna join them?"
"You never explained wing skate to me." Zel said as he watched Sylphiel and Gourry talk, waiting for a song.
"Oh, right, well, basically," Lina thought for a minute. "Ever heard the expression 'Just wing it'?
"Yes,"
"That's basically what wing skate is. You just basically try and have fun while making up a program to music you like."
"Oh,"
"Want to try with me? It might help us out with making a real program." Lina offered. Zelgadis thought for a moment and shrugged.
"Why not?" Lina pulled him over to the center of the ice and took and starting position, where Zelgadis did the same. They stood beside the other pair. Lina winked to the DJ, who the placed on a moderate paced song. The music blared through the speakers as people gathered around the edges of the rink to watch.
"Baby you're all that I want, when you're lying here in my arms, and I'm finding it hard to believe, we're in heaven, We're in heaven" The song went, Lina began to skate, fast, on the ice, with Zel following her movements. She did a quick Three-turn where Zel placed his hands gently on her waist and they continued to skate, they slowed their pace as the music did.
"Oh, thinking about our younger years, there was only you and me, we were young and wild and free," Sylphiel and Gourry stopped and joined the other on-lookers, watching as Lina and Zel went into a Flying Camel spin side by side. The two regained their composer from the spin and once again Zel guided Lina across the ice.
"Now nothing can take you away from me, we've been down that road before, but that's over now. You keep me coming back for more," They continued like this, perfectly anticipating each other's movements.
"Baby you're all that I want, when you're lying here in my arms, I'm finding it hard to believe, we're in heaven," The song continued until it reached it's final beat, when Zel and Lina reached their finishing poses.
Lina burst into laughter and managed to crawl off the ice, with Zelgadis, Gourry and Sylphiel following.
"For god's sake, Lina, how long have you two been working on that for?" Sylphiel asked when Lina began to calm down.
"That's just it, Syl! That was wing skate! We have never actually tried a program together!" Lina said, and then snatched a bottle of water from Zel's hands.
"You're serious?" Gourry asked, completely stunned. Lina nodded as she took a huge gulp of water from the bottle.
"Yeah, weird, eh?" Lina said. Both Sylphiel and Gourry looked at each other and nodded.
"You two have it, all right." Gourry said.
"Have what?" Was chorused from both Lina and Zel.
"You two are a perfect skating match." Sylphiel said, smiling. "I have never seen people work so well together on their first try."
Lina raised and eyebrow, but didn't question. Instead she turned to Zel. "Hey, it's almost noon, you want to go get some lunch?" Zel nodded and sat down next to her.
"May as well," He said as he began to take off his skates. Lina smiled and followed suit.
"Okay, we'll see you two later!" Lina called as she walked out with Zelgadis towards his car.
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Okay, first off, the song is called "Heaven" and it belongs to DJ Sammy. Next off, I'm giving you guys a choice; I can either go straight to the first idea for the next chapter, (Which will happen later either way) Or I can have a cute Side-story with Gourry and Sylphiel. In the original idea, I was going to have a little problem happen for Lina and Zel and then slowly begin to lean towards their relationship. It's your choice, the one with most votes wins!