Chapter Five.

The weekend for the group had passed quickly, and Monday came. The school day passed exceedingly fast, and the group now stood outside under a large tree, beside the sidewalk. They all were basically waiting for the limo... as they had planned to go to Amelia's for the rest of the day. Just to hang out, really, when a girl grabbed Amelia and Lina and pulled them to the side. "HI!"

Lina blinked continuously, not really expecting that, which kind of ticked her off, "Naaani? What the heck was that about? Oi...!"

Amelia sweat dropped, but decided to remain polite. "Hello? Do you need help with something?"

Zelgadis had looked over to the girl who had pulled Lina and Amelia over, an eyebrow rose as he watched them.

Gourry put his hands behind his head, and yawned boredly.

The girl dragged them away some more, giggling stupidly. "Did you hear about the party?! It's on the Far East side of town! It's sooo cooool!" She squealed more, and a dark black van pulled up. Stepping out was Sylphiel and three other cheerleaders. Carefully, they came up, grabbed Zel and Gourry, and, putting clothes that were drenched in chloroform on their noses, then proceeded in dragging the two boys into the van, which drove off once the doors shut.

Lina stared blankly, "What the..." And the twitching began. "HELL?! Did they just--... oh TELL me they didn't do what I just think they did!" Lina emitted a snarl, her head growing quite massive.

Amelia began backing away a little; "We weren't planning on going to a party tonight..." She turned around and blinked when Lina started cursing, "What happened, Lina-san?"

The girl grinned, and ran, as if her life depended on it… Which it really did, "BYE!" She squeaked, and merely continued running. No one else seen what had happened, and if anyone did, they suspected it wasn't that big of a thing.

Lina snorted. "Oh, what, you can't figure it out yourself? Some preps just took those two and dragged them into a mentally scarring social activity! On other words... my dear friend..." Lina sneered sarcastically and placed a hand on her hip, turning her head to face Amelia, "They've been KIDNAPPED! And we can't let them get away with that, can we?" She temporarily neglected the fleeting girl and grabbed Amelia's arm, dragging her towards the road. Lina was a very possessive person, and she didn't necessarily appreciate some preppy cheerleaders practically kidnapping what predominantly belonged to her, "Plus... you're supposed to be an ally of justice. This, my friend, wasn't the way to justice. It's crime!"

Amelia allowed herself to be dragged off, delivering a Justice speech as she was. "You're right Lina-san! We can't just allow those evil hussies to kidnap Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san, then force seem to do something against their will! Not without punishment from the iron fists of Justice!"

There was no sign of the van at all, except for the mark on the road it made. That's when the limo pulled up, and the man jumped out, opening the door, breathlessly. "I-I'm sorry for being late! Your father had me go all over town for him!"

Lina blinked repeatedly and just allowed Amelia to handle the man. After all, it didn't concern her anyway. Lina took the opportunity to begin scanning the area, mainly examining the cars. "Hm..."

Amelia nodded, "It's alright, but we have to hurry! Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san were just kidnapped!" She pointed into the direction she thought the van had headed as she hopped into the limo. "That way!"

The limo driver nodded, and waited for Lina to get in, when he realized what Amelia said. "A kidnapping? Shouldn't we get the police?"

Lina had a certain sly expression as she neared the man, whispering into his ear, "This is a VERY serious case. If we contact the police to find them, who KNOWS what those barbarians may do to them! It's too risky to risk their lives like that, y'know… we can handle it. I... err... know kung fu."

Amelia sweat dropped. Well at least Lina was lying for a good cause. "Right! Hurry, they're getting away!"

The driver nodded, and simply shoved Lina into the car, and shut it behind her. He jumped into the drivers seat and started the way Amelia said. "I'm in a real chase! My dream's come true!" He laughed, going over the speed limit. "What did the vehicle they were driving look like?"

Lina began sweat dropping massively. "Uh… it's... a... b-black... van... yeah." Thankfully, he doesn't drive as chaotically as Luna...

Amelia nodded to what Lina said, since she didn't get a good look at the van herself.

He continued to drive, before he suddenly swerved to the side. "There's a black van!" And so he began to chase. Surprisingly, it WAS the van that had the cheerleaders and the two boys. They had to stop to get some clothes that fit the two. A cheerleader looked out the back window and squeaked. The van began to go faster.

Lina sat on her knees on the seat, leaning forward. "Chase them! CHASE THEM! Show them no mercy, dude-whose-name-I-don't-know-of!"

"They've seen us! Now the cowards are running, because they fear their Just punishment!"

The van went on the other side of the road, and went in front of a semi. Now, the limo couldn't do that, so he got frustrated, and started to honk. "GET OUT OF THE WAY, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE! WE'RE IN A CHASE!" He hollered at the semi truck, which moved onto the next lane. He smirked and started to go at least 80 MPH. The van sped up once again.

Lina yelped a little and pushed herself back into the seat completely, her eyes widening. "O-okay... maybe you're getting a bit over your head..."

"Oh, I hope we don't get a ticket! They'd get even further ahead of us." Amelia murmured aloud.

They went like this for at least six miles, when suddenly... he pulled over to the side, and the limo stopped completely. "Shit..."

Lina blinked continuously as she tilted her head to the side, "Naaani?! Mister, why'd you stop!?"

Amelia thought the driver should adjust his language a little, but she realized this wasn't the time to discuss that. "Is there something wrong with the car?!"

The driver got out of the car. "I have no more gas, I should have put more in but I was all ready late... You two stay there. I have to go get someone to pick us up!" He said, as he quickly scampered off. They were parked beside a fast food place, and a few cars were there, but no one was by them.

Lina gritted her teeth and immediately got out of the limo, placing both hands on her hips. She turned around to face the vehicle, and she promptly kicked it. "Great, just GREAT! We don't have much tiiiime..." She slumped for a moment--until she suddenly brightened up considerably, a wide grin found on her face. "Amelia! We'll do my Master Plan!"

Amelia got out of the car. "We don't have time for someone to pick us up... Who knows what kind of awful things they could do to them by then! ...What plan, Lina-san?"

The cheerleaders pulled up, and opened the back of the van. All of them were giggling about how they got away; while two were making sure Gourry and Zel were dressed correctly. Sylphiel and another came over, and then another person put handcuffs on Gourry, and the other part on Sylphiel. The same was done with another cheerleader and Zel. Then they began to wake them up by patting their faces. "Wake up!"

Zelgadis made a sound as he began to wake up, jerking his head away from the pats.  "Agh, where..." He opened his eyes and blinked sleepily, looking around slowly before his eyes snapped wide open, yelping and trying to scramble away from the girls, however unable to because of the handcuff.

Gourry just laid there, muttering and snoring, rolling onto his side.

Sylphiel tugged on Gourry, while the other girl pulled Zel out of the van. "Hi!" The others snatched their own partners and walked into the party, except for a few who waited.

Zelgadis pulled his hand back after he was pulled out of the van, trying to avoid being dragged.  "Where am I and why am I in these handcuffs?!"

Gourry snored and continued sleeping.

Sylphiel continued to tug, and a few others walked over, and grabbed Gourry, dragging him into the party with Sylphiel. The girl glomped Zel, "I love you! Let's go dance! I'm like... so good at dancing. Like, you know?"

Zelgadis turned pink on the bridge of his nose, blinking quickly at the sudden glomp.  "W-what?!  No!  I-I don't even -KNOW- you!" 

And Zel was merely dragged into the dance. Meanwhile, with Lina and Amelia....

Lina gazed around cautiously as she sneered, and began nearing a random car. "Awe, c'mon Amelia! If we were discrete, no one would know it was us! Besides..." Lina huffed as she twisted back around to face the younger girl, "It's not just to leave friends behind when they're in danger, is it?"

Amelia followed Lina, wringing her hands nervously. "I don't know Lina-san.... Well I suppose it's not unjust if we return the car right? Can you even drive Lina-san?"

Lina attempted to open the door, "Sure I do! I learned plenty from watching Luna drive!" ... And that itself wasn't a good thing.

Amelia looked around cautiously. "Maybe it would be safer just to Ray Wing? Maybe no one will see us..."

Lina actually succeeded in opening the door! Oh, this would be fun. "Too risky." She poked her head in, "Wonder if the keys are left behind..."

Amelia tried opening the other door. "Uhm Lina-san, we're going to return the car, right?"

Surprisingly, the keys were still in the ignition. Along with a purse, seems like the owner had to get out quickly.

Lina nodded quickly as she plopped herself down on the driver's seat. "Of course we are! Don't worry--not like anyone's gonna find out we're hijacking a car." Upon spotting the keys, Lina merely smirked. "Wow, this person must be DUMB... anyway, in Amelia!"

Amelia got in and made sure to put on her seat belt. It was Lina that was driving, who knows what would happen. "Well it's for Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san..."

Lina placed a hand on the steering wheel and quickly started the car, "Of course it is. We can't let our buds down, right?"

"Of course not! ... Lets just hope we don't get arrested in the process of saving them though..."

Lina smiled brightly, "Ahh, we won't. Now, how do you work this thing..." She fiddled around with a few controls and drove back a foot, then forward a little, then back again... and then forward, and then far back; where she accidentally knocked over a random trash can. "Woops..."

Amelia sweat dropped, "Lina-san hurry up! Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san could be out there suffering while we're trying to figure out how to work a stolen car!"

Lina sweat dropped also, continuing to tinker around with a few things until she finally got onto the road. "Right, right! I think I got this!!"

As the two drove off, a certain tall blonde woman walked out. Mrs. Gabriev gazed to where her car had been parked, and blinked. "... Where did my car go? I parked it there. Oh! I could have parked somewhere else!" So the woman began to look around the parking lot.

Amelia pouted, "We took so long, we don't even know which way they went now!"

Lina huffed a little and stepped on the gas firmly. "Damn... well then, we'll just drive around until we spot their van! Amelia, keep a look out. I'll be too busy trying not to make us crash!"

Amelia nodded, looking out the window for the van. "Lina-san do you think there's an actual party tonight or was it just a distraction?

Lina basically began swerving around all sloppily along the road, narrowly missing a few items. "WEEE--eh? Oh. Not sure, could be, could be not. Right now it's our only lead to them!"

On the side of the road, there was a sign: 'Country Club Party! Ends at 3:00 AM! Come and have fun!' The directions were under it.

Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun got slammed into the door whenever Lina swerved. She pointed at the sign, "Look! There's a good start!"

Lina blinked repeatedly, promptly heading towards the sign. "Let's check it out!" Poor Lina forgot to press on the brakes, though.

Amelia went saucer eyed, "Lina-san stop the car, stop the car!"

.... BAM! The poor sign never seen what hit it.

Lina stepped on the brakes when it was too late. "... Woops."

Amelia sighed, "Well what does it say?"

Lina Inverse blinked repeatedly. "I just killed a sign... uh, what were you saying, Amelia?"

"What does the sign say Lina-san? It might be the party they were talking about..."

"It said something about a party... let's go check if they're there!"

Someone ran behind the car, slamming his or her fist onto it. "HEY! THAT SIGN COST US THIRTY DOLLARS!"

Lina emitted a startled squeak, jumping up from her seat. "N-nani...?!"

"L-Lina-san maybe we should go before they find out the car isn't ours?"

"They don't need to find out! And if you keep talking like that, they WILL."

A few other people ran over and banged on the car, kicking it. "Get out so we can teach you a lesson, little witches!" They yelled, and one came up with a metal bar.

"Lina-san they're going to mess up the car! And when the owner finds out they're going to think it was us!"

Lina nodded quickly, gritting her teeth nervously, "A-ah... screw this! I'm getting out of here!" And so, Lina frantically began stepping on the gas again, driving off very quickly, "People are psychos… getting all hostile over some stupid sign..."

And, Lina ran over three guys. Two went under the car, while the other hit the window and over the car.

Amelia winced, "I hope we didn't kill them... Well we're doing all this to save Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san... I wonder, if you do bad things for a good reason does it make it Just?"

Lina twitched a bit. "If they're dead... well, I'm screwed... and… yes, I think. Even if it sounds twisted..."

The guys got up and limped away with the others, after they threw rocks at Lina and Amelia.

"Now what? Do we look for that country club party?"

Lina nodded slowly, going rather twisty on the road once again. "Damned people... MOVE... and yeah."

Amelia sighed loudly, "I wonder what kind of horrible things they've done to Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san by now?!" She blinked, a few times, "I need to stop hanging around Zelgadis-san so much, I'm thinking so negatively!"

Lina grinned slyly. "Not like you don't enjoy being around him though, riiight Amelia?"

The two reached a very dark, foggy, and abandoned road. They then reached a tree, and the car stopped.

Amelia blushed, but avoided the question. "Why did the car stop?"

Lina quirked a brow, "Don't know... maybe the gas ran out?"

The gas was, indeed empty. The radio randomly turned on and played soft songs.

Amelia was a little creped out by the radio. She glanced out the window for people, "Maybe we could Ray Wing now?"

Lina twitched, removing her hands away from the steering wheel. "Maybe..."

The music then suddenly went exceedingly loud.

Amelia covered her ears and wailed, "Lina-san, it's the car's way of getting revenge on us for taking it from its owner!"

Lina kicked the door open and immediately scrambled out of the car, "Or it could be something else... gah!"

And a very cold wind blew when Lina exited.

Amelia W scrambled out herself. "L-Lina-san maybe we should just go..."

Lina began scanning the environment cautiously. "Right..."

The radio suddenly shut itself off. A few movements in the darkness could be seen, and a snapping of a twig could be heard. Besides that, nothing else was there.

Amelia crossed her arms from the cold. She whipped her head around when she heard the twig snap. "Lina-san this is getting really creepy..."

Lina pressed her finger against her lips, narrowing her eyes. "Shh."

And everything went silent. It was exceedingly dark, the clouds hid the moon and stars, and the fog increased. Slowly, it began to sprinkle.

Amelia nodded, doing her best to remain silent. She couldn't help but be scared though. She kept reminding herself that she had her magic, even if she was out of practice.

Lina remained incredibly still with her finger continuing to be pressed against her lips softly. "Hm."

It was still rather quiet, until the sounds repeated themselves, and the radio came back on.

Amelia glanced around stiffly. The atmosphere certainly didn't help anything either. Slowly she found that her hands began shifting into a familiar position for casting a spell.

Lina slowly closed an eye, raising her head up a bit. "You can come out now." She wasn't necessarily certain that someone was actually there though; it was merely a small guess.

The noises stopped, but continued again, and the radio ceased once more. The wind blew, and a few leaves smacked Amelia in the face.

Amelia sweat dropped, and swatted the leaves out of her face.  This meant that her guard was down for the moment.

Lina hissed, grinding her teeth together. "Amelia... let's go."

And a stick was 'thrown' at the back of Lina's head.

Amelia nodded, beginning to follow Lina. She looked behind her suspiciously when the stick was 'thrown' at Lina.

Lina released a diminutive growl and immediately twisted around, her hands instinctively cupped together as an extremely familiar flicker of energy began generating within her grasp. "Fireball!"

There were screams and a few people were thrown onto the ground, charred. Others ran, hollering "A MONSTER!" while a few hid in the surrounding brush.

Amelia squeaked, "Lina-san this is bad! Really bad!"

Lina rapidly fell over in a comical manner. "Daaamniittt! What the heck was that about?! For I moment there, I thought they were something else..." She fumed furiously and jolted back onto her feet. "Amelia--this is our cue to run. And run like hell."

Amelia nodded then preceded to scram, leaving a cloud of dust behind her.

Lina followed Amelia quickly, leaving behind a duplicate of the cloud dust. "Wait for me!"

By the time the two were out of breath, they could see flashing party lights, screams, laughter, hollers, and much, much more a few miles down the street. It was still dark, and there were no lights besides those of the Club.

Amelia bent over with her hands on her knees to catch her breath. She couldn't help but see the party lights. She paused to catch her breath longer, "Lina-san do you think they're there?"

Lina emitted a gargantuan sigh, scratching the back of her head. "Hopefully... or else, I'm going insane.... my feet STING..."

Suddenly, a car went past, almost hitting the two girls. But because it was dark, they couldn't see what type of car it was. And a random owl landed on Amelia's head.

Amelia was about to complain about how rude the drivers were when the owl landed on her head. A large sweat drop formed on her temple as she tried to swat the owl away.

Lina smacked her forehead, her shoulders slumping. "Oh geeze... that owl reminds me of the one that pooped on my bed..."

The owl jumped from Amelia's head to Lina, and began to peck the fiery-headed girl's head, a hoot escaping every once in a while.

Amelia stood up straight, pointing in the direction of the lights. "Well if Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san are there we'll find them!" And she began stomping in that direction.

Lina released a loud yelp and swatted at the owl, scampering after Amelia frantically. "Eek! A little help here...!"

And the owl flew off, after biting Lina's nose. Another car drove by, but it was a rather bright silver one.

Amelia blinked at the car, but since she didn't recognize it as the van she ignored it. "Maybe they can hear us if they're there?" She took in a deep breath and yelled in a voice typically used for making Justice speeches, "Zelgadis-saaaaan, Gourry-saaaaan?"

Lina allowed Amelia to do the yelling--she was too occupied in rubbing her poor, little abused nose. "Itai... stupid... owl..."

Nothing returned Amelia's call, except for more squeals and screams at the party.

"Well... it's pretty loud in there, maybe they didn't hear us and we should go in?"

Lina began storming over towards it, then. "Gee, don'tcha think that'd be a really GOOD idea, Amelia? Stupid owl... hurry up. I'll be tempted to use a Levitation..."

Amelia pouted slightly, but followed her. "I wonder how long it's been since they took them now?"

The closer they got, the louder the music was, the louder the music was, the louder the screams, yells, laughter, etc, etc, were.

Lina huffed. "Awhile. But they better thank us--we've been through hell to find them!"

Amelia's eyes grew wobbly and watery. "Oh Lina-san what if... What if one of those evil hussies got them drunk or something and made them do... stuff!"

Lina began twitching quite insanely. "Then what the heck are we waiting for?! Screw walking, we're RUNNING!" The fiery sorceress snatched Amelia's arm and began to quickly sprint towards the club, leaving the ever-so familiar dust cloud behind.

Amelia tried running herself, but with Lina's grip on her arm she ended up getting dragged in the dust cloud.

By the time the two girls got there, it wasn't as crowded as it had recently been. Upon entering the club, multiple guys began pointing at them, and whistling. "You two the new strippers?" They called out, pointing to their uniforms. Most of them were actually in their mid twenties.

Lina sweat dropped massively as she released Amelia's arm, taking a small step back. "S-strippers!? Of course not! We're too young...!"

Amelia stepped back as well. "No! Lina-san's right, we're too young! Get your mind out of the gutter!" She scooted back a little more and whispered to Lina, "Do you see Zelgadis-san or Gourry-san anywhere?"

One of the men rolled their eyes. "Listen here, missy, we're allowed to think that. You ARE in a club." Another man approached them, blinking. "Ignore them, can I help you? Are you looking for a brother or sister?"

Lina whispered back to Amelia, looking quite uncomfortable. "That'd be a negative..." Quirking a brow, Lina diverted her attention to new individual. "Brother or... sister? No, not really, we're looking for two friends of ours... ehe."

Amelia whispered back, "I don't even think those cheerleaders would bring Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san here..."

The man moved behind the girls, and pushed them forward. "Well, there's a LOT of teens out back." He grabbed their rears. "But it IS getting cold outside...."

Lina instinctively shrieked and twirled around. "SUKEBE! What the heck do you think you're doing touching us like that?!"

Amelia turned around and scooted back. She didn't like flaunting power, even in her past life but in these cases it was necessary. "M-My daddy is the mayor! That's harassment!"

He laughed and patted their heads. "You are babies! Here, I'll show you the way." He then grabbed their arms and lightly pulled them around a few chairs, and then through doors, where the pool and multiple teens were.

Lina began twitching out of sheer irritation, gritting her teeth. "I'd prefer it if you wouldn't touch me..." What the heck did we get ourselves into...?!

Amelia tried to remove her arm from his grasp. "I can walk myself!"

He released them, patted their heads, and walked away. And just at that moment... someone tackled Lina. Someone annoying. Someone that more than one person wishes to kill. Someone... ... who is drunk. "HI!"

Lina fell onto the ground roughly with a small 'oof'. "Itai... what the heck...?"

Amelia sweat dropped, "Maybe we should just leave... I really don't think they're here..."

The individual, who was wearing a black sheet over their head, giggled and hugged Lina. "Hi, hi, hiiii!"

Lina sweat dropped and began shoving the individual off. "Bugger off."

Amelia grabbed Lina's arm, trying to pull her out from under the person. The person bit Amelia's arm, while clinging to Lina with the other. And, someone with blonde hair shoved the individual off Lina, and helped her up, dusting her off. "Are you all right?" There was that fake 'I'm here to save you'-ish thing to his voice.

Lina had multiple sweat drops appear on the back of her head, her eyes reduced to diminutive crimson dots. ".... Nani?"

Amelia yelped and put a hand where she was bit.

The individual wrapped his arm around Lina's, and took her to a lighter area, and when he did so... it turned out to be none other than... Gourry's little brother. "I'm glad you're here." He grinned, still in that same tone. The guy that bit Amelia was curled up around her legs. "I love you, I love you, marry me, marry meeee!"

Lina appeared incredibly disappointed... and basically uninterested. She gave him a small glower, yawning, "Oh… it's you. I'm looking for someone. Don't have any time for you. Therefore, you can bugger--...do you by any chance know where your brother is?"

Amelia sweat dropped, "No! I don't even know you! Besides... I have a boyfriend!" Well she wasn't so sure about that last comment, but it'd probably get the guy to go away.

For a moment, he kept up the smile... and then everything broke, including his heart. His facial expression stayed the same, while his voice turned into a girly squeak. "'It's you'?" He squeaked. "I-I j-just saved y-your life!" He brought himself together, and pulled her close. "How about a smooch? Give me one and I'll tell you!" The man around Amelia stared up at her, well.... up her skirt. "Oooh, pretty."

Lina shoved a hand into his face, "Yuck! You must be kidding me. No, you did not save my life--I could've assisted myself alone, thank you very much. I wouldn't be surprised if you planned that whole thing... now, SHOO. I'll look for your brother by myself then."

Amelia had a rare, for her, vain appear throbbing on her temple.  It took a lot of her will power not to just visfarank the guy. Instead she kicked him rather hard while shouting, "Justice kick!"

The guy rolled away a little and wailed, while Gourry's brother glared at Lina. "He isn't here. And what do you see in him that I don't have?! He's stupid and I'm smart! I have all of his looks, and I'm WAY stronger than him! Mummy says I'll be a lot better than him one day!" He stomped a foot, glowering. "It isn't fair! I wouldn't care if he left and never came back! Then I could have you all to myself." He nodded, and began to 'plot'.

Lina simply stepped on his foot. "Try anything and I'll WRING your neck, is that clear?! Now... leave... me... ALONE. Is that such a difficult concept to comprehend? You tell me, you're supposedly the one with the brains, which I'm actually beginning to highly doubt. And that itself is a very sad and pathetic thing."

Amelia stomped off in Lina's direction. "Lina-san we should look somewhere else. I really don't think they're here."

Wincing, the teen leaned down, and stole a kiss from Lina, and then quickly ran before she could do anything. That's when a cheerleader walked by, not noticing the two girls.

Lina didn't notice them either; she was too busy spitting. "BLECH! I'm gonna get MONO thanks to him!!"

Amelia was still fuming over the drunken guy when she spotted the cheerleader. "Lina-san, look!" She whispered loudly, pointing in the cheerleader's direction.

Lina was whining about feeling as if she was violated... until she took notice of the cheerleader. "Why that little..." Huffing furiously, Lina wiped her mouth for the last time and practically tackled the cheerleader down.

The cheerleader screamed, and struggled. "HELP! I'M BEING ATTACKED!" She wailed, struggling.

Amelia pointed down at the cheerleader. "Just confess to your evil deeds and tell us where Zelgadis-san and Gourry-san are!"

Lina snorted and just pinned the little shank down, "Shaddup. You know something WE want to know, and you BETTER cooperate if you value that head resting on top of your shoulders."

The cheerleader paused in her screaming. "Oh... you mean the blond guy with the awesome tight ass and muscles, and the skinny, but cute reddish brown haired guy?"

Amelia's eyebrow seemed to twitch.  She continued to point at her, "Well, where are they?"

Lina hissed. "Yeah, that's them... just watch how you talk about them… BOTH are taken, mind you!"

She stared. "Certainly not by you two! You could do with a nice makeover, and put your hair up in some braids, and in better clothing, like a cheerleader's outfit! Oh, I know! Let's go to my house and I can give you two make over!"

"That's not the point! You still haven't answered our question! Where are they? If you keep avoiding the question like that it will only make your punishment worse!"

Lina lifted a clenched fist above the cheerleader's face, sneering down at her all scary like. "And trust me, your punishment is already pretty terrible."

She squeaked. "I don't know! The girls gave them something to make them all... drugged up, and then they said the party was too loud! Half of them left to somewhere quieter! I think they went to a park! But I don't know what park!"

Amelia twitched more visibly. "Drugged? Drugged!" She raised her twitching fist into the air, "If you've caused any kind of physical or mental damage to them... The heavens may forgive you but I, Amelia, will not!"

Lina huffed a bit. "Now, look. In this situation, there's no 'I think'. You either know or you don't know. You better choose one, and you better choose one now. You're fortunate I'm actually being PATIENT with you."

She wailed. "I don't know! I wasn't paying attention! I just seen them force them to drink it, and say they were leaving to some park, and then they left! I didn't drug them! It wasn't my idea! Most of the girls were paid to do so by some stupid blonde kid!"

Amelia shifted out of her Justice stance. "Well if they're hurt, don't think that you'll escape punishment. You're an accomplice!"

Lina released a mushroom shaped sigh and eventually released her, getting up. "Great... I can hurt Gourry's brother later. Best thing to do now is go find the park..."

Amelia nodded, "We just have to figure out where the closest park is..."

She wailed, and ran. "I didn't do a THING! I didn't take the money, you bitch!" She called back to Amelia. "YOU two should be punished for harassing someone who was INNOCENT!" She was then hidden by a group of people.

Amelia's fist twitched again as she began exiting the club. "Maybe we can find a map or something?"

Lina fumed. "Or maybe I can blow this nice little place up..."

As the two exited, a certain car pulled up. The tall, red robed priest stepped out, and eyed the two girls, worriedly. He recognized Amelia, but his brown eyes traveled to Lina. "And, you must be Lina Inverse, correct?"

Lina's eyes widened in mild astonishment, but nonetheless, she nodded slowly. Rezo...?

Amelia wondered if she should tell Rezo about Zel and Gourry being kidnapped... He'd probably call the police who aren't exactly what they needed... but they might later. "R-Rezo-san, what are you doing here?"

Rezo emitted a shuddering sigh, "I was called... by your father, Amelia. He said you and your friends didn't come back, and then he got a call from his driver who said he was chasing someone with you two girls... and he mentioned Zelgadis and your friend, Gourry. Once I heard that, I rushed to where he was, and followed the chaos that a hijacking brought. I came across the sign, read it, and came here. I seen the car, and knew you two girls must be here... Is he all right?"

Lina chuckled nervously, scratching her cheek. "Honestly... we just found out that both of them were kidnapped by cheerleaders! Funny how life is, huh? Ehe... ehehe..."

"One of the cheerleaders inside that club said that they took them to some park... And they might be drugged! We were on our way there to rescue them!"

Rezo was calm, and emitted a sigh, lifting a hand to clutch his chest. All this worrying was getting to him, until he heard that Zel might just be drugged. "Oh, good..."

Lina smiled brightly, saluting him. "Don't worry, mister! We got everything right under control! We got this far, and we sure won't stop until we find 'em."

"Uhm.. Rezo-san you wouldn't happen to know where the closet park is would you?"

He nodded. "Get into the car. I'll take you there. But when we get them, I -have- to take you home, Amelia. And I do believe Ms. Inverse was also called, Lina..." He paused, to chuckle. These names, these people, all brought the papers and notes he read about them, which were rather amusing, back to his mind. "Now, let's hurry… It's almost eleven."

Lina paled considerably. "R-right..."

Amelia began to get into the car. She blinked at Lina, "What's wrong?"

Lina shook her head quickly, waving her hands out in front of her frantically. "N-nothing... nothing! Let's just... get in!"

Rezo drove the two girls to the nearest park, and lets them out. "Hurry up." He merely murmured, and the girls quickly ran down the trail, when a sudden giggle could be heard to their right.

Amelia glanced back and forth as she walked down the trail. She stopped when she heard the giggle, "Lina-san did you hear that?"

Lina stopped also; diverting her gaze towards the direction the giggling came from. "Yeah, you bet I did..."

A drunken jock and cheerleader stumbled out of the darkness, almost running into a tree. "Let's go somewhere alooooone!" The cheerleader squealed, and they stumbled off.

Amelia frowned; people in this time were so irresponsible! She looked off in the direction they came from. "Should we look there?"

Lina sweat dropped a little and watched the ones she labeled as morons scamper off, nodding. "Yeah, they said they wanted to be alone. Obviously, where they were previously, they weren't alone."

There was sudden laughter, giggles, squeals, and drunken clanks of beer bottles. "Yeah!" A few jocks hollered, causing a couple of sleeping birds to awaken and fly to a quieter part.

Amelia started walking again.  At first she considered calling there names again to see if they were there. But for some reason she felt like she shouldn't let them know she was there, so she could catch them right in the middle of whatever bad things they were doing!

Lina walked beside Amelia, folding her arms across her chest. "People weren't as moronic as they are now in the past… ohh, how sad humanity has become…"

The two girls reached an opening where all the jocks and cheerleaders were drinking, yelling, or making out. Sylphiel was curled up on Gourry's lap, nuzzling her face into his chest, although her cheeks were engulfed in a larger bright tone. A cheerleader nudged her, handing her another cup, but she didn't accept. "Nooo... I wan' sleep..." She murmured, as the other girl on Zel was drinking rapidly, and pouring some all over his head. Both boys were drugged, unable to move, so they weren't handcuffed, surprisingly.

Amelia stopped once she reached the opening. After she had a good look at what was going on, she lowered her head a little so that her eyes were over shadowed by her bangs. Her fists twitched at her sides until she finally pointed at one of the cheerleaders and shouted, "Stop right there!"

Lina wasn't paying any particular attention to them, predominantly just Sylphiel and Gourry. Her face went blank, and rather pale... and she slowly began to twitch. Not only did witnessing how Sylphiel was positioned on him make her absolutely infuriated; the fact that Sylphiel would actually have the nerve to participate in such an immature act basically set her off also. "Damn straight, you better as HELL stop it right there and right NOW!"

Sylphiel, whom was utterly drunk because of her friends, didn't notice. She merely clung to Gourry and giggled childishly in her drunken state. The others, as they were all also drunk, ignored also. "Look! It's an elephant!" One yelled as they pointed at Lina. "Well, that looks like a.... a.... balloon!" Another said, directed at Amelia. Everyone began to laugh hysterically.

Amelia's fists began twitching once again. "Didn't you hear me!? I said stop right now! You've probably broken several laws, with kidnapping to top it off! If you don't want me to tell the mayor you better stop it RIGHT NOW!" Strangely, she left out the part that the mayor was her dad.

Lina 'politely' saluted them with the ever-so warming and welcoming middle finger as she stomped towards Sylphiel and Gourry's direction, cracking her fingers. "Amelia, let's get these two out so I can blow them all up sooner!"

Gourry's head was tilted to the side… some drool running down his chin, and he muttered a little, rather dazed.

Zelgadis had his eyes shut tightly from the drinks being poured on him, a small twitch emitting from his body from now and then.  He had opened his eyes slightly when hearing Amelia and Lina, the corner of his mouth twitching; they're going to get it now...

Sylphiel seemed to clutch Gourry's shirt tighter, hiccupping. A few of the cheerleaders blinked at Amelia. "Kidnapping? We kidnapped?" The entire group was so drunk that they couldn't even remember that morning. "We were told to party!" She pointed at some of the drinks. "Someone gave them to us and talked to a few other girls." The girl on Zel continued to pour, before shoving a bottle into his mouth. "DRINK!"

Amelia blinked at Lina when she mentioned blowing them up. She thought about it and realized that the people were so drunk they probably wouldn't even remember if they did blow them up, and if they did remember they would probably think it was a drunken dream. She didn't seem to hear what the cheerleaders had said. She just stomped over to where Zel was and tried shoving the cheerleading that was sitting on him, none too gently.

Lina grasped a handful of Sylphiel's pretty little tendrils and began yanking on it a bit too violently; this was going to be her way to forcefully remove her off him. "And here I thought you'd make a good nun!"

Sylphiel emitted a shriek, and was yanked off Gourry's lap. "Eeek!" The other cheerleader jumped up and smacked at Amelia with the beer bottle. "He's mine! I claimed him!" She pointed to Zel's open shirt, which had permanent marker and a heart. Inside the heart was the cheerleader's name and Zel's, with forever written under.

The beer bottle luckily didn't hit Amelia, because the cheerleader was so drunk that her aim was pretty off. She was pissed off nonetheless. By this point she was basically acting on instinct. She lunged at the girl and shouted, "Visfarank!" as she tried to punch her in the jaw.

Lina huffed furiously and released Sylphiel's hair after she succeeded in yanking her off his lap. She crouched down a little besides him and grabbed his arm, coiling it around her neck while her free arm was wrapped around his waist, "I should make him pay me for saving him..."

By this time, more of the drugs kicked in, and both boys fell into a nice little sleep. The cheerleader hit the ground after getting punched in the jaw, and crawled away. By this time, Rezo came limping into view, as all the cheerleaders and jocks scattered with their beer. He approached Zel and gazed down at him. "... At least they didn't hold him for ransom."

Amelia seemed to have calmed down now that she had gotten the rage out of her system by punching that cheerleader.  She kneeled next to Zel and glared at the markings on his chest for a moment before commenting. "I hope they don't get sick..."

Lina lifted herself up and brought him up with her, emitting a small grunt. Gourry wasn't necessarily the lightest person, and considering the fact that he was several inches taller than her didn't really help, "Hopefully not. And this better not happen again... this day sucked a bit TOO badly..."

Rezo kneeled as well, and picked Zel up like Lina did to Gourry, yet he had it rather easier. "Amelia, help Lina. I've got him." Then the towering man headed off with his grandson, slowly though so he wouldn't leave them behind, and he was rather old. "Come now."

Amelia nodded, then went over to help Lina by carrying Gourry's feet. "I guess the hang over they'll have tomorrow will be punishment enough..."

Lina began following Rezo, emitting an exasperated sigh. "Heck, not enough. What those girls did ticks me off, and if I see them again I'll..." The rest of her sentence came out as a mere murmur, basically since she didn't want Rezo hearing about how'd she inflict massive injury and damage to those girls with a rather catastrophic spell.

When they reached the car, Rezo opened the back door, and shoved Zel over onto the side. "Fill in beside him. I can only fit three behind, and one in front... So you two can pick."

Amelia frowned slightly. Not that those girls didn't deserve whatever Lina was planning to do to them, but things were different in this time.  You could probably go to jail just for injuring someone even if they deserved it. She was snapped out of her thoughts as Rezo spoke. "Lina-san do you want to sit in the back or the front?"

Lina shoved Gourry gently inside, gazing briefly at Amelia. "I'll sit in the back, you can have the front. That alright with you?"

Amelia nodded as she moved to the other side of the car to open the front door. If she turned around in her seat she could still see Zel because he would end up sitting behind her. "Should we take them both to Rezo-san's house and call Gourry-san's mother?"

Rezo shook his head, getting in. "No, you're going home first. I promised your father once I found you, I'd take you straight home. After that, I think it's best that Lina goes home too. I'll take the two boys back to my place. That's where his mother is waiting." Rezo then started the car, and waited for Lina.

Lina moved inside the car and shut the car door, her face losing its natural color a little. "R-right..." She gulped nervously, scratching her cheek. She was going to be in biiig trouble from coming home late, most likely.

"What's wrong Lina-san? You seem nervous. You should be glad, we got our revenge on those evil hussies... sort of!"

And so they drove off. Rezo stopped at the large mansion where everyone and their uncle were waiting for Amelia. Phil bounded over, snatched Amelia into a tight hug, and brought her quickly into the house, after allowing her time to say goodbye to Rezo and Lina. He then drove silently away, and ten minutes passed before they reached Lina's house. The living room light was the only thing on, and the silhouette of the evil sibling was in the doorway, waiting.

Lina immediately flinched and released a small whimper, gazing back towards Rezo. "Uhm… thanks for the drive back home...!" She opened the car door and hesitantly came out, gazing over her shoulder to take a quick glance at Gourry. I'm... so dead. She shut the door and began to slowly walk towards Luna, a small droplet of sweat trickling down her cheek. "Eh..."

Luna waited for Lina to enter, and shut the door behind her. When doing so, the light turned off... and the chaos began. Rezo stared, and chuckled as he listened to the crashing of multiple objects and screams. He gazed behind him at the two boys, before starting the car and headed to the shrine.

~ A/N: Well, I didn't get as many reviews as I wanted, but that's okay! And as a quick note, Chapter Six will be Amelia's and Zelgadis' first date, so no real LG in that chapter. ~