Chapter 2
Dis.: I don't own SLAYERS. Waaaaahhhhhh. :'(
Zelgadis sat in his room, shaking his head. Yesterday had been an...interesting day, but he was sure that today would be even more unusual. Lina with a protégé! Imagine! And the boy was already so good at magic, what could he possibly want from Lina? And, what's more, unlike how she was with all of her other traveling companions, Lina was relaxed with him and took everything he said into consideration. As if...as if she considered him her equal when he was supposed to be her student. It just didn't make any sense. And what was all that talk about levels and why had they been fighting until the group had come running up. In fact...the boy had seemed positively shocked about something that Lina had told him. Well, there was one good thing in all of this. Amelia had left him alone and was now dangling after Kevin. Poor kid. Zelgadis knew exactly how he felt, but for some reason he could only admire the boy. Kevin was completely at peace with the princess staring at him. Well...maybe not at peace, but he didn't seem to mind anywhere near as much as Zelgadis would.
Zel had also learned from watching that brief interval of fighting that Kevin was already stronger than he himself, even though Zel had been sparring with Lina every day for the times he traveled with her. She always beat him, and fairly easily too. So he had been working at night, when she didn't know it, and now he was improving even faster than before.
Zelgadis gave up on his puzzling, saving it for the road, and went down the stairs to get something to eat. He met Kevin on the way down.
"Hello, Mr. Zelgadis." Kevin started cheerfully.
"What is your full name and where did you come from? From what I can see you're already as good as Lina, but you're her student. What do you want from her?" Zelgadis, naturally suspicious, broke into Kevin's greeting, and regarded him with narrowed eyes.
Kevin started chuckling, and said quietly, "My, Lina-sama was right about you. Suspicious and distrustful of all people you don't know at all times." Louder he answered, ignoring the first question, "I come from Zephilia, the wine country. And, no, I am in no way, shape, or form anywhere as good as Lina-sama. She is far above my level. In fact, if what she said is true, she is sixteen levels above me. She is going to teach me whatever I can learn."
"What do you mean, 'far above your level?'" Zel asked, hoping to get some information on the level business.
Ignoring the second meaning behind the question, Kevin innocently answered, "She was holding back yesterday, couldn't you tell?"
Startled from his original question, Zelgadis inquired, "Holding back? She didn't look like it..." he trailed off, remembering the easy fighting and moves she had been doing the previous day. "Well," He admitted, "I suppose she could have been. But why would she?"
"Isn't it obvious? She wouldn't want to kill me, now would she?" He paused then corrected himself, "At least, she wouldn't want to kill me on purpose."
Zelgadis looked relieved and slightly amused. "Well, of course not on purpose. She's not like that. Usually. She doesn't usually maim people she likes."
"Likes?" Kevin repeated. "I suppose she likes me, yes. The thought never really entered my head." he hesitated, and then went on, "You know, Mr. Zelgadis, there's more to you than first meets the eye."
"The same goes for you, Kevin." Zelgadis decided that he liked the boy. "I apologize for being overly inquisitive, but I've had enough encounters when traveling with Lina to know that whenever we pick up someone new that there's usually something special about them. I just haven't figured out what it is about you that's special yet."
"Other than my power?" Kevin retorted.
"Other than your power."
"Well, I'm glad that I'm not overly predictable." He smirked. "But there is much about that you do not know, and probably will never know." He hurried on before Zelgadis said anything else. "But you don't have to worry. It shouldn't endanger the group any more than it automatically is."
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. I bet you never get into near as many fights as you do when you travel with Lina-sama, do you, Mr. Zelgadis?"
"Please call me Zelgadis, and you're right about the fights." Zel smiled.
"Oh yeah, this has been bugging me, what happened to you?" Zelgadis blinked and looked puzzled for a moment, before comprehension dawned.
"You mean my appearance? My grandfather, Rezo, turned me into a chimera to help further his research." He gave a depreciative sigh. "I've been trying to fix my body for years."
"I'll make sure to keep an eye out for anything that might be useful to your search for a cure, Mr. Zelgadis." Kevin smiled a smile that said he knew secrets, but wasn't about to divulge them. The conversation ended when Lina came out of her door, yawning. "Hey Lina-sama, it's time for breakfast." She dashed out the door, red hair flying.
"How did you know that would get her up?" Zelgadis asked him. "And why did you do it, don't you want to get breakfast?"
"Is it that bad?" Zelgadis nodded and Kevin said, "Guess it's good I already had breakfast, huh? Besides, she needs to be up." Zelgadis raised an eyebrow. "I'd be ready if I were you, Mr. Zelgadis. You never know what's going to happen." Kevin gave a mysterious smile and walked off, waving. Zelgadis gave his head a shake and followed Kevin down the hall.
Lina scarfed down all of the food at the table and gave a content sigh. Glancing around the tavern she took note of her surroundings. She sat alone, under a low roof held by beams, and a wooden floor. Tables interspersed at regular intervals each with a lantern in the middle. Everything was clean, spotless even, if you looked close enough. In fact, it was, Lina paused in her thoughts, it was too clean. She shook her head, confident that it was too soon for an enemy to show up. Lina paused and shook her head again, a smug smile slipping over her tired face when Kevin came down the steps. His eyebrows rose when he saw she was the only person in the room, but then he looked slightly relieved.
He walked up to the table and sat next to her, contemplating what he would say next. Not wanting the wrong ears to hear what he was about to say, Kevin double- then triple-checked that no one was in the room, then went on to say quietly, "Li-chan, I've got to talk to you. It has to be as soon as possible and it has to be alone. There's something I need to tell you and you can be the only one who hears. You can decide later if you want to tell the group, but right now only you can know. And we have to be totally and completely alone. Okay?" He looked at her with worry in his eyes and the laughing expression on her face melted into a concerned one.
"Why?" she asked him, confused. "Is something wrong?"
"Not yet, but we might be soon." He gave a mysterious smile. "Okay, we will be in trouble soon, an-"he broke off when Zelgadis came through the stair door, and said smoothly, as if he was never talking about anything else, "I know about fire spells like flare arrow, which I'm best at, and fireball, which I'm not too good at," he looked sheepish, "and I'm okay at ice spell like demona crystal and freeze arrow. Again, I'm much better at the arrow."
"Well, we'll fix the problem with the crystal one and the fireball, which I'm a master at, mind you," Lina told him, switching subjects like a pro. "But freeze arrows are not my favorites."
"I can help with the arrows," Zelgadis put in, "but not much else. Only swordplay, and Gourry's better than me at that."
"Gee, Kevin, it looks like you'll be put through a regular training camp. What with me doing most magic and Zel doing the rest, Gourry doing the swordplay, Sylphiel healing you, and Amelia teaching you all about justice, I'm sure, you'll not have a second to yourself." Lina smirked as though she looked forward to putting him through one of her personal training sessions.
"A regular training camp, Lina-sama? I think not, but that is not my place to decide. When do lessons start?" Kevin asked with trepidation.
"Why, your lessons with me start tonight of course. And don't try to talk me out of it," she went on, when he would have tried to do just that, "I need all the time I can get out of you." She smirked. "By the way, I meant to ask you earlier but I forgot. Do you have a sword?" He shook his head in a negative and looked sheepish.
"All I needed was my magic and nothing else when I went traveling, after I left my home and family."
"That means I'll need to buy you a sword too, no don't argue, you're my student and a very promising one at that. It's my job to provide you with such things. You do have the correct traveling clothes, right?" Stunned at the compliment that Lina gave him, a rare thing indeed, all he could do was nod, then shake his head and point at his boots. Lina's eyebrow rose at it speechlessness, something rare when it came to the Inverse clan, and looked closely at his boots. At first glance they were in perfectly good condition, but after closer inspection one could see little holes and tears in the finely worked leather. She vented a small sigh and handed him several gold coins. "Get yourself some new boots. One's that are strong and sturdy."
Zelgadis started. "You just gave him money!" he said incredulously, "That is something I never thought I'd see. Lina Inverse just gave away money. Gave it away with nothing personal to gain. If I didn't know better I'd say that you were taken over or that someone replaced you." He continued to stare at her as if she had grown an extra head and horns.
"It's really not that unusual you know, I simply have to be in a giving mood, I have to have lots of money at the time, and I have to ca-" Lina broke off, glad for the interruption, when Gourry walked in the room. A few more seconds and she would have said care! The thought made her shudder. "Not a word of this to anyone, understand?" she said instead. "It would ruin my image." Sylphiel followed Gourry off the steps and ordered some breakfast. Kevin smiled and waved at Lina. He walked out of the INN/Tavern and out into the streets, looking for a leather worker stand. Lina rolled her eyes at the world at large and informed everyone she was going to go to her room, and search through her cape.
"Why?" Gourry asked, oblivious.
"To make sure I have all of the provisions necessary for our journey, you dolt!" Lina retorted. "Why else?" Lina didn't wait for an answer and left for her room. Zelgadis sat back in his seat across from Gourry and smiled, ordering some coffee from the waitress that suddenly appeared.
Lina shed her cape onto the bed with a sigh of relief. She'd forgotten how heavy it could get when she hadn't spent anything recently. Presently it estimated about sixty pounds and it was getting harder and harder to run. Generosity wasn't the only reason for her kindness to Kevin.
Pulling out vials and coins, she racked up the price on them, giving a disgusted snort when it accounted to practically nothing useful. She could give them to Kevin, if worse came to worse. She pulled out jewels next giving them a quick look-over and estimating their price to be even lower than the vials, when it came to the experienced eye. Her scrutiny came over to the last pile from her cape. It was a pile made up of various odds and ends she collected from her travels. Hmmm. Amelia and Xellos's birthdays were coming up; maybe she could dump some of the pieces on them.
Lina frowned slightly when her gaze rested on a book she had picked up from a bookseller in Tamat, a small town about eighty miles from where she was now. The books title was 'How To Calm The Evil Beast.' And she had gotten it only because it looked interesting. After reading some of it, however, it turned out not to be interesting, but incredibly boring. And also incredibly heavy. Probably about ¼ of the weight in her cape was because of the book. It wasn't some super strong spell, as she'd first imagined it. The book was about how justice could convince any and every living creature that evil was not the way to go. In fact, it wasn't until she'd read the author that it made any sense why or how any person would or could make such a book. Crown Prince Philleonel De Seiroon wrote it. It would be the perfect gift for Amelia.
The other gift, the one for Xellos, was something called a whoopee cushion. She didn't know what it was, but she did know he would love it. (Can you imagine?!?!?!?! XELLOS would just adore being in our world. All the pranks he could pull...) After taking these two items out and wrapping them, Lina took the rest of her treasure and went to visit a shop. Pausing before she went in, Lina considered her loot, grinning while she did so. Walking off to a hidden piece of a park, Lina signaled her brother, trying out his new shoes, and put an idea past him. He grinned the devil-may-care grin that was shared by the Inverse family and nodded enthusiastically. Two hours later Lina unobtrusively left the INN and headed towards the park. Thirty minutes after that, Kevin joined her. "Did you need something Li-chan?"
"You know I did and do. This spell needs two people to cast it and you're the only person I can turn to for this." He nodded and sat down, cross- legged. "I'd go to Zel, but this is an original spell and I need somebody who's familiar with Inverse spells to help out. And it's a surprise." He nodded again.
"What kind of spell is it? Before, you only said that you had something new that you wanted to try out. What does it do?"
"It should... well, I can't rally explain it, but these amulets here," She pointed to a small pile, "don't have any magic in them yet, so they'll be perfect. The spell should put a one-time use super strong barrier spell in each of them. The problem is, I don't specialize in barriers. The only person in the group who does is Sylphiel and one of these is for her." Lina picked up a thin gold necklace, with an emerald as it's only adornment. "So, I needed your help. Yes, unusual, I know. Lina Inverse asking her little brother for help. Heck, most people don't even know I have a little brother, not even my friends."
"This should be easy." Kevin commented, taking the necklace from Lina. "I know of a spell that would work. You don't have to come up with a new one."
"No, this one is special. It calls on protection from L-sama, so it will protect against any spell, except for another nightmare spell, stronger than it. And what also makes this spell special is that only the person I give it to will be able to unlock the barrier. So only Sylphiel will be able to use the barrier in the emerald."
Kevin smile, "Complex, Li-chan, you must rally like friends to go through this much trouble." Lina blushed and refuted it.
"It's not that. I know that one day soon I will not be with them to protect them, and they have to have something that will remind them of me. I don't want to be forgotten." She smiled when she said the last part.
"Li-chan, I don't think any of them are ever going to forget you." He smiled back. "All right, so is there anything else I need to know? No? Okay then."
"Wait! There is one thing. There's another reason why two people have to cast it. You supply the casting, and I supply the power. I'll be drained for a while, but I would have been anyway." Lina blushed and started sorting out the amulets.
"That time of the month soon?" he grinned when she nodded and helped her out.
"This one," Lina pointed at a cerulean blue stone, "is for Zel. This one," she pointed to an amethyst, "is for Xellos, you haven't met him yet." Pointing at the emerald and a yellow quartz, Lina said, "those two are for Syl and Gourry, and for Amelia," she picked up a rose quartz, "gets this one." She looked at an extra one and smiled. Lina poked at a matching amethyst to the one for Xellos. "This last one goes to Filia, it's not rally her color, but I think she'll like it anyway."
"You have everything planned out, don't you Li-chan." He smiled wryly.
"Yeah, it's what you end up doing when you're stuck in an INN and have nothing to do but torment your friends. Let's get started."
The two siblings worked together for nearly four hours and had just finished the last stone, packed everything up, and headed back. It was dark and Kevin didn't notice until they reached a lamp. "Lina!"
"What, Kevin?" she asked, exhausted.
"Your hair! It's white!" Kevin stared at it and then at her face in wonder.
Lina grinned at him and kept walking forward. "I just cast six spells using the power of L-sama and you expect me to be completely normal? I used to get this way after only using the Giga Slave ONCE."
He gave his head a good shake and followed her into the INN.
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Dis.: I don't own SLAYERS. Waaaaahhhhhh. :'(
Zelgadis sat in his room, shaking his head. Yesterday had been an...interesting day, but he was sure that today would be even more unusual. Lina with a protégé! Imagine! And the boy was already so good at magic, what could he possibly want from Lina? And, what's more, unlike how she was with all of her other traveling companions, Lina was relaxed with him and took everything he said into consideration. As if...as if she considered him her equal when he was supposed to be her student. It just didn't make any sense. And what was all that talk about levels and why had they been fighting until the group had come running up. In fact...the boy had seemed positively shocked about something that Lina had told him. Well, there was one good thing in all of this. Amelia had left him alone and was now dangling after Kevin. Poor kid. Zelgadis knew exactly how he felt, but for some reason he could only admire the boy. Kevin was completely at peace with the princess staring at him. Well...maybe not at peace, but he didn't seem to mind anywhere near as much as Zelgadis would.
Zel had also learned from watching that brief interval of fighting that Kevin was already stronger than he himself, even though Zel had been sparring with Lina every day for the times he traveled with her. She always beat him, and fairly easily too. So he had been working at night, when she didn't know it, and now he was improving even faster than before.
Zelgadis gave up on his puzzling, saving it for the road, and went down the stairs to get something to eat. He met Kevin on the way down.
"Hello, Mr. Zelgadis." Kevin started cheerfully.
"What is your full name and where did you come from? From what I can see you're already as good as Lina, but you're her student. What do you want from her?" Zelgadis, naturally suspicious, broke into Kevin's greeting, and regarded him with narrowed eyes.
Kevin started chuckling, and said quietly, "My, Lina-sama was right about you. Suspicious and distrustful of all people you don't know at all times." Louder he answered, ignoring the first question, "I come from Zephilia, the wine country. And, no, I am in no way, shape, or form anywhere as good as Lina-sama. She is far above my level. In fact, if what she said is true, she is sixteen levels above me. She is going to teach me whatever I can learn."
"What do you mean, 'far above your level?'" Zel asked, hoping to get some information on the level business.
Ignoring the second meaning behind the question, Kevin innocently answered, "She was holding back yesterday, couldn't you tell?"
Startled from his original question, Zelgadis inquired, "Holding back? She didn't look like it..." he trailed off, remembering the easy fighting and moves she had been doing the previous day. "Well," He admitted, "I suppose she could have been. But why would she?"
"Isn't it obvious? She wouldn't want to kill me, now would she?" He paused then corrected himself, "At least, she wouldn't want to kill me on purpose."
Zelgadis looked relieved and slightly amused. "Well, of course not on purpose. She's not like that. Usually. She doesn't usually maim people she likes."
"Likes?" Kevin repeated. "I suppose she likes me, yes. The thought never really entered my head." he hesitated, and then went on, "You know, Mr. Zelgadis, there's more to you than first meets the eye."
"The same goes for you, Kevin." Zelgadis decided that he liked the boy. "I apologize for being overly inquisitive, but I've had enough encounters when traveling with Lina to know that whenever we pick up someone new that there's usually something special about them. I just haven't figured out what it is about you that's special yet."
"Other than my power?" Kevin retorted.
"Other than your power."
"Well, I'm glad that I'm not overly predictable." He smirked. "But there is much about that you do not know, and probably will never know." He hurried on before Zelgadis said anything else. "But you don't have to worry. It shouldn't endanger the group any more than it automatically is."
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. I bet you never get into near as many fights as you do when you travel with Lina-sama, do you, Mr. Zelgadis?"
"Please call me Zelgadis, and you're right about the fights." Zel smiled.
"Oh yeah, this has been bugging me, what happened to you?" Zelgadis blinked and looked puzzled for a moment, before comprehension dawned.
"You mean my appearance? My grandfather, Rezo, turned me into a chimera to help further his research." He gave a depreciative sigh. "I've been trying to fix my body for years."
"I'll make sure to keep an eye out for anything that might be useful to your search for a cure, Mr. Zelgadis." Kevin smiled a smile that said he knew secrets, but wasn't about to divulge them. The conversation ended when Lina came out of her door, yawning. "Hey Lina-sama, it's time for breakfast." She dashed out the door, red hair flying.
"How did you know that would get her up?" Zelgadis asked him. "And why did you do it, don't you want to get breakfast?"
"Is it that bad?" Zelgadis nodded and Kevin said, "Guess it's good I already had breakfast, huh? Besides, she needs to be up." Zelgadis raised an eyebrow. "I'd be ready if I were you, Mr. Zelgadis. You never know what's going to happen." Kevin gave a mysterious smile and walked off, waving. Zelgadis gave his head a shake and followed Kevin down the hall.
Lina scarfed down all of the food at the table and gave a content sigh. Glancing around the tavern she took note of her surroundings. She sat alone, under a low roof held by beams, and a wooden floor. Tables interspersed at regular intervals each with a lantern in the middle. Everything was clean, spotless even, if you looked close enough. In fact, it was, Lina paused in her thoughts, it was too clean. She shook her head, confident that it was too soon for an enemy to show up. Lina paused and shook her head again, a smug smile slipping over her tired face when Kevin came down the steps. His eyebrows rose when he saw she was the only person in the room, but then he looked slightly relieved.
He walked up to the table and sat next to her, contemplating what he would say next. Not wanting the wrong ears to hear what he was about to say, Kevin double- then triple-checked that no one was in the room, then went on to say quietly, "Li-chan, I've got to talk to you. It has to be as soon as possible and it has to be alone. There's something I need to tell you and you can be the only one who hears. You can decide later if you want to tell the group, but right now only you can know. And we have to be totally and completely alone. Okay?" He looked at her with worry in his eyes and the laughing expression on her face melted into a concerned one.
"Why?" she asked him, confused. "Is something wrong?"
"Not yet, but we might be soon." He gave a mysterious smile. "Okay, we will be in trouble soon, an-"he broke off when Zelgadis came through the stair door, and said smoothly, as if he was never talking about anything else, "I know about fire spells like flare arrow, which I'm best at, and fireball, which I'm not too good at," he looked sheepish, "and I'm okay at ice spell like demona crystal and freeze arrow. Again, I'm much better at the arrow."
"Well, we'll fix the problem with the crystal one and the fireball, which I'm a master at, mind you," Lina told him, switching subjects like a pro. "But freeze arrows are not my favorites."
"I can help with the arrows," Zelgadis put in, "but not much else. Only swordplay, and Gourry's better than me at that."
"Gee, Kevin, it looks like you'll be put through a regular training camp. What with me doing most magic and Zel doing the rest, Gourry doing the swordplay, Sylphiel healing you, and Amelia teaching you all about justice, I'm sure, you'll not have a second to yourself." Lina smirked as though she looked forward to putting him through one of her personal training sessions.
"A regular training camp, Lina-sama? I think not, but that is not my place to decide. When do lessons start?" Kevin asked with trepidation.
"Why, your lessons with me start tonight of course. And don't try to talk me out of it," she went on, when he would have tried to do just that, "I need all the time I can get out of you." She smirked. "By the way, I meant to ask you earlier but I forgot. Do you have a sword?" He shook his head in a negative and looked sheepish.
"All I needed was my magic and nothing else when I went traveling, after I left my home and family."
"That means I'll need to buy you a sword too, no don't argue, you're my student and a very promising one at that. It's my job to provide you with such things. You do have the correct traveling clothes, right?" Stunned at the compliment that Lina gave him, a rare thing indeed, all he could do was nod, then shake his head and point at his boots. Lina's eyebrow rose at it speechlessness, something rare when it came to the Inverse clan, and looked closely at his boots. At first glance they were in perfectly good condition, but after closer inspection one could see little holes and tears in the finely worked leather. She vented a small sigh and handed him several gold coins. "Get yourself some new boots. One's that are strong and sturdy."
Zelgadis started. "You just gave him money!" he said incredulously, "That is something I never thought I'd see. Lina Inverse just gave away money. Gave it away with nothing personal to gain. If I didn't know better I'd say that you were taken over or that someone replaced you." He continued to stare at her as if she had grown an extra head and horns.
"It's really not that unusual you know, I simply have to be in a giving mood, I have to have lots of money at the time, and I have to ca-" Lina broke off, glad for the interruption, when Gourry walked in the room. A few more seconds and she would have said care! The thought made her shudder. "Not a word of this to anyone, understand?" she said instead. "It would ruin my image." Sylphiel followed Gourry off the steps and ordered some breakfast. Kevin smiled and waved at Lina. He walked out of the INN/Tavern and out into the streets, looking for a leather worker stand. Lina rolled her eyes at the world at large and informed everyone she was going to go to her room, and search through her cape.
"Why?" Gourry asked, oblivious.
"To make sure I have all of the provisions necessary for our journey, you dolt!" Lina retorted. "Why else?" Lina didn't wait for an answer and left for her room. Zelgadis sat back in his seat across from Gourry and smiled, ordering some coffee from the waitress that suddenly appeared.
Lina shed her cape onto the bed with a sigh of relief. She'd forgotten how heavy it could get when she hadn't spent anything recently. Presently it estimated about sixty pounds and it was getting harder and harder to run. Generosity wasn't the only reason for her kindness to Kevin.
Pulling out vials and coins, she racked up the price on them, giving a disgusted snort when it accounted to practically nothing useful. She could give them to Kevin, if worse came to worse. She pulled out jewels next giving them a quick look-over and estimating their price to be even lower than the vials, when it came to the experienced eye. Her scrutiny came over to the last pile from her cape. It was a pile made up of various odds and ends she collected from her travels. Hmmm. Amelia and Xellos's birthdays were coming up; maybe she could dump some of the pieces on them.
Lina frowned slightly when her gaze rested on a book she had picked up from a bookseller in Tamat, a small town about eighty miles from where she was now. The books title was 'How To Calm The Evil Beast.' And she had gotten it only because it looked interesting. After reading some of it, however, it turned out not to be interesting, but incredibly boring. And also incredibly heavy. Probably about ¼ of the weight in her cape was because of the book. It wasn't some super strong spell, as she'd first imagined it. The book was about how justice could convince any and every living creature that evil was not the way to go. In fact, it wasn't until she'd read the author that it made any sense why or how any person would or could make such a book. Crown Prince Philleonel De Seiroon wrote it. It would be the perfect gift for Amelia.
The other gift, the one for Xellos, was something called a whoopee cushion. She didn't know what it was, but she did know he would love it. (Can you imagine?!?!?!?! XELLOS would just adore being in our world. All the pranks he could pull...) After taking these two items out and wrapping them, Lina took the rest of her treasure and went to visit a shop. Pausing before she went in, Lina considered her loot, grinning while she did so. Walking off to a hidden piece of a park, Lina signaled her brother, trying out his new shoes, and put an idea past him. He grinned the devil-may-care grin that was shared by the Inverse family and nodded enthusiastically. Two hours later Lina unobtrusively left the INN and headed towards the park. Thirty minutes after that, Kevin joined her. "Did you need something Li-chan?"
"You know I did and do. This spell needs two people to cast it and you're the only person I can turn to for this." He nodded and sat down, cross- legged. "I'd go to Zel, but this is an original spell and I need somebody who's familiar with Inverse spells to help out. And it's a surprise." He nodded again.
"What kind of spell is it? Before, you only said that you had something new that you wanted to try out. What does it do?"
"It should... well, I can't rally explain it, but these amulets here," She pointed to a small pile, "don't have any magic in them yet, so they'll be perfect. The spell should put a one-time use super strong barrier spell in each of them. The problem is, I don't specialize in barriers. The only person in the group who does is Sylphiel and one of these is for her." Lina picked up a thin gold necklace, with an emerald as it's only adornment. "So, I needed your help. Yes, unusual, I know. Lina Inverse asking her little brother for help. Heck, most people don't even know I have a little brother, not even my friends."
"This should be easy." Kevin commented, taking the necklace from Lina. "I know of a spell that would work. You don't have to come up with a new one."
"No, this one is special. It calls on protection from L-sama, so it will protect against any spell, except for another nightmare spell, stronger than it. And what also makes this spell special is that only the person I give it to will be able to unlock the barrier. So only Sylphiel will be able to use the barrier in the emerald."
Kevin smile, "Complex, Li-chan, you must rally like friends to go through this much trouble." Lina blushed and refuted it.
"It's not that. I know that one day soon I will not be with them to protect them, and they have to have something that will remind them of me. I don't want to be forgotten." She smiled when she said the last part.
"Li-chan, I don't think any of them are ever going to forget you." He smiled back. "All right, so is there anything else I need to know? No? Okay then."
"Wait! There is one thing. There's another reason why two people have to cast it. You supply the casting, and I supply the power. I'll be drained for a while, but I would have been anyway." Lina blushed and started sorting out the amulets.
"That time of the month soon?" he grinned when she nodded and helped her out.
"This one," Lina pointed at a cerulean blue stone, "is for Zel. This one," she pointed to an amethyst, "is for Xellos, you haven't met him yet." Pointing at the emerald and a yellow quartz, Lina said, "those two are for Syl and Gourry, and for Amelia," she picked up a rose quartz, "gets this one." She looked at an extra one and smiled. Lina poked at a matching amethyst to the one for Xellos. "This last one goes to Filia, it's not rally her color, but I think she'll like it anyway."
"You have everything planned out, don't you Li-chan." He smiled wryly.
"Yeah, it's what you end up doing when you're stuck in an INN and have nothing to do but torment your friends. Let's get started."
The two siblings worked together for nearly four hours and had just finished the last stone, packed everything up, and headed back. It was dark and Kevin didn't notice until they reached a lamp. "Lina!"
"What, Kevin?" she asked, exhausted.
"Your hair! It's white!" Kevin stared at it and then at her face in wonder.
Lina grinned at him and kept walking forward. "I just cast six spells using the power of L-sama and you expect me to be completely normal? I used to get this way after only using the Giga Slave ONCE."
He gave his head a good shake and followed her into the INN.
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