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Peace and 3,

Steph

It is the soundtrack of your ever-flowing life
It is the wind beneath your feet that makes you fly
It is the beautiful game that you choose to play

-Forca, Nelly Furtado

"Okay, what we need to do is just sit down and think of a couple lyrics.. You know just to get our brains working." Line Inverse announced, sitting down on the beige leather couch. In front of her was a piece of paper, and in her hand, a writing utensil.

Amelia sat beside her with her legs crossed. The large, comfortable house-coat was snug against her body, and the towel on her head had since been taken down, allowing her natural curls to soak through. She leaned towards Lina and spoke softly, "What should the song be about?"

Zelgadis had immediately noticed her soft tone and had realized it was from the effect of the coldness that had taken over her body. It was strange, hearing her voice so soft.. Not the usual loud and proud singer's voice. Nothing but a timid question..

Lina thought to herself for a long moment, a finger brought up to her chin as she tapped it continuously. Gourry, who sat on her other side, leaned his head against the couch. His eyes were glued to the ceiling, his eyes drooping. Very slowly a snore had escaped his lips.

Lina looked over to him and a large bubble of irritation popped inside her. She gave a gulp as her fist tightened while the man continued to snore. She tried to ignore the snores and continue her train of thought, but the loud booms were bothering her to no end. Finally she reached her fist up high above her head and landed it right smack on his forehead. "GOURRY!" She shrieked.

Gourry knew the punch was going to come before it had hit his head. But instead of wanting to move out of her way and cause her to become more enraged, he decided it'd just be better if she hit him. But once the fist connected with his skull, he immediately regretting his decision.. Hell, he regretted falling asleep. "OW!" He winced out, bringing a hand to his head. "You didn't have to hit so hard!"

"Yes I did. See, unlike you, the rest of us were actually working!" Lina hissed out, bringing her hand to her other palm as she began to rub it in soothing motions. "Look what you've made me do.. My knuckles all messed up now!"

Gourry let out a low mumble before sitting up straight. "So!" He exclaimed, leaning forward. "What's the song about?"

"We don't know yet you jelly-brains!" Lina cursed through clenched teeth. "See! If you would've been listening, you would've known that by now!"

Zelgadis had tuned out the rest of the argument from there and decided to pull his chair closer to Amelia, who seemed to be the.. More reasonably saner one. And so what, just because he was still a little itty bit worried about her, didn't mean he had to ignore her.. Did it?

Just because he was the heartless one throughout the entire group. Just because he was the mutated one throughout the entire group, didn't mean that he couldn't, at least, check up on her.

"H-How..." He stuttered. Okay, so maybe he couldn't check up on her.. Hey! It wasn't his fault that she had the most damn gorgeous eyes he'd ever seen. "Amelia?" He finally sputtered out.

The petite singer-songwriter looked away from the arguing twosome and looked up to Zelgadis. "Yes, Mr. Zelgadis?"

Damn those eyes.. "Have you figured out any sort of lyrical references yet?" He asked, trying and hoping that he appeared classic and cool.

"Uh.." Amelia looked back at Lina and Gourry, then back up to the scared man. "Well, I guess I have.."

Zelgadis rose an eyebrow. "So soon?"

Amelia nodded, and Zelgadis could've sworn that there appeared to be a faint blush upon her cheeks. "It just.. Well, they just sort of come. I don't expect to have a song written out, but if I just sit down with a piece of paper and pen, it's down."

Zelgadis nodded once, not really believing the girl. He'd believe it when he saw it.. "Ahh, well that's good I suppose."

She gave another nod. "I suppose." Amelia cupped her hand onto her lap in a nervous reaction. Being around this cold-hearted man made her a little bit uncomfortable with herself. She didn't really know what to say to him.. With his eyes of cold steel. He shouldn't be so sad all the time.. She complained in her mind.

"Amelia! Help me out here!" Lina yelled over to the two, as she had grasped Gourry in a rather strong pinching war.

"Lina, could you and Gourry please stop the bickering for more than five minutes?" Zelgadis spoke with a cold tone to his voice, which caused Amelia to flinch. "If you haven't already noticed, we're a bit behind schedule here."

Amelia gulped down a bit of her saliva and couldn't help but flinch once more. Where had the sweet man who'd helped her from freezing to death gone? Why had his already cold eyes turned into something hard and un.. Well, he didn't look alive.

"Oh calm down a bit you prima donna.." Lina mumbled before moving away from Gourry. "Don't get your panties in a knot Zel.. Amelia and I have all the time in the world."

"But I don't." He gave her a look that clearly stated, 'Just agree with me so I can get this over with.'

Lina sighed. "Fine. What have we got so far?"

"Nothing." Zel spoke leaning into his chair. "And that's a horrible start."

"Well, Mr. Zelgadis.. You have to start off with nothing in order to get somewhere." Amelia responded, leaning forward. "Mr. Zelgadis, it's clearly unjust that you seem to be taking out your anger on us."

"Unjust?" Zel rose an eyebrow. He sighed before closing his eyes.. He felt a migraine coming on. "Okay, Okay.. Let's just get this over with." he brought a hand up to the bridge of his nose and began to rub it in circular rhythms.

"You're negativity won't help Zel." Lina spoke through clench teeth, narrowing her eyes at him. "Okay, Okay.. Amelia, Gourry.. What the hell are we going to write about?"

"Well, there's a lot of things we can write about.."

"No Duh, Gourry." Lina remarked, rolling her eyes. Sometimes the guy just got other. He made her skin crawl with all of his.. Small, little comments. I mean, like, really- the man should know what we're talking about. He's only right here.

Zelgadis sighed. This was getting nowhere fast. They just needed an idea.. Something to get them going, something to allow them to understand the fact that they needed this done fast and soon. "Alright." He announced standing up. "Gourry I want you to grab your guitar, and Amelia, there's a pen and paper right beside you, get writing about.. I don't know.." Zelgadis allowed his eyes to drift away from the trio and look around the studio, trying desperately to find something to write about. But nothing was on the wooden walls except.. Well photos.

He gave an exhausted sigh and ran a hand through his thick locks. "Write about paintings, photo's- anything to get your mind rolling."

Amelia gave a nod, which almost seemed like a salute and had began to write. Gourry stared dumbly at Zel before nodding his head and grabbing his guitar, which was to the far left by the door. He sat back down in front of Amelia, crossing his long legs in front of her and placing the guitar on top of his lap.

Slowly he began to fiddle around with the large instrument, playing random chords here and there. Amelia had raised her head from her random lyrics to stare down at him. What a beautiful instrument, and the way Gourry's fingers moved up and down the neck sent shivers down her spine. She gulped, oh how she wanted to learn how to play the guitar! She'd just love to learn to play something so fascinating.. So mesmerizing.

Lina had watched the two begin to work on something, and realized that she wasn't needed just yet. So she moved over towards Zelgadis, who was watching them intently. "Well, they work quite well." She commented over towards him, and when he just shrugged, she chose not to say anything more.

Zelgadis sat still while watching Gourry and Amelia communicate through music. Gourry would start a small rift, and then look up to Amelia, who would either nod or shake her head in her agreements or disagreements.

It was amazing really. To watch two music icons write something together. It was as if Zelgadis and Lina had brought two different worlds together, and now they were clashing amongst each other to write something beautiful for the public.

Well.. He didn't really know if it'd be beautiful or not. But the way it was beginning to sound, he was pretty sure it'd be okay.

"Whenever I go away I take to a side of my skin.."

Amelia's voice had softly sung a tune, causing both Zelgadis and Lina to tear their heads away from Gourry and stare at the petite young woman. She had her eyes down towards the paper when she let another line loose: "Your photographs to see them every time.."

"That your absence devours whole number to me the heart
And I do not have I remedy more than amarte.."

Gourry looked over the lyrics with his blue electric guitar in hand. He bobbed his head left and right to the tune he had created, and the to the voice of Amelia. "I'm not quite sure if I should sing this.." He spoke softly, only Amelia, who stood right behind him, had heard him.

"Oh, Mr. Gourry! Of course you should sing this! I wrote the first verse for you! My voice couldn't handle it all." Amelia had placed her hand on the much taller man's shoulder. "I haven't even finished writing it all, Mr. Gourry.. I'm.." A faint blush appeared on her cheeks, which caused Lina and Zelgadis to quit looking over the papers and stare at the two musicians, who seemed like they were on a different planet than themselves. "I'm kinda stuck."

"Stuck?" Lina asked. "What? How can you be stuck?"

"Well.." Amelia turned around to look at Lina. "I've only written up to chorus, but after that.. I'm kind of stuck."

Lina sighed. "Well, maybe you're not inspired enough- and besides, has Gourry written anything?" She moved her glaring eyes to burn holes through Gourry's back. She saw Gourry's shoulders stiffen.

"Yes, Ms. Lina, Mr. Gourry has in fact written a couple things."

"Oh know, really?" She rose a delicate eyebrow. "And just what has Mr. Gourry written?"

Gourry gave a gulp. He turned around and was about to answer her, but Amelia beat him to it. "Ms. Lina! He has written more than enough to be able to understand the voice to the song-"

"What has he written, Amelia?"

Amelia looked down. "A-A couple lines here and there.." She stuttered, unable to meet her manager's eyes.

Lina sighed. "Zel, your guy isn't helping whatsoever."

"Lina!" Gourry complained, turning around to face her. "I wrote the guitar rifts!"

Lina looked over to face him. "So you expect Amelia to write the whole song?"

"Well yeah! She did it on her last album, didn't she!"

"Yeah, but!"

"But what?"

Lina glared her eyes. "Just sit back down and read over the lyrics again, Gourry. Or else."

Gourry felt a pain at the bottom of his spine and he immediately sat back down with his guitar, going over the lyrics. This caused Zel to both sigh at his client, who seemed to have been whipped over Lina, and admire his courage for even standing up to her.. If that's what you called it.

"Wow, they sure argue a lot.." He heard Amelia whisper from behind him, to which he turned around and faced her. She was still all wrapped up in his house-coat (to which he felt his face get a little hot.. Must've been the temperature in the studio, it got pretty hot in there) and her hair was all tangled and let loose.

"Lina and Gourry have been like this since High School." Zelgadis stated, turning back to face the fighting pair. "Hell, when they first met, they were arguing about glue." Zelgadis sighed at the memory.. It seemed so long ago, when in fact it was only five years. They had all met when Lina was in grade 10, and Gourry was about to graduate, Zelgadis himself was just entering grade 12. They met in art class, where they all choose to sit at a rather large, circular table. They hadn't spoken to each other, just all came in like robots day after day, never uttering a word to one another. That was, until, Lina had realized Gourry had taken her glue (to this day he claims it was by accident). Lina, being the hot, fiery red-head she is, grabbed one of Gourry's long blonde locks, and yanked him over to her. She hollered, so that everyone could hear, 'Give me back my glue!'

And after their large fight, they had become great friends. Gourry had left his small group of friends and had begun to hang around with her.. Hell, even the ever-so quiet Zelgadis began to hang around with the duo, but of course, he left when he pleased.

"Mr. Zelgadis...?"

Zel shook his head from the mini flash-back and looked up to the girl, who was staring down with a sincere look. "Do they happen often?" she asked.

"Hunh?" His mouth had opened into a small 'O'.

Amelia giggled. "Nothing, Mr. Zelgadis, it was nothing."

The way she giggled at him had taken him back. It was almost as if.. "Ahem. Alright Amelia.. So just where exactly are you stuck with the song?"

Amelia stared down at him for an extra couple of seconds before it dawned on her that he was speaking. "Oh! OH!" She quickly stood up and moved around Lina and Gourry, who were now in a very heated conversation. Her delicate fingers grasped the piece of paper and she walked back over to Zelgadis, handing him the paper.

His eyes scanned the words and once in a while, he'd give a nod of agreement, or his eyebrows would go high onto his forehead. "Well.. It's rather interesting." He stated, looking up to her. "You did.. A good job."

Everything seemed to have moved slower as those words sputtered out of his lips. Lina stopped in a mid-action punch and looked over to him, her mouth an open gap. Gourry, who was bracing for the hit, slowly opened his eyes, and Amelia stared down at him. Moments passed rather slowly for the scarred manager, who couldn't believe what he had just said.

But for Amelia, she felt wonderful. Her gigantic grin just seemed to enlarge, and in a bright voice she thanked him. "Thank you, Mr. Zelgadis."

Sweat was starting to pour on his forehead. "You're.. Uh.. Welcome." He tore his gaze away from her and towards Lina and Gourry, who stood still, and were still staring. "Yes?" He asked calmly.

Lina's mouth was still open in a wide 'O' until, finally, she smiled. "Oh nothing Zel.. Nothing at all."

Zelgadis narrowed his eyes. He waited a moment before standing up. "Well, I'm going to call around to see if anyone's willing to do the bass lines and drum beats for the song.."

Lina stood up straight. "Oh, that's fine. I've found a bassist, and the computer can just do the drumming beats."

"You found a bassist?" He asked, and when she nodded his eyes became confused. "Who?"

"Weeeelll.." Lina only used this voice when she knew she did something that would irritate the hell out of someone, and Zelgadis suddenly knew it was his turn.

"Lina..?" He asked, his voice tracing with worry.

She brought a fist up to her mouth and gave a cough. "It's well.. Uh.. It's Xellos..

"Xellos Metallium."

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Thank you to my reviewers, you make me want to continue this. I hope you don't mind that this chapter (and the chapters before) are short. I promise you that the next one is a big whooper, and it does contain some Lina/Gourry fluff. And, of course, Ame and Zel. Oh! and to the person who emailed me, thank you for the support and love! Thanks again to everyone and have yourselves a great day:)