Hello everybody! I'm Uranasu and I'm a major Slayers fan both sub and dub because I'm a major Megumi and Lisa fan! (Both actresses who play Lina) I usually don't write fanfics to my fav. series but this one has been on my mind for a while now, so…..I'm writing it.

But be nice to me because this is my first Slayers fic.

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Chapter 1: A Letter from Home

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"Gourry hurry up! I wanna leave before the sunsets!" yelled the fiery red sorceress.

"Okay Lina! Just give me second! Besides its still morning!" he shouted back.

Lina headed towards the door of the Inn start without her blonde companion. She was just walking past the counter when the clerk stopped her.

"Umm excuse me miss….Uhh I believe your Miss Lina Inverse?" he asked

"Yeah, who wants to know?" she asked back.

"Well ma'am I believe this is for you." He said, holding out an envelope on a silver tray.

"Oh the bill!" she concluded. "Well you can give that to the blonde I came her with!"

"Uhh no ma'am, the fine young gentleman you stayed with already paid the bill. This is a letter for you that just arrived throw the mail for you a short while ago." He explained.

"A letter for me?" she questioned retrieving the letter from the silver platter. "I wonder whose it from."

She picked up the envelope and examined it closely. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. It just seemed like an everyday sent letter. Of course the last time she received a letter such as this it turned out to be from Filia and her sister.

She turned it over to see if a seal enclosed it, and sure enough one did. But it wasn't from the dragon priestess, her sister, or some wealthy lord. It was from her father, she had received a letter from Zephilia.

She was hesitant to open it, who knows what would've been inside it! Her mother always told her that she was grateful she received her attitude from her not her father. Because sure she had an almost non-existent short temper with violent actions to boot, but when her father was angry the monster race got chills up their spine. And she hadn't exactly been Mother Teresa and all with all of the spells and dark lords she forbidden to even utter while growing up. But here she is now defeating dark lords and casting the spell of L-sama.

She stepped outside the Inn and sat on a nearby bench. If she was going to open a letter from her father she had to at least be at peace. Though she had to admit it was very strange for her. She hadn't heard from her father in over 5 years! Not since she left home at age 13.

She opened the letter slowly and careful preparing for the worst. And with a deep breath of courage she began to read the words in front of her.

To my little Lina,

How are you darling, are your travels going well? Your father and I have missed you so much.

"Wait! Father and I?" she wondered and examined the seal once again. And sure enough the seal wasn't of her father's but her mother.

"Good ole mom! She was always there for me. (Sigh) At least now I can be a bit more relaxed."

I'm sorry we haven't kept contact with you very much over the year's sweetheart. But your father and I have heard so many rumors and stories about you around we figured that you were actually taking care of yourself and didn't have much to worry about in the area of men taking advantage of you. But I still worry about other things….mainly on the topic of marriage.

"Oh geez, not again! This is what I was running away from!"

It would really mean a lot to your father and me to have grandchildren from both of our girls in this lifetime. Lina please think about it darling. If not for me then for your father, his sickness has been getting worse over the time and I'm afraid he doesn't have much longer.

However I have heard that you are traveling around with a handsome swordsman who as I heard, swore to protect always? Don't let this one slip Lina, he sounds like a keeper! And it's obvious that the man loves you; I mean who else would follow an Inverse to the ends of the earth in the name of protecting them? And from what I hear you even gave your life for this man.

(blush)

Your father and I would like to meet the man you has captured our little Lina's heart and see if he's the right one for you. A mother can never be to sure now can she? I want you home as soon as possible Lina. I want you to spend time with your father for the little time he has left. We visited the Shaman doctor yesterday and he told us your father doesn't have no more than 10 years left. And I want his last decade to be that of a joyous one. So I'll be expecting home real soon sweetie, okay?

Love,

Mother

P.S.

Don't forget your man friend!

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"Hey Lina! Lina, there you are! Where you've been?" asked the swordsman walking toward the petite sorceress.

Without a word spoken she arouses from the bench and turned her back to Gourry and re-read the last part of the letter.

…. and he told us your father doesn't have no more than 10 years left. And I want his last decade to be that of a joyous one. So I'll be expecting home real soon sweetie, okay?

Curiosity consumed Gourry as he leaned over Lina's shoulder to she what she was reading before she quickly folded it up and placed it within the many wonders of her cape.

"So uhh….where are we off to Lina?" he asked dumbly.

"Zephilia…"

"Ze- who?"

"We're going to Zephilia."

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TBC

And that's all I got for this chapter, but I am writing another! Yea! But I'll only post it if you want me too so give me a review and tell me what you think!!!