Hey you guys! How are you? Well, here you go, chapter Two. As with all fanfics, i do not own Slayers or its characters. Well, you guys! Hope you enjoy! Now on with the fic!

Mariah Sunshine

Darkness enveloped the petite redhead, as she stood in the middle of a forest. There was darkness to her left, and darkness to her right. She looked behind her. She saw darkness as well, but she was suddenly overcome by a large sense of fear. She dashed forward, and the dead leaves gave a deafening crunch beneath her feet. Sweat quickly trickled down her face, and her breathing came in short gasps. As ever second passed her body felt heavier, and she began to slow down. Try as she might she wasn't able to fight the force of darkness grabbing hold of her. She looked at her arms, and saw them pulled down with dark sticky goo. She tried to pull away, but her legs were caught as well. She screamed in frustration, pulling and screaming as hard as she could. She was scared, THE Lina Inverse was scared. Her body shook with fright and she was grabbed by her hair and pulled down. Her head was pulled back until her face was raised up to the dark sky. Tears rushed down her face, and her voice was choked back by her sobs. In the dark sky, she saw her friend, bubbling, happy and pregnant with child. She smiled down at Lina, and just as she did, a flash of silver passed before her eyes, and her friend was shattered into a million pieces of glass that scattered around Lina. They all were flung down, and struck Lina across the face, leaving behind hundreds of bloody scars. She closed her eyes, and looked up once more. All she saw was one piece of glass fixed before her. Brown flashed across the glass, followed by a dark deep red. The darkness behind her pulled her in and just before she was engulfed, she saw streak gold.

Lina sat up with a start and she grabbed hard at her sheets. Sweat droplets were scattered across her face and a small treated scar sat upon her right cheek. Her hand instantly went to her face, and felt along the scar. The vapors of the sickening medicine she bought while still in Kimakurie filled her nose. She scrunched up her nose, and then looked up. She recognized the small room inside the house. This was Rhina's room. She looked down at the red sheets, still grasped in one of her hands. Those were Rhina's too, her favorite material… silk. She let the sheets go quickly, and stumbled out of bed. She tumbled to the floor, bringing the sheets and bedspread with her. She sat up and pulled her feet out of the sheets, and stood up. She brushed off her favorite long, white nightgown, which was now covered in cat hair. She sneezed softly, God, cats gave her bad allergies. She really, wanted to get out of this place…she really needed to leave this room. Stepping quickly over the tiny red tiles Rhina had specially placed on her floor, Lina opened the door, and stepped outside. She almost collided with Rhina's Siamese cat, Mesma. Lina quickly stepped over the cat, tripped and fell gently onto the light pink colored carpeting in the hallway. As her face lay at the top of the staircase, she heard voices and saw shadows. She couldn't make out any of them, except one. One was Gourry's voice. His was always the booming, overpowering one. When he talked…everyone stopped and listened, no matter how stupid what he had to say was…and believe her, he said some real stupid things. His voice… sounded stressed and tired, something she hardly ever heard out of him. She needed, no demanded, to hear what was up.

Picking herself up, she walked down the steps. Her tiny nightgown floated around her feet as she stormed down in a somewhat graceful manner into Rhina's living room. As her feet touched the midway mark of the stairs, all voices ceased, and everyone looked her way. Gourry stood, and looked as if he was about to walk to her, but his feet stayed glued to one spot. She stopped on the steps, and stared down hard at all those sitting inside the tiny living room. There was about 20 there, including Gourry. All appeared to be between 20 and 35, with the exception of one man sitting in the middle, who looked to be about 85. No one moved, not even Gourry as she continued to the bottom of the steps. She decided if her presence didn't get them to talk, then maybe her voice will.

GOURRY! What is going on here?

Gourry opened his mouth to talk but no words flooded out. He looked back at the old man, who simply nodded his head, giving his nod of approval. Gourry turned again, and opened his mouth, but shut it just as quickly as he opened it. Lina looked from his face to the old man's, and the old man looked at her. He had a crooked smirk, and a beardless chin. His tiny beady eyes seemed to laugh at Lina. The sight of his amusement and Gourry's speechlessness aggravated her, and she quickly closed the distance between her and Gourry and demanded to know what the hell was going on. When he turned his head away, a laugh echoed throughout the room. Lina turned her head towards the old man, and her eye started twitching. Gourry quickly grabbed a hold of Lina's shoulders, and tried to hold the angered girl back.

Ay, Lina, calm down okay! Don't hit him, you know you can't hit an old man!

The old man stood, and walked over to Lina's face. He stood no taller than Lina and was easily able to stare into her eyes. After looking deep into her eyes, he finally let spoke.

Let her go Gourry. She won't do anything to me.

Gourry let go of Lina's arm, and Lina pulled back her fist and swung. Much to everyone's surprise, the old man was sent crashing into the brick fireplace. Lina went into a rage and she continued chase after the old man. Gourry quickly grabbed hold of Lina. He held her by her waist and she kicked and screamed, demanding him to let go of her so she can teach the old guy a lesson. Everyone in the room ran over to help the old man, who was counting the stars dancing around her head. As they tended to the man's head, they stared over at the Lina, and a few whispered, and snorted things aloud. "She can't be the Lina Rhina talks about!" "And this is who she picked?" "I'll do it before I allow her to."

Gourry sensed the rising tension in the room, turned and carried his Lina up to Rhina's room. Lina protested loudly, kicking and screaming even harder than before. He managed to set her in the room, on the messed up bed and quickly closed the door behind him.

Gourry what the hell is going on downstairs! What do they mean allow me to do it? Who the hell is that bastard old man! Who does he think he is! She won't hit me!

Lina! Calm down. Look, it's complicated. I barely understand myself. Just let me go get you some water to wash up with all right? And I'll explain it all to you while you have your bath all right?

No Gourry! I want to know right this minute!

She stamped her foot, and Gourry merely laughed. He leaned down to kiss her nose, sending her into a fit of blushes and shocked faces. Still laughing, he walked out the door, and closed it tightly behind him. Lina was left standing on the inside of the door. She quickly got over her embarrassment, and her rage overcame her. Her two fists hit the door, and pain shot through her arm. For a few seconds she was paralyzed. As she slowly came back to the feelings in her arm, her rage slowly subsided. She stood with both fists on the door and she slowly opened her hand. She admired her tiny fingers, especially the ring finger, on her left hand. There lay a tiny diamond ring, with ruby and sapphires around it. Gourry had it especially made for her, and presented it to her, when she arrived at the altar of Amelia's grand ballroom. She will never forget that day. Nor will she ever forget this day… rather the day before. The blood… the sword… her Rhina. Her best friend… her Rhina. Tears stung her eyes, and she wiped at them furiously. She turned around and looked at the room, at the huge painting on the wall, just above the bed. The two of them did it, when they were around 7. Lina was the short one, covered in red and gold, with two wheels on her feet. Rhina was the purple one with the gigantic lopsided brown bow on her head. Her vision blurred, and Lina stormed across the room, and tore the picture off the wall. She stood back and watched as the painting fell in slow motion to the bed. She went to touch the paper…when she heard Gourry's footsteps on the staircase. He couldn't see her like this. She wouldn't allow it. She grabbed her night bag, opened the window, and whispering the words to her Levitation spell, she disappeared into the cloudy day.

Hey you guys, there we have it, chapter 2! What did ya think, what didn't ya like? Just review and tell me. Folks all you have to do is press that itsy bisty button on your mouse, and you can actually, tell me what you think! unbelieveable! Lol, well you guys, hoped you enjoy it, im getting to work on chapter 3, goodbye!