Slayers Betrayed
Alandra: Here is a cool fic about the Slayers.
Maliska: A dramatic all, angst one.
Sunny: And for last, the Slayers series does not belong to us, it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi.
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Chapter 16
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Lina could not believe, she killed him, she killed Gourry. She killed her best friend. She feels so alone now, she starts to feel the same way she felled in Zefiria…… alone. She lost Zelgadiss and Amelia and she sacrificed Gourry's life for the good of the innocents. Her tears just did not want to stop for the lost of her love one."tell me its not true………."
"Stop your crying, weakling!"
"WHAT?" gasped Lina as she saw a character coming from all the smoke. It's him, Bastion-Gourry. He's alive, his clothes and armor are almost destroyed. In one hand she is furious to see that her enemy is alive, in the other hand she is happy because this means that Gourry is stile alive. But one question still remains. "How……..how can you still be alive, Bastion?"
Bastion-Gourry laughed. "This is just like I hope it would be. You did not kill me because you were afraid for Gourrys safety."
"But that is impossible! I used all my power!" screamed Lina.
"Then tell me why I'm still here?"
Lina did not know how to answer that.
"You believed that you used your full power but you didn't. That Dragon Slave was not even at his full 100, in fact it was not even at 5." Bastion-Gourry took that chance of Lina's distraction to punch her right in the face, making her hit the wall.
"For Heavens sakes Lina! You must beat him!" begged Gourry in Lina's mind.
"I can't!" Lina knew she must fight, but how can she? She used all her power in that Dragon Slave, she is to tire to fight, and it's too late, Bastion won. "No! Shut up and start thinking!" Lina demanded to herself "There is got to be some way to defeat him with out have to kill Gourry, but how? How can I……wait a minute……OF COURSE! I'm so stupid! I completely forgot about that spell! I'm been so stressful that I have forgotten about it."
Immediately, Lina gets up and a dark energy started to be formed in her hands.
This made Bastion-Gourry stop, and backing away.
"…….Power that can smash even the souls of the Gods. RAGNA BLADE!"
Bastion –Gourry gasped in fear and horror, he knows that spell and in his knowledge he knows how powerful and devastating that spell can be. "NO! STAY AWAY FROM ME!"
Lina runs at him and jumped up made a slashed…………..to the air?
Only after a few seconds late Bastion-Gourry had the courage to look and start laughing again (this guy just loves to laugh) "Are you blind as well Lina? You really need glasses!"
"That depends to where I was aiming, fool!"
"What?"
Suddenly a dimension portal started to open, and Bastion-Gourry knew what it was. "The……..the connection!"
Lina cut to the dimension to where Bastion kept the connection that allowed him to control Gourry's body. Destroying the connection at the same time.
"It's not possible!" cried Bastion as he is removed by Gourry's.
"NOW DIE ONCE AND FOR ALL BASTION!" cried Lina has she stabbed Bastion with the Ragna Blade.
"I was so closeee…" these where the last words of the demon Bastion as he finally despaired, forever.
Gourry was lying on the ground, not moving, and Lina took her last efforts to go to him, she is practically exhausted because of using the Ragna Blade and all that stuff. "Gourry…….please get up………don't you dare die on me." Finally she reached him and kneel beside him "Please Gourry……say something……say something……"
"I……I'm hungry" whispered Gourry as he finally opened his eyes and looked at Lina with a soft smile.
Lina could not control herself and she finally wrapped her arms around Gourry's chest and crying in his shoulders, she did not even care if she was action weak or not, she is finally reunited with her guardian, with her jellyfish, with her Gourry.
Gourry was simple surprised by Lina's action, the last time the she wrapped her self around him like this was when they were attacked by giant slugs. But Gourry was not complaining. In fact he's enjoying this magical moment.
Gourry tried to wrap his arms around Lina but he cried in pain.
"Gourry what wrong?" asked Lina, a little concerned.
"My body………it hurts……."
"It is ok Gourry, it must have been because Bastion was controlling your body that is causing some pain, don't worry I'll cast a recovery spell on you as soon as I find Zel and Amelia to see if they are alright."
Suddenly an explosion appeared near Lina and Gourry. They were starting to be afraid that it might be Bastion rising from the dead. But they are surprised again. It is a Raywing bubble with Zelgadiss caring Amelia in his arms, who was holding the sword of light.
"Zel, Amelia!" cheered booth Gourry and Lina happy to see that their friends are still alive.
"Luckily I used a raying bubble to save me and Amelia, but Amelia is a little injured on her leg" said Zel.
"What about Bastion?" asked Amelia.
"He is finally dead." responded Lina, relived to see that this is finally over.
"You never stop surprising me Lina." Said Zel with a grin. "I'm starting to of getting used to it."
"Just tell me………..did we won for real?" asked Amelia again.
"Yes Amelia…… he's never coming back, the nightmare is finally over!" confirmed Lina as she putted one of Gourry's arm around her neck. "Now let go back to the village and celebrate."
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After the defeat of Bastion, Lina and her friends return to the city of Vedras. Gourry who was still a little weak was resting on one of the houses of the village.
That night, an enormous party is being held, to celebrate Lina's victory and for the returning of all the ones who were kidnapped by Bastion. With lots of food and dancing.
Lina on one hand was not eating. She must be sick. She is still meditating about the recent events. At first she thought that Gourry had become a traitor, but it was all Bastions fault, who was habituating in Gourry's body, and made every one believe that he had turn evil. Still she had almost lost Gourry because of all this, and most of all, she must apologize to him, something that she never has done before, except that time when he thought that she had die in the hands of Kanzel. That was the first time Gourry was so serious to her, Lina was amazed and in the same time scared, still that was one of the proves that he cared for her, and that touched Lina deeply in her heart, it made her feel more connected to the swordsman.
But to avoid such tragedy from ever happening again, Lina must at least confess her feelings, she must make Gourry understand that she cares a lot for him despise of that fact that she is always hitting him, she must put her pride aside if she wants Gourry to be with her, forever.
Zel and Amelia were enjoying the party, wellAmelia at least. That is when they notice Lina, who is carring two enormous plates of food to the house where Gourry is resting.
"Now there is something you don't see every day." Said Amelia, totally amazed "Lina carrying food instead of eating it."
"True, but she is going to the house where Gourry is." Added Zelgadiss.
"Do you think that she……..?"
"All we can do is wishing her good luck."
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Inside the house, Gourry was practicing in his room a few sword swings with a wooden stick.
"Hey Gourry, you should be resting!" said Lina ahs she entered Gourry's room. "You are not completely recovered yet!"
Gourry let go of the stick and sited on the bed. "I know, I was just bored. So what bring you here?"
Lina blushed a little. "Well………….I'm just bringing you some food. I don't like eating alone so I thought of sharing some with you."
Gourry looked at Lina with eyes wide open. Lina is sharing food with him?
"Gourry will ya stop that!" protested Lina when Gourry put a hand on her forehead.
"You must be sick Lina for sharing your food with me!"
"GOURRY! Sometimes you make sound has heartless witch!" and Gourry received a usual punch from Lina. Something's just never change.
Alter 15 minutes of eating, Lina finally took a peek of Gourry, he was eating so peacefully, and the two of them even started their usual fight for the last piece of chinked wing, things that goes on in Lina and Gourry's life, and something that Lina's been missing in the last days. But now it's the perfect time to confess."Hum……Gourry?"
"Huh?" Gourry looks at Lina a little amazed, he had heard this tone of voice from Lina once, only once, and yes he remembers it, as amazing as it might seems he remembers it, she used that tone of voice when she apologized to him for faking her death. "W-what is it Lina?"
"Well…….I want to say I'm sorry that I'm always treating you so badly and for always hitting you so……" Lina was interrupted when Gourry softly putted two fingers on her lips.
"No Lina, you don't have to apologies to nothing, I'm the one who is sorry."
"What? But Gourry………."
"I guess I was too stupid to understand………this is the way you are, that is what make you unique. You have always accepted me for who I am, who are not like all the others who would throw me away like a rotten fruit. And you never let me down, and most of all you made me feel needed, I was just too stupid to understand that. You always accepted me for the strong swordsmen and an idiot jellyfish that I am, so I should accept you for the strong, determinate, bad temper, violent, flatchest person you are……."
In this last remark, Lina didn't know if she should punch him or hug him.
"………..it is our difference that makes us special, we just got to accept it, so that we can be happier together. ……I probably didn't make any sense, didn't I?"
Lina just smiled at him. "Actually Gourry……….you made a lot of sense. Still that is no excuse for me always treating you so bad."
"Well, I'm always calling you flat chest. So I think that we own an apology to each other."
Booth of them looked at each other for a moment then they start laughing together. Lina couldn't be happier; she finally found out that Gourry accepts her for who she is, no matter how mean she is. "You know Gourry, you're cute when you talk like that."
For the first time in his life, Gourry blushed. "Lina…."
Lina just smiled at him.
Then a question that it has been in Gourry's mind for so long finally comes in. "Lina……..there is something that I wanted to ask you since we fought that kid Phi……Piliby…….you know the kid!"
"What is it Gourry?"
"Well…….the Lord of Nightmare said that you sacrificed your self and all that you are, just to save me…… Why did you do it? Why risking your life to save me?"
Lina's face is all red, like her hair. This is the second time that she hears this question from different Gourrys. But is the perfect moment for her to confess her feelings, now that she has finally discovered that Gourry accepts her. "It's……. because………because I……"
Lina looked deeply into his eyes, those deep blue river eyes, and with out noticing, she approaches her face to his
On his side Gourry does the same.
Their lips almost in contact.
"Greetings every body!" said a new voice that pop in.
"XELLOS!" Yelled Lina and Gourry as they backed away from each other, their faces all red.
"Was I interrupting something?" asked Xellos with a grin.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" shouted Lina, irritated to see the Mazoku priest.
"Well, now that is ……..obvious! (Ha Ha! Bet you thought that I was going to say that it is a secret, right?) I haven't' made my appearance yet."
"WHY YOU!" Lina was about ready to cast a Dragon Slave, but Xellos teleported away before she could cast it. "I can't believe the nerves of that fruitcake, he is so………HEY MY FOOD!" Screamed Lina as she looked at her plate and saw that her entire food was gone. "GOURRY, YOU ATE ALL MY FOOD!"
"Well…….you weren't looking, so I thought that you were done eating."
"YOU JELLYFISH!"
BOOM
The entire house exploded, and from the fire came Gourry who was running away from Lina who was after him with a large piece of wood.
From the distance many looked at the two like if they are crazy, especially Amelia and Zel.
"Didn't she learn anything?" sighed Amelia.
"But wait Amelia, look at them!" said Zel as he pointed at Lina and Gourry.
"What?" Amelia looked back at Lina and Gourry, and she could not believe what she is seeing. Even if Lina is chasing Gourry to hit him, booth of them is smiling and laughing. "I don't understand."
"Well Amelia, this is the way those two have always been, it's their nature if I may say so. Looks like booth of them missed doing this, even if they've been away for not so long."
Amelia sweet-dropped. "I've said it before but I'll say it again, their relationship just keeps getting weirder and weirder!"
"Your right, no matter how long we stay or travel with them, they always manage to surprise us."
Lina's still chancing after Gourry, booth of them laughing like if they were kids playing catch.
"Looks like it won't be today that I will confess my felling to Gourry, but I will some day. And today I finally found out that Gourry accepts me for who I am, I was always afraid if he would want Shiylphiel but now I'm calmer than ever. And I know one more thing for sure. As long as Gourry and I are together, nothing in this world will stop us."
THE END
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