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Ramon: Another Lina and Gourry fic, which many will enjoy.
Sunny: The Slayers and all its characters don't belong to us, it belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Arazumi. Only Air Jay and Kiko belong to us.
Alandra: we hope that you people can enjoy this fic.
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Chapter 10
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Gourry runs at full speed directly at Air Jay in order to distract him so that Lina can recuperate with her healing spell.
"Now this is what I call launching to the wolf's mouth!" jokes Air Jay and runs directly at Gourry to kill him.
"GOURRY!" cried Lina in despair, she can not believe that Gourry would pull out such madness. But as much as she hates to admit it this really is the best plan they have in the moment.
Suddenly Gourry stops between two houses, and makes some masterful sword moves, right and left, which end up cutting the walls of the houses, creating some big boulders that flew to the air. "Now I got you!" said Gourry as he uses his sword as a baseball bat and hits each falling boulder, making them hit Air Jay really hard.
"Cleaver move but that won't stop me!" Air Jay managed to say even if he's getting hit with each boulder.
"That is a cleaver move, as long as Gourry doesn't go on a real one on one with Air Jay everything will be alright!" said Lina as she starts to heal herself.
Gourry hit each boulder with his sword with more strength, each boulder making Air Jay back away. Every hit becomes so violent that it is already creating smoke covering Air Jay, until it is impossible to see him.
"Damn it! I can't see him!" cursed Gourry as he continues to throw boulders to the smoke where Air Jay is.
Suddenly Gourry feels that some one grabbed his foot, it is a human hand. "Huh? What is going on here?" Gourry could not say anything more as the hand pulls him down, pulling him to the ground.
"GOURRY!" cried Lina when Gourry despaired to the ground. "Gourry where are you?"
In that moment Gourry comes out of the ground, flying to the air, by the way he's in the air it is like someone gave him a big punch. And another person comes out o the ground flying to the air right after Gourry, its Air Jay.
In the moment when Air Jay right behind Gourry, he takes the advantage to punch Gourry right on the back, making him crash against a building, ending up being stuck in the wall.
Air Jay did not gave him any time to rest and kicks Gourry right on the stomach, making Gourry fly right into the house.
"Gourry!" cried Lina trying to get up but with no success, this starting to sound just like their fight against Garv. "Damn it, and here I hoped that I would never see a thing like this again."
Gourry tries to get up the best he can, and manages to get up on to his feet. "Damn it……it only passed a few seconds. I need to hold on for five minutes here."
"And ladies and gentlemen…...he's no match for the all mighty Air Jay!" taunted Air Jay as he enters through the hole Gourry made. "Get up fool! I need to practice some more before I kill Lina! You made a big mistake challenging me jack, no wonder why idiots like you have to learn the hard way!"
Gourry turns to Air Jay in a fighting position. "laugh all you want, you will never be able to defeat Lina!"
"Really? That is not what it is sounding so far. I've been kicking your butts left and right and you still say I can't beat you? You are such a dork."
"Enough talk! I'm going to……" Gourry looks at something behind Air Jay. "Say, look at that woman with large breasts in a bikini."
Air Jay's eyes open up with excitement. "WHAT?" and he turns back. "A chick in a bikini? Where?"
Gourry takes that chance to strike Air Jay right on the head making him fly out of the hole and landing to the ground.
Air Jay opens up an eye after falling from the 3 flours house. "Damn it! I hate when people use hot babes in bikinis to distract me!"
Gourry jumps out of the building and landing at full speed at Air Jay ready to stab him with his sword, letting out a battle cry.
But Air Jay immediately turns around and lifts his legs up to gain him balance to escape Gourry's attack and jumps to the air.
Everything was so fast that Gourry ended up stabbing nothing but ground.
"Its pay back time!" said Air Jay I a sneaky voice and throws two punches and four kicks at Gourry.
Just in the moment that Gourry was about to fall down, Air Jay grabs him by the collar. "No one tricks the A.J. man with out paying the price." he lifts Gourry up and throws him against a wall, making Gourry get stuck in it, and then kicks him really hard to the guts making Gourry enter the house. "And another one bits the dust!"
"Gourry!" Lina tried once again to get up but she is still very tire to be able to move an muscle, she still needs more time, and it only passed two minutes, its still not enough time. Lina looks up and sees Air Jay walking directly at her with a smirk. "Damn it, he's going to kill me…"
"Come back here you punk!" called Gourry getting out of the house "This fight is not over!"
"What?" Gasped Lina to see that Gourry is still alright but wounded and still wanting to continue the fight. "Gourry stop, don't do it!"
Air Jay turns his head around and was quite surprised to see Gourry on his feet. "Well what do you know, still alive? Hasn't the beating I gave you been enough already?" he taunted.
Gourry ignored his jokes and has taken two mores steps to Air Jay. "Come back here you coward! Are you afraid of me?"
"Afraid of you?" snapped Air Jay. "I'm not afraid of anyone or anything! I'm the all mighty Air Jay!"
"Gourry please shut up!" whispered Lina, she knows that Gourry is provoking Air Jay so that he might stay away from her. "Gourry…"
Gourry lifted his hand up, challenging Air Jay to come to him. "Why's with the long face? Are you refusing the fight? And here I thought you were strong."
"Hump!" humped Air Jay "You are stupid enough to provoke me!"
"What I am seeing is a coward running away from a fight!"
"Are you in such a hurry to die? Then alright, I'll kill you and feed you to the crows!" and Air Jay runs at Gourry with his fist covered in fire
Gourry did not move, he just lifted his sword back, vertically pointing the blade to Air Jay. "Come on!" Gourry remains in position waiting for Air Jay to come closer so that in the exact moment when he's closer, Gourry can do a vertical strike, stabbing Air Jay right on chest.
Air Jay just continues to run like a maniac directly at Gourry while he just remains there calmly waiting for Air Jay to come closer.
And finally Air Jay stays just two feet away from Gourry and Gourry finally took that chance to make a strong vertical attack with his sword.
In the exact moment when the blade was going to hit Air Jay, he suddenly jumps back, away from the reach of the sword.
"It can't be, no one can be that fast!"
"But I am!" and Air Jay takes that chance to throw a punch right on Gourry's face.
He starts to throw so many punches at Gourry, making him back away, dragging this fight very far away from Lina's sight.
"Damn it, the fight is going far, I can not see them!" cursed Lina, still putting a healing spell on herself. "Hold on Gourry……please hold on…… just three more minutes and I'll be there to finish Air Jay once and for all."
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Air Jay just continues to punish Gourry with no mercy, with stronger punches and kicks, not giving Gourry any time to breath, until finally Air Jay grabs Gourry by the neck and lifting him up to the air.
Gourry ends up dropping his sword and grabs Air Jay's arm with his two hands trying to break free from his hold but with much difficulty, air Jay is holding him up in the air with one hand and Gourry is starting to have a big difficulty to breath.
"Yo, what's up? Can't stand the heat? Alright then let's end this once and for all!" Air Jay jumps to the air than gains balance to land furiously to the ground, and Slamming Gourry to the ground, with blood coming out of his mouth.
Air Jay stands up to his feet and sees Gourry's body all wounded and shaking. "What a waist of time, now if you excuse me I have a Lina Inverse to kill so be a good boy and stand here and die!" after saying that starts to walk away, with intentions of going after Lina.
In that exact moment Memories starts to flow right in Gourry's head, remembering the incident with Hell master, in the moment when Lina was possessed by the Lord of Nightmares and she was going to be trapped forever in the Sea of Chaos, that was the most terrifying moment in Gourry's life, the vision of seeing Lina gone from his life forever, and Air Jay's words juts brought back those horrible memories and Gourry made a promise to never let that happen again. So he immediately stands up, picks up his sword and lets out an emotional scream, letting out all the frustration he's feeling right now. "AAAAAAAAH! Get back here Air Jay!"
Air Jay turns around and was surprised to see Gourry is up and ready to go again. "Huh? You're still alive? Damn it, I'm getting really tire of you, next time I'll blast you for good."
"AAAH!" Gourry runs at Air Jay ready to strike him down. But when Gourry made his move Air Jay grabs Gourry's sword and squeezes it, breaking the blade. "WHAT?"
"Ops, did I break your toy?" taunted Air Jay and throws a punch at Gourry and grabs him by the collar again. "This time I'll finish you for good!" Air Jay lifts his hand height to the air and fire is coming out of his hand taking the form of a weal, starting to grow bigger, and bigger until there a enormous weal of fire. "Now get out of my life! RODA DE FOGO!"
And Air Jay throws the weal of fire at Gourry, dragging him to another house, when they came in contact the house exploded because of Air Jay's attack.
Air Jay puts on a big grin. "At last I'm rid of this guy! Let this be a lesson for you bud, if you mess with the A.J. man you'll end up in a body bag!" and Air Jay turns around to go after Lina, laughing.
"What's so funny?"
Air Jay stops on his tracks when he heard the voice, he just could not believe it. He turns back to the destroyed house to see if his mind is not playing tricks on him. "But what is this?"
From all the rubbles Gourry comes out, all bloody and bruised, the shoulders guards of his armour completely destroyed, and walking slowly at Air Jay. "If you think I will let you lay a hand on Lina you're completely wrong!"
Air Jay slaps him self on the face, he's so tire of Gourry. "For the love of……man I'm so tire of this routine of I kick your butt and you always come back."
"And you think that we aren't about you always coming back?" replied Gourry.
"But why don't you just give up? You know you can't beat me! Any one in his right mind could see that! Even some one like you should see that! So why do you always want to continue? Are you really that stupid or is it something else?"
"I won't let you harm Lina!"
"Oh the girl……" and Air Jay laughs at Gourry's response. "How ridiculous, risking your life for some one like her. She destroys more cities than me, she cause destruction to where ever she passes, and you risk you life because of her? You really are out of your mind."
Gourry just growled at Air Jay's conversation. "I hate people who judge Lina with out knowing her. True that she might be destructive sometimes, but there is a good side in her, a side which no one cares to find. And besides, I made a promise to her, I promise to protect her until my last day."
"Oh, how sweat……" mocked Air Jay. "So it is because of a promise that you are getting yourself kicked?"
"No……" said Gourry, deciding to be honest. "Its because……I love her……"
Air Jay just laughed at his response. "Because of that? You love that flat chest little witch? You love a girl who doesn't have breast? Oh man, I just can not believe it!"
Gourry just glares furiously at Air Jay. "Of course that for a monster like you it is impossible to understand what love is. You never loved anyone in your life, haven't you?"
Air Jay stops laughing and glares furiously at Gourry, his question has really hurt him. "Now I'm mad!" and Air Jay goes back on using Gourry as a punching bag.
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From far away Lina could hear the battle noises and Gourry's cries, it is almost like that time when Kanzel forced Lina to listen to her friends suffer, especially Gourry. That was something she never desired to hear again but she is. "That's it, I can't take this anymore!" shouted Lina as she got up. "I know I still need one minute to recuperate but Gourry doesn't have a minute." And after saying that she Ray Wings to where Gourry and Air Jay are fighting.
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"UUF!" Gourry gets slammed to the ground again and Air Jay puts his feet on Gourry's face.
"You see what happen when you mess with the big boys? Its like they say: who has a roof of class should not play with stones, but idiots like you have to learn the hard way." Air Jay then grabs Gourry by the neck and lifts him up. "Now if you don't mind I'm going to kill you, I have a lot of things to do!"
Gourry tries to move but he's too beat to even move a muscle, he feels that this time he has no chance. "I'm sorry Lina…..I tried."
"STOP IT!" screamed Lina.
Gourry opens one eye to see Lina, she seems to be recuperated a little. "Lina….."
Air Jay smirked when he saw Lina. "Well what a surprise blond boy, we have a visit from your girlfriend." Taunted Air Jay. "It's so touching, I even have tears in my eyes. You know that your lucky, Lina Inverse? You are just in time to see the big end. Watch how I kill this blond idiot."
"Leave him alone!" Lina was about to move but she ended up falling on her knees, she is still not recuperated the enough. "Damn it!"
"Just hold on a second Lina Inverse, I'll be with you in just a moment!" said Air Jay pulling his hand far behind, ready to strike Gourry one last time.
Lina started to panic. "No……STOP IT! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Lina starts to run directly at Air Jay to stop him to attack Gourry.
But it's too late.
Air Jay stabs Gourry right on the chest with his hand, breaking his armour to pieces.
"AAARGH!" Cried Gourry in pain when Air Jay stabed him with blood coming out of Gourry's mouth and chest.
Lina stopped on her tracks when Air Jay stabbed Gourry, she felt like her world has ended, like a nightmare coming back to haunt her, the tears don't stop to fall down as she sees Gourry falling back to the ground. But this is the reality she can not avoid, the man she loves is on a matter of life and death.
"No…..I can not die…..not now…..not when I have so much I want to say to Lina….." These were the only words running down Gourry's mind as he continues to stay there immobilized with the terrible wound on his chest with blood coming out of it and his life slowly slipping away.
"Hum….he's not dead." Thought Air Jay. "I guess I didn't go deep enough, his armour probably prevented me to drill deeper. That is what saved him for now, but I'll kill him for sure this time." Air Jay then looks back at his hand still red with Gourry's blood and lifts it up to the air, ready to strike Gourry again. "Say bye bye!"
"GOURRY!" Cried Lina as she runs as faster she can to save Gourry, she can not lose him, not now when she needs him so much.
To be continued……
Sunny: Oh man……many Gourry fans must hate us now.
Ramon: and cut of right on the part with more suspense and more adrenaline. We are really bad.
Maliska: we are almost ending this story, but more big stuff is on the way.
Alandra: please read and review.
