To the end
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 12
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Lina runs at all speed at Air Jay and with out him having a chance to defend himself, Lina throws him a strong upper cut making Air Jay fly to the air.
Lina flies after him and punches him on the back.
"AAAH!" cried Air Jay in pain but manages to throw a back flip, escaping Lina's reach. He looks back at her and sees that grin on her face, this made Air Jay more furious. "Don't laugh!"
Air Jay throws dozen of kicks and punches at Lina, but she escapes or blocks each of his attacks like if they were nothing.
The impacts of each blocking are so strong that it starts to create some thunder and lightning in the sky, scaring many of the town's people that are watching the fight
Suddenly Lina throws a punch at Air Jay, hitting him right at the stomach, a very strong hit that made Air Jay's body shake and spilling blood out of his mouth.
Air Jay was about to fall to the ground but Lina grabbed him by the neck and concentrates a spell on her free fist. "MONO VOLT!" and Lina punches Air Jay with her hand covered with the Mono Volt, making Air Jay fall to the ground and creating a big hole when he crashed to the ground.
Lina followed him to the hole and found him lying on the ground.
Air Jay managed to open an eye at Lina. "I don't understand…... How can you be so strong….."
"It is strange isn't it? When you think you know someone, it reveals o be a very different person…and she manages to surprise you. I remember you saying that we have a lot in common Air Jay, well guess what Air Jay! WE DON'T!" Shouted Lina and punches Air Jay on the face so hard which made him bury his head on the dirt. She then grabs him by the neck and pulls him out of the dirt. "You want to have title as the enemy of all things? Well keep it! I never ask for it and I never wanted it, it was all bad mouths given by someone who doesn't like me, I know that I am bad but I am not bad enough to harm people, like you. You made a mistake when you tried to destroy some people that are my friends, you made a even bigger mistake when you tried to kill the man I love, and now you have made the biggest mistake when you messed with me!" and Lina starts to throw many punches at Air Jay on the face, never letting go of his neck. "So how does it feel? How does it feel to be haunted by someone who does not quit? Well eat it jackass because it is pay back time!" in this last one Lina throws a very strong punch which made Air Jay fly out of the hole and landing to the ground.
Air Jay is seriously messed up, every pert of his body is screaming in pain because of all the punishment that Lina gave him, but still he manages to get up to one knee, and he manages to open one eye to see Lina slowly floating out of the hole with red aura surrounding her, she is concentrating to cast a Dragon Slave. She land on the ground with the power in her hands, ready to launch the spell at Air Jay. "This is over! Die Air Jay! Go burn in the flames of hell!"
Even hurt, Air Jay got up to his feet ready to fight Lina one last time, and he looks at her with an evil grin in his face. "Don't you understand that I am the fire?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Lina, still concentrating her Dragon Slave.
"Simple babe, even if by any dumb miracle you manage to beat me, this won't be the last time you'll see me!"
Air Jay runs to Lina in a desperate attempt to defeat her, but it's too late.
"DRAGON SLAVE!" shouted Lina launching the spell at Air Jay.
Air Jay stopped on his track when the enormous red spell created by Shabrimingo running directly at him, and get hit with it, entering deeply into it feeling the pain consuming every part of his body and then he notices that his arm is being turn into pieces following by every part of his body, he's being vaporised, and he's dying. "It can't be! NOOOOOO!" cried Air Jay in an excruciating pain inside the Dragon Slave until all of his body is no more and he get erased from existence.
Lina remains unmoved with her hands still pointed to the direction where she launched and in front of is the destruction caused by her Dragon Slave, with Air Jay's body being reduce into nothing but dust. "He's dead…….he's finally dead! HE'S DEAD!"
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From far away, in the inn where Air Jay and Kiko are, Kiko starts to feel that something is wrong when he's animal senses alerted him about something.
"Au? Au AU…… (What can be wrong? Did something happen to Air Jay……)
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"It is done…….you have done a great work Lina Inverse." Said Xellos and then he disappears.
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Lina waits no more time and she runs to Gourry who is still being treated by Urnt, she knees down to him and starts to cast a healing spell on Gourry. "Damn it! Of all the time you've been here Urnt why isn't Gourry still fine yet?
"The wound is still very deep!" responded Urnt never stop healing Gourry.
And the town's people finally got out of their hiding places crying in joy and celebrating Air Jay's death. "He's dead!" "We are save!" these were some of the things that could be hears. Some of the town's people went to Lina to thank her for freeing them from the evil monster that was Air Jay.
"SHUT UP!" Yelled Lina and every one of the town's people just backed away from her. "Your thanks are the last thing I want! You were all hiding like cowards when we were fighting Air Jay, and you could not even give us a hand when Gourry was out facing him on his own. What you all should be is ashamed of yourselves!"
The town's people did not say a thing, but they know that Lina is right.
"Lina we don't have the enough equipment to help Gourry, we must take Gourry to my house to cure him!" said Urnt.
Lina shakes her head in denial. "No, we don't have time, we can cure just don't stop healing him."
"Lina be reasonable!" said Urnt trying to make Lina understand the situation here, he knows that she is desperate because of Gourry, so desperate that she won't listen to reason, but Gourry is hurt very deeply and the healing spells won't be doing any good, only delaying him from death . "We need to take him to my place!"
"I SAID NO! I'm not going to waist time! Every seconds is precious to save Gourry!"
"Lina listen to me!" shouted Urnt shaking Lina's shoulder, forcing her to look at him. "I know that you are afraid of loosing him, and all this is making you react this way, but trust me on this, we'll need the equipment that are at my place. If we don't get there Gourry will surly die…"
"But…..but…." sobbed Lina, the thought of losing Gourry is starting to consume her. "How are we going to get Gourry to your place? It will take us hours to get there with Gourry's condition….."
Urnt turns to the town's people "Alright people, its time for you to give us a hand! Find something that we can use as carriages. And find Ashford!"
A few minutes later found some means of transportation, carefully placed Gourry and Ashford in them with Lina and Urnt also in the carriages giving a healing spells to Gourry and Ashford.
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One hour later Kiko finally reaches to the ghost town where Lina and Air Jay fought, every where he look he found nothing but destruction and dozen of destroyed houses.
"Au grrr, ruff rufff…….au au? (This is really not Air Jay's signature, not even he could destroy a place this bad, unless it really was a terrible fight…….but where is he?)" Kiko walks around the city to find any trace, but he found nothing.
Suddenly he notices a small flame burning on a stick, he walks closer and starts to hear small maniacal laughs coming from inside the flame. "Au au…. (I see…)" and Kiko grabs the stick with his mouth and walks away.
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Four hours passed since Lina defeated Air Jay, in that time every one carried Ashford and Gourry back to town, to Urnt's house. Ashford is already cured of all his wounds but Urnt never left Gourry's side and continued to prepare spell that can help him.
In the meanwhile Lina was waiting in Urnt's living room, Urnt believed that it would be the best thing to do since Lina is very disturbed and she might cause something that can harm Gourry because she is a person who loses her temper very quickly.
Lina never stay still she is to concern over Gourry's condition to stay sited, she is more worried than the time when Gourry was kidnapped by the Hellmaster, when Gourry was kidnapped by Helmaster he was not in a life or death situation like he is now. The moment when Air Jay stabbed Gourry on the chest Lina felt like she was back in that horrible moment when Hellmaster broke Gourry's crystal casket he was in and ending his life. Still, Lina could not believe that this is happening, all she wanted to do was to catch Air Jay and collect the bounty on his head so that she could give it to Gourry so that he could live a peaceful life without her, but it all backfire when Air Jay proved to be much different than all the bandits that she fought, or outlaw how he liked to call himself.
She feel a big pain in her heart because of what happen to Gourry, a horrible pain that it is suffocating, she hardly can't even breath. "I'm feeling so horrible because of what happen to Gourry. Could I also feel this pain in the moment when I wanted to leave Gourry?" she asked herself and rested both her hands on the wall. "It is funny, when I started to travel I always wanted to do things on my own, even when I travelled with Naga, then I meet Goury……we sure had some crazy and fun adventures just the two of us, always fight for the last piece of food……participating in a theatre, destroying mazokus and many other things…… I know I wanted to get Air Jay for Gourry so that he might be on his own in peace……but imagining things are much easier, if I am feeling this pain because of fear for not being with Gourry now, I will surly feel this pain when I leave him on his own……I can not stand this pain. I don't want to be alone! I don't want to be with out Gourry!" said Lina between the sobs as she lands on her knees with her hand still on the walls. "Please Gourry don't leave me……Don't leave me!" cried Lina, with the tears never stopping
30 minutes later Urnt finally comes out with a messy shirt and sweat all over his body.
"Urnt how is he?" Lina asked immediately when she saw Urnt.
Urnt cleared the sweat on his fore head with the only arm his has. "I managed to heal up the big wound he has on his chest, but for some strange reason the wound starts to open every now in then. If it continues like to open up I'm afraid that he might die…"
"What? How can that be! Didn't you heal him?"
"I did, but this sounds very strange and very different to me for this to keep happening. It is almost like he's losing all his will to live!"
"WHAT? How can that be? I don't understand……"
"He needs to be watched so that the wound doesn't open up. If the wound really opens up he will lose more blood and will die for sure."
"And isn't he even awake?"
"Not at all……its like he entered in coma because of the attack that Air Jay gave him. I……I don't think he will make it……"
Lina didn't even bother to reply, she just pushes Urnt aside and enters the room where is Gourry. She sees him lying on the bed with out his shirt and with bandages covering his torso.
She slowly walks to his bed and kneels down to him and hold down to his hand. "Gourry……Gourry don't you dare leave me…… you can't go……not when I have so much I want to say to you……please Gourry don't go…… I need you…."and Lina rest her head next to his, crying.
To be continued……
Ramon: Air Jay is finally gone here, people!
Sunny: but now Gourry is in a bit of a jam here, will he survive?
Maliska: please send us your reviews, we want to know what do you think of this fic.
