Disclaimer: I don't own Slayers
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Lina walked over by the port watching the baots sail by. She somehow managed to calm down after leaving Zelgadiss's house and was walking along side the port. She leaned against the railing and just let the salt water air blow against her as she looked out over the water.
"So it's come down to this, huh?" She asked no one in particular.
"What do you mean?" Tastuko asked.
"This whole thing. It was all conected. Zel's dreams, my power, you, the legends, everything that's happened since Amelia came along." Lina replied.
"Is it really that bad that you're so worried about it?" Tastuko asked. Lina shook her head.
"I'm sure by now you know my feeling's for Gourry," Lina said, "Since he's the reincarnation of Yurikawa...doesn't that mean that he's...in love with Kasuga?" Kasuga was Yurikawa's wife. They were both deeply in love before fate pulled them apart. Yurikawa, abanded by his own men on a deserted island, and Kasuga thrown in jail for refusing to marry anyone else.
"What are you saying?" Tatsuko asked, looking at Lina. She gave a surprised gasp, "Lina...you're crying...?" Lina wiped the tears away from her eyes.
"I'm not crying," She said. But it didn't convince Tatsuko one bit.
"Lina, Kasuga is dead. She has been for many years now." Tatsuko said trying to cheer her up. Lina shook her head as the tears continued to fall.
"They say that...when someone dies they get sent to the moon. Most young children believe that story. I used to believe it too, that my grandma had gone to the moon. But it just goes along with the legend of Kaguya. And since that legend is true then what about that! What if that's true and Kasuga is there. I'll loose Gourry.." She whispered. Tatsuko looked over at Lina. She couldn't help but feel pity for her. She remember's going through Lina's memories while she was asleep the night of Phibrizzos attack, and finding that both her parent's had died in a car accident when she was ten years old. Luna had to use the money frm her part time job as a waitress to look after them both, snce they didn't have any other relatives to stay with and they refused to go to the orphanage. Gourry was the only friend she ever had untill high school where she met Zelgadiss. But Gourry had a special friendship with Lina for many years. And that friendship soon turned to love for Lina. If Kasuga was on the moon, then there's no telling what would happen.
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Gourry had left to find Lina after her little outburst at Zelgadiss' place while Amelia stayed behind and treated his woulnds with some magic.
"That should do it." Amelia said finishing the last of the healing. Zelgadiss looked at his arm for a moment before shaking his head.
"This is so confusing." He muttered.
"Well I don't see what's so confusing about it." Amelia responded with a little bit of anger.
"Maybe not to you, but to us it is. We've only believed these stories as legends, then all of a sudden we wind up finding out that they're real. Amelia we weren't brought up the way you were." Zelgadiss said.
"You would have if Rezo hadn't killed your parent's." Amelia muttered.
"What did you say?" Zelgadiss snapped. Amelia jumped and looked up at him, "Listen Amelia, I don't know how you found out about my grandfather, but never bring up what he did to my family again! Understand?" Amelia nodded.
"So-Sorry Zelgadiss." She whispered.
"And in anycase, what do my parent's have to do with it anyway?" Zelgadiss asked with less fury this time.
"You're a desendant of The Fox Wife." Amelia said.
"The Fox Wife?" Zelgadiss asked.
"The legend about Shinkichi who took care of a young women who was ill. When she got better, she helped him in the feilds as thanks and they soon got married and had a son. Morime got sick one year and Shinkichi neglected his feilds untill his son was better but he didn't hake it in time to start planting. When he woke up one morning His fields were planted but the seedlings were planted upside down. When he told his wife, she ran outside and changed into a silver fox, and sang a song that made the seedling's turn rightside up, then dissapeared asking Shinkichi to take care of Morime. When the rice collecters came he didn't have to pay a lot of tax but when they left the rice grew." Amelia explained, then looked up at Zelgadiss, "I believe you know the song."
"Ah, be mercifull, do feed my son. When the inpsectors come to check the field, show them a poor yeild of rice." Zelgadiss sang softly, looking down. "That song?" He asked. Amelia nodded and tilted his face to look over at her.
"Zelgadiss please, trust me. Trust all of us..."She whispered. Zelgadiss looked away.
"I can't," he said, "I bearly trust Lina and Gourry as well. Dispite the fact that they're my friends I just find it hard to open up to anyone."
"Well you can trust me, Zel. I know you can. All you gotta do is open your heart and let us in. Don't take all your troubles on by yourself. You're not alone anymore," Amelia whispered, resting her head on his cheast and wrapping her arms around him, "Just because we're not blood related doesn't mean that we're not family. Friends can be a different kind of family, but we all care and love each other, even if we aren't couples." Zelgadiss froze and let the words that Amelia was saying sink in. Without thinking, he lifted his arms and returned the embrace, pulling her closer to him. Amelia looked shocked for a moment then relaxed.
"Alright Amelia," He whispered into her hair, "You win." Amelia smiled to herself, but injoyed the feeling of his arms around her. She didnt know what it was, but whenever she was with Zelgadiss she couldn't help but act the way she is. Zelgadiss felt the same thing only, Amelia's the only girl who's ever gotten him to open up like this. Infact, she's the only person to ever make him feel this way. Why?
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Gourry soon found Lina by the port crying against the fence. Just as he was anout to approch her he heard her speak. Probably to Tatsuko he thinks.
"They say that...when someone dies they get sent to the moon. Most young children believe that story. I used to believe it too, that my grandma had gone to the moon. But it just goes along with the legend of Kaguya. And since that legend is true then what about that! What if that's true and Kasuga is there. I'll loose Gourry.." She whispered. Gourry stood there and watched her cry. What did she mean by that? Shaking his head he walked up to her.
"Lina...?" He said. Lina looked up in a start and stared at him for a moment before bursting into tears and running to him. She buiried her face in his cheast as she cried.
"Don't leave me Gourry," She whispered, "Onegai...Soba ni ite...onegai..." Gourry pulled her close and let her cry into his cheast.
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okay there. A little A/Z moment and a little L/G moment. for translation reference, Soba ni ite means stay by my side and Onegai means please. I may just slap in a few other Japanese words here and there throughout the fic and give translation notes for them but only once.
in any case R&R