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"Come on! It was an accident!" Lina whined. Luna stood over her, her face red with anger. After Kanzel had left the castle woke up, following which Lina got stuck in a room with a ver pissed of Luna, Filia, and Milgasia. All three upset over the portion of the castle that was blown apart by Lina's spell.

"How can blowing up part of the castle be an accident!" Luna snapped.

"It'll take forever to patch it up!" Filia yelled.

"It was my first time using the Dragon Slave!" Lina yelled back. The room went silent. Lina looked at them confused as they stared at her.

"Did you say...Dragon Slave?" Milgasia asked being the first to brake the silence. Lina nodded.

"But...no one has used that spell in ages." Filia marvelled, "How can you, a novice in the ways of magic, know how to use it?"

"Tatsuko...told me about it." Lina stuttered.

"When?" Luna asked. Lina started fiddling with her fingers.

"When...I first sow Sylphiel...I went to the library and started reading through books and came accross one about the Dragon Slave...Laguna Blast...Giga Slave-"

"Don't use that one!" Milgasia cut in.

"Which one?" Lina asked.

"The Giga Slave." Filia responded.

"Why? What's wrong with it? It's pretty powerfull...more than the Dragon Slave." Lina asked.

"That's exactly why Lina." Luna said. Lina looked at her confused. Luna sighed, "This conversation is over. Just don't use that spell, understand." Luna said. Lina looked at her for a moment then nodded.

"I understand." She said, "But I want to know if the Ragna Blade is all right? It come's from the same source after all." They all just stared at her in shock. Filia smiled a little then nodded.

"You'd need some sort of amplifier though. That's a very powerfull spell." She said.

"Yeah I know." Lina muttered, then left the room.

You could have helped me you know! She snapped silently to Tatsuko. Tatsuko just laughed.

"It was your mess. Why should I get involved?" She asked. Lina didn't answer, instead she mumbled something under her breath.

"What was that?" Tatuko asked appearing beside her.

"None of your buiseness." Lina muttered. Tatsuko sighed and just carried on walking next to her in silence.

"I wounder why you need amplyfiers for the Ragna Blade?" Lina muttered.

"It's a pretty powerfull spell Lina." Tatsuko said.

"I guess so...but I already know the chant." Lina muttered. Tatsuko just shrugged.

"You sound like a little kid." She said.

"Oh shut up!" Lina responded playfully.

Watching from a distance, unknown to the girls, Xellos watched from afar, a smile plying onto his lips.

"Yes...You are an interesting one, Lina Inverse. Most Interesting indeed." He said before vanishing.

The next day went by pretty quickly...well, for most of them anyway. Builders had started to rebuild the side of the castle where Lna had blown it away and Luna had called them all into the library. That's when the day started to go by slowly for some of them.

"Hey Luna, what's up?" Lina asked when they arrived in the library.

"You brought up an interesting fact yesturday. I figured you seem to be the only one who's done some research into their powers. Zelgadiss, you syill need to learn them, Gourry need's to figure out how to use the sword of light to its full capacity." Luna said with a smile.

"I see." Zelgadiss said, "That's all good and well, but shouldn't we be allowed to look up what we want freely?" Luna shook her head.

"Lina apparently was doing some magic research a couple of day's ago and came across a spell that...well it's very dangerous and no one is allowed to use it. Lina didn't know that untill yesturday." She explained.

"Oh yeah. Just bring me into the subject." Lina muttered.

"Anyway, you also need to know about the Mazoku's, Ryuzoku's and other types of clans, magical items, magical hystory, all different things. You can't just go blindly throwing spells aroung that you don't even know where it's comming from. Each spell comes from a different sorce." Luna explained.

"Well I'm already confused, and have apsolutly no idea what you're talking about." Gourry said.

"That's okay. You won't be needing to learn this stuff anyway. You just need to learn more about the sword of light." Luna said.

"Umm...okay." Gourry muttered.

"Great! He get's the easy stuff and we're stuck learning magical history and what-not." Lina muttered.

"It could be interesting." Zelgadiss said.

"I guess but it's so annoying. Do you understand different types of wards?" Lina snapped.

"What?" Zelgadiss asked.

"Exactly! It's some seriously complicated stuff. I know very lilttle about it." Lina said.

"And exactly how do you know about wards?" Luna asked making Lina jump.

"I uhhh well...a couple of years ago I got ahold of one of your books and it talked about how hexagrams and pentagrams act as different kinds of wards...or something like that." Lina stuttered.

"Do you know what each type of wards represents?" Luna asked. Lina stood there for a moment in thought.

"I think a hexagram is a ward that represents imbalace, so it strengthens black magic?" Lina asked.

"Go on." Luna said.

"And a pentagram is for balance so black magic is weakend while white magic is strengthend?" Lina asked again.

"Do you know why?" Luna asked.

"No. The book was kinda confusing so I kinda gave up after learning all that." Lina said nervously. Luna laughed.

"It's because white magic draws apon the balance of the world while Black magic draws apon imbalance. Get it?" Luna asked. Lina nodded.

"And a banashiment Pentagram is when all ofensive spells are diminished Completley?" Lina asked.

"Exactly. You catch on quickly." Luna said. Lina just gave a nervous laugh.

"I guess it is importmant to know some of this stuff." Zelgadiss said.

"So you ready to learn?" Luna asked. Lina and Zegadiss looked at each other for a moment before turning back to Luna and nodding. Luna smiled and led them to one of the table and pulled out some books on the different types of magic, Lina went strait for the black magic while Zelgadiss simply grabbed one of the books not really sure what he waned to learn about, or which type of magic he wanted to learn more in.

Wards are so easy when you're used to them but explaining them is so complicated! I had to go back to volume four of the novels to remember which ward was for which. lol. This ois starting to confuse me a bit. Just a little.

anyway R&R please.