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The day's went by smoothly afterwards. Lina practiced in secret with the new talismans that Xellos had givin her and had almost managed to perfect the Ragna Blade. Almost. Gourry too had gotten better at the Sword of light, managing to harness it's power to almost 100 and Zelgadiss spent alot of time with Amelia. Why? She specialized in shamanism and white magic. He wanted to learn more about shamanism and was learning quickly. Amelia often found him in the library with a new book in his hands. She would usually smile, sit down with him for a bit, then leave. So most of the time she didn't really see him unless he wanted to learn a new spell. Amelia sighed as she sat down on one of the benches.

Is there some problem with him wanting to come out of there every once in a while and take a break? She thought, then shook her head.

"Hey Amelia!" Lina's voice cut through her thoughts. Amelia looked up and smiled as she saw Lina and Tatsuko walk up to her.

"Hey, what's up?" She asked. Lina sighed and plopped down next to Amelia.

"Nothing really. Just really bored. I don't have anything to do at the moment." She responded.

"Me neither." Amelia said looking up into the sky. Just then an idea come to her, "Wanna go down to earth for a bit?" She asked.

"Say what-?!" Lina and Tatsuko both said at the same time. Amelia just laughed.

"Surely you want to go home for a bit?" Amelia asked, "Just a small visit." Lina's face brightened up at first, then slowly, she looked down.

"No," She said, "It would be better if we stay here. Things have been too quiet these past few day's. We can't let our gaurd down though. We don't know when Helmaster's gonna attack again." Amelia sighed.

"You have a point there." She muttered, "Well how about comming into town with me? I'll show you around and we can get some great snacks?"

"Like what? Moon-cheese?" Lina asked sarcastically.

"Is that a problem?" Amelia asked. Lina nearly jumped right out of her seat.

"There's moon-cheese!?" She asked. Amelia nodded and Lina just stared at her with bugg eyes, "...now way."

"This is DELICIOUS!" Lina yelled out as she continued to chomp down on some more of the moon-cheese at one of the taverns. Amelia and Tatsuko just laughed.

"It taste's completly different to the stuff you eat on earth. Personaly I didn't like it very much." Amelia said.

"You can say that again." Lina said, "When this is over and we have to go back to earth, remind me to grab some before we leave."

"Is all you can think about food?" Tatsuko asked with a bemused look on her face. Lina looked over at her with a sly grin.

"Food? Yeah, I think of all kinds of food." She responded. Tatsuko paled a little but laughed.

"Yeah, like Gourry for instance?" She asked playfully. Lina blushed.

"You didn't have to say it aload!" She snapped. Tatsuko burst into laughter and Amelia giggled a little.

"Look's like your little scheme backfired, huh Lina?" Amelia asked. Lina just groaned. Amelia laughed again then went over and grabbed Lina's hand pulling her up.

"Come on! I'll show you the best sight up here!" She exlaimed.

"Uh...okay." Lina said grabbing the rest of her cheese and followong Amelia with Tatsuko not far behind. Amelia stopped when they got outside the city gates moving just farther away from it before sitting down and pointing up to the night sky. Lina sat down next to her and looked up where she was pointing. She gaped. Her eyes widened at the sight before her.

"I've...I've never seen the sky so...clear. So...So many stars." She marvled. Amelia smiled.

"That's not just any night sky Lina, That's the milky-way." She said. Lina looked over at her shock.

"The milky way!?" Lina asked in total shock. Amelia nodded.

"When I was on earth, I couldn't see any of the stars or canstalations...well maybe a few...but still, looking at this sky is far more pretty than the one back on earth." She said.

"You're missing out on one thing though." Tatsuko cut in, her gaze never leaving the sky.

"What's that?" Amelia asked.

"The sunset, and sunrise." Lina and Tatsuko said simultaneously. Amelia looked at then for a moment then back out into the sky.

"I wouldn't know." She whispered.

"The sky get's filled with colour." Lina whispered, "Alot of the time it goes a crimson shade, with yellow and orange mixed in."

"Like the northern lights?" Amelia asked. Tatsuko shook her head.

"The Arora changes all different colours, green and blue for example, where as during sunset, you only get the colours red, yellow and orange." She explained. Lina shook her head then looked back up.

"I'm starting to feel a little home sick now." Lina muttered.

"We've only got a few more weeks till the next new moon. Either we take the fight to hellmaster, or he need's to hurry up and attack soon." Tatsuko snapped.

"That's what he'd be expecting us to think." Amelia whispered, "Remember, this is all a game to him." Lina nodded then gasped a little as she felt something pulse through her.

"Lina?" Tatsuko asked. Lina trembled a minute before standing up and running into the city, heading strait for the castle.

"You think something's happening?" Amelia asked getting up and running after her.

"No!" Tatsuko yelled, "It has something to do with Gourry. I can feel it." Lina didn't stop running untill she reached the castle. She pushed through the gates and ran strait for the courtyard, stopping suddenly at the entrence. Tatsuko and Amelia ran strait into her back but Lina didn't even notice them. Her eye's were wide at what she say before her. Amelia looked over and gasped slightly.

Standing there was Sylphiel and Gourry. Only Sylphiel had pulled Gourry down and was kissing his lips. Gourry's face was full of shock and his eye's seemed to be the size of dinner plates they were so wide. Lina made a small sqeek like sound in the back of her throught, alerting them that they had bystanders. Sylphiel pulled back in a jerky sort of fasion before noticing Lina, Amelia, and Tatsuko staring at them. Gourry's eyes, if possible, seemed to grow even wider at the sight of Lina being there.

"L-Lina? I-It's not...It's not what you think." Gourry said, trying his best to stop Lina from exploding, only she never was. She just stood there staring at him, then stared back at Sylphiel. An icey glare crept onto her face.

"I see your game." She whispered, "If this is how you're gonna play, then don't expect me to hold back either." With that, Lina spun around on her heal and headed upstairs. Tatsuko followed her in pursuit while Amelia just stood there watching the two of them leave before turning her attention to Gourry and Sylphiel.

"Miss Sylphiel? Why?" Was all she could muster up to say. Sylphiel looked at her then looked down to the ground.

"We made a deal, Miss Lina and I, and I won't loose to her." Her voice sounded determind yet at the same time sad.

"And Gourry's the prize?!" Amelia shrieked, "He's just a person! How can you do something like this! He has feeling's too you know! I don't think he want's to be used as some prize in your compitition!"

"It's not as simple as you think!" Sylphiel snapped, leaving Gourry and Amelia completly off gaurd.

"I don't want to make a compitition out of this! But he has to choose which one he'll take! Me or Lina! It's his choice! And Miss Lina's being so...so...serious about the whole thing! It's not just his choice anymore, it's ours! And Miss Lina wont give up without a fight, so if that's what she want's then that's what she'll get!" With that, Sylphiel ran out of the courtyard and headed to her bedroom on the other side of the palace. Amelia watched with wide eyes as she left.

"This is...so not like her." She whispered. She heard a chair being pulled out and looked over at Gourry who sat down on it with a groan. She rested his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands.

"Why must I choose!" He yelled, "I didn't ask for this!" Amelia sighed and walked over to him, she bent don slightly and put a hand on his shoulder.

"It's alright, Gourry. It's natural for you to be confused, concidering the circumstances." She whispered.

"But I...I want to choose Lina, I do but I...I just can't! I don't know why, but I can't! Why can't there just be two of me..." He whispered. Amelia looked at him then sighed. What was she supposed to say. There was nothing she could, really. When Lina's not with Gourry, Sylphiel's after his heart, but when she's not, Lina is. She really couldn't understand his predicament, but she wished there was something she could do to help him.

"Do both of them a favor though." She whispered. Gourry looked up at her in confusion.

"What is it." He asked.

"Do not let either of them get you involved enough to go to the final level you understand?" She asked, "Not untill you're sure that's who you want to choose. Because if it happens with Sylphiel, you'll loose Lina completly. And I don't mean she won't talk to you anymore, I mean she'll cease to exist."

"What?" Gourry asked, his eyes wide with shock.

"I know that with Miss Sylpheil, that will happen for sure, but for Lina, she'll be around, but as an empty shell and Tatsuko will be the host of her body untill this mess is over. Then everything returns to normal and Lina will dissapeare." Amelia explained.

"No!" Gourry cried out, jumping out of his seat, "That can't happen! Not to Lina!"

"I have plans for that child." A voice sounded through the air. Amelia and Gourry both jumped pout of surprise.

"Who's there?" Amelia asked.

"That you needn't worry about. Whether Gourry chooses Lina or Sylphiel doesn't matter. Either way the girl is mine." WIth that the voice dissapeared into the night. Amelia let out a breath then ran off.

"Amelia where are you going!?" Gourry cried out after her.

"To find Xellos! I'm sure he'll know who that was!" She yelled back before dissapearing around the corner. Just as she tunred the corner, Luna came around and looked back at her before walking over to Gourry.

"What's with her?" She asked. Gourry looked at her then shook his head.

"It's nothing." He lied. Luna shrugged.

"So what's up with Lina? She seems to be in one of those 'I won't loose to a dirty cheater like you' mode." She asked. Gourry let out a small laugh.

"It's the whole reincarntion thing again. Lina and Sylphiel are at each others throughts. Yet Lina did the same thing before so I don't see what she's so worked up about. Well I do but, you get the picture." He said. Luna laughed. That's Lina alright. Always getting worked up over the silliest things.

"Let me guess, She say Sylphiel kissing you?" She asked. Gourry's eyes widened.

"How'd you know?" He asked.

"Oh so that is what happened." Luna said raising an eyebrow, "And you and Lina have kissed before?" Gourry blushed slightly then nodded. Luna giggled then walked off.

"You're life is just fulla girls kissin' ya ain't it!?" She yelled over her shoulder. Gourry just sighed. It was true. Even back on earth he ended up having girls show up out of nowhere and kiss him. Of course Lina wouldn't stand for that and ended up yelling at them and chasing them away. He laughed as he remembered all that happening. Even then she was jeleous, and he didn't notice untill now. Of course untill now there wasn't any reason for her to admit anything like that. He shook his head and decided to do what everyone else was doing. Head to their room and get some shut eye.

Sorry for the long update everyone! I kinda had a small surgery. Honestly, nothing big, just got my wisdom teath removed, then I ended up having two tests and I got sick this weekend, but still got up to finish the chapter...EVEN THOUGH THE BASEMENT ISN'T EXACLT THE IDEAL PLACE TO SPENDYOUR TIME WITH A COLD! I'm okay. really. Okay rather random chapter but whatever.

R&R please, but don't expect updates as often as they used to be. (mumbled) stupid moving...stress.