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Mazenda chuckled as Lina started to chant her spell. Lina paused and looked over at her.

"What are you laughing at you bitch!?" She snapped. Mazenda smirked.

"What do you think. I understand that you can use her powers but do you honestly think you can summon a spell of that power while you are here on earth?" She asked. Lina's eyes widened in surprise and let the magic die down.

"Wha...what?" She asked. Mazenda smirked.

"Come now dont you know? Here on earth your magical capacity is weakened. Summoning a spell such as that would be sure impossible to do." She said. Lina cursed under her breath. She totaly forgot about that. She remembered when Amelia first explained to them about Hellmaster she also said that her magic as weakened here. How could she be so forgetfull.

"I'll just have to figure out another way." She said. Mazenda gave off a laugh.

"And how do you expect to do that? I'm a Mazoku remember. I'm middle ranking, not like those lesser demons who are so easily defeated." She said.

"You can't use the Dragon Slave so don't even think about it!" Tatsuko snapped at Lina.

Then what am I supossed to do?! Lina snapped back, Damnit! If only there was a way I could destroy her without hurting anyone here.

"What's going on here?!" A male voice called out. Lina paled.

"Principle Rithahn! Don't come here!" She warned. To late though. Mazenda caught sight of him and dissapeared and reappered behind him pulling him into a headlock. The principle froze. Lina glared at her.

"Let him go! He has nothing to do with this!" She said.

"Oh I believe he does," Mazenda said with a sly smile spread over her face, "You see Lina, Just like those girls there are involved in this matter, your sister Luna and this man here knew of it too."

"What!?" Selena and Merlena shreiked.

"You mean you didn't know? He's the duke for the moon kingdom. Duke Rithahn. He also helps with Magical lessons." Mazenda said. Lina clutched her hands by her side and glared at her.

"Why you..." She muttered before Tatsuko cut her off.

"Lina your amplifiers!" She said. Lina stopped and looked down at her rists were the amplifiers were before smirking.

"I'm afraid it's time to despose of you now. Nice playing with you though." She said. Mazenda laughed.

"And what exactly can you do? I told you, you can't win!" With that she let out another laugh.

"Sorry but I don't see what's so funny." Lina muttered under her breath before crossing her arms over her cheast, lining up the amplifiers and focusing her energy as they started to glow.

"Lord of Darkness of the four worlds, grant me all the power that you possess," Mazenda's eyes widened.

"What...?"

"Lord of the dreams that terrify, sword of cold and darkness, free youself from the heavens bond. Become one with my power, one with my body, and let us walk the path of destruction together, power that can smash even the souls of the gods. RAGNA BLADE!" Lina realeased the power words and felt the magic flow through her body as a sword of pure darkness appeared in her hands. She felt her body weaken slightly as her energy was being drawn to help power the blade.

"What?! No it's not possible!" Mazenda shrieked letting go of Duke Rithahn and taking a step back. Rithahn to that moment to launch an Elmekia lance at her which hit her strait on. Mazenda grunted in pain. Lina managed to smirk at her before taking a step forward. Mazenda shook her head and then turned around to start running but was stopped by a figure.

"I don't think so." He said in a dangerous tone. Lina's eyes widened.

"Gourry?!"

"Forget about it Lina! Focus on killing her then ask questions." Tatsuko said. Lina nodded in agreement. Taking a few steps forward she broke out into a run. Mazenda's look at her frantically before thinking of telleporting out of there. Just as quickly as she though it she found she couldn't move. Looking down she noticed a dagger pinned into her shadow.

A shadow snap? She though in surprise.

"Sorry but you're not going anywhere." Marlena said. She had been the one to cast the spell on her. Mazenda gasped, but that was the last thing she could do before Lina jumped up and brought the sword down right through her body letting out a cry as she did so. Lina landed on the ground infront of her as Mazenda's body turned to dust right before them. Lina let the sword go as she fell down herself, panting. Gourry ran over to her and put a hand on her shoulder. Lina looked up at him.

"What...are you doing here...Gourry?" She asked breathlessly. The next thing she felt was a sharp pain through her cheak, her head turned slightly. She placed a hand over her cheak and looked at him in shock. Gourry had just slapped her. A few whispers and gasps went through the croud that was watching them.

"Wha..?"

"What the hell did you think you were doing!?" He snapped. Lina looked at him still clutching her face where he had hit her, "You think just because you're hurt and you've had enough of that place you can just leave without telling anyone!? Only your feelings count am I right!? Well you're wrong Lina! I'm having a hard time with this as well!" Lina felt tears fall down her face. She had never seen him so angry at her before. Gourry took a deep breath and ran a hand thorugh his hair. He still wore his stuff from back on the moon.

"Listen Lina, she came onto me okay. I'm telling you right now, I'm going to be choosing you," Lina looked up at this in shock and was about to say something but he carried on talking, "If you leave, we don't have as good a chance of deafeting him than we would if you were there.You're the most powerfull sorceress they have. If he doesn't get destroyed, then both the earth and the moon will get destroyed as well. Then what? We'll have nothing. we'll be dead and wont be able to be together. Even if we did survive where would we go? Is that what you want?" Lina shook her head before managing to reply in a small voice.

"No..." She whispered, "...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry." She leaned her head against his cheast allowing her tears to flow freely. Gourry sighed before managing a weak smile.

"It's okay. Now let's head back okay." He said. Lina looked back up at him and smiled before nodding. Gourry smiled again and leaned down and gave her a quick kiss before getting up and helping her up as well. Once up Lina felt a hand on her shoulder. Looking behind her she saw Rithahn standing there behind them. He looked over at her with a serious look.

"What is it, sir?" She asked, not quite sure what to expect. She was so used to being sent to his office on a regular basis she didn't really know what he was going to do now that she learned the truth about him. She had just ended up in a fight with a Mazoku and now the whole school basicaly knows what's going on.

"When you get back, don't tell them about this okay." He said.

"Eh?!" Duke Rithahn laughed at their reaction before waving a hand.

"Don't worry we can clean up this mess, right Marlena?" Marlena looked at him a little shocked at first before smiling and nodding.

"You got it!" She said, before turning her attention to Ruuma, "It's up to you girl!" Ruuma nodded and chanted a small spell under her breath. Just as she finished it a bunch of octopi appeared out of no where and attached themselves to the heads of all the students who had just witnessed what had happened. After a moment they dissapeared.

"Wha..?"

"What are we doing here?"

"Did we do something?"

"What's the principle doing out here?"

Lina looked around at them just as confused as they were. She looked over at Ruuma who was just smiling away like nothing at all had happened.

"Ruuma what did you do?" Lina asked.

"Nothing, just erased the memory of this incident." Ruuma replied, her smile never leaving her face.

"With...Octo...pi?" Lina asked, her face twitching slightly.

"Is that a problem?" Ruuma asked. Lina placed a hand over her forhead.

"No...Not at all." She muttered. Just then a shreik was heard from one of the girls.

"It's Gourry! Gourry's here!" Just as it was said a swarm of girls showed up and surrounded him asking him all sorts of questions like 'where he had been' or 'are you alright', and other stuff. Lina stood off to the side staring at this before her face went hard. She quickly started pushing her way through the croud. Once she was through she grabbed the front of Gourry's Kimono shirt and pulled him down, kissing him. Gourry's eyes went wide for a moment before returning the kiss. There were a couple of gasps and some girls actually started crying. Lina broke the kiss when she heard this and smiled to herself before grabbing Gourry's hand and running out of the school premises.

Gourry walked silently through the halls of the kingdom. He couldn't stop thinking about what happened between him, Sylphiel, and Lina. Speaking of which he hadn't seen Lina all day. It was starting to worry him. He'd looked everywhere. Her room, the library, kitchen, garden, even the town but she was nowhere to be found. he tried asking Amelia and Luna but they said not to worry about it and that she just needed some time alone. That didn't really help much.

"Where is she?" He woundered out load. Just then he noticed Zelgadiss walking through towards the library. Maybe he knew where Lina was. Running he called out to him. Zelgadiss stopped and looked up at him.

"What's up, Gourry?" He asked.

"Have you seen Lina? I'm worried, I haven't seen her all day." Gourry said. Something seened to flash across Zelgadiss' face but he shook his head.

"Sorry Gourry. I dunno where she could-"

"Oh quit your lieing." Both men jumped when they heard the voice. Standing there, well flaoting being the more appropriate word, was Xellos. His usual cheerfull frace replaced with a frown. Of course his eyes were still closed, "You see, Miss Mazenda is attacking Lina right now."

"What?!" Zelgadiss yelled.

"Who's Mazenda? Is she from Hellmaster?" Gourry asked.

"Indeed she is. And Lina isn't fairing to well." Xellos answered, usually I wouldn't have a problem with this but Lina is our most powerfull sorceress, and since she's on earth her powers have been cut in half."

"On Earth!?" Gourry freaked. Xellos nodded. Gourry turned to Zelgadiss.

"Did you guys know this?!" He asked.

"Well...yes actually." Zelgadiss said.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me?!" Gourry yelled.

"We didn't want you to worry. Also Lina needed to be alone for a while! You hurt her badly, you know!" Zelgadiss Argued, "Even if she put on a strong act, you should know better than any of us that she was hurting badly inside!" Gourry seemed taken back by Zelgadiss' words. He was silent for a moment before turning to Xellos, a serious look on his face.

"Send me back right now!" He demanded. Xellos shrugged.

"Whatever. I dont really care." With that he waved his hand and Gourry dissapeared in a flash of light.

"Oh, so that's how you got here." Lina muttered while sipping on some tea. After Lina had kissed him infront of the student body and ran off they had gone to Lina's home where Gourry had explained to Lina how he had gotten to earth.

"Yeah that's how. You really worried me Lina." Gourry said. Lina figited a little in her seat.

"I said I was sorry, didn I?" She said. Gourry smiled and leaned over and gave her a quick kiss.

"Yeah, you did." Gourry said. Lina smiled at him and leaned onto his cheast.

"You mind if we stay just one more day? Before we go back." She asked.

"I guess so." Gourry muttered wrapping an arm around her. Tatsuko sighed and looked at them.

"Sorry to interupt your love fest, Lina but what if something happens on the moon while the defences are low?" Tatsuko asked. Lina shurgged. If they need us they can contact us they can. Lina transmitted her thoughts back to her. Tatsuko rolled her eyes but laughed softly to herself. Fine, she'll let Lina have her quiet time with Gourry...just as long as nothing really serious happens between them.

gyaaaaaa! I added duke Rithahn to this! Dangit, my mind is running wild with all these idea's. For those who Don't know, Duke Rithahn is...I believe he's the head of the Atlas City sorceress guild. You find out about him in Vol 2 of the Slayers novels, though you never meet him. He's just mentioned. well, dinner calls. Happy Easter everyone!

R&R please.