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Chapter 5: New Developments

"Where have that golden dragon and Lina Inverse gone to?" Valgauve said out loud to no one in particular back at his base. "I must find the one who killed Lord Guave. I wouldn't mind getting rid of the golden dragon either."

Above Marina, the sorcerer who governed the land (Lord Marcel) was wondering who had destroyed part of his town, his precious source of labor and money. He was also wondering who had stolen the treasure that the bandit gang was bringing to him. "That contained the talisman that would make awakening my dragon much more simple. Now I have to do it the long way. I will find out who stole it and let them be the dragon's first target."

A few hours later found everyone sitting around a table at an inn, seeing as Lina refused to camp out unless she absolutely had to. The hunters watched with their mouths hanging open the amount of food that Lina, Gourry, and Amelia managed to put into themselves. After dinner, Lina pulled out a bag of treasure to pay for the meal.

"I should beat up some more bandits tomorrow; this money won't last forever." She sighed as she paid the bill.

"You will always be Lina Inverse the bandit killer, won't you Miss Lina?" Amelia said as she settled back in her chair.

"Bandit killer?" Gateau asked at the comment.

"Well, where we come from, Miss Lina has a reputation of being a bandit killer, among other things." Amelia said leaving out the other titles knowing it would earn her a fireball.

"Darling! Why don't you come over here by me and keep me company?" Chocolate called out from the sofa she was sitting on.

"No way! Hey Amelia, would you like to have some fun tonight?" Carrot said in response as he casually dropped his arm down on her shoulders.

Zelgadis glared at Carrot, causing him to back off. He thought, "All that leaves is Filia, the dragon lady. Oh well, she's certainly gorgeous enough."

Carrot ventured over to Filia, who knew what he was about to do and whipped mace-sama and swung it at him. He bounced off the walls a few times and then landed on the floor, next to Tira, who hit him over the head.

"Doesn't he ever stop?" Lina asked Marron, whom she and Zel had been discussing their different types of magic with.

"No, not really, but you get used to it." He answered.

At that time Xellos chose to reappear.

"It's about time you showed up again." Lina said, and then continued. "What are you doing here anyways?"

"Now that.is a secret." Xellos responded.

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"FLARE ARROW! FIREBALL!" Lina was shouting out as she beat up on the bandits who had come back to attack the one who had defeated them.

Zelgadis was sitting quietly by a tree reading a book, Filia was sipping some tea, and Gourry was just waiting for Lina to finish up.

"FREEZE ARROW!" Amelia shouted out, since she was helping Miss Lina defeat those who were unjust.

Carrot, Tira, and Chocolate were just watching the show. Marron ventured over by Zelgadis and asked, "Is she always like this?"

"Yeah, that's one person you do not want to get on the bad side of." Zelgadis responded as he turned back to his book.

"Wow.is she always this destructive?" Gateau asked Gourry as he watched.

"Actually, she's usually more destructive. She's going easy on them." Gourry responded as he plopped down to the grass, realizing that Lina was going to go at it for a while.

"So, those are the ones who stole my treasure." Lord Marcel said as he looked through his orb that allowed him to spy on all the people of his land. "Now that I know who they are I'll have to take care of the problem."

"Are you sure that she is that far away?" Valguave asked Gravos.

"Yeah Lord Valguave, one of the sailors from their ship washed back up on the coast and said that the boat had gone off course in that direction." Gravos answered.

"Well then; I shall have to pay them a visit." Valguave responded as he phased out.

"That felt so good! I really needed that." Lina said as she stretched her arms and headed back to everyone with more treasure.

"It always feels so nice to bring the unjust to justice!" Amelia responded in a singsong voice from the top of a tree.

"So Lina Inverse. I have found you once again." Came a voice from nowhere.

"That voice! Valguave!" Lina said as she saw the monster appear.

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Here's the next part for you! Sorry about the delay, but I'm at home here over my semester break, and for internet I'm stuck using a free trial of a bad server. so it's been hard to get my regular sites to work. but I'll stop rambling now. Please review!