Hey everyone. This may be the last chapter. Yay! Well maybe not 'Yay!' I still haven't gotten a single review. So please if you like the story I'm begging for you to review. I hope you will enjoy the story.
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It had been nearly a month since Lina and her friends had parted from Jing and Kir and things were nearly back to normal for them. Gourry was back to his usual idiot self, Zelgadis and Amelia both had nearly forgotten the entire ordeal. As for Lina, she just acted the same as she always did, except that now she was getting much more enjoyment out of blowing up bandits.
"Haha, did you see those bandits cower." They were now sitting in an inn eating a feast at their usual pace. Lina was also taking the time to enjoy the suffering she had inflicted on a bandit gang earlier that day.
"Miss Lina do you really think it always necessary to be so cruel to them. I know that they are enemies of justice but even so..."
"Ah, don't worry about them Amelia. Let's just eat..."
Zelgadis and Gourry both look up from their meals at Lina's sudden stopping in the middle of her sentence. What they look up to is a slightly green Lina looking at her food in disgust before cupping a hand over her mouth and running to the restroom.
"Lina..."
"Miss Lina?" Amelia gets up and follows the red headed sorcerous to the restroom and hears her vomiting. "Miss Lina, are you alright?" She peeks her head in and sees Lina leaning over the toilet, still looking ill.
Lina turns to Amelia, "I'm fine Amelia, I must have just eaten something that was rotten."
Lina's lack of temper made Amelia even more worried. "Mr. Zelgadis, Mr. Gourry, something's wrong with Miss Lina!" She rushes to Lina's side and puts a hand to her forehead.
Zelgadis had gotten up and walked over to the restroom door, Gourry was already there looking worried. "What are we going to do? What if someone poisoned her food?"
Lina had finished retching at this point and opened the door to the restroom, "My food wasn't poisoned Gourry."
"But Miss Lina..."
"I must have some kind of stomach bug or something. I'll just head over to a healer and get checked out before we head out."
This quelled any further inquires into how she was feeling from her companions.
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WIthin the hour Lina had tracked down a healer's shop with Amelia and was opening the door to enter.
"Amelia you didn't need to come with me, I'm sure it's nothing."
"Miss Lina I only came because I'm worried. You never get sick."
Lina takes a calming breath and smiles winningly at her friend. "Yeah, but even so. Beside I don't even feel nauseous anymore."
That ended their conversation as at that point a middle aged woman stepped out from the back room of the shop.
"How may I help you young things?"
"Ah, well I was not really feeling well this morning and I told my friends that I would see a healer about why." Lina looks a bit sheepish, "Though it seems to have passed."
The healer smiles gently, "I see," She turns to Amelia, "You may wait out here, this shouldn't take very long." She turns to go back into the back, "This way please Miss."
Lina follows the woman into the back room. The room is rather simple. Three beds come out from the wall opposite the door separated by wooden partitions, curtains hang from the ceiling to block the view from the door. The beds were all vacant at the moment so the curtains were drawn back. The healer motions towards the center bed and Lina goes to sit down on it while the healer pulls over a chair from the corner to sit next to it.
"Alright, so you said you weren't feeling well this morning?"
Lina Shifts nervously and nods, "I had barely had any breakfast before I ran to the restroom and brought up what I had eaten."
The older woman nods, "I see, and you feel fine now?"
Another nod from Lina.
"Have you bee feeling like this often lately, going between feeling nauseous and feeling fine?"
Lina shakes her head, "No, this was the first time I've felt like that." Lina looks at the healer worriedly, "Why is it going to continue like that for a while or something?"
"Hmm, please lay down." Lina does and the healer prods her stomach gently, a soft white light gathering at her fingertips as she does so. "How long has it been since your last cycle?"
Lina coughs in surprise and makes to get up, "What does that have to do with this? Its not cramps or anything, that much I'd be able to figure out without help."
The healer gently pushes Lina back onto the bed, "Humor an old woman then."
Lina lays back down and thinks for a moment, eyes closed. "I suppose... It must have been about a month and a half ago." Lina's mouth twisted a bit, "I guess its a bit late, probably stress."
"And who was the young man you laid with?"
Lina's eyes shoot open and she looks in surprise at the healer, "No way! It was only one time! You, you can't be serious." Lina almost looks pleading, hoping the woman is just pulling her leg.
"You may want to inform him before it becomes more noticeable." The healer stands and heads over to a wall full of shelves with various healing items, mostly herbs and potions, "I'll give you something for the nausea, but it should abate in a few weeks on its own."
Lina sits up and stares in shock, swallowing dryly. "What am I going to do? Sis is going to kill me if she finds out."
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Amelia had been waiting in the front of the shop for nearly half an hour, she was starting to get antsy. Just as Amelia was about to go over and knock on the door to the back room it opens and Lina and the healer make their way out.
"Thank you." Lina turns to the healer, pulling out some coins from her bag and handing them to the healer.
"It's no problem, you take care dear."
Lina heads over to Amelia and puts on a forced smile, alright Amelia, let's go, the boys are probably getting anxious to move on." As she opens the door, Amelia close behind she continues speaking, "Why don't head back to Seyruun?"
"Miss Lina is everything alright?"
They are out on the street now and heading back to the Inn where they had left the boys, "Huh. No everything is fine. Just a simple stomach bug. She gave me something for it, I'll be fine."
Amelia doesn't seem convinced but stays silent, if Lina didn't want to worry her she would respect that.
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Later that day they four were traveling again. They were headed for Seyruun as Lina had requested.
Lina walked at the front of the group lost in thought. She was thinking about what the healer had told her, she hadn't expected this. She needed to tell Jing. She pulls out the paper he had slipped her with the information on how to contact him and began making plans to write a letter. She'd get it to this Postino guy and tell him to deliver it Jing. Sighing she looks to the sky, silently praying that it wouldn't take too long for her letter to get to Jing.
Gourry is hanging back to the rear of the group, Zelgadis and Amelia walking side by side ahead of him. He hadn't been convinced earlier when Lina had told them everything was fine and that they didn't need to worry about her. Her suggestion to head to Seyruun was strange, but she was like that. The other didn't seem to think too much about it so he resigned him to just accepting that Lina was just being Lina.
When they stopped for the night Lina separated herself from the group saying she had to go take care of something and that she would be right back.
Gourry didn't really want to let her go off by herself, but she managed to convince him to let her via a fireball.
Out in the the woods, out of earshot of her friends, but not too far from them, Lina pulls out a piece of paper and a pen and writes her short letter before sealing it and pulling out the paper with the instructions on how to contact Postino. It was a type of summoning spell, looking it over one last time she puts it away and casts the spell. Within a few moments she hears a rumbling and looks around as a guy on a strange device rides up to her. (AN: I know it's an old style motorcycle, but those things aren't really something Lina is familiar with and this is more or less from her POv right now, so she doesn't know what it is.)
Putting on foot firmly on the ground as a kick stand the man, Postino, looks over to Lina, "Well hello. You're new, did someone give you my number?"
Lina looks at the contraption that he's sitting on, the rumbling had softened but was still present, "Uh, yeah. Jing told me that you could get a message to him if I needed to contact him."
"Jing?" Postino looks a bit surprised but recovers from it rather quickly. "So you have a message for him?"
"Yeah." Lina hands her letter to him, "It's really important that he get this as soon as possible."
He takes the letter and looks Lina over quickly, "Alright I'll be sure to get it to him. Take care." And with that he takes of as he came, the rumbling of his machine the last thing to speak of his presence there.
Sighing Lina heads back to the others.
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Alright so, been a long time and finally I got a review (yay!). So we all know what made Lina sick right? Hope you all enjoy and please review.
