Slayers Nightmares

The story is slow, but trust me, the action will come soon, maybe in this chapter, quite likely next chapter.

It was morning when Lina woke up next day.

The new group had bunked in Lydon and thawed out Naga, who was asleep by the time they got to her mouth.

Lina walked downstairs to find Gourry and Ian already waiting for her.

"Morning, sunshine," Gourry said.

"Morning, Gourry," Lina replied, already use to him saying that.

"How was the sleep?" Ian asked.

"Bad," Lina replied, fllowed by Naga laughing meniacly upstairs. "She woke up in the middle of the night."

"Who are you calling a 'she' Lina? OH HO HO HO HO!" came Naga from the stairs. "You pulled a nasty trick on me last night. I was so cold!"

"Maybe if you actually wore something, you wouldn't have gotten so cold," Ian said, out of the blue.

"Why you little-" Naga started tosay, but then she put her hand to her stomach. "Oh my. I haven't eaten in awhile. Ok, Lina, you get to pay for me." After that she sat down at the table.

"No, I'm not, Naga," Lina said. "Since I get free meals from this guy here," she waved at Ian, "I don't have to pay for you."

"What?!" Naga and Gourry both said at the same time. Lina totally forgot that she hadn't filled in Gourry on last nights raid, so she filled him and Naga in.

At the end of her speech, Ian asked Lina, "Is Gourry a companion of yours?"

"Yeah," Lina replied.

"Then I guess I'll pay for him, too," he said, casually.

"Alright! Free food for two months!" Gourry replied.

"What about me?!" Naga asked. "I'm one of Lina's companions too!"

"Considering the fact that I added Mr. Gourry on my deal, I'm cutting it as it is," he replied. When he looked at Naga with a grimace, he froze, and turned away from Naga, keeping his eyes shut. "Lina," he whispered, "help."

Lina was confused, so she looked over at Naga. She was staring at Ian with big puppy dog eyes. She even sniveled a bit.

"How?" Lina whispered back.

"Make her stop that," Ian whspered. Then Naga went close to his face with her puppy dog face. It was about two seconds before Ian said, "Alright! I'll pay for you too if you stop with the puppy dog eyes and promise me you won't do them again!"

"I promise," Naga replied, stopping the puppy dog eyes, now with a smile on her face. "OH HO HO HO HO! You have fallen prey to the 'Naga Puppy Dog Eye Attack!'"

"I'll get you back for that," he whispered. We all ordered, and as we started eating, Ian smirked.

Naga looked up. "What?" she asked Ian.

Then he pounced. "Counter-attack! Fork-Knife Slice!" He then quickly sliced off some of Naga's bacon and put it in his mouth. "That makes us even."

"OH HO HO HO HO!" Naga laughed. "Do you think you'll get away with stealing the Great Naga'a food?! I think not! Naga Omelet-Bacon Swap!" Using her fork, se lunged for Ian's omelet.

"Defensive Measure!" Ian shouted. "Sacrafice!" He used his fork and, with lightning speed, stole Lina's sausage and made Naga get the sausage and replaced it with her half-eaten bacon.

"How dare you use my brekfast as a shield, Ian?!" Lina shouted. "Lina Copy Counter-attack! Fork-Knife Slice!" She swipped the rest of Ian's bacon and was about to eat it.

"Oh no you don't!" Naga shouted. "Reverse Maneuver! Rock Replacement!" She took a rock and swapped it with the bacon on Lina's fork, causing Lina to about to bite into a rock.

"Never!" Gourry shouted. "Guardian Defense! Lina Head Hit!" Gourry hit Lina's head, stopping Lina from eating the rock.

"Guardian my ass!" Lina shouted. "Lina Secret Technique! Slipper Slash!" She slashed Gourry's face with a hidden slipper. The rock was in it.

"Why you-" The fight went on all through breakfast. By the time all the food was eaten, everyone had a bruise on them and pieces of food was layed on the table. The manager walked over, and Ian had to pay a little extra to repay him for the disturbance.

"Even with all that bandt booty, I had to pay him over 2000 gold. That hurt," Ian silently complained. "It was much easier o pay for my brother and sisters. This is overkill."

"Let the buyer beware," Lina stated. "You thought that, just because I'm a girl, I don't eat much, do you?"

"That and the fact that you are one of those stupid people who can eat as much as an elephant and look no bigger than my arm. You even match the height," Ian replied.

Ten seconds later…

Gourry was dragging the limp body of Ian. Ian had burns all over his body, his nose was bleeding, and it looked like his finger was broken.

"That was payback," Lina replied.

They continued walking for about two hours. Ian hadn't recovered, but he was walking along, healing his finger, and muttering curses under his breath.