"Stupid, smiling demon bastard! Arrggh!" Lina screamed, trapping the Trickster Priest in a familiar headlock.
This Would Not Do At All.
*flash *
Lina's group was temporarily blinded by a wave of golden light.
Zelgadis blinked the annoying colored lights out of vision and turned back to the suspiciously silent area where Lina and Xellos had been having their little 'conversation'. His fist clenched unconsciously, and he started forward worriedly almost before he realized the fact that his friend was gone along with that Fruity Mazoku.
Gourry scratched his head, "Oi, where'd Lina go?"'
"Ahh! Xellos has unjustly stolen Lina-san! We can not allow this evil to go unpunished!" Amelia shouted in righteous indignation.
During their informative exclamations, Zel had been able to put his apprehension aside to return to his usual logical self. "As much as I hate that perverted fruitcake, whatever just happened, he didn't do it."
Amelia, who had been building up for another brilliant and useful, as well as bore-ishly long, speech on the merits of Justice, paused with her "Finger o' Judgment ™" upraised. "Huh?" she asked, in perfectly phrased rhetoric to do Gourry proud.
"That energy blast wasn't purple or black like all of Xellos's are, whatever happened, happened to them both."
"This isn't in my notes," Iria mumbled softly, drawing strange looks from the rest of the rest of the group.
"That's bad, isn't it?" Gourry asked.
Zelgadis shrugged. "Probably, knowing us."
One minute he had been happily being abused by his Lina-chan, and the next minute he was floating in this strange place of swirling colors. Ugh...the randomly switching colors were starting to make him slightly nauseous, which was odd because usually only Amelia could do that to him. That's when he noticed he had no body. Curiouser and curiouser.....
"Whatcha gonna do to 'em?" a pointed ear twitched, and dark brownish purple hair caught in a passing breeze.
Watch...
Two beings floated amongst the waves in The Sea of Chaos, reduced to their most basic essences of energy forms. Slowly they spun, features indistinct, save for the masculinity of one and femininity of the other.
The Creator and Destroyer of all things made a small gesture and the circle they made grew steadily tighter, until at last the smaller red female form touched, nearly merging, with the other. A small flash of the same golden energy, which so unceremoniously stole the two from their own realm, ignited in the approximate location of the third finger of the left hands of each incorporeal form.
"Oh, tee-hee, this will be fun!"
Yes. Go With Them.
Amelia, Gourry, Zelgadis, and Iria were involved in a heated discussion over what to do next, or at least it would have been a heated discussion if one hadn't been an extremely indifferent scholar, one too stupid to follow, and one who realized the futility of such an argument with the rest, when Lina and Xellos suddenly appeared floating several feet above where they had vanished.
Both were extremely shocked to find themselves in the other's arms, when the last thing either could remember was "fighting" and then that oddly comforting golden glow... Along with that memory came the realization that against all natural laws, they were floating, this of course, sent the two shocked and still embracing people tumbling to the ground.
Lina/Xellos-0
Gravity-1
"Owie," Xellos whined, despite the fact that he had landed on something small and soft.
Unfortunately for the General-Priest, that small-soft thing, was an extremely embarrassed, extremely confused, extremely PISSED Lina Inverse. "Ugh! Get your fruity demon ass off ME!" she shrieked while extracting herself from beneath a once-more grinning Xellos.
"Just what the hell did you think you were doing!!??!! And how the hell did we get up there? AND WHAT ARE YOU ALL STARING AT!!??!"
The rest of her friends stopped gaping stupidly with a guilty start, well except Gourry whose normal expression wasn't far from a stupid gape, and Iria for whom gaping would have been too much effort in the first place.
The situation proved too much for Lina's confused mind and she reacted as she always did in situations where she didn't know what to do.
DRAGON SLAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She shouted in a terribly dramatic and "gut-clenching-in-fear™" way. This made the tiny fizzle and small, completely unremarkable (except for its odd resemblance to the Virgin Mary) spark all that more anti-climatic, especially taking into account said spell's track record.
The fuming sorceress turned toward the voice ready to pound some "Fear-of-Dramatta™" into whoever was stupid enough to make that comment, only to find the unfamiliar speaker floating irritatingly out of reach.
"Come down here so I can hit you for that you... you...Just what and who the hell are you anyway?!" She failed to notice both Iria and Xellos pale considerably behind her.
"Wait a minute! Wait A minute! You aren't in the cast list!" Iria exerted more effort in saying, than any of her current companions had ever seen her use at one time. She then began to mutter curses at the Creator and Destroyer of all Things in multifarious and colorful languages, the content of which has been edited for fear of smiting.
"Why Iria-chan, I'm flattered! All that energy exerted because of me?" The hovering figure piped floating to within inches of the scholar's face while lying on her back in the air, with head canted back to meet her gaze.
"Don't be."
"K!"
"Excuse. Me. But. I. Asked. A. QUESTION! What the hell are you doing here!!?" A very red Lina screamed.
"Oh, yeah! Almost forgot! Tee-hee" she giggled and pulled out a strange white plastic and glass device from somewhere behind her back. "L-sama sends her best wishes!" The machine with the attached note appeared within Lina's arms, and Xellos snatched the note.
"What the hell is this, and what is that supposed to mean!?"
"It's a Blender!" She exclaimed as if this "blender" was the single greatest thing ever. Before she could expound on the wonders of this marvelous device an oddly silent and suddenly very appreciative for Lina's inability to cast magic, Xellos, tugged dazedly on the Dramatta's cloak.
"Wha...?" she asked, taking the note from his outstretched hand to read aloud.
Congratulations on getting hitched. You will have a long and
prosperous marriage. (or else)
- L-Sama
*Thunk * Lina fainted, landing on her head, with her feet following the rest of her down.
The shocked and in most cases horrified silence, was broken by a cheery giggle, "Congrats!"
Amelia ran to Lina's side trying to help unjustly fallen friend.
"Well then," Xellos said.
Zelgadis looked towards the demon, his eyes flaming. "You." he fumed accusingly at the demon, tossing fireballs furiously in Xellos's direction.
"Gee, I didn't realize Zel cared," the floating stranger quirked to Iria.
Iria pointed to a section on a piece of paper, that had just floated from the heavens, defying the wind that should have carried it away, marked, at the top in messy, gold, handwritten letters, REVISION.
"Wait a minute!" Gourry exclaimed, stopping the pandemonium that had ensued. "Uh...when did Lina and Xellos get married?" The swordsman looked slightly hurt as he posed the question.
The entire group, including Lina, who had just woken up glancing blearily around, looked instinctively towards Iria.
"About ten minutes ago," the scholar commented blandly.
"I don't remember agreeing to this!!" Lina shouted.
"Why Lina-chan, I'm hurt," Xellos quipped. "Don't you wanna be married to me?"
Afore mentioned fire-y haired sorceress backhanded the mazoku, silently cursing "that time of the month."
Xellos glanced at his hand from his prone position on the ground and commented dryly, "Well at least L-sama has good taste in jewelry."
He lifted his left hand, examining his ring finger with a jewelers glass he seemed to pull out of nowhere. He made a big show of squinting to read the letters inscribed on the gold band. "Property of Lina Inverse." Xellos opened one eye in vague surprise, "Erm?" Well Zelas-sama would find this interesting if she ever saw the writing...heh.
Lina took this opportunity to glance at her own jeweled left hand. "I'M NOT SOMEONE'S PROPERTY!" She yelled in capital letters. "Especially not that fruitcake's!" Lina began desperately tugging at her finger.
"Not gonna work y'know!" the newest addition to the party chirped. "The creator of all things doesn't do anything half assed!"
"Who are you?" Xellos asked glancing in the direction of the newcomer. "You look really familiar..."He cracked open an eye.
"Y'know...I get that a lot...tee-hee."
"But you're not nondescript at all," Amelia piped up, looking towards Iria. "I wouldn't think you'd be hard to remember."
"You can call me Random!" She chirped suddenly, even though the question had been asked several lines ago.
"What kind of a name is that?" Zelgadis asked, regaining his usual stoic composure, though his eyes lingered on the scantily clad elf-y thing, with oddly golden flecked purple eyes.
"Did I say that was my name?" Random questioned herself, thinking for a moment with a finger to her slightly pouting lips. "Nope!" she exclaimed excitingly, with a "hee-hee." "I just said you could call me that!"
"So, what is your name then?" Amelia inquired.
"Sore wa himitsu desu!" Random giggled.
Xellos raised his eyes. "That's my line..."
"I know! Really, it's awfully cliché, you should probably think about getting a new one!" She happily retorted in a stage whisper.
"THAT'S IT!" Lina shouted. "We are finding the Really, Really, Old Wishing Thing-y, NOW, and I am wishing us out of this marriage mess!"
The sorceress grabbed Xellos and Iria and began to stalk in the direction they had been going. Amelia, Zelgadis, and Gourry started after them, walking in the furrow left by the two dragging people. Random shrugged, and floated behind them, smiling knowingly.