"...And that's how me and Zel met." says Gourry, finishing his speech. The crowd cheered wildly, especialy Lina and Sylphiel.
"Wow! I never knew Gourry could speak that well!" Lina exclames.
"Of course Gourry dear can!" Syphiel retorts. The two women glare at each other from across the table, murder in their eyes.
"Uhhhhh, Lina?" Zangulus begins.
"Leave them, this should be fun." says Xellos with his normal smile. He was obviously looking forward to the coming cat fight.
Zelgadis sits next to his new bride and smiles. Gourry's praise had embaresed him, but it wasn't enough to dampen his mood. He was finaly married to the woman he had secretly loved for years. It had been a good day.
Lina leaps onto the table, taking an Amelia pose, and shouts, "Enough talk! I can not abide the wicked hunger of my stomach any longer! We must punish the food for not being in my stomach!" When she notes that everyone is looking at her she adds, "Let's go eat!" With that she leads hungry mob to the buffet table.
"Riiiiiight." mutters Phil. "Well, to the food!" He goes to join the throng of people attempting (and none to succesfully) to grab some food away from the bottomless pit that is Lina Inverse.
"Care for some food, my lady?" asks Zelgadis with fake formality.
"Why certainly, my lord." Amelia makes a similiarly fake curtsy, and takes his arm.
"NO!!! He's coming with me!!!" screams Lina.
"Like hell he is!!!" Syphiel howls back. The two women stand on the dance floor with Gourry in between them. Lina, holding onto Gourry's right arm in a death grip, pulls with all of her might. Syphiel, similiarly attached to Gourry's left, yanks hard. The people stand and stare, wondering where this would end. Many offered silent prayers for the young man's soul.
"I'm going to dance with Gourry!!! He's my protector!!! Now go away!!!" Lina blares.
"No...you're...not!!! Flare Arrow!!!" Sylphiel cries. Her hand raises up to launch the flame, but all that comes out is a dull red carrot thing that hits Lina in the eye at an agonizingly slow speed.
"Owww! You bitch!!!" screams Lina. She releases Gourry's arm and smacks Sphyiel across the face.
"Die!!!" Syphiel screams as she leaps at Lina in a flying tackle.
"Bitch!!!"
"Slut!!!"
"Whore!!!"
Rip
Tear
Smack
Bam
Wack
Pow
Xellos raises his head in laughter, "I love it!!!" he cries.
A man in the crowd comes forward to try to break the two apart, only to be caught in a flying tackle by Zangulus. "Don't do it, man! You still have your life to live!" With a single look back at the combatants the man is forced to agree.
The fight continues for only a moment. When the smoke clears Lina stands upon the unconcious Syphiel, "Victory!" she shouts, "Come on Gourry, let's go dance."
Gourry looks from the unconcious Syphiel to the victorious Lina and shrugs, "Okay, Lina." The two walk casualy on to the dance floor as Zangulus helps Syphiel (who has a very bad case of potty mouth at the moment) to her feet.
Zelgadis can only sigh. Some things should never change.
Most of the guests had already left. Only nine people remained within the banquet hall. Zelgadis smiled at all of his friends. Syphiel, who was completly hammered, muttered swears under her breath. Lina and Gourry, both equaly smashed, leaned against each other singing bar shantees. Prince Phil, drunk since even before the ceremony, was having a conversation about the meaning of justice with a table. Only Martina, Zangulus, and Xellos where coherent enough to actualy carry on an intelegent converstion.
"so, are you two love birds planning on having children any time soon?" Martin asks with a sly smile. Zelgadis and Amelia both blushed deep red. From over Martina's shoulder Zelgadis saw Zangulus shaking his head violently, mouthing the word "no".
"We, uhhh, haven't even thought about that yet." Amelia mutters.
"Well, who knows. The night is still young." says Xellos with a wink.
Zangulus yawns, "I going to bed." he anounces.
"Just a minute, dear!" calls Martina. "Well, good night. And have fun!" she winks and runs up the stairs after her husband.
"mabey you two should head to bed, as well." Xellos suggests.
"Why should you care when we go to bed?" asks Zelgadis suspictiously.
"You know the answer to that, Zelgadis. It's a secret!" Xellos fades away.
"I hate it when he says that." Zelgadis mutters.
Amelia smiles up at him, "Perhaps we should go to bed." she says with a sly smile. Zelgadis cocks an eyebrow, but makes no protest whatsoever.