Lei Magnus' Happy Wok never before made soo much money, on just one table. Especially when said table had only two customers.
Lina sat back and patted her full stomach. "That was good!"
Zel smiled at the amazing girl across from him. She alone consumed over half the restaurants menu, plus desert. He himself ate very little and now was nursing a cup of coffee, but he couldn't help but marvel at the perky enigma he had attached himself to.
"Come on Zel!" Lina bounced to her feet. "Let's go have fun!"
Almost broke Zel began to wonder how he was supposed to pay for tickets and the snacks she was sure to crave. He began to think fast.
"Ah Lina, please don't take this the wrong way but, I just remembered that their having a Sword and Sorcery Moviethon on tonight and.. do you want to come back to my place and watch it?" Zel asked quickly, hoping it wouldn't blow up in his face.
"Hmm." she thought, "sounds good to me! Lead on Zel."
Releaved, Zelgadis took Lina to his car and they drove to his spacious apartment.
"Woa! Nice place you've got here Zel!" Lina said, impressed. She walked through to the balcony and leaned over. "Hey! You've even got a pool! Probably could hit it from here."
"Oh huh. Say, you want something to drink? I've got sherry, or there's coffee."
"What ever's good." she said turning on the big screen t.v. "Oooh it's starting!"
Zel prepared their drinks and watched as his guest got more comfortable on his futon. She had taken off her jacket and her crossed legs were swingin in time to 'Sword of the Valient's theme song. He was having a wonderfull time.
As he sat down beside his guest he couldn't help but think how fortunate he'd been today. Insted of having to fight someone to the death, he found a pretty damn good reason for living. He realised then that he was quickly falling for Lina, and he was estatic. When Lina turned to face him he couldn't hold back any longer. He leaned in, gazing adoringly into her eyes, and kissed her.
Lina kissed him back. Soon the chaste kiss deepened and grew until the lonely couple were making out like a pair of horny teenagers.
Suddenly Lina pulled away from Zel's embrace, got up and walked out onto the balcony. Zel rose and followed her, feeling both confused and a little ashamed.
"Lina I.. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have rushed you like that. I just.. couldn't help myself. I know we just met and everything but I feel i've known you my whole life."
Lina blushed in amazement. Never in her whole entire life had anyone appologised to her before... let alone because he kissed her. "Well... I did kiss you back."
Zel smiled, releaved. "Yeah. And it was fantastic. But I just want you to know that I... OH Hell!!!" Zel spied the missle heading for them and reacted. He picked up the surprised and protesting Lina and jumped off the balcony. The screaming Lina, and Zel, hit the water below seconds before the apartment blew up in flames.
They surfaced gasping for air and as they bagan swimming towards safety, strnge splashed erupted, one after the other, around them.
"Shit a sniper! Quick take cover!" Zel comanded.
Without complaint the drenched Lina scurried to safety, Zel close behind. Zel scanned the area for the shooter and spotted her. Damn. Must be that asassin I stood up. he thought darkly.
The potted plant next to Lina's head exploded, as the bullet ment for her missed by a few inches. Lina squealed in fright as a shower of dirt and porcelin rained on her, and ducked down.
Enraged that someone would dare to harm his Lina, Zel whipped out his Colt Magnum, took aim and fired; he missed his target. Ready to do something drastic he told Lina to get ready to run for the car. Standing he fired off four more shots and they began running. fate was on thier side as one of the bullets ricocheted and cut deeply into Eris' arm, giving the fleeing couple enough time to make it to the car and speed off.
Breathing heavily, Lina cursed Eris for trying to kill them and herself for not being able to think up a good way to off this guy herself. A sudden curious thought popped into her head as she turned to face Zel.
"Ah.. I guess I owe you an explanation. You have the right to know." he started.
"Yeah, yeah. I've got rights up to the Wazzu. But first... where'd the gun come from? I didn't notice it.. earlier."
"Oh.. ah.. see.. we didn't get to that part yet." he explained, blushing.
"Oh... okay."
"Where to start." Zel began, "well.. I'm a sort of freelance agent the governments, and sometimes even the police, hire to take care of special problems. Mostly I whipe out organisations that deal with exporting and importing drugs, weapons, and such. They contact my boss, he contacts me, pretty simple. This case thoug, we've discovered, also deals with terrorists, bombers, and they've also made up plans to dominate capital cities and some countries. That asassin was from them."
"And You know how?" Lina asked.
"Ah see I was kinda going to meet her when we met. Its happened before, but I met you and now, wether you're innocent or not, they're going to try to kill you too." Zel explained. he looked at her appologetically, "Sorry about all this. I never ment for this to happen. There's nothing I can do about it, so we're going to have to lay low for a while."
Lina nodded understanding, as she digested the information. She listened in as he called his boss and explained, briefly, what had occurred. She almost smiled when he blushed at the part concerning her.
Zel hung up his cell phone and turned to Lina, still blushing. "Ah we, my boss that is, has a cover we can use till the heat dies down. Someone else'll probably be taking over my job here but, I've got to make sure you'll be ok. I'll never forgive myself if you're harmed in any way, Lina."
Lina was slightly stunned. Although she expected such an eventual outcome, she never thought it would be so soon. I have to be carefull around this guy. Eris just made my job harder, so she thought.
"Well.. please don't get mad," Zel continued, "we're going to this quiet, remote island as a.. a.. as honeymooners." he managed to force out and blushed even further.
"Well," Lina said finally, breaking the silence, "This is certainly going to be... interesting."