red = Lina's flashbacks
navy = Amelia's flashbacks
Lina and Amelia were sitting in a bar. Noone dared to go near them after Lina got pissed and had Dill brand some guy who had bothered them and Amelia had joined her by fireballing him. By the time that had happened, the two of them had already been drunk, but now... it was a miracle that they hadn't collapsed from all the alcohol.
Amelia had her head on the table in her left hand holding a glass that had just been filled. She felt terrible! This whole situation just wasn't fair!! She looked over at Lina who was staring blankly at the wall behind her. The sorceress looked even worse, if that was even possible...
"Lina can I talk to you for a minute?" Lina turned around and looked into Xellos' amethyst eyes.
"What do you want?" Lina was just about to take a bath and hoped this wouldn't take too long
Lina found herself remembering Amelia's words, who always said that Xellos was in love with her. Just hope it's nothing of that sort...
"Lina, I love Zelgadis..." now that got Lina's attention, so he was gay!
"And no, I'm not gay, I'm a woman..."
Lina blinked, then she smiled at the trickster, "Very funny, you got me there for a second. Now tell me, what do you want?"
Xellos sweatdroped. "I'm telling you the truth, and I'm telling you this because I know you love him too."
Lina fell flat on her butt. He...no she...was serious. Just what I needed more competition, as if Sylpheel and Amelia weren't enough!
"Lina are you listening to me?"
Lina nodded the ability to speak momentarily forgotten.
Xellos took a deep breath, this was not going to be easy...
"Lina you're my favorite human, as close as a Mazoku could ever get having a friend... What I need to tell you is that..." Xellos took another
deep breath." Zelgadis loves me back! And , well, you see, he and I were planing on ..." Xellos was talking very fast and preparing herself for
the impact, but nothing came.
After some moments she opened her eyes and looked at Lina. Lina was still sitting on the floor looking blankly into space.
Zelgadis, her Zel loved Xellos, who in the last minutes changed from suitor to competition... Lina didn't feel it as tears rolled down her face,
her world was breaking up and crashing around her. Then she heard Xellos' voice.
"Lina, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, we didn't mean to hurt you, it just happened, please... if you have to hate anyone hate me, it wasn't Zel's fault."
"I... I'll be okay..." murmured the sorceress.
"You sure?" asked Xellos unbelievingly.
"Of course, I have been possesed by L-sama and escaped a couple of Dark Lords. I'll get over it, I always do, besides there is always food and
money!" Lina smiled through tear-filled eyes.
She tried the best to sound convincing, she would not cloud Zel's happiness, he deserved to be happy after all he had been through and if it
was Xellos he wanted and needed she would accept it...
Xellos smiled and kissed her cheek, "I'll go talk to Amelia now." she said and was about to phase out.
"No, wait!" Lina cleaned her tears with the sleeve of her outfit, "I'll do it."
Xellos reasoned this, maybe it would be better if it was Lina who told her.
"Thank you." Xellos disappeared, Zel would be missing her and he would be very happy to find out all was well with the read-haired sorceress,
Lina was his friend too afterall.
"Hey! Watres! *hicks* another bottle!!" Lina screamed at the young woman standing a few meters from her.
The waitress looked startled at Lina for a few moments then she saw the innkeeper indicating her to better hurry up.
"Why Xellos?" Lina heard Amelia murmur.
The sorceress looked at the drunk princess, her eyes were all read from crying and it seemed like all the energy and life had been sucked out of her.
Amelia left whistling her room to eat some snack downstairs. Lina would soon want to keep going on and then there would be no time to
enjoy a warm meal until they found another inn and maybe, if she was lucky, Zelgadis would be downstairs. She felt really good. She had the
feeling that something incredibly was going to happen to her, something really great. She smiled to herself, after all the mess with Sylpheel in
the last days it felt really good that things were back to normal. Maybe today is the day Zelgadis-san will finally tell me about his love to me
and - Amelia blushed and hid her smiling face embarrassed in her hands, she didn't want to thing about it, her mind was to pure and innocent
to thing about such things.
The princess sat on a table, none of the others were here, but she didn't have to worry about that, Lina-tachi would be here when they smelled
the food.
"Excuse me, I would like to order something to eat" she told the waitress that was passing her table.
"Of course Miss, what can I do for you?" asked the brown haired girl.
"Well, I would like this Sea plate and this Special Soup." The princess told the girl pointing at the list in the waitress' hand.
"As you wish." with those words the waitress left to the kitchen.
Amelia leaned back in her seat and saw Lina walked down the stairs, the sorceress seemed depressed. This could only mean trouble, Lina was
never depressed.
Lina saw Amelia and had to hold all her feelings under control. This was not going to be easy. The sorceress forced a smile on her face and
walked over to the princess.
"Hi Amelia!"
"Hello, Lina-san. Are you all right, you don't look so good. If someone did spy on you while you were bathing, then I, Amel-"
"Amelia!" Lina interrupted the princess before she could start with one of her really annoying speeches, "Amelia, I have to tell you something
very important." She said seriously.
Amelia looked questioning at Lina.
This is not going to be easy, WHY THE HELL DID I AGREE TO THIS AGAIN??? Lina sighted, "...but maybe you should get something to
drink first... WAITRESS!! WE NEED SOMETHING REALLY STRONG TO DRINK HERE!!"
Amelia backed a little away, Lina was scarring her.
After the waitress brought them a bottle of something Amelia couldn't identify, Lina started to talk: "You are probably going to hate me for
this, but I have thought about this matter for a long time. Xellos just pushed me in some way to tell you this." Lina sighted and took a sip of
her glass filled with the red liquid.
Amelia looked blankly and very confused at the sorceress. She didn't understand a thing of Lina was talking about.
"Amelia remember when I got all mad because of the idea that Zelgadis was in love with Sylph?"
The princess nodded, "yes, you - " Again she was interrupted by Lina.
"Let me finish first. Well.... I was not mad because I wanted to defend you, but because I... I... I love Zelgadis."
Amelia felt like a she had been diggervolt. Lina loved HER Zelgadis?!
Lina looked at her glass and started to play with it in her hands, "I'm sure this is a shock for you, but - "
"YOU LOVE MY ZELGADIS??!!"
Lina felt from her chair, Amelia was being over dramatic again. "Amelia calm down, I told you to listen FIRST!"
"Listen FIRST? After finding out that you were after the man who is destined to be mine? I thought you were my friend Lina-san, but THIS is
not what a friend would do!!" The princess was about to hyperventilate.
Lina was loosing control of herself. Who does this girl think she is to scream at me like that??!
Amelia hid behind the chair as she saw flames surround a very, very angry sorceress. Maybe she shouldn't have said such things to Lina, she
just prayed she wouldn't get Dragon Slaved, she looked around them and noticed the attention they were attracting.
"Lina-san, I didn't mean to, really." Amelia held her hands up as to defend herself, "I just got a little carried away."
Lina murmured some words and Amelia saw that some poor traveler had just gotten on the wrong end of a Dill Brand. Lina breathed in a few
times to calm herself, this was no time to loose her temper.
"Listen to me Amelia!" Lina looked at the princess and Amelia noticed that they were slowly starting to fill with tears, "I never intended to hurt
you nor to steal Zelgadis from you, but he decided for Xellos! He loves Xellos! Do you understand that we lost him?!" The sorceress took the
bottle on the table and drank it all before smashing it to the floor.
Amelia looked blankly into space, not able to react to this. Her Zel loved Xellos? How could that be? That would mean that Zel was... Gay???
Lina saw in Amelia's face what she was thinking, "And Xellos is truly a woman so don't get weird ideas about Zelgadis being gay or so."
Amelia blinked at this unbelievingly.
"Yes, believe it or not, it's true hicks WAITRESS 'NOTHER BOTTLE, NO, MAKE THAT TWO! hicks"
It was already dark outside when Sylpheel returned with Gourry to the inn to find a very depressed innkeeper and some confused waitresses looking at a destroyed inn. The priestess looked shocked at Lina and Amelia sitting with bottles of wine in their hands in the middle of the destroyed house singing.