navy = flashback
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! How does she always manage to do this to me! I always let her boss me around...why; it's not like she is stronger then me. I have to give it to myself though I did manage to withstand her begging for a total of 20 minutes straight. But by now, from all of our traveling together she knows my weakness.
"No Lina I wont do it" Zelgadis sipped his coffee, and carefully put
his mug on the table as the petite sorceress in question banged her hands on the
table.
"But Zel everyone else is gonna do it! Just think if we make it to that
library than we could..." Zel cut Lina off in mid sentence as he rubbed his
temples.
"Lina has it ever occurred to you that it's just a little strange that a
magical library would be in that kind of place? Why would a ancient library
of that caliber be found in such a..."
Lina bounced up out of her chair and cut him off "And why couldn't there be a
powerful library there, it would be the last place anyone would think of!"
"But..." that's when she pulled out her secret weapon. Her large red eyes began
to water, and her small full lips began to tremble in the form of a pout.
"Lina no I wont, no means no..."
19 minutes later found me along with the others on route to Ai City. Amelia was at the head of the group cheerfully ranting on about the wonders to be found in the city of love. There was something nagging at the back of my mind...something I should have remembered. I figured that if I couldn't remember then it must not have been that important. While walking I noticed that Gourry and Syphiel seemed to be talking more and more of late. I was glad for the two of them they deserved to be happy. I glanced out the corner of my eye at my other traveling companion who was currently munching on yet another of her cookies. Sometimes that girl made me so angry and other times...other times like these when there was no fighting going on...when the world wasn't about to be destroyed...I could feel a warm feeling...
I have to say that the warm feeling I had disappeared as mysteriously as it had begun; when Gourry thought it fitting to give Syphiel a compliment...by saying it was ok to eat whatever she wanted, because if you looked at Lina she still had the figure of a stick.
I had to hold Lina back as she began snarling and kicking. I held her a few feet from the ground and waved the others off. "You guys go ahead and find a place to set up camp, we'll find you" I watched in quiet amusement as they hurried off up the path.
"Lina you know he doesn't mean what he says, he just speaks before thinking" I counted to 5 and waited for her normal reaction.
Lina pouted and grumbled a few obscenities, "I know that Zel, it just bugs me that's all". I shook my head at her simple explanation of her outburst; I walked along not even conscious that I was still carrying her under one arm as I walked. She was held securely by my side with my arm around her waist...how embarrassing. The 15 minutes it took for us to reach our camp I couldn't figure out why she was being so smug. Not until Amelia waved to us... "Mr. Zelgadis! That was nice of you to carry Lina-san all this way, I'm sure she was tired from blowing up that bandit camp earlier!"
I looked down and there she was cheerfully waving at me...it took a few minutes for my reactions to kick in but when they did...I dropped Lina onto the ground my whole face flushed crimson and I began sputtering a bunch of nonsense.
I stomped over and laid my bedroll on the ground, this chimera was going to sleep...