By - Serendipity
(Okay, I know it has been done to death, but I couldn't resist. ^_^ Hope you enjoy! )
Lina leaned against a rock. " Okay," she announced, " I am officially bored now."
The group had been traveling to a town, which Lina had heard, was famous for it's restaurants. However, the town ended up being much farther than it appeared to be on the map. While they were traveling, they got caught in a monsoon, (apparently they were common in that area), and were now camping out in a cave. However, three weks in a cave, though it builds good survival skills, is certainly not entertaining.
Amelia stirred the coals on the fire with a stick. " Don't complain, Miss Lina."
" Yeah," declared Gourry, " It could be worse. We could be trapped out there!" He gestured to the deluge outside.
" ..I'm glad this cave is on a cliff," remarked Zelgadis.
Filia nodded, pulling her mantle around her. " At least that namagomi Xelloss isn't here."
" Did someone say my name?" Xelloss blipped into sight, grinning and twirling his staff.
" Speak of the devil.." Lina muttered.
Filia's hand shot to the mace strapped to her leg, only to find it missing. " Blast it! Where's mace-sama?"
Gourry gave her a confused look. " Didn't you drop it off at a weapons shop to be repaired? "
" Yeah, that mace has been through a lot of abuse," muttered Zelgadis under his breath.
Filia sighed. " You're right! Darn it.."
Xelloss smiled mischeviously. " Well, it seems you've run out of ammunition, Filia-san."
" Not quite, Namagomi!," Filia snapped, grabbing up a large rock from the cave floor. Taking good aim, she threw it straight at his head.
He went crashing to the floor. " I thtand cowected," he lisped, missing a few teeth.
Filia hmphed and sat down.
Lina ran her hand through her hair in an irritated way. " I'm still bored."
" I know!," stated Gourry, jumping to his feet, "We can play hide-and- seek!" he noticed everyone staring at him. " What's wrong?"
Lina whacked him over the head. " Gourry you idiot! How are we supposed to play hide-and-seek when we're stuck in this little cave?"
Gorry scratched his head. " Gee, I dunno."
" Gah!" Lina got him in a headlock.
Xelloss stood. " I have a good idea for a game."
" Whatever it is, it can't be good," Filia muttered.
He ignored her. " I propose we play 'I've Never.'"
Lina leaned forward. " That sounds interesting. How do you play it?"
" That is a secret."
Everyone fell over.
Xelloss sweatdropped. " Sorry..force of habit.Anyway! To play the game, everyone needs a bottle of liquor..."
A box filled with wine bottles appeared in the center of the cave. Like magic! Oh wait..it was magic..
" A drinking game? NO WAY!," shouted both Filia and Amelia.
" Come on you guys, don't be spoilsports," said Lina.
Gourry nodded " Yeah, this is getting interesting."
Amelia turned to Zelgadis. " Drinking games are bad, aren't they Mister Zelgadis?"
He sweatdropped. "Actually.."
Xelloss cleared his throat. " As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, you each get a bottle of wine, and one person says something they've never done, such as.. I've never killed a man just to watch him die.."
" Xelloss!," Filia squealed.
" And anyone who's done that has to take a drink."
Lina grabbed a bottle of wine out of the box. " I'm in!'
Zelgadis and Gourry followed suit.
Amelia hesitated, then took one. " If Mister Zelgadis is doing this, then I will too!," she declared.
Xelloss looked at Filia, who was sitting on a rock with her arms folded and her legs crossed. " That just leaves you, Filia."
Filia hmphed again, turning her head.
" Come on Filia!," shouted Lina, " It'll be lots of fun! Plus, you get free wine!"
" Yeah Miss Filia, come on and play1"
She hesitated. " Well..I suppose.."
" Yeah! Filia's playing! " Lina threw her a bottle, which she fumbled with before she actually caught it.
Zelgadis looked around. " Who's first?"
" Me," yelled Lina, " I've never had an obsession with justice!"
" What?!," spluttered Amelia, " How..how..injust!" Realizing what she said, she blushed and took a sip.
Gourry pondered a bit. " Hmm.. I've never been female."
Lina, Amelia, Filia, and Xelloss drank.
Filia choked on her wine. " Xe-Xelloss? Bu..bu..but how?"
" You don't want to know," warned Zelgadis.
Filia tried not to think about it. " Who's next?"
" Me, Filia !," said Xelloss cheerfully, " I've never been dependent on a weapon!"
Gourry and Filia reached for their bottles.
Zelgadis folded his arms. " I've never been on a date."
Gourry and Lina drank.
Zelgadis's eyes widened. " You two?"
" I was drunk," they both said at the same time.
" My turn," interrupted Filia. " I've NEVER killed over a hundred people."
Lina and Xellos took their bottles and drank.
Amelia gasped. " Miss Lina?"
Lina shrugged. " Why do you think they call me the Bandit-Killer?"
Amelia just stared at her in shock.
Lina shrugged again.
A couple of hours passed, as they all learned things they never wanted to know about each other.
" I've never had a crush on Lina."
" Mister Zelgadis?'
" Gourry? Xelloss?"
" Miss Lina, you're stealing all the men!"
"."
" I've never been an avatar for L-sama."
" Damn you Xelloss!"
" I've never worn a black leather thong."
" Filia?"
" AMELIA?"
" It was my sister's !"
" Oh my.."
" I've never been hit with mace-sama."
" Are you implying something?"
" Filia, put the rock down."
" I've never been anything but human."
" well you don't have to rub it in."
" Er..sorry Zel."
" I've never tried bondage."
Gourry drank.
Lina blinked, opened her mouth as if to say something, then shut it. " Never mind."
"Don't want to know," agreed Zelgadis.
Another hour later, most of the people, (and I use the term loosely.), had passed out. Lina was leaning against Gourry, who had fallen asleep and was now loudly snoring. Amelia was sleeping on Zelgadis's lap, and he sat in the corner singing something about bottles of beer on a wall.
Lina blinked and wondered why her vision was so fuzzy, then hiccupped. " I've never had had a crush on Xelloss."
Filia turned red, then reached for her bottle.
Xelloss looked at her. "."
Filia swayed a bit. " I can't help it..he's just so darn cute.."
" Yeah," slurred Lina, then collapsed.
" Miss Lina?," she shrugged, then swigged some wine. " This is good."
" Why Filia, I do believe you're drunk."
Filia blinked at him fuzzily. " I'm not drunk. You're drunk."
"Me?"
" Yes you. You look very drunk. I, however, am perfictilily sober."
" Of course you are."
" 'Sright. I'm a..what am I again?"
" A pair of long underwear."
She nodded. ' Egshactly. A pair of long underwear. And underwear do not drink."
" Such logic!"
She slid off the rock and giggled. " Thish is sho much fun! Look at all the pretty colors.." She collapsed on the stone floor.
Xelloss looked at her, then at the rest of the people in the room. " I believe we shall have to play this again sometime!"