Lina stared at Naga, refusing to blink for even a moment. For if Lina blinked, the last piece of meat on her plate would be snatched up by the big busted sorceress sitting across from her.
"Really, Lina… you know that last piece of meat is rightfully mine." Naga said with determination.
"Heh heh, I don't think so, Naga," Lina said with a witty smile. "I bought you this dinner therefore, the last piece of meat should belong to me." Lina glared.
"Um, if you two are done…" A waiter from the restaurant said to Lina and Naga, "We really need this table for other customers. You two have been sitting there for three hours now just looking at each other." The waiter smiled nervously, sweat poured from his forehead.
Lina and Naga stopped staring at each other and turned toward the waiter. Their eyes were both glowing red, their pupils nowhere to be seen. The waiter started to back away from Lina and Naga's table.
Lina's hands then began glowing red. "I don't like it when people come and annoy me while I'm eating…" Lina said in a deep, angry voice.
"Um, uh…" The waiter stuttered out his words. "Technically, neither of you are eating anymore. I, um, have been watching you for, uh, three hours and neither of you has moved since then. So you, um, kind of stopped eating a long time ago."
"FIRE…." Lina's hands glowed red with the power of the spell she was about to cast upon the waiter. "BALL!!!!!" A fireball shot out of Lina's hands and towards the waiter's head. It ripped the waiter's head right out of his neck since the spell was cast at such short range. The waiter's head flew into the wall behind the bar of the restaurant. The bar tender picked up the waiter's head and looked at it. "Yummy." Was all the bartender said as he shoved the whole entire head down his throat, not even bothering to chew."
Naga looked at Lina. "Lina…" Naga said with concern. "You have been becoming too brutal lately. You loose your temper too easily." Naga then laughed, and stood up, pointing at Lina. "AH HAA HAA HAA! I will always be superior to you, Lina Inverse! You do not have the patience to control your temper, you do not have the gracefulness that I possess! You will always be second to me, Lina Inverse! AH HA HA HAAA!!" Naga's chest bounced up and down as she laughed.
Lina looked around the restaurant and saw that the customers were hiding under their tables while Naga was letting out her ear -piercing laugh. Lina sighed, "That's enough, Naga… you're giving me a headache." But for some reason, Naga couldn't stop laughing.
"AAAAHHHH HAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!" Naga's laugh was becoming more and more out of control, cracking the glasses and windows in the restaurant. Lina tried to calm Naga down, but it seemed that Naga lost all control. Naga fell to the ground in a laughing tantrum. Many of the customers ran out of the restaurant, holding their ears as they ran. Even Lina, who had grown tolerant of Naga's laugh was having trouble keeping her sanity.
Lina talked as she held her ears, "Naga, stop, dammit!" Bubbles came from Naga's mouth along with a gurgling sound as she continued her outrageous laughter.
Lina looked around furiously for some way to stop Naga from laughing. Suddenly, she spotted a dead rat in the corner of the vacant restaurant. It must have died from hearing her laugh too much, Lina thought to herself. Lina picked up the rat and shoved it down Naga's throat. Naga bolted up from the ground which she lay, and tried to spit the rat out of her mouth. Unfortunately, the rat was wedged into her throat in such a way that Naga could neither spit it out nor breath. Naga ran around the room frantically trying to get the rat out of her throat, but all that was visible of the rat was the tail which hung out of her mouth and brushed against her chin.
Lina seemed to be enjoying the show that Naga was putting on. Naga was running around bumping into things, her eyes rolled back into their sockets. Lina just pointed and laughed at Naga, cheering each time that Naga's head smashed into a nearby wall. However, Naga's head bashed against the wall once too often and eventually, Naga's brains spilled onto the floor.
Lina looked at Naga's brains which had falled out of the crack in her head. Now for most people, having their brains removed from their bodies would result in death, but Naga kept running around the restaurant, her face blue. This astonished Lina, and at the same time she wondered if a healing spell would be able to fix Naga up, since apparently, she was still alive.
Suddenly, a group of bandits barged into the abandoned restaurant. "There she is!" one of the bandits yelled. "She's that witch who stole our treasure the other day! We've come to get our revenge!"
The leader of the group had a red bandana around his head. He drew his sword and pointed it at Lina. "I have been humiliated by a little girl, but I will not tolerate defeat!" The leader had a deep voice, a voice that would send chills up anyone's spine. "I will be the one to have the last laugh, you little bandit killer! No one has ever been able to defeat me in battle! My name is known throughout the land! My name strikes fear in the hearts of my enemies! My name… is DINKY!!!"
The rest of the bandits began laughing. Dinky turned around and yelled, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO LAUGH AT MY NAME!!! It is a fearful name I tell you, a fearful one!" Dinky suddenly stopped talking and looked at Naga. It appeared as if during his earlier dialogue, he did not notice a big- busted girl running around the room leaving a trail of leaking brains.
"Um, is she your friend?" Dinky directed the question toward Lina.
"*Sigh* I guess you could say something like that…"
"She's running around like a headless chicken." Dinky's mouth remained open in shock.
Lina stood up from the booth which she was sitting. "Yes, but now I must take care of something." Lina looked at Dinky and the rest of the bandits.
"Take care of what?" Dinky looked back at Lina.
"Darkness beyond twilight and crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the stream of time, is where your power grows.." Lina's hands began to glow with the spell she was about to cast. "I pledge myself to conquer all the foes who stand, upon the gift bestowed in my unworthy hand…."
"She's casting a spell!" One of the bandits yelled.
"Not if I stop her!" Dinky yelled and rushed toward Lina.
Lina opened her eyes and looked at dinky , "too late, fatty…. D R A G O N S L A V E ! ! ! ! !" And with that, Lina's most powerful spell flew from her hands and towards the bandits, burning them and their bones into ashes. The entire restaurant blew up, not to mention the entire town.
Lina stood in the rubble that used to be the restaurant and looked down at the bones of the bandits who she had killed. "Did you see that, Naga?" Lina exclaimed proudly. "As usual, Lina Inverse comes out triumphant!" Lina looked around. "….Naga?" Lina then noticed Naga's skull laying in a pile of ashes by her feet. "Damn it, Naga, you should have gotten out of the way." Lina picked up the skull and looked at it. "Well, that's one more annoyance off of my back!" And with that, Lina crushed Naga's skull in her hands and ate the remaining skull dust in her hand.
"I guess I should continue on my journey alone." Lina began walking away from the ruins of the town and then looked back. "You sure will be missed, Naga. I guess you won't be getting any treasure from that big gang of bandits that we were supposed to rob, huh, Naga? What was the name of that gang?" Lina looked towards the sky trying to remember. "Oh, that's right, the Dragon Fangs! They have a lot of treasure, too bad their boss has a big evil mean dragon protecting it. But he shouldn't be any match for me and my Dragon Slave!"
Lina walked away from the town and thought to herself, "Maybe I'll meet someone else to go along on my travels with me. It might get lonely being by myself. Maybe a handsome prince! It would be great if a handsome prince were to travel with me, then we could fall in love and have lots and lots of babies!"
Lina continued her walking and her journey to steal the Dragon Fang's treasure. Little did Lina know that this was merely the beginning of her adventures. Her adventures would continue as she would get older. She would meet new people, steal new treasures, even learn new spells. But out of everything that happens, the most important to Lina Inverse is that her chest grows as big as two beach balloons.