The walk to Magnolia park was tense because Erza had gone full on boss mode and had scared them wittless, she knew the first victim and his injuries had worried her immensely, I mean why wouldn't they, he was her favorite baker, the maker of delicious strawberry treats... I'm getting off track here. Each individual injury was insignificant on it's own but put them together and he looked like shredded paper.
Erza cancelled out her thoughts as they approached Magnolia park, "Okay team were here. Levy can you summon some tracking runes?" Erza asked.
"A basic one yes, this is more Freed-san's area of expertise" Levy replied quietly.
Erza nodded then turned to Lucy "You will go with Levy, keep her safe".
"No worries" Lucy replied with a thumbs up.
"Gray, you're with me". Erza said as she began walking into the park.
Gray just nodded and followed Erza at a small distance leaving Levy and Lucy. They sighed as the tension began walking away, "Finally I can breathe" Lucy said with a smile.
Levy giggled "Hey Lu-chan, can I ask you Something?" Levy asked curiously.
"Sure, ask away Levy-chan".
"Your team, You, Erza and Gray, why are you called Team Natsu? There is no-one in Fairy Tail with that name, so what gave you the inspiration for the name?" Levy asked curiously.
Lucy smiled gently as she looked up to the sky "We've known eachother so long Levy-chan, I'm surprised you haven't worked it out yet. We went on our first mission as a team in summer so it seemed logical to name our team as such because Natsu means summer" Lucy remembered fondly.
Levy smiled, now she understood, "I see, that's so you Lu-chan" Levy smiled brighter as she summoned a tracking rune and followed the signal Lucy close behind.
With Erza and Gray.
It had been an hour since the duo of ice and steel continued their search of Magnolia park, "Levy has a tracking rune, why couldn't we just search as a team?" Gray complained bored out of his skull.
Erza frowned, she has had enough of Gray's bitching "Man up Gray and put on some clothes" Erza sighed in frustration.
Gray eeped as he ran to find his clothes, he eventually did but it looked like his trousers had been shredded around the pocket area, "Hey Erza! You may want to see this" Gray shouted.
"What is it? Why aren't you trousers back on?" Erza asked calmly then commandingly.
Gray quickly picked up his trousers and showed them to Erza "See here, the pockets have been shredded, the damage is too big to be a rodent, it must've been them" Gray responded logically.
"I see, what did you have in your pockets anyway?" Erza asked curiously.
"Just a sandwich and some candy" Gray replied with a shrug.
Erza nodded, whatever picked Gray's pockets was hungry, "I see, we..." That was all Erza could say before a scream tore through the air "LUCY!" They shouted and ran off to find their Nakama.
With Lucy.Half an hour ago Lucy and Levy decided to split up and cover more ground, Levy's rune tracker had kept them running in circle's, so they eventually gave up with using thr tracker, Levy went east and Lucy went west, after a further half an hour of searching Lucy Stopped and took a break under a tall tree shading her from the suns hot rays, "I wonder what has been causing all this trouble..." Lucy stopped as she looked up, her eyes widened as she saw five coccon like structures dangling off branches high in the tree, in a panic Lucy screamed loud.
With Levy."Lu-chan!" she shouted and ran towards the scream.
It didn't take long for everyone to find Lucy, she was sitting on the ground staring up at the tree, they all looked up and gasped as they too saw the cocoons hanging from the tree, "What the hell?" Gray shouted, he too was shocked at the discovery.
Levy was shaking in fear, she did not want to see what inside of those cocoons looked like. Erza was a different story she at a safe distance examined the cocoons "Whatever is in those things are incredibly powerful but..." Erza was cut off as Gray shot an Ice Make Lance at the smallest cocoon. Erza about to shout at Gray was cut off when the cocoon fell to the floor and writhed while emitting a high pitched inhuman screech.
The group watched while holding their ears as the cocoon unraveled revealing a humanoid creature, obviously female with long blue hair, brown reptilian eyes, light blue feathery wings and tail, blue scales and sharp claws on her hands and feet, she was clothed in rags that hid the private areas, as the screech subsided they removed their hands from their ears and watched on as the creature laid on the ground breathing hard and fast, this silnce was not to last as soon after as four roars came from the other cocoons.
The roars were loud, each more terrifying than the last, a black leathery cocoon had roared first, next came a white feathery cocoon, the third was a large steel grey cocoon and finally a red cocoon with the loudest roar, the cocoons dropped to the ground with a thud and uncurled revealing the snarling beasts inside, (just to save time, imagine Natsu, Gajeel, Sting and Rogue with Wings, Talons, Tails and horns).
The wizards looked on in horror as the male beasts glared at them fiercely, "Well shit" was Gray's thought that summed up everything everyone else was thinking.
AN: Another chapter complete, I feel as if I should apologise. If my fic seems rushed that is because I am writing on a tablet and I absolutely hate touch screens, it seems petty but each to their own.SSPP.
