Here it is; chapter 3! Somehow I can't stop writing on this one :')

Thanks Chrissy for revising as always ^^

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Cana opened the train's door and jumped down, landing just next to the tracks. As she walked toward the front of the train , she already saw the blocking tree. "Jeez, they really have nobody around to deal with this stupid log?" she thought as she reached for some of her cards.

She walked up to the tree that was surrounded by the staff of the train. "Please go hide somewhere save," she requested with several magical cards in her hand. "I can take care of this tree, but I don't wanna injure anybody."

The people turned around upon the appearance of the young mage. "Did that girl just say she would handle it all by herself?" a man whispered towards his co-worker.

She lifted her shirt to reveal her pitch-black guildmark. "I'm a wizard and I'm with Fairy Tail. Please let me handle this situation."

That must have been enough to convince the train workers since they reluctantly started to get back into the train.

Cana let the cards float before her in a slightly curved line. Her face revealed the incredible focus that was needed for the spell she was about to cast. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Just a few meters behind her, her non-voluntary partner jumped out of the train. His eyes widened when he saw the card mage preparing to cast a spell. "Cana, that's a pretty big log, there is no way you ca—"

"Card Magic; Explosion!" she screamed as she waved out both hands to direct the spell towards the tree.

A huge blast followed, blowing the tree to pieces. In a matter of seconds the log had turned to dusty shreds that were thrown in all directions. The remaining parts scattered onto the train's tracks.

Mest threw himself on the ground just in time.

"Damn, my reaction time sure isn't what it could be," he thought. "If I only were a little faster I could have transported myself back into the train." He still didn't dare to move after the explosion; his ears were still ringing from it. Interestingly, he hadn't felt any heat like he had expected from a fire like that. Carefully, he lifted his head and looked up to see what had really happened. What he saw, immediately revealed the reason he hadn't felt a thing; Cana had put up a magic shield between the explosion and herself, including the train she had turned her back to. The shield was rising up from half a circle of cards that lay on the ground.

"I had no idea you could cast spells like that." The teleportation mage said as he got back up and dusted the forest soil off his clothes.

She quickly turned around, startled by the fact somebody apparently was still outside the train. The magic shield disappeared as she lost her focus. The dust and smoke that had been held back by the shield now drifted around her.

"Mest?! What the hell are you doing here?!" she yelled at him. "Didn't I command everybody to stay inside?!"

He was glad he wasn't able to hear her at full volume thanks to his recovering ears. "I just followed you because you were being reckless! I never heard anything about staying inside. It was too loud in the train because of the panicking passengers!"

She sighed. "Be grateful you weren't blown away. I haven't been able to master the magic shield for a long you see."

"You mean you were taking the risk of being hit by casting the spell?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, so what if I was?" she sneered back. "Now let me take care of the rest so the train can ride again."

"You should really come back onto the train again… this smoke and dust can't be good for you."

She snorted. "I'll be fine."

As she turned around towards the debris, she almost screamed; Mest had suddenly appeared right in front of her with only the change in air pressure as her only warning. He was merely a few inches away. "No, you won't be fine," he said as he stared into her eyes and grabbed her upper arm.

Cana felt her mind turn blank and the world started to spin around her. What the hell was going on?

Just a second later, she found herself falling flat down on the train's floor. She still felt dizzy and she couldn't understand what just happened. As she opened her eyes, she saw Mest sitting on the floor as well.

"What the hell did you just do to me?!" she yelled as she tried to sit straight up, but her head felt like her brains were twirling around in her skull, which made it hard to move.

"Calm down—I just transported us back to our compartment in the train,'' he said with a slight smile. "'This actually was the first time I transported somebody along with me, worked out pretty well, didn't it?"

"So you say there was no guarantee it would work?!" she blurted out in awe. "You put me in danger for that?!"

"Well, didn't you just do the same thing with that magic shield?" he answered as he stood up and sat back down on the couch. "As far as I'm concerned we're even now."

He made himself comfortable by lying with his back against the window again. "You even owe more to me, Cana. That tree was a Crimson Oak. When you burn its wood, its smoke can poison you."

"Yeah, whatever…." she replied dully, being able to let her brain process just half of his words. She decided it would take too much energy to discuss who owed who more and slowly stood up, dragging herself to her place at the window.

"That card magic you did back there was pretty awesome," he said. "I had no idea magic cards could be used like that. I thought they were only used for fortune telling and sleeping magic—stuff like that."

"The possibilities are endless as long as you keep on learning and improving as a wizard," she explained as she grabbed a bottle of beer from one of her bags. Cana never went anywhere without a supply of her beloved alcohol.

"I see, well the same counts for my magic," he said, "I can keep on improving it with hard work."

The train shook and slowly but steadily they could feel the train moving again.

"What did I tell ya?" Cana said as she took a sip from her bottle. "All they needed was a skilled wizard."

The rumbling tracks made the only sound that kept the silence from becoming awkward.

"So…" Mest started. "You can do some future telling?" he asked carefully. "I've seen you do it to your friends in the guild often enough."

''I sure can,'' she said, still not looking away from the bottle that already was half empty.

When she heard no response she casually looked at him from the corner of her eye. She nearly spit out her drink when she saw his face. He was trying to look like a begging puppy, there were just no words to describe how ridiculous he looked like.

"Fine, fine," she mumbled as she put down her bottle. Out of her bra she grabbed several cards and some more from the pockets of her pants. "But only if you get rid of that stupid look on your face."

She sat down on the floor and crossed her legs next to her bottle of booze. The card mage started to lay the cards upside down, next to each other. Mest curiously leaned in to have a better look at it.

Systematically, she put all the cards back in one pile. From the top of it, she took two cards and laid them next to each other on the floor.

Her cheeks gained a shade of red as she quickly turned the cards around again and added them to the pile.

"Well, what did my future say?"

"N-nothing," she said as she picked up the cards and hid them back into her clothes.

"Of course it said something," he said with distrust in his voice, "Why are you acting so weird? Was it that bad?"

She covered herself with her blanket. "It-it said you were going to fall down of a cliff within a week, okay?!" she yelled, muffled by the fabric.

"That's fine, I can always transport while falling down. Don't worry about it, okay?"

She didn't respond. Beneath her blanket she reached for the two cards she had just drawn.

Panic struck her since her predictions always came true. She just blankly stared at the cards in the little amount of light the blanket let through. One card showed two people underneath a tree and the other one was decorated with a big heart surrounded by thorny roses. Although she had never drawn these before, the meaning of the combination of the pictures of the cards was known to her:

'You'll fall in love within the next 7 days.'