Chapter 3 Train Station Frustration

(With Yoichi and Grey)

As the two worked on getting all of the luggage off of the train Yoichi sighed falling over and looking at Grey, turning his head while thanking him "Th..thanks for getting me out of there." The ice user responded as he sat down a rather large suitcase on the trolley "no problem." Yoichi then went to reassure Grey that he wouldn't need to worry about him " An..anyways you don't need to wor.."

Grey shrugged before interrupting him " I understand just going to let you know kid if you don't tell us what we're not supposed to worry about, Erza's guaranteed to get it outta you." Yoichi blinked in surprise as Grey put a hand on his shoulder before they both gained blanched face noticing something.

"Sh..shit all of Erza's..." Grey grumbled turning his neck to look directly at the train while Yoichi finished his sentence " s..stuff is still on the t..train."

(10 minutes with Erza, Lucy and Happy)

The flying cat sat on Erza's shoulder as they heard a huffing noise to see both Yoichi and Grey struggling to move the trolley. The girls walked over to the two boys with Yoichi flopping to the ground, coughing out "G..Grey what is Erza the..there's no way she's human." the ice user sweatdropped in response muttering "I think everyone who knows her wants to figure that out."

"I'm impressed that you two were able to move it as far as you did." Yoichi who was too tired to be frightened of Erza's presence retorted while wiping some sweat from his forehead. "It was more Grey moving the trolley while I died trying to push it." Grey nodded his head to agree though he had to say he was impressed with the kid's determination.

That made Erza think about his overall build compared to the fact that he claimed to be a part of the military. "Yoichi your part of the military correct?" Yoichi nodded just about recovered from the tiring experience "How do you fight? Not to be rude but you don't look or act like the type of person to be a foot soldier."

Lucy then told Erza " He told me he was a sniper...though now that I think about it he doesn't have anything to snipe with." Yoichi blinked pretty sure he understood where this was going, and retrieved his cursed gear in its compact form from his pocket. "So do you use like an elemental magic to...?!" Happy was cut off when Yoichi's hand exploded into fiery black and green darkness that materialized as a strange looking bow.

"Just forget I tried to ask.." Happy muttered slightly taken aback by the weapon's materialization while leaving Lucy shocked and Grey along with Erza feeling unnerved. Yoichi smiled while holding out Gekkoin telling them "This is Gekkoin, my weapon pretty cool huh?" Grey recovered the quickest cooly looking over the weapon saying in response "Yeah, I guess.."

The ice user wasn't actually trying to check out the bow because of its design, he didn't like the feeling he got from it, in fact, the weapon's power felt dark almost demonic. Erza had to do her own investigation for a different reason asking "Where exactly did that weapon come from?" she was wondering if he had summoned it similar to her re-equip magic because it definitely didn't feel like it.

The boy at this point had completely recovered from his exhaustion and his slight fear from Erza's superior aura came back full force. He swallowed some spit there wasn't a point to being so scared of her, she was luckily on his side "Yo..you see uh Gekkoin is usually," there was a bright green glow and the bow returned to it's sealed state "like this for convenience."

"That's pretty handy," Lucy commented with Happy following up with "Aye." Yoichi nodded in agreement pocketing Gekkoin with the demon snickering into his ear "Yeah, yeah keep showing off it'll bite you in the ass eventually kid." Yoichi mentally gave the demon a glare while keeping his left hand in his pocket.

The boy then responded to the demon's snicker with an annoyed tone "Coming from the one who did the flashy transformation, my hand is basically burning right now, you know?" the demon muttered out that he was a baby before realizing now was a good time to tell the kid, about that important information that could complicate things for them later.

"Hey, you alright?" Right as the demon was about to go for it Lucy once again interrupted the demon who cursed at her violently. This outburst caused Yoichi to flinch as Lucy went to touch him and, Yoichi the responded nervously "I..I'm fine." Lucy looked at the boy he kept zoning out and it was worrying.

Before he could walk away completely she looked around and handed Yoichi some money saying "Hey could you go get us some drinks? I'm pretty thirsty." the boy nodded after she pointed to where a concession stand was. Lucy then went to Erza and Grey who were already discussing Yoichi's weapon and what they felt from it.

"That thing is definitely not a normal weapon, not that it's trying to look the part from the beginning," Grey said with Erza following up with "Yes and the fact it has a sealed form..." Lucy then coughed getting their attention on her and she said: "He seems to zone out a lot too, I wonder if it has to do with that thing?"

Yoichi returned before they could continue and, the boy was stuck wondering something for himself "Isn't there something we're all forgetting?" that's when they all heard and watched the train start moving again. After that Natsu's head came shooting out out a train window yelling at them to stop the train and making them all gain sweatdrops.

"Oh right, Natsu was on the train wasn't he?" Yoichi said with a worried look while Grey simply responded: " I think it's karma for all the crap he puts me through." Yoichi then thought with a sigh " Don't you give him just as much?"

That's when Erza looked at the ground disappointed with herself muttering out "Someone please hit me so I can feel redemption, I was so focused at talking I forgot about Natsu." Lucy then interjected with "Shouldn't we be more worried about stopping the train?" Erza snapped up saying "Right!"

She looked around quickly before seeing the switch to activate the automated brake for the train and pushed the attendant aside to activate it. The rest of the group came beside her with Yoichi sighing out "I..I don't think we should worry too much I mean, I doubt he'd get into too mu..." before the boy could finish his sentence an explosion followed with a column of flame shot from the halted train.

(On the train)

Natsu glared looking at the shadow magic user that attacked him saying "So you're with Eisenwald huh?" that made the shadow user look at him with his own sharp glare. Before either of them could use any magic, however, the train started up again, Natsu having to cover his mouth hoping not to barf.

"Natsu!" he heard the call of his name and blinked before shaking his head, sighing before diving head first out of the train window. "Why do I have the feeling this is going to suck?" he thought as he let gravity and wind do its thing.

"Grey watch out!" he heard Yoichi cry out before going head first into his ice using rival...-a minute later- After stopping the car to check on Natsu and Grey Yoichi sighed this was a bit more adventure than he could ever ask for.

Author's note-

1. A shorter chapter which I apologize for some stressful stuff happened the past 3 days and I hope you can all understand

2. the next chapter should be more action filled since it deals with their first encounter with Erigor the reaper.

Reviews-

zoepeanut- thank you for the reassuring words and sorry if I made you a bit disgruntled about my own harshness when it came to the 2nd chapter I am just naturally hard on myself. I hope I continue to have your support on this fanfic.

Samantha613- thanks and I hope I can keep making it awesome to read.