3.
Happy was flying to get Wendy and Lucy. He quickly spotted Wendy and her cat flying above the trees.
"Happy! Lucy is down there running towards where the explosion was! What happened?!" Wendy yelled to him.
"I'll grab Lucy, Natsu caused an explosion. The girl needs healing. Hurry!" Happy yelled back before diving closer to the trees to get Lucy. Soon, the team had regrouped at the clearing Dafuni and Natsu made. Wendy healed Dafuni, and checked to see if Natsu needed healing as well.
"He looks okay, I think he'll have a few bruises on his back." Wendy reported. "Umm, what are you doing to the girl?" Wendy was worried to see Erza lifting the girl.
"Tying her to a tree." Erza replied like it was nothing.
"Don't worry, Wendy. We're just taking precautions. This girl did last against Natsu. She's also escaped seven containment facilities before." Lucy said slightly at unease. Suddenly, Natsu moaned, waking up at discomfort.
"What happened?" He said rubbing his eyes.
"You tell us." Gray said.
"I was in a fight, did I win?" Natsu was suddenly more awake.
"I'd say more of a draw." Happy said.
"Why is Dafuni tied up?" Natsu asked. "Wait! She was injured! Then I blacked out..."
"We healed her and tied her up." Erza explained.
"Oh. Okay." Natsu seemed to be okay with the explanation.
"Can you tell us exactly what happened?" Erza asked.
"Well, we fought a little, and insulted each other. Then we both roared at the same time, and it exploded when they hit each other." Natsu explained.
"Back up. You're saying that you both roared, as in dragon slayer roar, as in she's a dragon slayer?!" Lucy looked at the girl again with a new perspective.
"Yeah, I think she said imagination. I don't really get it either. A bunch of rainbow light, and a big glob of water over my head. Her roar was blindingly bright and colorful." Natsu described the girls magic.
"Water over your head?" Gray asked.
"Yeah."
"Weird." Suddenly, after the conversation trailed off into silence, the girl groaned awake.
"F %$." She weakly swore.
"Hi Dafuni! Who's crying to their mommy now?" Natsu taunted.
"You." She said as she slapped him. She quickly brought her hand back behind the tree.
"OW! How'd you get free?!" Natsu asked.
"I'm not free." She innocently said.
"We all saw you slap him." Gray said.
"Oh," She started. "I wonder how that could be, if I'm still tied up." Erza instantly checked to see that Dafuni's hands were bound behind the tree.
"How did you do that?" Erza asked her.
"Do what?" Dafuni replied. "This?" Dafuni waved her hand at them, she was clearly loose. Then, a moment later she wasn't.
"I just don't get it." Wendy said sulking next to a rock.
"Look, we all clearly know I can leave anytime I want to." Dafuni said.
"Why aren't you?" Lucy asked.
"I want to strike a deal." Dafuni answered.
"No way." Natsu said.
"Just listen. I don't want you people after me anymore." Dafuni started to explain.
"You people?" Natsu interrupted.
"Guild wizards. You're like bugs. I just don't like squashing the bugs, so they keep coming back. If I pretend you caught me I can return home, but I don't want to remain with them. I'll have you lie and say I have to much power to just be sitting around, and it's really dangerous for me to stay with them. Then you can sudgest taking me off of their hands for them. You can say your guild master can help me. That's all they need, they don't even care if you kill me, they just don't want to be responsible for me." Dafuni had all of it planned out.
"Why us instead of others? And why would we take you back with us?" Erza asked.
"I personally think Fairy Tail is the most exciting guild. If you don't want an unbelievably powerful wizard, then you can drop me off at the train station." Dafuni said.
"Hell NO!" Natsu said.
"Natsu!" Lucy yelled.
"How about we get payed for our job, and then dump Dafuni's fate on Master Makrov." Erza suggested. After some discussion they decided on an idea and started heading back to town.
"HEY I'M STILL TIED TO A TREE!" Dafuni yelled.
"Get yourself out." Gray said.
"It's getting dark, we should hurry." Lucy said.
"Wait! We won't make it out before dark! Let's just stay at the cave tonight, you all brought stuff anyways." Dafuni looked at the sky.
"How would you know?" Natsu asked.
"I caught you in a cage that was meant for the creatures of the forest. We have a better chance if we stay put surrounded by my traps." Dafuni argued to stay in the forest.
"How do we know you won't run while we sleep?" Erza asked.
"I'm not running now, but I could. I can run anytime I want." Dafuni said.
"I say we trust her. She has been here longest, and it's not like she has any motives to kill us in our sleep." Lucy said.
"How do you know I dont?" Dafuni asked with a smirk.
"It's more of hope than knowing I suppose." Lucy said back.
"I say, walking around in the dark is a bad idea. I don't trust Dafuni at all, but she has the right idea." Natsu unwillingly said. Everybody decided to stay, but nobody actually thought of the idea as a good one.
The next morning Erza woke up very early, and she found Dafuni already awake. She stayed quiet and observed what Dafuni was doing.
"sh #" Dafuni swore to nobody as she cut her finger opening a trap. All of the traps around the cave were at her feet, a few carrying a strange forest creature.
"What are you doing so early, Dafuni?" Erza asked mid-yawn. Dafuni didn't flinch.
"Checking the traps. Do you want to help me?" Dafuni didn't turn to look at Erza as she answered.
"Might as well."
"Just cut through the rope right here," Dafuni indicated the rope she was cutting through. "and pull the latch open facing the forest."
"So we're just releasing them?" Erza asked.
"Yeah, if they want to attack us we're awake and defend ourselves. They don't normally want to attack you, though. They just wanted our food in the first place." Dafuni explained. The two of them released the creatures that were caught before anybody else woke up.
"I'll make some breakfast." Erza offered.
"Do you need a fire?" Dafuni asked.
"Yeah."
"I'll wake up hot-head and make him ignite the wood in the fire pit."
"Did you just call Natsu hot-head?" Erza asked.
"He has pink hair, he has a bit of a temper, and he uses fire magic. There is probably even more reasons than that to call him hot-head."
"You're probably right." Erza said.
"Oi, wake up." Dafuni said to Natsu, shaking his shoulders didn't work very well.
Finally he said, "Whaaaa-?"
"Get up or you don't get breakfast." Dafunt said pushing Natsu out of his blankets and onto the cold, hard rock of the cave.
"Fine." He finally said pushing himself off of the ground.
"Can you start a fire in the fire pit?" Dafuni asked him.
"When you said I wouldn't get breakfast you really meant you needed me to make breakfast didn't you?" He asked her stubbornly.
"Fine, you can be that way. I don't actually need you for the fire, I just preffered you do it." Dafuni admitted. She looked at the fire pit and glared untill it sparked in flames.
"How did you do that?!" Natsu exclaimed.
"You didn't ask when I hit you with magical beams coming from a pen." Dafuni stated.
"I'm asking now." He said.
"I'd like to know as well." Erza agreed.
"I'll tell you over breakfast." Dafuni turned away to fiddle with a broken trap.
End of Chapter 3.