Ch.3: Finding the face
When Kya and I make it back to the guild, we find one group hasn't left. The group had Pantherlily and three other men. One had orange hair kept up, another had black hair in an odd design and was fucking large in being fat. Now the last one made me internally swoon. He had long ebony hair that went to the small of his back. He had tanned skin, and his eyes the color of rubies. He was rather tall, his body was quite muscled and he had piercings everywhere she could see. I felt myself blush and I glanced away. He smirked at my mortification.
"See something you like Shrimp?" he asks as he raises an eyebrow.
"Maybe I do see something I like, who knows maybe you can tell me Stud, " I reply as I pull out my viewing lacrima. It appears around us and all but one location has a group of people to their designated piece if the clock. Unfortunately for me, the piece my new team is going for is close to my ex-guild's headquarters. I groan as I close it.
"The piece we are going for is up in the Revan Mountain Range. Coincidentally it is not far from my ex-guild's headquarters, " I say to my designated group. Kya grimaces at that emission of information.
"Um, you do realize what our ex-guild master would do if he knew if we were in the area. Not to mention the ace of the guild?" Kya gritted. I nodded. She rolled her eyes at me.
After we leave the guild, we use the teleportation rune again but to near the Revan Mountain Range. We began to walk towards the clock on to come across where the clock piece was. The mountain wasn't that bad in length just its steepness was a bit of a bear. While Kya and Lily flew up, Gajeel and I lead in the of the group while Jet and Droy trailed behind. After we get to the top, we looked around to see that nothing was on the peak. Meaning it had to bury.
As we wait for Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, I look at my ex-guild's headquarters. But I noticed two forms coming to where we were and they didn't look happy. Just my luck, one of them was my ex-boyfriend and new ace of the guild.
He was Gya Nyiago. He was a lightning mage that had swept me off my feet, only to let me fall to the on the cold hard ground. He had used me to get to S-class and to manipulate me so I'd be his puppet. I had found out he had been sleeping with another woman. I had caught him in our bed with a net that my friend Lin had made. When he told me his reasoning for cheating on me was that the only reason he had ever dated me was that of Ozai and that I had pushed him away when I gave him my heart, I had been so close to just leaving the guild but that meant Ozai won in manipulating me.
The other person coming up was Samuel the exceed and he did not look happy. He probably remembered the last time we fought, seeing as I kicked his ass. As they flew up, I prepared a water whip. Kya went into her larger form in seeing who I saw was coming towards us.
"Well, it isn't the water witch and her mutt. Ozai was right about one thing. He knew you'd be here, same with Samuel here, but I didn't think you'd be dumb enough to come back here," Gya says with a smirk. I just glance away, turning my eyes on anyone but him. I couldn't help it, he knows how to push my buttons.
"Leave her alone Nyiago! You've already hurt her enough, when will you be satisfied!" Kya growls at him. She goes to attack only for me to stop her.
"As much as I'd love to pound him into the dirt, he isn't worth it," I told my group after seeing how tense they gotten over Gya's words.
"Is that so? Well then, I know of one way that might change your mind on what I'm going to say next. Take this as a warning from both Zentopia and from Shadow Wolf, those fairy flies can't protect you forever, nor can they protect Aegis forever either. It'd be a real shame if anything were to happen to him," Gya snickered as I glared at him in anger. I summon one of my watery whips w sneered as I began to summon all of my magic power. "Oh, did I strike a nerve, little minnow? You can't protect him any more than you couldn't then what's her name, Hestia? You failed in protecting her and you'll fail in protecting Ae-" he continued until I could take his verbal reminder of my failure of protecting my young friend, Hestia from Ozai's wrath no longer. He found himself in a water dragon's entrapment and smirked. He teleported out and sent one of his lightning strikes toward me. I dodged and sent a water dragon's roar at him, but he just sends teleports out of range and sends an attack and something else. I put a shield up to block the spell but as I hold up the lightning shield, I feel my arm being constricted by something. I look over to see something wrapping tightly and keeping my arm up.
"What's happening to my arm?!" I scream as the tightness spreads across my body until the point I can't move at all and it causes me to panic at the pain and how fast my strength in my body is leaving.
"It's just a bind snake, one of my attacks had it within it. Your shield may block lightning but not paralyzing spells. You'll find that you won't be able to access your water body now, " Gya sneers as I scream in pain as the bonds hold my shaking body prisoner. Suddenly I'm knocked over by Lily and I feel the bonds release me from their tightness. Gajeel slashes them to pieces before Gya can call them back.
"Thanks, guys, now Jet and Droy get those clock piece, Gajeel helps me hold off those two. Kya help Jet and Droy. Lily, you are helping us, " I tell them. I use my solid script magic to make Iron for Gajeel. Then I try to stand but my legs aren't moving.
"Levy! You are not fighting right now, you don't have the strength to even stand, much less fight! You can help me with the clock piece, leave the holding off to Gajeel and Lily, have some faith in them, " Kya scolds as I roll my eyes. Suddenly, clouds look over us and it begins to pour. I smirk and open my mouth. As I swallow the rainwater from the storm I had called, I felt my magic energy and my strength return. I stand and smirk at my exceed, knowing she is pissed but relieved I'm up.
"You should've stayed down, "Gya sneers as he uses his lightning attacks to try to send me down again, but I just keep dodging to the point he is sending ten strikes at once so I'm knocked away from my friends. I stop the rain midair and have it surround us just when he thought he had the upper hand. I then freeze it around us right before he can send out his attack.
The looks on everyone else's were priceless! I then unfroze the water in our little shell and put magic bindings on his wrists. The second after I have them locked onto him, I unfreeze the rest of the ice and send the water to the ground. Both of us are now free from the shell and we both fall to the ground, me for lack of magic and for his lack of magic and lack of air. Gya struggles with his bonds, but I made sure he wouldn't be able to get them off.
"Levy! Are you okay?" Kya asks me while I sat up slowly. I nodded as I managed to get to my feet. Shadow Gear and Gajeel come out of the cavern with the clock piece. Meanwhile, Lily just beat the hell out of Samuel. "Oh good, you guys got the piece, " Kya says as she is bandaging my arms from the bind snakes.
"So you got the piece, but that doesn't matter. You've think you've won, but it's far from it. The only thing that will come from this is you losing what you fight for, " Gya groaned as he pulls out some weird compass and it teleported him and Samuel away.
"I need to head back to Magnolia, he made a threat to my son, I have to get there before it's too late. Kya, go with the guys to the meeting spot, I'm heading home to Aegis. Knowing them, they will go after him," I say as I summon Lupus. As soon as Lupus comes through, Kya starts growling at him while Lupus just snickered as he knelt in front of me so I could climb on. As she grabbed Lupus's fur as a handhold, I feel a warm hand take mine.
"Be careful, your ex-guild don't mess around, " Gajeel says as he releases my hand. I nod as Lupus gives me the sign that says he is ready. And then we are off, racing back to my house.
When we hit Magnolia, I leap off of Lupus and close Lupus's gate. I then am sprinting home to find the door barely held on its hinges. I kick down the door to find a family unconscious and my beloved son missing. And painted on the wall was the symbol of my exguild with the message. I fall to my knees, trying to breathe through my tears. I failed my son, I didn't make it in time. As I sob, I see Bisca and Alzack wake up, along with little Asuka.
While I am glad they are alright, I am terrified for my son. I continue to sob as Bisca wraps a blanket around me and Alzack goes to the guild, to let them know what happened as well explain that I need a new place to crash while my house is being repaired.
After I manage to pull myself together, I go to the Guildhall to go and at least see if the others have come back and talked to Makarov.
When I get there, I hear discussion on getting the pieces back. I see Alzack trying to get through the crowd to find Macao and Makarov. When I go in, all I see is chaos. Lucy is crying while half of the guild is trying to cheer her up, the other half is trying to decide on what the plan is from here.
"Well, look what the storm brought in! It isn't Miss I-can-handle-them, tell me, where were you when we lost the clock pieces? Looks like to me, you ditched your group just to head home, " Michelle sneered as she glared at me. I try to walk away from her but, she won't leave me alone. "So why did you have to get back so fast huh? Just what is more important than helping your friends?" Michelle snickered as I turned to face her. Before I could stop myself, tears fell freely from my face. The room just went still.
"Well, doll, the reason I had to rush back to my home, the reason I didn't accompany my group back is because my former guild decided to act against me by abducting my son. I had raced back, but, but I was too late! When I got there, Alzack, Bisca, and Asuka were knocked out and Aegis was gone. My innocent son, was taken because of some petty vendetta, and what do I get for aiding my new guild against my old family? A word lashing for trying to make sure my child is safe! Much less from a fucking tramp who thinks she can fool people with her nice girl facade, but she can't fool me. If you think you can judge me so harshly, at least know the whole story, " I tell her off as tears just stream down my face.
All of a sudden I'm swallowed into someone's chest into a hug. They smell if metal, something earthy, and of leather. Gajeel, I think as he just holds me as I cry myself out. Eventually, I work my way out of his chest to breathe a bit more clearly.
"Levy, my dear, if you think that we won't help you find your child, you are sadly mistaken. I don't know the full extent of your pain in the past, but if you can walk with a smile on your face and not be sad over the past, you truly belong here. And if anyone believes otherwise, they either don't belong here or that they are ignorant of the circumstances that you were in, " Makarov said as he walked up to me. I just nodded as he dissolved what I was really afraid of, losing my chance at a real family.
"As for the mystery of the clock pieces, we will be sending out teams to the areas that will help in defeating the neo-oracion seis. Cana, if you'd please do your thing, " Mira added on.
"Alright then. Shaltzei!" Cana said as she threw her cards. There were 6 groupings on the map. "Alright lets see what we got. First team is Gray and Freed. The second team is Erza, Evergreen, and Max. The fourth team is made up of the four exceeds. The fifth team is Gajeel and Juvia. Then there is Wendy and Bixlow. The last team is the largest one made up of Elfman, Lucy, Michelle, Natsu, and Levy, " Cana told the guild as they started talking about the different teams.
The loudest remark was from Michelle and Lucy being glad they were on the same team. The other remarks were Ever and Erza butting heads, Gajeel rolling his eyes at a protesting Juvia, and a fight ready Kya.
It seemed like this plan would work, but I still had my doubts with a certain team mate. But as I got ready for my mission, I couldnt help but feel something unexpected would happen.
heya readers,sorry for the long wait. School and Scouting kept me busy. also writer's block is a bitch. Anyways, since school is ending, I will hopefully be able to type out more chapters sooner.Thanks for reading,Finch6