Authors note:
Warning: This is a T rated chapter and has nothing bad:)
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{part two}
"Snap out of it Natsu! It isn't the time to go down memory lane it's time to be radicaaalll!" Scorpio yelled.
Shut up Scorpio I know," Natsu retorted to his inner wolf.
Natsu and some of his pack mates had been patrolling their territory. A few days ago there had been reports of trappers down south near the eastern quadrant and Natsu didn't want to take any chances. Trappers came and went but many of them were skilled and could easily capture his packs pups.
The trio was spread out ten yards and were moving in an arrow formation. Natsu in the middle a little a head while Grey and Erza flanked him. They had been running a little under a day and decided to take a quick rest.
"Grey, Erza, we will stop here. There is no need to run when it's dark because one of you may get hurt. So sleep up." Natsu said through the mind link as he rolled over to lay down. Being a wolf had its advantages, he could sleep on the ground and still be comfortable. They all laid down and fell asleep the night quickly claiming their slumber.
Their peaceful slumber was rudely awakened when a loud explosion burst a few miles away.
"W-what was that?" Grey asked sleepily and rubbed his eyes with his paws.
I do not know, alpha should we check it out?" Erza asked and stood up. She shook her coat and looked expectantly at Natsu. He sniffed the air and his onyx eyes widened.
"I-I smell blood," He stammered. Natsu shook his head and looked at Grey and Erza. "Let's go, Grey flank my right and Erza you got the left. If you smell anything funny or see anything, bark as loud as you can."
The trio took off running toward the explosion and slowed when they got to the clearing. Natsu hunched down and Erza slowly menuvered to the left while Grey moved right. In the end they formed a triangle, circling the clearing. All at once they leaped over their respective bushes and crawled forward preparing to attack.
Erza got to the scene first and barked while Grey was sniffing around for any explosives.
"Hey Natsu I don't smell any explosives but I do smell a faint scent of a werewolf." Grey mind linked both Natsu and Erza as a joint chat.
"Um, alpha you may want to see this." Erza said. Her voice was wavering and when Natsu got to her he understood why.
The five yard area surrounding Erza was black with ash in a post-explosion formation and on the ground a few feet away from Erza was a greenish tinted cadge. It lightly hummed where a part had been seemingly blasted open. Inside was a girl with long golden hair. Her cloths were in tatters and light cuts and bruises adorned her whole body.
A few feet from her laying on the ground were two men, one had short silver hair and the other had long black messy hair. The two weren't breathing and Nastu couldn't hear a heart beat.
"Those two are dead and that one with the long black hair is or rather was a werewolf but the girl is alive. It looks like something is protecting her." Natsu said and walked toward the girl.
He glanced at the bars and sniffed them.
"Wolfsbane," He said disgustedly. "There, on her elbow is that a-a burn mark from the wolfsbane?" Natsu pointed and looked astounded at the girls elbow. He looked dumbfoundedly at Erza.
"If she touched the wolfsbane coated bars, shouldn't she be dead or in a coma? Right now she's only unconscious," he then looked at the girl and then at Grey.
"Hey Grey, mind link Wendy. If this girls one of us she should be able to heal her. Also I need you to patrol the perimeter, I don't know if these were the only two trappers." Natsu told him and Grey nodded then ran off mind linking her on the way.
"Oi Wendy. Are you there?"
"Yea i'm here, what do you need Grey." Wendy paused then started to ramble.
"Wait aren't you supposed to be out with Natsu and Erza? Are you okay? Are any of you hurt? I knew you shouldn't have gone! Grey i'm telling Elder Makarov." She worriedly stated.
"W-wait no Wendy we're fine, just don't tell Makarov. Natsu found a girl. We think she's one of us but she's unconscious and has cuts and bruises all over her body. How fast do you thing you can get the southern and eastern boarder?" Grey asked her and dodged a branch as he was running.
"Um I'd say an hour or so, but how long can the girl hold up? You may just have to take her to the hospital."
"Thanks Wendy, I'll tell you what we plan to do."
Grey cut off his midink with Wendy and spoke to Natsu through another mind link.
"Hey alpha how's the girl doing?" He asked.
"Grey, she's stable for now. Erza cleaned up her cuts as well as she could but we realized she had some broken ribs. Is Wendy on her way?"
"Wendy said she would be able to make it in over an hour but she thinks we should take her to the eastern hospital instead." Grey trailed off and stopped running. "Alpha the perimeter is clear, want me to come back?" He asked.
"Yea please come back. I'm gonna carry her to the nearest hospital and I need you and Erza to watch my back." Natsu said then cut off his mind link.
Five minutes later Natsu was menuvering the unconscious girl on his back. His amber colored coat was warm from the sunlight and the girl subconsciously snuggled her face into his fur. Natsu gave her wolfish grin earning questioning looks from Erza and Grey. Snap out of it Natsu, she's just a random girl not anybody important. She needed help and your helping her. That Is It.
Natsu shook the wolfish grin off his face and tried to convince himself that she was nobody important. He finally got her into a secure position and started to run north closer to the eastern hospital.
Grey mind linked Wendy and told her that they were going to the hospital. She in turn recommended one of the nurses to treat the girls wounds.
A few yards away from the hospital entrance, they put Lucy down and then the trio shifted back into their human forms. Natsu's amber coat lightened and merged into his unruly pinkish hair. Erza's crimson coat darkened and merged into her long red hair and Grays navy colored coat turned black and shifted into his own hair. Natsu picked up the girl again and rushed into the hospital.
"Nurse Grandeeney!" He yelled at the front desk.
When he called, an old lady with long white hair emerged from one of the patients rooms. Natsu ran up to her and gasped for his breath.
"Wendy..." he breathed. "Wendy sent us. We need help."
The lady named Grandeeny looked up in alarm when Natsu said Wendy's name and pulled him into an empty patients room. Erza and Grey followed closely and shut the door behind them. The room was pitch black until Erza flipped the light switch.
The older lady motioned for Natsu to put the girl on the changing bed and waved Erza and Grey out of the room. At first they didn't move but when Natsu gave them a look of dismissal the two retreated out of the room and waited in the waiting room.
Grandeeney circled the table inspecting the girls wounds and Natsu took a seat in the chair in the adjacent corner. The older lady paused and studied her face.
"This is the Conbolts adopted daughter, Lucy. She has been missing for two days. Her friend Levy was here just the other day and got released this morning." She told him, all while gracefully moving around the girls body.
"Tell me son, how did you come to find her? And in such a horrid state?" Grandeeney looked up from her inspection and looked at Natsu, waiting for him to answer.
Natsu put his hand on his neck and tilted his head back. Closing his eyes her relayed how he had found the girl. When he was done he opened his eyes to find Grandeeney starting to lift up the girls shirt to check the broken ribs. He quickly averted his eyes and heard Grandeeney laugh at his action.
"My goodness," she chuckled and placed the girls shirt back down. "Well if those two trappers were after her she must be a werewolf. But she doesn't smell like a full werewolf, yet it's as if she doesn't even have a scent yet. Most humans do though..." Grandeeney's voice trailed off and she looked down at the sleeping girl. She then turned and opened the door.
"She should be okay. I'm going to call Macao, her adoptive father, that she's safe and give him a less deatailed story. I suggest you and your friends run off and head home." She paused, trying to figure out a way to tell him something but she shook her head. She shut the door behind her and left Natsu alone.
He looked at the girl named Lucy. What a pretty name don't you think Scorpio?" He asked his inner wolf.
"Yeaaaa I do," He said in his usually peppyness.
Natsu laughed at his wolf and stood up, walking to the door. His heart suddenly ached when he walked away and when he looked back that feeling disappeared. Shaking his head he opened the door and closed it behind him walking toward the lobby.
Leaving the girl in the empty room.
Hello my frosties!! Thanks for reading chapter 4, part two of Striking Fires. I may or may not write another chapter for this week but I have testing all week. Thanks for understanding.
Stay Frosty!!