And now, we move on to the next chapter! What will happen next? Find out!
"Graaaaay!" yelled Natsu as he ran full speed around in a huge circle.
"What is it, Natsu?" Gray panted.
"I'm not sure that voice we're hearing is Lucy," he said, "because it doesn't smell like her!"
Gray stopped all of a sudden and tripped Natsu, stopping him, too.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo, thought Cana, keep running, or don't notice what's going on around you so I can get to those barrels in the guild haaaaaalllll! It should be easy for you two, right?
Gray looked at Natsu.
"And what," he smirked, "does Lucy smell like?"
"Vanilla."
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Gray thought, he actually told me?
Gray sat there, gaping at Natsu like a fish.
"What's that look for, Panties queen?" he insulted.
Then they started arguing again over who was the best insulter.
Which was a good thing for Cana.
Meanwhile...
"J-Jellal?"
Jellal's heart stopped.
He couldn't see anything else, but the red haired girl in front of him.
Lucy gaped, but decided to stay quiet. She wanted to be a witness.
Erza's chin quivered, and she started bawling.
Told you so, Lucy thought.
Jellal could only guess what Lucy was thinking, but he correctly responded with: Shut up.
Just standing there, seeing her cry, was more than he could handle. In a split second, he wrapped his arms around Erza and hugged her.
Erza pulled out of their embrace and looked at him.
He looked down back at her.
She hardened her eyebrows, and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Don't you dare try anything while Lucy is here," she whispered, glaring at him.
Oh. Jellal had forgotten about that.
He looked back at Lucy and wasn't that shocked, actually, to notice she was ogling at them with fish eyes. He sighed.
"Who cares?" he whispered back, "It's not like she's going to tell anyone, right?"
But Erza was prepared for that.
"Tell anyone what?" she asked innocently.
"That I broke out of jail."
Erza blinked, before morphing into a devil-like creature that Natsu like to call: The Scary Erza Face She Makes When She's Angry.
"YOU DID WHAT?" she screamed.
"I-I Uh, I, broke... out.. of … jail..."
She pushed him away, sending him flying.
"I thought you were going to be a good convict and spend your term in prison!" she said.
"Well, Erza, you forget that I was sentenced to death so I 'm pretty sure that I wasn't going to want to spend my 'term' in prison," he reasoned.
She stopped for a moment, and recomposed herself, but she was in shock.
"So they sentenced you to death, huh?" she said, her voice shaking a bit at 'death', "I don't think I heard that part of the conversation as you were leaving."
"Yes, at the time I was leaving, I wasn't sure what my sentence was, either," he said softly, "and I didn't have my memories, either."
Erza's eyes widened.
"S-so you- have your memories back?" she asked.
"Of course I do. And, Erza, the reason I came here wasn't so that I could see you, though that was important to me. The reason I came was-" he cut himself off, as he looked frantically around for the blonde celestial wizard.
"Where's Lucy?"
Meanwhile...
Lucy had never felt so much pain. Not even when she was being controlled by that voodoo doll and Natsu set her on fire, that jerk.
She was lying on a cold stone floor, and she could hear the trickle of water coming from somewhere. She couldn't open her eyes, yet, so she decided to play still knocked out and keep it that way. She recalled her last moments awake.
She actually hadn't noticed the hood coming over her head. How stupid! She could still smell the sickly-sweet odor and feel some of the drowsiness. And hell, her head hurt. She mentally bashed herself for not paying attention.
But then again... who would've been paying any attention? Seeing Jellal's puppy face when he saw Erza was almost to cute for her to handle.
And they hugged! She almost smiled. Then she realized the terrible situation she was in. She had forgotten that she was supposed to be on alert at all times, and she had failed.
Now she was captured by the enemy. She hated this, she really did.
Ever since the Phantom Lord guild had captured her and thought her useless, she had vowed never to get taken by the enemy ever again. But then again, getting saved by Natsu hadn't actually been that bad...
She felt her cheeks get hot, and she shook her head, hard.
Bad idea. She had just knocked herself out.
Meanwhile...
Gray and Natsu had been at it for a while, now, and they had come to the conclusion that neither was better.
And if I was going to list all of the insults that they used, I would have to change the rating on this story, so I'm not going to.
They were both breathing heavily from yelling. Gray felt the urgent need to take off his clothes, but then, he realized, he had none to take off.
He shrugged. Running around in his underwear was fine with him.
Natsu, however, had the urgent need to find whoever thought they sounded like Lucy, because they were wrong. They could never imitate her smell. It was just impossible.
Lucy was irreplaceable. That's all there was to it.
Natsu blushed furiously, and he stood up, still panting.
Wherever Lucy really was, he had the strangest feeling that she was in trouble.
"Come on, Gray," he said, his serious face on, "I know whoever is yelling for help isn't Lucy, but I have the feeling that she's in trouble."
Gray looked up at his rival. There was something different about him now. Gray smiled, and Natsu held a hand out to help him get up.
Gray avoided Natsu's hand, however, and started walking in a random direction. Natsu scowled, but followed him anyway.
It was then that Gray remembered what he thought Erza's trap was. He stopped all of a sudden, and Natsu, who wasn't paying attention, knocked right into him.
"Look where your going, Gray!" he yelled, angered.
"Natsu?" said Gray in a small voice.
"Yeah, Freeze-brain?" Natsu said back, holding his nose.
"Have you ever seen or heard of something called a Fire and Ice Spider, would you?"
Natsu shook his head. "Never."
Gray pointed to something huge rising out of the forest.
Natsu almost screamed.
"What is that thing?"
So, I hoped you like that chapter. Sorry for not updating sooner, I had a little bit of Writer's block, I think. Anyway, I should be updating anywhere in the next few days.
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