Chapter 4: The Lightning Dragon, the Wyverns and the Hurricane (part 2)

Laxus' P.O.V.

The first thing I noticed when I started regaining conscience was the warmth that spread through my chest. It felt so good, so right, I couldn't help drawing the source closer. Almost instinctively, a growl formed in my throat, as I felt the soft warmth fit in my chest as a puzzle part finding its home.

Next thing I felt was my arms, or should I say the curved body that I was drawing closer with them. A scent claimed my attention, a mix of jasmine, ozone and apples. Damn, it's so peaceful.

Then, I heard a soft giggle close to my ear, awakening me completely.

I opened my eyes and looked at what my arms were hanging on to. Aria was in the same position as the one she positioned herself into back when she was healing me. Only, this time my arms were closing the space between our bodies, and her head rested in my shoulder.

"The hell…" I looked around us and realized I was sitting with my back held by a wall. We were hiding in some sort of room naturally carved, with barely enough space for me to stretch both my arms without hitting the rock wall. In front of me, a narrow passage signalled the only way in and out.

"Could you let me go for a sec?" She whispered in my ear. I released her immediately, and she laughed again. "How are you feeling?"

"Mmh… great, why?" Her smell still filled my nose and tempted me to take her again in my arms.

"Well, you received a hard hit out there"

"Wait… was I unconscious?" She nodded "For how long?"

"I don't know… maybe half an hour? It's hard to say, I was trying to take both of us to a safe place…"

I looked at her for the first time since I woke up and I saw a couple scratches in her right cheek and her neck.

Suddenly, it hit me. We were on a mission. S-class mission. I saw the Wyvern we were targeting lying dead on the ground, and then…

"What happened to me?"

"You were hit by another Wyvern. Looks like they were a couple or something because the other one is looking for revenge" She smiled.

I let my guard down. How the hell did I not sense the damn beast approaching?

Well, you heard that flap of wings… And then it hit me. WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH ME? I let a girl alone in an S-quest with the enemy and my useless body to take care of. How did I become so reckless? My blood let my face as the gravity of the situation finally reached me. We could have died. Both of us. I risked both our lives because I had become confident. Just what in the world was I thinking?

"Laxus?" Her worried tone drew me out of my thoughts again. She saved us. I put us in risk and she could have died trying to save me. I examined her more closely. She didn't look as if she had just faced a Wyvern. In fact, she looked more like a child who went out to play and fell to the ground. Her scratches were superficial, and, apart from looking a bit dirty (probably from having to drag my unconscious body all the way down here), she was just fine. "Laxus?"

"I heard you the first time, you know?"

"You didn't answer the first time."

"How did you do it?" Her face was a mask of confusion. "How did you defend yourself from the Wyvern and carried my body down here? How did you know there was a safe place for us to shelter from the weather and the Wyvern? Is the beast still alive? Where did it go? WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS GOING ON DOWN HERE?"

"Shh" She put her hands in my chest, trying to do something with my bad mood. "Don't speak that loud." I realized she had been whispering the whole time. "That thing is still out there. I didn't know there was a place like this, the wind told me."

"The wind…?"

"Yes. You see, I sense changes in the air. And there was a strange airflow coming from here. I didn't know I would find such a place, all I knew was that there was a place narrow and long enough for us to hide until you came back to yourself."

"And the Wyvern? How did you protect yourself?"

"That was the difficult part. I can transform my body into my element, but I can't transform anybody else's. I'm still working on it, I promise. But that thing was determined to kill you, as if it had decided you were responsible for its partner's death, so I had to act quickly. Thank Mavis I had the scythe."

"Where is it anyways?"

"Let's just say nobody will be using it any time soon" She said, smiling apologetically. "So, I had to…"

A furious growl echoed from the entry of the improvised shelter, interrupting the girl. "Finally you find us" I shouted, standing up and heading towards the origin of the beast's sounds.

"Oi, Girl, why does it look like sky is going to fall down?" Besides me, the most raging storm I've ever seen exhibited how destructive nature could be if it sets its mind to it. The wind was howling like a chorus of banshees, the clouds were pitch-black, and I've never seen such a downpour, which looked like it had set its target in writing a new chapter in history. "The second Universal Deluge" would be the title.

"I'm just missing lightning, but it's harder than it looks when you can only control the atmosphere" A voice sounded behind me.

I smiled. "Let me help with that"

The battle was actually shorter than I expected. The Wyvern looked dizzy enough thanks to the weather, and as soon as I stepped outside I was protected by the mysterious girl from the wind, the rain, and anything that would suppose an obstacle between the irate Wyvern and me. When it fixed its attention in me, it adopted a battle stance, its eyes flaming with how close it thought it was to revenge.

I almost felt pity for the wild creature. It hadn't done anything to deserve such sadness, and I could understand it was only looking for a way to ease its pain. But it was dangerous to everyone stepping in its way, and as a mage of Fairy Tail I wouldn't allow such danger to run wild.

Its body grew wider, its wings slightly separated from its body to look more threatening. But, to me, those wings only looked like huge lighting rods, and they were screaming to feel my magic. My own lightning was screaming to touch those huge rods connected to its body. So, I let the energy flow through my body, wrapping me in an electric coat, and directed one lighting after another to the huge monster. The beast was soaking wet from the storm, so it wasn't even worth classifying it as an S-mission battle. He didn't stand a chance from the moment it got close to me thinking I had kill its mate.

"Ok, that was not everything I'm capable of…" I stated, turning around to find my companion with shiny eyes.

"I love your lightning! Please, show me more!" With an admiring smile in her face, she ran closer to me, as I felt the bad weather dissipate in a matter of seconds.

Erza's P.O.V.

The train stopped and Lucy, a faint Natsu and I stepped outside. As his foot touched solid ground, his normal skin colour returned, and his usual energy filled him again.

"Finally! Let's go find that Wyvern!" Natsu shouted, happily.

"We are not looking for the Wyvern, we are looking for the new girl." I corrected.

"Hey, look at that!" He interrupted

"What is it?"

"It looks like a… hurricane!"

"Yeah, Natsu, a hurricane. In the middle of the mountain."

"Lucy, do you have any other idea what that might be?" I had actually thought the same.

"Let's get closer!"

"How are we getting closer to a hurricane?"

"Walking! Let's go, Lucy!" And with that, Natsu started running towards Mt. Hakobe.

I started missing Gray. He had gone on a solo mission, so I couldn't help feeling like Team Natsu wasn't at its fullest. He always had the wisest words, and kept Natsu's bursts of energy to a minimum.

"Are you coming, Erza?"

"Oh! Sorry, Lucy. I'm coming" I hadn't realized they had started moving, as lost in my own thoughts as I was.

"So, how does she look like, Erza?- she says" Horologium transmitted. She had summoned him as soon as the rain started to fall. I was thankful I had brought an umbrella with me, seeing Natsu soaking wet.

"Umm… brown, long hair; white dress…" I couldn't see her more than a few seconds, and she was far… "I didn't have a good look at her" I admitted.

"Do you think she will like reading?-she said" She asked, her tone dreamy. "Ooh, I so want to go shopping with…"

"I think I found it!" Natsu announced, his mood as his exceed's name.

"Don't get any closer to the Wyvern, Natsu!" I warned with a shout. As always, he didn't listen.

"LAXUUS!" Natsu shouted, running towards his fellow Dragon Slayer. I hadn't seen the blond figure standing next to the twin white bumps in the snow. "How did you not take me? I wanted to go on an S-quest!" He pouted.

"Why are you here, Flame Brain?"

"Not you, Laxus! I'm Natsu. NA-TSU."

"Hi" A shy voice trembled from behind the black coat of the Lightning Slayer.

"So you are both ok! Hi, I'm Lucy" She said, getting closer to the girl. When did she send back Horologium? She hid again, until the shape of the blond covered her whole body.

"It's ok, you know?" Said blond encouraged, with a sweet voice.

Wait, "Laxus encouraged?" With a sweet voice?!" Are we back to Edolas? I raised a brow with confusion. What had happened during the few hours they were together?

"Pfff… HAHAHAHAHA! Laxus, you are acting funny!"

"Oh, Natsu, shut up for a sec!" Lucy's eyes were shining, probably with the perspective of being an accomplice with Mira. "So, you beat them"

"Yeah, I couldn't have done it without her" Laxus gave a little push to the girl behind him, so she would be facing us as well.

"Laxuuuus…" I said, my Black Wing Armour making an appearance. "Why does she have scratches all over her body?"

"T-titania, wait, WAIT, I can explain! You see, she created this weather to protect us from the Wyvern and…" He spoke so fast I almost didn't understand the words. Almost.

"She protected both of you? You, S-class mage, let her protect you?!"

"I-It really is not as it seems! Let me explain!"

"LAXUUUS!" I jumped to close the distance between us, my sword held high prepared to strike.

A/N: Aria is going to kill me; she hasn't gotten any P.O.V.s in this or the previous chapter… I'll try next chapter… But then, some mysteries would be solved! Aarg, it's so difficult to choose the best moment to uncover the enigmas T.T

So, "Who is Aria", "Why has she lost her memory", "Why does Mavis know her", "Is there something more than it looks in -The wind told me- or am I messing with you", "Who killed the Wyvern", "What was that strange feeling Erza and Laxus felt at the beginning" and "What will happen between my OC and Laxus" are the main questions here right?

You think you have the answers? Leave a review! :D