Hey what up?! ;D
So, I hope last chapter was to your liking and hopefully this one is too ;D
Everything was quiet in the guild hall of Fairy tail. No one dared saying a word, as if they would miss something important if they even opened their mouth. Of course, once in a while someone spoke to a person sitting next to them.
"Isn't it weird? They should have been home yesterday" Warren, worriedly spoke. Wakaba sat in the other end of that table and sucked on his pipe.
"Relax, maybe they decided to spend an extra night at the hotel, I know I'd be. Besides most of them are already here" He reassured the other and looked at the silent home comers. Lucy Heartfilia sat quietly at the bar, looking both worried and bored at the same time. Elfman was having a quiet conversation with his sister. Gray sat at his usual table and played with an ice-cube, he had made himself, resting his head in his other palm. And Ersa was looking out one of the many windows in the hall and sighed. Makarov had crossed his legs and sat on the counter of the bar, with closed eyes.
Gray sighed once again and rolled the ice between his fingers.
What a waste of time..
He thought and crushed the cube in his palm. He had gotten no excitement or results on the trip and came home empty handed. He and Elfman had, like the others, checked into a nice hotel, searched the ruins of a small guild, called Taira Corp, and found nothing out of the ordinary. They had asked around, but no one knew anything about it and had to go home with nothing, in the end. He slightly looked at Ersa, who, he had been told, had some what of the same result. She and Lucy had been doing the same thing, the two days they had been gone as well.
But where is that dumb-ass?!
He was, of course, thinking about Natsu, as he hadn't come home yet, which meant neither had Gajeel. But the fact he hadn't, meant he found something, right?
On that cue, the front door to the guild was pushed open and in came two male mages and one cat. One of which had bandaged his head and the other had bruises here and there. There were quiet for a second, before hell on earth broke loose and the two dragon slayers were surrounded by all the others, questioning them about, where they had been, how they got hurt and if they found anything on their trip.
"Alright! back up! let them breathe!" The master called and every one disbanded to their seats once again, but not without eyeing the two, as they made their way to the bar.
"what on earth happened to you?" Makarov then asked, as Gajeel scanned the room and Natsu slightly kicked the floor. Natsu's pink hair covered his eyes and the bandages was wrapped nicely around his head. Gajeel on the other hand, didn't seem to notice the little man's question, as he still scanned everybody's faces.
"Did you find anything on your trip?" It sounded from Lucy, who now looked more relieved.
"More like something found us" Gajeel suddenly mumbled and scratched his neck. His statement seemed to have been heard, because everyone, including Makarov, now stared intensely at the two.
"What's that mean?" Romeo asked and placed himself beside Natsu. Natsu now lifted his head, with fire of anger in his eyes.
"AHH! how dare she! Controlling my flames like that! She'll pay!" He shouted and stumped on the floor multiple times. Every one in the guild had now gotten used to Natsu's out breaks and didn't take much notice when the fire dragon slayer had one of his fits. Gajeel remained calm, but clearly looked about to snap at the smaller mage.
"Now now Natsu, calm down" Makarov lifted his hand to silence the teen, which happened quickly, as Natsu stopped screaming insults and looked at the master.
"Now tell us, what happened?"
"Some psycho suddenly attacked us out of no where and she said she was that one who destroyed the guild. And get this! she suddenly started controlling our magic power, like child's play." Natsu explained and every one listened in, "It was different from the time with Totomaru, she controlled Gajeel too, plus she didn't use a magic circle"
"What'd you say?!" Makarov stared at the fire mage with big eyes and his tiny hand was tightened around his staff so much, his knuckles where turning white. Every one else, except maybe Ersa, looked shocked and quite uneasy. Lucy shivered, as she remembered the events, that happened on Galuna Island. Her celestial spirits had been controlled by that pink haired girl, Sherry. She didn't like the feeling of having her spirits taken over, it was like losing a friend. Happy had made himself comfortable in Lucy's lap, but she didn't notice, as she was to busy listening to Natsu and thinking through her own thoughts. Natsu looked a bit startled at the master's reaction and frowned confused.
"uhm...Is that so? sounds troublesome, I'll look into it" Makarov cleared his throat, hopped down from the counter and quickly made his way to his office. Almost every one watched him go, except Gajeel, who irritably looked around the room again. Once he was gone, the hall became filled with voices discussing, both Natsu's story and Makarov reaction to said story. As every one was busy with their conversations, Lucy, Gray and Ersa made their way to Natsu, who sighed when his stomach growled.
"Urgh.. My stomach feels like it has a hole in it..." Natsu complained when his eyes met his friends.
"I'll punch one through it if you don't shut up!" Gajeel sneered and dumped himself in a wooden chair, at one of the many tables in the room.
"Try it and I'll fry your arm to ashes" Natsu sneered back and went to greed the others. Lucy worriedly wrapped her arms around Natsu's neck and laughed happily. Natsu did nothing to push her away, but just stood there keeping a close eye at the ceiling, while scratching his cheek, who blushed slightly. When she finally let go, she smiled at him, with a small tear in her left eye.
"I was worried about you" She stated and backed away a bit, to get a better look at his face.
"What's there to be worried about, this is me you're talking to" Natsu grinned and patted her head slightly, before making eye contact with Gray, who looked slightly angry, but kind of relieved as well.
"why did you have to go and get yourself injured, flame-thrower?" Gray scoffed and smirked.
"With or without them, I still look way cooler than you, droopy-eyes" Natsu smirked as well, as he knew their rivalry and friendship was just the same. They exchanged a couple of comments and insults, but for once it didn't turn violent. After Ersa gave him a tough pat on the shoulder, he felt a home once again.
"Say, I've been wondering for a while now, but where are Juvia and Levy?" Gajeel suddenly asked and for the fourth time looked around for them. Natsu hadn't noticed until now, but the two blunettes were in fact missing from the crowd.
"They aren't here yet" Ersa sighed and once again made her way up to the window, she was standing at before.
"What do you mean 'not here yet'?!" Gajeel suddenly got up from his chair and sneered.
"Exactly as she said, they haven't come home yet.." Lucy said, now sounding worried once again. Gajeel's fist slammed in the table, frighting Lucy and making her back away, as the bigger mage now stared at her, like it was her fault.
"Then something must have happened!" he shouted, attracting the attention of the people in the room.
"Hey! don't take it out on Lucy, you bastard!" Natsu sneered, as he stepped in front of Lucy.
"Whatever" the iron mage grumbled and kicked the chair he had been sitting on, making it slide loudly across the wooden floor. He then made his way to the front door, probably wanting to get some fresh air.
It was understandable how he reacted, seeing as Gajeel was some what close to both the missing girls. Nobody knew how long they had been together, but every one knew Juvia was like a sister to Gajeel and, though he would never say it out loud, really cared about her. With Levy it was complicated, as they had bad history between them as well, but ever since 'The battle of Fairy Tail' they had grown closer and where generally friends.
But just as Gajeel was about to take hold of the doorknob, the giant door slammed open and hit the iron mage in the face. They had kept the doors closed this day, because the rain outside hadn't stopped for two days and it was like that everywhere. The entire city of Magnolia had been drenched in rain for half a week already and no one under stood this weird happening.
Gajeel mumbled angry to himself, but came to a stop when he saw the person in front of him. A very wet stranger now stood in the full opened door and all eyes in the room fell on the person.
A dark hood hid his face to the crowd and his semi-short pants looked cold to wear in weather like that. It didn't take long for Natsu to step up to the stranger, followed by Gray and Ersa. Lucy stayed at the bar, but still watched curiously.
"Who are you?" Natsu said calm, yet suspicious of the unknown person.
"Does it really matter? I've come with some information you might be interested in hearing" the hooded person spoke and there was a bit of sarcasm in his voice, which quickly pissed off Natsu.
"Don't just walk in here and expect a warm welcome, if you won't tell us who the hell you are!" Natsu sneered and took hold of the black sweatshirt, wrapped around the stranger. This made the hood fall off and every one fought to get a look at the unknown person.
Flaming red, almost orange, hair came into the vision of the entire guild and the whispering started. The boy was clearly younger then Natsu, around 15, if he had to guess. Very green eyes glared at Natsu and the unknown teen quickly fought himself free of Natsu's grip.
"Don't touch me!" the red head sneered and fixed his hoodie. Natsu stared at him for a brief second, before glaring back and tightening his fist.
"Who are you and what do you want?!"
The stranger scanned the room and seemed impressed.
"So this is Fairy Tail~? Nice place you've got here. They never told me it was this big" he started mumbling to himself. Natsu seemed about to snap, while Gajeel eyed the unknown teen with caution. Gray on the other hand, seemed sort of unconcerned about the whole situation.
"Enough! What. Are. You. Here. For?" Natsu almost spat out every word. it had been awhile since he had been this angry.
"I told you, I'm here to tell you something important!" the red head said kind of irritated.
"If it's important then spit it out already!"
"Shut up! I'm just as much in it as you are!" the stranger said and crossed his arms defiantly.
"Could you tell us your name at least?" Ersa suddenly spoke up. The very green eyes landed on her, but then he sighed.
"Leon, It's Leon.."
Gray thought about Lyon for a split second.
"Alright Leon, please tell us what you came here for." Ersa calmly said and nodded for him to continue.
"I'm here from Galuna" Leon explained
"The Island?" Gray quickly asked.
"No, the town down south. As I said I'm from Galuna and I'm afraid I have some bad news for you guys"
Everybody in the room froze as the realised that these news could very well be about Levy and Juvia.
"Do any of you know a... Levy?"
Sorry for the waiting you guys, I've been real busy, but I hope you enjoy this chapter, even though there's no action and it's basically just talk.
I'll see ya next chapter, which I hopefully will have out by the weekend, wish me luck on getting time to write. :P
