Chapter 7
We walked down the halls of Arctus Tor, Mab's great castle in Winter, heading for her throne room. I have a bad feeling that it may go well or she may make these guys her slaves if we don't rub her the wrong way and she may have mine and Molly's heads on icy pikes for any faerie birds to take feast upon.
"So, you're the Winter Knight, what kinds of duties do you have?" I heard the woman in armor ask, which I got her name was Erza.
"Uh, well you see, I am also a wizard and I tend to the queen and my wizard council with different jobs representing as the Winter Knight and the wizard from the White Council." I answered since I didn't want it to be complicated or dark as possible after the creatures they fought in the snow.
"There's wizards here as well?" Juvia, from what I heard Erza call out earlier, ask.
"Yep." I answered.
"Is the woman with you one as well?" I heard the cat ask, which still catches me off guard even if I knew one that did try to kill me last Halloween.
"I was, I was Harry's apprentice until I turned into the Winter Lady." Molly answered.
"Winter Lady?" Grey asked, which I took was the lover that Juvia had her eye on by what I saw earlier.
"Well, you see, before I explain do you have monarchs in your world?" I asked as I turned around.
"Yes, we have kings and many other aristocrats in Fiore." Erza answered.
"Well, here in Faerie, we have two courts which are Summer and Winter and they have three queens! The Lady, which is the Queen to Become, the Queen, Present Queen, and Mother, Queen of the Past." I said.
"And that means…" Grey said as he looked to Molly.
"I'm the Queen to Be, the Lady." She told him.
"Is this Queen, is she as nice as you are?" Juvia asked.
I stifled a bit of a laugh because of how to define Mab is nice is like a lion pouncing on a mouse. I guess Molly just can't wait to be queen.
"I can't really say." I said.
We got to the throne room where we found Mab on her icy throne in her white gown and wearing her usual ice slab on her head.
"Whoa, she looks different from Molly." The big guy said.
"Ah, you have arrived!" she said and stood up.
"Sorry for the wait My Queen." Molly said with a bow.
She looked at the people we found and then at me, which I also bowed in respect as I said, "We found them taking on some of the creatures here and grew very tired afterwards but made sure they rested before they saw you."
"Good!" she said and came off the platform and came to them and looked at them closely and then got to the big guy and noticed the air around him and stepped back and said, "You have iron inside, don't you?"
"Yes, I am the Iron Dragon Slayer from where we came from." He said.
"Be lucky you were allowed in this part of Faerie! Iron is our greatest weakness." She said.
"No wonder those creatures burned when you fought them." His cat said.
"They did the same with my weapons." Erza said.
"So, you all came on a shooting star from afar?" Mab asked.
"A shooting star?" Juvia asked.
"Yeah, it shot across the skies in my hometown as well." I said.
"Interesting, the human world also seen it." She said.
"Wait, we're inside another world from humans?" Erza asked.
"Yes, we call this Faerie by what you heard my Knight said and he explained the two courts by the looks of it." She said.
"You got it, I have a feeling that you all weren't the only ones with that star." I said.
"Yeah, Natsu, Wendy, and Lucy and two other cats like Panther Lily were not with us when we landed here." Grey answered.
"Sounds like they ended up in Summer and were helped by my sister's court." Mab said.
"Why is that?" Panther Lily asked.
"I guess the world decided which element you possessed more with your magic, don't get why Juvia's here with her water magic but it can go either way! There is one thing I want to know, I felt another power from that star, did someone else come with you?" I asked them.
"Well, the way we got here was through a mirror that a dark guild had in Fiore." Grey explained.
"Dark guild?" Molly asked as she rose an eyebrow.
"Well, in Fiore, there are times when wizards go bad and use darker magic than what a lot of wixards study and these guilds are illegal in the Wizard Council's eyes." Erza said.
"We faced a few and defeated them while some of the members were captured." Grey said.
"Sounds less morbid than what our council does." I said remembering how I had to see a warlock murdered in front of me.
"Now that explains the extra power you felt wizard, it seems that all thanks to this star the world has a bit of an imbalance and needs to be restored and must send all these wizards back and it must be done before summer's end." Mab said.
"Are you sure?" Molly asked.
"Yes, since these new wizards got tired as you said then I will give them that boost to take on these dark wizards in this world as a favor!" Mab said.
"Oh no, what if they can't repay and fail?" Molly asked.
"They wills tay here forever." She said.
After hearing that, I had a bad feeling that Mab may do something worse to these guys if they don't fulfill what Mab has ordered of them. I still remembered how a tuba player died at Maeve's feet fulfilling his favor of playing his best until he died.
"We will do it!" Erza exclaimed.
"Are you sure about that?" Gajeel asked.
"If we want to get back home then we have to do what she says." Erza said.
"Then you must do whatever it takes to take out these dark guild guys that were brought with you." I said.
"We will, we will take on any challenge that comes at us." Grey said.
"Very well." Mab said and then clapped her hands and snow came out and hit them and it caused them to glow.
"That was really cold." Juvia commented.
"It wasn't that bad." Grey said.
"Now go! Molly, Harry, make sure these people don't mess up and make sure that they do their task in time for autumn leaves to fall." Mab said.
"Yes ma'am!" I exclaimed and turned to the others. "Come on guys! Let's go!"
"What about our friends?" Juvia asked.
"I believe they're already here." Mab announced.
We headed for the frozen garden where we saw a group of people that wore clothing similar to our group of Fiore wizards.
"Ow! Nice landing buddy!" we heard.
"That wind really had us and it was hard for me to flap my wings!" a higher voice exclaimed.
I noticed Fix with the Summer Lady, Cerissa, dusting themselves off.
"At least it's the only time I will be flying by cat." Cerissa said.
"Agreed." Fix said.
"Cerissa!?" Molly exclaimed.
"Molly!?" Cerissa responded.
They hugged each other since it seemed almost ages they have seen each other.
"Harry?" Fix asked.
"Fix?" I asked.
We both clapped hands in respect.
"Okay, are we missing something?" a guy with spikey, pink hair ask.
"This is the Winter Knight, he is the wizard we talked about!" Cerissa exclaimed.
Their Fiore buddies looked at me and the pink haired guy said, "He doesn't look like one!"
"Yeah, he has too many scars and no robes!" a blue cat said.
Great, more talking felines, next I will see Cait Sith again without the brainwash.
I cleared my throat and said, "The name's Harry Dresden! I am a wizard turned knight and looking like Titania granted you the same favor."
"Titania?" Erza asked and looked at Cerissa.
"Oh right, your nickname." A girl with blue hair said.
"Apparently that's the Summer Queen's name here." A white cat said.
"Interesting, my nickname is an actual queen, how exiting." Erza said.
"I wouldn't be too happy if I were you." Fix said.
"Okay guys, listen up! By the looks of things this dark guild that the groups that we met up are in Chicago!" I announced.
"Chicago?" Gajeel asked.
"Yeah, besides this world there is the human world as well and we're about to head there." Molly said.
"This seems like Etalus." A blonde girl said.
I ignored that and then pointed my staff and yelled, "Aparturum!"
An opening gave way and said, "Come on guys! We have no time to waste!"
They all followed and we were off to find the dark guild guys that may cause trouble for my world.
