I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in forever. I know I promised that I'll try to keep it updated. This chapter was kind of hard to figure out. But here ya go, a new chapter. * I don't not own ft in any way.*
7. Chaos Begun
Gray wakes up to that he was lying on a cold hard concrete floor. He managed to release all of his magic power. It took a couple of tries, but he got out of what Erza called the Dark Box.
He sits up to see where he was at. Really a jail cell. What the hell? Who is this guy. Gray thought as takes off his shirt.
The air in the cell was cool. But once it hit Gray's bare skin, it felt good. Well to the ice mage.
Gray stands up and walks over to the bars. He grads a hold of the bars. They felt cold to the touch, and it even sent chills up his spine. Damn it, I am an ice mage. He thought.
Gray sticks his head out in between two bars, and looks around to find out that there were several other cells around him.
"Gray!" he heard a familiar voice shout.
So he looks over to his left to see Erza, who also had her head poked out. "Are you okay Erza? Have you found Wendy yet?" Gray asked.
Erza shook her head. "No, but look at the cell in front of us." She said then pointed to the cell that was in front of them. Someone had melted a big hole in the bars.
"What the hell happened here? It looks like someone had melted the bars." Gray said out of total shock.
"There could only be one person whom we know that could melt the bars like that." Erza said face still looking at the cell in front of them.
"Natsu." said a small voice.
Both Erza and Gray turn their heads and looked to the right of the cell that had been in.
"Wendy you're okay." Gray said. "Do you know where Happy and Carla are?" his grip on the bars tightened, wanting to know the answer.
The blue haired girl nods her head. "They're right here in this cell." Wendy said. Then frowned before she spoke again. "But they haven't woken up though."
Well, that's good. But we still need to get out of he-" Erza was cut off because the ground started to shake violently.
Bits and pieces of the concrete ceiling fell as the ground kept shaking and everyone was thrown to the hard ground beneath them.
Once the shaking stopped everyone got up on their feet, Gray was the first to speak. "What the hell was that?" he asked as he takes off this pants and throws them to the side before he sticks his head out of the cell again.
"It appears to me, that that had been an earthquake, Gray." Erza said. " Like I was saying before, we need to get out of here."
"Um, guys… I don't think that's going to be a problem for me, anyways that is." Wendy said. Making Gray and Erza turn their heads in her direction. Both stared in shock.
Wendy was right. It wasn't going to be a problem for her at all. That's because she was already out of her cell, and was standing in front of Gray and Erza.
"H-how did you e-escape?" Erza asked. Her mouth was an "O" shape and her eyes were staring at Wendy in pure bewilderment. Eyes wide.
Wendy looked down and starts to wiggle her index fingers together. Then she spoke in her sweet little voice. "During the earthquake some of my bars had loosened, so I pulled them out."
"Well , thanks to that earthquake, we are now one step a head of our plan." Erza said then looked down at Wendy before she spoke again. "Wendy, do you think you could get us out of here?"
"Well, I could try." the sky dragon slayer said. Then she looked up at Erza and smiled. "After all, Lucy-san needs our help."
"I think Natsu took care of saving her, but we need to get to them before both of them becomes severely injured. We need to hurry." Gray says.
Erza looks at Gray, then she frowns. "Gray… your clothes." She says.
Gray looks down to find that he was wearing just his underwear. "Shit" he cursed under his breath as he slips his pants and shirt back on.
"Okay, now all I have to do is get you guys out of your cells. Then we can find Lucy-san and Natsu." Wendy says as she takes a bobby pin out of her hair. "Lucy-san showed me how to pick a lock with a bobby pin." she then smiled.
Wendy walks over to Erza's cell. There she bends down and picks the lock. Once she hears a satisfying click, she gets up and walks over to Gray's and does the same.
Wendy stands up and walks away over to her own cell that held Carla and Happy.
She carefully picks up the two exceeds and held them in her arms and walks out to met Gray and Erza.
"Come on, lets go find Natsu and Lucy." Gray said then ran. In the opposite direction.
"Um, Gray! You're going the wrong way!" Wendy shouts at Gray. "Their sent leads this way." she points to the right.
"I knew that." he said, and with that they ran in the direction that the sent tells them.
She couldn't stop the tears that ran down her face. All Lucy could do was sob in her hands. I let everyone down. I'm sorry, so sorry. She thought.
Of course she knew that she was tough, but when she seen those people. She lost it, she couldn't control herself, and every time she did wipe the tears, the more they came, nonstop.
"It's all my fault. I did that to those innocent people." she said as she tried to swipe the tears, but it was hopeless because more came as so as she wiped the previously ones away.
She then felt a warm stiff, but gentle hand rest itself on her shoulder. "It's not your fault, Luce. You couldn't have stopped yourself for doing so. You were forced to do it. So don't blame yourself, you can blame Greenie over there." Natsu says and nods his head in Rei direction.
"Hey, you damn Dragon! My name is Rei, not Greenie. Thank you very much." Rei says as her crosses his arms in annoyance.
"Your welcome." Natsu says sarcastically. "And by the way my name is Natsu. Natsu Dragneel. Not damn Dragon." then he points a thumb at his chest to indicate himself.
"I know who you are. I'm not that stupid, I had a very good education when I was little kid." Rei said.
"I wasn't callin' stupid. But since you brought that up, I can say that you're not all that bright. You locked a fire dragon slayer in a cell that had metal bars. Ha, and you call yourself evil." And that was the last straw. Anger building up in Rei.
"You! Damn! Dragon!" Rei yelled. He was approaching Natsu and Lucy slowly. Trying to fill the gap in between.
"Two can play that game-" Natsu pauses to get ready to fight, then he says "Greenie." and smiles at Rei. At that Rei snapped, and ran at Natsu with his sword drawn.
Natsu barley dodges the sword attack when a blast of black ray hits him. Throwing him into a near by wall, smashing it into pieces. He stands up from the rubble. Pushing a giant piece of the wall to the side.
"You gotta do more than that if ya want to take this dragon down." Natsu says as he jumps down from the pile and brushes himself off like nothing happened.
With a sigh Rei put his sword back in the holder at his waist. "If you can defeat me, then this rein of terror will end. But that is only if you can defeat me." he said. "I wouldn't give you the way to reverse it if you try to punch it out of me."
Natsu smirked at Rei's remark before he took off running towards Rei. Both hands ablaze.
Once he reaches Rei he swings his right fist, but Rei dodges as Natsu kicks Rei in the gut, sending him towards the wall with the window. Rei smashes into the wall, and outside where all the people are in chaos.
Natsu runs over to the hole in the wall that he had from Rei's body. He stops right outside of the hole and turns to Lucy.
"Go find the others, and tell them to help me. I don't know if I can defeat him by myself." he said. Natsu smiles a toothily grin before he disappears from the hole.
Lucy could hear the distant fight between Rei and Natsu. She didn't know what to think. Best of all she had no clue where the others were being held. Where could you guys be at. She thought.
Just then, Lucy hears faint voices coming toward the door. Which had fallen in the earthquake, along with other things.
She turns around just in time to see Gray, Erza, and Wendy walk in. Lucy noticed that Wendy was carrying two unconscious exceeds.
"Hey guys, there you are!" Lucy shouts as she waves. "Lucy-san, I'm glad your okay." Wendy says. She runs up to Lucy and smiles. "I was about to take off to find you guys." Lucy noted.
"What the hell happened here?" Gray asked as he looks around the room. He stops at the hole in the wall, and he raises an eyebrow. "And what's with the hole in the wall?"
Lucy bends down and takes Happy from Wendy, knowing that the poor arms hurt form carrying two exceeds. She ignored Gray's first question and stood up to answer his second question he asked.
"Natsu's what happened. He done it not too long ago. Actually right before you guys walked in." She said as she looked back at the hole then back at Gray.
"And where is he now?" Erza asked. "He should never leave a comrade behind. Never. I'll teach him a lesson once we find him." she said as she clenches a fist in the air.
"Now, now, Erza. There's not need to do that because there must be an explanation on why he left her. Right Lucy?" Gray asked as he tries to calm the red head down.
"Yes, there is. You see he's outside fighting Rei. And he asked me to go find you guys so you could help him in the battle. I don't want him to….." she trailed off. Lucy didn't want to think that way.
"And why aren't you helping him?" Gray asked. "This is your fight too."
"The thing is that I can't or I would. All my magic has been drained." Lucy said. Then she walked over to the hole. "So Lucy, did you find out why those boys' master wanted you." Erza asked.
Lucy looked out over the village. "Yes. His name is Rei. And the reason why, is that he want to bring darkness to the world called Dark Haven. He needed my celestial magic in order to do so."
She continued. "He also said that it will spread form village, that is if we don't stop him. If we can defeat him, then he'll stop Dark Haven."
Lucy turns around to face Gray and Erza. "Dark Haven has probably already infected other villages." she stated
"B…. but….but why isn't effecting us?" said a small voice. Lucy looks over a Wendy who was cuddling Carla was hasn't woke up yet, along with Happy. "Because only non mages get infected by Dark Haven." Lucy answered.
"We will stop Rei, and fix his evil plan to bring darkness over the world." Erza said. Then she turned to Wendy. "Wendy, I need you to stay here to keep an eye on Happy and Carla."
She turns to Lucy. "And Lucy watch out for any guards." Erza said before she turned to look at Gray.
"Gray you are with me. We need to help Natsu battle against Rei." she said as she walks towards to hole.
Erza stops and turns and looks back at Gray. "You ready?" she asked. Gray nods his head and runs up to Erza at the hole.
Good luck you two." Lucy said as she waves good bye.
"Lets go." Erza said before she and Gray jump out of the hole. Leaving Lucy and Wendy by themselves with two unconscious exceeds.
This story came out better than I thought. Thank you all for reading my story. Until next chapter. Bye.
