F.Y.I, when asterisks surround the words, that means they are speaking Dracoin outside of Fairy Tail country, and there will be asterisks around the Brogo language when they are speaking Brogo outside of the Brogo country, and I will hardly be using any actual Dracoin words, because I just made the language up and I can't deal with making up a language right now. I will be using the names of some attacks in Japanese. And Brogo is just English. Just letting you know, enjoy! Also, thanks to BlackWidowBaby for co-writing and editing to first half of this story!

Ok, new chapter, I'm not getting many reviews and I want more! Please! So, we are about to see the extent of Gray's wimpy-ness, if not in this chapter, than the next.

Erza's P.O.V

I was pushed forward after the prince had made it out about half way, I was confident in my strength though and I reached the tree where the others were perched in no time.

Rogue studied me, surprised at my abilities, then I saw Gray, the prince was straddling a branch not to far away, staring longingly at the palace.

I joined him.

"What do we do? " I asked, he sighed.

"What is there to do? We can't fight them, we can't bribe them, we can't even talk to them. You know what we can do? Nothing."

He asked, it was simple, straightforward, and I felt the put the final nail in our coffin, we had given up before it even began.

"Whatever you say, you highness." I said.

"Don't call me that." He said.

I stared at him, "Would you prefer you majesty?" I asked, only half joking.

"I get the feeling that where ever we're heading, I won't be a worshiped prince anymore, so for now, just call me my name."

He said.

"As you wish, Gray." I said.

He nodded, "Listen, I'm not just giving us into them and their tender mercies, ok? We just need to make them think we're weak, they've barely seen us fight, right?"

I nodded, I had briefly resisted Gajeel, but whatever that was could never be called a fight, I had been down in an instant.

"Then we wait until they aren't looking, and basically just run for our lives."

He said, I nodded again.

"Sounds like a legitimate plan." I said.

Not, never gonna work, we're gonna die.

Was what I thought, but of course I didn't say that.

"But what do we do if they never let up?"
I asked, Gray turned away, he knew we stood no chance against them if we had to give a head on fight, we might be able to defeat three of them, but by then the damage we would have sustained would have been overwhelming, so a hit and run idea would be wiser.

"All right then, Gray, if that's what you think is best, I'll follow you no matter where it takes me." I said, then I turned to see Natsu settle into a tree branch right next to the pole. I was interested to see how Gajeel was going to get over, he clearly could swing across over his arm.

Natsu gripped the end of the pole, and nodded to Gajeel.

Then Gajeel swung off of the roof, the pole got shorter and lifted him upwards as he fell, when it was over, Natsu was gripping Gajeel's wrist, and Gajeel was gripping his. They shared some sort of jibe, smirking at each other, then Natsu leaned back, hauling Gajeel into the tree.

That showed the trust these people had with each other, all of them had trusted Gajeel's magic to allow them to cross a huge gap high above the ground, and Gajeel had trusted Natsu not to let go of him had he swung across the gap, that was incredible, how much trust family's could have.

After Gajeel was in the tree, we climbed down, and Gray and I were already feeling the pain. I wore my pleated blue nightgown with my hastily strapped on breastplate, and a pair of bedroom shoes, soft, comfy, not made for trekking through the forest. Gray wasn't fairing any better, he wore his pajama pants, no shirt because he had been searching for it when we had run into him, and a pair of bedroom sandals.

We were already getting scraped up as I took in what the others were wearing. Sting wore a pair of knee high blue boots stained with mud with gray pants tucked into them, a blue tee shirt, and a gray jacket. He had one ear pierced with a strange shaped silver earring, looking like a fairy in a way, but, oddly enough, it had a tail.

Wendy wore a yellow and blue sundress with a brown jacket on top and a pair of ankle high brown boots. Rogue wore a gray tee shirt, black pants, gray boots, and an odd shawl that covered his arms with a single piece of cloth, with a mark on one shoulder, same as Sting's earring, it reminded me of a flying fairy, the shawl was lined with gold and red, and he obviously treasured it.

I didn't know it then, but that mark would come to mar and haunt me one day all to soon. Natsu wore a red tee shirt with a black jacket on top, the jacket was lined with gold along the button line and the sleeves, white pants covered with muck and grime, and a pair of black boots. Along with his scaly scarf which I sensed he treasured as well. Gajeel wore a black tee shirt, black pants, black boots, and had on a brown jacket, I got the feeling he never wore very colorful clothes.

It was as though we had walked for miles, the lights of the palace were gone, and I felt as though we were lost when we came to a clearing at the bottom of a small cliff, and the small cliff had a small cave in it.

Natsu walked over to the cliff and pulled out five large backpacks, complete with their own sleeping bags on top, and, after handing them out to his siblings, he pulled out another bag, which he unzipped to reveal small tents.

I sighed with relief, so they were actually prepared to spend the night out here.

Wendy opened her light blue pack, pulled out a pair of boots that seemed far to big for her, and a simple purple long sleeved dress that reached down a bit past the knees, with a blue waistline that appeared to be the same, far to large to fit a girl her size, and a blue hair ribbon made for tying up ponytails. She then came over and offered them to me.

I stared at her, then took the clothes, Natsu, meanwhile, had been digging through his red backpack for something, which he finally found, and put around his neck.

"All right, here's the deal." He said in perfect Brogo.

Gray and I's jaws dropped, how was that even possible?

"I'm using an old translation lacrima we got our paws on a while back, but it's not very good and it'll only last a few minutes before it'll need to recharge for a few days, then we'll use it again, so I'll talk fast, we aren't giving you clothes to be nice or something, we are because you'll be easily recognized in the clothes your wearing, and we need to move fast, you won't be able to run in the shoes you've got now. We'll set up camp here for the night, then leave tomorrow morning, we'll be walking all day with a quick break for lunch, then we'll set up camp, hunt, sleep, wake up, repeat. Any questions?"
We both nodded our heads dumbly.

"Great, you two get the...extra, tent, then the rest of us get our usuals, so we'll eat some of our stored up food and then toko rangin ui te hik..."

Natsu tapped at the lacrima, frowning, then shrugged, it had given out, so Natsu tossed Gray a pair of worn out old black boots, a plain white collared button up tee shirt, and a pair of green cargo pants.

Once the tents were set up I went into one and changed into the outfit Wendy had given me, tying my fiery red waist length hair up into a ponytail, leaving my bangs hanging down to frame either side of my face, and was surprised to see everything fit perfectly. Wendy seemed to be a perfectly friendly young girl, she even gave me a smile when she saw my outfit, in another situation, I think we could have easily been friends.

I exited the tent to see Gray wearing the clothes Natsu had given him, and again, it surprisingly fit perfectly. I nearly laughed at how normal he looked, but then I realized how bad that was. If he had been wearing a royal blue blazer and jacket, with a white shouldered tasseled cape and blue pants, we would have been recognized and saved no matter what I had been wearing no matter where in the country we went.

But now, Gray was dressed as any boy off the street that happened to have the same haircut and hair color as the prince, but wouldn't be recognized because of his new clothes and the new scabbed cut above his right eye. I cursed silently as how clever they had been when they had made us change, we would never be recognized dressed like this.

"You look nice." I teased, trying to lighten the terrible situation we were in.

"Gee, thanks, and to think I complained about that stupid nightshirt."

Gray grumbled, rubbing irritatedly at his shirt, obviously uncomfortable, which isn't hard to believe considering that he's always had the best of everything, especially clothes. He clearly was not in the mood for any verbal sparring right now.

I studied my own attire, ponytail, and, to my feet's relief, a pair of darker blue boots. Although I was a bit chilly in the cool night air, it was much better than my nightgown and slippers.

"Well, any ideas?" She asked.

Gray shrugged, "The seem to have insane hearing abilities. And I'm sure they'll post a guard. We won't be able to sneak away during the night, if thats what your thinking."

I nodded, thinking, "Alright, so your previous suggestion of going along until we see a chance still stands?" I asked.

"Yes, for now I think we'll have to spend the night." He said.

I agreed, I didn't think we stood a chance of making it back to the palace in the middle of the night, we didn't even know which direction to run.

They had already set up all the tents in record time, Sting pointed at a yellow tent with a black jagged stripe set in the center of all of them, apparently this was the extra.

I recalled how all of them had looked uncomfortably at the mention of this being an extra, as if we were sleeping under a deceased mothers beloved hand knitted quilt or something, I wonder why?

I yawned, I was exhausted, Gray and I crawled into the tent and settled down to sleep.

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