A/N: Sorry, this is just me splitting Chapter 7 in two cause 10,000 words is a lot to read in one sitting. I learn that the hard way with Romeo Rising which I'm working on right now. So that being said the Tenrou group should be coming back in Chapter 10 after Romeo deals with the Rune Knights. Please Fav, Follow, or Review if you want.

This Chapter was re-edited and Beta by BarelyProdigies, author of such great Naruto fanfic like:Something You Can't Ignore and Ill-Fated, check out his stories if you get the chance. (He great at fight scenes).

You should read my other story, Romeo Conbolt: Fire Incarnate, basically Romeo gifted in learning different types of fire base magics

Chapter 8

Mt. Hakobe Pt.2

An hour has pass since the wyvern fight and the trio were slowly making their descent back down the mountain. The storm came upon them quicker than they expected and slow them down as the snow fell upon them at alarming rate. All three of them were soak to the bone due to the snow and even Romeo was starting to really feel the cold.

Romeo led the way while Chelia carried Bana in her arms, his body heat being the only thing keeping her warm thru the storm.

"Ho-How much further do we have to go?" Chelia chattered out.

"I'm afraid at the pace when been going we're not even close to the halfway point", Bana answered as he looks up at her and notices how blue her face was getting along with the fact that his body heat was doing nothing to warm her up this time.

"Are you okay?" the exceed asked.

"I-I-I'm fine", was all Chelia was able to get off before suddenly collapsing into the snow on top of Bana.

"Romeo!" Bana holler out as he try to lift Chelia off of him. Luckily even over the howl of the storm Romeo's ears heard Bana call for aid.

He run back to the pair and turns Chelia only to see that she was breathing exceedingly shallow along with the fact that she was shivering more than when she first came up the mountain. Also he was able to hear through his advance hearing her heart rate going up.

"I-I-It so cold", she mumbles before she promptly passes out.

"Oh great she got hypothermia", Romeo complains.

"Hurry up and get her off the ground." Bana said in an unusually serious tone.

"I know, geez what's bugging you?" Bana didn't say saying else to answer his question so Romeo guessed it must have been the weather affecting him.

He shakes his head and proceeded to effortlessly lifts her up on the ground into his arms and searches around for shelter from the storm. But the swirling blanket of snow nearly blinded him making it much more difficult to find shelter. As he felt Chelia shivering in his arms he knew he had to find someplace to shield them from the storm so he could warm her up.

"There has to be something around here, like a cave or something", Romeo thought before finally, his eyes fell upon a convenient cave that happens to be a hundred yards from their position. Scooping up Bana and placing him on top of his head the dragon-slayer made his way to the cave at a brisk pace and upon reaching its entrance, he stopped to the side of it and peeks his head inside. He instantly regrets it as his eyes fell upon a gruesome sight.

Within the cave was an old campsite that looks to have been made by some unfortunate travelers. By unfortunate, Romeo meant they were eaten by some mountain creatures if the two mutate corpses around the campsite were anything to go off of.

One of the bodies, an average build man, was right next to the camp's fire pit and had the upper half of his head bitten clean off while the second one, a slightly larger man next to a sleeping bag had a huge hole in his guts with signs of his organs having been rip out.

The terrified look of death was still etched on both of their faces and judging by the looks of the campsite their deaths only happen a few days ago at best. Romeo activated his Soul Eyes skill and saw that there wasn't anything in the cave at the moment and seeing that Chelia condition and the storm weren't getting any better he cautiously moved into the cave.

He laid Chelia down on top of the sleeping bag and went to work getting rid of the bodies and starting a fire.

"Hey, Bana. Keep an eye on Chelia for the time being", Romeo said as he scavenged what little supplies remain of the ravage campsite, luckily he found some matches left over scattered about. As he proceeds to do this he tries his hardest to ignore the corpses and their lifeless eyes.

Seeing dead bodies wasn't anything new for Romeo, being in the service of a homicidal dragon you tend to come across destroyed villages and large battlefields. Romeo had seen first-hand what happens when Acnologia lets Perses loose on his enemies, but even after seeing all that death and destruction he was still deeply fazed by it. Added that to the fact that he hasn't killed a single human and you can pinpoint the whirl of emotions Romeo was feeling at the moment.

But he didn't have time for that right now.

Stripping the bodies of their clothes to help fuel the fire (seeing how there was little firewood left), Romeo took them outside and try to give them as much as a proper burial as he could and as far away from the cave as he could so that their decomposing scent didn't attract unwanted attention.

As he makes it back to the cave he saw that Bana was attempted to warm Chelia up with a small wimpy fire along with bandaging himself up with some medical supplies that were lying nearby.

"Surely you can make a bigger fire than that even with the small number of material we got."

"Romeo", he said as the boy came closer, "She's getting worse by the minute and I can't start a bigger fire in here."

"Why not?!", Romeo yells out of concern (concern over the fact that he going to be having a hard time explaining to Lamia Scale what happen if Chelia dies up here) and the fact that he was cold himself.

"Keep your voice down and look", Bana snap at him and pointed at a footprint not that far behind him. It was big, wide, and had claws mark on it. Also from the looks of the nearby footprints, it seems that whatever made it had company.

"Upon lighting the fire I notice that the cave goes quite far back most likely connecting to a serious of caves like the ones where you trained. The two travelers must have lit a big fire to stay warm and that attracted the attention of whatever made those footprints so I don't want to make the same mistake they did. But as you can tell the girl condition is deteriorating", Bana explained.

And so she was, for now, Chelia's pulse has dropped, she has stopped shivering, and her breathing has gotten shallow, all clear signs of severe hypothermia.

"Well if we can't warm her up through the means of the campfire, then what can we do?" Romeo asked.

Bana turns to look at Romeo with a somewhat serious look on his face that made Romeo match it with his own serious attention.

"Body heat", he almost chuckled at what he knew was going to be his response.

Romeo stares back at him with a baffling look on his own face before the light bulb appears above his head and his facial expression slowly turns to one of pure shock.

"Noooo", Romeo started,

"You know it has to be done", Bana argues.

"No, no, no", Romeo continues to persist.

"I can't transform into my battle form with my injuries", Bana talk on ignoring Romeo's pleas.

"Nooo, nooo, nooo."

"You think a young healthy teenage boy would revel in the fact that he gets to be tucked in close with such a beautiful young lady", Bana points out.

"I'm not doing it. If she was to wake up that would certainly cause more trouble than I'm willing to deal with right now", Romeo says.

"If you don't do it then she won't wake up at all. Think on that for a moment", Bana said as he crosses his arms and stares up at Romeo.

"It can only be done this way. I'm grateful for what you did for us so I promise I won't tell him… for now."

The two have a staring contest that would have gone on forever if it wasn't for Chelia mumbling in her delirious slumber…

"But grandma...they destroy your house. How...how could I ever forgive them?" the sky slayer murmured.

It was that phrase that seemed to knock Romeo out of his stubborn attitude as he deeply exhales and slumps his shoulders.

"If you use your magic redirection you should be able to warm her out faster", he states, "Now first things first you got to get her out of those wet clothes before putting her in that sleeping bag or else it will just get wet itself and we'll be back to square one."

"Please tell me you're joking", Romeo moans and pinches the brim of his nose.

"I am being one hundred percent serious here and if this bothers you so much that you have to strip her down to her undergarments then I suggest using your sash to cover your eyes", Bana calmly tells Romeo, "Now Romeo and I say this with every ounce of seriousness I have… if you want to save her you...have...to…strip her."

"Why can't you do it?" Romeo asked hoping to get out of the possible clash that would no doubt happen if he was caught by Chelia undressing her.

"I'm keeping the fire going, I need to constrict my movement so I'll heal faster, and with my current size it would take too long to do it and we're short on time, well she is short on time."

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"No one will ever know about this, got it, Bana? Not Perses, not Harpocrates, not Acnologia, and especially not my dad."

"My lips are sealed", Bana promises as Romeo then mentally prepared himself for the task ahead. He turns his eyes over to Chelia who was now shallowly breathing and actually took a deep look at her.

"Okay, Romeo you got this. First, you just have to take most of her clothes off and snuggle up to her. No big deal, I can do this", the boy thought as he moves to undo his sash and wrap it around his eyes.

"Here goes nothing", Romeo says as he slowly feels his way around up Chelia's leg until he comes to the helm of her skirt.

"Okay so far so good", as he moves his hands around feeling for the clip of her skirt. As he tries to ignore the fact that his hands would occasionally catch an innocent feel of her butt and how soft yet firm it felt, he swore he could hear Bana snickering in the background.

"Some days I swear he's no better than Happy", as the sound of the skirt clip coming undone bought him back to the task at hand as he removed the blue fabric of clothing and places it aside.

Next, as he struggles to take both of her upper body wardrobes off the inevitable happen…

Bana sneezed.

Romeo being so focused on removing Chelia's clothes while blindfolded completely forgot that his exceed companion was there and reacted as such... by jumping in surprise and when he came back down each of his hands fell upon something that was the most likely the softest thing he ever felt. Seriously his hands were sinking into whatever it was and it felt like he was clutching the world's fluffiest pillow.

"Damn what the hell am I touching? There were no pillows around in the cave. And pillows aren't round, large… soft, and place symmetrical right… next...to...one...another. Oh crap don't tell me I'm gro-"

"How long are you planning on, as you humans say, cop a feel on that poor girl larger-than-average-mammaries?", Bana's voice cut through the air as he pulls the scarf off of Romeo's eyes letting him get an eyeful on Chelia's pink lacy panties along with the fact that he was halfway done with pulling Chelia's top off when Bana sneeze and now her voluptuous breasts covered by a similar pink lacy, frilly bra were free for all the world to see and they in fact now had his hands around them, squeezing them like he was milking a cow.

Romeo whole body turns redder than Perses' sword after the Second Cataclysm goes berserk on a mission, but before he reacts and removes his hands Chelia starts to stir awake. As her eyelids flutter awake in a drowsy manner her blue eyes lock eyes with the dragon slayer's blue eyes. Romeo remains frozen in place, the only sound his ears can pick up at that moment was the rapid beating of his own heart as the barely functioning girl struggles to lifts her head two inches off the sleeping bag and her eyes start to travel down the boy body to his arm and finally to his hands that were still fondling her breasts.

"Oh crap. I remember seeing Lucy demolish Natsu-nii for doing this to her and she didn't even summon a spirit to do it! I am so dead!" Romeo panics as he prepared himself for the inevitable onslaught and it was that moment that the Sky God Slayer open her mouth.

"I must...be dreaming. No way that we-weak, pathetic slayer would have the balls to molest me like this", the girl said as she puts her head back on the ground.

"Back to my date with Lyon-sama", the girl swoons before passing back out with a smile on her face.

"What little warmth the fire is giving her must be enough for her healing spell to kick in a little", Bana spoke up, "Though it not enough to fix her completely as she is still fading in and out of consciousness and in need of a more powerful source to warm her up or else."

Romeo remains perfectly still for half a minute almost ignoring Bana when he realizes the insult Chelia directed at him and gives her breasts a harsh squeeze. This causes her to squeak a little in pain but she remains unconscious.

"Romeo!" Bana barks as he slaps him the back of the head.

"She started it", Romeo grumbles as he grabs the scarf out of Bana's hand and wraps it back around his eyes.

"And besides this was mostly your fault", as he goes back to stripping Chelia.

Ten Minutes later

"Okay, it's done! She's finally in the sleeping bag and her clothes are drying by the fire!" Romeo exclaims as he sits down on the other side of the fire ignoring the disapproving glare Bana was throwing at him.

"Are you serious", Bana asks, "Are you fucking serious?"

"She stripped down, her clothes are drying by the fire as is she!" Romeo explained as turn his head away to better avoid Bana's stare.

"You know what you have to do", Bana points out.

"I am not doing that."

"Are you-", Bana started to say.

"I am hundred percent straight! I just feel a little uncomfortable getting into a sleeping bag with a half-naked girl whose power rival mine and the fact she happens to have short temper!" Romeo yell echoed throughout the cave.

"I was going to ask if you're just being lazy because of the fact you have to use your magic redirection to warm her up faster and you don't want to waste magic doing so", Bana continued on purposely ignoring his charge's rant, "Though seeing how Sahata had been the one female he has seen the most over the past seven years; I can see why he might be uncomfortable around members of the opposite sex that he does not know very well."

"Romeo, that fire is only prolonging her life. If you don't get in that sleeping bag with her she going to die, simple as that", Bana explains while pointing at Chelia whose was looking worse than ever before, "And you, not me, are going to have to explain to Lamia Scale and your father why that happened."

Romeo hangs his head in defeat and begins taking off his vest and pants.

"You only need to go down to your boxers", Bana says as he turns around and soon hears the sound of Romeo slowly sliding into the sleeping bag with Chelia.

"Okay Romeo surely if you just place your back to her back she'll warm up just as fast as if we were face to face with one another", the First Gen Dragon-Slayer thought as he proceeds to do as such and place his back to her back, "Now all I have to do is use *magic redirection."

*Magic redirection is a simple ability that almost any mage can use. It the process of focusing your magic in one part of your body such as your left hand and then redirecting it to another part such as your right hand. Through the conscious circulation of ethernano a mage can create heat within the body outside of what is produced normally through calorie consumption and considerable heat stress.

There are however problems when using this technique in these types of situations. The mage must spend as much magic as it takes to generate an equal amount of heat, so it takes much more to heat a larger part of the body like the back versus a smaller portion such as a hand. Second, is the management of ethernano, by generating heat a mage adds to his own body temperature so in extreme cases of hypothermia, the process takes much longer.

Not because of a lack of magic, but because the mage performing the technique can suffer from a heat stroke by raising his own body temperature too quickly to help the other. Therefore both of these factors can play a role in exhausting one's magic storage.*

"My magic going to be dangerously low when all this is said and done," Romeo thought as he begins to focus his magic around his back and send it on a route from his hands and feet then returning it to his back. Within a few minutes of doing this, the sleeping bag that Chelia and Romeo were sharing became a mini-furnace with steam literally rising from the bag, but whether it came from the two teenagers or Romeo himself (he was still uncomfortable about this whole idea) who could tell.

It's about twenty minutes into the "warming session" and Romeo can hear Chelia's heartbeat beginning to speed up.

"At least she getting better hopefully soon I can get out and put my clo-" Romeo thoughts are interrupted by the fact that Chelia turn over in her near-unconscious slumber and latch on to Romeo from behind pressing up against him while draping her arm across his chest and throwing one of her legs over his pelvis.

Romeo quickly loss all train of thought as two bountiful lumps press up against his back and he quickly brings his hand to his nose to stop the geyser of blood that threatens to erupts from it while also mentally trying to calm his lower body down.

He could feel her hot breath on his neck, the feeling of her breasts pushing more into his back while simultaneously her arm and leg tighten around him. But it wasn't her body that almost drove him insane, oh no, it was what she said that did that.

"~Ooh Lyon-sama, you want to do it here in the guild closet?!~" Chelia cooed, "Hope Sherry or Master Ooba don't find us."

"What the fuck is wrong with this girl?!" as he tries to break her iron grip but to no avail, "Has this chick been working out or something?! Was she this strong when we fought?!"

Suddenly a quiet chuckle fills Romeo's ears as his eyes shoot a hell-filled glare at Bana who simply smiles back.

"Having fun there?" the wounded exceed ask while sitting down with both his arms and legs cross.

"Go to hell", Romeo replies though his voice sounded off with him holding his nose.

"You mean the opposite of where you're at right now?" Bana joked.

Before Romeo could flip him the bird with his free hand he himself is suddenly flip around coming face to… well, he wasn't being smothered into Chelia's face that for sure so let's just go with that.

"Too soft. Smell almost… heavenly. Brain...shutting down. Dammit resist Romeo, resist! This is the same bitch who send you flying into the guild hall, twice!"

"~Oh Lyon-sama so forward! Do with them what you like~", Chelia purred in her sleep while wrapping her arms around Romeo's head causing him to now struggle for air.

Romeo feels a set of small hands grab him by the neck and a sudden yank breaks him free of Chelia's entanglement. As he gasps for air he turns his head around to see Bana standing there breathing heavily from having to nearly strain himself pulling Romeo free of the Sky Slayer grasp.

"Oh thank god! Thanks, Bana", Romeo gasps before noticing the strange look on Bana's face.

"Don't thank me yet", Bana says as he points behind him, "Because you're probably going to be wishing that I just would you suffocate here in a few seconds."

"Ahem", a voice calls out from behind Romeo.

"I can't catch a break today, can I? It's just one fuck me after another." Romeo thought as he slowly turns around only to once again be staring at a hot pink bra.

"You. Look. Up."

And Romeo did just that and was soon locking eyes with a glaring Sky God Slayer.

"You're not Lyon-sama", the girl says her voice so cold that Romeo swore that the temperature in the sleeping bag dropped. But Romeo being Romeo and a dragon-slayer on top of that, he couldn't resist acting like a little smartass in this moment.

"Oh, what was your first clue? The fact I have purple hair or the fact that I'm not over decade older than you?"

Chelia only glares at him before doing something neither Romeo nor Bana (who was just watching at this point) saw coming.

Moving quicker than Romeo thought was possible for someone who just recovered from hypothermia, in a blink of an eye Romeo was lying on his back facing up with an almost naked Chelia now sitting on him extremely close to his groin.

"When did she get so fast?" Romeo thought before finally realizing the position they were in. As he tries to stop the explicit images that were coming into his head Chelia finally spoke...

"Romeo", Chelia says in an emotionless voice while staring down straight into his eyes. As she continued to straddle him Romeo notices that she was now pulling her arm back and forming a fist. He also happens to notice that it was aiming for his head.

"Y-Yes?" Romeo stuttered because he now realizes that Chelia was in a very good position to do some serious damage to him.

"Why am I only wearing my bra and panties? And why were you so close to me in nothing but your boxers?"

"Would you believe me if I said it to warm you up and make sure you didn't die of hypothermia?" Romeo asked while internally fearing for his life.

"Hmm really? Then explain what poking me", Chelia demanded as black winds gather in her fist, "I'm listening."

"Psst. Romeo", the dragon-slayer heard Bana whisper, "Try being diplomatic."

"Okay Chelia, now before you freak out I think you should know that our situation at the moment is pretty dire", Romeo say in hopes of calming her down.

"From where I'm sitting it just your situation that looking dire", Chelia responds with her fist still encase in dark currents.

"Poor choice of words", Romeo thinks before speaking, "I thinking you're failing to realize just how bad things are right now."

"I think you're failing to realize just how bad I'm going to pummel you into the ground", Chelia threaten to which Romeo responded in kind.

"Do you honestly think I would take advantage of a bitch like you while you were unconscious?! Please I wouldn't sink to that level and honestly you're beneath my standards cause of your attitude problem", Romeo truthfully tells Chelia.

"Oh, this won't end well for him", Bana thinks as he takes a few steps back from the sleeping bag.

Chelia's hair covers her eyes as the pink-haired mage goes silent, her fist trembling rapidly.

"Chelia?" Romeo tenses instinctively at the odd silence, "That's, uh a nice necklace. I didn't notice it before."

That was true, during the embarrassing incident he completely missed her necklace probably because his hands were full…literally.

"I..." she starts to speak and grips the locket in her palm hiding it away from him, "Don't need to take that kind of insult from a DRAGON SLAYER!", as she brings her fist down on top of his head, "DIE FAIRY TAIL SCUM!"

Romeo is a fraction of a second faster and moves his head out of the way which was a good thing because Chelia's fist left a small crater in its place and the impact echoes throughout the cave. Romeo wraps his arm around her and using his free arm grabs her head and slams her sideways off of him and into the hard ground next to them. Moving his body upward till he on top of her while bending her trapped arm at the same time he looks toward his exceed companion.

"A little help here would be nice!" he screams to which Bana only smirks.

"Nah you got this and besides my wounds are starting to act up", Bana replied.

"Why you little-why are you taking a breath?", As Romeo is stop-mid curse to see that Chelia was inhaling a large amount of air.

"SKY GOD'S BELLOW"as Chelia releases a powerful blast directly into the ground and propels both of them upward with Romeo still on top of her. Bana is forced to pull one of Romeo's blades of out the sheath and jams it into the ground to uses as an anchor so he wouldn't get blown away by the sheer magnitude of the attack.

"Ah fuc-"is all Romeo has time to think before his back collides with the cave ceiling causing the entire cave to shake once again. The impact also shakes him off of Chelia who maneuvers herself and lands gracefully on the ground while Romeo falls back down with a hard thump, but like a flash, he's back on his feet taking up a defensive stance.

"Oh, oh okay. I guess we're doing this now, aren't we?!", Romeo snarls as his patience with this girl was almost at an end.

"Payback a bitch isn't it?", Chelia counters as she flies toward him and unleashes a barrage of kicks to which Romeo narrowly dodges them while thinking…

"Damn. She has gotten faster too. I can barely keep up less now than I could a week ago", as he feels the wind behind a kick that was aimed at his head, "And unfortunately for all parties involve in this job she had to start a fight inside of a balls freezing cave."

Romeo also happened to notice that certain...assets of Chelia were becoming more noticeable to Romeo due to the constant jumping around she was doing and the fact that it was, like he said, fucking cold.

"Focus Romeo; keep your eyes locked on her eyes. And her feet, and her hands, dammit Romeo just keep your eyes looking at anywhere that not her chest or her ass!"

Romeo feels his back pressed into the cave wall and realizes he should have been paying more attention to his surroundings instead of Chelia's physique.

Romeo tilts his head a little to the left just in time to, by a small margin, dodge the magic encase punch that Chelia threw and once again it left a small crater afterward.

"Okay twice now her punches have caused mini-craters, now I know she has gotten stronger since we last fought!"

Acting quickly Romeo brings his left elbow straight up and slams it into her chin. This stuns Chelia for a moment allowing Romeo to bring both his right elbow and knee and land two simultaneous blows on her forehead and her gut forcing her to stagger back away from him.

"I'll admit!", Romeo starts to praise, "It's damn impressive that you have gotten stronger and faster in such a short amount of time. But the one thing you still need to work on is your ability to take a hit!", as Romeo delivers a brutal roundhouse kick to Chelia's head sending her to the ground.

"You should probably work on that when you have a chance", Romeo tells her just a moment before he force to hit the ground himself to avoid a blast of blacked wind that she shots at him. Romeo has just enough time to bring his head up off the ground only for it to receive a vicious kick that sends him soaring across the ground into the hard wall and lands him on his back.

"Well forget what I said, damn she recovers quickly!", the dragon-slayer thinks as he opens his eyes to see a foot coming crashing down towards his face. He catches it with both his hands and to his complete shock finds himself struggling to hold it back. Then he notices Chelia had her arm stretched out toward him and was gathering black swirls in her hand.

"Any last words?", she growls.

"Yeah, you have severe anger issues and you must have some major back problems at your age", Romeo states as he twists her ankle to the point of breaking it causing her to roar in pain and prematurely fire off her magic upward into the roof of the cave. Colliding his arm into her leg and using all his strength he is able to throw Chelia off-balance and brings her toppling face first into the ground. But before she could react Romeo is on top of her and grabs both her arms and brings them behind her back. Using one arm to immobilize them, Romeo outstretches his free one to Bana.

"Bana! I'm being serious this time! Throw me my blade!" Romeo yells while holding out his hand to which the exceed pulls the short sword he was using earlier out of the ground and throws it toward it. Romeo catches it by the handle and slides the blade under her Chelia's neck, pressing against her skin. He then whispers harshly into her ear...

"Go ahead and try to use your breath spell again. You'll be having a hole on your neck if you do. Now you listen and you listen well. I do not have time for this shit. I'm trying to be nice here; I could have left your ass out there in that storm or even waited until after the blizzardvern killed you before I shot her. I could have bought your ass to the cave and let you freeze on the cold hard ground. I wasted my magic on you warming you up and I swear on my life I did nothing intentionally to take advantage of you. But the first thing you do when you wake up is to assault me without hearing my side of the story or even listen to the fact that I'm was trying to tell you that we are neck deep in some shit. My patience is wearing thin with you right now and I suggest you start playing nice. Now -"

Suddenly Romeo stops talking as he feels the cave shaking around him.

"Ah, crap. Our fight must have disrupted the snow above us", Romeo states and sure enough the shaking increases until chunks of rock and snow were falling down from the cave ceiling. Romeo lets Chelia up, points to the back of the cave and yells…

"RUN!" as he barely avoids a sizable piece of falling rock.

"But my ankle still healing!", Chelia points out.

"Fine then!", Romeo screams as he grabs Bana and picks up Chelia over his shoulder with the other. He then takes off down to the rear end of the cave dodging falling rocks the entire way. The trio barely made it out alive into the tunnel that was connected to the cave as the campfire, the sleeping bag, their clothes, everything was buried under an avalanche of rocks. As the echoes of the cave-in die down the only thing heard throughout the barely lit tunnel was the heavy breathing of the two slayers.

"Put me down you perv", Chelia demands and Romeo simply throws her off his shoulder and she lands with a heavy thump on the ground. The glare she sends him as she looks up could have melted the snow around them but he ignores it.

"Great now we're half-naked in a tunnel, in the middle of a mountain, which is in the middle of a blizzard", Chelia complained as she swats the snow off her, "Could this day possibly get any worse?"

"Well if you would have calmed down and listened to what I had to say none of this would have happened." Romeo pointed out, "Seriously, you didn't even give me a minute to fully explain myself."

"What and give you time to feed me your lies?" Chelia snaps back, "You're just another reckless dragon-slayer of Fairy Tail that does what he pleases! That all you Fairy Tail mages ever do, as you please with no regards to the damage you cause!"

Romeo stares incredulous, mouth agape at the girl for a few moments before speaking…

"Oooookay, it almost sounds like you have a personal grudge against dragon-slayers and Fairy Tail in general. Is there something I should know?" Romeo asked while Bana looks over at Chelia with a curious expression on his face.

"That's none of your damn business", Chelia replies.

"Seeing how I save your ass twice in one day I believe I'm entitled to know why you hate me", Romeo countered, "Also seeing how I'm the only way you're going to stay warm until we find something to cover ourselves up you might want to be more talkative."

"I can stay warm just fine thank you", Chelia informs Romeo as she twirls her arm in the air and the area that she, Romeo, and Bana were occupying suddenly increase in temperature to the point that Romeo notices the snow in the tunnel was starting to melt.

"What the fuck?" Romeo questioned.

"I change the cold wind within a certain radius to warm air", Chelia explained in the matter that you think she was telling this to a toddler, "It a technique I developed a few years back."

"Okay then mind explaining to me why you couldn't use this beforehand, like I don't know, in the middle of the blizzard?", Romeo inquired.

"There are limitations to this technique. In a blizzard, I can't casually manipulate the wind because of the random powerful gusts. I couldn't do it when we were walking up the mountain cause the winds were too strong to manipulate without a spell, but because this tunnel in more compacted with no real outside factor I can control the wind to such a degree here without spending too much magic.", Chelia says as she picks up Bana and then snaps her fingers.

"Wow, I must say I'm impressed. I guess she really does have a talent for magic", Romeo thought while staring at Chelia before realizing something, "Why is it cold again?"

"Judging by that idiotic look on your face you must be wondering why it suddenly freezing again", Chelia chuckles, "I constrict the hot wind to just my personal space."

"Wow, that's how you treat the guy who saved your life two times today?"

"I own you nothing", Chelia says back as she started walking down the tunnel.

"You know hating someone without telling them the reason why you hate them is a sign of just plain hypocritical logic", Romeo called out to her making the god-slayer stop in her tracks. She takes a breath that was so deep that Romeo instinctively moves to a fighting stance for the fear an attack from her but instead Chelia just turns around, clad in nothing more than her bra and panties and glares at him.

"Okay fine, you want to know why I hate you and Fairy Tail so much?" she asked.

"Not like there anything else is going to do while we see where this tunnel leads to", Romeo commented.

"Fine, but first you should know the background to the story I'm about to tell you. Back in X779, I was a happy three-year-old girl living in Haragon with my grandparents. Grandpa was a retired Rune Knights captain while grandma was a former traveling gypsy", Chelia told Romeo with a somewhat cheerily tone as she put Bana down.

"If you don't mind me asking, what happen to your folks?" Romeo asked.

She slightly turned away and wrapped her arms around herself.

"My family besides my grandma, grandpa, and Sherry were already killed in my family's homeland of Brago after one of Deliora's rampage. Sherry…she was really angry and left to chase the demon down." She looks back over at Romeo with a sad expression on her face.

Romeo could understand her pain to an extent, what with his mom walking out on him and his dad when he was only three years old and with Natsu, Wendy, and the rest of the Tenrou group being killed off seven years ago.

"I-I'm not mad at her for leaving us. I probably would have done the same. It's not like she could have taken care of me since she was only 13 at the time. So I went to live with my grandparents who retired to a house in Haragon, a house my Grandpa build with his own two hands all by himself. They did their best to raise me right and they love me with all their heart." She smiled at the thought of her grandparents and the memories she had in that old home.

But the smile quickly faded and her blue eyes became like ice towards Romeo.

"Things were going alright, I was happy, we were a loving family until..." Chelia's face darkens suddenly as her voice takes on a cold tone that sends shivers down Romeo' spine.

"Until?" Romeo asked.

"Until one day in X784 when something terrible happened. It was the day that my whole life changed, for it was that day that Natsu Dragneel came to Haragon looking for a mage name Salamander."

A/N: Let see what happens next chapter shall we? Chelia has gotten way stronger training under Jura. The reason Romeo even "won" was because he was able to break her ankle and catch her off-balance and even then he had to threaten her life afterward. And don't worry Wendy will have time to shine. Review, Fav, or Follow if you want.