Chapter Seven
Sharp
Tabby and I make our way over to our meeting spot, ready for whatever 'surprise' Rogue and Sting have for me. They left me a note that said they wanted to surprise me with something. I was getting kind of excited to figure out what it was. I look around me and I turn to tabby.
"Wanna fly?" I ask her.
"Definitely! I wonder what they have planned!" Tabby exclaims, picking me up and flying towards our meeting spot.
When we get there, I see two figures with cloaks hidden in the shadows. I jump slightly when they come towards me. "It's just us! Told ya we'd scare her, Rogue!" Sting exclaims, uncovering his face. Rogue uncovers his face too, a small smile etched on his lips.
"Oh you guys!" I yell, "why are you wearing cloaks?"
"Here's one for you!" Sting exclaims.
"We wanted to have a nice day together in town, although we have to do a quick mission before we do anything fun." Rogue explains, Frosch poking his head out of the cloak.
"Tabby gets to be in it too, there's a compartment tailored especially for exceeds." Lector explains, popping out of the cloak.
"Cool!" Tabby exclaims.
I grab the cloak from Sting and I slide it on, tabby hops into the compartment. "It's really comfortable." I state.
"Now pull your hood up, remember that we can't be seen with you, sis." Sting says.
"I wouldn't want to be seen with you two anyway, way too much attention!" I chuckle.
"Yes, way too much." Rogue agrees.
"Well what are we waiting for?!" Sting yells, pulling up his hood and running.
Rogue and I share a look, pull up our hoods, and chase after him.
When we get back into town, I look around warily. "What if we're seen? And recognized?" I ask quietly.
"Relax, don't worry about it!" Sting shrugs, walking up to a vender and buying three ice cream cones. "Vanilla for me, maple for Rogue, and mint for Sharp. Oh, and of course a spoon full for all of the exceeds!" He exclaims as he hands us our cones and spoons.
"Just a spoon full?!" Lector and Tabby growl from inside the cloaks.
"There's no way your getting entire cones inside of our cloaks." Sting answers.
"Ugh! This sucks!" Lector mutters.
"Fro thinks so too." Fro murmurs.
"Sorry Frosch." Rogue tells his cat.
I lick my ice creams, "yum..."
"Indeed." Rogue agrees, biting off a peice of his cone.
"You guys are slow." Sting tells us, wiping off his fingers, his cone gone.
"Uh huh." I say, paying attention to eating my ice cream and trying not to show too much of my face.
"So the mission." Rogue starts, "it's to escort a small child to the mountains where another wizard will take her, the child is a very important Wizards daughter. The client told us that people may try and take her, that's why the reward is 3 million jewel. We can't let the kid be hurt or taken in the process, all we have to do is get her to a wizard called Candice Kanakee. She's the kids aunt who uses invisibility magic who'll be in the mountains." He explains.
"Why doesn't the aunt just get the kid? Why go through all the trouble making a 3 million jewel request?" I ask, furrowing my eyebrows, not that anyone can see my eyebrows through my cloak.
"The aunt Won't go in magnolia or something like that. But let's go!" Sting says, starting to walk away.
"The kid is special, she's got the only known Etherion Lacroma planted inside of her, when she learns to use the power, she'll be as powerful as one of the ten wizard saints." Rogue explains further. My eyes widen.
"Wow. That's crazy. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go meet this little girl!" I exclaim as we catch up with sting. How could one kid contain so much power?
When we get to our destination, we wait impatiently at the door. This little girl was in my town, in magnolia, a little girl with Etherion power was in magnolia. And we were about to meet her. Who would implant an Etherion lacroma in a little girl anyway?
The door creaks open and I see the face of an old man, "are you the saber tooth wizards?" He asks.
"Yes. I'm Sting EuCliffe, This is Rogue Cheney and this is my twin sister, Sharp." Sting says formally.
"Nice to meet you all." He turns away from us, "Claudia! The Wizards are here, bring Elena!" He shouts.
A short old lady appears in the walk way, holding a little girls hand. The girl had light shining blue hair and blue eyes, she was wearing a brown cloak similar to ours but with the hood down. "Oh, here she is, this is Elena. Elena, these are the wizards that are taking you to your aunt." The lady says.
"You see, Elena is very scared and doesn't understand what's going on, she also has trust issues thanks to an incident that happened a year ago."
The little girl nods, I could hear muffled crying coming from her. I kneel down in front of her and I take of my hood to look at her. "Hey, don't be scared, we won't let anything happen to you, We're dragon slayers." I smile. "We'll get you to your aunt safe and sound, I promise."
She stares at me for a few moments then nods, "okay." She says quietly.
The old man and lady gasp, "She hasn't talked in months!" The woman exclaims.
"Really?" I ask, as the girl wraps her arms around my leg when I stand up. I pet her hair absentmindedly.
"She seems to like you, miss..." The old man starts.
"EuCliffe." I say.
"Miss EuCliffe." He finishes, smiling.
"My sister has a way with children and animals, I'm glad we brought her along." Sting exclaims.
"So you two young men are the dragon twins of Sabertooth?" The old lady asks.
"Yes." Rogue answers simply.
"And your sister, I've don't think I've heard of her..." She trails off.
Sting and Rogue share a look, "she's actually not in Sabertooth," Sting says.
"But no one needs to know that." Rogue adds. The old man and woman give me a questioning look.
"I'm sorry, I'm actually a fairy tail wizard." I state, sending a glare towards the boys.
"A fairy tail wizard?!" The old man exclaims, "the worst guild in Fiore?"
"As of now, yes. But that's only because our strongest members were trapped in time for seven years, we'll get back to the top." I state, knowing we will.
"I know they will, Dear." The woman says, smiling, "I Was actually a fairy tail wizard myself when I was young." She explains.
"You were?" I ask, my eyes wide.
"Yes, but that was a long time ago." She sighs, "now I've got a secret granddaughter with Etherion powers."
"A big change." I murmur.
She smiles, "now, Elena's aunt is a very impatient woman, and if you don't get Elena to her by sun fall, she probably won't give you the full reward."
"Alright, we'll get going right away." Sting announces.
"Good luck." The old man says gruffly.
"Goodbye Elena" the woman calls as Sting and Rogue walk towards the door. "Be careful!"
Elena waves and then I pick her up, pulling both of our hoods over our heads. Sting holds the door open for us and shuts it when we're outside.
"So time to make our way to the mountains." Rogue states.
"Yep, let's go." Sting turns to look at the little girl in my arms, "we'll get you to your aunt." He assures her.
Rogue comes by me, "so how old are you, Elena?" He asks.
"Seven." She answers.
"Wow, your so old." I joke. I hear her giggle slightly. "We're going straight to the mountains, right?" I ask
"That's the plan." Sting says.
"Well your plan has failed." Someone from in front of us says. I tighten my grasp on Elena and I look in the direction the voice came from. A man wearing a black suit was standing in the alley way before us.
"What do you want?" Sting demands. The man laughs, pointing a gun at Sting.
"Isn't it obvious, I want the kid. So hand her over." Suddenly fourteen other people step out of the shadows, each holding different weapons.
"What makes you think we'd do that?" I snap.
"We'll kill you if you don't." A woman laughs.
"Like that's gonna happen." Sting laughd I could practically hear him roll his eyes.
"Prepare yourselves then, go men!" The guy in the suit yells, firing his gun. Sting blocks. Six people surround me and I laugh.
"Six people? That's all? Do you even know who we are?" I ask, Elena tightens her grip on my neck.
"We don't care who you are, we're after the girl!"
"You'll care after we're done with you!" Sting shouts, "I'll take these guys out in one blow!" He laughs.
"I don't think so, I'll take the guys who're surrounding me. White dragons tail attack!" I yell, The light knocking down the people around me.
"I got these four!" Rogue yells, "shadow dragons slash!" The people around him fall to the ground.
"White dragons claw!" Sting shouts, the rest of the guys falling over. All that's left was the leader. He stood shakily with his gun pointed at the girl.
"They're dragon slayers.." He mutters to himself. "If you try to make a move, I'll kill her." He says. Elena let's out a frightened squeak.
"Oh yeah?" Sting asks.
The man nods. Sting, rogue and I look at each other. "Fine, you can have the girl." Sting says.
The man in the suit looked shocked, in that moment of confusion, Rogue flings himself at the man, knocking the gun out of his hand.
"Just kidding!" I yell, kicking the guys head to knock him out. Rogue and sting come towards me.
"She okay?" Rogue asks.
"She's just a little scared, that's all." I say.
"That's to be expected." Rogue nods.
"We should be more careful from here on out." Sting says. "Let's get going."
We walk quickly towards the mountains, waiting for a chance to fly with our exceeds. We were about a mile away from the mountain path, we would be there soon.
"I'm hungry." Elena says suddenly.
"Hungry?" I repeat.
"Hungry. Yes." Sting says, "me too. Let's get something to eat."
"Do you know any quiet restaurants around here?" Rogue asks me.
"Um, yeah. There's actually one right down the road." I say.
" okay, we'll go there then." Rogue says.
When we get to the restaurant and get our food, a waiter comes up to us asking us to pull our hoods off. I give him a suspicious look.
"We'd Rather not." Rogue says.
"It's a custom in this restaurant to take off hats and hoods." He continues.
"No, it's not. I've been here many times before. That's not true." I say, staring at the man. He smiles.
"Then I'll have to ask you to leave." He says.
"We'll leave when we're finished eating." Sting states.
"Would you like me to report you?" The man threatens.
"No, the real question is, would you like me to report you? Because I've never seen you here before and you are definitely not part of the family that runs this place. It's a small family business, they don't hire anyone outside of the family." I snap.
"I'm a distant relative." The man replies steadily.
"Wow, your quite the lier. I know the whole family that works here, and they don't have any distant relatives." I say, standing up in front Elena, "so who are you?"
"Your a smart girl, aren't you?" He asks me, grinning. "But who are you?"
"I asked you first." I tell him. "One of you go look out the windows. I've got a bad feeling about this." I instruct. Sting gets up to look around. Rogue puts his arms around Elena.
"Fine, my name is Paco, I'm the leader of the dark guild Black Vulture. Your turn, miss." He smiles menacingly, about to fire a spell at me, I could tell from his stance.
"We're surrounded!" Sting yells, taking the kid from Rogue.
"Great." I mutter "Well my name is Sharp and I'm a fairy tail wizard you bastard! White dragon's ROAR!" I yell, the light hitting him straight on. When the light clears, I see him laying on the ground, battered and bruised.
"Nice." Sting says, "do you really know all that about this restaurant?" Sting asks.
"Yep, good thing too!" I smile.
"Hey guys, enough talking. I've got a plan. That guy said he was the leader of his guild, right?" Rogue starts. I nod. "Well then we use him to get ourselves out of here."
I smile, "brilliant." I notice that Elena is shaking. "I'll take Elena and meet you guys on the mountain path. Tabby will fly us." I say.
"Alright, be careful!" Sting shouts.
"I will be." I answer, grabbing some food off of the table and shoving it into my pocket for Tabby. "Ready to fly, girl?" I ask her.
"As ready as I'll ever be. Let's just hope I can carry both you and the girl." She mutters.
"I know you can do it." I pat her head.
"We'll meet you there!" Rogue calls after us as we fly through a opening on the roof. Some of the dark guild members see us. "White dragons claw!" I shout, the light flashing down on them, giving us an easy escape. We fly to the mountain path.
When we land, tabby collapses onto the ground, "so... Heavy..." She mutters.
"Sorry girl, I grabbed some food for you though!" I tell her.
"So your cat can fly?" Elena asks, pulling off her hood.
"Yeah, she's an exceed, she can talk and fly. She's amazing." I smile.
"That's so cool." The small girl smiles, then frowns, "are your friends gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, they'll be fine. They're tough, and they don't give up easily. They're in the number one guild in Fiore, saber tooth. But honestly, Fairy tail is gonna beat them. Fairy tail is truly number one." I explain with a happy sigh.
"Can you tell me more about fairy tail?" She asks, looking up at me.
"Yeah, of course!" I exclaim, "I joined fairy tail when I was young, I immediately fell in love with it. Everyone there is so kind and unique, and a little crazy too. But everyone in fairy tail is family, we all love each other. We never give up on each other. But seven years ago something bad happened to our strongest members, me included, we were almost killed by an evil dragon called Acnologia but thanks to our faith and trust in each other, we were saved by a spell called fairy sphere that trapped us in time for seven years. In that time fairy tail, which was the number one guild in Fiore, was booted down to last. Saber tooth took its place, but we'll beat them." I say determinedly.
"Won't you have to fight your friends?" Elena asks.
"Yeah, but they'll understand. Their really good people." I say.
"I want to be just like you when I'm older and then I want to join fairy tail!" Elena exclaims excitedly.
"Sounds great to me! You just have to learn how to control that amazing power of yours." I tell her.
"I will. I'll work my hardest and then maybe I'll be as good as you!" She announces
"I'm sure you will be. Maybe better." I smile.
"Hey! Those dark guild wizards put up a good fight but didn't stand a chance against us!" Sting exclaims, rushing up to us, "what you guys talking about?"
"The best guild ever!" Elena exclaims.
"Sabertooth?" Sting smiles.
"Fairy tail!" She corrects.
"You got her hooked on fairy tail?" Sting asks me with a grumble.
"Yup, she wants to join someday." I smirk.
"Ah. I see. Well if you ever change your mind, I'm sure Sabertooth would take you." Sting tells her.
"Is it like family there, too?" She asks, smiling.
Sting hesitates, "well-"
"We better get going" Rogue interrupts, "we've got to get Elena to her aunt."
"Not too far, now." I add.
"You want a dragon back ride?" Sting asks Elena. She nods enthusiastically and hops on his back. He starts to run and spin and jump around.
"Stay on the path, Sting!" Rogue warns. Elena squeals with glee as Sting pretends to almost drop her.
"Don't worry!" Sting calls back.
"I guess the both of you are good with kids." Rogue tells me.
"I guess we are." I smile.
"And we're here!" Sting exclaims. I see a figure slumped against a rock and I move towards it.
"I'll be right back." I mutter, walking towards it. Is it the aunt? As I near the person, I notice that she's bleeding heavily from a wound on her chest. "Shit." I mutter, running up to the woman.
"Are you... The... Wizards?" She chokes out. I nod.
"Yes, that's me." I say quickly, ripping off a peice of my cloak and holding it to her chest.
"The men... There were too... Many, they wanted... Elena...Where's... Elena...?" She asks me.
"She's fine, she's over there with my brother... Sting!" I shout the last part. "Candice Kanakee is badly injured!"
"Can I see... Elena?" She asks, gripping my hand.
"Yes, yes, just hold on! Sting! Rogue!" I yell.
"We're coming!" Rogue shouts, kneeling down next to me. "Oh my god." He gasps.
"What's going on?" Sting asks as he sits Elena down on the ground. Elena cries out in shock.
"Auntie!" She cries.
"Elena dear, these nice wizards are going to take you to your father... He lives just up the mountain... Just look for a big rock shaped as a... Woman... there's an enchantment around the house so no one can see it... Just say these three words... Elena... Ginerva... Kanakee..." She lets out a soft groan, "take care... Of my... Niece..." She tells me, taking one last shuddering breath. I look at Sting and Rogue who looked utterly shocked. I then look at Elena. She had tears streaming down her face, but she was wiping them away, trying to be strong. I pull the young girl into a hug. She wraps her arms around me. I stand up.
"Let's get Elena to her Dad." I say, walking away. "We're bringing Candice with us. One of you carry her. She needs to have a proper burial with family."
"Alright." Rogue says shakily, picking up Candice's body.
"Let's go." Sting says.
"Tabby," I say, "I need you to fly back to fairy tail and tell them that I won't be back until tomorrow. Can you do that?"
"You can count on me, Sharp." She says, extending her wings.
"I should go with her, just to make sure she gets there." Lector says toughly, looking to Sting.
"Yeah, you can do that, just make sure your not seen by any fairy tail members, then come right back to the meeting place." Sting demands.
"Got it." Lector says.
"Be careful you two!" I say as they fly away.
"Now let's go." Rogue says, Frosch flying next to him.
"We need to get Elena to her dad!" I say.
"Fro thinks so too!"
When we get to the statue of the woman, Elena steps forwards and touches it. "This was my mom. She died a year ago." She says sadly.
"I'm so sorry Elena." I tell her.
"Elena Ginerva Kanakee." Rogue says after looking around. We step pass the enchantment and see the house. Elena starts running over to a man who was standing by the door of the gigantic house, waiting.
"My sweet daughter, Elena!" He exclaims, picking her up. We walk towards the man, he gasps when he sees Candice in Rogues arms.
"What happened to her?" He asks hurriedly.
"She was attacked by men that wanted Elena, she's dead." Rogue explains bluntly. I nod sadly.
"She... Oh my. So you must be the wizards that took the job. The twin dragons of saber and... Who are you? You look familiar?" He asks me.
"My name is Sharp EuCliffe, I'm Sting's twin sister and a fairy tail wizard." I explain.
"Ah I see. Thank you for bringing my daughter to me, you three. Your reward is 3 million jewel, correct?"
"Yes, that is correct." Rogue says.
"Well, here it is, plus interest." He says, handing a bag to Sting. Sting grabs it.
"Thank you, sir." Rogue says. "But where would you like Candice?"
"Mm, put my dear sister on that bench, I will take care of it, we will have a funeral for her in the morning. You may leave now, wizards." He tells us.
"Wait! Sharp! Sting! Rogue!" Elena yells, hugging Sting and Rogues legs than jumping into my arms. "Thank you so much! I'll see you again, hopefully when I join Fairy tail!" She shouts, smiling brightly.
I smile back, "see you then." I tell her, I point into the air, the fairy tail way. She copies me. "Your going to be a great wizard." I say.
She smiles and runs back to her dad.
When we get back to our meeting spot, we were exhausted. Tabby and Lector were waiting for us. "I really didn't think that job would take so long..." Sting says.
"It was nice to go on a quest with you two though. And that little girl was so sweet!" I tell them.
"Well, how about we camp out and then in the morning we do something fun, like swimming?" He replies.
"Sure, sounds good to me." I smile, noticing that all three exceeds were now asleep.
"Okay guys, I'll be right back, I'm gonna find something to eat!" Sting exclaims, walking away.
"That girl really liked you." Rogue tells me. I smile.
"Yeah, she did." I agree. "I wish we could go on missions like this all of the time. Just the three of us." I sigh.
"It would be nice." Rogue whispers as I lean against him. "I love you, Sharp." He says quietly.
"I love you too." I kiss his cheek. He turns to kiss my lips-
Suddenly I hear a twig snap and I look in the direction of the sound. It was Sting.
