The wyvern descended to shove its face right up to the mages, as if to smell any evil intent. The problem was the wyvern took being cold as a sign of evil, and Gray at the time was barely over 20C. It left the others alone and began chasing after Gray, who started sprinting up the path, hoping he was running in the same direction to the relocation site. As it turned out, he wasn't. Erza had to shout after him to make him run in the opposite direction. Gray turned, fell over, and started sprinting off again, barely missing a multitude of walls and trees. Walls have had something against me this last week Gray thought, which was a considerable achievement considering he was sprinting for his life. Natsu and the others decided to 'help' Gray by getting all the other wyverns in the area to chase after him as well. Strangely enough, Gray did not appreciate this help. He was too busy running away from the main one. Erza rented a car to tell villagers to evacuate as there were roughly 40 wyverns heading their way. They were almost at the relocation site about 10 miles away, and Gray was almost out of breath when the main black wyvern stopped, as if in pain. Erza surveyed the scene. Gray had frozen the floor to run away faster, and had trapped the wyvern in it like he had trapped her. He stared at what he had done and zoomed off in the direction he was going in. The wyvern managed to recreate the thing Erza herself had done earlier and pursued Gray with new murderous intent. They reached the relocation site much faster, and Gray collapsed on a wall to regain his breath. The wyvern stared at him and Gray tried to stand up, but crashed down again as his legs had suffered too many hits on the way. The black wyvern saw an opportunity and pounced, but there was a small fire in its way. It snarled in annoyance and went to move round the flame, but the flame moved too. It roared at the flame, but the flame shouted in the strange human language, "Lucy, now!"
Lucy was cursing her luck that Levy and Freed weren't there and as such she was the person who knew the most about runes. She had been sent directly to the relocation site by Juvia and her water lock. She had then set to work on a massive set of runes, Juvia helping. When Natsu had called, she finished the final line, activating the runes and promptly fell on the floor exhausted. The runes read, 'no wyverns can exit the space inside these runes, and approximately 30 miles up there is a ceiling which no wyverns can pass through'. Lucy wasn't sure if the wyverns could fly out of the runes, so she put a ceiling in place, just in case. Erza called to Natsu, and as he began to run out reminded him about their injured marathon runner. Natsu grumbled something suspiciously like,'we could leave the ice princess here instead' but went to retrieve Gray anyway. Gray was doing a very good job of not looking injured, but his act failed him as he tried to walk over to Natsu and his legs gave out in pain. Natsu came over to help him up, but ended up with Gray in a piggyback as Gray couldn't move his legs without pain. Natsu seriously wished that Wendy had run after Erza with them. Jellal offered to carry Gray instead as Natsu was tired from sustaining his flames, but Natsu refused. The only one to carry the ice princess would be him. They reached the train and Natsu handed Gray to Erza, knowing he would pass out as soon as the train started moving. He was right. The train started and the very much alive rug was back in action.
Gray was not pleased. Not pleased at all. He had been chased by 40+ wyverns and what did he get? Nothing. Unless you count a hell of a lot of injuries, that is. They had collected the reward from not-master-bob, and he had been bandaged up and given a small amount of painkillers but he knew that the best idea was to get to Wendy quickly. He guessed he was just lucky it hadn't been anything worse. He was snapped out of his train of thought by an unconscious Natsu squiggling around on the floor like a worm. He couldn't help it. He started laughing at the unconscious worm on the floor. Everyone else stared at him and then saw what he was laughing at. They all started laughing as well. Even Loke came out to laugh at Natsu again.
"Geez, it's such a shame that we don't have a camera, this would be priceless!" Lucy laughed. Everyone agreed. They could make an album of Natsu's stupidest moments. Lucy suggested that they all save up to get a camera. At that point Natsu woke up and the conversation stopped abruptly.
Hey guys! I am so very sorry I couldn't upload this sooner but I had to think of this chapter! I think I will start doing weekly updates so I don't feel like I'm letting you down. :( As ever if you find something confusing or there are spelling mistakes or you have an idea on the plot then review! If not, you could review anyway! :)
