Bam! Bam! Bam!
"Juvia what is that thing!" Corrin shouts rolling away from the monsters...tentacles? It didn't even look like that. A brown haired woman with dark skin is challenging the two wizards. She isn't wearing a shirt but her body is in a way that there wasn't a need with tentacles flowing from her waist which were currently attacking them. Well they weren't tentacles, as Juvia runs at the woman and slices of this limb of hers she sees that it's a hand that's attached to the woman's hip.
"It's a hand!" Juvia shouts using her water magic to chop off a few more. "A what!" She heard Corrin shout back in shock. The moment she stopped a limb cut through her pants and nicked her leg. Grabbing her long dagger she cuts the arm-tentacle in half.
The explosion sounded and a woman appeared from the shadows with a black emblem enlarged on her chest. It's the same symbol that those people showed when attacking the guild hall. In the next second a tentacle shot out and destroyed Corrin's red Communication Lacrima and the girls were engulfed in a battle.
"How do we kill it?" Corrin asks appearing next to Juvia. "Juvia thinks that we should go for its marking." She responds referring to the black emblem stretching across the woman's chest. Nodding her head Corrin creates a large magic circle covering the mark but with a tsk sound she makes it disappear.
"With that size I'm going to have to touch it," Instead of insulting her Juvia gives a nod of understanding. Without a word the two nod to each other and attack the creature before them.
"Damn it they're still not picking up!" Gray shouts nearly slamming his own yellow lacrima against the ground that's in front of him. "Calm yourself, acting so brazen isn't going to help anyone." Freed stated walked towards one of the walls that engulfed them. Looking up from his sitting position Gray just fixes his gaze on the ceiling, their entrance though not their exit.
After Juvia and Corrin got roped in on the side of the wall Erza had stuck her own sword into the wall and Gajeel and Natsu grabbed onto the jagged sides with their bare hands. Alzack and Bisca had continued to fall past them but somehow landed safely and finally Gray and Freed. You must wonder 'How the hell did they get stuck together out of everyone?' Well you see Gray created an ice ledge for him to land on though do to its impact he broke his left leg with Freed landing-gracefully of course-next to him.
"Why didn't you report your broken leg?" Freed asked out of curiosity. Growling Gray swings a glare towards the green haired man "Look what just happened, it's obvious wh-"
"What about to Mira? That is how we got on the line." He dismisses Gray without a second thought not accepting his response. Gray looked down not caring that his black hair got into his eyes and got silent. "You didn't want them to worry, did you?" Freed scoffed already knowing the answer. Gray's sharp tone came up again, "Yeah well look what good that did,"
"You're left!" Juvia shouted taking out one of the limbs heading towards Corrin. The two had been tirelessly working their way to the center of the storm, the woman. "Right," The brunette calls. Corrin jumps through a space that two overlapping hand-tentacles inching her way through the flurry of attacks. "Corrin-San we should stick together!" Juvia shouts towards Corrin who started exploding multiple tentacles at a time while also cutting them up.
With a huff she nods and even though the bluenette couldn't see her anymore she knows Corrin is fighting in one place now. "Juvia's coming," Said girl muttered to herself sending out an array of water spikes with a shout of a spell. With a rush Juvia meets up with her battle companion and the two go back to back while destroying the onslaught of limbs circling around them. 'Do these things ever end?' Corrin wonders in her mind tiring from using her long dagger and magic at the same time.
Juvia wasn't in much of a better state, they've been at it for what seems like hours now and her magic was soon to run out at this point. Taking a deep breath the water woman creates a giant blue magic circle and with yelled something that Corrin couldn't here because the second the first syllable was out the magic activated.
A geyser of water erupted from the ground around them throwing the woman and her hands into the air with the water harshly hitting all of them. As soon as it started they fell hitting the ground with a loud thud. "Did that-" "No," Juvia shook her head cutting off the older girl "She's nearly there though."
The two approach them woman who's life is fading away as seconds pass, they didn't have to finish her off. Corrin peered at the emblem on the dark girls chest never getting a good look at it until now.
It's a huge pitch black emblem of the roman numeral for twelve with a horizontal line slashing through the center of it. "It's so simple but there's still so many questions," Corrin mumbles to herself taking one last look at the body before leading Juvia out of the hole that the woman made and into a hallway that looks just like the halls from the surface. Same cold, hard stone walls and the same uselessly thin red carpets on floors. The only difference is that this time there are no doors. They're stuck.
"Well we're certainly not going to get out of here at this rate," He sighs "come on Gray I'll...help you." Freed begrudgingly offers but before Gray could responds his arm was already slung over the older mans shoulders.
With a few words that Gray couldn't hear, pain starting to succumb him a loud crash was heard and in seconds they were on the other side of the hall. 'The corridors looked just like the ones from earlier,' he quickly noticed. "Come on Gray don't you want to Corrin again."
"Shut it Freed," Gray hissed in pain at the mages taunt. "We just have to find the core to this place and then you can rest and think about her." Freed continued ignoring the shouts of protests from the stripper.
She walks down the hall her scarlet hair swishing behind her as she walks through the boring halls. Lucky for Titania she got thrown into a hallway, fun right? Erza's been at this for hours looking for a door or any other room that doesn't consist of these annoying stones.
"Erza you okay?" A voice buzzed out of her lacrima pulling her attention from just ignoring everything. With a sigh she grips the dark purple lacrima and speaks into it. "I'm here Mira," A relieved sigh was heard on the other end causing her brown eyes to narrow. "What's wrong Mira?" Erza asks taking a turn down another long hallway.
"We got report that something happened to Juvia and Corrin so I was worried that something happened to you too." Mira's voice still came out relieved as if saying such bad news was a good thing. "What's with this relief that I hear?" Erza interrogates knowing fully well that she was just relieved that she was okay.
"Wha-oh no I just-you see I only meant that-that I'm happy that n-nothing bad happened to-to you..." Her voice trailed off into a stuttered rant which Erza cut off with a laugh. "It's alright Mira," The two were left in silence with the only sounds being the background noise of the other line.
'Just a little further,' Gray thinks in his head grunting as Freed drags him along. They've been walking around for so long he was convinced that they've just been going around in circles. "It's been five hours since we've fallen down the hole, twelve since we came through the opening that Natsu made." Freed informs once again. Yep, he's been doing this every hour and even though it was useful Gray just want's to be left in silence.
They've been lucky that they haven't met up with anyone or anything since they've started looking around down here. Considering Gray's uselessness and how Freed's magic would have to be used mostly on just him they'd be defeated or worse easily.
Grya's thoughts escalated on how lost they are, if they'll ever get out and if he'll ever see his friends and Corrin again. "I hope everyone's okay," He mumbles limping around a corner. They didn't stop until they found another room. It was filled with smooth granite for the walls forming a large dome with the floor being the same stone blocks as everywhere else. To top it off there's a giant chandelier in the middle of it all.
Propping Gray up again a wall Freed speaks again, "This place will be satisfactory for the moment."
'Erza?"
"Mira,"
"How did you end up by yourself again?" Mira's voice goes over sounding both genuinly concerned and worried. "I'm strong enough on my own I think I'll be okay." The scarlet woman responds voice sounding breezy.
"Erza Scarlet did you just sound, dare I say...cheeky?" Mira teases with a laugh. "Well not-" Erza begins to speak but she doesn't get the chance to finish for the next moment the wall right next to her is blown out and Titania is sent into the opposite stone wall.
The pair walk through the dark tunnel that seems to just get steeper and steeper. "Careful Bisca," Her partner warned walking cautiously down the slope. "Relax Alzack with us combined we'll be fine." She assured dragging down her partner deeper into the tunnel.
The dust settles and immediatly Erza is in her Black Wing Armor. The wings looked deadly alone but with an angry red head with a very deadly sword added to it the opposing side won't have any fun with this. "You'll regret coming down her miss," The attacker says with a grin engraved on his face.
This man appeared older than her, black hair and green eyes with a tight black tank top on and ripped up black pants. Three belts go across his waist each one with a sheath for a different type of sword. The same emblem from the woman that Corrin and Juvia face is on his left cheek bone.
"You'll regret that," Erza growls launching into an attack. He easily meets it with a large Falchion, its blade being three times longer with double the width of a normal one and the two became locked in battle. The two locked blades with a burst causing sparks to fly, the blades pressed down on each other Erza breaking it thanks to her increased offense. "You're not worth my time!" She shouts going ten feet in the air and flying straight down to him with her sword pointing right at him.
The black haired mans grin expands as if he's thinking 'I got this' only to realize that he in fact doesn't. Erza's sword misses his Falchion on to pierce into the top of his arm. The wound is so deep that he dropped his weapon in pain and started cursing at the woman before him. With a sigh Erza goes back to her regular armor and points her regular swords blade under his chin only stopping once the blade was close enough to cut his neck.
"Surrender," She demands only to be answered by a hearty laugh. "No thanks miss," He does a backflip and pulls out the second out of the three swords, a samurai katana with a brown hilt, no guard. "You're just going to keep going till you run out of swords don't you?" Scarlet asks already knowing the answer. "Of course miss. Now I may not be as strong as you are but I'm certainly far more strategic." With that response she adjusts her footing "Who are you,"
"Names Hansen miss," Hansen answers politely. "So Hansen what's your goal in all this?" Erza asks with her eyebrows raised. "It's my home miss, and even though it's gonna get dangerous in what'd Igor say...three days? No, no three days maybe three months...no not-" Having enough of his talk she slashes down on him only to be blocked then parried "Uh uh miss you should know it's not polite to interrupt people." Hansen scolds almost playfully. 'What's with this guy?' In all honesty Erza is intrigued by this guy but he's a risk to her and her friends so he needs to be getting rid of.
"Who's Igor?" She shouts blocking one of his attacks and then with a swing over her head she hits the sword with so much strength his hold loosens. "How 'bout I tell you later," His grin never left his face no matter how many hits she throws at him even with going dual wield he just keeps blocking her. Erza's blades glimmer in the faint light and with a final thrust she slides her sword into his thigh. With so much pain he drops his katana which was as good as his Falchion at this point.
Hansen drops to the ground in pain and Erza's second sword, the one with Hansen's blood on it goes under his chin once again. "Take me to the power source," She snarls and with a quick yet tired nod they're off.
