Seraphina frowned looking out the window of the hut they had been offered to stay in, the moon was still perched high in the sky and glowing it's unusual but beautiful purple. "Destroy the moon…" shaking her head she turned back to her guildmates. "Haha, I know he said he was serious… but how does he expect us to do it?"
"I don't know…" Lucy muttered before her eyes narrowed. She walked over to the window and pulled the stick that was holding it up, slamming it closed.
"What's the big idea, Lucy?" Seraphina pouted. "I was looking out of it, meanie…"
"Well, I don't know about you, but I don't want to turn into some freaky monster!"
The lavendette shrugged her shoulders sinking down to lean against the wall. "Wasn't looking to do that," she then sighed puffing her cheeks up childishly. "So anyone have any ideas on how to destroy the moon?"
"Ideas?" Gray scoffed turning to Seraphina with an incredulous expression. "Here's one, we can't."
Natsu stared at his fist before a smirk fell upon his lips. "We could just beat it up, how many punches do you think it'll take?"
Seraphina laughed. "I think you could make do with about 50, maybe 25 if they're really strong." She giggled and her usual lazy smile grew upon seeing his reaction.
"Really?" He demanded before standing up. "What are we waiting for then? Let's go!"
"Don't be stupid man," Gray said before turning to Seraphina. "And you, don't feed his idiocy."
She just smiled innocently while Natsu looked about ready to pick a fight with Gray for calling him an idiot.
"Okay!" Lucy interrupted also feeling like the boys were about to start fighting. "We can't destroy the moon, but maybe we can investigate…"
"But that's so boring~" Seraphina whined. "I think trying to make the moon go kaboom is a lot more interesting!"
With the almost permanent smile still on her face, Lucy couldn't determine if she was kidding or not. She opened her mouth to reply but got hit in the face by a shirt. She pulled it off and frowned at Gray who had stripped down to his boxers.
"You kids can do what you want," Gray yawned pulling his sock off. "But after the day I've had, I need some shut-eye."
"I'm not a kid!" Seraphina retorted as she crossed her arms pridefully. "And you're only like a year older than us anyway, Gray."
"Exactly," he replied, lips curled up in his usual smirk. "That year made me a lot smarter than you idiots."
"Call me an idiot all you want, but please don't take off anymore," Lucy begged interrupting Seraphina who had meant to reply to Gray's statement.
"Alright, we'll explore the island tomorrow then!" Natsu declared before collapsing onto his cot. "Off to bed!"
"Sounds good to me," Gray sighed.
"Nighty night!" Seraphina said before jumping down onto her cot. She choose the one next to Gray since Natsu's snoring was unbearable and she knew she wouldn't be able to sleep with it right next to her ear.
"Okay," Lucy yawned rubbing her eyes. "I'm sleepy too, goodnight."
A yawn escaped Seraphina's lips as she slowly became more and more accustomed to the light of the sun while blocking out the arguing of her teammates who were rightfully upset at Lucy waking them up so early. Apparently, the blonde hadn't gotten a wink of sleep, but Seraphina seriously doubted that no one was that pumped in the morning.
"But they were the ones snoring, not me," the lavendette whined since Lucy had used that as an excuse to have their departure be so early. She turned back in the direction of the village and started walking back in a sleepy daze. "I'll catch up with you all later…"
"Oh, no, you don't!" Lucy declared grabbing her shoulder and pushing her forward to where the boys were trekking forward. "We're all sticking together if we do we're bound to get this done a lot faster!"
"But I'm so tired…"
"Don't be lazy, this is no time for sleeping!" Lucy exclaimed with a confident smile. "Blaze forward! Open, Gate of the Clock Constellation: Horologium!"
Seraphina watched, halfheartedly, as a magic circle appeared in front of Lucy and one of her Celestial Spirits popped out. The flash mage was then reminded of when of the rewards for completing the job, one of the twelve golden zodiac keys. She snorted, that was why Lucy was so keen on getting the job done, the possibility of having another powerful key within her grasp.
"My sleep is more important…" She relayed childishly, not speaking to anyone in particular, but even she could see the fault in her words. She was by no means a Celestial Wizard, but if there were only twelve golden keys in existence they were, undoubtedly, incredibly important.
Another thing then caught the attention of the flash mage, what had Lucy summoned that spirit for?
"Ohh, really?" She hummed glaring down at the blonde. "And you call me lazy?"
Natsu and Gray turned around before frowning at Lucy as well. The blonde was the one to wake them all up early and the one who encouraged them to get the job done, but she was sitting in a clock, not even doing something simple such as walking for herself.
"You should walk on your own," Natsu said feeling slightly annoyed.
"Yeah," Gray added, agreeing with his 'rival' for once. "Do you just summon your spirits because you're lazy?"
"I think she does," Seraphina agreed with a vigorous nod of her head. "Now I know how she's able to be so energetic, you can just have a clock walk around for you… no fair~!"
Lucy gave them all a heated glare, she was a lot of things, but she sure as heck wasn't lazy.
"'Listen, this curse is freaking me out. We have no idea what we're up against and I'm scared,' she says nervously," Horologium replied for Lucy.
Seraphina quirked a brow. "Wow, your mood changed so fast, Lucy! Weren't you dead-set on finishing this job ten seconds ago?"
"I don't know why you're worried," Natsu exclaimed with a carefree attitude. "This is awesome! S-Class jobs rule!"
"Right?" Seraphina added. "I can't wait till we get to the dangerous part! Do you think we're gonna get to fight a demon?!"
"If we do I'll punch it so hard that it'll break the moon!" Natsu answered, a crazy grin taking over his features. "The demon is probably responsible for the curse, anyway."
"I can easily freeze the demon," Gray declared joining the conversation. His usual confident smirk then made its appearance. "I can easily freeze that curse too."
"Let me blind the demon first," Seraphina giggled. "It's always funny seeing bigger things stumble around when they can't see anything, it always reminds me of how stupid Vulcans are."
Gray frowned. "When you say it like that I feel like all your blinding 'accidents' are on purpose,"
The flash mage raised her hands in mock surrender. "Well, if they're being stupid, and if it's Aru…"
Her ears then twitched, she could hear the distinct sound of footsteps and very big ones at that. Something large was approaching them, and fast. A quick glance behind her immediately caused her jaw to go slack in shock.
A monstrously large creature had snuck up behind them. She sniffed the air and immediately the smell of cheese and ladies perfume filled her nostrils, quite an odd combination.
"Whoa, what the-!" Natsu cried out.
"It's huge!" Gray exclaimed.
"Is it the demon?!" Seraphina asked the prospect of a fight lighting an exciting glint in her eyes.
"'What are you waiting for?'" Horologium demanded in imitation of Lucy. "'Beat it up you three!' she yells frantically."
Gray immediately went on the defensive, placing his fist in his open palm he prepared an Ice Make spell.
"Ice Make: Shield!"
The shield was essentially a waste since the gas the creature spat at them curled around it, so the cloying smell would meet all their noses. Seraphina took a small whiff before she felt lightheaded and she collapsed to the ground. Her enhanced nose made the smell ten times worse, and she was sure the scent was bad enough without a freakishly good sense of smell.
Lucy's eyes widened as the large creature came out of the shadows. It turned out to be a teal-furred rat dressed in a maid's uniform?
"It's a rat!"
"Come on, Natsu, get up man!" Gray snapped seeing that the pinkette had collapsed to the floor. He looked to the side and saw that Seraphina was sprawled on the ground as well. "Seraphina!"
"The smell knocked them out," Happy noted.
"Gee, thanks cat," Lucy replied sarcastically, as that had been obvious to all of them. She frowned, she knew that Natsu had an ultra-sensitive nose, but why did Seraphina pass out?
Her thoughts were interrupted by the rat mouse...whatever, stepping closer as it cackled. Now would be a good time to wake up, you guys! Lucy thought frantically before, as if hearing her internal panic, Seraphina let out a pained groan and her eyes fluttered open. The horrible smell still lingering in her head.
Damn did it pack a punch, her vision doubled and she started seeing things. Specifically a giant silhouette of a rat looming over their group.
How silly, she thought dizzily, a giant ra-Wait...
She got up quickly upon realization, holding a hand over her nose to block the smell as she ran away.
"Let's go!" She shouted in unison with Natsu who had also just gotten up. She deduced that his dragon slayer senses made the smell far too much for him to handle as well.
No one needed to be told twice as they had already planned on doing just that. The rat followed them down the path spewing out more of the disgusting gas which the group did their damn best to avoid. This continued for a bit before Gray grit his teeth annoyed, all this running was stupid.
"Ice Make: Floor!"
The ice mage slammed his hands down onto the ground below and tendrils shot out blanketing the floor in a smooth sheet of ice. Safely behind the extent of the spell, everyone paused to see what had become of the rat. It slipped on the ice as it was impossible to gain any traction which, in turn, caused it to fall on its behind.
"You should have done that sooner," Natsu commented.
"Shut-up, Natsu!" Gray snapped.
Seraphina sighed in relief before her face lit up in her signature grin. She fixed her long hair into a messy bun as she regarded the teal rat with a dangerous glint in her eye.
"Look, there's a building over there," Lucy called out, but she didn't notice that her teammates were paying her no attention, as all of it was fixed on the rat. "We should go hide while we have the chance!"
"No, we should kick its butt while we have the chance!"
The two boys and Seraphina all launched an assault on the rat, kicking and punching its head until it had begun crying pathetically and continued even then. Fairy Tail's strongest team certainly had a temper issue.
Lucy sighed, sadly she expected this out of them. "Just give me a break..."
After the trio deemed the rats punishment acceptable they followed Lucy into the temple that she had mentioned previously, as it could be a good place to start investigating.
"This place is massive," Lucy muttered in awe and Seraphina nodded, there was no denying that fact.
She walked further into the temple tracing her hand over all the pillars and altars which all seemed to share one thing, the moon. It was adorned and showcased on everything within the temple.
Ah, such intricate carvings...I hate them. Seraphina thought bitterly.
For a few moments she stared at one of the pillars before she pursed her lips, it annoyed her. She began walking away from it before she turned back around and blasted the moon piece from its spot.
"What was that for?!" Lucy demanded. Seraphina simply shrugged in response.
"There were too many moons, I had to destroy at least one…" She then grinned with a pumped fist. "That's one point for me over Aru!"
"Can you stop with this stupid rivalry thing?" Lucy demanded. "She isn't even here!" Her attention was then brought to Natsu who was stomping on the floor rather loudly. "And what are you doing?!"
"What? This place is a wreck," Natsu responded before jumping on the ground. "This floor doesn't even look good to walk on."
"Well, don't go stomping on it!"
The blondes warning came too late because just then the floor gave out from under them. Seraphina laughed goodnaturedly as she soared down the floor, it was actually fun and she felt like she was flying. Her response contrasted greatly with her guildmates who were all screaming as they continued down the dark hole.
"Natsu, you idiot!" Gray snapped absolutely done with the stupidity of the Fire Dragon Slayer. "Look what you did!"
"We'll be fine, Gray!" Seraphina said as she stretched out her arms to go even faster. She guided herself closer to the edge of the shaft, while keeping a bit away to stay safe for the moment. When she could see the bottom she twisted around so that her feet were facing the edge, and as soon as she felt them touch it she used that and pushed off but from a safer distance. This allowed her to guide herself to a clear ground where she rolled over her shoulder before landing on her feet in a crouched position.
Standing up she swept off the bit of dust that had gotten on her pants and top. She then turned to her teammates and saw that they hadn't landed as easily as she had, quite the opposite actually.
All of them had landed on the rocks, except for Natsu who had the displeasure of being buried under them, but he was naturally resilient so he popped out as if it was nothing, and it probably was to him.
"You guys okay?!" Natsu asked.
"I would have been better if you hadn't knocked out the floor," Lucy retorted.
"Here's a thought," Gray snapped. "Maybe if you'd think before you act you wouldn't cause so much destruction!"
"Hehe, well, I'm okay," Seraphina commented haughtily as she walked over to the trio. "But you three, well four," she corrected taking a look at Happy who was flattened against the rock's surface, "Don't look the best."
"Considering this idiot knocked out the floor I think that's understandable," Gray shot back.
"Still, I managed to avoid landing on my b-GAH!" A large chunk of pillar had fallen off from the destruction and hit Seraphina straight on the head. Gray laughed as she rubbed the sore spot and made a smart comment of that's what you get.
"Ow! Who did that?!" Seraphina jeered as she kicked the same piece of pillar over only to see it had the same moon decoration. Her eyes narrowed at the stone as if challenging it, "you."
She stomped on it several times, watching the moon crumble to dust beneath her feet, a satisfied smile taking form on her lips.
"Haha, that's what you get for hurting me! Aru really is silly thinking she could beat me like that… I'll get her good next time!"
"Okay, she's crazy…" Lucy muttered weakly seeing how the lavendette handled whatever that was. She frowned slightly, she really seemed to dislike Aru, were they rivals like Natsu and Gray?
The blonde mulled in over before shaking her head, she could worry about that later. First they had to get out of the cave and investigate further to break the curse on the island.
"Can you fly us out of here, Happy?" She asked hopefully, but she had a strong feeling the cat wouldn't be able to.
"No, sorry…" He replied confirming just that, Lucy pursed her lips, what were they gonna do?
"Ooo, I can use a boost to get me high in the air!" Seraphina suggested waving her arms theatrically. "If I use my strongest one I can definitely get to the top!"
"But you wouldn't be able to take all of us," Gray pointed out. "Even one at a time would be too hard." He glanced around the room before shrugging. "We should look around down here, see what we can find."
"YEAH!" Natsu cheered. "It's a secret cave let's go exploring!"
"Uh huh!" Seraphina agreed, a wide smile on her face as she followed Natsu down the hall, ignoring the words of Gray and Lucy.
The hall was pretty plain and monotonous, just jagged purplish black rock everywhere. Seraphina frowned, was there anything even here? She continued down the path along with Natsu before they came to a clearing, and the thing in front stopped both of them in their tracks.
"Woah…"
Lucy, Gray, and Happy then came up behind them, a little bit behind since they followed them later. The trio immediately noticed the stiff position both Seraphina and Natsu were in, as well as the shocked expression on both their faces.
Seraphina masked her surprise quickly, a carefree smile taking the place of her previously agape mouth. "Wow~, that thing is huge!"
The others followed the lavendettes gaze before gasping. In front of them was a large monstrous figure encased in a huge block of ice. It's face was contorted in that of rage, instilling a small sense of uneasiness within Seraphina, as well a larger sense of fear within the other Fairy Tailer's.
"That's impossible,"
Seraphina turned to Gray who seemed shaken up, even more so than the others. His eyes were wide in shock, hands curling up into fists as his entire body shook.
"It's Deliora," he murmured walking forward to observe the demon more closely. "But how? How could this happen? What is it doing here… WHY THE HELL IS IT ON GALUNA ISLAND?!"
Lucy went over and touched Gray's shoulder reassuringly, trying to calm him down so he could explain everything he knew about the demon. Natsu and Happy shared the same look of worry as they observed Gray, they didn't see him lose his cool much and seeing him explode like this was something new.
As they questioned him Seraphina stood a little bit off to the side, observing him. Based on his reaction she was certain that he had encountered the demon before, and by the way his body tensed up he probably wasn't fond of it either.
"It's Deliora," Gray finally answered with certainty, "the Demon of Destruction."
"Demon of Construction?" Natsu asked.
"Destruction," Happy corrected with a shake of his head, for someone who had amazing hearing Natsu misheard stuff quite a bit.
Gray took another shaky breath, still staring down the demon. "But why is it here? It doesn't make any sense!"
A scuff on the ground caught Seraphina's attention, she focused behind them and heard footsteps coming closer and closer, down the same tunnel that led them here. She glanced around the room quickly before finding a pile of rocks they could hide behind until they knew who the people were.
"Ahhh, we should go hide!" The lavendette said gathering her guildmates and pushing them behind the rocks. "People are coming, we should hide so we can surprise them! Then, bang! Bang! We win!"
Lucy sweatdropped at the way Seraphina described her plan, but it made sense. The people coming could be responsible for the curse on the island. This in mind she peaked over the rocks carefully, only poking out enough to be able to get a visual at whoever was there.
Three people walked up to the spot where they had been standing before. One girl and two guys, one of whom seemed to have dog ears, dogs nose as well as a collar. Seraphina rose her brows, interesting fashion choice. The other two had blue hair, but the girls was much lighter and strangely reflective, like a mirror or the surface of water.
"Are you sure those stupid voices came from here?" The girl asked as she yawned. "You could just be imagining it," she then gave a pointed look to the dogman. "Plus I'm not sure if I trust Toby's word on anything."
"THAT'S CRUEL!" He cried out indignantly.
"I heard them too," the guy with deeper blue hair and huge eyebrows added before smirking. "Besides, I'm sure Toby's hearing is great, with those dog ears and all."
The girl smirked as well. "Yeah, how'd you get them anyway? Moon drip change you up?"
"IT'S A FASHION CHOICE YOU JERKS!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," she said dismissively, "but can you shut up? We're trying to look for those voices you heard, remember?"
Toby whimpered but didn't say anything more. Seraphina frowned upon hearing 'moon drip', was it some kind of spell? She bet Aru knew what it was, and the thought made her smile in challenge, she'd beat that stupid moon drip for sure.
As she was lost in her thoughts a fourth figure walked into the room, another girl. She had pink hair tied in pigtails and blue eyes that were widened, as well as a sad look on her face. What was wrong with her?
"Yuka, Kaya, Toby," she sniffled, "something terrible has happened!"
"What now Sherry?" Yuka asked and Toby growled in agreement.
"Did 'The Cold Emperor' reject your love proposal?" Kaya asked placing a hand on the pinkettes shoulder. "It's okay, it was inevitable anyway."
"NO, how dare you suggest that?" Sherry demanded, seeming absolutely horrified at the possibility. "No… someone has hurt, Angelica!"
Sherry went on a tangent about how great her pet rat was, and how she was 'love'. The others seemed annoyed but didn't stop her.
Seraphina smirked mischievously. "Ooo, she loves someone!" She whispered. "This Cold Emperor guy, I hope he likes rats dressed as maids."
"Anyways," Kaya interjected cutting Sherry off, "we're wasting time, I'll do a quick scan of the room here," she then glared at Toby and Yuka, "I hope you didn't wake me up for nothing."
A magic circle then appeared in front of her and a mirror formed. Seraphina frowned wondering what she planned to do until she saw it break into smaller pieces, each one showing a different angle of the room, and they were beginning to move.
She realized immediately what she planned to do, those mirrors would reflect everything around the room and would reveal their hiding spot. She quickly motioned over to Happy and pointed to the hallway. The cat understood immediately and went off to draw the attention away.
A loud crack resonated in the hallway, and the quartet paused, confident grins on their faces as they looked in the direction of the tunnel.
"I definitely heard that," Kaya grinned with a snap of her fingers. The mirror shards moved back to where she was and were then redirected towards the hall. She and the others soon followed as well and were soon well out of sight and earshot.
"Come onnn!" Natsu whined. "We should've grabbed them and beat some answers out of 'em!"
"Not yet," Lucy replied. "We need to do more investigating first."
"That is boring, but true," Seraphina conceded. "Like who is the Cold Emperor person?" She then snorted. "Who chose his name too," she giggled, "it's almost as funny as Bobo."
"Deliora," Gray muttered. "I still don't know what anyone would want with it! And how the hell were they able to find it?!"
"Was it hidden somewhere?" Lucy asked apprehensively, still a bit weary since Gray had been completely on edge just moments before.
"It was sealed away," Gray began, "in a glacier in the Northern Continent. A decade ago this immortal demon ravaged Isvan. Countless people lost their lives. The woman, who taught me to use my magic, my master Ur, sacrificed everything to seal it away. I don't know if it has anything to do with the curse on this island, but I do know that it doesn't belong here. This Cold Emperor, we have to find out who it is. If they tarnish my master's legacy, they're going to regret the day they were born!"
Everyone stayed quiet, each gauging Gray's response differently. Seraphina then whistled softly and walked over to the large demon.
"Oof, sounds rough buddy," she commented airily, her carefree smile still on full display. "W-"
She stopped mid-sentence as she was interrupted by Gray, who was now glaring at her heatedly. Face showing a level of rage she hadn't seen in a long time.
"Do you think this is funny?" He asked calmly, but there was a very obvious undertone of anger. He then clenched his fists and raised his voice. "Do you think this some game, some sort of joke?!"
Seraphina looked at him and shrugged her shoulders. "Well, if I thought it was funny I'd laugh," she said, her smile not anywhere close to disappearing.
Gray did not take well to this and stepped closer to her, hands clenched and trembling at his sides. He knew Seraphina wasn't a very serious person and probably didn't see anything wrong, but it still pissed him off. This was Ur that he was talking about, and he wasn't about to let anyone dismiss it so easily.
"Gray, calm down," Lucy demanded grabbing a hold of his shoulder, gripping it in a way to add some sort of comfort. The ice mage glared at Seraphina, who didn't seem affected by his outburst, before focusing his attention back at the demon encased in ice in front of them.
"We need to figure out what they're doing with Deliora," he said after regaining his bearings, "this demon is dangerous, and I bet it may have something to do with the curse on the villagers."
"Yeah," Natsu agreed, taking it as an opportunity to start brawling. "Let's go find those guys!"
"I'm with you," Lucy agreed.
"Sounds like fun~" Seraphina added.
"No," Gray said sharply. "We're gonna stay here and wait."
Seraphina and the others looked at him in confusion, but the ice mage was too absorbed, staring up at Deliora.
"Wait for what?" Happy asked.
"For the moon to come out," Gray replied simply.
Seraphina rose a brow at that, what did the moon have to do with anything? She then thought it over, all the moon symbols and the entire temple dedicated to it. Another thing stuck out as well, the four people who came had said 'moon drip', and something about collecting moonlight. She frowned, the moon certainly was an important player, and she didn't like it all that much.
"The moon!?" Natsu demanded. "But it's the middle of the afternoon! Forget it, I'll die of boredom if I have to stand around here all day!"
"Why does the moon matter?" Lucy inquired, not giving Natsu's words any special attention. The pinkette frowned, he didn't like being ignored.
"I have a feeling the curse and Deliora are connected," Gray began. "And I heard those guys from before talking about moonlight."
"I heard that too…" Lucy muttered.
Seraphina pouted. "Yeah, so did I, but I'm with Natsu, I'll be so bored!"
"I'm sure you'll find something to entertain you," Gray replied icily as he walked over to the ledge closest to Deliora, his back turned to her and the others. "Since everything is funny to you anyway."
Seraphina watched him for a couple seconds with an inscrutable expression before turning back to Lucy and the others with a smile. "We're in a dark cave, we can tell spooky stories!"
Lucy smiled lightly at the suggestion before focusing her attention back on Gray before flickering her gaze to Seraphina who had already begun talking to Happy. She understood why Gray was upset at the Light mage since he had been talking about his old master and the demon Deliora and Seraphina kind of dismissed it as if it was nothing. The lavendette also didn't see anything wrong with her words and Lucy frowned at that if it were her she'd probably apologize or ask what was bothering him. She looked towards her again, Seraphina was a little bit too carefree, maybe that's why she saw nothing wrong.
Everyone was sitting down doing various things to keep them busy, Lucy and Happy listened in to Seraphina's 'scary' story, and Gray sat on the edge of the cliff next to Deliora, seemingly lost in thought. Natsu just growled, he couldn't stand to wait around all day.
"Don't just sit on your butts!" He snapped. "We've got work to do!"
A loud snore echoed throughout the room and Seraphina paused in her scary storytelling to take a glance at Natsu who had passed out on the floor.
"That sure was quick," Lucy commented.
"Aye!" Happy agreed.
Lucy sighed. "He's lucky, doesn't have to worry about anything but sleeping, fighting, and eating."
"Yeah, sure sounds nice," Seraphina nodded with an, unnoticeably, sad smile, "but instead there's a whole lot of other stuff, huh?"
Lucy turned to the lavendette with a raised brow. "No offense, but you don't seem to worry about much stuff either."
"Haha, what?" She asked playfully. "Of course I do! I worry about how many cinnamon rolls I can eat without turning into one!"
"That counts as eating," Lucy pointed out and Seraphina raised her finger before frowning, she was right.
The blonde then sighed. "I know I agreed to wait, but this is so boring~"
"Yeah…" Seraphina trailed off, there wasn't much to do in this barren cave. She looked at Natsu who was passed out on the floor and then to Gray who was sitting near Deliora, most likely lost in his thoughts regarding the demon.
I'm sure you'll find a way to entertain yourself since everything is funny to you anyway.
She frowned hearing Gray's words replay in her head. She didn't find everything funny, and she didn't understand what made him upset with her in the first place. Maybe it was the way she spoke, but that didn't really make sense since she was always like that.
She tapped her nails against the ground, the impact echoing softly in the hollow cave. She did try to brush things off as a joke, but some things weren't funny, she surely understood that. Staring at Gray she narrowed her eyes softly, it didn't matter to her. She'd rather him and everyone else believe she was happy and carefree than the true alternative.
Lucy heaved another loud sigh, bored out of her mind. She slumped over with her head in her hand before she jumped up in excitement. "Ooo, I know!"
Seraphina turned to the blonde curiously watching as she pulled out a silver gate key, what was she gonna do now?
"Open, Gate of the Harp Constellation: Lyra!"
An overly happy celestial spirit arrived, reminding Seraphina of herself based on how cheery she seemed. She had on a blue and pink dress that seemed like something a person a nursery rhyme would wear, like Little Bo Peep or something. But on her back were small angelic wings and she carried a large blue harp.
"Oh wow~" she exclaimed, "I haven't seen you in forever, Lucy!"
"Hey, Lyra!" Lucy greeted her cheerfully.
"Say, how come you never call me anymore?" Lyra demanded with a childish pout. "It's not fair~! I'd love to help you out, but you ignore me- meanie!"
Seraphina blinked, this girl acted exactly like her, even down to the meanie.
"Meanie, huh?" Lucy asked stealing a glance at a certain lavendette who used that word often. "You're the one who told me you're available only 3 days a month."
"Are you sure?" Lyra asked while frowning. "That doesn't sound right!"
"Great," Happy muttered, "another weirdo."
"So what do you want me to sing? Any requests?"
"Nope," Lucy replied leaning as comfortably as she could on her rock. "Whatever you want."
"Do you know any songs about fish?" Happy asked hopefully.
"Hmm, or about cinnamon rolls?" Seraphina added dreamily.
"Kay!" Lyra shouted with a thumbs up and Seraphina blinked wondering what she meant, was she going to combine a song about fish and cinnamon rolls?
"I've got a song you're gonna love, Lucy!"
"Lyra has the most beautiful singing voice," Lucy commented with a smile. "Anything she sings is amazing!"
Happy didn't seem convinced. "Mira's a singer too you know, and she sings songs about fish for me."
Lyra just smiled widely, placing her head on the rim of the harp her fingers strummed the instrument, and soon words formed a beautiful melody, one that Seraphina was all too familiar with.
At first, she was unsure since whenever she heard the song it was in another language, that of her mother's native tongue, but the words translated perfectly, as well as the melody. She froze in her spot, staring at the floor as her mind drove her thoughts to the past.
A young girl sat on the ground playing with her stuffed dolls as a taller figure sat above her, fingers moving swiftly throughout the girl's curly hair. Holding strands together she placed and fixed two braids, small flyaways swinging in her face. After she was done the girl stared up at the woman with a smile.
"Thanks, mommy!"
She smiled down at her child before ruffling her hair. "It's my pleasure Seraphina, anything for you sweetie!"
"Anything mommy?" she asked with a cheeky grin to which she nodded. "Then sing for me!"
"You want me to sing?" Her mother asked. "Why don't you sing for me?"
"But you sing better mommy!"
The older woman grinned and lifted her child's chin, smiling at her sweetly. "How about we do it together then?"
"Yes!" Seraphina agreed, immediately jumping at the chance. Anything to hear her mothers sweet singing voice, even as a child she was pretty good too, but she didn't hold a candle to her moms sweet and soothing tone.
Her mother nodded and began the song, one the Seraphina recognized and was quite fond of. She jumped up with a large grin on her face as she soon joined her.
"Words are born into air
And quickly fade out in the wind
But they find there way inside you
Where they live on forever more
When the skies are dark and full of rain
Look inside your heart
Light, so warm and all the glow
Shining just like the sun
You can see just how much you've grown
How strong you are
Love will open up to you
And it starts from the day from the day you first heard those words
Ooooooh"
The song ended and both Seraphina and her mom stared at each other lovingly, happy moments weren't rare when they were together. Seraphina grinned and gave her mother the biggest hug her small frame could allow her, she loved her mother, and nothing sad could ever happen as long as they were together.
A small smile ghosted the edges of Seraphina's lips as the song and her flashback came to an end, her mother… she never had any bad memories with her, it was too bad their time spent together was too short.
She was actually happy when Lyra ended her song, nothing bad came of it and she relived one of her favorite memories with her mother, however, just as Lyra hummed the last verse everything came to a screeching halt.
The dark cave around her disappeared and all she could see was the exterior of a home, one that seemed warm and cozy. The fireplace emitting some smoke out of the chimney and encasing the entire room in an orange-hued warmth.
On the inside, a family of four was sitting peacefully, and a warm hum was reverberating through the room. The mother sang to the entire family, words sweet and soft, calming the young kid's cries and helping her husband to relax as well.
The two of them looked at each other lovingly before sharing a short sweet kiss. They placed their kids in their rooms watching them sleep with such an intense feeling of fondness. The house was peaceful, life was perfect, for only a moment too long.
Seconds later the door busted open, and screams filled the rooms of the home. There was a brief protest, a small frame of time they fought to get away, but to no avail.
Soon the floors were covered in blood, all but the youngest child lay on the floor, dead. She cried pushing her parents and older brother, hoping that they'd respond, but they couldn't.
Clipped orders from a tall man in a dark cloak forced the child to come, albeit completely in fear. All living things were supposed to leave, and leave they did, except one.
A younger Seraphina stared at the scene in front of her before collapsing to her knees. Tears pricked in the corner of her eyes before steadily streaming down her face, her hands covered her mouth, attempting to muffle her sobs as she came to a horrid realization… she did that.
And there's the end of this chapter! (the one i promised would be out so long ago… but, haha, whoops)
honestly, idk it takes me forever bcz i always feel like they aren't good enough so i end up rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. I'm also in the midst of planning a lot of the original arcs and more slight plot changes to make this story more dynamic and make seraphina stand out a lot more, after galuna island there will be a mini-arc (just a job) for fun and to break up the monotony of the story, so def looking forward to that!
I'm also looking forward to the more exciting arcs! what were y'alls favorite arcs? i think mine was the oracion seis, but i also really enjoyed tartarus and (an unpopular opinion) alvarez, but i HATED the way the series ended. reimuscarlets fav is edolas, ik a lot of people like that one as well. sooooo, anyway comment your favorite arcs and why you liked them! i think it's always interesting to see/hear everyones favorites bcz it rlly does show how different tastes can be!
alsoooo it might be early for this lol, but if you have any ideas you'd like to see in the story pm me or comment, it would be really, really, cool to see what you guys have in mind!
thanks so much for reading! and i hope you enjoyed this chapter, i liked it just bcz gray got mad at seraphina, lol, i'm crazy i know, buttt idk it shows she isn't perfect.
and again! thank you for reading xxx, can't wait to see you again soon!