Chapter Ten
Natsu and his team as well as Gajeel and his team were at the lake have a huge argument, well mainly Natsu and Gajeel were the other really didn't care. "Why are you following Luce's scent Iron Freak?" Natsu shouted. "You also follow her scent Flame Brain, I only followed it because Levy said Lucy most likely already got some of the symbols." Gajeel shouted back. They went at it for a bit before the others got tired of it. "BOTH OF YOU STOP RIGHT NOW!" Levy shouted with a threaten arua. Both of the stop to scared to do anything, "Lets make a truce to get this symbol and move on because if we don't get going we are going to lose." Levy said. 'Why couldn't I be on Lucy's team?' she thought to herself.
Both Gajeel and Natsu were forced into the truce since they didn't want to know what Levy was like angry. "Alright, Lisanna can you transform into something and go underwater and get a symbol for both groups?" Levy asked. "Sure thing Levy." Lisanna said and transform into a aquatic animal and went underwater. After about ten second Lisanna was shot out of the lake and into the air, Happy took off and caught her. "What happen Lisanna?" Natsu asked when they came back. "Lucy left Aquarius here to mess with us." Lisanna answered. All of them sweatdrop thinking how they could they forget Lucy and her team already been here and would leave a trap for them.
After talking for about ten minutes they decided to all go underwater and overpower Aquarius to get the water symbol, also leaving Happy and Lily above to catch them if they get shot out of the water. All of them dived into the lake and saw Aquarius in the middle of the lake with three items behind her. "So you think numbers are going to get you pass me. You forget that here I'm in full control of everything." Aquarius said smirking. Natsu and Gajeel combined their roar, but Aquarius is fast in the water and dodged it easily and created a whirlpool that spin both of them making their motion sickness kick in. Aquarius just laugh at their faces, while they thought she was distracted Lisanna swam to get the items, but was hit with a powerful current sending her back.
Aquarius then send a vortex of water at Levy shooting her out of the water, then cause a high speed current to push Lisanna against rocks around them. "Really that's all you guys got, I haven't gotten serious yet." Aquarius said. Above the water Happy caught Levy "Alright sorry guys but I have no choice 'Solid Script: Lightning'" Levy said, and the water lit up and then stopped. Levy went back into the lake and saw Aquarius smirking with a water bubble around her, undamaged from the lightning unlike everyone else. "How?" Levy asked. "I have fought against all types of wizards so I know how to defend against them like lightning. I create a water bubble around me and then force the water out except for a little that I control that doesn't touch the bubble so the lightning doesn't touch me." Aquarius explained to Levy.
Lisanna was the first to recover from the lightning attack, while Natsu and Gajeel were still recovering from the lightning and motion sickness. Aquarius deciding to make the next move created an underwater tornado around Levy and Lisanna trapping them, then fired water shots hitting from from all sides. Aquarius then send all four of them out of the lake so they could recover and come back so she can have more fun with them later.
After about ten minutes Aquarius thought of an idea to entertain herself for awhile and grab one of the symbols and went to the surface. Everyone on the ground around the lake notice her and got into battle stance. "Don't worry I'm not here to fight, I'm here to help one of you. I will give this water symbol to the dragon slayer that is weaker then the other out of pity. Now which one will it be?" Aquarius asked smirking. Levy and Lisanna knew what her plan was and it was full proof since Natsu and Gajeel would never admit they were weaker.
"Well go ahead and give it to Iron Face here, I can just take it from his once he has it." Natsu said looking at Gajeel. "Yea right, give to Flame Brain here since he couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag." Both of them started throwing insults at each other until Aquarius spoke again "Why not prove who is weaker by fighting each other, also as a bonus to the loser I will give you the knowledge to another symbol." Natsu and Gajeel started fighting each other right after she spoke, both knew it would be best if they lose but their pride as dragon slayers wouldn't let them.
Gray and his team were walking around hoping to run into one of the symbols. Juvia told them she knew where the water one was because of her magic, but also knew that Aquarius was there so they were saving that one for later. "Loke could you use your bond to Lucy to find out where she has been?" Gray asked getting tired of not finding anything. "I could, but I promise Lucy not to." Loke answered. Gray just sigh knowing that Loke would never break his promise to Lucy.
After walking for a few more minutes they notice that it was getting hotter and hotter the more they walked in the direction they were going. After walking for another minute they hit a clearing that was covered in fire. Gray looked around and saw Lucy and her team not far from them, but they already notice them and were walking over so they could do a surprise attack on them.
"How are you guys doing?" Lucy asked curiously. "This is the first one so far that we found so far." Gray answered. "Gray why are you talking to our enemy right now instead of attacking to gain their symbols." Juvia asked. Gray just sigh "No point in fighting right now." Gray answered. "Gray right, how about we make a deal. We work together to get this symbol for both our groups, and you guys will leave our group alone for the rest of this trial and we will tell you where the air symbol is. It's a good deal since Juvia knows where the water one is, so that is three out of the four symbols without much work." Lucy explained.
"Sounds like a good deal for us so we will take it." Gray said. Romeo and Wendy just smirk as they watch this, since they knew that it would be crazy not to take the deal and fighting wouldn't help them since they put their symbols in a bag protect with runes that makes it that only Lucy, Romeo, and Wendy can open it.
"We got here a few minutes before you guys so let me explain what we know of this so far." Lucy said the others nodded. "As you can see the whole field is on fire and it will shot out pillars of fire every now and then that goes in random directions. So the plan will be for Romeo to control has much fire as he can to make a path for us, then Juvia will us her magic next to continue the path follow by Gray. Wendy will use her magic to blow any pillars that are fired at us, and I'll grab two symbols when we get to the center. Also Loke will protect Juvia when she is focusing her magic." Lucy explained. Everyone nodded at her plan and got ready.
Romeo stood in front of everyone and began to channel his magic to the fire and slowly moved it to the sides making a path that will take them about a third of the distance. As they all walk together Wendy stopped a few pillars that tried to hit them. Once they got to the end of the path Romeo made Juvia moved to the front and created a wall of water down the middle of the flames and then split it in two and continue the path for everyone. Lucy notice the closer they got to the middle the more powerful the pillars become and more often. They got to the end of the path Juvia made and before Gray could do anything creatures appeared out of the fire and attacked them.
"Gray make the path, me and Wendy got this." Lucy said and shot magic at the creatures. Gray started with Ice Make: Floor to get rid of the fire and then use Ice Make: Wall to create two walls to stop the fire from going back. Lucy with Wendy protecting her ran to the middle and quickly grab two symbols and started running back with the others following. After they regrouped Lucy handed Gray one of the symbols and told him the location of the Wind Symbol and both groups parted ways.
Gray and his team quickly got to the where the Wind Symbol was and then a rune barrier activated trapping them. "Lucy and her team love to mess with us with these rune barriers." Loke said. "Juvia agrees, but doesn't this break the deal we made with them?" Juvia asked. Gray just sigh "No our deal was that we would leave them alone and they would give us the location of this symbol. Nothing about any traps they set so they didn't do anything wrong. Just like Lucy to use loopholes to get this go her way." Gray said. "Now what are the rules." All three of them looked at the runes
Only Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, and Freed can use magic while in the barrier, but is limited to one spell of our choosing. Also no one can leave the barrier until the you obtain the symbol.
Gray can only use Ice Make: Lance to get the symbol.
Don't worry Gray all you have to do is melt that frozen brain of yours to use it and you can solve it easy.
After reading the rules Gray was pissed at the insult and Juvia was ready to kill something, while Loke just took back and hope they didn't take it out on him.