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Erza was quick, she darted in and out between the monster, slashing and cutting away the snow. However the monster was like Juvia, unaffected by physical attacks. She would just have to keep distracting it while her friends climbed down the chasm. So in and out slash here cut there till the monster fell to the ground it's legs cut out from under it. Erza knew this would only buy her so much time. She ran to the cliff and stared down Lucy and Natsu were only half way down. "Good enough" Thought Erza. She began sawing and slashing at the rope.
"Uh Erza what are you doing?" Called Natsu a little worried.
"Cutting the rope so the monster cannot pull you back up." Replied Erza simply.
"But we will fall!" Shrieked Lucy. "Also then you can't come down!" Said Lucy protesting.
"I will find a way back to the kingdom I don't trust Minerva." Said Erza.
"But we don't leave anyone behind!" Yelled Natsu "You can't possibly make it back on your own."
"I'm Titania of the fairies, of course I can make it back." Scoffed Erza. "Goodbye for now."
"Wait Erza!" But the rope was cut and with a scream both Lucy and Natsu fell down to the depths below. Erza turned back to the monster that was making it back to its feet and began a relentless attack on the beast. But the beast was not amused in the slightest it swung one of it's ice arms and crashed into Erza, flinging her into a tree. Crack Pain splintered Erza's vision her arm was in extreme pain. "Must be broken." Erza thought gritting her teeth. "As if this would stop me!" Erza staggered to her feet. "I need to get out of here, Natsu and Lucy are safe now." Erza looked around, before darting into the forest where the large Marshmallow could not enter and continued to run. As Erza ran out of sight the monster turned around and started heading back to the castle to annoy his creator. "Gihihi that was some fun." It thought to itself.
As they fell Lucy was regretting ever helping the weird pink haired prince and his aggressive redhead friend. Right she could be cozy and warm next to Plue in a barn, but no! She had to help out Natsu and now she was falling through the sky with icy, sharp wind stinging her face. The ground was closing in and she prayed to any god out there for them to survive the impact she closed her eyes and prepared for the worse.
THUD
Lucy slowly opened her eyes to find that, yes she had survived and two she was up to her waist in snow.
"See! I told you. Soft as a pillow." Called out Lucy weakly, Lucy turned around to find Juvia hyperventilating.
"JUVIA CAN"T FEEL HER LEGS, SHE CAN"T FEEL HER LEGS!" Cried out a terror stricken Juvia pulling on her "feet". The snow behind Juvia opened up to reveal Natsu spitting up snow.
"That's because those are my feet." He deadpanned. Juvia's lower half came running around the corner right past the trio.
"Oh hey, grab Juvia's but!" Yelled Juvia to Natsu.
"Here." Said Natsu plopping Juvia on top of her lower half.
"Ah that feels better." Sighed Juvia. Suddenly a particular reindeer came galloping through the trees into the clearing.
"Hey, look! Plue found us!" Cried Juvia. "Aww what cute little reindeer." Crooned Juvia.
"Don't talk to him that way." Said Lucy as she tried to pull herself up from the snow. (failing miserably)
Natsu sighed and came over and with one heave manged to free Lucy from the snow.
"Thanks! How's your head?" Asked Lucy concerned seeing a gash on Natsu's temple she reached out to touch it.
"Ah!" Hissed Natsu. "I mean I'm fine, I have a thick skull.
"Juvia doesn't have a skull or bones." Juvia side noted in wonder.
"So now what?" Asked Lucy to Natsu.
"Now what? Natsu repeated. "Ohhhhhhh, Gray threw me out! I can't go back to Fairytail with the weather like this! And Erza is MIA, I'm screwed! And then there's your ice business.."Panicked Natsu.
"Hey don't worry about my ice business." Comforted Lucy, then she added in panic. "Worry about your hair!"
"Hey!" Exclaimed Natsu indignantly. " I jut fell off a cliff! Worry about your hair!"
"No it's turning white!
"Huh?" Said Natsu looking down dumbfounded.
"It's cause Gray struck you! Isn't it!" Accused Lucy.
"Does it look bad?" Asked Natsu.
"... No!" Answered Lucy.
"You hesitated." Said Juvia.
"No I didn't!" Pretested Lucy..."Never-mind you need help." Said Lucy walking off.
"Where are we going?" Asked Juvia.
"to see my friends."
"The love experts? Asked Natsu.
"Ya and don't worry, they can fix this." Assured Lucy.
"How?"
"cause I've seen them do this before."
"Juvia likes to consider herself a love expert." Said Juvia as they walked off to find these so called "love experts".
AN: Cliff hanger! DUN DUN DUN! Will Natsu be okay? Will he survive? What happened to Erza? Will she be okay? Why is Lucy judgmental about hair?