Andddd, finally, here is chapter 10 for Secrets Can Kill!
Ha ha. Okay, there was a bitty bit of confusion there. Let me explain.
a) It is not Mystogen. There's more than one person with sleep magic, ya know!
b) Not only dragon slayers are affected. They have stronger senses, so they smelt it first, but the others eventually picked up the smell. So, that is why they all eventually passed out.
Okee dokee! This chapter will be like a filler, so you know what is actually going on. In Makarov's POV! There we go!
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Previously:
Lucy, Natsu, Erza, and Happy come over to Nicole and I next. Lucy hugs her. "How was it?"
"It was great!" she says. "I learned a lot. I think I had…"
She trails off, sniffing the air. "What are you doing?" Lucy asks, staring at her weirdly.
"Do you smell that?" She asks, looking at Natsu.
Natsu smells the air. "Hey, what is-"
Nicole's eyes shut and she slips to the floor.
"Nicole! What the hell?" I kneel down next to her. Wendy looks down as well.
"She's out cold!" She reports. Then Wendy's eyes widen, and she slumps to the floor, unconscious.
"Hey… What's…" Natsu's eyes roll into the back of his head and he falls against the floor.
"What the hell is going on here?" Cana asks, bewildered. Gajeel slumps over at his table too. Levy is shaking his shoulder, frantically trying to wake him up.
Then I smell it.
It smells like…
"Mystogen?" I mutter in confusion. "No, that's impossible… Sleep magic…"
The last thing I see is Lucy's head hit the floor as I too fall into unconsciousness.
Chapter 10: Makarov
I hear the ruckus outside my office door. I chuckle lightly to myself. Ah, the two must be back. Funny how they have so much in common. I wonder if Gray knows about her…
I hear them all chattering excitedly, then I hear a hushed silence. I frown in my seat. Hmm…
Then the noise starts up again. I hear a few thunks, like something hitting the floor. I'd like to think they're simply having a typical Fairy Tail brawl…
Then, I smell it.
It's sleep magic, like Mystogen's. But Mystogen, according to my children, stayed in Edolas to rule there. And this is a bit different. This smell is… darker, more powerful, more evil. I stagger upwards. Normally I could stand Mystogen's power, but this… Who could wield such power?
I trudge out of the office. From there, I see 6 people. All in black cloaks, hoods over their faces. Crouching over the limp bodies of the Fairy Tail members… My children!
The drowsiness is getting to me. I stagger out into the open. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY CHILDREN?"
The 6 hooded figures face me. One steps forward- I'm willing to bet that's their leader.
"Ah, Makarov Dreyar. Master of Fairy Tail. It is an honour to meet you." It's a man's voice, dark and sly.
"What are you doing to my children?" I repeat, stumbling.
"You won't need to know that," he chuckles. "Besides, you're almost out cold now anyway. I'm surprised you held out this long. Is it because that Mystogen character used the same type of magic? How unfortunate. I meant to put everyone to sleep."
I sway on the spot. He's not kidding. I'll pass out any moment. I stumble and hit my head on the floor. I force my eyes to remain open. What are they doing?
All of the leader's 5 lackeys each have hauled over one body. One person's hood falls and I see long, wavy, red hair. "Gargon, we have acquired the body of the one we seek, and the three others. Why are we bringing this one?" The red-haired lady is holding Gray, who lays limp in her arms. Asleep. Head flopped to one side. I struggle to stay awake.
"Violet, he knows too much. Milo, hurry up and get the girl into the wagon." One figure stumbles out, carrying a female with light brown hair in a black shirt, green vest, black boots and a black skirt with a silver belt. Nicole.
"Hurry up, Shulfur!" The leader- Gargon- commands.
"I would," he grunts, "if you might help me a little!" He's trying to drag Gajeel. His two friends have Wendy and Natsu. I see the connection- they're all dragon slayers. But why Gray? If they were looking for powerful wizards, then Erza most likely would have been included. What is going on, and why?
"Come on," Gargon hisses. "We have to reach the ship. We need to be at Tenrou Island by nightfall. Come on." Then I hear no more.
Nicole's POV
"Hey. Wake up."
I twitch. Someone's prodding me in the head with a metal beam.
"Wake up!"
I open my eyes. Gajeel has been poking me in the head with his foot- not even turned into metal. His foot is almost protected by a layer of the stuff.
"Where… are we?" I groan. I sit up, rubbing my head.
Gajeel sighs. "First of all, tell me why we're all chained up and you're not."
"What?"
We're in a long, dark, cold room. Kind of like a cellar. The cage door is about 20 feet away from me, and the room is maybe… 50 feet long. There is no lights. The only light I can see is a dim light outside of the cage door. Beside me, Gajeel is indeed chained, arms pulled up to the ceiling by chains. Natsu is on his other side, still asleep. On my other side, Gray is hanging, unconscious, in the same way as Gajeel, and Wendy is beside him. Why is Gray here?
"What the hell is going on?"
"My thoughts exactly." Gajeel shifts his weight around in the chains. "Mind getting me down?"
Then I realize he was right. I'm not chained to the wall like the others. I'm just sitting on the floor. I jump to my feet and say, "Sure. Give me a minute."
"Hey, where you going?" I walk past him to Natsu.
"Natsu. Natsu, walk up! Natsu!" He just groans and tilts his head to the side.
"FOOD!" I yell, and his eyes pop open immediately.
"Where? Food, where?" He thrashes around, and even under the circumstances, I manage a small smile.
"Hey, Natsu."
"Nikki? Why am I tied up? What's Iron Head doing here? Is this a game? Why did we fall asleep? Why are you the only one unchained? Why's Snowflake here too? Why-"
"NATSU!" I shout. "Please listen. This is dead serious. We need to get out of here. I think… I think I know where we are." I bite my lip. "I have a hunch why I'm unchained. But that can wait."
I exhale. "I'm going to wake up the others. You two? Be nice." I spin and run over to Gray.
"Gray. Gray. Gray!" He still won't wake up, so I slap him across the face. "GRAY!"
Gajeel winces beside me. "Ouch. That looks like it hurt."
Gray groans. "W… What?"
"Yay! Ice Princess is awake!"
"Natsu? What the hell are we doing here?"
I rapidly explain all I know, and I proceed to wake up Wendy- in a more gentle manner, obviously. After explaining to her what is going on, I'm clueless about what to do. So, I try to break the chains, but they're strong. Apparently, when cuffed, you can't used magic, so Gajeel is very pissed. Not to mention Natsu and Gray as well.
"Maybe I could freeze them, then break them?" I murmur to myself. I place a hand on one of Wendy's chains as the young Dragon Slayer watches. As a coil of ice winds its way around the chain, I hear a voice behind me.
"If you value your life, and the lives of the others, you'll stop and turn around."
I stop. And turn around. Then I gasp.
"I know you! What the hell is going on?"