Chapter 10

(Natsu)

It was fairly easy moving through the twist and turns of the underground layout, Gray stayed hot my heels but Gajeel broke off around half way by the time we reached the only double doors we've come across so far. All the while we were able to hear muffled voices and some more knocking, though the knocking seemed to be more intense than what they sounded like before. I wasn't sure if it was because we were further away or the person doing the knocking is trying harder, one way or another the slightly louder knocks helped lead us straight to it.

We were about to turn a corner when two soldiers rushed passed us; we were lucky they didn't notice us. If they were to just check down the hall we were in they would of spotted us in no time at all. There really wasn't anything to help us hide while moving forward through the halls, we froze like statues with our guns up, silencers on and finger on the trigger. This is when the rule 'don't shoot first, only return fire or only shoot unless it's completely necessary'.

After they passed I peeked around the corner in the direction they were heading and saw that one of the double doors slowly closed shut. I looked the other way; when the coast was clear I leaded the way closer once at the door I put down one knee down to get a firm balance on the floor. I signaled Gray to keep an eye out for anyone approaching from behind us.

I pressed my ear to the door to hear more than just muffles, even thought I have advance hearing, hearing muffled voices is pretty damn annoying. I pressed gently in case the door wasn't closed completely. The sounds of heavy breathing came from the two we saw rush over, one of them even started coughing pretty dryly and it sounded painful.

"Dr. Hades said to leave the mermaid and the others behind, the intruders upstairs have already reach 3 level. We need to evacuated all remaining personnel, including the rest of the guard on this level and lower." One of the two men gave their orders and the report.

"Noo!" A female yelled.

I jumped back from the high-pitched disagreement, I was shocked but returned my ear to the door. I hear some bobbling like the movement of water then came a bang whatever was hit it was hit hard. The bang came again and again another couple of times; I couldn't place anything together, what was going on? The one of the hits sounded like it cracked glass, something was trying to get out was what I thought. One of the men inside started to yell at what ever was doing the banging, to stop but it didn't listen, he was completely ignore.

The knocking stopped abruptly from it's relentless hitting and there was pause in the air between everyone inside the room, I looked at Gray and he know what I was trying to say. We needed to know what's inside there; we need eyes in the inside. Gray pulled out a device with a flexible antenna, at the tip was a miniature camera. I bent the antenna like a one step stair and slipped the bent under the door horizontally then twister to vertically. I clicked on the on switch and the view from the room behind the door came onto the small screen. On the screen only showed a giant desk in the way but thanks to the gap underneath it we were able to see the feet of the people in the room. 8 legs were in view, 4 people in the room. I tried turning the camera around to get a better scan of the room but the flexibility of the camera was limited and only gave us so much.

It gave us the info about the room behind the doors; it was large and spacious, many of their stuff have been removed and that there were only 4 people in the room. We know that two of them are male and one of them is female. So the last one is either male or female, we won't know until we move in.

"We gotta move, were wasting time here just watching her bang at the glass." One of them finally said.

Her? Glass? Okay now things went back to confused, my mind raced to place voices with how many in the room and who was the girl? There was shuffling and it sounded like their foot steps were head our way, I waved to Gray to start moving out but stopped when the female voice spook again. This time for some odd reason her voice sounded rather sweet to my ears.

"Leave without me and I curse your sorry ass to the darkest depths of the sea and trust me, a mermaids curse isn't a legend." She threatened.

The steps stopped and I decided to take a chance to move in, there was a desk connecting to a pillar on the left of the door, if we can sneak in while their detracted we won't have to worry about getting caught on their way out. I notified Gray and he lowered his body even more, ready to move in fast and silent. I checked if the door was left open or not, it slipped opened with a little twist of the knob.

"Let this curse be a warning to those who run from the..." The girl was in the middle of saying but stopped randomly.

I froze when she stopped, my gut feeling was telling me she knew we were there, somehow she knows. The moment she continued I knew she was also trying to buy us time, I don't know who to explain it but if we didn't make our move when she gives us an opportunity then we won't get another one afterwards.

"Ones who ask you for help, may the King of the sea; Poseidon punish your cowardice." She finished.

Right when she started up again I pushed the door open enough for us to squeeze in, we didn't have any time to see if the men were looking our way or not but we went on ahead anyway. I drop rolled and stopped behind the pillar and Gray pretty much did the same thing, in order to not get caught any further we moved quickly to another cover behind desks. Right when we reached our second cover one of the men spoke up.

"I don't believe you."

So I had asked before about whom I should put the viewpoint as when the two will meet and I got some pretty nice suggestions. But because it was damn hard to decide I kind of am going for a mix, I don't know how to place the explanation so all of you can understand so I'm just going to post it as it. Hopefully you'll understand by reading it.

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