Well I hope you guys are ready for this chapter. There will be action again! So I hope you all will enjoy!
Pfannkuchen: If you are talking about the enemy, you will find something like that in this chapter. And such a description will be at the end of the chapter of what we know so far.
Rez: Well Lucy is smart
chaos: Yep, she'll come up with such plans
Dark impetus: To avoid everything she should have, but she was afraid to have that power at her disposal. She doesn't want to hurt her friends
lingering will: Yea, they love to use their bombs ;)
Lance101: Don't worry, that will come soon enough. There will definitely be more Erza, especially in fighting.
Marty: Crystol can be useful and does a lot to protect Kera, but only Kera. She still doesn't like her friends ;)
Jellal kept to the shadows as he walked through the town of Magnolia. He had been searching for the hideout of the Dragon Hunters. It had been hard, but he might have a clue. Yet it was just a clue, it was not the exact answer. But it might help.
He pushed himself against a house wall letting some people pass. He was still a fugitive and he didn't want to be caught, especially now when he was helping his friends.
At least he thought they were friends.
When the people passed him he decided to head out of the alley. Out of nowhere a hand grabbed his cloak from behind and pulled him back. "Ack!" He shouted as he was roughly pulled back.
He turned his head ready to fight the person that had caught him but stopped when he saw an all too familiar girl with red fiery hair. "E-Erza? What are you doing here?"
"I hope you have some information because we need that now." She stated.
"What happened?" He asked.
Erza sighed rubbing her forehead. "The Dragon Twin Blades were stolen and they can easily kill a Dragon Slayer."
Jellal cursed as he heard this. That was not good. It would make their job a lot harder. Erza sighed shaking her head. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't been too scared and kept those blades by my side the enemy wouldn't have them right now." She muttered.
"What?" Jellal asked a little shocked of what he was hearing. Was Erza really blaming herself for this? But why!? He grabbed her shoulders. "Why do you think that?" He asked.
She pushed his hands away from her shoulders. "Because Kera entrusted those swords to me and I let them get taken. I was just too scared to have them that I locked them away but they got… stolen!" She yelled the last part punching the wall beside her.
Jellal frowned. "This is not your fault Erza. They stole them, you couldn't do anything about it."
Erza turned around and glared at him. "Of course I could have done something! I could have kept them by my side! But I was too scared, because of the power they held and as a coward I hid them! And now look where that brought us! I might have just ended all of the Dragon Slayer's lives!"
"No one blames you and you know that. You're only blaming yourself. I know it's frustrating but you can't let that cloud everything. You need to let it go." Jellal told her. "Don't blame yourself."
Erza sighed while rubbing her forehead. "I… I don't… things aren't going as they should, the enemy is getting the upper hand and we have nothing, absolutely nothing. And now that the blades are missing, they have the weapon to kill any Dragon Slayer with ease. I screwed up big time."
Jellal put a hand on her shoulder. "You didn't screw anything up. Everything will be fine. Now come on, I have a little information."
Erza smiled up at him and nodded her head. She may have screwed up but she hoped that what Jellal had could give them more hope. They have absolutely nothing on the enemy, so anything would help them at the moment.
Both Erza and Jellal entered the guild to see almost every member huddled together. They were talking about something and pointing at a map several times. But when the two started walking towards them only one head popped up.
Kera smiled when she saw both of them enter. She quickly got out of the mess and headed over to them. She put a hand on Erza's shoulder and smiled. "You okay?"
She nodded. "Yea, I'm fine. Don't worry."
Jellal glanced at the others who were still talking to each other. "What are you doing at the moment?"
Kera sighed scratching her head. "We're trying to see what we're dealing with, more precisely get more information on the enemy. If you know something it could help us a lot."
The blue haired man nodded. "Let's see what you got."
They too started to gather around the table and see what they were talking about at the moment. Kera pushed Natsu slightly. "So, what do we got?" Jellal asked.
Lucy was holding a magic pen and there was a chart drawn up. "Well… if we heard right there are five people, right?"
Everyone nodded. Lucy looked at the chart. "The only person we know by name is the blonde girl. Alison. From the fights Kera and Natsu encountered she can use teleportation magic and she's crazy."
"Major crazy." Natsu muttered folding his arms.
Lucy nodded and glanced at the chart in front of her. "Also, from what Kera told us, she and the other girl aren't really friendly towards each other. They argued about who was going to kill Kera."
Kera nodded. "Also she seems to know how to handle a sword and of course she uses requip magic including hand to hand combat."
Lucy wrote that down by the unknown named girl. Erza glanced at the information and frowned slightly at the words requip magic. She knew that this girl was going to prove some difficulty.
Gajeel sighed as he rubbed his head. "Don't forget one of her swords can nullify magic." Kera nodded her head remembering that small detail as well.
"That leaves us three left." Lucy spoke as she wrote down 'magic nullifying sword' on the chart.
Gajeel glanced at the chart. "That one guy who held a broadsword seems to be able to take some damage."
"Like a tank or a protector. You know, the one who keeps the enemy attacking him while his teammates deal with them?" Gray spoke up.
Lucy looked at the others. "Anything else?"
Kera frowned as she scratched her chin. "He was able to catch my fist with ease. He's strong."
Natsu smashed his fists together. "He won't be able to withstand my attacks. I can promise that!"
"Don't be stupid Natsu." Erza snapped at him. "We can't rush this. We need to know who we are dealing with."
Kera glanced at the chart and frowned. "The problem is, there are two more people we have no idea what they look like or what they can do. My guess is that one of them is like an assassin or sniper guy because I was shot with an arrow with acid in my hand. Nobody can do that just like that."
Jellal furrowed his brow. "And what is the situation now?"
Mirajane counted on her hand. "Well first they attacked Sting and Rogue, but Sting is back on his feet. Kera was attacked but she's also back on her feet, though could use a little rest from last night. They were able to fight us while injuring us and they were able to steal The Dragon Twin Blades that can easily kill a Dragon Slayer."
Jellal's eyes went wide. "Wow… you are all having a tough time."
"Yea no shit…" Kera muttered.
"Well, lucky that I got back in time." Jellal said as he started searching his pockets for something. After a minute he pulled out what seemed to be several pieces of papers. Everyone glanced at the blue haired man confused.
Jellal grabbed one of the papers and spread it out on the table. "I was able to narrow the area where their hideout could be." He said. The paper he had spread out was actually a map and it was of Fiore. In the middle of it, it had a red circle, probably the area where they were hiding. "There somewhere there."
"So they are close to Magnolia…" Erza said frowning slightly. So why haven't they seen them before?
Jellal nodded. "Yes, and I found these." He took the other two pieces of paper and laid them down on the table.
Natsu scrunched up his nose. "What are they?"
Kera grabbed one and frowned. "This is… a message?" She asked.
Jellal nodded. "One of them is a message from the leader. I was able to intercept it."
Kera read through it and her eyes narrowed. "This says that someone by the name of Alexandra should head back to the base to speak to Alrik. Who are they?"
"I'm guessing Alexandra is that other girl and Alrik is probably the leader since she was supposed to head back to him. At least we know the names of those two." Jellal spoke while scratching his head.
Levy smiled. "I'll go check those names. Maybe I can find something more about them."
"Thanks Levy, that'd be great." Lucy said with a smile.
Kera thought had a different question on her mind. "Okay now we know a little bit more on who we are dealing with. Now what is this divide and conquer plan you had in mind?"
Lucy smiled knowing exactly what she had in mind. Though she probably would get killed by one of her friends.
"This is not what I had in mind…" Kera muttered as she was standing in the middle of an open road at the edge of town. She sighed as she looked around her hands in her pocket. She couldn't believe what role Lucy gave her.
She was bait!
Why was she the bait!?
Well yea she was the top prize of this entire hunt and all of the hunters wanted to kill her but this was not what she wanted at all! Even Erza was against the idea and had almost killed the blonde but they had pulled her back.
It was dangerous since they had The Dragon Twin Blades now but it was worth the risk. At least that's what she thought.
Sighing she closed her eyes as she walked ahead. Crystol, stay alert. You could sense the last time an arrow was shot at me so warn me.
"As you wish."
Opening her eyes she kept on walking again. She headed for a tree and looked up at it and sighed slightly. This was all just a big mess that she just wished would vanish. This time it wasn't even their fault! They were caught in just a stupid game these people brought up.
Why was her life so messed up? Can't she have a peaceful life for once?
Is that so hard to ask for?
Kera kept on walking around for an hour and still nothing happened. It didn't seem that they were coming. Rolling her eyes she turned around. "Knew this was a bad idea."
She started walking back to town to tell the others they were wrong and that there was nobody there.
The plan was a failure. Why did she expect anything else? Nothing really went their way anyway…
She was about to head back into town when a voice stopped her in her tracks.
"Oh so you don't want to play with me?"
"Duck!"
Immediately she crashed to the floor and missed a knife that was headed for her head. "Holy shit! Don't always cut it so close!" She snapped at Crystol.
"Be glad I did warn you! Roll right!"
She did as she was told and missed another knife. Turning her head she saw the blonde crazy chick in front of her.
Of course… the crazy one was after her…
She smirked at Kera while holding a knife. "I'm going to enjoy cutting your head off and then I'm going to show that bitch that I'm the one who killed the mighty Queen."
Kera raised an eyebrow as she got on her knees. "You really are crazy."
"Pft, you have no idea." She said with a grin before grabbing another knife and throwing it at her. Kera quickly dodged them all and charged towards Alison. She was about to hit her with a flaming fist but she suddenly vanished.
She stopped and looked around. "You have to be better than that." Kera turned around hearing that voice but got a fist to the stomach before the face. She hit the ground with a thud and she started groaning.
Alison stood over her with a smirk. "I really thought that a Queen of an entire race of powerful beings would be the strongest out of them all. But all in all you're just weak and pathetic."
Kera opened her eyes and glared at her. "Don't count me out just yet." With a quick and swift movement she kicked Alison's feet from under her sending her to the ground. Alison was slightly shocked and was frozen at the moment. Kera took this advantage and pinned her to the ground. She snarled. "Okay, what's your deal? And why are you hunting us for fun!?"
Alison chuckled. "You really think I'm going to talk? And anyway, I'm not alone."
Kera saw a glint on top of a building. Immediately she moved back, as an arrow flew right passed her face hitting the floor instead. She looked up at the building and could see a figure with a bow aiming right at her.
"That was way too close." She muttered. Alison kicked the brunette off of her as she was distracted and got back up. "You lost Queeny! Any last words?"
Kera smirked as she looked up at Alison. "Yea, I'm not alone either." She said while showing the blonde a strange ball in her hands. "NOW!" She suddenly shouted and threw the ball to the ground.
Smoke surrounded both the girls and Alison freaked out slightly. She looked around trying to find Kera but she couldn't see anything out of this smoke. "Damn it!" She shouted. "And I had her again!"
"Not this time!"
Alison turned around and screeched slightly when something hard hit her. She flew out of the smoke covered area and hit the ground. Jumping out the smoke was Natsu as he grinned down at the girl. "Finally I'm getting payback for what you did to me." He said while cracking his knuckles.
She quickly got on her feet and was about to turn around but was met with Lucy who waved at her with a smile. "Hey, I don't think we met before have we?"
Gritting her teeth Alison was about to teleport away but found out she couldn't. "What the…" Looking down she noticed her feet were frozen to the ground. "What!?" She shouted.
"You're not going anywhere." Gray said walking up to her with a smirk on his face.
Alison grew panicked now. She was stuck to the ground and couldn't teleport away and there were three people surrounding her. How did they even get here? Where were they hiding?
And where did that little bitch of a Queen go!?
Caine cursed as he saw Alison being swallowed in smoke. That was not a good thing. This was an ambush. How could they not have seen this coming? They were always cautious and tried to get the upper hand immediately.
"So you're the one who shot that arrow at me."
Caine's eyes went wide as he turned around. There stood Kera and Erza both wearing pissed of looks on their faces. They were definitely not happy with him. Well who would be if you tried to kill them before? "What the… how did you…?"
He turned to the sky and saw a white Exceed fly around. He gritted his teeth knowing that damn cat was the cause for the brunette's sudden appearance.
Erza glared at the man in front of her. "Now either you're going to give in willingly or we have to do this the hard way."
"I'm wishing for the hard way." Kera said cracking her knuckles.
Caine growled before jumping over them so he was standing behind them. They both were shocked at the moment and in that time he grabbed an arrow and fired it. Both girls quickly took a step to the side missing it completely.
Kera laughed. "You missed!"
He smirked. "Not at all."
She looked confused but then saw him running. "Hey!" She shouted before dashing after him as well as Erza. "Don't let him get away!" She shouted and Kera gave her a stupid look. "You really think that wasn't part of the plan!?"
"Just run faster!" Erza snapped at her as they also jumped from roof to roof to catch up with Caine.
Kera turned her gaze back to the running man and frowned. "Oh don't worry, this time I'm not letting them escape."
And more will be in the next chapter! Hope you all enjoyed it and let me know what you thought about it. Also here is what we know about the enemy so far! So everyone has an overview of them.
Alison: blonde hair, crazy, teleportation magic, feud with Alexandra
Alexandra: light brown hair, skilled with a sword, requip magic, feud with Alison
Caine: military cut blonde hair, assassin, can use bow, sneaky
?: tank, scruffy brown hair, scar across his cheek, dull gray eyes, broadsword, the tank, very powerful
Alrik: the leader, black messy shoulder length hair
So that's what we know so far. We know how they look and with some we even know what magic they use. So lets see what will happen next with the gang!
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Until next time!