Chapter 12: A team I can't escape
Brooke's POV
"Ughh!"
I guess when I landed I hit my head pretty hard on that tree. By now it must be around midnight. I tried to look up and look for the trail of mist, but couldn't see it because of the shrubbery of trees above.
I start walking in the direction I can see the most. But you could barely see anything out there because it was pitch black.
Just then the bushes rustled in front of me.
"Who's there?!" I say as I start to feel uncomfortable and a lavender glow illuminates from my hands.
A silhouette emerges from the bushes. "Relax, it's just me." the ice mage says.
I start to relax.
"You've got to be kidding me." I sigh.
Gray looks baffled. "Are you still upset about earlier?"
"No it's just… you're just the last person I wanted to see right now."
Gray looks in a different direction. "Well we can't waste any time, there's only 6 hours until the country is basically dead."
"How are we gonna follow the trail, though? We can't see where it's coming from because of the trees."
Gray walks past me. "It's in the opposite direction of where you're going. I just came from a clearing and got a good look from there."
I start to follow him.
….
"I'm really sorry about earlier."
Gray looks over in the interest. "What for?"
I sigh in distress. "For the way I treated you….. and Juvia on our last mission."
"It's cool. But you know you'll have to apologize to her face to face, right?"
I scowl at him."Will you please stop talking to me like a child!"
Just then we hear someone gasp behind us. We turn to see…
"Gray-sama! Juvia's found you! Finally!" she runs up to give Gray a huge bear hug.
Then when she lets go she sees me. "Hello, Love-Rival." she says quite pleasantly.
"Well I hate to break up your reunion, but we're in a hurry here.
We all start walking to find where the protruding fog is coming from.
