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Chapter 25:
Sting tiptoed quietly against the creaky wooden floors of the hot springs house. He cursed under his breath as he let out a sigh of relief. Apparently, Laxus' big idea for them was to split up and search for the woman's bathing room in the house, but to him it was the worst idea since there was about a million rooms.
Flashback:
"Oh don't worry! I'm sure we'll be able to find the woman's bath room if we split up" Laxus said with a serious expression, "If we find the room just send out some signal to let us know."
Natsu the raised his hand slightly as he let out a toothy grin, "Can we like make some animal noise? You know like a dragon's roar? I can like shoot mine up in the air-"
"You idiot" Gray said as he smacked the Fire Dragon Slayer on the back of the head, "If you did that then we'd have Erza trailing after our asses for years until she'll be able to give us punishment for peeking."
"Of course Salamander doesn't know the basics" Gajeel said as he began hollering in laughter, "He's too innocent and dense to understand this type of big boy stuff."
Natsu then gave Gajeel a deep glare as he could tell he was quite offended by his little comment. He then groaned as he crossed his arms as he soon paid attention back to Laxus who had snapped his fingers to get their attention.
"Won't Mirajane and Erza literally kill us if they saw us doing this?" Freed and Bickslow asked as they exchanged worried expressions. They weren't truly in the mood for any of the S-Class mages punishments for the time being.
"Mira is a man when she's angry!" Elfman said as he put a fist in the air with a grin curled onto his lips but even he too that even the sweet Mira became a true demon when she was angered.
"So exactly how're we doing this?" Gray asked as he shaded his eyes from the intense sunlight, "Like who's going with who?"
Laxus let out a lazy yawn as he gestured a thumb towards Natsu, Rogue, and Sting, "I guess you four will be a little group than a pair. I mean you need to keep Natsu from beating Sting to a pulp and the same goes for Rogue with Sting. It's actually not that hard to put together once you think about it."
Natsu then groaned as he pointed a finger towards Sting, "Do I have to be paired up with this guy?! I rather have screw face over here, than this Sabertooth bastard."
Sting snickered as he smacked his forehead against Natsu's as he sent him an electrifying glare, "You know Natsu-san it isn't polite when you're referring me to a Sabertooth bastard all the time. Why don't you go cry over to blondie your little crush that I took from you"
Before Natsu could even swing a punch at Sting, Gray had placed a hand onto Natsu's shoulder. He then looked back to see Gray shaking his head as he let out a deep breath. Sometimes the ice mage just got tired of looking out for Natsu making sure he didn't get into fights with other mages too often.
"Natsu it isn't even worth it right now." Gray said calmly as he sent an ice cold glare towards the White Dragon Slayer, "The bastard over here is just asking for a fight he knows he'll lose. He's just lucky that he doesn't get his ass kicked right now."
"Fine" Natsu said as Gray then removed his hand from the Fire Dragon Slayer's shoulder. He then narrowed his eyes one more time towards Sting as they soon made their way towards Laxus who had coughed to get their attention.
"If you guys are done fighting, I'd like to get going on this" Laxus said as he crossed his arms against his chest, "If you find the room, you know how to contact us." He then handed Gray a communication lacrima as he then soon disappeared in a bolt of lightning as the others ran off searching inside.
"This is going to be a pain" Gray said as he rubbed the back of his head as he began following Natsu, Sting, and Rogue into the hot springs house.
End of Flashback
"Damn that Laxus and his stupid ideas" Sting murmured as he then heard a low cough from behind him. He had completely forgotten that he had gotten paired up with Rogue, Gray, and Natsu for their little search which he didn't mind at all, if only Rogue wouldn't annoy him with his sarcastic comments and if Natsu and Gray weren't fighting every five minutes on their disagreements.
"I swear you've been leading us in circles" Rogue said as he crossed his arms as he rolled his eyes, "At this rate we're bound to get caught. And trust me I don't want to be the one getting blamed for when it's your fault when we get caught."
Sting then rose his hands to his ears as he groaned at the Shadow Dragon Slayer who went on about how Sting was going to be the one to get them caught. Sometimes he didn't understand why Rogue thought he was dense as Natsu.
"Oh just shut it" Sting said with a loud tone as Rogue gave him a nonchalant expression with widened eyes as they heard the sound of footsteps coming their way. To Rogue, the voice sounded extra familiar as well as the rhythm of the steps. And then as the voice got closer, it finally hit him.
"Sting we need to find somewhere to hide now" Rogue said in a concerned voice as he scanned the doors down the hallway, "Let's go into one of those rooms at least until she passes. I really don't want to be caught especially by her."
Natsu put a fist in the air as his lips curled into his goofy toothy grin, "Hey, whoever it is I bet we can take them! Just thinking of who it might be is getting me all fired up!"
Gray smacked his forehead as he put a finger to his lips, "Will you shut it flame brain, we're trying to not get caught remember? According to Rogue over here, there's some damn woman coming this way from our guild, and as I recall we have some pretty tough ones in our guild the last time I checked."
Sting then raised his eyebrow as he crossed his arms against his chest as his lips curled into a smirk, "Rogue, is probably just fucking with us right now. None of those fairies are even scary they're just puny little girls."
Rogue shook his head as he pointed a finger towards the direction to where the sound was soon beginning to sound clearer to him, "You don't understand on who it is. It's ERZA."
Gray's mouth dropped all the way opened as his eyes widened as he looked over to Natsu as if all the life was just sucked out of him. Out of all people it had to be the fearsome scarlet terror. He thought it would've been Lucy or someone other than Erza that was coming their way, but nope.
"I swear, I heard voices coming from this way"
"Dammit" Sting muttered to himself, "She's already onto us, and we still haven't moved a damn inch. I think we should just start moving-"
"That's what I was trying to tell you" Rogue hissed as he grabbed Sting's arm along with Gray who began dragging Natsu from the back of his shirt, "Let's just hide in this room, I'm sure she won't even suspect any intruders to be in here. Besides, if she was going to look for us she'd have to look through a lot of rooms before finding us."
The four mages then scurried into the dark room as they slammed the door shut behind them. They then steadied their breathing slower to make sure Erza wouldn't be able to hear their heavy breathing from their fast pace.
"Did she pass yet?" Natsu whispered to Gray, "I don't hear anything."
"She's probably trying to listen hard for the voices she heard" Gray whispered back as he soon felt a chill run down his spine, "I'm just hoping she doesn't find us since I really don't feel like having the wrath of Erza unleashed onto us."
"Right" Natsu said as she shivered to the image of the scarlet-haired mage leashing her punishment, "Do you think Luce has noticed we're here yet?"
Gray shrugged in the darkness as he stared into the crack of light coming from the underneath of the door, "I don't know, but shush I hear the footsteps coming louder." He then bit his bottom lip as he heard the familiar voices just outside the door.
-Erza's POV-
"Erza I don't think there's anyone in there" Lucy said as she clung her hand to the towel that was wrapped around her, "I mean it's common for perverts to sneak in, but I don't think anyone would since they'd know you're here."
I narrowed my eyes directly at the white wooden door that was right in front of me. Lucy did have a point after all perverted men would know that I'd go Titania on them and teach them a good lesson on trying to dare peek on me. But for some reason, I just couldn't let this slide easily.
"I just have this feeling that we're being tricked" I said as I looked at Lucy who was biting her bottom lip nervously. I could tell that I wasn't the only one that had a little feeling that someone was actually hiding from us.
"Well it shouldn't hurt to just open and check to be safe." I said as I soon requipped into my Heaven Wheel's Armor. I then summoned the swords pointing towards the door just in case an attack was waiting for us inside, or we were ambushed. I then slowly placed my hand onto the knob of the door as I turned it.
As it swung open, I noticed that there was nothing but darkness filing the room. I then walked into it scanning the bedroom as I switched the light on, noticing that there wasn't anyone inside of the room. It was completely isolated.
I then ex-quipped back into my towel as I let out a smile to Lucy who was still at the doorway of the room, "It's nothing but a guest room it seems that our "guests" have fled already. But I must strongly suggest that we keep on high alert in case they appear again."
"Oh that's a relief" Lucy said as she clutched the towel tighter, "I suppose we should head back with the other girls in the bathe room. I'm sure Mira is pretty worried that we haven't returned back since we said we'd just go and check."
"I'm sure Mira has confidence in us, so there'd be nothing for her to worry about" I said as I gleamed, a smile at the celestial mage, "And yes you're right, we should begin heading back now."
Lucy then nodded her head as she began skipping gleefully in front of me. I then came to stop as I told her that I'd catch up with her in one minute. She then turned her head around and nodded in approval as she continued back.
"You four are so very lucky, I didn't rat you out right there" I said as I leaned against the wall staring into the dark corner of the room, "I know you've hidden under Rogue's shadow. Let me just tell you that I know why you're here, and I don't care for your boyish needs. All I ask is to not me too perverted. That's all I wanted to say.
And at that moment I began heading down the hallway where Lucy went. I could hear Natsu and Gray letting out deep sighs, as Sting began bickering to Rogue behind me on how I was even able to sense that we were in the room. To think that those idiots would be able to outsmart an S-Class mage, although I'll give them credit that they were even able to sneak it.
No matter, I'd like to see for which one of the girls they've come to peek on.