F.Y.I. Cobra is the same age as Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, Rogue, etc. Ultear is at the age she was after tenrou, so is Meredy.
So, last chapter, Rina, Eve, and Millianna all teamed up, lets see how thats working out for them! Oh, and I don't know many of Cheila's attacks, so I'll be making them up. Most of them, anyway. Enjoy!
"HIT THE DECK!" Rina screamed, she and Millianna dropped and hit the ground hard, they were on the second level of the maze, and there was a huge monster guarding an odd gold vase on a pillar. The giant tentacle of the beast swept over their heads.
"Kitten Blast!" Millianna cried, her binding tubes shot out and wrapped around the tentacle. The beast was about twenty feet tall, bright green, built like a squid, but it used four of it's bottom limbs to stand and the other two to swat at the girls as they struggled to get closer to the pot.
"Rina!" Millianna screamed as she dug her feet into the ground, her magic circle whirling in front of her as she was slowly dragged towards the squid.
Rina dove forward and seized Millianna around the middle, she then planted her feet firmly on the ground as Millianna panted with effort, trying to keep her tube from snapping.
As the monster struggled to free it's arm, it didn't notice a certain snow wizard inching his way along the walls of the dead end the beast lived in.
Eve dropped to the ground and ran to the pot, no time for finesse, he picked it up and smashed it on the ground.
He picked frantically through the pieces to find a ticket.
ADMITS ONE LAMIA SCALE MEMBER
"Crap!" Eve shouted in fury, he shoved the ticket into his pocket anyway, knowing that monsters were guarding scores more for Cheila to find, and shouted to his partners.
"Guys! We got the wrong one, run!" Before he leapt up into the air.
"White fang!" He shouted, throwing his arm out behind him. The blast of chill winds and snow mixed with hail gave Eve a major boost, and he managed a bloodless landing next to Millianna and Rina.
"Guys! It was a Lamia ticket, next one!" He cried, beckoning to them.
Millianna banished her binding tubes and they turned and ran before the squid could think to follow.
They raced around a nearby corner, and Millianna, seeing this place was free of monsters, leaned on the wall and slid to the ground, letting out an exhausted groan. Eve and Rina crowded around her with concern.
"Holding back all these monsters while you guys get the tickets is draining my energy. This time, I'm doing the pot breaking." Millianna gasped.
Eve shook his head.
"First, your gonna rest, if three of us together are having a hard time with the nutty squids, the others on there own aren't fairing any better, lets just take a break, ok?" Eve suggested.
The other two nodded, and so Rina and Eve sat to either side of the gassed cat lover.
"Ok." Rina began, shifting to face her new friends.
"There has to be some sort of pattern, some sort of clue. It can't just be dumb luck, can it?" Rina paused for them to answer.
"I guess so, I mean, it would be spiffy and all to get your ticket on the first try, but I've been in the Games for a while, there's always some trick."
Millianna sighed, pulling up her knees and resting her head on them.
"You sure your alright, kitty?" Rina asked, putting a hand on the girls shoulder, it was odd, but for some reason, she suddenly liked having a friend that wasn't in her guild and didn't have to see every day. Suddenly, she was happy to have ended up with these two after all. And she wanted to protect her new friend, and make sure she didn't burn out.
"Uh-huh." Millianna said softly.
"Don't push to hard, we can't have you collapsing on us. We'll never leave you behind." Rina said, concerned with Millianna's condition.
"Do you think someone will assault us from above?" Eve asked, also worried about Millianna, and still wary about just sitting there without defense.
"Good point, snowy." Rina grumbled, Eve blinked.
Oh great, new nickname. He groaned inside his head.
Rina stood up and focused her energy, then she began to move her arms above her two sitting companions, and a thick dome of ice formed over them.
Rina slid down beneath the barrier and finished it.
"It's not airtight, so no worry of suffocating, it may be obvious, but it'll protect us." Rina said.
"So your an ice and snow wizard too?" Eve asked, she may not care, but he was amazed by the similarities.
"So what if I am?" She countered, then continued.
"Ok, what do we know about the monsters or the pots?" Rina asked.
"Well, we have seven tickets so far. Two for Saber, three for Lamia, and two for Titian." Eve said.
"And we know all of the monsters were only one solid color, and that the pots were only one solid color." Millianna pointed out.
Rina closed her eyes as the cogs of her head began to turn.
"Hmm...go on." Rina ordered.
Eve thought harder.
"The monsters for Saber were blue."
"Wait...and the pot was...wasn't it white?!" Millianna cried suddenly.
Rina grinned, "And the ones for Lamia were green with a gold pot!"
"So...if we want our guilds, we'll need a light blue monster and a dark blue pot, a light pink monster and a hot pink pot, and a gold monster with a green pot!" Eve finished.
"Bingo! All we had to do was sit down and put our heads together!" Rina exclaimed.
"Wow...I guess three heads are better than one!" Millianna said, pleasantly surprised.
"Ok, are you feeling ok now, Millianna?" Rina asked.
"Yeah, not nearly all the way, but I got enough left to finish this!" Millianna replied enthusiastically, not letting on her exhaustion at restraining six of the giant squids show through.
"Great, lets go then." Eve said.
Rina threw both hands into the air and the ice barrier shattered outward.
"Thats a pretty neat trick, Rina." Millianna said, Eve nodded in agreement.
"Ok, lets rock!" Rina said, offering a hand to Millianna, she pulled the girl up and they walked to the next bend, Eve peeked around and saw a squid monster.
"Light blue." He said.
"Pot?" Rina questioned.
Eve shifted forward slightly, squinting.
"White. C'mon, next one." He said.
As they ran past the monster, Mato exclaimed to the crowd.
"Whats this, kabo? It looks like the trio as passed right by a squid and pot without trying to attack!? Have they finally discovered a trick?"
"Trick?" Cheila exclaimed, she quickly launched up into the air on a wind powered jump, with the first one she went straight up.
She spotted the trio weaving through the maze, and with the second leap, she shot across the distance that separated them, and landed in front of them, prepared to fight.
"Uh-oh, Godslayer alert!" Eve shouted, getting down into fighting stance at once.
Millianna bent down into a pouncing position and Rina took on the same position as before.
"So guys, I heard the pumpkin guy said there was a trick to this."
Rina shot a look over her shoulder at her friends, the look was clearly.
Shut up and let me do the talking.
Eve and Millianna obeyed the glance, staying silent.
"So there's a trick other than fighting squids and smashing perfectly good pottery?"
Rina asked, her lie was flawless, not a hint of nerves in her voice.
"Hmm...well, I can't just let you guys go by, what if you've got what I want?" She questioned, her eyebrows raised as she saw Eve's hand twitch, just slightly, towards his pocket.
"Sky God's Bellow!" She screamed, launched her attack at Eve.
"Scatter!" Rina shouted, diving out of the way of the blast, Eve had to throw himself hard to the left to avoid the blast of wind.
Cheila was on top of him in an instant.
"Sky God's fist!" She exclaimed, Eve rolled to one side just in time, and the fist left a small crater in the ground were his head had been not a second before.
"Kitten Blast!" Millianna exclaimed.
Her ropes shot out and pinned Cheila's arms to her sides.
Millianna then moved her arms up, lifting the godslayer into the air.
"Whoa!" She cried as she quickly realized she couldn't use magic whilst bound by these tubes.
"Let...me...go!" She cried as she flailed in the air, but was unable to free herself.
Everything was going so well, when Millianna realized just how low on energy she was. The world began to tip as she fell to the side. She saw Rina diving towards her.
"Millianna!" She heard Eve shout as the binding tubes fell limply to the ground, releasing Cheila, who wasted no time in attacking Eve again.
"Sky God's fist!"
"White Fang!"
She barely heard these spell calls, Rina caught her around the chest and her head landed on Rina's shoulder.
"Millianna! Can you hear me?"
Millianna could, but before she could respond, the world went black.
Well the girl tied up six giant squids! You'd be tired to wouldn't you? Go ahead and yell for the cliffhanger, I'll update soon, typing is my main source of entertainment, so I'll be quick. Anyway, please favorite, please follow, please review! Thanks so much for reading, your the best!