"What should I do!?" Wendy asked.
"I don't think there's anything we can do when she's moving that fast!" Carla replied. Lily took on his battle form as Namine seemed to be thinking of something.
"What do we do if an enemy is too fast?" A 7 year old Akina asked.
"What do you mean? Shouldn't we be worried if they're too strong?" A 6 year old Namine asked.
"Indeed, you have to think about strength. But within speed, I can teach you a special move." The 2 little girls turned to look at their Dragon mother, Hikari, once again.
"A special move!? Alright! I'm ready to learn!" Akina yelled enthusiastically. Namine took a deep breath.
"Me too!" Namine agreed.
Namine came back to reality just as Lily punched the cliff, missing Coco.
"Lily, what are you doing!?" Carla asked.
'But I never exactly mastered it... can I do it?' Namine thought.
"I'll do something!" Wendy promised.
"Roar of the Sky Dragon!"
That attack missed.
"I missed!"
"That girl's always on the move!" Carla complained.
'Do I even have time to think about it!?' Namine thought.
"How much further, idiot!?" Akina asked.
"Would you stop calling me that!? And not much further!" Ethan replied.
"Why are we even going this way?" Fate asked.
"I heard something." Ethan replied. All of the sudden, something white wrapped around Ethan's ankle and it pulled him down, and out of Fate's grip. "What the hell!?"
"ETHAN!"
They all dove down after him, avoiding trees even fi he was being pulled through them. He crashed into the ground and instantly sat up, pulling at the thing on his ankle.
'A chain!? It looks like that Chain Magic Hades used!' Ethan thought as he pulled at it, trying to break it.
"Are you okay!?"
He looked up at Fate and nodded.
"Yah, I'm fine. Don't worry, you didn't drop me." Ethan replied. Akina, Minx and Chilled were set down around him. He was about to reference to Akina about the chain when suddenly he was pullled across the ground, losing his hat along the way. He contantly batted tree branches and other nature things out of the way, even if he did run into other ones. He was greatful when he stopped moving. "God dammit, that hurt..." He sat up, pulling at the chain and finally breaking it before he stood up and looked around, dusting himself off. He didn't know where he was, and could only plainly say that it was the middle of the forest.
'Well I'm screwed...'
Ethan saw something in the sky and looked up. It was a green sort of signal, but obviously it couldn't have belonged to Fairy Tail.
"ETHAN!"
He turned to see his group running towards him.
"Look up!" He yelled, looking back to the sky. They all looked up.
"Did they get Lucy!?" Chilled asked.
"Only one way to find out, let's find them!" Minx replied.
"But what about..." Ethan trailed of as he looked down, thinking about the chain. Then he shook his head. "You're right, let's go!"
"Wh-What did you say!? Legion!?"
"So the ones that attacked us are from Zentopia?" Cana asked.
"Yeah, I'm positive." Gildarts replied.
"Why would Fiore's largest religious organization attack us?" Macao asked.
"I don't know, but he said some crap about a crusade..." Gildarts replied. Natsu slammed his hand against a table.
"Who gives a damn about all that!? Lucy, I swear we'll that memento back for you!" Natsu promised. Lucy nodded.
"Don't be so glum. You were being controlled by magic..." Happy said.
"I'm sorry. It couldn't do anything to help..." Michelle mumbled.
"No, it's not your fault, Michelle. It's because... It's because... I was weak..." Lucy mumbled.
"The church attacks that happened soon before Zentopia's anniversary event...
A mysterious clock hand and a sinister line...
That Legion was after...
... and some crusade..." Makarov listed out.
"I don't like it." Natsu stated. "I don't like that they made light of Fairy Tail, an' I hope we don't let it just end with our asses gettin' kicked..."
"What happened with the members that were sent in pursuit?" Gray asked.
"According to Warren, all of the teams lost track of them." Erza replied. "But it's not over. It's just begun... I suppose you could say."
"Now you're talkin'! Now we can look forward to gettin' payback!" Natsu said.
"100 times over!" Akina agreed.
"The crusade they mentioned... Legion is trying to accomplish something big... For that, the clock hand was necessary. And the words that were inscribed on it..." Erza trailed off.
"'Time is etched... and then chaos descends'..." Rory mumbled. Fate seemed to be thinking about something.
"What is it?" Ruri asked.
"'Time is etched, and then chaos descends'... I think I've heard something like that before... but I'm not sure where..." Fate replied quietly, still thinking.
"That clock actually exists somewhere... Do they mean to use it for their crusade?" Lucy asked.
"'Chaos descends"... My guess, it's a reference to that crusade." Cana said.
"Natsu, are you okay? Are you following the conversation?" Happy asked.
"Oh, shut up!" Natsu replied.
"Then rules are unnecessary here." Gray said.
"Now that's right up my alley!" Natsu agreed.
"Listen, everything works more or less because the world has rules, right?" Happy asked.
"Like when someone takes something that's not theirs, they're a thief?" Cana asked.
"Like, lock your door whenever you go out?" Michelle asked.
"All of our freedoms were built upon the foundations of certain rules. Without them, everything would be pure lawlessness." Makarov explained.
"Is that what they're trying to achieve with their crusade?" Destiny asked.
"Sounds like thinsg are getting crazy again..." Charles said.
"In the first place, you can't call robbing someone of their property and act of holiness." Gildarts said.
"A clue..." Lucy mumbled.
"Maybe Legion is looking for another part of the clock now..." Michelle mumbled.
"If we can find out what their purpose is, the meaning of the memento will also become clear." Cathy said.
"All we can do is investigate." Dan sighed.
"And maybe that'll tell us where they are..." Phil said.
"Or maybe they'll notice us sniffing around and come for us." Gray said with a smirk.
"I like that thinkin'! Let's go!" Natsu said.
"But, where should we start investigating?" Lucy asked.
"I'll try doing a divination. That should narrow it down at least." Cana said.
"Did you hear that!? That's my daughter!" Gildarts bragged.
"Yeah, yeah..."
