W-whoa! 100 reviews!? That's crazy! I decided to make this two chapter's in one! There will be a special mark to separate the chapters, so...yeah. Start reading!
Jellal wasn't going to let Bixlow and Lisanna get away, unharmed at least. He activated Meteor and shot in the direction they went. His magic was stronger after two years and becoming a zombie. He didn't understand why, but it was better this way. It was easy to catch people, hunt them down, but he wasn't as smart. There were always costs and benefits with every decision you make.
He quickly caught up to the two fleeing humans. He shot passed them and slashed the shoulder of the white haired female. Her blood went flying, but the man stopped. He had an opening and he took it. Jellal came back and punched Bixlow's mask, shattering it like glass. Bixlow let go of Lisanna's hand and flew into the wall.
"Figure eyes!" Bixlow yelled.
His red eyes turned green and he looked right into Jellal's soul. He possessed Jellal and stopped him before he could attack Lisanna again. She crumbled to the ground in pain after it finally registered. Bixlow pulled himself out of the wall and beat the crap out of Jellal. He sent Jellal back in the direction from whence he came. He put Lisanna on his back and continued to run forward.
Jellal came back to the large group assembled in the cave battered and bruised. They surrounded him and made sure he was okay. Seeing that he was fine, they backed up and informed him that more people were coming. He smirked, feeling that his plan wasn't completely ruined.
"Get the exceeds and go back up to the roof." He ordered.
Bacchus was crawling along the roof of the cave. He followed the sound of Elfman's roaring, "MAN!"
He stopped and jumped down, making sure his landing could be heard by Elfman. Elfman looked back at the crouched Bacchus, shocked that he didn't sense his magic earlier. Bacchus looked up at him. He gave Elfman a smile that sent goosebumps up his arm from fear.
Bacchus launched himself at Elfman. He ducked, but Bacchus sent his palm right into Elfman's chest, making him hit the floor. Bacchus quickly sent another blow into Elfman's side, sending him flying into the wall. He stood up only to get another palm to the chest, sending him deeper into the wall. Elfman had no time to takeover into his Lizard man form.
He was completely defenseless.
Minerva and her group walked through the cave, prepared for anything. Hibiki kept his screen, trying to track the presence of what they were facing. Ren held Sherry's trembling hand and whispered soothing words into her ear. He didn't understand why Minerva wanted her to come with them. She wasn't cut out for things like this.
"I found something." Hibiki said, staring at the monitor.
"Well, spit it out." Minerva told him.
"I found one, but it's by Elfman." Hibiki said. "He's right over top of him. If I zoom in we could see what's going on..." He trailed off, enhancing it so they could see what was happening.
On the screen Elfman was getting pummeled into the ground by Bacchus. His blood was everywhere, even on the roof of the cave. Everyone was wide eyed, Sherry started crying and saying she wanted to go back. Hibiki created another alarm and downloaded it into Jura's head, giving him a brief explanation on what it meant.
A bar appeared over Jura's head. Everyone was expecting the worse, but Jura read the description and went wide eyed. He needed an answer from Hibiki, so he touched the corner of the screen.
A visual of Hibiki and his team appeared in front of him. "What's going on?" He asked.
Behind Hibiki was the screen of Elfman and Bacchus and the rest of them watching it. Mira noticed and went closer to make sure her eyes weren't playing with her.
What she saw brought tears to her eyes. She covered her mouth and shook her head. Fried came over and wrapped an arm around Mira, not quite understanding what was making her cry.
On the screen Elfman was still getting pummeled. Bacchus stopped. Everyone around the screen sighed in relief. But it wasn't over. Bacchus lifted him up by the scruff of his neck and gave him a huge smirk. He bit down into Elfman's large shoulder and tore it up. Elfman winced, skin quickly changing from tan to green.
"ELFMAN!" Mira screamed.
Everyone looked at her, not understanding why she screamed. Fried looked at the screen and held Mira closer. Evergreen was soon at the spot, hands on her knees, hunched over, panting hard.
"E-Elfman...d-don't just...r-run off like that." She said looking up and discovering the blood everywhere.
Bacchus dropped Elfman and looked towards her, head tilting to the side. He took three long strides in her direction, stopping right in her face. She backed up, but Elfman was behind her in a flash. She couldn't understand how, but he looked unharmed.
Elfman wrapped his arms around her waist, trapping her. She struggled against him, but couldn't free herself. Elfman took off one of his arms and tilted her head harshly to the left. He bit down hard at her neck, coming back up with her blood staining his teeth.
"Get out of there now!" Jura yelled at them. They nodded and the screen disappeared.
Mira cried into Fried's chest. She was the only Strauss sibling left and she didn't like it. It made her feel like she was alone, just like when she was left to take care of her siblings. They were her life, she would do anything to protect them, and now... they were gone.
Fried stroked Mira's hair. "Mira, everything will be okay. We found a cure for Jellal didn't we?"
That's when it hit them. They didn't find a cure for a Jellal, Erza did. He was acting funny the entire time, completely ditching Ultear and Meredy. There was a weird air about him, too, one that didn't belong. In fact Jellal hadn't been cured, but they fell victim to their plan.
Bixlow stopped running. He looked back at the unconscious Lisanna, panting. The back of his shirt was covered in her blood, and her breathing was shallow. He put her on the cave floor and grabbed the backpack off her back. He rummaged through the large pocket and found only food. Looking at that he realized that they had a rather large supply, maybe large enough to last two weeks, three if the ate one thing a day.
In the second pocket her found clothes, he was really going to need those. Too bad there was no helmet in there. He opened the last pocket, the smallest pocket. To his relief the medical supplies were in there. He pulled out the gauze and tore off the rest off Lisanna's sleeve.
Her wound was deep and needed stitches. He cursed and took her torn sleeve. He'd never done this before, but he needed to if he wanted to keep her alive. He took out a needle from the clothing section and tried to thread a piece of the string from the fabric through it. After countless tries he finally got it through the ridiculously tiny hole and knotted it.
"This is gonna hurt, but you're not gonna be able to tell." Bixlow said.
He grabbed some of his booze and poured it on her wound. He took off his short and dried the area, then started to sew her wound close. He was nervous that the wound was going to look funny, but he wasn't Wendy. He never had go do this before, though Fried made him practice. He failed every time, but that was a dummy. This was a real person. He couldn't fail on a real person!
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Minerva and her group were constantly checking behind them. Hibiki was typing on the computer, still trying to locate the enemies. Elfman and Evergreen's dot disappeared along with Bacchus's which really caused Sherry to panic. Ren was still comforting her, still not understanding why Minerva wanted them to come along.
A slight movement could be heard above them, so Hibiki took the chance and looked up. He stopped dead in his tracks, frozen in fear. Ren stopped and looked back at Hibiki. He noticed how he was looking up, so taking the chance, he looked up, too. He fell to his knees, scared.
"W-were gonna die." Ren whispered.
"W-why are you saying that?" Sherry asked, feeling cowardly now that her comforter joined her.
"Look up"
Sherry did just that. She covered her mouth and fell to her knees. Above them were zombies with exceeds strapped onto their back, waiting for their cue to fall. Jellal had a crazy smile on as he looked down at them. He dropped to the ground in front of them as they all took a step away from him.
"Nice to see you again." Jellal said as he looked at Minerva.
Minerva went to Jellal's side and hooked onto his arm. Everyone -including Ogra- was shocked. Minerva cocked her head to the side and had a questioning glance on. "What? You didn't actually believe that I would team up with those fairies did you?" She asked.
"W-why us?" Ren asked.
"Well I thought I was doing you playboys a favor by getting the rest of the Blue Pegasus team back together. As for you Ren, you engaged to Sherry, so why leave her, hmm? And Ogra, I could easily defeat you, but we needed another strong mage besides myself and Jellal."
"W-what?" Sherry asked.
"As I said, 'why would I team up with those fairies?' I would rather kill them then join the likes of them."
"B-but shouldn't you have taken the fairies instead!?" Ogra questioned.
"They would run away, whereas you all can't. Your too paralyzed."
Hibiki start to contact Jura for help, but Jellal struck him. Hibiki flew back into Jenny's grasp.
"B-but-" Ren started.
"Enough." Minerva said and activated her magic. Rocks flew at Ren and he flew into the wall. Eve was on top of him.
Sherry went to go help Ren, but Evergreen dropped down and put her in an arm lock. Ogra went to run out of the cave, but Elfman dropped in front of him.
"120mm Black lightning cannon!" Ogra yelled, but Elfman stepped out of the way.
Bacchus dropped behind him and grabbed his feet. Ogra looked down, leaving him exposed. Elfman bent down and bit Ogra's side harshly. All of the other bit down on exposed areas of flesh. Jellal took Minerva's hand and lightly bit her finger. Their skin quickly changed colors, adding them to the ranks of the zombies. Exceeds came down, picked them up, and flew out of the cave.
Mira finally recollected herself. She stood up and waited with everyone else for the group to come out of the cave. Fried was still by her side, arm wrapped around her waist. They heard a flapping sound coming closer and closer to them. Everyone braced themselves for an attack.
From the cave came hundreds of exceeds, each carrying a green person in their paws. The first two were Jellal and Minerva, holding hands. Jellal had a crazed smiled on while Minerva had her smirk. Then, Elfman, Evergreen, Bacchus, Ogra, Hibiki, Ren, Sherry, Macao, Wakaba, Eve, Jenny and the others. Mira broke down crying again, but no one saw Bixlow and Lisanna.
When Lisanna opened her eyes, the light in the cave was gone. Her arm was sore and she felt something hard on her shoulder. She placed her hand on the spot and scratched at the familiar substance.
Blood. She thought, then remembered what happened. She shook her head and hit something soft. The object moved and she instinctively moved away. It opened it's eyes and through the blackness she could see it's red eyes.
She creep away, but her eyes never left the red ones that pierced her soul. She soon realized that they were Bixlow's and stopped moving. Bixlow looked away, knowing that his eyes were going to be feared by everyone, even the one girl he thought he could trust.
"B-Bixlow?" Lisanna asked, making sure it was in fact him.
"If I scare you so much, why are you back?" He asked.
"I didn't realize it was you. I thought it was something else."
"Why?"
"Have you not realized how dark it is?"
"I can see your soul even in the darkness. I knew where you were, and where you were moving." He said and stood up.
He started to walk away from Lisanna, but she quickly caught up, holding her shoulder. Bixlow never turned around to see if she was okay, but she still followed him like a lost puppy.
"B-Bixlow!" Lisanna said when he started to walk faster.
"What? I thought I scared you?"
"You didn't! I just didn't know it was you! Do you know how man y creatures have red eyes that can pierce your soul!"
Lisanna ran into a wall and fell on her butt. Bixlow sighed and lit a match. He took a torch off the wall a wrapped his old shirt around it. He took the match and lit the torch on fire. Lisanna looked towards the source of the light and saw Bixlow's unmasked face.
"W-what happen to your mask?" She rubbed her butt.
"It was shattered. Now come on. We need to get outta here." Bixlow gave her a tongue lolling grin.
Bixlow held out his hand and Lisanna took it, smiling. They started to head towards the front of the cave, hand in hand, hoping that their nakama were still there.
Well I wanted to add this part to calm down everything that just happened, though I'm not gonna do that again, hopefully. On a different note, I put up my last poll. Yep, though more people are gonna get changed, I want to make it a surprise. Scare ya a bit, ya know?