Chapter 29
I woke up to the feeling of naked women under the sheets. I opened my eyes to see my girlfriend, Justine, still asleep with another woman next to her. I smiled and kissed her forehead and heard her moan slightly.
I got out of bed without stirring them and went into the shower to get ready for work at my hair salon. I put on my fancy clothing and went into the kitchen for breakfast where Justine was making it and wearing a pair of sweats and a t-shirt.
"Morning my love." She said.
"Morning!" I said.
"Another day at the salon?" she asked as she put a plate down.
"Of course, I have a lot of appointments to fill as usual." I told her.
We ate and we went our separate ways with her tidying up and heading back to my older sister while I went down to my SUV. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye and saw it disappear when I tried to make a glance and shrugged it off.
As I drove, I noticed a few, odd figures with dark cloaks on and they were looking in my direction. I kept on driving and not pay attention to them.
I pulled in and fished through my glove compartment to find the silver pentacle I adopted from my mother, which was the same kind of pentacle that my half-brother, Harry, wore. "Good time to wear this." I said and pulled it on and hid it underneath my shirt so my clients nor my co-workers won't see.
I walked inside and saw that the salon was slightly and a few clients were in chairs. I found it odd since I normally had girls flocking from all over Chicago to have their hair styled except for today.
One of my stylists looked up and saw me and said, "Tomas! So glad you came!"
"Oui! I own this place, why shouldn't I? What happened to most of our appointments today? It's usually packed!" I said in my French accent.
"Well…" she started.
"What?" I asked.
"I am not sure if you saw them but there have been guys wearing black cloaks roaming around the city and some of our clients have spotted them on some of the street corners and were scared, so a good portion of them cancelled." She answered.
"Great, I guess we have to do the best we can and hope for the best!" I exclaimed and clapped my hands.
A few clients did come in and we worked on them by cutting hair, coloring it, and in between I fed on their lust like I always do. We closed up shop after two and I drove home and noticed that there were more dark cloaks than before. One of them even noticed me and that was when I felt my heartbeat accelerate.
I pulled into the parking garage and got out when I heard, "Hey!"
I turned to see some of the cloak wearers show up. I felt an easy tingle in my spine.
"Do you know a Harry Dresden?" I heard a whiny, high pitched voice ask.
Empty night! I thought, What did you do this time Harry?
"No monsier! I don't know him." I said in my French accent.
"Are you sure?" the voice asked as they came closer.
"We can feel the same magical signature from him on you." A female voice purred.
Who are these people? Are they Black Council? I thought to myself. Or those Outsiders that Harry fought a while back?
I didn't say anything else.
"Aw! Tongue tied aren't you? Maybe we should see about your magic power!" another female voice said.
"Now now Chrome, when you used your magic to track this Harry guy, you almost passed out!" the other female said.
"I want to have some fun sister dear!" the one named Chrome said.
"Unless we can take him as hostage, that would be more fun to lead Harry and those Fairy Tail pests to us and take them out for taking our friends out!" the male said.
"That's a good idea!" one of the females exclaimed.
"Prism, go ahead!" the other said.
"Prism Prison!" the girl exclaimed and rays of color came out and bars formed around me and I couldn't move and I felt the shrinking sensation.
What is going on? Why would they want me if they wanted Harry? And what do the fairies have to do with him? I thought in a little glass plate.
An hour later…
We arrived at the apartment where Thomas lives in.
Natsu kissed the ground since we rode in Molly's royal limo again.
"Great! Now the sidewalk is covered in your dragon germs!" Grey exclaimed.
"Excuse me for almost puking over your boots!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Will you cut it out? What if those Mirror Guild guys catch our attention and fight us right here!?" Lucy yelled.
"They did find us at Butters' place, why wouldn't they want to find us?" Natsu said.
"Hey! Are you all here to see someone?" we all heard.
We turned and saw a security guard with a clipboard.
I noticed the name tag saying, "Chip" and looked at the guy and noticed that he had spikey black hair and his eyes were a deep brown. I started to feel my magical instincts rising and tried to ignore them as I said, "Let me handle this guy."
Chip rose an eyebrow as I came over and said in a very flamboyant voice, "Hello Chip!"
I never thought I would use that after embarrassing myself in front of security guards years ago while visiting my half-brother. Back then he was involved with wiccans who were being terrorized by a vampire from one of his other families.
I noticed Natsu and Happy snickering a little as I continued.
"My friends I are here to visit Tomas!"
He looked at his clipboard and then looked at me and then at the Fairy Tail people behind me.
"He didn't tell me about any visitors, are you sure that he knows? What about a key?" he asked.
I held up the apartment key and said, "Of course sweetie! If he didn't know me why wouldn't he give me one?"
He looked at the Fairy Tail members suspiciously, especially the cats, Wendy, and Erza with her armor.
"Why are there cats? A young girl and a woman with armor?" he asked.
"Well, we are…." Happy tried to say but Natsu covered his mouth.
"Oh they're just pets we adopted!" he exclaimed.
"Except one tried to talk!" Chip said.
"Meow!" Carla exclaimed.
Then Lily and Happy followed.
"I rest my case." Chip said.
"And this girl, well she's my sister! I was meeting with my friends last night…we went to a tavern for food!" Lucy said.
"Y-yeah! We were meeting Harry here for dinner at a local tavern with everyone else!" Wendy exclaimed.
Then he looked at Erza.
"They were at the park while I was doing a sword demonstration and wore armor to protect myself." Erza explained.
"Fine, you know that little kids can't go into taverns." Chip said to me."
It was family night, thought my young niece would enjoy some good food while in town and it was pet friendly." I said.
Chip took in what we said and said, "Well, go on in! I better be notified next time you all come over."
We walked into the apartment building and then felt the magical instincts rise. Even my Winter Mantal started to react whatever what was going on.
Meanwhile as they went up…
Chip changed back into a Mirror Guild member by the name of Trick, the male member that helped Chrome and Prism take Thomas earlier.
"Gotcha now Harry Dresden and Fairy Tail! We will make sure you are dead in this world!"
He went around the corner to hatch the next part of the plan.
Let's go back to Harry and the gang…
I unlocked the door as Natsu said, "Interesting voice you did back there! Never thought you had it in ya!"
"It was something I used a while back to not announce my wizard side." I said as we walked in.
I smelled perfume and realized that Thomas had women over, especially Justine. I started to feel Winter rumble inside and told it to back down.
"Nice digs!" Grey said as he went to the couch.
The cats looked out the window.
"You can see the ocean from here!" Happy exclaimed.
"It's Lake Michigan actually." Cerissa said.
"It looks like an ocean to me!" Happy exclaimed.
"Where is this Thomas person?" Carla asked.
"That is what I'm going to find out." I answered and went into the other rooms to see if he was in.
I saw the usual computer room with the Paranet map he had for years with its familiar markings and new ones for newer networks.
"Where could he be?" Molly asked when she saw the empty room.
"Not sure but I had a weird feeling while we talked to that Chip guy." I answered.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I don't know, there's something weird going on and my magical instincts are trying to warn me." I answered.
"Hey! Check this set up out!" we heard Natsu exclaim.
We heard it from Thomas' bedroom, which it would be sort of off limits for any stranger, especially when it is a White Court threshold!
We found Natsu and Happy lying in Thomas' bed.
"This is a lot comfier than the sleeping bag we took at Butters' place!" Happy exclaimed.
"I agree buddy!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Hey! It's rude to be in someone's bed when they're not home!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Come on now, he's not home, he wouldn't mind if I take a nap here." He told her.
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed.
"Get out of the bed guys!" I yelled.
"Do what the wizard says!" Molly told them.
"Hey, what's this?" Happy asked and held up a pair of underwear. I blushed a little since there were times Thomas stowed away gifts from his girls.
"Did you lose these Lucy?" Natsu asked.
"Couldn't have, they don't look like they fit her." Happy said.
"Shut it cat!" she yelled.
All of a sudden, my wizard instincts and Winter went haywire and felt the current coming at us.
"Get down!" I yelled.
"Huh?" Lucy asked and the window next to her broke and a huge gust of wind hit us all.
We were hit against the walls and bed.
The window also broke in the living room area and everyone else screamed.
"Where did this wind come from!?" Wendy yelled.
"Not sure! I have a feeling it's the Mirror Guild again!" Grey yelled back.
I remembered Wendy's Dragon Magic and yelled, "Wendy! Use your magic!"
"What?" she asked.
"The only way of taking out this wind is your Sky Dragon magic! Do it!" I yelled back.
She nodded and then sucked in the wind gusts to power herself up.
"Focus on it and then shoot it!" I told her.
"Right!" she exclaimed and then felt for the right moment as some of the winds died slowly.
"Now's your chance!" I yelled.
"Sky Dragon ROOOOAAARRRR!" she yelled and the attack was stronger than ever. I even felt a warm breeze attached to it.
The winds disappeared after a moment and everything was calm again.
"Was that the Summer winds?" Molly asked.
"Yeah, it felt very warm to me as well." Cerissa answered.
"Are you okay Lucy?" Natsu asked.
"A little." She answered and held her arm.
"Happy?" Natsu asked and tried looking for the cat.
"Down here." He said and he was hiding under the panties.
"Do you realize you have underwear on top of you?" Lucy asked.
"Aye! It was the only thing closest for me to hide under!" he answered.
Natsu got up and ran to the window to see who was out there and saw a figure running.
"It was a Mirror Guild guy!" he said as he saw the cloak.
"Stars and stones, that means they followed us here." I said.
"Or maybe the magical instincts found a veil." Molly said.
"Happy! I need a ride!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Right!" Happy said and went to the window.
"Wait! You know where you are right!? What if anyone sees you flying!?" Molly yelled.
"Don't worry! I will be careful, besides it would be faster if we follow the guy this time!" he answered.
Happy changed into a slightly bigger form and his wings got bigger.
"Ready sir!" he exclaimed.
Natsu got on and said, "Let's go!"
They flew off.
"Doesn't he get sick while moving?" Cerissa asked.
"Not while flying with Happy." Lucy answered.
Wendy came in and said, "Let me heal you."
She used a healing spell and the injury was gone.
"Looks like we have some Mirror Guild guys to find." I said as I went to the living room.
"Let me guess Boss, call on the pixies again?" Molly asked.
"You got it! It's time to take the fight to these guys while the trail's still hot and whenever we find them, I have a feeling Thomas is with them!" I answered.
