Troubles really love me. Now my laptop had damaged and I've no fund to repair it. The updates will take some times. Only that, I have my i-pad which allow me to observe and read over the internet. Maybe I should try update the stories with it.
At the mean time, please read, enjoy and review. I didn't own Fairy Tail.
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The mages walked across the woods. Their eyes wandered everywhere. According to the client, the boy who had been lost since two days ago used to play in the woods. He was kind of alone all the time, so nobody noticed when he gone. Only when his grandfather complained that he never came back after went out early one morning.
"Maybe he ran away," the girl spoke. She had been the breaking the silence of the woods, sometimes responded by the red cat. "He bored being alone all the time, so he thought of finding his own adventure," she said.
"He is seven," Sting finally spoke. He couldn't stand being so close yet so far with his girlfriend with Laxus always in the middle of the way.
"Children are fast matured nowadays," she replied with a sigh.
"Laxus-san used to be like that," she added.
"Don't start," the lightning mage warned.
"Okay, sorry," she quickly pursed her lips.
Sting glanced through the corner of his eyes to the Fairy Tail mages. He glanced to the girl who became quiet after being warned by the lightning mage. For once, she listened to someone and quit her little mouth.
"But, what would a seven-year-old boy doing alone in the woods?" Sting continued the conversation. "Honestly, you would not find anything but beasts in these thick woods," he said.
Laxus stopped walking, and turned to the Sabertooth mage.
"Now that reminds me…" he said and didn't continue the rest of the sentence.
He fastened his pace and walked ahead of them, leaving them dumbfounded.
"Laxus-san?" Lisanna called.
"Hey, where are you going?" Sting asked, half-shouted.
"Shut up, kids! Come. We need to get to higher ground!" Laxus responded.
The two mages and the cat looked at each other before followed the lightning mage to wherever he was going and for whatever reason he had. Lector jumped and spread his aera out and flew above the two mages who were running, catching the fast steps of the lightning mage.
"Why do we have to go higher?" she asked.
Laxus grinned. This girl always encounters something interesting, he thought. Not a bad decision to accept Mira's offer.
"Did you find something?" Sting asked.
The two clueless mages had to hold their urges to know since Laxus chose not to speak. They slowed down their running steps as they reaching the top of a hill. Laxus stood by the edge of cliff.
"Laxus-san." Lisanna stopped to catch her breath. She clutched on her waist while her other hand rested on her knee.
"What are we doing here?" Sting asked, tried to steady his breath back.
Lector landed on the ground and his aera disappeared. He waited for Laxus as he was as confused as the two mages.
"You kids really need to work on your research," he said, his hands rested on his waist. A faint chuckle heard.
"Excuse me?" Sting seemed a little pissed off.
"Look." He invited the clueless mages to join him. "The boy's village is over there." He pointed to the far left side from where they were standing. "There are two other neighbouring villages which are not very close to the boy's village."
"So…?" Lisanna asked, couldn't reach the point explained.
"Kids," Laxus muttered under his breath.
"Excuse me?!" Sting got annoyed being called 'a kid' more than once that day.
"Like you said, boy…" Laxus turned to the Sabertooth mage and continued, "…there is nothing but beasts in these bloody woods. And the boy made this bloody place his playground. What if he found one?"
"He got kidnapped?" she asked with wide-eyes.
"Or killed by a beast?" Sting offered another suggestion.
Laxus sighed. Made him wondered what the hell was going on through these kids' thick heads.
"Let's get through this. These a little bit faraway neighbouring villages had been attacked by a beast a few days ago. Ever heard of it?" His turn to question.
Lisanna and Sting glanced to each other before synchronizingly shook their heads.
"Seriously?" Laxus breathed. "That's why I told you kids to work more on your researches," he snapped. "That's what put you in trouble all the time," he told Lisanna.
Lisanna looked to the ground and brushed the back of her neck.
"So, you're saying those attacks related to the missing boy?" Sting asked.
"Have you ever chased by some sort of weird animals because you took something belonged to them?" Laxus asked back.
Lisanna stared at Laxus, and when he turned to her and their eyes met, she quickly turned away, covering her mouth and held a laugh. Laxus narrowed his eyes toward the girl.
"So he took something belonged to that beast causing it to attack the villages?" Sting asked. And it hit him. "When he realized that his village will be next, he left?" he continued.
Laxus nodded and secretly grinned. "This is going to be interesting."
He stretched his hand out to Lisanna on his left. The girl confusingly put her hand in his, and he held her hand firmly. "See you down there." He told the white dragon slayer.
"Eh?" Sting raised his brows in confused.
"Wait?!"
Lisanna screamed as Laxus pulled her into his arm and instantly changed into lightning bolt and shot down the cliff. Sting just realized the lightning dragon slayer's meant quickly jumped down thecliff.
"Lector!" he called aloud.
"Yup!" The cat jumped and spread his aera out and flew after his partner and grabbed him by his shoulder. They then followed where the lightning mage had disappeared to.
It took them almost fifteen to meet Laxus on the lower ground. They found him walking with Lisanna on his back.
"Hey, you alright?" Couldn't hid his worries when he saw her suddenly unconscious on Laxus' back. He touched her face and brushed her hair away from her face. She looked pale.
"She'll be fine. Just need a little rest," Laxus said, kept walking. Sting ignored him. He kept on checking his girlfriend's being. Her body turned a little colder. "She had it worse. When we visited you."
Sting's movement stopped. He gulped slowly.
"So, em, she'll be alright?" he asked.
"She will," Laxus assured behind his stern face and monotonous voice. "She's just having a little dizziness and the possibility of vomit. That's all."
"Okay," Sting said with low voice. "Let me carry her."
Sting carefully pulled Lisanna while Laxus helped placed her safely onto his back.
"Maybe you shouldn't turn yourselves into lightning bolt if you knew that she would become like this," he complained.
"And it would take forever to find this idiot since we have to walk all the way around," Laxus commented.
Lisanna moved a bit on his back. Snuggled her face on his neck and slowly wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He soothed her down to let her rest. He heard her 'hmm'ed.
"Why don't you tell your cat to look around?" Laxus said. "There might be some places suitable for shelter."
"Shelter?" Sting asked.
He then nodded to his cat, asking the cat to look from above. The cat quickly flew away as they continued their walk.
"You seem understand this whole situation. Had you…"
"Don't be ridiculous," Laxus cut in.
Lisanna moved again, lifted her head Sting's shoulder.
"God, I feel dizzy," she mumbled, brushed her temple lightly. Her eyes opened a bit.
"It's okay. Just rest," he said.
She pushed her body slowly from his back. "I think I'll walk." She carefully climbed down from his back and carefully placed her leg one-by-one on the ground. She had to cling on his shoulder for a moment before they continued their search. "Oh my…" She kept balancing herself.
"You shouldn't do that, you know?!" She glared at Laxus between her staggered steps.
"Good, she's back," said Laxus, smirking.
"I shall tell Mira-nee and let her kill you slowly," she said.
Laxus giggled. Then he pushed the girl by her head lightly. "I'll be waiting." Lisanna swayed by the light push into Sting's arms. At the same time, Laxus' grins grew wider as he imagined Mirajane waiting in his room.
"STING!" loud voice belonged to his cat friend heard a few seconds earlier than his appearance. The cat flew low, low enough for him to talk to the mages.
The mages stopped.
"I didn't found any shelter!" He was still shouting. His voice the girl's head throbbed harder. "But I found the beast! He's running toward the village!"
Sting and Laxus glanced at each other. And Lisanna slowly unwrapped her arms from Sting.
"I'll catch you later," she said.
"Or we can use a faster way?" Laxus asked, smirked wider.
"No, thanks. Let's go."
Sting and Laxus ran toward the beast as fast as they could. Lisanna tried to run as well since her condition still not good. Lector kept her company. They ran toward the village but at one point they stopped. Both Laxus and Sting.
"He's going different way," Sting breathed.
Instead of going to the village, they followed their senses. Which brought them up another hill and deeper into the woods.
Lisanna as she had regained her strength transformed into a bird and then took the air route. Lector followed. They went toward the village, but on their way, they found something else.
"Lector, I think we just found the boy!"
"Yup!"
They flew down to a dark-brown-haired boy running away aimlessly. Sometimes he looked back, as if searching for something.
"Hey, Vicky!"
The boy startled as the girl and the cat stopped in front of him, he fell on his butt. Something in his arms attracted the girl's attention.
"I'm Lisanna." She had to persuade the boy as he took retreating steps away from her. "Your grandfather sends me to take you home."
He hugged the little whitish thing tightly. However loud stomps and quakes on the ground made the boy ran away from her. He ran faster than before. Soon, a beast appeared before her. A huge beast, coated in white fur with black spots, running toward her with its muscular four legs.
"Lector, run!"
They ran as fast as they could, forgot that they actually could fly. The boy, Vicky, soon appeared in their sights.
"That's the boy!" Lector shouted.
Lisanna glanced at the beast running close behind them.
"Oh my…Lector, we need to get the boy away! It's after him!"
"Yup! How?!" Tears flowing down his cheeks out of frightens.
Lisanna ran faster, tried to grab the boy's shirt. She pulled him to her and they both stumbled on the ground.
"Lisanna!" Lector yelled.
Before they could get back on their feet, the beast came and swung its big front leg toward them, sending them away to the back. Lisanna fell on her side with the boy in her hugs. When it went onward raising its both front legs high to knock them, Lector flew to its face and covered its sight. The beast dodged the cat out of its sight, throwing the cat hit a tree.
"Lector!" Lisanna shouted, unable to do anything. She climbed back on her feet and opened her arms wide. The boy, almost cried, stood behind her.
"You have to come through me first," she said, even though she didn't know if it understood.
She glanced at the boy sideways. "Maybe you should give it back. Save our lives."
"No!" He gave her his shoulder. "Haden is mine!"
"God, you even give it a name."
The beast attacked her again. "Run!" she shouted to the boy. She jumped, avoiding its hand attacks. She transformed into a tigress and claws the beast on its hand and ran up to its head. Then she clawed its face before jumped down on the ground. The beast screamed out loud.
"That would buy us some times."
She ran into the bushes searching for Lector. Before she found the cat, the beast got angrier and pulled out a tree nearest to her, revealed her whereabouts.
"Shit!" Before she ducks another attack, she saw Lector lying on the ground, face down. When she ran to him, as she almost reached the cat, the beast swept her across the ground with the tree bark. She sent into the bushes on the other side of the beast.
"Lisanna!" The dragon slayers finally arrived. Sting ran toward the girl, but the beast attacked her first. She managed to escape but it took most of her remaining strength.
.Laxus shot a small lightning ball just enough to switch its attention. Sting quickly helped her back on her feet.
"The boy got its child," she told him.
"So, where is he now?" he asked.
That then she realized she lost the boy. "We need to find the boy. He refused to give it back." She pulled his hand to follow her.
"Give what back?"
"Its child." She then shouted to Laxus, "Laxus-san, it's a mother!"
Trying to understand what the girl shouted about made Laxus got hit down to the ground. Sting turned to Laxus' screams. He quickly punched the beast with his white dragon's punch. Lack effective but enough to switched its attention away from Laxus. It moved its generous foot away from the lightning dragon slayer and began its nonstop attacks on the white dragon slayer. Laxus staggeringly climbed back on his feet. His head dizzy. His blurring sight watched Lisanna running away.
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I wanted to compile the whole mission in one chapter, but that would be a VERY long one. So, I divided it into two chapters. So, please wait for the next chapter! See you!