Chapter 17
Natsu and Gray stopped by a dark guild, took each member out, and finally caught their breath. Everyone else was also ambushed by other dark guilds trying to prevent them from getting closer to the Oracion Seis and finding Wendy and Happy.
Natsu takes another whiff to catch Happy's or Wendy's scent and bolts it out of there like a bat out of hell. Natsu finally stops in front of what looks like a cave; the fire dragon slayer enters the cavern to see Wendy passed out on the ground. Zero is standing next to no other than Jellal, who is standing quietly, not doing anything except staring off into space.
Natsu looks at Jellal with anger in his eyes while clenching his fists as he will attack him. However, Zero uses his magic to slam Natsu into the cavern's walls hard. Simultaneously, Jellal nonchalantly passes by Natsu and Wendy while the rest of the Oracion Seis leave the cave and head out in different directions.
After some, sometime Natsu finally wakes up and picks up Wendy, gently resting her over his shoulder. Carla heads towards Natsu, who is holding Wendy over his shoulder. "It looks like the young girl used up her magic already. Silly child, you knew what would happen," she jabbers as she looks at the unconscious sky dragon slayer.
Natsu picks up Carla and runs as fast as his feet can carry him. While running, he hears a voice in his head, "this is Hibiki; bring Wendy to this location.
I'll meet you here," says Hibbiki in his head, telling Natsu to meet him where Fuyu, Hibiki, Erza have moved to a more secluded spot.
Carla uses her powers to float in the air and picks up Wendy, Happy, and Carla when Gray shouts out to be careful since an Oracion Seis member was in the vicinity. Even with Natsu's animalistic sense of smell and sight, he couldn't pinpoint the enemy's exact location. Even if he could fight the fire, the dragon slayer wouldn't be able to since he is holding an unconscious member of their party in his arms.
That's when a giant wall of ice emerges behind Natsu blocking the speed mage Race from destroying Natsu. He smiles, looking about the mage who created the wall "Gray!" he screams as his black-haired companion walks towards him. "Hey, fire breath, get Wendy to Erza quickly!" orders Gray as Racer breaks the wall of ice with his speed.
Natsu agrees and runs off towards Erza with Wendy, Carla, and Happy still in his arms.
**** Fuyu's POV****
I'm watching over Erza's condition, still making sure ensuring on doesn't spread any faster. That's when I look around to see that Hibiki and Lucy were talking about the next phew steps they should take to fight against Oracion Seis.
I look up at the clear blue sky to feel like something was wrong with this whole situation. While contemplating our predicament, the wind gently sways the trees, giving the calm before the storm. While I catch a whiff of the fresh air, I notice a familiar scent, to realize that it was Natsu with the others.
After a while, the bushes near us start to bustle and make noise to finally have the hot-headed fire mage emerge carrying Wendy, Happy, and Carla. I sigh in relief, knowing that they were safe, until I hear something like bombs going off, and jump to a tall branch to see large pillars of ice.
Natsu looks up and reassures me that Gray will be safe and well. I smile. "Hey, you guys watch out coming down!" I scream, trying not to fall on top of anyone; that's when I see Lucy was nowhere around, Wendy was up and crying while healing Erza, and Hibiki was working on his archive magic.
I walk up to Hibiki "before you ask, she went to check on some members who needed more help," he responds before I could muster my question. From a distance, I hear what seems to be the sound of a bomb from where grey was; I listen to what sounds like groaning from behind. I turn around to see Erza awake, and Wendy looks exhausted and pale, passing out from using her magic.
Carla sighs in annoyance "this is why I always ask her not to overexert herself," she states, blaming herself for not stopping Wendy from using any more magic. I run up to Erza, hugging her tightly before she asks what happened, letting go of her. I explained what has occurred on my side, and Natsu told me what happened at the cave when he saved Wendy and Happy.
I started to worry about what this whole deal was about until Erza began to worry and headed once more. I don't know much about the relationship between her and Jella. I continue running after her before she looks behind her, screaming not to follow her and roundhouses me in the head in a surprise attack. I then fly straight into several trees, breaking them in half.
I grudgingly get up, wincing in pain "damn, she's got a hell of a swing," I groan in pain as I rub my head. I returned to the campsite, all pissed off and annoyed at Erza for kicking me. Wendy is crying, even more, blames herself as Natsu pats her on the head in a big brotherly way.
I walk up to her and lay my hand on her head as well "it's ok, you thought what bayou was doing was right," I assured her as a significant pillar of bright light erupts from the north. The ground begins to shake violently, making everyone fall. I look up to see something like a robot spider-looking thing.
I stare at it. "What the Hell is that thing?!" we scream as large craters and pieces of earth fly towards us with great speed like giant cannonballs making it hard to dodge. That's when the entire land in front of us is destroyed, creating a large crater as a giant creature looking like a walking spider starts creating havoc.
My entire group, plus Pegasus and Lamia members, are thrown around like dolls and separated. My body feels like one was Bisca's magic bullets before Bianca grabs me, trying her best to keep both of us steady before we make contact with the ground or trees. Bianca catches her breath as she tries to get her back her balance with her aero magic.
I turn to look at her. "Bianca, are you alright lets land so that you can breathe before we do anything else," I scream at her as I try to get my barring's before trying to find where the others have gone to. She losses her grip was dropping us at high speed, twisting my body so that I can grab my furry companion with one arm and create a makeshift ice slide using my free hand.
The slide helps guide us towards the ground safely. Once my feet hit the grassy material, I look around to hear what seems to be fighting and screaming; that's when I realized that it was Lucy's voice and remember that she was not even with us when the giant mechanical creature appeared. Her voice and location sounded like she was also the closest to my own.
As I run through the forest, I brush tree branches and other things out of my way to help clear the path in front of me. As Bianca and I get close,r we see Lucy in a daze as Angel passes out and fall face-first into the river. Hibiki is behind her, smiling as our ditzy blond female team member looks around the see what happened; I waved to her, smiling when I get a sharp splitting pain in my head. The pain was so unbearable that everything went blank.
A black mark appears over my scar as my body moves slowly towards Lucy. Hibiki saw this and try to stop me; however, his feet are instantly frozen in place, keeping him permanently glued to the ground. Lucy and Bianca turn around to see me acting weird "Fuyu, are you okay? You're scaring me" she shivers in fright as I whisper, "girls run" before my body lunges towards her when Bianca covers the blondie quickly, I freeze right before planting a punch on my kitty companion. Tears stream down my face. "Help me" as I hear Bianca's voice calling my name. I'm still crying as I try to keep myself from hitting both Bianca and Lucy. I can't handle the pressure and intense pain anymore and shut my body down, passing out immediately.
About an hour passes when my eyes finally open with Lucy looking down at me with a worried expression. I slowly get up, feeling like a large boulder hit my body. "What the hell happened?" I questioned as Bianca is checking over Natsu to make sure that he was okay. Once my vision became more precise, Lucy and Natsu were in matching blue outfits, except her bottoms were a skirt instead of pants. My legs drag me to the river, and I realize that I'm wearing a similar business as Lucy and Natsu. However, the difference is that my bottoms were short, with blue fabric laced with white edges and blue see-through fabric hanging over my right thigh.
My hair was up in a braid with star hairpins coursing through them; I sigh while getting up to see Natsu getting annoyed at this whole situation. After some time, my head clears while Lucy hugs me softly, smiling "thank goodness your back to yourself," she whispers, hugging me. I blush as I hug her back "so what's going on" as I look around, she then explains the situation to me and trying to create a strategy or plan since everyone has been split up. I turn behind me to see Natsu and Happy gone "damnit. That moron!" I scream out loud until the sounds of moving bushes and a familiar voice.
Gray makes his way towards us; however, he doesn't have the same vibe or aura. He gives me a creepy vibe until I hear a female's voice to see familiar pink hair "well, this is going to be a pain in the ass," I sighed as Lyon's voice echoes in the forest, knocking out Grey and Shelia at the same time with his ice creation magic.
Lucy and Bianca sigh in relief as we see Lyon and start rubbing my temples at the insanity of this mission. Bianca looks at me "don't get agitated," she advises me, "Yeah but I still need to bash someone's face is for all this weirdness. It makes my brain hurt" I groan as I walk towards Gray and slap him hard to wake him up.
Gray wakes up, wondering what's going on. Bianca floats next to him and starts giving him the rundown of recent events. Gray then turns to Lyon. "Hey, stay with Sheria and well take care of the rest," he assures him as we all head off to find the spider-looking thing.
Author's Notes
I am so sorry about disappearing; I had a really bad situation happen in my life and needed to prioritize that for a while. I apologize once more for disappearing and not updating or adding new content. New chapter was just started and will do my best to upload it asap.
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