Chapter Sixteen: Keep Your Voice Down

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YumYum495 : ) Jellal's mark was over his right eye. The man is very power hungry that much is not only obvious but all I can really tell you ;) I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Previously:

Teal eyes looked at him annoyed, "Now is not a time to be joking we need to get out of here. The sooner the better." Toshiro went through the hole he made in the bars with Natsu following him, "Dragneel, any idea how we ended up here? Or how we were beaten in the first place?"

The pinkette shook his head, "No idea. I just remember everything going black for no reason."

'That's just terrific.' Toshiro thought sarcastically to himself.

Now:

Erza wrapped the up Gray side quickly once the herbs were applied to his side to hold them in place. The Ice Make wizard winced, "It burns." Even as he complained he didn't take the bandage off.

"It will help negate the effect of the magic till we get you to Porlyusica." The red haired woman replied securing the bandage to his side. "I'm just glad I was able to identify the magic."

"What kind of magic is it?" Lucy asked sitting next to Gray on the other side.

"It a dangerous and forbidden magic. In a sense for the wizard it works on it can make their magic go against them. For Gray it makes his Ice Make magic useless to him while it is in effect then while he is still affected uses it against him. I don't know what it will do to Dragon Slaying magic but who ever wanted Hitsugaya and Natsu alive would not have used it on them as much. Probably just to weaken them if it does affect them." Erza explained, "It's called Light Drain. It is miss-named as it uses the magic against its owner but its affect made it forbidden due to the fact that if the user can't be healed in the next day and a half or sooner will die, it depends on how much it was used on the affected person. And that is if the healer knows what they are doing to heal the problem."

Lucy covered her mouth in shock whispering, "No."

"Yes, that just means we have to get Gray to Porlyusica as soon as possible. If it is causing him to be cold he could die."

"Actually Flame Brain and Hitsugaya seemed fine. After Natsu tried to eat it the first time he didn't seem to want to afterwards. Maybe it tasted weird or something like that." Gray said with a wince, "He and Hitsugaya seemed more and more disgusted every time it entered their mouth. I think the guy used is more on them than anything."

"Maybe they will be okay after all. But that does leave us with one worry." Erza's fisted tightened at her side. She could only imagine what the guy could be doing to the Dragon Slayers. It worried her that someone like the two of them could be taken so easily. Other than the scuffle from the fight it didn't seem that they fought back when they were taken. "Lucy and Happy watch Gray. Gray you stay laying down I will get the other two back."

"Are you sure you don't need back up?" Lucy asked worriedly.

"I'll be fine. But just in case make sure there is enough of the herb."

"Okay, I will." The blond said with a nod watching the redhead walk in the direction of the woods. 'Please be okay everyone. Please.'

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Toshiro waved Natsu to follow him as he whispered, "This way should get us out of here."

"Why don't we head to the window? It goes directly outside." The pinkette asked following the white haired Dragon Slayer.

They had been walking for a good twenty minuets and found the place to be like a maze. Every turn had to be carefully calculated and thought through. Which was why Toshiro was leading the way instead of Natsu. "Because there is some kind of trap set up near there."

"That is the fifteenth trap you identified. How do you know all this?" Teal eyes looked at him, "Oh right your…"

"Yes that, now follow me and keep your voice down."

"You know I could easily destroy this place and we could get free that way." Natsu suggested, "I doubt anyone even knows about this place. You already confirmed that no one but us and our captors are here anyway."

"Really that is your plan? Destroy the building around us and let it fall on us. Are you insane?" Hitsugaya asked looking into the teens eyes. Just seeing the grin on his face made the half Soul Reaper want to hit his head, 'Yes, because suddenly he knows how to think like you. He's like an uncoordinated infant.' It still bothered him that Hyorinmaru still had not woken up. He missed the jabs the dragon would make at him, "All that would do is drop the building on us as well as alerting our captors that we were free." Still seeing the grin on the teens face as he nodded made Toshiro really want to leave him for dead, "It is very possible by the time we got ourselves out of the rubble they would find us an take us elsewhere to do this ceremony."

Natsu gave a scoff and crossed his arms, "Please, like that would happen. We would kick their butts before that happened."

'Make that a very uncoordinated infant.' Toshiro internally groaned, 'It wouldn't surprise me if he had some kind of dumb luck following him around like Kurosaki does.' "The answer is no. We will not knock this building down. We will leave hopefully before they find us."

"Ug, people never see it my way." Natsu complained following the white haired male.

'Why am I being punished? What did I do wrong to deserve this?' The Ice Dragon Slayer complained mentally, he wished more than ever to hear his father's voice. It was too silent in his inner world. His teal eyes widened and pulled the fire breather into a room to hide closing the door as quietly as he could. When Natsu went to talk Toshiro motioned for him not too. He whispered, "Someone's out there." Natsu perked up and went to go out but was pulled back with a single grab the back of his top, "No you dolt. If they are talking we can get more information."

The two listened to the voices. The first one Toshiro recognized instantly, "So we are actually doing this. Do you think it will work?"

"Hey, that's the guy that knocked us out." Natsu whispered, very much surprising his fellow Dragon Slayer that he was doing so.

Toshiro nodded and continued to listen, as the second voice spoke up, "I hope this works. I would like to have some magic in the next generations again. I can't believe we used to be a magic town."

"I know this is going to be great. I do hope that neither of them die though. I'd hate for someone to die for use to get natural magic back in town." The first voice said.

"Oh, they will live. I heard the master saying so long as he has these two he will be powerful no matter what."

"Wait your talking like we are going to keep them."

"Well of course we are. How else is the master supposed to get powered every month?" The second voice said.

Toshiro's jaw dropped as he processed what he heard. Natsu looked just as shocked as he leaned on the door. Teal eyes looked up, "Dragneel, we have to get out of here."

They heard the two people disappearing down one of the halls, "Clearly." A hand ran into that pink wild hair, "Every month? What kind of person need the power we have?"

"I have no idea. But either way we have to get out of…here? Dragneel, is it me or are those the relics we were sent to find?"

Natsu looked over at a sword and shield, both having the cracks right were they were said to. "Yeah, they are. I still don't want to touch them."

"We don't have to." Toshiro pulled off the jacket he was wearing and tied it around the sword blade, "Dragneel, get that tarp and wrap the shield. Use that plank to knock it onto the tarp once you have it laid down." The two went to work wrapping up the relics then tying them together with the rope they found.

"So why your jacket?"

"I've had that on this entire time despite feeling hot. I knew we needed it for some reason. Now I know." Toshiro answered, "My Spiritual Pressure is all over that jacket. It should keep the two relics in the tarp busy while we get these to the town. The last thing we need is our magic being drained."

"Is it going to work?"

"For now. But I don't know how long it take to get undistracted." Toshiro picked up the tarp wrapped relics, "I'll carry it. I have more protection than you do." They left the room and headed to get out of the building. They continued to run down the twisted hallway nearly getting lost once even with Toshiro's sixth sense. It didn't help that all the hallways looked the exact same. From cracks on the bricks, the windows that all had some sort of trap by the Soul Reapers senses, the lanterns, even to the doors to either rooms or cells they couldn't tell.

Natsu sniffed, "The only reason we know we are not going in circles is because we can smell we have not been here."

"Luckily." Toshiro agreed as they reached a set of doors. "This has to be the way out. I don't feel any traps either."

"Oh thank goodness. I don't know how much longer I can stand running around like this. This is so boring."

The Fire Dragon Slayer walked up and pushed the doors open. However both froze when they saw a pair of red eyes looking at them from the darkness in the room, "How sweet of you to bring the last items we needed for the Ceremony to work. Thank you for such a kind gesture."