Chapter Seventeen: Circle

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Previously:

"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."

Now:

Erza ran through the forest following the trail by the man who took the Dragon Slayer's. The man had not been careful and it was easy to follow the clues she was seeing. 'That or he was in a hurry. If Hitsugaya and Natsu were to wake up he'd be in trouble. Those two are no slouches.' She thought back to Toshiro's sword, 'Hm, I should spar him sometime. I bet he would be a worthy opponent. Even as a fifty year old male and still looking so young he could learn so much. Especially if he is considered a child by this people's standard. That is if Master is correct.' She shook her head, 'I'll worry about asking him later to spar. First I need to get him and Natsu free from this crazy man.'

Continuing to run she was able to find the building they had gotten taken to. Hiding behind a tree she quickly looked at the surrounding area with narrowed eyes. She found no obvious traps but that didn't mean there wasn't any. The redhead tapped the tree trunk she was next to in thought, 'Alright, if I had a trap where I would I put it if someone was trying to get there and was not invited.' Her eyes looked around seeing the obvious points then the sneaky spots. 'I could just use one of my armors to fly me over to the building but that would give me away in a moment.' A thought struck her, 'He has to have more than one person working for him with an arrange of talents. The question is, how many?'

Quickly she jumped to the side avoiding the tree that tried to hit her. She eyed the beastly tree as the person walked out from behind it and shook his head. "You should have just left like the Mayor told you too."

Erza narrowed her eyes, "I remember you." She stood tall looking at the man nothing stood out to her other than the dark hair that covered his left eye. Her eyes narrowed. The redhead recalled seeing him walking down the hall when she exited the Mayor's office with Lucy, "Tell me, do you have a mark over your left eye?"

The man snorted and crossed his arms, "Why would you care? It's not like even if I did that it changes anything."

Erza snorted in disbelief, "I see I will have to get my answers the hard way." Holding her hand out she re-quiped her trusty sword into her hand.

"You think a flimsy sword is going to damage my monster think again."

"If I had to guess." Erza said making the guy shut up and looked at her irritated, "Your abilities grant you the ability to bring nature to life and control them."

The man blinked and laughed, "What would make you think that?"

"The tree you are using to fight me with. Did you know that until you get stronger that you can only control a handful?" Erza said making sure to keep the tree in her sight as she started to walk around for a good spot to strike, "It's about the mental capacity. At least that is what I read about."

"Great, the almighty Ezra Scarlet thinks she knows better." The guys said glaring at her hatefully, "I hate you wizards. You think you are all high and mighty just because you actually have magic. You have no idea what it is like to not have any."

Erza was confused yet still made sure to look for an opening, 'Okay, this man seems emotionally and mentally unstable. Not once did I mention that I knew better than him. I just said what I read in the book I read. Anyone could get a hold of the same book. It was on the basics of common magics.'

"You all go on these quests and help people. Yet you never do anything other than what you magic can gain you." The man yelled huffing; it bewildered Erza that he man had gotten this upset over the simple fact she told him. It didn't help that he wasn't making any sense either. "I'm going to show you that magic isn't all that!"

"So you're suggesting a spar no magic."

"When did I suggest that?!"

Erza touched her forehead, 'This man is going to be mentally exhausting.'

"All I said is magic isn't all that."

"Then tell me what you meant. Because I clearly can't tell what you are trying to convey to me." 'Not that I'm really trying.' The redhead thought to herself. She had a feeling if she did try that the man in front of her would make her go crazy as he was.

"I'm going to show you magic is stupid and useless."

'Okay, so he's going to use magic to try and distract me possibly. That means I have to make sure to keep an eye on my surroundings. Don't want to be caught up in a trap that is lying around whether or not he placed them.' She could see it now the mark that Gray was talking about it looked like a sun burst at first glance but now that she got a good look at it while the man was yelling at her she could clearly see a…

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Natsu and Toshiro dodged the flying light balls. Both thinking at the same time, 'Not this guy again.'

The Soul Reaper landed on one of the rafters and looked to where he had dropped the relics that were wrapped in the tarp. Not finding them he looked around only to find that that they had been picked up by another person and were being placed. Pulling Hyorinmaru blade off his back he quickly took note that the guy placing the relics had the same mark above his left eyebrow. The white haired boy didn't get a chance to look more in-depth as he was once again assaulted by more heat balls. What made these things such a pain to fight for him was they were heat based despite the fact that they seemed to aim were most of the magic biggest problem area was. So that made the target his and Natsu's mouth. From what he understood he ate their element by sucking it in or just eating it. So he could in a sense recharge magic by eating his element. A simple concept really and easy to apply so long as nothing got in the way, like the heat orbs flying around currently.

It also didn't help that the flamed idiot was using fire like crazy. Yet no matter what the pyromaniac did nothing brought the building they were in down. What ever was going on was making their escape a bit more difficult than it should have been. Toshiro could see the doors behind the ceremony alter. In fact the place they were in reminded the bleached haired male of a church, a very backwards made church. All of the pews were facing where the doors were and the stage was in front of the door. There was room to leave but that stage was an issue. Toshiro wanted to be no where near it. On the stage was four pedestals, one in the center, two in the corners near the door and the last one in front of the center one but on the opposite side of the stage from the door.

Toshiro also found it a bit concerning that one wall had a lot of fire and the other ice. For the fire side there was torches that had been lit, a couple of fireplaces, fire in lanterns, among other things that had fire in them. On the ice side there was ice chests filled with ice, an ice box, a couple of fridges he could smell ice cream and other ice related items in. There was defiantly a plan for him and Natsu if there was all this fire and ice in the room. But still even as Toshiro had gotten a little bit knowledge and some experience on what his Dragon Slaying magic was like he didn't know if he could pull off the trick that Natsu could pull off by drawing the fire to his mouth. The biggest things that he and Hyorinmaru had been focusing on is him using his magic. It would be useless to pull in a recharge source if he couldn't use it. But now he really wished he could.

Either way even if he could do it there would be no way as even Natsu was finding it really hard even to try himself. Every time he did try one of the heat lights would go straight into his mouth. Toshiro shook his head and continued to avoid the orbs following him. As he did he could see the red eyed man leaning on the center podium watching the fight. Just from glancing at him told Toshiro that things were not going him and his fellow Dragon Slayers way. The Soul Reaper knew that he and Natsu had to get out of this church like building at all costs. Otherwise this would not end well for them. Just loud enough for Natsu to hear with his good hearing Toshiro said, "We have to get out of here Dragneel, ASAP. If we don't we could be in real trouble."

The pinkette nodded not wanting to be there anyway, "How do we do that?"

Toshiro would have explained but the red eyed man looked at him with a smug expression. Growling he replied again so only Natsu could hear, "I can't explain the man can hear us."

Natsu glared at the red eyed man with irritation at those red eyes landed on him. "I want to kick his ass so bad."

'Join the club.' The Soul Reaper thought to himself. Continuing to make sure to keep his mouth closed. So long as he didn't give too many chances he didn't have too much of a problem with the heat orbs other than the heat they were giving off. He could feel the room getting too hot as he used his Spiritual Pressure to lower his body temperature to keep him cool. Sometimes it really sucked being ice based. He was panting the more the light orbs darted around and the amount of fire Natsu used in the now closed room. The heat kept building more making Toshiro sweat, 'D…damn it. It's too hot in here. I have too leave this room before I pass out.' He tried to used his Zanpakuto but found he was unable to. That was probably why he was still with his blade when he woke up. In his inner world he could see the red eyes watching him from over Hyorinmaru's sleeping back. Like the man they belonged to they looked smug making Toshiro glare. He really wanted those eyes out of his inner world; they bothered him to no end. They had no place in his soul.

The white haired Dragon Slayer couldn't even tell how long the fight had been going on but he did catch on to the heat orbs heading more toward Natsu than they did him. It bewildered Toshiro how much these light could actually affect them when all they did was just fly around the two them and occasionally hit Natsu to cause the idiot to open his mouth to yell. Trying to use his Spiritual Pressure to sense any others was making him dizzy. But he was sure that he felt a familiar magic signature near by. 'I hope they get here soon.' If anything he hated feeling this weak. Maybe the chains that was on him in the dungeon was the cause of his current weakness and he hadn't full recovered. He never heated up this fast. Now that he thought about it his Spiritual Pressure was protecting his magic so that could mean that what ever the chain was doing to him had to reach through the barrier to reach his magic to repress it. That could be why he was so disoriented with his Spiritual Pressure. 'Whatever magic was in that chain is now the bane of my existence. Never again do I want to be anywhere near it.'

Just as he leaned against the upright rafter a magic circle appeared beneath his feet. Shocked he tried to move off only to find chains on his wrist. As the tried to freeze it again while he looked to see if the circles were anywhere else. He found the circle under Natsu who was also chained on his wrist and over near the center podium a connection on two sides facing the opposite walls but not facing the door. The two Dragon Slayers only had a few seconds to assess their problem before the chain was dragging them toward the podium.