Chapter 6 – Melody of Death
As we reached the front doors leading into Oshibana station, I held one side of the double doors open, while Lucy held the other. While we waited for the boys to bring Kageyama through, Erza strode outside to take another good look at the wind barrier that still held us prisoner here. Once Natsu and Gray were clear with their burden, Luce and I let the doors fall closed once more and proceeded to help the boys lay Kageyama down as gently as possible.
While Lucy helped me to check on Kageyama's wounds, Gray and Erza filled Natsu in on the true purpose of Erigor's scheme.
"What!? He's going after Gramps and the other guild masters!?" Natsu shouted, becoming angry at this new information.
"It's the only thing that makes sense, not to mention Gray managed to get one of the Eisenwald members to talk before he defeated him." Erza said, as she crossed her arms and cast a scowl at the wind barrier. "We have to stop Erigor before he can play that flute at the Guild Master Conference Hall, but to do that, we have to find a way to break through this cursed thing first."
"Agreed… If we could only get out of here, we could easily catch up to him with the SE vehicle." Gray said, as Lucy and I finished inspecting Kageyama. Standing up, we caught Erza's concerned gaze.
"Has there been any changes?" she asked, as I shook my head no.
"He's still out cold." I answered.
"Icelynn's done what she can for him for now, but I'm pretty sure he still needs to go to a hospital as soon as we can get him to one." Lucy added, as we moved over to join where the others now stood.
"Any ideas on how to get through the barrier yet?" I asked, as a flash of flame rushed by us.
Turning to find the source, we all watched as Natsu tried to slam a flaming fist into the barrier to try and break it. Sadly, the poor fire slayer only ended up being thrown back for his troubles. All Lucy and I could do was blink at him.
Well to be fair, we shouldn't be surprised that he would take the direct approach. I thought, as Natsu hopped back on his feet.
"Um… Natsu?" Lucy said nervously, as Natsu charged at the wind barrier once more.
Letting out a battle cry, Natsu began throwing a series of punches and kicks at it. When the barrier retaliated this time, he was thrown a little further back than what he had been before. Nearly passing Kageyama, shockingly enough. While he did that, Erza went to kneel down at the wounded mage's side and began trying to talk him into waking up. A useless effort on her part with those injuries, I'm afraid.
"Natsu! Cut it out already! Obviously brute force won't be getting us out of here." Gray snapped, as Natsu hopped back on his feet, seemingly ignoring Gray as he glared at the barrier that stood between us and us saving the guild masters.
"Icelynn, Gray, do you guys think that you'd be able to freeze it? Then Natsu could melt it, or break it, or something!" Lucy suggested, as I shook my head no.
"Even if we could pull it off, it would be too dangerous. That wind looks like it could cut through anything in its path, and if we try to freeze it solid, and shards break off… We could either get one of us killed, or one of the residents outside." I said, as Erza spoke up.
"Before Erigor could trap all of us in here, I took one of the hand-held lacrima speakers and told the crowd outside to run for their lives. There shouldn't be anyone nearby." She said, as I shrugged my shoulders.
"We can't know that for sure. In every town, there's at least one stubborn idiot who'd rather go down with their home than flee." I said, as I crossed my arms. "And even if they all did evacuate; we could still get one of us hurt or worse."
Letting out a snarl, we all turned once again to see Natsu charge at the wind barrier once again. His entire body covered in flames this time as he threw his entire being at it, yelping in pain as he did so. Though, when he fell back this time, Lucy snaked her arms around him. Both to keep him from falling on his ass for a third time, and to prevent him from charging at the barrier again.
"Natsu, stop!" she begged him, as Natsu froze in her hold.
For a moment there, I thought that maybe Lucy's concern for him as our friend had touched him or something. However, as that cheeky smirk of his appeared when he turned to face my sister, all thoughts of that vanished. Yeah, that mischievous smirk doesn't fool me.
"W-what is it?" Lucy asked him, as a light blush coated her cheeks from how close Natsu stood to her.
For a moment, I waited for the inevitable kick Lucy likes to deliver in these sorts of awkward close encounters. However, when it didn't happen, I began to wonder if maybe my sister had an unconscious thing for my fire slayer counterpart…
Either way, thoughts like these get a back seat for now. I'll have plenty of time to tease her about it later when we get Lullaby away from Erigor.
"I've got it!" Natsu declared, as he turned around to place his hands on Lucy's shoulders. "We can use your spirits!" he said, drawing a huge blank from Erza and Gray, and disbelief from Lucy and I.
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Lucy asked him, as Natsu stood back from her.
"Oh, come on, you know! Remember that time at Everlue's place, I got taken from one place to another by being pulled through that spirit world place!" Natsu explained, as I put my face into my palm. I had to admit though, it was pretty freaky to behold.
"Natsu, that was a onetime thing that never should have happened in the first place. Like I told you once before, it's a serious breach of contract for a human to pass through a celestial gate into the spirit world." Lucy told him, her hands on her hips. "Even if such a thing was allowed, we still wouldn't be able to go because humans would suffocate there. And to top all of it off… Even if we could pass through, and breathe there, the gate we'd have to pass through still wouldn't get us out of the barrier." She said, as Natsu became confused.
Sighing heavily, Lucy began breaking down her explanation into simpler terms.
"Okay, looks like I have to speak more plainly. Natsu, even if we could use the Celestial Spirit World to escape, we would need a second celestial wizard outside of the barrier to open a gate." She said, as Natsu became even more confused.
"I'm really confused, Luce. Can't you just do it already?" Natsu asked, as I sighed heavily this time.
"Here an even more simplified version…" I said, as Natsu turned his confused expression my way. "She can't do it, Natsu. Doing so would cause her to lose the keys she contracted with."
"Oh, really?" He said, becoming a bit shocked.
"Yes…" Lucy confirmed with a nod of her head. "I didn't say anything back then because the gate key was Everlue's." she said, only for Happy to startle us with a yelp, making all of us all but jump out of our skins.
Looking around at him, Happy pulled the little green backpack he always wore around to his front and began digging through it.
"Lucy! I finally remember what I was trying to tell you before." He said, as he pulled out a gold key. "Check it out!" he said, as he held it up for all of us to see.
It was the celestial gate key to the Maiden Constellation.
"How the hell did you get your paws on Virgo's key!?" Lucy glared at the little blue cat. "Didn't anyone teach you that it's wrong to steal things from other people, even scum like Everlue!?" she demanded, as Happy tried to run away from Scary Lucy, only to end up having my sister grab his tail to keep him from doing so.
"But I didn't steal it, Virgo asked me to give it to you!" He pleaded, as the anger vanished from Lucy's face at once, causing her to let the poor little guy go.
"Come on you two, we don't have time for this shit." Gray said, as Natsu put a finger to his chin in thought…
"Virgo…" he echoed. "That name does sound familiar." He said, as I turned to face him.
"Well, it should." I said, as Natsu turned his attention to me as well. "Virgo was that gorilla maid you fought when we took that Everlue job." I finished, as the memory came back to him.
"Oh yeah, her…" he said, as I nodded my head once.
"If Happy has her key instead of Everlue, then his contract with her must have been terminated when he got arrested." I said, as Happy nodded his head once to confirm my speculation.
"It's true! After we left Mr. Melons house, Virgo came up to me, and said that she had wanted to sign a new contract with you Lucy." Happy explained, as Lucy crossed her arms over her chest, her look of impatience coming back.
"I'll have to deal with her later, Happy. We have bigger problems right now, you do realize that, right?" she said, as Happy began to look crestfallen.
"But Lucy, she…" Happy went to say, only for my sister to pinch his little face.
"SHUT UP! WHY CAN'T YOU ACT LIKE OTHER CATS!?" Lucy snapped at him, while Natsu and Gray backed away slowly. Muttering something about Lucy learning how to be scary from Erza or something.
"Lucy, don't be so harsh on the little guy." I chided, as Lucy turned her scary look at me.
"Butt out Icelynn! He's annoying me." She snapped at me.
Hearing it, I bared my fangs at her. Not at all phased by the look.
"And you're being a bitch for no fucking reason to a friend who is trying to give us some helpful information." I shot back. "I don't care how annoyed you get, if Happy has information that could be useful in getting us out of here, we'd better hear him out before we end up regretting it." I said, as Lucy let go of Happy's face, backing away from my scary aura like Natsu and Gray had done to hers. She only retreated a couple of steps though, before she looked like she was ready to shoot something back at me. However, Happy sitting down with such a sad face had us pausing.
"No, I'm sorry you guys… I'm just a weird cat who thought that since Virgo can drill holes, maybe she can help us get to the other side…" He said, as we all looked at him in shock.
Now that he mentioned it, back in Shirotsume when Lucy tried to get hired by Everlue long enough to get her hands on Daybreak, Virgo popped out of a hole to greet Lucy before Everlue came out to interview her himself. At the time, our focus was more on Everlue, and not what Virgo was able to do. Hell, we didn't even know she was a celestial spirit until he summoned her in battle.
"You're right! She can!" Lucy said, as she went to hug Happy with a big bright smile on her face, like her pinching his face hadn't occurred at all.
Not willing to let go of how she had acted just moments ago to the little blue cat, I simply grabbed her by the back of the spaghetti tank top she wore to hold her up.
"Don't you have something to say to Happy before you ask him nicely for the gate key he has?" I asked her, as Lucy began to look sheepishly guilty. Seeing it, I let her go. Once she was free, she dropped down to her knees to be closer to Happy's level.
"My most sincere, humble apologies." She said, bowing her head once. Barely a few seconds after the words had left her lips, she snatched up Happy and began hugging him. "Now pretty please give me the key!?" she begged, as she rubbed her cheek on top of Happy's head.
"Get me some fish when we get back to Magnolia, and all will be forgiven." Happy said, becoming the embodiment of his namesake once more.
"It's a promise." She swore, as Happy handed her the key. Taking it from him, she then turned to launch herself at me, hugging me around my waist. "Icelynn! I'm sorry I snapped at you like that, please don't be mad at me!" she gushed, as I let out another sigh.
"Fine, I won't be mad. Just think before you go off on someone next time." I said, as I patted her soft blonde hair. "And I'm sorry I said you were a bitch."
Now that we sisters were good, Lucy let me go, and moved to stand a little further away from us. As she did so, I heard Erza quietly ask Gray and Natsu why they couldn't make up like Lucy and I just did. Ignoring it, I watched as Lucy stood as she normally would to summon a spirit. Giving us a nod, she held the key out before her.
"I call upon thee, in the world of the Celestial Spirits! I beckon you to myside at once, pass through the gate!" she said, her magic glowing gold around her. "Open! Gate of the Maiden: Virgo!"
As the incantation left her lips, a golden circle formed before my sister. Glowing brightly, a pink haired, blue eyed girl wearing a maid's uniform, and shackles with broken chains; who looked nothing like the Virgo we saw before, appeared in the middle of it. She wasn't standing way over our heads anymore, and she actually had a flattering figure. Had it not been for her scent, these changes would have made me think we were standing before an entirely different celestial spirit.
Looking around at my friends, I could see that Natsu, Lucy, and Happy looked to be about as flabbergasted as I was. Gray who had never seen Lucy's magic before looked on in awe. Erza shared the look, but a little more toned down this time, seeing as she saw Lucy summon Cancer earlier to fight Eisenwald.
"You summoned me, Mistress? What can I do for you today?" Virgo asked, giving Lucy a bow.
"Uh… Who are you?" Lucy asked her, totally confused.
Natsu, on the other hand, just walked up to her like she was a friend he hadn't seen in some time. Apparently, he recognized her by scent like I did.
"What's up Virger? Long time no see, huh?" Natsu said, as the maid spirit before us gave him a smile. "You've seemed to have lost some weight since I saw you last."
"My name is Virgo, and it's nice to see you again as well. I apologize for any trouble I caused you the last time we met." Virgo corrected him, as Lucy turned wide eyes in my direction.
"Hold on, that's Virgo?" she asked, pointing at the newest spirit in her family.
"That's her. She looks different, but she still smells the same." I answered, as Lucy turned her bug eyes back to the maid spirit.
"Yeah, but she didn't just loose weight as Natsu is suggesting!" Lucy protested, causing Gray to cast her a confused expression.
"Wait, how do you mean?" he asked, as Lucy continued to stare at everything with her bug eyes.
"Let me put it this way… When we first met Virgo, she stood at a height that would make Elfman look short, and she was pretty thick around her arms, legs, and middle." I answered, as I glanced at my fellow ice mage. "Don't ask me how though, because I don't have a damn clue."
"It's because I am a very loyal spirit, who would do whatever I must to please my wizard, that I try to take on the form I think my wizard would feel is the most appealing." Virgo said, answering the yet unspoken question that was obviously going to be asked.
"I don't know…" Natsu said, as he shrugged his shoulders… "I thought you looked pretty damn cool when you were big and tough looking." He said, as Virgo tilted her head to the side in thought.
"Is that so?" she said, before transforming into the gorilla maid half of us were originally expecting to see. Showing Gray and Erza exactly what I meant. "I can change to this if you like." Virgo said, her voice much deeper now.
"Virgo, no! I'm your wizard, and I like the other form better!" Lucy shouted, causing Virgo to immediately switch back into the form she had been in when Lucy summoned her.
"Yes, Mistress." Virgo said, her tone of a higher pitch now. Sighing in relief, Lucy moved to stand before Virgo.
"Alright, I'm sorry to ask you this, but can we work out the details of our contract later. We need to get out of the train station as soon as we can. People's lives are in danger, so do you mind helping us out?" Lucy asked, as Virgo nodded her head once.
"Yes, whatever you'd like to do Mistress." She said, as I noticed that she wasn't looking at Lucy in the eye. Following her stare, I saw her give the whip at Lucy's side a hungry look. Feeling a little put off by that look, I tried my best to ignore it. If Lucy and I can get used to Taurus' perverse behavior, I'm sure we'll learn to live with whatever fetish Virgo may seem to have.
"Hey, can we cut the Mistress thing out, please?" Lucy asked, oblivious to what Virgo was looking at.
"How about Queen?" Virgo asked, as I began to wonder if she had a masochist-bondage type of fetish…
"No, I don't like that either." Lucy said, rejecting that nickname as well.
"Well then, how about princess?" Virgo asked once more, as the princess thing rubbed my sister's ego the right way.
"Oh… Well, I can't deny that I like that one." She admitted, as Gray, Natsu, and I all deadpanned.
"Princess… Really?" Gray said.
"She just had to use a name that would go to Luce's head…" Natsu muttered, as I nearly elbowed the both of them.
"At least you two don't have to live with her. She's going to be pointing this out to me for weeks…" I said, as Erza got up from where she had been kneeling next to Kageyama up until now. Moving to stand next to Lucy, she placed a hand on her shoulder.
"That's nice and all, but we need to get moving." She said, as Lucy was thankfully snapped out of the stupor Virgo's new name for her wizard had put my sister in.
"Understood." Virgo said, as she began using her magic to drill through the stone sidewalk that led into Oshibana station.
"Oh, wow! Look at her go! We'll be out of here in no time." Gray exclaimed excitedly as Virgo disappeared from sight.
While Virgo dug the tunnel that would allow us to finally leave Oshibana station, I asked Natsu to give me a hand, and moved over to where Kageyama laid unconscious. Indicating for Natsu to stand on his other side. Catching my drift, we then each pulled one of his arms across our shoulders and lifted him up between us.
"Natsu, Icelynn, what are you guys doing?" Gray asked us, as Lucy and Erza looked on at us in curiosity.
"Well, I'd feel guilty if we just left him here to die, and I think Ice over here feels the same way." Natsu said, using Lucy's nickname for me. I didn't hate the warm feeling it gave me inside, so I just went with it. He and all of Fairy Tail had become my friends when they accepted me and Lucy into their guild after all.
"Well to be fair, he can't exactly learn his lesson or pay for what he's done while dead, now can he?" I sarcastically asked my guild mates, as I thought about how easily I could have turned down a similar path if it hadn't been for Lucy… "Besides, sometimes all a person needs to turn their life around is a second chance." I said somberly, as I looked away to hide the melancholy, I knew I had in my eyes at the moment.
"Very well." Erza said, as I looked up once more to see her giving Natsu and I a small proud smile of sorts. "Let's get out of here then." She said, as Gray backed off of us as well. Turning, they along with Lucy began making their way to the hole Virgo had made.
Following behind them, Natsu and I carefully lowered Kageyama down to Erza and Gray, before jumping down it ourselves. Once down, we took Kageyama back from them and headed for the other end of the tunnel. And before we knew it, we had handed Kageyama back off to Erza and Gray long enough to climb out of the other side after them into the intense wind Erigor's barrier created.
Taking him from the two, I then set about laying him back down to keep his wounds from being aggravated too much. When he was good, I knelt down so that my back was between him and the wind. As I did this, I saw Lucy climb out of the hole with Virgo behind her, holding down my sister's skirt.
"Wow, this wind is intense!" she shouted over the roar of wind.
"Princess! I'll keep your panties from showing!" Virgo declared, while her more flowy skirt whipped around all over the place, giving a very red-faced Gray an eyeful.
"We don't have time to worry about such things! We need to reach Clover!" Erza said, as Kageyama scoffed at us, causing him to cough a bit for the effort.
"It's no use…" he said in a low voice. "You'll never reach Erigor in time. We've won."
At his words, I could almost hear the kind of comments Natsu would say in my mind. Only for it to dawn on me that Natsu had yet to say anything back to Kageyama's face. Looking around, I saw that he was missing.
"Where did Natsu go?" I asked out loud, as Erza, Gray, and Lucy began checking around our immediate vicinity.
"Happy's gone too." Gray said, as Lucy began to look a little worried.
"They must have flown off to try and find Erigor before he can reach Clover." Erza guessed, as she turned to look at the SE Vehicle. "Then we need to get going as well." She said, as she moved over to Kageyama's other side.
Reaching down, I helped her to lift the once again unconscious dark mage.
"Gray, I need you to open the door; and Lucy, climb in to help us get him in without aggravating his wounds any more than they've already been." Erza ordered, as the two moved to comply.
It took us some very careful maneuvering, but we eventually managed to get Kageyama settled in the back of the SE Vehicle, Lucy sending Virgo home once the task was complete. Climbing in, Gray sat next to Kageyama on one side, while Lucy sat next to me on the other. Looking out the window, I saw that Erza was about to put on the SE plug at the front of the Vehicle.
I still remembered the fatigue she was in earlier, so I opened my window.
"Erza, hold on!" I called, making her to pause.
"Icelynn, what is it?" she asked, as I held my hand out the window towards her.
"See if that thing will reach the window." I told her, as she gave me a confused look.
"Why?" she asked, as I gave her a knowing look.
"Look, you've already used up a good bit of your magic both driving this thing here and fighting those mages in the train station. If you use too much more before we reach Erigor and Natsu, then you could collapse of magic exhaustion. Let me put in on, and you can drive as fast as you can handle." I explained, as Erza gave me a thoughtful look. "Erza, it's better this way. If you pass out while driving, we crash, you, me, Gray and Lucy run the risk of dying. Kageyama would be a goner for sure with his injuries." I told her, as Erza hummed in thought.
Eventually though, she guided the SE plug up to the window. Thankfully, it reached just fine so long as I held my arm up to it.
"You have a point. Now let's not waste anymore time." She said, as I put the SE plug on my wrist.
Climbing into the driver's seat, Erza started the Vehicle, and I could immediately feel it pulling on my magic. Soon as we left Oshibana, and Erza began driving as fast as the vehicle was capable of, the drain became sharper to the point I couldn't help but wince.
"Are you going to be alright Icelynn?" Gray asked me, as he formed a small bar of ice with his magic. When it was done, he held it out to me.
"Yeah, I will be." I answered, as I took the bar of ice from him. Nodding my thanks at him, I took a bite out of it. The moment it hit my taste buds, I couldn't help but give Gray and appreciative look.
"Damn, that's pretty good… I'll have to take you up on this more often." I said, as Gray threw a smirk my way.
"No problem. Like I said, if you need the power boost, I'll throw some your way." He answered, as we all fell silent for a while after that.
It lasted for just a little while though, until Kageyama regained consciousness once more. Opening his eyes, he looked quite shocked to see us instead of his maker, or maybe his guildmates, or a random doctor or something.
"I don't get you guys…" he rasped after a while. "I'm your enemy, why didn't you leave me behind?" he asked us, as Lucy gave him a small glare.
"Because you need to see a doctor! I thought that with all of those injuries it would be obvious." She scolded him, as Kageyama averted his eyes and looked out of the window instead. "Thanks to the antics of your guild all of the doctors in Oshibana have fled, leaving you no choice but to go see one in Clover."
"But I'm your enemy…" Kageyama argued, as he began muttering to himself. "No wait, I get it, you're hoping to use me to negotiate with Erigor. Good luck with that." He said, as I scoffed at him.
"Don't think too highly of yourself." I snapped at him, causing Kageyama to look over at me, while I gave him an icy glare of my own. "Even if I were to have Erza pull over right now for me to use just a tiny bit of my magic to slit your throat, not many would blink at your death. We are fully aware that Erigor sees you and the rest of your comrades as nothing more than pawns to be discarded once your usefulness has run out. And as for your comrades, some would see me killing you as a favor. Why? Because I opened up a position the small fry would have a chance to fill." I said, as Kageyama's eyes widened at my words. Even Gray and Lucy looked on at me nervously.
"What? Did you expect me to say something light-hearted?" I asked them, as I rolled my eyes. "Sorry to ruin your expectations of me, but what I said is the truth. Believe it or not, in most cases, some light guilds are no better than their darker counterparts. The only difference is that they at least toe the line with the laws of the magic counsel and Fiore's royal government." I told them, as I turned to look out the window myself.
"Icelynn's rant aside, I think she has a point." Lucy agreed, as Gray nodded his head once.
"Yeah, there's more to this world than just living and dying." He said, as the SE Vehicle suddenly gave a violent jerk. As it did so, you could feel as the wheels left the ground for a moment. When they touched back down though, Gray, Lucy, and I were thrown about. Kageyama on the other hand, got pinned down with Lucy's butt to his face.
When the shaking stopped, Lucy jumped off Kageyama like he had bitten her or something and landed sideways on my lap with her arms around my neck.
"Oh my God! I am so sorry!" She squeaked in embarrassment.
Putting a hand to his bruised face, Kageyama gave her an annoyed look.
"Can your ass be any bigger?" he asked her sarcastically, as Lucy's face turned red with indignation.
"Why you!" she growled at him, then turned to look at Gray, who now sat where he had landed beside me. "KILL HIM GRAY, HE SAID I HAD A BIG BUTT!" She fussed, then turned to look at me. "COME ON ICELYNN, ARE YOU GOING TO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH TALKING TO YOUR CUTE LITTLE SISTER LIKE THAT!" she shouted, as she hugged me and made a fake crying sound.
"For goodness sake Lucy, get ahold of yourself." I said, as I gave my sister a droll stare that matched the one Gray was giving her. Seeing it, Lucy pouted at us not teaching Kageyama a lesson, and moved to sit next to him without another word.
"No kidding." Gray added, as he then opened the window and poked his head out. "Hey Erza, you alright? What happened?" he asked our red headed comrade.
"It's alright, we just had to get on the train tracks! Everything should be fine now!" she called back, as Gray pulled his head back into the Vehicle, closing the window as he did so.
"What was that all about?" Lucy asked.
"Erza said we just had to get on the tracks. I guess we'll be coming up on the ravine soon." Gray answered, as we all elapsed back into silence. The only sound coming from the thumps of the SE Vehicle going over the rails.
We spent the next little while in silence, Kageyama having nothing more to say to any of us, just sat in his seat looking out the window at the ravine beyond the railway bridge we rode on.
Looking out the window on my side, I could recall that day that Jude raged up a storm over the costs to repair this bridge. From what I can remember, it had been damaged in a few different places from at least three different guilds over the course of a week. He was so furious that Lucy and I did all that we could to stay out of his way. It was a whole three weeks before we could even breathe easy in the same room as him.
"How much longer do you think it's going to take us to find Natsu?" Lucy suddenly asked, as I was pulled from the memory.
"I have no idea. It depends on how far Erigor managed to go before he caught up to him." Gray answered, as Lucy opened her window and peered outside it.
"I hope he's alright…" she muttered, as she kept her eyes trained on the direction we were going.
"I'm sure he is. If he had really needed help, I'm sure Happy would have flown back to find us by now." I said, as Lucy glanced at me for a second, then back to where she had originally been looking.
"There he is!" Lucy told us a few moments later, as we made it passed another bend. "Natsu!" she called out of the window, as Erza slowed the SE Vehicle to a stop. Soon as I felt the drain on my magic cut, I took off the SE plug, and put the leather bracer I had taken off in the beginning back on. Following Lucy and Gray out of the back of the car, we all walked towards the front to see a shirtless Natsu standing over a thoroughly defeated Erigor.
"Hey! You guys just missed seeing me kick Erigor's ass!" Natsu called to us, as I moved to put the SE plug back where it's supposed to go, and helped Lucy pull an exhausted Erza from the front of the vehicle. Looking at her now, I could see that I would have been right about her passing out if I had let her take the SE plug instead.
"I'm proud of you Natsu." Erza said from where Lucy and I supported her on either side, helping her to move closer to take a better look at Erigor's unconscious form.
Kageyama on the other hand, still stood by the SE Vehicle, his jaw pretty much on the bridge in shock at seeing his guild master lying at Natsu's feet.
I just hope that his close brush with death will help him not do anything rash. I thought, as I readjusted Erza's arm that rested over my shoulders.
"Why'd it take you so long to deal with this guy? What, did you have a hard time taking him out?" Gray asked Natsu, having discarded his jacket and shirt the moment he followed us over here.
"I didn't say that!" Natsu protested, as he put his fists on his hips. "Besides, I took care of him, didn't I?" he demanded.
"Aye, even though I was worried there for a bit." Happy agreed, as Natsu gave his little buddy a mock hurt look.
"Yeah, yeah…" Gray said, as he shrugged his shoulders. "Although, you do look pretty stupid being half naked, but still wearing a scarf." He insulted him.
"Like you have room to talk." Natsu shot back, as he turned to look at Lucy.
"Hey Lucy, let me borrow your clothes!" he demanded, as the vengeful look she cast at Kageyama came back full force.
"No!" she told him off, causing Erza and I to giggle at the display.
"Either way, you did well Natsu. With Erigor out of the picture, the guild masters at the conference will be safe." Erza said, as the two put their insults away for now, and nodded their heads once.
"That's all well and good, but what do we do with the Lullaby flute." I said, as I turned to look where the wooden flute with a skull on the top of it had stopped at when it rolled from Erigor's fingertips. It was kind of freaky to look at, especially with the three eye sockets.
"Well, seeing as we're pretty much almost to Clover, I say we take it the rest of the way to the conference hall and ask the guild masters what to do with it." Erza suggested, as I looked back up to her.
"Yeah, that's probably for the best, but what are we going to do about Erigor? We leave him here; he's bound to wake up sooner or later and come after us." I said, as Erza thought about it for a moment.
"That would be a problem seeing as the car will be cramped enough now that we have Natsu with us again." Lucy stated.
"Shouldn't be, Happy could always fly me the rest of the way there." Natsu said, as he turned to look down at him. "How about it, little buddy? Has your magic power recovered enough to do that yet?" he asked him.
"I think so." Happy replied, as Natsu gave him a big grin.
Now that we had a plan in place, it was finally time to carry it out. However, before any of us could so much as move, I smelled magic in the air. Going on my instinct, I jerked Erza off of my sister, and jumped towards one side of the railway. The movement was so sudden that Lucy ended up tripping and falling on her ass in the direction I had taken Erza in.
Luckily for us, it worked in our favor seeing as the SE Vehicle we had come here in sped right by us covered in Kageyama's shadows. Natsu and Gray managed to jump out of the way, and Erigor was spared his life by a mere few inches as he passed. However, what really caught our attention, was that Kageyama held the Lullaby flute in the hand he wasn't driving with.
"Stupid flies! Because you let your guard down, Lullaby is mine now!" he called back to us, as he sped off in evil laughter.
"Lucy, Erza, you alright?" I asked the two girls. Lucy nodded her head once, so I looked over at Erza.
"I'm fine. Although I have to say you're a lot stronger than you look." Erza said, clearly impressed that I could move her while she wore her heavy armor.
"Dragon slayer abilities…" I admitted, shrugging the shoulder she wasn't on. "Do you think you can move about on your own yet, or not quite?" I asked her then, as Erza slowly pulled herself away from my side. Taking a few steps away from me, Erza nodded her head.
"It would appear to be so." She answered, then turned serious. "In good timing too, we need to hurry and get to Clover. Kageyama shouldn't be able to use his magic to go too awfully fast with those wounds." She said, as the rest of us nodded our heads once.
Without another word, Happy hopped up onto Natsu's shoulder, and we all took off running across the bridge to try and catch up to Kageyama.
By the time we actually reached the other side though, the sun had already long set. It didn't take us long to find the actual town after that, although we all just followed Erza's lead as she avoided the main streets of the town in favor of the thin stretch of woods around it to get to the conference hall.
When we reached it though, we spotted Master Makarov outside, and before him stood Kageyama with the demon flute almost up to his lips. It was on the tip of my tongue to call out down there, but I found the words stuck in my throat as the wind changed direction and I could smell hesitation coming from Kageyama, and a steady calm from Master Makarov.
"Gramps!" Natsu called.
"Master!" Erza said.
However, before any of us could follow up with that, this squat man with a bald head, dressed like a woman, and wearing red lipstick shushed us. Not having heard or smelled him coming, I jumped in surprise along with Natsu, Erza, Happy, Lucy, and Gray.
"Sh. We're just about to get to the good part." He whispered at us, as Gray, Natsu, and Lucy jumped back from him. When they did this though, the man took one good look at Natsu and Gray, and blushed.
"Oh my, don't you yummy boys look just adorable." He said, as a shiver visibly ran up their spines. They moved away from the man, while Lucy dove to hide behind where Erza and I had opted to stand off to the side. Leaving the boys to squirm away from the man, and the man in turn squirm a little closer to them. As he did this, I finally noticed the blue guild emblem on the man's upper right arm.
Blue Pegasus… Guild Master… Started with a B didn't it? I thought to myself, as Lucy turned to Erza while pointing a finger at the man.
"Who the heck is that guy?" Lucy asked her, as Erza crossed her arms.
"Master Bob of the Blue Pegasus guild." She answered, causing Master Bob to turn to look in our direction.
"Oh, Erza honey, you've filled out!" he exclaimed, as Lucy nearly molded her body to Erza's armor in nervousness.
"He's really the master of Blue Pegasus?" Lucy pressed, as Erza nodded her head once. At hearing her voice though, Master Bob then took notice of her.
"Oh my, aren't you the blonde angel!" he gushed, as then then took notice of me standing beside Erza rather than behind her. "Oh, if she's a blonde angel, then you must be a snow angel with that lovely pale complexion and pretty ice blue eyes!"
At his words, even I began to feel just a tad bit nervous…
Thankfully though, our attention was drawn back to where Kageyama and Master Makarov stood.
"Come on boy, I don't have all night. Not to mention you look like hell, don't you still need your rest?" Master asked him, as Kageyama lowered the flute from his lips a few inches. After a moment, Kageyama began to look like he ate something sour as he put his lips on the flute itself.
"No!" Erza called and moved to go forward, only to be stopped by me putting my hand on her shoulder.
"Icelynn?" she said, confusion clear in her voice. "What do you think you're doing!?" she demanded, her confusion beginning to bleed into anger.
"He didn't take a breath to play." I simply said, as I actually heard the next spectator that approached our location. Turning to see who it was, Erza and Lucy following my gaze, we spotted a man wearing a black shirt, sunglasses, and a hat with a red trim with spikes around it, and a leather collar matching it walk over to a tree and lean up against it.
"Shush now, we're about to get to the good part." He said, in a drawling accent you don't hear every day.
"He's from Quatro Cerberus!" Lucy exclaimed, recognizing him immediately from Sorcerer Weekly.
"Master Goldmine, right?" I asked, as Erza nodded her head yes.
"Well?" we all heard Master Makarov say once more, pulling our attention back to him and Kageyama. At his prompt, I could see that Kageyama had begun to sweat from the effort of mentally fighting with himself to play a melody of death.
When Kageyama lowered the flute once more without a word or a note, Master Makarov sighed as he turned to face a different direction.
"Nothing's going to change." He said, catching Kageyama off guard. "By nature, we humans are weak beings, and what is weak, will always be so. However, and maybe this is just me, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Insecurities such as these is why we build guilds and have friends." He explained, as he then turned to look back at Kageyama. "It's easier to stay positive about the future that lies before us while being surrounded by your allies. Think about it this way: We are clumsy and may bump into things and fall over, but if we keep having faith in our future, then we can keep going forward. Bringing out our inner strength in the process, but only if we choose that path and live our lives to the fullest." He said, as he then gave Kageyama a knowing smirk.
"You can do the same, only if you choose to not let that silly flute get in the way." He finished, as I found myself baffled.
How could he know what Kageyama was here to do? I thought in surprise. Unless, maybe someone from Fairy Tail sent word ahead to warn him or something… Either way, I guess it doesn't really matter how he knows, so long as it keeps Kageyama from playing that thing. I resolved, as I stood back with my guildmates and waited to see how this would end. All that was left was for Kageyama to make his choice. Try to play the flute and we stop him before we all die, or he can drop the flute and put this whole situation behind us.
After a few tense moments, Kageyama dropped the flute to the ground, and fell to his knees.
"I surrender…" Kageyama said, as he lowered his head, his breathing becoming labored from the strain he put himself under to get here.
Soon as it was clear that Kageyama had finally given up, Gray, Happy, Natsu, Erza, and Lucy all rushed forward to greet our Master. I went with them, although I didn't run. The moment he saw us, he became surprised.
"What!? How did you kids get to Clover!?" He demanded, as he then turned to give me a surprised look as well when I caught up with them. "And Icelynn, didn't you have a job in Oshibana?" he asked, while Natsu kept patting his head excitedly, while Gray muttered something about showing up in time to watch Gramps talk his way out of another one.
"Finished it. On my way back to the guild, I saw these guys trying to get to Clover to warn the guild masters about that silly flute, so I decided to come along and help out where I could." I answered, as Master Makarov nodded his head once.
"Well, I appreciate you all, as I'm sure the other masters do." He said and looked like he was about to say more but ended up being cut off when Erza slammed him into her armor, hugging the very life out of him…
"Master, your words touched me so deeply that I was almost moved to tears!" she declared, as I secretly thanked my lucky stars that Erza wasn't in the mood to hug me any time soon.
From there, my guild mates began chattering between each other, Master Makarov and the other guild masters present. While they did that, I moved to check on Kageyama's injuries, Lucy following behind me. Checking him over, I could see that his bandages stayed put, but they would need to be changed very soon.
I was about to try and talk him into letting us take him to the hospital for real this time, however, I was cut off along with everyone else when this disembodied maniacal laughter began floating around us. Going on high alert we all began looking around for the source of it. Seeing a flash of purple out of the corner of my eye, I found myself looking down at the lullaby flute.
Seeing that purple sparks were coming from it, and that its empty eye sockets glowed the same color, I grabbed Lucy and Kageyama by their arms and moved them away from it.
"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF YOU WIZARDS AND YOUR COWARDLY ANTICS!" The voice said, as a massive dark magic circle opened above us in the sky, purple lightning raining down from it.
Everyone else around me gasped in shock at the display. As for me, I was no longer in the present…
No, my mind was five years back on that stormy night my personal hell came to an end. It happened much like the dream I had back in Hargeon, when Lucy ignored my warning and went to Bora's party anyway. I had been waiting in my cell for the next time my captor came to get me. Weather it was to drain my dragon slayer magic for his experiments, or to have me fight a lacky or another prisoner to the death for his amusement.
In the month leading up to the night of my escape, my captor had been mercilessly draining my magic from my body. To the point I would end up near comatose for a couple of days, then I would be right back to having my magic drained to that point all over again. Then, one night, my captor didn't show up in my cell.
As it approached the hour of midnight, a terrible storm began brewing outside. I couldn't hear any rain, just the thunder as the lightning cracked over and over again. Then, just as quickly as it started, the storm abruptly stopped. As it did, I felt a fear I'd never felt before beginning to eat away at me. A worse fear than waking up to find that I had been abandoned by my dragon.
That was when I heard the footsteps coming to my cell. I was so out of it from being a captive for a few years by then, that I began struggling against my chains to get free. When the door opened, and the light outside flooded in, I threw myself back as the image of my captor appeared before me.
Cowering against the wall I was bound to, I waited for the harsh words and the blows that usually accompanied my cell door being opened. When nothing happened, I found myself taking a better look at the stranger as I took in his rainstorm scent.
I don't know what this boy looked like to this very day. Half of his face had been cast in shadows, and the other was obscured by rivers of blood from a wound that went over his right eye. Fresh from the scent of him. What caught my attention the most though, was the fresh hint of dragon magic I could smell on him as well.
At the time, I had him figured as a fellow prisoner that had been captured for a similar purpose as I was. How did I know that this wasn't a trick though?
Hey, I'm not here to hurt you… I remember the guy saying to me, as he pulled out a set of keys. Seeing those, I knew that he was here to help me as my doubts faded. Feeling a sense of relief and peace I thought I'd never feel again wash over me, I ended up passing out before I could learn the name of the boy who saved me. By the time I awoke, I was in a hospital, and the boy was nowhere in sight.
"Icelynn, that's enough." I heard the commanding voice of Master Makarov say, bringing me back as the purple lightning continued dancing around the magic circle in the sky, and what now looked like a reforming hunk of wood.
Realizing where I was, I looked to where the Lullaby flute had fallen from Kageyama's hand earlier to find it gone. Not liking that one bit, I looked back to the shifting wood that continuously grew bigger, and soon it towered over the newly arrived Fiorian Army just down the hill. Figuring that it must be taking on that demonic form the Black Wizard Zeref gave it, I then turned to see Master Makarov watching me with careful eyes.
"What just happened?" I asked him, as the small old man walked over to stand beside me.
"I don't know where your mind took you, but we can speak of this later. Right now, we have a demonic flute to take care of." He said, as I nodded my head once.
He's right Icelynn, get a grip on yourself. Lives are on the line; I don't have time to start remembering that fucked up shit and freaking out about it. I berated myself, as I moved to stand towards the front with my guild mates.
"I CAN NO LONGER HOLD BACK!" the disembodied voice of Lullaby continued, as it finished taking on the gigantic shape it had been striving for. "I SHALL COME FORTH TO DEVOUR YOUR SOULS MYSELF!" It declared, as the circle above it vanished. When it did, the flute in a more mobile form fell forward, one of its hands nearly missing the conference hall. Had Lullaby hit it instead, then it would have been easily demolished.
"Holy crap it's huge!" Lucy freaked out from where she had moved to stand behind Kageyama, helping to support him from the looks of it.
"Way to state the obvious!" Happy freaked out back at her.
Lucy looked about ready to shout back, but the startled sound from Kageyama helped her to keep her mouth shut.
"What the fuck is that thing!? Erigor never said anything about Lullaby turning into this!" Kageyama exclaimed, as he slowly sat down on his knees with Lucy's help.
"Oh my, aren't we in a pickle." I heard Master Bob say, as Master Goldmine nodded in agreement.
"We sure are… It definitely looks like a demon from the Book of Zeref, doesn't it." He said, as I turned to give Kageyama a droll stare.
"Now do you believe me when I said it might just end up claiming your lives when you played it?" I asked him bitterly, as he weakly nodded his head.
"Why did it turn into that?" Lucy asked out loud, as I turned to look back at the enemy before us once more.
"That is Lullaby's true form." Master Goldmine answered, as he too watched the demon before us. "It was made to be this way through a type of living dark magic. The specialty of the Black Wizard."
"Living magic, you said?" Erza asked, getting a nod while Gray looked confused.
"And whose Zeref?" he asked, as I thought back to my history lessons.
"Zeref was a wizard who lived a few centuries ago. According to history, he was the evilest wizard known to walk Earthland. His spells and actions earned him the title Zeref the Black Wizard." I said, as Master Bob gave me an impressed look.
"Oh my, beauty and brains! Yes, my boys would just die if they could go out with you!" he said, as I tried to suppress the disturbed feeling that gave me. Honestly, I didn't care if he liked to dress like a woman or not, but he needs to stop making it sound like he's trying to hook one of us girls up with his guild members. "Unfortunately, the little ice beauty over there is right though." Master Bob continued, ignoring my icy look as he turned to speak to Gray. "He made quite a bit of mischief until he disappeared, but I never imagined his dark legacy would pop back up again."
As Master Bob spoke, a dark shadow fell over us as Lullaby leaned forward to examine all of us hungrily.
"NOW, WHICH OF YOU DELECTABLE SOULS DO I WISH TO DINE ON FIRST?" Lullaby wondered out lout to itself, as I got ready to move into action should I need to.
Doing the same, Erza cast a glance back at where we stood behind her.
"Natsu, Gray, get the guild masters back!" she ordered them, as the masters who had still been in the conference hall filed out and into the trees to escape the monster.
"Stop barking orders!" Natsu fussed, as Gray nodded his head in agreement.
"Yeah, you're not the boss of us." He shot back, causing Erza to give him one of her looks; and much like they did back in Oshibana station, they hopped right to it with a poorly done Happy impression.
While they did that though, the army began gearing up to attack Lullaby. Hearing their commotion, Lullaby turned to cast a bored withering look in their direction. Luckily for us, this caused enough of a distraction for Natsu and Gray to get the other guild masters well enough back. Happy and Lucy also took the chance to stand back with them as well. For us to bring down Lullaby, we'll probably have to get up close and personal.
"YOU DOUBT MY POWER!" it boomed at them, as it sent a blast at the small mountain just behind them, vaporizing it. Terrified for their lives, their captain ordered them to retreat. "I HAVE NO USE FOR THE PATHETIC SOULS OF HUMANS! WHAT I CRAVE ARE THE SOULS OF WIZARDS!" Lullaby said, as it turned back to face us.
By now, Gray and Natsu had rejoined Erza and I. A Good Luck following them from the guild masters. Seeing us ready to take him on, Lullaby reared back and let out an ear shattering roar.
"You three ready?" Erza asked us, as she summoned two of her swords.
"I am." I said, summoning my ice talons to my fingertips.
Gray and Natsu both nodded in agreement, as they took their own fighting stances. At this, Erza rushed forward, Gray following her, me following him, and Natsu behind me. When Erza got near Lullaby, she Re-quipped into the armor she wore earlier and slashed at the demon flute.
"Ice Make: Lance!" Gray called, as he put his hands into their proper position for his maker magic, forming several ice spikes and shooting them towards the demon flute.
Seeing this as an opportunity to get close to Lullaby, I hopped up on one and rode it up to the monster. When it got ready to hit, I leaped off of it and called on my dragon slayer abilities.
"Ice Dragon Wing Attack!" I called, as I used the ice claws I had summoned before the fight to add damage to my strike, making a more jagged version of the slash Erza had left behind. When it successfully hit, I let myself fall back as Natsu launched himself at it.
"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" he shouted, as he unleashed his fire magic on the flute, knocking it's face to the side from the force of it.
Again, and again Natsu, Gray, Erza, and I threw ourselves at Lullaby. Each successful strike leaving behind a new hole in the demon flute. Becoming pissed off, Lullaby kept thrashing around wildly trying to hit us, declaring he would devour our wretched souls most painfully. After a few more hits, Lullaby threw its head back and began pulling the very life essence from the grass and trees as it pulled in air.
Seeing it, I felt a little worried that it was about to play the death song. All I could do though, was pray that the holes we'd punched in it would be enough to distort the sound. If not, well then, we're screwed…
"JUST ONE NOTE, AND I'LL HAVE YOUR SOULS!" Lullaby said, as it went to let out the energy it had built up in the form of his death song. However, as the air passed out, it only made a high-pitched wheezing sound. Hearing its own sound, Lullaby began looking rather mortified.
The expression on its face was so funny, that I nearly choked on the breath I had been holding as I got the burning urge to laugh my ass off. Really, my eyes were tearing up from the effort.
"OH NO! My MELODY OF DEATH! ITS NOT WORKING!" Lullaby asked itself out loud, as I bit my lip. Yeah, it's funny as hell, but I won't be alive for very long to enjoy the humor if I drew attention to myself. Lullaby might not be able to sing me to my eternal rest, but that doesn't mean it can't use its giant size to kill me.
"All of those attacks messed up its sound!" I heard Kageyama say in shock, as Happy and Lucy stood next to him wearing similar expressions.
"Wow, talk about going out with a whimper." Lucy commented, as Happy nodded his head in agreement.
"Well, flutes are lame to begin with." Happy added, as Lullaby turned a nasty look their way.
"YOU DARE MOCK ME!" It shouted at them, kicking at them for good measure as its eyes began glowing purple again.
Seeing it, Erza turned worried eyes towards Gray and I.
"Gray and Icelynn, get over there and protect everyone! Natsu, you're with me!" she ordered, as Gray and I nodded once and ran over.
We barely made it as Lullaby unleashed a blast of fire at everyone. Putting his hands together again, Gray called forth another maker spell.
"Ice Make: Shield!" he called, as I waited for the shield to be formed. Once it was, I stood next to Gray and reinforced it with my dragon slayer ice magic. Thankfully, we got it up just in time to keep the fire blast from hitting anyone. When the blast subsided though, we still had to hold it up to keep the fire that had been left behind from spreading towards everyone.
Luckily though, we have our own fire eater in our guild. It took Natsu almost no time at all to devour every spark of flame Lullaby had unleashed at us. When the flames were gone, Gray and I dropped the shield.
Shocked at Natsu devouring its flames, Lullaby turned its attention to him. Using its hand to strike where Natsu was, all Natsu had to do was jump up to dodge it and land on Lullaby's arm. Once he was on his feet again, Natsu began running up its arm. Using Lullaby's concentration on Natsu to her advantage, Erza re-quipped into an armor I haven't seen yet and charged at Lullaby once more. Black Winged Armor is what one of the guild masters behind me called it.
As Natsu reached the flute's shoulder, he jumped high into the air as Erza quickly took his place and landed a blow to the flutes face. Once she was out of the way, Gray threw another attack.
"Ice Make: Saucer!" he shouted, as he sent a sharp looking disk like thing flying at Lullaby, taking out a portion of it's middle.
"Icelynn! Natsu! Attack together!" Erza shouted at Natsu and I. Giving a nod, I ran forward so I would be more or less attacking from underneath while Natsu gave him hell from above.
"Fire Dragon Brilliant Flame!" Natsu shouted, as he threw a mini fire storm at Lullaby.
"Ice Dragon Artic Blizzard!" I shouted, sending a more or less equal sized attack of fires opposing devastating force. Knowing that the attack would be big, I moved back towards where I had been standing with Gray, while Natsu landed near Erza, and the two ran in our direction.
They just made it to us when the two attacks hit Lullaby and met, creating a huge explosion of light that shot up high enough to touch the clouds. When it subsided, a single electric spark flashed above as particles of magic power began raining down around us. When we looked to see where the demon flute went to, we found it at the bottom of the crater we had just made, back in the form we had first seen it in.
Not wanting to give it a chance to do anything else, I sent a blast of my magic at it to freeze it into a block of ice. With that done, we all waited a moment to make sure it wouldn't try to break out of the ice casing I had put it in. When nothing happened, Natsu, Gray, and Lucy began cheering.
"Well done!" Master Makarov said to us, as we all turned to face him and everyone else.
"You pretties are amazing!" Master Bob gushed, as Master Goldmine gave us an impressed look.
"No joke. You kids made defeating one of Zeref's demons look easy." He complimented, as I began to feel a bit sheepish. It was a change of pace for me, not being told to stop using such primitive and ungraceful magic, so I couldn't help but be a bit embarrassed at such words.
I snapped out of it though, when Lucy barreled into me and put her arms around my middle in a hug.
"Icelynn! You guys were absolutely amazing! Mira was right about this being the strongest team!" Lucy squealed in excitement.
"Wait, what?" I asked, as I gave Erza, Gray, and Natsu a confused look.
"That's what Mira said after Erza came to Fairy Tail to get us to team up with her in order to defeat Lullaby." Gray explained, as I nodded my head in understanding.
To be honest, I can kind of see why Mira would say such a thing. A dragon slayer and an S-Class wizard are pretty powerful together. Not to mention that Gray's ice maker magic wasn't too shabby, and it could be diverse in meeting the needs of different jobs. Kind of like Lucy's celestial magic with her different kinds of spirits.
"We're an awesome guild, aren't we?" Master Makarov stated, as we Fairy Tail mages nodded in agreement.
However, our happiness was short lived after that. Erza just happened to look behind her towards the conference hall, and froze when she saw the state it was in. The rest of us turned to see what she had gone stiff for, only to end up in the same state as her when we saw that the crater Lullaby had fallen into, sat where the conference hall used to be.
Seeing it, I felt my blue eyes widen. Turning around to look back at the guild masters, I could see the constipated looks they were also giving the sight. Then, almost as if they could sense my gaze, the whole group turned to look at my friends and I. The moment they locked their sights on us, their expressions turned rather scary…
"Uh, guys…" I muttered, pulling my comrades attention back to myself, then to what I was looking at.
"Uh oh…" I heard Natsu and Happy say together, as Happy latched on to his head.
"FAIRY TAIL!" the whole group of guild masters growled at us in displeasure. The moment they took one step towards us though, Gray, Happy, Natsu, and Lucy all turned tail and began running in the opposite direction.
Turning to look back at Master Makarov and Erza, the three of us shared a look before Erza was scooping up our small guild master and we took off after our guild mates.
As we tried to catch up to them, I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. Hearing it, Erza and Master Makarov gave me a curious look.
"What is so funny about this Icelynn? The council will have much to say to our guild for this." Erza said, as I shrugged my shoulders.
"Just a bit of déjà vu." I answered and told them how Natsu and Happy had found Lucy and I in Hargeon, and how we had to flee Hargeon to get to Magnolia to join up with Fairy Tail.
By the end of the explanation, they couldn't help but chuckle along with me.
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It took us a couple of days, but we all managed to make it back to Magnolia. Tired, overly hot, and really hungry, but we made it, nonetheless. When Mirajane welcomed us back to the guild, she was very surprised to see me with what she dubbed Team Natsu. Apparently when I didn't come back from my completed job right away, she had begun to get worried about me. She literally pouted at me until we told her how I got mixed up into the whole Lullaby incident.
Oh, and can you believe we accidentally destroyed the conference hall the guild masters use in Clover. We just got back to Magnolia yesterday afternoon, so we haven't heard anything back from the magic counsel yet. I'm sure we will very soon. I can only imagine what they'll want to do to punish Fairy Tail for the damages we caused trying to defeat an enemy the Fiorian Army and the Rune Knight accompanying them fled from. Can you believe that Storm? So ridiculous…
Well, that's pretty much what happened with Lucy and I lately. I'll write to you again soon Storm. With more tales of our adventures as Fairy Tail mages.
With love,
Icelynn.
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Next Chapter: Chapter 7 – Cursed Island Getaway
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Another Chapter for everyone. I hope you guys like this story and aren't too upset at me for re-writing it the way I have. Icelynn is pretty much my favorite OC that I've ever come up with.
Well, thanks for reading, and I'll work on my stories when I can.
Thanks,
Bugg18.