Chapter Twenty-Three: The Solution

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Previously:

"That's not important. What is, is getting out of here." The female replied, "We must stop Erigor before he reaches the guild master conference."

Reinhart pulled a cream from his back pocket, "I'll put this on the wound. It will numb the pain." Walking forward he uncapped it and gently put the cream on the wound.

As he was closing small jar Erza had an epiphany, "Wait a minute, I remember them mentioning someone named Kage back at the pub." She looked at the males of her team, "We have to find that man, he was the one that broke Lullaby's seal."

"A dispeller huh? A seal breaking wizard, he could take down the wind barrier."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Reinhart said taking off running with the other two right behind him.

Now:

Reinhart ran with Erza and Gray, his eyes dancing around to try and spot the man they were looking for. If he was correct he probably was the guy that used the shadows to try and attack Lucy earlier. And that meant this Kage was likely going to try and get revenge against Natsu since he seemed a little irritated by the sight of dragon slayer when the teen was on the floor. A grin took over his face when he saw the amount of holes next to the doors as he and the group ran through the hall. "Yep, Natsu has definitely been through here."

"Ugh, the idiot could have at least used the doors. Now we are going to have to pay for this when we get back to the guild." Gray complained scoffing at the walls.

Hearing more explosions the three of them ran faster to catch up to their pink haired teammate. "That's Natsu, we can't let him injure Kage." Erza said as she took the lead.

Reinhart laughed, "He has to weaken the fool that went after him, otherwise his only other choice is letting the man beat him." A wide grin took over the man's face, "And we all know that is something that Natsu will never let someone do to him."

Gray glanced at the male s class wizard sweat dropping, 'Okay, he really needs to cool it. It's as if he wants us to fail. How in the world does he manage to not cause damage when he laughs at flame brain doing it? Seriously he is one of the craziest people we have in the guild.' The redhead shook her head mentally. As powerful as her fellow s class mage was she did wonder if he was okay in the head at times. However before she could think more about Reinhart the building shook making said man grin evilly and them all to stop in the middle of the hall. "Was that him?" Gray asked.

"Yes." Erza replied her hand fisting at her side. She could already tell that Natsu had done quite a bit of damage if the shaking building was anything to go by. Instantly the three took off in the direction that Natsu was in quickly reaching where they saw the fire dragon slayer pointing at the dark haired man slumped against a wall at the top of some stairs. "Natsu…" The pinked haired teen paused in whatever he was saying and looked over clearly processing who had spoken to him. "…do not harm him. We need him alive."

"Way to go you fire freak." Gray added as the three of them ran up the stairs as fast as they could.

At first Natsu just stared then freaked out when Erza jumped up into the air with her sword looking menacing. "I don't know what I did but I'm sorry." Natsu then hid behind the yellow eyed male when he reached the top of the stairs.

At first Kage wanted to make fun of the dragon slayer for hiding like he did but he himself freaked out when the woman buried the sword in the wall behind him, above his shoulder, glaring at him. He now knew why the pink haired idiot was afraid of her. However he did wonder why Natsu felt safe with the dark guild boogieman, he was more terrifying to look at then the woman currently threatening him. "You will dispel the wind barrier and you will do so without complaint." The woman said looking at him with her terrifying eyes.

Looking over he saw Reinhart cracking his knuckles with a dark grin on his face, "And if you don't comply you'll know the real meaning of pain."

Natsu was still freaking out over the female as he said, "Just do it man, this chicks a real monster."

The blue eyed male that was standing near Kage and the red haired warrior turned and looked at his fellow guild mate unimpressed, "Shut up, Natsu."

"Is that understood?" The woman asked firmly still glaring down at him.

Looking between the woman and the boogieman he conceded, "Fine, I'll dispel it." The last thing he wanted was for Reinhart to have a reason to attack him. He had seen him in many raids upon the guild hall and he caused a lot of fear in him. The way he would walk was just scary. Just as he went to stand up he stiffened causing the fairy's to react when a hand went through his gut. As his own guild mate pulled his hand free from his gut he asked, "Why Karacka?"

The moment the dark guild member hit the floor the redhead was by his side, "No, Kageyama." She lifted the dark haired man up in her arms trying to get his attention.

Meanwhile Natsu was frozen in shock trying to comprehend what had just happened. Reinhart had turned and snarled at the dark guild member in the wall. One of the things he hated about dark guilds was that most of the members had little to no loyalty to each other. His hand shook at his side while Natsu growled out, "How could you do that to one of your friends?" Flames over took the dragon slayer's body, "He's a member of your guild. He trusted you and you tried to kill him." Karacka went back through the wall to get away but he didn't stand a chance as Natsu charged forward punching through the wall shattering it and the debris hitting the fleeing man, "How could you?!" Natsu landed on his feet, "Is that how you dark guild members treat each other?"

Reinhart sneered at the unconscious attacker then turned his attention to Erza and Gray. With a sigh he walked forward hoping he could try and get the redhead to calm down enough to think clearly as she was clearly losing it on the unconscious man. "Please Kage, stay with us."

"He's unconscious." Gray said trying to reason with her. "It's just no use."

She started shaking the unconscious dark guild member yelling as she did so, "I can't let him die. He's our only way out of here."

"But there is no way he can use his magic in this condition." The ice mage said sweat dripping on the back of his head.

"If I force him to he will."

"Erza." Reinhart said grabbing her shoulder causing her to stop, "You are being irrational. Stop trying to beat the man into consciousness."

"You are not helping!"

"Because I know when people become useless to help. He currently is useless and is unable to do any magic, even if he was awake. Listen to Gray and deal with it. We'll find another way out of here." Reinhart said forcing the woman to look at him in the eye, "Put the man down gently."

Brown eyes glared at him, "We are stuck in a barrier. How are we supposed to get out?"

"I don't know right now but we are members of Fairy Tail we always find a way." The yellow eyed man made a fist next to his side, "It's what we do best." The redhead continued to stare at him as if he grew a second head then sighed putting Kage on the ground gently. Yellow eyes looked up at Lucy and Happy, "How good of you to join us, it saves us from having to try and find you ourselves."

Lucy blanched internally wondering if he was blaming her for something that happened that she wasn't aware of. When he looked away she felt a wave of relief, 'Goodness he can be terrifying. Are these two the only ones that cause that kind of crazy fear in my guild?'

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"What? Erigor wants to use lullaby on the guild masters?" Lucy yelled in shock after Gray, Erza and Reinhart explained to them what they had found out.

Natsu got mad, "We have to stop them!"

Erza spoke up, "That's easier said than done. Erigor cut off our only means of reaching clover and is headed there by air."

Reinhart walked up to the wind barrier, just stopping with his nose inches from it. He glared at it as he listened to what the others were saying. "I'm sure we can catch up using the magic mobile." Gray said, he could hear the teenager shifting on his feet.

"Yeah, but first we have to get out of the barrier." The mystery man said letting his hand hover near the barrier. "And just so we are clear, I'll be driving this time." Turning, he glared at Erza to dare her to try and fight him on his decision.

Before the redhead could even think to try to deny her fellow s class mage Lucy spoke up, "How are we going to do that?"

Before anyone else could think of what to say next Natsu charged forward attacking the wind barrier with a flaming fist, only to be thrown back by the force of the wind. While Reinhart smack his forehead Gray said, "See, that's what happens when you try to bust through." Lucy looked a little freaked out as she looked at the dragon slayer lying on the ground twitching.

"Kage wake up, you're our only hope right now." Erza said as she knelt next to the unconscious man.

"I've gotta try to break through." Natsu yelled as he lit up both hands and once again attacked the barrier, "We have to save Makarov." The barrier once again attacked the pink haired male sending him flying backwards.

"Cut it out you idiot. Obviously brute force isn't going to do you any good." The blue eyed male chastised looking over at Natsu.

"At most you are just injuring yourself unnecessarily." Reinhart said in agreement, "We need to find a way to get out of here that doesn't include putting ourselves in unneeded harm."

"Isn't there anything you can do?" Lucy asked she looked at Reinhart, "Your magic, can it help?"

"No, not even close." The yellowed eyed man said shaking his head.

The blond turned to Gray, "Can't you freeze it, then maybe Natsu could melt it?"

"If I could I would have done that already."

Natsu charged the barrier again causing Reinhart to move closer to him. "Natsu." Gray said looking at the idiot that continued to try and push through the barrier.

Lucy turned and looked at her teammate, "Natsu, would you stop trying to be the hero? You're going to get torn to shreds." Reinhart reached forward pulling him away from the barrier sending Natsu stumbling into the blond's arms, "I said stop it." The dragon slayer seemed to have a sort of epiphany as he looked over his shoulder and at the celestial wizard. "What? What's the matter?"

Natsu had a spazz attack causing his team to look at him in surprise, "We could use your spirits."

Reinhart tilted his head, "Um, how could they help us?" He had never really seen a celestial wizard before Lucy so he didn't know what kind of abilities that they had.

"Back at Everlue's I was pulled from one place to another through the spirit world."

"Well yeah, but normal people would suffocate to death if they tried that that. It's hard to breathe in their world. Besides a celestial wizard can only open a gate where they are standing." Reinhart made an 'oh' face hearing that and nodded since that made a lot of sense. However Natsu clearly wasn't getting it so Lucy explained using her hands as she did, "Okay, let me simplify this for you. Even if we could pass through the spirit world we would need another celestial wizard to open a gate outside the train satiation for us to pass through."

"You're totally confusing me, just do it."

Reinhart smacked a hand over his face again while Gray sighed in irritation as Lucy replied, "I told you I can't. Not to mention the very act of a human entering the spirit world is a serious breach in contract. I didn't care when you did it because it wasn't my key, it was Everlue's."

Natsu sighed, "I don't get your magic at all."

Reinhart peeked between his fingers wondering if Natsu was ever just going to get it. He himself didn't know anything about celestial magic and he still got what she was trying to say before she simplified it. The s class wizard would have thought more on it but Happy suddenly screamed making him jump backwards and get into a defensive stance startled. When he realized everything was fine he turned to glare at the cat only to burst out laughing as the blue cat said, "I just remembered Lucy."

The blond twisted her body away from the talking animal, "Remembered what?"

"What I was trying to tell you on the way here!" Happy yelled making the blond confused as she tried to figure out what he was talking about. Reinhart fell to the ground remembering the conversation immediately. Erza looked at him like he had gone insane but didn't say anything.

"On the way here? Oh yeah, when you kept calling me weird?" Lucy replied looking irritated.

"Look."

Reinhart calmed down enough to wipe his eye so he could see what the cat was trying to show her. In his paw was a celestial gold key. Lucy freaked out, "How did you get your paws on Virgo's key?" She knelt down and pulled on the cats lips. Finally calming down enough Reinhart continued to chuckle to himself as he watched, "Didn't anyone teach that it is wrong to steal things?"

"But I didn't steal it, Virgo asked me to give it to you."

"Come on guys we are wasting too much of our time listening to this nonsense." Gray said his arms crossed over his chest.

Natsu blinked, "Who's Virgo?" He tilted his head in thought, "Oh wasn't she that big gorilla looking maid?" Reinhart raised an eyebrow and listened quietly, as he had forgotten to ask how that mission had gone for them.

"Apparently her contract was broken with Everlue as soon as he was arrested." Happy said still holding the key up, "Before we all left that day she came up to me and said that she wanted to sign a new contract with you, Lucy."

Said blond did not look impressed, "Great, I get a big ugly spirit." She put her hands in her lap, "Anyway thanks for letting me know but I'll have to deal with her later. If you didn't realize it we need to find a way out of here."

"But…"

Reinhart glared at the blond and stood up as she started to pull on Happy's face. "Shut up, why can't you just meow like every other cat?"

"She can be pretty scary huh?" Gray said.

"She must have learned it from Erza." Natsu said a grin on his face.

Reinhart walked up and pulled her away from Happy, "Why don't you let him talk. For all you know he can have the solution." Lucy blanched at the hard glare that she was receiving from the frightening s class wizard.

"And here is a person scarier when he wants to be." The ice mage added taking a step away from the irritated man while Natsu just stood there with a beaming smile on his face.

"I'm sorry, I just thought that since she could dig holes, maybe she could dig through ground to get us to the other side of the barrier." Happy said with a whimper.

Yellow eyes glared at the blond, "See, so next time listen then maybe we would have been out of here earlier." He walked away and leaned against the wall his arms crossing over his chest as he glared at the blond apologizing to Happy.