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Onward!
Marissa yawned loudly as she sat on the grass with her hands behind her on the ground. She continued looking up to at the ongoing spar between the two Saiyans in the air in their ascended forms.
She had woken up early in the morning by the sound of Erza's voice inside the Fairy Tail guild hall. A majority had woken up from her commanding voice that had ordered them to clean up the entire guild hall from the mess yesterday due to Lisanna's welcome back party.
That was a few hours ago. Marissa had felt Yusuke's and Ann's energy signatures a while back and decided to head over to them out in the forest. She wondered how early they got up to train… if they slept at all that is.
*BOOM!*
Her hair flew back from the forceful winds both Saiyan's produced from their blows, all the while she felt goosebumps on her body. Marissa saw them for a split moment in the air before they both vanished again.
"Wow, they're really going at it." A voice said.
"You can say that again…" Marissa answered, hearing Mirajane's voice. She blinked once and looked to the side to see Lisanna, Mirajane and Erza, almost flinching when she saw them, but stood up instead. "You three came out of nowhere... "
"Sorry about that." Mirajane laughed.
"Have they been going at this long?" Erza asked, looking at the sky only to see the two move at a blur.
"I don't know actually, by the time I got here they were already in their second forms." Marissa said. She looked over at Lisanna. "I know what those two are here for, what about you Lisanna?"
"I was surprised when my sister told me she's been training. I was curious enough to come and take a look." She answered.
"Well I'm not sure when they'll be finished though. They're really into it at the moment." Marissa said, looking back up.
Sounds of explosions were heard constantly from both Saiyan's clashing. Their constant moving were made difficult for Marissa to track.
"I should find an opening…" Marissa muttered and placed two fingers on her forehead.
Yusuke and Ann appeared in the air with the latter punching him straight on the cheeks of his face. The male fell down in the air slightly before flipping backwards and vanished along with Ann.
They appeared again with Yusuke behind Ann, his elbow being held in place by the woman's palm of her hand before they moved again.
The land in front of them shook as the girls saw large clouds of dust in the far distance. Blue static went erratic throughout the area from their power. The ground shook for another minute or so before it completely stopped, and looking ahead they saw nothing once more as it they weren't there in the first place.
Another loud boom occurred above them, and looking up they could all see both Saiyan's in the air fighting, but still moving their bodies too fast for most of them to watch. It didn't last long that they moved again with each consecutive blows.
Eventually, they reached the ground again and separated from one another. Being at opposites sides of each other, they both began charging their Ki's for an upcoming attack.
'Now…!' Marissa vanished from her spot and appeared right in the middle between Yusuke and Ann.
The moment both Saiyan's saw their friend appear in front of them, they halted charging their energy.
"Mari?" Ann said.
"Now why you gotta do that Kid, it was getting good." Yusuke sighed.
"Sorry Bro, but, you got visitors though." Marissa said, pointing to the side.
"Huh?" Yusuke looked to the side to see Mirajane waving at him with a smile while Lisanna and Erza stood by next to her. "Oh that's right…"
He and Ann had been fighting for the entire morning and before that, the entire night as well that they completely forgot about everything else. Now realizing it was just yesterday where Lisanna's welcome back party happened, he now just realized it was day time.
"We've been at this for awhile…" Yusuke muttered, and leaped once towards the mages.
He arrived in front of the three women slightly panting, now that he has had time away from fighting.
"My bad. Hope you two weren't waiting long." Yusuke said.
"Nope." Mirajane answered.
"It wasn't. We've just arrived in time to see you two finish." Erza said.
"What's your sister doing here?" He asked, looking at Lisanna.
"Mira said that she was going to go off and train, I tagged along this time to see what you guys were going to do." The younger Strauss sibling said.
"We were just gonna spar together, that's all."
"I feel like we should be doing more than that at this point Yusuke." Mirajane said.
"... what do you mean by that?" Yusuke asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Isn't it about time you teach us the Kaioken? We've already gotten used to these weights as well. Me at least, I can move freely in them now." Erza said as she lifted up the weighted bracelets and anklets on her.
"I agree with Erza, the weight these have on us are nothing now." Mira said.
"Did I hear that right?"
Everyone looked to see Ann when they heard her voice, landing down next to Yusuke along with Marissa just behind her. Her hair changed back to her natural black color as she arrived.
"They want to learn the Kaioken?" Ann questioned.
"They've been wanting to for awhile now. I told them they had strengthen their bodies first before doing so." Yusuke said.
"How much do they have on them now?" She asked next, spotting the weighted bracelets and anklets on the both of them
"First time we started doing it, Erza had twenty-three kilograms while Mira had seven on each. After that I went ahead and gave them thirty-two on all four. They've been having those on ever since."
"I see… I almost forgot you knew that." Ann commented.
"...I ended up using it before they knew who I really was. It's pointless to even use it now." Yusuke replied, scratching the back of his head.
"Not if you learn Blue."
"Heh, that'll be the day." The male scoffed.
"So you're still unsure of teaching them? You know it's impolite to keep a woman waiting, Tarok." Ann said, crossing her arms.
"She's right ya know…" Marissa commented from the side.
"You stay out of this Kid." He went and playfully knocked Marissa back by pushing her on her forehead, to which she stumbled back. He gave his attention back to Ann. "It's not that I don't want to teach them it's just…"
Yusuke looked back at Mirajane and Erza, both of their looks challenging him on what to say.
"Uh…" Yusuke couldn't say anything. 'It still might be a bit much for them…'
"I mean the reason can be obvious." Marissa spoke up again. "The Kaioken technique can drain a lot out of you. Bro probably doesn't want the both of you getting hurt."
"Yusuke, you should know by now we can take care of ourselves." Erza chided.
"But it's sweet that you think that." MIrajane said with a giggle. Lisanna and Yusuke got chills from that.
"Let me gauge them." Ann suggested all of a sudden.
"Let you what?" Yusuke asked incredulously.
"Test them. Obviously you'd be too soft on them if you were the one doing it yourself."
"Ann, I don't think-"
"Let's do it then." Erza interrupted.
"Hold on-"
"I'm up for it as well." Mirajane abruptly said.
"You heard them, let's go out in the field and begin." Ann said, and began walking away, back to where she and Yusuke had fought a few minutes earlier.
Erza and Mirajane walked past Yusuke while he stood silent and watched them walk away, following Ann. He sighed loudly and slumped his shoulders.
"That's big sis for you." Lisanna answered with a small laugh.
"Well, you've been training them for awhile as well. I guess they really wanted a change of pace." Marissa said.
"I suppose… I hope Ann doesn't go too hard on them…" Yusuke disheartenedly said.
"She can control herself." The Earthling assured, but muttered off to the side. "...I think."
Over at the other group that was about to fight, Ann stopped walking and turned around, assessing both Erza and Mirajane in front of her.
'Let's see what these two can do.' Ann thought in her head and placed her hands on her hips. "Alright, the both of you can do whatever you want against me in this fight. We keep going until the one of you can land a firm hit on me, then we end it. Understand?"
"Very well." Erza nodded in understanding.
"Got it." Mirajane began by spreading out her arms, her entire body glowing with her magic.
Similarly, Erza's magic flashed around her as well, her training clothes materializing away from her body.
A few moments later, both women's appearance had changed right in front of the female Saiyan, who noted that they had grown in power. The lights dimmed down to reveal Mirajane in her Satan Soul form while Erza was seen donning her Flight Armor.
"Now that's interesting to see." Ann muttered to herself. Her hair flailed wildly from her Ki appearing, and grinned a little bit. "Come!"
Both S-Class Mages rushed the female Saiyan. Erza was the first to reach Ann as she swung one of her sword, only for Ann to leap back in the air. A white aura exploded around the redhead and Erza jumped in the air to chase after Ann.
Seeing both women took to the skies, Mirajane expanded out her wings behind her and flew up as well towards Ann. She shouted with a punch as she neared the Saiyan, who only caught it with one of her hands. Ann forced out more of her energy around her to stagger the Take Over mage, and shouted as a force hit Mirajane, pushing her back in the air.
Erza appeared in front of Ann with both of her arms across her body and shouted as she uncrossed them to strike Ann with both of her swords. The Saiyan flipped back in the air and extended one of her arms towards Erza while still being upside down, releasing a large force of energy that collided against the redhead, causing her to shout in surprise and losing her concentration in the air.
Mirajane came up from behind Erza and supported her, halting her fall in the air. They briefly acknowledged each other before the She-Demon took off with the redhead following not far behind. With crossed arms, Ann waited from above as she watched below her to see both woman flying at her. WIth Mirajane closing in with a kick ready to swing, the Saiyan phased away from her attack to evade the mage.
Erza arrived beside the white-haired woman as they both looked around to locate the female Saiyan. Finally, Erza spotted her down below as Ann continued to observe them with her arms still crossed.
"How can we hit her…" Erza muttered.
"We just need to see when her guard is down and use that chance. The only problem is if we can do it fast enough." Mirajane said, looking at the female Saiyan below along with the Requip mage.
"I'll try to grab her attention fully. See if you can spot an opening with an attack ready." Erza suggested, and looked over to see Mirajane nod in understanding.
Erza's body glowed as she used her Requip again and a moment later she was seen in her Black Wing Armor while holding her sword in both of her hands. She shouted as powered up more of her energy and a white aura brightened around her. Keeping her sights at Ann, Erza shouted again as she dived down towards the female Saiyan, bringing her sword back behind her.
Over at the observing group, they continued watching the fight in the sky between the three woman with both Time Patrollers in an observant state while the youngest Strauss sibling watched on in wonder.
"It's surprising to see Erza and Big Sis working together like this." Lisanna commented.
"Why do you say that?" Marissa asked.
"The both of them used to attack each other back then, similar to how Natsu and Gray still are today. But Big Sis changed while I was gone."
"...changed how?" Yusuke asked.
"You didn't know?" Lisanna asked back, but laughed a moment later. "She wasn't always this kind. She was very different back in the day. Almost as scary as Erza still is."
"...really?" Yusuke widened his eyes and was struck by a revelation
"Yup." Lisanna answered with a giggle. "I'm surprised you didn't know that. She dressed differently as well. Always had her hair in a ponytail tied with a ribbon, and wore some pretty revealing clothings."
She dragged out the last description of her big sister so that the Saiyan could hear clearly.
"Huh… I never knew that." Yusuke looked away from the fighting in thought. "... does that why she has that scary vibe at times?"
"She was called the 'Demon' back then also. You can probably guess why."
Yusuke looked back up to observe Mirajane solely in her Satan Soul form. She was currently watching Erza and Ann fighting while she kept her hands at the left side of the body and will most likely be ready to fire off an attack at one point.
"Now I'm curious…" Yusuke muttered, but it was loud enough for both girls to hear him.
"There should still be pictures lying around at our house. If you ever drop by next time I can show you." Lisanna answered with a laugh.
"You sounded pretty indecent there bro…" Marissa deadpanned.
"What the hell is wrong with wondering about who she was?" Yusuke retorted.
"Hey, if you wanna put it that way go right ahead." She shrugged with her hands up.
The male sighed and looked back up in the sky to see Erza still trying to land a hit on Ann while Mirajane was still higher in the air than them, watching down below.
Erza shouted as she slashed her sword from above at the female Saiyan, who dashed to the side to dodge the redheads attack. Ann grabbed ahold of Erza's wrists and grunted as she threw her away from her.
The Requip mage forced herself to stay afloat in the air, and slightly panted as she kept her eyes at the female Saiyan.
'She's just as good as Yusuke…' Erza thought, and as she observed Ann she saw a slight movement in her eyes that strayed away from her for just a second before she looked back. Erza glanced in the direction she looked at briefly, and saw Mirajane before looking back as well. 'She's cautious… and knows what we might have been doing this entire time…'
She gripped her sword again with both of her hands and brought it up again. Erza and Ann stared at each other, the latter just waiting for the next move to happen.
'I need to think of something else rather than attacking head on.' Erza continued to plan out.
"If you're just going to keep on staring and doing nothing then I'll just have to start being on the offensive this time!" Ann shouted, and powered up more of Ki. She began to dash forward before moving side to side towards Erza.
Erza managed to catch a glimpse of Ann right in front of her before she disappeared and appeared again to the side, shouting with one of her fists already going for a hit. The mage moved her body to the side in time to block Ann's punch with the guard of her sword, but was knocked back by her strength.
'Strong…!' Erza gritted her teeth.
"There's plenty more!" Ann yelled, and dashed forward at Erza with an arm hooked back.
Erza's body glowed once more as she sent away her Black Wing Armor and appeared in her Adamantine Armor with the half shields on both of her armored hands. She quickly slammed both sides of her adamantine shield together in front of her for protection against the female Saiyan's assault.
Ann shouted as she brought forward her arm, punching against Erza's adamantine shield. Erza felt the blow resonating through her body, and grunted as she struggled to stay still from Ann's power. Shouting again, Ann went for another punch towards Erza, staggering her back more before she roared and swung again, putting even more force into her attack and broke apart Erza's shield.
Erza leaped back immediately and used her Requip again to store away her Adamantine Armor and in place of it, she appeared back in her Black Wing Armor with her sword propped up in both of her hands.
"I shouldn't be surprised she got past that so easily…" Erza muttered. She saw Ann taunting her to charge at her with her hand. Clicking her tongue in annoyance, Erza shouted in power again as she accepted Ann's challenge and rushed at her.
Erza continued attacking with her sword at Ann's own blade of Ki. Occasionally, the female Saiyan would retaliate back at the mage. Currently, Ann swung her arm up diagonally at Erza, who put out enough of her strength to block the Patroller's attack. Erza pushed her back with gritted teeth, only to be shot at by Ki blasts from Ann. Several of the energy orbs hit the redhead dead on, and she yelped out several times from each of them. Erza steadied herself in the air once more, panting as she looked up at Ann.
'I need to try another way… here goes.' Erza closed her eyes, her magic glowing around her again as she stored away her Black Wing Armor.
Ann observed down at Erza wondering what she was going to wear next. When the light died down, she made a saw sound of surprise to see Erza wearing no armor, but wore red pants along with tightly wrapped cloth around her chest. In her right hand, she was wielding a single katana.
"... what? She has no protection at all…" Ann muttered.
Erza gripped her Benisakura with both of her hands and began powering up her Ki. She made a stance where she turned her body to the side while propping her katana up near her head as she pointed it towards the female Saiyan. Her bangs and ponytail moved wildly from her power as she kept her eyes at Ann and continued to power up.
'Is she going to give it everything she's got now?' Ann thought, uncrossing her arms and continued to sense Erza's power go higher and higher.
'I hope her attention is fully on me…' Erza thought, gripping her sword more tightly as her magical energy and Ki continued to rise.
Erza shouted and launched up at the female Saiyan, bringing her Benisakura back behind her. Nearing halfway towards Ann, Erza twisted her sword in her hands and slashed up diagonally, releasing a powerful energy slash from her magic and energy.
Ann hooked back an arm and charged some of her energy on her arm. Seeing Erza's attack travel closer and closer to her, the female Saiyan shouted as she swiped her arms to the side, releasing an energy blast to counterattack.
Both attacks met and ended up creating large smoke clouds in between the two woman. Multiple swords came flying out of the smoke, all going either straight at Ann or spinning towards her. Ann began to sidestep and move her entire body to evade each sword until eventually, sensing Erza close by, she spun around to hit with her elbow at the redhead closing in behind her.
Erza, in her Flight Armor, saw Ann's movements and ducked just below her arm. Managing to evade Ann's blow, Erza quickly embraced behind the female Saiyan, with the redheads arms and legs tightly wrapping around Ann's torso and lower body.
"... what?!" Ann gasped.
"Now!" Erza shouted.
Ann looked ahead and her eyes slightly widened as the smoke cleared up to see Mirajane in front of her with a dark magical orb already formed in between her hands at the left side of her body.
SOUL EXTINCTION!
Mirajane threw her arms forward at Erza and Ann, releasing a large and dark magical beam from her hands.
Ann's eyes turned teal as she widened them. She roared and brought her head back, her power exploding around her that forced Erza off of her body.
"Nng…!" Erza winced as she fell down in the air.
"HA!" Ann shouted in power and thrusted her arms forward, releasing a large golden Ki wave at Mirajane's attack.
The female Saiyan's energy wave clashed against the Take Over mage's beam for a split moment before it completely overpowered the dark magic, and made its way towards the white-haired mage.
Mirajane gasped and widened her eyes seeing Ann's attack brush past hers and she defended herself by bringing up her arms in front of her. She saw the energy wave come considerably closer within seconds before a figure appeared in her visions, and recognized the familiar black tank top and spiky golden hair.
"HAA!" Yusuke shouted and released a similarly large energy wave that competed against Ann's, and both his and her attack ended up exploding that resonated the sky.
Plumes of smoke cleared up with both Saiyan's having their arms out and looking each other in the eye.
"Really Ann? You're transforming against them?" Yusuke chided as he lowered his arms.
Ann blinked and looked at her hands to see her gold aura glow around her. She looked down at Erza who was clutching the her stomach with an arm and then towards Mirajane, who was slightly panting as she lowered her arms that defended herself. Ann relaxed as she went back to normal and meekly looked away
"... my bad." Ann uttered.
Yusuke sighed and glanced back at Mirajane. "You okay?"
"I am, thank you." Mirajane smiled. For some reason, smiling in her demon form didn't look as bad as Yusuke would have thought.
The male Saiyan looked down at Erza, who was currently looking back at him as well. The redhead gave a thumbs up of assurance at him, and he nodded back in response.
"Let's head down." Yusuke said, and began to dive back to the ground.
Everyone else in the air followed after him and they all arrived just in front of Marissa and Lisanna.
Erza and Mirajane both relaxed as their bodies flashed for a moment with both of their magical forms gone and they reappeared in their training wear. At the same time, Yusuke's hair wilted as he reverted back to normal as well.
"That was almost instant…" Lisanna muttered in shock.
"He can be pretty fast…" Marissa said with a small chuckle.
"And here we thought you were going to test them, not kill them." Yusuke said, narrowing his eyes at the female Saiyan.
"I said I was sorry." Ann snapped back. She sighed as she crossed her arms. "If anything, getting me to transform by instinct like that is something I'm not used to. They practically forced me during that small moment."
"Would we pass this 'test' of yours then?" Erza asked.
"... if they wanted to learn the Kaio-Ken as soon as tomorrow, I would do so." Ann shrugged, causing Yusuke to quietly sigh.
"That settles it then!" Mirajane cheered.
"Can't really say no to that, can you bro?" Marissa asked with a teasing voice.
"I… guess not…" Yusuke accepted as he scratched the back of his head. "We'll start tomorrow, so we'll end it here for today."
Erza and Mirajane looked and laughed, both high-fiving each other in victory.
"You're joining us as well Kid." Yusuke said, looking at the Earthling.
"Why do I gotta?" She asked.
"Because you're better at handling it than me. I can't even go past times twenty."
"Dunno why you complain about that, you and Ann have your own transformation that's more powerful." Marissa laughed. "Yeah, I can be here tomorrow. Don't worry."
"Let's all head back to the guild then, I'm sure everyone is done cleaning inside there." Lisanna said.
Mostly everyone else agreed, and Yusuke looked over at Ann questioningly. Seeing one of her shoulders shrug, she decided to go along with them.
"Isn't it nice to relax once in awhile?"
"I suppose…"
Both Saiyans continued eating at a booth and table inside the Fairy Tail guild hall along with Marissa sitting beside Ann. The building itself, as always, was loud and busy during the time it's open with guild members talking, drinking, coming in and out for missions and eating.
Yusuke ate away at his food as he normally did while Ann on the other hand, was consuming at a more mannered pace but with some gusto as well. Marissa, ate normally as she did compared to the Saiyans.
"You know what we should do? Go on a mission! I'd bet it'd be a lot more fun than patrolling!" Marissa excitedly suggested.
"Well you're not wrong." Yusuke idly said.
"How bout it Ann?"
"... I don't know." Ann responded.
"Oh come on! Don't tell me you're gonna go back to training."
"We have been doing so all night… not to mention the entire time non stop before that whole Edolas thing happened." Yusuke pointed out.
"And even through all of that, we couldn't even beat Black." She stated.
"I get what you're trying to say Ann… but there's a time when our bodies need to take in what we learned as well. A day or two wouldn't hurt."
"He's right! Training too much can't ever be a good thing if you don't at least rest." Marissa added in.
Ann looked at Marissa as she was about to put more food in her mouth from her plate, and looked at the worried face on the Earthling.
"You really want to go don't you?" Ann sighed.
"Uhm… yeah?" Marissa uneasily chuckled.
Ann was about to respond before sensing a presence coming up from behind her, and glanced back. Yusuke and Marissa looked over as well to see Wendy and Carla just floating next to the girl.
"Hi guys." Wendy meekly greeted.
"You don't have to be too shy, child." Carla said with a small smile.
"Hey Wendy, do you need something?" Yusuke asked.
"I... was just wondering if we could all go on a job?" Wendy asked, placing her hands behind her back.
"C'mon Ann, can you say no to that?" Marissa urged the female Saiyan.
"Ugh, fine Mari, you win! I'll go!" Ann relented.
"Hehe, yay!" Marissa grinned, and went to hug Ann as she was about to eat some more of her food.
"Watch it…!"
"W-What's going on…?" Wendy confusedly asked.
"Marissa actually suggested going on a job herself not long ago and we've been trying to convince Ann to go. Your appearance was good timing." Yusuke explained with an exasperated smile.
"Oh...then, we can go?" Wendy hopefully asked.
"Of course! We can all go on one!" Marissa said, widening the smile on Wendy's face.
"That will do it then. How about we go and pick one?" Carla said.
"Oh! C'mon, let's go look!" Marissa hopped out of the booth and went behind Wendy. The Earthling began pushing her while the dragonslayer slightly resisted, telling Marissa to calm down a little along the way.
With a quiet sigh, Carla didn't follow after Wendy but instead flew over to where Yusuke sat and landed down next to him.
"Carla? What is it?" Yusuke asked, noticing her out of the corner of his eye while he continued to eat.
"I… just wanted to apologize about what I've said towards you back on Edolas. It was out of line and… we were just under a lot of pressure back then." Carla said, unable to look at him.
"It's fine Carla… you're not exactly wrong though. Ever since coming to this planet, it's been mostly trouble coming at me." Yusuke softly responded as he looked up in thought. "It's no good seeing the laughing faces of everyone here in the guild become worrying. It feels more right that way."
"Thank you for understanding Yusuke… and thank you for helping the Exceeds. I saw what you did, trying to help them escape and I'm grateful."
"They were defenseless, I had to do something." Yusuke looked back down at Carla, meeting her smile with his own.
"We got one!" Marissa shouted from the side, coming back to the table along with Wendy. She slammed the paper down on the desk for everyone else to see.
"One-hundred thousand… ex Jewels?" Yusuke took a closer look, and saw that the reward was a bit different this time than the ones he usually saw.
"Read it further." Marissa said, and the male Saiyan did so as he picked up the paper.
"Rumors of multiple beasts lurk within a nearby cave from our town. The people residing within who have been out foraging in our neighboring forest have first stumbled upon the entrance of the cave until loud multiple roars were heard. We've known about the cave for years but this incident has just come up recently. We have sent this plea to multiple guilds and will gladly receive all the help we can get. Please hurry, for the safety of the townspeople." Yusuke said out loud.
"Wendy… are you sure about this?" Carla asked.
"Actually, she was kind of adamant about it." Marissa said, slightly surprising Carla.
"I want to be able to test more of my strength, especially after I fought back on Edolas. I need to be able to do more than use my magic for supporting others." Wendy boldly said.
"Very well child… just make sure you don't get yourself in too much trouble."
"I wonder what we're gonna be up against…" Yusuke muttered, continuing to eye the paper.
"Does it matter?" Ann asked.
"Just curious, that's all." He responded and stood up from where he sat. "I'll go show Mira this, then we can head out."
Yusuke walked over to the bar where Mirajane was currently manning from behind. Sitting on the stools there was Cana, happily drinking away even at this early in the day.
"Hi Yusuke, wanting to go on a job?" MIrajane asked.
"Yeah, Marissa and Wendy wanted to so we might as well. They picked this one though." Yusuke said, handing the job over to barmaid for her to take a look at.
"Hm… I suppose… huh?" Mirajane took a closer look and widened her eyes. "Yusuke, do you see where this is at?"
"Not really, I just looked at the job details itself."
"Look." Mirajane showed Yusuke the front of the paper again and pointed towards the location of the job, right under the details. "This town, it's all the way on the other side of Fiore from here."
"Huh, didn't notice that."
"Are you sure you want to take this job?" She asked in worry.
Yusuke was about to respond until an arm wrapped around his shoulder, and he was pulled in by someone with their breath smelling of booze.
"Hell yeah! We're in alright!" Cana announced.
"Cana?!" Yusuke and Mirajane both exclaimed simultaneously.
Cana took a drink out of her mug before responding. "I'm bored, and this definitely sounds like a road trip that I need!"
The brunette snatched the paper away from Mirajane and skimmed through it. "Oh yeah, this sounds fun alright."
"Are you sure you're just too drunk to be making any sense?" Yusuke asked, trying to get away from her but she just tightened her arm around him.
"Nahh, you must be crazy that this little booze can get me drunk. I'm no lightweight like Erza, hahaha!" Cana laughed, and took another drink.
"... you're not wrong." Yusuke sighed.
"Besides, I've been wanting to get out Magnolia for a bit. This'll be a good chance."
Yusuke and Mirajane noticed the mood shift in Cana just now, but it disappeared a moment later when she grinned and slapped Yusuke's back.
"I'll get packing, see ya in a few!" Cana said as she waved at the couple and walked out of the guild.
"I guess she's coming along." Yusuke said.
"Just be safe, all of you." Mirajane said, leaning over the counter and gesturing a finger towards the Saiyan to come closer.
He did so, and the barmaid went and pecked him on the lips. But before Yusuke pulled himself back, Mirajane grabbed his tank top, and yanked him closer so that she was close to his ear.
"If you and Cana do anything, don't think you'll get off easy."
Yusuke shivered once she finished her sentence, and laughed nervously.
"D-Don't worry Mira… we'll just focus on the job." He uneasily said, to which she responded with a giggle.
"Why are we still here?" Ann impatiently asked, tapping a finger on the desk.
"We're just waiting for someone…" Yusuke answered.
"But, we're all here?" Marissa said, looking at the two Saiyans, Wendy and Carla.
"Yo!"
Everyone looked to see Cana greeting them where they sat in the guild with a knapsack slung over her shoulder and a blue purse with a long leather string on her left shoulder with the purse itself resting on her right hip.
"You ready?" Yusuke asked.
"Yup." Cana said.
"Cana's coming with us?" Wendy asked.
"Since when?" Marissa asked.
"She was over at the bar when I was talking to Mira… and she wanted to tag along."
"More the merrier I guess."
"So as long she doesn't bring her habits towards Wendy, I'm fine with her coming along with us." Carla stated.
"Can we go now? I'd like to get this done." Ann said.
"Alright, alright." Yusuke said, leaning off of the booth.
Everyone walked out of the guild and stopped just near the entrance.
"Now that I think about it, where are the others? I know Erza had to do something for the Old Man." Yusuke thought out loud.
"Natsu and Happy are out on their own job right now. So is Gray, they said something about needing to do as much as possible right now. I'm not too sure about Lucy, she might still be at her apartment." Wendy answered.
"Wendy was feeling anxious of wanting to get out. She saw no one else but you. And here we are." Carla teased.
"C-Carla…"
"I'm hurt Wendy." Cana whined, patting the little girl on the head. "You coulda just come to me if you wanted to have some fun."
"What would you consider fun?" Carla deadpanned with crossed arms.
"Well, in any case, let's get going. It's quite a bit of a ways away." Yusuke said.
Ann was seen leaping in the air and floated just above the group. Wendy went to pick up Carla and walked over to Marissa. The Earthling wrapped her arms around the dragonslayer's waist and they floated in the air along with Ann.
"C'mon." Yusuke said, walking over to Cana as he was about to an arm around her waist.
"W-Whoa, hold on there." Cana stepped away and chuckled. "What are we doing?"
"We're flying over there. Definitely not going to take the train and then walking there, it'll take too long." He responded.
"And you were gonna carry me in your arms? Gee, I wonder what Erza and Mira will think about this." Cana grinned.
"Or, I can just knock you out and carry you in one of my arms. Because that's what I was gonna do in the first place, minus the knocking you out part." Yusuke retorted.
"Well damn, some gentleman you are."
"Hey, I could just leave you here and the rest of us can go ourselves."
"... okay, you win." Cana threw her hands up in defeat, and walked closer to him. "At least let me climb on your back instead."
"Fine, just don't get distracted by the view and fall off." Yusuke said, turning around as he remembered the first time he had Mirajane on his back when he flew with her.
Cana placed her hands on his shoulders and grunted as she hopped on him, draping an arm over his shoulder and wrapping her legs near his waist.
"Let's move!" Cana cheered and pumped a fist in the air.
"Geez, are you sure that you're not drunk? And don't think about drinking as well." The male Saiyan sighed.
"Ahh don't you worry!" The brunette grinned and patted on his shoulder.
Yusuke finally leaped in the air while holding Cana's legs with his hands. Meeting up with the rest of the group and with him leading where to go, they all flew off.
'Wow… so this is what it looks like… and we're so high up!' Cana thought, looking down at the landscape. She had a bit of a hard time with the wind blowing in her eyes, but in the time she was flying along with Yusuke, she had managed to catch glimpses here and there during their travels.
Remembering his words before they left the guild, Cana tightened her arms around him as she continued to look below.
"You've been quiet for awhile now, you haven't died on me back there, have you Cana?" Yusuke yelled.
"No." Cana yelled back loud enough for him to hear. "I'm just soaking in the view."
Just behind them was the rest of the group following Yusuke to their destination. Ann, who hadn't had the time to explore Earthland often looked below her to take in the area of Fiore. Marissa did the same as well, but also made sure that both Wendy and Carla were in her arms.
"How are you both doing?" Marissa asked the young girl and Exceed.
"We're fine!" Wendy shouted, and held Carla tighter in her own arms.
"Tarok! How much farther!" Ann asked.
Yusuke glanced back so that he was able to see her. "We've still got awhile. We could speed it up more."
Ann knew the meaning of his words since the speed all three of them were going at the moment was to make sure that those were being carried felt safe. She looked back at Marissa and she shrugged a little bit as a response, hearing them.
"Are you guys fine if we go a little faster?" Marissa asked Wendy and Carla.
"W-We'll be fine!" Wendy answered.
"Then make sure you hold on to Carla tighter." She said, tightening her arms around the dragonslayer. Marissa looked back at Ann with a nod.
Ann looked back at Yusuke and nodded as well, giving the sign.
"Cana!" He shouted.
"What!" Cana responded, now out of her observing state.
"Hold on tighter! We're going to speed it up!" Yusuke shouted again, and all three Time Patrollers ignited their white aura around them at the same time.
Not having enough time to answer, Cana immediately wrapped her arms around him tighter just like he said from the moment her body felt the sudden shift. She shut her eyes from the sudden change in momentum and felt her hair move wildly from the wind. They all continued to travel across Fiore to their destination.
'It should be down there somewhere…' Yusuke thought, looking from side to side down below. They had slowed down considerably after travelling a majority of the distance to their goal and now they were just casually flying trying to locate the town. Cana had even berated him not too long ago about the change in speed and had calmed down after some arguing with the male Saiyan.
Eventually, he spotted a large mountain down below with a moderately sized town and forest next to it. He began to descend down with Ann and Marissa following just behind him.
The entire group arrived just at the outskirts of the town. Cana let go of Yusuke, much to his relief, and stretched a bit on the ground. Marissa and Wendy separated from each other with Carla hopping out of the dragonslayer's arms.
"Is this it?" Ann asked.
"Should be." Yusuke reached into this pocket to take a folded paper. He unfolded it to look at the job request. Under the details of it showed the location of the town, Lineaqua. "Mira did say it was at the other side of the country. We did see an ocean past here as well."
"The mountain too, that must be where that cave is at." Marissa said, walking up towards him.
"Let's head to the mayor first if the town has one, or whoever is in charge." Yusuke said, putting the paper back in his pocket. When he looked ahead, he sweatdropped as he saw Cana already drinking away from a bottle. 'She had that the whole time?'
Walking into the town of Lineaqua itself they saw streets with people walking as well as several kids playing with each other under adult supervision. It looked liked just a normal town to the Fairy Tail group as they looked around. The more they did so, the more they saw it resembling Magnolia in a way where it was up in modern times of Fiore.
"You think we should head there?" Marissa asked, pointing ahead towards a building larger than most they've seen in town so far.
"It's how it usually works." Yusuke shrugged. He looked over to the side to see Cana walking off into another street and sighed. "You guys go on ahead…"
"... but, aren't you supposed to be guiding us?"
"Wendy, you're in charge." Yusuke called out as he was about to follow Cana. "You got more experience than those two, help them."
"O-Okay…" Wendy reluctantly agreed, and they all saw the male Saiyan jog away towards the brunette.
"Tch, can't believe him." Ann scoffed.
"Aw c'mon, you heard him, let's go on without him for now." Marissa uneasily chuckled, and placed her hands on Wendy's shoulders. "I guess we're in your care."
"I suppose so…" Wendy meekly said.
"Come Child, this will be a good experience to be leading a group. See it as that, and hope Yusuke comes back with Cana soon." Carla said, floating beside her friend reassuringly.
Wendy then gave a confident nod, and they all began walking towards the large domed building where they can hope to find client.
Yusuke beelined it to where he sensed Cana was at. It didn't take long for him to find her amongst the small crowds in the street and saw her entering into a shop. When he arrived just in front of it, he took a closer look inside the display window and saw multiple bottles of wine and other alcoholic beverages.
"Of course she would…" Yusuke muttered and entered inside the shop.
The first thing Yusuke noticed was the scent of wood all over the store from shelves that stocked the wine, to the wood floorings and counters at the back of the building. It was a pleasant smell in his mind, somewhat calming as well. The store was quiet to a point where it'd be troublesome for someone to talk normally of a sudden, similar to how you would keep quiet at a library.
Figuring he'd observed enough, Yusuke went to find Cana at a nearby aisle and saw her looking back and forth of the shelves between her and eyeing up and down while biting the corner of her lip, contemplating.
"Cana…" Yusuke whispered out loud.
"Hey, check this out." Cana eagerly said in her normal voice and went to take a bottle out of a shelf. "I haven't tried this stuff out yet, you think it's good?"
The Saiyan sighed as he walked up to her. "Don't know, but we don't have the time right now. Come on, we gotta meet up with the others."
"No harm in looking though."
"There isn't, but we gotta help this town, remember?"
"You're right…" Cana sighed and rubbed the bottle she was holding. "I'll come back for you later."
"I'm amazed you even found this store. That habit of yours is something." Yusuke uttered out loud enough as he began to walk out of the store with Cana behind her.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." Cana voiced out.
"I mean, it can be both. Especially with how much you drink that can be pegged as a bad thing." He said, opening the door of the store and walking out.
"Hey, lemme offer you something." Cana said with a grin, patting a hand on his shoulder and resting on it.
"...what?" Yusuke cautiously asked.
"How about we find the bar in this town and have a drink off after we're all done." Cana offered as her grin widened, and whispered the next part. "I wanna see it when I outdrink an alien."
Interested, Yusuke had to stop and look at her. "... what's the catch?"
"Winner gets to boss the loser for an entire day." Cana grinned.
"If you can focus on the job without drinking a single drop of alcohol until we're done, you got a deal." He smirked.
"Damn…" Cana clicked her tongue in thought as she looked away from him. After several seconds thinking, she nodded a few times. "Fine, but at least let me finish a bottle I already started."
"Fine…"
"Hehe, I can't wait." The brunette's grin returned as she went and brought out a bottle of liquor and began drinking it on their way back to the others.
Inside the lobby of the client's office, the Fairy Tail group minus Yusuke and Cana were waiting for the client to show up after arriving that they were here to help.
The doors opened up as Wendy and Carla looked to see and saw Yusuke and Cana entering, all the while the other two Time Patrollers didn't move as they had already sensed them.
"Found her." Yusuke said, pointing behind him at the drinking woman as she just finished up a bottle.
"You haven't missed much, we're just waiting on the person who sent out the job." Marissa said.
The doors opposite of the entrance opened just as Marissa finished talking and a young, slim man in a dark blue suit came walking in with a frail look on his face with . Beside him is a woman with long brown hair in a loose light gray dress that reached down to her calves while wearing black heels with her hands folded in front of her.
Those that were sitting down all stood up as the man and woman came walking up to the Fairy Tail members to greet them.
"H-Hello everyone. I'm glad you all came to help… My name is Lennard. I am this town's current Mayor." Lennard said, bowing his head.
"I am Rhea. Lennard's current aide and fiancee." She introduced, bowing her head as well for a moment before looking at the group again. "We're relieved to have Fairy Tail help us. We've just received your message of acceptance of the job not too long ago, but for your guild being in Magnolia it's surprising how quick all of you came here."
"We're pretty fast on our feet, some of us at least." Marissa chuckled.
"Please, follow us further inside… I'm sure all of us would like to sit while discussing more about this job." Lennard suggested as he gestured a hand to the door from where he came out from.
Agreeing with client, the Fairy Tail group followed the couple out of the lobby.
"There were… some things that were left out in the description." Lennard tiredly sighed as he looked as he folded hands. He currently sat on the couch with Rhea next to him, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"So there's more to it then?" Yusuke asked, looking at the paper of the job.
"Yes. We intentionally left out some rather disturbing details that we thought might have shied away other guilds. So we put in just enough that we think might draw them in… we hope you don't think any less of us due to this."
"You'll have to tell us the details you've left out before we make that judgment." Ann said.
"O-Of course… truth be told we've actually had a few of our citizens disappear around the time we've discovered something different inside the caves. Even a group of our militia that had gone in to investigate had not come back either… ever since then we haven't tried to make a move and have resorted to having the magic guilds helps us. We've sent the flyers to as many as we could possible out in Fiore." The Mayor explained, heaving a sigh afterwards and rubbing his forehead stressfully.
"How many other guilds responded to this job?" Yusuke questioned.
"Just one other... " Rhea answered. "By the name of Mermaid Heel."
"Mermaid Heel…"
"I've heard of them…" Cana chimed in as she was seen leaning behind the couch that Marissa, Wendy and Carla were sitting on. "They're a recently new guild, maybe a little over half a year already? It's supposedly an all girls, only girls guild too."
"That sounds pretty neat…" Marissa quietly commented.
"How many showed?" Yusuke asked next.
"Only one member…" Rhea said.
"O-Only one…?" Wendy repeated disbelievingly.
"She must be quite the lady if they've only sent in one person to help." Carla said.
"Not to be rude as she's not here currently but we've had some doubts, as shameful as it is for us to say but at this point we're desperate for help. But she didn't look any more than sixteen years old." Rhea said.
"Sixteen?! She's gotta be pretty strong then!" Marissa exclaimed.
"We don't want to doubt that at all and she seemed to be confident about it. She only just came in this morning, poor thing must have spent an entire day travelling to come here."
"Where is she currently?" Ann asked.
"... she's surveying the forest and the outside of the mountain currently. We've asked her if she wanted to rest first but she assured us that she was fine and that it was best to finish as soon as possible." Lennard said.
"What's her name?" Yusuke wondered.
"...Kagura Mikazuchi."
"So we maybe got monsters inside those caves as well as people from this town that are missing. We just gotta find them and beat up anything else in our way basically." Marissa summarized, walking with her hands folded behind her back.
"I feel as if there's more to this that they might not know… such as how this all began." Wendy said.
"You have a point there… but they might be too confused and stressed out to think of such at the moment." Carla said.
"You're going to help too, right?" Yusuke asked in a stern manner at the brunette.
"Of course I am! Already had my fill of booze so I'm ready for action." Cana slightly pumped her fists in the air.
"I feel like most people wouldn't be up for that after they've drunk so much alcohol…" Yusuke skeptically said and felt her arm on his shoulder as they continued to walk.
"You should know by now that I ain't most people." Cana grinned.
"Right…"
"I want to find that Kagura person… she's gotta be strong!" Marissa exclaimed.
"We'll have to find her first." Ann said.
"Do you think she's willing to join us to help?" Wendy asked.
"I'm sure not even her would be able to handle a cave full of wild beasts. We'll need to help out as much as possible." Carla answered.
At this point, the entire Fairy Tail group had arrived between the town and its forest that leads all the way to the mountain where the cave is at. They took a look ahead at the large rock in the distance. Comparing to when they first saw it while flying in the sky to on the ground, it had looked much much shorter of a distance from above.
"Guess we're flying over there." Yusuke said.
"It'll definitely be a lot quicker." Ann voiced.
"Hopefully we can find the entrance quickly." Marissa said.
"They did say it faced just slightly off north towards the town…" Carla said.
"So it'd be that way!" Cana hopped on top of Yusuke's back and pointed to the right of the group with her finger towards the mountain.
"A warning would have been nice!" The male chided.
"You know you would have helped me flown anyway since I'm the only one here who can't."
"Whatever... Let's go." He sighed
Carla went behind Wendy with her wings and lifted her up. With everyone else doing so as well, they all began to search for the entrance to the cave.
We'll be continuing on in the next chapter. Please review! I do notice we're almost at a THOUSAND reviews! Might have been a few hiccups with a couple of people regarding that, but, it'll still be 1,000 reviews. That's a positive side that I will see it as. I do enjoy reading them aside from any flaming.
Hope all of you enjoyed! I had some fun writing this when I had the time. School HAS started for me as well this week so I will promise to work on this when I find the time. I'm prioritizing some things in real life at the moment and I do want to add this in as well. Don't ya'll worry.
There might be some indication for people out there regarding Cana and Yusuke but all I have to say is that they are merely deepening their friendship and developing character. The same thing will happen to Ann and Marissa as well. The main question is, with who?
It'll be like this before the mini arc I have planned and I'll try to make it satisfactory as possible, I don't want to rush things nor do I want to have things incomplete and unsatisfied so please bear with it!
School life sucks, if I could I'd just make everyone out there wanting education just get smart instantly and have diplomas and degrees and other milestones. On the other hand... it'd make for a lot more competition out there in the real world. I wouldn't mind it lol.
Until then!
Timestamp: August 26, 2017
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