Arslan P.O.V.
Arslan stroked the bird as Daryun read the note out load to the group. They adopted varying looks of confusion or surprise.
"Well, we should go check it out." Erza suggested. The group nodded and followed Erza as she led them to where the letter said to meet. When they got there all that was there was a broken rope bright and a large gap between the two pieces of land.
"It must be a prank." Rang out from the group. Lucy nodded in agreement.
"We should head back." She said. Just as the team turned to leave, the bridge fixed itself.
"The person we're dealing must be on the other side. Let's get crossing!" Natsu yelled after a beat of silence, punching his hand. Lucy looked at Gray and smirked.
"Sure is." Gray answered. He pushed Natsu, making him stumble onto the bridge. Natsu hopped on one foot, trying to regain his balance and stopped midway and held onto the rope.
"That was mean!" He exclaimed. Soon after he started getting a green tint to his skin.
"Are you really getting sick from a freaking bridge?" Gray asked. Natsu found new determination and ran the rest of the way across the bridge. When he made it, he spun around and started waving his arms in the air.
"I did it!" He exclaimed.
"Huh. I thought for sure that that thing would collapse as soon as someone stepped onto it." Lucy said.
"Hey!" Natsu exclaimed from across the bridge. Lucy shrugged.
"Well, let's cross!" She exclaims. The team follows her across the bridge and they follow a path, not knowing where it will lead. The group stopped walking when three cloaked figures entered their vision at the end of the forest. Erza made sure no one went forward, and the cloaked figures ended going to them. They stopped right in front of the group and took of their hoods, revealing a man with blue hair a red mark under his left eye, a girl with dark purple hair, and a girl with pink hair. Everyone except Arslan and Daryun seemed shocked at who they were.
Eventually, Daryun and Arslan found out that the blue haired man is named Jellal, the pink haired girl is named Meredy, and the dark purple haired girl is named Ultear. Jellal had broken out of prison, but is not their enemy, and neither are the other two. They said that they want to help the team with advancing their magic powers by unlocking a second magic origin.
"That would be really helpful. Thank you!" Lucy exclaims.
"It's no problem. Follow us, we'll take you somewhere where we can start." Ultear says. She leads the group to a cabin where she starts on Natsu first. Red lines lined his body and he yelled and growled in pain as the lines flashed, making some people have second thoughts. Eventually Ultear came over to the rest of the group.
"Alright, it's your turn now." She says, referring to everyone but Natsu. Some people visibly cringed at the thought but let Ultear cast her magic on them. Pretty soon, most of the group joined Natsu on the ground, shaking, crying, yelling in pain. The only ones still up were the ones without the magic cast on them and Erza, Arslan, and Daryun.
"I wonder why this isn't having the same effect on us as it is with the rest of the team." Arslan says to Daryun.
"Perhaps the Celestial spirit king also gave us this when he unlocked out magic for us." Daryun answered.
"Perhaps." Arslan agrees. The watched as Erza said goodbye to Jellal before she walked back over to the team.
"So, now that we have our second origin unlocked, how do you guys feel about extra training tomorrow?"