Enemies' Bonding Time and Delta Angeloid Appear
Lucy, Ikaros, and Coco are walking together through the ancient tunnel they got themselves trap in when Lucy and Ikaros tried to help Coco as she is making things a little difficult for Lucy to have a good conversation with and not getting any answers about what the Legion Platoon is up to like what's this Holy War about.
"Ikaros, can you sense if the others are still around?" Lucy asked.
"I'm having difficult detection them from underground, but I can tell that they are still within the ancient old city." Ikaros reported.
"If you're so helpful, then maybe you can try finding us an exit." Coco mocked.
"I'm sorry, but my detection sensor doesn't work like that." Ikaros said.
"You know she wasn't being serious about that, right?" Lucy asked.
They continue walking for a couple more minutes as the ancient hallway is the same with the creepy skulls on the wall, they girls hope they won't have to see any more of these for long.
"We need to be careful, there's probably a lot more of those booty traps everywhere." Lucy warned.
"I know, genius! The builders put them there to stop grave robbers like you and your buddies." Coco bragged.
"You're here for the exact same reason as we are!" Lucy pointed out.
"That is what they call pot calling the kittle black." Ikaros phrased a line she heard once from Macao.
"Oh, who ask you, bird girl!" Coco insulted though Ikaros is unfazed of the insult.
Before anyone could say another word, Lucy's foot stepped on a pad that went lower much to the girls' shock (Ikaros still blank expression, but shock on the inside) and spikes started popping out from the ground.
"Look out!" Coco jumped at Lucy to help her avoid a spike that was about to impale you as Ikaros manages to dodge them by flying over them.
"Are you okay, Lady Lucy?" Ikaros asked.
"Yeah, Coco just saved my life." Lucy answered as Coco find her face between Lucy's large breasts and quickly pushes herself away.
"Thanks for that." Lucy thanked.
"There's no need to thank me. You tried to save me earlier, I'm returning the favor by actually saving you." Coco stated and got back up.
Lucy and Ikaros look at each other wondering if this girl were trying to say "you're welcome" or just being a little annoying again, either way they are glad that Coco is at least being cooperative right now. They continue walking through the ruins now find outside of the creepy tunnel and walking up the stairs wondering where to go next, and Lucy decides to have some talk with Coco again hoping to make her be a little friendlier.
"Are you seriously this unfriendly all of the time?" Lucy asked, but Coco doesn't respond.
"Master Natsu told me that it's always good to have friends around than being alone. Do the Legion Platoon see each other as friends?" Ikaros asked curiously, but no respond from Coco again.
"You know, the girl who looks like you I mentioned earlier likes to run a lot and she's a million times nicer." Lucy said.
"Is that so? Well then, how am I like this other girl?" Coco asked as the curiosity got her.
"Besides your personality, you two are practically identical." Lucy answered much to Coco's shock.
"Lady Lucy has mentioned this earlier before getting separate from our group and from what she told me, they also started out as enemies, but it was for the wrong reason and soon became one of her closest friends." Ikaros explained.
"Did I got that right?" Ikaros asked Lucy.
"Yeah, dead on." Lucy nodded.
"Hate to disappoint you two, but that sounds nothing like me because I would never be friends with a stupid wannabe bimbo wizard like you or a dumb pink bird girl like here." Coco mocked.
"Do you need to be petted again?" Ikaros offered to help calm Coco down.
"No way in Hell!" Coco snapped with her arms crossing each other in her front.
"No need to get personal; we're just worried putting the clock together is gonna cause some major problems. We're trying to stop a worldwide disaster from happening. You know, the whole "inevitable chaos" thing?" Lucy pointed out.
"Do you guys honesty think we want to destroy the world?" Coco asked.
"We have no data on your goal." Ikaros said.
"She's right, we really don't know what you want. Personally, I'm just hoping to try and understand what in the heck my dad was trying to tell me." Lucy mentioned.
"Yeah, your dad… You're the daughter of Jude Heartfilia, aren't you? He was one of the richest businessmen in the country and a successful one too." Coco recalled hearing a word or two about Jude.
"I may be his daughter, but I can't say that we ever saw eye-to-eye on much. And this is no exception; I mean, why would anybody go to all the trouble to hide pieces of a clock in all these weird, hard to find places?" Lucy wondered.
"Maybe they're playing a scouting game." Ikaros guessed.
"The proper name of the game is call a scavenger hunt." Lucy corrected the Angeloird girl.
"And I don't think that's it. I can't help thinking there had to be an easier way to go about it." Lucy said.
"That may be the one thing we agree on." Coco admitted.
That made Lucy giggles a little looking at Coco and the latter looks at her seeing that expression.
"You wanna tell me what's so funny?" Coco asked, thinking Lucy is making fun of her.
"Nothing! Well, I was actually just thinking that you're kind of silly, that's all." Lucy commented.
"A silly puppy." Ikaros added.
"Hey, I don't appreciate you saying that about me." Coco said being mad a little.
"Sorry, we didn't mean it as an insult." Lucy assured.
"Stop, we have reach a dead end." Ikaros alerted the two as they stop in front of a Priestess statue.
"Uh-oh, looks like we can't go anywhere else. You think maybe we should turn around and go back?" Lucy asked.
"That might take too long, Lady Lucy." Ikaros stated.
"Jeez, you two don't know anything do ya?" Coco chuckled getting their attention.
"Places like this always have secret hidden exits." Coco approached the statue.
"No, don't touch that!" Lucy tried to warn her while freaking out.
But Coco touches the chin of the female statue, rumbling noises were heard the ceiling on top of them came down, she would have been crushed if Ikaros hadn't showed up and use her super strength to smash the falling rocks away into little pieces while help shield Coco.
"Coco, are you okay?" Lucy asked worry.
"Huh, yeah, I'm okay." Coco answered a little nervous.
"This is why I warned you not to touch that statue, you could have gotten yourself hurt like that." Lucy scolded the dog-faced girl.
"Lady Lucy, it would seem that Coco did found us an exit." Ikaros pointed up at the giant hole of the ceiling.
"See, I knew what I was doing." Coco said with a confident smile.
"Yeah, sure you were." Lucy said, not buying it.
"Lucy!" Happy called out.
The three looks up seeing Michelle, Romeo, Nymph, and Happy are at the upper floor looking down from the giant hole.
"Thank goodness you're alive! I was so worried!" Michelle sighed in relief.
"Hey, come up here and we'll start looking for the clock piece together." Romeo gestured his hand to come up.
"Okay, we'll be right up." Lucy called back.
"Come on, Coco. We don't want to be stuck down here." Lucy offered Coco to go up the floor with them.
"What? Are you serious, but we're supposed to be enemies!" Coco reminded her that the two groups are at each other's necks for the clock piece.
"I don't think we're really enemies, we share the same goal of stopping the clock pieces from being use for evil, just different method on how to approach the situation. Besides, it wouldn't feel right to me if I just left you by yourself." Lucy stated in such kind words.
This struck Coco in the heart, she never thought someone like her would care much for an enemy and started to think she maybe right about this situation.
"Okay, I'll accept your help. But we are splitting up the moment we get up there." Coco stated.
"Sounds fair to me. Ikaros." Lucy said to the angel girl.
"As you wish." Ikaros carried both Lucy and Coco up to the upper floor to meet up with the others.
"I'll be going this way; you better hope we don't meet up otherwise we'll have to fight each other." Coco said before she dashes away.
"That girl sure knows how to make an exit." Nymph commented.
"You can say that again." Happy said.
"I'm not sure if It's my imagination, but it feels like you just made a new friend with her." Michelle noticed.
"Maybe so, but right now we should focus on finding the Clock piece." Ikaros reminded them.
"Right, you are. Let's go!" Lucy said and everyone start running to the other end of the hallway.
(With Gajeel's Group)
Gajeel, Panther Lilly, and team Shadow Gear are seen sitting on top of a mountain as Shadow Gear are totally exhausted from having literally climb up the mountain themselves.
"According to the information Lucy gave us, we should be sitting on top of one of the clock pieces right about now." Gajeel said reading the map.
"If that's the case how come nobody seen it?" Panther Lilly looked around and see nothing.
"Maybe… there's something else about the location we haven't thought of." Levy theorized while catching her breath.
"I just hope we can find something to eat…" Droy rubbed her large stomach.
"I just want to take a nap." Jet laid on the ground.
"Oh no, I think we climbed the wrong mountain! The clock piece is on that mountain over there!" Panther Lilly pointed at the mountain causing team Shadow Team to gasp in horror.
"I'm just kidding, but those faces are priceless." Panther Lilly revealed with a chuckle, then saw the three fainted thinking his joke was a little too far.
"I'm still not seeing any clock piece. Which means… the stupid thing's probably buried up here somewhere, I'll bet." Gajeel smirked.
"So, what do we do now?" Panther Lilly asked.
He got his answer when Gajeel starts pounding the mountain top with his fists as he starts digging.
(With Erza's Group)
Erza's group is made up of herself, Wendy, Carla, and Cana who decided to tag along with them to find one of the clock pieces as they arrived in front of a very tall tower that is so tall legend says that it can reach the Heavens known as the Magic Library.
"We're here, we've finally found it!" Erza said.
"The Library of Sorcery holds countless texts on almost every type of magic that's ever been practiced. It's quite impressive." Carla amazed.
"Yeah, no joke. The place is fucking humongous." Cana commented.
Cana is a tall and slim tanned-skinned young woman with an ample bust. She has mid-back length brown hair with varying shades of color, having been seen as bright brown, black, and, ultimately, plain brown. Two shoulder-length strands of hair frame her face, with the left one starting from a prominent, high fringe. Her black Fairy Tail stamp is located on the lower left part of her abdomen, right above her hips. She wears a light blue bikini top which features a camouflage pattern, a pair of capri pants, with two bands hanging from each leg and a light belt covered in heart motifs loosely tied around the waist. She completes her general outfit by wearing a pair of high-heeled sandals. She also had a pair of metal bracelets adorning her biceps, bearing an incision composed of many "A"s, and three simple, round metal bracelets on her right wrist. Breasts sizes: FF-cup.
"But it doesn't look like anybody's been here for a long time." Wendy said.
"That's a real tragedy. All that knowledge just waiting to be learned." Carla sighed.
Erza opens the door and the group walks right inside, and they saws everywhere on the shelves are hundreds of million, no, billions of books going up and up along the tall tower.
"You're telling me all these books are about magic?!" Cana shocked, wondering who made this tower in the first place and how are there so many books.
"What a wonderful sight to behold, don't you think?" Carla amazed of seeing all these books around.
"Yeah, we should come back here sometime and bring Levy." Wendy suggested.
"My word! So many books full of ancient wisdom." Erza said as she is about to touch one of the books.
"HEY!" A person shouted.
"What was that?" Wendy scared.
"Could it be those Legion Platoon jerks?" Cana asked, getting her magic cards ready.
"Show yourself!" Erza demanded with two hands out.
The person who shouted came crashing down on the floor making a little dent and revealing to be a girl in front of them.
"Finally, after all this time…" The girl glared at the four.
The girl has red eyes and a voluptuous build with long, golden-blonde hair that extends to her ankles. She also has little wings on each side of her head. Her clothing appears to be the same as Ikaros, but her clothes have other styles that appear to be blue, and a chain neck collar too. She also has large wings on her back that are white and blue. Breasts sizes: G-cup.
"Hey, doesn't that girl suddenly reminds you of Ikaros?" Wendy asked.
"Yes, now that you mention it, the clothes do appear similar." Erza started to see that too.
"After all this time… I've finally found people!" The blonde girl cried, bursting in tears.
"Okay, should we be worry about that?" Cana asked, feeling weirded out of the scene.
"I never thought I would get to see actual people! I woke up suddenly finding myself in this stupid, boring place with nothing but books for one whole month and I'm getting sick of this place!" The blonde winged girl cried some more.
"Huh, there, there, you don't have to worry about being suck in here now." Wendy comforted the girl.
"I guess she's like a lost and confuse child." Erza commented.
"A child with a busty body." Cana joked.
"Please tell me, how did you even get in here when there's not a single door anywhere?" The winged blonde girl asked.
"Oh, you mean you never checked that door over there?" Wendy pointed at the door that is still open.
"Huh, wait? There was really a door?" The winged blonde girl surprised.
"Yeah, and it wasn't even lock either." Cana mentioned.
"It wasn't lock! Damn it, I didn't even think about that, yet I wasted the whole month crying like a baby!" The winged blonde girl slammed her head on the floor.
"Sounds to me like she's not the brightest tool in the shed." Cana pointed out.
"It's okay, we can get out with us since we finish our business here. By the way, what's your name?" Wendy asked.
"My name? Oh yes, I am a Close Combat Angeloid, type Delta: Astraea!" Astraea introduced herself proudly.
"Just as we thought, this girl is an Angeloid just like Ikaros and Nymph." Erza nodded.
"Huh, Ikaros and Nymph, I feel like I heard those names before, but I can't remember why." Astraea wondered.
"We'll be happy to introduce them to you after we find a clock piece here in this library." Cana offered.
"Huh, clock piece?" Astraea puzzled.
"It's a long story and" Erza picked up one of the books on the sleeve and few more drop to the floor. Then she saw something unexpected and very unsettling, something that is like a pair of bouncy black buns.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Lucy has show some compassion to Coco that maybe able to win her over as a friend probably after finding the clock piece in the ancient holy ruin first, and Erza's group have found something amazing upon first arriving at the Magic Library which is another Angeloid name Astraea. And it looks like there is something else inside the Magic Library, something that will reveal what Wendy and Carla know from their past which will be a shock to the group.
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