White Eclipse

Chapter 5

"Is everyone okay!?" Lucy shouted as she looked around at her guildmates. A puddle of water appears from the ground as Juvia forms out of nowhere, now on top of Gray, who was on top of Natsu. "Gray-Sama is fine! Juvia has protected him." Gray gives Juvia the usual look when he's creeped out by her. "It wasn't necessary..."

"Neither was yours!" Natsu shouted as he pushed Gray off after Juvia stood up. "I was about to take that guy out!"

"No you weren't you idiot! You were just standing there!" By this time, as Natsu and Gray once again bump heads, over to the left Gajeel rises from the smokey ground shrugging off the attack from Takeru and showing signs that he was okay, although well upset at the attack. "W-what's going on?" Happy walks out the guild rubbing his eye sleepily, with Pantherlily right behind him.

Just then, a cracking sound his heard. Everyone's attention turns to the dome that was over Erza as it shatters. With the most ticked off look on her face, Erza stood in her Purgatory armor, breathing heavily in anger and frustration at how long it took to break the dome.

"E-Erza?" Lucy whimpered. Everyone could now tell that this wasnt going to go unpunished. Lucy decided to speak again. "Now I know this looks bad. But we should talk this over before we go and do anything hasty." As she finishes speaking, Kuro comes running from behind her to catch up with his team. He had waited for everyone to come to from their fight. He turns and bows to the entire guild as they all look on at him, some with the eyes of murder. "Sorry for all that! We aren't bad guys! We just have a lot of strong wills in our guild!" He waves and runs off but as he gives them an innocent smile, what he said next all that the salamander needed to hear. "You guys should train harder! That was too easy for them!" As Kuro vanishes out of view, Natsu's eyes perk up.

"I can't tell if he was being sincere, or sarcastic." Gray responded as he stood shirtless with Juvia behind him swooning over the view of the Ice maker.

"Okay, now that we're all here-" Before Lucy could finish, A gust of wind and a blur goes flying by her. She turns to see, barely catching glimpse of the two in the distance. "Wha!? Natsu! Happy! Stop!"

"Max speed Happy!"

"Aye sir!"

"Oh no! Not without me! I want that dragon slayer!" Gajeel quickly took off running. Pantherlily, swoops up behind him and grabs and lifts him into the air, also taking off quickly.

"That's good enough for me!" Gray yells out as he takes off running right behind them both. Juvia takes off too because, Gray. "Gray-Sama wait!" Erza looks at the sighing Lucy and merely shrugs, then takes off in her purgatory armor to cover ground. Lucy now stands alone as the others go back inside. "I'm not going...Hey wait!" Lucy then takes off, desperately trying to catch up with the others.

"You sure you don't want to ride Takeru?" Zalen chuckles as he looks down from the floating iron platform he manifested. Everyone else, even Kuro who quickly caught up was on the platform as Takeru was on foot, running back to the guild.

Takeru gives Zalen a low glare of annoyance. "You know I can't handle transportation Zalen."

"I know." Zalen smiles back. "It's just funny to ask."

Before Zalen could respond, his ears perk and he looks back. The /smallest/ of smirks come across his face as continues running, knowing that they were gonna be at the guild soon so there was no reason to stop; yet, he felt them both coming.

"Salamander. Black steel..."