Seraphina wiped sweat from her brow as she sighed observing the neverending barren landscape before her. It had been days since they had defeated Lullaby and left Clover, but now they were faced with another problem, they were stuck in the infamous Web Valley. The landscape was desertous and there weren't many signs of life, and judging by the way things were going they were about to be trapped in it forever.
"Come on Happy!" Lucy exclaimed suddenly causing Seraphina to cover her ears and rub her temples at the sudden outburst, why did she have to be so loud? "Don't tell me you got us lost again! We've been walking for forever and a half and we still haven't gotten to Magnolia yet! Why are we following a cat anyway?!"
"It's only been forever and a half?" Seraphina muttered with a halfhearted smile, twisting Lucy's words to make a sarcastic joke in an attempt to lift the mood. "Dang, cut the cat some slack Lucy, he still has another half before we can get upset."
"Yeah," Happy said agreeing to Seraphina, not quite realizing that the light mage was being sarcastic. "I wasn't lost last time, so this is the first time I've gotten us lost!"
"First time or not, let's just try to make this our last time, okay?"
Seraphina agreed wholeheartedly with Lucy, they were already stuck in this place for so long, and all of them were hungry and thirsty, she wouldn't be surprised if they lost their cool… though she thought while twisting a clump of hair around her finger, that wouldn't be an uncommon occurrence.
"Maaaan, I want some food!" Natsu complained rubbing his grumbling stomach.
"We all do," Gray retorted with an exasperated sigh. "Talking about it only makes us hungrier!"
Natsu growled and turned to Gray. "I can't help it if I'm hungry, jerk!"
"No, but you can stop running your mouth can't you?" Gray shot back.
"Ughhh…" Seraphina groaned as she dragged her feet on the sandy terrain. She then collapsed to the ground. "I'm done!" She began dramatically. "It's over for me, just go on!"
"Bit dramatic, don't you think?" Lucy asked the lavendette.
"Aye…" Happy muttered in agreement.
"We need some food…" Master Makarov moaned.
"Yeah, we know!" Gray and Natsu snapped.
Lucy watched wearily, everyone seemed to be very irritable, which was understandable since they had been in the heat for so long and without any food.
"Quiet," Erza ordered. "Remain calm, we will get out of this."
Seraphina lifted her head from the ground and saw a bunch of ants going by, each of them seemed to be carrying some sort of food. Her stomach grumbled and she watched the ants enviously. A glimmer of hope started forming though, if these ants could find some food in a place like this, maybe she could too.
She straightened herself out and peered into her side bag, she doubted it but maybe there was some food in there. She searched through, but all she pulled out were a bunch of wrappers from previously eaten food and other random trinkets. She was about to give up, but then she felt something hard and vaguely in the shape of food. Her heart racing she pulled it out of her bag before sighing in relief.
"I found one!' She exclaimed before remembering the situation she was in.
Gray, Natsu, Happy, and Erza all turned to each other and seemed to share a look, one that resembled a very creepy grin causing Seraphina to recoil a bit, sweat forming at her brow. The four then turned towards the lavendette, inching forward slowly.
"What do you have?" Natsu asked.
"Uh… nothing!" Seraphina answered, slowly retreating on all four of her limbs as she still hadn't gotten up from before when she collapsed to the ground.
"Didn't sound like nothing to me…" Gray countered to which Seraphina laughed before a sharp pain went up her right hand, looking down she saw that a small sharp rock had gotten under her palm. She pouted as she began to slowly stand up, this time retreating on her feet, prepared to break into a sprint if necessary.
"Are you lying to me?" Erza demanded with a dangerous glint in her eyes that made Seraphina sweat even more. "Cause if you are, that's a grave mistake."
"No?!" Seraphina replied but the tone of her voice gave it away. She laughed uneasily before turning around and running away. "It's my granola bar! I should decide how to share it!"
"Oomphf!" She tripped and fell as she felt an armored hand over her head pushing her down onto the ground. Her grip on the granola bar weakened and she felt it leave her hand and bounce away.
"It's mine!" Natsu and Gray declared at the same time, both jumping for the bar. They reached it at the same time and ended up breaking into a childish argument rather than actually take it.
"It's mine you popsicle!" Natsu growled slamming his head against Gray's.
"I clearly said it was mine first, flame brain!" The ice mage shouted pushing back against the Dragon Slayer with just as much force.
Happy took advantage of the two boys arguing and Seraphina struggling against Erza, who repeatedly pushed her to the ground, to come and fly to get the food. He squeezed between Natsu and Gray and flew up into the sky while holding it.
"Happy!" Natsu and Gray complained once they realized that it was stolen right from under them.
"You better come down right now!" Erza demanded.
Seraphina saw that he had taken it and with newfound resolve, she was finally able to push Erza off of her, she stood up and stuck her tongue out at the others who glared at her in return. "Flash Boost: Three!"
Using her burst of speed to get high in the air she reached Happy just as the cat was about to unwrap it. She flew past him quickly wrenching it from his grip before rolling down when she reached the ground, a victorious grin on her face. Happy on the other hand was totally shocked, he turned white as a ghost and sank down from the sky slowly.
"I worked so hard to get it and now it's gone…"
"You stole it while the others were fighting!" Lucy exclaimed, the blonde was used to them fighting over small things, but this was just ridiculous. She knew they were hungry, but maybe asking would be more productive, and then they could use the energy they were wasting fighting to find food. But she didn't think their brains could even understand the prospect that violence was the answer to everything.
"Come on Natsu, bring some fire in! You're not gonna let it get away are ya, Gray!? Erza, keep going! You're the queen of the fairies! Happy, you had a good bout, now go get it back!"
Lucy groaned as she watched the Master encourage their fighting, wasn't he the one always stopping it at the guild hall? She shook her head, people really did lose all sense when they were hungry. She turned her attention back to the others who were still acting like idiots and fighting over the granola bar, though Seraphina still had it.
Seraphina tightened her grip on the bar not wanting it to fall out of her hand again. She looked behind her and had to quickly duck to the side to avoid Natsu and Gray who both rushed at her. The two bumped heads and Seraphina took advantage of their incessant arguing to start running away again.
Erza swiped at her but she evaded narrowly, though the redhead continued coming. Seraphina bit her lip as she saw all four of them starting to come after her, and by the look, on their faces, they certainly weren't letting her go.
"Wait!" She ordered holding a hand out to stop Erza, Gray, Natsu, and Happy. They all paused Natsu's fists were lit up and Gray was preparing an ice make attack, Erza had a sword out and Happy was managing to make fish bones look scary. She sighed in defeat. "We can share."
She stopped hugging it to her chest and opened the bar breaking it into seven pieces, one for each of them as well as Master and Lucy. Begrudgingly she gave everyone a small piece before walking over dejectedly to Lucy and Master Makarov to hand them one as well.
"Here ya go."
Lucy just stared at the piece in her hand for a bit, both confused and happy. They had just fought over it, but she did get some food, though she doubted it would be much help considering how small the piece was.
"Thank you my girl." Master Makarov said appreciatively when he got his piece. When Seraphina's back was turned he grinned and high fived Happy who laughed in delight.
Seraphina smiled a bit before eating her piece along with the others. She bit down on the bite-sized morsel chewing slowly before she was finally forced to swallow. It was ultimately very unsatisfying, and considering what had happened previously it wasn't much help at all.
She had thought that it would be a little help, but moments, after she had eaten it her stomach, grumbled even louder and she hung her head.
"I'm still hungry!"
"Ugh," Natsu muttered as the group continued walking down not really knowing where they were even heading. "That wasn't filling at all."
"Yeah," Gray agreed. "We fought for that granola bar, but it was basically nothing."
Seraphina crossed her arms and held her head high, still upset at the sudden battle her friends had engaged her in… all over food. She knew that food was amazing, but still. "Y'know I would've shared with you. Didn't have to fight me for it… meanies."
Everyone turned to her with a raised brow knowing for a fact that the lavendette hadn't planned on sharing the food. She kept up her demeanor for a bit, not willing to crack in order to prove her case, but after a few moments she sighed and slumped over.
"Okay fine…" She muttered. "But I was prepared! So I deserved it! Besides it's not like we're that hungry…"
Right after she made that claim a series of stomach growls rang out, one after another in some odd, almost musical, melody. Seraphina laughed and a bead of nervous sweat made its way down her face as she rubbed her arm in embarrassment.
"Not that hungry?" Natsu questioned.
"Yeah, right." Gray snorted.
There was a small period of silence before an excited squeal was heard behind her. She turned to see Happy frozen mid-flight with an expression of pure happiness, drool dripping out of his mouth. Strange. Did the hunger finally get to him?
"What're you so excited about?" Natsu asked; also confused as to what caused Happy's sudden mood change.
"Those are winged fish!" Happy exclaimed pointing toward the heavenly sight, his tail swishing happily behind him. "They're a legendary delicacy, and suuuuper yummy from what I hear."
Happy flew around happily and Seraphina grinned with a hungry look as she cracked her knuckles, her mouth already watering with the idea. "Super yummy?!"
"A legendary delicacy?" Gray muttered, wondering in the back of his head why Seraphina was cracking her knuckles. What was she gonna do, punch them out of the air? That sounded like a Natsu idea.
"Winged fish, huh?" Erza said with her head held high, still trying to seem as composed as possible, but the possibility of food had caught her interest.
"Sounds good to me!" Natsu grinned.
Seraphina watched the winged fish with a dazed look in her eyes, they weren't even cooked yet but they looked amazing. Makarov walked over to Happy and placed a hand on the cat's shoulder.
"Well done, Happy," Makarov said proudly. "You make this old man very proud."
Lucy sighed and shook her head. "Guys, enough with the growling stomachs!"
Her stomach then let out a groan that everyone could hear easily. Seraphina turned to the blonde with an innocent smile.
"Is it just me or did your stomach growl?"
"Yeah," Gray added sharing the same shit eating grin as Seraphina. "Real convincing, Lucy."
"Shut up." The blonde grumbled turning away from them before glaring at her stomach as another loud groan emitted from it, causing her cheeks to flush the slightest bit in embarrassment. Seraphina grinned before walking towards the edge of the cliff.
She watched the fish fly below them, there were so many colorful fish that they could eat, and from what Happy told them they would be delicious as well. A series of voices then caught her attention frowning she leaned closer to the edge, as she could've sworn the fish were talking. She listened closely and heard all the fishes singing merrily about how they could fly, and that their lives were great. She pouted, that wasn't nice.
"Wow," She muttered staring down the fish heatedly. "I didn't think I'd ever see the day where a fish could make fun of me." She shrugged her shoulders. "I guess I'm a loser!"
"You are~~~" The fish sang back and Seraphina crossed her arms and sniffled.
"Hmpf, okay, I didn't like you anyways."
"Are you seriously arguing with fish?!" Lucy questioned.
"Yes, they are so mean." Seraphina replied staring down at them before grabbing a fishing hook and line from who knows where and fixating the fish below with a deadly glare.
"I WILL EAT ALL OF YOU!"
"Yeah!" Happy jumped up holding a fishing hook as well, the others also prepared to fish and Lucy just smacked her head against her hand, what was wrong with this guild?
"Well, we didn't succeed." Seraphina laughed remembering the ultimate failure that had taken place just moments before, the lavendette then frowned looking incredibly depressed. "All that hard work… for one damn fish."
"Yeah," Natsu agreed rubbing his grumbling stomach. "And I hate to say it, but…"
"All that fishing…" Gray continued.
"Made me hungrier." Makarov finally concluded, Seraphina wanted to clap at how perfectly in sync their words were, but she was far too tired.
"A village!" Erza exclaimed suddenly, and Seraphina could swear she almost broke her neck at how fast she turned to the redhead.
"Houses." Gray grinned.
"And that means there must be-" Happy began before he was cut off.
"FOOD!" Natsu shouted jumping up before running towards the village.
"Yay!" Seraphina exclaimed rushing after Natsu, they were the first to reach the village but Seraphina couldn't help but immediately frown… something was really off.
"There's no one here…" Gray muttered as he and everyone else analyzed their surrounding, unable to shake the uneasy feeling that had taken over.
"Yeah…" Seraphina said before laughing awkwardly. "Are you playing hide and seek?
"I don't think so…" Lucy replied before glancing over the area once again. "It's too quiet…"
Seraphina smiled a tiny bit, this whole thing was weird. Why was there a village that was so clean abandoned? It didn't seem that they were attacked, since all the buildings were intact, and she seriously doubted everyone in the village would have left without leaving at least some people to guard it.
"Do you really think the entire town is taking a nap?" Gray asked Natsu incredulously, and Seraphina nodded; that was probably the most implausible situation.
"Well, it's either that or they all got drunk and passed out." Makarov said.
"Oof," Seraphina muttered not quite believing that the idea of the entire town taking a nap was more believable. "They must have some really strong stuff, also shouldn't there be like kids in a village? I doubt they're giving any alcohol to babies."
"Yeah," Lucy agreed. "Besides, I think that only happens back at the guild."
Makarov chuckled not even attempting to deny Lucy's claim. "We do love our spirits don't we?"
"A little too much if you ask me!" Seraphina replied taking another step into the village. "Hellooooo?!"
No one replied and the lavendette frowned. Maybe she should yell louder?
She stood attempting to think of another thing to say, maybe they'd reply to something more quirky. Before she could even think of something to say both Natsu and Gray ran fast her, heading straight for the houses.
"Screw you for even thinking of raiding this place, Natsu!"
"You're just mad I thought of it first!"
Seraphina grinned, maybe she'd go along with that as well. She ran after the pair before realizing something.
"Wait, technically that's stealing! We should leave a note like- 'hey, we were hungry thanks for the food, haha'"
"Yeah, yeah." Natsu said dismissively, and Gray was willing to bet one thousand jewel that he didn't even hear Seraphina, the conclusion that the lavendette came to as well.
"HEY, OPEN THE DOOR AND GIVE US SOME FOOD!" Natsu demanded pounding on the door to the house. When no one replied he grinned and then kicked the door open, something the owners probably wouldn't appreciate.
"Wait, what?" Seraphina questioned after the door busted open. She looked at the table before them. There was food that seemed to be freshly made and smelled quite delicious, but it was just sitting there, seemingly abandoned.
"Why is all this food just sitting here?" Gray asked confused and Seraphina hummed in agreement, she didn't know who could leave food abandoned, and it was fresh food as well, making the crime of it seem much more severe.
"Maybe…" Seraphina muttered before shrugging her shoulders eyeing the food with a crazy grin. "Yeah, I don't know what it could be, but who cares it's food! Which means get in my belly!"
"Yeah!" Natsu agreed walking up to the table and sniffing a loaf a bread. "And it still smells fresh too!"
"Natsu…" Erza growled and the Dragon Slayer immediately dropped the loaf in fear. Seraphina frowned, usually she'd agree with Erza on everything, in order to lessen the probability of being punished, but she was very confused. They all were super hungry and were traveling for days, why wouldn't she let them eat it?
"What's the big deal, Erza?" Natsu shot back just as confused as Seraphina was. Erza just regarded him with the same guarded frown as she explained.
"I don't want anyone eating or even touching any of the food in this village," She began. "I don't trust it."
"Yeah, she's right," Gray interjected. "Who would leave all this food just sitting here?"
Natsu groaned wondering why they just wouldn't let him eat it, and Seraphina wanted to protest as well before she let the words really sink in. They were right, it didn't make any sense for the food to be left like this.
She looked even harder and then realized that there was steam coming out of the food, causing her to frown once again. The food was warm too… which meant it had been abandoned very recently, but how could an entire village disappear that fast?
"Master and I will investigate," Erza declared addressing everyone bringing their attention to the redhead. "The rest of you go look for mushrooms or anything edible, but don't eat the food in the village, okay?"
Despite the fact that Erza's stomach was growling as loud as everyone else's she seemed keen to stick to her orders, everyone else forced to as well. Seraphina eyed the food one more time before walking out along with Natsu and Gray, the former who was grumbling about having to eat mushrooms.
"Ooo, maybe mushrooms taste good! And they're a vegetable, right? I'm sure that's healthy… also, aren't like certain mushrooms like very expensive can't we make a lot of money if we sell them?"
"I heard that too," Gray muttered nodding to what Seraphina said before he frowned, brows knit in confusion. "But where the hell are we gonna find mushrooms?"
"Hey, mushrooms."
The group had wandered off to a little green forest clearing just a little bit away from where the village was, and what Gray said was certainly correct; there were a lot of mushrooms. A wide color variety of them dotted the forest landscape below them, and though the sheer concentration of them was a bit overwhelming they looked delicious.
"I take it back, these look tasty!" Natsu grinned having scoffed at the idea of eating them before.
Seraphina nodded as well, all of them looked so amazing and pretty. She jumped down to the clearing ahead of the others looking at all of them.
"So which one of you will make me rich?"
The lavendette wandered around for a bit taking in the scenery, and although mushrooms weren't really what people expected when hearing beautiful that's just what they were.
She kneeled down and was about the examine them, but then she realized she knew nothing about plants. Frowning she glanced around at the mushrooms, maybe she wasn't gonna get rich.
A familiar shriek then caught her attention and she rushed back to where Lucy and the others were, maybe they were attacked by a giant mushroom monster.
"Where's the mushroom monster?" She asked jumping down prepared to fight but she immediately burst out laughing.
"You guys look so stupid!" Seraphina giggled pointing at the mushrooms that had popped out of Natsu and Gray's head, the formers hot pink and the latter blue. They both seemed to be the same height, but if she looked closer she could see that they were growing.
"Yours is bigger!"
"No yours is!"
The two boys were arguing about who's mushroom was bigger, the other claiming the other had a larger one.
Seraphina smiled slyly and turned to Lucy. "Hmm, usually when guys argue about something being bigger it's the other way around."
Lucy nodded absentmindedly, not even realizing what she agreed to before shaking her head profusely, a red blush forming on her cheeks.
"Wait, what… uhhhh."
"Yeah," Seraphina replied a cheeky grin on her face. "Have you ever seen guys arguing about how strong they are? Oh my gosh, that goes on forever!"
Lucy shook her head sure that Seraphina was referring to something else, but she didn't say anything. She looked back at the boys and saw that Happy had grabbed a huge mushroom and was going to take a bite out of it.
"What are you doing!" The blonde demanded shouting at Happy and shaking him around. "Spit that out right now! After everything that happened you're still gonna eat it!"
Seraphina just watched on interested to see what would happen to Happy since he ate the mushroom. He clutched his throat and she frowned, that was boring, but when he released it a mushroom popped up on his head too.
Lucy looked at him shocked because of the size of the mushroom while Seraphina held a tree trunk as she laughed her butt off.
"I.. haha… can't wait to see what Erza says when she sees you, dummies."
"Who're you calling a dummy?" Natsu and Gray demanded heatedly and Seraphina just blinked with an innocent smile.
"You three."
The two looked as if they were about to retaliate but then the mushrooms fell off their heads, eliciting a sigh of relief from both the boys and Lucy while Seraphina pouted since now she couldn't tease them.
"Yay, the mushrooms fell off!" Happy exclaimed. Lucy and Seraphina turned to him and the latter snickered.
"Haha, nope!"
"Yeah," Lucy added smugly enjoying her chance to tease the cat. "Yours is still going strong."
"Huh," Happy murmured before realizing that they were right. He pouted and went to kick the one he ate, stupid mushroom.
After he kicked it the ground below began to rumble, causing Seraphina to lose her balance and fall backward. She rubbed her hip and looked to the village.
"I guess Erza and Master got super hungry, maybe we should go meet them!" Seraphina said though she along with the others knew that couldn't be the cause of the sudden rumble in the ground, it was something else that was most likely dangerous.
"Erza! Gramps!" Natsu exclaimed stopping right in front of the pair glad to see that nothing bad had come of them, the loud noise had worried them all.
Seraphina nodded glad that they were okay, but something caught her attention. Shifting her gaze to the ground below she noticed two very straight lines in the floor that intersected, and the cracks were beginning to glow red. She frowned seeing that this was beginning to take over the whole village with all the houses encased in the same red glow and were moving as well.
"Woah~" She grinned. "It's all red and cool, like a demon's eye!"
"I don't think I'd call that cool..." Lucy replied uneasily.
"It looks like all the houses are having a dance party!" Happy exclaimed and Seraphina gasped realizing that he was right. She started to dance as well, not willing to be left out.
"Come on Happy, let's show these houses our moves!"
"Yeah!"
The two began to dance with each other, seemingly not bothered by the strange activity that the village was currently partaking in. Lucy hung her head and looked absolutely done with the pair.
"Why am I stuck with such idiots…" The blonde whined.
"It's time to rumble, Gramps." Gray said frost emanating from his palms as he seemed to be preparing a spell, the older man just shook his head and looked around cautiously.
"No, wait!" He ordered. "We have to get to higher ground! There's something I have to check!"
Erza nodded and shouted reaffirming the master's words. Everyone shared a look before following them up towards a cliff overlooking the village, and just in time, it would seem.
"Woah… what the hell?" Seraphina muttered as she watched the village below turn into serpent-like monsters, but how could that happen?
"So it was a magic circle." Erza demanded glaring down at the monsters below, everyone looked at her shocked waiting for her to elaborate, but Master Makarov did it for her.
"That's right." He nodded. "The lines on the ground were used to make a giant magic circle for a type of sealing magic known as Alive, it was banned many years ago, and it has the ability to bring inanimate objects to life."
"I can see why it was banned," Seraphina said soberly before laughing a bit. "But that didn't stop them from using it, huh?"
"But why would they even used banned magic?" Lucy asked.
"This village was home to a dark guild," Erza began and Natsu turned to her shocked, Seraphina nodded slowly an inscrutable expression on her face, though her usual peppiness had all but disappeared. Gray took notice of this and knit his brows thinking about something, Seraphina always seemed to hate dark guilds, more so than any of them though the reason for that was unknown to him.
On the other hand, Seraphina knew exactly why she hated dark guilds she turned to Erza after the redhead had explained that she saw magical weapons in one of the homes, with guilds like that you never knew what they were gonna use it for.
"Did they seem to be used?" She asked.
"No," Erza replied which elicited a sigh of relief from Seraphina, one that didn't go unnoticed by Gray and Lucy. "They were in storage for seemingly a while."
"Well," Master Makarov said turning the group's attention back to the older man. "I suppose we have one thing to thank them for."
"Oh, yeah?" Natsu asked. "And what would that be?"
"Their mischief brought these creatures to life, and most living things can be turned into… FOOD!'
There was a collective sound of realization that came from everyone, except Lucy, the blonde just stared at the master as if he were crazy. Seraphina grinned a scary look in her eyes as she watched the monsters below, she was starving and anything would do.
"FOOD!" The lavendette shouted immediately jumping down from the cliff along with Erza, the boys, and Happy. She landed gracefully in front of one of the monsters she looked up at it with both hands on her hips and a confident grin on her face.
"Look monster thing," She began holding a finger out as if she were scolding it. "I'm starving, and you don't seem useful, so imma eat 'cha sounds good?"
The monster just growled and rushed at her as its answer and the lavendette shook her head a sly smile on her face as she began to glow purple from her magic.
"Guess we're gonna do this the hard way, great for me, I've been itching for a fight anyway!" The lavendette exclaimed. "Flash Boost: Four!"
She jumped up, her descent into the air aided by the added speed from her magic, collecting more magic in her palms she prepared to start frying the monster.
"Flash: Heat Beam!"
A purple beam with a white tint from the heat was released from her hands hitting the monster down below, it writhed in pain for a little bit before it stopped moving. Seraphina then landed on a rock right above it, continuing to heat it until it charred slightly when she was done she smiled and jumped down again.
"Ooo, look at that char!" She giggled ripping a piece off, she nodded pretty proud of her work, for a monster it didn't look that bad.
Before she could even take a bite a chair carrying Happy ran right past her, the blue cat screaming as it carried him away. She blinked in confusion, did Happy think he could eat a chair?
She shrugged her shoulders, knowing him he was most likely just messing around, with that in mind she finally moved in to take a bite of her food. She bit down cautiously on it chewing before she finally came to a conclusion.
"EWWWW!" She shouted spitting it out and coughing attempting to get it completely out of her system, she didn't think she had ever tasted something as disgusting as that, and that was saying a lot.
"What were you thinking, Gramps?!" Natsu shouted. "There's no way we can eat this nasty stuff!"
"Yeah," Gray agreed. "Are you trying to kill us, you old geezer?!"
"I think he is!" Seraphina added. "What a cruel plan!"
"True," Erza said as well, surprising the others since she went along with everything master ordered. "I would hardly call this edible."
Lucy seemed quite upset at Erza for forcing her to eat the monster even when she knew how disgusting it was no one really paid attention however as they had begun to get used to the blondes constant yelling. Seraphina's ears then perked up as she heard something running towards her, she moved out of the way and Happy rushed past her; he was still on the chair and it crashed into the rocks.
He fell off the chair and landed on the floor groaning, but his mushroom fell off which had annoyed him a lot earlier.
"Hey, your mushroom fell off!" Gray pointed out, Happy wasn't as excited to hear the news as Seraphina thought he would. He just glared at all of them.
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE STUPID MUSHROOM! I WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU GUYS DIDN'T HELP ME! AND HERE I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS"
"We are!" Natsu insisted.
"You were just goofing off, right?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, did you seriously think you could eat a chair?" Seraphina mused shaking her head at that possibility.
Happy looked absolutely shell-shocked at all their responses standing away from the group who was now discussing how gross the food was he stood there miserably.
"I see how it is…" He muttered. "After all we went through you're ready to toss me out like yesterday's garbage…"
"Happy!" Seraphina shouted using her speed to rush towards the cat pulling him away from a monster who was about to attack him. She grabbed him as Natsu punched the monster away, growling under the power of his Fire Dragon Slaying magic.
A lot more of the monsters suddenly popped out of the ground below and Seraphina grit her teeth, didn't they just beat them all?
"Guess they didn't learn their lesson!" The lavendette said. "Well then, Flash Beam: Triple Threat!"
Three large blasts of light flew forward hitting the monsters, but even with a stronger spell such as this all of the monsters kept coming. She frowned as they seemed to multiply again, and the magic circle below got a lot brighter and powerful.
"The fu-"
"Run for it!" Erza shouted, but it was too late. The ground crumbled beneath them and they were all sent falling down into the depths of the monster and the magic circle.
"I still don't get what happened."
Seraphina nodded in agreement to Lucy's statement, eyeing Master Makarov as she did so. Somehow the master was able to undo the spell and bring all of them to safety, as well as the villagers. It didn't make any sense though as he was able to do it in a matter of seconds, Seraphina pondered over it for a bit before shaking her head, she was too tired to walk much less think.
"And I'm still hungry…"
Haha, uh hi...
Yeah, I've been gone for so long, and once again I'm very sorry. I really do love this story I promise, I just run out of time during the school year, but this time I actually promise during the summer you can expect much more frequent updates. MUCH MORE.
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