At Fairy Tail, the guild is still rebuilding itself as everyone works hard.
Makarov is by the bar as he is looking at some papers before sighing heavily.
"tough work, Master?" asked Kinana while cleaning a glass mug.
"yeah, lots of unattended paperwork from Natsu" said Makarov while reading some of the paper's content "and just call me Makarov or whatever you're comfortable with. I'm not the Master anymore"
"alright, Master" said Kinana with a giggle as it is hard to let go of an old habit.
Makarov sighs again as he went through the papers again before he sees Macao, and Wakaba coming by.
"what is it?" asked Makarov to the two senior old members of the guild like him.
"we haven't seen Erza, and the others since yesterday, it's like they left Magnolia" said Macao, referring to the previous day when Erza and the others came searching for Natsu but the man wasn't found anywhere.
"Master, I think it's safe to think that they might have gone after Natsu to Lingyue" said Wakaba as the dots were connected. "we haven't seen the guy for three days!"
"of all the times for Gildarts, and Laxus to be gone on a mission" said Makarov while scratching his chin before looking to Macao and Wakaba. "where's Gajeel?"
"gone on a mission with Levy and Lily" replied Wakaba before looking to Jet and Droy, the two members of Shadow Gear working on rebuilding the guild with a sour mood. "they didn't even take Jet and Droy with them too"
"those brats…" said Makarov while scratching his head. "just what are they even thinking?!"
Meanwhile upon Lingyue, Erza and the others are still following the masked little girl who is walking a few feet in front of them.
"where are we going?" asked Gray to the little girl who just replied with a quiet yet echoing "follow…"
"the way she replies is a bit…." Muttered Wendy with a slightly pale face.
"I wonder if all children of Lingyue are like her." Charla thought out loud.
"should we even follow her in the first place?" asked Juvia, a bit worried that the little girl is actually an enemy in disguise.
"if she is an enemy, she would've attacked us the moment we saw her" said Erza while hardening her gaze at the little girl's back. "yet I feel a sense of a familiarity with her. Just like how Wendy says she smells familiar…"
"do we even know her?" asked Gray to the others before turning forward as the little girl went to the right side of the tunnel where she placed a hand on the wall that is pushed in to reveal a hidden door passage where the sound of a waterfall, birds chirping, and many more is heard from.
The little girl turns to face Erza and the others and said "follow" again to them before going through the hidden door passage.
"I'm really creeped out by her voice, right now" said Charla as Erza and the others nodded in agreement.
Erza and the others went through the hidden passage as they find themselves entering a large oasis where the light is coming from the plants nearby.
"where are we?" said Gray with an awestruck face.
"some sort of an oasis?" said Juvia, seeing the structure of the place where the ceiling is just walls or rock with no hole for the sunlight to come.
"I never seen plants like these ones before" said Charla seeing how the plants are producing a luminescent glow.
"look! A Sakura tree!" said Wendy as she is nearby a Sakura tree with glowing pink petals that glows even more beautiful when she touched it.
"an Eien no Sakura Ki" stated Erza, being familiar with the tree that is the same as the ones in the Sakura Cave at the Eastern Forest. "but these ones seems more older"
"follow…" said the masked little girl as she looks at the group before turning around and started walking away.
Erza and the others look at the girl before they decided to follow her again to wherever she is taking them.
In the city of Emperor Island, the five members of the 8 Generals are still on the chase on the cloaked figure who keeps on running.
"There is nowhere to run, you murderous traitor!" shouted Gojin as he jumped from a house's roof and threw the chains of his Kusarigama at the cloaked figure who dodged by jumping away but the chains chased after him.
"Mizuki!" exclaimed Raikou as his Tekko Kagi's claws coated themselves with yellow electricity.
Mizuki spins her naginata as she swung it upwards, nearby water sources started erupting geysers of water as they formed a long stream of water that went straight at the cloaked figure who instantly got washed away.
"Toramai!" exclaimed Raikou as he swung his claws down that unleash crescent-shaped electrical strike that electrocuted the water and the cloaked figure in an instant.
Akari pulled an arrow on her bow as she aimed for the sky before firing the arrow that flew through the sky and suddenly multiplied. The arrows came down as the arrowheads glowed white before causing a bright explosion to the road where the cloaked figure got washed up too.
The explosion made smoke appear everywhere as the cloaked figure quickly got up and was about to run when tree roots wrapped around his legs. Ayame stood nearby as she holds her staff with both hands with the staff's bottom pressed against the road.
The tree roots stated to spread as it wraps the cloaked figure's whole body to the point that a tree sprouted out of the ground like a jail made out of wood.
"now you shall be executed," said Gojin with a smirk as he readied his kama and was about to swing its blade at the cloaked figure, but the tree cage holds nothing but a cloak. "what?"
"he's not there?" said Ayame with a surprised look.
Raikou looks around before he saw a shadow run down an alleyway.
"there!" said Raikou as he quickly gave chase with Gojin and the others following behind.
Unknown to the five, Lucy with Cana who had regrouped with Mira, Elfman and Lisanna were watching nearby.
"Natsu is still running, but why is he just running?" asked Mira in a quiet voice.
"there's five of them and just one of them managed to beat Laxus, remember!?" said Cana to Mira.
"what should we do?" asked Lucy.
"I'd say we go and help Natsu" said Mira while punching a fist to an open palm. "I got a bone to pick with that Gojin guy"
"I got that Naginata and bow girls, she is going to get a man's punch!" added Elfman, wanting to get revenge on Mizuki and Akari for taking away Ikaruga from them.
"wait a minute! This isn't the time for revenge or anything! We got to do things slowly!" said Lisanna to her siblings before the road below them suddenly breaks off.
"eh?" they said in unison before everyone falls into the hole and the hole closed up.
Lucy and the others fell into the same dusted and cobwebbed filled tunnel as they fell on the floor.
"ow…." Groaned Lucy while holding a hand to her head.
"what was that?" asked Cana, the card mage sitting up.
"the road broke off?" said Lisanna while looking up to the closed up hole.
"but why?" asked Elfman.
Mira rubs her head before she hears some footsteps coming near.
"questions later, we got someone with us!" said Mira as everyone got up and faced the direction of where the sound is coming from. They all readied their magic as to face their possible enemy, but they soon put their guard down to see a familiar face coming out of the shadow.
"Gihee!" a laugh is heard as it echoed in the tunnel.
Meanwhile with Erza and the others, they are still following the little girl through the oasis where they find much wildlife of Lingyue just thriving within.
"hey, can't you just tell us where we are and who you are?" asked Gray to the little girl.
"follow…" the little girl replied in her small voice as this got Gray to sigh.
"is that what you can only say?" asked Gray while raising an eyebrow.
"follow.." the same reply came from the little girl as this got Gray to groan.
"we must be underground the city right now" said Juvia while looking around the area. "but to see such a natural oasis is so…."
"unthinkable" finished Erza of Juvia's sentence.
"look Charla! They're like Kiara!" said Wendy as she spotted some Pop Foxes by a tree branch, all of which have different colors from Kiara herself.
"must be relatives of hers" thought Charla out loud, before the ground suddenly rumbled.
"what's going on?!" exclaimed Gray as the ground shakes so violently to the point that they got off balance.
The masked little girl stayed standing in her place, unbothered by the rumbling earth. Before long, a loud screeching roar is heard from out of nowhere.
"so loud!" exclaimed Wendy while holding her hands to cover her ears.
"what is that noise!?" said Juvia as it hurts to hear the screeching roar.
Erza holds her hands over her ears before she saw something large coming their way.
"that!" said Erza as everyone turns and sees a large yellow and brown fox that has 9 tails crashing in, the large creature growls as it glares down at Erza and the others with glowing yellow eyes.
"a fox!? It's huge!" exclaimed Gray.
The large fox let out a screeching roar at the group as it stood up on its hind legs while stretching out its front paws that have long sharps claws coming out.
"it's going to attack!" screamed Wendy and Charla in unison.
RING RING!
The sound of small bells ringing is heard as the little masked girl holds a Kagura Suzu which she shakes to make the small bells attached to it ring continuously.
Hearing the bells, the large fox got down to all four as its glowing yellow eyes died down. The large creature leans its head down to the little girl who shakes the Kagura Suzu a few times before getting on the large fox's snout.
"follow.." said the little girl in a bit more louder voice as she got on the large fox's head before sitting down on it. The large fox growls before it started walking away.
Erza and the others are standing with shocked faces as to see what had just happened.
"remind me to list Lingyue off my places to go for holidays" said Gray as everyone nodded in agreement, not wanting to meet another one of Lingyue large creatures like the giant fox.
That's a wrap!
Bye bye
