As promised!


"Woooaaah!"

Romeo cry of joy almost made Dalila deaf - for the millionth time in the last thirty minutes.

"If your father finds out, he is going to kill me!" she shouted.

It was evident that Romeo was not paying much attention to her. "This is amazing!"

Dalila sighed. Macao was going to kill her, that was for sure.

She dodged a pigeon, who looked at them surprised, and almost lost its balance in the air.

"We will arrive at the springs in no time, Dalila-san!"

"We are already almost there!" Dalila snorted. She would have been lying, had she said she was not having fun. And here I was, ready to jump on a train! She thought. I am never going to use one of those torture machines again!

When she had first proposed Romeo to fly up to Pine Spring, he had looked at her with wide eyes for a couple of seconds, but then, surprise had been replaced with enthusiasm. "Yes, please Dalila-san!" Had cried the boy.

So, after less than a minute, with Romeo taking the small backpack they had prepared to go the hot springs, Dalila was piggybacking the boy away from the binary and up in the sky, among the amazed look of others passengers.

Best idea ever Dalila! Good job! Dalila took a warm updraught, and they went higher.

Romeo squealed in excitement. "We are so close to the clouds! Can we go and touch it?"

"They are much higher than us! They look close, but they are not!" shouted Dalila, trying to be heard above the howling wind.

"Oh." the kid sounded disappointed. "But have you tried?" Dalila smirked. "What do you think Romeo?"
"Really? How was it?" he asked, jumping on her back.

"It was cool - literally. Before reaching them I was freezing. The wind is very strong and cold up there. Sometimes neither birds fly that high." Dalila took a turn,

following the current. "And the wind tastes incredibly bitter," she added, "but gives so much energy! I think wind dragons used to fly that high!"

Romeo cried again in amazement and surprise.

After a while, they started to descend. Dalila was following the rails of the train, that were leading them right to the hot springs.

Soon, she caught a whiff of sulfur. "We are close!" she declared, descending more. Now they could make clearly the shapes of the farms scattered on the ground, and the contours of the lines of trees - pines, dark and tall, mostly - and the silver water channels diving the fields.

After ten minutes, also Romeo started smelling the sulfur as well. "Look, it is over there!" the boy pointed a small gathering of buildings, low and white in the sun. Behind them, Dalila distinguished some vapour, dispersed by the winds.

"Seems like we are arrived!"

Dalila neared the ground as they approached, looking for a good place to land. There was a small clear in front of the entrance of the springs. I should be able to make it... we are going fast... Ok, slow down... Yes, a little more...

The clearing was approaching very fast. They were a few feet from the ground. Ready to land! Dalila squeezed Romeo's tights. "Ok Romeo, now hold onto m- eeeek!"

They were not so ready to land.

Dalila had miscalculated the weight of Romeo. Instead of placing herself gracefully onto the ground, she stumbled over her feet, dragged forward by the strength of the wind.

"Eeeek!" "Dalilaaaaah!"

They passed over the clearing, avoided a signal on the street by mere luck, and run full speed towards the entrance of the reception.

The last thing Dalila saw, before closing her eyes and waiting for the impact, was a terrified clerk, trying to hide himself behind the door.

Too late.

Dalila and Romeo rushed inside the reception, running over said door and clerk altogether, and crashing over the other side of the room.

Ugh, I should have foreseen that... Dalila thought, looking around and checking quickly to not have any broken bone. And most important, no broken Romeo nor broken furniture. She didn't want to lose her very fist reward!

But for this time, all the three of them had survive her landing. "Ehm, I must practice those..." she mumbled, feeling Romeo descending from her back, chirping happily as if they had not just broken into the reception in one of the less gentle ways possible.

"Uhm... There is something I can do for you?" a muffled voice under her said.

"Uh? Oh my saints, I am so sorry!" Dalila jumped on her feet, helping the poor clerk she had blown over on his feet. "Are you ok, sir?" she asked quickly.

"Ehm... yes miss." the man looked a little upset, adjusting the cracked glasses over his nose. "May I suggest you to take the train next time?"

"Sure, sir, I am really sorry." Dalila gave him an apologetic look, scratching the back of her head. Definitively need to practice landings, yep!

Next to her, Romeo was already jumping, eager to go into the steamy water. "That was super cool!"

After less than ten minutes, Romeo and her were entering the steamy water. "Ah, finally!" mumbled Dalila, letting herself surround by the vapour and she smell of sulfur and pine.

Romeo, not very interested into the hot water itself, had started immediately to climb some rocks in the middle of the pool.

Dalila closed her eyes. There were only a few people in the water. A mom with two daughters, was teaching one to swim. A few steps from them, an old couple was chatting quietly. The sun of September was heating Dalila's exposed skin, while her body was warmed by the water.

Dalila could clearly hear the old couple words - they were talking about one of their grandchildren who had just moved out. Then, they started chatting about the presents to buy for a young couple of twins their younger daughter had one year prior. It is so... Normal. thought the dragon slayer, soaking into the water.

Normal people, holding normal conversations on normal topics. After spending four months wrapping her thoughts around dragon slayer magic, her new life, and her past, hearing someone talking about a present to buy for a one-year old was something 'normal' she had been missing.

Not being worried about sneezing, or not having to eat the wind...

She was more than happy to be a dragon slayer, and to be at Fairy Tail. She might have wished to be dead, or to be still sleeping in the crystal, but that was something she was trying to overcome.

I had had a second chance at life. She thought. But I guess I will never cease to ask myself what would have been my life, had I not gone with Mavis and Warrod that day.

She held nothing against her two old friends. There was not much she could do, and she didn't like to dwell into grief.

I promised I was going to be happy. And I will.

As the hours went by, the old couple left, and more people came. A family with a young toddler, a group of girls, who chatted about school problems and boys, which made Dalila remember her old day - I am really an old hag - and then a group of men that had been hunting in the nearby woods, talking about rifles and tracks in the woods. She joined Romeo in the climbing. They dived for almost an hour, with Dalila which was lifting Romeo a few feet above the water, and letting him fall.

It was almost six o clock, when Dalila and Romeo ended up being the only ones in the pool.

"It is already time to leave?" asked the boy pouting.

"We have been here for the whole afternoon!" Dalila looked at him puzzled. "Aren't you tired?"

Romeo sat next to her on the stony edge of the spring. "No, I am having fun. Dad doesn't like hot springs that much... The girls in the guild go there quite often, but in Magnolia there are different pools for men and women, and I can't go with them."

"I see." mumbled Dalila. Pine Spring are open to men and women, but the swimsuit is mandatory. "We can stay a few more minutes, but then we must go back. Your father will be worried otherwise. And tomorrow we must go back to Fairy Tail, we need to rest!"

Romeo nodded. But then he raised an eyebrow. "Are we flying again to go back form the hot springs?"

Dalila smirked. "Maybe." He liked that!

She looked tenderly at the young boy, humming happily and finally resting with his eyes closed on a rock. He has been moving and jumping the whole day.

Romeo remembered Dalila of one of her old pupils. Marvin, his name was Marvin. She thought. He must be extremely old, now.

Marvin was such a sweet boy, so lively and playful, almost the same ago fo Romeo, a loving boy dedicated to school and music. Wherever you are, Marvin, I hope you had been happy. I know you have been.

It was sad and strange to realise that life had gone forward for everyone, but for her.

Dalila felt herself wrapped in the memories of her pupils. Laure, Marving, Cassidy, Othan, Marian ... The more she thought about them, the more she was seeing them clearly into her mind. And they all were smiling, winking, happily waving at her from her memories. You have thanked me may times for being your teacher... It is me, who should thank you.

The breeze of the evening lulled Dalila into a state of trance. The light was soft on the steamy water, Romeo was maybe sleeping, and the pool was finally silent.

Dalila took a deep breath, and without even realising, she started singing softly in the dim light of the evening.


The next evening, Fairy Tail guild hall...

"Ya Shrimp did good!"

"Please Gajeel, it was nothing special!"

"Levy, your reflexes had been extremely fast and without you, we would have been in serious trouble!" stated Lily, sipping his kiwi juice. Next to him, Wendy and Dalila nodded.

After the day of the party with the Sabers, Levy, Gajeel and Pantherlily had finally left for their famous job. It had lasted a few days, and they had just come back.

And it had been more hard than what they had thought! The client had underestimated the strength of the dark guild. Thought Dalila. From the recount of the mission Gajeel and Lily had taken with Levy, without the Script mage, the two of them would not been able to make it alive.

Levy smiled shyly. "It was just a defence spell..."

"Yes, but we were on the verge of a cliff!" Gajeel laughed boomed in the guild hall. "What if we ended up one hundred meters down, huh?"

Wendy clapped her hands. "That's good! So, you found the book the client asked you?"

Levy nodded, pointing at a large book in front of her. It looked really ancient, covered with brown leather eaten and ruined by much time and many hands. The writing on the cover was unknown to Dalila.

"The book was protected by a spell written in this same language." started Levy, pointing at the unreadable title- "It is called 'invisible idiom', and the runes used are... well, invisible. This is why the language is practically unknown!"

"But you know it?" asked Dalila admired.

"Yes, a little." blushed Levy. "It was a method of communication used in the past, but now it would be impossible to use it, for very few people know how to manage the runes. I know the basics, but," she patted the cover of the book confidently, "it was enough! The book is here!"

Dalila looked at the gleaming eyes of Levy. She was happy with her success indeed. Also, the wind slayer noticed, Gajeel had his eyes practically glued to the small Script mage. So, I guess also this mission had been accomplished! Dalila giggled. I need to update Lucy as soon as I can!

The Celestial mage was not there. Team Natsu had taken a job out of town a couple fo days ago, and they had come back only a few hours ago. The job had been tiring and of their team, only Cobra was there - Dalila saw the poison dragon slayer, sat at the bar counter, talking with Kinana.

"How about we go to the hot springs tomorrow?" Lucy had proposed when Dalila had called her that afternoon on her way back with Macao and Romeo. "I think Erza wanted to go as well! I heard from Levy, she is coming back tonight!"

Dalila had yet to ask Levy, but she believed the Script mage would haven had no objections. Unless she has some plans with... Dalila went back looking at the book, to hide her smirk at the sight of the bright smile that had passed in between Levy and Gajeel. Oh yes, Lucy had told her everything the night of the party! Well, even if she hadn't said anything, it would have been pretty obvious!

Dalila relaxed on the chair. She couldn't wait to go to the hot springs tomorrow. Now that they are not too expensive anymore, I am going to use them more often!

Charle was examining the book closely. "It looks old! What is it about?"

"It is not a spell book, but contains important information about the story of an important dark guild, 'The Invisibles'." Lily stated seriously. "The guild has some members active, still. The client was unaware there were such powerful mages behind the robbing he called us for, and when we found out, we just decided we were going to take them down."

"We had no time to decide otherwise." Levy shook her head. "Some of them were defending this book. The names of all the past and present members of the guild are written on it."

"We had caught them all, but three are still missing, and there might be others around Fiore! But as soon as Shrimps translates it, we are going to bring the other members to justice!" laughed again Gajeel, slamming his beer mug onto the table.

"But why writing all the names in a book?" asked the white cat. "It doesn't make sense!"

"I guess they were sure no one could find it." Levy said. "Unluckily for them, we could!"

Wendy shivered. "You met these... Invisibles, Levy-san?" the sky dragon slayer shivered at the perspective of an invisible enemy. The one she could see with her own eyes where enough, thank you very much!

Levy giggled. "I didn't, but they did!" she pointed at Gajeel and Lily.

"Hideous foes!" grunted Lily. "I got a few bad bruise. We got all of them but three, in the end. Their only advantage is that they can't be seen, but once you get your hold on them, it is pretty easy to take them down."

"Make the hell of a noise. And I could smell them." Gajeel winked to Wendy. "Do not be worried, you peepsqueak. You would smell them just as well!"

Levy was leafing through the book pages. "Yes, the language is the same one of the protection spell... Some parts must have been hidden, but with a little time, this job would be done."

Dalila looked interested at the pages. They were half empty, but here and there she could make out some maps and titles. And it smelled like ink, as a written book does. Not only one kind of ink. Many inks.

When she told Levy, the small Script mage clapped her hands. "Exactly!" she beamed, "Many inks! The book had been kept for many years! I am glad you told me, then I can be one hundred percent sure it is not a fake book!"

"It isn't!" smiled Dalila. "I can smell from here it has been held by many hands, and..." the wind dragon slayer closed her eyes, and neared her nose to the half blank pages.

Yes, she thought, I can smell it. Many inks, some of them really old. The pages are even older. The leather has been used many times... and then, as she leaned closer, she could smell many other things. The world around her suddenly became silent, but Dalila didn't realised it, as she focused onto the pages in front of her.

Sweat... and secrets, that have been kept for many years... the fear of being discovered, and many spells to hide this book... they have a strange smell, I guess its the Invisible magic... and then she grimaced. I smell hatred... anger and regret...

... defend the book...

Dalila's eyes shot open. She turned quickly right and left, but... She was at her table, like a second ago, with Gajeel, Pantherlily, Levy, Wendy and Charle still taking about the Invisibles. Gajeel had started a recount on how they defeated the Invisibles. "Those bastards when hiding on the ceiling! Like fucking bats! But we got them, right, Lily?"

What was that? Dalila searched with her eyes the room. Everything seems ok... "Dali-chan?" asked Levy. "Are you ok?"
"Yes, sure... I was just-nothing, it's the book I guess." mumbled Dalila.

The guild hall was quiet - 'quiet' for Fairy Tail standards - just as it was before Dalila closed her eyes, but her guts were twisting and protesting. What she had smell, that anger, and that smell that was typical of feared animals, ready to fight for their life, had rung a bell in her head.

It was about the book. But it isn't coming from it.

Next to her, Charle gasped at Gajeel's tale. "Yeah, cat, and then Lily took out his sword, and smash!"

Dalila closed her eyes once more, shutting up the sounds around her, and letting her nose read the reality. Anger, much anger... And the smell of a cornered animal... Revenge, and blood...

It was coming from somewhere at her right.

... defend the book, at all costs...

Dalila slowly opened her eyes, and turned imperceptibly her head.

"... And then, slam! Iron pole, and another one of those bastards was out! Gihihi!"

That's just an empty corner, thought Dalila, looking at the point at her right from where the smell was coming. I might be wrong.

"Wait, I got six of them and you five!" shouted angrily Pantherlily. "Nope Lily! The first one ya brought down stood up in the end, took me by surprise!" "It counts just as one!" "It does not!"

Dalila tried to pay attention to the conversation, but she glanced every now and then to that corner. That empty corner... There was something that was upsetting her.

Dalila closed her eyes one third time. The smell of a person, standing right a few meters from their table, someone angry, scared, ready to jump and kill.

She opened her eyes, shook her head, but the smell was now getting stronger, as if her nose could not discern everything else, and was solely concentrated onto the enemy.

"Dalila-san, are you tired? You keep closing your eyes!"

"Eh?" Wendy's questions startled her. "Yeah, well..." Dalila cleared her throat, and leaned towards the sky dragon slayer. "Wendy, can you smell something weird around here? In that corner behind you - no, do not turn, just sniff." whispered Dalila.

The youngling looked at her surprised, but took a few, deep breaths. "No, I am sorry." Wendy shook her head. "Maybe it is coming from the book?"

Dalila grimaced. It was not the book. It was connected to the book, as if the two things were linked by an invisible thread. It's a person. I am sure of it.

Her throat was becoming dry, and she was gasping as she was without breath. The smell was suffocating her. And Dalila knew that it meant only one thing: that her nose was telling her something, and that she was not wrong.

The wind dragon slayer fully turned towards the corner, that stood apparently empty and harmless. She searched with her eyes the wooden axes of the wall, the floor, but she could make nothing different from any other corner of the guild hall. Even so, without even realising it, she bared her teeth.

"Dalila-san?" "Oi, featherweight? What's wrong with you?"

"Something's there." hissed Dalila. "I can smell it."

"Smell what?" asked Lily, looking worriedly around. "I can't see anything wrong!"

"That's an empty corner! Go back to yerself!" but Gajeel shifted on his chair, and despite his words, his red eyes scanned the corner, and his muscles tensed.

"Guys?" Levy frowned. "What's wrong?"

"Cobra, what's going on over there?" asked quietly Kinana. From her spot on the corner, she could see that, at table with the six mages, everyone was staring hard at an empty corner.

The poison dragon slayer grunted. "Snow White's smelling something weird in that corner. No idea of what. It's fucking empty."

Kinana nodded slowly. "They look quite intent. Maybe is a prank left by Bickslow?" It wouldn't be the first time, after all.

Cobra just shrugged. None of his business.

But then, Dalila started to growl.

"Da-dalila?" stuttered Charle, backing a little. "Oi!" "Dalila, what are you doing?"

"I can smell you." she hissed, looking straight to the corner. I can smell you, and I do not like your smell...

"But there is nothing is there!" "Oi you, calm down!" Gajeel was about to put Dalila back on her seat, but something twisted in his stomach, and as soon as he felt that sensation, he froze.

Hell, he hadn't been around all this time for his instinct not to fell trouble coming way before he could actually see them. And what he felt, was that there was an enemy. Somehow, he thought, glaring around the guild. A few members had stopped what they were doing and were staring curiously at them. Gajeel's interjected surprised Juvia's eyes, from her corner with Lisanna.

Solely focused on the smell that was now, for her, pervading the room, Dalila growl intensified. He knows that we feel him... She stood up, and moved in between whatever - no, whoever - was in the corner, and the table. "Who are you?"

Gajeel started to slowly standing. "Shrimp, behind me, now." he hissed. "What?" squealed Levy, with a trembling voice. "Gajeel, what are you-" but she was interrupted by another growl, coming from another part of the guild, much lower and much, much more menacing.

"Cobra?" gasped Kinana, looking at the poison dragon slayer with wide eyes.

Muscles tense, his only eye fixed on the same, empty corner Dalila was facing, the poison slayer slowly sat up from his stool. "That corner seems empty, but I can't hear what's in there."

If Gajeel was capable of anticipating an enemy, Cobra was just as good. And he could feel his senses sharping, and his skin tingling.

Gajeel saw the poison dragon slayer advancing with corner of his eyes. The iron slayer still hadn't hear nor smell anything, but seeing Cobra heavy stare, was enough of a signal. He grabbed Levy's hand, under Pantherlily stupefied eyes, and mechanically pressed her on his side.

Dalila couldn't feel anything else, forgetting the world around her. Guided by her nose, she felt a sudden change in the smell. He is scared... He knows he is cornered... She could feel the adrenaline of someone who was ready to attack. Iron... I smell iron... A little piece of iron, small and sharp...

Something glinted in the air. Dalila head snapped. "Levy!"

The Script mage cried in terror as a knife appeared out of nowhere, aiming fast at her.

But Dalila was faster.

The wind dragon slayer jumped in front of the girl, shielding her with her body. One second later, he felt a sharp pain on her flank. Dalila cried, and her vision blurred. She fell on the ground, hands searching for the source of that pain.

In the guild hall, screams and roars exploded.

"Gajeel-kun!" "What is happening?" "Romeo, come here!" Cries of surprise and fear, moved chairs, and beers smacked down the tables filled the air.

"Ot one of those bastards!" Gajeel's first thought was for Levy, and his second, for the book. He snatched it with his free hand.

"Gajeel!" cried Levy at his side. Damn, she was not good at the attack that came by surprise! Luckily, the iron dragon slayer was well trained against them.

Max called some sand and waved it around, keeping Romeo next to him. "Find him!"

Lily had drawn out his sword, eyes darting back and forth the corner. In a jump, Cobra was next to him. He still could not hear anything - another spell was shielding his magic away, he had left it in the moment he concentrated on that, apparently empty, corner.

He exchanged a quick glance with the Exceed and took a deep breath. Then, a cloud of black smoke exited his fangs, invading the space in front of him. A loud, pained cry was heard, and a second later a man with a white suite jumped aside to avoid the smoke.

Cobra smirked evilly. The invisibility enchantment was broken. I can hear you now... And your plan! "Three men!" shouted the poison slayer "One above us!"

Cobra jumped ahead. The Invisible in front of him roared with rage, but as Gajeel had said, Invisibles were quite weak once discovered. In the blink of an eye, the Invisible was falling on the ground. "One for me!" Cackled the poison slayer.

Behind the poison slayer, Lily had thrown his sword right above his head. And from the yelp that Cobra heard, he had hit the target. "The second one is for me!"

"Wendy!" Charle was crying, but Wendy was already crutched at the side of the wind dragon slayer. "Dalila! Dalila!"

Dalila hissed in pain, her eyes were shut and in her mind, she was repeating all over the few curses she knew. It hurts like hell! Damn the bastard! He was aiming at Levy! Idiot!

"Stand still!" cried the young dragon slayer, fumbling with Dalila's clothes. The blade was half protruding from her flank, and the smell of her friend blood was making her sick. I must move! She is bleeding a lot already!

"Iron dragon roar!" "Sand wave!"

Both of his hands occupied, Gajeel turned to the ceiling. "Shit!"

True it was that Lily had hit the second Invisible, but the bastard was still hidden among the wooden beams. And still, even if Gajeel could sense something up there, he could neither hear nor smell him.

Cobra came next to him, scanning above them with his eye. "Fucking assholes! Do they like play hide and seek?"

Leaving Romeo with Macao, surrounded by purple flames, Max had continued to send magic sand around, making his way until he was next to Wendy. "On the table!" breathed the girl. "Put Dalila-san on the table! I can't see anything on the floor!"

"Ok, yes, ok!" Max breath heavily, fighting against panic - there was blood spilling from Dalila's flank! - and scooped the wind slayer in his arms. "Careful!" directed Wendy. Charle moved the beer mugs, her eyes not leaving the ceiling. If that man decided he was going to jump from up there...

"Found it?" whispered Lily.

Gajeel grunted. Levy had found her quibble, and was writing something quickly in the air in front of her. Cobra growled. He could sense a whole area where his magic had not access. Which meant that at least one of them was moving above their head, ready to attack. Where the other one was...

A loud crash distracted them for a moment. "Ah, Juvia has found you!"

They all turned their heads, to see a man in a white tunic, raised by his ankle by a water tentacle. "Juvia will teach you to attack her nakama!" the tentacle crushed the man to the ground. Twice.

Lisanna clapped her hands, shaking a little. "Well done, thank you Juvia!" Lily breathed in relief "The second one is for-" "Watch out!"

Taking advantage of that moment of distraction, the third Invisible had launched himself onto Dalila. "You, little cunt!"

"Solid script: vision!"

Levy enchantment hit the Invisible mid-air. His form became visible, and the dagger

in his hand too.
The wind slayer cried in horror, as she saw the dagger coming closer and closer to

her face, when a scaled arm interpose in between. "Poison claws!"

Crimson magic erupted from Cobra's hand, enveloping the third Invisible, and sending him back to the ceiling, where he hit hard a beam with his head, and then land unconscious on the ground.

Dalila had no time to realise who had just saved her. The knife had just plunk even deeper in her flank. She gasped, gritted her teeth to fight the pain, but a strange numbness was coming over her, and she felt like she was suddenly being slowly pulled underwater.

"You ok? Dalila?" Max was hovering over her, waving his hands in front of her.

Wendy was still fumbling with her dresses. "Resist Dalila-san!" Try not to move too much! Oh these kind of cuts can be fatal!

"Oh my god! Wendy!" Charle looked worriedly as Dalila's face contorted in pain every second. "Max would you please-" "Idiots."

Leaving to Lily the task to check if the Invisible was dead or alive, Cobra pushed Max out of his way with a snarl. "You don't have the whole night, kid." he hissed, circling the table and going next to Wendy.

With a swift, single movement, he took the knife out of Dalila's side, and with that he cut an opening on her shirt. Dalila let out another strangled cry, flinching, but the poison slayer kept her still with a hand on a shoulder and one on her flank.

Wendy hastened to work, under the attentive eyes of Charle. "Porlyusica said you should check vital organs first... Seemed the livery might be damaged. Then muscles..." was reminding the white cat.

Cobra glanced down at the wind dragon slayer, who had her eyes shut and her jaw so tightened that he believe her teeth were going to shatter. At least she was not crying like a baby. So thin... he thought. Bleah. And the smell of her blood is as sweet as cotton candy! But it made him sick to the bottom of his soul anyway.

He left Wendy working at the table, and moved next to Gajeel and Pantherlily. Juvia had brought the second Invisible together with the other two.

"I'll call Master!" cried Lisanna, moving up to Master office. Damn, right on that night did he and Mirajane decided to order the Master correspondence?

Gajeel was examining the three men. Yeah, Invisibles. All of them. "Those are the ones we missed today." he grunted. "No idea they could follow us here..."

Lily nodded. "Those had better enchantments than the ones we fought. You could not smell them."

"There exist spells that can conceive smells." Levy, still clutched to Gajeel side, her quill in her hand, explained. "They required some time to cast though... They must have prepared to come here."

"How could Dalila smell them?" Juvia asked thoughtfully, hitting lightly with her foot one of the men, as if they could give her any answer.

"Featherweight has a damn sense of smell." the iron dragon slayer mumbled, leaving - finally! - Levy free from his grip, and tossing the book the side. "She didn't smell exactly them, probably. She smelled an enemy. That's different."

Juvia nodded. It made sense. Danger, instead of a person.

"Erik, are you alright?" Kinana moved a step next to Cobra, holding a tray in front of her as a shield, looking warily at the men on the floor, that Gajeel was already biding with iron chains.

The poison slayer huffed. He was more than alright. "Seems so." He scanned the room with his Soul Hearing magic, but he could feel no more walls or blind angles. Seems everything is ok. Damn fairies being damn noisy as they should be.

Kinana sighed in relief. "An Invisible! How scaring!"

As Juvia reassured Kinana, from the stairs, could be heard the cries of Mirajane. "Oh my goodness! For all souls! Liz, what happened..." "My children are you ok?"

"Levy?" A cracking voice said. "Before I get eventually stabbed again... Lucy and I wanted to ask you... Would you like to come?"


Are you liking this? Are you?

Whenever I go back reading Fairy Tail I always think there is too little about the other members of the guild. I mean, I understand they are not main characters, but I love them just as much.

Do not fear. You all will get plenty of Team Natsu!

Let me know if you like it so far!