Hello everyone again, Thank you everyone who has reviewed and followed enjoy! :)
Also I will be out of Internet contact this weekend so I will be putting up two chapters today at separate times and two on Sunday to make up for it okay? :)
Levy stubbornly went to every single village they visited after missing the one they refilled on water at, Lucy was concerned Levy barely ate, hid away what she didn't eat in a shoulder bag she carried herself, she had her own water skin which she would fearlessly share with anyone she came across.
Lucy was constantly washing it at wells and oasis's hoping to avoid any contamination but Levy didn't stop, she was almost possessed. Lucy had stolen a pouch of gold coins from Levy's uncle, something he wouldn't miss, she hadn't touched it but gave it all to Levy and she used it to buy more food and water and spread it out as much as she could. They came across worse and better villages as they went, even at the worse, Levy would go up to everyone and help them, the people were so grateful to her, she would even accompany Wendy into makeshift medical buildings and help her treat the injured and sick people, at one they called her a 'Seraph' an old name for Angels, Levy just smiled and handed out food from her bag.
Lucy was beginning to believe Levy was a Seraph the way she was selflessly giving everything she could to all of them. They would arrive at Magnolia tomorrow a better off town, the original headquarters for Fairy Tail, they should be safe there.
"They're getting too close" Erza says, Mira nods in agreement.
"Natsu is stopping at every village on the way to Magnolia for some reason" Yukino says shaking her head.
"Apparently they're feeding the people and giving them water" Hibiki says.
"The Princess probably has something to do with that" Jet says.
"The people aren't cooperating with the Lords anymore, they're not saying anything to them, they're running off blind" Mira contributes.
"That will only by so much time" Erza says thinking.
"We can't engage them, it wouldn't do any good" Yukino says.
"I agree, our chances of success would be small" Hibiki calculates.
"Well you're right on that that" a voice interrupts them, the five of them turn to Cobra, who had somehow gotten behind them, Erza draws her sword with Mira, Zancrow appears on their flank, the two body guards attack, Hibiki and Jet get out of the way of the four fighting, Yukino trips over the sand dune sliding down backwards, she lands at two peoples feet, Jellal and Lyon.
"Looks like you were right Cobra" Jellal says he reached down and pulled Yukino up, she struggled and Lyon grabbed her wrists tying her up.
"Jet Run!" she screams.
"Go!" Hibiki agrees, Jet gives them a last desperate look and turns running, Hibiki looks around for the Lords but can't see them, Zancrow and Mira were in an intense battle, Cobra and Erza too, Mira and Erza were back to back, Hibiki turned looking and is decked by Sting, he lands with a painful thud in the sand.
"Rouge you good?" he says to his partner, Rouge nods drawing his crossbow, aimed at Jet's running figure, he wouldn't get far, Rouge fires.
"So Fairy Tail's Erza Scarlet and Mirajane Strauss, we knew of your connections but who are you three?" Zeref asks the other three, Erza and Mira where still struggling against the chains that held them, connected to Cobra and Zancrow, who were also worse for wear, they stay quiet, Jet was trying not to grimace at his shoulder, the arrow had been taken out but it still hurt, they were all on their knees.
"Don't be stubborn and we won't kill you" Jellal says.
"Yeah right" Jet spits.
"Hey our main objective is the Princess, killing Fairy Tail is secondary, we can be lenient" he says, the three of them still say nothing. Zeref rolls his eyes and kicks Jet in the shoulder, he cries out.
"Leave him alone!" Yukino shouts.
"We just want your names" Lyon tries to reason, Hibiki swallows sharing a look with Yukino.
"My name is Hibiki Lates" he says slowly.
"I'm Yukino Agria"
"Jet" Jet coughs sitting back up.
"See that wasn't hard" Jellal says.
"Now you've been following us for a while haven't you?" they don't say anything.
"You have to be meeting up with Fairy Tail somewhere, were would that be?" they remain silent.
"I really don't want to hurt you, your conviction alone is impressive, but the Princess needs to be returned" Erza looks Jellal in the eye.
"We'd rather die" she says simply.
"We can arrange that" Zeref says breezily, fully ready to kill them.
"Wait" Jellal says, Zeref raises and eyebrow at him.
"We can use them, to find Fairy Tail"
"How do you propose we do that?" Zeref asks, Jellal smiles.
"I have an idea"
Shorter chapter sorry but I want to stop it here. R & F!
