As we headed into the forest, I couldn't help but wonder who Mystogan was. Nobody said a word as we walked. I felt the dry fallen leaves crackle beneath my bare feet, the bark of fallen branches, the prick of twigs, the soft earth. It reminded me of Lilias. I looked over towards her. I could tell that she felt at home here. Of course she did. She was an earth dragon after all.
As we walked deeper into the forest I noticed a tall silhouette of a person. As we got closer, I could see him a lot more clearly. He wore a dark blue bandanna with a silver forehead protector along with a green scarf used as a mask to shield the rest of his face. He also wore a dark blue cloak and his arms and legs were mostly covered in bandages. "Mystogan." Miriza spoke firmly. The man nodded. "I see Makarov sent you all too me," Mystogan spoke, "I knew I could trust you all." He looked us all over. "I can tell that you've all suffered your fare share of heart ache. But that's how this world works. Come." We unquestioningly followed Mystogan further into the forest.
"Tell us," Miriza spoke calmly, "What is it we will be doing?"
Mystogan stopped and turned towards us. "We shall be secretly defeating all of Phantom Lord's subdivisions." Defeating all of Phantom Lord's subdivisions? Mystogan began to walk again. How were we supposed to defeat all of them?
We eventually arrived at the first subdivision. Mystogan had told us not to go all out. He was right. The wizards here were easily defeated. Mystogan picked up one of the phantom lord flags. Afterwards we moved onto the next subdivision. Mystogan didn't speak much. The whole journey was rather silent. I still couldn't help but wonder who was lurking underneath his mask. But that wasn't for me to ask. It was none of my business. There was no rest. After we had defeated one subdivision we would move onto the next. The wizards were too easy. The fight I remember the best was my fight against a shadow maker wizard. I remembered thinking how about similar it was to Gray's magic even though they both used different elements.
After we had defeated... However many subdivisions... Mystogan spoke. "We've only spend about a day or so defeating these wizards, an we're hardly even close to defeating them all." Mystogan sighed, "If we are to have any chance at defeating Phantom Lord - We're all going to have to split up." We didn't say anything. Who would we split up with. "I already have our teams." Mystogan spoke. Hopefully they'd work well together. I suspected they most likely would. "First, Miriza, Melody and I shall be in one team. Of course that's what he picked. Altair, Candy, Lokni and Lilias shall also all be one team." I don't think I like where this is going... "Finally. Viper, Belle, Xavier and Faya shall be our final team." And why exactly was I on a team with Xavier? This was the worst idea ever! As soon as Mystogan had said that the other teams split off leaving our team standing right there...
"What is it?" I heard Xavier speak, "Don't want to work with us?" I turned towards him. I was pretty sure that expression on my face at that moment was anything but friendly. "Well just to let you know, I don't want to work with you either."
"What are you guys waiting for," Viper scowled, "Let's go kills some Phantoms!"
"What is your problem!?" Bluebell yelled at the cat before her.
"Fine we'll just beat 'em up real bad and hard!"
"Let's just go," I muttered. This wasn't going to be fun at all was it? We ran in the direction the others hadn't gone in and soon came across another subdivision. It was only slightly harder now that there were less of us, but I just happened to be on the team that never agreed making it even harder. But eventually we were able to defeat them. "We really need to get better with our team work if we're going to defeat these guys." I spoke.
"That might be the only thing we agree on," Xavier muttered. We looked over our shoulders to see Bluebell and Viper arguing. "This is ridiculous," Xavier laughed, "I never thought we''d agree on something again but here we are!"
"Yeah," I couldn't help but smile, "Phantom Lord is just waiting to get defeated." With that we all flew to our next destination. Though we had to search from above since we had no idea where the subdivisions were...
I was surprised at to how well we could work as a team when we tried. We were able to combine our fire and ice attacks from the air to create floods of water that were able to wipe out a subdivision in mere seconds. We would also collect the Phantom Lord flags as proof of our victories. They only seemed to have them in dark colours such as dark purples, dark blues and dark greens. The colours were actually rather nice. I made a mental note to keep at least one of the flags to as a souvenir or something...
