At the other end of the village, Juvia gave them all a knock on the top of their barrel to tell them the cost was clear. She tapped on Mira's barrel first then moved onto Wendy, letting the girls out first of cause. She then she headed to the boys barrel before Natsu threw up everywhere. Once they were all out of the barrels Juvia gave the trailer a nudge and sent it rolling steadily down the path.
"Now, where's the ship?" Gray was trying to get the get over's of... Well whatever was in that barrel.
"Over that way," Juvia pointed over towards a giant, thick tree, "Head towards the gushing stream, then walk past the old wooden plank which just stands there, Juvia doesn't know why no one touches it? After that carry on until you see the shore and once you're there you should see the boat."
"Aren't you coming with us Juivia-chan?" Juvia looked down at the girl with the long blue hair. She had one of those looks in her eyes that you can't lie to and/or disappoint.
"Juvia has to get back before father worries." Juvia knelt down and placed her hand on Wendy's shoulder and smiling towards her. Everyone around her looked down as well; they were hoping that she would come with them and travel the world.
"You should come with us it's the least we could do; I mean you did get us through your town" Mira stepped forward and reached her hand out for the young woman to accept. Mira helped the girl back up and stared into her eyes.
"Juvia wishes she could but she must go," Mira pulled her into a great big hug; she wasn't very good at good bye's. Especially when she had lost someone special to her in the past. Juvia realised herself from the white haired beauty before she suffocated her and walked over the Gray.
", Don't miss me Gray-sama. I know your heart will ache when I'm gone but please don't follow me and hold me in your arms and tell me how much you want me or need me." Gray stood there raising his eye brow and letting out a sign here and now.
"I think you just got dumped dude. Gehehehe" Gajeel was trying to stop the tears from zooming out of his eyes as her watched the girl perform her dramatic performance.
"SHUT UP. SHE WAS NEVER MY GIRL FRIEND IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Gray responded by punching the dark haired giggles next to him.
While all this was going on Natsu stood there leaning on a trunk of a tree for support thinking about that blondie and wondering where he had seen them golden locks before. Not once did he respond to his friends who were wishing Juvia a safe journey back; he kept staring into the obis trying hard to remember where he had seen her.
He was snapped out of his long trail of thoughts when something hit him on the shoulder. Natsu turned round with a confused facial expression.
"You coming hot head?!" Gray was standing there along with the others but he was throwing up a pebble and catching again, he kept repeating this process.
"Or is the 'oh so mighty salamander' dreaming about pretty little ponies and magic." Gajeel said also leaning against a tree for support. Natsu chuckled and shock his head. He kneeled down to the ground and rummaged his hand over the cold hard dirt.
"I would never dream of ponies, magic on the other hand I might." Hi stood back up and threw one pebble at Gray and another at Gajeel. The three shared a look of surrender and began to head off to the gushing stream Juvia mentioned.
Meanwhile back to where Lucy and her fellow friends where was a complete different situation.
"In a cage once again." Loki huffed; the villagers thought they were to do with the lost of their sacrifice.
"What did we even do?" Loki wouldn't stop moaning. They were all in different cages which were hung down from an old oak tree which stood tall in the middle of village. They were spread across each branch along with some other prisoners but they were more bone then flesh. But there was one living person other than themselves, his name was frank, he was... How to put this nicely. INSANE.
Frank would mutter under his breath and swing back and forth in his cage laughing to himself. He would even grab the nearest leaves and sprinkle them down on Loki's head.
The villagers would walk past just as they would on any other day. Erza was the lowest to the ground and was sitting there quietly with her arms folded and her eyes closed. Elfman was quiet for once and ever so often looking over to Levy who curled herself in a ball and was breathing deeply. She wasn't used to it like the others. I say the others I mean other than Loki; Loki was complaining every second. And then trying to act brave in front of Lucy. Lucy on the other hand was staring into the abyss dreaming. Dreaming of what? Who knows? Lucy was hard to read, she would pull a face or act in a certain way and no one would understand much like Erza, but Erza was only like that because... well because she was. No one knows why people are who they are or why they are who they are.
"Lucy, what now?" Elfman looked up to Lucy's cage but all he could see was the steal flat bottom of the bottom of the cage. Lucy was quiet and he cage stood still above everyone else's. Her cage was higher than the others she was almost at the top of the tree.
Lucy looked out at the view that she could see; forgetting about the few leaves that got in her way and just staring off into time it's self. Through all the twigs and leaves Lucy could see the ocean, the big, wide and free ocean. Thinking off what it would be like to sail to the ends of the earth on a ship, she noticed a ship moving in the distance. Squinting her eyes to get a better picture of the ship and thinking how lucky they are to be sailing of in the distance and not in a dumb old cage.
Lucy kept staring at the ship in the horizon she noticed something familiar about it.
"THEY STOLE OUR SHIP!"