New Chapter! Sorry about the delay, with school starting again my writing and whatnot has been put on hold but I'm trying. I really appreciate the feedback I got on my last chapter so please give me some feedback on this one as well. if you have any ideas for the story let me know as well. ^_^ (sorry it's so short)
"Natsu! Happy! There you two are!" called out the blonde Celestial mage as soon as her eyes had spotted the spiky pink hair of her dear friend and the blue cat that flew right next to him.
"You made it just in time Flame Brain! Erza was on her way to come looking for you actually," mocked Gray Fullbuster, the ice mage, who stood with his arms folded over his unsurprisingly bare chest.
"Not now Ice Princess, or do you really wanna showdown right here?!" Natsu narrowed his eyes and dropped his suitcase as his fists had already engulfed themselves in brilliant flames.
"What is this showdown that you speak of Natsu?" Erza Scarlet had unexpectedly appeared right behind him, her hands at her hips and her eyebrows raised at both wizards. A nervous laugh could be heard from all three of them as Happy hid himself behind Lucy, and Gray instinctively wrapped his arm around Natsu's shoulders. A goofy full-toothed grin spread across both of their faces.
"Oh n-nothing at all Erza-san, we were just goofing off that's all, right Natsu?" exclaimed Gray his voice cracking and Natsu nodding his head rapidly soon after.
A satisfied smirk came across Erza's lips, "That's what I thought. Now the time is 12:52 and we still have to get ourselves settled onto the train, so chop chop you all! Get your things and get on board." said the armored Titania her voice firm and steady as she clapped her hands twice to signal to the rest of the gang to quicken up their movements. For once Erza hadn't packed a year's worth of luggage which was a relief to the rest of them, and soon enough they were all loaded on to the train with two minutes to spare.
"How long is this ride supposed to take?" questioned Natsu and without warning the train began to move causing him to double over, his cheeks to puff up, and his hands to clutch his rumbling stomach.
And with a simple response Erza jabbed him in his stomach with her fist, "Three days." Natsu was already too knocked out to hear the answer to his question, while Happy facepalmed, Gray laughed a little more than he should've, and Lucy stared at the two of them with her mouth wide open. "He'll be fine. He's bound to awaken once we get there without having to suffer from his motion sickness. Plus," Erza looked down at Natsu a sympathetic look in her eyes, a total sudden mood-change, "He looks like he needs the rest.."
And on that note the ride continued on with them all soon enough falling to sleep. The night seemed perfect. Peace and serenity, the moon shone bright illuminating the path for the train, and all that rode the train were silent as soon as the dark blue night sky replaced the sunset. But nonetheless something still felt a little off. The train had stopped, and while most of the passengers seemed to be asleep, heavy footsteps were shuffling about somewhere on this form of transportation. Footsteps that seemed out of place to be exact, and to add on to the situation there were more than one set of feet.
Lucy was the first to notice. Her eyes slowly fluttered open and she quietly yawned looking around the train and then at the calm faces of her friends. Slowly turning her head she gazed out the glass window only to realize that they weren't going anywhere.
"Erza? Erza!" she whispered being ever so careful not to wake up the armored woman in the wrong way, and of course with the cautiousness of the other passengers. But Erza did wake up, her eyelids slowly raising up and her lips formed in a slight frown
"Lucy, what do you want?.." she mumbled most likely still halfway asleep.
"The train it isn't moving!" Lucy brushed her blonde bangs away from her eyes and bit her lip seeming to be overreacting to the situation as always. Although Erza did understand why Lucy seemed to be scared, for now she began to have that off feeling as well.
"You stay here with these three" Erza ordered slowly sliding out from her seat careful not to wake up the salmon-haired dragon slayer. This was expected though, you could never tell Erza you suspected danger without her getting up to go check it out, and of course that was her mindset and soon as she had stood up.
Erza began to walk towards the door that connected the passenger quarters to the control room, ready to fight whoever must've been in there, but as soon as she reached for the door handle she froze. Her eyes widened and her hand began to faintly shake. Lucy could tell something definitely wasn't right now and at that she began to feel what she had an idea of Erza feeling. Magic. And not just any magic ; dark magic.