Authors Note:
This Chapter starts out with Natsu and the group of Fairy Tail Members traveling to Fiamo Valley to rescue their friends and take revenge on the dark guild Crescent Wolves.
Natsu's POV:
It was really nice of Erza to let us walk to Onibus instead of taking the train since my motion sickness is terrible. It only took us a couple of hours to walk there, and we all enjoyed ourselves just talking about recent missions and gossip around the guild. When we finally reached Onibus Erza found someone who offered to give us a ride into Fiamo Valley for a small fee. They drove a magic eight wheeler and it was pretty spacious to fit all eleven of us. I hesitated getting in but I knew I had no choice if we wanted to go and rescue everyone. I stepped in and the eight wheeler rocked a bit and I fell to the ground feeling absolutely sick.
"Natsu we haven't even started moving and you're already sick?" Levy mentioned
"Uhhhgg…." I said as we started moving towards our destination. I couldn't remember much of our journey there other than a few conversational topics from everyone on what we were going to do when we reached Fiamo Valley. It took too long to reach the valley at least for me, I felt sick the entire time laying on the floor. After hours of traveling the bumpy road to Fiamo Valley we finally stopped and Gajeel opening the door to the magic eight wheeler kicked me in the butt and I went flying out of the car. I landed a few feet away from it in the middle of a busy street market.
"ground! Sweet heavenly ground!" I said as I laid on my back looking up to the sky. Everyone exited the cart and Erza paid the man up front for taking us here.
"Get up your embarrassing us." Cana said as people walked by staring at me laying on the ground. I jumped up and stood next to Erza as everyone else looked around the market , but still stayed pretty close.
"So what's the plan?" I asked Erza as she looked around.
"We need to try to find the guild, when we do we can make our plan of attack." she said Gajeel looked up at her and then went over to a teenage boy standing against a building wall with his 2 friends.
"Hey kid. Where's the guild in this town?" Gajeel asked, no matter if he was a jack ass he was good at getting information out of people.
"What's it to you?" the kid said talking back as his friends smiled slyly.
Gajeel gave a murderous look to them and the kids got a pretty scared look on their face. "tell me where the guild in this town is." Gajeel said punching the wall right next to his head and getting up close and personal with the kid.
"We…. We don't have….. a guild here mister!" The kids said trying to get as far away from his face as possible. Erza pushed Gajeel away from the kid and stood in front of the 3 kids.
"What do you mean there isn't a guild here?! We heard that Crescent Wolves made their base here in this town?" Erza said sternly but confused.
"I don't know what you're talking about lady, we've never had a guild here!" the kid said cowering next to his friends. When he got the chance the kid ran off with his friends I tried to go after them but Erza put up her arm stopping me.
"Let them go." She said.
"But I thought you said the guild was here?" Romeo said walking up to us, everyone else joined our conversation.
"We need to split up and look around the town its small enough that we could look through it in an hour if we split up into small groups ." Erza said
"I want to go with Natsu-nii!" Romeo said as he stood by my side. Everyone paired up and Erza pulled up a map of the town she had received from the man who drove us here. We each selected an area to check and Cana gave us each a card to be able to stay in contact with each other just in case we need help or we found the guild. Juvia went with Grey, Erza, Wendy and Cana were a team, Romeo and I were a team, Levy and Gajeel were a team (no surprise there), and Happy and Pantehrlily were a team checking through the sky. After Romeo and I tried to figure out how to use the card Cana gave us we started on our way up towards the top of the Valley hill at the edge of town.
As Romeo and I walked through the town, I slipped my hand in my pocket grabbing onto Lucy's Keys afraid that I would lose them, but they were the closest thing I had of Lucy's right now and I didn't want to let them go.
"Natsu do you really like, like, Lucy?" Romeo asked as we continued to walk.
I just laughed a bit, "Ya, I guess you can say I do." I looked up towards the blue sky. We continued our search looking at each building carefully, there wasn't much but houses, markets, shops a church and probably a couple of schools. But we had no luck finding a guild anywhere in our section. We walking on not wanting to return to Erza empty-handed.
Until we suddenly got a ring from the card Romeo got from Cana. "Hey everyone can you hear me?" Everyone said yes in response to Cana. "Everyone meet up at the Valley square pronto." Cana said and the card went silent. I looked at Romeo as we turned and walked back to the Valley square, I wonder if they had found the guild? We were the last to arrive and everyone was either standing of sitting right by this giant fountain in the middle of the square.
"Did you and Romeo find anything?" Levy asked sitting awfully close to Gajeel.
"We didn't find a single building that looked like a guild or anyone who even looked to be part of a guild." I said as I said on the ground with my back leaning against the fountain. "What rotten luck."
"None of us found anything either. Maybe the information you got Erza was just a rumor?" Cana said
"There's something not right here. Gajeel, Cana go in to the bar over there and see if you hear anything about the guild." Erza said.
"Wait why just them?" Grey asked.
"Gajeel looks scary enough to enter a dark sketchy bar and could blend in better in the shadows. And Cana can drink heavily without getting super drunk so she would be able to talk to the drunk guys better." Erza said crossing her arms over her chest. It did make sense though Gajeel was pretty good at blending in with the shadows.
"What about the rest of us?" Levy asked.
"Juvia is fine as long as she can stay by Grey-sama!" Juvia said sliding a bit closer to Grey.
Gajeel and Cana walked off towards the dark sketchy bar down the street a bit and Levy, Romeo, Wendy, Pantherlily, Happy, Gray, Juvia, Erza and I just sat in the square looking at the passing people.
"Well we just wait now. I can't really think what else to do until Gajeel and Cana get back." Erza said sitting on the fountain. It looked like she was thinking up a new strategy. Yet we were wasting precious time, time we could be saving Lucy and the others.
"I'm going to see if I can find any clues." I said as I grabbed one of the communication cards out of Romeo's hand and walked off by myself. I just had to find something, Lucy could be in serious trouble and here I am wandering around a small lame town looking for a guild that we can't find from some bad information Erza heard.
After walking around for a half an hour not finding anything to out of the ordinary it seemed like my luck finally turned for the better. I found what looked to be a Crescent Wolves member in the local book store. It was a younger girl with short dark red hair and a black cloak on, when she reached out her hand you could plain as day see her Guild mark. I wanted to mark right up to her and demand to know where her guild was but decided to just sneakily try to follow her.
She left the bookstore carrying what looked like to be a fictional book and headed down the street reading it. I felt like she was leading me on a wild good chase now because she just walked through town like a normal person, taking left turn after left turn down random streets, it felt like I was going in circles. Until suddenly she stopped and shut her book, I slid in an alley way as she looked around to make sure no one was following her and she to slipped down an unmarked alley way. I couldn't lose her, so I ran after her but the alley way was a complete dead-end and she was nowhere in sight!
"Damn!" I muttered to myself, she had disappeared into thin air. That's when I noticed a door to my left and above it was the Crescent Wolves guild symbol. I stepped a few feet back so I was out of the alley way and picked up the card I took from Romeo.
"Hey you guys. Can you hear me." I asked and I heard some people respond, "I think I found it." I said still staring at the door making sure it wasn't going to disappear.
"What did you find Natsu?" I heard Erza say
"I found the entrance to their guild, To the Crescent Wolves Guild…" I said as I gave them my location.
"Don't go anywhere we are on are way." Erza and Cana said to me through the card. I put it back in my pocket and continued to stare at the door. Was this really the entrance to the guild? On the side of a random wall in a dark alley way? It did make sense for a dark guild to have an entrance in the alley way but it couldn't have been in the building it was on the side it was on. So where did the doorway lead to? But I just knew one thing, I was going to be able to save Lucy very soon.
**Whoa! How crazy is it that there isn't an official guild in that town, but thankfully Natsu might of found the entrance to the dark guild! :D My heart yearns for some NALU action! Thanks so much for reading this chapter! and for all the wonderful reviews! I got over 15 in just a day! That made me sooo happy to hear from all of you and to know how much you love reading this story! Sorry for some of you who were disappointed in the last chapter though :(. It was (I admit it) a rushed kind of crappy chapter but these next few will be even better and it will hopefully make up for it! You'll also kind of get what's going on (from Natsu's POV) :D SO ENJOY!***
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