I swear I can't stand watching anime anymore- I find everything too awkwardly animated harharhar but no matter! I just hope Sting and Rogue have some pretty sexy voices when they debut~
Sorry, my muse has left me recently and my grammars all over the place. I apologize for any OOCness that might occur with this chapter.
"Sting, are you ok?"
The frog-cat danced over to the White Dragon Slayer curiously, waving a stick around carelessly in the air and proceeded to poke him with it. The exceed let out a small giggle when it saw that he didn't react at all; just continued staring at the stadium below with his head resting on his elbows on the railing.
It's been a while now since he excused himself to go look for Bunny Girl, Rufus had won Hidden and now the games had continued onto the Battle portion. Currently, it seemed like his item of interest was fighting against her big breasted counterpart in Raven Tail- Flare Corona.
Sting hadn't even looked up once since coming back from the hall, all he did was just slouch against the railing and stare.
When questioned, Rogue just merely shrugged, crossed his arms and continue to gaze across the stadium instead of down below where the Fairy Tail girl finally retaliated and summoned one of her spirits- Gemini who transformed into her in a poof.
Well... her in nothing but a small bath towel that is.
"Damn, that's hot" the cat heard Sting mutter under his breath, a smirk beginning to form on his face. Frosch took the chance to begin prodding him again with the stick.
Only when Frosch accidentally waved the stick past his nose did he started getting annoyed,
"What is it, Fro?" The forced smile didn't faze Frosch a bit. What he did to her stick did.
"Sting, don't scare Frosch."
But it was too late.
He let out a loud groan as he watched tears starting to well up in the small exceed's eyes, Lector only scoffed in disbelief as he nudged the frog-cat away from the ledge and towards Rufus.
"Now, the Sting in my memory didn't make ladies cry." The Memory Make Mage joked half-heartedly as he gathered the cat into his arms.
"Shut it, Rufus." he grumbled as he turned back to the stadium where the match was already ending. He cursed himself for such bad timing.
The masked mage only let out a loud laugh as he proceeded to try to calm Fro down.
"Aww that sucks. We didn't get to fight!" En complained loudly as he made his way down the nicely decorated halls, his teammates trailing behind him as he brushed his brown bangs aside, "I really wanted to fight too! Gee, Tear Magic what-!"
"Would you shut up already? You're giving me a headache" Ken interjected quickly, glaring at the archer-mage, "you'd end up like War Cry too if you went against Orga."
"Don't you dare call me weak, Linken!"
"I didn't say anything, Zato."
"Both of you, shut up. We're not just here for the Games," V muttered as she quickened her pace and swiftly walked away from the group, excusing herself to go elsewhere. Emily only laughed at her teammates' antics and tried to get the two boys to calm down after the Lightning Ice mage left.
With the last match finished, the first day of the Games had ended with Sabertooth at the very top like every other year and Fairy Tail at the bottom. L'Arc Sibyl had been able to place third place in Hidden but was sadly pushed down to third from the bottom due to not participating in the battle portions. They weren't ones to complain though- well most of them weren't.
The L'Arc Sibyl team were adventuring the inner workings of the stadium now; veering through numerous hallways as they ventured deeper in. It was all En's idea actually, he said he wanted to go look for Krued and maybe their guild's resident missing witch- and it obviously wasn't working for them.
"En, I'm sorry but I don't think we're going to get anyway randomly walking around like this..." The young girl timidly said, brushing her indigo hair behind her ear. Her pale eyes flashing from Ken to En who had a lost look on his face.
En was always outgoing but ever since Lilian disappeared, he got more quiet- well... noticeably more quiet. He was her best friend/enemy after all, no one knew her as well as he did- well except for maybe Alexander. But En was the one who grew up with the girl; it was a given despite all their brawls and fights that he was the one who missed her the most.
Ken, on the other hand... Ken looked like he just wanted to go home. But Emily wasn't sure if it was just because he always wanted to go back home.
"You're right!" The archer-mage exclaimed suddenly, startling the two of them,
"I'm right?" Emily gave a confused look to Ken, who only shrugged and made a face while En spun around to face the both of them, his quiver threatening to smack Emily right smack in the face in the process.
"We should split up!"
Emily exchanged looks once again with Ken. They were all older than her, but there were times that she thought they never used what was on their shoulders properly- especially times like now. Ken, like always gave his teammate a lazy and pained expression as he stuffed his hands back into his pockets, "I'm going back to the hotel."
He left just like that; and if it was any other time, the girl would've laughed at En's expression if she hadn't already known what was next.
"I'm going to go find Allen," she quickly lied through her teeth and just like Ken, she ran off before the archer had a chance to protest.
It wasn't like she didn't want to find Lilian- because really... that was all she ever wanted. It was just that... she's never set foot in the stadium before; this was all a new experience to her. Splitting up to find the ex model/mage and Auguston was something Emily knew was going to end terribly.
Not like that knowledge was based on the fact that everything En Zato planned ended terribly- because that would be biased and Emily was far from being biased.
Moments like this made her wish that she could talk to her exceed- only Allen was god knows where fishing with his mate. The Moon Dragon Slayer let out a small sigh as she made her way through the winding maze that was the inner west wing, absently letting her free hand play with the purple crystal that was hanging off her black choker.
It had become a bad habit now; playing with the crystal knowing that just a small yank was all it took to destroy the last present she got from her best friend before she disappeared.
She remembered how Lilian had accidentally spilled her perfume all over it that day, turning the original color into the nice purple it was now and joked about how no matter how far she went, Emily would always be able to find her. They had laughed to no end and when she tried to explain it to Ace, he had blatantly shooed the girl off as being stalker-ish. Nonetheless, Emily didn't talk to her brotherly figure for the next week when he was finally on his knees begging for forgiveness.
The mint and rosemary scent was starting fade now, but it wasn't like she actually used that fragrance- if anything, the Lilian Evan then smelled like home. Like a home cooked meal, like a warm bath, like a loving embrace. Her scent was as welcoming to her as it was with her mother dragon's.
Numerous years apart can do a lot to a person though, and even if she tried; Emily was sure that she wouldn't be able to find her best friend by way of sniffing her out alone. Which was why she refused to say a word about her advanced senses when En was trying to think of ways to rescue Lilian from whatever caused her to disappear. The last thing she wanted was for the archer to test her.
"Urgh, that girl really annoys me sometimes. What's taking her so long anyways?" Emily stopped dead in her tracks as she listened in on the approaching footsteps.
That voice... Why did that voice seem so familiar?
"You probably scared her off too."
"Oh my lord- Rogue. Let it go already!"
Rogue? Rogue Cheney? Then that means...
"Fro's still sad about her stick, Sting."
Emily didn't know how to react; she was about to cross paths with the Duo Dragon Slayers of Sabertooth, was she supposed to be excited or just scared? She had never met anyone that was of her kind after all, but what if they didn't like her? Maybe if she ran fast enough, she could meet up with En and avoid having to walk past them...
"Gee, I'll go find another stick then," Were they around the corner now? Shoot, might as well just walk it off Emily and remember Elena's teachings... A true lady never lets her facade betray her feelings.
If she was really thinking straight, she would've remembered that she was the Moon Dragon Slayer- and she could've just easily cast a spell on herself and turn into the air itself.
If she was thinking straight, that is...
The two Sabertooth mages were still talking to each other when she finally mustered up the courage walk past them like a normal human being; her head held high and mind dead set on scouting.
She could fill that missing link later; all she needed to do now was to find one Lillian Evan.
She was about to take a deep breath when a faint scent caught her attention; a nostalgic fragrance that was lightly coated with the sweet smell of lilies. Her mind's eye flashed to the numerous times she had spent with the ex model/mage in the guild's garden.
There was no doubt about it; they knew Lilian.
And just like that, she stopped dead in her tracks once again and whipped around so fast that it was miracle that she didn't get whiplash,
"Where's Lilian?"
"Oi! Where's Bunny Girl?"