Ok, new chapter, first thing, I'm not comfortable with explicit cursing, and since it's only for comedic effect, I figured it wouldn't hurt to use the symbols (Example. Why you &*^%!) see? Ok, nothing else I need to say here, so here we go!
Ren sprinted down the halls, he'd ended up in the upper halls of the castle, and was confused by all of the painted signs hanging across the doors, but honestly wasn't about to stop in order to read them.
If he had decided to give them a passing glance, he would have read.
Ultear's Room
Layla's Room
Wendy's Room
Jacqueline's Room
And many other name, dubbing each of the wizarding girls currently asleep within their respective rooms.
What the wind mage failed to notice was that Layla's door was open, just a crack.
He skidded on the black wooden floor and ran through the next doorway.
"ACK!"
He yelped as he slid across the now tiled soapy floor on his heel.
Flailing his arms wildly, the dark haired young man let out a curse and splashed into the girls bathhouse bathing pool.
"What the #$%!?" Ren demanded in fury as he burst to the surface.
It was a little bit to late that he realized something very, very disturbing.
He wasn't in the bath alone.
In the 6th floor hallway of the Draconem Heart castle
Eve walked through the hall, the windows providing enough light for him to get along without his flashlight lacrima.
As he moved he hugged the wall, careful not to rattle the signs there that he wasn't bothering to read, finally, he decided it was time to enter one of the many rooms he'd passed, so he pushed open one slightly, slipped inside, and eased the door shut. When he turned about, he flicked on the light lacrima because the room was shrouded in darkness by thick drapes over the window. The blonde moved silently into the room, and froze when his light cast over a bed, and the figure sleeping upon it.
"C-Crap..." Eve hissed, he'd ended up in one of the mages bedrooms!
The snow mage slowly began to back up, holding his breath as he scanned the sleeping figure. When his eyes reached her face, he really freaked out.
The bobbed icy blue hair, the dragon symbol in the same color clearly visible on her exposed neck, her pale skin and although closed, Eve knew very well those ocean blue eyes.
"R-Rina...?" Eve gulped hard, trying to force down the lump forming in his throat, if Rina was here than that meant that he had been right all along, this was no dark guild.
Eve's shaking hand dropped the torch lacrima, it landed with a barely audible 'thump' on the ground.
On the blue carpeted ground.
Eve realized, startled and horrified, this guild was far from dark, it was the most powerful light guild in the country, of six months ago at least.
"T-This...is Draconem Heart?"
Eve stiffened when Rina mumbled something and rolled over, and the snow mage began frantically looking for a place to hide.
Under the desk? No, I'd be seen the second she gets up and pulls the curtains, how about in the bathroom? There is no bathroom! Ok, ok, wardrobe, no if she opens it to get dressed and sees me in there I'll die a violent death, there only one option!
Eve steeled himself, seized his torch from the ground, and dove beneath Rina's bed.
He cowered under there in fear as the wood above him creaked, Rina was moving to get up.
The trapped mage held his breath as a pair of bare feet set down onto the blue carpeting of the room, a soft sigh escaping her lips.
"So early...maybe I'll go for a walk to tire myself out." Rina murmured to herself as she shifted, the bed's wood yet again groaning slightly as she lifted up to bear her own weight.
Eve held his breath as he heard her fumble around for something, until he saw her pull a long white nightgown with blue ruffles and blue bows around the bottom out of the wardrobe and put it on. Eve saw the door begin to creak open, Rina was leaving in just a second, he just had to wait a second longer.
He shuddered when something tickled his arm, and turned his head to the side to see the biggest cockroach he could possibly imagine crawling up his arm.
"EEEEAAAAAGGGH!" Eve wailed, the thing was ginormous, he jumped up and slammed his head on the bed, causing the entire thing to jump a foot of the floor. The mage than threw himself out from under the piece of furniture, panting as the equally terrified roach scuttled to safety.
Eve heaved several breaths, trying to regain proper thinking abilities.
That thing was...Rina's right behind me isn't she.
He spun just as Rina shrieked at the appearance of a figure from under her bed and launched her magic without thought.
Effectively freezing Eve into a block of ice, with his head and one hand sticking out, in a position where it could just reach his face..
The ice godslayer had a hand to her heart, one hand out in front of herself, still steaming from the release of magic power, and took several deep breaths before looking into the ice to recognize Eve.
"Snowy..." She growled, her arms dropping to her sides and he hands balled into fists.
"Umm...hi." Eve tried weakly.
Rina scowled deeply at him.
"You. Were. Under. My. Bed." She said, emphasizing every word.
"W-Wait, I-I-I...!" Eve stuttered, flailing his free arm frantically.
Rina took one step forward punched him in the face, her blow knocked his lights out.
She watched as his head slumped forward onto the top of the glacier and she sighed.
"Guess I'll just push him to the dungeon." She mumbled, before walking around, throwing her weight into the ice, and beginning to slide it off into the hall.
Back in the bathhouse.
Ren plunged back beneath the surface and retreated a good distance away from the figure that was in the bath beside him.
He could see them glance from side to side in total confusion, but it appeared that they had been half asleep when Ren had flown in and were unaware of his presence.
Oh dear god...
Ren thought in horror as, through the water that thankfully blurred his vision, he saw the figures shapely, definitely womanly curves.
To sum up, he'd fallen into the bathhouse of a dark guild, but not only a bathhouse, the girls bathhouse, and of course there was a girl taking a bath in it.
Above the surface, Layla sighed, stretching out her dark-skinned arms above her head.
"God, I must be sleepier than I thought, for a sec I actually thought someone flew into here and fell in the water."
She laughed at her supposed idiocy.
"Ah, well, I thought a late night soak would be calming to help me sleep, since I got back late from a job and all, but I still can't unwind."
She than slapped herself in the forehead,
"And now I'm talking to myself, I must be a nutcase!"
She laughed heartily again.
"Ah, well..."
Under the water Ren was running out of oxygen.
Finally, he could take it no more, an burst up, gasping for air.
Layla screamed loudly, her voice echoed down the halls.
"WHO ARE YOU!?" She demanded, leaping up from the water.
"Ah..."
Ren's eyes were wide as Layla glanced down.
"EEEEEE!" She shrieked so high that Ren covered his ears. The female mage dove to the edge of the bath, seizing a white fluffy towel and tying it tightly around herself.
"Ok, look, no need to go ballistic...I just..." Ren began.
Layla threw an arm forward.
"Trickster Magic: Boxer Blast!"
At her call, a red, happy face, sad face mask magic circle appeared and ten large boxing gloves on springs, the kind that would be in prank boxes, shot out. One socked Ren in the face, another hit him in the gut, yet another pummeled at his shoulder.
"Ok, you wanna fight? Ariel Phose!" Ren snapped his arms forward and a cyclone shot towards Layla.
"Trickster Magic!"
Layla clutched at the top of her towel to make sure it didn't slip as she leapt from water.
"Acrobatics: Enhance!" At once she performed a one-handed backwards handspring, dodging the blasts of wind shooting towards her.
"What?" Ren demanded, surprised by her sudden amazing athletic abilities.
"My magic allows be to take on acrobatic abilities, and control tricky objects, for example..."
Layla flung one arm out.
"Trickster Magic: Ring Toss!"
Twirling hula hoop sized rings spun out of the magic circle and into Layla's grasp, she hurled them one by one at her dripping wet foe.
"TAKE THIS!"
The ring slammed into Ren's chest, sending him stumbling backwards and knocking the wind out of him.
"Fine...let's go!"
Meanwhile, in the Dragons Hangout.
Hibiki stepped up to the second floor, a hand propped up on his other arm to hold his chin as he studied the many different chairs, tables, and stools surrounding the bar.
Behind the bar were four more portraits Hibiki figured were the S-class wizards.
Laxus, Sofie, Cobra, and Viper, why am I not surprised?
The archive mage thought as he stepped back to look around the second floor.
As he'd also expected, there was a painting of Natsu surrounded by swirling flames, with a reckless grin on his face, next to him was a smirking Gajeel, and next to the two of them, just barely missing the mark of S-class, was Jellal, with glowing gold comets floating around his outstretched hand.
"Huh...glad I didn't run into any of them." Hibiki murmured to himself as he made his way back down the stairs.
I need to find Eve and Ren and get out of here, if we're caught, it could cause a guild war between Draconem Heart and Blue Pegasus, and for some reason I'm not so confident in our chances of beating these guys.
That was when the door to the hangout swung about and crack, Hibiki cursed under his breath as he stepped backwards, pulling up several attack cards, prepared for a fight.
Kylie stood in the doorway, wearing a pink nightgown and her frizzy red hair mussed around her head.
Hibiki blinked as Kylie asked.
"Who are you?"
Crap...
The end! So, Eve's frozen, Ren in a fight, and Hibiki is about to face the all powerful Kylie! The...six year old with athletic magic. Well, please favorite, please follow, please review! Thanks!