Ok, the team of Lamia Scale as agreed to come willing to Draconem Heart! Also, there will be no ColeXWendy as some of you have been suspecting! It will not happen they will just become very close friends and nothing more! So get your heads outta the shipping and here we go!
"All set!" Sherry sang, she, Lyon, Toby, Yuka, Cheila, and Jura were all standing behind their guild hall with their usual travel baggage, duffels and backpacks, at the ready.
Wendy smiled.
"We took a train from our home to here, but Master Dracoya told us to use these on our return trip. Cole?"
The currently blue garbed boy swung his backpack off of his shoulder and rummaged through it for a moment before producing eight small golden spheres.
"Everyone take one." Wendy said as Cole handed them all out.
Jura held up the small sphere and studied it.
"How does this thing work?" Yuka asked skeptically, twirling the small piece of magical equipment that was supposed to get him to a place none even knew existed.
"Like this." Cole turned his sphere to the side to show a single small indentation on it.
"Just send a spark of magic power into it and...see ya there!"
Cole shouted this last part as, with a small squib of magic power, his form dissolved within a shooting star.
He hurtled straight up into the sky, now a blur of gold trailing stardust.
The members of Lamia stared after him in awe and Wendy waved as the star ferrying Cole home vanished over the horizon.
"Well?" Wendy asked.
"I wanna try!" Toby shouted, placing his thumb over the indentation and launching a burst of his magic power into it.
"WA-HOO!" He screamed as he was incased in his own shooting star and blasted away after Cole.
"Let's go, Chelia!" Sherry said, taking her cousins hand as the two of them pushed a burst of power into their own sphere's.
They both took off as Yuka, too, activated his sphere.
With a skeptical glance down at his own object of flight, Lyon gave the sphere a taste of ice magic.
"Whoa!"
He couldn't help but yell an electric buzzing sensation spread through his limbs and warmed his chest.
The ice mage was suddenly glowing gold and rocketing off into the sky.
"Mr. Neekis?" Wendy said, smiling.
Jura shook his head as he launched a bout of his own power into his sphere, Wendy doing the same.
"This is one ridiculous guild." He managed to say before he was air born.
They all soon caught up with the others and together, in what appeared to be a flock of shooting stars, they flew over the ever-changing lands of Fiore.
Lyon could barely even see the landscape passing by beneath them, all he saw was the colors of the city he'd come to call home changing to the colors of the forest. A forest he'd seen once before, a long, long time ago.
Green's and brown's and bright bursts of flowery shades swam before the ice mages eyes as they began to descend.
They all landed and most of the Lamia's, save Jura, wizard's wound up on their backsides.
"Whoa..." Cheila murmured as her head wove around and around in a circle.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Toby declared.
"I have to agree." Yuka said, rubbing his head.
"Wendy, you do it."
"Why me!?"
"You know them better."
"Only Cheila and Sherry!"
"Well one of us has to do it."
"Well than you do it!"
"No!"
"Please...?"
"No! No! No! You do it!"
All of the members of Lamia Scale turned to see Wendy and Cole arguing about who had to do something.
Wendy frowned, pouting as crossing her arms.
"Fine." She grumbled.
"I'll do it."
Wendy turned to the members of Lamia Scale and, while mentally complaining about such a weird way to invite someone in, bowed from the waist and said deliberately.
"I formally invite you to visit my guild hall."
"See, that wasn't so bad." Cole teased.
Wendy shot him a sour look and spoke quickly. "We have a major defense spell that keeps anyone who's not a member out unless we 'formally invite them in', the bow is what activates the spell, so now you guys can get through the force barrier."
"Wait...I know this forest." Lyon murmured, looking around at the gnarled old trees.
For all he knew, these were the same ones he'd shot through, pounding across the mammoth roots, on a magi-cycle with Gray.
"This is the West Woodsy!" Sherry exclaimed.
"We have a winner! Draconem Heart, proudly located in the creepiest forest in the world." Cole said sarcastically.
Wendy giggled, "I think it's beautiful. I love taking walks out under the canopy, it's so relaxing."
"Unless you run into a forest vulcan." Cole said.
"Whatever! C'mon, c'mon, I wanna see the guild hall!" Cheila cried, seizing Wendy's hand and hopping up and down, waiting to have a direction pointed out to run in.
"Ok, ok, this way!" Wendy laughed, picking up speed and passing by Cheila, holding her pink haired friend's hand and pulling her along.
They watched as the two disappeared beyond the barrier and through the trees.
The other's, with Cole in the lead, followed, and after a short amount of mad dashing through the forest, they arrived at the cobbled path.
Up ahead, the sound of Cheila crying out in wonder reached their ears.
The other members of Lamia quickly pushed through the remaining trees blocking their path, and found themselves staring up at the banner of Draconem Heart, the name of the guild twisted into the metal of the archway, and the ancient fortress of stone soaring above, a flag fluttering gracefully from each of the twelve turrets.
"Astounding." Yuka murmured.
The castle of Draconem Heart towered six stories above their heads atop the grassy hill. The calm waters of the lake rippling slightly as the breeze crossed it, on one of the turrets, a joyous Charles was leaping up and down before jumping and swooping across the moat, weaving around the chains of the drawbridge to Wendy's side once again.
"Oh, child, I was worried about you!" The white cat sobbed, clinging to Wendy's jacket sleeve.
"I was fine! It was no big deal, we were perfectly safe!" Wendy consoled the exceed.
Lyon swallowed once and managed to find his voice.
"This is your guild hall?"
"Sure is, welcome to Draconem Castle." Cole said smugly, secretly enjoying how shocked they were.
"This is a castle." Yuka said in amazement.
"Yes." The Draconem's said, wasn't that obvious?
"The castle is your guild hall?" Sherry tried.
"Yes." The three members said as one, they could see where this was heading.
"All of the castle?" Toby asked in wonder.
"Yes!"
"Why do you think everyone thinks only half of the castle is our hall or something?" Cole asked Wendy.
"I have no clue! What, is there just some giant wall through half the castle that we can't pass?" Wendy pondered
"Humans can be quite foolish." Charles said wisely.
"Agreed." The other two droned.
"Well, c'mon, let's go inside!" Wendy sang, happy to finally show Cheila the place that had become her home.
"How?" Toby asked stupidly as they headed up the cobbled path.
Cole rolled his eyes, "By asked for the drawbridge to be sent down, genius."
"Oh, I thought we were gonna go swim!" The dog like man said, pointing a clawed finger at the water.
"Oh, you really shouldn't..." Wendy began her warning but was cut off by Yuka.
"Go ahead if you want to, I'm certainly not getting wet."
"Ok!"
Naturally, Toby took Yuka seriously and dove into the water.
"No, don't!" Cole shouted but it wasn't in time, Toby splashed down into the moat.
Only to be electrified by the powerful lacrima submerged below.
"Ugh..." He moaned as he landed back on dry land, dripping wet with his hair frazzled all directions.
"We warned you." Charles said in an 'I told you so but you wouldn't listen' type of voice.
"Can we go in yet?"
"Sure! Back up!" Came a voice from one of the towers located directly next to the drawbridge.
Wendy pulled Cheila back as the chains rattled and the giant three foot thick bridge came clattering down.
It hit the ground with a vibration that made the wizard's jump.
"Hurry, let's head inside and go to the dragon's hangout. We can wait for the other guild's there, and I suppose since your here anyway we can show you around." Wendy was very excited to have some people from her life outside the castle walls entering the sanctum so long barred to those beyond.
"This is quite impressive." Jura admitted as they entered the castle, taking in the dragon carvings, black wood flooring and long, decorated, hallway's of stone.
Right around the first corner they came across a portrait of Kylie. "What's up with that?" Sherry questioned, taking in the picture of the confident looking little ginger haired girl.
"That's how our S-class ranks work, there's a portrait of every single member of the guild somewhere in the hall. The hangout serves as the main hall, it's got the bar, the request board, the food and drink. Everyone goes in there at least three times a day, if not more. The farther from the hangout you are, the farther you are from S-class. Kylie recently got her guild mark, so we hung her picture back here, so she could get started on working her way into S-class. Master Dracoya moves your portrait forward or backwards as she deems fit, trading you out with another person in the guild. If someone goes up, they switch with someone, who than goes down. If your portrait is in the hangout, your elite, if your portrait is hung behind the bar, where four are hung right now, your S-class. Master Dracoya hates for things to be boring, so a simple list in a book wasn't good enough for her, so she came up with this."
"That's interesting." Yuka said as they continued down the hallway.
"You made it!"
Onyx came running up from the tower that contained the lowering and raising mechanism for the drawbridge.
"Hello, your another member of this guild, I take it?" Jura asked.
"Yes, sir. My name's Onyx, I'm the rock dragonslayer." The teen introduced himself.
Wendy and Cole had already been dragged off by Cheila, Cole just barely avoiding her grabbing his hand as well. Unfortunately for the Transfer mage, the cape of his poncho was vulnerable, and Cheila had grabbed that inside. The godslayer had than skipped off with a joyous Wendy who was ready to give a tour, and a sputtering Cole, who had no idea why he was getting dragged into this mess.
Lyon and the others followed Onyx to the dragon's hangout, where they were all dumbstruck by the sheer amount of wizards.
"You've got quite a few members, don't you?" Sherry asked interestedly.
Onyx shrugged, "Is two hundred a lot?" He asked, mocking ignorance.
Jura exhaled at the thought of so many lost mages, even more so at the thought of battling at their sides.
"Yes, it is, it is quite a lot."
Onyx grinned, and all of the Lamia's sweat dropped at the sight of his fanged canines, a result of his dragonslayer powers
"Well, I hope you'll enjoy your stay, welcome to Draconem Heart."
Meanwhile, in Clover Town
Rina stared, a horrified look plastered across her face, her crystal blue eyes wide and terror filled as Meredy walked up behind her, dragged both of their duffel bags up the walk, feet skittering on the ground as she pulled at the suitcases.
Rina slid her gaze first down at the sparkly tiles leading up to the guild hall, than up to the pink guild hall that looked like it had a disco ball for a roof.
The girl with the fur lined hood wearily scanned the sign.
'Blue Pegasus'
The ice godslayer's shoulder's drooped as she lost all hope of this being the wrong guild hall. With a heavy sigh, she dutifully began to make her way up the sparkle tile road.
"Why me?"
Meredy had than caught a look at the guild hall, which looked like a unicorn had designed it, and shook her head slowly.
"Rephrase that, why us?"
Well who else would the Master send to get the Trimen? I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please favorite, please follow, please review!