Sting's POV
Me and Lucy walke to Rogue, Frosch, Carla, and Wendy in the back of the crowd. Rogue had some serious look on his face and Wendy seemed slightly disturbed.
"Minna!" Lucy waved. She seemed so angelic right now. Tch, this Blondie can take on a stampede when she wants to. Rogue and the rest ran over to us and Wendy blurted out what she and Rogue saw.
"KYA! L-LUCY-SAN! THERE WERE THESE DARK COATED PEOPLE THAT WERE ROAMING AROUND THE TREES AND ROGUE-KUN THINKS THAT HE SAW ONE OF THEM IN THE CROWD!" the little girl was waving her arms around like some crazed chimp who hadn't had its banana. I sighed and looked over at Rogue, he gave me and serious look and that isn't good.
"I think the guy who was in the crowd was a member of our client's dark guild," Rogue sternly said. Pmft, we can tell by your face 'thank you very much'.
"Well, me and Blondie here learned that this Hatsumi chick was one of the wielders of the amulet," I bluntly said feeling slighty proud.
"One of the wielders?" Rogue raised his eyebrow.
"That's what I said Dit-ta-Dit," I twitched.
"Hmft," Rogue snorted.
"Eh hem," Lucy coughed. "Well, according to what Hatsumi-chan said, she and her two other friends were the wielders and owners of the Elemental Amulet. One of them died and the other one ran off to be 'untrackable'. Our client's daughter was the wielder that died from what she said and that he killed her...not the dark guild," Lucy explained.
Everyone seemed impressed and I smirked.
"Uh, Wendy...Lucy..." Carla called up to the girls.
"Hn?" Wendy bent down and listened to her cat and Lucy did the same. Wendy nodded about something and was dragged away by her cat at the hem of her dress.
"Er-um, gomen. But we have to talk in private for a while. Be right back!" Lucy waved and immediately ran to Carla and Wendy.
Wendy's POV
I wonder what's wrong with Carla, it's not everyday she does this. Must be something important... Lucy-san was right behind us and Carla suddenly stopped, she turned around and looked at me and Lucy-san with a serious expression. This is bad!
"E-eto...w-what is it Carla?" I shakilly said.
"It's...something that I had when we first got to this town. I didn't tell anyone just yet and I keep on getting this sinking feeling if I don't tell anyone," Carla unsurely said.
Me and Lucy-san nodded and waited for Carla to reply. She took a deep breathe and began to talk, "I had another vision."
"Nani, another vision?" Lucy said slightly calmed.
Carla nodded, "Hai."
"Eto, what was this vision about? What did you see?" I quickly asked. I was curious about it and was afraid that everyone would be in danger.
"I can't tell...but I saw you being attacked, Lucy crying, and five mages standing before us. I think the five mages is Sabertooth so we have that part figured out," Carla depressingly said.
"Then we will be in combat so-"
*Boom*
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Lucy-san screamed. Everyone looked at the direction of the explosion and immediately ran away from it except for our group. Lucy-san dashed at where the explosion came from and everyone soon followed.
"Shoot, guess we're going into combat a lot faster than I thought," Carla bluntly said.
Lucy's POV
Where did that come from? And why was it in Hatsumi's direction, oh this is bad... I dashed to where Hatsumi was when I left and saw her bodyguard fighting some masked guy. I ran over to Hatsumi and immediately asked if she was okay and she nodded.
"Hai, I'm just fine. Right now, Ryo-kun is fighting that masked man and I think I know who he is but I need proof," she pointed at his hood where you couls see something shining in there.
"I believe they're glasses Lucy-san," Wendy said while squinting to get a better view.
'Who do we know that wears glasses...'
"Let's split up into 2 groups, Wendy and Carla, you go distract him. Rogue and Sting, protect Hatsumi-chan while Ryo is busy. I will go and pull of his hood and find out who it is," I was determined and I dashed towards him like some elite ninja. The masked man saw me and threw a knife that nearly slitted my face in two, I lost a few strands of my hair, "Pooh...now my hair is uneven."
I dahsed towards him again and manged to avoid his punch. I used his hand and flipped behind him then kicked him. He fell down backwards and I immediately took off his hood. Everyone seemed shocked jsut looking at him and Hatsumi was the first to speak up, "Well well, haven't seen you in a while after Umeko's funeral, eh Mister Ishimoto?"
Our client was laughing like a maniac and said, "Hai, it indeed had been a long time since I've seen you Hatsumi."
"I believe you were after something in my possession and not just here to be unmasked and make small talk," Hatsumi smirked.
"Yes, give me the amulet," he demanded.
"Nani, you know I have it?" Hatsumi said while narrowing her eyes.
"I know there is more than one from what I heard. And I believe you amulet is the last one," he snickred.
Hatsumi seemed uneasy and said, "I don't have it. Come back and see me when you come back to your senses old man." She waved and started walking away with Ryo following close behind.
Our client threw some dark sphere at Hatsumi and she deflected it with just her hand.
"Nani?" Carla said.
"That's amazing," Wendy said in awe.
Sting and Rogue were jsut mentally dumb for a few seconds and regained their forms.
"I thought about todays outcomes and cam prepared..." he sickly said.
"Oh? How," Hatsumi smirked.
"By...TAKING SOME OF YOUR FRIENDS' LIVES!"
Rogue's POV
Our client dahsed towards Lucy and grabbed her by the neck.
"This girl should be a fine sacrifice for my Elemental Amulet to work, do you think so too Hatsumi?" our client snickered.
That monster, he has Lucy. I must save her! I clentched my fists and went to charge at our clie-no, THAT MONSTER!. I was stopped by Sting who had his face hidden behind his small bangs.
"LET ME GO STING, LUCY'S IN TROUBLE AND COULD DIE IF SHE WAS LEFT LIKE THA-" I tried to finish but was slapped across the face by Sting who had an angry expression written all over his face.
"BAKA! YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT?! BUT IF WE GET INVOVLED NOW, SHE COULD DIE! THAT SON OF A B*TCH CLIENT IS JUST HOLDING HER HOSTAGE FOR HATSUMI! SO WAIT YOUR SORRY ASS UNTIL OUR CHANCE!" he raged and he's right.
I nearly forgot that Sting loved Lucy too and so he must be feeling the same rage and pain as me, "Gomen."
I looked up at Lucy who was being held by some magic black rope from our client who's now in the sky.
"Mister Ishimoto, I say we end this," Hatsumi stepped up and said with an angry expression.
"H-Hatsumi, I don't think it's a good ide-" Ryo stuttered.
"It's fine Ryo, please trust me on this," Hatsumi gave the guy who I think is Ryo a reassuaring smile. He seemed hesitant but nodded his head.
"Hmm, interesting, but let's raise the stakes here Hatsumi my dear," our client scratched his chin while looking down at us all.
Hatsumi's face seemed to darken and waited for what was yet to come.
"This is a fight to the death and if you win, you get my sacrifice back," he snickered. Man his words make me sick.
"And if you win?" Hatsumi asked.
"YOU GIVE ME ALL THE ELEMENTAL AMULETS THERE IS TO ME AND KILL THIS CELESTIAL MAGE FOR MY SACRIFICE!" he miniacally said.
"I won't let you or anyone lay a finger on Lucy or any of my friends," Hatsumi dangerously said.
"Oh? Then prove it, HATSUMI!" the client dashed down and threw a kick at her but she managed to dodge it.
"I suggest we take this somewhere else," Hatsumi said with venom.
"Hmm, I know just the place. Where my late dughter had fallen," the client toothly smiled.
Kobanawa minna, ^^
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i spent some tim on this chapter and forgot to save it and i had to do it all over again T^T
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I read through this story and saw that it was kind of boring ._.
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