Argh! I hate the number seven!

"Taurus!" Lucy called.

"I'm moo-re than ready!" Taurus replied.

Hm, I might not have to bring out my power after all... Kumiko mused.

Taurus charged but froze in place as the shadowy figure of a young boy emerged at the lip of the cave.

"How dare you push me off a cliff," Natsu huffed, "It was close..."

"Natsu! You're safe!" Lucy squealed and I couldn't help thinking she was overly happy.

"I'm surprised you made it!" I commented with a smile.

"Huh?" Natsu looked up, noticing the bull, "What! There are more monsters now!

The bull took a flying kick to the face and fell back. "I can't take it no moo-re..."

"Natsu!" I screamed.

"I was worrying about you and then you come and do this! Besides how did you survive?" Lucy asked.

To that, Natsu grinned. "It's all thanks to Happy, right?" Natsu pointed out the cat flying above them.

"You're welcome!" the cat replied.

I'd forgotten that the cat could fly... actually, I'd forgotten about the cat entirely.

"Oh, yeah! I forgot Happy had wings." Lucy admitted.

"Aye, it's one of the ability type magic: Wings." Happy explained.

"You can't deal with transportation, but you're okay with Happy?" Lucy pointed out.

"Happy's not transportation." Natsu stated blandly, looking at Lucy like she was a complete idiot.

"I see, so it's a psychological problem." I thought out loud.

"A psycho-what?" a baffled Natsu looked to me for further explanation.

I sighed. "It means it's all in your head." I said slowly, tapping my skull.

"It is not!" Natsu retorted.

"Listen, because you don't think of Happy as transportation, you don't get motion sick. If I had you completely convinced that a boat or a carriage was, let's say a person disguised as such, then your motion sickness would disappear."

"But Happy isn't transportation! He's a nakama. From the geezer, Mira," at this point Lucy started screaming something, but I chose to block her out, "Then the annoying Gray and Elfman, to Happy, Lucy and Kumiko. We're all nakama. That's why..."

Natsu turned around and kicked the approaching Vulcan under the chin. "I'm taking Macao home!" Natsu grinned, "Tell me or I'll burn you Black like charcoal."

"Uhoho!" the monkey tossed snowballs full speed at Natsu.

"That won't work on fire!"

"Uho?" Vulcan picked up Taurus's axe.

"That looks painful." Natsu grimaced.

Vulcan took a couple of swings at Natsu, who easily dodged, then the beast attacked straight on. Luckily, Natsu reacted just in time and caught the axe a few inches from his face. After a few moments of tension, the axe started to sizzle and melt. Natsu caught a drop of the molten metal in his mouth and chewed.
He then proceeded to spit the metal at the Vulcan's face.

Vulcan lost his concentration, and loosened he hold out the axe.

"Here I come," Natsu sent his firey fist driving into the monkey's stomach, "Iron fist of Salamander!"

"You know this is great and all, but what about Macao?" I sighed.

"Ack! I forgot to ask!"

As Natsu looked back to the monkey, it began to decompose and was eventually replaced with an unconscious man.

"The monkey became Macao!" Natsu yelled.

"Oh, so he was taken over by Vulcan!" Happy concluded.

"Taken over?" Lucy asked.

"It's a magic to take over the body." I explained.

The wind picked up, carrying Macao's body over the edge of the cave. Natsu tried to grab at him, but he was falling too fast, I could see that the boy was prepared to throw himself over the edge to grab him. I moved quickly, shoving Natsu back inside the cave, I leapt over the edge and wrapped my arms around Macao.

Hoping that the snow storm would be enough cover, I whispered, "Transformation... Wings!"

I could feel our falling stabilize, then stop completely. I looked up at the giant white wings, I hadn't had much use for this magic before but I guess it was situations like this where it came in handy. They looked so soft that I wanted to reach up and touch, but I didn't, for fear that I might drop Macao.

"Kumiko!" I could hear Lucy's hoarse voice call out for me.

"I'm fine, I... I found a ledge." I lied, "You two just rest a little, I can climb up with Macao."

"Are you sure you'll be okay?" Lucy asked.

"I'm sure! I'm stronger than I look." I replied.

I waited for what felt like ten minutes before flying up. As I was almost level with the ledge; my head peaking over, I saw the form of Natsu facing me.

I made certain that I had a firm grip on the ledge then muttered, "Cancel."

The wings burst, raining tiny feathers that resembled the snow. I held Macao tight and climbed over the ledge.

That's it for this week, I have to go back to work next week, waaaah! Please leave a review!