Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 Investigating

June's POV

I was woken up the glimming rays of sunlight peaking through my small window. I'm glad sensei let me sleep a little more today; we recently got a new bed so now I don't need to sleep on the couch or sometimes the floor. I yawn and roll out of bed only to fall flat on my face and fall over on the mahogany floor.

OWWWWW!

Yeah ok, that really hurt, my face is gonna ache all day because of the floor now. I get up forgetting everything that just happened and get dressed. I grab my satchel and my staff just in case another one of the beasts show up, then I burst out the front door eager to test out something new I thought of while I was lying awake at night. I figured if I can summon dolls made of fire, I can maybe conjure weapons as well.

Before I could make my way toward the training grounds I was greeted by the two new mages that arrived here yesterday on the job we sent out. "Hi June," Sting said cheerfully while giving me a small wave. "Hi Sting, hi Rouge. What are you doing here?" I ask. "Sting wanted to see you." Rouge answered quickly. I giggled while Sting was glared at Rouge. "We came here to ask you if you wanted to join us in investigating the Batanya Forest where the Bamorias are coming from." Lector corrected. "Well I was going to train, but this seems more fun. Let's go," I say walking toward the forests direction and beckoning them to follow me.

"Ok, what's your plan," I ask walking to the forest with the two following behind me, "I don't know, aren't you the one that knows the Bamorias the most out of the three of us" Sting whined, "Great, now you're making me do all the work now." I said rolling my eyes in annoyance as we reach the edge of the forest, "Alright, the Bamoria usually come out from this area," I say gesturing to the spot where I've seen the Bamorias come from out the forest," if one of them shows up, we can follow it and find out where the rest are hiding. We'll wait 25 min. If one doesn't show up, we can retrace their footprints, maybe we can find where they're hiding and find out what we can," I say hiding in a bush then peeking out so I could check if one was coming. The guild wizards nodded and took their places hiding behind a tree or bush. We only had to wait 8 minutes for one to show up, thanks to Sting and Rouges surprisingly good sense of smell and sound; we were able to detect it before we could see it.

Luckily, It didn't spot any of us or the villagers far enough from the village and decided to head back into the forest. I gestured to the mages and their cats to start following it. I sprung up into a tall tree landing gracefully and started to jump from tree to tree making sure to stay out of the creature's field of view. The other two stuck to the ground and hide behind trees, Rouge seemed to be good with this hiding thing; I couldn't see him at all unless he came out of the shadows. We started to get really deep in to the forest and the trees started to shield us from the sun light peeking through its thin leaves. It was so dark I forgot It was day. Then, the Bamoria suddenly stopped. We all froze and stared and it, watching for any sudden signs of sudden movement. It looked around and then continued further into the forest. I looked a head and fell out of the tree after seeing what I saw. There was an entire nation of them. Unluckily, I fell on a dead branch causing it to snap and making me and the guild mages freeze. My eyes widened, as I try to be the quietest I could be. The other Bamorias didn't notice, but the Bamoria we've been following tilted its head and its ears rose up to form elf like ears. It listened carefully and made its choice to go search around this area for us.

I held my breath as it started to approach me, while I was trying my best not to freak out and stay quiet in my spot on the cold, hard ground. It stepped right in front of me and sniffed the air, then turned back and started heading back the direction it was going. I was right in front of it and it couldn't see or smell me, maybe I just got off lucky. I let out a deep breath after holding my breath so long and immediately regretted it. The Bamoria turned around and sprinted towards me. I quickly get up taking out my staff lightning speed and holding my staff out in front of it making it run in to it and fall back like a baby falling down after trying to walk for the first time.

"Run!" I whisper scream. Amazingly, they heard me, the mages dashed to escape the forest by my command. I got separated from the rest and I was scared, I admit it, I lost my sense of direction and I had no idea where we came from. I just kept running. I look behind myself seeing that the Bamoria was still at my feet. I speed up and mange to get a couple meters a head. My feet came to a stop and I swiftly take my foot out and swing it behind myself, kicking the Bamoria's snout when it got close enough then continued my, easily escaping the Bamoria by hoping up into a tree. I look in the distance to see if the Bamoria was still after me, it was. But, it was pinned down by another much larger Bamoria. The larger Bamoria started to feast on the smaller ones. That was something I never want to see again. "Well that was certainly an unexpected turn," I turn around and see Sting and Rouge with their exceeds on a thick branch across from me., relief washed over my like a tsunami.

"Yeah, thought for sure I was gonna get eaten," I sigh with relief, "Let's get back to Honey Wood now, hopefully this trip wasn't a waste," Rouge said hoping out of the tree. I glance at Sting then jump out of my tree to follow Rouge who looked like he knew the way out.

"Based on what I've seen, the Bamoria rely on their sense of sound, they also have poor vision and can only smell the objects close their nose," I explained while the three of us plus the exceeds made our way back to the forest, "Interesting, so all we have to do in case of an attack is keep silent," Rouge said taping his chin, "We were right about them being cold-hearted and blooded, but that's not even the worse part," I said glancing at the two who only kept walking, "And what's the worst part?," Sting questioned, "It's that the Bamoria's we've been facing… were only cubs," I said making both mages stop dead in their tracks and widen their eyes, "Only cubs," Sting said in great surprise, "if that's true, how are we gonna face the adults, how big are they? Their senses could be more advanced than the small ones," he babbled out, "That's true, and I don't know how we're gonna fight them off, we'll just have to use our strength," I said confidently.

"Also, I've been meaning to ask you this but, how are your senses so good?" I ask in with a curious tone. "We're dragon slayers; dragon slayers have the traits of dragons causing us to have more advanced senses," Rouge answered, "Dragon slayers? Just like Natsu," I say mumbling the last part forgetting that they have advanced dragon hearing, I didn't purposely say the last part, I was thinking out loud; don't think I'll ever do that again. "You know the Salamander?!" Sting said grabbing my shoulders and slightly shaking me, "Hey, that was history, I really don't want to talk about it," I say sweat dropping, "If you know Natsu Dragneel, do you know Gajeel Redfox as well," Rouge asked joining in on the conversation as well, "Yeah, I know him too. But guys, can you please stop asking me about these people, I have bad history with Fairy Tail," I said sadly. Luckily, they got the point, most of it at least, "So what exactly happened with you and Salamander," Sting asked. Rouge face palmed. A vein popped and I punched him, sending him flying into a tree.

"HEY, what you do that for?!" He asked getting back to the group clearly angry. Rouge cracked a small smile and I giggled while Sting just stood there with a confused look on his face. "Let's just back, we only have an estimated six days left before the attack."

Well, I finished. YAY! I don't think I did too well, but, I had fun writing it. Also, special shout out to a friend FTfangirl0330. I'll try to do shout outs every chapter to the follower of the day. Also, I've noticed that I keep changing from past tense to present tense, so ignore that cause it's hard to keep it all only one type of tense. If you liked the chapter, favorite, follow, and reviews are appreciated a lot.