Raken ran to catch up to Wendy, he had a pretty good idea where she would run off to, he slowed his pace the last thing he wanted to do was be out of breath when he arrived he took a deep breath his brother's last words echoed around his head for a moment and he smirked. he walked around the corner of a tree and stopped as he admired the sight in front of him, Wendy sat a little ahead of him swishing her legs and a smile as she watched the sun god down the a smile on her face, he skin glowed slightly with the last of the suns orange rays and she sighed. Raken took another deep breath twenty seconds starting now he thought to himself firmly as he walked towards her.
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"Hello Wendy," Raken announced as he stepped up onto the rock she was sitting on due to his height he was about level with her stomach so he didn't feel the need to climb any higher "The sunset is really pretty today." he commented afterwards, she glanced down at him and nodded her agreement.
"So what's up?"Wendy asked looking at him intently
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Raken blushed slightly and looked away he took another deep breath to try and calm his nerves he turned to look up at her eyes, a loud roar cut him off and both of them turned towards the sound Raken bared his teeth in anger "Didn't anyone ever teach you manners you big green monkey!"
Wendy jumped to her feet "Mind if I take this one?"
Raken looked up at her questioningly before nodded.
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"Sky dragon, Roar!" she shouted placing her hands together, the flames billowed forward and struck the forest Vulcan in the chest, Raken squinted against the smoke and his eyes widened, he ran forward throwing his hands out to the sides as a large hand flew from the smoke striking him he flew backwards into the rock under Wendy and coughed a trickle of blood coming from either side of his mouth he looked up at Wendy who looked down at him with concern "I-it's not a Vulcan," he managed to say getting to his feet clutching at his chest "I knew I should have made the Golem disintegrate, I thought we would be using it again so I didn't bother, but looks like someone else has activated it."
Wendy dropped down beside him and held onto his side keeping him upright "Is that even possible?"
"Oh, it's possible alright," A woman walked stepped out from behind the tree, she had long pink hair and wore a black outfit "Although I am surprised you figures it out so quickly."
Raken's eyes narrowed and he lightly pushed Wendy to the side, he arranged his staves in front of him "Before I wipe you out, I want know your name."
She smirked at him "Hah, my name is Sheri and I am not here to fight I bring a message from my master."
Raken felt his legs wobble but he forced himself to remain on his feet "I don't care what your master has to say, you tried to attack someone I care for."
Wendy looked at him curiously but he ignored her, he had to focus on the fight he was about to have and in his weakened state he didn't know if he could pull it off.
"Wendy go get Erza and Natsu, we need to warn them I doubt they are trying to warn us of anything good." Raken groaned.
Wendy looked at him and nodded, she stopped before she ran off and turned around walking up to him she placed her hands on his chest and a small blue glow enveloped her hands, his pain subsided almost immediately and Wendy's legs wobbled dangerously he caught her before she fell over completely a few seconds later she was standing on her own again "You have a lot of explaining to do," she whispered to him "You aren't allowed to die."
Raken have her a cocky grin "Just remember who you are talking to there, this won't take long at all."
Wendy rolled her eyes before setting out to find Natsu and Erza, she silently prayed for Raken to be alright.
Raken growled well so much for 20 seconds he thought angrily "You made a fatal mistake here!" he shouted
The woman actually laughed at him "Oh please, you can't use a golem against me what are you going to do?"
Raken smiled evilly "My Golem magic is second rate at best," He slammed his palm into the ground, five large magic circles appeared above Sheri and her golem's head she looked up at them in surprise " Five layered magic, Sacred Song." he practically growled out, a large beam of energy enveloped the two being's in front of him, the golem was completely disintegrated but the woman stood almost disinterested, he gritted his teeth in annoyance she wasn't even really here!
Raken straitened up "Alright fine you win, what the message?"
Wendy heard a large explosion and turned around, that was where Raken was she thought worriedly, forgetting all about what she was meant to be doing she turned around to run back to him.
"What the Hell kind of message is that!" Raken roared
"A simple one," Sheri answered "Stay away from Galuna island."
Raken growled, he recognized the name it had appeared on the s-class mission board a few days ago he was actually considering going too curse work was easy and 800 million jule would be really helpful "What so special about it?"
"That is none of your concern," Sheri answered absently "I have done what I came to do, good-bye." She yawned in boredom as she disappeared.
"So whatever the Galuna island mission was about that woman and whoever she worked for had a hand in it." Raken fell back against the rock and closed his eyes he doubted they would go after Erza or Natsu and he had sent Wendy away he shook his head "My luck has run out today." he said aloud as he looked up at the moon.
Wendy came bursting through the tree and looked around, a large crater was in the spot the Golem and woman had been standing, Raken sat leaning against the rock she had been sitting on looking up at the sky apparently deep in thought he hadn't seen her, she smiled wickedly and began to sneak along behind him.
Natsu glared angrily at the two wizards blocking his path, one wore a fairly simple green and white suit, Erza is going to kill me if I don't get back soon he thought angrily "If you know what is good for you, you will get out of my way."
"Ha, I doubt we will be," The green roved man spoke up cockily "You see we come with a warning."
Natsu lifted his fists on in front of him and dropped his weight to his back leg "Well then?"
"Stay away from Galuna island." The man basically commanded
Natsu blinked in surprise, Erza had told him about the mission but he hadn't thought about it past acknowledging it was there, whilst something that did catch his attention was the reward curse work never paid that high "What so special about it?" he demanded.
"None of your business." The man answered before disappearing.
Natsu turned his attention to the dog man in front of him "What do you want?"
The man shrugged "The cold Emperor merely sent me to make sure the message got through." before disappearing, Leaving Natsu quite confused and with a need to hit something…hard.
Wendy crouched low still with an evil grin on her face, before she heard Raken talk.
"You still can't sneak up on me," he called out before he seemed to simply melt into the air, Wendy cursed silently as he appeared right behind her placing a hand on her shoulder with a wide grin "Now how about you come sit down."
Wendy nodded glumly "How do you do that?"
Raken smiled warmly "I have never told you before why would I tell you now?"
Wendy smiled mischievously "Could I tempt it out of you with a kiss?" she purred while raising her eyebrow.
Raken face rivaled the color of Erza's hair and he stammered "N-no t-that w-wo-n't be necessary."
Wendy smiled victoriously at the reaction she got and made a silent promise to thank Erza for her advice, she pouted and made her eyes glistened slightly in the light of the moon as she looked up at him, Raken try as he might couldn't bring himself to look away he felt like she had pulled all of his thoughts out of his head and tossed them into the wind his mouth just hung open he closed it and threw his head forward.
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Wendy stared in wide eyed shock for a few seconds, before closing her eyes and returning the kiss all thoughts had flew away from her and her body felt almost numb, all her senses were overwhelmed.
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Raken finally wrestled control of his own mind, he pulled his head back panting for air forget everything he would be lucky if Wendy even looked at him now stealing her first kiss without a word "I-I'm so sorry," he managed to say in between breaths "I can believe I just did that I am so sorry you probably hate me mmph." she flung herself against him enveloping his lips and cutting off his little speech.
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Raken let his body fall backwards as she kissed him again, all of his thoughts halted in their tracks as she pressed her body against him, he brushed his tongue against her lips and she opened her mouth slightly, igniting the age old battle for control the both fought valiantly but oxygen won.
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She laid her head down on his chest as they sucked in air greedily, before a small fit of giggling overcame her she sat up and looked down at him.
He frowned at her questioningly "What is it?"
Wendy shook her head "You baka," she said flatly giving him a light slap in the face "As if I would hate you, are you honestly that blind?"
Raken smiled sheepishly "I just though stealing your first kiss would be taken a little more unhappily."
She shook her head and placed a kiss on his forehead before standing up pulling him after her "Let's go home."
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Natsu walked along with an angry scowl on his face, 'the cold emperor' Natsu certainly had never heard of him he had almost no interest in Galuna island until now, he really wanted to take that arrogant wizard down a notch. Natsu opened his door and slammed it behind him the more he dwelled on it the angrier he got walking into the lounge most of his anger melted away. Erza lay on her back with her leg's over the top of the couch looking at him upside down giving him quite an attractive view of her cleavage "Something wrong?" she asked without moving.
He walked over and sat down beside her with a sigh, Erza sat up and spun herself around "Come one tell me what's going on?"
Natsu sighed again and laid his head over her thighs looking up "I was stopped by two thought projections of some wizards on my way back here," he stated explain "They warned me to stay away from the Galuna island mission."
Erza started to stroke his hair absently "So what do you want to do?"
Natsu looked up at her an shrugged "Wait for Wendy and Raken to get back, see what they think."
"Well whatever you told your little brother seemed to have worked I haven't seen either of them since earlier today." Erza replied with a smile.
Natsu smiled but didn't answer, it looked as if he were falling asleep Erza didn't move she just smiled warmly, after the day he has had I would be exhausted to, sometimes I think you are too stubborn for your own good she thought to herself.
A/N: I hope you guys like this one! as you can see largely a set-up chapter for the Galuna island arc!