DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail, the honor belongs solely to Hiro Mashima-sama.
Addicted again to Pet Society… 0-0 why why must there be playfish cash? HMPH!
Chapter Sixteen
For their safety
As the moon once more reflects itself on the lake surface, four girls fight with all their might. Through the darkness and the light they continue on.
The green haired mage ran through the trees, jumped onto a branch and aimed at the twins who were flying after her. "Wide shot!"
As the bullet speeds to the girls, one of the twins passed her hand down through the air and screamed "Wind blades!"
"That won't work on that shot!" Bisca informed the girl. The twins looked on as the bullet multiplied into several magical attacks all over them. "Wind shield!" The other girl shouted too late.
Bisca ran on back to the lake as the trees behind her collapse one after another on the force of her previous shot. She burst out onto the lake just to see that the twins were already in front of the wind wall. One of them threw rocks into the air as the other shouted, "Aerial shot!"
Bisca closed her eyes knowing she wouldn't be able to evade in time. She heard a familiar vice shout out "SHIELD!" and then "BOMB!" She opened her eyes to see that Levy was in front of her and that the word shield was protecting them from the force of the other word.
"That was amazing, Levy-san!" Bisca said to her blue-haired savior.
"Thanks. But that wasn't enough, those two have pretty good reflexes and they could have always turned themselves into the wind." The solid script mage said while staring in front of her.
"U-wah. Our jackets are destroyed. How mean they were brand new!" Emerging from the dust was a battered girl with a blue tank top on. The girl was shaking a battered jacket in front of her.
Beside her was her twin who had on a pink tank top. "That was good. I heard it's draining and hard for a solid script mage to call out two words at almost the same time." She smiled at the blue-haired mage.
"Thanks. You're not pretty bad yourself." Levy countered.
"Levy, Bisca. The one wearing the blue top is Laura while the other is Erica." They heard Lily shout out from the wind wall.
The two sisters turned around in surprise, catching sight of Pantherlily they squealed at the top of their voices.
"Erica-chan look look it's another talking kitty!"
"Yup, yup! He is soo cute!"
The two crouched low and asked to the sweat dropping Lily, "Do you have any brother or sister?"
Bisca and Levy looked at each other and coughed meaningfully at the simpering girls. The twins stiffened and looked back at the Fairy Tail mages in embarrassment.
"Bisca, I have a plan." Levy whispered to the green-haired lady as she continued on staring at the two. "Distract them!"
"Sure!"
Bisca smiled at the two and called forth her Big Bazooka. Grinning at the surprised looks on the twins faces she aimed and fired. The two quickly pulled forth a wind shield that was strong enough to block the shot somehow. The twin girls sank to the ground panting. Erica shouted at the two, "You could have hit your boyfriends with that y'know!"
At this the green-haired mage blushed and started fiddling her fingers and muttering incoherently. The twins looked on in surprise at the cute way the gunslinger was acting. Suddenly they heard a voice shout out, "Bisca! Catch the Exceed egg before it hits the wind wall!"
As one everyone looked up and saw that there was indeed a big egg falling quickly towards the wind wall. Bisca quickly ran towards the egg at the same time as Erica. Laura waved her hand and unmade the wind wall behind her. As Erica touched the egg it disappeared.
"EH?" Everyone shouted except for the solid script mage who said, "I'm sorry."
At this everyone stared at her confused. But then twins caught sight of the word "CAPTURE" was already above them. Sure enough the word wrapped and tied the two girls together.
Levy sunk to her knees and apologized to the still surprise girls. Erica shook her head and Laura said, "You have nothing to be sorry for. You won fair and square, you used our weakness. That's all. Honestly, it's not like a cat will really appear out of the eggs, right?"
Seeing the smiles on the others faces, the two girls' incredulous voices echoed in the place.
"These cute talking cats come from eggs?"
~0~X~0~X~0~
Back in the mysterious house, Lucy and Natsu had on new clothes they had found in a chest in one of the bedrooms. Gray who had found the said clothes decided to wear some as well since along the way to one of the bedrooms he had inadvertently taken off all his clothes.
Lucy was bundled up and facing the fireplace, Juvia had lit up a fire in it. Natsu had decided to eat the fire from the candelabras saying that they were all strangely delicious. The blonde girl was looking into the fire with a strangely tender expression on her face. Juvia stared curiously at the girl; there was something familiar in the way she looked. Suddenly as if a light bulb suddenly went on in Juvia's mind, she grabbed the blond by the shoulders and pushed her face close to hers with a dark indigo aura coming out of her.
"You were thinking of Gray-sama just now weren't you?"
"WHAT? No! I was thinking of Natsu."
"…. OH."
The two sat companionably and quietly. The two were blushing and feeling embarrassed. Just as Lucy glanced at Juvia and made to say something. The pink-haired dragon-slayer suddenly burst into the room, kicking the door in his trademark way.
"LUCY! JUVIA! Check out the room we found! We've found Lia!"
"EH?" Both girls exclaimed in surprise.
~0~X~0~X~0~
A young lady in a red maid outfit was slowly walking down the cliff steps that led to the beach by the mysterious house. She suddenly stopped and looked down; a woman was sitting a few steps from her. The braided maid nodded at the seated woman and greeted her. "Solana. How come you are just sitting there? Aren't you going to the house?"
The woman called Solana stood up and walked up to the younger female. As the light from the moon shone on the woman, the 17 year old Areca took a step back. Right in front of her was a delicate lady with shoulder length wavy dark red hair. The woman was wearing a flying-bats miniskirt, black jabot-collar blouse & grey belted platform boots.
The stylish woman smiled and pointed to the girl. "I'm sorry but if I have to beat you up to open your eyes then I will." The woman jumped up into the air as the side of the cliff exploded at the younger woman.
Solana landed lightly on the darkened sand and grinned. She raised her arms to the heaven and said "Rock Shower!" Rock spikes formed above the woman and fell with merciless force around her.
"Solana!" An agitated voice rips through the place.
As the dust clears up, the woman was still standing in place unscathed but beside her was a somewhat bruised Areca. Solana waved cheerily at the owner of the agitated voice, "Hey there, Erza! I see you have escaped from the spiked hole I made earlier. You're looking very cute in your Flight Armor!"
There indeed was Erza Scarlet who was now walking steadily towards the earth mage obviously pissed off. Erza stopped in front of the smiling Solana and asked "You trapped me in a hole and filled it with spikes after I fell what's more I just saw you try such a suicidal spell and right beside you is your ally, all bruised up. Why?"
The woman looked down her bruised ally and said, "Because when all else fails you have to go for desperate measures in order to help a friend. This woman is my friend although you might doubt that. I wish to open her eyes to the truth and if I have to beat it in her to understand then I will."
She stared at Erza with a passion equivalent to Titania's own love towards Fairy Tail. The wavy haired woman shrugged and gestured to the 17 year old girl who was now in a fighting stance. "Look at her Erza. She is my nakama, see how she isn't afraid to stand up and fight. Erza will you watch on and make sure neither of us does not create an attack we will later surely regret?"
The requip mage stared at the two women and nodded. She took a step back and gestured for the other two to put a reasonable space between them. She changed her armor into Heaven's Wheel Armor.
She raised her hand and declared, "I, Erza Scarlet, swear to uphold my promise to Solana Ceae in helping her with her friends, whether they like it or not. I will make sure the two of you are able to fight as much as you can and to only intercede in the gravest case!"
She glanced from one woman to the other, passed her hand down and said, "BEGIN!"
At the word, Areca jumped into the air "Shadow Clash!" Shadows quickly formed all over the Solana and proceeded to attack her. Erza looked on as the earth mage smiled and countered the attack with her Rock shield and Rock armor.
~0~X~0~X~0~
In a rune shield, Areca's younger sister hugged Happy to her chest tightly. She had explained everything to the other mages. Of how all their life they have only remember being taken care by Nana, how the woman used to be a mage, how they would travel from one place to another as if the very devil was chasing them and how the woman had one day lost the ability to walk.
"She was are only family. We don't remember who are parents are. But Nana would always tell us that they had loved us and that they had done everything to protect us and that our parents were kind hearted people who gave her another chance in life. Nana loved them and she loved us. But she had a sickness until one day she couldn't walk." The girl's tears were once more falling freely. Lisanna offered the girl her handkerchief.
Grateful the girl wiped away her tears and continued with her story, "One day, Ajowan Umbelliferae came to the house we were staying. He said that he was an old friend of Nana's and that she had told him about our problem. He said he had the power to make her walk again. He ordered us to stay outside the room, he said he needed to have to do the procedure in private and it wasn't what girls our age should see." Anise said the latter with so much bitterness.
Taking a deep breath, she gripped the handkerchief tightly. "When he came out of the room, Nana was walking behind. My sister and I, we were so grateful. He was our savior then but over the years I realized that slowly Nana and Areca-nee had changed so drastically because of him. Maybe he never bothered to brainwash me because I was weaker than nee-san in magic and combat prowess."
Happy looked up to Anise and said, "Your sister still loves you right? It's not too late! We will definitely free you both from that man!"
The hair mage smiled and hugged the Exceed. But then an explosion rocked the group's calmness. Lisanna stood up, took on her bird form and floated above the others. "The cliff is being surely destroyed. That's the second explosion now."
Anise stood up, clutched her hand in her chest and said to the group. "It must be Areca-nee and Miss Solana fighting right now. Ajowan ordered my sister to make sure Solana doesn't get hold of the treasure in whatever means possible."
The girl sank to her knees and said "I have stop her! I have to tell her the truth before it's too late!"
Bixlow clapped a hand on the girl's shoulder comfortably, "Don't worry, we'll make a plan to let you fly off to you sister and stop her."
The girl looked on into the faces of the mages in front of her and finally gave out a smile of happiness and trust.
~0~X~0~X~0~
In the library of the old house, the four mages stared at each other at the second explosion.
"Damn it, we need to get out of this room!" The ice mage shouted in aggravation over the situation.
When they had first entered the library they were busy marveling at the portrait of a raven haired beauty. The painting was entitled Lia. After seeing the painting they had all hurriedly looked on through every nook and cranny of the place looking for anything that may pose of importance to the mysterious fortune teller Natsu had met in his dreams.
An explosion had rocked the house in the middle of their search. They had made their way to the door only to be shock that they couldn't open it at all, no matter what they do. They had then tried opening all the windows much to Lucy's reluctance. But the windows also couldn't be opened as well. Natsu had tried to burn the door when his fire was reflected backed to him. More annoyed than ever he had tried to knock the door down when a whole bookshelf had mysteriously fallen on him. The pink-haired boy was still knocked out on the ground.
"Damn it all! Gray growled and punched the wall behind him when a huge heavy book fell onto his head with a loud thump.
"Gray-sama!" Juvia quickly ran to the ice mage's side.
Lucy picked up the book and opened it to see that it wasn't a real book. It was a box disguised as a book and inside it was a small pouch.
"Guys! I found it! I think this is it!"
As if the house was just waiting to hear one of them to say this, the house dissembled itself causing the surprised mages to fall through the floor.
Cliffhanger? Yep! So that you'd all look forward to the next chapter! Please review so I would be energized to write faster, ne? XD