Chapter 4

After all three of them went there own ways to pack for their long journey, they would all come back and meet at the train station. Lucy was the first one there.

"Hey, Lucy!" Lisanna called with Zander behind her. Lucy saw her friends and waved.

"Hey guys! Great timing, people are boarding the train. Come on." Lucy said, gesturing for her friends to follow her. They did what they were told and followed Lucy on the train. It departed shortly after they boarded. Lucy and Zander sat beside each other while Lisanna sat across from them.

"Hey, doesn't it seem like no one else is on the train?" said Lisanna. The three of them looked around and literally saw no one else around.

"Yeah, but remember, we are heading to a place where people are being killed. People who usually can't defend themselves don't want to go to places like that." said Lucy.

"Speaking of defending yourself Lucy, I've been meaning to ask. Where did you get those daggers?" Lisanna asked.

"Oh, these? I got them from Magnolia's local magic store. The old man said that if celestial spirit mages cover these daggers with their blood, they can cut through anything and can extend to any length and size." Lucy explained.

"You're a celestial wizard?" Zander asked.

"That's right. We never told you about ourselves. Anyway, yes. I am a celestial wizard. Lisanna is an animal-soul takeover mage. So, what's your magic?" asked Lucy.

"I'm a 4th generation ice wolf slayer." said Zander.

"Wolf slayer?!" Lisanna said in a surprised tone.

"That's right. And being a 4th generation slayer, I can actually gain the properties of a wolf, even transforming into one." Zander said.

"That sounds really cool. Can't wait to see it in action." Lucy said with a sly smile.

"Also, just where did you come from before joining the guild?" asked Lisanna.

"...A small village in the west." answered Zander hesitantly. Lucy was the only one to notice, but she let it slide.

"Ok Lisanna, let's stop interrogating him. He's new here. We'll learn enough about him when we start the mission." said Lucy.

"Fine, fine. Well, I'm gonna get some shut eye since his trip is gonna last three days." Lisanna said before laying down on her side and closing her eyes. In a matter of seconds, they could hear her silently snoring.

"Haha. When anyone falls asleep, even the strongest or evilest of people seem harmless. Don't you think?" said Lucy.

"Yeah." said Zander.

The next thing he knew, he felt something lean on his shoulder. When he looked to his side, he saw Lucy laying her head against his shoulder with her eyes shout. A faint blush made its way to his cheeks after seeing her look so innocent.

"Um, Lucy?" Zander whispered.

Lucy silently moaned as she wrapped her arms around his arm. His blush became redder and he could only sit there and do nothing, seeing that Lucy was sound asleep and would not be letting go of his arm ant time soon. Zander eventually fell asleep as well. It was night fall when the first person, Lisanna, woke up.

"Dang. How long was I out?" Lisanna mumbled.

She immediately stopped mumbling when she saw Zander and Lucy. While Zander was leaning against the window and had his harm around Lucy's shoulders, Lucy had her chest on Zander's chest with her arms wrapped around his waist. Lisanna couldn't help but silently laugh while wishing she had brought a camera. She was about to creep up on them and scare them awake, but there was suddenly a loud crash that caused the train to shake. Lisanna was thrown back into her seat and Zander and Lucy jolted awake. After seeing their position, they both scattered away from each other while blushing hard. The train suddenly shook again.

"Lisanna, what's going on!?" Lucy exclaimed.

"I-I don't know!" said Lissana.

This time, their whole train car was thrown onto it's side. That lead them to believe that the entire train was thrown off of it's track and was skidding across the ground for a great distance. They all had to hold on to something to avoid getting thrown around. Soon, the train began to slow down, but the car they were in slowly began to feel like it was pointing upward.

"Oh god, this is bad! Guys, the train car is about to go off a cliff!" Lissana shouted. The ground beneath all of them then disappeared under their feet. Lisanna and Zander just barely grabbed the seats right beside them, but Lucy reacted to late and was falling to the back of the car.

"Lucy!" exclaimed Lisanna. Luckily, Lucy landed on the wall of the back of the car, just barely missing the door that was now wide open and revealed a far drop down to the ground since the car they were in was the very last one.

"You ok Lucy?" Zander asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine-" Lucy trailed off. Zander's grip suddenly let go and began to fall himself.

"Ah crap!" Zander cursed.

"Zander!" exclaimed Lisanna.

Lucy saw him falling and could predict that he would likely fall out through the open door. To prevent that from happening, Lucy backed up a few feet to get a running start before jumping right as Zander was in front of her. She wrapped her arms around his waist to make she would not lose her grip until they both landed on the other side of the car. Luckily, they both made it. Lucy slowly let go of Zander and used her arms to support her while she laid on top of him.

"Zander, are you ok?" Lucy asked.

"Um, yeah. I'm alright." answered Zander. The two pulled away from each other to see Lisanna in her bird take-over form.

"Come on you two. We have to see if any other people need our help." said Lisanna.

Zander and Lucy nodded as they each grabbed one of Lissana's legs. Lisanna flew all of them out of their car and they all pasted the other cars that were all on their side, but none of them saw a soul in the other cars, they didn't even see the conductor. They all made their way back to the train tracks to see if they cold find any evidence of someone attacking it. Lisanna had turned back to normal by now.

"Why would someone want to attack a train, I mean, what motive would they have?" Lucy asked out loud.

"Maybe they were part of the group of mages that threaten Rosa, so they tried to kill us before we got there." said Lisanna. While they talked Zander was looking closely at the tracks. He somehow saw some scorch marks on the metal railing of the tracks and part of the ground. Along with dents in the tracks.

"What's up Zander? Did you find something?" Lucy asked behind him. Zander looked over his shoulder to see Lucy standing over him. He slowly began to stand up.

"This was caused by either fire or explosion magic, along with either intense wind or sword play." said Zander.

"Wow. You found all that out just by looking at the whole scene?" Lisanna said awe struck.

"Lisanna!" Lucy shouted. She pushed Lisanna back a few feet and before anyone could saw something, blood shot out of massive shut over Lucy's right shoulder and a small part of her right cheek. Zander's and Lisanna's eyes shrunk as they saw Lucy slowly begin to fall to the ground.

"LUCY!"