Short chapter today. I wanted to post this sooner, but every time I sat down to type this I lost all motivation. But I finally finished it, so yay!
"Suzu" Natsu watched as she walked closer to him and stopped in front of him. Natsu's serious look disappeared and his usual happy grin appeared. "Suzu, it's so good to finally see you again!" Suzu just looked at Natsu with hatred. "Hey what up with that look?" Suzu closed her eyes and raised her fist to punch Natsu.
"IDIOT!" She shouted. Natsu looked up at her with wide eyes and his hand covered his mouth.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?"
"For the things you put me through since we were kids!"
"What are you talking about?" Natsu whipped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stepped up to Suzu. "We're friends."
"We used to be friends that is until you joined Fairy Tail." Suzu looked away. "After that…" she trailed off with a sad look in her eyes, before she regained her angry expression. "Whatever, you know what you did!" Natsu began to say something but Suzu stopped him. She began to walk past him.
"Wait!" Natsu turned around. "You can't just leave like that!"
"Don't worry Natsu; we'll see each other again."
It was Night time when Natsu returned to the guild. Gray was the first to greet him. "Hey, Gray where is everyone?"
"What makes you think I know? I've been waiting for you all to return. Wendy returned with Gajeel and Pantherlily, but no one knows where Erza or Lucy went. Where have you been anyways? Wendy told us that you stopped when you ran into some girl."
"I was just talking- hey! Where have you been? You were missing!"
"That's what I wanted to talk about. I'm sure master already told you all" Gray sighed, "Anyways for now Gajeel might have a lead on that place."
"Really what is it?" Natsu followed Gray towards a separate room where Gajeel and Pantherlily were. "Her name is Calypto Ayres she part of the group of dark mages that approached Gajeel. She also attacked Wendy." Calypto sat on the floor with her hands tied behind her back.
"She's a Celestial Key mage like Lucy, but her spirits aren't as strong." Gajeel added in, "She also claims to be able to take someone's magic."
"That can't be true, she-"
"I think she might be telling to truth, ever since I woke up in that place I haven't been able to use my magic." Gray looked down at Calypto. "Is that what your guild master did to me while I was there?"
"We're hardly even a guild, more like a team really. But yeah I bet that's what she did. Asuma finds that three out of four times when you take someone's magic they'll do anything to get it back, I guess you stayed loyal to Fairy Tail."
"How can he get it back? If you can take it you have to be able to give it back." Natsu questioned. Calypto looked down.
"It's not that simple, the only person that can give it back is the person who took it. And Asuma not going to let you have it back, taking magic is just a small part of her plan."
"And what would that be exactly?"
"Why would I tell you?" Gajeel narrowed her eyes and went to retie the gag in her mouth.
"What are we going to do with her?" Natsu asked.
"We can't let her go." Gray commented.
"She'll give in and talk so enough." Gajeel said and the three left the room. "Don't let anyone know she's in there, the last thing we need is her tricking someone and being set free to attack again."
"Uh, Erza, mind telling me where we're going?" Lucy asked as she followed Erza around the outskirts of Magnolia.
"I've tracked the village not far from here, soon once it night falls it should be on the move again."
"Which means it should pass along here tonight!" Lucy exclaimed. "But why did you bring me along? Why not wait for Natsu or someone else to get back?"
"I didn't know when Natsu or the others would get back and we don't want to miss our only chance to get into that place."
"I guess you're right. But it won't be dark for a few more hours, what are we supposed to do until then?"
"Simple, we wait." Erza walked over to one of the buildings to lean against the wall.
"But that's like three hours of waiting!"