A/N: WARNING this chapter contains the misuse of fudge...

Enjoy...

"This is hopeless..." Rissy declared with a sigh as she took a seat at the side of a large water fountain, Lavender too released a small sigh as she took a seat next to her partner.

The small exceed looked p at her partner, worry clear on her features; never had she seen Rissy look so...defeated.

Lavender was used to seeing the Rissy with the large toothy grin, the Rissy that was always so full of life...the Rissy that never gave up.

"Rissy-Chan we can't give up now..." Lavender stated, causing Rissy to turn towards her partner.

"Who said I was giving up?" Rissy asked with a raised brow and her arms folded over her chest.

Lavender smirked "Well you're just sitting here looking sad and pathetic...do you even want to find Lucy?" Lavender asked, the small exceed smirked once more once she heard Rissy's low growling.

However Lavender's smirk quickly disappeared once Rissy picked her up by the scruff of the neck and dangled her in front of her face "Listen here cat..." Rissy growled through clenched teeth "I'm not giving up...not now not-"

Rissy froze, her eyes widening as she inhaled the scent of the water, she abruptly dropped Lavender to the ground with a thud.

"Hey..." Lavender moaned once she dusted off her pants and then turned to face her partner with a small pout "You didn't have to drop me"

Lavender sighed loudly as she received no answer from Rissy "What are you doing?" She asked as she watched Rissy inhale the scent of the water that she had in her hand.

Rissy placed the water back in the fountain with a frown, somehow the liquid had the scent of magic ...and something else "The water smells funny..." Rissy muttered as wiped her hands free of the liquid.

Lavender raised a brow before leaning over the side of the fountain herself to get a scent of the liquid "No...it smells of Esther" She stated matter of factly before folding her paws.

Rissy's eyes widened "That's what that familiar smell was...that psychotic little cyan haired b-"

Lavender sighed "Rissy-Chan...Language" she said causing Rissy to shake her head.

"Come on cat" Rissy said as she started to walk down the street.

Lavender quickly followed behind with a smirk "I thought that this was hopeless..." She asked with a brow raised.

Rissy wacked Lavender lightly over the head "It is...but we're going to find some help" Rissy stated

Now Lavender was confused "Help from where?" She asked

Rissy gestured over to the forest "From my friends, of course" Rissy stated

"Do you think that they'll know something?" Lavender asked, she just hoped that the trees would have some info on their friend's whereabouts.

"Of course..." Rissy stated with her usual toothy grin as she scooped Lavender up and placed her on her usual spot at the top of her head. "Lavender..." Rissy said

Lavender leant her face over Rissy's forehead "Yes, Rissy-Chan"

"Thanks...you know for earlier...I needed that" She said with a shrug as they walked towards the forest.

Lavender smiled "Any time, Rissy-Chan" She sighed as they headed off, however the two of them were unaware of the pair of eyes that followed them.

A small multi coloured magic circle surrounded the palm that was placed flat on the tree's trunk, she opened her eyes which she didn't even know where closed with a small sigh and Lavender gently stirred on the top of her head.

"What's wrong Rissy-Chan?" Lavender asked

Rissy withdrew her palm, before placing her forehead against the trees trunk with a sigh "All he said was that there was a large amount of magic energy coming from some building..." Rissy groaned

Lavender raised a brow "What building?" She asked

Rissy sighed "Umm...Lavender Town Museum?" She answered

"Why would there be any magic energy coming from there?" Lavender asked confused

Rissy shrugged her shoulders before removing her forehead from the tree "I don't know...but it sounds suspicious so we should check it out..." Rissy stated as she started walking towards the direction of the town.

"Yeah...and maybe we can find Lucy!" Lavender exclaimed

Rissy slowly nodded "Yeah...and maybe the others...I haven't seen them since we split up" Rissy sighed as they continued to walk through the forest.

Lavender nodded, she had wondered why things where unusually quiet "Do you think that they are alright?" She asked

"Course...this is Erza...and Gray and my brother...they're fine" Rissy scoffed causing Lavender to nod in agreement.

As Rissy continued to head towards the town, she couldn't help but feel as if there was a second pair of eyes watching her. inhaling the scents around her she shrugged off the feeling as she only scents she had taken in was the musky scent of the forest floor, the slightly wooden scent of the trees...so as far as she was concerned they weren't being watched.

She suddenly felt Lavender's grip on her hair tighten and Rissy instantly knew that she wasn't the only one with the sensation. She turned around once to find no one there, however carried on walking. A second time Rissy had the overwhelming sense that someone was behind her so the salmon haired woman turned once more.

However this time Rissy was met with a strong kick to the stomach, knocking the wind out of her and sending her into one of the trees with a thus before she slumped to the ground.

In the process Lavender had fallen from her head and the small exceed slowly staggered up, however fell to the ground motionless after having taken her own damage from the sudden tumble.

Rissy gently placed her palms flat on the forest floor and upon using her upper arm strength managed to push herself upright so she could see her attacker.

Her eyes widened at the sight of the cyan haired man; one because Rissy was sure that he had no scent and two because for a sudden second Rissy swore that he appeared to be translucent.

Once again she placed her palms on the ground she pushed off the ground with gritted teeth and the sudden movement caused her to hiss in pain whilst clutching an arm round her abdomen "You have no scent..." Rissy stated as she placed her free hand on the tree behind to help regain her balance.

Emmanuel smirked "So you've noticed..."

Rissy nodded "And you're partly see through..." She added, causing Emmanuel to sigh.

"It called translucent...so now I am intangible...do you know what that means?" he said, causing Rissy to growl.

"Don't talk to me as if I'm dense...I what intangible means...I just forgot the fancy science-y word for that other word" She stated before she attempted to cross her arms; however the movement caused her to loudly hiss.

Emmanuel chuckled lightly before his facial expression changed to pure seriousness "I told you to stay out of our way..." Emmanuel sighed as he started to walk towards Rissy.

Rissy frowned "Well you should know that I don't do well with orders...especially when it concerns my friends..." She growled as he stepped in front of her now only at arm's length away from her.

He chuckled lightly "I knew that...but I was hoping for your sake that for once you would..."

He sighed and before Rissy could make some sort of comeback or witty remark; Emmanuel had his hand around her throat and had her pinned against the tree.

She desperately clawed at his hand, however his grip only tightened causing her panic as black spots started to cloud her vision.

Ever so slowly she felt her body going limp in his grip as she restricted of air. Slowly placing her hand in her pocket she fished out the small brown cube of fudge that she had managed to save from earlier and with all the strength she could muster threw at straight at Emmanuel's eye.

He suddenly released her with a loud yell and Rissy fell to the floor with a thud whilst coughing loudly.

She watched with a smirk as Emmanuel had his hand placed over his left eye "Fudge...can be...a dangerous weapon..." She said between gasps of air as she stood up.

Emmanuel groaned as he rubbed his eye "Not so intangible now...are we?" She asked with a smirk.

Emmanuel removed his hand from his now slightly red-eye and Rissy was hardly able to stifle a laugh at its appearance "Wow...that is something..." She muttered to herself

Emmanuel frowned before raising his hands and instantly Rissy was sent to the ground in pain as her magic energy started to slowly leave her body.

Emmanuel took a few steps over towards her as she writhed in pain, a smirk clear on his face "No Rissy-Chan...this is something..." He stated before a magic circle appeared before his outstretched hands more and Rissy released a loud scream of pain.

"Don't worry Rissy-Chan I'm no going to kill you...I'll let Esther have her fun with you first...and then we'll have our little reunion" He stated.

Rissy turned to face him with a low growl "Go to hell...you sick bastard" She spat, causing the cyan haired man to smirk once more.

There was a sudden loud bang as multiple trees were split in two by a large amount of magic energy and Rissy inwardly cursed as she felt the pain that the trees expressed.

However her eyes widened as the magic energy was able to hit Emmanuel sending him away from her and to the ground, allowing Rissy some respite.

Her vision started to blur as she spotted two figures running towards her; one much larger than the other. The smaller one ran towards Lavender and started to shout something at the larger one who was now standing over Rissy.

She couldn't hear a word of what any of them were saying and her vision was turned to total darkness once she felt a familiar scent surround her.

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