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Chapter 68, Break-Times' Over!

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

Normal Pov

"Shit..." Gray cursed once the carriage had stabled from taken flight. Elizabeth looked over at him with worry and said, "I can't believe she stayed behind. There must have been dozens of those mercenaries!"

Gray nodded, unfreezing one of the doors. "Yeah... that's Lucy for you. Always sacrificing herself for others and the mission." He grumbled, twisting the door knob without pressure thankful to see it functioning.

"Will she be alright? I can't imagine how she can catch up with us, especially when we reach the ocean," Elizabeth said. Gray nodded, and poked his head out of the window before turning back to her. "I don't see any water up ahead, so we still have time for her to catch up with us."

She looked at him confused and asked, "But how? She's on foot and we're on flight."

Gray nodded with an odd look in his eyes. "She'll find a way, but if we reach the ocean without her I'll think of something. Don't worry, we won't be pulling over. That would risk too much, but I have faith in my partner. Now, I'm going to have to take the reins, I don't know what auto-pilot your pegasi our on. Since we're in air though, you should be fine as long as you don't decide to go sky diving."

"Sky-diving?" Elizabeth asked confused, having never heard of it before.

"Never-mind," He replied, deciding not to elaborate. Turning the knob he opened the door before easing himself up on the roof of the carriage after closing the door with his foot, and then made his way to the front where he seated himself down and took the reins.

He glanced up at the cloudy sky and brain stormed for an idea on how he would help Lucy before they crossed the ocean. His eyes slanted towards the six steeds pulling the carriage, they're wings flapping elegantly in the wind in sync together. Suddenly he had an idea, and after tying the reins tightly on a knob he gave a quick whisper of luck before he gently climbed on the back of one of the pegasi.

For a moment the steeds panicked, obviously untamed to be ridden but after a moment the steeds relaxed allowing Gray to continue moving to the front using all his willpower to not look down. Finally when he made it to the two steeds in the front he eyes the harnesses that tied the pegasi together. "Now, how to free one of you beauties to go find Lucy and give her a ride back to us..." He pondered allowed only for his thoughts to be interrupted by a loud ney from the confident black pegasi to his right.

"You'll do, I think," He leaned over fighting gravity and the wind in order to release the buckles holding the pegasi to the others and the carriage. After the last buckle was released the free pegasi let out a joyful sound before flying off to the side. Rearing his head back he met the ice-mage's eyes before turning tail and flying in the opposite direction away from them.

Gray tightened the buckles around the pegasi he was riding centering her before releasing a sigh and whispered to her, "You think he's really going to get Lucy or is he going to be mustang free?" A snort was his only reply and Gray could only assume it was a negative. To which negative however he couldn't fathom. Either way, he sent his hopes to the wind before slowly making his way back to the reins.

"Don't make me regret this, Mavis."

Lucy kicked the dust behind her as she slowed to a jog on the trail. She sighed on what could've been described as frustration for Lucy truly had no clue as to whether she was going the right direction. She was trying to follow her instincts but her brain was telling her to go one way and her heart told her another which in the end sent mixed directions to her senses essentially throwing her instincts off course.

Lucy was tense, waiting for movement or a sign but no such thing appeared. She wished for silence yet the chirping of birds sounded around her. She itched a hand towards the fang while wishing her instincts would pick up something. A twig snapped causing her to immediately spin on her heel only to see two large ears poking out from a bush.

She relaxed, muttering that it was just a rabbit when a snarl from where the rabbit was heard from erupted. Silence paused through the air, and then something was flying towards her in a buddle of fluffy-ness and shark teeth which clamped down on her arm.

Red feral eyes met dull black, women vs. monty python; an unnatural battle had begun. The creature nibbled on her flesh as she shook her arm, as though trying to familiar itself with her flesh and blood and then it let go aiming for her face instead. With shark like reflexes Lucy hit the ground and rolled before sweeping her legs around in a circular motion kicking the crazy rabbit away from her before leaping on her feet.

The rabbit lunged at her again only for Lucy to catch it by the scruff of its neck. The two stared down at each other before Lucy flicked its ear which immediately flinched to the side. She followed the movement by scratching the rabbit behind its ears and suddenly the rabbit's pointed teeth disappeared, its eyes reverted to a dark brown, and its fur turned black while its hind leg thumped in rhythm with her scratching.

"Yeah, not so tough now huh?" Lucy said whilst smirking. The rabbit's black nose shifted sniffing the air before its ears darted to the left alerting Lucy of a presence.

"Sick em'," Lucy whispered, gently tossing the rabbit towards the noise where it immediately shifted into a demon rabbit and raced towards the sound. Lucy drew Jade's fang and got into a battle stance awaiting an opponent.

"Ahhhh!"

Lucy leapt into the tree, fang in one hand with the other gripping onto the branches as she climbed upwards.

"The hell is this thing?!"

The sound of tearing and clunking met her ears and Lucy decided she didn't want to know and resumed her way down the trail but this time by tree travel.

As she leapt unto another branch something flew in front of her face causing her to lose her balance and fall to the ground. A whine met her ears as she impacted the ground. She looked around and saw multiple pairs of yellow eyes staring at her followed by snarls. "Oh joy," Lucy muttered as she got to her feet and discovered she was surrounded by these creatures.

A pause, then they lunged at her. Bodies of hybrid wolves leapt at her and each lighting into different colored flames as they made they're attack known to Lucy who acted immediately by the movement and slammed a foot into one wolf before slamming the dragon fang into the next. She spun around ignoring the sound of tearing flesh whether her own or not and continued her array of blind yet accurate attacks.

A howl for aid sounded and Lucy knew she couldn't be delayed any longer. Tucking the fang back in her clothing she allowed aura claws to extend from her hands before she attacked the wolves in a berserker rage in every direction cutting down every enemy that presented itself. When the last flaming wolf had fallen in a bloody pile with the rest of its pack Lucy relaxed her stance before she went off in a ran down the trail only to hear the sound of thumping footsteps approaching her.

"Just great," scoffing Lucy retracted her claws and extended aura hands which hooked on the branches above her and pulled her up until she was hovering just above the trail. Yellow eyes met hers and the creature's form was revealed through the sunlight. The head of a wolf with the body of a bear and the tail and claws of a retile growled before lunging at Lucy with all its weapons only to have Lucy's feet slam into its chest knocking it back several feet although her legs now bled severely from the attack.

Snarling back at the creature Lucy threw herself at the creature tackling it and somehow evading the claws in time to thrust aura claws down its throat. Purple blood splattered her hand and face but Lucy merely pushed the corpse off of her before resuming her sprint down the trail.

She continued to run for a while with no further attack but Lucy was high on her guard paranoid to the bone by the sounds around her. A roar suddenly echoed in front of her causing her to slam her heel down to a halt. She breathed out deeply only to feel hot air brush against her face. Slowly she looked up in time to see the silted huge red eyes above her, staring down at her with malice before pearly white teeth were revealed.

Lucy leapt back narrowly missing a humongous claw beating down on the ground she previously stood on. Lucy swallowed before narrowing her eyes at the beast which leaned backwards revealing its wings.

"Oh boy, you're one big bastard aren't you?" Lucy told the creature before she suddenly launched over the beast, her heal touching its snout before leaping over it entirely. She stumbled as her feet hit the ground but wasted no time in picking up her sprint but this time making a mad dash as fast as she could away from the creature knowing without her magic she was no match for the great monster.

The sound of forest destruction sounded behind her and by instinct she veered off the trail tripping over roots and barely having enough time to catch herself before she officially stumbled, her face smacking against several nasty thorny branches as she made her flight downhill in a clumsy roll. Slamming against a trunk Lucy sucked in a breath before tackling over the tree trunk and continued her sprint through the forest that seemed to be losing its thick leaves and trees.

A shadow cast over herself and Lucy didn't dare look up and merely sped up her sprint with all her might. The sound of snapping jaws screeched to her ears as the beast had barely missed taking a bite out of her and Lucy knew she was out of luck. She squinted at the path in front of her and saw sparkling blue in front of her and knew it was the ocean.

It felt like a dead end but Lucy rather drown than be eaten by a dragon so she continued her sprint towards the water. The sound of flapping wings alerted her of how close the threat was to her and she knew she had seconds to reach the water then.

Hurried footsteps skidded against mud and she barely caught the shadow to her left in time for her to leap towards the huge body of water set before her. Instead of hitting water however her hands gripped soft mane as she pulled herself unto the magnificent black pegasi's body.

"Am I ever so glad to see you!" Lucy laughed, silently commanding the steed to go faster, higher, and to her relief the pegasi did just that.

Thank you, thought Lucy and she could've sworn she had seen the pegasi smile.

Gray wasn't sure what to think, they had crossed the ocean and neither Lucy nor the pegasi had shown up. He was worried but knew he couldn't just turn around the carriage and ditch the mission to find her. He shivered imagining just how his partner would react to the news... let alone his rival. Natsu would never let him live it down.

He sighed, and just as he was going to continue his gloomy thoughts a roar rocketed through the sky around them.

"Crud," He hissed, glancing behind him to see a huge swarm of winged creatures heading towards them. "I guess the sky wasn't as safe and sound as we believed," he muttered to himself.

The pegasi were beginning to freak out and Gray growled at them and said, "Don't you dare make me turn this carriage around!" By some miracle the pegasi calmed somewhat and Gray felt like he was baby-sitting children at that moment until an even louder and more ferocious roar echoed behind him.

The familiar sound of the pegasi followed the roar and he glanced to the side to see none other than his partner riding on the black Pegasus with ease in the sky. "Hey Gray! Don't look now but I suggest you speed up a bit, there's one big bastard coming right towards us!" Lucy called, sending him a grin and a thumbs up before pointing backwards to the gigantic creature not to far behind Lucy.

Gray groaned, his head thumping against the carriage.

"Cheer up, Winter!" Lucy called laughing effortlessly.

"Why does this always happen? You have the worst luck, Lucy!" Gray yelled back.

Lucy shrugged in reply before shouting, "Well that's what makes life fun, aye?"

"Yeah... fun. Yay."

"I love your enthusiasm! Now let's lose this bastard!"

He threw her an exasperated look. "In case you haven't noticed, but we're outnumbered..."

"Who gives a damn! We're Fairy Tail, these pixies are nothing compared to our last missions!"

Gray debated it then nodded.

"See! That's the spirit, now move!"

"Joy to the world... I hate this world," Gray muttered.

"Oh what a coincidence, I love this world too!"

The only reply that could be heard was the groaning of a certain ice mage followed by the deafening roar of approaching beasts behind them.

The mission was just getting interesting now.

Kind of short, I know. Limited time though, and I rather enjoyed this short piece.

Read, read, read, read, etc.

-Gothic Rain