Erza and I went back into the station and tied up all of the Eisenwald lackeys. Erza had one of them in her clutches as she interrogated him. "Just forget about it lady." The man groaned, "I already told you, there's no undoing Erigor's barrier. You and your buddies are stuck."
"Erza! Yui!" A voice called. We looked up and saw Gray.
"What are you doing here!" Erza demanded, "I thought you were with Natsu!"
"We decided to split up. Never mind that now. Listen, I just found out that Eisenwald's real target is Clover. Erigor's headed to the conference as we speak."
"We know." I sighed, gripping my damaged arm to stop the pain.
"There's a problem, the Station is surrounded by a Wind Barrier." Erza commented as she let the man fall to the floor.
"Yeah, I know, I saw it earlier." Gray admitted as he walked down to meet us on the bottom floor, "If you try to break through that thing it'll make mincemeat out of you."
"We gathered that." I muttered, "I already tried."
"Woah, is your arm ok?" Gray asked me.
"It's fine, however, it's the least of our worries."
"What should be our main concern is getting out of here." Erza added. "We must stop Erigor before he reaches the Guild Master's Conference." Erza paused, "Wait a minute, I remember them talking about somebody named Kage back at the pub. Yui, Gray, we have to find that man. He was the one who broke Lullaby's seal."
"A dispeller, huh?" Gray muttered, "A Seal-Breaking Wizard. He can take down the Wind Barrier."
"That's what I'm hoping. Now, let's start searching." As we were searching, the entire building shook with the force of an earthquake.
"That's got to be Natsu, right?" I wondered.
"Most likely. Yui, can you track him?" I nodded. I closed my eyes, taking a deep breath as the scents of the station entered my nose. I was easily able to pick out Natsu's. He smelt like my parents, but there was also the smell of a smouldering fire. My eys snapped open,
"Follow me!" I started to follow the scent through the station, still clutching my arm. We soon found Natsu with the black-haired man that could use shadows. I'm guessing that's Kage.
"Natsu!" Erza shouted, "Do not harm him! We need him alive!"
"Way to go you fire freak." Gray muttered.
"Huh?" Natsu said dumbly. He then started to shake with fear as Erza jumped up with a sword, "I don't know what I did wrong but I'm sorry!" Erza jumped over Narsu and embedded the sword into the wall next to Kage's head.
"You will dispel the Wind Barrier, and you will do so without complaint." Erza ordered.
"Just do it man! This chick's a real monster!" Natsu shouted.
"Shut up Natsu." Gray said. I whacked the Fire Dragon Slayer upside the head.
"Understood!" Erza but in.
"Fine, I'll dispel it." Kage said. My eyes then widened in horror as a Magic Circle appeared in Kage's stomach...and a hand reached through it. "Why...Karacka…?" Kage groaned as he slumped to the ground, only to reveal the large man Lucy was chasing after.
"Kage!" Erza dropped to the floor and cradled Kage in her arms.
"No, he was our only way out of here." Gray groaned, kneeling next to them.
"Kage, don't you dare die on us. We need your help, do you hear me?"
"I think we're losing him Erza."
"Your the only one of us that's able to dispel the Wind Barrier. Just hang on!"
"How could you do that to one of your friends?" Natsu snarled. Flames then surrounded him as he glowered at the fat man still half out of the wall, "He's a member of your Guild! He trusted you and you tried to kill him!" The fat man sunk into the wall, "How could you!" Natsu launched forward and punched through the wall, knocking the fat man out. "Is that how you Dark Guild Members treat each other?"
"Please, Kage, stay with us." Erza begged.
"He's unconscious, it's just no use." Gray told her.
"We can't let him die he's our only way out of here!" Erza started to shake Kage.
"But...there's no way he can use his magic in this condition."
"If I force him to he will!"
"Calm down Erza, he's gonna get a concussion." I said.
"Yui!" A tiny voice cried, and a tiny force barreled into my sore arm. I yelped and looked down, only to see Mizuki pressing her head into my arm. "Mizuki missed you Yui! The building shook and Mizuki got scared and she...she…"
"Hey." I said softly, gently, taking Mizuki off my arm and cradling her in both of my arms. "I'm right here, ok?" Mizuki looked up at me with watery eyes. I gently rubbed Mizuki's head to calm her. Mizuki buried her head in my chest as she silently sobbed, her tiny shoulders shaking. Our group moved out to the entrance of the station near the Wind Barrier, and we informed the other four members of our group what Erigor was planning to do.
"What! Erigor wants to use Lullaby on the Guild Masters?" Lucy exclaimed. Mizuki whimpered, clutching my clothes tightly and pressing her head further into my chest.
"Oh, we have to stop him!" Natsu declared.
"That's easier said than done." Erza informed him, kneeling next to the still unconscious Kage. Before we had left the building, we bandaged Kage up and bought him with us, we weren't gonna let him die.
"Erigor's trapped us in here." I told everyone, "We have no way in or out. There's no way for Happy or Mizuki to fly us up either, the Barrier's sealed at the top. While we're sitting here, trapped, Erigor is already flying to Clover."
"I'm pretty sure that we could catch up to him on the Magic Mobile." Gray commented. "But, we can't do anything until we figure out how to get on the other side of this barrier."
"How are we gonna do that?" Lucy wondered. Natsu then let out a shout, his flame covered first making contact with the barrier. However, he was thrown back.
"See, that's what happens if you try to bust through."
"Kage, wake up." Erza pleaded, "You're our only hope right now." I could hear Natsu still trying to break through the Wind Barrier. Weza then looked up to me, "Yui, don't you have any Moonwater?" I shook my head.
"I can only make that on Full Moon's." I said sadly, "That's not for a while, and the boys spilt my last jar."
"Ahh!" Natsu screamed, "We could use your spirits!" I looked up and saw him staring at Lucy, "Back at Everlue's, Yui was pulled from one place to another through the Spirit World!"
"Well yeah, but Normal People would suffocate to death if they tried that." Lucy told him. "It's hard to breathe in their world. Besides, a Celestial Wizard can open a gate wherever they are standing. Ok, let me simplify this for you. Even if we could pass through the Spirit World, we would need another Celestial Wizard to open a gate outside the Train Station for us to pass through."
"You're totaly confusing me. Just hurry up and do it!"
"But I told you I can't! Not to mention the very act of a Human entering the Spirit World is a serious breach of contract. I didn't care when Yui did it because it wasn't my key, it was Everlue's." Mizuki then stopped sniffling, blinking her large eyes as she looked up at me. I looked down at her,
"What is it?" I asked her softly.
"Everlue's…key…" Mizuki muttered, her eyes widening even further. "Ahh!" She exclaimed, causing me to jump. Mizuki wriggled out of my arms, summoning her wings and flew over to Happy, rummaging through his back, "Lucy! Lucy! Mizuki just remembered what she was trying to tell you!"
"Remembered what?" Lucy asked.
"Mizuki remembered what she was trying to say on the way here!"
"On the way here? Oh yeah, you said you had to tell me something but couldn't figure out what it was." Mizuki pulled something gold out of Happy's bag. After further inspection, I could tell it was a Celestial Gate Key.
"How did that get there!" Happy cried. Mizuki flew over to Lucy and showed the blonde the key in her paws.
"How'd you get your paws on Virgo's Key?!" Lucy exclaimed. Lucy grabbed Mizuki's cheeks and pulled them, stretching her face, "Didn't anyone teach you that it's wrong to steal things?"
"But Mizuki didn't steal it." Mizuki whimpered, "Virgo asked her to give it to you." Lucy let go of Mizuki's cheeks.
"Come on guys, we're wasting way too much of our time listening to this nonsense."
"Who's Virgo?" Natsu wondered. I thought for a second.
"Oh!" I gasped. "She's that gorilla-looking maid that Everlue had."
"Virgo told Mizuki that once Everlue was arrested, her contract with him was void!" Mizuki explained, still holding the key out to Lucy, "Before we left Shirotsume, Virgo came up to Mizuki and said that she wanted her next contract to be with you Lucy!"
"Great, I get a big ugly spirit." Lucy groaned. "Anyway, thanks for letting me know, but I'll have to deal with her later. If you didn't realise it, right now we need to find a way out of here."
"But-"
"Shut up!" Lucy started to pull Mizuki's cheeks again, and I glared at the blonde, growling softly, "Why can't you just meow like every other cat!"
"She can be pretty scary, huh?" Gray wondered.
"She must have learned it from Erza." Natsu added. Once Lucy had released Mizuki, my feline companion flew straight into my arms, sobbing. I held her gently, stroking her fur while glaring at Lucy.
"Mizuki's sorry." Mizuki sobbed, "She just thought that with Virgo's Earth Magic, she could drill holes and get us out from under the Wind Barrier."
"That's right!" Happy exclaimed.
"She can!" Erza gasped.
"Seriously!" Gray added.
"Your right! She can!" Lucy realised.
"That was some good thinking Mizuki." I said softly, causing her to look up at me, her eyes rimmed red. "Your so smart." Lucy tried to reach out for Mizuki,
"Your so smart!" Lucy praised, "Why didn't you mention that sooner silly kitty!" As Lucy's hands neared Mizuki, I pulled my feline companion away from her with a snarl.
"You were pulling her cheeks so hard she couldn't talk!" I growled at Lucy, "And you don't touch Mizuki until I say so." Lucy then fell to her knees, bowing at us.
"My most sincere, humble, heartfelt apologies. I promise I'll make it up to you. Just please let me have the key!"
"You pay for an entire month of watermelon for Mizuki." I said, gently taking Virgo's key out of Mizuki's paws, "And not the pre-cut watermelon. The whole melon. Mizuki goes through a lot of it so be prepared to pay up!" I then handed the Key to Lucy who took it gratefully. Lucy then turned away from us.
"I call upon thee in the world of the Celestial Spirits. I beckon you to my side at once, pass through the gate." Lucy chanted, "Open! Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" There was a crack in the ground, and a woman sprung forth, landing on her feet in a bowed position. She was wearing a maid's uniform, much like Lucy had been not too long ago, knee-high white socks and black boots, with chains wrapped her wrists, a maid's hat settled in her short pink hair and blue eyes. I blinked. This was not the Virgo I fought at Everlue's Mansion.
"You summoned, Mistress?" Virgo wondered. Even her voice was different, more feminine and soothing. "What can I do for you?" Lucy looked shocked, staring at Virgo with a confused stare.
"Who are you?"
"What's up Burger?" Natsu greeted, stepping towards Virgo, "Man, you look great. You've lost some weight."
"My name's Virgo." The Maid replied. "I apologise for any trouble I might have caused you."
"It's ok." I told her, "You were contracted to Everlue, you had to follow his wishes."
"She didn't just lose weight Natsu!" Lucy cried.
"What do you mean?" Gray asked her.
"She's like a totally different person!"
"I'm a very loyal spirit who'll do anything to please her Wizard." Virgo explained. "So I try to take on whatever form I think my Wizard will find most appealing."
"I don't know, I kind of liked it when you were all big and tough-looking." Natsu commented.
"Did you really? Well then…" Virgo was surrounded in a yellow glow for a second before turning into her large self again, "I can switch back if you like." Virgo's voice had deepened once again.
"Don't listen to him!" Lucy ordered, "I'm your Wizard and I like the other form better!" Virgo glowed again before returning to her slimmer self.
"As you wish, Mistress."
"I'm afraid we don't have much time, can we work out the Contract Details later?"
"Of course, whatever you'd like Mistress."
"Do you really have to call me 'mistress'?"
"Would you prefer I called you Queen?"
"No."
"What about Princess?"
"Oh yeah, that's more like it."
"Ok, enough with the nicknames, can you just tell her to make the tunnel and we can get out of here?" I asked.
"Yes, Ma'am." Virgo said, her eyes shining red for a second, "Now." A Magic Circle appeared under her and Virgo started to create a tunnel out of the Train Station.
"Oh wow, look at her go." Gray commented.
"Nicely done Lucy." Erza complimented as she smashed Lucy's head into her chestplate.
"Come on now everyone, let's get out of here." I ordered, eying the Wind Barrier. Out the corner of my eye, I saw Natsu pick up Kage.
"What do you think you're doing?" Gray asked him.
"I know he's one of our enemies, but I'd feel guilty if we just left him here to die." Everyone then crawled through the tunnels. Everyone made it safely out from the Wind Barrier and to the other side. "Looks like we made it out." Gray shouted over the wind. Erigor's Wind Barrier looked like a tornado had encompassed the entire Train Station. Everyone's hair was whipping around all over the place.
"Let's head toward Clover." Erza ordered.
"Woah! This wind is Crazy!" Lucy complained. I covered Mizuki with my arms, trying to shield her from the harsh winds.
"It's no use." A voice groaned. I turned and saw Kage lying on the floor, barley awake, "You'll never be able to catch up to Erigor. You can't stop us. We've won."
"Where's Natsu?" Erza wondered, looking around.
"Happy's gone too!" I added, looking around as well. Those boys...so reckless...but right now they're our only hope. Come on Natsu...you can beat Erigor.