"We must strike down all who oppose the cold emperor!" One of the cultists shouted, gaining a resounding cheer from their comrades.
"Shut up!" I roared, my wings expanding to their full size. These cultists were never ending, Erza, Lucy and I had been trying to dispatch them for ages. Erza hadn't noticed my transformation yet, and I was hoping her reaction was positive. There was a loud rumbling, and the ground seemed to shake.
"What's that sound?" Erza asked.
"No way!" Lucy gasped. We turned to see what she was looking at and my eyes widened to see the Moon Temple upright once more.
"Woah! The Temple just un-tilted itself!" Happy exclaimed.
"Lucy, Yui, notice anything strange?" Erza questioned. It took me a second, but then I felt it.
"The Magic Energy here is seriously weak, even though there's so many of them." I commented.
"Exactly. As far as I can tell, there are only five Wizards among them."
"Aww man, guess I have to take it easy on them." Happy commented.
"You keep telling yourself that." Mizuki muttered.
"Do you think you can handle this one?" Erza asked, glancing back at Lucy.
"Oh, you bet." Lucy confirmed, pulling a key from her pouch. "Open! Gate of the Giant Crab! Cancer!" There was a doorbell and Cancer appeared in front of us.
"Hmm...we've met before, haven't we?" Cancer knelt in front of Erza, a bouquet of flowers in his hands that appeared out of nowhere.
"Indeed we have, and as always, I'm at your service, miss." Cancer said. My eye twitched in irritation and my tail flicked side-to-side.
"I thought you only said Baby?" Lucy demanded. "What's with 'Miss'? And aren't you supposed to be at my service?"
"I think someone's jealous." Happy commented.
"Does anyone feel like crab for dinner?" I asked, raising one of my clawed fangs that held a silver flame that was sputtering angrily.
"Don't cook my spirit!" Lucy ordered. The blonde then pointed at the cultists. "Take them down! But don't kill them, just rough them up, ok?"
"Alright Baby." Cancer said. Cancer shot forward and began to attack the robed people. He managed to dispatch them, and when he was done, returned to the Spirit World.
"Excellent work." Erza complimented. "Let's head to the Temple."
"Right." Lucy said.
"No! Wait!" One of the cultists protested. I turned, my hand snapping out and pinning them against a tree by their neck, my claws digging into their skin slightly. "We won't let you interfere with the Cold Emperor.
"Those headpieces…" Erza trailed off. "You people are from the city of Brago. And you want revenge." No one was able to say anything as an earth shaking roar pierced the night.