Oshibana Station
Erza had tied up all the dark guild members and she was currently interrogating one who was still on the ground.
"I already told you." He muttered out, "No one here is undoing Erigor's Barrier; you're stuck."
"Erza!" A voice shouted.
She looked to see Gray standing on the second floor.
"What are you doing? I thought you were with Natsu?" She asked him.
"We decided to split up." He told her.
"But that's not important. Apparently their real target is in the next town up!" Gray shouted. "At the guild master conference."
Erza gave a death glare to the guild member.
"Why didn't you tell me!" She shouted, causing him to panic.
"We have a problem." Erza told him. "A magic barrier surrounds this station."
"Yeah, I saw it earlier." Gray answered as h e got down. "You'll be mincemeat if you try and force yourself out."
"I'm well aware of that." Erza said as she clutched her arm.
"Erza, your arm." Gray said with concern.
"It's nothing." She said, avoiding it. "We need to find a way out here." She closed her eyes and let out a sigh.
"Wait, I remember them talking about someone named Kage back at the Pub." She said. "He was the one who broke Lullaby's seal."
"A dispeller." Gray said. "A seal breaking wizard, he can take down the wind barrier."
"That's what I'm hoping know let's start searching." Erza told him.
"Right."
After the two left, the man still on the floor looked at the wall.
"How long are you going to hide back there?" He asked.
"Sorry." A man then popped out of the wall. "I was just scared."
"Find Kage before they do." He told him. "Go now."
The man panicked and started going back in the wall.
"Please don't make me." He stuttered. "I'm no good in a fight."
"Calm down." He told him. "It's a simple job; even you can do it."
Flame vs. Wind
"Man, where could he be." Lucy said aloud.
"Well, you shouldn't have run off like that." Happy told her
"Oh shut up, you stupid cat!" Lucy shouted. "Why are you even following me?"
Meanwhile, Kenshin was looking in every room for a sign of Erigor.
Kageyama watches him in the form of a shadow in the ceiling.
'Erigor's long gone by now, so he's not much of a threat; I could let him go.' Kage thinks.
'But where's the fun in that." Kageyama then appears behind him, shocking him. He then kicks the back of Kenshin's head, thus sending him crashing into a pile of wooden crates.
"I've wanted to do that for a while now had enough."
Kageyama laughs.
"Wow, you look like an idiot."
"Kageyama." Kenshin glared at the Eisenwald member.
"I hope you're ready cause when I'm done with you, your little friends won't even recognize you." Kage boasts.
"I don't have time to waste on you." He retorted. "Is Erigor still in this station?"
Kage laughs. "As if I'm going to tell you that." A smirk appears on his face. "If you want to know, you'll have to beat it out me. Knuckle Shadow." A bunch of shadow fists appear and attack Kenshin.
"Earth Dragon Turtle Shell." A dome of rocks shaped like a turtle shell surrounded him.
The rocks then crumbled apart.
"So I have to force you to disclose that information, huh? Very well."
The building begins to shake due to their fight scaring Lucy.
"Why is the building shaking?" She asks as dust falls in front of her.
Kenshin kept dodging Kageyama's attacks, angering him.
'Alright then.'
"Snake Shadow." The shadow around Kage increases, and snakes appear and lunge at Kenshin.
"Electric Dragon Thunderbolt." He threw a thunderbolt at the snakes, causing them to burst apart, scaring Kageyama.
'Snake Shadow was destroyed by a single attack.' Kageyama thought to himself. 'What destructive power. I can't believe a wizard like this exists.'
"So, want to tell me now." He grabbed a hold of Kageyama's shirt.
"N-no, you're a monster."
"That's not very nice." He remarked. "When did Erigor leave for Clover?"
"Kenshin."
He looked over to see Erza and Gray running up to him with angry looks in their eyes. "Don't hurt him; we need him alive."
Erza jumped at him with her sword in hand. "Ahhhhhhhhh!" In a flash, Erza's sword hit the wall, nearly missing Kageyama, scaring him.
Kageyama's face read pure terror as the sword was mere inches from severing his head off.
"Why didn't you tell me to move before doing that?" Kenshin asked.
"Fine, I'll do-" Kage suddenly stopped as he groaned in pain as a hand suddenly popped from his chest, gasping for air, he looked back to see his comrade had done him in. "W...why... Karacka." He then fell to the floor.
The man behind him shrugged as he remembered Byard's words.
"It's a simple job, even you can do it." He told the man. "You need to kill Kage."
"Damn it!" Gray shouted. "He was our only way out."
"Kage, don't you dare die on me!" Erza shouted.
"If this is the loyalty Dark Guilds show, I'd rather not be a member." Kenshin muttered.
"Please, Kage, stay with us!" Erza shouted too.
"He's unconscious." Gray tried telling her.
"We can't let him die. He's our only way out of here!" Erza shouted as she began banging the man on the
"But he can't use magic in this condition." Gray told her.
"If I force him too, he will."
"You won't have to force him to do anything. I know another way to escape."
Lucy had come through the hole Kenshin made and stepped back.
"Woah." She whispered. "Bad timing."
"Aye."
Erigor stood over Clover Canyon that is so deep some say it's walls rise from the abyss, and the only way across is this single train line.
"I'm so close to Clover, and the guild masters I can taste it." Erigor told himself; he then rose. "Soon, I will have revenge for our lost rights."
"The reaper's punishment is nigh."
"What!" Lucy screamed. "Erigor wants to use Lullaby to kill the guild masters."
"Stopping him is a priority." Kenshin told her.
"Easier said than done." Erza told them. "Erigor blocked our only means of escape."
"I'm positive we can catch up to him on the magic mobile." Gray told them. "But first, we gotta knock this thing down."
"But how are we going to do that?" Lucy asked.
"I'll think of something." Kenshin stroked his chin.
"Kage, please, we need you." Erza begged. "You're our only hope right now."
"Lucy, take Virgo's key out." He ordered.
"Why?" She asked.
Then it dawned on her.
"Virgo can tunnel underneath the station."
"She can!" Erza and Gray shouted in unison.
She turned around and got ready to summon Virgo. "I am linked to the path to the world of Celestial Spirits, now! O spirit, answer my call, and pass through the gate! Open Gate of the Maiden Virgo."
A short girl with pink hair pops out of the ground; she lands directly in front of Lucy and gives a bow. "Did you summon me, mistress."
Lucy looked in shock. "Who the heck are you."
"You're looking at Virgo." Kenshin told the blonde. "I read that she can take whatever form her master finds appealing."
"You're smarter than you look." Virgo replied to the brown-haired Dragon Slayer.
"My name literally translates to Wise God."
"Wise God." Lucy was stunned behind his name's translation.
Then she regained her focus.
"I'm afraid we don't have much time." Lucy explained. "Can we work out the contract details later."
"Whatever you like, mistress."
"Do you really have to call me that?" Lucy asked as Virgo took a look at the whip Lucy was carrying around with her.
"Would you prefer I call you queen?" Virgo asked.
"No."
"How about princess?" Virgo asked, smiling.
"Oh yeah, that's more like it." Lucy said, grinning.
"Anyway, can you tunnel underneath the station?" Kenshin asked the Celestial Spirit.
"I certainly can." Virgo's eyes then turned red as she burst through the ground.
"Wow, look at her go." Gray commented.
"Nicely done, Lucy." Erza then slammed Lucy's head on her armor.
"Kenshin's the one who came up with the idea in the first place. You should be complimenting him."
"Come on, guys we're busting out of here!" Gray shouted; he turned back to see Kenshin hoisting Kageyama onto his back.
As the group made it outside, the wind barrier seemed to be expanding.
"It looks like we made it outside!" Erza shouted.
"Woah, this wind is crazy." Lucy said.
"Princess!" Virgo shouted. "I'll keep your panties from showing!" Virgo holds down Lucy's skirt.
"Yeah, just worry about your own." Behind them, Gray stood awestruck as Virgo's skirt flew up, causing his face to completely freeze.
"It's over." Kage says under his breath. "You can't stop us; we've won."
"Where'd Kenshin go?" Erza asked.
As Erigor flies towards Clover Town, he felt a breeze as a air current passed him and reformed into Kenshin who kicked him in the face and caused him to fall to the tracks.
"You wanna get to the guild masters, you'll have to go through me."
Meanwhile, further down the tracks Erza, Gray, Lucy, and Kage rush to aid Natsu but are slowing down due to Erza using too much of her power.
"So tell me?" Kage asks, "Why are you taking me with you."
"Cause you need a doctor!" Lucy shouts at him.
"I get it you're taking me hostage." Kage says. "Well, you should forget it. Dark guilds don't care about each other."
"Jeez, try and lighten up, pal," Lucy said.
"There's a lot more to life than death." Gray said. "You should really look for the positive you and your Eisenwald pals."
Kage looked at the Ice wizard before they hit a bump, causing Lucy's butt to hit Kage in the face before they all landed.
"I'm so sorry." Lucy began stuttering.
"Could your butt be any bigger." Kage muttered, angering Lucy.
"Gray, kill him. He said I had a big butt." Lucy angrily shouted.
"So much for having a serious moment." Gray muttered.
'I don't think we could make it in time.' Erza thought to herself. 'I must have used up too much magic power, Kenshin; you have to stop Erigor.'
"I'm gonna beat you down and then break that flute."
"You wizards are starting to become a nuisance." Erigor moves his hands in a triangle pattern causing a burst of wind to push at Kenshin.
A large explosion is seen as Kenshin jumped above it.
'He avoided my attack.' Erigor thought in disbelief.
"Too scared to fight me yourself." He retorted.
"Don't get too cocky, Storm Bringer." A large tornado cuts Kenshin launching him into the air and makes him fall off the trail tracks.
He then changed into a stream of water and propelled himself back up to the bridge.
"What!" Erigor shouted, shocked that he got back to the bridge without a issue.
"I bet you're cold half naked like that." Kenshin remarked. "Come down here so I can warm you up."
Erigor was taken back by this threat. "Your flames are powerless against me."
"Let's see if that claim is true. Fire Dragon Roar."
A large column of fire shot out of his mouth.
'I can't get this kid; there's no rhyme or reason with his attacks.' Erigor said to himself. "Where did he come from."
"I underestimated your abilities." Erigor told him. "Time I fight seriously now. Storm Mail." Erigor's body is then covered in wind. "Let's see you hit me now."
"Is that a challenge?" Kenshin asked. "Fire Dragon Iron Fist."
"It's useless." Erigor boasted. "As long as this barrier is up, your fire can never get through; fire can never beat the wind."