Natsu, Happy, Carla, Wendy, Cynthia, Luke, Heather, Lucy, and Magnus, defeated all the bandits that attempted to steal the precious, unknown element from the train, and it began moving towards the factory once again, thus causing the dragon slayers to get motion sick. Luckily for them, it didn't last long, as the train pulled into the factory about ten minutes after it started again. Natsu, Heather, and Cynthia hopped off the train rather excitedly to get off. "Oh, sweet ground! How I missed you so…!" Cynthia said with a happy voice, tempted to nuzzle the ground if it didn't look weird.
"It feels great being off the train!" Natsu nodded a few times, taking in the fresh air.
"For once, I agree with you," Heather replied, leaning against the nearest support beam.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news…" Magnus started. "But we're taking this train on the way back too…" And right after he said that, the dragon slayer's faces turned pale.
"You just haaaaad to say something, didn't you…?" Luke sighed.
"What?" Magnus looked over at Luke causelessly.
"Nothing…" Luke replied.
"At least everyone's okay!" Wendy said cheerfully. A few minutes passed, and the shipment of the unknown element was completed, and a worker walked up to the group, giving a nod.
"Thank you for protecting the shipment of Xerion," The work said.
"Xerion?" Lucy blinked, tilting her head. "Is that the stuff we were protecting?"
The worked nodded in response. "That's right; this new element is seemingly pretty rare, so we're going to be the first to test what it does."
"As long as nothing dangerous happens with it…" Carla mumbled to herself. After the brief discussion, the worker was the one who paid the group 70,000 jewel, a bag filled with that amount for each guild.
"Woo! I can finally pay for my rent!" Lucy grinned, holding the bag in the air.
"Hm, not a bad amount, if I do say so myself…" Magnus said to himself.
"We'll split it when we get back, alright?" Luke said to Heather, who simply nodded.
"Are we all ready to go?" Wendy asked, looking around.
Cynthia stuffed something into her pocket before giving a nod. "Ready!"
Heather raised an eyebrow, only catching Cynthia stuffing something into her pocket; she wasn't sure what it was, so she decided to keep quiet and turned to the train, groaning. "Here we go again…"
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Diana teleported inside the Lamia Scale guild with an unconscious and brutally beaten Chelia over her shoulders, catching everyone inside off guard, "C-Chelia!?" Sherri gasped at this sight. "W-What happened!?"
"She's strong, but she's nothing compared to a true God Slayer," Diana replied, obviously referring to herself.
"What did you do?!" Lyon sprang up from his seat as a cyan magic circle appeared in front of him.
"She accepted a job I requested, I'm merely bringing her back to you," Diana said rudely, disgusted that she's been standing in a legal guild for so long. "You're just lucky she managed to injure me; if she hadn't, I would've killed her." With that, Diana tossed Chelia from her shoulders, but Sherri mananged to catch her cousin, holding back the tears.
"I don't know what job she went on, but the fact you threatened to kill her is all I have to hear! Ice Make: Eagle!" From the magic circle Lyon conjured up, several flying ice eagles shot out, and made their way to Diana.
"I really don't have time for this…" Diana sighed, shaking her head; she didn't even bother to deal with the ice eagles as a black magic circle appeared around her feet, turning her body into a shadow, and the eagles phased through her.
"W-What?!" Lyon watched as his eagles went right through Diana.
"I'm tempted to kill you all right now…but…I think one is enough for today…" Diana yawned, then as quickly as she appeared, she disappeared.
"What was that about?!" Yuka asked, looking between Lyon and Chelia.
"I don't know…but we can deal with that later, we have to make sure Chelia is alright first," Lyon replied, making a mental note to take revenge on Diana later.
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"I wonder how Orga's doing on that job…" Yukino asked, sitting at a table while spinning a spoon around in cup filled with some type of beverage.
"I bet he's doing fine," Sting replied with a grin. "He is part of Sabertooth, after all!" Right after Sting spoke, Blake appeared in the center of the room, harshly throwing the beaten Orga to the ground.
"Here, I think your trash got legs and walked over to me, so I promptly returned it," Blake said.
"What?! Orga!" Yukino immediately ran over to Orga, kneeling down to examine him. "W-What did you do to him?"
"What does it look like I did?" Blake replied, shrugging.
"Jokester, huh?" Sting opened his mouth, a white ball of holy light forming. "White Dragon's Roar!" Sting threw his head forward, unleashing a holy ray of light in Blake's direction.
Blake smirked at the incoming beam of light. "A Dragon's light is nothing compared to a god's…" Blake said as he opened his mouth, inhaling Sting's dragon roar, causing the White Dragon Slayer's eyes to widen.
"W-What the!?" Sting took a step back, surprised that his roar was actually consumed. "Who are you!?"
"The White God Slayer…" Blake smirked; but instead of attacking, he merely vanished a quickly as he appeared.
"D-Damn…!" Sting ran over to Orga, supporting the bulky god slayer up along with Yukino. "We have to give him medical treatment, and fast…!"
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"Gray-sama!" Juvia clung to Gray's waist and at the worst possible time as well. The S class mages were dealing with a large humanoid diamond golem, a security system for keeping unwanted guest out. Blues and Zalen were attempting to pry the water mage from Gray's waist.
"J-Juvia!?" Gray placed his hands on Juvia's shoulders, attempting to pry her away so he could breathe. "What are you doing here?!"
"Juvia needed to make sure Gray-sama was okay! And that Erza-san wasn't going to do anything!" Juvia replied hearts in her eyes as she clung to Gray tighter.
"She's made of water…!" Zalen started, gritting his teeth as he helped Blues attempt to pry of Juvia from Gray.
"But she has a grip of steel…!" Blues continued, groaning slightly, his eyes shut as he planted his feet into the ground.
"I never liked diamonds," Reve said to himself, mumbling "Stupid Selena" under his breath as he jumped back from the diamond golem's incoming fist; the fist created a large crater in the floor, and Reve requiped two assault rifles, letting loose a seemingly endless stream of bullets to the golem's chest, but the bullets didn't seem to have too much of an effect on the monstrosity.
Bacchus jumped on the golem's fist that was in the ground, quickly running up its arm as he focused magic energy into his palms, then lunged at the shoulder of the diamond golem, aiming to magic palm strikes at the shoulder. He made contact, but there wasn't any visible damage, which annoyed the Drunk just a little bit.
"Kanso!" Erza changed into her Black Wing armor, using the power of flight to her advantage as she flew around the diamond structured golem, aiming slashes all over its body, however, just like with everyone else's attacks, there were no visible signs of damage. As a reaction to the onslaught of attacks, the golem shook its body violently, forcing Bacchus off, and Erza to back away. The golem then swung its left arm, sending a multitude of diamond spears at all the S class mages.
"Heh…" Rylo smirked, placing his top hat on, seeing that this was the perfect chance to show his magical abilities. "Nothing up my sleeve!" Upon uttering these words a clear magic circle appeared in front of the S class wizards, and in front of Rylo, absorbing the projectile into the circle; seconds later, he allowed the magic circles to spit out the diamond spears back at the diamond golem, smirking with excitement as the spears connected, leaving tiny hairline cracks within the golem's body.
"Hm…" Daryan stood back, observing the golem's movements, the S class wizard's body language, and the golem's body. "Interesting…"
"Hey, bone guy!" Bacchus shouted, leaning his body back as he narrowly avoided yet another diamond spear. "Are ya gonna help us out or what!?"
"Give me a second…" Daryan replied. "Its anatomy is similar to that of the human body…So…if I were to…" Daryan reared his head back, a tan colored magic circle appearing in front of him. "Roar of the Skeletal Dragon!" Daryan threw his head forward, unleashing a vortex of small bones at the diamond golem's front, seemingly ineffective like the rest of the attacks thrown at it.
"Great, the one time he helps its useless…" Reve groaned slightly requipping his six chambered magnum in his hands. The golem raised its arm, but it stopped, it was unable to move any further. "What?"
"It stopped moving?" Erza raised a brow.
"Heh…" Daryan smirked. "It's just like a human body; attack certain parts, and they become paralyzed."
"Well I'll be damned," Bacchus said with a grin. "Looks like he knew what he was doing after all."
"So it can't move, that's great and all," Reve started, his eyes scanning for a weak spot. "But I don't see anything that will take this thing out in one shot."
"That's where you'd be wrong, gunslinger!" Daryan said confidently. "Bacchus, attack the center of the chest, Erza, follow up after with a slash!"
"He seems to know what he's doing…" Rylo thought to himself.
"Worth a shot!" Bacchus ran forward, jumping into the air as he focused a great amount of magical energy in his palm. "Chop Hanging Palm: Under Moonlight!" Bacchus slammed his palm into the chest of the diamond golem, the force causing it to stumble back, a crack appearing on its chest after Bacchus' strike.
"I see!" Erza flew up, holding her sword back as she dove towards the golem, slashing the crack Bacchus created on its chest, causing the crack to expand, now becoming plainly obvious to anyone with good vision.
"I see it!" Reve pointed his magnum at the diamond golem, and clicked the trigger. "Bang." As Reve clicked the trigger, a large bullet covering half the room shot out, striking the golem in the chest, shattering the golem into pieces of diamond that flew around the room.
"Got it!" With a final tug, Blues and Zalen managed to finally pry Juvia off, and landed on the floor. After taking a good look at Juvia, Blues got hearts in his eyes. "Oh hello…"
Juvia narrowed her eyes, leaning away from Blues. "Uhm…"
"Juvia?" Erza blinked, landing on the ground as she changed back into her Hearts Kruz armor. "What are you doing here?"
"Juvia just needed to make sure Gray-sama was okay!" Juvia nodded a few times.
"If you wanted to join, you could've asked…" Erza replied.
"Looks like you have a fan…" Rylo chuckled a bit.
"Oi…" Gray sighed.
"Anyway," Reve said, trying to get everyone back on task. "It looks like we're close to whatever we're looking for."
"Just behind that door," Blues said, pointing to the large double doors in front of them. "Bet."
"I don't think you need to bet to think that…" Daryan sighed, but decided to lead the way, pushing the double doors open. "And behind door number one is…" As soon as the doors opened, multiple shadow lances struck Daryan in the chest, blowing him into the wall across from the door.
"Daryan…!" Blues shouted, and then looked over at the door. Two unfamiliar figures walked from the doors; a female with long white hair, red eyes, and wore an orange jumpsuit with matching boots walked out, holding a sphere of magic in her hand with a smirk. Beside this female, another female approached; this one had long black hair that reached down to her waist, a pitch black jacket and pants, along with matching shoes, and a wilting flower on the center of her jacket.
"Well, well, look what we have here, Kiora…" The white haired female smirked, placing the magical sphere in her hand into her pocket.
"I see seven unlucky victims, Maggie," Kiora smirked.
"Maybe we should hand these wonderful guest a one way ticket," Maggie replied to Kiora, holding back the faintest of chuckles.
"Oh? To where, might I ask, Maggie?" Kiora asked, her tone somewhat mocking, but not to Maggie, to the seven wizards that stood before them.
"To the afterlife, of course."