Levy had just walked out of the guild hall with a small smile on her face as she held her book with her first ever solo job of this level. She made her way to her apartment at Fairy Hills, stopping to buy a bag as one of the others would have normally had one for her. As she made her way closer she also picked up a couple extra useful items.
Once she made it to her apartment teh stress and exhaustion from the hit her all at once. After taking a minute she took herself a shower and packed her back with essentials, maybe a book or two…or four on the side for the train ride. Once she went through and checked making sure over a dozen times she had everything she made her way to the train station.
On the walk Levy was thinking back to her days of training with Gajeel trying to remember some of the things he taught her. As she went through she lost track and remembered on the day prior they trained with him shirtless as the temp that day was crazy hgh. Her cheeks started to turn pink as she thought. 'He should work out like that more often…..Maybe i should join him when he trains….." She stopped in her tracks at that thought the pink on her cheeks darkened to a red.
Shaking her head and slapping her cheeks to clear her head she winced. Having forgotten about the slap Jet gave her. "That is gonna end up being tender for a bit…At Least it isn't bruised." She sighed and started to slowly walk towards the train station.
She made it to the train station but had to sprint as she almost missed the train. After catching her breath she found an empty seat setting her bag down with a sigh. After a few minutes she watched out the window as the landscape passed by as she slowly dozed off. It was a bit later when she woke up with a start. Listening around she heard voices demanding people to keep moving. With a quick thought she managed to hide not only herself but her bag as well before a group of feet passed by, from her counting it seemed to be about six. Two mages and four civilians.
Once the coast was clear she slowly and quietly made her way out. With a glance outside she estimated they were around the halfway mark of the eighteen hour ride. Around eighth to nine hours had passed since the train departed. Taking a minute to think of the general area they might be she realized there is no help coming anytime soon.
With a deep breath she crept her way in the direction the mages went with the hostages. She managed to get right outside the door of the car they holed up in listening to what they are planning.
Looking through the corner of the door window Levy sees three mages and about twenty hostages made up of only women and children. The Mage closest to her seems to wear a large dark red cloak and there are grotesque creatures she has never seen before, with a blood red coloring. The second one in the middle of the car doesn't appear to be human, but a large lizard. Behind the strange lizard creature is a woman with dark brown almost black hair wearing a skin tight green outfit made to look like large snake scales.
At the very end of the cart there is one more person. A white haired woman that looks bored
leaning against the door on that end of the cart. Levy didn't have enough information to try and figure out their magic so she crouched and listened as they spoke.
"How much longer until we can go home?" The white haired woman spoke as if she was doing something that bored her.
The man in the red cloak spoke up, scolding her. "I honestly couldn't give a shit less about your boredom, Zuva. Master said we needed more for a large and worthwhile trade. We have just a short distance left before you can have the killing spree you love so much. All the men are in the car ahead." He sighed, absolutely tired of the woman's attitude.
The brown haired woman spoke up. "Don't be too harsh on Zuva, Nex. You know we don't really get much out of these slave runs. We get a rather short killing spree, with no actual opponent. You guys get them." She motioned to the hostages mostly towards the group of adult women. "You never let us take any men for ourselves. So you either let us do whatever or you can try to convince the master to let us have some men."
The red caped man that now is known to be called Nex scoffed at her. "Look, you can take that up with him. I am not your errand boy. You have one of those already." He leaned on the bar next to him. "We need more kids and we need more adults. A Lot of people are now wanting grown slaves over the kids."
Levy moved back covering her mouth as she realized who they were. Dark Guild: Elite Cerberus. This was way above her level to deal with, but she was too far to get a message out. Making her way back to her back she wrote a note and placed it in her bag hoping that if anything happens to her someone will find her back with the note poking out of the top.
Levy stood up quickly after hearing a noise from where she came from, but before she could do anything she felt a horrible pain on the side of her head before hitting the floor. Black dots started to fill her vision as she heard them talk a bit before falling unconscious.
The reptile woman walked into the car sighing. "Seriously? Zed. You can't be so rough with merchandise." She crouched down looking at Levy's head where Zed hit her.
Zed let out a spine chilling chuckle. "Oh…..She isn't merchandise. She is our bargaining ticket." He used his foot to push Levy to her stomach off her side, revealing her guild mark.
Both of the mages grinned. "This may be even better than that…It may not be the blond or white haired chicks but….a fairy is a fairy. Master Krolt will be pleased with this…"
'Master Krolt…..I hope someone finds my note before it's too late for the women and children in the other car." This was the last thought Levy had before everything went black, not caring about herself but the innocents nearby.