This'll be the new arc. It`s quite a serious one, too.
Nashi knew she was in for a hell of a job when she was forced to lay stomach down in the mud tracking a group of dark guild members through a forest. Drake was in front of her, listening intently to make sure they weren't caught. Elise was crouched behind her, her damp black hair obscuring her eyes. Ultear and Simon had chosen not to come. Ultear had a fever and Simon had twisted his ankle so they had decided three of them would be good enough. Nashi, however, wasn't very happy. Partly because every time she tried to breath she inhaled mud.
"This sucks" She grumbled, propping her head up on one arm. "Can't we just rush out there and take them out?" Drake shook his head.
"Not our job." He replied. "We're supposed to track them back to their HQ, and then map out the perimeter so that the city guard can deal with it"
"Besides" Elise continued, sighing." Their in a dark guild from what we know, they won't play fair"
"All the better"Nashi replied grinning. "I need to punch someone ugly." Neither responded. Drake motioned for them to follow, and so they did. Nashi crawled forward a bit and saw the members they were tracking setting up camp for the night. "Seriously?" She hissed. "What the hell are we supposed to do now?"
"Wait it out" Elise replied, sounding murderous. "But there is no way in hell I'm waiting them out in the mud and the rain into morning when they move." Nashi turned to find Elise carving a path through the branches. Nashi followed her happily.
"Where are you two going?" Drake demanded. Nashi snorted.
"To find a way to get out of the rain," She replied. "Is that alright with the master tracker, or not?" Drake huffed, crossed his arms, and followed them.
They manged to find a relatively dry place to sleep, which required Nashi warming it up to be even remotely inhabitable. There was no dry logs to make a fire with, so Nashi and Elise compromised and lit her iron on fire in the fire pit they'd created. It was a hell of a lot warmer than log fires, but required a lot more attention. They all sat don around it when Drake's stomach growled.
"I'm hungry," He complained.
"Take some of that food you packed out" Elise replied. Drake glared at her.
"There isn't any left, Elise. You ate it all, remember?" Elise blushed and chuckled, rubbing her neck. Nashi sighed, thinking back to finding Elise cramming all their packed food in her mouth.
"And Ul isn't here to cook something, either" Nashi reminded them, drawing stick figures in the dirt with her finger. "So that's out of the question."
"Yeah," Elise agreed. "If I want a raccoon turned into a rock, I'll come ask you" Drake chuckled as Nashi glared at Elise.
"And if I want soup that tastes like a raccoon shit it out I'll come find you" Drake laughed even harder as Elise brandished a finger at Nashi
"That was one time," She replied, anger written all over her features.
"You have the cooking capacity of an iron worker," Nashi retorted. "Which doesn't surprise me"
"And you have one comparable to that of a toddler making a mud pie" Elise replied. The two girls glared at each other for a moment before Drake stepped in between them.
"Can we settle on the fact your both shit with cooking?" He asked hopefully. Both of them stood down ,but not before giving each other a rude gesture. Although Nashi enjoyed Elise's company, she had to admit she was hard to get along with. She turned to Drake.
"Picking anything up on the dark guild radar?" She asked. Drake listened for a moment, then burst into laughter. "What the hell is so funny?"
"One of them just made a hilarious joke!" He hissed through grabbing his ribs. Upon finding both of his companions watching him like he had a screw loose, he coughed and straightened. "It's kinda a guy joke, so..."
"So it's most likely about a girls ass they saw in town today" Elise said matter of factly. Drake's face wasn't a clear indication, but Elise must've been close. Nashi shivered and roared quietly at the iron blocks, reheating them. This wasn't exactly the stake out she'd imagined, but work was work, and judging by what the townsfolk said these guys were guilty of, Nashi was happy to do them in. Harassment, stealing, destruction of property terrorism, the list went on. Their job, she reminded herself, wasn't to do the doing in. They were to find their headquarters, map it out, and return with enough information for the guard to do it. It was a decent pay to, which would come around to roughly 80,000 each. Nashi just wished she'd get to punch someone in the face.
The following morning Nashi woke up to find both her friends with frost gathering on their faces, and heated them up as fast as she could. Nashi was okay do to fire kinda being her thing, and her friends seemed incredibly grateful for the warmth. When they were all ready to go, Drake headed west of were they'd been originally, saying they'd already moved and were almost to their destination. Nashi followed close behind, anticipating when Drake was going to stop abruptly ad they'd all fall over like dominoes. She was ready for when it happened, Elise wasn't. The second generation iron dragon slayer smacked into Nashi, who was sent directly into Drake, knocking them all over.
"What the hell are you two doing?' Drake demanded. They both grinned, hoping he'd overlook that little fuck up. "Were here, and if I were you two, I'd avoid risking revealing us again." They both nodded and crawled up on either side of him, observing the guild hall. It was a big, black, imposing building. Above the doorway was what looked like a bird carrying something. Nashi didn't recognize that guild mark, but she got a bad feeling from it, like she was supposed too know what guild this was.
"Anyone recognize that guild mark?" She asked, pointing to it. Both of the others shook their heads.
"I don't recognize that" Elise replied.
"Neither do I" Drake added. He dug around in his pockets for a minute before bringing out pieces of paper and handing it to Nashi and Elise. "We're going to split up and map this place out, got it?"
"Shoot up a flare in case you in trouble." Elise said. "Or just roar, and we'll come running" Nashi nodded, and watched as the others split up, so she decided to go left. It took her a long time to find something worth writing down. In the back of the guild hall their was a tall, imposing machine, with some sort of barrel on the end She didn't know what it was, but it looked noteworthy. She continued to map out what she could, but she was a terrible drawer. The big machine looked more like a ice cream cone. The guild hall was more akin to a muffin than a building. Nashi sighed. She hoped Elise and Drake could come up with a better drawing so that she could torch hers. She was about move on when she overheard two men talking.
"...The boss seems pretty pissed about it too" One said facing his guild mate. "I just hope he doesn't take it out on us again"
"Let's also hope the others in the alliance take notes too." His friend snickered. 'Then the Balam Alliance will be a name to be feared once again" Nashi's stomach dropped. She'd heard of the Balam Alliance. 20 years ago it had been three very powerful dark guilds who ruled over all the others; Oracion Seis, Grimoire Heart, and Tartarus. But from what she'd heard, they'd all been dissolved, with the remaining members of the Oracion Seis no longer ' a problem'. Was this guild a part of that alliance? This was a problem beyond a pay check. She had to tell the others quickly. If this guild was apart of the Balam Alliance... This was going to get very ugly, very fast. She stood up and was preparing to run away to find the other when her foot slipped, causing her to tumble down in front of the dark guild members.
"What the hell...?" She heard one ask. She smiled sheepishly as she stood up. "Hey hey check out that guild mark!" Nashi looked down and realized what they meant. She was a Fairy.
"Get her!" Nashi jumped back, avoiding their combined attempt to capture her. First, she shot a roar into the air, alarming her friends she was in danger.
"Fire Dragon Wing Attack! Iron Fist! Roar!" Nashi whipped this way and that, fighting off the various member who attempted to grab her. "Man is this all you guys got? No wonder Fairy Tail destroyed the Balam Alliance one!" She laughed as someone started clapping. She turned to find the members creating a lane. 5 men and one women were walking towards here. The one in the middle laughed.
"Well, well, a Fairy in our midst. To what do we owe the honor?" Nashi didn't reply, feeling like a snarky comeback would get her killed. These people were radiating raw energy. "Well it matters not. I suppose you can be the first too feel the alliances power"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Nashi demanded. "And what's stopping me from kicking your ass?" The older man laughed again and snapped his fingers. two people were brought forward, with bags on their heads, and the bags were lifted.
Drake and Elise shied back from the sunlight and continued to struggle.
"If you value your fellow fairies lives," He continued. "You'll do well to not make a move." Nashi growled.
"Sorry, Nashi" Drake hissed. "They caught me when I went to help Elise" Nashi lowered her fists and sighed in defeat. The old man purred in satisfaction.
"Fairies that know their place" He said with a smirk of satisfaction plastered om his aging face. He turned to the white haired women with angelic clothes on to his right. "Angel! Take her and her friends too the cells"
"Yeah, whatever" Angel agreed, stepping towards Nashi. "Hands behind your back, fairy, don't make me repeat myself" Nashi did as she was told, and Angel grabbed her arms and rove a knee into her back, making her walk forward.
"Bitch" Nashi murmured. Nashi felt Angel rest her head on her shoulder.
"If you value your life" Angel whispered in a deathly low tone. "You will do exactly what I say, when I say it, got it?" Nashi was confused.
"What?" She hissed back. She could practically hear Angel rolling her eyes as they entered the guild hall.
"Shut up and listen to every word I say, or you'll end up rotting in these cells." Angel said, growling under her breath.
"Why? Don't you want me dead?" Nashi asked. Angel sighed.
"Every time Jellal sends me undercover I swear..."
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