“Gray, help me.” That was Natsu’s voice, where was Natsu? He shook his head again and the fuzziness went away for him to see Natsu kneeling over the small girl, his hand over her heart and his breathing quick, he looked exhausted. He shook his head and slowly sat up, trying to make sense of what had happened. He was on his back on the ground, his ears ringing, his body numb and when he finally was able to look around he saw Lucy in much the same condition. She never made it however, and for a few moments Gray was uncertain what had happened. She zeroed in on Gray quickly and with a low growl she sprang his way. The smaller girl seemed confused by this and she looked around, sniffing the air trying to find the source of the ice. A second later Lucy’s whip snapped out to shatter the ice freeing the fire mage and allowing him to drop to the ground, still cussing. Gray tried to stay hidden for as long as possible to give them the upper hand, he used his ice magic to freeze the water swirling around Natsu. After a short bit of planing with Lucy they went to work. She was also where the roars and growling was coming from, so Natsu had been right, she seemed to be another dragon slayer. Gray’s eyes tracked and located the source of the water, a small girl, maybe a teen, and she was angry. Finally they peeked over the leaves to see Natsu held 50 or so feet off the ground by swirling water, he was cursing for all his might and every time he used his fire to evaporate the water more rushed at him to subdue his flames. Natsu’s voice could be heard, but they could not make out what the words were as something roared and growled, effectively drowning out the words. Loud shouts and growls could be heard only a few hundred feet up the way as Gray and Lucy crept closer. Erza tried to cool her temper as she tied up the unconscious men and pulled out her communication lacrima, she contacted the local authorities and with nothing better to do she found a spot in the shade to sit and wait. Then he suddenly whipped around to the north and took off yelling at them to “finish up.I think I smell them! I’ll be back soon!” That had been over a hour ago and he had still not returned. Natsu had set several huts on fire, thrown more than one of the men across the clearing and looked as though he would finish the job before any of the others could even get started. They had arrived at the encampment that morning and by noon it was all over and Natsu was off once more, making Erza’s eye twitch every time she thought about it. Despite his superior senses nothing was found though. He insisted he had been smelling another dragon slayer nearby and had gone off the trail a few times when he heard something. It had taken a week to walk to the encampment once they reached the edge of the rainforest, it had been fairly easy going until Natsu had began to act strangely. Erza and Lucy could have handled it on their own, but it had been a while since the team had last been together so they took the mission together. The mission had not been difficult, just rounding up some leftovers from a drug cartel. “She’s gonna kill him this time…” Lucy whispered as they walked away. Gray dusted himself off, grabbed Lucy and together they headed off in the direction they had last seen the Dragon Slayer running. “Someone go get Natsu,” Erza growled, “ and when you find him kick him from me.” She kicked one of the unconscious men. Several men lay unconscious in the middle of the clearing watched over by a red haired woman who gave off the aura of someone who was having a very bad day. It was eerily quiet, no sounds of nature to fill the silence, only the breeze wafting quietly now that the battle had concluded. The noon sun reached the ground here where the trees had been cleared to make way for the huts and clay brick buildings, now many of those buildings were crumbled and not a few of the huts were burned and blackened. Smoke rose slowly from a largish outpost in the hot, humid jungle. Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 19898 Chapters: 16/? Comments: 27 Kudos: 163 Bookmarks: 28 Hits: 4795
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