Chapter 111: Angel

"Now that we have taken care of that little problem, we should hurry up and search for the mage that had summoned Gemini, they must still be nearby." Anna said, getting everyone out of their shocked state.

"Does that mean that teacher had been…" Hibiki started.

"No, at the beginning it was him, meaning that the enemy had gotten him when he was on the toilet…" Anna explained.

The Trimen felt a b it awkward but quickly resolved themselves.

Eve and Ren used their magic to quickly search through the mansion.

Wendy and Natsu tried to find any clues with their heightened sense of smell, however, they were not able to pick up anything.

"Found them, the enemy is trying to escape, lord Ichiya is still at the toilets." Ren said.

"Then I will go after our little intruder." Erza said and was about to use her magic to change into an armor that increased her speed.

"No need to use your magic now, as Jura had said before, we shouldn´t engage the enemy alone." Anna said.

Jura nodded in agreement.

"Then I will go with her." Gray said.

"I will go too, can´t let you guys have all the fun." Lyon said and stepped forward.

Erza nodded and said, "Good, then let´s go, we need to hurry."

"Let me help you with that." Wendy said, the wind around her had dissipated.

"O swift wind that dashes through the heavens… [Vernier]"

Magic circles beneath Erza, Gray, and Lyon, and engulfed them with a magical aura.

The three were a bit confused and looked at Wendy.

"I have enhanced your speed with an enchantment, now you can catch up to that person." Wendy explained with a smile.

Erza nodded and thanked Wendy before running away, not wanting to waste any more time.

Gray and Lyon hurriedly ran after Erza.

Eve and Ren had also moved and recovered Ichiya, who had been knocked out and tied up.

Natsu wanted to charge after the intruder as well, but Anna stopped him, she was worried that Natsu would overdo things.

Meanwhile, Angel was trying to run away as fast as possible.

'Shit, shit, shit, shit. How the heck did that old would discover Gemini like that. Useless spirit!'

Angel was a young woman with short silver hair that was cut in a short bob. and a small statue.

A blue band with ribbons on each side was over her hair, with only two stresses over the band and framing Angel´s face.

A piece of hair was curled around and formed a halo above her head.

She wore a dress made out of white feathers that split around her navel and revealed much of her cleavage.

On her back, the dress formed into a pair of white feathery wings.

Wing-like tattoos could be found on both collarbones.

She was the spymaster of the guild, and she had found out about their plans a long time ago.

Her original plan was to use the as Ichiya transformed Gemini to sow some chaos into the group and maybe even take some of them out, especially that Jura guy.

She didn´t know which rank he currently had, but she had been convinced that it and his strength couldn´t be as high as Makarov´s or Jose´s.

But even so, he would have been still a problem for them.

But never in her wildest dreams would she have thought that someone would be able to find Gemini out like that.

She exited the mansion, only a bit more to the meeting point with Hoteye and she would be safe.

However, as if to mock her, she could hear multiple people quickly getting near her.

'Shit, how did they find me that quickly, I made sure that that nose of that dragon slayer wouldn´t be able to find me.'

Frustrated, Angel took out two golden keys.

"Aries, Scorpio, deal with them." Angel said and summoned the two spirits.

"Ah… I…I will do my best." Aries said, she was a woman with pink hair and a pair of ram-like horns on her head.

Her clothes seemed like the fluffy white wool of a sheep.

"Yes, we are… Leave it to me!" yelled Scorpio.

Scorpio was a tall man with dark skin.

He had short hair, the right half was red, while the left side was white.

(AN: He came before Todoroki, so…)

He also had a gigantic robotic tail.

Angel didn´t even look at the two spirits and kept running.

Erza, Gray, and Lyon quickly managed to find Angel and were quickly closing in on her.

"She probably has some allies nearby or a way to quickly flee from here, we need to stop her before she can reach her target." Erza instructed, she summoned a bow and arrows and prepared to shoot Angel down.

But Aries and Scorpio were summoned and stopped Erza from shooting at Angel.

"I… I am extremely sorry, b-but I have to stop you." Aries said apologetically and summoned a large wall of wool.

"We are… Let´s see if you can overcome our sand!" Scorpio said and his mechanical tail shot a large stream of sand that turned into a wave made out of the sand.

Erza reequipped into her black wing armor and simply flew other it.

Gray on the other hand froze the entire wave solid and then shattered it.

"Now it is my turn. [Ice Maker: Eagle]" Lyon said and created multiple ice eagles that flew toward the two spirits.

"Lyon… You used both hands…" Gray said in shock.

Back when they met on the island, Lyon had refused to use both of his hands for his magic, saying that it was weak and that he didn´t need it.

Lyon smiled and said, "Of course, I use two hands, it is the way that Ur had taught us."

It took Gray a second or two before he smiled as well.

The ice eagles were stopped by Aries´s wool wall.

"You won´t stop me!" Erza yelled and summoned a second sword.

"[Moon Sickle]"

Erza swung both swords in an arc and sent two slashes flying toward the spirits.

Aries and Scorpio tried to stop the attack, but the slashes cut right through their magic and cut them into two.

"I am sorry, I have failed," Aries said while tears started to stream out of her eyes.

Scorpio on the other hand gave Erza a thump up and smiled.

Not slowing down Erza rushed past the disappearing spirits and toward Angel, who in turn managed to reach the meeting point with Hoteye.

However, Hoteye was nowhere to be seen, but Angel didn´t worry about it, instead, she smiled confidently.

"Too bad, I wanted to sow some discord among you all, but I still managed to achieve one of my missions." Angel said.

Erza swung her swords, sending the slashes flying again, aiming to cut her opponent into pieces, but before her attack could land, the ground itself started to move and swallowed Angel.

As Erza saw this, she tried to find out where she went, and changed into the Earth Empress Armor, trying to bring them out with brute force.

However, Erza noticed that it was too late, the member of Oración Seis was already gone.

"Damnit." Erza cursed, blaming herself for letting that woman get away.

Gray and Lyon arrived shortly after as well.

"What happened?" asked Gray.

"They got away; we need to go back. That woman had said that she had achieved at least one of her tasks, and I have a bad feeling about it." Erza said and ran back toward the mansion.

But just as they went back, a giant explosion appeared near the mansion.

Everyone in it ran out, Erza, Gray, and Lyon arrived shortly after them.

The explosion had heavily damaged the magical bomber, Christina.

"So, their goal was to sabotage the bomber and disturb our teamwork." Jura said, Anna and Erza agreed.

"Wait… Does… Does that mean that we have no other choice but to battle them head-on?" Lucy asked, falling into despair.

"Sadly, there is no other way." Jura admitted.

"Sounds good to me!" Natsu said, but no one was paying attention.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Lucy screamed out in despair; Sherry was not much better.

Wendy on the other hand was trying to motivate herself.

Anna looked at Wendy and smiled.

After Anna had traveled with Leila to the Heartfilia compound, she had spent multiple months there, but as Leila´s health became worse, Anna finally told Leila everything.

Instead of being angry or something like that, Leila had asked Anna to look for the lost children and defeat the evil that was threatening this world.

Anna, feeling guilty for the situation that Leila was in now, followed her wish and departed from the Heartfilia compound and started her journey.

It took her more than a year to finally find Wendy, however, when she found her, Wendy was already part of Cait Shelter.

Anna stayed at the guild and talked with Wendy about what happened, the young girl had many questions, especially about what happened to her family and about a shadow that was haunting her dreams.

Anna realized quickly that that shadow was Acnologia and decided to tell her about what happened that day and her obligation as a dragon slayer, and as the daughter of Grandeeney.

At first, Wendy was scared, she never liked fighting, and was always the weakest one of the seven.

She thought about her siblings, especially Zeldaris and Aversia, the two of them had always been there for her.

And over time she realized that she wanted to stand beside her siblings, especially Zeldaris and Aversia.

She didn´t want to be a burden to them, although she was still scared, her desire to stand beside them was stronger.

So, she started to take her training seriously and Anna and Carla helped her with it.

Carla had hatched out of an egg that Anna had found one day, and for some reason, Carla was extremely intelligent and wise.

Wendy and Carla bonded quickly and, similarly to Natsu and Happy, they became inseparable.

Her training was not only limited to her dragon slayer magic but also included her enchanting abilities, the guidebook that Irene and Tia had made for Wendy was extremely helpful.

Over the years news about Natsu and Gajeel, who had joined different guilds, had reached them as well.

Of course, Wendy wanted to meet her siblings and the rest of her family as quickly as possible, but she also knew that she wouldn´t be much of some help in her current state.

But Wendy felt also that Cait Shelter had become a new home for her, she got along well with everyone in the small village.

Anna had also decided that she would look after Wendy, she wanted to help Wendy as much as possible.

But there was also another reason, she was too ashamed to meet Zeldaris, Aversia, and Vulcan again.

She hadn´t contacted them once after separating from them and was deeply ashamed about it.

Anna was a bit afraid that Zeldaris and Aversia would be a part of the forces from Fairy Tail, given their power, it was only logical.

But at the same time, she also wanted to meet them again.

As Anna returned to the present, she saw how the Trimen inspected the damage to Christina.

"Not good, the wings are broken, and the hull itself has no serious damage." Hibiki said.

"It will take a long time until she can fly again, and time is exactly what we don´t have at the moment." Ren added.

Jura nodded.

"Indeed, we don´t have much time. Even more so in this situation, it seems that our enemy has decided to come to us. Everyone, get ready to fight."

Jura turned around and looked toward the east.

The others followed suit and saw six people walking toward them, they looked exactly like the pictures that Hibiki had shown them before.

"I am fired up." Natsu said and smiled.

"Natsu… You are hopeless." Happy and Lucy said at the same time.