Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 95

"As you wish, Master Bob", Hibiki nodded and he left with Ren and Eve.

"Thanks, Bob", Laxus said and Bob chuckled.

"Anything to our dear friends", the old man smiled. "Now let us eat something together before you will all go. I think a good meal is what we need, as we can't know what tomorrow might bring to us."

"Wow!" Felix gasped when Christina was flying up, slowly leaving Datura City behind. Or it felt like the airship wasn't moving fast, but actually it was quite fast.

"How high can this thing go?" Chester asked and he was fascinated. This was such a big thing, how did it fly? "Can we hide inside the clouds?"

"Yes we can", Hibiki smiled as he was fixing some cords near them. They were in a small hallway that had big windows outside and had doors to small cabins where people could sleep.

"How high can we go? Over mountains?"

"Yes. There aren't mountains tall enough in Fiore that we can't cross."

"That's pretty cool", Chester said and he looked at all the cords. "How do you know what cord does what?"

"Because I've done this so many times. It's not as hard as it might first seem", Hibiki chuckled and he closed the lid.

"I don't think I could fix this ship", Felix murmured. To him, it looked like there was just a mess of cords under the lid.

"Why does it have to be so big?" Theophilius asked confused. "There's so much space."

"Well, it might seem like it's too big at first", Hibiki said amused. "But we need space here, because sometimes there are lots of people who stay here at the same time. And we need supplies too like food and water."

"How does this move?" Chester asked and he was really interested to learn more.

"I can take you to see the engines if you want", Hibiki said and he was pleased to see someone so interested of their airship. "If you promise to stay close and not touch anything."

"I promise", Chester said immediately.

"I don't want to go", Theophilius said. "I can fly without an airship so I'm not interested."

"What about Felix?" Hibiki asked looking at Felix.

"I don't know... I think I want to go see where others went", the boy said.

"Just follow the hallway, go down stairs and there are big doors to the great hall, others should be there", Hibiki said and pointed a way. "You can't miss it."

"Okay", Felix nodded and he and Theophilius went towards the stairs, while Hibiki and Chester went the other way.

"This ship is really weird", Theophilius murmured hanging from Felix' shoulders. "Does it really have to be this big?"

"I don't know", Felix said. "But if they say it has to be so big, I guess that's just how it is?"

"I guess... But you know, it is also a bit fun", Theophilius smirked. "I can fly without using my own energy."

"That's true", Felix smiled.

They found the great hall and looked around. It was like one of those fancy ballrooms there were at the hotel. It was like Blue Pegasus was always prepared to have parties no matter where they went. Felix looked around and he saw Bacchus talking loudly with, Rocky, Ren and Bickslow at the bar counter. Since he didn't really know Bacchus and Rocky well, he rather went to the table where he saw Laxus and Freed sitting together with Eve and Evergreen.