Riptide

Chapter Four - Dominoes, Part Two

...Also Happy New Crisis or whatever.

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Chapter Four - Dominoes, Part Two

The guild was utterly silent.

"She's amazing!" Freed whispered.

"Hell, yeah she is!" Cana shouted, hi-fiving Freed, who reluctantly participated.

"She's terrifying," Makarov groaned. "All that paperwork..."

The familiar refrain from their Master broke most of the shock and everyone quickly grouped up and gossiped about what they saw since Elle, Laxus, and The Dark Lord Zeref (!?) were quiet as they made their way through some woods.

"I can't believe my mother is alive," Erza said quietly.

"And a DRAGON!" Natsu shouted.

"I can't believe Ur's daughter is alive and that this Elle lady has a way to resurrect my Master," Gray said.

"I can't believe that Natsu is the brother of the Dark Wizard Zeref," Lucy said.

The guild paused. "Yeah, that one wins," Cana said, nodding.

"Alright," I said, rubbing my hands back and forth. "Honestly, the Exceed is gonna be the hardest to convince."

"The what?" Laxus asked.

I waved him off. "The flying, talking cat with wings. And Happy's crush."

"There are more of him?" Laxus asked, horrified.

"Of course. They're from Mystogan's universe."

"His what?"

"Mystogan is from a parallel dimension to us called Edolas. Everyone has counterparts there."

Laxus started to look sickly again.

I smirked. "I thought you wanted to know everything about the timeline."

He glared at me. "I hate you."

"No, you don't~" I sang, skipping forward and stopping in front of Cait Shelter.

"Hello," I said to the Master. "I'm here to give Wendy actual human interaction since you guys are all ghosts."

"They're what?" Laxus asked from behind me. I ignored him.

"I don't think I've ever seen Laxus lose his cool like this," Mira commented.

"Oh, this was very common back when Ella-sama was still around," Freed said, while the others nodded in agreement.

"When Elle starts doing things Laxus is lucky to get a few sentences in," Cana said. "Like the time we rescued Levy from kidnappers. He had no idea what he was doing."

"The time you what?" half the guild cried.

"Later," Levy waved them off, still intently watching the screen. Beside her, Freed was taking notes on Elle's actions and upcoming plans, interspersing them with his own thoughts.

Roubal gave me an odd look before calling out, "Wendy! Carla! Visitors for you!"

"Coming!"

Wendy ran out of the hut towards us excitedly...before tripping on a rock and falling flat on the ground.