Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 4

"What's happening here?" Freed asked rubbing his face.

"Don't let strangers get so close to you like that, you moron!" Ever scolded hitting Freed's head with her fan. "You almost gave me a heart attack! What if he would have tried to kill you?!"

"I'm sorry", Freed said with a small chuckle and that hit was really helping him to get rid of the last bits of the charm spell. The dome that had been flickering was strong again when he could concentrate.

They looked at Humphrey who managed to get up, though obviously in pain.

"Unforgivable", he grunted taking his top hat that had dropped on the ground. "Well, some of the blame goes for me, I didn't think there were others than him around anymore."

"I won't let you touch Freed", Ever frowned. "And because I'm still not at least a total bitch I even give you a little tip: Do not touch Freed if you value your life. There's a certain Thunder God in this town who won't hesitate to rip you apart if you hurt him."

"Thunder God...?" Humphrey asked narrowing his eyes. Was the one who had marked this rune mage some kind of a god slayer?

"But since it seems Laxus is busy right now, I'll be the one to kick your ass", Ever said moving her hands. "Fairy swarm!"

At the northern part of the town Laxus and Bickslow looked around but unlike they suspected, there wasn't much people around. It seemed like almost everyone had already left and that was good.

Suddenly Laxus stopped and Bickslow crashed right against him.

"What the hell, baby?" he asked annoyed. "Did you see something?"

Laxus wasn't sure what the feeling was. It was... Strange. It was like his senses were screaming to go find Freed, but then there was something that almost like soothed those instincts and assured there was nothing wrong. It definitely wasn't anything good.

"Someone must have attacked Freed and Ever", he growled.

"Really? Don't worry, baby. I'm sure they will be fine. But if you really start to worry, you can go check the situation", Bickslow said.

"Would you really be okay just by yourself?" Laxus asked.

"Sure, I've got my babies", Bickslow grinned looking at the Tiki dolls.

"We're good!" they giggled.

Laxus nodded, but then the ground shook under their feet and something burst out right through the street stones, crushing and throwing them all around. Low growling filled the air as they lifted their gazes and there were some kind of a golem, made out of moss and stones right in front of them.

"Holy shit!" Bickslow yelled surprised. That thing was as big as the buildings near them!

"Yikes!" 'babies' shouted.

"There's at least two enemies then", Laxus frowned.

They quickly dodged when one of the large arms smashed the ground, moving to crush down one of the houses just like that with one powerful hit. Laxus grunted and let out his lightning to hit that arm in pieces, as Bickslow used his Tiki dolls to hit the monster's head.

It didn't even slow down the golem, when the moss just grew right back and entrapped more rocks inside it to give it more power and weight.

"We have to find the one who's making that thing walk around", Laxus said. It seemed like that monster didn't really care about them, it just mindlessly moved to destroy more buildings of the town.