Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 39

"I know", Freed chuckled as he lit the fire. "It won't take long and they will start camping out by themselves without adults."

"Are you really going to let them do that?" Ever smirked as he knew Freed all too well.

"At some point I have to, don't I", the rune mage chuckled and he stood up taking a kettle from the ground. "I can't stop Felix from growing up. We just have to make sure he has all the knowledge he needs so he can survive. They have to learn how to find water and build a shelter with what they can find. If they will end up being a team together, at least one of them has to know how to cook."

"Doesn't Felix like cooking?" Ever smiled and Freed nodded.

"He is quite interested about cooking", he said. "I'm sure everything will be fine. As soon as Felix will learn magic as well, I'm sure they want to go out doing their first mission together. Though, I'm not going to allow them go out alone without adults until I'm sure they have all the skills they need."

"Guessed that much."

"I will fetch water, you can start peeling those vegetables", Freed said and he started to walk towards the stream that was nearby.

It was dark and they had just finished dinner, when they were all walking along the old path. Evergreen's fairies were lighting their way so they wouldn't trip in the darkness.

"Where are we going?" Chester asked holding Felix's hand who was holding Laxus' hand just in case so they wouldn't fall.

The path they followed was heading up and there were lots of trees around them. Chester didn't want to admit it, but it was really scary. How could they know what there was lurking in the darkness? And it was so silent it was hauting!

"We're going to see something awesome, baby", Bickslow grinned walking just behind Felix and Chester, followed by Evergreen and Freed. "You're gonna like it."

"But it's so dark, how can we see anything?"

"Just you wait, Ravenberry."

They kept walking and finally the ground was getting so steep they had to climb over big rocks. For Felix and Chester it wasn't that big of a deal as they were carried by Laxus and Bickslow. All the time dazzling little 'fairies' were buzzing around them so they could see where to step and Chester noticed how suddenly there were a lot less trees around them.

Finally they got on a flat surface all of them and Felix and Chester could stand on their own feet again.

"There's nothing here", Chester noticed. There were just cliff and rocks right in front of them. They weren't going to actually climb up that wall?

"Just stay where you are", Laxus said. "Okay, Ever."

"Right", Ever smiled and snapped her fingers.

All the lights disappeared and for first there was only darkness. Then little by little their eyes got used to it and when Chester looked up, his eyes went round.

Stars! So, so, SO MANY of them! The whole sky was filled with bright stars! There were bigger stars that looked like they were twinkling and smaller stars that looked like someone had covered the sky with a diamond dust.

"Wow..." he gasped. He had never seen something like this! It was almost intimidating yet so beautiful. Sky really looked endless.

"This is so cool!" Felix shouted amazed. "Why haven't we come here before?"

"Isn't it nice that we came here now so you and Chester could both see this?" Freed smiled.

"Yeah, I don't mind", Felix smiled still staring at the stars.