Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 48

"Too bad the forest keeps people away, this would be an amazing place to have a vacation", Evergreen said. "Big shores, beautiful sunsets, I bet it would be nice to swim here too."

"Could we go swimming?" Felix asked looking at Laxus.

"No", the Thunder God said and Felix pouted, looking at Freed.

"Can we go swimming?" he asked, making others laugh except for Laxus.

"I just said no", he reminded.

"That's why I asked from mama this time."

"You little brat", Laxus growled.

"We won't go swimming", Freed said with a chuckle. "At least for now, let's see what we can do about it once our mission is over."

"This mission is boring", Chester sighed, walking beside Bickslow.

"Aww, don't say that, baby", the seith mage cackled and ruffled the boy's hair. "You don't know what we might encounter. We have seen it hundreds of times how missions that might feel boring first can suddenly turn into something super interesting."

"That's true", Evergreen smiled to Chester. "We already saw a quite interesting festival when we came here."

"But this is not really a mission, right?" Chester said.

"That is true as well", Freed agreed. "But it doesn't make this trip less important. We're here to find answers, that is really important too even if there are no clients who pay for us to do so. We do it so we can protect our family, Fairy Tail."

"Maybe even whole Fiore, if it's true what Yuidose might cause with this mad plan of his", Roscoe said.

"What is his plan?" Felix asked curiously and picked up a little seashell that had lost its other half. The inside of it was beautifully coloured and it shined in sun.

"You don't need to worry about that."

"Adults always say that when they think we kids are stupid..." Chester murmured and Felix looked at him, then back to Freed who huffed, looking at Laxus.

"It's a big and evil plan", the lightning dragon slayer explained. "He has minions, three of them that we know and they're going to do some really crazy stuff."

"What crazy stuff?" Felix asked.

"They want to... Umm..." Laxus frowned as he wasn't sure how much he should explain or what words to use so he wouldn't scare the kids. They probably wouldn't even understand if he tried to explain how Yuidose wanted to resurrect people from dead, but it would still probably scare them.

"They want to find more people to use", Evergreen quickly rushed to cover for him. "So they can use their abilities, learn their secrets and things like that."

"Do they want to find treasures?" Chester asked.

"Something like that."

"How do they find more people?" Felix asked.

"They use mind controlling", Bickslow said this time. "They make people do evil stuff and that's not okay."

"Why would someone want to do something like that?"

"That's a good question, baby. Some people just do."

"So they do evil stuff... That sounds really serious. Are we going to stop them?" Chester asked.

"Absolutely", Roscoe assured. "We won't let them harm anyone as long as we can prevent it. That's why we're here, so we can hopefully learn more about them and how they work, that way we can maybe find a way to stop them."