Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 82

"Woah!" Bickslow yelled and Moritz looked up, seeing the dragon slayer whose lightning was brightening the whole sky.

He smirked. His ultimate prey had arrived to shield his mate! Laxus truly behaved like a wild beast and it made this ten times more exciting! Those orange eyes were burning with anger and Moritz knew not Humphrey or anyone would distract them again. Laxus was determined to take down the one who hurt Freed.

Felix was holding Levy's hand tightly and they had stopped. The street towards Fairy Tail guild house was filled with enemies, looking at them and snickering, holding their weapons.

"How there are so many of them?" Roxanne frowned as they covered the children with Levy. They had seen the shadows that had came down from the dark portal or such, but they didn't know yet what they were.

They had seen a glimpse of Gajeel and Yuidose fighting further away and Erza was fighting against Emmett whose salt was swirling around, thankfully not creating a deadly saltstorm all around the town.

"We better find another way", Levy said and she yanked Vellanja and Felix with her, Roxanne and Chester following right behind them.

They heard shouts and laughing behind them as their enemy ran after them. Levy lead them to a narrow alley and they took turns, hoping to lose their chasers as they knew this town a lot better than them.

They finally got out to another street and they already saw the high tower of the Fairy Tail guild house, but they still had a long way to go there. They heard yelling and saw ten more men coming right towards them from their left.

"Levy!" they heard a shout and looked behind.

Jet roared loudly dragging Droy along with full speed and they managed to see surprised faces of their enemy before Jet let go and Droy was thrown towards them.

"Bullseye!" Droy yelled while rolling and their enemy got tossed away like a set of pins.

"We'll take care of these!" Jet grinned to levy holding his thumb up.

"Thank you!" Levy chuckled and while the way was clear they continued. Almost right after they heard whimpers and screams when huge sprouts of plants grew up to keep everyone from going after them.

They hardly managed to get to another intersection when they heard yelling again.

"Madam! Mrs. Redfox!"

Roxanne stopped immediately when she recognized Kvestor's voice. The fluffy exceed was panting as he was flying away from shadowy figures trying to catch him with giggles and whispers.

"What are those?" Chester asked his eyes wide.

"How dare you bully my chubby little cat?!" Roxanne said angrily slamming her cane against the street stones and they could hear how drums echoed around them.

"No, Madam! You must not use your magic!" Kvestor quickly reminded even though he could hardly speak.

But something about the drums made the ghosts halt and they were left behind, while Kvestor could finally catch them and he was panting heavily.

"Where's Theo?" Felix asked worried.

"I'm really sorry", Kvestor wheezed when leaning against his knees. "I really hope he is alright, we got separated when we were surprised by those... those... Things!" he said looking behind.

The figures were pacing right and left but none of them took a step ahead. It was like there was an invisible line they dared not cross.

"They are some sort of spirits", Roxanne muttered. "I believe they are ghosts."