Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 83

Christina stopped right above them, hovering in the midair and just barely they saw how someone was standing on top of the blue figurehead. Then it jumped.

"...-eeeeeeeEEEEEEEENNNHHH!"

Freed blinked when they saw a loud crash, someone landing near them to the amethyst ground.

"Why did he jump?" Bickslow huffed.

"Don't be rude, they came all he way here to help us", Freed reminded as they waited.

Finally Ichiya got up, brushed his hair back and took a pose, not caring if his clothes were now dirty.

"Blue Pegasus is here to rescue! Men!" he announced with a wink what still made Freed shiver.

Moritz quickly took distance and landed just beside Humphrey as they had to revise this situation. That ship was probably full of mages from another guild and no matter what, it wasn't a good sign for them.

Ichiya chuckled smugly.

"You gentlemen must be wondering how much enemies you would have to fight off if you decided to stay", he said looking at Moritz and Humphrey. "It is not about the quantity but quality that makes a perfect perfume!"

"And here we go", Bickslow snickered.

"Why are you guys here?" Laxus growled when he stepped closer to the red haired small man.

"Why, you ask my dear lightning friend?" Ichiya said when turning towards Laxus. "We don't need a reason to rush where ever it takes so we can help those who are important to us! For once did we all serve under the same guild mark and just because that mark might not be there anymore, it shouldn't make our beautiful friendship to vanish as well!" he smiled and the Thunder God just stared at him. He was both impressed and felt very awkward.

Moritz and Humphrey looked at the airship.

"We better leave", Humphrey said and Moritz nodded.

"Hey!" Laxus snarled angrily when he saw how two shooting stars flew right up. "Don't you fucking ran away!" he roared spreading out his thundering wings.

Freed quickly grasped his hand before he could leave.

"There's no use trying to chase after them", the rune mage said. "We can't say in which direction they went because of all the clouds."

Laxus sneered, but he had to agree. There was no way they could follow after Moritz and Humphrey like this.

"You okay?" he grunted looking at Freed who had wrapped a piece of cloth around his left hand.

"I won't die", Freed nodded with a smile.

"This was a perfect way to solve things", Ichiya said proudly.

"Because of you they ran away and we can't know what they might do next", Laxus snorted.

"That we have to worry it when it's time for it! Now let's go save those poor sailors and all head back to Hargeon!"

"After that we better rush to Magnolia as fast as possible", Laxus grunted. He had a really bad feeling about this all.

Felix was worried, looking how Horror was holding the chains to keep the mercenaries in his hold. It seemed like the demon was having troubles.

"Are you okay?" he asked and he heard a grunt.

'We cannot fight like we usually do when the link is only temporary and created by someone else', Horror admitted and his hand was shaking. While he was keeping humans away, Cana and Levy were fighting against ghosts. They were everywhere! They were coming out from alleys, flying over rooftops, they were even seeping out from the little cracks on street stones!