3rd person POV
Serena threw a punch, forceful enough to throw whoever was sneaking towards her bed across the room. Said intruder let out the following noise when this happened, "Cra-aaaah!"
"What happened..? Who's here?" Lucy mumbled as she got up. She rubbed her eyes groggily.
"Oh, you... Sorry," Serena says with no remorse in her calm voice. She had crawled to the edge of her bed, no longer alert now that she saw a tuff of pink hair. The hair and legs of the intruder where all that could be seen through the hole he'd made in the wall.
"I heard a crash!" Freed yelled as he burst into the room. The boys had slept in the room to the right. The green haired male eyed his sister with worry, "Serena, are you alright?! Are you hurt?! Who hurt you, I'll kill them!"
"No, I think he's already dead. At least scared half to death," Serena yawned out the words lazily. She stretched her arms above her head before flopping back onto the bed, snuggling Fro, who was still asleep. Freed relaxed into her hold.
"What happened?! I go to shower and then a minute later I hear a loud crash," Erza said, slamming open the door to the room's bathroom. She looked over the room, her eyes landing on Freed. An angry expression clouded her face as she tightened the small towel that barely covered her... Assets, "Get out! This is the girls room!"
"Wait I-but!" He was cut off as Erza shoved him out of the room. The door nearly broke off its hinges with the force she used to close it. Lucy was now wide awake, sitting straight up in bed with a surprised expression.
"Hmm?.. What happened?" Evergreen murmured as she yawned, stirred from her sleep. Serena was still snuggling her Fro, neither disturbed by all by the noise.
"Natsu snuck in too," Serena commented blankly. A single hand poked out from the covers she was now buried under, pointing to the conscious-recovering boy.
"Out!" Erza exclaimed. The redhead grabbed the intruding male by his collar. She stomped angry towards the door, opened it, and threw him out. The door creaked in protest as it was forcefully shut once again.
"What was he doing here?" Evergreen asked as she ran a hand through her hair, still slightly dazed from sleep. Erza made some angry noise in the back of her throat before angrily marching back to the bathroom.
--Ezra angry! Erza Time Skip!--
"Well that was boringly easy," Serena commented in a light tone. She sat atop a mass of about eighteen bandit bodies, mostly unconscious except for the one or two groaning in pain.
"No fair! You didn't even use magic!" Natsu pointed at her like an angry child. He stood in front of about five bandits, all with burn marks.
"I didn't have to, they weren't wizards," Serena replied with no arrogance in her voice, it was a fact. She tilted her head to the side in confusion, not understanding why she would use magic if she didn't have to.
"Fro thinks so, too," Fro said happily oblivious. The cat was sitting in Serena's bag, holding on to a strap with one paw.
Natsu crossed his arms a childish pout taking over his lips. Happy sat next to Serena, earning a small pat on the head from said girl. The blue exceed usually annoyed her, but they got along well enough from time to time.
"We should go find the others," Serena said, referring to their team mates. They had split into groups since the bandits weren't strong physically, but they had many members.
"What do we do with them?" Natsu asked curiously, gesturing to the bandits. The green haired girl moved Fro aside in her satchel.
She began to pull out a large net from the small bag, wrapping it around the bandits and dragging them behind her as she walked up a slope. She looked at Natau expectantly, "Are you coming?"
"The town's that way..." Natsu said, pointing behind them with his thumb. Serena gave him a small thank you nod, going that direction.
"This is heavy, Natsu can you pull it for awhile?" Serena asked. She turned around only to see that the loud pink haired boy wasn't there. She should have noticed his absence when Happy had disappeared from sitting on her head, a habit both she and the cat had accidentally begun to take up.
A sigh escaped her lips as she realized she was helplessly lost. She wandered around for a bit before finding a police station and dropping off the bandits. Only after it was long out of sight did she think about asking them for directions, no matter how embarrassing, they were the police so it would be a bit less humiliating.
"Hey you!" Serena heard a slightly squeaky voice say. She looked around, but saw no one looking at her. Then it spoke again, "Down here!"
"Oh... Awwwwwww!" Serena said as she picked up the red-ish colored cat. He looked around the same size as Fro, except louder.
"Hey lady, let me go!" The adorable cat exclaimed, trying to push Serena away as she hugged him. Once she finally pulled away enough from him to breath, an accusatory look formed on his face. He pointed to Fro, who looked at them curiously from the satchel, and asked, "Why do you have Frosch?"
"Frosch? Oh, Fro, I found him crying on a train," Serena said with a shrug. The red cat in her arms looked at her suspiciously for a moment, before deciding she was telling the truth with a small nod.
"Well Rogue's been hysterical ever since he lost Fro two days ago... At the train station," The cat said as Serena set him down, crouching to his level. Serena tilted her head curiously and the cat said, "Oh yeah, I'm Lector!"
"I'm-"
"Rena!" Frosch cut her off. The frog-cat had given her the nickname yesterday. Serena liked it, so she didn't correct him.
"Yeah," Serena said, shaking the paw Lector extended. Lector didn't let her hand go and instead began pulling her somewhere.
"Come on we need to go find Rogue and Sting!" He began walking in one direction. He came to a complete stop, looking around warily, "U-um, do you know where we are?"
"Nope. I'm completely direction impaired," Serena chirped, lifting Lector up to her right shoulder. She pulled Fro out of her satchel and set the costume wearing cat on her left shoulder, "They should be around here somewhere, right?"
"Yeah, we were searching the town," Lector said, placing an arm on top of her head. He pointed forward and Serena did a silly march thing that made all three of them laugh.
"Let's make it easier for them to find us," Serena said with a slightly mischievous smile. Lector looked at her weirdly until he saw her cup her hands over her mouth, "Rogueee! Stiiiiiing! Rogue and or Sting! Sting and or Rogue!"
--Fro think Time Skip, too--
"Hey, do you hear that?" Sting asked, poking his head out of the alley he and Rogue were looking through. His ear twitched.
"Frosch, Frosch, Frosch, Frosch..." Rogue muttered as he continued to look behind each and every box and crate in the alley, twice.
"-or Rogue! Rogue and or Sting!" They heard three voices yelling somewhere in town. Two of those voices sounded familiar to the young dragon slayers.
"Hey do you-Rogue!" Sting exclaimed as his friend ran towards the voices, cutting Sting off. Sting let out an irritated huff before sprinting after the shadow dragon slayer.
"Do you think they'll hear us?" Lector's voice wavered a bit as he asked Serena this. The green haired girl turned her head to look at him, a kind look on her face.
"I'm sure they will. They're probably scouring the town as we speak, we'll run across them soon enough," She said encouragingly causing a smile to for on Lector's face as well.
"Yeah, we'll find them!" He raised his fisted paw in the air, filled with determination. At that moment someone barreled into Serena, knocking her down as well as causing the two exceeds to fall on their bums.
"Well hello there," Serena said, looking calmly at the pre-teen looking boy in front of her. He couldn't have been older than thirteen with his black hair and youthful red eyes.
"I-I, u-uh... P-pretty girl," The boy stuttered as he looked up at Serena, his face turning an alarming shade of red as he realized that his face had landed on her breasts. His eyes were as wide as saucers as he looked up at her, lifting his head from where it had been.
"Aww, that's so cute," Serena teased lightly, even as the tips of her ears and cheeks turned pink. She sat up, careful not to hurt the boy who now sat on her legs, still staring at her in a daze. Holding a hand out Serena said, "Call me Rena."
"U-u-uh. H-huh-"
"Rogue! Rogue!" A boy with blonde hair ran towards them, waving a hand in the air. His spiky blonde hair reminded Serena of Laxus. Once in front of them he doubled over, hands on his knees as he panted out, "You... Didn't let... Me... Damn you run fast."
"So your name's Rogue? Cute," The green haired seventeen year old said, giving Rogue a smile that made him blush. Serena couldn't help it, the boy was too damn cute, so what happened next was his own damn fault. She wrapped her arms around him and gave him a cuddly hug, "Awwwww, you're so cute!"
"That's Rogue. And that's Sting," Lector said after dusting himself off and walking towards them, pointing first to Rogue and then to the blonde. Rogue was red faced when Serena released him because his face had once again been in an embarrassing area when she'd hugged/nearly suffocated him. Lector gestured to the happy looking girl, "This is Rena."
"Rena!" Fro hugged her arm, which she'd been using to hold herself up. She looked down and gave Fro a sweet smile.
"Oh yeah, she took care of Frosch. Apparently she found poor Fro crying on a train, good thing a nice girl like her found Frosch instead of an evil wizard from a dark guild or something," Lector said, earning a laugh from all of them when he did a 'scary' impression. Though Serena's laugh seemed a bit forced.
"Well then thanks for that Rena!" Sting said happily, giving her a thumbs up and a wide grin. Serena returned both gestures whole heartedly.
"Yes, thank you. I'm in your debt for taking care of my best friend," Rogue said seriously, bowing his head to her. Sting mumbled something that sounded liked 'What am I? Chopped liver?'
"No problem, but could I stand up now?" She asked with a light tone. The kind, and slightly embarrassed, look she gave Rogue made his eyes widen as he realized his position.
"U-uh, yeah. S-sorry." With that his serious look faded. He was a blushes by mess as he got up, jerking away when he accidentally touched Serena's thigh. His face was flaming red as she got up after him, his eyes cast downward.
"How old are you guys?" Serena asked, obviously trying to hold in a laugh at how embarrassed Rogue was.
"We're twelve years old, almost thirteen!" Sting said proudly, puffing out his chest. Serena snickered, not in a rude way, but more in a way of showing the boy that she liked his attitude.
"I'm seventeen years old. Almost eighteen," She told them her age, it only seemed fair. She pulled Fro off from were the exceed was still dangling from her arm, "So what were you boys doing at a train station?"
"Exploring! We're training to become stronger so that we can beat two other dragon slayers!" Sting said, his eyes alight with excitement. Serena tilted her head with a smile, like she knew a secret.
"Oh, you're dragon slayers? And who are these other two dragon slayers that you aspire to defeat?" She asked with slight amusement. The boy seemed happy to tell his tale to someone new.
"I'm going to beat the Salamander, Natsu!" Sting threw his fist in the air. Serena's smile only grew as she heard this.
"I want to defeat the iron dragon slayer, Gajeel," Rogue said calmly. Though he didn't yell it out loud, you could see the determination in his eyes. Serena gave them some slow nods, her hand on her chin.
"Well I think you guys just might be the perfect pair to do it. Train hard, and one day in sure you'll be as strong as them. Call me over if I'm near there for the fight, I'll give you a good luck kiss," She teased, earning a blush from both boys.
"W-we'll defiantly win then! We won't let your k-k-kisses go to waste!" Sting said, a blush dusting his cheeks as he looked up at the sky, his fist raised high. Serena handed Fro to Rogue, who hugged the cat happily when he received it.
"I'm glad I went to the back of the train, or else I might've never met such cute boys." Serena said, closing her eyes and putting her hands behind her back as she smiled down at them. Both boys stared up at her, their imaginations causing a light to appear behind her and angles singing.
"W-we're men! We're not cute!" Sting said, then contradicted himself by pouting adorably. Serena reached a hand out and ruffled his hair.
"You can be cute and dangerous. Looks have nothing to do with your skill," She said while Sting attempted to fix his hair. She looked around, "Now... Do you guys know where Grande Inn is? I'm a bit lost."
"Rena has a bad sense of direction, just like Fro," Lector said, gesturing to both of them. Serena rubbed the back of her neck with an embarrassed expression. He looked at the two male dragon slayers, "She helped Frosch so I think it's only right to help her as well."
"A man always helps a lady in need!" Sting says, Rogue nodding in agreement. He holds his arm out, Serena loops her arm with his. Rogue stands on her other side and she loops his arm as well, causing him to look away with a blush, oh how she loved how easy it was to tease them. Sting began pulling them somewhere, "I know the way to where you want to go, my lady."