Chapter 32 - Escaping the Castle

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"We have a son?!?!" Natsu and Lucy whisper screamed from their hiding spot. I tensed a little bit, hoping that Lukas hadn't heard them. He showed no sign that he had, which offered a little bit of relief. 

His partner lowered her hood as well, revealing herself to be none other than Nova Dreyar. She had long light blonde wavy hair tied up in a black bow and bright blue eyes. "Poor guy was just worried sick about you four,"

"Tch, I was not!" Lukas barked. 

"He was the first to volunteer to come rescue you guys, which he of course dragged me along with him."

"Wait what?" I asked. 

"What's going on back at the guild?" Storm questioned. The pair in white tensed a bit.

"It's pretty intense," Nova began. "After your little disappearing act, Levy was able to figure out that that spell you used was a time travel spell. Of course these three idiots had already cast it again to come get you before she could tell them. So after you all were gone, the spell was put under lock and key to prevent anyone else from using it,"

"That was when we got back," Lukas interrupted. He put his hands up in a mocking gesture. "Everything was just a normal day, coming home from a job when I hear that my little sister and her team have gone and traveled back in time,"

"Hey!" I shouted. "It wasn't my fault!"

"It kinda was dumbass," he retorted. He continued to argue with me while Nova continued.

"It had been a few days since that so Dad asked for volunteers to come get you guys."

"Are you two the only ones?" Reiki asked.

"We're the only ones that came," Nova continued. "Asuka was another one of the volunteers, but with her already being present in this timeline they couldn't risk it,"

"What about our parents,"

"With them also being alive in this timeline, they couldn't come either. That left me, Lukas, Rosemary, Rin, and Sylvia as potential volunteers,"

"Rin and Syl wanted to come?" Storm pondered.

"Rosemary too?" Reiki added.

Nova nodded. "They were just so worried about their big brothers. Rosemary was practically begging Erza to let her go. Luckily your dad stepped in before she got too far. I think Rin and Sylvia actually tried cracking the safe that the spell was locked in. After that incident, Juvia was not letting either of them out of her sights. Since the three of them are all so much younger anyway, everyone just agreed to send the two of us,"

"So how did you get here in the first place?" Gale asked.

"We used the spell," Lukas explained. "It was able to bring us right to the time that you were in,"

"Yeah, but how do we get back home?" Kali pointed out.

"With this," Nova held out in her hand a small sphere the size of a golf ball. It was made from bronze and had a lot of small etchings on it. "It was made by some of the science geeks in Magnolia. It'll give us a one way trip to back to the year X816, but we can only use it once so we all have to go now,"

"N-Now?" I stuttered. Everyone glanced at me with quizzical looks. "What about the other half of the rescue team? They're somewhere in here, shouldn't we wait for them to catch up so we can show them the way out?"

"They'll be fine," Lukas stated. "We can't afford to come in contact with anymore people from this time period,"

"But-"

          

"Nashi," Lukas scolded. "I know you've grown attached to this time, but the fact that we are even here threatens our very existence. We have to leave this time before we ruin everything," He explained. I looked down at my feet. Lukas sighed. "Before Nova and I left, Dad gave us specific instructions. He said to get you and get out before July 7th,"

"Why? What happens on July 7th?"

"He didn't say," Nova interrupted. "All that anyone would tell us was that if we don't get the four of you out of here before the 7th, bad things would happen,"

"Do you mean the dragons?" Reiki spoke up, we all looked at the destruction wizard. "On July 7th in the year X791, 7 dragons attacked the city of Crocus,"

"It's a possibility, I get the feeling that that's not what they were talking about though. Regardless, we need to get you four out of here before that happens,"

"No way, we need to stay and help Fairy Tail! They'll need our help," I argued. Lukas and Nova frowned at my outburst. "If Fairy Tail has to fight, then I'll fight with them!"

"If that's how you're gonna be," Suddenly I felt a massive force collide with the back of my head. Everything went blurry and I lost my balance before I could say anything, my vision went black and I fell unconscious.

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 "We're almost there," Nova announced. My eyes fluttered open and I was looking at the ground.

"What the hell? Why are my hands tied?" I yelled. I noticed that the reason I was looking down was because I was flung over Lukas' shoulder like a sack of potatoes. 

"You tend to cooperate better when you're unconscious," Lukas answered. I growled at him and proceeded to swear that as soon as I was untied and on the ground, I would beat his ass. My words held little to no meaning though since he did not plan on untying me, nor have I ever won a fight against him before. After several minutes of being ignored, I surveyed my surroundings. We were still in the catacombs, but they were less cave-like and more hallway-like. Nova was leading the way while Lukas and I rounded out the back of the pack. 

"What happened to heading straight home?" I teased. "Cus as far as I can tell, we're still stuck in X791,"

"The sphere didn't work in the caves, we need to get above ground in order for it to work properly," Nova explained. 

"I've got an idea, while we're up there we might as well watch the end of the Grand Magic Games."

"Not gonna happen," Nova and Lukas countered. I frowned and closed my eyes to listen. At first all I could hear was the footsteps of my group, but as I focused more I could hear footsteps several thousand feet behind us. It had to be the other half of the rescue team. I grinned knowing that we weren't abandoning them and they were still able to keep up. 

It was then that I noticed we had come to a stop. I craned my neck and back to look forward, we were stopped at another huge door. Only this time, the door led to the interior of a castle. I'll admit that it was a welcome change of scenery, but the lights were so bright compared to the dimly lit catacombs. Lukas finally decided to put me down on the ground, unfortunately I hadn't realized that my legs had fallen asleep so I stumbled a bit.

We walked down the halls of the palace as quietly as we could, trying not to draw any unwanted attention for twenty minutes. Lukas and Nova had pulled their hoods back over their heads in order to conceal their identity yet again. "Alright, we need to get out of the castle without being seen. Then we can use the time sphere and get the hell outta here," 

"Sounds like a plan," Gale added, there was a sadness in her voice. As I looked at all of my teammates, they all seemed a little down. Even Kali seemed a bit upset that we were leaving this time without saying goodbye to the others. In all honesty it just didn't seem fair that we had to leave without saying goodbye. 

He uses destruction magic right? So it's kinda like Chat noir cataclysm

3y ago

This is honesty a majority of a sibling relationship. I should know cuz I had deal with three of them

4y ago

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