Sky Maiden: Savior of Exahelm

Chapter 10: Unexpected Reunion

"What's taking those two so damn long?!" Gajeel grumbled. He and the others were sitting by an entrance to what appeared to be a fortress. They were currently waiting for Natsu and Jellal as they went inside to pay for the tickets they received.

"Should we really trust Natsu to handle this process?" Gray asked, leaning against a wall crossed arms also appearing impatient.

"Jellal is with him, it should be fine." Erza brought up. She wasn't paying much attention to what's going on as she was eyeing the castle nearby. She squinted her eyes trying to locate the room Wendy was in, however she couldn't find anything.

"Can't find her either huh?" Sheila walked up next to Erza. She gave out a depressive sigh as she slumped down totally exhausted. Erza looked down at Sheila and gave her a reassuring smile. Shortly after Erza heard a noise towards the castle, her head shot towards the noise but noticed no change. "What was that? Am I hearing things?" She thought.

"Guys! Here they come!" Lucy shouted, pointing at Natsu and Jellal who were walking towards them. Natsu appeared grumpy, crossing his arms and looking to the side.

"Took you two long enough." huffed Gajeel. "Sorry...it was just a long process." Jellal apologized.

"I hope you behaved yourself, Natsu." Gray smirked.

"Of course ice head, what do you take me for?" Natsu scoffed.

"Well we waited long enough." Carla huffed, looking very frustrated. "We need to hurry up and discuss our next plan of action. The longer we stand around the more time we waste."

"Indeed." Erza agreed. "We've wasted enough time already, let's get going."

"Where are we going exactly?" Sting asked. "We have a room at the inn." Lucy answered.

Before the group left, they heard what appeared to be laughing, they all looked and saw a group of angels staring at the mockenly. There were three of them.

"It's been a bit since we've had troublemakers here." One of the angels said.

"With clothing like that, setting foot in here is criminal enough." Another mocked.

"Isn't the one with the red spiky hair the one who was yelling out like a child?" The third one chuckled.

Natsu glared at the three, but Jellal put his hand on his shoulder.

"Don't mind them, we dealt with enough trouble as is."

"Let's go before we gain more attention." Erza sighed.

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The group made it back to the inn. When they went inside the person at the check in looked at them in confusion.

"Is it me or are there more of you?"

"It's just you." Jellal bluntly responded. They then went towards the room they were staying in. Once they went in, Carla immediately transformed back into her cat form.

"Phew, finally!"

"Isn't it a little cramp in here?" Rogue asked, scanning the room noticing how little space there is.

"That doesn't matter, now sit down." Erza ordered. A sweat drop came out of Rogue's head as he as well as everyone else sat around the room. "What have we learnt so far?" Erza asked.

"This place sucks." Gajeel started.

"*Other* than that."

"When we got separated, our group met this large guy at the bar we went to." Sting said. "He seemed to have a positive reputation and claimed he stayed at the castle."