Chapter 17: The Weak Scent

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Carla breathes heavily as she stands with one knee. Sync continues to nonchalantly sit on her scythe handle not moving an inch. "You're not gonna get past me like that kitty." She teases, sticking her tongue at her.

"Carla! Let me help!" Cheila stands beside Carla as she reaches her hand at her. Carla sighs as she grabs Sheila's hand and she pulls her up. "I know I don't have magic, but I can still fight."

Sync gets off from her scythe once more as she pulls it off the ground. She twirls her scythe several times before pointing it at the two. Cheila and Carla get into battle stances as they prepare to charge.

Suddenly the castle shakes violently as they all hear an explosion. Sync stumbles as she falls on the ground. "Wha-what was that?!"

"Was that-!"

"WENDY!!" Natsu screams out. Carla and Sheila look at each other and smile widely. "He made it!"

Sync grows wide eyed after hearing that. "A-another, intruder?!"

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Natsu scanned the area once more as he sniffed his nose. Happy poked from behind Natsu and asked "Hey Natsu, have you picked up anything?" Natsu rubbed his head in annoyance in response "Aaagh! I can't pick up a thing! Damn it..."

"Well then let's search around the Fairy Tail way." Happy beamed. Natsu smirked in response and pounded his fists together. "Yeah, let's go!" He then dashes up the stairs with his fists engulfed in flames.

A soldier notices Natsu dash off as he points in his direction. "He's going to storm the castle! After him!" However, suddenly, the soldiers felt their bodies get cold as they struggled to move. "W-what's going on?!"

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Natsu dashes through each hallway punching and kicking doors open to see if Wendy was in any of them. "Damn! Not this one!" He snarled. Happy is lagging a bit behind Natsu as he desperately tries to catch up "Natsuuuu! Wait up!" He whines. Natsu continues this process for several floors as Happy desperately tries to catch up.

"Damn! Damn! Damn!" Natsu curses each time he destroys a door to an empty room. "Wendy! Where the hell are you!" He yells. He then reaches a long empty hallway with no rooms nearby. Happy catches up as he chides "Natsu! You're not gonna find her by just yelling!"

"Then what do you want me to do then?" Natsu griped. "Well maybe Carla already looked around here, can you pick up her scent?" Happy suggested. Natsu then smacked his fist on an open palm saying "Oh right! Good idea buddy!" Natsu then scans the area, sniffing once more. He then picks up something above them.

"They're up there! Looks like they're pretty high up already." Natsu commented. "You know what to do Happy!" He smirks. "Aye!" Happy beams as he is about to grab Natsu. However suddenly his back gets grazed by a magic bullet as his wings suddenly vanish and fall to the ground. Natsu quickly notices as he bends down and gently picks up Happy.

"Happy! What happened?!" Natsu panics as he notices Happy's eyes looking drowsy. Natsu then picks up something as suddenly a dozen more magic bullets come flying at Natsu. He quickly sidesteps a few of them and dashes back the rest of them. Natsu looks up the stairs ahead as he sees a thin figure approaching them as he slowly walks down the stairs.

"You managed to dodge all of them, good boy." Stark snickered, holding two purple crossbow looking magic guns. "Now did I hear that correctly, there are more intruders on the top floor?" He crosses his arms. Natsu glares at Stark before asking "Who're you?! What did you do to Happy?!"

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