~Magnolia's Number One Assassin~ (Fairy Tail)

Chapter 36: Temple & Cave

Temple and Cave

"This place is huge! Natsu! I want to live here!" Happy yelled excitedly as he soared ahead of us. Natsu's eyes were wide and his mouth was open in amazement. "That's a great idea Happy!" He said as he smiled.

I laughed along with Wendy at the two of them. They were both crazy when they were together. "But I don't know, Happy. Then we would never get to see our friends." Natsu continued as he began to walk after Happy.

Happy paused in the air and looked back at me. "Freya can live with us." I choked on a laugh, "Nope. Can't do that, Haps."

"Why not?" Happy whined as he flew closer to me. I glanced over at Natsu who was now looking at me too.

I gulped and looked away. "Because...Happy." I answered simply. Before Happy said anything I said to him. "If you two moved then I would be sad. So you two can't ever move too far away from me, okay?"

Happy smiled brightly and nodded his head, "Okay, Freya!" With a flap of his white wings he flew closer to the Temple. I glanced at Natsu and I could feel my face getting hot from his stare. "W-what?" I stuttered.

Natsu shrugged his shoulders as he turned around, "Nothin." I ran a hand through my hair as I followed after him. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything. We all stopped when we arrived at the front of the Temple's doors.

The two wooden doors were so high up that I had to crane my head up to see all of it. "Alright everyone. This is the plan. We are all going to stick together and keep an eye out for the creature and each other. Understood?" Erza said in her leader voice. We all nodded our heads.

I took a deep breath as Erza with the help of the boys pushed open one of the big doors. With a loud groan the door slowly opened. Lucy peaked inside and her eyes got as wide as saucers. "Nope." She said popping the 'p'. "I can't go in there! This place has death written all over it!" I rolled my eyes at her statement.

"Come on, Luce, where's your sense of adventure?" Natsu said with a big grin as he stepped inside the Temple. "My sense of adventure withers away every time I go out on a mission with you." Lucy said with a shudder.

I once again rolled my eyes. "The best missions are the ones Natsu picks." I muttered to myself as I stalked into the Temple. A small gasp escaped us all as we got our first look inside the Temple. My eyes felt like they were going to pop out of my skull.

This place...was awesome.

Everything inside the place looked golden. Everything, the walls, the floor, the ceiling, it all gleamed gold. Natsu rubbed his hands together and he had a glint in his eyes. His eyes narrowed on a beautiful golden vase and he tiptoed over to it.

Just as he was about to snatch it Erza appeared behind him with her eyes glowing red.

"Natsu..."

"Aye!"

My laugh echoed all around us.

All of us had been walking through the Temple for some hours now. I didn't know how long we'd all been here but I knew it had to be for a long time. Still, we hadn't found anything.

An irritated sigh left me as I dragged my feet forward. "Oi, Happy, can you see anything?" I asked him since he was flying above us, he could see more than we could. "No. Nothing yet." I groaned and continued dragging my feet forward.

From behind me, Lucy let out a heavy sigh. "I give up!" She announced as she leaned up against the wall. There was a loud cracking sound and Lucy screamed.

We all whipped around just in time to see Lucy fall through a big crack in the wall.

"Lucy!" I screamed as I ran toward her.