Fighting Oblivion

Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven

The next few days passed in a blur. There was so much to do! Sting hadn't accompanied me on any more of my training outings and Loke, for one, was thrilled. I was a little less pleased. It kinda felt like he was avoiding being alone with me. Which sucked because I had a great time. But maybe it was a good thing, when we were training it had seemed like he was attracted to me and I wasn't sure I wanted to be one of Master Sting's conquests. But now...Any time we actually spoke he seemed, I'm not sure...worried? Uncomfortable? But I didn't have time to worry about it. Between spending half the day at Sorcerer's weekly and the rest shopping, researching and organizing our travel for the quest I didn't have much to spare for wondering why stupid Sting was avoiding me.

We still had no clue what darkness or evil we were going to be up against but I was confident we had deciphered the rest correctly. It really wasn't that complicated of a riddle, and I think the tiny messenger spirit had done that on purpose. Keeping the letter of his agreement with the king and not the spirit. I was grateful. I convinced Yukino to let me call Levy about the warning Delphinus gave us. She was worried the call would be intercepted. She knew someone was looking for the key and they probably knew my connection to it. That's why she didn't call me, she thought someone could be spying on me trying to get information on the keys' whereabouts. I promised her I would only tell Levy about the legend, Oblivion and the other two ingredients. I wouldn't mention the key or anything about where it could be or where I was going and what I was doing.

Levy was happy to hear from me as always. When I got her on the video lacrima I could see she was wearing some kind of uniform.

"Wow, Lev, didn't figure you for the uniform type."

"Oh," she looked down at herself and blushed. "I didn't have room to tell you in my last letter but Gajeel and I joined the council."

I was shocked, I never thought I'd hear the words Gajeel and council in the same sentence without "arrested by" in between. I told her as much. It was good to hear her laugh again.

"Tell me about it. I think the power's gone to his head a little, he keeps going around threatening to arrest everyone for the smallest thing."

"Well I'd love to hear all about it but I've got kind of a time sensitive request. I need your help." It had been a long time since we'd worked on anything like this together, since before the guild disbanded. It brought back a lot of memories, some sweet, some painful.

"Really? Anything for you, Lu, you know that." I was relieved with her response but not surprised. I knew Lev would always be there for me. Maybe her being at the council would actually help a lot. They probably had access to loads of old information that might be able to help us. I told her everything I could about the legend and who might be looking to start Oblivion. I could see her little hand zooming by at the bottom of the screen taking notes on everything I said.

"I'm not gonna be home for a while, long story, but I got a portable communication lacrima. If you find anything, give me a call."

"I don't know, Lu. This isn't a lot to go on..."

"I know, Lev, just do what you can, please?"

"Of course. I'll be in touch."

Jason was thrilled that I was going off with the master of Sabertooth, he didn't mind giving me a leave of absence as long as I told him all about it when I got back. I told him I was sure I'd have the story of the year when I returned. His heart eyes told me I probably should have chosen my words better, especially since my cover story was I would be at the Sabertooth guild hall for several weeks. Oh well, I wasn't totally lying. If we were successful it would be the biggest story since Fairy Tail disbanded. And if we weren't...it wouldn't matter.