New KeyHolder (Fairy Tail)

Chapter 38- Those Who Help

Chapter 38
Those Who Help

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters, only my own OC's, and my Ideas

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Gray and Juvia pressed up back to back, both tense and scanning the shadows surrounding them quickly, water flowing from the Rain Woman's fingertips and Frost circling the Ice Wizard.

"Alumina!" Gray called to the darkness, his voice echoed off the smooth stone walls.

"Juvia has a bad feeling..." Juvia murmured. "The air here feels wrong to Juvia, do you not feel it also, Gray?" She asked with a small glance at him,

"I feel it." He muttered, sweatdropping a little.

"Juvia fears something bad will happen to Alumina."

Gray sweatdropped a little, he thought the same but hearing the words spoken aloud only made their meaning hit harder. They were both worried for the blonde, because they had come to know Alumina the best first. It had been the first mission either of them had been on in a very longtime after Lucy... And it was Alumina they had shared that time with. They both cared for her deeply, one could say they were all very good friends.

They wanted nothing more than to get Alumina back safe and sound, nothing mattered more to them.

"Gray!" Juvia suddenly said as something streamed from the shadows to strike out at them. His eyes moved to the shadow, preparing to protect himself but a stream of water blocked the blow in an instant.

He shot a grateful look toward Juvia, but she wasn't looking his way, and instead was preoccupied with the flurry of Magic attacks suddenly streaming out toward them. And them he was occupied with it too, ice and water shot up in the dark to easily block the attacks.

Both Wizards narrowed their eyes, slightly confused as to what such weak attacks were being directed toward them, they seemed pointless...

"You think that guy is busy with someone else?" Gray asked suddenly, Juvia spared a quick glance his way,

"Juvia wonders that... Did he not say he could control everything within this place?" She replied and Gray nodded, eyes returning to the shield he had placed in front of himself.

"Its gotta make you wonder, if he's really paying any real attention to us." Gray muttered. "... If he was, these would probably be stronger attacks..."

"Juvia agrees." Juvia replied.

"I wonder which one of us he's going against..." Gray murmured under his breath, eyes narrowing and sweatdropping as a sense of worry fell upon him at the thought- that anywhere in this hell-hole one of their companions were being more brutally attacked than this...

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"Alumina?" Erza questioned in a separate corridor, farther away from where Natsu was. Sword in hand and body tense she scanned the shadows warily, eyes narrowed and ready for anything, "... Hmm..." She mumbled; walking into the shadows and down the path slowly...

She was aware of small, faint noise bouncing off the smooth stone walls around her- only illuminated by the faint red light of very dim lamps hanging from the walls along the corridor. She couldn't make out what it was, and the way it traveled slowly through the air only made her wary.

After awhile it sounded like the whistling of the wind, instead of the tapping and clicking sound upon the wall. And then there was a deep silence that made her come to a halt, her grip upon her sword tightening as a sense of dread fell over her- and she expected an attack at any given moment.