The Elemental Dragonslayer

Chapter 42: Cry for Love

Normal POV

"I just got word from Rogue that they stopped Alec." Hibiki told Erza, who was taking a look at the numerous data plastered on his Archive.

"These are very detailed. How'd you get their profiles at the last minute." She asked.

"Erza-san you underestimate me. There will always be data on every mage on Earthland, from the greatest wizard to a newborn baby, you just need to know where to look." Hibiki told her as he continued decoding some security runes.

"What are you doing?" Erza asked.

"I'm trying to get in to every lacrima that was set up for the Grand Magic Games, that way we'd be able to track their progress and see what's going on from here." As he got into the system and more than 20 lacrima projections popped up, Erza suddenly pointed at one in particular.

"There. Mira is fighting with the guy responsible for these tornadoes. And....there. Gajeel is with that wielder of darkness." He nodded.

"I've already contacted them through telepathy and told them what's at stake." She crossed her arms and scrunched her eyebrows, deep in thought.

"Zed and Noir. Plus that Alec guy you said Sting and Rogue captured. You made mention they were all wanted criminals from different dark guilds, right? And they had no relation to each other whatsoever, until now?"

"Yes, that is accurate." He responded and was also scanning for lacrimas that might spot the teams that they sent out to stop the tornadoes.

"They must've taken advantage while everybody was busy watching the Games but....why are criminals, who are part of the most wanted list, attacking? What's their motive? Better yet....is there someone else running this operation?" Erza finished leaving a heavy atmosphere between the two.

"That is not an impossible idea. If that is the case then I'll try to look for some connections, a few sightings and maybe we can find a suspect." Hibiki said as he set his mind for a great deal of multi-tasking.

Erza meanwhile had a finger on her chin and she scratched her head. "Something really doesn't feel right." As she walked away to check on the people inside the arena, a figure in the shadows shuffled away and smirked.

"It's almost time." She took two steps out from the darkness and into the light. There was no mistaking it. Lisanna had the biggest smirk at that moment.

Gray's POV

"THIS ISN'T WORKING!" Lyon yelled at me over the wind as we tried to freeze the tornado heading from the north.

"I KNOW BUT WE'VE GOT TO KEEP IT AT BAY UNTIL MIRA CAN DEFEAT ZED!" I yelled back, the wind surrounding it was so strong that I had to chain myself, with ice, onto the building.

"JUVIA! ANYTHING WORKING?!" Lyon yelled at Juvia who was on the street and was trying to merge water with it to lose the tornadoes momentum.

"JUVIA DOESN'T THINK SO!" She yelled back, she was holding down her outfit as the wind flapped all around it.

Nothing is working, at the rate this operation is going, the tornadoes will be reaching the people in a matter of minutes.

The wind was howling fiercely and aggressively sucking in whatever it could eat.

"AHHHHH!" Juvia screamed and as I turned, I could already see Lyon pick her up and carry her to my side.

"The tornado is moving faster! We've got to move!" He yelled and I nodded. He placed Juvia down and I broke away the chain that was attaching me to the building.