A Railgun in Fairy Tail Book 3: Bridge Between Worlds

The Storm before The Hurricane....

10:00 at night. Back Alleys of Crocus

Accelerator, Jellal, and Touma were walking down a back alley area near the center of the city. They had been searching hours for Diablo Etwatia. But apparently Diablo didn't want to be bothered with them anymore, because he did not even show a single bloodstained spike.

"Keh!" spat Accelerator. "Why are we even bothering anymore? We already know the spy was that Noiress Blackout woman. Why are we still looking?"

"Because there is still something that I find odd about all this." said Jellal. "For one thing, Noiress was way too forward on revealing who she really was. According to witnesses, Noiress revealed herself the moment Erza asked if she was a part of Hydra Head, even though she could have simply denied any knowlege of it. It was as if she thought she was no longer needed as a spy.......that means they have something bigger coming up."

"Whatever they want......" said Touma. "It has something to do with Mikoto......"

"Yeah.." said Jellal looking deep in thought. "It does...."

Touma eyed Jellal carefully. "Hey Jellal.....do you have a thing for Erza?"

Jellal suddenly turned slightly red. "Wh-what? Who told you that?"

"Nobody....it's just whenever you talk about Erza, you get this sort of look on your face....."

"Hehehe.." chuckled Accelerator. "If someone as dense as Kamijou is noticing then it must be pretty obvious."

"Well......I......" Jellal stuttered. "You see.......umm....what about you Touma?"

"Huh?" said Touma. "Since when has this been about me!? Besides, I don't know a girl who would want to go out with an unlucky schmuck like me."

This time, Accelerator started laughing hard. "HAHAHAHA!! That's rich!! You really are as dense as they say!!"

"Wh-what are you talking about!?" said Touma.

"Havent you noticed a girl acting oddly around you at all?" said Jellal with a raised eyebrow. "Like for example, does she go red or something.....?"

"Well now that you mention it.." said Touma. "Mikoto does that a lot.....I figured that it must have been the heat or something....or maybe she was getting a bad fever..."

This time Jellal started chuckling. "My...you are dense."

"Would you people just stop calling me dense and tell me what the heck is going on!?" said Touma. "Wait.....you're not actually suggesting that Mikoto actually......."

"And finally, the brain of wonder comes to a revelation." said Accelerator. "What else would we be suggesting?"

"Er......well........it's just that......I also kinda......" Touma went red and immediately tried to change the subject. "Well what are going to do now huh? Keep looking for Diablo?"

"No.." said Jellal. "If Diablo doesn't want to be bothered for us......then we won't find him, he's more efficient then Zeref when it comes to concieling himself........Instead, let's try an easier target....and I think I know just where to find his type."

Jellal nodded over to a strange looking bar entrance in the alley way which had a sign designed to look like a jovial harlequin. The sign said, "The Drinking Clown."

"Let me guess." spat Accelerator. "Night Reveler....am I right?"

"Meredy is never off with this stuff." said Jellal. "Well.....let's get a drink shall we?"

Jellal pushed open the door of the bar and the threesome piled in.

The bar was perhaps the oddest place that any of them had ever seen. In fact, it was almost more of a carnival then a bar. In the corner there was a carousel with creepy looking fanged horses. the ceiling was decorated with red and white stripes like a circus tent. and strange colorful lights lined the walls.