Guild Leverage

Ch 7

Loud footsteps echo through the room, the sound of his return sending chills down the girls' spines, young Wendy subconsciously inching slightly closer to Lucy who was trying to stay calm for the babies sake. Wendy had already told her off once about how she couldn't get stressed for the sake o the babies health but she just couldn't help it. She missed Laus, she missed the guild, hell she even missed Mira forcing her to sit down, though she was perfectly capable of walking short distances.

He unlocks the door and enters, making sure to quickly close it once again before he turns to Levy who was sitting in the corner, her breathing heavy and labored from the strain on her magic.

"It's good to see that you've gotten what I want to be done," he purrs wth a chilling cheer to his voice, walking over and caressing the side of her chin. It took all the strength that she had so that she wouldn't pull away from his cold boney fingers.

Levy glares daggers at him, the man only shrugging in response as he brushed off her coldness. She wouldn't do anything with her friends' lives at stake, no one in their right mind would be stupid enough to risk all their lives just because of a little pride stupid.

He walks around the magic circle once, inspecting it to make sure it was to his satisfaction before walking over to Cana, the same chilling look taking over his eyes.

"Time to get up," he says with a smirk as he grabs her by her hair and drags her to the side of the circle next to Lucy, the struggle that she was trying to give proving easy for his to ignore.

"Ah ah ah..I wouldn't do that if I were you. I wold think that you all value your lives just a little bit," he says before walking over to Lucy.

At this the girls' freeze, his words once again sending unease throughout them.

"You-" he says stiffly as he turns to Cana. "Start using your cards, I know that you're fully capable of timing this all out so that blondie over here doesn't die too early."

Wendy clings to Lucy's side at the mention of her death, a small growl erupting from her throat.

He snickers quietly before turning to Cana once again.

"Well? Get to it, I need you to this out."

Cana nods before laying out her cards in front of her, her hands shaking as she tries to read them through her nerves.

"Kid, Blondie, you already know what to do. Blondie in the center, Kid out of the circle on her left. You start when she tells you to and stop when it's absolutely necessary. If I feel like you're stopping too early I'll break the hand that she writes with, " He says as gives a quick glance to Levy before sitting down at the head of the circle and pulling a book out of seemingly nowhere.

Cana looks at Lucy a minute later, pain in her eyes before nodding to her and the man.

The man slowly starts reading an incantation from the battered old book as Lucy puts a set of shaky hands on the swirly designs of the circle as Levy had instructed her earlier. She slowly projected her magic into the circle, the lines Levy had drawn lighting up a piercing gold before a blood-curdling scream echoes through the room, the electric shock she was receiving causing her hair to stand up on end, tears automatically flooding her eyes.

"Well god damn..." Gajeel mumbles as he follows the men through the dark tunnel they had found. Laus had gotten mad that they weren't moving quick enough and angrily punched a tree, his luck, or more likely force resulting in the panel of the tree popping open to reveal a tunnel.

"I still cannot believe that you managed to do that on acident.," Bacchus whispers as they walk down a set of stairs, being careful to try and not make a sound. Laxus had already made it clear to him that he was able to smell the girls and someone else down there, and whoever else that 'someone' was, they didn't want to piss them off.

A scream echoes through the corridor that causes all the men to freeze, the sound being too memorable for Gajeel to ever want to hear again.

"Bunny girl?" Gajeel asks quietly, his feet still seemingly planted in place.

"I'm gonna fucking kill him..I'm gonna dismember him and feed him to a fucking tiger.." Laxus growls before shoving his way to the front, the men having to walk in a single file line due to their big builds in the incredibly narrow hall.

"That makes two of us.."