Fairy Tail: Robots And Fairies

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Entrapment - Deeper Into The Mindscape

In the empty constructed scene of Coolsville, everything was quiet. The sounds of explosions and fearsome battle cries had died away into an eerie calm. Suddenly, in the middle of a street, the lid to a manhole shifted and was pushed away.

Erza, Gray, and Lucy climbed out of the hole in that order; all three wearing unpleasant looks on their faces, especially a certain blonde-haired wizard.

"Ugh..." Lucy whined, "did we have to go through the sewers? I hate the sewers." She had hoped she'd never have to go through a sewer again after her first job with Natsu and Happy at Everlue's.

"It was the only way to escape Unicron and avoid his detection." Erza replied, brushing herself off. "As unpleasant as it was..."

"Besides," Gray added, "we should be miles away from where we were fighting him by now."

"Yes," Erza's gaze shifted to them, "but I guarantee you that he'll find us; it's only a matter of time."

Gray nodded in agreement. "We need to find Natsu and Happy and see if they're okay."

"My experience with finding those two is to follow the path of destruction." Lucy noted.

Gray looked around and spotted something. "You mean like over there?" he pointed to a small, white building across the street with a large gaping hole in the wall.

The establishment was in a parking lot with sets of wooden picnic tables in close vicinity to the building. In front of the building was a big billboard sign with a large red smiling car with what could be a slushy cup next to it. "Speedy Slushies" was emblazoned on the sign in big, blue letters.

"Big hole in the wall? No doubt about it, that's Natsu's work." Lucy noted.

"This is convenient." Gray commented.

Erza stared up at the Speedy Slushies sign in awe and wonder. "Slushies..." she said under her breath.

Gray and Lucy looked at the redhead, confused by her blank stare.

"Uh... Erza... you're drooling..." Gray pointed out.

The Fairy Queen snapped out of her trance and noticed that there was indeed a thin line of drool at the edge of her mouth. She quickly wiped it off and resumed her strong demeanour. "I was doing no such thing." She snapped irritably. "Now enough standing around! Let's get a move on." She broke off and headed toward the building at a rather quick pace.

Lucy and Gray blinked dumbly for a short moment before they followed behind her.

The three wizards walked through the hole in the building and immediately spotted Natsu and Happy lying in the wreckage of what appeared to be a slushie machine, similar to the one Braedey had made for the guild hall, albeit it was larger. Both of them were bruised up and had swirls in their eyes.

Lucy went over to Natsu and kneeled by him. "Natsu, are you okay?" she asked, concerned.

"Ugh... feel... dizzy..." he moaned; his face turning green.

Gray walked over to him and crossed his arms over his chest. "Looks like matchstick got motion sick from being blown away." the ice-make wizard said.

Lucy then turned to Happy and noticed he was in the same condition as Natsu. "But what about Happy? Did he get motion sick too?" she wondered.

"Uh... no..." Happy slurred. "That guy's breath just smelled really bad..."

Erza's eyes suddenly widened as something horrendous caught her eye. "No... no, no, no!"

Gray and Lucy turned to the redhead with alarmed expressions.

"What is it, Erza?!" Gray asked, anxious.