A Railgun in Fairy Tail, Book 5: Perfection

Where the Mutants Prowl

The first few moments Mikoto fell, she screamed to her hearts's content, the ever darkening blackness that surrounded her, and the wind that blowed at her face, gave her the impression that a huge thing known as 'splat' was about to welcome her arrival at the bottom of whatever this was.

Then after a few more moments, Mikoto stopped screaming and just stared into the abyss. After what felt like 2 hours, Mikoto actually started looking at her wrist with the impression of looking at the time, only to remember that she'd given up on watches due to her personal electromagnetic field having a tendency to short them out.

"Hey!" said Mikoto. "Has anybody noticed that we've been falling a very very long time?"

"Kind of yeah!" said Natsu.

"And why haven't Elli, Charle and Happy tried to fly in and save us yet?"

"We're trying!" said Happy who had his wings activated. "But we're falling so fast, it seems like the wind is pushing our flying magic to the limit!"

"Strange!" called Erza over the howling air. "No way gravity should have accelerated us that quickly before the Exceeds could activate their wings!"

"Wait...wind...pushing." Mikoto muttered thinking. Mikoto stretched her hand out as far as possible until her finger tips seemed to push past some invisible wind barrier. The tips of her fingers felt nothing but calm nothingness. Then Mikoto understood, they weren't falling, they were hovering.

"I think there's some sort of wind tunnel under us!" Mikoto called to the others. "It's keeping us hovering in mid air and giving the illusion that we're falling! We just didn't know that cause it's pitch black!"

"So we just need to move ourselves out of the wind tunnel range?" called Gray. "But then what? We don't even know if it's still a far drop from here!"

"Well we have to find out one way or another!" Mikoto called back. "Or we're gonna be stuck here for a while!"

"Actually, I think I have an idea!" Mikoto heard Lucy call. "Hey Mikoto, can you feel any iron or metal in the area?"

"Tons!" said Mikoto. "This must be some place really far underground, because it's all in particles!"

"That's impossible though!" said Wendy. "This is supposed to be a flying city according to Meribeth!"

"We can figure things out later!" said Lucy. "But I was thinking that maybe Mikoto could magnetize us some iron sand and carry us down!"

"Why didn't I think of that sooner!?" said Mikoto smacking her forehead. "Alright everyone, I'm gonna need to see you all so I don't accidentally suffocate you in in a metal cloud or something!"

There was a burst of orange light. Natsu was revealed hovering next to Mikoto, his fists engulfed in flames. "This good!?"

 Mikoto looked around to see her friends falling with her in the pitch black darkness, lit by the orange pulsating light from Natsu.

"That's perfect!" said Mikoto. "Alright everyone, don't move!"

Mikoto closed her eyes and concentrated, and after a moment, metalic black sand flew into the light and formed into individual cusions of black puffs under each person including Mikoto.

The sand grabbed everyone by the arms and pulled them out of the wind tunnel where it morphed quickly in a cushion like platform.

"Okay..." said Mikoto. "Just let me concentrate here..."

The iron sand began to lower itself through the darkness. After what seemed like about 15 minutes, the sand hit what seemed to be solid ground. Natsu raised his hand up in the dark gloom to reveal plants and trees, all densely close together.