Tides of Virtue (Fairy Tail Fan-Fiction)

It Would be a Shame if I Had to Ruin This Pretty Face

Tides of Virtue – Chapter 9 (Fairy Tail Fan-Fiction)

At the speed she was flying the wind should have hurt, but it merely wisped around her: tickling her skin, ruffling her feathers, and running through her silky hair like the careful hands of a lover. Ahead of her, Serenity could see the train—the end of the last boxcar was almost in reaching distance—but she couldn't find the compartment that she and Natsu had exited through before.

Glancing around cursorily, she desperately tried to locate it. If only she'd paid more attention earlier, but everything had happened so fast that he hadn't had any time to take everything in. It'd just been about getting Natsu off the train at that time, but now everything had escalated to a whole new level, and lives were in jeopardy if she didn't find that man from earlier.

Gritting her teeth, she pushed herself forward, a new, stronger determination filling her, and that's when she saw it: a gaping hole in the side of one of the boxcars. It was toward the middle of the train, and with three powerful strokes of her snowy wings she was flying alongside it. Carefully grabbing the edge of the hole, as to not get splinters, she stealthily peeked her head inside, but quickly pulled it back when she realized that the man from earlier was still inside along with many other dark wizards, including a ghastly looking silver-haired man whose exposed torso was covered with dark blue markings, which also surrounded his dark, ebony colored eyes, but those markings were instead a rich mauve. His face was long and sharp featured, and he lacked eyebrows, which made him more eerie looking than frightening.

Cautiously peering back through the hole, Serenity's eyes widened as the black-haired man suddenly collapsed onto his knees, his hands cuffed over his ears—blood was visible on the heels of his hands, dark against his pale skin. Serenity shrank back so that she could just barely see inside, afraid that if she moved any farther forward, one of the members of the dark guild would see her, and she wasn't ready to fight them just yet.

The silver-haired man, whom Serenity assumed was Erigor, lazily gripped his scythe in one hand, and in the other was a small wooden rod, which vaguely resembled a flute. Lullaby, Serenity thought leaning forward in wonder, but then shrinking back again as Erigor's icy voice echoed throughout the boxcar. "You didn't leave them with any suspicions, did you?"

The black-haired man looked up at Erigor in a raged-agony. "This mission isn't going to fail just because a few flies got suspicious, right!!?"

Erigor's eyes grew cold. "Of course not. But I don't want anyone making trouble for us. Do you understand?" Everyone was silence, but Serenity thought this would be a good time to make her grand entrance.

Swiftly, she flew into the boxcar, and began hovering in the center of the room. "What I don't understand is, 'why you think you'll accomplish whatever your sick plan entails,'" Serenity spat bitterly. "You're up against me, and I don't go down easily."

Erigor smirked at her wickedly. "Kageyama," he addressed the black-haired man, "make this train stop. Then meet me at the station with the others." He turned to the members of the dark guild. "The rest of you, take care of this fly, then you know what to do." With that said, Erigor, Kageyama, and a few others disappeared out the hole in the train before Serenity could even think to react.

Growling, she clenched her fists. "Cowards!!" she called after them, falling to her knees as the train abruptly stopped. She was silently thankful that the train had ceased its violent movements. However, she knew that since the evil men had stopped the train that meant that there was something they were going after and they were trying to keep her from reaching it before they did.