The Serenity Stone [Fairy Tail Fanfic]

Chapter 6 - Serenity

        Hey guys! How was your Halloween? I had so much fun! I went to a Halloween party with my friends, and it was kinda sad because we mostly hovered around the food table :/ But when no one was looking, we all went out onto the dance floor and acted like total idiots... but overall it was great! 

        So lately I haven't had much free time, but when I do, it sucks, because I'm not usually near a computer, so I've been planning ahead in this little notebook that I have, and I'm going to warn you I have a lot. I haven't finished planning, but so far I think it's going to be like 40 chapters long, but bear with me! I have something up my sleeve that I am really excited for! *creepy smile* okay, chapter 6!

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Erza's POV

        I looked around me as I walked behind Gray. I would look down at the ground, and then up, looking at the buildings.

        "What exactly are we looking for?" Gray asked sounding bored. I sighed and told him, "Anything that looks suspicious. Anything that could possibly shelter the stone, I thought we already told you that."

        He just drooped his head and moaned, "That could be anything..." I ignored his annoying whining, and kept looking. After some time, we had still come to no avail. "Let's take a break," I stated. He just shrugged his shoulders and walked over to a droopy tree. It had long twisted up trunk, and was leaning a little to the right. 

      I followed him over to the tree, and sat down about three feet next to him. He was leaning up against the tree, with his eyes closed. I studied the tree behind him more closely. It was very appealing to the eye, I couldn't look away from it. I stood up and touched the tree, slowly walking around the trunk. As I walked, I ran my hand in the grooves of the bark, not noticing that Gray had moved from his sitting spot. 

        "Erza? Are... you okay?" Gray asked drawing out the are slightly. I stopped moving, and turned my head slightly towards him, "Yeah, it's just this tree... Its a Willow. I havn't seen one of these in forever." I looked up at the branches, and moved my eyes down towards the trunk, and then down to the roots. That's when I noticed it, a deep groove in the ground just to the left of the trunk. I crouched down, and touched it. It wan't drawn in the dirt, it was in the ground.

        "What is that?" Gray asked curiously. "I'm not sure, but it looks like it has been there for a while." I replied. "Well this town is pretty old, do you think that maybe it was here when they first built this place?" He asked. I just shrugged my shoulders, "It's a possibility."

        We decided to figure out where it went. We started to run, following our little line in the ground. At times it got lighter, because there was dirt that had slightly covered it up, but we were still able to make out where it went. We stopped when the ground started shaking violently. We turned our heads in the direction that it was coming from.  It was coming from the North-West.

        "What did that idiot do?" Gray asked out loud. I started running in the direction of the rumbling, ignoring Gray's protests. "They can probably handle themselves, but still. I need to know what is causing that rumbling." 

        We came across Lucy with her arm around Natsu, Wendy, and Carla and Happy flying in the air just outside of a cave entrance. They all looked pretty beat up. "What happened? We heard the rumbling and came this way." I asked them. "We are fine," Wendy said, "We met this guy who was trying to activate the stone." I looked at her confused, "What happened to him?" Gray asked.

        "He is a pile of ash!" Natsu said smiling. Natsu set down Lucy, and then walked over to Gray who had just let out a "tch" "What did you say ice boy?" He said angrily.

        I walked over to Wendy, drowning out the two fighting boys. "What do you mean by activating it?" Wendy looked at me puzzled, "I don't know, all I know is that he was chanting words and the stone started glowing."

        "Where is the stone?" I asked her. She handed me a blue sphere that was around two inches wide, "right here." I looked at it closely, I saw little spirals of white all throughout the stone, it almost looked like they were moving through water, trapped inside the orb.

        "We have the orb, I guess we should go give it to the person who wants it." Wendy looked at me, and nodded.

        When we arrived at the place that was on the flyer, we were surprised to see that it was just a dark forest. All the trees were dead and shriveled up. "Is this really the place?" Gray wondered out loud. A shadow emerged from the trees in front of us. "Are you Fairy Tail?" It asked us. "Yeah! Are you the ones who want the stone?" Natsu asked. The shadow was silent.

        Two shadows came into view from behind the first one. Then two more behind them. More shadows kept appearing from behind the others, until there were at least 25 of them. The first one lowered its hood, to show a man with brown hair. "Do you have the stone?" He asked, his eyes showing worry.

        "Yes," I answered, handing him the stone. The other shadows lowered their hoods as they spotted the stone. The man in front gently grabbed the stone, Thank you so much." he said. He moved the stone to the middle of the clearing, and chanted a few words I didn't understand. A pedestal rose from the ground. When it was fully raised, he placed the stone on top. It released magic energy into the air, so much, that I could see it floating towards the trees, ground, and sky. 

        When it met it's destination, the trees turned from being dead, to perfectly healthy, giant Willows. The ground that was dirt before, turning into long green grass. And the sky was cleared of all clouds, letting the sun shine through.