Petrel

Chapter 28

A week has passed since the victory over the dark guild Eisenwald, during which Elsa and I constantly monitored when the task on Galuna Island would appear. Although I once gave up the idea of searching for Ur and Gray's habitat in order to help, I will still try to return the teacher of our scumbag to a human form, and I also expect to lure her to Fairy Tail, so to speak, to pay off her life debt. In short, we waited and waited, but we learned about this task not from the order board on the 2nd floor, which we checked every day before training, but from Mira, who, despite the fact that Lisanna did not disappear, still settled down a little and began to work as a bartender in the guild, while, apparently, she was the deputy master, because I saw her more than once helping the master sort out those mountains of papers. Brrr, horror. I don't understand how she has enough patience for this, especially in this world where, thanks to magic, the body is literally bursting with energy and you almost always want to do something. Although if you remember how she and the younger Dreyar are constantly hanging around somewhere thinking that no one knows, I can assume that she spends all her energy on him.

Well, I've somehow ended up in the wrong place, so here's the mission. It turned out to have appeared at night, and in the morning the trio of Natsu, Lucy and Happy had already managed to get on the train, and after them the little brat Gray. Oh, and I wanted to meet our sweet Charlie so much today that I had to return from an S-rank mission today, but she's a grown-up and smart girl, she'll understand everything, and remembering how she developed her prophetic gift, she most likely already knows in advance that we won't be able to meet her.

- Is this some kind of twist from the so-called "canon"? - Elsa asked me.

- Probably, to be honest, I myself don't know what to think about all this, the world seems to partially not follow the canon, but at the same time some moments seem to be forced to happen, like some critical points in history, well, actually, we will be able to really check this only when the arch of the heavenly tower should have happened in time.

- I hope that nothing like this will happen and everything will go smoothly. - Said my friend, who seemed to be tired of the upcoming events in advance. - Okay, let's go, you still want to return Teacher Gray to normal life, right?

- Yeah. After all, with the upcoming events, an S-rank ice mage wouldn't be out of place. And Gray will have one less inner demon, and perhaps he will be able to calmly free himself from the past. - I answered, transforming my clothes into a hiking option.

"She'll be a beautiful girl, won't she?" her friend asked with a hint of jealousy.

- Probably yes? Elsa, are you really jealous? - I asked, hugging my scarlet-haired beauty. - I think we should rent a room on the way so we can pay you a little more attention.

- I'm not jealous at all! - said the friend, blushing and quickly walking towards the exit of the guild, where she stopped for a moment and added, - But it wouldn't hurt for us to rest on the way to the island.

Having heard my friend's answer, I happily hurried to catch up with my friend. To be honest, although I am a little worried about Elsa's jealousy, I still don't want to offend her unknowingly, but I am also happy, because it shows that she loves me and is afraid of losing me. And she was in a bad mood because because of the missions we have to be a little more restrained in our sexual activity, and because of the upcoming events, we will clearly not be able to have children anytime soon, and she was clearly beginning to awaken such a desire.

My friend and I got to the port city we needed with the help of a pre-prepared teleportation point, after all, it wasn't in vain that we traveled all over the continent on missions, we managed to visit most of the cities on the mainland, thanks to which we had no problems with movement for the last year. And since we won a decent amount of time with the teleport, we also carved out about 5 hours for "rest", leaving satisfied with ourselves and already in a good mood, without removing any ships, we flew directly to the island, where we met four magicians who were already about to begin exploring the island.

- And where are you going, my dears? - Appearing behind the four, I asked in a feigned sweet voice and added with a slight threat. - Did you really decide to arrange an exotic beach vacation and didn't even invite us, your senseis?

- Oh, and I thought we taught you well. - Playing along with me, Elsa feigned disappointment.

While my friend and I were acting out the show, unlike the still uninitiated Lucy who didn't know whether to shake with fear that she was caught or try to play along hoping for a pardon. Natsu and Gray had already managed to understand that we were in a good mood and a scolding was not in the cards for them anytime soon.

- Teacher, I ask you to forgive the unworthy students who dared to commit such a stupidity. - Bowing in the seiza position, the two magicians shouted, feigning remorse.

- Okay, that's enough of the joke, - Elsa said, deciding it was time to get serious. - It was a shame you took the task ahead of us, we were going to take you with us anyway, although it goes in one ear and out the other, it's no wonder you forgot.

-But you will still get punished, I think the master will be glad to get 3 models for advertising the guild for a week. - I added, deciding that such arbitrariness should still be punished.

- Okay, before you start to feel sad about your stupidity, I must warn you that in addition to the key being important for Lucy, first of all this task will be important for Gray.

- What? Why? - the voiced scumbag immediately stood up, clearly realizing that this was no longer a joke.

- Your teacher sacrificed herself to seal Deliora, didn't she? - Waiting for a nod from the darkened ice mage. - So, according to my information, your former classmate Leon dragged him to this island and performed the ritual of the moon drop, trying to free the Demon in order to defeat him himself. Well, it doesn't matter, what's impor...

-What else do you mean it doesn't matter! We can't let the demon go free! - Gray interrupted me, starting to get hysterical.

- Shut up when I'm talking! - I shouted at Frostbitten, hitting his skull with a fist of love. - Now let's continue. We need to stop them before the seal is removed, so that I can try to return Ur to her human form, after all, the soul is still there if I'm not mistaken, and the ice is her body, only she cannot independently return to her human form because of her sleeping mind. Don't worry about the demon, Lucy can finish him off with a simple poke now, he's so weak. And now, questions? - Having given the go-ahead to ask questions, I looked at the surprise of the quiet Natsu, Lucy bursting with excitement and Gray full of contradictions, about Hepi you can temporarily forget about him, unfortunately, compared to Charlie, he is so stupid that most likely he did not even understand what was happening, but at least he has enough tact to keep quiet.

"Can you really bring the teacher back?" Gray asked hopefully.

- Yes, but the condition will be her joining the guild, and we will help her reunite with her daughter, and then look at another mage S will be more. Still, from what I heard, the research bureau deceived your teacher by saying that her daughter died, and they themselves conducted experiments on her.

- But that's illegal! - Lucy exclaimed, clearly shocked by the fate of Ur and her daughter.

- Pfft, it only seems that the council is so good, but in fact, most of the council should have been cut out long ago for their tricks and connections with dark guilds. So, that's all, we can talk about how sad and unfair the world is later, but now it's time to find your teacher Gray.

Having put an end, so to speak, to our conversation, we headed towards the center of the island.