Chapter 7: [The Keystone] (Read Everything)

Echo turned to Sasha, smiling as the eyes around her began to shudder and quiver.

"Your aura does not lie. You changed that yourself, didn't you?"

Echo sighed, rolling her eyes before turning back to Willow/Marideth/Idfk anymore. She would ignore Sasha until she was done with her pathetic act.

"So, where is Asuya? I'd like to find her before the hunters."

"Alright..." She slowly climbed on top of the yellow cobra.

"There's an editing software open on your phone." Tara said. She had begun to study the customs of this future world, and found that lots of them revolved around extremely advanced technology.

"I have located Miss Asuya as well." B.U.N.N.Y chimed. He hopped out of Tara's arms and started off in one direction.

The clone disappeared, and next  to her was the real cobra. "See it wast that bad harmony." Cobra smiled. "Now to find the others, hold on" Cobra fed the snake more toxins until was about twice and large, Anyone in the fores could obviously see it.

"Oi, anyone there. Its Cobra u can come my way."

Gajeel walked around wha seemed to be a large castle. his led to him being confused. "Where...he hell am I? God damn it Merideth where did you send me off to now?" He sniffed the air, trying to get familiar with the place.
"I have a very bad feeling. What about you Slots?" There was no answer. "Slots?"
He waved his hand in order to force his summon. "Crazy Slots." Nothing happened.

"What the..." He tried summoning electriciy through his own natural production, and nothing happened. It's like he was forced to use that weird person, but got no benefits from it. "My powers are gone? What is this place?"

Corbeb was walking through the halls of the castle when he heard an unfamiliar voice from the main hall and slowly walked towards it. As he walked towards it he started gathering the mana in the air to prepare to cast a spell in case one of the Maesai had managed to sneak into the castle. He walked out of the hallway and started walking down the stairs where he saw a grey wolfman standing in the middle of the hall. Once he was downstairs he simply walked up to him and asked in a stern tone. "Who are you, how did you get in here and what are your intentions?" While releasing a small part of the gathered mana as a force field around him.

Marideth sighed but then smiled, chuckling a bit. As she chuckled, it turned into pure, crazed laughter.

"You want to know where Asuya is huh...By now, your little spirit friend is making her dismantle your fiance, and I can guarantee the trees will look lovely red..." Her eyes flickered. Kado remained silent.

His ears raised up sharply as the man walked up to him, raising a shield. He remained calm, but was obviously quite confused. "Okay, one, my name is Gajeel, two I have no idea, and three, I want to get back to my friends because I have absolutely no knowledge on how. Mind helping me? Or rather first, who are you and why can you still use your powers and all my stuff is locked? Slots must be wailing to come out."

Echo made no response to Willow, instead choosing to simply begin to follow Tara and B.U.N.N.Y. As she passed the sisters, however, all of her eyes seemed to turn to them.

"If it weren't for Asuya, we'd all be dead. So I guess I'm grateful for that. And in this situation, I don't know who I'll save. But we'll see." With that, she was off.

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From the deepest corners of Echo's mind, Ancilla was in a black sphere, chuckling wildly to herself.

She was winning.

Corbeb still wasn't convinced, he knew how those of the higher families acted and tried to get what they wanted without getting their hands dirty while keeping Gajeel in his field of vision he walked backwards and started thinking. 'I'm sure that if I ask him directly about a family he'd say he isn't affiliated or doesn't know them.' He walked closer to Gajeel and walked around him to see if he could see any signs of ties to any family. "You said your name was Gajeel right, what is your last name?" He knew that with this question he wouldn't get much information but at least he might have an idea where this person came from.

Kiru groan, "Why the hell did I ally myself with these people in the first place?! All they've been doing is teleporting me random places!" Kiru began walking in search of the others, figuring they should be around here somewhere and if she went through the trouble of using a wish on one of them they MUST be important. However she was grumbling under her breath the entire time about how much bullshit the entire situation was.

"My last name? It's Volk." He shrugged, then looked down. "The last one in fact..." He sighed, a hint of sorrow in his expression. "Anyways, someone named Willow threw me into her shroud to help my friends and I escape an attack. Did you happen to see any of them before me?"

Marideth smiled and began to follow the two of them, while Kado trailed close behind. Kado had her cards ready within her sleeves, and Marideth had a grip on her gloves, just in case something might happen..

Ruby laughed to herself. She could not be any more lucky. Since she was in the forest, she could find everyone in less than a minute. "Who to find first..." She then uses her senses to find someone. "Ahh...it appears Kiru is near." She says, using her floraportation to go to her. "Yo."

Mini-Fluffles makes a small roar on Ruby's shoulder.

"Ah, willow! How's our little clown doing?" Corbeb said with genuine excitement. All the tension there was in his voice and body before suddenly disappeared and he became completely relaxed again. "I hope she hasn't caused too much trouble for you, we did order her to deliver a message to you guys after all and that she couldn't inflict any fatal wounds. So has she delivered the message or has she been enjoying herself too much?" He said with a joking tone.

Kiru stumbled backwards and nearly fell, being surprised by Ruby's sudden appearance, "Oh hey, you're that pretty one... I mean what was your name again? I havnt met you before."

"A message? What message?" He tilted his head. "Either she hasn't told us or she displayed it with some sort of slaughter she always does. Oh, and she's doing just fine. She found Asuya and Kado. All three of them are in our group, and I'm trying to get back to them somehow. I guess she found it funny to take me here. Any way you can help me get back to them?"

"Wow, so forward. Anyway good to meet you Ruby, again I guess, and you too Fluffles." Kiru pats Fluffles on the head before grabbing hold of Ruby's hand. "Alright, what next?" Kiru then realized something "Oh one sec!" She let go over Ruby's hand and placed her medallion into her belt pouch before holding hands with Ruby again, "Alright we're good now for what I think you have in mind"