Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 83

Roscoe was frowning when looking down from the ship, seeing how the amethyst was still slowly crawling up. It had covered half of the ship's side already. At this rate it would cover the whole ship in no time at all.

"Ever", he said looking at the brunette and went silent.

Evergreen was staring at the direction where they could see others were still fighting. She was biting her lip, her fists trembling and she was worried. More lightning and Bickslow's magic was seen and they heard a screech made by the demon. They were so far it was hard to tell what exactly was happening.

"They're gonna be okay", Roscoe assured her. "We have to start evacuating people from this ship, it might collapse at this rate."

Evergreen huffed and very reluctantly she finally turned her head away.

"You're right", she said. "Our part is to guard these people in this ship."

Roscoe nodded and just then they heard a new noise. It came from clouds and it was getting stronger and stronger every moment.

"What now?" Evergreen hissed annoyed. Was it another enemy? They already had their hands full with Moritz and Humphrey!

The noise got clearer and they saw clouds moving. Something was pushing through them and it was coming behind them. Finally the clouds were blown aside and the first thing they saw... Was a horse.

"What the hell?" Roscoe asked confused but Evergreen's eyes went wide.

"It's Christina!" she gasped.

The huge airship moved ahead, flying just above them causing a blast which made the ship creak even more, while Christina kept heading directly towards Laxus and others.

"They'll be fine now", Evergreen said. "Let's get off this ship, they will come and pick us up as soon as they can", she assured and they started moving.

Big claws destroyed a meteorite that was heading towards Bickslow. Freed panted and he had to stop, feeling how his left hand was throbbing because of pain he was trying to push away.

"You okay?" Bickslow asked. His robe was torn and burned and he knew his tiki dolls were getting tired.

"I'm fine", Freed assured and he gasped when feeling how something hit his back. Must be another meteorite, but his scales were thick so there shouldn't be nothing but a mere scratch.

He was more worried when he felt how Jish-Ahrna's figure was wavering. His magic was starting to act up and disappear, most probably because he had to use so much of it so suddenly.

"Don't worry, baby", Bickslow said as he noticed the same. "Leave this to us", he smirked and looked at Humphrey who had landed on one of the amethyst cliffs.

Freed nodded and he had really no other choice but to let Jish-Ahrna's figure fade. He shrunk slowly back to his own body and collapsed to his other knee. He was feeling nauseous, almost throwing up but he had no time for that.

He lifted his hand and just like he suspected, the wound took different shape now. It was more jagged and he could feel his tendons were torn and at least one bone was broken. Jish-Ahrna could take a lot of damage, but wounds like these didn't just disappear.

But he would still fight. Freed got up and grabbed his sword, ready to cast runes but he stopped when he saw what was coming right towards them. Humphrey didn't seem to notice since the man almost dropped from his cliff because of blast what the airship made.

"It's Blue Pegasus!" Bickslow shouted surprised.

"Why are they here?" Freed asked and now even Laxus and Moritz stopped their fight, staring at what was happening.