A discussion.

“Hah… hah… hah…” I breathed in and out in; exhausted after my half mile run to catch up with my companions, as I knew they would have no qualms with leaving me behind if I didn’t get into the car before it moved.

Being normal really did suck at times.

I was actually considering just to take off my earrings at times like this, I mean, sure, it would be a heap of a lot of trouble if I ever forgot to put them on whenever feeling up a lady, but I could do without being that one piece of luggage that someone leaves behind.

No, in fact I’m even worse than that, at least they would remember that luggage after the long trip and feel bad about it, I on the other hand was forgotten too easily and even when I tell them they did, they just shrug their shoulders and say it’s no big deal.

Luckily they seem to be talking about something, so I’m able to catch up before they ride away.

“… Said he was with Eisenwald” I heard Natsu say as I came into ear shot.

No sooner did he say that did Erza then swing her arm around and slapped him across the face.

Ouch!

“You fool! That is exactly who we were chasing after on this mission, how could you let him get away?!”

To be honest, he did try his best… the train was the one who bet him.

“What the… But this is the first time I heard about it!”

“I explained everything on the train; you should listen when people are talking!”

“Uh… Erza?” I froze up a little as she turned her head to regard me, even if her anger faded from her face, I still nearly pissed myself at the glare she had.

“Uh… he couldn’t have heard you because you knocked him out beforehand…”

The scarlet haired Scarlet held my eyes for a moment before a small blush appeared on her face; it wasn’t noticeable much as she still held her steely expression.

“Ah… very well then, Natsu, you’re forgiven”

“Hey! If anyone should be giving out apologies it should be you!” she turned to look at him, which made Natsu flinch at her.

“N-never mind” he stuttered.

Erza then walked away and hooked herself to the vehicle and strapped something to her wrist, which I guessed was the way she powered the car, I didn’t really know because I never drove one before on the account of not having much magic.

“So he was on the same train that we were on, let’s go find him”

Great… let’s go towards the guy that obviously wants to kill us, well, at least this time Erza and Gray will be able to beat back any people, I officially am not going to rely on Natsu whenever we’re near transportation.

“He didn’t look like a guy out of a dark guild, but he did have this weird flute with him, it looked like a skull except it had three eyes” I shivered slightly as I heard Natsu describe the thing, I then thought on his words, it was a flute? The thing didn’t look like one to me.

I decided to voice my opinion, “The thing was seriously weird for me” The other guys turned their heads to me, “I mean, it looked scary sure, but when I was near it,” I gave a visible shiver, “It REALLY didn’t feel right”

“I… I think I’ve heard of that before…” we turned to Lucy, who had a very serious expression on her face, “It’s Lullaby, the cursed song, its **** magic”

Oh hell… I thing I actually remember that from somewhere myself.

I wasn’t that big on the details of magic, but my old man did know a lot of legends about wizards of the past, I remember his favourite game of scaring me to sleep whenever he told a story about Zeref, someone who would come after me whenever I went to sleep.

I think I remember Lullaby, he said something about all who hear it’s song would fall asleep… forever.

I then thought back to that flute, pushing down my uneasiness about the memory, when that pineapple bastard lost it, he was affected by my magic again right? Oh shit, does this mean that flute would cancel out my normal abilities? No in fact, that could also mean that any dark artefact, or at least Zeref artefact, would be able to stop it, my normality was a key method to my plan of attack, if anyone was able to get past that, I would be fucking screwed, my shield can only do so much, and my rings could be ignored from what Lucy told me, even my shrinking hand would be useless on an enemy if I have to hold onto them for a minute.

“There are cursed black magic’s in this world that would kill the one that they are used on” Erza interjected, I snapped out of my inner thoughts to focus on the conversation.

“Well if I’m right, then Lullaby is even worse” Lucy… I thought Erza was supposed to be the one who made things sound even scarier.

It was after a few seconds of deliberation did we all get into the car and hurry. And with Erza on the wheel, that meant REALLY hurry; I felt we were going to die before we even got there.

At the very least, I thought, trying to look on the Brightside, it wasn’t like multiple people could hold the flute at once, and it wasn’t like my normality couldn’t be stretched a little without the earrings, after all, I’m next to Salamander, an ice magic stripper, a blue cat with wings, and Erza fucking Scarlet, I’m pretty certain I would just fade in the background most of the time.

Oh… that’s unless I have to protect Lucy, then I’m sure I’m a bit screwed.