Chapter 14
"There may be other Shiver Dragon members sneaking around." Eaden said. "Leave them to the others. In case we encounter one, we quickly whipe him out." Raze suggested. "Sounds good. Let's go." Eaden guided them through the city until they reached the open wilds. "Okay. Heather is situated in the west, so we won't have any problem so far. The way would take us only 20 minutes.", "Great. What are we waiting for?" Raze asked. "Nothing. We can go.", "Hey, you guys!" A voice suddenly shouted. They turned around. Annika came up to them, followed my Soul and Silver. "You're also on the way to the eastern entrance?", "We planned to." Eaden responded. "Iona and Alena go to the north, Akira and Nicole close in from the south. Ichiro went to the western entrance and Homura came with him. They are okay so far." Eaden nodded. "You should support Alena and Nicole." she suggested. "If we all come from the east, it might be too obvious. So I propose that you guys split up." Annika nodded. "Sounds legit. Then, I'd leave Silver here. Soul, you go and support Alena and Iona. I will go to Nicole and Akira.", "Wait a sec! Why am I supposed to stay with them?" Silver moaned. "You know I can't...", "Learn it." Annika interrupted him. Then, she typed on her communication lacrima. "Nicole." Seconds later, a voice responded. "Yeah? Annika, what is it?", "We are too many on the east side. Our team splits up and I will come find you. You will need some back-up.", "I got ya. I will send you our exact position so you can track us. Be careful, okay?", "Roger that." Annika nodded and turned off her lacrima. "That's settled then. I'm off.", "See you later." Raze said. Annika nodded and went off. "I go, too! I'll contact Alena on my way." Soul said. "Good luck!" Tomoko shouted. "Thanks!" Soul left into another direction. Silver folded his arms. "So, I'm gonna stay with you guys, then. Get out of my way, Blizzard Lizard, or you may get roasted." Raze glared at him. "If you get into MY way, I'd kick your flamy ass right into the air." she growled. Silver wanted to say something against it, but Eaden interfered. "Stop it, you two! We can't focus on our goal of we have you two fooling around." Silver sighed. "Yeah, right. I got it. Let's go. I wanna kick some butts.", "For once, I agree with you." Raze said and they moved out.
"Heather is close." Eaden said after a while. "We need to cross this tiny part of the woods over there and then, we've reached our destination.", "Okay, that will be a piece of cake." Raze commented.
Suddenly, they heard something cracking. Silver turned around and saw something jumping out of the forest. "Flame Impact!" he yelled, surrounded his fist by fire and punched the attacker into his stomach. A strange sound came out of his mouth. "Fire Breakdown!" Silver's knee was now surrounded by fire and he rammed it into the attacker's chest. It fell down like a cut-down tree. "That's a mountain monkey." Silver explained. "They attack wizards from time to time, but they are knocked down quite quick, so..." He looked around. "Maybe, there are more of 'em. We shouldn't let our guard down.", "True." Eaden said.
They crossed the woods without any problems and arrived in Heather Town. The city wasn't huge, polluted and looked empty. "Wow... This city truly looks like it's inhabited by punks." Tomoko said. "Indeed. Heather never was the most beautiful city in Fiore... especially since the houses are painted grey." Silver explained. "I'd have depressions if I would live here." Eaden said. "It looks so dreary and lost.","We should head in." Raze meant. Suddenly, her communication lacrima started glowing. "Hm?" Raze typed onto it and she responded: "Eastern team, Raze speaking. What's the matter?", "Raze?" That was Akira's voice. "We have a huge problem.", "What is it?" Raze asked. "I'm sitting on a tree right now, using my gun as binoculars. Members of Shiver Dragon surround their guild hall. They seem to expect us.", "Oh, darn." Raze mumbled. "Be careful when you go into the city. I can't take them down from this position, I need to get closer. Try not to attract any attention as long as I'm not capable of shooting those scumbags down. Got me?", "Yeah.", "Fine. Homura gave me the order to attack first, but I won't be quick enough to take all the guards down before they can call for help. You're the closest to the guild hall right now, so I'd request you to lend me a hand.", "We will be there. I call back when we have eye contact with our targets." Raze answered. "I count on ya." Akira said before the call was ended. "Okay, you heard him." Raze started. "Our mission right now is to get as close to the guild building of Shiver Dragon as possible and then strike before they notice us.", "Sounds quite easy..." Silver folded his arms. "But it may be a little bit tricky to be carried out.", "You're right." Eaden nodded. "I suggest we search for a city map and then take the shortest way." She walked into the city. The others followed her. "But were are we supposed to find a map? At a train station?" Raze asked. "That may be a good place to begin with. We follow the signs there." Eaden pointed on a sign at a street crossing where the word "Train Station" was written on with black letters.
They followed the signs and finally reached the station, a run-down, grey building with a sign on it, but some of the letters on the sign were obliterated or missing. "Okay. Tomoko, Silver, you go inside." Eaden established. "Raze and I, we will wait here.", "Got it." Silver nodded and wanted to enter the station when Eaden held him back by putting a hand on his shoulder. "Take care about Tomoko, you hear me?" Silver nodded. "I will." He looked at the young girl. "Let's go." Tomoko nodded and smiled. "I'm right behind you!"
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