Vivi walked ahead of everyone with her hands stuffed in her black vest pockets. She wasn't listening as the others spoke behind her. She was lost in her own thoughts.
"Hey, wait, where's Natsu?" Happy asked getting Vivi's attention.
Everyone turned seeing the train departing, and they all knew that Natsu had to be on it. Vivi face-palmed rather hard that it left a red mark. She was so deep in her thoughts she forgot about her best friend!
"Uh-oh, there he goes." Happy said.
He waved after the train as Vivi nearly face-palmed once more while mad at herself.
"I was so busy that I forgot about him." Erza said. "I am such a fool. Natsu hates all forms of transportation. This is all my fault. I need one of you to come and hit me for my penitence."
While Gray and Lucy didn't think that was a good idea, Vivi whacked Erza hard over the head without hesitation. Gray and Lucy looked at Vivi as if she was crazy. They then looked to Erza thinking the redhead would retaliate, but Erza just thanked Vivi who nodded. Lucy nearly fell down face first. Everyone in this guild really was crazy.
"Anyway, let's go find the emergency break. We need to stop that train." Vivi said.
"You're right." Erza said. "We need to get Natsu back."
"Do we really have to?" Gray asked.
The answer he got was a punch on the back of his head from Vivi as Lucy sweat-dropped. What's with this guild and violence?
"I'm sure the control room is this way." Erza said while not even acknowledging Vivi's act of violence.
They were soon able to find the control room, and without hesitation, Erza pulled the emergency break. As she was speaking with the man in charge, Lucy hung her head.
"I'm now starting to realize that the wizards of Fairy Tail are all a little insane." Lucy said.
"Hey, not all of us." Gray, who lost his clothes again, said.
"Oh yeah, where is your clothes?!" Lucy demanded.
"Who knows?" Vivi asked shrugging.
***
Vivi sat on top of the magic mobile with Gray as they went racing to get to the train Natsu was on. After they had stopped it, Erza borrowed this magic mobile to get them to Natsu. They zoomed over the dirt getting closer to the train.
"It's moving again!" Vivi said pointing. "And is it just me or does it seem like part of that train car is missing?"
"It's gone." Gray said. "You think Natsu got in a fight or something?"
Vivi tilted her head guessing it was possible, and if he's in a fight that moving train won't help him.
"We need to hurry things up." Vivi said.
Though considering how fast Erza was already going. Vivi would say the redhead was almost at her limit—speed wise.
"Natsu!" Lucy cried as the pinkette they were coming for burst through one of the train's windows.
He came flying back towards the group with Vivi's eyes widening when she realized he was heading in a straight collision course to her and Gray.
"Shit!" She cursed as she rolled over the side of the magic mobile while holding on tight to the side.
Lucy gasped wondering what Vivi was doing, but before she could ask Natsu hit Gray head on causing them both to fall off. As they hit the ground behind them, Erza brought the magic mobile to a screeching halt. Vivi looked back at where the boys were as they remain motionless on the ground. Good thing she moved out of the way.
"That was close." Vivi said.
Lucy sweat-dropped now understanding why Vivi was so quick to move. Erza backed up the magic mobile to where the guys were lying, and once stopped, Vivi jumped off to go check on the boys. Lucy was right behind her with Happy and Erza following.
"Natsu, are you alright?" Erza asked.
"Aye." Natsu said weakly.
Vivi looked at her best friend sympathetically as she leaned over him and Gray with her hands on her hips.
"I guess that's one way to make an entrance." She said chuckling.
"Aye!" Happy agreed from beside her.
Lucy once again questioned her guildmates's sanity as Gray and Natsu both hopped up to their feet.
"That hurt, you idiot!" Gray snapped then turned to Vivi. "And why didn't you tell me to move if you knew what was going to happen?!"
"You should have been smart enough to move yourself." Vivi deadpanned. "It's not my fault you're an idiot."
Gray glared at Vivi with his brow twitching in annoyance. It twitched even more when Vivi stuck her tongue out at him.
"Yeah, what she said!" Natsu agreed. "And why did you guys leave me on the train?!"
Vivi sighed turning to look at Natsu in an apologetic manner. She hadn't meant to leave him like that.
"Sorry, Natsu." Vivi apologized. "I wasn't paying close enough attention. Are you okay?"
Natsu forgot all about his annoyance as he looked at Vivi's truly apologetic expression.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Natsu said. "Don't worry about it."
He then grunted in pain when Erza gave him a hug, which meant his head was slammed into her breastplate. Lucy winced knowing that had to hurt.
"I'm just glad you're alright." Erza said.
Natsu mumbled something in reply that was hard to understand as he stumbled away from Erza who let him go.
"Like, I said I'm fine though I was attacked by some kind of weirdo on the train." Natsu said.
Vivi had thought so considering there had been a large hole in the top of the train cart Natsu had been in.
"Are you serious?" Lucy asked concerned.
"I think he the dude who dragged away the guys who were gonna eat Happy." Natsu said as he crossed his arms over his nest. "Said he was with Eisenwald."
Vivi's eyes widened along with the others because the Eisenwald guild is who they're after. One of them was on the train with them the entire time? A split second later, Erza smacked Natsu so hard he hit the ground while seeing stars. As Gray and Lucy watched on with wide eyes, Vivi narrowed hers wondering why the hell Erza decided to abuse Natsu so suddenly.
"You fool!" Erza snapped. "That is exactly who we're chasing after on this mission! Why did you let him get away?!"
Natsu held his cheek while looking up at the redhead in confusion. It wasn't like he knew about any of this.
"What?" He asked. "This is the first I've heard about it."
"I explained everything on the train!" Erza said. "You should listen when people talk to you!"
Everyone then gasped when Vivi, who had walked over to Erza, whacked the redhead over the head. Natsu looked at Vivi as if she's gone crazy as Gray gave a groan.
"She's gone and done it now." Gray said.
Lucy held Happy close as Erza turned her head up to glare at Vivi who gave her a deadpanned expression in return.
"Hey, Genius, did you happen to forget that you knocked Natsu out during our train ride?" Vivi asked.
Her question brought pause to Erza's anger as the redhead looked at her curiously. Vivi sighed guessing she forgot all about it.
"You knocked Natsu out the help him cope with riding on the train." Vivi said. "That means he was unconscious the entire time we had our little discussion, understand?"
Erza's eyes widened as she realized Vivi was right. She had completely forgotten about knocking out Natsu to help him with his motion sickness.
"You're right." Erza said shocking the others. "How could I be so stupid? I deserved being hit for that penitence. Natsu,"
She turned towards the pinkette who jumped in fright as he wondered what was going to happen next. She knelt down next to Natsu, which had him leaning away cautiously.
"I hope you can forgive me for my foolishness!" Erza said hugging him once more meaning his head hit her breastplate… again .
Vivi sighed at the scene as Lucy, Gray, and Happy continued to watch in shock from the sidelines.
"Now that that's settled, we need to get going." Vivi said. "Eisenwald isn't going to stop themselves."
"You're right!" Erza said as she stood. "Everyone back into the magic mobile. We have a lot of ground to cover!"
As Lucy and Gray did as Erza ordered, Vivi helped Natsu off the ground as Happy landed on her shoulder. The three headed towards the mobile with Vivi knowing they had to hurry. There wasn't a moment to lose.