The Wickets

Half-a-year later:
{Also after the Fairy tail guild reunited and at the start of the Dragon Cry movie.}
In the morning:
Sueong wraps up the last part of his training, "That's how it's done." He finishes off his new attack.
"I gotta say, the range and spread of that move is enormous." Hiouis observes, having his jacket on as it snowed, "It's like it increases you're ice slaying magic attacks."
"You're exactly now point. It gives more striking and power to every I ditch out. Even increases in size if I allow it." Sueong adds more before packing up, "Now that I'm trained up, I'll be prepared for Acnologia if he appears before me a second time."
"At least you're not going directly to him." Hiouis says in relief.
"No need to. If his only goal is to go after the dragon slayers, then at some point, he'll come directly to me." Sueong is positive.
"Hmm, makes sense." Hiouis eventually agrees.
"Also, I thank you for flying me away from Acnologia the first time we encountered him." Sueong smiles.
"Hmm?" Hiouis is surprised to hear.
"That time, I definitely wasn't ready to take Acnologia on, especially after feeling his bloodlust and magic power." Sueong states, " It was actually a good thing that Misu knocked me out cause If I had rushed in recklessly, it would have been the end of me."
"Heh, anytime best buddy." Hiouis rises his paw/smiles, which Sueong kneels likewise and gives him a high-five.
"This is also to average them too." Sueong adds.
"Right." Hiouis agrees.
With that said, they set out and leave the snowy mountains, and later on in the afternoon, they locate a town before walking in the crowd
"Phew, it feels good not having a jacket on." Hiouis is refreshed by the warm weather, "And on top of that, I'm hungry."
"So am I, which is why we'll eat at that place over there." Sueong points, eying a restaurant.
"Buffet Royal? Nice!" Hiouis pats his stomach and is raring to go in there.
The then hear rumbling nose, "!" Sueong, Hiouis, and the crowd turning to see two people carrying artifacts in their arms.
"Hey, stop those thief's!" A girl calls out, chasing after them from behind, a distance away.
The thief apparently looks to beheading towards Sueong's way, "Aren't you gonna stop them?" Hiouis asks the teenage Ice Boy.
"Hmm, it really not my problem." Sueong replies and doesn't seem to care, "But..." He then uses his leg to simply trip the two thieves, making them drop to the ground and let go of the artifacts, "I'll let it pass this time."
One of them slowly get up, glaring at Sueong, "Why you...!"
Suddenly, wood roots tie up both of the criminals, "You're not going anywhere now." The girl runs up, revealing her magic.
"Grass mage, huh." Sueong figures and observes.
The girl then turns to Sueong, "Thanks for your help."
"Oh, sure." Sueong replies.
The town's authorities come and arrest the two criminals and that was that.
"Alright, Hiouis, let's go and have some food." Sueong walks the other way.
"Finally." Hiouis pats his stomach and flies by him via wings.
"Wait." The girl runs up and catches up with them.
"?" Sueong/Hiouis question.
"I'm pretty hungry too. Mind if I eat with you guys?" Chelliel asks, smiling a bit.
"I have no objections." Hiouis raises his paw.
"Yeah, do as you wish." Sueong shrugs, which she happily nods to.
Once they get inside and order their meals, "Oh yeah, I gotta introduce myself, I'm Chelliel Rutha."
"I'm Hiouis." The exceed introduces with a paw up.
"Sueong Ryuto." He introduces as well.
"Nice to meet you two." She smiles, "And you certainly are a cutie, Hiouis."
"Oh, heh... heh." Hiouis scratches his head and blushes at the complement.
"And... Sueong's pretty handsome." Chelliel blushes a bit.
Sueong can see that she is and pretty much doesn't care about that.
"Is she head-over heals for sueong now? Even though we just met?" Hiouis notices as well.
After their ordered food comes by and they start eating, "Anyway... since you helped in stopping those bandits, it would be great if I could use your help in dealing with the other ones."
Sueong and Hiouis only munch on their food while looking at her.
"Are you even listening to me?!" She asks dramatically.
Sueong gulps it down, "You were heard loud and clear and I'm not interested."
"Wha-Why?!" Chelliel asks, not getting it.
"For one, the bandits that I easily tripped over were totally weak, not even worth the effort. Second, weak bandits should be easy to beat so why should I waste my time on them." Sueong answers in steps and continues eating.
"Only those ones were weak, there's more to them then you think." Chelliel says.
"What do you mean?" Hiouis asks after gulping his fish.
"This group has an organization full of strong bandits and they go around cities in this area to steal special magic artifacts." Chelliel explains, "They're called the Wickets."
"The wickets, huh." Sueong says.
"So the ones that were easily beaten must of just been amateurs, in other words just beginners?" Hiouis guesses.
"That's right." Chelliel nods, "The real problem is the leader in their group, as he's S-Class level while his other subordinates are A-Class."
"..." Sueong doesn't say anything bad just listens.
"The authorities around here are on the look out for them and predict that they'll strike this evening at this towns special museum." Chelliel explains more.
"It must be a pretty big deal if they're going that far." Hiouis says.
"It is." Chelliel nods before looking at sueong, "So... will you lend a hand? The authorities of this town already hired me, and it'll be much appreciated if you join us. There's even a reward."
"A reward? We might as well try it sueong." Hiouis turns to him before eating another fish.
Sueong is silent for a moment, "Alright, fine. It's only because of that part where you mentioned the leader was S-class." He makes it clear, "He'll do fine for a warm up as I haven't fought much in awhile since my training."
"Training?" Chelliel questions.
"It was just a year, but you'll know more about it later I guess." Hiouis says.
"Mmm, well okay." Chelliel shrugs.
They get done eating, pay the tab and leave the restaurant.
"That hit the spot." Hiouis pats his full stomach, "That fish was the best." He blisses.
"So what time do those bandits strike the museum?" Sueong asks Chelliel.
"Somewhere this evening." Chelliel replies, "I think some council members are already over there securing it, it's best if we head over there and be ready too."
"Considering it's 4pm or something, that's like 3 or so hours away." Hiouis calculates.
"Okay, we'll do this then." Sueong says.
"Right, I'll lead us to the museum." Chelliel nods and they are on their way.
The next several minutes, they're at the magic artifacts museum.
"Wow, this place is huge!" Hiouis beams at the building.
"I gotta say." Sueong agrees with hands in pockets.
"This is where the operation will take place." Chelliel confirms it, "I'll introduce you to the chief."
They walk over to him standing near the doorway, "Hello, Chief."
He turns around, "Oh, Chelliel, you made it just on time. We're setting up for the intrusion and confrontation of the Wickets." He then eyes sueong next to her, who only frowns, "And who is he?"
"This is Sueong Ryuto and his exceed friend Hiouis." She introduces, "They said they'll agree to help us stop the Wickets."
"I see, well it's a pleasure to meet you two, I'm chief Harrent." He introduces, all in his government uniform.
"Same here." Hiouis nods while flying next to sueong.
"Chelliel already told us about the Wickets and what they're like, plus what will occur here later on, so no need to explain." Sueong tells him.
Harrent is a little surprised by that, "I see, well let's take down these wickets once and for all." He sticks his hand out for a handshake.
"No need for that." Sueong turns the other way.
"Hmm?" Harrent doesn't get it.
"It's best to skip the greetings and prepare for them." Sueong subjects that, "They could even pull surprise attacks from any angle and direction of this mansion."
"Oh... yeah that's true." Harrent pretty much agrees, "He's sharp for pointing that out."
"That's sueong for ya." Hiouis isn't surprised.
"Who knew he was like that." Chelliel sweat-drops, "Though it makes him even more handsome when he's like that..." She blushes inside her mind, "No! No! No! Focus on the mission at hand!" She shakes her head out of it.
"Is something wrong?" Hiouis asks.
"N-No, nothing." Chelliel clears her throat.
"Oh really? I think I know what it is." Hiouis smirks in thought.
Later on this evening:
Every government member is at their positions around every corner of the magic artifact museum.
Sueong is standing almost near the front, with Hiouis is on his shoulder(Pikachu-style).
"Now, where will they come from..." Hiouis looks around.
Sueong is only silent as he just waits patiently.
Chelliel walks up, having left her position, "Hey, sueong."
"Hmm?" He turns his head to her.
"Shouldn't you be at your position, Chelliel?" Hiouis asks and reminds.
"I know, but I wanted to ask... Sueong, about what you said about these higher wicket mages being only a warm up, and also about that training part you said..." Chelliel recalls and asks this, "Is there something that you're striving for?"
"..." Sueong then answers, "Right now, I don't see why this has anything to do with what we're currently do."
"I know, but..." Chelliel trails in a low tone.
"Isn't stopping the wickets more important?" He asks and reminds.
She takes a couple second and answers, "Yeah... you're right."
"Atta girl, now head back to that position so we can show those wicket bickets what they're in for." Hiouis winks to which she nods before heading back.
Suddenly, "GAAAH!" A soldier screams out of nowhere.
"!" Sueong, Hiouis, Chelliel, and Chief harrent are a learned by that.
"Hey, what's going?!" Harrent asks an officer heading his way.
"A couple of our ranks have been taken out quickly! The wickets are already here!" He replies.
"Damn... already!" Harrent tightens his fist before saying, "Alright! We're all heading inside the meruem to engage them and bring them down." He orders, "Let's move!"
The governemt officers start going in, have shields, swords, and a rifles with magic Amo.
"Let's get in their too." Chelliel proceeds to go but sees sueong not moving, "Sueong?"
"Dude, what's up?" Hiouis asks as well, seeing his partner looking up.
"..." Sueong looks at the very top of the Museum and finds something strange, "That part is not heavily guarded..." He then says, "Hiouis, fly me to the top."
"To the top?" The cat doesn't get it.
"What for?" Chelliel doesn't either.
"Just do it." Sueong tells him anyway, which Hiouis proceeds too, "We'll leave the fodder ones to you and the chief, Chelliel."
"Ah?!" Chelliel is dramatically confused as hiouis flies off with sueong, "What was that all about anyway?!"
While flying, "Again, why are we going up top?" Hiouis asks.
"The leader is intending to strike from the roof, seeing as it's not heavily guarded or watched over." Sueong replies, "His fodder minions down there are just diversions for him to secret steal the artifacts."
"Ohhh, I see. Well let's hope your hunch is right." Hiouis replies and they make it to the roof top.
After the cat sets him down, "There he is. I knew it." Sueong sees the leader(Joe) trying to break in through the glass, but evenly fired a cube of ice to stop him, grabbing his attention.
"Hmm?" The gang boss sees sueong and Hiouis a few distance away, glaring at him.
"Never mind, your hunch was right. The leader was up here." Hiouis didn't expect that.
"What do we have here?" Joe turns his attention towards them, "Looks like I've been found out right away."
"It wasn't that hard to figure out that you'd steal the artifacts from the rooftop here." Sueong replies, unsurprised, "Now you're down here."
"Down? Ha ha, that's not gonna happen." Joe laughs pumping his huge fist hands, "I'll quickly kill you and get what I came here for."
"Good luck with that." Sueong steps up, "Let's get this over with."
"If you insist, Kid." Joe enlarges his arm, "This will be over in an instant!"
"Expansion magic?" Hiouis guesses.
Sueong doesn't move, he simply covers his right fist in Ice and stops the attack, "I'm not impressed."
"Take this then!" Joe enlarges his left arm and brings it down to sueong, who dodges it.
"Stand still already..." Joe continues his attacks and enlarges his feet, aiming a huge kick, which sueong jumps from, "Gotcha!" Joe aims an enlarged palm attack while he's in mid-air, appearing to have hit him, "Heh heh, it's over."
Once he de-larges his fist, sueong is unharmed completely, having formed an Ice shield around his arm.
"What?! He's not even hurt?" Joe is surprised.
Sueong lands on his feet, "I grow tired of this now. They said you were the strongest of this wicket group, but all you haves physicals and no speed. You're totally weak."
"Hearing you thing you're hot stuff just cause you blocked a couple blows from me is very annoying!" Joe gets aggravated, "Fine, I'm going all out then." His whole boy then enlarges his whole body, growing gigantic.
"He's huge!" Hiouis exclaims while flying in the air.
"Hmph, Wait for it." Sueong knows what's coming.
"Now to-" Joe was gonna say but the ground below cracks and it then collapses due to his enormous size, falling down into the measure where the government is fight the rest of the wicket group.
"It's the boss!" One wicket member shouts out.
"He's in his huge form, which means he's fighting someone strong!" Another adds.
"So sueong was right, the leader was up there." Chelliel gets it after tying up a wicket member.
"That was great work on his part." Harrent comments.
Sueong jumps down to where he is while Hiouis flies down as well.
"There you are!" Joe gigantically looks down at sueong, "Expanstionic Thrust!" He moves his huge fist down at sueong to attack.
"Nope, you're done." Sueong flexes his power, white/ice aura all around him, making every body in the room shiver.
"I feel cold all of a sudden." Both the wickets and the government shiver in cold.
"I'm shivering just from being in his presence." Chelliel admits, covering her arms.
"That's what happens when he flexes and gets a little serious." Hiouis says.
Sueong jumps into the air, up to Joe's gigantic size, "Oh please, I'll just head butt the hell out of you." Joe goes for it.
"Ice Dragon-Make... Canon!" He forms an Ice made canon and it fires a blast at Ice at Joe.
"That's No-" Joe was gonna bust through via head butt, but the Ice blast stops him in his tracks, hits him and freezes his whole gigantic body.
"W...What?!" Joe thought in shock as he's frozen as stuff as a statue, gigantic and all.
Sueong lands after deforming his ice-make, looking up at the frozen Joe, "Now he makes a perfect Ice statue in this museum."
"Boss!" The wicket subordinates exclaim, shocked at their leader being frozen/defeated.
"Wow, he defeated the Wicket Leader. Chief Harrent is surprised, "Now I see why you brought him along. He's a strong mage."
"He's an Ice Dragon Slayer on top of that." Hiouis adds and reveals.
"He's a Dragon Slayer?!" Chelliel expresses surprises.
"That's right. I'm sure you know what a dragon slayer is right?" Hiouis asks.
"I have heard that there were a few dragon slayers in the grand magic games one year ago." Chelliel replies, "Was sueong one of them in it?"
"Nope." Hiouis shakes his head, "But he'll meet his fellow dragons one of these days."
Chelliel turns and sees the outcome of the boss fight.
Sueong turns his sights to the rest of the Wicket gang, "Does anyone else want to freeze too? If not then surrender."
"Like Hell we will." Three of the Wicket A-Class Wizards come up, "So what if you defeated the boss, you can't take all three of us."
"Just hurry up and do your worse." Sueong rolls his eyes.
They get angry and dash at sueong with magic forming around them, "Combination attack-"
"Freeze!" Sueong waves his hand and flash freezes all three A-Class Wickets, "Actually, I wasn't interested in your combination attempt. Probably would have been weak anyway."
"W-Wow..." Chelliel blinks in surprise, now seeing the higher wicket members frozen.
"He's too strong." Says Harrent, "Good thing he's on our side as he's a dragon slayer."
Sueong's ice shatter on Joe and the A Wickets, making them fall to the ground, unconscious and also causes Joe to turn make to normal before doing so. The Ice slayer turns to the fodders of the wickets, "Anyone else?"
The wicket weaklings gulp and shake their heads in fear, stopping their magic attacks, "We surrender..." One of them up their hands up and the rest of the wickets follow.
"And just like that? It's the end of the wickets." Hiouis comments, smirking.
The government soldiers then arrest each and every Wicket Member and take them away, ending the operation and having the museum back to normal.
"I hear-buy thank you for you're part in taking down the wicket gang." Chief Harrent congratulates Sueong, Chelliel, and Hiouis.
"It was a pleasure, chief." Chelliel replies.
"Especially you..." Harrent speaks to sueong, "You easily located and immediately took down their leader, Joe."
"He wasn't all that strong, for an S-class that is." Sueong remarks.
"You were just way more powerful than he was." Hiouis comments, "And without breaking a sweat either."
With that now done, Harrent gives them their reward of 20,000 jewels before they part ways and take the wickets away in prison cells.
"Alright we did it and have hit the jackpotwith these jewels." Hiouis looks over the money while sitting on sueong's shoulder, "Thanks for the invite of us on that mission, Chelliel."
"No, it's actually thanks to sueong for quickly taking out the leader and putting in end to their organization." Chelliel said, smiling.
"Yeah sure." Sueong replies, not caring much, "And what about you? Now that the whole wicket stuff is over, we're already done, so where are you heading off too now?"
Chelliel didn't know how to answer that, "Oh, that's right!" She remembers, "Must think of something..." She then replies, "I-it's getting late now, so how about we go and rest somewhere for the night." Changing the subject.
"Now that she's mentioned it and with it still being the middle of the night, I'm sleepy too." Hiouis yawns.
Sueong spots a hotel close over there and they walks too it, "We'll rest over there for the night." They head in and make themselves comfortable for the rest of the night.
Next Day:
The trio pack up and leave the hotel.
"*Yawns* That nice beauty sleep hits the spot on me." Hiouis yawns and jokes as they walk through town.
"If only there weren't separate beds..." Chelliel blushes at the thought of having only one hotel bed and sleeping next to sueong, "Get ahold of you're self chelly!" She shakes her head and snapped back out of thought.
"After this, Back on to Catafalco City!" Hiouis points ahead while sitting on sueong's shoulder.
"Keep it down a bit, Hiouis." Sueong says.
"Awww, you're not fun." The cat playfully pouts.
"*Giggles* Anyway, let's grab some breakfast before leaving." Chelliel suggested.
"I was just about to mention that, chelly." Hiouis agrees before they spot and walk inside a diner to eat breakfast.
As they wait for their orders, "So, Chelliel. Where are you headed now? We've only been with each other against the wickets, so it was nice meeting you." Said Hiouis, waving a paw.
"W-Well, I'm just heading in the same direction as you guys... to another city! Yeah!" She quickly lies, "Please, let this work...!"
Sueong can only look at here before replying, "Fine, whatever you say." He shrugs with his eyes closed.
"Phew!" Chelliel was relieved in thought, before sipping coffee.
"Ha, she ain't fooling me." Hiouis smirks in thought, "I know the reason why she's following us."
They then wrap up, pay the tab, and leave the town.
"Oh yeah, what's the next town anyway?" Hiouis asks, floating with his wings out.
"I have the map for the next city that's up ahead in 4 hours into the afternoon." Chelliel takes it out.
"Which city is it?" Sueong asks.
She then reveals, "The City, is called Alvarez."
"Alvarez, huh." Sueong says.