Aki quickly took me and carried me to safety on the roof. I couldn't even blink and I was gone. Fuyu sat at my right side and Aki at my left.

"So you want to fight, do you? Hahaha. Do you poor vampires know who I am?"

"Just a simple dryad.” Natsu retorted.

"Ordinary?! I'm from the Doraiado Alliance. I'm Gina, you fool!"She yelled at them in her high-pitched voice.

"What's he talking about?" I asked.

"There are a lot of alliances in the world. It's kind of like one-of-a-kind tribes. They've got different names and really powerful ones. The one in the alliance it's from is the Dead Forest Dryad Alliance. They live in the forest and their specialty is that they have silver in their bodies. That's why his skin is gray. The speciality is that they can make thin threads of silver in your body that can burn through your skin to the bone.. We call them spiders."

"That's terrible! Shouldn't we be helping them?"

"No! Natsu and Haru know what to do. We wouldn't be doing this job if we were incompetent." Fuyu retorted.

I didn't say anything anymore. And he continued to watch the duel.

Natsu laughed at her. Gina stood scalded. Haru chuckled, too.

"And do you know who we are?" He asked Natsu darkly. Natsu's left hand suddenly flared. Gina took a backward step. She couldn't believe it.

“You- you're the Naruno brothers?!" She stammered.

All the brothers present bared their white teeth. Gina quickly shook herself, however, and resumed her smug expression.

"Come on, you bastards!!" She screamed and spread her legs in an attacking position. Natsu and Haru both imitated her stance.

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"What? Do you have powers?!" I exclaimed thoughtlessly.

"Yeah. We've told you.” Fuyu spluttered. God why does he always have to respond in that nasty tone.

"I should have sensed it."

"It's probably not true that dryads can sense species of beings."He spoke casually to Haru.

"Bastards!!"

Thin silver threads shot from his fingers. They were barely visible.

"Look out!" I warned, but the boys disappeared because of their speed.

Soon they were back in place. Both had turned white. It was scary. Their eyes began to shine brighter. The dolls were as thin as a snake's eyes. Natsu's hands flared.

"I'll burn you, you beast." He drilled Natsu and ran against Gina.

He reached out and it looked like he was going to get a good fist from him, but it didn't. She dodged! How come she can be so fast? She fired her threads again. Unfortunately, Natsu has not shied away. She bound him with her threads, like a fly caught by a spider.

"Natsu!" I stood up and tried to stop it, but Aki pinned me to the ground again.

Gina began to laugh ominously. It hurt Natsu. He writhed in pain. Gina, however, forgot that Haru was still here. The one from the far tree watched the action.

"Treecage!"

Haru roared, and the tree branches began to move. Indeed, the branches began to form around Gina's cage. Natsu melted the fibers and freed himself from it.

"The flames of hell!"

The whole cage burst into flames. That bitch won't survive. I thought. When the smoke died down, there was a shell of silver in the middle of it all. It slowly began to destroy itself, until finally all the fragments flew away. Unfortunately, Gina came out of them.

"I've had enough." She said through her teeth.

She started growing out of her back as she went along. Are those branches? There were really branches sticking out of her back that resembled wings. All of a sudden, guys are throttling blades of grass from underneath. The boys tried to flinch but couldn't. Gina broke the silence again with her laugh. She spread her arms and wrapped them around her threads. Boys moan loudly. Aki, too, was a little shaken with fear. Fuyu didn't budge. He still had his stony face. Haru, however, began to laugh, too. That quieted Gina.

"What are you laughing at?!" She yelled at Haru.

"To you."Haru replied.

Gina sank into the ground. Only her head was left sticking out.

"Next time, watch where you're going."Haru added, extricating himself from the thread. Even Natsu tore her threads. Unable to focus on her abilities, Natsu and Haru took advantage.

"I said you'd burn."He smiled and set it on fire.

Her screams were unbearable. We had to cover our ears. When the screaming stopped, where Gina had been, the ground just closed back to its original state. Natsu merely turned to us and solemnly embraced Haru.

The crisis was sparked.