4 Trouble

Erza looked at Celesta and then realised something.

"Celesta, you can't use magic in you magical beast form or you will be hunted, so you have to change your physical body into a normal horse so people would think nothing of it,"

After hearing Erza's suggestion Celesta nodded in agreement.

Celesta made her horn invisible so she would look like a normal, white horse. Erza got onto Celesta's back and then started to head for the village that was only a few minutes away.

As soon as they arrived at the entrance, Celesta transformed into a human. She had short silver hair, pale white skin, an hourglass figure and pink glossy lips. She wore a simple white dress just below her knees with a pair of traditional, white sandals. She looked absolutely stunning.

"Celesta, you look so beautiful,"

Erza was excited to see Celesta look even more elegant, not that she wasn't before. However, she gave off a very dangerous aura. Her poker face really doesn't help ease the dangerous aura. She may be a bit too overprotective of Erza.

"Thank you for the compliment princess, but I am nothing compared to you,"

Celesta bowed.

"I think we will be better off if you call me m'lady for now, especially in front of a lot of people," Celesta nodded her head in agreement and stood up straight.

"M'lady, I must advise you that once we enter the village you mustn't cause too much of a ruckus because we can't waste our time with these peasants,"

Erza looked a bit disappointed of what Celesta just said but agreed otherwise.

As Erza strolled into the village, with Celesta walking behind her. Erza was admiring the scorching hot sun that loomed over the small earth and was in awe. After all, she had been training and cultivating in seclusion for twelve years, she never had the opportunity to go out and play like ordinary children.

"Please give the money and our food back, we need it to feed ourselves so we don't starve, at least give back a little piece of bread for my child!" A woman's voice loudly pleaded, catching everyone's attention. Erza walked towards the group of people who were surrounding the woman and three large men.

"How despicable," Erza mumbled.

The woman was crying and begging on her knees. From the corner of Erza's eyes, she could see a beautiful young girl, the child who probably might be at the age of eight, hiding behind the door of a rundown shop. The little one looked absolutely terrified as her legs were shaking from fear.

The man who stood in the middle, who Erza guessed was the leader of the other two, kicked the woman's face. "Mummy!" The child came running towards her mother.

"Why are you all standing there, help my mother...please," the little girl begged with her high-pitched voice. No one bothered to help, or even stand up to these men. Erza hated the fact that her people were weak and even worse, cowards, mortal or not they should still be trained in hand-to-hand combat to defend themselves and others from bad people.

Erza stepped forward and patted the little girls head, "Don't worry, I'll make sure no one hurts you and your family ever again."

'This girl has spiritual energy!' Thought Erza.

"Hey brat, step away or I'll beat you till your dead," The man in the middle shouted. The other two around him started giggling like punny little girls. Erza turned her head to face the man. All three of them seemed to be brothers as they look alike. They had pitch-black hair and tanned skins. They were shirtless and were very muscular.

Celesta glared at Erza, but the princess ignored her piercing gaze. She was very used to it since Celesta would always scold her when she messed around during practice.

"You dare to call me a brat, you don't even meet the requirements to bow down to me, so what makes you think you're the boss around here?" Erza hissed.

"You dare to make fun of me, little girl watch how I kill you!" The man threatened.

He charged at Erza but was immediately launched back. A mysterious force pushed him back which lead to him breaking a few bones. That mysterious force was Erza's external energy, which she controlled to act as a shield.

The other two started sweating and one wet his pants. "Shit, she's a cultivator, hurry up and grab the loot we better run," The man on the left said.

"Do you really think you can run away that easily, especially with the items you stole from this poor woman?" Erza questioned. Powerful killing intent was radiating off of her making the two men and the people around her found it very hard to breathe. Her killing intents was so powerful it could make the mountains shake.

"We are very sorry, we didn't want to do it but our older brother threatened us to steel from this woman!" The one on the right shouted.

"Fine, I honestly can't be bothered to deal with the two of you, so you better scram and take that fat pig with you," Erza calmly stated whilst pointing at the heavily injured man on the ground.

As soon as the bandits disappeared, everyone started cheering.

"Our hero!"

"Thank you very much for giving them the beating they deserved!"

"Yeah!"

"Shut up! How dare you speak to me. You don't deserve to be saved for being such cowards! Scram, get out of my sight!" Erza screamed, finally releasing her anger.

She turned back to the mother who was still on the floor crying from pain and helped her stand up. She smiled at the woman and the little girl which made them smile in return.

"Thank you very much for your help mam, please come inside, I may not have much but you can stay at my place for as long as you want." The woman said with gratitude.

Erza agreed, "But I have a companion with me, is it ok if she could come inside as well?"

The woman smiled, "Of course, the more the merrier!"

They entered the rundown shop and sat at a table at the back of the place.