Author's note: Hello minna! I'm very happy to start this story and I'm all the more happy to finally write this first chapter. Please leave me your reviews and let me know if there's something really wrong or really great in this story. And remember
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And really sorry about my first attempt when I forgot to write an ending to this chapter, but now it's finally all settled. And I'm sorry that this chapter have to end like this, but you wouldn't read anymore if it wasn't so unfinished :D
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Disclaimer: I do not own fairy tail and I do not really even own this plot, but I do own the scenery at least :D
It was a dark rainy night. The street lamps tried their best to bring at least a small piece of light to the city, but it wasn't very sufficient. The only source of light was the thunder which occasionally struck the sky. Most of the city was without electricity, which wasn't so troublesome at night.
In one window a weak light of a candle lit up a tall woman with scarlet hair tied up in a stern bun. She wore a suit with a red tie and despite the darkness she wore sunglasses. From her stance you could see a strong authority and a strong personality. Her glare could pierce through all resistance.
In the chair there was sitting a man who wore a black cloak. His gaze seemed amused and somehow sickening. He was completely confident and had a scary aura around him. Weaker characters might have succumbed beneath his feet if he wanted to, but this woman wouldn't do that in million years. There was a clash of wills in this quiet room. The tense was almost palpable.
"You know why I am here, Mr. Jose." she said with her fierce voice. The said man chuckled with his sickening scary sound. Then he looked at her arrogantly giving her a clear message that he watches her from above. "Erza Scarlet: an agent from secret police agency, which specializes in super dangerous cases. This agency is called Fairy tail, is it?" he chuckled arrogantly. "That's a very stupid name for an agency with such a dangerous specialization, in my opinion." he then smiled. Erza had never thought that a smile could be this dark and ugly. But her face stayed strong as always. Her determination was above her emotions.
"Jose Porla: accused of dealership, providing services of assassins, robbers, burglars and hackers. You're the head of an infamous mafia group called Phantom lord. Shall I also express my opinion about this name, or can we get to the point of our encounter?"
Her voice stayed calm and composed even though she was ready to pierce this man with glare only if necessary.
Jose laughed amusedly. "As we can see, the introduction isn't necessary here. We both have some important information about each other. You came here to arrest me even though you have no evidence that what you accuse me for is true or not."
"There are many witnesses. That's enough evidence for me to arrest you."
"You have some unyielding attitude there. What a pity that you work for the police. You could be a queen of the underworld in my mafia group."
"Is this an invitation? If that's the case I must reject your offer."
"I thought so. For a fierce woman as you to switch sides so easily would be inappropriate. But I'm afraid I also do not want to accept your invitation to jail."
"I'm afraid you have no choice." she said and took a step closer to him.
"Is that so?" he chuckled again and stood up.
Erza suddenly gasped as she felt an iron blade pointed at her throat. A drop of blood flew down her neck. Jose laughed cruelly. "I hope you didn't think I would go without any trouble." he took the candle in one hand. "I've worked really hard to achieve this status and I won't let go so easily." He walked to the door. Erza watched him with the same determination even though her life was now in danger. "Miss Erza, I hope you'll enjoy the company of two of my most capable assassins. Farewell." He said slyly and walked off the room with the only source of light. The room stayed completely dark.
Erza didn't move a muscle. She tried to catch a sight of at least one of the assassins, but it was impossible in this utter darkness. There would have been complete silence if not for the persistent rain outside. Erza clenched her teeth. 'I have no time for this.' she thought.
A loud thunder sounded outside and that was the start of everything. Erza thrust her elbow into the belly of the behind her standing assassin. She afterwards managed to take his wrist in an iron grip and twisted his arm in a painful stance. The man screamed in sudden pain and then Erza heard the second assassin from behind her. He was pointing a long knife ready to thrust in her back, but she dodged and he hurt his partner's twisted arm. The man screamed again. Erza struck the surprised second assassin in his belly and he fell down unconscious. Erza panted heavily. She hadn't been sleeping well a few nights and this case was tougher then anyone thought it would be. She came into this place not in her best condition and now she saw it was a mistake. She wasn't so ready to fight as she assumed.
She suddenly felt a stabbing pain in her arm. She hissed out of pain. The conscious man managed to get the knife out of his arm and stab hers. She tried to knock him out with a high kick. He dodged it and was ready to attack her again, but she suddenly changed the direction of her kick and hit his head. He fell down unconscious next to his knocked out partner.
Erza hissed again as she took out the knife in her arm. 'Damn it, this was my favorite suit.' she thought as she tried to stop the bleeding. 'Ok, this is no time for nursing my wounds. I need to follow Jose.' She torn a piece of cloth of the assassin's clothes and bandaged her wound as quickly as possible. She run through the door Jose escaped determined to find him and catch him once and for all. He managed to escape too many times. She wasn't willing to let him escape now.
In the next room there welcomed her the same darkness as in the previous. Erza touched her sunglasses and activated the night vision. It came very handy in situations like this.
Nobody was in there so she ran into the next room. It was much bigger room lightened by a single candle on the other side of the room. Erza looked around but couldn't see anyone.
She felt a sudden pain in her forehead and her sunglasses fell down broken. A small knife crashed into the wall from her right. Her vision was blurred by her blood pouring from her forehead. She wiped the blood with the back of her hand and looked to the place from where the blade was thrown.
"So you are not as undefeatable as it is said." a sly voice said. She saw Jose standing in front of her with a long knife. He attacked here suddenly and without mercy. She managed to dodge it but she had to wipe the blood from her eyes once again. The little while of the lack of attention was enough for him to strike her in leg. She hissed in pain and jumped away from him. She grasped her wound. It was pretty deep and bleeding badly. She should have treated it soon, but she knew it would be difficult in the middle of action. She glared at Jose. "Why don't you use a gun? It would be much easier." she said provocatively.
"I prefer this old fashioned mode. It's much more painful and quieter."
He attacked again. She dodged and tried to knock him out as she did to those assassins but he blocked her kick and grinned. "I am not as those low level assassins." He shoved her back and she had some difficulties not to fall to the ground. "So then why did you send them after me?" He smiled with his sickening glare "To test you obviously." and he attacked again.
"You despicable swine!" she shouted at him and tried to dodge his attack but failed. He cut the side of her belly and she hissed again. She was losing too much blood too quickly. 'If this doesn't end quickly enough I can say goodbye to my consciousness.' she thought as she dodged his next attack.
"You're not so bad, Miss Erza. I'm just really sorry that you do not work for me. I wouldn't have had to kill you then." he said insincerely and stabbed. He managed to cut the side of her belly again. She jumped away from him so she could catch her breath, but the pain was now excruciating and her eyes were getting blurry. She panted heavily as he slowly approached her.
"Now that I recall, weren't you the one who survived my attack on Fairy tail? You were lucky to survive and now you even came to fight me? How admirable." He said ironically and stabbed again. He managed to brush her arm and she jumped away again.
"And then again, you managed to get here through my troops in this building and are still standing. You are a very strong or a very reckless person." He stabbed her thigh and she fell to the ground holding her wound, hissing in pain. He leaned over her with his arrogant glance and said "Goodbye, Miss Scarlet. You've made me a pleasurable company."
He readied himself for the final blow.
„Erza!"
A familiar voice screamed and Erza snapped out of her pain just in time to dodge Jose's blow. This one would have been the last, indeed. Both Jose and Erza looked in the direction from where the voice called her name. There stood a young panting man in a white torn shirt with black hair. Jose smiled widely.
"Look at him. He seems to be your friend, isn't he?"
Instead of an answer he received a kick in his chin, which instantly knocked him out.
Erza stood above him panting, trying to catch her breath. She looked at the man who saved her life.
"Good timing, Gray."
The said man observed her and replied: "Could have been better, don't you think?"
"That doesn't matter. Look, we've finally got him. I knew this job would be tough, but I've never imagined it would take three months to get him."
Gray smiled upon their well done work and tied Jose, till he was still unconscious. When he finished, he looked at Erza's wounds. "Reinforcements are on their way here. We can leave it in their hands. Now, we should get you to a doctor, your wounds seem pretty badly."
"Like you're the one to talk, look at yourself first." she said amusedly.
"OK, both of us need to see a doctor." he answered with a smile. Both of them started to walk off them room when a loud thunder sounded.
Suddenly they heard something more than a thunder: plastic explosives. A chain reaction was now set off through the building. Erza shouted at Gray: "Run!" and both of them tried to escape the inescapable explosion. They managed to get to the first floor, but still were far from an entrance. They had the explosion in their backs. Erza had bled too much and Gray knew there's no way she would have made it to the entrance even without the time limit. He did the first thing that crossed his mind. He embraced Erza before she fell to the ground unconscious and jumped out of the window. The explosion flew through the corridor where they'd been a second ago. But the fire managed to catch them and burnt Gray's skin as he tried to protect Erza with his own body. When the fire disappeared, Gray looked to the ground and found out that the first floor wasn't as low as he predicted. He hugged Erza tighter in an attempt to protect his partner and prepared himself for a hard fall. The impact of his back with the ground knocked out his breath and then he lost consciousness…
