hey guys
This is my first fairy tail story. I hope you like it!
May or may not be eventual Nalu...*grins evilly*
I'll try to update every week, but things happen.
Please read and review!
Above the temple, a battle raged. Three figures clothed in black faced off against a single ice-make wizard. As spears of ice plunged into the earth, the leader dodged, recovered, and sent a volley of liquid magma towards his foe.
Gray Fullbuster rolled out of the way just as the bush beside him was incinerated. He was beginning to feel the effects of the battle on his muscles, but he couldn't give up now. Another blob of flying lava dissolved the grass at his feet. Panting, Gray pounded his right fist into his left palm.
"Ice-make, Hammer!" He shouted.
Gray swung his giant hammer down hard, smashing one of his enemies into the ground. As the shards of the hammer scattered over the ground, Gray saw cracks appear in the weathered cobblestone.
"Not good." He muttered under his breath. "I don't know how much longer this place will hold up."
He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. One down, two to go.
The lava-mage let out a shout, and Gray felt the ground tremble. Within seconds, a powerful geiser of molten rock shot up, sending The Ice-Wizard flying.
Gray hit the dirt hard, letting out a groan as the wind was knocked out of his lungs. His back was badly burnt, and the white jacket he wore was completly singed. He threw it to the side.
Wincing at the raw flesh on his back, Gray pushed himself up. He gritted his teeth, and tried not to show how much pain he was in.
"Is that the best you've got?" He growled. "Pathetic."
Now, the second wizard stepped forward. "You simple-minded fool. You're beaten. Give up, and we'll let you live."
"Never." The Fairy Tail wizard spat. He threw his hand to the side, sending a wave of frozen spikes toward the two mages. "I won't stop until you and your guild are behind bars!"
The second wizard leapt away from the ice. He landed lightly on the crumbling steps, laughing softly to himself. "You're cute. But I'm afraid I can't let you or your friends get in the way."
Gray clenched his fists. "Ice-Make, Cannon!"
The blast knocked both of the dark wizards off of their feet, and sent the lava-mage flying into a tree. With a thunk, his head hit the trunk, and he crumpled to the ground.
"Two down." Gray wheezed. The burns on his back throbbed relentlessly, and his vision was beginning to blur from pain. But he wasn't going to let this man destroy the nearby villages with his crazy, extravagant scheme. "One to go."
The other wizard stood, unaffected from the blast. "I'll give you one last chance. Give up now, and I'll spare your worthless hide."
Gray gave him his best heroic glare. But with his sense of balance impaired, and his muscles turning to jello, Gray didn't feel very heroic. In fact, he was beginning to think that his opponent wasn't affected by anything Gray threw at him. "Will you shut up already?!"
As if on cue, the dirt beneath gray's feet turned to sludge. He felt the mud cover his feet, then his shins, beginning to seep up to engulf his knees. "Wha-What the heck is this?"
Gray lifted his leg up out of the mud, but when he did so, the other leg sank deeper. And when he put his free leg back on the liquified ground, it just sunk in again. He was even more stuck than before. "What kind of magic is this?"
The wizard laughed. "I am Sagoe, of the Black Sparrow guild. Because I use quicksand magic, you won't be getting out of there anytime soon."
Gray struggled harder, angered by the wizard's haughtiness. "What, you can't turn around and fight me on level ground? Let me go, and I'll show you just how powerful a fairy tail wizard can get."
Sagoe began walking away. "I'd love to, but I have somewhere to be. I'll send some of my friends to come get you soon, okay?"
Gray pounded his fist into his palm. "Ice-Make, Cannon!"
Nothing happened.
Gray let out a yell of frustration. "Come back here and fight me, you coward!"
By now, he was up to his waist in goop. He stopped trying to get out, and decided to freeze the mud instead. Placing his hand on the ground, he focused all of his magic energy into the expected it to instantly freeze, but nothing happened. Again.
"Crap!" Gray muttered. "It must be using anti-magic."
Looking around, Gray couldn't see any sticks or fallen branches that he could use to get out. The pool of quicksand was about ten meters across, and Gray was stuck right in the middle of it, unable to use his magic.
"Well, this is just great." He groaned. "Sorry, guys. Looks like I'm out of the game."
He ran his hand through his hair anxiously. Gray was supposed to stop them from getting to the village, where Erza and Lucy were trying to evacuate the villagers. And he had failed.
Because when Sagoe reached the village, there would be almost no one there to stop him from activating Goliath.
