Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.
Lucy's POV
"Ice make, Demon Lance!" Gray commanded.
A crash through the wall distracted Natsu and myself of his impending danger.
As Grays lance launched towards Natsu, something stopped it. I hid my eyes. I couldn't, wouldn't, watch the scene before me. I could only scream Natsu's name.
"Seal of time." a gurgled voice commanded.
-Gray's POV
"You can't kill him." A girl stated. She had blocked my attack on Natsu with her body. Blood was dripping slowly from the corners of her mouth. I retracted the lance from my arm. The girl was dress scantily, not the most scantily I've seen but relatively so. An orange and red bikini top paired with a navy blue shawl and blue jean shorts, that in no way will ever reach her knees; no shoes.
"Who are you?" I demanded.
"Re..d...Red..garden. Redgarden" She gurgled. "Tera." A set of chest wrenching coughs set in. Dropping her head, I noticed her hair looked similar to Wendy's, only much shorter and wilder. Looking at me her singular red eye held something similar to determination. "I'll have to kill you...if you kill him."
"Why is that? What makes you think you can kill me?" I challenged. I willed new lance to push though the girl's body; who let out a scream that could be hear all across Fiore. A small mirthful smile took up the corner of my lips.
Breathing heavily, Tera looked at me, with lightning and fire behind the eye. Her other eye had been sown shut in an 'X'. "He isn't supposed to die here." She gripped the lance and began pushing herself back, I urged it more to go through her. Letting out another scream, Tera used, what looked like, all of her strength to get past the tip. Dropping to her knees, the girl began mumbling. "I..." She coughed up a small pool of blood. "I can't die here either."
"Just stay down." I deadpanned. Tough.
"Can't do that." Looking at me with that eye, she pushed herself up slowly. Once she was half standing, she made a brown magic circle in her right hand and a black and blue one in her left. She raised her right arm, slowly, more likely to help draw magic power, as she stood fully up. With those wounds, she can't do much. I can see three of her ribs. "Slayer mudslide cave!" She clasped her hands together and pulled them to her, rather small, chest.
In an instant mud had surrounded me. "Ice ball!" I shouted, freezing the mud around me.
"God slayer, Water whips!" Two black fluid whips crashed through the ball. Tera had ascended the mud ball at least twenty feet.
Upon my descent I made a slide, which one of her whips shattered. Jumping the rest of the way, I made lances out of both my arms. "Water God Slayer." I solemnly stated.
"Ice Demon Slayer." She retorted.
"Tera Redgarden, huh?" Since becoming a Demon Slayer, Juvia and I had spent six months training. I had found that I could manipulate ice of any form in a thirty meter radius. "Why is it that you have the determination of a Fairy Tail member? Did Natsu Shanghai you into joining that band of losers?" A large chard of ice had skidded behind my opponent. While the blue haired girl held her stomach in, I had willed that chard to alter into a dagger.
"You might actually believe me if I told you the truth." She managed to get out before a set of chest wrenching coughs took over.
"Try me."
"Let's just say I'm a legacy." Spitting out blood. "My parents are, well were, Fairy Tail."
"Who?"
"You'll have to kill me to get that information." Tera's face had dropped all forms of pain and went to a hard yet sedated grin, her solo eye held no room for jokes and none for remorse. "You gonna use that pig sticker?" the bluenette asked while holding my gaze.
Just as shock was emerging onto my face, a black and blue whip had sent me into a series of stone walls.