April 22, 2014 to April 22, 2014
Disclaimers: I do not own any part whatsoever of Fairy Tail.
Summary: Once the deed has been committed, it has been committed. There is no turning back. Enjoy! And don't forget to review please!
Chapter 1
The sun shone brightly upon the town of Magnolia from the cloudless sky. It was the perfect day to take a nice, long walk around the port with the breeze of the sea blowing by. It was also the perfect day to go shopping at the market for some sweet deals. Even better, it was the perfect day to...
Go on a job.
"Hmm... which one looks easy to do?" a blonde-headed girl mumbled to herself. It wasn't everyday that Lucy Heartfilia could pick out her own request, and it wasn't everyday that she embarked on a job by herself. A certain poster caught her eye, and immediately she reached out for it to tear the paper off the board.
"Lucy!"
She groaned and turned her head to the sound of her name. It was no other than Natsu Dragneel, and his blue companion, Happy.
"What you up to?" Natsu inquired with a big smile. He noticed her hand on the request board and knew exactly what was up. "A new job? Why didn't you tell us, Lucy?"
"Yea, Lucy! Why didn't you tell us?" asked Happy, hovering over Natsu's left shoulder. "We're a team, aren't we?"
"Of course we are," Lucy answered meekly, retracting her hand from the board. "I just wanted to do one on my own... a not-so dangerous one..."
"Since when have we ever gone on a dangerous mission?" Natsu asked obliviously, turning to his partner. "Right, Happy?"
"Aye, sir!"
Where were these two during all those missions that placed their lives on the line?! "Like, every time?!"
"Now, now, if Lucy wants to do something else, we should comply with her," another voice spoke up. It was none other than Erza Scarlet, one of the more rational members of their team. Lucy sighed in relief. Thank goodness someone understood her.
"Of course, we'd go as a team as always," said Erza.
"But it's just tending to someone's garden for 2000J!" piped Lucy, running a hand through her blonde hair. "One person is surely enough to handle the job."
"Nonsense," responded Erza, "We're always a team, and we should stick together on our missions."
"Erza's right, Lucy," chimed in Gray Fullbuster, who stood up from his seat at the bar and walked towards the four of them. "Where you go, we go. We're Fairy Tail, after all."
"Wow, for once you said something inspirational," droned Natsu, with Happy cackling on the side.
"Aye!"
"You flaming bastard, you picking at my words of wisdom?" shouted Gray as he approached Natsu and bumped foreheads with him.
"You icy prick, you wanna fight?"
Shots were fired.
"Alright, alright!" interrupted Lucy, tearing the request from the board. "Let's get to the garden, shall we?"
"Oh, thank you so much for doing this, Fairy Tail," said the elderly woman as she rocked on her porch. "It's always nice to have you youngsters help out."
Team Natsu was currently attending to a resident's garden in the countryside, outside of Magnolia. Natsu was busy spewing his flames to burn down the unwanted weeds in the garden with much accuracy, with Happy vigorously cheering him on. Gray, on the other hand, calmly pulled them out with his brute strength, not utilizing his Ice Magic at all.
"It's our pleasure," replied Erza, requiped in a sundress and a straw hat. "We consider this as training."
"Training, huh..." mumbled Lucy as she bent down and began to pull out an obnoxious looking weed. But for some reason, it wouldn't budge. She exerted more strength from her arms to pull the plant out, but to no avail.
"Stupid... weed..." she grumbled, "This calls for some help.
"Open the gate of the Maiden, Virgo!"
A bright light shone in the middle of the garden, and soon enough appeared Lucy's Celestial Spirit, Virgo.
"Is it time for punishment, Princess?"
Lucy tousled her hair in exasperation. "Of course not! I just need you to help me pull this weed out."
"Of course," complied Virgo, "As you wish, Princess."
Virgo squatted next to Lucy, placed her hands around the weed and began to pull. The weed, however, stubbornly remained in place, rooted to the ground.
"Well, this is frustrating... what kind of a weed is this?!" sighed Lucy. "Try digging a hole, Virgo."
"As you wish, Princess."
Virgo leapt into the air and came down with much force...
"Spica Hole!"
...only to crash flat onto the ground, not having burrowed into the dirt at all.
"Virgo?! What happened?" asked Lucy as she rushed to her Celestial's spirit side.
"Princess," started the Maiden, "I think we have a problem."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't think this is a weed."
"Huh? What are you talking-"
Lucy was cut off from finishing her sentence as the ground began to violently shake.
"What's going on?!" shouted Lucy in a panicked manner. She turned her head to her guild mates, who then just began to experience the tremor.
"Be careful, everyone!" warned Erza, requiping to her usual armor. "Natsu, Gray, take the grandma inside quickly!"
"What!" shouted Natsu as the ground continued to move erratically, "I wanna fight too!"
"You really got guts to defy Erza, huh?" questioned Gray loudly as he placed a hand on the ground to steady himself. "Just do as she says!"
"Why don't you do it then?!" bellowed Natsu, giving Gray the death glare.
"Obviously you should do it!" yelled Gray, returning that threatening stare. "She said your name first!"
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
"You want at it, huh?"
"Both of you..." angrily ordered Erza as she turned her head towards their direction, "Why isn't the grandma inside already?!" Her stare gave the two mages chills down their spines.
"Aye, this isn't the time for that, look at the ground cracking!" observed Happy as he flew into the air..
The ground stopped trembling violently and instead jagged lines appeared on the surface of the earth. Before they knew it, the entire garden was uprooted and destroyed by the elevating appearance of a large, round monster that was rising from below the ground. Flowers and weeds alike were flying everywhere. And Lucy.
"...I thought this wasn't supposed to be a dangerous mission?!" shrieked Lucy as she tumbled from the top of the living mound to solid ground, with Virgo cushioning her fall.
The dirt finally stopped showering from above as the monster came into view with the sunlight shining upon it. It was a large, rotund mass with numerous fat rolls, wrinkles, and weird colored spots on its skin. Its eyes were bloodshot red, its nostrils were the size of moon, and its mouth was lubricated with what appeared to be wet slime. Its limbs were fairly short compared to its huge body size, and the supposedly obnoxious looking weed was actually the single strand of hair the beast had.
"How dare you ruin my hair?!" roared the monster, its sound reverberating throughout the entire field. "This is my one and only hair, you fools!" The monster took one step forward from its hiding hole towards Lucy and Virgo, and both of them immediately made a dash for it.
"This isn't what I signed up for!" screamed Lucy with flailing arms as she ran as fast as her feet could carry her.
"Requip!" commanded Erza as she jumped past Lucy in path, "Heaven's Wheel Armor!" Titania's many swords flew towards the monster, striking it off balance as it tumbled backwards.
"Gray!"
"You betcha!" said the Ice Mage with a smirk as he leapt from the grandma's porch towards the enemy. "Ice Make Floor!"
"Aghhhh," groaned the monster in dizziness. The ground had converted from earth to ice and did not aid the monster's situation as it spiraled endlessly from the lack of friction.
"And for the final move," appeared Natsu from the air as he sucked in his breath, with Happy supporting him. "Roar of the Fire Dragon!" A huge wave of red flames encased the monster in a heat of fury as it screamed in pain and agony, burning away both the ice and the one and only hair to the monster.
Shit.
"I'M BALD!" screamed the monster in anger.
"How dare you do that to my hair, you imbeciles!" Its eyes went from bloodshot red to who knows what color possible. "You shall pay for this!"
"Natsu, why did you have to do that?!" yelled Lucy, who was cowering on the side and was just about ready to flee from the fight.
"What, it's not like I meant to. Geez, Lucy," coolly replied the Salamander.
"But now he's angry, Nat- heeeee!"
The monster was indeed angry, as it exploded into a fury. Literally, exploded into a fury. It disassembled itself into multiple parts, as if it had created minions from its own body. "Have a taste of this, you troublemakers!" Little replicas of the monster began swarming around the team members, climbing onto their feet and legs.
"Heeee Natsu, get this off me!" squealed Lucy, as she shook her legs as an attempt to rid of the minions.
"I'm coming for you Lucy!" said Natsu as he ran towards his teammate. "Roar of the Fire-"
Her eyes widened in immediate fear, and both of her hands covered his mouth. "No you stupid! Not that!"
"Mphhmmmmf mmmpfhfhfh?!" muffled Natsu.
"Do something, Natsu!"
"Mhmmmfphh mpphhhfffmmm mffmmfmfmmpph!"
"This is a problem," stated Erza as she continued swinging her swords precisely at the little enemies. "There's just too many of them."
Gray leapt beside Erza, backing her up with his freezing magic. "If we could find the source to all of this, we could end this quickly."
An idea suddenly came to Lucy's head. "I've got it!" She released her hands from Natsu's mouth and whipped out another one of her Celestial keys.
"Open the gate of the Crab, Cancer!"
"What is there to cut today-ebi?" said Cancer as he made his appearance.
"Give the monster a nice hairdo, would you?" sweetly asked Lucy with a grin. This definitely had to work.
"Ebi."
Cancer jumped towards the monster with his scissors and efficiently gave the enemy a new style.
"What do you think of this-ebi?" asked Cancer as he gave a mirror to the monster for it to look at itself. The beast stared at himself with what seemed to be killer intent and disapproval through his reflection, continuously narrowing his eyes.
"Was I always this beautiful?"
Everyone incredulously stared at the monster. How stupid could this thing actually be?
"Well, I'm off to sleep then! Good night, kitties." The monster turned around and gave them all a wink. "Just don't mess with this new hair of mine, alright?"
"...of course not," unanimously mumbled the mages.
The little replicas soon returned to their owner and merged with the monster before it burrowed underground, leaving a huge hole in the middle of the field. How they were going to restore the garden to its original beauty, no one knew.
"There goes my money," heavily sighed Lucy.
Instead of merging with its original owner, a separate, small green blob was making its way towards the forest. It shuffled through the grassy plains in a swift manner, as if it were in a rush to get somewhere. In no time at all, the little minion seemingly arrived at its destination, having stopped before a large tree.
"So did you retract some of the magic from the Celestial Spirit mage?" inquired a husky voice. The blob did some motion indicating a positive answer.
A small sliver of white could be seen in the shadows of the forest.
"Excellent. We're going to need it for our experiments, after all."
Owari.
A/N: It's been quite a while since I've written something, and it's with my new obsession, Fairy Tail. I hope you readers will enjoy what I have in store in the future despite a light-hearted beginning. Please review and give me any feedback! I am very happy to be criticized because there is always room for improvement. Arigatou!
Ja ne, and I do not own any part of Fairy Tail!
Eternal-Angel