I hope you guys enjoy this story! It's really fun to write and I'd appreciate if you could drop a review or whatever :) So basically the summary is crap, I know that but don't worry the oncoming chapters will have more humor I promiseeee. Just getting the scene set here! Please don't leave this page ! Ok byee.
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The Child In the White Cloak...
Chapter 1 - Fire beats Ice?
"Lucyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" Natsu Dragoneel, the fire wizard, drawled for his friend, Lucy Heartfilia.
He was perched outside of her bedroom window, bashing on it to get her attention.
She stirred in her sleep but showed no signs of waking up.
"Damn it." Natsu cursed. "I'm hungry."
His flying blue pet cat, Happy, replied with:
"Try opening it!"
Natsu squinted and then nodded. "Oh, I never thought of that."
He wedged his fingers under the window and used his 'super human' strength to get it open. But since it was locked and he pulled a little too hard, the window flew up and made a smashing sound.
Lucy jerked awake and jumped out of bed.
"Don't kill m..." She squealed but stopped when she saw Natsu smiling innocently at her. "NATSUWHATTHEHELLGETOUTOFMYHO USEYOUCREEPITSTHEMIDDLEOFTHE NIGHTWHATSYOURFRIGGINPROBLEM !?" She exclaimed waving her arms about.
"Uh... What?" Natsu scratched the back of his head completely unable to work out what Lucy had just said.
Lucy collapsed back onto her bed.
"Natsu. Why are you in my bedroom IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! Hey! DID YOU BREAK MY WINDOW!?" She shot a death glare at Natsu and he cowered.
"Argh! I'm sorrrryyyyyy! ((She's becoming just like Erza...))" He exclaimed.
She stomped past him and tried to pull the window down but failed in doing so.
"You broke my window." She growled. "Why are you here Natsu!?"
"I have something to show ya! ((She must just be acting like this cause she's tired, right?))" Natsu said enthusiastically.
Lucy sighed calming down, she sat on her bed and turned the light on.
"Well at least shut the curtains, the neighbours will be thinking someone came to murder me with all the shouting. And since you've broken my window, which you'll be paying for, people will hear us so talk quietly." She yawned after her declaration and stretched her limbs like a lazy cat.
Natsu's mouth twitched a little. (( I'll be paying for it? Dammit. I can't get out of this one.))
"Uh... I found this REALLY important mission from the board today and I was wondering if we could do it... See, it-"
"Hold on hold on hold on. So you're saying you broke my window, climbed into my bedroom, woke me and half the town up just so you could show me a MISSION!? Oh my god, I'm gonna kill you Natsu!" Lucy interrupted angrily, standing up and striding over to him.
"Wait! Before you kill me, listen." He waved the paper in front of her face.
She placed her hands on her hips and pouted angrily.
"Whatever, I'm listening."
"It's super cool, listen up. Apparently there's like, some sorta kid that's been going around in T'zuma. They can't tell if it's a boy or a girl and the kid has no parents and doesn't speak. But it's been causing havoc and they want the Fairy Tail guild to come and reason with it. It says the kid goes around in some sorta white cloak and has glowing eyes." Natsu watched Lucy's face change form angry to interested.
"The kid... You don't suppose, with the glowing eyes and all-"
"It's magic? That's what I was thinkin'." Natsu nodded. "D'ya think we could go check it out?"
Lucy grabbed the paper from him and read it aloud:
" 'Please help our city, T'zuma. A child nobody knows has been spotted various times hassling our citizens, some even get hurt. The child is a trouble maker and needs to be stopped. It has normally been seen with the appearance of a pristine white cloak and glowing eyes. Please come to our aid, this child is more powerful than you might expect.' ... Woah.." She nodded and after a pause she continued,
"This sounds awesome! Hey wait what's the rewar..." She scanned the paper and trailed off when she found the reward, it was 500,000 jewels. "WE LEAVE TOMORROW MORNING!" Lucy jumped with joy.
"Yahoo! We'll need to tell Gray and Erza about this though." Natsu grinned.
"Well there's my half a million gone." Lucy's smile faded.
"C'mon I'm sure they'll accept! I'll go and tell them in the morning so we can leave in the afternoon." Natsu said, enthusiastic as usual. Lucy sighed.
"Still I wonder why they'd be willing to offer so much money just to get rid of some troublesome kid. It must have created real havoc." Lucy said, trailing off into her own daydreaming.
"Who cares? We get money!" Natsu burst her dreaming bubble. "By the way can I have some food? I'm hungry?"
* * *
The next morning the sun was out and a warm breeze flew through the air.
"Perfect!" Lucy said to herself with joy. ((The suns out, its warm, so when we don't get to do this mission I'm going to chill.))
After Lucy was all ready for the day she picked up her cell phone and dialled for Natsu. There was no answer. ((Urgh, what's he got into now?))
She grabbed her bag and made her way out to Fairy Tail.
When she arrived at Fairy Tail no one was outside. ((Weird...Where is everyone?))
She walked over to the doors carefully, she was now officially creeped out.
The Guild hall was empty. She immediately expected that they had been kidnapped or something, until she heard someone say her name.
"L- Lucy!" It was Gray. He staggered over to her. He looked like he had been burned all up his right arm and that's not good. It would've have to have been Natsu's or another Dragon Slayer's magic to hurt him THAT bad- or maybe even stronger magic.
Lucy rushed over to him.
"Woah, are you okay!?" She helped him stand properly.
"Yeah. Just a scratch." He said with a wobbly voice.
"Yeah right! What happened?" Lucy said helping him down to a chair. She could feel anger brewing in her stomach. It had to be Natsu, right? But burning Gray like this was way too far. Gray could be too weak that he maybe wouldn't even be able to walk around for long.
"Well basically, this morning Natsu came in and showed me and Erza this mission that had a huge reward- he said you already knew about it- and asked if we could go together. We both agreed- even Erza- but when Natsu went outside and didn't come back for a while me and Erza went to find him. I came back here to see if he'd came back..." He coughed and clutched his head.
"Gray?!" Lucy said in alert.
"... I'm fine, okay!? Anyway he hasn't come back yet. I'd searched the whole guild, even the 2nd floor. But everyone had disappeared. Soon after that I heard footsteps behind me and when I turned around I blacked out then I woke up with this." he pointed to his damaged arm. "And that's all I remember."
"Oh god... This is bad..." Lucy said, her hands started to tremble. Gray smiled.
"It's okay. Let's go find Natsu and Erza. C'mon." He got up slowly and Lucy offered to help him to walk but he waved her off. "I'm okay, thanks."
They made their way out into the green long grass field behind Fairy Tail. After a while of looking and Gray tripping, the two found Erza. She was deeply troubled.
"ERZAAAAAAAAAAA!" Lucy shouted to her. Erza darted around and threw a knife at Lucy without knowing it was actually Lucy. Luckily it only scuffed her hair.
Lucy stood stock still, eyes wide and terrified. ((She's so scary!))
"Oh thank goodness I found you two!" She beamed. "I can't find Natsu! ... Gray? Are you alright?" She rushed up to Gray and Lucy.
"It's nothing." He looked away. Lucy stood absolutely still her jaw was dropped open and her eyes wide with surprise (she was still in shock after the knife thing plus Erza had even apologised!)
"That's not nothing!" Erza inspected Gray's wound. "That's no ordinary fire wound, is it? You being a powerful ice wizard you'd be able to fend it off or it wouldn't hurt you at all. Even Natsu's attacks wouldn't be as bad as this. Did they do this to you while you were unconscious or something?"
"God Erza you are good!" Lucy clapped.
Gray nodded and explained the situation.
"Everyone's gone? Even the master?" She looked astounded. After he'd explained.
"Yeah." Gray said quietly.
"Oh no... This is terrible. What if Natsu's gone along with them?" She frowned. "We must find him."
"Yeah well that's kinda what I thought we were doing the whole time-" Lucy started but Erza interrupted her.
"Let's go!" She raised her sword dramatically. "Firs-" a meow interrupted Erza.
"There you are!" A high pitched voice echoed from across the field.
Lucy and Gray exchanged glances.
"Is that...?" They said in unison.
Happy flew into their vision and landed on Lucy's head. Lucy batted him off and he hovered in front of them all.
"Happy!" Lucy said, already feeling relieved.
"Where's Natsu?!" Erza urged.
"He's coming!" Happy said. He turned around and exclaimed "NATSUUUU!"
"I'm comin! I'm comin!" Natsu's voice could be heard from across the field.
"Is he up a tree or something?" Gray asked. Happy shrugged in reply.
Sure enough Natsu came sprinting towards them from behind a tree.
He charged up to them angrily.
"Where is that kid!? I'm going to kill that little twerp!" Natsu directed his glare to Gray's arm. "What happened to YOU?"
"I don't kn-" Gray started distastefully.
"It was that kid wasn't it-" Natsu clenched his fists.
"Why cant you let me finish!-" Gray snapped.
"What!? Let YOU finish!? You just interrupted me!-" Natsu moaned.
"Shut up! You pink haired..." Gray stopped and Natsu grinned.
"HA! Ran out of insults!? I should think so to."
Erza punched him in the stomach.
"Shut up." She said to Natsu as Gray started swaying on the spot and going extremely pale.
"Gray? Are you alright Gray?" Erza shook Gray by the shoulders lightly.
After a few moments of silence, Gray's eyes widened and he tried to say something but it didn't make it out of his mouth and he collapsed.
"GRAY!" Lucy shouted as a bright light obscured Gray from their view.
"GRAY!?" Natsu and Erza exclaimed.
They all stood in anticipation. Natsu was wide eyed, Erza irritated and Lucy terrified.
Natsu was about to run into the light when it disappeared immediately and Gray was gone.
Natsu looked around himself in shock. After a minute of Natsu's angry mouth twitching and Lucy's disbelief, Natsu smashed his fist into the ground angrily.
"Natsu..." Lucy said softly.
"No! THIS IS MY FAULT!" Natsu shouted, making Lucy jump.
"Get a hold of yourself Natsu!" Erza kicked him in the face.
Natsu growled. "Hey! What was that for!?"
"For being a baby." Erza looked away. "This isn't even your fault."
"But it is! The person that's got Gray is that kid from the mission! It's a boy. He knew that we were coming to get him away from T'zuma so he came and killed Gray!"
"Gray's not dead." Erza said firmly. "There's no way Gray would die from an arm wound. Plus it was a child that caused it. He's-"
"Gonna die if we don't save him!" Natsu finished for her. Lucy stood nervously gnawing at her nails. What if what Natsu said was true?
"How do you even know all of this?!" Erza was getting frustrated.
"Because he told me!" Natsu shouted. "We need to get to T'zuma to get rid of this kid."
And with that, the trio started their adventure into the unknown. After all, Fairy Tail members do anything for their friends, right?