"So Shorty's here?"A boy around Erza's age wearing a crimson jacket and fingerless gloves with a silver chain around his neck looked at a raven haired boy wearing dark goggles,a white longsleeve shirt, faded blue jeans, black boots, a silver chain around his neck, with his right arm bandaged as they looked at Magnolia.
"Definitely, but remember we're here to stop Lucifer..."The boy put on his goggles and began to walk into town surprising his elder."Let's go Ryu."
"Hey I should be the one telling you what to do."
"Then what do you say we do?"
"Go into town."
"Dumbass."
"So your friends from when you were a kid are coming to visit?"Mirajane, Wendy, and Levy were talking with Lucy who sat at the bar smiling at a letter in her hand.
"Yeah! I'm super excited too...although..."
"What's the matter?"
"They had a third brother...his name was Kaito, Ryu the oldest had the muscle, Shotaro had the kindness...but he had the brains...he was killed in an attack..."
"What attack?"
"A Dragon attack on their town. He was stabbed in the chest by its tail."
"What happened afterwards?"
"I don't know...that's as much as they told me in the funeral...that day was the worst for them so I can tell why, their parents were killed by a collapsed building before Kaito died."
"Wow they've had it rough."
"But we still can't wait to meet them."
"I can't wait either. So do me a favor and keep Natsu as far away from them as possible."
"Why?"
"If he even saw a bit of their strength...we'd need to build another guild."
"Why are they strong?"
"When we were kids Ryu's magic was scary, the most he could've done back then was a chain but that chain was made of Hell Fire and it dragged anything he wanted to hell."The three girls shivered picturing that type of Magic as Lucy smiled."It was harmless though just a chain made of fire although now...I feel like he's scarier than Erza if he mastered it. Kaito had Ring magic and he made the coolest things like fake dragons using them."
"Like a light pen?"
"Yeah but they moved and flew and breathed until he snapped his fingers. But Sho...Sho was the coolest."Lucy looked up with a slight blush and smiled making Mira and Levy smile and nod at each other.
"You liiiiked him?"
"I DON'T NEED ANOTHER HAPPY! And I guess I did back then, he used Smoke Magic and it had a bit of fire magic since it had embers in it. But he took me up in the air like we were flying, we did small disappearing acts whenever our moms would get together to take whatever they were making or for Birthday parties to get sneak peaks at the gifts or pieces of cake."
"Little thieves?"
"But he doesn't use magic after that day...he tried to go back to save his parents and his arm got crushed by the building."
"Did he lose it?"
"No Ryu stopped the building from crushing it completely but it still broke it and glass cut it up. He doesn't use magic to avoid straining it but he also got his revenge..."
"Revenge?"
"He used his magic to kill the Dragon with help from Ryu."
"Who's Ryu?"The four girls jumped up in surprise as Erza walked up behind them and turned to face her.
"An old friend coming to visit."
"When?"
"Today in a few hours or so."
"Found them."A man with black spiky hair wearing a black robe with black wings on his back holding a black staff stared at the Guild making an evil grin form on his face. He dove down as the two boys began to run towards the Guild.
"Now or never...Lucy we need to talk."Natsu walked up to Lucy and pulled her away from her small group confusing her and giving her a small blush.
"What is it?"
"There's no easy way to say this...you're off the team so we can have Lisanna on."
"What?"Lucy began to tear up hearing what the Dragon Slayer just said until the man broke in through the ceiling causing all the Guild Members to get ready to attack him.
"Slow down there tykes."The man held out his hand slowing down everyone and flew down to Lucy and Natsu."Well well what do we have here?"
'I can't reach Loke or anyone else in time.'Lucy's thoughts were going at a normal speed as she tried to grab her keys but from the slowed down time her hand was stopped by the man who began to laugh.
"A Celestial Mage? How stupid, you'll be my first-"The man was interrupted by a ball of crimson fire hitting him making time go back to its normal speed making him turn to face the doors where the boys stood.
"Hey Shorty!"
"SHO! RYU!"
"That's them?"Mira was shocked seeing the brothers as Lucy ran up to them with tears of happiness.
"Hey Shorty."Lucy hugged the two making them hug her back before facing the man.
"How you been?"
"I've been great, who is that?"
"King of the Dark Angels: Lucifer."
"I got this, stay back."The elder brother began to run at Lucifer surprising the other two.
"RYU STOP!"
"Dark Wind."Lucifer raised his hand and fired a blast of purple wind at Ryu sending him flying out.
"Damn it, Lucy tell your friends to back off."
"No Sho, he picks a fight with us and he's got one."Lucy put a hand on Shotaro's shoulder making him stay still as Erza and Gray stood up ready to fight. Before the two could attack, a chain made of crimson fire grabbed Lucifer's arm making Lucy and Shotaro turn around to see Ryu with a clenched fist aimed at Lucifer making them smile.
"BRING IT!"
Ryu pulled out the end of the chain from making Lucifer go towards him and punched him in the face sending him flying. As he flew in the air, Ryu yanked it again making him dive down and punched him again. As he was sent up again, Lucifer spread his wings and sent out a gust of wind extinguishing the fire and sent Ryu on his back. He then put his wings in an x shape and spread them again making a gust of black wind in the same shape fly at Ryu.
"RYU!"
"ICE MAKE: ARROWS!"A storm of arrows made of Ice flew at the attack and destroyed it with some arrows flying past and going towards Lucifer. The man then closed his wings making the attacks shatter on it and look to see Gray in front of Ryu smiling."If you wanted a fight you got it."
"REQUIP!"Lucifer then flew up higher as Erza tried to hit him with Lightning in her Lightning Empress Armor making him chuckle."What's so funny!"
"It's funny that you think those will stop me. DARK STORM!"He twirled his staff around before swinging it making a colossal wall of black wind go at the three. Wendy tried to breathe in Lucifer's attack but fell down began to cough after doing it for only a second but the attack began to get bigger and bigger making Erza grab her and hold her tight making the man above them laugh.
"SMOKE DRAGON'S SULFER STORM!"Everyone except Ryu gasped seeing a colossal cloud of smoke with embers in it block the attack and looked to see Shotaro in front of it with his hands on the ground."Is she okay?!"
"I...I'm fine."Wendy struggled to stand up before regaining her balance making Sho smile.
"Thank god, LUCIFER WHY FAIRY TAIL!"
"That's like asking why did I go after you two on the other side of Fiore, because I need to."
"Why?"
"The World Eater."
"The World..."
"Eater?"
"What the hell is that!"
"If you think Zeref's E.N.D is bad...this is like its almighty mentor!"The group watching gulped before seeing Natsu try to hit Lucifer.
"I DON'T CARE NO MATTER WHAT IT IS: IT ISN'T GOING TO EAT OUR WORLD! FIRE DRAGON'S-"
"Death Freeze."Lucifer held out his hand unleashing a blast of cold air freezing Natsu in place as his fist was covered in fire making it die. Lucy gasped and covered her mouth as all of Natsu's color left his body leaving him grey as he began to fall to Earthland.
"I got him."Shotaro turned into a cloud of smoke and caught the Fire Dragon Slayer before he touched the ground and set him down as Lucifer began to leave.
"You saved him this time, but next time, there's going to be a different outcome."
"It's..impossible...Natsu's heartbeat is slowly stopping and-"Porlyusica and Wendy stopped trying to heal Natsu as they began to grow exhausted making Lisanna and Lucy tear up and Makarov look away. But they looked in shock as Shotaro walked up to the slowly dying boy and opened his hand making a small ball of his smoke appear.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"Lisanna tried to stop the boy but he already opened Natsu's mouth and put the ball inside of it and closed his eyes.
'Death Freeze releases a blast of cold air freezing the lungs stopping all the oxygen flowing inside and slowly killing the victim of the attack.'He then put two fingers on Natsu's throat and slowly moved them down to his chest.'If I can use the embers in my smoke and expand it, it should thaw out his lungs and if I pull it out in time, he'll be breathing making all the oxygen return.'He opened his hand wide and opened his eyes and put pressure on it making Natsu begin to cough. He trailed his hand back up letting out all the smoke as Natsu began to breathe heavily making everyone sigh in relief.
"Th-Thanks. What was that thing he used on me?"Natsu opened his eyes and sat up looking seriously at Shotaro making him look just as serious.
"Death Freeze, it unleashes blast of cold wind that enters the lungs and freezes them unless they're thawed out within ten minutes where then the effects of someone needing CPR kicked in."
"How do you know this?"
"I was hit with it not too long ago and Ryu had to do the same thing to me."
"You guys have some explaining to do and I say you start it off."Makarov jumped onto Natsu's bed and looked at Shotaro making him nod in agreement.