A New Enemy

"Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" Natsu swung his arms forward, releasing a wave of flames that swooped up five of the wizards in front of him. All five of them slammed to the ground. A cocky grin appeared on the dragon slayer's face.

Three magical blasts then shot at him from the right, blasting him to the ground.

"Open gate of the scorpion, Scorpio." Lucy stuck out the golden key with a flash of light. The spirit appeared before her with his standard 'we' line. He shot out a sandstorm at the magicians in front of Lucy.

One of the wizards slammed his hand to the ground. "Rock Wall!" An earth wall rose in front of his group to shield them off from the spirit's attack.

"What!?" Lucy spoke in utter shock.

Gray who was half naked by this point placed his fist in his palm, pulling it back. "These aren't your run of the mill wizards. They're good." A magic circle appeared in front of his hands as he swung them forward. "Ice Make: Lance!"

Several ice lances flew forward at the wizards that were coming at him. The one in the front stuck out his hand to make a fire magic circle, shooting a stream of flames to melt the ice. Two of them requiped to have magic guns in their hands. They fired magical bullets at the half naked wizard.

Gray took up another stance. "Ice Make: Shield." He stretched his arms out to form the frozen blockade to stop the bullets.

The men that Natsu had knocked down earlier got back up ready to fight, until Erza came flying by them with her Heaven Wheel's armor. She quickly slashed through them, breaking off the matching bracelets they were all wearing.

The men all glowed and broke apart into dust, flowing into the sky. They all screamed curses at Fairy Tail's Fairy Queen. Erza looked back at the sight in utter confusion. "I don't understand what just happen."

A fire blast crashed down on the red hair. Black thick smoke rose up around her. A wizard holding a staff laughed. "That's what you get for messing with our guild mates."

"You came after us!" Erza came flying out of the smoke in her Flame Empress armor. She swung her blade across the man, sending flying to the ground. The impact was so hard the man slammed his arm on the ground, breaking his bracelet.

The wizard faded away as well.

"Scorpio!" Lucy shouted. The celestial spirit had been badly hit and forced back into his world to heal. A small tear formed in the blond wizard's eyes as her enemies merely laughed at the sight.

Happy grabbed Natsu by the back of his vest, pulling him into the air just as a wave of magical blast were coming at the dragon slayer. "Thanks, Happy."

"Aye, Sir." The two moved around in the air, trying to avoid more blast from making contact. "Natsu, what did you do to these guys to make them so angry at you?"

"Me? I haven't done anything to these guys," Natsu defended himself. He slammed his fist into his other hand. "But I'm about to do something now."

"Aye, Sir!"

Gray slammed his hands on the ground, freezing the field in front of him. The wizards that were charging for him slid on their backs while the one in the very back stopped before he slipped on the ice. He sent a magical blast at Gray.

Gray lifted his head to see the blast coming, but didn't have enough time to do anything about it. The ice make wizard was sent flying back. He bit down on his teeth and shut one eye in pain. "Urgh, I can't let these guys win."

Gray landed on his feet sliding back. The people he had sliding on the ice were now getting up to attack him once again. Gray grabbed his chest where he was blasted. "What's with these guys? It's almost like there on the same level as me and Natsu."

"Roar of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu shot a stream of flames from his mouth down on the enemies that were trying to blast him and Happy down, however the combine magic of his enemies canceled out his attack.

Natsu threw a fit in Happy's grip. "You've got to be kidding me! That should have taken those jerks out!"

"Natsu, I'm going to drop you if you keep moving around like that," Happy warned.

The pink haired wizard settled down, looking down at the smiling faces of the dark guild members. "I thought these guys were just some punks, but they're actually pretty good."

"So what are we going to do?" Happy asked in concern.

Lucy wrapped one of her opponents in her whip, holding him still while the other three rushed forward. Loke stood in front of Lucy. He thrust his fist forward. "Regulus Impact!" He shot of lion's face at the group, shooting them back and tearing through the ground.

One of the bracelets broke off, having him fade away as the other struggled to get back up to fight. "Did you see that?" Loke questioned.

"He faded away like a celestial spirit," Lucy said. "All they summonings?"

"No." Loke took up a battle stance. "They seem human to me, there's something we're missing here. However it does seem they disappear whenever they lose that strange bracelet on their arms."

"Then let's aim for those," Lucy said with a smile.

"Right."

"Ice Make: Hammer!" Gray slammed his ice make hammer down on one of the wizard's he was fighting, destroying the man's bracelet. The man faded away underneath the hammer. Gray looked at the sight confused. "What the-?"

Before he could questioned things any further the other five wizards came jumping at him. Gray was preparing his next spell when two went crashing down by Erza in her Back Wing armor. Both men's bracelets were cut off even though Erza hadn't yet to figure out that's why the wizards were disappearing.

She landed beside Gray. Gray looked over at the red haired woman. "Erza."

Erza spun around to face the enemy. "Let's take the rest of these clowns out and help Natsu and Lucy."

"Right."

Both of them got ready to take on the last three.

"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Natsu slammed his flaming fist right into one of wizards' faces, sending him flying backwards into a tree. The other five were coming at him when Happy skillful avoided their attacks. "Nice work, Happy."

Loke swung his fist covered in light at each of the remaining three wizards he and Lucy were fighting. He managed to break two of the three of the bracelets that left only one left who had managed to still be standing despite all of Loke's earlier attacks.

The last wizard came directly at Lucy, snickering. "Everyone knows summoner types are completely useless in close range combat." He charged ready to attack the blond straight on. Loke raced after him, determine to protect Lucy.

Lucy prepared her whip to fight the man. She wouldn't be taken down that easy and her eyes showed just as much resolve.

Suddenly an ice arrow shot through the group, breaking the bracelet on the man's arm. The man looked at the sight in horror. "Damn it!" He faded away like all the others.

Loke and Lucy looked over to see Gray, holding an ice bow with a smile on his face. "Gray!"

Natsu shot flames and Erza swung her swords, finishing the last of the group.

The members of Team Natsu met up again with Loke, returning back to the celestial world. "What was that about?" Gray questioned, rubbing the side of his head.

"That's a good question," Erza stated. She had returned back to her normal armor and folded her arms across her chest, looking down at the ground with a thoughtful look in her eyes. "Unfortunately they all disappeared before we could question them."

"Do you think that there are more of them?" Happy asked scared.

Erza looked over at the blue flying cat that was flying beside his best friend. "That's a strong possibility, but I've never seen that guild insignia before."

Gray folded his arms across his chest. "Do you think they're a new dark guild?"

Erza wrapped her hand around her chin. "Yes, that could be it." She placed one hand on her hip and looked up at the group. "At any rate we need to head back to Magnolia and report this to the master."

Natsu threw his fist into the air. "But what about our mission?" He was steaming as he was really looking forward to this one.

"It will just have to be given to someone else," Erza told him.

"My rent money," Lucy cried.

"Enough!" Erza lifted a sword into the air to get all of their attention. "This is too important to simply brush off. Now let's get moving."

"Yes, ma'am," they all said in fear.

"Well, that was a nice mission," Levy chimed.

"That mission totally sucked," Gajeel replied. He along with the Shadow Gear team and Lily had just finished a mission they had decided to do together. Gajeel had his travel bag hung over his shoulder. Night had fallen in the city they were in and they were heading for the last train of the day to get back home.

Levy looked over at the dragon slayer. "Then what would you prefer to happen?"

Gajeel looked over at the short girl. "Something interesting."

A huge explosion rocked the city, having Levy fall onto her hands and knees, Droy dropped flat on his back, and the others worked to keep their balance. The earthquake like feeling finally ended.

"What was that?" Levy asked.

Gajeel looked over to his right to see smoke rising from the middle of the city. "Looks like something's happening over there," he said with a smile on his face. "Come on, Lily." Gajeel ran toward the sight with his cat trailing behind him.

"Gajeel, wait!" Levy shouted.

The iron dragon slayer simply ignored her and continued on his way to see what was going on. Levy worried about him decided to follow suit and her teammates worried about her ran after her.

"Is this really a good idea?" Droy questioned.

"We're wizards, stop being such pussies would ya?" the black steel ordered. They quickly approached the sight, starting to see some flames above the rooftops that were in front of them. Screams and curses of men could be heard that greatly worried the Shadow Gear team.

They ran down a few more corners when Gajeel heard the voice of someone casting a spell. "Star Blaster!" Screams followed after it along with the ground shaking. More smoke rose into the air and the group of Fairy Tail wizards took the last corner they needed to, to see what was going on.

A single person in a cloak stood in the middle of the city square. The flames were gone only leaving behind smoke that quickly cleared. Golden dust rose into the air as well. Broken weapons lied on the ground.

Levy and the others looked at the sight totally confuse. Gajeel could smell other people were there just seconds ago. He took a step forward. "Hey, what do you think you're doing around here, pal?"

Levy covered her mouth frightened. She wasn't sure what this guy was capable of. The wind began to blow.

The man in the sandy brown cloak turned his head around to face the group. The Shadow Gear team all stepped back in fear while both Gajeel and Lily stood their ground. None of them could see the man's face due to the cloak, creating a shadow over his face.

The wind blew slightly harder, taking off the hood so all of them could see his face. He had spiky black hair that went every which way and red eyes just like Gajeel's, but his skin wasn't as tan. DJ headphones rested around his neck.

The mysterious young man stared directly at the Fairy Tail wizards with not the slightest emotion on his face. Still the sight was very confusing for the members of Fairy Tail. On the man's left hand was a blue and purple gauntlet.

"Who are you?" Gajeel shouted. A light radiated around the man then shot out, blinding the group. "Hey!"

When the light faded the man was gone with no trace of him left. "He's gone," Levy stated.

"Who the hell was that guy?" Gajeel said. He then looked at what appeared to have been a battle. There actually wasn't that much damage done to the area, nothing a day's work couldn't fix. The other thing Gajeel noticed were broken bracelets on the ground. "What really happened here?"

The man that Gajeel was wondering about stood on top of a hill not that far out of the city, looking down at it. He rested his arm on his knee, having his foot on a rock to have it lifted higher than the other.

"I see you took care of this area," a voice from behind him said.

A person in a cloak just like him walked up to him. "Sis," he simply said. The woman stood beside him. "This is one stupid plan."

"I take offense to that." The woman pulled down her hood to reveal her face; just like her brother she had black hair and red eyes. "It was the only way to make sure no one every puts our originals together." She looked down at her twin.

He looked up at her. "Our old man didn't say we had to do this."

"He did say they both he and mother freaked out when they learned about mom's pregnancy so earlier in their relationship," the woman responded back. "Right now, they aren't even dating and finding out about us may actually drive them apart then bring together. They still are young."

The black haired man looked back at the city. "Not that young, they were frozen for seven years." He smirked at the thought of it. "Besides don't we have to introduce ourselves to Fairy Tail soon and inform them about the enemy?"

"We don't have to tell them our history, Blot," the young female wizard stated.

"But did we have to go with red contacts and black hair?" Blot questioned. "We look like that iron freak Gajeel. They might not think we're the Master's kids, but they might consider us his."

"They're never guess we're father and mother's children this way," his sister stated.

"Let's just head to Fairy Tail already," Blot replied.

"No, there's something I want to check first."

Blot looked over at his sister Layla. "Is it about her?"

"That's your obsession not mine," Layla replied. "I believe our father is about to be targeted by one of the more elite members of Crime Spree. He should be on a mission with his team right now."

"Oh, we get to save the old man," Blot mused. "That should be interesting."

Layla turned around and started walking down the hill opposite of the city. "Let's get going."

Blot stood up and followed his younger twin. Blot narrowed his eyes with amusement. "Seeing dad as a young guy we don't get to see that every day." He looked over at his sister. "But I'm betting you want to see mom to see if the rumors are true since you don't seem to believe in old photographs."

Layla simply walked in silence.

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