The Passing
(A/N: ...This story isn't going how I planned, BUT! I will try and make it go with the flow, sorry if the last chapter was a little confusing, hopefully that it will be much easier to understand this time. This chapter is a little rushed, so sorry, I just really want to get though the next two chapters for the 'exciting' part!)
Erza was the first to wake up and remembered that she was in Lucy's room. The rest of them were still sleeping, so she decided to get up and change in the bathroom. Lucy's bathroom door didn't have a lock so she had to do it fast, hopefully. Reequipping into her armor she always wore, she fixed her hair and continued to do her daily routine. But her gut was telling her that something really bad happened to something, but she couldn't put her finger on it. It made her uneasy. She immediately heard the door creak open slowly and summoned her sword and pointed it at the one at the door.
"Eep!" Lucy shrieked and fell on the floor, "Its me! Lucy!"
The red head took a sigh of relief and lowered her guard. Her friend closed the door and started changing as Erza brushed her hair. "Do you have that feeling..?" Erza trailed off.
"Huh? What feeling?" Lucy replied as she slid her skirt on.
"That something bad happened." Erza mumbled with a sigh. This day was not going to be a fun one, she knew for a fact. Every little move could get her on edge and make her draw out her sword.
"...Yes I've been gett-" Before she could finish her sentence the door creaked open again and Erza slashed her sword at the user, but thank god, Gray dodged it by a millimeter, cutting off some of his hair.
"What the hell was that for Erza!" Gray said like a little kid. Getting almost slashed by Erza was not a pretty moment to say the least.
"I-I'm sorry.." Erza apologized. "Let's get to the guild." She quickly left the room, and the house, waiting for them to get out.
The ice mage looked at the door frame she just left out of in confusion. "Whats up with her?" He asked Lucy. Little did he know, Lucy still was topless with a bra on, and he accidentally stripped down while he was sleeping, and only had his boxers on.
Lucy's face was red as Erza's hair, if possible. "G-Get out!" She yelled as she chucked whatever was in her hand. It did hit Gray, but what she threw was her underwear at his face. Gray panicked and ran out the room with the underwear drifting on the floor. Yep, Today was going to be a long day.
After everyone was outside(Natsu was the last one to wake up and took the window), they walked down the streets of Magnolia to their place they considered home, as they were getting whispers and people gossiping about them.
"..Why is everyone giving us stares like that..?" Lucy quietly commented. When she didn't get a reply from the group, she saw them with their jaws almost dropped and followed on what they were looking at.
It was the Guild.
It was completely covered in steel spikes and tubes, as if it was an attack from the inside.
Natsu and Happy quickly ran inside the guild, followed by Erza, Gray, and Lucy, going to where they heard talking of their Guild members.
The members had glum looks on their faces as Natsu and Happy on his shoulder made their way to Makarov.
"Ah, Natsu, you're here?" The master slurred his words.
"Whats the meaning of this?!" Natsu exclaimed, obliviously enraged.
"Phantom Lord attacked us.." Makarov said as if it were nothing, he then chugged down another cup of booze.
"Then lets attack them back!" Natsu yelled. This man didn't even care that this place most of us call home got destroyed!?
Erza, Gray, and Lucy ran in and saw Natsu yelling at the master.
"Natsu, that's enough. Master probably has a reason for this we don't know. Lets not make this worse by starting a guild war with them." Erza demanded sternly.
This was infuriating. His number one place just got destroyed and they act like nothing happened! Without thought, Natsu destroyed one of the boxes nearby and left the basement of the guild. Everyone just stared at the stairway and continued to do whatever they could to make the basement of the guild more homey.
All Lucy and Gray could do was look back at the master and where Natsu left. They followed where they could and saw that a group of people were pointing towards the guild, stating the obvious.
By now, Erza caught up with them and finally caught up with Natsu as well. They didn't know where to go, so they just wandered to the park. Natsu, accidentally bumping into someone with a red cloak-like cape, they dropped one glove with a strange symbol of a salamander on the top of it.
"Woah, sorry," Natsu apologized, then picked up the glove. It felt like sandpaper, yet it was soft. But then before he could admire it some more, the stranger snatched the glove back and walked away.
The hooded figure quickly walked away, as Natsu stood there dumb-stricken. What was that about? All of them wondered. He has a weird scent... The dragonslayer thought to himself. And shrugged it off.
"Hmph, I guess that's what's you get for touching other peoples property.." Gray said in a monotone voice.
"I think that's kinda obvious Gray..But they didn't have to be so rude about it." Lucy said as the Team advanced forward. "So what do we do now?"
This time, Erza responded. "Best bet is to wait for Master's orders-" And got cut off by a certain fire mage.
"Why don't we just charge in Phantom Lord's guild right now?!" Natsu said angrily. He felt like nobody was putting much thought into this, well he cant really say that because he's just suggesting to do a full out assault.
"-and wait on his decisions. Natsu, we can't act on our own, its childish. We have to wait until we even get clarification to do anything involving Phantom Lord." Erza responded stern as ever.
When they got to the park, people were surrounding a tree? Team Natsu got closer and closer and saw that Team Shadow Gear was pinned on the tree, with a black symbol of Phantom Lord painted on Levy's stomach. Blood and sweat dripped down on all three bodies as Team Natsu scrambled to take them down.
Lucy couldn't do much, all she could do was cover her mouth as Natsu, Gray, and Erza struggled to take them down as...CRUNCH!
It was Makarov that was enraged more than ever. In a dark venomous voice, he spoke, "It's one thing to destroy the Guild of Fairy Tail, but it's another to HURT MY CHILDREN! FROM NOW I DECLARE WAR ON THE GUILD KNOWN AS PHANTOM LORD!" He angrily announced. Everyone looked at him in shock as they rushed Team shadow gear to the infirmary.
When they got there, Lucy stayed by Levy's side while Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord clashed.
Natsu was the one to barge in the Phantom Lord doors as he yelled, "Hey bastards! It's your turn to get turned in by Fairy Tail! Fire Dragon ROAR!" He announced as he started the war with his dragon slayer magic.
The battle was an even match, but they didn't notice the two figures watching the battle from above. "What made them so furious with us, Gajeel?" A man with bandages on his eyes spoke.
The other one smirked, "Let's just say I gave them a little symbol present from us." This one had black hair that went down to his back and piercings on his face as if it were his eyebrows and on his nose.
What those two didn't notice was another figure higher above them watching the battle, with the red hooded cloak watching the battle above. He spoke, "More lives are going to be wasted in this useless, battle." as if the boy were enraged.
By now, Makarov went upstairs by himself and went to talk with Jose, the leader of Phantom Lord. "Jose! Where are you!" He angrily demanded.
"Oh Makarov, will you learn this time that we're stronger than you?" A dark eerie voice said from the shadows. "We can play fair, or play unfair, but too bad the choice isn't up to you." His hand waved as if he gave a signal.
The figure started...Crying? As he used magic that looked like it was sucking magic out of Makarov and the bandaged figure started crying even more. "I'm sorry! Im so sorry!"
Jose sneered in disgust. "Expose of him, Redfox."
Gajeel nodded and picked up the old man by the back of his collar and threw him to the bottom floor where the fight was happening.
For Fairy Tail members, it was as if time went by hours for seconds as they saw the master fall down, helplessly. Erza rushed to his side and sensed that there was no magic energy coming from him. So she did the last thing she could think of.
"Everyone retreat! Master has been taken down!" Erza commanded loudly. She handed Makarov to Elfman, telling him to get back to the guild.
And a certain fire mage didn't like this. "Erza! Why are we retrating?! We were doing fine back there!" Natsu said, still wanting to fight for what they did to the guild and Team Shadow Gear.
"The master has fallen, we cant continue without him." She said, wanting to close the conversation as she ran to the exit.
The Phantom Lord members chased the Fairy Tail members out and cheered on their victory so far.
The hooded figure still stood up there, and decided that it was now the time to act. He clapped his hands together and blue sparks emitted from the procedure and the place started to collapse. In a matter of seconds, the Phantom Lord guild started to fall down and collapse on the members. The more experienced mages escaped while others did not.
The boy walked away from the rubble and turned to elsewhere, while Jose saw all of it and darkly chuckled to himself. "Mwaahhahah, we found him! WE FOUND THE ALCHEMIST!" He loudly announced.
Fairy Tail was still retreating, but wasn't hearing distance away from the enemy. Except, that is, Natsu, who's hearing was more advanced and heard the last statement Jose announced and froze. A badly worn out Gray stopped by him and asked, "Whats wrong Flame-brain? Cat got your legs?"
Natsu nodded, and slowly whispered, "He's here..."
Gray deadpanned.
(A/N: Eh, that was chapter two, sorry for any mistakes, I've been typing both chapters and I think my eyes need a rest for the day..And yes, Ed will be showing up in the next chapter! And he does have a reason why he's in their world, so dont worry. Reviews are appreciated!)