Fairy Tail: Rising Phoenix
Chapter 2: Requip: The Mecha
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters they rightfully belong to its creator Hiro Mashima, I do own all OC's in this story so far.
Leon's POV
Before we went off to discover what had happened to the trade carts we decided to get some information about the incidents, unfortunately if you wanted to learn about anything like that here there was only one person to go to and he was… how do I put it… a little cuckoo. Maybe I should introduce him to my therapist
As we were walking up a hill to find the said person Katrina who had sobered up asked "are you sure this is good idea? I mean you know what he can be like?" her voice had a little concern in it
"I know but he's the only way we're gonna find anything out abo-" I was cut off by a loud bang and a tree branch flying off next to us causing all three of us to bring out arms up to protect our faces from any flying bit of wood
"HOLY CRAP BILL DON'T SHOOT ITS US!" I YELLED.
"What the hell do you all want now?" Bill said lowering his shotgun, the man went by the name Billy 'Moonshine' Bob, he looked like the dirty fucking hillbilly he was with nasty, scruffy beard, straw hat and tatty dungarees.
He also rather annoyingly carried a magical shotgun at ALL time's and I take back what I said earlier, he wasn't cuckoo he bat shit crazy! And what I said about introducing him to my therapist? Fuck that! He'd probably kill her! Unfortunately he was the best source of information around when he was in town… for the right price.
"Well if you're not busy trying to KILL US we like some information on trade carts that get robbed in a split second, do you know anything?" I asked still a bit angry for nearly being shot.
"I don't know nothin about weirdy stuff like that" he said, luckily we knew how to get him talking, I just paid the scandalous price of eight hundred jewels and let the magic happen.
"Ahh yeah now I remembers, my friend One-eyed Jim he tells me about it, apparently a group of bandits with some special equipment set up shop there not too long ago".
"Interesting, any idea where there hideout is?" Katrina asked.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't", he replied, this made Katrina sigh and pull out her wallet to pay the crazy man to get the info we needed.
"He He he rumour has it they be hidin in a valley 14 miles west of Arian" he told us with a grin on devious grin on his face.
"Do you know anything else Billy?" Alice asked cheerfully as always.
"Sorry girl that's all I know" of course he would give us that for free!
"Oh that's a shame isn't it anyway we must get going now Bill have fun ummm… drinking or ummm, murdering or whatever the hell you like doing in your spare time bye" I said gesturing for us to leave almost feeling like 1600 jewel had gone down the drain.
"Yeah yeah just get off of my property yaa scallywags!" he yelled while waving his shotgun, it's not even his property it the middle of field that he's camping in. I decided to give him the middle finger as we walked away.
we then made our way back to town to get some stuff for the journey just in case we ended up on this job for longer than a day and then met back up again to head to the train station which rather surprisingly wasn't too far from the town it was about about a 35 minute walk, I didn't say much on the way to the station, Alice and Katrina talked quite a bit though, not sure what about but I don't care really it's probably like girl stuff that I wouldn't get.
We didn't wait at the station for very long and when we got on train I called dibs on the window seat because… I don't know I just like to sit next to the window, for some reason Alice chose to sit very close to me, to be honest she did this quite a bit whenever we did a job together, also Catrina was giving me some sort of weird look and gesture with her head at something, I didn't really understand what she was doing so I thought nothing of it.
The train journey was rather uneventful although there was some sort of weird groaning sound coming from the other end of the carriage like someone was about to be sick or something but I decided not to investigate in case it was contagious, we then arrived at the town where the robberies had been happening, the town was called Arian and was known to have one of the most abundant lacrima mines in Fiore, it was quite obvious to see why the bandits had been targeting this town's trade carts, the right lacrima would fetch a very good price anywhere.
"Let's head to the town guys" I said.
"Huh why?" Alice asked.
"Yeah it makes no sense when we know where they are" Catrina added.
"I want to take a look at the carts that were robbed, something Billy said has been nagging me since we set off" I answered, we headed into the town and towards the trade post here, they had been the ones who had put in the request at the guild.
"Ahh you must be from Rising Phoenix thank goodness you're here, the situation is getting extremely out of hand" a man with a fancy ginger moustache who I presume is the manager here said walking up to us when we arrived at the trading post.
"Don't worry we'll sort this out but first can I take a look at one of the carts that was robbed?" I asked, he gestured for us to follow him to one of the carts probably the one that was most recently robbed.
"we just don't understand how this happened we look over everything but no luck anywhere" the manager said, I just took a look over the cart nothing seemed out of the ordinary but then I caught something in the corner of my eye, there was some sort of powder on the side of the cart, I picked a little of it up and rubbed it between my fingers, then all of a sudden my fingertips disappeared and I did what any rational person would do in this situation… I freaked out.
"WHAT THE HELL WHERE ARE MY FINGERTIPS THEY JUST VANISHED!" I said really loudly and quickly but this was soon brought to an end when Catrina punched me in the face, this of course made Alice giggle.
"Calm down you dumbass they're still there, that powder you touched must have made them invisible" Catrina said in a scolding manor.
"Really oh thank god, but how long until it wears off?" I asked while looking at… I mean through my fingertips.
"Who knows it can vary from each type but I'm guessing this is how they made it look like they did it in a second so it might last a good while." What Catrina was saying actually made perfect sense if the driver couldn't see there good then they would think they had been robbed when it actually the robbery was going on right in front of them without them knowing, what made this worse was invisibility powders were illegal for this very reason, and any crime done with invisibility added an extra 5 years onto your sentence, so it was very clear that these thieves were A: very dumb to think that a guild wouldn't be hired to sort them out and not to move locations and B: going away for a long time.
"well now that mystery has been solved what do we do next?" Alice asked.
"Well that's obvious we go and catch these assholes" I replied as I stared to head into the direction of their hideout, I was quickly followed by Catrina and Alice.
It took us some time to get near their hideout, in that time my fingertips had returned to normal to my happiness, their hideout was exactly where Bill said it was, 14 miles from the town, they seemed quite organised and to have good numbers I counted at least 28 but I was sure there was more.
I couldn't see the leader by my guess he was in one of the tents, what I could see though was the special equipment bill was talking about, they were special belt that could make the user temporarily invisible and also illegal, this was how they hadn't been seen while robbing the carts, if they used those in a fight against us we'd be at a great disadvantage, luckily we had a plan for this.
A few minutes later
I stepped on top of a large rock just on the edge of their camp and summoned one of my favourite weapons, a heavy magnum I called Archangel (A.N: like Vash the stampede's gun from trigun) "Hey assholes!" as I yelled I fired a shot up into the air which got all of the bandits attention, "I accept your surrender" this only seemed to make them all laugh
"Who the hell is this moron?" one of the bandits said
"Oh no he's so scary please help me" another said sarcastically
"Fine then we'll do this the hard way, Catrina!" as I said that Catrina jumped from behind me and rushed towards them.
"Ninpo Art: Kakeru!" as she said she did a bunch of hand signs that made a magic circle with the kanji of what she said on it appeared, she then threw a kunai thought it and as it passed thought loads more came out the other side and hit a few of the bandits knocking them to the ground, I followed this up by firing a few rounds from my gun and then I materialised my next weapon. To most I just looked like a white metal torch with a leather grip however I flicked a switch on it and it produced a pink beam of plasma this was my Beam sword as strong as a long sword but less than quarter of the weight more. With it I made short work of the one who were getting close to us however more were coming from the tents and surrounding forest as I predicted I just started picking a few of them off with my gun and summoned my beam sabre to deal with the ones who were closer.
"Quick get the invisibly equipment they can't fight us if they can't see us!" One of the bandits yelled, however they were about to be in for a big shock in 3… 2... 1.
"AHHHH IT… IT'S… IT'S ALL FROZEN" One of the bandits had discovered what we had done
"Sorry boys can't let you have this" Alice said appearing from behind the boxes with smug look on her face.
"You bitch!" one of the bandits said as a group of them ran towards her but they were soon stopped when she raised her hand and sent an Ice wave at them freezing them where they stood unfortunately. More bandits kept coming for us from everywhere
"Damn there sure are a lot of them any ideas Leon?" Catrina asked
"Don't worry these guys go down easily I'll take them down fast" and I had just the thing to do it as well "REQUIP!" as I yelled that my whole body got covered in light my outfit changed as it did, when the light disappeared my body was clad in a complete different armour, I was a darkish blue with back accents on it but more than that is was entirely mechanical. It covered every part of my body even my face. It was made up of multiple panels that were in the colour scheme of the armor. On the centre of my back there was thruster and then two large thruster one above the other attached to the back of my waist armor and had multiple. I held a dark blue gunblade in each hand with a black accent going up the middle, I called this armour the Galaxy Blaster armour. (A.N: basically if your confused which you all are look up Gundam Zabanya and imagine it was black and blue and without the shield bits)
I then took of into the the air and summoned a group of gunblades except these ons had the handles folded away above the bandits all and aimed them along with the ones I was holding at the bandits. I then cried out "Variable Typhoon" as all the gunblades fired energy beams down onto the bandits causing a large explosion taking out most the bandits, Catrina and Alice then mopped up the bandits I missed but then out of one of the tents came what I presume was the leader and boy he was big, he must have been a whole foot taller than me and he had quite the beer belly, he was very tanned and very ehhh hairy, but I could guess he was quite strong, he just yelled "what the hells all this noise out here… WHAT THE HELL" he look quite shocked when he saw all his henchmen knocked out on the ground
"You must be the leader here" I said staring him down, "you're big, fought bigger" I couldn't shoot him as my gunblades were cooling down so I just changed them to blade mode then trusted straight at him at him hoping to take him down in 1 strike but he just punched me sending me flying backwards before my blades could connect.
Catrina then jumped behind him avoiding a right hook from the guy and said "Ninpo art: Bakuhatsu" she then did a different set of hand signs which made a bunch of magic circle appear on the leader which then promptly exploded causing him to yell out in pain.
"Why you I'll Huh?" he was about to get his own back on Catrina but Alice had frozen his legs to the ground preventing him from moving.
"Leon now" Alice yelled to me.
I got up from the ground and charge strait at him as I did I said "Requip" as I did my body was once again covered in light, when it disappeared I was clad in yeah another mechanical armor this one was steel coloured with gold accents but the biggest feature on this armour where the two massive gauntlets it had they were 3 time bigger than my hands and had spiked knuckles and thrusters on the back of them I called it the Knuckle Buster armour.
"Eat this" I swung my fits at him but he swung his fist at mine so they ended up crashing into each other but this armours wasn't just for show, the thrusters on the gauntlets gave me increased punching power as he felt right away, I could hear the sound of the bones cracking in his arm making him yell out in pain, I then did an uppercut knocking him out and with that the bandits were defeated.
Much later when we got the guard to arrest the bandits but something wasn't sitting right with me, why go through all the trouble of stealing the lacrima this way, surely it would have been easier to rob it from the stores or something and the invisibility equipment mustn't have come cheap maybe the leader knew something I decide to ask him, I asked the guards to give me a couple of minutes with him alone.
"Hey you big guy, you went through a lot of trouble to steal this lacrima, what was the real reason behind this?" I asked
"Like I'll tell you after what you did to my arm asshole!" he said motioning to the cast over his arm
"Okay this is how it's going to work, either you tell me why or I'll do the same to your other arm" this threat made him whimper.
"Okay, okay I'll tell you just don't hurt me, we were hired by someone who wanted us to get a special lacrima for them, they didn't give us a name just the equipment andinstruction to rob the trade carts until we found the lacrima, when we did find it we were told to leave at a certain location, we were paid a lot of money straight off and told any other lacrima we found we could keep" he said solemnly.
"What did he look like?" I asked
"Didn't see his face he wore a mask and a cloak." His eyes said he was telling the truth, plus he no reason to lie he had nowhere to go.
"We're done here" I said leaving the leader to the guards
"What did he say then?" Alice asked, I filled her and Catrina in on what the bandit leader told me.
"What do you think could be so special about that lacrima?" Catrina asked
"Who knows but I have a bad feeling about." I said seriously.
Chapter 2 finish
Next chapter: The plot thickens