Disclaimer: I do not Own Naruto or Fairy Tail. I hate the fact that I'll be saying this in every chapter.
Chapter 2: Strongest Team?
"*Sigh* I'm so bored"
Sitting in a stool, Naruto had his head on the counter. Instead of his orange sweatshirt he was wearing a black sleeveless shirt. Nothing interesting has happened for a while now. Even the guild members were calm, which was strange considering that there's always a brawl happening. Guess this was one of those slow days. Looking around he noticed Lucy looking over the request board. He was guessing that she was just as bored as he was.
Hopping off the stool, he lifted his arms in the air to stretch them, "God that feels good." Walking over to Lucy he noticed that she was in thought. Her thinking face looked so adorable. Sneaking up behind her, he wrapped his arms around her waist.
Feeling someone grab her waist, Lucy elbowed the person in the face only to find smoke behind her.
"Wow Lucy-chan no need to be rude." Naruto had sent a shadow clone just to be safe. He didn't want to be elbowed so early in the day. Maybe later.
Seeing Naruto walk up next to her she playfully punched his shoulder, "Don't do that Naruto-kun. You nearly gave me a heart attack." Crossing her arms, she looked away from him.
Chuckling at her reaction, "Aww come on Lucy-chan, I was just messing around. No need to be hostile."
Looking back at the request board with a smile on her face, she got into her thinking pose once again. She was looking for a job to do today. There were just so many choices.
Mirajane notice Lucy and Naruto looking at the request board and walked towards them, "If you find anything that interest you, just let me know since master's not here."
A grin appeared on Naruto's face, "He's probably at his regularly old man convention." That got a couple chuckles from a few guild members that happen to hear what he said.
Mirajane narrowing her eyes, "Now Naruto-kun, no need to call it that."
A confused Lucy looked over at Mirajane, "What are you talking about."
"Master is at a meeting where guild masters from different provinces come to report about their guild. They come together once in a while to meet with each other and catch up."
"Report my ass! It's just a bunch of old people getting together to play bingo or gamble." That old man is probably having the time of his life gambling. He's lucky that he wasn't there or he would run him dry of his money. He had the devils luck after all.
Naruto was known for his insane luck when it came to gambling. It just wasn't fair that he would always win. He loved the look on their faces when he would walk away with double the money that he put up. No one wanted to play against him now, which kind of sucked.
Natsu chose this time to appear. He had his hands behind his head, "Hurry up and pick a job already."
Happy was floating next to Natsu, "Aye! We chose without consoling you last time, so it's your turn to pick."
Turning her back on both of them, "Don't joke around! We're splitting up."
Widening his eyes Natsu stared at her, "Why?"
"You wouldn't mind taking in just about any blond girl, would you?"
Natsu scratched the back of his head looking confused, "What are you talking about? You are right though." See she was right after all. They didn't need her. "Though we choose Lucy to be in our team because you're a nice person."
Naruto decided to get in the conversation, "Yea Lucy-chan, you're a valuable member of the team. It wouldn't be a team without you." He gave her a smile and a thumbs up.
Looking at him she seemed to think about her decision a little. Maybe it wasn't so bad. Natsu wasn't so bad and Naruto was a pretty decent guy to be around.
"You know you don't have to force yourself to team with anyone."
Turning around Lucy she saw a teen with spiky black hair. The most interesting thing that she realized is that he was half naked. He only had a pair of boxers on. He was sitting there like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Next to him was Loke. He wore a green coat with a wide collar, complete with prominent, spiky, brownish-white fur trimming lining the hood, over a light red shirt covered in many flower-like motifs, black pants and whitish sneakers.
With a smile on her smile on her face Mirajane took it upon herself to announce Gray's wardrobe malfunction, "Gary… Your outfit."
Feeling a breeze over his body he looked down and noticed that his clothing had disappeared, "AAARGH! I forgot them again!"
How do you forget? Isn't clothe the first thing that you're supposed to think about?
Natsu stared at gray with a disgust look, "What a pain in the ass."
"Who you calling a pain in the ass."
"Who do you think, you perverted punk."
They started to fight each other while the other member just watched in amusement. It was always fun watching those two fight. They always fought over stupid things.
Meanwhile, all that was happening, Loke took it upon himself to start flirting with Lucy, "You're really beautiful. If I were to take off my shades and look at you with my naked eyes, they'd probably shatter into pieces." Naruto was looking on with a watchful eye. Loke was known for doing perverted thing when no one was looking.
Lucy knew the kind of guy that Loke was, so she wasn't fooled at all, "Then please take them off." She didn't need a guy like him flirting with her.
Putting his both arms on her shoulders he stared at her and his face sparkled. Hearing the sounds of keys jingling, his eyes say Lucy's keys hanging from her waist and his face began to pale, "You're a stellar mage!" He then turned around and ran for his life, "Sorry, but this is the end of us!"
With a sweat drop she looked at his retreating form, 'When was there an 'us'?'
"Yea that's right! You better run you punk." Naruto appeared in front of Lucy, Naruto had his fist in the air with steam coming from his head. He better run, he didn't want to kick his ass.
Only Naruto would say something like that. Looking back at Mirajane, "What just happened?" Was being a stellar spirit really such a scary thing?
Mirajane smiled, "Loke isn't very good at dealing with stellar mages." Maybe he had a fear of keys, but that would be pretty stupid.
Naruto crossed his arms and a grin appeared on his face, "He was just too afraid of my awesomeness." Well he had a lot of confidence in himself. After a few seconds, they saw Loke running back for some strange reason. Maybe he forgot something?
Loke came over and stopped for a few seconds to catch his breath, "Natsu! Gray! Erza is back!" Their faces paled and both looked like they had seen a ghost.
"ARGH!?" Both Natsu and Gray instantly stood up and started to panic. Maybe if they make a break for the back door they wouldn't have to face her. They heard the front door open and knew it was too late. Everyone in the guild stopped whatever they were doing and stared at her. At some point Loke had disappeared.
A girl with scarlet hair and brown eyes walked in. She had a blue skirt and black boots. She also had a grey armor equipped on her for some weird reason. On her shoulder she had huge horn. Who walks around with something like that? Her apparently.
Dropping the horn next to her she looked around, "I'm back. Is master present at the moment?"
Mirajane was the first to answer, "Masters attending his the regular meeting"
Erza looked around the guild, "I see…"
A random guild member decided to ask what was on everyone's mind, "E-Erza-san… What is that… Humongous thing?"
Closing her eyes, "The local townspeople decorated the horn of a demon that I subdued… it was pretty so I brought it back as a souvenir." Looking at the member that had asked, "Will it be a nuisance?"
Scared at what she would do if he answered wrong, "N-No not at all." He didn't want to get his asked kicked.
"Erza-chan!" Naruto ran towards Erza with a big smile on his face. He was happy that his friend was back safely. Sparkles appeared around him as he made his way to give Erza an innocent hug, "Ugh!"
His face was met with a foot. She then used her foot to plant Naruto's face to the ground, "Anyways, I've heard that you've all been causing trouble again. Even in master forgives you I won't." Naruto's face was on the cracked floor with Erza's foot on top of his head.
Lucy wondered who this woman was and why she was abusing Naruto like that. She looked over to Happy, "Who is she? And why is she doing that to Naruto?"
Happy just kept on looking at the scene in front of him, "That's Erza! And she's really strong." That only answer part of her question.
Naruto was facing face flat on the floor, "Don't worry guys, this is just a love tap. Erza-chan love playing rough." As soon as he said that Erza put more force onto her foot and Naruto's head was breaking the wooden floor because of the pressure, "Yep, she loves me."
Everyone in the guild had a sweat drop, 'Yep, that's definitely as love tap'
She continued to scowl member in the guild, while her foot remained on Naruto's head, "*Sigh*… You guys give me so much trouble. I won't say anything for today."
The whole guild had a sweat drop once again, 'I think she said a lot already.'
Putting both arms on her waist, "By the way, where are Natsu and Gray?"
Happy was too scared to do anything so he just pointed with both arms towards them, "Aye!"
Natsu and Gray had arms around each other and where shaking each other's hand like they were the best of friends. They were sweating and shaking with fear, "Hey Erza… W-Were… B-Being G-G-Good to each other."
"Aye!"
Lucy stared at them both in shock, "Natsu became like Happy!" She's never seen Natsu so scared in her life. He's always the type to accept any challenge.
Smiling at them, "I see… Best friends do fight once in a while... But I rather see you two being good to each other like that all the time." She was happy that they were being nice to each other. Friends must always get along.
Mirajane saw the confused look on Lucy's face, "Natsu and Gray are both scared of Erza. Natsu picked a fight with her and got beaten up, Gray got beaten up for walking around naked, and Loke was hitting on Erza and nearly got himself killed."
Lucy looked at Erza in amazement. Was she really that strong?
After announcing the reason she had returned, she turned to Natsu and Gray, "I heard some troubling things at work. I need your help. You'll come with me right?" The whole room gasped. Erza actually needed help. She never needed help before in any of her missions.
"You know im still down here right?" Naruto was tired of being ignored. His face was started to hurt from being shoved in the floor.
Erza looked down at Naruto and took her foot off his head, "I need you to come too." Well that surprised everyone even more. Why would she need Naruto to go with her? Gray and Natsu were understandable, but Naruto. Really?
A giggle was heard from across the room. A tic mark appeared on Naruto's face, "Hey, fuck you! That's not funny."
Erza turned around to getting ready to leave, "Well leave tomorrow. Be prepared."
Mirajane started to shake and put a finger on her lower lip, "Erza…Natsu… Gray… I've never imagined this but… it might as well be the strongest team in Fairy Tail."
Lucy Gasped at Mirajane's comment, then she realized something, "What about Naruto?" Mirajane turned to Lucy. She placed a hand over her mouth and giggled.
"Mira-chan! You're so cruel!" A dark cloud appeared over Naruto's head and tears poured out of his eyes. That was such a mean thing to say. He was strong, wasn't he?
XxX
(The Next Day, Magnolia Station)
At the station both Natsu and Gray continued with their feud that they had going on for each other. It was causing a disturbance for everyone else in the station. Naruto had his red sage coat on over his black sleeveless shirt. He hasn't worn it in a while so he decided to give it a quick spin. He looked on with a smile from a safe distance.
"Well, looks like their having fun. Such good friends they are." Their relationship reminded Naruto of his and a certain revenge seeking asshole. Those were the days. Damn, he was thinking about them again. Come on Naruto they're in a better place now, don't think about them.
Quickly forgetting his thoughts he turned to Lucy, who as trying to get Natsu and Gray to stop their bickering. She was failing badly. Thinking of something quick, "Oh, hey Erza!" In an instant both Natsu and Gray froze with fear and put and arm around each other's shoulders.
"Let's be nice to each other."
"Aye! Aye!"
Both Natsu and Lucy burst out laughing. They might have figured out how to stop them now. The look on their faces was priceless. Once both Natsu and Gray realized that Erza was nowhere to be in sight they looked at Naruto, "You tricked us!"
Trying to control his breath Naruto looked over to them, while wiping a tear on his eyes, "That was hilarious! Natsu was all like 'Aye! Aye!'." Messing with them was just too easy. They were asking for it.
Both Natsu and Gray looked at each other and evil grin appeared on their faces. They looked towards Naruto with and evil aura coming releasing off them, "Think it's funny huh!" Naruto stopped laughing and scratched the back of his head.
"Come on guys, It was just a joke. Were friends. You know, amigos." Seeing as his attempt to calm them down, he resorted to his back plan. He ran towards Lucy and hid behind her, "Lucy shield! Activate!"
"Don't hide behind me!" If anything he should be the one protecting her, not the other way around. She didn't like being used as a meat shield.
Both Natsu and Gray weren't going to have any of that. They were going to get revenge on him no matter what. Lucy noticed red hair behind Natsu and Gray, "Hey Erza." They weren't going to fall for the same trick twice.
Gray wasn't buying the lie no more, "Were not going to fall for the same trick twice." Natsu may be stupid enough to fall for it again but he wasn't.
"Fall for what?" Well fuck them. They both went into their 'Friendship mode' and turned around.
"Where're being friendly."
"Aye!"
Naruto poked his head behind Lucy and looked around to see if the coast was clear, "My attack was a success!" Naruto pumped his fist in the air, as a sign for victory over snow boy and fire cracker. Fake tears fell off Lucy's face. She really didn't like being used as a meat shield.
Erza noticed Naruto's weird action. Did she miss something here?
Everyone took a note on what she was carrying. From the looks of her bag, it seemed like she brought a whole house. This wasn't a camping trip.
After the Train departed, Natsu's instantly fell sick to his stomach. Erza had to knock Natsu unconscious. Erza decided that it was time to tell everyone what the mission that was brought to her attention. She had heard some folks talking about breaking some 'seal'. She didn't think it was much until she heard the name Eligor.
Erza begun to explain, "Eligor is the ace of mage guild Eisenwald. Mages weren't allowed to take assassination request, but Eligor didn't care as long as he got paid. Thanks to that Eisenwald is now considered a Dark Guild."
Naruto was listening to the story and it bugged him that he was once just like Eligor. Konoha got request to assassinate people all the time. It was nothing new. At the end of the day, if it were for Konoha's safety then he would do it. Anyone in the village would. That's what being a shinobi was all about. Naruto stood up and begun to walk "I have to use the bathroom."
The train had arrived to its destination and they quickly got off it. Erza continued her explanation about how the guild was punished. Their master was arrested but the Dark Guilds continue regardless.
"If I had remembered Eligor's name back then, I would have put them all in blood offerings" She would have taken them down easily. Calming herself down, "They got a hold on this magic called the Lullaby and are plotting something."
Lucy knew that this whole mess was out of her league. Why did she even agree to come? Mirajane probably knew this was going to happen, "I knew I shouldn't have come." Finally, realizing something, her eyes immediately widened, "where are Natsu and Naruto."
XxX
(Back in the Train)
Natsu had regained conscious, but he was still on the train which didn't really help his case. He didn't know were his friends had run off too but he had to find them quick.
"My, My, My… You seem to be in pain." A young man of average height with black eyes and black hair which was tied in a short, spiky ponytail. He wore a white shirt with a high collar and an intricate symbol on its back over a plain, dark red undershirt. He had a pair of small black earing on each ears.
Sitting across from Natsu, he noticed his mark and smiled, "Fairy Tail, huh? I envy you. You have a lot of beautiful girls in your guild. We don't have any girls in our gild, so would you mind sharing." Lifting up his foot, he aimed it towards Natsu's head but before he could make contact it was stopped by a hand.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Naruto had come back and notice that the seats his friends were sitting in were empty except for two people. Getting a good look on the enemy he noticed something familiar, "Wow don't you look familiar." He looked just like Shikamaru. Maybe not as smart by the looks of it.
Naruto grabbed Kage's foot with both hands and swung him further away from Natsu. A fight was going to take place and he didn't want Natsu getting injured.
Kage was able to regain his balance in midair and landed on his feet, "You Bastard, Do you know who I am?"
Naruto looked at him with a frown on his face, "I don't really give a fuck who you are. You messed with my friend and now I'm going to kick your ass." Natsu was barely conscious and there was no one around. He needed to end this quick.
Charging towards Kage, he threw a punch which was barely dodged. It made contact with the wall behind him causing a big dent on it.
Kage looked at the dent that was made seconds ago, 'I better not let this any of those punches land on me'
His hand was still on the wall and looked at Kage with a dark look, "You better watch yourself or I may accidentally kill you."
Kage didn't want what happened to that wall, happen to his face. Using his shadow magic, his shadow took the shape of a hand and aimed at Naruto. All it manage to do was make him stumble a bit.
Using shadow to attack… Just like Shikamaru. Maybe there are some relations after all.
Naruto threw a couple of shuriken's only to be deflected by Kage's shadow hand. Charging towards Kage and as soon as he was a few feet away from him he slid. Creating a clone, it was able to get a boost of his sliding to get some air time as a distraction.
Panicking, Kage's shadow quickly attacked the clone causing it to dispel. It didn't have time to retreat itself to its user giving Naruto the chance to spring his leg up and hit Kage's chin making him go in the air and hitting the Ceiling.
Flipping back to safety Naruto knew this would be an easy win. He didn't want to use any Justus that may destroy the train. Plus Natsu was still on the train and didn't want him to get hit by any of his attacks.
Kage was getting tired of this battle. He was stronger. That was just a lucky shot, nothing too serious. Screaming, Kage extended his shadow to Naruto's location. On its way to Naruto, spikes began to form.
Jumping in the air, Naruto used his chakra to stick to the Ceiling. He wasn't leaving this train with any holes in his body. He liked his body in one piece.
What kind of magic did this kid use? What lets you stick to the ceiling that way? He was making a fool out of him. He was distracted by his thought, that he didn't see shuriken's fly around him. They quickly tied his up and Kage fell to his knees.
Kage began to panic, 'Fuck this wasn't supposed to happen. Eligor-san is going to be pissed at me. '
He would kill him if he didn't complete his mission. He needed to get out of this fast. Kage struggled to get free, only to fail, "What the fuck is this? Why can't I break free?"
Finally, getting off the ceiling Naruto looked over to Kage, "That's some good old wired string. The Strongest string a ninja could have. You're not getting out that easily, so don't bother." The fight was just too easy.
The train suddenly came to a stop. Naruto had to find the others soon. Natsu had regained his strength back and stood up.
"Yes! I'm all fired up." He was tired of feeling sick. Now that the train stopped he could beat that weird guy that was talking to him. He saw Naruto staring at him and noticed the guy, who was picking a fight with him, was all tied up, "Naruto? What's going on?"
Looking back on him, "I'm not entirely sure myself Natsu. Either way, we have to find the others." He had wasted enough time with Kage. The train started moving again and Natsu was beginning to feel sick again.
Noticing that Naruto was distracted at the moment, Kage took it upon himself to break free. Bright circles appeared where he sat down and he phased through the floor onto his shadow.
Naruto looked over, "Well that sucks. I should have knocked him out." Before he knew it a shadow suddenly slid towards Natsu, "Look out!" With a burst of speed, Naruto tackled Natsu causing both of them to crash through the train window. As soon they were out, they had bumped onto an incoming Gray.
They had been driving a magical four-wheeled vehicle and Gray just happened to be on the roof. Erza noticing that both Natsu and Naruto coming out of the train, stopped the vehicle, "Natsu are you okay!?"
Naruto stood up and ran to Erza, "Erza-chan! I was so scared. A weirdo from Eisenwald tried to kill me. I need a hug." Erza punched Naruto and send him flying.
"You Idiot! That's who where're after." She was mad now. And a mad Erza was not a good one.
Natsu stood up and looked at Erza with a confusing look on his face, "What are you talking about? That's the first time I ever heard of Eisenwald."
Naruto had recovered from Erza's punch, "Sheesh Erza-chan you didn't have to hit so hard." Getting serious Naruto looked at Erza, "That guy was pretty weak either way. What I found strange is that he was protecting some weird flute."
That got Lucy's attention, "Flute?"
"Yea, it had a skull on one end with three eyes. Weird right?" He never seen a flute like that. He must be some musician to be able to play that thing.
Lucy Instantly Stiffened. She's heard of a flute like that, "Lullaby… the magic of 'Death! It's a type of black magic.'" Everyone was surprise when they heard that. It could mean trouble if it was played in an area crowded by people.
(Inside the train)
Eligor and the rest of the Eisenwald guild all sat watching the events unfold when Kage finally showed. After Kage Had finished Naruto he stayed on the train to await for Eligor to show up on the next stop.
"Flies?"
Kage had a freighting look on his face, "Yes, there was this weird kid on the train who could stick to the ceiling and used weird weapons. He was nothing but a joke." Once he was done explaining, Eligor sliced his ears apart. Kage Fell to the grown holding his ears in pain.
Eligor didn't have time for mistakes, "Don't tell me he found out about the flute."
Trying to hold his screams, "Don't worry I took care of him. He was just a brat anyways." Hopefully that kid didn't show up or his ass was going be in serious trouble.
Glaring daggers at Kage, "He better not or your head will pay the price." No one was going to get in his way. His plan needed to succeed and once he did no one would stand in his way.
XxX
(Back with Team Natsu)
Erza had cracked up the speed of the vehicle. There wasn't any time to spare. Black magic was no joke. Innocent lives were at stake and Erza wasn't going to let any of them die. Natsu was in the back with his head out the window, puking his lunch out. This was not his day.
"I don't feel so good." Natsu had his face out the window, ready to throw up.
Naruto wasn't a fan of those who killed the innocent. This wasn't going to end well if he didn't do anything. He wanted to minimize the death count to zero if possible. Naruto knew peace wasn't going to last for long. He expected maybe a few more years before shit hit the fan, but shit happens.
Naruto looked out the window and noticed smoke in the distance, "Erza head that way! That's our best guess for now!"
This was not Lucy's Day. This mission was getting more dangerous than she imagined. She didn't know if she would be able to do anything, "I don't know why I came. I feel so useless and out of place."
Happy looked over to Lucy, "That's because you are."
"No one asked you!" she didn't need a cat talking down at her. She already did that herself.
Gray was hanging for his dear life. He didn't want to die so young. Especially with his clothe on.
At Oshibaba station there was a lot of commotion going on. A crowd had assembled near the station while the security tried it best to keep people calm and collective. They didn't need anyone panicking.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please stand back. There has been an accident and it's too dangerous at the moment." They just stood there wondering what was going on.
After arriving Erza looked at one of the security guards, "What's going on inside?" Before he could answer her, she head-butted him causing him to lose consciousness, "Don't fall asleep on me. Tell me what's going on inside?"
Lucy was carrying Natsu on her back for some reason, "Wait! Why am I doing this?" Why did she have to carry Natsu, this wasn't her job. When had she been demoted to the pack mule?
Naruto put hand on Erza's shoulder, "Relax Erza-chan. Let's just go into the station and see for ourselves."
Nodding her head at Naruto, they made their way inside the station they saw a whole bunch of men defeated. Military platoons were sent to deal with the problem but it looked like they just fueled it more. They were so weak.
Walking in, they saw an open area with a bunch of men waiting there. So it was a trap after all, "I knew you'd be coming, Fairy Tail." Eligor was floating above the men.
Erza was sick of these games. She didn't want to play around anymore, "What do you intent to do? Depending on your answer, I might have to make you pay for it."
Naruto was getting impatient too. He saw all those people down there. Nobody was getting carried off in body bags on his watch.
Floating cross-legged, Eligor was amused by their reaction, "We just want to fool around. We have no jobs and are really bored."
Naruto didn't like that answer, "You're going to kill innocent people because you bored?" Naruto hated people like that. There was never any fun in killing innocent people. Especially out of boredom.
Eligor started to laugh, "Yea, so what? You can't do anything about it you stupid brat." With that, he floated away.
The men were preparing for battle. They wouldn't let a couple Fairies show them off. Kage took this opportunity to use his shadow hand, "You fairies aren't going anywhere, without having a glimpse of the dark ages!" It passed by everyone aiming towards Lucy.
With a swipe of his arm, Naruto was able to cut the shadow before it even reached her, "You're not hurting any of my precious people you bastard!" Lucy stared in awe and blushed. So she was precious to him.
Erza was still looking at where Eligor was once floating, "Natsu and Gray, both of you follow Eligor. You two should be strong enough." Said two just looked at each other. They didn't want to work together. They would just get in each other's way, "Are you two listening to me!" Natsu and Gray didn't need to be told twice as they disappeared into the distance.
The men just looked on. There were just two women and a brat who looked like he couldn't hold his own against them. This would be easy. Maybe they could take the women and have some fun with them once they defeated them.
Erza summoned a sword from thin air and prepared herself for battle, "I'll guarantee you that you won't see tomorrow." Lucy was surprised. She wondered where that sword had come from.
With a burst of speed Erza charged at the men ready to swing her sword. She blazed through them without a sweat. They didn't have time to swing at her. Jumping into the air she summoned a spear in replace for her swords and threw it a random member and struck him out cold.
As Erza landed Lucy noticed that she had twin swords instead of one. Spinning in a 360 motion she summoned an axe and struck those who were in her range. They enemy was amazed. How could someone ex-equip swords so fast?
Naruto wished she would leave some for him. He could handle a few of them or just obliterate them all together. Whatever worked for her, he guessed. Looking over at Lucy, "Don't be amazed yet Lucy-chan, this is just the beginning of Erza power."
Lucy could do nothing but stare. So there was more to her than just having swords.
Erza looked around and notice that there were still a lot of them remaining, "This is too much trouble. I'll just wipe them out." With that a light engulfed her and her clothes had disappeared which brought hearts to the enemies eyes.
Naruto took out a pencil and a notepad and begun to write something down, "Whoa! This would go great in my next great book. I swear, she is gold." Blood started dripping from his nose.
When the light disappeared Erza armor had completely changed. The upper part of her armor consisted of a small breastplate that is composed of feather-shaped plates pointing upwards with a large metal flower on the front which extends along her hips. Her waist is circled by large, decorated plates reminiscent of feathers that lie on a long skirt. She wore a pair of plated boots which is partially hidden under her skirt. Behind her she had floating swords waiting to strike.
Lucy was admiring her armor, it looked so beautiful. The men had hearts in their eyes once again. They were distracted by her beauty, that they didn't notice swords coming straight to them, "Dance my swords. Circle Sword."
The swords attacked anyone around Erza in a circular motion. They stood no chance against her swords. Once they were all defeated only one stood and just looked on with his jaw opened, "I'm getting out of here!" He didn't want anything to do with that.
Looking back at Lucy, "He might be heading to Eligor. Lucy, I want you to follow him." She hesitated for a while until she saw Erza's serious face glaring at her. She turned around and headed the same way man ran off to.
Erza had returned to her previous armor. She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked over to it, "Don't overwork yourself Erza-chan. We might need you in the long run you know."
"I know, but I need to stop him at any cost." She won't let Eligor have his way. The magical four-wheel vehicle had drained her.
Patting her shoulder, Naruto walked past her with his hands in his pockets, "Just rest up for a while and regain your strength." Not turning around he gave her a thumbs up, "Don't worry we got this." With that he kept on walking.
That something he would say. Always calm in a situation like this. She never knew how he was able to keep such a confident face when people's life were on the line. Reaching under her armor she took out a necklace with a green crystal attached to it. Maybe there was something to him after all.
XxX
(With Naruto)
Well he was lost. After his really cool exit, he turned a random corner and just tried to wing it from there. Maybe he'll get lucky and bump into Lucy. Whistling to himself he began to walk to god knows where. Hearing a really loud noise, he looked up in the sky and noticed a barrier of wind beginning to form. Well shit, another problem to deal with.
"AWWW!"
Naruto heard a loud scream and began to run in that direction. Hopefully it was none of his friends or he was going to go off on them.
XxX
(With Natsu)
Natsu had just burned Kage to crisp. He tried to ambush Natsu but he wasn't having any of that. He wanted payback from before. Natsu has been wanting to kick that guy's ass since he tried to kick him in the face.
"Natsu are you okay!"
Turning around Natsu saw Erza, Gray and Naruto running towards him.
"I'm fine, but I beat that guy that me and Naruto fought at the train." Well technically Naruto was doing most of the fighting while he tried not to puke his guts out.
"Oh! It's Kage- what's his face." Naruto was hoping for round two with that guy. He had messed up his sage jacket and wanted to shove a rasengan up his ass.
Grabbing kage by his collar, Erza pushed him against the wall with a sword near his chin, "I want that magic wall of wind to be nullified at once. You'll gain a new cut if you say 'no'."
Before he could speak, blood started pouring out of Kage's mouth as he was struck by a black on his back. Phasing through a wall, one of Kage's guild mates was just looking on. He didn't want to kill Kage but it had to be done.
Kage's guild mate began to retreat but both Natsu and Naruto struck the wall with their fist. Naruto hated when people turned against their comrades like that. Especially to go as far as killing them. That was not okay in his book. Kage's guild mate didn't escape as he was struck in the stomach by two fists.
Lucy and Happy had just arrived at the scene to witness this, "Did I arrive at a bad time?"
After bandaging Kage, they group just stared at the wall of wind trying to figure out how to get through it. Natsu was trying his best to force his way through it which wasn't working. Lucy had to hold on to him to get him to stop.
"Okay Natsu, don't try to kill yourself. As you can see that's not helping." They needed to think at the moment. Naruto might have something up his sleeve but they were in the area and would see his Justus.
Happy turned his head towards Lucy and squinted his eyes. Happy immediately remembered something and took out a key that he had in his little back.
Lucy noticed what it was immediately, "That's Virgo's key!"
Naruto started to connect the dots, snapping his fingers, "Happy you're a genius! We can use Virgo's power to dig underground to escape this place." Naruto kneeled in front of Happy to give him a high five.
Quickly taking the key Lucy began to summon Virgo, "Open! The door to Virgin! Virgo!" Instead of the maid that The Duke possessed, she looked entirely different. She was now slender compare to how she was before.
"Virgo, I need you to dig a tunnel to the other side so we can get out of here." Nodding to her master, she jumped in the air and began to dig. Once she was finished they made their outside to safety they noticed that Natsu and Happy had disappeared.
Naruto was the first to realize it, "Natsu ran ahead once again to hog up the all action." That idiot is always trying to go the extra mile.
The team started running back to the Four-wheeled vehicle, when Lucy noticed that Naruto wasn't moving from his position, "Hurry up Naruto-kun! We need to catch up to Natsu."
Naruto turned and looked at her, "I'll catch up in a bit. I want to make sure no one is hurt"
She didn't want to leave him behind but she was sure he would catch up, "Okay, just don't take too long alright." With that she turned around and went the direction the others went off to.
Naruto looked back at the wall of wind. Things were starting to get really troublesome. He had to get rid of this wall. By the looks of it didn't seem that impressive. Then again compared to his stuff this was child's play. Walking back a few feet he looked at his palm and started forming a Rasengan. He then added wind to it causing it to start to take the appearance of a fuma shuriken. Instead of its usual blue, it started to turn orange.
Extending his arm in the air, "This should do it." With that he threw it straight at their wall of wind, "Rasenshuriken!" Once he threw it he turned around and put his hands in his pockets.
The Rasenshuriken made contact with wind wall causing a huge explosion. Both attacks canceled each other out, causing a huge gust of wind to blow all the smoke away. The only thing left from the attack was a huge crater. Naruto didn't bother turning around to know the damage that his attack did. That was just him playing around with it. If he were serious, the whole station would have been destroyed.
XxX
(With Team Natsu)
Natsu shirt was torn off and he was breathing heavily. He had defeated Eligor after a harsh fight with him. He didn't stand a change with Natsu's flame of emotions. Minutes later Erza and the rest caught up to him to see the effects of the battle. The bridge wasn't holding on any more than it actually was.
Kage was the most surprised that Eligor was actually defeated. It was impossible since he was the strongest among them.
Gray walked over to Natsu, "You know being desperate to win a fight makes Fairy Tail look bad."
Natsu glared at Gray, "Shut up snow cone. I wasn't desperate."
Their foreheads classed together and looked angrily at each other.
"Good job Natsu, Now the masters are safe." Erza was glad no one was hurt. She couldn't say that about Eligor since he was beat up pretty badly.
They all smiled at each other, "Let's go report this to master and ask what to do with the flute."
They all moved out of the way as the magical vehicle drove right passed them, "The flute… It's in my hand! Serves you right!" Kage had taken the vehicle and the flute. Going full speed he headed off to the meeting.
What the hell. They were betrayed that easily. They saved that guy from dying and that's the thanks that they get.
"THAT BASTARD!" Natsu started to chase after the vehicle.
"HOW COULD HE! WE SAVED HIM!"
"WERE GOING AFTER HIM!"
XxX
(Clover Town, Regulars Meeting Place)
Reaching the place where the masters were, Kage tried to catch his breath and just stood outside a window. The meeting was still going, so this would be a perfect time to play the Lullaby. Laughing to himself he was getting ready to play it when a hand reached and grabbed his shoulder. He then felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around.
Makarov was standing there looking at his with a smile on his face. Quickly remembering what he was doing he hoped off. Before he could leave, he turned to Kage, "You should head back to the hospital."
Kage was surprised that he appeared before him, 'So he was Fairy Tails Master'
"Um… do you mind listening to one of my songs?" Makarov stopped and looked at him strangely, "The Hospital won't let me play."
"That's a creepy flute you have there."
Kage did his best to convince him, "It may seem so, but it sounds pretty decent."
"I'm in a hurry so only one song."
'I win' A smirk appeared on his face as he put the flute to his lips. Memories of his guild flashed before his eyes. He remembered what those Fairy Tail mages said to him.
'Your rights will never be returned if you do that'
'You should all live your life more positively…'
'Kage! We need your help!'
Why were their words appearing in his head? There just a bunch of weak mages. He didn't know what to do now. Why was he hesitating? Isn't this what they have been working on? They had sacrificed so much just for this moment. Everything will change after that.
"Nothing will change." He opened his eyes and started at Makarov, "Humans beings are weak to begin with. Alone you feel nothing but that's why we form guilds. That's why we have Namaka."
Kage was at lost at what to do. Why was the old man giving him a speech when he is about to kill him.
"You can naturally obtain your strength… without having to depend on that flute of course." A smirk formed on Makarov's face. He knew what was going on and knew exactly what that flute could do.
Kage was in shock that his plan has been discovered, 'Amazing… He knew everything'
Bowing down, he put his head to the grass, "I admit my defeat."
Everyone sprung out of the bushes with smiles, "Master!"
Looking at them, Makarov hat flew out of his head in shock, "Why are you doing here!" The point of a meeting was to get away from the guild, not have them come for you.
Natsu started to pat Makarov's head, "Old man, you're incredible."
"Stop patting my head if you really think so." He didn't need to be patted on the head like he was a child. He was a Wizard Saint for god's sake.
While everyone was settling down the fluke began to produce smoke, "Ka, ka, ka… You mages have no guts." Did that flute just talk? Since when do flutes talk? "I can't hold it any longer. I'll just eat you myself." Smoke consumed it and it transformed into an extremely tall beast with three eyes.
Well this just got a lot more complicated. Kage had no idea that this would happen. He didn't know that the flute could transform like that.
"I'm starving to death so I'm going to eat your souls." It was getting tired of people staring at him, "I've decided, I'll eat all your souls." He opened his mouth ready to use its attack. Everyone closed their ears.
"Dynamic Entry!"
Naruto kicked the Lullaby in the face causing him to fall on his back. Once he landed safely in the ground he pumped his hand in the air, "Look at me now Lee, My youthfulness shines brighter than yours ever will!" God that was so uncool, he hoped no one heard that.
Lucy walked over to him, "Naruto? What took you so long?"
A huge grin appeared on his face, "Sorry, I just got lost in the road of life." There was nothing better than using your old sensei's excuses. It actually felt good using it. Now he knew why Kakashi-sensei always used them, "So… Who's the overgrown plant over there?"
Lucy looked at Over at the fallen Lullaby, "I don't really know. The Lullaby just transformed and started to attack us."
Well this has been a weird day for Naruto. Nothing interesting has happened lately, but in just one day all havoc was let loose. Trouble always found a way to appear at his doorstep. Just like the good old days.
"You fool! Now you've pissed me off!"
Team Natsu immediately took actions and charged towards the Lullaby. Erza quickly changed into her previous armor and was able to strike the Lullaby's leg. The Lullaby flinched in pain. He then looked down to see Natsu climbing him and before he knew it a foot engulfed with fire connected with his face causing him to stumble back.
"Enough with this nonsense!" The Lullaby released multiple balls of energy out of his mouth towards Natsu, who quickly dodged it. The blast flew past him and were about to hit all the other guild masters.
"Ice make: Shield!" Extending his arms a huge shield appeared before him and was able to protect everyone behind him. The mages were impressed by his power, "Ice make: Lance!" Multiple shots of ice, shot towards the Lullaby. The shots struck him right on his chest.
"GAH!"
Naruto took it upon himself to finish this off. Leaping into the air and created a barrage of shadow clones. They all started to form Rasengan in their hand, "Take this you stupid instrument. Rasen Chō Tarengan! (Ultra-Many Spiraling Serial Sphere)"
The attack shredded the Lullaby's chest creating a gaping hole, "N-no way…" He fell onto the meeting's building causing it to be destroyed.
All the old guild masters looked in amazement.
"Zeref's devil was so easily defeated…"
"I… I'm impressed."
Kage could do nothing but just stare in awe. So this was Fairy Tail's strongest team. Makarov looked pleased with what his guild was able to accomplish.
The guild master looked towards Makarov, "Goodness, I guess we owe Fairy Tail one."
Putting his arms behind his head, Makarov started to jump in joy, "Don't worry about it! HA HA HA" He started to laugh out loud when he looked behind the guild masters and saw the meeting's site, "HA ha ha aaa…. Well I'll be going now."
Seeing Makarov acting weird, the Guild master looked behind them, "The Meting site! It's completely wrecked!"
Naruto slapped on the guild masters back, "Oh can it you old goons, we just saved your life."
Lucy slapped Naruto's head, "You're not helping Naruto-kun!"
With that they started to run from the mob that was chasing them.
Natsu decided to side with the guild masters, "All right count me in."
"Natsu get your ass over here! You're not with them."
XxX
(The Next Day)
Naruto was standing outside the Fairy Tail building with a cigarette in his mouth. He picked up the habit after the fourth shinobi war. That shit put him in a lot of stress. Imaging having to fight someone one after the another. Each being stronger than the last. Now he knew why Asuma smoked all the time.
Blowing smoke out of his mouth he looked up into the sky, "I hope this last for a little longer." After dropping his cigarette, he stepped on it and made his way inside with a smile on his face.
Walking inside the guild was in another brawl like usual. This is what he wanted to protect. These people were his family. He spotted Cana by the bar where she usually was and walked towards her.
Cana stopped drinking from the barrel and looked over to him, "Well, well, well look what the cats dragged in. If it isn't my good old drinking buddy, Naruto."
Chuckling to himself, "It's been a while since we had a contest you know." They would have drinking contest's every now and then. She never won, after all he was the one that got her into drinking. Which was a really bad mistake, "So how's the road to 'S-class' going for you?"
Looking away from him, "W-well I-it's going fine." She was lying and he knew it.
"You haven't been training at all have you?" She always did this. She would be determined one day and the next she would drink her sorrows away, "It's going be harder to tell him if you don't live up to what you promised."
Cana blushed in embarrassment and continued to chug the whole barrel of alcohol. Guess she was done talking about the subject. Standing up he patted her head, "You'll get there one day don't worry. If you don't believe in yourself, then who will?" With that he made his way were Mirajane was currently cleaning the counter.
"Mira-chan I missed you yesterday." He went up to her and tried to hug her from the back. Key word 'tried', as soon as he went for the hug she moved to the side. Naruto crashed face first into the counter, "That was mean, I thought you like my special hugs of love."
She put a hand on her waist, "I would if you didn't get all touchy touchy."
Lucy decided to come in at this moment, "Who's being touchy touchy?"
"Naruto-kun here is somewhat of a little pervert." Lucy looked at Naruto in shock. He seemed like a gentlemen so far. Naruto being pervert was very surprising.
"Mira-chan you don't have to tell the world about me." He noticed that Lucy was giving him a look of disgust. He stood up on the counter and stared at everyone, "If anything I'm not just a pervert, I'm a super pervert. I'm proud of what I am. Who's with me?"
Everyone in the guild just looked at Naruto with same disgusting face Lucy had made minutes ago. Well that didn't work out. Looking next to him, he noticed that Makarov was next to him.
Tears were coming out of his eyes, "Naruto my boy, I knew I made the right choice in making you part of Fairy Tail. No one understands like you do."
"Old man…" Tears were now coming out of his eyes. He has finally lived in a time where perverts were more respectful towards each other. He then noticed one of Lucy's keys moving, "Don't worry Taurus, your one of us too."
Everyone just sweat dropped at Naruto's antics. It was never boring with him around.
Well there you have it. Sorry that it took me so long to upload, senior year is a bitch when you have so much make up work.
Now I'm thinking about going off canon because you guys are probably tired of reading the same old. Let me know your opinion whether I should or not. I've already thought 10 chapters ahead on both end so whatever the people want, the people will get.
Comment, Criticize, praise I'll take whatever it takes to get better.
I'm not the best at fighting scenes and am currently working on that.
Hope you guys enjoyed the second chapter.
D3st1ny out.