Hey guys! Here's the second chapter! Sorry it took so long, it's a big chapter so it took me a few days to write. And I kept getting distracted by fun things with my friends. But here it is. Let me know what you think!
Chapter 2
It was late at night. Natsu and his team were running through the woods, searching for the bandits they were hired to capture for harassing the small village they were staying in. Lucy was behind her husband, running after the bandits. The dark of the night wasn't making running through the trees and bushes any easier. Lucy could barely see where she was going. Suddenly when she wasn't careful with her footing, she fell after tripping on the exposed root of a tree. "Ow, shit." Lucy cursed as she hit the ground. "Luce? You okay?" Natsu stopped and asked his wife. "Yeah I'm fine. Just keep going." Lucy said as she waved her husband off so he could continue the chase. Natsu nodded, and continued to run, leaving Lucy to get herself up.
During the chase into the woods, their group was separated because of how dark it was. "This is great. There are five of us and a bunch of them. And we're all separated." Lucy thought out loud. "Are you now?" Lucy heard a voice say. She quickly turned around to see the bandit they confronted earlier, along with 5 other bandits. "You're all alone, fairy." the bandit said. "You sure about that?" Lucy said as she reached to her belt for her keys. She grasped at where her keys were, but to her surprise, her keys were gone. "What? Where are..." Lucy asked herself. "Lookin' for these?" the bandit said as he held up Lucy's keys. Lucy glared at the bandit. "Looks like you don't got no spirits to help ya now do ya?" the bandit said as he walked towards Lucy with a knife in hand. Lucy didn't say anything. "Ya see, the shitty thing about celestial spirit magic, is that the user who's controlling the spirits, relies solely on their spirits. So when the time comes that they can't use their spirits, they're helpless. Isn't that right, fairy?" The bandit said, and with each word he got closer to Lucy. He was now standing right in front of her, holding his knife to her neck. "Any last words?" the bandit asked. "Just one question actually. You ready to give up?" Lucy asked. "Give up? HA! You're joking. There are six of us, and one of-" but before the bandit could finish, Lucy grabbed his wrist and uppercutted the bandit right in his jaw, knocking out the bandit and sending him onto the ground.
The other bandits just looked down at their fallen comrade in awe, and then to Lucy who had taken a battle stance. "He's right. Most celestial spirit mages rely too much on their spirits. But luckily for me, I have a husband who taught me how to fight." Lucy said with a smile. Over the years that Natsu and Lucy have been together, Lucy picked up on some martial arts with the help of Natsu. Lucy was no longer the damsel in distress; she was a force to be reckoned with.
The bandits look of surprise quickly turned into anger. "I'll kill you!" one of the bandits shouted before charging at Lucy. He ran at her with one fist raised, ready to deliver a punch to her face. The bandit swung his fist at Lucy, but she quickly stepped to the side, dodging his attack. Then Lucy brought up her leg, and delivered a powerful side-kick to the bandit's ribs, sending him to the ground. "D-don't just stand there! Get her!" one of the remaining bandits shouted.
The rest of the bandits then charged Lucy, but she was ready for them. The first bandit to get to her threw a jab at her stomach, which she blocked. Lucy quickly grabbed the bandits arm, and swung him into another bandit, knocking them both down. The next bandit was wielding a knife, which he used to slash at Lucy. Lucy dodged each slash by stepping backwards until her back hit a tree. Just as the bandit slashed again, Lucy ducked under the bandit's arm. The bandit looked down to seeing Lucy looking up at him smiling. Then she threw a punch right into the bandit's crotch. The bandit fell to the ground in pain. "C-cheap...s-shot..." the bandit said.
The last bandit ran at Lucy. He let out a battle cry. But it was silenced by Lucy's foot which she used to deliver a round-kick to his face, knocking the bandit out cold. Lucy walked over to the only still conscious bandit who was on the ground looking up at Lucy. The blonde stomped her foot down on the bandit's hand making the bandit shout in pain. Then Lucy bent down to the bandits level. "Any last words?" Lucy asked. "W-we'll leave the town alone! I promise!" the bandit said. "Good." Lucy said, removing her foot from on top of the bandit's hand. The bandit let out a sigh of relief, but before he knew it, Lucy brought her leg back, and kicked the bandit in the head, knocking him out along with the rest of them. Lucy walked over to the first bandit, and took her keys out from his unconscious grip. "That will teach you to take my keys." Lucy said as she walked off into the woods.
Elsewhere, Natsu was chasing a rather speedy bandit. "Slow down so I can beat your face in!" Natsu angerly shouted at the bandit. "Not gonna happen, fairy!" the bandit shouted back. The bandit continued to run and Natsu continued to chase him. "What's this guys deal? Is he trying to tire me out or something?" Natsu thought. Suddenly, a clearing came into view. "I've got him now." Natsu thought, knowing the clearing would give him some room to let loose a fire dragons roar.
Just as Natsu and his target entered the clearing, the bandit jumped high into the sky. "Up here, fairy!" the bandit shouted. "Huh?" Natsu said, confused as to what the bandit was doing. Then it hit him. His teammates hit him that is. Natsu, along with Gray, Erza and Wendy were all running into the same clearing chasing bandits of their own, when all their targets jumped into the air, distracting the Fairy Tail mages and causing all of them to run head first into each other.
All the Fairy Tail mages fell to the ground, clutching their heads. "Ow! Geez, watch where you're going ice queen!" Natsu shouted at Gray as he rubbed his head. "You watch where you're going dragon breath!" Gray shouted back. "Ow... boys, now it not the time for this." Erza said as she stood up. "Wendy, you alright?" Erza asked. "Ouch... yeah." Wendy said as she stood up. "That was a dirty trick." Gray said to the Bandits who were all perched up in trees. "Haha what do you expect! We're bandits!" one of the bandits said. "We'll I think everyone should just play fair!" Natsu said as he jumped at the bandit.
The bandit was too busy laughing to see Natsu coming, and before he knew it, he received a fist of flame to his face. The bandit let out a shriek of pain and was sent flying out further into the forest. The other bandits looked at each other and nervously gulped. "Who else likes to play dirty?" Natsu asked.
"Me." A voice said. Natsu jumped down from the tree and repositioned next to his teammates. Then a big muscular figure walked out from the shadows. "I presume you're the one who's in charge?" Erza asked. "Yep, that'd be me." the big man said with a deep, scottish accent. "Now, mind telling me what a couple fairies such as yourselves are doing beating up my men, intruding on my forest, and ruining our business with the town.". "Business? You're harassing and stealing from those people." Wendy said. "Harassing? Stealing? No no no, girly. You've got it all wrong. We're merely... borrowing... some things. Just to get our feet off the ground, ya know? They help us, and later on once we have more money and richer clients, we'll pay them back. Maybe." The head bandit said. "I'm afraid we're gonna have to put and end to your 'business' and put you behind bars." Erza said. "Aye. I was afraid you were gonna say that." the man replied.
Suddenly, Happy and Carla flew down to the group. "Natsu!" Happy called out. "Happy!" Natsu called back. "Bad news, there's about thirty or so bandits surrounding us." Carla told the group. "Then it's an even fight." Natsu said. "ATTACK!" the man shouted.
All of the surrounding bandits began to pour into the clearing and charged for the group. Everyone got in a battle stance. "Guys, it's important that we stay in this clearing." Erza said as the bandits got closer. "Why?" Gray asked. "We need to keep the battle ground as small as possible so we don't damage the forest. Natsu, that means you." Erza said. As the bandits got even closer. "Yeah yeah. I'll be careful." Natsu sighed. The bandits were now only steps away, and getting closer. "FIRE DRAGONS ROAR!" Natsu shouted as he breathed a huge wave of fire towards a group of bandits in front of him. Erza just looked at Natsu. "Sorry. I forgot. Charge!" Natsu said before running at some other bandits. The others followed as they also charged at the bandits.
One by one the bandits attacked each of the Fairy Tail mages, and one by one they were defeated without any of the group breaking a sweat. While Natsu was fighting he made his way over to where Happy was watching the fight. "Happy, did you see Lucy anywhere?" Natsu asked while he was still engaged in combat. "No!" Happy replied. "Find her! Make sure nothing happened." Natsu asked. "Aye sir!" Happy said as he flew up into the sky in search of the blonde mage.
"Damn it! What is this? They're taking down my men one by one!" the head bandit said. He watched as each of the mages effortlessly fought his bandit troops. "Well you know what they say. If you want something done, do it yourself." The man said as he removed his coat and walked into the battle field.
The man swung an arm towards Gray, and as he did, leaves came off the trees and flew towards Gray like razor sharp knives. "Gah! He's a mage?" Gray said as he barely dodged the razor like leaves. "Aye. My razor leaf magic is ideal in a forest such as this. Now all of you shut yer traps and die already!" the man said as he swung his arm towards Natsu, sending razor leaves his way. Natsu noticed this, and shot a fire dragons roar at the incoming leaves, but it had no effect. "Since when don't leaves burn?" Natsu shouted as he dodged the attack. "My magic makes my leaves fire proof, fairy." the man said with an evil grin. Again he waved his arm but this time at Erza. Erza, having such amazing sword skills and speed, was able to block every single leaf with swings from her sword. "Wendy, now!" Erza shouted at the sky dragon slayer. "Right." Wendy replied. Using her wind magic, she picked up all of the razor leaves as they fell, and sent them back at their user. "What!?" the bandit head said in surprise. Not having enough time to evade, he simply raised his arms to cover his face and head. "You're wide open!" Natsu said as he charged the man. The man noticed Natsu coming at him and quickly jumped to the side. "You wanna fight me, fairy? Then come on, let's fight." the head bandit said as he raised his fists. "Ah, so now you wanna play fair do ya?" Natsu said with a smile.
As the others continued to fend of the remaining bandits, Natsu and the head bandit began to fight. Natsu swung his flaming fists at the big man, which he dodged, and then followed up with a flaming kick, which the man blocked. "My my, you're a strong fairy." the man said. "Damn right." Natsu replied. "Too bad I have to kill you." the man said as he punched Natsu in the face. "Crap. You're pretty strong yourself too." Natsu said as he wiped the blood from his nose. "Thank ya kindly." the man said as he continued to throw punches. They two kept exchanging blow for blow until the man waved his arm and called razor leaves to fly around Natsu, trapping him in a cyclone of razor leaves. Natsu just stood in the centre, waiting for a break, but suddenly the bandit leader burst in through the leaves, delivering a powerful punch into Natsu's stomach. Natsu was shot out of the cyclone of leaves and sent into the base of a small cliff. Upon Natsu's impact, the rocks of the small cliff began to crumble and break, until it caved in, and Natsu fell into a hole. "Shiiiiiit!" Natsu shouted as he fell into the hole.
"Natsu!" Wendy shouted. "Ahhahaha! One down, three to go!" the bandit leader laughed. "Make it four." a voice said from behind the bandit leader. He turned around to see a blonde girl holding a whip, and a man with orange hair wearing a suit and sunglasses. "Lucy!" Erza called out. "And Loke too." Gray added. "Well, five if you count me." Loke said. "Six if you count me!" Happy added as he flew down next to Lucy. "Loke, take this guy down." Lucy commanded her spirit. "As you wish." Loke said with a smile. Loke then ran towards the bandit leader." "Wh-what?" the bandit leader said in confusion, not knowing what to do. "Reglus Impact!" Loke shouted as he punched the man, creating several explosions of white light on impact. "AAAAUUUGH!" the man shouted as he was sent flying into a tree. He hit the tree face first, and then slid down onto the ground unconscious.
"Th-they beat the boss!" one of the remaining bandits said. "Get outta here! They're monsters!" another bandit said as he began to run away. Once he left, the remaining bandits followed, running back into the forest screaming in fear after seeing their boss go down in defeat. "We did it!" Happy shouted. The group cheered at their victory. "Great work Lucy and Loke." Erza said as she walked over to the two. "Thanks. Me and my princess are an unstoppable force of love!" Loke said as he knelt down on one knee and grabbed on of Lucy's hands. "For the last time Loke, I'm married now." Lucy sighed. "That doesn't make our love any less strong!" Loke said. "Goodbye Loke. Thanks." Lucy said as she sent her spirit back into the spirit world.
Lucy then looked around for her pink haired husband, but he was no where to be see. "Hey, where's Natsu?" Lucy asked the group. "Oh yeah. Flame brain was knocked down there somewhere." Gray said as he pointed to the hole in the cliff base. "What? Is he okay? Natsu!" Lucy said as she began to walk towards the hole.
Inside of the hole, Natsu emerged from a pile of rock. He shook the dust of hair and looked around. "Where are you, you big bastard!?" Natsu shouted. He then realized that he wasn't in the clearing anymore. He looked up and saw the hole he fell in several feet up. He looked the hole he was in more and began to realize that he wasn't just in some hole in the ground, it was and underground cave. Natsu lit one of his hands on fire so that he could see in the darkness. Once he did, he noticed a tunnel leading down a dark path. Curiosity got the best of Natsu, so he began to head down the tunnel. As he went deeper into the tunnel, he began to realize that this wasn't a natural formation, someone made this tunnel.
After walking a few more steps, he noticed light coming from the end of the tunnel. "A light source? Down here?" Natsu thought out loud. He approached the mysterious light source, which led Natsu into a small room. There were torches hung on the walls which lit up the room. And in the middle of the room, there was a sword stuck in a pedestal. "A sword?" Natsu said as he examined the sword. He reached out his hand and grabbed the hilt of the sword. He pulled but the sword didn't budge. He reached out with his other hand and grabbed the sword and put his leg against the pedestal so he could attempt to try and pull out the sword again. Just as Natsu was about to pull, he noticed writing on the walls. He let go of the sword and walked over to further examine the writing that was etched into the stone wall. It was in a language that was unknown to Natsu.
"Natsu!" a voice said that sounded like it came from the tunnel. Natsu turned around to face the tunnel. Natsu could hear multiple foot steps coming from down the tunnel. Suddenly a figure finally came into view. "Natsu!" Lucy said as she entered the room and spotted her husband. Lucy walked to Natsu and threw her arms around him. "I was worried about you. Are you hurt?" Lucy asked. "No I'm fine." Natsu said as lowered his arms from his wife.
Erza and the rest of the team then came into the room to join the other two. "Natsu, are you okay?" Erza asked. "Fine." Natsu replied. "What is all this?" Wendy asked as she looked around the room. "I don't know. But there's a big sword in the middle of the room." Gray said as he approached the sword. "Yeah. There's some writing here on the walls too." Erza said as she examined the writing. "Can anyone read it?" Erza turned around and asked. Everyone shook their heads. "From the looks of it, this place it probably hundreds of years old." Carla said. Gray then gripped the sword with both hands, and began to pull. "It... won't...budge." Gray said as he strained to pull the sword out of it's pedestal. "Let me." Erza said as she approached it. "Are... you guys sure we should be trying to pull that thing out?" Lucy asked her comrades, but no one heard her speak. Erza then gripped the sword and began to pull, but it was no use. "Damn. It's really stuck in there." Erza said as she let go of the sword. "Let me show you guys how it's done." Natsu said as he approached the sword once more.
Before he could grab it, Lucy put a hand on his shoulder. Natsu turned his head to face her. "Natsu... are you sure you should take that?" Lucy asked. "Relax Luce. This place is probably hundreds of years old, no one has been here in forever. Not like anyone owns it." Natsu said with one of his famous grins. Lucy wasn't sure why she wasn't okay with Natsu trying to pull the sword out. Like he said, it's not like anyone owns it, but why did the sword itself seem so... unsettling?
Natsu grabbed the hilt with both hands and began to pull. He pulled and pulled but it didn't move an inch. "C'mon guys, let's just go." Happy said as he perched himself on Lucy's shoulder. But just as Happy spoke, the sword began to slide out of it's pedestal. Slowly but surely, the sword slid out, the sound of steel scrapping slowly against stone was the only sound to fill the room, until the sword finally came out of it's resting place, and into Natsu's hands. "Coooool." Natsu said as he examined the sword. It was old and dusty. The hilt was probably one a golden color but after being left untouched for so long turned into a dirty brown. The blade was worn and scratched silver. It was a very old, and unimpressive looking sword. "Haha, see? Just took some dragon slayer power." Natsu gloated. "Well I loosened it up for you." Gray said as he crossed his arms, obviously not happy that Natsu was able to pull the sword out.
Erza walked over to Natsu and took the sword. "Interesting, but it looks like there's nothing special about it. Well I guess I'll hold onto it until we get back." Erza said as she stored the sword away using her magic. "Hey! No fair! I found it!" Natsu said. Erza just turned her head and glared at Natsu. "Or you can carry it for me. That's cool too." Natsu said as he backed away from Erza and hid behind his wife. "Alright. We'll I guess we're all done here. Let's go back and tell Rusty the good news." Erza said. "Hey, does that mean we beat the bandits?" said as everyone began to walk out of the small room. "We? Last time I checked, you were too busy getting throwing into a cave to do anything." Gray said to Natsu. "What was that, snow-perv?!"
Later that night, Natsu and the others returned to the inn and informed Rusty that the bandits wouldn't be any trouble anymore. After his thanks, the group went back to bed continue their sleep that was interrupted.
Natsu flopped down onto the bed in his room and let out a big sigh. "That was an exciting night." Natsu said. "Yeah. I wasn't expecting to find the bandits so quickly. I thought we were gonna spend all day tomorrow looking for them. Guess this means we get to go home early." Lucy said as she took off her clothes. "Yeah. And that underground room with that cool sword is something too." Natsu said. Upond Natsu's mentioning of the meyterious sword, Lucy became noticeably uneasy. "Something wrong?" Natsu asked as Lucy got into bed. "No. It's just... that sword is weird to me. Why would there be a sword underground in a room with mysterious writing on the walls? It's just creepy to me." Lucy said. "Relax Luce. It was just probably left there from a long time ago. Erza even said, there's nothing special about it." Natsu told his wife. "And the writing?". "Well we'll never know what that says, but it's not concerning. It's just old stuff that was left there a long time ago.". "Yeah... I suppose your right. I'm just being weird/" Lucy said. "Yeah you are. But you gotta admit, it was pretty cool when I pulled the sword out, huh?" Natsu said. Suddenly Lucy flipped herself on top of Natsu, trapping him in between her legs. "Yeah... but I'm more interested in you putting another sword in somewhere else. If you know what I mean." Lucy said with a seductive smile on her face. "What ever happened to you not wanting to have sex while we're on missions." Natsu said with a smile. "What's the matter? Not a skilled enough swordsman, husband?" Lucy teased. "You should already know just how skilled I am, wife.". "Oooo, naughty little dragon slayer."
Elsewhere in a waste land miles and miles away from the town Natsu and the group were at, there was an old desolate, crumbling castle with no life around for miles. In the castle, there was a courtyard that was once probably filled with lush green grass and life, but was now part of the waste land that surrounded the castle. In the castle courtyard, the ground then began to shake from underneath until suddenly the ground began to crack and crumble. Soon enough, the hand of a skeleton emerged from the dirt. And with that hand another came up, and began pulling out the body the hands were apart of. Soon enough, a tall cloaked figure began to rise up from the ground. Once fully emerged from the ground, the figure stood up tall, and took in a deep breath. "Death... lives."