Disclaimer: I do not own fairy tail or it's characters, just the OCs.
Chapter 3
Old Friends and Enemies
"Boy that was a close one huh Romeo?" the white haired boy asked as he and Romeo were on the roof of a tall building.
"Yes, fortunately our attack covered us and gave us a chance to escape." Romeo says as he sees Haru transform back into his wolf cub form.
"So what now Romeo?" Haru asked his friend until he found out that he wasn't paying attention to him. Romeo was staring at his right hand as his mind goes back to the pink haired Dragon-Slayer he fought before.
"Something on your mind Romeo?"
"It's that Dragon-Slayer we fought,"
"What about him?" Haru wondered clearly confused about why Romeo would wonder about him. He was just another opponent Romeo faced, I mean it's not like Romeo knew him or anything... right?
"When are fists collided I felt great magic power from him, but it felt... familiar to me." Romeo states, "Do you think I might have met him before?"
"Most likely..." A voice said causing both Romeo and Haru to turn around. And once they do they are met with a familiar face, a face that Romeo never thought he would meet in Magnolia.
This person was a lean young man with medium length spiky hair. He is dressed similarly like a ninja and has Roman numerals tattooed on his fingers, ordered starting with a I on his right little finger and an X ending on his left little finger. But what really makes him stand out was his cold brown eyes that would make almost anyone stop dead in there tracks.
"Well, if it isn't Dobengal Vogele, the Rainbow Light mage of Sabertooth." Romeo said staring at his cold brown eyes with his own cold blue ones, "But might I ask what is a mage of Sabertooth, a guild located in the capital of Crocus, doing here in Magnolia?"
"I heard about the whole Austin thing and I thought you'd be here," The ninja of the strongest guild in Fiore said to the Fire Spirit-Slayer, "After all you've always been one to punish the guilty, Romeo."
"Romeo, just who is this guy?" Haru asked as Dobengal looks down wide eyed at the animal, or at least slightly wide eyed.
"Wait you talked, wolfs can talk now?" obviously the Ninja was surprised. Haru just rolled his eyes in annoyance as he flew up and landed on Romeo's head,
"Yeah yeah, I'm a talking wolf whatever."
"Haru this is Dobengal, he's an old acquaintance of mine, we met back when I was nine." Romeo starts to explain to his furry companion, "And Dobengal this is Haru, I wolf cub I started to have when I was 10."
Dobengal looks at the wolf cub for a minute before asking, "So wait, how exactly did you guys meet?"
"You want the whole story?" Haru asked jumping off and landing in front of Dobengal while Romeo sits down cress-crossed. Dobengal nods and sits down cress-crossed as well. Romeo then decides to speak,
"Well it was three years ago, a month after I turned 10."
Flashback
"Come on Romeo concentrate." Ignatius said watching the boy trying to control a flame on a torch. Ignatius has taught young Romeo the basics of Fire Spirit-Slayer magic, now he was training him in Pyrokinesis.
"I'm trying." he said concentrating the hardest he could. As sweat was running down his forehead the flame starts flicking a bit and starts moving upwards a little as well, but alas, Romeo stops and breaths heavily from exhaustion as the flame goes back to burning on the torch.
"Romeo what's going on you seem to be out of focus, which is odd since it's you of all things." Ignatius says to the 10 year old as he puts out the fire.
"Sorry Master Ignatius, it's just that something has been bothering me lately." the young man states as he sits up. "I've been having these weird dreams lately."
"Ok first off; stop calling me Master, second; Dreams?" Ignatius asked as he raises an eyebrow, well if he had any.
"Yeah, in these dreams I'm in this cave," he starts to explain, "Then I'm face to face with this boy, though will the darkness of the cave shielded me from seeing his face I did see that he had dog ears on his head and he had a tail that was waggling around from where he was sitting on a big rock. Unfortunately I always wake up before I could go near him."
Unknown to the fire mage Ignatius' eye goes wide at this information and he would have been ginning if his mouth was even visible.
"Romeo I know what's going on, every spirit-slayer has these dreams. " he states making the boy look at him, "You need to go."
"To where?" Romeo got the Fire Spirit to look at him with his eye closed and a non-visible smile, "To the Spirit Realm Gates."
"Wait wait wait," The ninja mage said waving his hands in the air interrupting the flashback, "The Spirit Realm Gates?"
"Yes, have you not heard of it?" Haru asked now on the Fire Spirit Slayer's head. "I thought you would considering you have a Celestial Spirit mage in your guild."
The ninja merely looks at the wolf cub.
"Haru, Dobengal doesn't like to interact with people all that often, though he will when the occasion calls for it." filled Haru's ears by his young master as he set the wolf cub down on the ground.
"Anyway, as I was saying, he was planning on me to go to the Spirit Realm Gates..."
Flashback Continued
"Master if I am ask, what are the Spirit Realm Gates?" the young boy did not want to go into some random place without at least some info about where he was going to.
"Didn't I tell you about it a few days ago? Oh wait that's right I was taking a nap. But anyway look here." he said as his six flame arms make a bunch of small flame orbs in their palms, while his two main ones make a bigger orb. The small orbs then have flaming lines that connect to the bigger one. "You see Romeo, the Spirit Realm Gates are the pathways between the spirit worlds, such as the celestial spirit realm, the water spirit realm, or the earth spirit realm. But in any case they are what allows us spirits to go to different realms."
"I see, but if you don't mind answering, WHY do I need to go there?" The slayer of Ignatius asked as said Fire Spirit makes the flames fade away. "Simple really, you need to go there because it is where you'll find your partner. Every Spirit-Slayer has these dreams about them at some point in their lives, though there is no telling when these dreams will ever appear."
"Partner?"
"Yes you see young Romeo, that person in your dreams is actually an angel wolf cub spirit." the fire spirit then unsheathed his sword and swings it at the air seemingly doing nothing, but then a large circular piece of the atmosphere suddenly fades away and what was left was a blue portal in front of the two males. "They're a type of spirit who only live in the Spirit Realm Gates. They have the ability to wield magic, turn human, turn into the same weapon as their owner's, and they were created for the soul purpose of being the partners of Spirit-Slayers."
"Wait how exactly do I partner up with one anyway? Do I have to fight them or do I pick one randomly?"
"Nope, you see Romeo, when you get to the Gates you have to go inside a cave," the master explains to his student while making a visual of the cave with his flames. "Once in you will find a large celestial jewel and walk through it. That jewel is magic and will take you to meet the same angel wolf cub from your dreams. Once you do you need to make a contract with it, once it agrees to the terms it is bound to you for life, until death of course. Then my weapon, in this case my sword, will start to glow golden red which will let me know to make a portal again and send you guys back here."
"I don't know about this Ignatius," Romeo voices to his teacher, "I think I'd prefer to work alone."
"Nonsense," Ignatius states pushing Romeo into the portal with a non-visible smile, "It'll be fine."
"MAAAAASSSSTTTTTTEEEEEERRRRR!" was all that was heard before Romeo disappears into the portal and the gate way to the Spirit world fades away, making it seem like nothing happened.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA, Vale was right, doing that to them is funny." Ignatius says while still laughing.
The Spirit Realm Gates
It was a nice day in the Spirit Realm Gates as all the spirits were currently in a place that looked like some kind of giant field, about the size of Crocus, that was surrounded by grey walls with many doors. Above the doors were glowing letters spelling words that would tell a spirit which world they would end up in. The spirits were going about their day playing, reading, or merely just chatting about with each other.
Suddenly a loud, boy like scream draws their attention to a door. As the door flies open a boy comes out of it still screaming and slides on the purple grass ground until he's in front of a spirit, making all the other spirits look at him for a few moments before going back to what they were doing.
The spirit Romeo was in front of resembles a young woman with pink hair, brown eyes and a pair of twisted horns on her head. She is wearing clothes that have a white and fluffy wool-like getup to them.
"A-A-Are you alright?" she asked shyly as she bends down and reaches her hand out, but stops when Romeo puts his hand up to stop her as he gets up on his own.
"Thats quite alright," he said as he gets up looking at the wool girl who said she was sorry for some reason, "Who are you anyway?"
"M-M-M-My name is A-A-A-Aries, a Zodiac celestial spirit." she introduces herself rather timidly with a slight blush on her face, "W-What are you d-d-doing here? A-And who are you?"
"My name is Romeo, I am here looking for the Angel wolf cubs." the young boy explains.
Aries looks at him for a second trying to figure out why he would want to bother them until she finally got what he was saying, "W-Wait are you a S-Spirit-Slayer?"
Romeo nods, "Yes I am, and I need to get one. Can you tell me where are their mountains?"
The sheep spirit then points to the large Mountainous caves that were on her left and at least a 3 mile walk from where they were standing, "J-Just over t-that way." she answers timidly.
"Thank you," Romeo says to her before he stops dead in his tracks. He gets a headache as he suddenly, for what felt like a second, sees an image of a blonde girl holding up a golden key in his mind. Though her face was not shown what really stood out was the fact that Aries was in the image as well. Turning his head back to the spirit that was about to leave he grabs her arm in an effort to make her stop.
Aries lets out a cute yelp and turns around and faces the young fire spirit slayer, "Y-Yes?"
"Aries have we met before?"
"Y-Yeah, we meet when you were falling out of the door and landed on the-"
"I meant other then just now." he states.
"Sorry!" Aries apologizes with a bow. Aries takes her time to think about it. Back at the guild called fairy tail, Lucy, her owner, introduced her to everyone. She saw a bunch of people greet her, like a short blue haired girl with a book in her hands. A scary looking guy with metal piercings on his face, and an old purple haired man talking about how cute she looked. But she also saw a young boy, with raven hair, that was complementing her on her wool clothing and how they looked nice on her that was next to him. Though truth be told she was looking away with a blush since such complements made her do so. She looks at Romeo once again, this time rubbing her head, "Sorry, I don't think so," she answers honestly.
"Understood sorry for troubling you." he said bowing and runs back toward the mountains.
Flash back end
"And so I meet Haru in a cave, we formed a contract and we've been partners every since." Romeo says to his ninja colleague.
"Well that was the longest story about getting a pet dog I had to sit through." he says missing the tick mark that appeared on Haru's head.
"Pet Dog!?" he screams as he flies in front of Dobengal's face, as he remains unaffected by the outburst from the angel wolf, "I am nobody's pet and further more I am not a dog, got that you motherfu- BALL!"
He yells loudly in excitement as Dobengal takes out his red stress ball he takes with him and tosses it behind him, making Haru run on all fours while making him go in his human form.
The scene that both human boys saw was Haru, in his human form, bitting and gnawing on the stress ball, all the while trying to resist from doing so.
"No no no, must not bite the sweet, red, ..juicy, ...squeezable-." Haru said as he goes back to bitting it.
Both Romeo and Dobengal sweat drop at the scene in front of them.
"Not a dog? yeah right." the ninja said getting up, "You can keep the stress ball, I don't want it now that's it covered in angel wolf slobber," he said dashing faster than Romeo could even react.
"Later." Romeo said as he waves bye even though the young mage could not see him anymore.
Romeo then goes to Haru, who was still chewing on the ball, "Haru we need to get out of here now."
Romeo was ignored as he kept chewing on his new red ball.
"Haru now is not the time to-" after sensing a familiar magical presence Romeo stops talking immediately, even Haru stops chewing on the stress ball and looks around.
"Romeo do you feel that to?" Haru asked getting up and into a fighting stance.
"Yes, be on your guard and activate your Chi magic." Haru nods as he focuses on his magic as white magic energy surrounds him.
Faster than ever he had seen a foot makes contact with Romeo's chest making him get sent flying downward toward the market district of Magnolia all the while looking like a comet to the people that saw.
Romeo crash lands into a food stand, destroying it instantly. Right before the stand owner could yell at him, the young spirit-slayer hears,
"Well, it would seem the great Pyro Phantom has gotten a little rusty hasn't he?" said a voice Romeo knows all too well.
Romeo lets out a groan of both pain and irritation as he looks up at his attacker.
This was a fairly pale young man that had long messy silver hair that was down and covering his blood red eyes. He was wearing a black open jacket with the hood on and with the sleeves rolled up behind the elbows. He wasn't wearing anything underneath so his muscular chest and abs were shown to the whole world. He has blue flame tattoos on his chest and his arms. He has on black loose pants with a metallic grey belt through the loops. Lastly his most distinct feature was the claw gauntlets, with blood stains on all four claw blades on each gauntlets, that he was wearing on both hands. This was Santo Seiki, a twisted and evil 15 year old boy Romeo has faced before in his past. He was currently flying thanks to the blue flame wings coming out of his back.
"Well come on young hero, say something!" he said letting out a sadistic laughing making the locals shake a bit as the fire spirit slayer gets back up.
"What are you doing here Santo? I thought I took care of you in Minstrel." Romeo hears nothing but boyish laughter as he dusted himself off and glares at the flying male, "No matter beating you will be a pleasure."
Santo's claw blades flare up with blue flames as Romeo's two fists flare up in golden red ones.
"Fire Spirit's Blazing Victory!"
"Blue Fire Ice Age Shards!"
The last thing the town folks saw before they were sent back by a large shockwave was the two children run at each other and crash their fists together creating the large shockwave that sent them back.
The Fairy Tail Guild
a few minutes earlier
"Ok wait, you guys saw a young boy who was wearing a red cloak, had a friend that, not only had dog like features, but transformed into a sword, and was a fire-spirit slayer?" Alzack asked upon hearing what Team Natsu went through, "Is that what your saying?"
"Yes we saw it with our own eyes!" Happy confirmed.
"Honey?" Alzack looked at his wife Bisca, as she only nods in knowing what her husband was talking about.
"Mama, what is daddy talking about?" Asuka asked her mom as she was lifted up by said female and placed on her lap.
Bisca smiles at her daughter as she looks at Team Natsu.
"We know who that is, he's the Pyro Phantom, a Fire Spirit-Slayer know all through out Ishgar." she explains catching the Tenrou Group, that wasn't Team Natsu, off Guard.
"Wait you know who he is?" Lucy asked only for the gun couple to shake their heads.
"Not personally, all we do know is that he's a 13 year old boy who wilds first generation fire spirit-slayer magic." the words first generation fire spirit slayer is what caught the Tenrou Groups attention the most.
"Wait this kid is a spirit-slayer? Just how powerful is he?" Gajeel asked budding in.
"He's powerful, believe me, Bisca and I know." Alzack states.
"You fought him?" Erza asked only for Bisca to shake her head again.
"No, but we've seen the destruction that he caused when me and Alzack were out on a job about two months ago." she states as Alzack begins to speak as his wife covered their daughter's ears, not wanting traumatized the young girl with this story.
"We just got back from a job, we were walking back to the train station when suddenly, BOOM!, we heard a large explosion coming from the forest near by," he states, the Tenrou Group listing to every word, "When we got there, a good chunk of the forest was burnt down, golden red flames were everywhere, but the one thing that stood out the most was the fact that there were dead bodies on the ground. We looked at them and it turns out they were members of a dark guild called Dark Sword, when we looked in front of us we found a destroyed guild hall. But what was really surprising was that we found a 13 year old looking boy wearing a dark red cloak, with another boy with dog like features next to him, holding a sword that was impaled in the throat of a large man, who we assumed was the guild master, who had the guild symbol on his arm."
That very moment everyone's eyes go wide. A 13 year old boy killed people?! Not to mention destroyed a whole guild! I'm mean fuck...
"We were going to confront the boys, but they spotted us. The one with the sword sent out fire ball that exploded a part in front of us, though we never got hurt. But by the time we got back up they were gone." Bisca explained to the still shocked guid.
"Wait just what does this... Pyro Phantom kid do anyway?" Bickslow asked her, his babies floating near him.
"He is, as everyone else calls him, a rouge mage. He goes around Ishgar and kills dark mages, bandits, and anyone who he deems to be a nuisances to the world. He's wanted by the Magic Council for obvious reasons." Max explains as the Tenrou-
BOOM!
A large explosion and tremor shakes the guild hall as almost all the members shake and fall down. As they all start getting up Gray shouts,
"What the hell was that!?"
"Sounded like it came from outside." Erza states as she, Team Natsu, and the rest of the Tenrou Group start running out of the guild hall.
As they leave Max looks at Alzack and Bisca with a look that the gun slinger couple knew all too well, a look of sadness and a bit of grief, "Do you think we should tell them?"
"We might, I mean they will find out eventually." Bisca said as Alzack sighs with a nod.
Back to Romeo and Santo
Both boys were trading blows and blows of different colored flames at each other as they jump in the air from the ground and the sides of buildings.
Romeo jumps off another building as he unsheathes his sword and brings it above him as he goes down attempting to slash Santo, who was still on the ground, in two.
CLINK!
Santo bring his claws above his head as he blocks the attack. As the young Fire Spirit-Slayer lands and keeps trying to push his blade down he then feels the crazy 15 year old push more of his strength into his hands as Romeo was now struggling to keep Santo's claws from touching his face.
"How did you get this strong?" Romeo asked still struggling.
"I magician never reveals his secrets dumbass." Santo quips as his body is covered in blue flames and just like that, he was gone.
Santo appears behind an unsuspecting Romeo and slashes his back, ripping both his cloak and red shirt, leaving slash gashes with blood running down his back, as he drops his sword. Romeo didn't have time to scream, or pick his sword back up, as Santo kicks his sword away, grabs him by the leg and throws him into another food stand, smashing it to pieces and making Romeo's injury worse.
Romeo struggles to get up as he glares at the laughing silver haired boy walking toward him.
"To think the once great Pyro Phantom was reduced to this." he said bring his right hand up, "Don't worry I'll make your death painless," Romeo sees the suns rays shinning on the blades, "Think of it as a thank you for not keeping me bored, though I could have used more of a challenge." was all that was said before he brings his claws down.
CLINK!
Romeo and Santo look to see a glowing white human Haru holding up a sword blocking the blue fire mage's claws. Santo growls at him and jumps back a few times, landing on top of a building,
"Haru what took you so long?" Romeo manages to say through his pain.
"Sorry I had some company to deal with." He states as he looks at Santo.
"How did you get passed my man?" asked an angry Santo as he sees the human angel wolf cub. He hated him cause he would always get in the way of his battles with Romeo, he doesn't even find him worth fighting. It was fair to stay that Santo considers Romeo his Arch Enemy.
"Oh please you honestly believe that only ten of your men could beat me?" Haru asked as he drops the sword, as he prefers fight unarmed, but will fight with them if it's necessary.
"Maybe not 10-" Santo takes off his right glove and brings two fingers near his mouth, "But maybe 100 will." the 15 year old then whistles as a total of 100 black cloaked men with chaos symbols on the back of their clocks appear with magic circles in the palm of their hands appear around them. "Men, depose of this one."
Haru then puts up a white barrier shield around the still injured Fire Spirit slayer. Romeo lays there as the wounds on his back suddenly start to heal up at a slow pace. Romeo knows this spell as Haru has used it on him many times in the past. It was just a simple spell that not only heals the person inside the barrier, but also protects them from attacks. Only draw back is that it takes a long time for the person to heal. And in Romeo's case, roughly ten minutes tops.
Romeo looks through the see-through barrier as Haru suddenly jumps in midair as three guys suddenly jump toward him. One of them was behind the wolf eared boy, as he grabs Haru from behind.
"Hey let me go!" Haru said only for the man to tighten his grip. The two in front of them had a sword and a battle ax, and were ready to swing.
Using his head, literally, Haru smashes it into the nose of the guy holding him, making him loosen his grip. As the man holds his now bleeding nose Haru grabs him by the leg and swings him in front of him, just as the two weapon wielders brought their blades down, cutting off the man's head and his lower body.
Haru, seeing an opening due to the fact that both men were left shocked over the fact that they just killed their own man, charges his fist in chi energy and punches the ax wielder in the gut, caving it in and made him cough up blood. Haru then grabs the falling ax and slices the man in two pieces. His attention then focuses on the sword holder, as he keeps on trying to slice at Haru, who dodges all of his swings with a lot of effort, with three cuts only appearing on his left cheek, right arm, and stomach. Haru then brings his fist into the man's face, causing it to cave in and smash him into the floor.
And just for extra insurance the angel wolf cub spirit throws the battle ax down, splitting his head in two.
Romeo looks on as his partner continues fighting mage after mage, and only four minutes have passed. At first glance it would seem like Haru has got this down perfectly, even his injuries were healing thanks to his magic, but Romeo knew better. The others were starting to pair up, launch attacks together, starting to read his movements.
Haru increases his chi, which increased his power, as he punches one of the guys through the face. Two guys appeared at the sides of the one Haru just killed with magic beams ready to fire. Thinking quickly, he uses the corpse as a platform and jumps above a few feet avoiding the fire and ice beams.
"Haru is not gonna last much longer out there!" Romeo tries to get up but remembers his injuries, "Dammit he's gonna die out there!"
Haru was then sent into the ground by a light based attack. As he struggles to get up nine man put their hands out as they get ready to launch their final attack on the spirit.
"HARU!" Romeo screams as he winces in pain from trying to get up. Romeo was left there as he was forced to watch his friend die.
"Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Or not as the nine men were then sent flying into a building, destroying it in the process , knocking them out, but alive.
"Natsu don't cause even more damage to the city!" a blonde girl screams as she goes near the pink haired slayer.
"No way it's that dragon-slayer again." Romeo thinks as the rest of Team Natsu finally catch up. "And he brought his friends to."
The white and Raven haired boys look as Natsu sports a grin on his face as he looks at the dark mages,
"I don't know whats going on here, or why your attacking these two kids." he then smashes his fire engulfed fist into his fire engulfed hand, "But I'm all fired up!"
An: Romeo and Haru meet Team Natsu again. Also in case your wondering Romeo needs his sword in order to summon his fire spirits, without, he can't summon even one. In this story spirit-slayers also each have their own weapon, even the second generations. Also please read my other story The Rainbow Fire Champion, I still need OCs for it. As always see you next time.
