So the thing is like this, I spent my time reading stories for a long time and now I want to try and write one of my own.
I would try another manga but Fairy Tail got my attention, I'll go with it.
Disclaim: I don't own Fairy Tail.
AN: Another piece I thought of. I wondered, together with Kuroyagi, what would happen if some other characters exchange places, you know, to get more variations. And we came up with this other thought for the story.
I'm not proud in taking ideas from him, since the idea is already his and getting even more from him seems and makes me look like a lazy bastard but… hell, he said you wouldn't mind.
The thing is like this: We are now going to move to the main idea we had for this.
Some will like it, some will not, but I like it and that's all that matters.
Natsu Rose
by Froxlozeddy
Year x784…
After the war with Phantom Lord and the destruction of Fairy Tail's main building, the one that stood strong for three generations of Masters and wizards, the place was bustling again with activity. The reparations needed to have the guild up and running as before were priority to all of them, even if jobs were being taken again, everyone felt it more important to leave the building standing anew than scurrying away into some other adventure.
"…say it again."
Though, among those wizards working for the good of the guild and its continuation, there was one that was not doing anything to cooperate.
"Natsu…?"
All heads turned at breakneck speed when a couple of tables were sent flying and the sound of steel was heard clashing against the ground, many of them noticing with shock that the ones fighting at the moment were Natsu and the Master's grandson, who didn't take part in the conflict against Phantom to stop Porla from sending Gray back to his mother.
"Again? Ya deft, pinky?" The black-haired man cackled arrogantly at the pink-hair's glare and clenching teeth, finding it amusing how the knight tried to land a blow on him only to fail constantly. "We don't need weaklings in this guild!"
"Bastard." Natsu tightened the hold around his sword, bending his legs slightly to dash towards the red-eyed man again.
But he was stopped when the man started to talk again.
"Look around ya, I can't believe some lowlifes like Phantom were able to do this to us," he motioned to the destruction around them, mostly to the piles of debris belonging to the old building. "I'm fucking ashamed to be part of this shit, can't even raise my head on the streets."
"Hey, when did Gajeel return?" Carla asked to the rest of Team Erza, Lucy groaning in annoyance while Gray looked down with a frown.
"He just got here and he's a pain as always." Lucy muttered crossing her arms over her chest, narrowing her eyes at the black-haired man.
"That's… Gajeel, right?" Gray looked up and eyed the man briefly. "The S-ranked mage…"
"Ya people're da issue here," Gajeel pointed to the members of Team Shadow Gear, standing not too far from him and Natsu. "Yeah, as ya hear it!" The guys and girl from the team slouched down in embarrassment and impotence at the words. "I heard ya three were swatted like flies by that Laxus!" He smirked when he saw the girl close to tearing up. "Oh? And who're ya anyway? I don't even know your names!"
Having heard enough and not standing such mockery from one of their own, Natsu lunged forward in frenzy, bringing his sword from below to slash at Gajeel upwardly in the chest.
Only to have the man disappear in a lightning bolt and get away from his strike before any harm could reach him.
He reappeared a few feet away with his arms crossed, laughing loudly at the futile attempts of his fellow S-ranked wizard. "Ya're all fucking pathetic! Kehehehehe!"
"Shut up, Gajeel!"
Out of nowhere, Erza jumped towards Gajeel and tried to connect a flamed fist on him, only to meet the same result as her teammate.
"Gajeel, you asshole!" Erza turned around and glared at the red-eyed man standing meters away from her. He was still grinning despite the surprise attack. "Come and fight me fairly!"
"Kehehehe! Ya can't even catch me, ginger!" Gajeel laughed hysterically, his laughter echoing in the construction site. "What makes ya think you can fight me?!"
Natsu glared at the man as well, getting ready for another dash if not because Gajeel turned around on his feet, giving them all his back and some parting words.
"When I become boss of this place, I'll kick-out all the weaklings in it!" His body was surrounded by lightning, signaling his departure. "And not just them! All of ya who defy me will eat da dirt!"
Gajeel didn't reappear this time, he left after leaving clear his thoughts on the matter that stopped bothering the other members a long while ago. Gray groaned tiredly and went to sit by the bar, where Lisanna was waiting with some refreshments for those working hard to finish the reconstruction of the guild. The white-haired girl bit her lip angrily. If her sister was here, she would have shut Gajeel up together with Natsu and Erza, but that was not the case.
Not after their brother died.
"Be Master of the guild," Gray and Lisanna heard Natsu discuss with Cana, Lucy and Erza close to the wrecked tables of the past fight, all of them picking the remnants of the fight. "I won't allow him to even get near that."
"Tch, even if we intervene," Cana threw away some pieces of wood towards the piles of debris of before and later indulged herself with some more of her booze, a thoughtful look in her face. "He can do so without a problem…"
"He's the Master's grandson, after all…" Lucy stripped off her clothes in her way to leave the broken chairs with the rest of the trash, some men paying more attention to her nudity than her words.
"T-the Master's grandson…?" Gray asked to the sighing Lisanna, the girl resting her tired head on an open palm.
"Yeah, he is…" The girl looked at the ground with a frown, imagining the black-hair's laughing face and the difference between him and his grandfather. "So, when the say comes Master decides to retire, it's highly probable Gajeel will step up as the guild master…"
"That's… troublesome…" Gray took hold of a glass of water and looked at it intently, imagining the guild being ran by the man he just saw. "In the little time I was here… Gajeel's never around… nor does he help when we're in trouble." He took a large swig from the glass. "He's better as a wanderer than as Master of any guild…"
"That's asshole!" After leaving the place clear of garbage, Erza turned her attention to the last spot everyone saw Gajeel standing on, fuming over the words he said and the plans he says he has for the guild if he ever steps to take the mantle of Master. "Like I'd let him be Master…!"
"Calm down, Erza," Natsu was standing close behind the woman, glancing at the same place with other thoughts in mind. "And changing the subject, why don't we go and get a job?" Everyone around him looked shocked at what he was suggesting, again, with that same confident smile he had when he asked for the help of both Erza and Lucy with the Eisenwald issue. "There's surely something we can do."
"Eh?" Erza eyed the pink-haired in surprise, not believing her ears.
"Of course, Lucy and Gray will come along…" To his words, Lucy gave a step back and looked uncomfortable while Gray was beyond shock of being part of another mission together with the most destructive team of the guild. Lisanna, who was near, was quite happy with this development. Natsu walked closer to the bar, dragging a shocked Erza by the end of her scarf, his smile still present. "I mean, we've always been together ever since Eisenwald… it could be said we're a team of sorts, is it not?"
"U-uhm…?!" Gray tried to form words to get out the issue but his mind was failing him at the moment.
"Us four… five with Carla." The white cat gave an appreciative nod in the knight's direction. "We're a team, right?"
Several months later…
…in Edolas.
Just when she was about to end the lives of those pestilent Fairies from Earthland, Erza Knightwalker, Captain of the Army Divisions of King Faust, heard a loud explosion roaring behind her, along the cries of several of her men calling for help or reinforcements.
Happy, Chelya's blue cat, and Carla, Erza's white cat, the both who happened to be really exceeds from the alternative realm of Edolas and the Kingdom of Extalia, and who were trying to defend a very exhausted and battered Gray at the moment while trying to find a way to rescue their friends from the army, saw with relief at the figures emerging from the cloud of dust that rose up after the roars of battle ended and the soldiers retreated to a safer location near their captain.
"You scumbags…"
Gray raised his head weakly, doing his best to support his body with the lance he stole from a soldier to stand against Knightwalker a few moments ago and watch the arrival of his saviors.
"I suppose they know they're threatening members of our guild…"
He smiled gratefully at the late arrivals, gathering the last bits of strength in him to stand up, tell Happy and Carla to follow him, and continue the search for their captured friends.
"It doesn't matter; we will not forgive them for laying a hand on our friends." Natsu walked from in between the dust with his sword in hand, Lucy following him close behind in all her glorious nudity.
"Y-you two…" Knightwalker hissed when she caught sight of who she thought were Lucy Ashley and Natsu Dragion, her eyes narrowing in thinking before opening in shock. "…are mages from that dimension as well!"
"You," Natsu looked at Knightwalker intently, his hold on his sword tightening to the point where he could break it if he wished to. "I'm ashamed to see her face in you, hurting our friends."
"You are enemies of our guild," Lucy curled her hands into fists, her magic concentrating and making the temperature around lower to points where many felt chills and goosebumps appear on their skins. "Enemies of Fairy Tail."
"T-those are…! Lucy Ashley!"
"A-and Natsu Dragion!"
"No, they are not! They are wizards! From Earthland!"
"Shut the hell up and tell us where our friends are!" Lucy joined her two hands in open palm and fist and called forth her magic, shocking the soldiers dashing towards her with several spears made of ice lunging from the joining of her hands and onto them. "Ice make! Lances!"
"Whatever you're here to do, I'll stop you," Knightwalker took hold of her spear with both hands, and while her soldiers were decimated easily by the blonde's ice magic, she lunged to strike her from above, getting surprised when the pink-haired man standing next to her appeared before her with his sword stopping her spear before it could touch Lucy's head. "Tch!"
"I'm your opponent, fake." Natsu claimed with his voice lacking any kind of emotion in it, making Lucy cringe at the cold tone while Knightwalker felt extremely weird by it, so much that she didn't notice when he pushed her spear back and made them both leave the area through a hole in the wall made with her body.
"Ugh!" When she landed on her back in the cold surface of the water of that room, she glared holes through the body of the armored man standing a few feet away from her with his eyes still glued on her, glaring coldly at her with a hatred he was trying hard to contain. Erza quickly stood up from the ground and looked around her, trying to discern where they were and their surroundings before attempting to fight this wizard.
Though Natsu did not give her time to do so.
"Archangel's Armor." In a flash of light, Natsu's normal armor changed to a silver one that covered his entire body and head, giving him a pair of swords that were able to reach the ground even with him standing, and a pair of wings on his back that were surround by three pairs of blades each, all of them floating and following Natsu as he continued to pushed the captain back. "Blumenblatt!"
"W-what…!?" Before she could see it, Erza was pressured even more by the pink-hair's swords, almost failing to see the blades floating around his back dart at great speed towards her back by making a wide arc and spin. She changed her spear to Silfarion, managing to avoid the attack by a mere second. She stopped her running a few meters away from the man, at the top of a staircase that leaded to the ramps connecting the path coming from where they were to another part of the castle. She narrowed her eyes in thinking before she snorted, realization coming to her after she remembered what her counter-part said when she captured her and what this other Natsu said when they met a few minutes ago. "Oh? So you're involved with my counterpart back in Earthland? Why am I not surprised?"
"Explain yourself." Natsu muttered slowly, turning to face the woman with his helmet tilting in her direction, the blades he sent to attack her a moment ago returning to their original place after flying around the room for a while.
"We're both strong; a dragon slayer and a captain, it is only obvious for men to fall for us." Erza smirked confidently, resting her spear over her shoulder when she saw the man change back to his normal armor. His frown making her snort again. "Or am I wrong?"
"You are wrong, indeed." Natsu shook his head at the still confident captain, walking calmly to her position through another staircase. He reached the top and summoned a sword when he saw Knightwalker getting her guard up. "While you're both strong, she has something you will never have."
"And what would that be, I wonder…" Erza narrowed her eyes and clenched her hands around her spear, keeping Silfarion at the ready in case she needed to get away from another strong offensive as before.
But much to her surprise, when she asked that question, Natsu dropped his seriousness and smiled genuinely, catching her completely off-guard.
"She can be a rough and strong fighter, just like you…" He looked at the ceiling with his smile. "…but she is like that when someone hurts our friends… and after every hard battle she can still smile innocently and cheerfully, as if nothing has ever happened." His seriousness returned when he finished his speech, his eyes glaring daggers at the impersonation of his loved one standing in front of him. "Unlike you, fake."
"What?!" Knightwalker felt insulted at the comment and, by changing her spear to Explosion, she lunged towards the pink-haired and struck the ground before him with it, successfully sending him flying against a wall thanks to the large explosion her spear's ability could create. "Shut up!"
And this third chapter was written in a rush.
Kuroyagi and I found ourselves chatting a bit more about what other things could be changed in the universe of Natsu Rose and we found out these two things. The situation with Gajeel being a random one while the Edolas' situation was the main one we wanted to see through and check how it could be with this changes he imagined for the original story.
All in all, it is good. I really liked it. Instead of having Gajeel being part of Phantom, we made him Makarov's grandson. And instead of having Erza vs Erza again in Edolas, we made Natsu Rose vs Erza Knightwalker. If some of you are confused as to Natsu's really hard and serious grudge with Knightwalker for looking like Erza and hurting their friends, I can explain it like this:
I took into account Kuroyagi's piece from one of his last chapters in Rebellion, where he made Natsu Rose and Erza Dragob a couple by the end of the Oracion Seis Arc.
I hope you liked it.
Trashing out.
PD: To the "guest" who called me "scum" through an anonymous review: I advise you stop writing reviews like that. Otherwise, I'll do exactly the opposite, and then, well, I think I don't mind leaving you to explain why I stopped writing this story to the other readers, do I?
