CHAPTER 3: EVERLUE MANSION
It's been two days since Macao returned. Gray took Lucy home after the party in which before leaving she had knocked Natsu unconscious for grabbing her breasts after he landed on her after fighting Gray. Ever since they been reconnecting with each other. It was round sometime in the morning. In Lucy's apartment the sun was shinning against Lucy's window. Lucy and Gray were sleeping in Lucy's bed. The sun shinning then woke Lucy up.
"Good morning." said Lucy. Gray was holding Lucy while in her bed.
"I missed this. Waking up with you in the morning." said Gray. Gray and Lucy both had bed hair. Gray was wearing his boxers as usual and Lucy was wearing a pair of undergarments while they laid in bed. Lucy then sat up with Gray following. Gray stood up and walked over to Lucy's dresser where she kept clothes for him.
"Anyway I better go. I'll see you later." said Gray as he started to head towards the door.
"Ok. I'll come to the guild later on." said Lucy.
"Later on?" questioned Gray.
"Yeah I have to take a shower." answered Lucy.
"Ok I'll see you at the guild then." said Gray. He then leaned down and pecked her on the lips and then walked out the door.
"Ok now for some me time." said Lucy as she stretched. Lucy got up from her bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower. Lucy then removed her current undergarments and stepped into the shower. The water from shower went over her whole entire body. Lucy stepped out of the shower once she was done showering. She grabbed a towel and wrapped around herself. Once she dried herself off she wrapped a towel around her body. Once she walked out of the bathroom what she saw shocked her. She saw Natsu and Happy in her room that they made a total mess out of.
"Yo!" said Natsu while Happy was eating a fish.
"My room!" yelled Lucy when she saw the mess.
"Why the heck are you two here?" asked an angry Lucy as she kicked them into her bedroom wall.
"We heard from Mira that Gray took you back home, so…" said Natsu while rubbing his swollen cheek.
"Aye…" said Happy who had bruises.
"Just because Gray took me home it does mean that the two of you can barge in. Even if you and I are good friends, don't you understand the concept of privacy for a girl? Plus you also entered my house without my permission! Do you actually want me to get angry at you huh?" yelled an angry Lucy.
"Hey, you really hurt me, man." said Natsu.
"What do you mean?" asked Lucy.
"Don't act like you can't remember. Two days ago at the guild where you hit me on the head and then the gut. Then after a while you eventually knocked me unconscious." answered Natsu.
"Oh that. Well if you did not touch me in those places I wouldn't have had to do that." said Lucy.
"But it was your boyfriend that made me do that." said Natsu.
"Either way let's just drop it. Besides I' m the one who is suffering here…" said Lucy.
"Lucy your room has become a lot nicer." said Happy who sharpening his claws on the bedroom wallpaper.
"Don't sharpen your claws, Happy!" yelled Lucy. Natsu then walked over to Lucy's desk and picked up a pile of papers.
"What's this?" wondered Natsu picking up the pile of papers. Lucy looked and saw what Natsu picked up and became nervous.
"Don't look!" yelled Lucy taking back the papers while kicking him.
"Ok…Now I'm curious. What is that?" said Natsu.
"Haven't the two of you done enough? Go home already!" said Lucy holding the papers.
"No way! I came to hang out!" said Natsu.
"I can't believe you sometimes… But either way at least let me get some clothes on." said Lucy getting up. She placed the papers back into the drawer of her desk.
"Oh sure go ahead." said Natsu. Lucy then grabbed some clothes and headed to the bathroom to get dressed. Once she exited the bathroom fully dressed she went and got Natsu, Happy and herself something to drink.
"You know I just got back recently, so I don't have anything to entertain you with. Go home after you finish your drink okay?" said Lucy once sat down at the table.
"You sure are cold-hearted…" said Natsu also sitting down at the table.
"Aye…" said Happy on top of the table.
"Cold-hearted, huh?" said Lucy.
"Oh, yeah! Show me all those key guys you have, Luce." said Natsu.
"For the hundredth time they are not "key guys" they are Celestial Spirits." said Lucy.
"Lucy, how many celestial spirits do you have contracts with?" asked Happy.
"Quite a lot actually. They vary zodiac, silver, crystal, gem, legendary creatures, demons, animals, and even the elements." answered Lucy.
"I've heard of the zodiac and silver but not the rest." said Natsu.
"Aye." said Happy.
"That's because they are just as rare as the gold keys. The only ones that you can buy in stores are the silver keys." answered Lucy.
"Which one's do you have?" asked Happy.
"Take a look." answered Lucy. She held up a couple sets of keys. "However the one's I've had the longest are 'Aquarius' The Water Bearer, 'Taurus' The Golden Bull, and 'Cancer' The Giant Crab."
"A crab?" said Natsu with his mouth watering.
"Crab!" said Happy excited.
"There those two go again zoning in on the weirdest parts..." said Lucy to herself.
"Now that I think about it, I still haven't made the contract with the key I bought at Hargeon. Besides I never did show you the process a mage who possess' celestial magic goes through to make a contract with a Celestial Spirit." said Lucy making Natsu and Happy interested.
"I wonder if she had to sign a blood pact?" whispered Happy to Natsu.
"Sounds painful… for your butt." whispered back Natsu.
"Why are you talking about my butt? And you know I can hear you." muttered Lucy.
"Whatever, just watch. I am linked to the path to the world of Celestial Spirits! Now! O Spirit, answer my call and pass through the Gate! Gate of Canis Minor, I open thee! Nicolas!" said Lucy. When the spirit appeared Natsu and Happy were shocked by how it looked.
"There's always next time." said Natsu and Happy.
"I didn't screw up!" said an angry Lucy.
"How cute!" said Lucy holding the spirit.
"I-It is?" questioned Natsu.
"It doesn't take much magic power to open Nicolas's gate, so they're popular to keep as Spirit pets!" explained Lucy.
"Natsu, this is clearly a case of human's pride." whispered Happy to Natsu.
"Luce has definitely become a little more scarier than before she left." Natsu whispered back.
"You do know I can hear you?" muttered Lucy.
"Okay, let's move on to the contract. How's Monday?" said Lucy as she started doing the contract. Nicolas shook its head.
"Tuesday?" asked Lucy. Nicolas nodded its head.
"Wednesday?" asked Lucy as Natsu and Happy watched.
"Kind of basic, huh?" said Natsu drinking tea.
"Aye." said Happy eating fish.
"Okay, contract complete!" said Lucy.
"Looks pretty simple." said Happy.
"Yeah." said Natsu.
"It seems that way, but it's crucial. Those with celestial magic work by contract. In other words, promises are everything to those mages. Since I know celestial magic there's no way I'll break a promise! Get it?" said Lucy in which Natsu became amazed.
"Oh yeah! I have to decide on a name." said Lucy.
"Wasn't it named Nicolas?" asked Happy.
"That's the name for the variety. That's it! Come here, Plue!" said Lucy in which Nicolas turned its head.
"Plue?" questioned Natsu and Happy.
"Doesn't the name sound cute? Right, Plue?" asked Lucy.
"You sure he likes it?" asked Natsu.
"Of course he does!" answered Lucy.
"Plue's a "Lesser Dog" but he doesn't bark, does he? That's strange." said Happy.
"It's not like you meow like a cat, either." said Lucy placing Plue on the floor.
"I wonder what Plue's trying to say?" wondered Lucy as they watched Plue do a strange dance.
"Plue, right on, man!" said Natsu. Plue responded by smiling and giving a thumbs up.
"They communicated!" said Lucy. Natsu was then looking at Lucy with an intense stare.
"W-What?" asked Lucy freaked out by Natsu's stare.
"Okay, I've decided! Join us and let's form a team!" said Natsu.
"I see!" said Happy.
"But why?" asked Lucy.
"Because even though everyone in the guild are allies. The teams are formed are only made by the people in the guild that really get along." said Happy.
"I know that. Besides you don't see me and Gray forming a team even though we are dating." said Lucy.
"Yeah but remember what happens when you form a team. If you take a difficult request by one person but it would be handled easily by a team." said Happy.
"I'll only team up with you for only one mission though." said Lucy.
"Fine, we're all set then!" said Natsu after doing a hand pact with Lucy.
"Signed and sealed!" said Lucy.
"Aye, sir!" said Happy.
"But one question?" asked Natsu
"What?" asked Lucy.
"Why only one mission?" asked Natsu.
"I have my reasons. Right now I just need some time to get back to normal after being gone for some time." answered Lucy.
"Fine, but let's hurry up and do a job! Look, I already picked one out!" said Natsu holding up a request.
"Let me see" said Lucy grabbing the request in which Natsu grinned when she grabbed it.
"Shirotsume town, huh? No way! 200,000 jewel just for taking a single book from the mansion of this Duke Everlue person?" said Lucy looking at the request.
"See? Isn't it a steal?" said Natsu. Lucy then noticed something on the request.
"Caution: He's a dirty old pervert and currently recruiting blond-haired maids." said Lucy.
"And Lucy's blond, isn't she?" said Natsu.
"Let's get her to infiltrate the mansion dresses as a maid." said Happy.
"You two planned this from the beginning!" said Lucy scared.
"So I hear that Celestial mages never break promises and since your part Celestial mage... How impressive!" said Natsu.
"You tricked me, you idiot!" said Lucy as Natsu laughed.
"Okay, it's practice time. Try calling Happy "Master." It might help you." said Natsu.
"No way! Not to a cat!" yelled Lucy.
"Oh... Did someone take that 200,000 jewel job for some book?" wondered Levy as her team was looking at the request board.
"Yes, Natsu said he was gonna invite Lucy to go with him." answered Mira.
"Aww. That's what I get for hesitating." said Levy in which Mira giggled.
"It might be better that you didn't go, Levy." said Makarov sitting on the bar.
"Master." said Levy.
"Since I just got a message from the client." said Makarov.
"It's been canceled?" asked Mira.
"No. It seems the reward has been upped to 2,000,000 jewel!" answered Makarov which shocked Levy and her team.
"Ten times more?" said Levy.
"2,000,000 jewel for a single book?" said Droy.
"That's the kind of reward you get for subduing monsters!" said Jet.
"Why was it increased so suddenly..." asked Mira.
"Seems like things just got interesting. Plus my girlfriend is gonna have an interesting come back." said Gray sitting at the bar.
"Gray, look down." said Mira. When Gray looked down he freaked out when he noticed he stripped down to his boxers again.
"But anyway Natsu better be careful when going over to Lucy's" said Gray clothed.
"Why?" asked Mira.
"When I left her place she was going to take a shower. Natsu better hope he doesn't do anything while she takes her shower." answered Gray.
"Why?" asked Mira.
"She freaks out when Natsu does something to her place. The worse she'll probably do to him is kick him into her bedroom wall." answered Gray.
"Natsu will probably make a mess of her room while she is taking a shower then." said Mira.
"Probably." said Gray. "Luce, good luck." thought Gray.
"Are you having a comfortable ride, Master?" teased Lucy as they were riding a carriage.
"It's a match maid in hell..." said Natsu being sick.
"Hey, I'm the one that's playing the master part!" said Happy.
"Shut up, Happy!" yelled Lucy as she was done teasing Natsu.
"By the way, Natsu..." said Lucy.
"Huh?" asked Natsu.
"Why did you want to form a team with me?" asked Lucy.
"Well you're a girl who has a good personality and your pretty useful, you know." answered Natsu.
"Well at least he still recognizes my skills." thought Lucy.
"But you're also pretty weird just like Gray." said Natsu.
"Look who's talking." thought Lucy.
"Anyway this is my first job since I came back, okay? I'm hoping this will make up for the lost time." said Lucy.
"Wait, didn't you dislike the job we picked?" asked Happy.
"I'm up against a dirty old man! Plus I have a lot of confidence in my sex appeal." said Lucy.
"As a cat, I really can't tell." said Happy.
"Why you…" threatened Lucy.
"But I thought that Gray doesn't like it when you use your sex appeal on jobs." said Happy.
"He doesn't. However he knows sometimes I have to use it when were doing jobs." said Lucy.
"I see." said Happy.
"Anyway let's get this straight! Since you aren't gonna be involved, the reward split is 8 to 1 to 1!" said Lucy.
"Are you sure about just getting the 1 part, Lucy?" asked Happy.
"I'm the 8!" yelled Lucy.
Lucy, Natsu, and Happy arrived in Shirotsume Town and were now walking. "I'm never riding a carriage again." said Natsu recovering from his motion sickness.
"You say that every time." said Happy.
"Anyway, let's get something to eat." said Natsu.
"And you can't eat your own fire. It would be like eating a comrade." said Lucy.
"Yeah. It would be the exact same thing." said Natsu.
"For you something like that must be a pain." said Lucy. Then stopped in front of a restaurant.
"Let's go in here!" said Natsu.
"You two go on ahead." said Lucy walking away.
"What's up with her? It would be better if we all eat together." said Natsu.
"Aye." said Happy.
Natsu and Happy were eating at a table. "Let's give the fatty parts to Lucy!" said Natsu.
"Lucy looks like she might like the fatty parts." said Happy.
'Since when did the two of you decide that I like fatty foods?" asked Lucy walking up to them. When Natsu lifted his head he was a little shocked by what he saw.
"Lu...cy?" questioned Natsu looking at Lucy who was in a maid uniform.
"It really is true. I look good in anything, don't I?" said Lucy. Natsu and Happy were thrown into a state of shock. Their jaws dropped which made the food they were eating fall out.
"Have you finished with your meal, Master?" asked Lucy.
"What are we going to do? We were just joking, but she's really gone and done it!" whispered Happy.
"I guess we can't tell her it was only a joke now, can we? M-Maybe we could just go for it like this?" whispered Natsu.
"I can hear you!" said Lucy.
Natsu, Lucy and Happy were now in the client's house meeting with the client and his wife. "I am the client, Kaby Melon." said the client.
"Melon?" questioned Happy with his mouth watering.
"You have one yummy name!" said Natsu with his mouth also watering.
"Hey, that's rude of you!" said Lucy.
"I get that all the time." said Kaby.
"I've heard that name somewhere before…" thought Lucy.
"Well then, let me tell you about this job." said Kaby.
"Right!" said Natsu and Happy.
"My request is to destroy a book in the possession of Duke Everlue, Daybreak. Or burning it is also fine as well." said Kaby.
"Burning it? Then why don't I just burn down the whole mansion?" said Natsu while showing his fire magic on one of his fingers.
"Piece of cake!" said Happy.
"You can't! You'll get in big trouble for sure!" said Lucy in which Natsu stopped using fire magic.
"By the way I'd like to know the reason why you want this book destroyed?" asked Lucy.
"Who cares? It's 200,000!" said Natsu.
"No, it's 2,000,000 jewel." said Kaby which shocked them.
"2-2,000,000?" said Lucy, Natsu and Happy shocked by the great amount.
"Oh, you weren't aware?" asked Kaby.
"2,000,000 divided by three is… Whoa, I can't even do the match!" said Natsu still in shock.
"It's simple! I get 1,000,000, Natsu gets 1,000,000, and Lucy gets the rest!" said Happy also in shock with his mouth watering.
"Good thinking, Happy!" said Natsu.
"Aye!" said Happy.
"Use your brain's for once! There would be nothing left for me!" yelled Lucy.
"Anyway my question why?" asked Lucy.
"I want to destroy that book no matter what. I cannot allow that book to exist." said Kaby. Natsu then turned on his fire magic making Lucy a little worried.
"Okay, I'm all pumped up! Let's go, Lucy!" said Natsu. Natsu then dragged Lucy out of the house with Happy following them.
"Hey!" said Lucy.
"Aye!" said Happy. Back in the house Kaby was still thinking about the book that he wants destroyed.
"Daybreak… It is a book that must be erased from this world" said Kaby.
Lucy, Happy and Natsu arrived at Duke Everlue's house. Lucy went to the front gate to do her part of being disguised as a maid.
"I've come because I heard you were recruiting maids! Is anybody home?" yelled Lucy.
"Get the attention of some perverted old man, burn some book, get 2,000,000. Talk about piece of cake." thought Lucy with a grin on her face.
"Break a leg!" whispered Natsu from where he and Happy were hiding.
"You can do it!" whispered Happy. The ground around Lucy suddenly opened up. Something jumped from the hole and landed in font of Lucy. It appearance was of a maid who had an extremely tall stature and overweight with a brutish face and had her hair in two pony tails.
"A maid recruit?" asked the maid.
"Yes!" answered a frightened Lucy.
"It seems you came because of the advertisement our Master placed for maids." said the maid. The Master then came out of the ground.
"Did you call for me?" asked Duke Everlue.
"There he is!" said Lucy.
"Let's see here." said Duke Everlue as he started to look at Lucy.
"Thanks for having me!" said Lucy turning on her appeal. Everlue started to stare at Lucy with a weird face.
"I'm breaking out in goosebumps! Gotta bear it!" thought Lucy.
"No thanks. Go home, ugly." said Everlue turning away from Lucy. Lucy was thrown into a state of shock.
"That's that. Go on home, ugly." said the maid holding and picking up Lucy by the waist.
"Understand? For a person as magnificent as myself..." said Everlue. Four maids then appeared behind Everlue. "...only beautiful girls will do!" said Everlue. Lucy also stared in shock. She was in shock due to how ugly the girls he called beautiful were.
"Oh, Master… You're so wonderful…Master, you're super cool! Ugly, go home now, okay?" said the maids which threw Lucy into a bigger shock. After that Lucy went back to Natsu and Happy.
"So much for your sex appeal." said Natsu while Lucy was sulking.
"That's not the problem! That Everlue, he and his maids just insulted my sense of beauty." complained an upset Lucy.
"Excuses." said Happy.
"Your not helping!" said Lucy.
"Okay! In that case we'll go with Plan T!" said Natsu.
"Yeah! I'll never forgive that old fart!" said an angry Lucy.
"Wait, what's Plan T?" asked Lucy.
"It stands for take them head-on!" answered Happy.
"How exactly is that a good plan?" asked Lucy.
Everlue and two other people were watching Lucy, Natsu and happy from a crystal ball.
"More foolish mages have shown up. Haven't they learned their lesson?" said Everlue. The crystal ball then zoned in on Lucy's fairy tail mark.
"They're from Fairy Tail this time?" said Everlue.
Natsu was on top of the house burning a glass window so they could get in. "Safe and sound." said Happy. He brought Lucy to the top of the roof.
"Thanks, Happy!" said Lucy once she was on the roof.
"Sheesh…What part of "take them head-on" didn't you get? We should have just busted through the front gate!" said Natsu.
"No way! You want the military on us?" said Lucy.
"Not really. But what's with you? Didn't you say earlier that you'd never forgive that guy?" said Natsu.
"Yes I did say that. Trust me when I say this. He will get what's coming to him. Not only am I gonna burn that book, I'm gonna make him regret ever meeting me!" said Lucy with a terrifying look.
"Whoa, you can be pretty scary sometimes." said Natsu scared.
"Aye…" said Happy also scared. Natsu, Lucy and Happy got through the window from the hole in the window Natsu made from burning it earlier.
"Hmm, this seems to be a storeroom." said Lucy. Happy then had a skull mask on trying to scare Lucy.
"Knock it off, Happy." said Lucy not being scared of the mask.
"How come your not afraid of it?" asked Natsu.
"Back before I left home my older brother had a habit of scaring me and my sister. Back then Keiji did that so much that now I don't really get scared anymore." answered Lucy.
"Bummer. I wanted to see you scared." said Natsu.
"Aye." said Happy. After exiting the storeroom then checked the other rooms. Lucy even found he had a toilet made of gold with Everlue's head on it. They were now trying to be very sneaky.
"Wait, you plan on searching each room?" asked Natsu.
"Of course." answered Lucy.
"Wouldn't it be faster to grab someone ad ask them where the book is?" asked Natsu.
"Aye!" said Happy while still having the skull mask on.
"We're infiltrating without anyone knowing. If we grabbed someone we would be found out. Besides it's sorta like ninja's." said Lucy.
"Ninja?" said Natsu imagining ninja's.
"I think he's got some weird mental image again…" said Lucy while something coming up from the ground.
"The intruders have been located!" said the four small maids coming up from the ground.
"Eliminating them!" said the big maid.
"They're here!" said Lucy. Happy then used the skull mask from before. This resulted in the four small maids being scared.
"It's a ghost!" said one of the maids.
"You're annoying!" said Natsu while sending the four maids off with a punch.
"Flying Virgo Attack!" said the big maid which resulted in her falling on Natsu. Lucy then noticed that Happy still had the skull mask on.
"Hey, take that mask off already." said Lucy. Natsu started to lift the big maid off of him. Eventually throwing the maid off of him.
"Ninja!" said Natsu kicking the maid with his feet on fire.
"We can't have them discovering us-de gozaru! Nin-nin!" said Natsu acting like a ninja.
"Nin-nin!" said Happy also acting like a ninja.
"We were discovered because we were being noisy as usual." said Lucy. They then opened a pair of double doors. When they opened the doors it was revealed to be a library.
"It's a mountain of books-de gozaru!" said Natsu.
"Aye! – de gozaru." said Happy.
"Well what do you know. That old man is actually quite the reader, I guess." said Lucy.
"Let's search for the book!" said Natsu excited.
"Aye, sir!" said Happy also excited. Lucy was close to the very top of the bookshelf looking for the book while Natsu and happy were on the bottom looking for the book.
"There's so many books here. How the hell are we going to find the book were looking for?" said Lucy.
"I found a perverted book!" said Natsu.
"An encyclopedia of fish!" said Happy.
"I found the golden book!" said Natsu holding a book with the title Daybreak.
"Hey search seriously!" said Lucy. She then looked at the title of the book.
"Daybreak?" questioned Lucy.
"Like, Dawn?" asked Happy. Thy then realized that was the book they were searching for.
"We found it!" said Happy. "Seriously?" asked Natsu.
"Talk about an easy 2,000,000." said Lucy.
"Now let's burn it!" said Natsu.
"Pretty simple, wasn't it?" said Happy.
"Hold it!" said Lucy taking the book from Natsu.
"This book was written by Kemu Zaleon?" said Lucy in shock after looking at the author's name on the book.
"Kemu Zaleon?" questioned Natsu.
"He's a mage who was also a novelist! I've always enjoyed his work! I swore I read every book he wrote, but maybe this is an unpublished book?" said Lucy.
"Whatever, let's just hurry and burn it." said Natsu showing his fire magic.
"But…" said Lucy.
"Lucy don't start to abandon the mission." said Happy.
"I didn't say I was gonna abandon the mission. It's just I've always been a huge fan of his work." said Lucy.
"Let's just burn it already." said Happy. Natsu and Happy started to get closer to Lucy as Lucy kept on backing away.
"Can we think about this for a moment?" asked Lucy.
"No way. And if you're thinking about lying to the guy then no way. I don't like lying." said Natsu.
"Aye." said Happy.
"I see, I see." said a voice which shocked the three of them. Everlue then came out from underneath the floor.
"So you intruders are after Daybreak, are you?" asked Everlue landing on the ground.
"See, this is what we get for hesitating." said Natsu.
"Sorry." said Lucy.
"What have you done to your mansion's floor?" asked Happy.
"Happy I don't think no one cares about that right now." answered Lucy.
"I thought that you mages were all coming to search for something, and it turns out you were looking for that stupid book!" said Everlue.
"Stupid?" questioned Natsu.
"A book that the client wanted destroyed for 2,000,000 jewel. Plus the person keeping it, Everlue, calls it stupid?" thought Lucy.
"So, do you think we can keep it?" Lucy asked Natsu.
"No! What's mine is mine!" yelled Everlue.
"Cheapskate." said Lucy.
"Shut up, ugly." said Everlue making Lucy upset.
"Then how about we just burn the book already?" asked Natsu.
"Come on Natsu. Can't we talk about this?" asked Lucy, who wanted to protect the book.
"Luce, remember this is our job!" said a very serious Natsu.
"Well at least let me read it before you burn it!" said Lucy sitting down on the floor.
"Right here?" said Natsu, Happy and Everlue shocked by what Lucy was doing.
"Enough nonsense! Do you even realize who I am? Get your filthy hands off of my book! Vanish Brothers!" said Everlue.
The book cases then opened up revealed two guys. One of the guys was short pale skinned with four tattoos in his face. His black was in a long ponytail. He is wearing a white shirt with a high collar and a green stripe running down the front of it. His shirt also has a blue arm band with a guild symbol embroidered on it. He is also wearing black pants and has a large frying pan strapped to his back. The other guy is tall and is peach skinned. He has blue messy hair that goes in four directions. He is wearing a blue shirt with a high collar and yellow stripes that run down the length of the shoulder down to the shirt cuffs along with white pants. He is also wearing a white arm band with a guild symbol embroidered on it. He is also wearing an orange bandana with blue makings on it.
"Good afternoon." said the shorter one.
"Even mother would be surprised to see these two brats are Fairy Tail mages." said the taller one.
"That mark! They're from the mercenary guild, the South Wolves!" said Happy.
"So you hired these guys?" asked Natsu punching his hands together.
"This…" said Lucy while reading the book.
"Wolves are always hungry, yes? Prepare yourselves." said Everlue.
"Natsu, buy me some time." said Lucy standing up.
"Why?" asked Natsu.
"I think there's some secret to this book." said Lucy. She then left the room leaving Natsu and Happy.
"Secret? I didn't notice myself. Maybe there's some treasure map hidden in it?" thought Everlue. He then started to go back into the ground.
"I'll go after the girl! Eliminate the brat!" said Everlue.
"Yes, sir." said the two guys.
"Happy, go and make sure Lucy is okay." said Natsu.
"I'll back you up." said Happy, who wanted to help Natsu instead.
"No… I'll be fine on my own." said Natsu. Happy then flew off using his aera magic without the Vanish Brothers stopping him.
"Hey! I'm telling mother on you!" said the taller one.
"Calm yourself. Cool down. Come on, fire mage." said the shorter one.
"Huh? How'd you know?" asked Natsu.
"Fire was wrapping your legs when you defeated the big maid, Virgo." answered the taller one.
"There's no mistaking it; you are a caster type fire mage." said the shorter one.
"So, I guess you're all prepared for this, huh?" said Natsu. He then used his fire magic, which resulted in his whole body being covered in flames.
"I'll burn you to a smoldering crisp!" said Natsu. he was aiming for them but ended up hitting the large frying pan.
"Sorry to say this, but we are especially skilled against fire mages." said the shorter one. He then hit Natsu with the large frying pan. The older one jumped up and went to kick Natsu but Natsu dodge it. The shorter then hit Natsu with his large frying pan. This resulted in the doors breaking down and Natsu landing on Everlue's statue of himself in his lobby.
"You might be from Fairy Tail, but in the end you're still just a mage. You're no match for professional fighters like us mercenaries." said the taller one.
"So that's all you got?" asked Natsu smirking.
"Brother, he's talking trash to us!" said the taller one getting angry.
"Do you know what a mage's weakness is?" asked the shorter one.
"You mean transportation?" asked Natsu getting nervous.
"I think that might just be a personal issue you have…" said the shorter one.
"He's totally talking trash to us! " said the taller one, who was angry.
"Their weakness is their bodies!" said the shorter one. He jumped of from where he was and went to hit Natsu with the frying pan but Natsu dodged it.
"To train oneself in magic it takes discipline of mental focus!" said the shorter the one.
"And as result you end up lacking the training of your body." said the taller one. He went to punch Natsu but Natsu dodged and the guy ended up punching a wall. Natsu and the shorter one landed on the ground floor.
"In other words, against people like us who train our bodies daily…" said the shorter one. the taller one than landed on the ground floor next to the shorter one.
"You can't match our power and speed." said the taller one.
"Whoa, so scary! So, when are you going to get serious?" said Natsu motioning them to come at him.
"Brother, do the combination attack!" said the taller one.
"Okay!" said the shorter one. He then held out the frying in front of him and the taller one jumped on it to stand on it.
"Finishing Move: Destruction of Heaven and Earth!" said the Vanish Brothers.
"Bring it!" said Natsu.
Lucy was sitting on a path using wind-reader glasses on the book.
"I can't believe this book contain such a secret." said Lucy. Suddenly the wall behind began to open up and Everlue came out and grabbed her wrist. This shocking Lucy made the wind-reader glasses fall off.
"What did you find? Tell me the secret to my book!" said Everlue.
"You're the lowest of the low! You're an enemy of literature!" said Lucy while having pain from her wrist.
"Face toward heaven and…earth is where we be!" said the shorter one as he attacked Natsu but Natsu got back on his feet.
"Face the earth and…heaven is where we be!" said the older one as he kicked Natsu into the ground floor.
"This is the Vanish Brother's combination attack. Finishing Move: Destruction of Heaven and Earth." said the shorter one.
"There is no that can survive this atta-" said the taller one but stopped because he saw Natsu getting up.
"What were you saying about surviving that attack?" asked Natsu.
"No way!" said the Vanish Brother's as they were shocked that Natsu survived their attack.
"I'll blow you away with this! Roar of the Fire dragon!" said Natsu.
"Here comes the fire magic!" said the taller one.
"It's over! Flame Cooking!" said he shorter one as he started to use his frying pan to absorb Natsu's flames.
"Suck up all the flames, transform it, and spew it back!" said the shorter one. Once the frying absorbed all the flame the shorter one shot the flames back towards Natsu.
"It's a Fairy barbecue!" said the taller one.
"Goodbye." said the shorter one. When Natsu came into view it was shown he was eating the flames which shocked the Vanish Brother's.
"I can't believe this!" said the Vanish Brother's in a state of shock of what they just saw.
"Now that I've eaten, I'm all revved up! Didn't you hear me? Wing Slash of the Fire Dragon!" said Natsu. Thus making every window in Everlue's house shatter. When the smoke cleared the Vanish Brother's were burned to a crisp.
"Crap, I think I overdid it again." said Natsu as he saw the Vanish Brother's condition.
