A/n: It's been a bit, but happy holidays and hello 2017! Here's a chap to celebrate. As usual thank you for reading
-Ryan sensei
"Yosh! Finally we stopped!" Happily screamed the onyx eyed slayer. The abrupt jolt of the train woke both Happy and Lucy from their long naps.
"Ara? Where am I? Huh? Is this the train? What's goin-" Lucy began.
"You're finally up! You've been sleeping forever!" Teased the exceed.
"You're one to talk! You were definitely sleeping on me a few minutes ago... but whatever. Last thing I remember was asking Horologium to take me to the station..."
"Yea! Natsu carried you onto the train from there, and now we've arrived in Oshibana Town for our mission," the blue cat said with pride.
"Oh." Damn it, the mission hasn't even started, and I'm already causing him trouble... Damn it Natsu, you're too considerate! I know it's wrong, but I'm a little happy...
"C'mon Lucy! We're leaving you behind!" Shouts Natsu from outside. At some point, Happy found his way next to him, and they were both waiting for the blonde girl.
Joining her partners, the three made their way to their employers.
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"Woah this place is huuuge!" Natsu shouted mouth agape, as he looked the enormous recreational building up and down.
"Just try to control yourselves, kay?" Lucy pleaded to the wild pair.
"Aye sir!" Both Natsu and Happy replied in unison.
Lucy let out a sigh, with her partners, it was close to impossible for them to behave and not cause trouble, but that was part of their charm that she loved them for, despite the trouble it beings...
Quickly opening the door, Natsu popped his head in and began to shout.
"Moshi mosh? Anyone here? We're from fairy tail and are here to kill some gekos!"
When he received no response, the pink haired teen turned back towards his partners that were waiting just outside.
"Guys, nobody responded when I shouted..."
"Then they're probably not here yet, we should wait," sighed Lucy.
"Oh! Natsu, while they're not here, we should check to see if they have any fish!" Happy happily suggested, wasting no time to fly in.
"Yosh! We can be like ninjas!" Natsu shouted, following behind.
"Oi! You can't just barge into whatever place you want! ... Guys?... Oi? … Wait for me!" Lucy exclaimed, running inside the dark building. The first thing she found was in fact, her partners, but they were certainly not alone.
In the corner were multiple workers, and townspeople, huddled together in fear for their lives; as two lizards, both the size of a train passage car, surrounded and blocked them in.
"O-oi, Natsu... you don't think these huge guys are the types of lizards we have to get rid of are, right?"
Natsu turned his head upon hearing Lucy's question, then turned back towards the lizards who looked ready to pounce on their prey.
"They probably are Luce. For now we should just try beating these guys up, while saving those guys over there. Happy, let's go!"
"Aye sir!" Happy shouted as he lifted Natsu in the air, and the two of them flew at full speed towards the leftmost lizard, and landed a huge blow to the side of it's stomach. The impact, left the amphibian colliding towards the wall to the left.
Lucy's POV
As she watched her partners send the large amphibian flying, she looked towards to huddled people. Who were now unsure whether to run away and risk getting attacked by the other lizard, cheer for their savior's arrival, or do nothing at all.
I can't just leave everything to Natsu again, I've gotta help too!
The blonde's feet moved immediately into action, while she ran she lifted a key and shouted, "gate of the golden bull! I open thee! Taurus!"
"Moo! Lookin' hot today Lucy!"
You don't have to try so hard to compliment me because I'm your key holder. I already care about all of you, you guys seriously don't have to lie.
"Taurus! Let's kick that over sized lizard's butt!" Lucy says as she gets into a fighting position, her whip secured in hand.
"Moo! Of course!"
Taurus and Lucy ran side by side until the lizard was right in front of them.
Alright, let's get his attention.
"Hey! You! The big gecko over there!" Upon hearing the sudden voice behind it, the lizard turned its head, then body towards the blonde and her spirit.
Ok, I got his attention, now I need the people to safely evacuate...
"You guys in the corner! Get out of here! We're the fairy tail wizards sent to destroy these lizards, leave this to us! Hurry!"
The small crowd of people looked around at each other for a bit. Then in unison, nodded and ran towards the front door.
As the group left, Lucy was still faced with a lizard plenty of times bigger than herself to take down. She made eye contact with the large creature for a moment. It lifted its head, and made a loud hissing noise, enabling you to see the entirety of its mouth and split tongue; as if imitating a battle cry.
Before the creature could make an attack, the blonde lashed her whip, and used it to coil around it's back leg. Puffing out her cheeks as she pulled the whip as quickly as possible, she did feel a pop in her shoulder, but what was more important was that the beast lost it's balance when it's supporting leg unwillingly shifted. Upon seeing the beast struggling to not fall over, Lucy took this as her chance to finish him off.
"Now! Taurus!"
The bull went rushing towards the falling lizard and lifted his axe. Taurus jumped midair, once he came in close contact with his opponent, he sent the axe flying down; effectively slashing it right down the center, and killing it.
The blood of the lizard went flying and some splattered onto Lucy.
"Yuck! Now I have to change..." Lucy stated in a discusted tone while looking down at her now dark red clothing.
She took the chance to look at her bleeding hands for a moment. The amount of force she had put in towards pulling the massive creature calloused and injured both her injured and non injured hands. The blonde glanced back over to her spirit that was standing on top of the lizard's corpse. Panting after using up some energy.
"Thank you Taurus, I think we're all set for now, I'll call you again if I need any help."
With that, the perverted bull went back to the spirit world. Relieved, Lucy took a moment to catch her breath, only to realize she was feeling dizzy again and could no longer differentiate up from down. Stumbling back and forth, it didn't take more than a few seconds for sblack spots to cloud her vision. And in an instance, Lucy collapsed on the floor.
Natsu's POV
"They probably are Luce, for now we should just try beating these guys up, while saving those guys over there. Happy, let's go!"
Natsu glanced back at Happy and gave him a familiar look of readiness. Sensing his cue, the cat replied with his usual phrase.
"Aye sir!"
Lifting Natsu into the air, the two of them flew full speed towards the leftmost lizard.
"Alright Happy, you already know what I'm gonna do."
"Aye sir!" Happy said smirking. Natsu stuck out his right leg and kicked the lizard, effectively landing a huge blow to the side of it's stomach. No surprise that the impact caused him to be sent flying towards the wall to his left.
"Yosh! Now to finish him off!" Happy released Natsu onto the ground and Natsu ran straight towards the lizard, but right before he could launch a flame attack, he noticed a small cowering figure in the corner of his eye.
A boy, about the same age as Romeo, was right next to the lizard's head and was cowering for his life.
"Oi! Move unless you wanna be that guy's lunch!" Unfortunately, the kid's fear was so great that he didn't hear a word that Natsu said at all. The lizard began to open it's mouth, ready to consume the boy.
The pink haired teen acted immediately, and ran towards the small child. Natsu was just barely able to snatch him over his shoulder. Now already outta harms way, the teen tried stopping his momentum, resulting in a loud skidding noise from his sandals. Finally able to stop, he put the boy down and spoke.
"Ok, you're safe now, I'm Natsu and my partners and I are from fairy tail, we're here to get rid of these guys, so go run outside and wait for us to finish, kay?" The small boy just nodded in response as he wiped his tears with his arm, and like Natsu commanded, he ran outside to safety.
With the distractions gone, Natsu didn't have to worry about going all out anymore.
"Yosh! Happy!"
"Natsu!" The cat responded, as he picked his partner up and flew up a couple yards just above the lizard who was still on the floor. Happy let go of Natsu, and the dragon slayer lifted a fist and shouted,
"FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!"
The flaming punch not only killed the creature immediately, but it burnt it significantly, and left a slightly smokey scent in the air. Natsu looked back at Happy and the two gave each other a high five in victory.
"Ah, I'm hungry now aren't you?"
"Aye! But I want fish... Ne, where's Lucy?"
Natsu suddenly realized his surroundings and began to worry, moving his head around in every direction, hoping to catch sight of the stellar mage.
There were two lizards now that I think about it... Crap! She better be okay. Just wait Luce!
Natsu's frantic searching in place wasn't helping at all until Happy suggested the obvious.
"Ne Natsu, why don't you try sniffing around and try catching her scent? She can't be that far..."
"Oh that's right! Thanks!"
Lifting his nose into the air he caught a variety of different smells, first the closest: himself, Happy, burnt lizard, the small boy. Then, he tried focusing a bit harder and caught the further ones: the other lizard, Taurus? A mix of other people, Lucy... and her blood.
All color drained from Natsu's face as his feet moved before he could think.
Damn it, damn it, damn it, she better be okay. This is all my fault, I should have stayed with her. I swore I'd protect her damn it!
As Natsu ran closer to his partner, he realized the group of people in the corner were gone, and the other huge lizard was sliced cleanly in half. Behind it's corpse was a figure he loved and knew too well, collapsed on the ground in a puddle of blood.
"LUUUUUCY!"
A/n: thnx for reading please review!
-Ryan sensei