Revised on 03/11/2017
Hello, people! TM11 here with a new chapter for Dragon Heart!
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"Mage" – Talking
'Master' – Thoughts
"Dragon" – Dragon and other beasts talking
'Dragon Slayer' – Dragon and other beasts thinking
"Magic" – Spells
Arc 1 – Burning Will, Iron Pride
Chapter 4 – Eight of Clubs
07:00, August 5th, X784, Rune Knights' Station, Dandelion Town, Fiore
Moments earlier, Natsu and Happy stood in front of the station, a grin on both of their faces.
"Ready, Happy?" asked the pinkette to his son, receiving a nod in exchange.
"Aye! I'm all fired up!" declared the blue cat, stealing his father's catch phrase.
Letting out a chuckle at the theft of his catch phrase, Natsu lighted up his right fist in red and orange flames, before jumping forward and yelling out the name of his spell.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" the doors of the station didn't stand a chance and were blown off of their hinges as the fist connected with them, hitting the walls of the room behind them and causing a cloud of smoke and dust to lift up, not to mention downing some of the men that were on the entrance hall at the time.
The racket originated by Natsu's entrance made the members of Death Man's Hand inside the building come to investigate. All of them were in for a shock as they came face to face with a grinning Fire Dragon Slayer.
"I'm the Salamander, Natsu Dragneel!" he yelled out to his enemies and, if possible, his grin only got bigger as he thought of the fight that was coming to his way.
"AND I'M ALL FIRED UP!" that being said, Natsu ignited his fists and jumped forward towards a group of dark mages that had come in when they heard his entrance.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" the dragon slayer yelled out as he punched one of the men in the face and into a wall. Natsu then swung his arms to the sides, hitting another two dark mages and sending them flying away, "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!"
"Stop him!" one of them said from his position at the other side of the entrance hall; another five dark mages with him, blocking the way to the hall that led further into the station.
Natsu dashed forward at them, sidestepping the blasts of light magic that they fired at him with ease. "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" grabbing two of them, Natsu ignited his hands, before spinning in place and sending his enemies flying, making them crash against their comrades and blow them away too.
"Let's go, Happy!" Natsu yelled out at his partner, who had been watching him takeout the dark mages from his point of view above of them.
"Aye, sir!" the blue cat cheered, before making his way to his partner's side. Once there, he chanted, "Transformation…" Happy then began to glow, his form changing until it stopped in a humanoid form, the light dying soon after. Now, standing in front of Natsu, was a copy of himself, the differences being the blue hair, cat ears, white-tipped tail, hands and feet, and the fact that his copy was wearing his old outfit, minus Igneel's scarf. "Neko-Natsu!" Happy called out once his transformation was complete.
Natsu gave Happy a grin and a nod, "Looking good, Happy; but, we gotta get going, if we want to free this town anytime soon." Happy nodded, before the two made their way further into the station.
07:10, August 5th, X784, Dandelion's Mines, Dandelion Town, Fiore
"Purgatory Dragon's Roar!" Flare called out as she breathed a stream of hellfire at the six dark mages that had charged at her, sending them flying backwards with second and third degree burns on their bodies.
It had been five minutes since she and Blaze had come to free the men working on the mines. The plan was simple; take out the guards, steal the keys that unlocked the chains of the workers, free them, and then apprehend all of the dark mages stationed on the mines. After that, they would regroup with Natsu and Happy, who had went to free the Rune Knights, and then storm the mayor's hall.
Flare was nervous and scared that she wouldn't be strong enough to do her part; but, with Blaze by her side, and Natsu and Happy's confidence in her, she clamped down on her fear and fought.
"Dark Rondo!" one of her enemies calling out his spell earned them Flare's attention. A green blast of Dark Magic was fired at her, but, the redhead kept her cool as she went for a spell of her own.
"Purgatory Dragon's Twin Fang!" Flare moved her ignited arms forward, in the shape of a cross, forming a very large amount of hellfire in two massive waves shaped like fangs, which moved forward and clashed with the blast of Dark Magic. Flare's hellfire proved to be stronger, as it went straight through the blast of Dark Magic and hit the dark mage, burning and knocking them out.
Another dark mage, a huge man with claymore, came at her next from her left, swinging his massive sword in an arc while trying to cleave the redhead in half. Flare easily ducked under the slash, before igniting her fist and calling out, "Purgatory Dragon's Iron Fist!" Hitting the man in his unprotected mid-section, Flare sent him skidding a few feet backwards. She quickly dashed at him, punching and kicking with fits and kicks covered in hellfire, trying to keep the man on the defensive.
The big man blocked most of her punches and kicks with his forearms or claymore, before trying to once again cleave Flare in half with his strong swings. Flare was too fast for him, however; and, after he had overextended a swing, the redhead quickly got in his personal space and gave him an flaming uppercut in the jaw, knocking him out.
Before Flare could move to find another opponent, though, she found herself binded by glowing, white chains. Following the chains, she saw that they were coming from the hands of a man with white hair and black clothes.
"Hahaha! I got you know, bitch!" the man cheered. His victory was short lived, however, as he was then knocked out by a fist to the back of his head. The chains binding Flare disappeared and she took a look at the one that helped her.
He was a massive and bulky bald man with a light-brown skin tone, brown goatee and brown eyes. He also had two silver earrings on his left ear and was wearing only worn out pants and boots; his muscular upper body naked for the whole world to see.
Flare quickly brought down the small blush that came to her cheeks from seeing his naked torso, before thanking the man, "Thank you for the help." The man gave her a smile and shook his head, before saying.
"I should be the one thanking you. If it wasn't for you and your friend, we wouldn't be fighting for our freedom right now. Oh, the name's Andrew, by the way," Andrew introduced himself.
"Oh, so you're Anna's brother?" she stated more than asked. Before he could answer, though, they heard someone call out a spell from Flare's right.
"Bubble Shot!" a dark mage summoned a stream of big bubbles from their urn, which they then sent at Flare and Andrew. Flare quickly got in front of Andrew and prepared to send out a Roar at the water spell. She had not need to, however, as someone got in front of her and called out a spell of their own.
"Crimson Fist!" the mage ignited their fist into crimson flames and then launched it as a column of fire at the incoming water bubbles. The crimson flames proved to be stronger as they completely evaporated the water bubbles and hit the dark mage before they had time to dodge, burning them severally and knocking them out.
The one to use the fire spell than turned his attention to Flare and Andrew. He looked like he was on his young, maybe fourteen or fifteen years old, had blonde hair that went down to the base of his neck and red eyes. He sported a long-sleeved, high-collared white blouse with maroon edges and maroon, puffy hakama-styled pants that went just below his knees. Than came the non-human parts of his appearance; such as yellow cat ears with red fur on the inside, a red-tipped, yellow cat tail coming out from his backside and a pair of yellow, furry hands and feet, with sharp claws on the end of the fingers.
"Pay attention, guys! You can talk later; right now we have some dark mages to beat up," the young man chastised. Flare gave him a nod.
"Will do, Blaze," happy with the answer, Blaze, now in his Nekomata form, jumped away to beat some more dark mages.
"We'll talk later then; once this is all said and done," Andrew said to Flare, before running off to help his friends beating some dark mages. Just because they didn't had magic, it didn't mean that they couldn't fight. Plus, most of these dark mages were weak physically; a few punches and kicks being enough to knock them out.
Before Flare could take a step forward to go look for a group of dark mages to fight, her senses screamed at her and she jump to side, barely avoiding being pierced by golden needles, very sharp golden needles.
"Impressive; you managed to dodge my fastest attack without even looking at it. Those are some good reflexes you have there," Flare turned around to where the voice came from and saw her new opponent.
She had long, flowing, blonde hair that went down to her waist, red eyes and fair skin. Her wardrobe was rather scantily-clad, and fit tightly on her tall and slender form. The attire consisted of a black trimmed, dark-blue gi and disconnected arm warmers that reached down to her light-blue spandex shorts. She also wore a pair of black, low-heeled boots.
"You'll need more than good reflexes to beat me, though, little girl," the blonde taunted with a sly smile on her face. Flare could feel the magic power flowing off of the blonde and knew straight away that this new enemy would be much harder to beat than the other dark mages she had previously knocked out.
"Who are you?" the redhead asked to the blonde as she took a fighting stance. Her opponent's smile never left her beautiful face as she answered.
"I'm Stella, the Eight of Clubs of Dead Man's Hand. Though, when I'm done with you, you'll be calling me Master," the woman introduced herself and taunted Flare at the same time.
"That will never happen!" Flare declared while giving Stella a glare, before dashing at the blonde; who only gave the approaching redhead a sadistic smirk.
"Purgatory Dragon's Iron Fist!" Flare ignited her right fist in hellfire, before punching at Stella's face.
The blonde didn't make a move and instead just uttered, "Hair Shower: Golden Wall!" Flare's eyes widened as Stella's blonde hair grew and got in front of the dark mage, forming a wall of yellow hair.
Flare's flaming fist impacted the wall and it held strong, not even making a dent on it. Flare also noted that the wall of blonde hair seemed to have a metallic shine to it.
Behind the wall made of her own hair, Stella called out, "Hair Shower: Golden Fist!" A fist made of blonde hair came forward from the wall of blonde hair, hitting Flare in the stomach. The redhead's breath was taken from her due to the unexpected attack and she skidded backwards, ten meters away from the blonde.
'That hair packs quite a punch,' the dragon slayer mused internally has she caught her breath and nursed her bruised stomach.
The wall and fist of hair retracted back, revealing the blonde mage of Dead Man's Hand, smiling smugly at Flare with her arms crossed under her bust, "Ready to give up?"
"Never!" Flare breathed in some air, before breathing out a stream of hellfire at the blonde, "Purgatory Dragon's Roar!" The flames covered the distance between the dragon slayer and the blonde quickly and were upon Stella in seconds. The blonde, however, never lost her smug smile or moved an inch from where she stood. Instead, she intoned, "Hair Shower: Golden Wall!"
Once again, Stella's hair grew and positioned itself in front of her; just in time to take on Flare's hell-flames. Stella's hair didn't budge, but, it did got much, much hotter; which the blonde quickly took notice of.
'Her fire can overheat my golden hair!?' the dark mage raged in her head, her smile turned into a scowl of masked fury, as she was forced cut loose of the hair that formed her Golden Wall, least she want all of her hair to overheat and melt.
Flare stopped her Roar as she saw her opponent jump to side. She looked on as the wall of blonde hair burned and melted, while keeping an eye on the holder of said hair. Both watched until the Stella's Golden Hair was nothing more than a puddle of melted gold.
'Gold?' the smell of melted gold filled the redhead's nostrils and she looked at her opponent, whose glare would've make the old Flare, the one before she met Natsu and Happy, recede into herself in fear. "So, your magic allows you to turn your hair into gold," Flare stated.
"Good for you to have found that out. It won't make a difference when I squash you like the bug you are," Stella scoffed. No one messed with her precious hair and lived to tell the tale! She would make sure that the redheaded harlot in front of her would be no different. "Hair Shower: Golden Fists!" Stella's hair grew and turned into multiple fists, before she send them all at Flare.
Flare did her best to avoid all of them; sidestepping to one side, cartwheeling to the other, jumping over or ducking under them, even clashing with some of the fists while using her Purgatory Dragon's Iron Fist. She was doing a good, even though she had took some hits from the fists of blonde hair. She didn't, however, expect two fists to come out from under her and grab her ankles. Her surprise cost her as she was thrown through the air and crashed into a pile of golden bars, very hard golden bars.
"Ah!" Flare let out a yell of pain as her head hit the pile of gold bars, making her dizzy.
Stella didn't let up, though, and pulled the redhead back; intending to slam her viciously into the ground. Her plan was ruined, however, as she was hit on her right side by what felt like a train, losing the grip that her hair had on Flare as she was sent flying.
"Crimson Charge!" Blaze called out as he charged at the blonde woman holding his older sister figure in the air; his white wings sprouting out of his back and his whole form encased in crimson flames, making him look like a human sized fireball as he shoulder tackled Stella. The blonde woman was sent rolling through the ground, but, the cat-turned-boy didn't care as he flew up and catched Flare before she could hit the ground.
"You ok, Flare?" the blonde nekomata asked, worried, while holding the redhead bridal style in mid-air. Flare shook her head to clear off her dizziness, before responding, "Yes, I'm ok, Blaze."
The six dark mages that had been watching the battle between their superior and the dragon slayer – and had decided to not involve themselves in the fight in fear of Stella's wrath, since she was known to kill anyone on sight after someone said anything degrading or did something to her hair – decided that now was the best moment to join the fight. However…
"Storm Bringer!"
"Prominence Typhoon!"
…They were all fire and wind mages.
Both Flare and Blaze grinned as they watched three tornados combine into one, enormous hurricane of cutting wind, which was then combined with the three typhoons of purple flames, creating an gigantic hurricane of purple fire.
"Time for a snack," was all Flare said before Blaze let her go and fall in the direction of the flaming cyclone. As soon as Flare was inside the storm of purple fire, she started sucking all of it in. The originators of the Unison Raid were left wide eyed and with their jaws hitting the floor as they saw the redhead eating their strongest spell.
A few seconds later, Flare landed softly on the ground and wiped her mouth with the back of her right hand, before giving a thankful smile to the dark mages in front of her, "Thanks for the meal. Here's your payment." She then inhaled a bit of air, before breathing a wide stream of hellfire at the dark mages, "Purgatory Dragon's Roar!" The dark mages were still shocked at seeing their best attack being eaten and, thus, didn't move an inch as the crimson flames of hell hit them, burning them severely and knocking them unconscious.
"That was awesome, Flare!" Blaze cheered as he landed at her right. "Though, are you alright? That fire tornado did have some wind in it after all", he asked with slight worry. Flare coughed a bit, but, gave him a smile as she answered.
"I'm ok; those purple flames ate most of the wind of the tornado. I only ingested a little bit. Nothing that I can't take."
"That's good," both citizens of Sun Village visibly startled at hearing that voice and their eyes widened, "Because that means I can still punish you for mistreating my gorgeous hair! Hair Shower: Golden Lion Maw!"
It was thanks to Flare and Blaze's heightened senses that they were both able to jump back just in time to avoid being bitten by the fangs of a golden lion made of blonde hair. Both mages looked beyond it and saw Stella's bruised figure standing a few yards away from them. Her red eyes were narrowed, her mouth was forming a scowl and her hands were balled into fists at her sides; her knuckles white due to the pressure. Hatred could be felt radiating from her whole body.
"I'll squash you like a bug, you harlot! Hair Shower: Golden Needles!" Stella's blonde hair hardened into gold, before she fired thin, golden needles of golden hair at her opponents. The golden needles were too fast for Flare and Blaze to bring up a defense or dodge them all; but, they still managed to move so that they missed vital spots. Both mages quickly covered their bodies in flames, overheating the needles on their bodies and melting them.
"We can't let her hit us with another barrage of those. We barely managed to move so that they would miss any vitals," Blaze breathed out, slightly out of breath because of the pain he was feeling due to being used as an human pincushion. Flare nodded from his left.
"Cover me from up in the air as I try to get closer to her. She can't move too much while attacking with her hair because of its weight. Plus, she's more injured than us due to your last attack. Her body must not be accustomed to pain since she clearly prefers to fight at mid to long range and only uses her hair to fight."
Blaze gave her a nod, "Right, you can count on me, Flare!" he declared with determination, before jumping to skies above, ready to provide cover for his partner.
"I know I can," Flare murmured under her breath and dashed forward at Stella as fast as she could. The blonde woman only scowled at her.
"I'll screw you to death, harlot! Hair Shower: Golden Needles!" Stella fired hundreds of golden needles at the approaching redhead. Mid way to their target, though, the needles were intercepted as Blaze descended from above, his body engulfed in crimson flames, "Crimson Pillar!" Blaze shot the collected flames downwards, creating a pillar of crimson flames that melted the golden needles on contact. Flare, however, passed through it without receiving any damage – because of her dragon scales – and continued to run at Stella.
"Don't get any closer! Hair Shower: Golden Fists!" the blonde roared in anger and slight fear as she sent golden fists made of her blonde hair to stop the dragon slayer from getting any closer.
"Purgatory Dragon's Claw!" Flare ignited her feet and used the fire on her feet as jets to fly at her opponent while maneuvering out of the way of the blonde's golden fists. "Purgatory Dragon's!" The redhead called out when she was ten meters away from Stella, who was, by now, wide eyed and afraid. Flare covered her whole body in hellfire, before she started spinning, turning herself into a tornado of crimson flames, "Fire Spin!"
"Hair Shower: Golden Dome!" Stella yelled desperately. Her blonde hair grew and surrounded its master in a dome of golden hair. Flare collided with with the golden dome, denting it, but, not moving it an inch from its position.
"HHHAAAA!" Flare increased the power of her hell-flames, making the fire tornado she had turned herself into grow bigger. From inside the dome, Stella could only panic as the air started to get hotter, 'She's overheating my hair! NO! IT'LL WILL MELT COMPLETELY AT THIS RATE! MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR!'
On the outside, Flare's fire spin had grown into an inferno of hellfire, melting all of Stella's golden hair and burning her severely; her screams being obfuscated by the roar of the flames from hell.
When the fire storm died down, Flare was on her knees, gasping for air. A few feet in front of her, was Stella, badly burned. Her clothes were burned beyond repair, barely able to cover her breasts and sex, and without a single hair on her body. Though, she was alive, just knocked out and would probably not wake up anytime soon.
"Are you alright, Flare!?" Blaze asked worried as he landed next to her.
Flare took in some breaths of air, before nodding, "Y-yes, I'm ok; it was just my first time using so much magical energy in one go." She raised her head to look at her knocked out and burned opponent, "She must have reinforced her hair with magical energy at the end; that's why I had to use more on that Fire Spin." Just then, a few explosions were heard around them.
"We need to go back to fighting," Flare declared, "The workers here may have the numeric advantage, but, they're still fighting mages with only weapons and their fists." She got her breath back and got up to her feet. Blaze looked at her, still worried, but, nodded at her decision.
"Well, let's get going then; but, I'm not letting you out of my sight," Blaze decided. Flare gave him a smile and nodded, before both of them jumped back into the fighting.
07:20, August 5th, X784, Rune Knights' Station, Dandelion Town, Fiore
"Fire Dragon's Claw!" Natsu called out as he got into a handstand and spun around, the flames on his feet turning into a small fire tornado that blew the ten dark mages, that had tried to gang up on the dragon slayer, away.
Natsu stopped spinning, got back to his feet and looked around him. The fighting had moved from inside the station to the courtyard behind it, where the Rune Knights trained.
Speaking of Rune Knights, they had shown up a few minutes ago, along with Happy and joined the fight. Although they did not use magic, they did have magical weapons; such as their Reflector Shield, a magical shield that could reflect most normal and weak spells.
"Tornado Shot!" one the dark mages of Dead Man's Hand yelled from behind Natsu as he fired two wind bullets from two guns simultaneously, which merged together to form a tornado directed at the pinkette.
"Blast Shot!" another three dark mages said as they fired multiple bullets composed of blue-colored flames.
Natsu rolled to his right, avoiding the shots. As he got up, he inhaled some air, before firing four fireballs the size of his head at his opponents.
"Fire Dragon's Gun Fire!" the pinkette called out as the dark mages were hit, burned and knocked out by the fireballs. Natsu then heard something coming at him from his left and took a step backwards, just in time to avoid a downward slash at his head. Before he could fight back, though, he heard the air moving behind him and ducked, avoiding another slash at his head. Natsu then rolled backwards and did a backflip to get some distance from his new opponents, before taking a look at them.
"Damn, we missed!" the one on the left yelled out. He seemed to be in his mid twenties and had short, orange hair with two bangs framing his brown eyes. He was wearing a long-sleeved, red shirt, brown pants and black boots. He was also wielding a long sword on his right hand.
"Calm down, Derek; we won't miss again," the one on the right promised to his twin, for there was no other explanation for them to look identical to each other. Though, the calmer one had longer hair and a long-sleeved, blue shirt. Like his twin, he was also wielding a long sword, but, on his left hand instead.
"Damn right we won't, Eric," Derek declared. Natsu let out a chuckle, which did not went unnoticed by the more hot-headed twin. "What's so funny, Pinky!?" he yelled out, thinking that Natsu was laughing at him.
"Oh, nothing; just the fact that you think you two can beat me," Natsu taunted, making Eric narrow his eyes in a glare and Derek's blood boil.
"You think you can keep up with our High Speed, punk!? I would like to see you try!" the short-tempered twin yelled back in outrage.
"Calm down, Derek! He's just taunting us to make us lose our cool," the more focused twin tried to calm down his younger brother.
"Please, you call that High Speed? I know someone much faster than you two put together! Compared to him, you guys are snails!" the dragon slayer mocked further as he let out a laugh. This was all it took to make Derek explode in anger.
"That's it! You're dead, you son of a bitch!" he raged as he dashed forward at Natsu, against the protests of his twin, using his magic to move at his top speed and slashing at Natsu with an ascending diagonal slash. Natsu, however, sidestepped the slash to right with ease. Not to be denied, though, Derek accelerated even more and came back at him once more, slashing horizontally at the pinkette's neck. This proved to be of no use, for Natsu, once again, dodged the slash with ease by ducking under it.
This continued on for some time; Derek dashing at the dragon slayer at his top speed and trying to cut him, only for Natsu to dodge every single one of his slashes with ease. Eric eventually decided to join in and help his twin, but, that proved to be of no help as Natsu kept avoiding or dodging their attempts at drawing blood from him.
"I'm getting bored, so," Natsu stated with a bored tone, before he ignited his hands and grabbed the blades of the twins' long swords, shocking them.
"What!? How did you do that!?" yelled Derek as he tried to pry out his sword from Natsu's strong grip; his twin trying to the same, neither getting any results.
"My fire can do more than just burn trash like you two, you know?" the pinkette bragged with a cocky smirk, before he broke the twins' swords by closing his hands. Derek and Eric were shocked even further at that, but, didn't get to voice their thoughts as Natsu punched them in the gut and then elbowed them on the back of their necks as they doubled over. The twins fell on the ground, knocked out at either side of pinkette.
"Bravo, bravo!" Natsu heard someone cheer sarcastically from his right and looked on to see a man approaching him. "You managed to beat some mongrels that are not even worthy of kissing my shoes; good for you, trash," the man mocked while Natsu took a look at him.
The man had pale blonde hair spiked up at the back and with bangs on the right side of his face. His eyes were bright blue and he wore a pair of glasses, which were black with green arms. As accessories, he wore a pair of earrings. His tie was checkered and he wore a fitted black suit, as well as white shoes. At his waist, attached to a black belt, was an one-handed rapier with a white blade, a blue handle and a circular hand guard with blue gem embedded in it. The man had an arrogant aura coming from him, something that his smug smirk transmitted quite well.
"Who the heck are you?" Natsu eloquently asked. The blonde's smirk got bigger at the pinkette's inquiry.
"I'm Adrian Black, Dead Man's Hand's Eight of Spades," Adrian introduced himself. "You should be honored to be in my presence, you know. In fact, you should be kneeling in front of me and begging for mercy," the swordsman advised arrogantly.
Natsu shot him a cocky smirk of his own, "Sorry, but, I don't kneel or bow to anybody; much less a piece of shit of a dark mage like you, pretty boy."
Adrian's smug smirk turned into a sneer, "Hmph! Well, I must teach you how to respect your betters then," he then pulled out three silver keys from the right inner pocket of his suit, surprising Natsu.
'Are those Celestial Spirit Gate Keys!? He has the same magic as Lucy?' the pinkette thought in surprise. It was his first time seeing another Celestial Spirit Mage besides Lucy.
Taking Natsu's surprise as fear, Adrian smirked arrogantly as he called out, "Allow me to show you the power my Celestial Spirits! Open! Gate of the Indian, Persia! Gate of the Wolf, Lupus! And Gate of the Furnace, Fornax!"
Light covered both mages and the area surrounding them, making Natsu rase his arms to cover his face as the three Celestial Spirits summoned by Adrian made the jump from the Celestial Spirit World to Earth Land. Once the light faded away, Natsu took a look at his three new enemies.
One of them was crouched down on all fours. It had a wolf head, long arms and legs, which were bent at the knees, with clawed hands and feet. It also had bluish-grey fur, with some patches of dark-blue fur, and a bluish-grey, dark-blue tipped tail. The wolf was wearing a leather strapped chest armor, with yellow spikes on the bottom and the straps, a pair of spiked shoulder and knee guards, spiked vambraces and spiked armbands. Its amber eyes were glaring at Natsu hungrily and predatorily.
The other spirit looked like a oven-like suit of armor. It wore two straps, a belt, two wristbands on both arms, and two knee braces on both legs.
The last spirit looked a lot more like a human than its two companions. It looked like a male with tanned skin, all of his body filled with tribal tattoos, and dressed only from waist down in buckskin pants and a pair of moccasins. He wore no shirt, but had a necklace made of white feathers and a feathered war bonnet on top of his head. He also sported tribal war painting on his face and seemed to be in his mid-thirties. His physique was build for speed, further proved by the wooden spear being held on his right hand.
Adrian's smugness could now be felt sprouting out of his body, "Well, four-on-one seems to quite unfair to you, mongrel. So…" he trailed on as he looked around the courtyard, until his gaze locked on the Rune Knights, who were finishing knocking out most of the cannon fodder stationed at their station, and Happy, who was still on his Neko-Natsu form and beating some of the cannon fodder too.
"Lupus, go hunt the doppelgänger of this mongrel here," he ordered the wolf as he pointed at Happy. The spirit let out a snarl, before dashing on all fours towards the Natsu look-alike. "Fornax, go play with those puny Rune Knights," the walking furnace gave a nod, understanding the order given by its master, and slowly walked towards its opponents.
Adrian then locked gazes with Natsu once more, "Well, then, two-on-one. I'm sure that someone as strong as you seem to be would appreciate the challenge, no?" The pale blonde taunted sarcastically with an arrogant smirk, as he drew out his rapier and took his stance. At his right, Persia took on a stance of his own, ready to pounce on Natsu at any moment and pierce him with his spear
To the dark mage's taunting, Natsu only smirked with excitment as he punched his left palm with his right fist, "Bring as many allies as you want, pretty boy. It won't matter, 'cause I'm all fired up!"
Well, what do you think? Did you like it? Did you dislike it? Tell me your thoughts, please! I need to know!
Also, for you to better imagine the characters that debuted in this chapter: Stella was based on Fuka, from Naruto Shippuden; Blaze's clothes while in his Nekomata form are Tenten's in Naruto Shippuden; Adrian Black looks like Virus from Dramatical Murders; Lupus looks like the Titan Fenris from Huntik; and Fornax looks like NRG from the Ben 10 franchise. Unfortunatly, I've got nothing for Persia, as I couldn't find anyone that looked like what I wanted for him.
I think that's all. There won't be any more challenges from now on, since no one seems to want to answer them.
The next chapter will come out in two weeks, on May 3rd.
Se ya soon!
P.S: This chapter was revised. I changed Adrian's Celestial Spirits from the ones that I had given him previously and corrected some typos.