Finally another chapter ^^
I don't own Fairy Tail or its character but I do own my OCs and the story ^^
Enjoy!
~ Previously ~
"Finally someone who is bored of the talk" Ichiru said holding out his hand.
A small ball of wind formed in his hand. In the blink of the eye ten of them had formed and were hovering over his hand. Yui smirked,
"Well I better get ready too. Ice guardian fairy transform"
As soon as she had given the command her body glowed and her attire changed. The two of them faced the three members of the Kuroi Bandits. She opened her closed eyes which had a determined look blazing in them.
~ Currently ~
Reizo and Bussho stared at her their mouths wide open.
"Woah woah what a pretty chick. Say why don't you join us?" Reizo said licking his lips.
A tick mark appeared on Yui's head when she understood the two of them were leeching at her.
She shot two razor sharp ice daggers at each of them and they narrowly avoided it.
"So I'm guessing you're not joining us" Bussho said his grin never wavering.
"Let's put it this way boys. If I can't defeat you and get the treasure back I will join you boys"
"Perfecto" Reizo said in a horrible Italian accent. Yui rolled her eyes,
"Since I don't like that accent of yours I'll make sure I won't lose" she said smirking.
"Keep that promise of yours" Bussho said grinning and jumping back.
The three Bandits stood grinning. Ichiru stared at them their eyes narrowed with the swirling spheres of wind hovering over his hand. Yui already had her gloves encased in ice.
"Let's get this over with" Yui said lunging at the three.
"The faster the better" Ichiru said and lunged at Shihei.
Shihei seemed to realize the Ichiru specifically came at him. He held out his hand and froze Ichiru's wind spheres. Ichiru raised his eyebrow.
"Did you think you could defeat us with such cheap tricks? Don't take us for fools" Shihei said narrowing his eyes.
"Who is using cheap tricks? Isn't it you who pulling them of?" Ichiru said a smirk appearing on his face.
Shihei's eyes widened. The wind spheres he had frozen were still in the air and had broken free of the ice.
Yui smirked as she swirled the ice around her finger. The fence that Shihei had made earlier had disappeared.
"You're trying to attack the fairy who mastered the elements she guards" Yui said smirking.
"You didn't need to take the ice away. My spheres could've broken them away by themselves" Ichiru said making more wind spheres.
"Nah the smaller the ice pieces get the harder to find them" she said smirking.
"Being in a tag team with you might not be so bad" Ichiru said smirking.
Reizo had his anger at its peak.
"Shadow pierce" he said his eyes blazing.
Immediately countless spears made of shadows flew at the two teens. Ichiru easily blasted them away with his wind spheres.
"Time to get serious eh" Bussho said lighting his arms in black fire.
Reizo had shadows swirling about him and Shihei had two swords of ice in his hands.
Ichiru's wind spheres increased considerably in number and where present all around him.
Yui frowned as she felt the ice in her hand flicker. Ichiru raised his eyebrow,
"What's wrong?"
"The question you should ask is who takes who" Yui said smirking and tightening her fist.
"Shihei is mine. you can take the other two I don't mind, but if I defeat Shihei before you defeat the other two I shall steal one of them" he said a smug smile on his face.
"We'll see about that" Yui said and opened her palms.
Ice came out freely and she had it swirling around her. She soon made a dragon out of the ice. Her eyes glowed.
"I'm not going easy on any of you" she said growling and lunged at Bussho and Reizo.
"Not so fast, shadow pierce" Reizo called out.
"Black fire volley" Bussho shouted.
"Dragon ice daggers" Yui shouted. The dragon she had made morphed into hundreds of daggers and shot out at the boys.
The tremendous attacks met in the center. Most attacks were cancelled out but a few of Reizo's shadow daggers managed to injure Yui. Bussho and Reizo both were bleeding from Yui's dagger attack.
"Ok now I don't want you in our group" Reizo shouted. A tremendous amount of shadows collected around him.
"Neither do I" Bussho said and the black fire in his hands soon encompassed his whole body.
The two of them had their eyes turn the color of shadows.
Meanwhile Shihei had a hard time deflecting Ichiru's continuous volley of wind spheres.
"This is not even the beginning" Ichiru said and increased the size of the spheres to twice their original size and shot a volley of them at Shihei.
Shihei panted and managed to freeze the spheres but the spheres broke of the ice on their own. Shihei's eyes widened.
"Surprised? My spheres have a constant torsion in them. The wind energy in them keeps spinning at 100mph speed. Freezing them is absolutely of no use" Ichiru said smirking and hurling another volley of them at Shihei.
Yui narrowed her eyes at her opponents. The ice in her hand continued to flicker.
"What is wrong with my power? The same thing happened when I tried to fight Natsu the other day…shit do forms want to be complete?" Yui thought to herself frowning.
"Please let my powers hold out till I defeat these two"
-Meanwhile-
"Explain Erza what the hell do you know" Gray said banging the table in the train.
Natsu was huddled over his face blue due to the motion sickness and Lucy worriedly looked over him soothing his back.
"The Kuroi Bandits are not after that village's treasure. Their true objective is to capture the wizards who respond to the village head's request and take their power. Yui and Ichiru have gone to the village without knowing this" Erza said tightening her fists.
Gray slumped as he thought about the conversation he had with Yui before she left with Ichiru…
"Stay safe alright?"
"I will"
The train stopped at that moment and Natsu immediately got up free from the motion sickness. He ran out of the train with the others close behind.
"I think Yui might be in trouble though. The last time we fought the smell of her fire was a little different and there was this weird feeling. She fainted right when I was about to attack her" Natsu said running ahead his eyes narrowed.
Gray's eyes widened as realization hit him.
"She can't fight now…she needs to get those keys to master her forms…shit how could I have forgotten about that" he thought to himself as he cursed his memory.
Gray ran harder and soon the five of them reached the house of the head of the village.
"Where the hell is Yui" Gray said barging into the room.
"She has gone to get back our treasure" the village head's gruff voice answered.
Gray grabbed his shirt.
"I asked you where she is"
An evil smirk was visible on the village head's face.
"Probably where we want her…to think the elementary guardian fairy and the wind tamer would appear for our request"
"Wind tamer?" Erza said narrowing her eyes.
The village head's evil laughter boomed in the room.
"You mean that you didn't know that Ichiru Akaike is the infamous wind tamer?"
Gray's anger knew no bounds and he started freezing off the neck of the village head. His eyes widened,
"I believe the question I asked was where she was" Gray said his voice threatening.
The man with the village head slowly slinked away with a huge sack in tow. Lucy noticed him at the last moment,
"Natsu that guy is leaving with a big sack" she said in a panic. Natsu immediately turned to the man and started to chase him. The sac seemed to floating on shadows and following him.
At the moment the man moved away from the village head a shadow slinked out of the village head and the village head fainted. Gray quickly unfroze his neck and Natsu hurled an attack at the man.
The man easily avoided it and chuckled.
"Fire dragon slayer Natsu…the infamous Salamander of Fairy Tail" he said removing his mask to reveal his face.
The five mages and the two exceeds were frozen in place. This man had his face filled with scars that looked too gruesome to describe. The skin on his face was charred and he looked like he had just come out of fire.
Wendy and Lucy gasped at the sight of the man and turned away their eyes tightly shut at his appearance.
"Ah what a nice thing for the Titania to accompany the Salamander to rescue their nakama" he said smirking evilly.
Natsu and Gray tightened their fists.
"Tell me where she is right now" Gray said raising his voice. The man chuckled,
"She might have already been captured by my subordinates or rather if she is as strong as rumors go then she might be still fighting them along with Ichiru" he said smirking.
"Ice make: lance" Gray shouted an array of lances shot towards the man. He chuckled and broke them to pieces easily with his shadow manipulation.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Tosen and the leader of Kuroi Bandits" he said snickering.
"I don't care who the hell you are tell me where Yui and Ichiru are right now" Gray said his eyes aflame.
"They should be about 5 miles north of our location and I think she might be already engaged in a fight with my subordinates or already must've been captured" Tosen said snickering.
"I can't bear to look at that face of yours…I'll burn it to crisp" Natsu said tightening his fists.
"I'll help him. You three go to where Yui and Ichiru are" Erza commanded re-equipping into her purgatory armor.
"Oi take care of them. I'll leave the rest to you" Natsu said his hands aflame.
"Ah I know" Gray said and rushed in the direction Tosen had said Yui would be in.
Tosen turned to look at the three leaving and fired a shadow spear. Natsu's fire blocked the path.
"I believe we are your opponents" he said already standing in a fighting stance.
Erza gripped her sword tight.
"What do you plan to do the money and the powers you acquire?" she questioned.
Tosen snickered, "we need a lot of money and power to awaken a demon from Zeref's book you know? Not to mention a strengthened shadow magic to control the demon"
Erza's eyes were hidden behind her bangs.
"So you plan to awaken a demon and wreak havoc in the peaceful village"
Tosen snickered, "that's right"
"Unforgivable" Natsu shouted and punched Tosen in the face suddenly. Erza re-equipped into her heaven's wheel armor and held two swords in her hand. Her eyes were still hidden beneath her bangs.
Tosen looked angered, "you dare to punch me? I will make sure you pay for doing that"
Erza slashed through him in an instant. Tosen's eyes went wide,
"W-what…"
-Meanwhile-
"Isn't this the place the village head mentioned?" Lucy asked bent over panting. Wendy seemed a bit of breath also.
"Yes…this is it"
"But I do-"
A huge explosion interrupted Lucy from completing her sentence. The three of them turned to see Yui jumping back and two boys in front who were terribly injured.
"YUI" Gray screamed and ran to hold her before she fell.
"Yu chan!"
"Yui nee"
Her two opponents had already fallen to the floor with terrible injuries. She panted and had a hand over her rapidly beating chest. When she saw Gray her eyes widened,
"G-Gray…w-what…do-doing…here…" she panted out and held his surprisingly unstripped shirt.
Gray placed his hand over hers.
"I'm so sorry I completely forgot that you can't use the full extent of your powers and yet…and yet…"
Yui smiled wearily and placed her hand on his cheek.
"I'm fine Gray…please don't indulge in self-guilt again" she said a tender smile on her face. Gray took a deep breath and exhaled.
"Just what should I do with you" he said smiling and shaking his head and picked her bridal style.
"What a relief" Lucy said not realizing she was holding her breath. Wendy smiled cutely.
Suddenly Yui realized that Ichiru was still fighting with Shihei.
"Damn it…Ichiru is still fighting with Shihei" Yui said in panic. Gray narrowed his eyes,
"You can't help him in this condition" he said chiding her.
"Help? Who needs help?" Ichiru said looking a bit annoyed as he emerged carrying Shihei.
Yui's eyes widened.
"Why are you carrying that guy with you?"
Ichiru's eyes were hidden by his bangs as he remained silent for a while. He tightened the grip on the boy in his arms and walked past the four of them and the exceeds.
"I've got the treasure of that village. Let's go and give it back and get our reward" he said his voice a little different. Yui frowned.
"That wasn't my question Ichiru" she insisted.
Ichiru stopped with his backs to them. He looked over his shoulder.
"Why you ask? He is my brother" he said and turned to walk ahead.
"BROTHER?"
There ends the chapter ^^
The rescue mission ended in a success! But what is Ichiru's brother doing with the Kuroi Bandits?
Wait for my next update to find out ^^
Until next time adios amigos :D