Chapter 4
Konnishiwa Minna-san! So,I know I promised to update this chapter some Wednesday but, I lost all my inspiration because my dog died and then holidays came and then again I started school, and too many things have happened... but my inspiration is back :D so I'll try to update once a week, PINKY PROMISEEE. Hope youstill follow the story e.e
I hope you enjoy reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it, is kind of short, but I don't really have that much time, this is a little of action that was missing from my FanFic, but there's gonna be much more!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.
"Lets kick this thing's ass!" shouted Gray jumping on top of the monster made of plants.
Erza jumped and cut through the monsters plant-skin, it screamed but regenerated quickly before their very eyes.
"But what the hell?" said Erza moving aside to avoid the monster's attack.
"Ice Make: Hammer!" shouted Gray putting his hands together from where a huge hammer appeared and hit the monster in one of his arms cutting it off, but it regenerated.
Erza jumped and started cutting everywhere, the monster was regenerating over and over again.
"I think I have an idea, Erza." said Gray.
"What is it?" the scarlet haired woman jumped again.
"Cut one of the beast's arms!" he told her.
"It regenerates itself! You've seen it!" she said changing into her Flight armour.
"Just cut it as much as you can, I have a plan."
Erza sighed and kicked the ground, she took her sword and cut one of the beast's arms again, less than a second later Gray froze it and the monster wasn't able to re-grow it letting out a frustrated growl.
"Brilliant!" they both said smiling.
Erza transformed once again, she was wearing one of her most powerful armours, she had a plated armour covering her chest with a large metal flower over it, she also had a long white skirt with metal plating in the upper area and she had a pair of silver wings, Erza was now using her Heaven's Wheel armour.
The scarlet mage used her power to summon around fifty swords, with a movement she made them fly and hit the monster right into his chest and Gray was freezing every place Erza's swords cut.
"I think I found its sensible spot!" shouted Erza over the loud growls of the monster.
"Go for it, Erza!" said Gray moving closer to the beast.
Titania kicked the ground once again and cut with her blade right where the heart should be, the beast howled and threw Erza to the ground.
"Ice Make: Cannon!" shouted Gray putting his hands together making a large bazooka-like hand-held appear from his hand position, his cannon shot iced cannonballs hitting the monster right in the place where Erza cut.
A large wound appeared and they could see through it, inside the monster was a heart-shaped thing hidden by some leafs, Erza jumped and climbed her way through the monster's chest; she nodded once to Gray and entered the beast.
The monster's insides were also made of plants growing everywhere in every direction, the red haired mage had now an idea, if she stopped the beast's heart, the beast would die. Erza cut through the leaves and arrived inside a large room where the heart was beating. 'This is way too easy,' she thought and carefully she made her way closer to the source of the creature's life.
Titania took her sword and was about to sink it inside the heart, but something stopped her, a strange noise was coming from the beating heart, a rocky coating was growing around protecting the heart.
"Nani?" Erza whispered, then she grinned maliciously, she had been thinking about who might be controlling this monsters and someone was in her mind since the beginning, Erza was now sure about who it was. "Kiralye" she muttered.
The scarlet haired mage blade her sword and tried to cut the rock, but it was extremely hard, "As expected from you," she said under her teeth. Erza had to find a way to destroy the beast's heart...but what? The answer sort of "fell from heaven". Gray was landing next to her.
"So, do you know how to destroy it?" he said touching the rocky surface with his hands.
"Uh-hum," Erza noded.
Gray froze the heart's coating, Erza jumped and thrusted her sword in the beasts heart, it growled in pain and started to shake.
"We'll better get out of here, it looks like is gonna blow up!" said Erza running, Gray was following her from behind.
They jumped out of the monster just in time, it exploded seconds after, leaving the ground full of plants.
"Great!" Gray said smiling.
"Hope Natsu and Lucy are doing okay," said Erza, knowing they were alright.
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While Erza and Gray were fighting the beast made of plants, Happy, Natsu and Lucy were taking care of the wooden monster.
"This is gonna be easy! I'll just have to burn it all!" shouted Natsu. "I'm all fired up!"
The pink haired mage run and jumped, he lit his fist thrusting it on the monster's huge hand, it burned, and the monster let out a scary shout, but seconds later the fire was gone leaving a black mark on the beast's hand.
"But…What the hell?"Natsu shouted jumping in order to avoid the monster's attack.
Lucy was stared at the creature trying to figure out some strategy or something so they could get rid of the monster and go back to Magnolia. So, if I try to distract him while Natsu tries to burn it…It would be easier for us to… Lucy stopped her thoughts abruptly when a scream of frustration rang in her ears, her pink haired friend was punching the wooden monster and burning every part of it his fire could reach, though it wasn't having a really good result.
"Natsu! We need to have a plan, you won't do much doing that, you will run out of magic!" Said the blond mage, when the Dragon slayer landed next to her.
"Since when does Natsu has a plan when he's fighting?" asked Happy flying above them.
"Oi! I heard you!" Natsu said over his shoulder.
"Watch out!" Lucy said making Natsu jump right before an arm of the creature landed where the fire dragon had been only seconds ago.
"Oi! I'm tired of this thing!" the pink haired wizard was going to attack but Lucy poked him gently, "what is it?"
"I have a plan!" the girl with golden hair said smiling, Natsu gave her a puzzled look.
"Open the Gate of the Archer! Sagittarius!" Shouted Lucy while holding a golden key with the shape of an arrow.
There was a bright light and a magic circle appeared from the key, seconds later a man wearing a horse costume was standing holding an arrow in his right hand and a bow in his left hand.
"Moshi-Moshi*" He greeted with an absent stare.
"Sagittarius!" Lucy said happily, "Can you combine Natsu's fire with your archery abilities?" Lucy asked hopefully.
"Of course – Moshi-moshi." Said the man in the horse costume putting the arrow in the bow, ready to fire.
Natsu lit his fist and touched the point of the arrow, the flames quickly spread and Sagittarius fired, the burning arrow touched the monster making it growl, Lucy and Natsu stared at each other and smiled, this worked, seconds later there were around hundreds of burning arrows in the air like shooting stars, they landed in the monster and it started screaming in pain and rage.
"My magic is over... Moshi-Moshi," Sagittarius started to disappear in a circle of light.
"Arigato!" shouted Lucy after him, "Natsu, is your turn, finish him up!"
"Hai!" the pink haired mage didn't have to be told twice, he kicked the ground and pushed the beast, who lost balance and fell backwards.
Natsu jumped out of the monster's reach and prepared to the final attack, "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn," he shouted, suddenly his entire body was on flames, like a torch and hit the beast's chest at high speed, it emitted a horrible noise piercing Natsu's sensible ears, he fell and Happy flew to catch him.
"Arigato, Happy," Natsu rubbed his head looking at the amount of ashes lying on the floor, "we won, Lucy!" the pink haired Dragon turned around and high fived Lucy.
"Well done, minna," congratulated Erza behind them, "let's go see Mr. Takonuma and then go back to Magnolia."
They headed to the office where the short man was waiting for them, again surrounded by all those important people, he greeted them with four bags of money, there were the 300,000 jewels divided for them all, the wizards took them and walked out of the office.
"Finally, I can pay the rent! And maybe buy some clothes too," said Lucy.
They were all talking about what they would do with the money, Natsu intended of buying food, Gray wanted to save the money because he had no idea how to spend it, and Erza wanted to buy new things for her armour, they didn't notice they were being observed by someone hiding in the shadows of the trees, not even Natsu smelled her, he was too busy daydreaming about food with Happy, that the person spying on them had time to escape and plan how to kidnap Lucy-san.
"We will camp here tonight," said Erza after hours of walking.
They arrived to a clear, the last sunbeams filtered through the trees and made a greenish light illuminate the place, the teens already knew what they had to do, so Lucy and Natsu went to get wood, Erza and Gray went to get food and Happy went to look for water.
"Luce, are you alright?" Asked Natsu picking up a trunk he had just kicked.
"Huh?" The Celestial wizard shook her head and looked at him.
"You've been distracted and lost in thoughts, are you alright?" Natsu put the trunk aside and walked closer to her.
"Yeah, I'm okay." She just turned her back to him and picked up some branches.
"I know you're not, you're worried, and you worry me..." whispered Natsu looking away.
Lucy blushed and stared at him surprised, suddenly, she felt Natsu's strong arms wrapped around her waist, the branches fell from her hands and she just stood there even more surprised, Natsu hugged her tighter, Lucy smiled and hugged him back, they broke the hug after a minute or so.
"I'm better now, thanks, Natsu," whispered Lucy blushing.
"G-Good," said Natsu confused, he turned to where the trunk was lying and kicked it making it break apart, 'What did just happen? I hugged Lucy, without even thinking what I was doing, what is going on?' Thought Natsu frustrated. 'She's so warm and delicate... wait Natsu, stop thinking that!' He shook away the thoughts and picked up the branches and organised them in a pile.
Lucy saw him and wondered what was wrong with him now. 'Why is he such a weird guy? The way he hugged me...his arms around my waist, pressing me against his perfect body shape...WAIT, did I just said he had a perfect body shape? Stupid Lucy, stop thinking those things about Natsu!' she looked away and tried to focus on the flames licking the wood, consuming each branch as it passed, the crackling noise of the fire was ringing on Natsu's ears, making him relax.
"We'll eat something different today!" Said Erza dragging a wild boar with her, Lucy shrieked at the sight of the gigantic animal and moved away so the scarlet haired woman could leave it next to the fire.
"Nice one!" said Natsu with his eyes sparkling.
"So, who would like to prepare it for dinner?" asked Gray coming from the shadows with Happy.
"Certainly, not me," said Lucy shivering.
"What about you, Natsu?" asked Erza pointing at him with her sword.
"No, I'm fine," the alluded smiled nervously and moved next to Lucy, at the other side of the fire.
"Fine, I'll do it," Erza sighed and sat next to the boar, "now, if you want to eat without any disgusting image in your heads, I suggest you go away and make the tent."
"Hai!" Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Happy left Erza alone with the bore and started making the tent, it took them a while, because Natsu and Gray were arguing about which side was the tent going to face, Happy was trying to stop them and Lucy just stared at them.
"I say to make it face the fire," said Natsu.
"No, I say to make it face to the left of the fire," said Gray.
They both started fighting and shouting at each other, Natsu punched Gray and he punched him back, it was all going to really turn into a real fight, when Lucy walked in the middle of them and pushed them aside.
"Stop acting like that, I'm done with the tent," she said pointing to where the patchwork tent was, it was facing the fire.
"See? I was right," said Natsu satisfied.
"Is because your girlfriend would only listen to you," said Gray smirking.
"Sh-Shut up" shouted Lucy and Natsu blushing fiercely.
"Gray, come and help me with the boar," growled Erza.
"O-okay," said Gray walking to where Titania was, leaving the two others standing awkwardly in silence.
"Baka!" hissed Erza when Gray arrived to her side.
"What? Why?" he acted as if he had no idea what Erza was referring to.
"You know perfectly well," the scarlet haired woman gave him a dirty look making the conversation over.
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Some meters away from the Fairy Tail camp, two people were staring at them through the trees with curious eyes, none of the wizards below them could see them, a protecting wall was hiding them from others, blocking the other wizards their abilities to sense their presence.
"Kiraley, are you sure you can complete this task, all by yourself?" asked a rough man's voice.
"Yes, Master," said Kiraley's singing voice.
"And, no mistakes this time, you have until tomorrow night to bring Lucy Heartfilia to the guild, you know what will happen if you fail." Said the man disappearing in a dense fog.
The brown haired girl sighed and sat on a branch, all she had to do now was wait... the right time would eventually come, but she had to be careful to avoid Niaru.
*Moshi-Moshi: hello. (Note that in the Anime, Sagittarius always says so at the end of every sentence.)
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