Cold Sun Dragon
Dawn of A Deadly Lullaby
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.
Previously on Cold Sun Dragon,
But then one of them, the womanizer named Loke, ran into the guild hall out of breath. He was panting hard so everyone was wondering why he was in such poor condition. That is until Loke finally spoke up, "Erza…Erza has finally come back!"
"WHAT!?"
Lucy was spooked to hear and see the entire guild except for her, her boyfriend and Mira panic over these news. Then the earth started to shake, like a giant was pacing through town and from the sounds getting louder, it was approaching the guild hall. Lucy held onto Natsu for support since the shaking was almost enough to cause her to fall out of her seat at the counter. "Who is Erza?"
Lucy hoped to get a better answer than this out of her boyfriend. "She is going to be your rival Lucy. Other than that, she is a regular girl and I can count on you to make fast friends with her." With that encrypted message, Lucy wanted to think hard on it but she barely had the time when the shaking and sounds had gotten to the point that it seems the source of it all was now in the hall.
Lucy got a good look at this 'Erza' everyone was talking about and saw something she never expected. She was sure though why her dating days with Natsu are going to get tougher for sure.
Erza was nothing like from what Lucy expected from how everyone responded to her approaching footsteps. She was a young woman with long, scarlet hair and brown eyes that seemed to have one to be blue instead. Under her Heart Kreuz armor, given by the label on the left side of her chest, she had a slender, voluptuous figure that Lucy can describe within her mind as "amazing." She can only hope that Erza doesn't try to seduce her boyfriend, Lucy may be beautiful and young and well developed but she had seem women that are much more than here in all features. Lucy had forgotten all about that when she had noticed that Erza was carrying a giant horn like it was nothing; he figure sure fooled everyone else by hiding all her physical strength.
"I have returned. Where is the Master?" She said in a voice that matched her beauty perfectly, even though Lucy noticed some sternness in that tone. With a mighty thump, Erza left down the giant horn, she said that it was a gift from the villagers she helped by defeating a giant monster; of course, no one argued about it when Erza asked if it was in anyone's way.
"Hello Erza, no the Master is not here." Mira smiled and waved at the redhead but before she could say anything else.
"Gramps at his annual meeting. Did you forget that again?" Natsu said in a kind of off-handed tone which made everyone cringe. Lucy didn't know why until she saw Erza get silent, for only a few seconds before charging at both her and Natsu. Erza looked like she wanted to punch Natsu in the face but she only got as much as an inch when Natsu extended the palm of his hand that caused Erza to be incased in ice! "Still as slow as ever. I thought you would have been training Erza." Natsu said in his own stern tone even though his new girlfriend was clutching the side of his chest that is facing her. The salmon haired boy then ignited a flame in his hand and used it to melt the ice around Erza.
She fell to the ground, drenched and shivering. She looked like she wanted to fade away to somewhere in order to save face. She had noticed some new guild mates since she didn't recognize their faces; the point is that she had not made a very first impression. "A-anyway…" Erza said, fighting her way through the cold water that covered her entire body. "I…I have heard about how you all had caused trouble again!" It was her anger had made her body completely dry in an instant. And just like that, she had been chewing everyone out.
"Cana! Stop drinking in those clothes and while sitting on the table in that position!"
"Wakaba! You are leaving your ashes on the table again!"
"Vijeeter! If you want to dance, do it outside!"
"Nab! I knew that I will find you by the request board! Do a job already!"
Lucy couldn't believe that she was seeing Erza run the place like she suddenly became the Guild Master. "Does she…?" Lucy turned to her boyfriend who chuckled,
"Erza is a very stern woman, she loves to make her point across. But she isn't without flaws." Natsu explained, "For example, she is an S-class Mage but like everyone else, she destroy things in order to complete missions; rarely she does it to protect her clients or innocent bystanders." Lucy was getting more and more afraid of Erza now; the blonde was just glad that while her boyfriend was S-class, his mage allowed him to cause minimal damage.
"And as for you Gray!" Erza shouted which broke Lucy from her thoughts. "I need you for something." But before Erza could say what it is, Natsu walked up to Gray and slapped him on the back.
"Good for you Gray, Erza in need of a man in her life and you happened to suit that perfectly! Ha-ha-ha!" Natsu started to laugh and pretty soon everyone joined him, even Lucy. Gray was not laughing, he was blushing so hard that he looked like he was going to melt and Erza couldn't understand why she couldn't find the strength to argue. After a while, everyone stopped their laughing before they can lose their voice.
"Not that. I need him for something serious that I can't say here. And I will need you to come along, Natsu." No one started laughing after that, when everyone heard about how Erza never asked of anything and she asked Natsu and Gray to come along on this mission; those two couldn't even at least be friendly rivals.
"What is wrong with that?" Lucy asked and this time, Mira was the one to answer.
"Not only are Gray and Erza are formable mages on their own, but any team with Natsu in it are nearly unstoppable!" Mira remarked and Lucy could have sworn to hear her heart stop; her boyfriend was that powerful so much it doesn't matter which team Natsu is part of, they are all unbeatable if he is a member?
Later, at the Magnolia Train Station,
"Hey Erza! Over here!" Lucy shouted in the distance that Gray and Natsu were not looking in; Gray tried to act like they weren't fighting against Erza's orders while Natsu just played along for the heck of it, he couldn't smell Erza in that direction. "This is fun!"
"You tricked me you little…" Gray was not happy that he was doped but he stopped to hear Natsu laugh at the whole thing.
"Way to go Lucy. You are a fast learner!" Natsu said in his laughter while his girlfriend tagged along. Gray still didn't find this funny that he had to work with someone that he despised in the whole world.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." A familiar voice emerged in the silence and Lucy turned only to see Erza coming their way while pulling a cart that was covered in baggage!
"What is in all that!?" Lucy yelled in exclamation while Erza just chuckled sheepishly while Naruto chuckled.
"She is the Titania, she needs to keep her strength both in and out of battle. That is why she has that habit."
"Aye sir!" Happy popped in on Natsu's answer to his girlfriend. And speaking of which,
"I think I have noticed you before at the Guild Hall, cuddling with Natsu!" Erza then said while seemingly trying to stare a hole through Lucy's head. "Why is that!?" Erza then yelled almost loud enough to shatter windows.
"She is my girlfriend, she is allowed." Natsu said after grabbing Lucy by the hand and aboard the train, "And our ride is leaving. Hurry it up." Erza noticed that Gray was already on the train in order to stay out of the heated situation. She then panicked and tried to catch up with the train before finally getting her and her luggage on board.
Erza spent a good amount of the time, looking for her team until she realized something based on her sudden expression. She back tracked and saw that she had passed them about five cars down! After calming down, she took a seat next to Gray since Lucy was tacking the space besides Natsu; in fact, the blonde was resting her head on Natsu's shoulder. "You always were in a hurry to be friends with blond women eh?" Erza muttered while trying to catch her breath.
"There is nothing wrong with blondes and there is nothing wrong with redheads? Are you against it?" Natsu said before turning a little dark and cold air already emerged from his hands while somehow not bothering Lucy who was the closet to the cold air, so thick it could be the same temp as dry ice; now that is cold and deadly.
"N-no…" Erza surprised Gray by stuttering for an answer, "I…I just wanted to know why this Lucy was close to you! That's all!" Erza tried to cover her embarrassment, rather poorly. "I only wanted to know if you can have a fight with me once this mission is over. I am not a little girl anymore!" Gray was now out like a light and drooling by the thick load.
"…" Natsu didn't answer and for once as everyone knew the Titania, she only started to shake like she was dreading any answer she will be given. "Yes you're right. You are not a little girl anymore and I was hoping for you to be more mature enough to save face in front of our new members, the least my girlfriend. She looked up to you as the model girl and now…" Natsu never finished that sentence and Erza took it in with shame and guilt.
"L-let's skip all that and focus on what is at hand okay?" Erza said, hoping to change the subject and prevent all this from escalating. Since no said anything for their own reasons, Natsu was not amused with all this, Lucy was too busy enjoying her boyfriend's company and Gray was still out from all the shock overload. So Erza continued, not wanting to wait and waste any more time. "We are after Lullaby."
That got Natsu's attention and his stirring was enough to get Lucy's attention and somehow all this got that of Gray as well. "Why are we going after one of the demons from the book of Zeref, Erza? Even for a team like us, that is suicide. Are you trying to get an edge on me by getting us all involved as a pair of gullible idiots while you become the hero?"
"No!" Erza said but she had to punch the very thing closet to her and it wasn't Natsu, it was Gray, knocking him out all over again. "I have heard about all this in a pub on the way back!" Erza ignored the fact she knocked out Gray and continued on her explication. "They claimed to be one of the illegal guilds hoping to use Lullaby in their mission. I know that is not good so I tried to get the much help as I can! Please believe me!" Erza said and bowing from her seat which made Natsu laugh,
"You are too easy Erza, I was only playing around. You should have known hat better from our friendship." Natsu explained and Erza stayed in her position to hide her humiliation. "Just for that, when we fight, don't think that I will take you seriously. You will have to prove that you compensate for your childish nature. Otherwise I can't acknowledge you as one of my equals yet."
"Okay." Erza said like a beaten dog. Lucy could only wonder why Natsu told her that Erza will try to fight her for her boyfriend, Erza never tried any of that yet.
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"Hey. I thought you said you will bring Gray along!" Natsu said as they got off the train and the Titania realized that she had still left Gray on the train that was just leaving for the next stop!
On the train, Gray was moaning on how he got knocked out twice in front of Lucy, the new girl that he found cute. Too bad that she had already chosen the 'flame brain jerk' over him; Gray just couldn't figure it out why girls never get attracted to him despite the fact that he was reminded about his subconscious habit of stripping. "Hey! You have only your underwear on you pervert!" Just like that.
"Oh yeah, you think you can say that to my face!?" Gray managed to get his balance and ignored the fact that the train was already back in motion.
"I would but I don't have the time so see you later, on the ground dead!" The man happened to be a young man of average height and weight with black eyes and black hair which he ties in a short, spiky ponytail. He wears a white shirt with a high collar and an intricate symbol on its back over a plain, dark red undershirt. He also wears a pair of aquamarine pants, black shoes and small black earrings in each ear.
"You are going nowhere! Come back and say all that to my face!" Gray tried to get this man to actually fight him but felt something was pulling him but he felt no hand on his shoulder. He then was thrown out of the train but not before noticing that the man had some kind of demonic flute on his belt.
"There you are Gray!" The said ice mage of a stripper felt like someone was holding him for real, this time by his collar. "Erza will now have to take my punishment and because you didn't see her punch coming or handle the shocks. What do you have to say for yourself after those years of 'copycat' and 'fried flame brain'?" Natsu said and Gray was about to retort with Erza slapped him on the face. Natsu and surprising Lucy watched on how Erza scolded Gray for letting one of the members of the guild Eisenwald, the one they were after and the guild who are in possession of the deadly flute Lullaby. Happy was just watching in nervousness, on Natsu's shoulder,
That is until Natsu had got a brain surge that filled his heart with worry. "Erza, take it easy on Gray and listen up. I just realized what Eisenwald are hoping to do!" That got the Titania's attention so she halted her ranting at the poor ice mage who is now to be his boxers again. "That train they were using goes to the hall where Guild Masters all meet up! Eisenwald is hoping to try out Lullaby on the people at the last station before the meeting hall and try to assassinate all the Guild Masters there!"
That all added up and made sense, Eisenwald were only using the train to move along at the fastest under cover route. That way they will not be pursued and put their plan in jeopardy. They were going to risk a big public massacre in order to get at the masters in the easiest and most deadly way!
End of Chapter 3.
*Hi everyone! Here I am with another chapter and I am especially happy. I used to play Gameboy games all the time years ago and I am starting to miss them. Now I have finally found a good handheld console on which I can play them along with ds games in the same cartage just with the one that broke down. I serious thought that I will never play Gameboy games again until yesterday. Even more surprising was that I gave my reaming games to Mom to sell online but even after all these years, she never did! How about that!*