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A Solo Mission
X784 July
Makayla POV
"Huh they really did a number on the Guild hall didn't they," Master was stood in front of what was the Fairy Tail Guild Hall. "Oh well, we can always rebuild" he said with a smile, he was right the guild may be nothing but a pile of rubble now but it won't stay that way for long.
"You know the Magic Council are going to want to have words Master" I point out to him, he stared at me for a moment and then without warning burst into tears.
"WAAA! It's not fair!" he bawled out, I would be lying if I didn't burst into laughter at the sight of an eighty-year-old man crying like a baby.
I was right about the council, they showed up soon after and took everyone for questioning, it wasn't anything extreme, they just asked what happened and why. I couldn't really answer the questions they gave me because I hadn't been there for the start of it, all I told them was that when I got there Phantom was attacking Fairy Tail, so I defended.
X784 August
It's now been a week since Phantom attacked and everyone was busy helping rebuild the Guild Hall, I was sat at the bar that had been top priority to build first. I noticed someone sit next to me, I looked up and noticed that it was Lucy, "hey you're Lucy aren't you?"
She looked up at me and smiled, "yeah, sorry I'm not sure who you are."
"Makayla" I tell her and hold out my hand.
Lucy takes my hand and shakes it, "I don't think I've seen you around the guild before."
"You haven't, I was out of town for a while when you joined."
"Oh well what kind of magic do you use?" she asks me.
I give her a little smirk "I'm a Dragon Slayer"
"Really! Like Natsu?" she seems a bit excited.
"Sort of the difference being he is a Fire Dragon Slayer and I'm not.
"Well what kind of Dragon Slayer are you?"
"Chaos"
"Wow I thought there were only elemental slayers, like Natsu with fire and Black Steel Gajeel with Iron," there seemed to be a bit of venom in her words at Gajeel's name.
Our conversation was then interrupted by Mira who was working the bar, "Listen up everyone! We're taking on job requests starting today!" she shouts across the guild, to which she receives a massive cheer from everyone and they all run towards the makeshift job board.
"Hey Mira, I don't suppose you've seen Loke around?" what does she want that playboy for?
"Don't tell me you've fallen for Fairy Tail's resident playboy," Mira teases, which causes me to spit my drink.
"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT" Lucy Immediately defends, "I just heard that he's the one who found my keys and I wanted to thank him is all" she explains.
"I'll let him know if I see him," Mira says, "so where your spirits mad at you for dropping their keys?"
"Yeah, but there was one in particular that was really annoyed," Lucy then grabs her butt and puts her face to the bar. "Just thinking about it makes my butt sting," she moans.
Gray then appears "I could cool it for you" he says while forming some ice in an open palm.
"That sounds like sexual harassment to me" she replies.
"Lucy, can you show me how red you but is" Happy chips in sounding as childish as you can.
"AND WITH THAT COMMENT YOU'VE CROSSED THE LINE!" she shouts back in anger.
"How do you think she'll react if I make her butt sting even more?" Natsu asks Happy while lighting a hand on fire.
"WHO ARE YOU THE DEVIL?" Lucy shouts at him, this is to funny, I was laughing so hard I didn't notice the barrel knock Natsu down.
"Why don't you tell the others how you feel" I hear Erza say, I turn around to see who she's talking to.
"Great he's back," I groan.
"I have no problem telling them what I think, this guild is full of nothing but losers and weaklings," Laxus states then turns around to face Jet and Droy. "Especially you two, you were Phantoms personal punching bags, you know I'm glad I never bothered to learn your names," Jet and Droy visible deflate at his comment. Laxus then turns to face Lucy, "which brings me to the worst of them all," he needs to shut up before I make him, "the rich little princess wannabe wizard, this was all your fault…"
"LAXUS!" Mira is the one to stop his speech, "Master said no one was to be held accountable for what happened, not even you, despite the fact that I begged you to come back and you turned your back on us!" Mira begged him.
"Stop your whining! That fight had nothing to do with me, but if I had been there you wouldn't be drowning your sorrows in this pile of rubble right now."
"I've heard enough out of you!" Natsu shouts and runs at Laxus, I quickly get up and stand in front of Natsu causing him to stop and look at me confused, "Makayla, what gives?" He questions, but I refuse to look up.
"Hah pathetic" Laxus says with a shit eating grin on his face.
"Pathetic?" I question getting peoples attention on me "I think you'll find that you're the one that's pathetic" I then glare up at him.
"Please, you're a part of these weaklings…" that word did it for me, and before he could say another word I punched him in the chest and through one of the newly built walls.
"WE ARE NOT WEAK!" I screamed at him, how dare he call us weak, after he left the guild to fend for themselves in a war, against another guild he has no right.
"You little bitch!" Laxus growled as he got back up holding his chest, "you're going to regret that."
"No, I won't, you are going to regret calling this guild weak" I reply calmer now that I have managed to hit him.
"When I inherit the guild you'll be the first to go when I clear out the trash," he told us.
"You know that will never happen, even if you do somehow become Master of Fairy Tail I will personally challenge you."
He gave a dark laugh and grinned, without saying another word he disappeared in his lightning, he will never become Master.
"Woah did she really just punch Laxus?" I heard Lucy ask.
"Yeah, there is something between them two, always arguing, and when it actually turned into a fight last time Master had to step in to stop it, so even though they technically never finished a fight I think everyone agrees that Makayla is stronger," Mira gives Lucy a little history lesson.
"Really? But she looks so young" Lucy seems confused.
"Hey!" I shout at her feeling a little offended at being called young, "I'm nearly sixteen!" I inform her.
"WHAT!" she shouts, "you're fifteen and you can do that to an S class mage?"
"Erm Lucy…" Mira gets Lucy's attention, "Makayla is actually an S class mage too."
"WHAT!" she does that a lot doesn't she, "wow fifteen and S class already."
"Lucy," she turns to look at me, "can you not go blabbing about me to anyone not in the guild please," I ask her, "I mean there is a reason why you haven't heard about me before joining the guild."
"Now that you say that I'm pretty sure that a fifteen-year-old S class wizard would have been mentioned in Sorcerer Weekly," she thought out loud.
"Yeah I tend to not be here when they are, especially that Jason guy," I physically shudder at the thought of the man, I mean he's a nice guy but, oh my god does he get in your face.
"Arrgghh! Why does Makayla get to hit that jerk and I don't!" Natsu starts spewing fire out of his mouth.
"Calm down Natsu, to take your mind off it why don't we take a job?" Erza tries calming him down.
"A job?" well that worked surprisingly well.
"Yeah, also Gray, Lucy and Makayla can join us," she suggests.
"Actually, guys I'm going to take my own, you go on without me," I tell them and start walking off to find my own. I only want to go on my own so I can practice that secret art, and if what he said is true I don't want to accidently hurt any of them.
I must have spent about half an hour scanning the board but there is nothing available that seems like any sort of challenge. "Hey Mira, is the S class board up anywhere?" I call over to the barmaid.
"Well there's no board per say, but I have the jobs here," she says as she pulls some paper from behind the bar.
"Yes! Thank you Mira," I snatch the papers from her hands and start browsing through them, I then spot one that could be fun, "hey Mira can I take this one?" I ask as I hand her the paper.
She takes the paper and has a look at it, "hmm, a dark wizard building a cult following, says his magic is rumoured to rival that of a Wizard Saint, oh my I think this is meant to be SS class, are you sure you want to take it?" she asks me, and for once I am genuinely confident in taking an SS class job.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can handle it" I answer with a smile.
"Alright then," she says a bit hesitantly but stamps the paper, "I will let Master know as soon as I see him, just to be safe."
"Sure, thanks Mira, see ya later," I wave back at her as I make my way towards my job.
X784 September
I have spent some time in a remote area near to where my job is meant to be, practicing my new secret art, I sort of know how it works now but I've never actually used it perfectly. I've decided to give up on it for the time being and actually do the job I accepted nearly a month ago, I didn't really think that through did I.
"Now I wonder where I can find this 'dark mage'?" I am currently standing on top of a hill over looking the town of Cedar, this is where the job was posted from. Thing is the town looks completely fine, I would have usually expected a dark mage to have ransacked the town, but as far as I could see, people were walking around, going about their daily business.
I start walking down into the town, I may as well go and ask around, I decide to go straight to the town hall. As I'm walking through the town, I notice that there is a large presence of knights, but they aren't the typical 'Rune Knights', and the local people seem to actually like having them around.
"Excuse me miss" I look around but I don't see anybody looking at me, then I feel a tug on my pants and look down to see a little kid suited up in the same armour as the knights around town. "Are you new here? I haven't seen you around before," the kid asks.
I smile down at him, "I'm just here for a job," I tell him.
"Oh, what kind of job?"
"Apparently there is a bad guy around here and I've come to stop him," I continue smiling at him.
The kids face turns serious, which throws me a bit, "are you on about that dark wizard?"
"Yep that's the one."
"You seem kinda young to be fighting someone like that, even our brotherhood of knights couldn't beat him," well this kid went from adorable wannabe knight to little shit who will eat his words, real quick.
"Now listen hear kid! I am not to young, and I am a wizard of Fairy Tail, now if you wouldn't mind pointing me in the direction of your town hall so I can get the information I need to find him," I needed to go before I said something I regret.
"Wow you're a wizard?" He asks, his face showing that he was amazed, "you don't need to go to the town hall, I can show you where he is," he proclaims, and stabs a thumb into his chest.
"I'm not taking a child with me to fight a dark wizard," that would be a recipe for disaster.
"You're hardly an adult…" he mutters, he thinks I couldn't hear him.
"I'M STILL OLD ENOUGH!" I yell at him.
The kid falls over in shock at my outburst, "I could still tell you where to find him, I've followed the knights before when they went to fight him."
I guess I could take the direction, "fine," I huff at him.
The kid perks up "great follow me" he says, gets up and runs off towards the edge of town.
"Hey kid!" I shout as I run after him, "I said you could tell me, not show me" and he stops at the edge of town.
"I am telling you but it's easier to point" he explains, then lifts a finger to point into the woods that surround the town. "He's using a rundown building a couple miles that way, literally if you walk straight from here you can't miss it."
I gave the kid a suspect glance, "and you promise that you won't follow me?" I ask him, to which he nods. "Alright then, thank you for your help kid."
I choose to jog through the woods, the sooner the better, and I quickly arrive where the kid had told me where to go. The 'run down building' he spoke of was more like a mansion, there was a lot of people outside of it possibly a hundred or so, I stay back for a minute to hide in the bushes to see exactly what I'd be up against. After about ten minutes I believe that there are more inside and from what I can see they all appear to be mages, none of them seem to be strong at all.
"Attention, my loyal followers!" a man covered in black robes has walked out of the mansion and had his arms spread wide. "It appears as though there is a bounty on us, and that our current location has been made public knowledge," does he know I'm here? Then someone walks out of the bushes to my right while dragging something behind them. "This little fellow has informed us that there is a wizard on their way here right now to 'beat us up' to use his words," I take a better look at what was being dragged, and I widen my eyes in shock. There dressed in his little suit of armour is the kid from town, "even though one wizard isn't truly a problem, I request that everyone gathers their things and prepare to move on."
That kid is an absolute idiot, I explicitly told him not to follow me, I guess there's no helping it now is there. I quickly rush towards the person holding the kid and drive an elbow into their face sending him back into the bushes. "hey kid!" he looks up at me with tears in his eyes, "no time to cry, run back to your town now," I order him.
"But I can help" he retorts.
"No! go now other wise we are both in trouble, I can handle them myself!" I shout at him, trying to impersonate Erza as best I can.
The kid actually looks a little scared of me but, "no you can't there are to many!" this kid has got some balls.
"Right I'm done with you, come here" I say as I grab him by his armour.
"What are you doing! Put me down!" He struggles against my hold.
"quit struggling kid I'm only doing this because you won't listen!" I bark at him as I run into the woods, after getting deep enough into the forest I set him down and get him to face me. "Now listen here kid! I am going back to deal with the criminals before they get away because it's my job, you are going to do one of two things, number one, run back to your town, when you are there you wait for me to come back, number two you stay right here, if you so much as take a step towards that mansion you will regret it" I really hope he understands.
"What if you get hurt?"
"Trust me kid that ain't gonna happen" it might but he doesn't need to know that, "besides, I have a lot of magic, and I can't use it all if I'm concerned about you getting caught in it."
"Okay, I'll wait here," he agrees but doesn't look happy about it.
3rd Person POV
"Well it looks like this wizard that had come to 'kick our butts' has ran away, never the less what I said still stands, gather your things and prepare to move." The man in the black cloak spoke, after watching someone deck one of his followers, have an argument with that child and then run off.
"Master shall we go after them?" one of his followers asked from beside him.
"No it's pointless, they obviously don't want to fight us otherwise they wouldn't have ran off," he states.
"I was thinking more like we don't want them letting anymore information out."
"All they know is where we are and how many of us there is, which I'm pretty certain the public already know, anyway we are moving now so it does not matter."
"Very well Master," the man then bows to him, and the cloaked man turns to walk back inside, he is halted halfway inside by a sudden commotion.
"Chaos Dragon ROAR!" he turns back around to see a large swirling vortex of magic heading straight for him and wiping out all his followers in between. The cloaked figure sighs and raises a wooden staff that he had hidden within his cloak towards the blast…
Makayla POV
When the dust clears from the roar, I just sent at the cloaked man clears I am slightly surprised to see that he is totally unharmed, not even his clothing is damaged. "So, the rumours about your power were somewhat true."
"And what might those rumours be?" he asks me slightly intrigued.
"That your power is comparable to that of a Wizard Saint's," I tell him.
"Well, I would be lying if I said that your magic didn't have a kick to it."
"I think we've complimented each other, enough don't you? I think it's time I take you down and hand you over to the magic council."
"Why don't you get through my men first then we'll talk," he says, and as if it was an order his followers all step in between me and the cloaked man.
"If you insist" with that I spring forward arms coated in my magic, as soon as I connect with the first one all the others join in, using the 'strength in numbers' tactic. I do find the sheer number of bodies somewhat annoying, but not annoying enough to use any spells, just use my magic to enhance my body.
"You were foolish to try and challenge us alone little girl," did he just say that? "honestly, what could a child possibly hope to accomplish against hundreds of my loyal followers, and myself if you miraculously manage to get that far." Right he has just officially pissed me off!
"Chaos Dragon Wing Attack!" I spin forward knocking all my surrounding attackers away, I then turn towards some more rushing at me. "Chaos Dragon Roar!" I fire it at them, creating a channel, I then face back towards the cloaked man and jump towards him, "Chaos Dragon Talons" as I swing my magic encased foot down towards him, he completely vanishes, and my foot just ends up creating a crater in the doorway to the mansion.
"Hahaha you're going to have to be quicker than that!" he appeared behind me, where I had come from. He then spins his staff above his head then brings it down to point at me and to my surprise one of my roars comes flying at me, I just crossed my arms in front of me and take the attack head on. I am knocked back a few feet, but there's no damage done to me.
"What the hell was that!?" I shout at him.
"Do you not recognise your own attacks?" was he mocking me?
"Yeah I do, but I'm asking how you did that."
"I'm pretty sure you can figure it out yourself," well yeah, I was just wanting confirmation.
"Your staff can absorb magical attacks and then discharge them at your convenience," at least that's my best guess.
"You are quite bright aren't you," I try to catch him off guard by quickly launching at him, but when I reach him, he disappears again! "But you are still but a child," I turn to my right to see him stood there but his hood has come down and I can see his smug grin. He has light grey hair that's almost white, and his face makes him look like he is really old.
"You are really making me angry, I. Am. Not. A. CHILD!" I draw my arms back over my head "CHAOS DRAGON DEATH CANNON!" I throw my hands forward and a massive beam of bright, white magic launches from them. I wait for there to be a scream or maybe even explosion, but instead it just keeps going, and dredges the ground and clears the forest that was behind him. When the light from my attack clears, he is nowhere to be seen, 'did I just vaporise him?'
I then hear slow clapping coming from behind me, I whip around and sure enough he's there completely unharmed. "My, my, you do have quite a bit of magic don't you," how the hell did he dodge that? Actually, why did he dodge that if his staff can absorb it… it has a limit doesn't it, well that part figured out, how did he dodge it? That attack has a massive radius, not to mention it moves really fast.
"How did you dodge that attack?" may as well ask the man himself.
"You think that as a mage I would solely rely on an item?" he proposes.
So he is a caster type and that staff is basically an accessory, so his own magic is the reason he can dodge, but even Laxus and his lightning form struggles to dodge my attacks… "You can teleport" I state more than ask.
"Very clever" he smirks, then disappears, I then find myself on the floor face down and I can feel a pain in between my shoulder blades.
I quickly jump back up and get my guard up again, "okay now that I know all of your tricks you're in for it."
"I doubt it, you can't even hit me" he states cockily.
"I really want to punch you in your smug face," I spit out through gritted teeth.
"Awe I think it's nearly nap time someone's getting cranky" something inside me just snaps, before I know it I have completely let go of my control on my magic. I take notice that the mages that were still standing are now struggling against the pressure of my magic.
"YOU'LL BE LUCKY TO GET OUT OF THIS ALIVE!" I can hear my voice has gotten slightly deeper, I take a proper look at my enemy and I can see fear in his eyes, it is quickly replaced by a serious look. He does his usual trick of disappearing, I then feel a shift in the air behind me and quickly jump to the side and quickly launch at the figure that had just swung for me and land my own punch to his face. He tumbles through the air and crashes through some trees, "that felt good."
"How can a child, have this much power!" he emerges back out from the trees, his cloak was dirtied and slightly torn and he also had a small trickle of blood down his cheek from the eyebrow I had just split.
He's still calling me a 'child', "Chaos Dragon Roar!" again he teleports out of the way of my attack, "Coward!" I shout as I turn to face where he reappeared.
He then holds his staff out with his right hand, parallel with the ground and across his chest, with his left hand open behind it. He starts muttering something that I can't understand, then a black magic circle appears in the air above me, and it suddenly unleashes a black column of magic down onto me. With no time to get out of the way I coat myself in my magic and throw my arms above my head to try and block what I can, when it hits I am overcome with excruciating pain ripping across my entire body. It feels like a thousand knives are slicing away at me, it feels as though it goes on for hours before it finally stops and I'm left on my knees panting for breath.
"H-how are you still breathing! You should have been ripped to shreds!" yeah that's what it feel s like should happened.
I slowly rise to my feet, my head hanging down, "I'm guessing that was your trump move, now let me show you mine" I look up at him and give him a smile as I raise my hands up towards the sky.
"WHAT ARE YOU IDIOTS WAITING FOR!" He shouts, "KILL HER!" his followers all look around at each other.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art" I start as my magic gathers around me, 'I hope this actually works this time' I think. I look around and see the man's followers all charging at me, in response I drop my hands palms open and down on the ground where a magic circle appears, "ARMAGEDON!" I shout and the surrounding area is engulfed in a bright light. The ground rumbles like there is an earthquake, but I hold my position easily until it all subsides, once the light has cleared, I look around to see that the mansion that was there had vanished, as had the trees for about five hundred meters around me and that there wasn't a hint of green to be seen.
"It actually worked…" it wasn't as strong as Acnologia said it would be, but it did what he said it would do. I suddenly felt a wave of dizziness pass over me and had to sit down, I took another look around taking note that everyone I had been fighting against were down and not looking to healthy. I stayed sat there for while just taking in the destruction my spell had caused, I was brought out of my thoughts by the sound of marching feet, I turned around to see a squad of ruin knights. The man at the front of the squad had long hair and wore glasses.
"My name is Lahar captain of the 4th custody enforcement unit, we are here to arrest the members of a dark cult in the name of the magic council." He announced.
"okay…" I said, Lahar then looked around the area and scrunched up his eyebrows.
"What happened here?" Lahar asked me.
"Well the magic council sent a job to Fairy Tail, and I took it," Lahar looked around again.
"By yourself?" He said sounding very sceptical.
"Yes, by myself, they weren't really that strong it only took one good spell to make them all sit quietly and wait to be collected by you guys." I said acting as nonchalant as possible even though that spell had been a bit more than 'good'.
"One spell?" I do love that look on peoples faces, "they seem to be more than just sitting quietly for our arrival," he noted.
"Well I guess I may have gone a bit overboard."
"A bit? It looks as though they have all been run over by their own individual trains, how can a little girl like you do all this by yourself!?" He just pushed the button.
"They called me a 'little girl' so I showed them what a 'little girl' can do" I said through gritted teeth.
"Very well, your reward will be sent to your guild where your Master should award you with it, and we will take these criminals into custody," I think he understood where my annoyance came from.
"Alright, and by the way that guy over there is the one who was in charge here," I told them motioning over towards the cloaked guy.
"Thank you," Lahar thanked, and I made my way back towards the town, as I'm walking, I remember the annoying little kid I left in the forest. "Hey kid, where are you?" I call out thinking it be best not to leave him out here alone.
"Right hear" I literally jump out of my skin at his sudden appearance behind me, but I quickly re-compose myself.
"What the hell kid! Do you have to sneak up on me like that!"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to, but it was pretty funny," he said with a little giggle at the end.
"No, it wasn't" I tell him as sternly as I can, "anyway let's head back to your town," I tell him.
"Okay" so we walk towards his town, after a few minutes the kid speaks up, "was that big flash of magic you?" he asks me.
"Why?"
"It was awesome!" he exclaims, "it was huge, and I could actually feel a lot of magic coming from it, I didn't realise you were that strong," he's now stood in front of me with wide eyes.
I smirk down at the kid, "yeah neither did they" I laughed, "hey kid have you even got a name?" it has only just occurred to me that we hadn't shared our names.
"Dan" he chirped, "what about you?"
"Makayla" I told him, "watch out!" Dan turns around just in time to walk into a tree, and promptly falls to the ground holding his nose. The stupid kid had been walking backwards until I tried to warn him, he quickly got back up still holding his nose, "you okay?" I was just checking before I laughed.
"Yeah I'm fine" he said, so I let out my laugh, "hey it's not funny!"
"Ha 'snot funny'"
"Shut up"
"Call it karma," I teased, and he mumbled something that didn't even sound like any form of language, "come on then kid, let's get you home."
Told you I can't end chapters, if anyone could give me some pointers on how to I would really appreciate it, also I've noticed that I get a lot of views for the first couple of chapters, but after that it just drops right off. If you guys know why it would be great if you could tell me what is scaring people off.
Just also letting you know I think I am going to try and update this story every Saturday.
R&R