A/N- Hey ya'll! I have some down time between classes so I though since I don't have any homework right now, why not start a new chapter! I hope you all like it!
I'm excited for this chapter because Laxus comes in! Laxus is definitely one of my favorite characters!
Ceto means goddess of the sea
Disclaimer- I don't own Fairy Tail!
Chapter 7
"Lucy!" Katawna yells banging on her apartment door. Lucy opens the door looking annoyed.
"See Gray," She sighs glancing back to the ice mage standing in her living room, "Katawna has the decency to knock instead of break in when she wants to speak to me."
"Gray we told you to come get Lucy not break in," Tawna sighs, then smiles up to Lucy, "Come on, the fight is about to start!" Tawna grabs Lucy's arm and runs out of her apartment building.
"I don't understand why I have to watch their stupid fight," Lucy sighs as the twelve-year-old drags her to the guild hall.
"Don't be a downer Luce," Tawna grins, "It's not gonna last very long." The guild has all gathered outside the hall surrounding Natsu and Erza.
"Hey Lucy," Mira smiles as they approach the crowd.
"I can't believe they are actually going through with it," Lucy sighs, "Won't this fight tear apart the strongest team?"
"Strongest team?" Tawna asks looking up the blonde.
"You, Natsu, Erza and Gray, aren't you guys the strongest in Fairy Tail?" Lucy asks.
"Ha! What idiot told you that lie, we're not even close." Gray laughs. Mira turns coving her face crying into her palms, "Oh, you're not an idiot Mira." Gray tries to calm her down.
"Way to keep it cool Gray," Tawna smirks.
'I give it to Natsu and Gray for being strong dudes, but there are guys in Fairy Tail who are stronger than those two combined," Elfman adds.
"Calling Erza the strongest Woman is probably true," Levy adds at Team Shadow Gear approaches.
"As for the dudes," Jet starts, "It's tough to say but my money is on Laxus or Mystogan,"
"Let's not forget about Gildarts," Tawna jumps in, "But he has been gone for three years, so as of right now that's probably a safe bet."
"I just thought they are the team with the most chemistry. They work well together." Mira sighs wiping tears from her eyes.
"This is coming from the one who sent me on a mission to help keep Natsu and Gray from fighting." Lucy sighs. 'This guild is crazy.'
"You made it!" Happy flies over and sets on Tawna's head, "We need to place our bets Tawna." Tawna smirks and they walk over to Cana who is collecting the bet pot.
"Ten for Erza," Tawna says handing the card mage her bet making Lucy's jaw drop.
"You're betting against your own brother?!" She asks shocked as the water mage and cat walk back over, "why are you guys picking sides? I don't want either of them to lose."
"Get into the fighting spirit Lucy," Gray shakes his head.
"Do you honestly think he has a chance against Erza," The girl raises an eye brow to the blonde, 'She does have a point,' Lucy thinks as Erza requips into red and orange armor.
"No way, Flame Empress Armor," Tawna says with her eyes sparkling.
"Good choice for fighting against flame magic," Macao states.
"Come on Erza, at least give him a chance," Wakaba adds.
"Sweet," Natsu smirks, "Now I can turn up the heat."
"Kick his butt Erza!" Tawna shouts.
"Katawna!" Natsu gasps shocked, causing the crowd to laugh.
"Sorry Bro!" She smirks, "My money is on Erza!" Tawna giggles waving at her older brother.
"Round One!" Gramps steps up holding up his arm, "Begin!" He gives the signal and Erza and Natsu jump into action. Natsu sends flames flying to Erza and she dodges them and redirects a small portion back to him using his armor.
"Wow they aren't holding back," Lucy says as she watches in awe.
"Because they're men!" Elfman boasts.
"Erza isn't a man Elfman," Tawna laughs.
"This fight sucks," Gray sighs.
"You're just saying that because Erza didn't knock him out right away," Tawna smirks up to the ice mage. Natsu and Erza prepare for another attack when the gong sounds making everyone come to a stop.
"This fight is over!" A frog like woman steps into the circle.
"Who's that?" Lucy whispers.
"I think she's from the magic council." Tawna answers.
"I have come here on behalf of the magic council. Following the Eisenwald attack, a member of your guild has been charged with eleven counts of property damage. Erza Scarlet you are under arrest."
"What!?" The whole guild shouts.
"You're putting her under arrest?" Natsu gasps. Erza sighs and looks to the frog woman.
"Fine if you insist, I'll go." Erza steps forward.
"What? Erza!" Natsu shouts as he goes to follow.
"No you don't!" Tawna jumps in and grabs Natsu's vest trying to stop him, "Don't be an idiot, what the magic council says goes!" Tawna's attempts to stop him are short because he is now just dragging her behind him. "Natsu!" Tawna kicks the ground with her heel and ice forms around his feet stopping him as Erza disappears into the magic mobile speeding off down the road.
"We need to save her!" Natsu says melting the ice around his feet and sending a glare to his little sister.
"Everyone back in the guild now." Master yells over the commotion. The members slowly file back into the hall. Tawna lost sight of Natsu through the crowd as they enter the building. Everyone takes a seat scattering around the hall, some talking quietly, some going back to drinking, and the rest just sitting there silently trying to figure out what happened. Tawna glances around and climbs onto the table trying to look over her guild mate's heads trying to find a certain pink headed mage.
"Is everyone here?!" Gramps asks standing on the bar.
"I'll give you one guess to who isn't here," Tawna huffs crossing her arms in front of her purple tank top, still standing on the table.
"That idiot isn't here?" Gray sighs.
"That boy is gonna be the death of me," Gramps sighs from the bar when the guild doors are pushed open.
"Look everyone!" Five-year-old Romeo shouts running in, "My dad caught Natsu trying to sneak away!" He holds up a small struggling pink salamander by the tail.
"Way to go Romeo!" Tawna smiles jumping off the table.
"What should we do with him?" Romeo asks holding up the salamander.
"Put me down Romeo!" Natsu yells in his lizard form. Tawna smirks and walks over to the bar.
"Mira can I have a glass?" She asks smirking. Mira hands her a glass and Tawna motions Romeo over to the bar. She holds out the glass and Romeo drops Natsu into it. Tawna glares at the little salamander and flips the cup over on the counter trapping Natsu, "There," She smirks, "Now he won't get away,"
"This isn't fair you guys!" Natsu shouts banging on the glass, "Come on let me out of here!"
"Natsu try to calm down," Mira says calmly.
"Let me out, pretty please," he begs, "Ahhh!"
"Shut it you idiot," Tawna bangs her fist on the top of the glass making him fall down.
"Natsu you're too worked up, you'll go on a rampage," Mira comes over to the salamander.
"I'll be good I swear," Natsu says waving his little lizard arms, "Please turn me back to the way I was before."
"If we turn you back you're just gonna go try and save Erza," Mira glares.
"We can't face off to the council Natsu," Gray says sitting next to Elfman.
"Doesn't the council know that Erza did what she had to do to save the guild masters?" Natsu argues
"If the council says you're guilty then you're guilty end of story Bro," Tawna sighs leaning closer to the cup.
"I don't get it, we have destroyed plenty of stuff before," Elfman says, " they didn't make a big deal out of it then."
"We can't just sit here and do nothing!" Lucy yells, "We should be there to testify!"
"We are not going to court Lucy," Gramps sighs from bar.
"There has to be something we can do!" Lucy stands approaching the bar, "We all know she's innocent."
"Even if we left right now, there is no way we are gonna get there in time," Gramps sighs taking a sip of his beer. Tawna leans closer the glass furrowing her brow.
"Romeo what kind of magic did your dad use on Natsu?" Tawna says sitting up, "It doesn't smell like him." Gramps look to the small glass sitting on the counter holding what they thought was Natsu.
"Natsu are you sure you still want out of there?" Gramps asks. The salamander stops and thinks for a second, "Ahhhhh!" Gramps sends a blast of magic shattering the cup and Macao goes falling to the floor back into his original form.
"It's Macao!" Levy shouts and he stands from the ground rubbing his head.
"That was you!" Tawna, Lucy and Elfman shout.
"Yeah, I owed Natsu a favor," He says laughing slightly.
"I turned myself into a salamander so everyone thought I was him," Macao says then glancing over to Tawna, "I did think of the fact that Katawna would be able to sniff out that it wasn't him."
"Natsu is so dead," Tawna scowls.
"Do you know where he went?" Lucy asks.
"I bet he went after Erza," Gray states stepping next to Tawna.
"I'm afraid so," Macao nods.
"That idiot is gonna try and fight the whole council." Elfman adds.
"Great, my brother is going to jail," Tawna rolls her eyes.
"Well there is nothing we can do," Master states, "All we can do now is wait."
The day goes on with no word of the Erza or Natsu yet from the council. Tawna is sitting with Lucy and Happy waiting to hear any news.
"What do you think happened?" Happy asks munching on a piece of fish.
"He probably did something stupid and now they are both locked up." Tawna sighs.
"Let's hope we know what happened soon," Lucy sighs.
"Master Makarov, Master Makarov," A small bird flies through the window and towards Gramps on the bar, "Letter from the council." The bird places the letter in his hands and flies back out of the guild. Gramps opens the letter and sighs.
"So what is it Gramps," Gray asks.
"Both Natsu and Erza are spending the night in prison, they will be released in the morning." He sighs.
"That's just great," Tawna sighs leaning on her elbow, then glances up to Lucy, "Luce can I stay over at your place tonight, I don't like being at home when Natsu isn't there."
"Of course, Happy can come too," Lucy smiles to the young mage.
"Thanks, We're gonna run home and grab some clothes then we'll meet you there." Tawna smiles.
"Okay I'll see you two there." Lucy smiles as she watches the young girl and her cat exit the guild. Lucy stands and decides she should start heading home to clean up a few things before the two arrive.
By the time Lucy is finished tiding up she hears Tawna and Happy outside her door. She opens the door to find Tawna glaring at the blue cat.
"I'm sorry Tawna," Happy says as they enter her home.
"What happened?" Lucy asks showing them into her room.
"Happy flew me too high on the way here," Tawna sighs, "I told you not to go too high."
"I didn't even go higher than the roofs,"
"That's still too high Happy." Tawna runs her hand through her pink hair sighing.
"You're really afraid of heights aren't you?" Lucy asks sitting on the couch with the young mage.
"Yeah," She rubs the back of her neck just like Natsu does, "You can blame Igneel for that one. He dropped me."
"What!" Lucy's mouth hangs open in shock, making Tawna laugh.
"Thank goodness Ceto caught me." She smiles softly.
"Ceto?" Lucy questions, "Is that your dragon?"
"Yeah, she's Igneel's mate," Tawna smiles.
"They're water and fire, complete opposites." Lucy smiles a bit, "It's kind of cute."
"Yeah, of what I can remember they were complete opposites, but you could tell they loved each other very much." She smiles, "Like they say opposites attract."
"Do you remember very much about them?" Lucy asks. She has only heard a few things about Igneel.
"I was pretty little, Natsu remembers more than I do." Tawna shrugs it off. Lucy can tell the little dragon wished she remembered her and Natsu's parent figures.
Lucy lets Tawna take a bath first, when she comes out she is changed into shorts and a tank top and her hair complexly dry and wavy. 'she must have used her magic to dry her hair," Lucy thought.
"I didn't know you had wavy hair." Lucy says smiling to the twelve-year-old. Her hair is normally straight with the ends of it reaching around her shoulders just above her pale blue guild mark on her left shoulder blade, but instead it falls in pink waves.
"Yeah, I have a magical brush that straightens it, because it's a pain to deal with, but I forgot it at home so I'll deal with it wavy." She blushes.
"I like it," Lucy smiles gathering her clothes for the bathroom, "You never know you may learn to love it." Lucy says disappearing into the bathroom to wash the long stressful day away. She comes out after a quick bath to Katawna fast asleep on her couch with Happy sleeping on the arm rest. Lucy smiles and drapes a spare blanket over the dragon slayer and crawls into bed herself.
"Who knew fresh air smelled so sweet!" Natsu yells running around the guild, "I'm gonna breath it in all …"
"You idiot!" Tawna shouts running and kicking him in the stomach, knocking him to the ground.
"Owwww, What the hell Katawna!" Natsu yells standing looking down to his angry little sister.
"Don't 'what the hell' me! You just had to go and make trouble didn't you." Tawna glares moving her wavy hair from her face.
"I didn't make trouble!" He presses his forehead against hers.
"You were in prison Lava Brain! Obviously you caused some kind of trouble!" Tawna shoves him causing a bigger quarrel between the two Dragneels.
"I can't believe that trial was all for show." Lucy sighs with her head pressed against the table.
"So she wasn't a sacrificial lamb, but an escape goat." Gray says smirking.
"You're one hell of an Ice wizard, cause even your jokes leave me cold," Elfman sighs.
"Will you two stop," Lucy says looking over to the siblings. Tawna's hands are glowing brighter blue as she yells at Natsu.
"Simmer down Katawna," Gramps says calmly from the bar. Tawna sighs as her hands stop glowing and she crosses her arms in front of her chest.
"Hey Natsu!" Elfman shouts, "Are you gonna finish going man to man with Erza?"
"Oh yeah," Natsu smirks, "Come on Erza lets pick up where we left off!"
"I'm not in the mood right now," Erza glares. Natsu's hand is consumed by fire as he charges at the scarlet mage.
"I'm not letting you off the hook this time!"
"I swear," Erza sighs and punches him the stomach knocking him to the ground. Tawna, Elfman, and Gray all bust out laughing as Natsu moans lifeless on the floor for the hall.
"Way to go champ!" Gray laughs.
"Guess we know who the real man is." Elfman says through his laughter.
Mira giggles at the scene and then glances to Master.
"Master are you alright?" She asks.
"I'm fine, just sleepy," Gramps glances up, "He's coming." Slowly everyone in the guild begin to fall to sleeping spell consuming the guild. A cloaked figure enters the guild maneuvering around the sleeping bodies through to the request board.
"Mystogan," Gramps says through his tired eyes.
"I shall return," Mystogan says getting ready to leave as quick as he came.
"Wait, lift your sleeping spell," The cloaked wizard begins to count down as he leaves the guild reaching one as he is out the doors.
"Was Mystogan was here?" Guild members begin to ask as they wake from their short slumber, all except for Natsu who is still snoring on the floor.
"Mystogan?" Lucy asks.
"He's a contender for Fairy Tail's strongest," Elfman answers rubbing his eyes.
"None of us have ever seen his face," Gray says helping Tawna up,
"Every time he comes her he casts a sleeping spell," Tawna says rubbing her head.
"Gramps is the only one who has gotten a good look at the guy." Gray states glancing to Master.
"That's not true, I've seen him before." A deep voice cuts through the air. He smirks to those below, his hair spiky blonde and a scar cuts through one of his eyes.
"Laxus!" Tawna smiles up to a man on the second floor looking down to them.
"Hey squirt," he smirks then glances to the rest of the guild.
'Talk about rare," Macao says.
"Yeah, he's never here," Wakaba adds.
"Here's another contender for strongest wizard," Gray adds flatly.
"Mystogan is just a little shy," Laxus sneers, "You should all respect his privacy."
"All Right Laxus!" Natsu stands from his sleeping spot on the ground holding up his fist, "You and Me right now!"
"You already got your butt kicked once today, give it a rest." Tawna smiles shaking her head.
"Yeah pal, If you can't even win against the red head you have no chance against me," He smirks, "I'm positive the Squirt would be able to beat you."
"Ha-ha," Tawna crosses her arms and smirks to her brother, making him glare at her.
"What are you trying to say!" Erza shouts standing.
"No need to get worked up Erza," Gray stutters trying to calm the Requip mag down.
"I'm saying that I'm the guilds strongest wizard," Laxus boasts.
"Then come down here and prove it," Natsu glares.
"You come to me little man," Laxus challenges.
"With pleasure!" Natsu goes to run up the second floor. Before he touches the stairs Master has squashed him with his enlarged hand.
"You're not allowed on the second floor Natsu," Gramps states, "At least not yet."
"I think you made him grumpy," Laxus taunts.
"That's enough out of you Laxus," Gramps glares.
"The strongest isn't a chick or some hooded weirdo, you know what he looks like!" He shouts, "You're looking at him!
"Mira, what did aster mean by that we're not allowed on the second floor?" Lucy asks as Mira cleans the bar for the night.
"That is the space reserved for S-Class wizards. The jobs up there make these child's play," She points to the request board, "Master hand chooses the wizards to take on these quests, that includes, Laxus, Mystogan, and Erza."
"S-Class?"
"The jobs are so dangerous that one wrong move could be your last." Mira states, "I wouldn't worry about it, in my opinion no amount of money is worth losing your life over."
"You got that right," Lucy smiles as Tawna comes walking up.
"It's late Tawna what are you still doing here?" Mira asks, "Didn't Natsu and Happy leave a while ago?"
"I'm waiting for Erza to get done speaking to Gramps, we're having a sleepover." Tawna grins then glances to Lucy, "Wanna join us?"
"No thanks, I don't think I'm ready for an Erza level sleepover," Lucy giggles, "I should get going anyways, have a nice night." Lucy says as she waves goodbye to the transformation mage and young dragon slayer for the night.
Next Morning,
Everyone in guild have gathered and are all chatting and eating breakfast. Tawna glances around looking for a sight of Natsu or Lucy who have yet to arrive.
"Master!" Mira runs down from the second floor, "One of the S-Class missions are missing!" Gramps takes a sip from his mug then spits out its contents.
"What!" He shouts.
