Hey guys its rambles here, bringing you the next chapter of An alternate dragon slayer! Its time for the Phantom lord arc! Before we begin the story, I have a couple of questions regarding the next arc:
1) Should I do the tower of heaven?
2) If I do, who should be the main villian be, one of the tower residants or a new character?
Anyway enough of me rambling lets get on with the story!
Natsu sat, gazing over the village as the others rested. It had been a long day, with fighting Lyon and his cult, to defeating Deliora. It was a day no one would forget. But unlike the others, Natsu couldn't relax, because two questions bugged him.
One, what was that power he'd unleashed against Deliora?
Two, why had Ur lost her memories?
Natsu looked at his hand as he remembered how… natural the power that had flown through him had felt. It had made him feel like he was a dragon, one of the most legendary creatures in mythology. But how was that possible? Dragons hadn't been seen in centuries, There's a reason for that A voice told him 'Oh really? And what would that reason be?' Natsu questioned, and like always, the voice never answered. Natsu wondered why it was like that, that feminine voice would say something to him, but never respond if he questioned it.
Then he thought about Ur, he'd been so glad to see her alive that he'd forgotten what Lyon had said to him when they'd fought "I've melted so much of that Ice even if you could revive her she'd never be the same woman!" Maybe that was why Ur had no memories, thankfully it was only her memories that she'd lost.
"Salamander" A sultry voice said. Natsu looked up to see Ultear stood in front of him "Yes Ultear?" Natsu said, not really in the mood to deal with the time mages antics, "You should be careful Natsu, there's a war coming and one day you'll have to decide where it is you truly stand" She said before she gave him one last smile and walked away. Natsu sighed, Ultear always seemed to speak in riddles.
Giving one last sigh Natsu returned to the village where the others were enjoying the celebration that the villagers were throwing them. Natsu looked up to see that despite defeating Deliora, the moon was still purple. "Well, guess I'd better go sort that out" Natsu said as he avoided the village and walked out into a clearing, staring up at the moon. He tried to call upon the magic he'd used when he'd fought Deliora, but he couldn't. Sighing Natsu held his hand out and a large red scythe appeared in his hand, blue flames dripped from it as Natsu stabbed the blade into the ground, before pointing it up into the sky, towards the moon. He gripped the trigger on the base of the handle and pulled it, a loud bang echoed across the clearing as he fired three shots, sending 3 large bullets of flame into the sky.
The others were drawn to the clearing by the noise and arrived just as the shots struck something in the sky, cracks began to appear before the sky seemed to shatter, revealing the moon as it was supposed to be. "Done" Natsu said as he returned the scythe and walked over to the chief "Fixed the moon for ya" He said. "What did you do?" Erza asked "When Lyon and his bunch used the moon drip it created this kind of… dome across the island, and doing so affected the memories of the villagers here, making them think they were demons" Natsu said as he put his hands in his pockets and walked away "So they were demons this whole time?" Lucy asked. "Yup" Natsu said as they returned to the village
"No we can party" Natsu said as he joined in with the celebrations. As he joked about with the villagers Ur watched him "Pink hair" She said, hoping that somewhere in the darkness that was her memories, she had seen the man with the pink hair before, because he seemed to know her, had they met before? Ur couldn't remember.
Making up her mind Ur walked over to Natsu "You" She said quietly "Yes Ur?" Natsu asked "Would you fight me?" Ur asked as Natsu laughed, Ur had been given clothes by the villagers but she still wore the black jacket he'd given her when he'd thawed her out, currently she was wearing the jacket with a blue shirt underneath and a pair of dark purple trousers. "Sure thing" He said as they walked to the clearing outside of the village.
The two faced off as the others gathered around. It would be interesting to see how Ur fought, as only Gray and Lyon knew, and Lyon had left the island with Toby and Yuka. Sherry had been adamant that she wouldn't leave the Fairy Tail wizards, because the pinkette felt a strange stirring in her heart whenever she looked at Natsu. Natsu smirked as he saw the Fairy Tail wizards and villagers crowd around them.
"Seems we've gathered quite a crowd" Natsu said as he held his hand out and a long staff appeared in his hand, So he uses requip magic Ur thought, But why do his weapons appear in a burst of flames? She thought as she readied herself.
"Are you both ready?" Jellal asked as the two wizards assumes there stances, Ur took up the traditional stance for Ice-make magic, and Natsu stood with his feet apart and his staff held slightly behind his back. "Begin!" Jellal shouted as the two rushed each other.
"Ice-make: Rose garden!" Ur shouted as she launched several roses made of ice towards Natsu, who grinned as he spun his staff rapidly, creating a vortex of flames which engulfed the ice roses.
"Ice make: Spinning Lily!" Ur shouted as she appeared above Natsu once the torrent of flames ended. Natsu looked up to see Ur riding atop a lilypad made of ice as it spun at him. Ur lept off as it got close to Natsu. "Smart move, yet pretty predictable!" Natsu said as he gathered flames at the end of the staff and dodged out of the way, slamming the flaming end of the staff into the lilypad as it struck the ground where he was once stood.
"Considering you've been ice for however many years, your actually a pretty good fighter" Natsu said as he watched Ur land. "But now its my turn" Natsu said as he rushed the ice-make wizard. Ur panicked as she crossed her arms in front of her "Ice make: Shield!" She shouted as the ice shield sprung up in front of her.
Natsu drove his staff into the shield as he lept up over it, smirking down at Ur he suddenly punched his fist forward, his gauntlets appearing on his wrists as he did, causing a single shot to fire off at Ur, who lept back as she took her stance "Ice make: Claymore shears!" Ur shouted as she created a large pair of shears made of ice, before launching them at Natsu, who used his gauntlets to blast himself out of the way, shattering the shears in the process.
Natsu and Ur studied each other before Natsu spun his staff again, having called it back to his hand. "Fire storm!" Natsu shouted as he spun his staff, sending several blasts of fire up into the sky. Natsu then fired off several shots with his gauntlets as the barrage rained down on Ur, making the purple haired woman cry out in pain.
When the smoke cleared Ur was down on one knee, panting. Burn marks covered her body as Natsu walked over to her, a green flame in hand as he crouched down next to Ur "You okay?" he asked as the green flame enveloped Ur, healing all her wounds. "Your stronger than I thought you'd be" Ur said as she was struck with a weird sense of Deja Vu. "Have we met before?" Ur asked as she tried to search her memories, being only able to remember what had happened a couple of days before she'd frozen herself. Natsu stilled for a moment "We have, but not properly. I saved your life once, but it wasn't enough to stop you from having to cast iced shell" Natsu said as the guilt rushed back to him. He never wanted to admit he failed, because that meant that he'd been unable to save someones life, and that hit Natsu hard. As Natsu finished speaking a memory flash hit Ur.
Pink hair.
She hugged Natsu, snapping him out of his thoughts as she wanted to know more.
Once ur had been healed they went back to the village, where they collected the reward (Even though Jellal and Erza said they shouldn't) And prepared to leave. "Where is your ship?" Sherry asked as they stood on the beach "We didn't use a ship" Natsu said as he pulled out the shadow door lacrima he'd been given. Placing it against a large boulder he lit a small fire in his hand and channelled magic into the crystal "Hargeon" Natsu said and the crystal shattered, a large shadow door opening in front of them. Natsu and the others walked through and once the last of them had walked out the other side, the door closed behind them.
They arrived in the port town of Hargeon, it was late at night and they were all tired, so they decided to check into the local hotel and return to Fairy Tail the next day.
Soon enough they were returning to Magnolia, but instead of the usual cheers the mages got from the townsfolk, all they heard where hushed whispers. "Fairy Tail wizards" Said one voice "Do they not know?" Said another "Probably not, considering their smiling" Said the first.
Natsu wanted to ask the people of Magnolia what they were whispering about, but thought nothing of it until the guildhall came into view.
Everyone gasped as Natsu's vision went red.
Instead of being the usual guild hall, iron pillars stuck out of the guildhall at random angles.
Natsu clenched his fists so tight he drew blood, but he didn't care, someone had destroyed the home that he held dear. There was going to be blood for this, that was for sure, no one noticed as Natsu's hair turned a deep maroon for a moment, before Natsu clutched his left eye. Lucy looked over, seeing Natsu gripping his eye made her worried, but Natsu just stopped and his hair turned back to normal. Natsu glared up at the iron poles sticking out of the Guild hall. "Who did this?" Gray asked as they all stared in shock.
"It was phantom lord" Lisanna said as she walked over to them "Phantom Lord?" Milliana asked "They're another guild" Lucy said, thinking back to the countless issues of sorcerer weekly she'd read about them "They were another candidate for top wizard guild, but lost to Fairy Tail" She added. Lisanna nodded "As you can imagine they weren't happy about being second best, but they've never done anything like this before" She added. "Was anyone hurt?" Erza asked.
Lisanna shook her head "They attacked in the middle of the night, after everyone had gone home" She said, Ur looked confused "If they wanted to attack you, why wait till everyone had gone home?" She asked. Lisanna just shook her head "I don't know but we've moved down into the basement, at least till we can repair the guildhall."
Lisanna led them down into the basement, where the members of the guild were sat, all drinking and feeling rather glum. Sherry and Ur took in the sombre mood "Your not always like are you?" Sherry asked "No" Natsu said "Usually you'd have to dodge flying furniture when you walk in, for it to be this bad the attack must have been serious" Milliana said.
They walked over to where Makerov was sat, a mug of beer in one hand and a homicidal Mirajane in the other. The she demon was spewing death threats like no tomorrow, constantly struggling to escape the enlarged hand that restrained her. Erza almost laughed if she wasn't thinking similar thoughts as Mirajane. "When do we go pay Phantom a visit?" Natsu asked as he sat down near Makerov "Never" Makerov said as he continued to drink his beer.
"What do you mean never?" Jellal exclaimed as Natsu clenched his fist. "Phantom attacked the guild hall to get a rise out of us, but I have no concern about a guild that attempts to start a war by wrecking an empty guild hall, its not even worth giving them the time of day" He explained. While Natsu could understand Makerov's reasoning, he wanted to go out and pound Phantom lord into the dust. Many others shared his feelings.
"Moving on, who do we have here?" Makerov asked as he looked at Ur and Sherry. His eyes taking in their attractive figures. "My name is Ur Milkovich" Ur said, mumers flooded through the guild hall as they heard Ur's name "Isn't she supposed to be as strong as one of the 10 wizard saints?" Alzack asked "What brings you to my guild Mrs Milkovich?" Makerov asked "I'd like to join Fairy Tail" Ur said, as Sherry spoke quietly "I wish to also join" She said. Soon enough the two of them had received their guild marks and they spent the rest of the day wondering what to do about Phantom lord. Natsu and a few others wanted to go and hunt down Phantom for what they did. Others understood the reason Master Makerov had given as to why they shouldn't and some were just indecisive about the whole matter.
That night Natsu got up to go home, when Ur and Sherry approached him "Natsu is it?" Ur asked, still not quite knowing everyones names despite having been introduced "Yeah" Natsu said as he turned to face them, flashing his signature grin "We need a place to stay, since you brought us here, maybe we could stay with you?" Sherry asked "Only for a couple of nights! We just don't have anywhere!" Sherry stammered.
Natsu grinned "Yeah thats fine, the two of you will have to share a bed but sure" He said and the trio headed towards Natsu's house.
As they were walking along Natsu suddenly tensed "Get down!" He shouted as he pushed Ur and Sherry down, just as a pillar of iron passed over their heads.
"Gi-he" A rough voice said as a figure emerged from the shadows "Your fast little fairy" He said as he studied Natsu. Natsu glared at Gajeel as his gauntlets appeared on his wrists and feet "Get back you two" He said as the two studied each other, each one trying to work out whether or not they'd be a challenge. The man across from Natsu then laughed as he launched his arm forward, it morphed into an iron pillar as Natsu fired several shots, deflecting the pillar.
The man jumped back "It seems your more trouble than your worth, don't worry fairy scum, you'll fall like the rest. Just not tonight" He said as he slunk back into the shadows "get back here you!" Natsu shouted as he fired off another shot.
But it hit nothing.
Natsu glared at the spot for a moment before turning away, his gauntlets vanishing before he walked away, Ur and Sherry following him.
They soon reached Natsu's house, a small run down shack near the edge of Magnolia, it wasn't much, but it was home for Natsu. "Here we are" Natsu said as they arrived. He lead them inside and soon turned on the lights, revealing the layer of dust that had settled around the building "Sorry about the mess, haven't had a proper chance to tidy up yet" Natsu said as he showed them to a single bedroom with a king sized bed "You two can stay here, I got it for Lisanna whenever she'd stay, I've got a hammock in the main room if you need me. I'll see you two in the morning" Natsu said as he walked back into the main room, unfolding a large white hammock and hanging it up in the corner of the room. He was about to fall asleep when he heard a soft cry. Looking to his left he saw a small fox sat by the hammock, its body was golden and whenever it flicked its tail embers would follow. Natsu smiled at the fox. "Hey buddy" he said and the fox jumped into the hammock with him. Soon enough Natsu fell asleep.
The next morning
The next morning Natsu the two girls and the fox, whose name was Kashi, were approaching Fairy Tail when they heard a scream. They quickly ran over towards the scream, which had come from the south gate park. They pushed through the gathered crowd and Natsu froze at what he saw.
Makerov, Erza Lucy Milliana and Gray were gathered around the tree, but it was what was attached to the tree that made Natsu see red.
Levy, Jet and Droy were all bolted to the tree, with a strange mark painted on Levy's stomach in black. Makerov clenched his staff so hard that the wooden object shattered. Natsu walked forward, unable to contain the rage he ripped the bolts from the tree, laying the three wizards gently down on the ground. "Phantom Lord" He said under his breath.
"I could tolerate them destroying my guild" Makerov said as his magic began to gather around him "But harming my children will never be forgiven!" He shouted
"If it's a war Jose wants. It's a war he'll get!"
