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Chapter 7: A Force to be Reckoned with
Lucy, that was the single thought that went through the minds of all the guild members. But let's take a few steps back
. . .
Lucy and Aria walked into the guild's back door after getting things settled at Fairy Hills. Lucy froze at the sight before her, Team Natsu had just walked in and neither of her children were wearing their cloaks. It was a good thing that I talked to Cancer about changing their scent temporarily, Lucy sighed.
Lucy, Aria, and Master watched from the second floor as Sakura and Ryuu guessed which member of Team Natsu was which. However Lucy sensed a large amount of magic pressure that could only be Gildarts, move into her range of senses.
Lucy glanced over at Aria and Master and connected to them telepathically. Gildarts is coming, I'm going to collect my kids before things start getting out of hand, Aria you should be careful, if he senses your magical pressure chances are he'll challenge you to a fight. And we both know that that would not end well. Master nodded in agreement, seeing as he was insightful and probably knew about how powerful Aria was, Lucy did not question why he agreed.
Lucy felt Aria place another veil on her magic and follow her down the steps unnoticed. Lucy pulled up the hood of her cloak and covered her presence. She weaved past the guild members, noticing that Aria had stopped at the foot of the stairs. Lucy heard the voices of her children and determined that they were asking Erza why her aura wasn't as strong as their mother's. When Lucy reached her children, they had already noticed her approach, she leaned down and laid a hand on their heads.
"Now don't be rude to her," Lucy said sweetly, ruffling the hair of her twins. Lucy felt the gaze of people from all directions. She stood up straight to face Team Natsu and let her hood fall back.
"Lucy . . ." the older guild members begin to murmur.
"Sorry mama, but you always said that your former guild member Erza had a strong aura when she was mad, but it feels nothing like yours," Sakura answered her mother as she ignored the murmurs of those around her. She dumbfounded the guild when she called Lucy 'mama.'
"Lucy!" Happy cried, pouncing on Lucy only to be followed by Erza, who still had her armor on. Lucy, luckily, saw this coming and used her magic to soften the 'loving hug' of her old friend.
"Don't ever leave like that again or I swear I'll hunt you to the ends of the earthland," Erza sobbed, and much to Lucy's surprise Erza held her firmly yet softly, as if she was afraid Lucy would run away. Lucy could feel that Happy was now happily rubbing up against her neck. The guild members that Lucy suspected joined in the last few years seemed taken aback that the great and almighty Titania was crying, no sobbing over the return of a girl that they did not know.
"You stole the words from my mouth Erza," Gray protested, ruffling Lucy's hair. Natsu looked at Lucy in shock before speaking up.
"Welcome back Lucy, it's good to have you back," Natsu said joining the group hug. Lucy looked at her former friends as they broke from the hug.
"I know you guys want to talk, but I don't think now is a good time," Lucy says nodding to indicate something outside. The moment she did so, loud bells began to go off and the earth began to shake. Lucy noticed that the newer members were panicking while the others were snapped out of their trance. Master quickly explained what was going on but Lucy ignored him. She was waiting for said figure to appear at the door. By the time Master had finished his explanation Gildarts was entering the guild.
"Didn't take you as long to get here as usual, were you in a hurry Gildarts? I hope you pay back the people whose houses you destroyed," Lucy stated raising an eyebrow at the tall man. Gildarts narrowed his eyes, shifting his gaze between Lucy and Aria.
"Your name is Lucy, right? I was in a hurry because a sensed an oddly strong presence in the guild. But how did you know that I destroyed a few houses? If I remember correctly you were nothing like this five years ago," Gildarts commented. Though it was an odd comment, it did tell Lucy that he had not been in the guild in a long time though.
"I sensed your magical pressure enter the city and spike several times. Plus your magic is loud, thus I could hear when and where the destruction occurred. As to your comment neither you nor I have set foot in this guild in the last five years," Lucy answered, giving her reasoning for knowing of his power. "I am surprised that you remember me though, I wasn't very memorable back then."
"I have a habit of remembering these things, but right now what I 'm interested in is the girl in blue behind you," Gildarts said turning his attention to Aria who was standing next to Master. She had been ignored in the same manner as Yue, Blaze, Flora, and Rina (I didn't forget). "My name is Gildarts, I like your aura, and I challenge you to a fight."
"Hey, fight me first!" Natsu exclaimed, causing Lucy to sweat drop.
Aria blinked before bursting out laughing, this caused her cloak to come undone and fall to the floor. "The name's Ariana and it's nice to meet you too," Aria replied sarcasticly, "but I don't think that fighting would be a good idea, 1 because I have no interest in killing you, and 2 I have no desire to destroy the guild building."
"Why so sure that you'll win, from what I sense, your magic is only slightly higher than mine," Gildarts inquired. Aria sighed; Lucy thought it was probably at his arrogance. Lucy felt her release two of her magic veils and looked up to see Gildarts' expression. Gildarts' eyes had gone wide with shock and his mouth was agape. Though he was not the only , pretty much everyone in the guild was the same even Master, who was muttering "Should have known Lucy's teacher would be stronger then Lucy."
"You see? If we were to fight not only am I higher in magic pressure but in experience as well," Aria said shaking her head. "I have no intention of losing but at the same time I don't want to destroy anything. However Gildarts once you can defeat Lucy without destroying anything I'll consider it, Natsu once you can beat Sakura and Ryuu maybe Lucy will consider fighting you."
Don't you think you're setting your expectations a little high? We both not that if they get serious that neither of them will be able to beat my kids let alone me, Lucy told Aria telepathically.
That may be true but the kids would have fun and I guess you could say it's a test of sorts, Aria replied back, her tone dripping with amusement. Sakura and Ryuu, having not heard the conversation, were giving the puppy eyes to their mother.
Lucy let out a sigh of defeat, "fine," the kids brightened, "but it's going to happen somewhere other than the guild, like Aria said we don't want to destroy the guild. After all I would rather not have to repair anything."
"Yes mama," they agreed.
"Well then let's take it to the back brats," Master yelled, jumping down and letting Natsu kick the door open.
"Mama, can Ryuu and I fight first," Sakura asked her mother excitedly.
"I don't see why not, but don't tell him you-know-what, ok?" Lucy looked the over energetic kids in the eyes. "Also don't forget what Aria and I have told you during training."
"Yes mama we'll be sure to beat the crap out of the bastard, but don't worry, we won't kill him," Ryuu assured his mother, whom was sweat dropping at the . . . poor . . . language and where in the world he learned it.
. . .
So I'm fighting a pair of kids, Lucy's kids. I had better go easy on them, Natsu thought. He saw Lucy whisper something to her kids, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't hear what Lucy was saying.
Natsu looked up at the board that recorded the bets. Currently 95% were betting for him and the other 5% for the twins. However that 5% was occupied by all of Lucy's friends, the S-class mages, Lucy, the new comer, and more importantly Master & Gildarts.
This worried him, after all why would both Master and Gildarts, even Erza, bet against him, it really confused him, but seeing as thinking often fried his brain Natsu decided to stop. He would leave trivial matters aside and concentrate on the battle, after all, how hard could beating a pair of kids be.
The fighters took their positions and Mira, the referee, stepped up to oversee the match.
"Ready . . . FIGHT!" Mira yelled, the moment she did so the two kids took off speeding towards Natsu. Before he knew what happened, the girl, was in front of him and the boy behind him. An emence magic pressure surrounded him and Natsu let hid reflexes kick in. Natsu swung his arm in to hit the pressure in front of him. He lit his hand on fire in the process, but only to have it absorbed by whomever was behind him. An important thought ran through Natsu's head at this point, I'm going to lose if I don't do something.
. . .
Sakura could see that the man had switched to his instincts, and that was going to make, this fight all the more complicated. After all as Aria always said, "a cornered mage fights blind, but don't forget that a cornered cat becomes a lion. What the phrase means is that if you back a mage into a corner their movement will become reckless and predictable. However, if you push too far and aren't prepared, you will lose the upper hand and possibly the battle.
Ryuu I'm going to let loose, I'd rather be prepared when this cat turns feral, Sakura sent a telepathic message to her brother. She leapt back out of the reach of Natsu's flames; Sakura chanted a spell, letting her muscles relax, and her hair begins to glow. Even though the hair is held back by braids, the glow makes it appear as if her head is on fire and her hair ornaments of thread, yarn, and beads only fed the flames. The magic pressure surrounding the four-year-old rose impossible levels as her brother backed away so not to be caught in the crossfire. Sakura launches herself at her confused opponent.
"Wing attack of the fire phoenix!" she cries out as she lets loose her flames. She felt the flames swerve as Natsu attempted to absorb them. However, Sakura knew it was in vain; after all, the flames of a phoenix are not only, but also an extension of the user.
Sakura used the attack to throw Natsu towards her brother, but apparently she missed and . . . threw him into . . . a wall, very hard. Sakura's eyes widened when she saw that she hit the side of the guild.
"AHhh!" Natsu yelled in surprise and pain.
"Opps . . . Mommy, I missed, is the wall ok?" Sakura asked worriedly, turning to look at her mother with pleading eyes. The fiery glow of Sakura began to fade as Sakura had a mini panic attack. Sakura could see her brother rolling on the ground trying to contain his laughter
"No Sakura the wall will be fine I can fix it after my battle so don't worry about it," Lucy said kindly, Sakura looked at the ground, shameful that she could not fix the wall herself.
"Ah . . . the winners are Sakura and Ryuu Heartfilia," Mira hesitantly reported.
Sakura feels a hand on her shoulder and looks up to see her brother, he seemed to be holding back laughter.
"Is that really the first thing you notice," Ryuu asked, the whole guild sweat dropping at the clueless child. "And why so down we won, we beat HIM."
"Huh?" Sakura coked her head feeling question marks appear above her head. "What beat who?"
"Natsu," Ryuu let out a sigh and sweat dropped, "did you really forget that you just punched a hole in his face."
"But the fight is still going on, there's no way that he would fall after such a weak, pathetic, halfhearted attack with no power behind it. Even my punch was weak, I was just changing the direction of his attack so would fly over to you."
Ryuu put his hands on her shoulders and turned her to look at the unconscious form of Natsu. Sakura gasped and went silent blinking for a few seconds.
"Is really so weak to fall under something that weak?" Sakura asked, she understood that she had defeated him but how could her dad be so . . . weak . . . it was hard to believe.
"No, Sakura, I think that you're just too strong dear," Sakura looked up at her mother before realizing that since the match was over it was her mom's turn.
"Ok mommy!" Sakura smiles brightly at her mother, "good luck mommy."
. . .
Gildarts stared in amazement as the four-year-old girl and her twin beat the crap out of Natsu. If the kids are that strongthen just how powerful is their mother. I don't sense very much power from her, but Master gave permission for the fight so I guess I'll just have to trust him.
"Hey, Gildarts, don't hurt the girl, we only just got her back," Gray yells from the stands. Gildarts waves him off with an "okay" gesture. He turns to his opponent.
"Lucy," the blue haired mage yelled, "don't you dare hold back or let him win. And take your limiters off!"
Wait, limiters?" Gildarts thought, he didn't like the sound of that.
"But if I do that then-" Lucy protested.
"No buts!"Aria yelled back.
Lucy let out a sigh and Gildarts saw her let her cloak fall to the ground, this revealed shrine priestess outfit. She then brought her hand to her ear and ripped something off and threw it to the ground.
At that moment an enormous amount of magic pressure began to surround the blonde. Gildarts could only hope that "HE" didn't get hurt.
I think I get why Master allowed it now. This girl, she's stronger than the Master. Oh great, I'm in way over my head.
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