I don't own Fairy Tail. I don't own the characters. I just write about them.
Ok, so this is a slightly shorter chapter... I didn't have a lot of time to write this weekend, with a big party on Friday night... and Saturday... And... well, you get the picture.
So anyway, here's what I put down when I did have time to write. Hope you enjoy it.
"When will Juvia get to marry her Gray-sama?" Juvia sat across the table from Gray, her eyes sparkling.
"Just as soon as her Gray-sama hits puberty," Lucy said under her breath to Laki, who burst out laughing.
"What's so funny? Gray rounded on their table.
"Nothing!" Lucy and Laki both said quickly.
Just then the doors opened, and Yukino came into the guild. "Hi Yukino!" Lucy said. "What brings you to Fairy Tail?"
"I was just on my way back from a quest, and I thought I'd stop in to congratulate Natsu-sama and Mirajane." Yukino said, a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Oh – well, they're out on a quest right now." Lucy said. "But how are you? I haven't seen you in forever!"
"I'm doing well," she said, coming to sit by Lucy. Her smile remained, but her eyes were a little sad.
"What's wrong?" The blonde mage asked.
"To be honest… I'm a little jealous…" Yukino said. "I mean, I guess I thought Natsu and I had a special connection ever since that day…"
"Oh really?" Erza was suddenly sitting next to them.
"Umm… yeah," Yukino blushed. "I was hoping to be the one to marry Natsu-sama… so when I heard he and Mirajane were married, well… I guess I took it really hard…"
Erza looked at her with a sad, serious face. "There's something you should know… Let's talk about it outside…"
"Umm… Ok Erza." The celestial spirit mage replied. And the two headed out for their conversation.
~In the mountainous region north of Sabertooth~
"Come on out, dark guild guys!" Natsu yelled.
"That's not going to do any good," Mirajane said. "You're just letting them know where not to go."
"But I'm tired of searching on foot!" The dragon slayer said. "If they're so strong, what're they afraid of anyway?"
"Good question," Mira smirked. "We are only two wizards, after all."
Just then an enormous iron weight, almost 200 feet around, dropped on top of them. Natsu heard the iron make magic just in time to pop into fire dragon king mode. Then the weight descended.
"Afraid of what?" Said a tall, green haired man, clothed in a flashy metal outfit. "A couple weak mages?"
As he turned around, he suddenly became aware of enormous heat pressure. He looked back, and saw that the entire center of the weight had melted away, leaving the two unharmed in the middle.
"Roar of the Fire Dragon King!" Natsu bellowed, shooting a devastating cone of fire at the mage.
"Iron Make: Shield!" A huge block of iron appeared in front of the mage, who then had to jump aside as a good portion of the attack made it through after demolishing the shield.
"Satan Soul: Helphas!" Mirajane transformed, moving to his position in the blink of an eye and blasting him with dark magic. The attack caused some damage, but the mage struck back with an iron sword that clipped her shoulder.
"Secret Technique: Crimson Lotus Exploding Flame Blade!" Natsu hit the mage at full power, knocking him back several yards and into the side of a mountain.
The two mages watched, waiting to see if the fight was over. It took a few minutes, but the other mage eventually got up.
"What's the matter Jan? Looks like you're having trouble…" Another voice said.
"They're both pretty powerful. You take the female. I'll take the pink-haired guy."
As the Iron Make mage turned his attention back to Natsu, Mira squared off against the newcomer, a tall man with jet black hair that came down to his waist.
"You think you can take me by yourself?" Mira said, smirking.
"Of course. You're a demon," the man replied. "And who better to defeat a demon than an angel… Angel soul: Raphael!"
"Shit." Mira instantly transformed to Sitri as the man's appearance changed. His hair became flowing and golden, his eyes a bright red. His clothes armor of pure white with golden trim, and he held a sword of fire in his hand.
In a flash he was on her, and she was barely able to dodge the holy explosion created by his blade. She quickly retaliated with a blast of dark energy, which the mage easily dodged. He pointed his sword at her, and she was surrounded by light.
She quickly got a shield of dark energy up around her, which absorbed most of the blast. She still took some damage. This guy's got some serious power. She moved as fast as she could, coming up behind her opponent. She put as much as she could into a blast of dark power at point-blank range.
When the explosion cleared, there was a crater the size of a small city in the ground, and mountains around them were crumbling. Her opponent was still standing at the center, looking a bit bruised.
"So this is the power of a demon prince?" The mage held up his sword at the ready. "I'm disappointed…"
Before Mirajane could react, his sword hit her, enveloping her body in a holy blast before she could fully put up her defenses. She cried out with pain as her body was thrown backwards, but the mage didn't let up. He came on again, his sword arcing in a dozen attacks in the blink of an eye. Mira tried to block all of them, but he was too fast. Several of the shots hit her, causing a lot of damage. She was blown back several yards, hitting the ground hard.
"And now you die!"
~Not far away~
"Iron Make: Serpent Colossus!"
An iron serpent the size of a mountain rose up from the ground in an instant, striking hard and fast at the dragon slayer. Natsu jumped out of the way.
"Roar of the Fire Dragon King!" The serpent exploded into a shower of superheated iron. Natsu promptly gobbled up the large bits that came his way.
"Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" The other mage dodged the attack, erecting a huge iron shield to absorb some of the blast.
"Iron Make: Dragon!" An iron dragon sprang up out of the earth, high into the sky.
"Roar of the Fire Dragon!" The attack hit the mage with full force, knocking him back several feet.
Suddenly the dragon came down from the sky at the speed of a meteorite. Natsu jumped out of the way just in time to avoid the brunt of the attack, though the shockwaves knocked him head over heels a hundred meters.
"I'm surprised you managed to dodge that, but still… how many times can you do that?" The iron dragon rose back up into the sky.
Natsu looked up. "Roar of the Fire Dragon King!"
~Not far away~
"Take Over: Mirajane Seilah: Etherious form!"
The other mage jumped back, surprised, as his blade was blocked. As Mirajane rose in Seilah's etherious form, chunks of molten iron began raining from the sky.
"What is this power? Has she summoned hell itself to this battle?" The other mage was so shocked that he let his guard down, just long enough for the etherious's claws to get a full-power strike on him. Mira didn't let up, battering him with a barrage of dark magic, By the time the last of the molten iron had rained down from the sky, Mira had expended her magic power, but her opponent was down for the count.
~In the midst of the other battle~
"How?!" The Iron Make mage gaped as the molten metal rained down on them.
"Never send a dragon to take out a dragon slayer… Fire Dragon King Mode!"
"Fire Dragon King's Demolition Punch!"
"Iron Make: Mountainous Shield!"
The mage wasn't fast enough. Even as his shield went up, the force and heat melted right through it and drove him into the ground, creating an enormous crater and demolishing the entire mountain on which they were fighting.
With his opponent down, Natsu looked over at Mirajane, who had returned to her human form, looking quite beat-up.
"Mira!" He exclaimed, rushing over to her. "Are you alright?"
She just smiled at him. "I'm fine Natsu… My magic energy's expended, though…"
"That's alright," Natsu grinned. "These were the strongest in the guild for sure. You cuff 'em while I go clean up the rest."
~Later~
As the two were coming back to Sabertooth, after dropping off the dark guild members in town, Yukino came running out to meet them.
"Natsu-sama!" She cried, completely ignoring Mirajane. She dove for the dragon slayer, and captured his lips in a passionate kiss.
*Smack* Mira's handed left a huge red imprint on the celestial spirit mage's cheek. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
"Breaking your Macro curse power," Yukino said, glaring at her.
Mira blinked, taken aback. "My what?"
"Don't act so innocent… Erza told me all about it. You have Natsu under some demonic curse power that makes him do whatever you want… including be "in love" with you. But she also knew how to break the power of your demon curse: a kiss from the woman who truly holds his heart."
"Which means you should be free now, Natsu-sama!" She said, offering the dragon slayer a blushing smile. "I'm so glad that Erza knew how you really felt…"
Natsu sweat-dropped. "Umm… I'm sorry Yukino, but Erza lied to you… I'm not under the power of any curse… Mira is the woman I'm in love with."
"But… But…" Tears filled Yukino's eyes, and she blushed deeply, hurrying back to the guild.
Natsu's eyes were hard as he looked down at Mira. "I know you and Erza have a rivalry, but Erza's taken this too far this time..."
Mira nodded in agreement, feeling sorry for the poor girl despite having just watched her kiss her husband.
~Later at Sabertooth~
Yukino bowed to the couple.
"I'm really very sorry for what happened earlier..."
"We forgive you," Mira spoke for the two of them this time. Then, to master Sting. "We're very sorry that one of our own behaved this way. I knew Erza was jealous, but I never expected her to take things this far just to try to get to me..."
Sting sighed. "I guess Erza's just as scary in jealous revenge as in combat..."
Mira and Natsu sweat-dropped.
"Hey Sting," Natsu said. "It's almost dark out. Mind if we crash here for the night?"
"Make yourselves at home..." Sting said.
Then, after a couple minutes of thought, he added. "Take the room farthest down the right hall... You shouldn't disturb anyone there."
Mirajane just giggled.
