Captured and Changed Chapter 9: One Less Problem, a fairy tail fanfic

This is chapter 9.

I hope you liked the last chapter, but I realized that some explanations are in order.

First, Brain did not know that dragon slayer's magic could free Stardust, how the spirits knew will be further explained in the story.

Second, the reason that dragon slayer magic worked, I took this idea from the Edolas arc, the collar was held shut with a mechanical lock held in place by a lacrima, and a dragon slayer's magic would destroy the lacrima.

I would like to thank TeenTitanzzLuva, for helping me out with my writer's block.

I am sorry I haven't updated, but between school, being sick, computer troubles, and writer's block, I couldn't write until now. I also got hooked on a new anime, so I might take a while from now on to update.

I hope you enjoy this, as it takes a lot of thought. I also want to say thanks to all of my reviewers, you really make me feel like writing these ideas down, instead of ignoring them.

Also, if you read my other story, Dragons blood, I will not update it until this story is finished, besides, I have no idea where to go with that story next, so I need ideas.

This chapter goes until Erza is healed

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, or any of the characters.

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Stardust pulled back just as quickly as she had when she had started to kiss Natsu, a blush spreading across her face. Natsu wore an expression of confusion and happiness. Natsu was confused because he had never kissed anyone before, and he wondered why the kiss had been so enjoyable, as he thought he wouldn't have enjoyed it if it had not been Stardust kissing him.

Stardust didn't know what to think, she hadn't even known what she was doing until she was already kissing Natsu, and she was nervous as to his reaction, as, unlike Natsu, she knew why she had enjoyed the kiss, and why she had done it; she loved him, but she didn't know how he felt about her, and she didn't want a friendship ruined before it had even begun. "I'm sorry," she said "I just felt so happy at being freed, that I just had to do that. Your also the only one who has ever treated me kindly who was not a spirit since I was captured."

"Don't worry," said Natsu, looking at her, still with the confused, happy look. "i understand. I think I can understand why you are so happy. Now I have to save Wendy and get out of here, you should come with us, in case that guy with the white hair gets up." then he walked over to Wendy, who had passed out from the magical draining her healing magic had cost. Happy, who was busy trying to wake Wendy, had not heard the conversation, nor seen the two kiss. He grabbed Wendy's shoulder, gently shaking her to try and wake her.

Wendy's eyes slowly opened to see Natsu standing over her, his hand on her shoulder, gently shaking her to try to wake her up. She smiled happily, saying in a quiet, tired out voice, "Natsu, you came to save me." She looked over his shoulder, to see Stardust, without a collar, looking at her worriedly. She smiled again, glad that Natsu had freed her, instead of killing her.

"Come on" said Natsu "we have to get out of here now, Erza needs you, she's dying, and only your magic can save her." he helped her up, getting her on her feet, but as soon as she stood, she collapsed and couldn't get up.

"I'll carry her." offered Stardust, eager to be of some help to the man who had saved her life.

"Ok, but please, let's hurry and get out of here, before that 'Brain' guy wakes up." Natsu said. "Happy, can you fly us out?" he asked.

"Sorry Natsu, but I can only carry one person." said Happy

"I can help with that." said Stardust, pulling out a silver key from her ring of keys. "Gate of the Paradise Bird, I open thee; Apus!" A large bird appeared, it's wingspan measured the width of the cave, and the multicolored feathers were very distracting. "Apus, could you fly us where he asks you to go?" she asked, pointing towards Natsu. The bird nodded, and they left the cave.

Grey looked at the man in front of him, panting for breath. He had been fighting hard to defeat Racer, but no matter how fast he was, or how many spells he cast, he could not win. He just kept taking hit after hit from the man. He took a deep breath so he could reign in his racing thoughts. "Ice Make Floor!" he shouted, palms flat on the floor even as he was hit hard in the side. Racer slipped and ran strait into a tree.

Racer got up slowly and stared at Grey with a look of pure hatred that seemed to burn his soul. "That's three times that you have stopped me now," he said "I can't have my name trashed, so I am going to have to kill you." Grey looked at him, wondering both if he had made a mistake, and if he would survive. "Dead Grand Prix, Begin!" Grey looked around as Racer yelled, wondering what he had meant. He could hear a faint roaring, like an engine or a massive bee, and suddenly twenty green magical motorcycles burst from the trees, slamming into him. He looked back to see Racer on another motorcycle, only this one was a deep crimson. "These motorcycles were designed to keep up with my incredible speed." he said. Grey quickly looked around and grabbed one of the motorbikes as it rushed forward to slam into him, quickly getting the SE plug on his arm and sitting down on the seat. "You want to challenge me to a race?" Racer queried, looking as though he were going to bust out laughing at the mere thought.

Grey looked furious, more angry than he had ever been. "I don't bother with rules, so you'd better be ready." he stated in a firm voice "Let's go!" As they raced along, Grey tried to target Racer's motorbike, but could not hit it. In retaliation, Racer used his magic to summon many tires going at high speeds to try and slam into Grey's motorbike. Grey barely dodged the tires, following closely behind Racer. He thought he saw a glimpse through the leaves of a large bird with Natsu on board, as well as Happy, Wendy, and a girl he didn't recognize, but he was too busy to notice much. They raced dodging through the trees, and when Grey pulled up alongside Racer, Racer kicked Grey's bike very quickly many times until he pulled back enough that he could not be kicked. They came to a fallen, hollowed out tree with a width so far around that they could ride side by side through it with there bikes far apart enough that they couldn't touch each other. As they rode out the other end, Grey looked ahead and saw Leon and Sherry, and, guessing they had gotten separated from Jura, shouted out there names.

He stopped in front of them in time to hear Leon's shocked exclamation of "Grey!"

"Great timing, get on." Grey said.

"Why?" asked Leon. "And where's Wendy?"

"Just get on!" yelled Grey "Wendy is safe with Natsu! I need you to get that guy, it's a pain to use magic and drive at the same time."

"Oh! Is that all you need, then just sit back and let me show you how a real mage does it." Leon said. "Ice Make Eagle!" Twenty eagles made of ice slammed into Racer's motorbike, destroying it in an instant. Racer jumped from his bike right before it was destroyed, and smashed their bike. Leon and Grey also jumped, landing on their feet, and yelled "ICE MAKE..."

"GORILLA!" yelled Leon, a giant gorilla made of ice slamming it's fist down right behind Racer.

"HAMMER!" yelled Grey, a Giant ice hammer blocking Racer's way ahead.

They both had narrowly missed him. They continued to strike at him, but none of their attacks could land a hit on him, but then, Leon saw something out of the corner of his eye. As he tried to comprehend what he saw, both he and Grey were sent flying by Racer. When they got up, Leon turned to Grey, and said in a loud, carrying voice "I think I have found his weakness." then he whispered something into Grey's ear, and then he said In another loud, carrying voice "So I don't need you." and with that, he froze a pillar of ice around Grey, and then built the pillar up until it was 30 ft above the trees, with Grey at the top.

Racer charged Leon, only to see him turn and run, heading towards the treeline and the cliff. As Racer was about to strike, Leon yelled "Ice Make Hedgehog!", and a bunch of spikes of ice shot out from his back to skewer anything unlucky to be within six feet of him, which very nearly included Racer, but he managed to not get skewered. "What's wrong?" taunted Leon "use that speed you're so proud of and come and get me." He was immediately struck from the front by Racer, though he hadn't seen the man get around in front of him, much less hit him. The punch shattered the ice spikes, but Leon kept on running. Five feet from the edge of the cliff, and twenty beyond the edge of the trees, he was knocked down.

"You say I don't have the power." said Racer, standing on top of Leon "I haven't even used my full power yet."

"I knew it." said Leon. Racer gave him a quizzical look. "Your magic doesn't speed you up, it slows down others perception in a large radius around you, and once someone is out of that radius, your speed is stolen away." At that moment, an arrow made of ice slammed into Racer, throwing him off his feet and nearly off the cliff.

Both Hibiki and Charle looked around at the sound of beating wings, only to see Natsu, Happy, and Wendy, as well as a girl that neither of them recognized, riding a giant, multicolored bird. When the bird landed, Natsu immediately jumped off, and ran over to Erza, asking "Is she still OK?"

"She is OK for now, but Wendy needs to heal her son or she will die." said Hibiki "By the way Natsu, who is this other girl?"

"Not right now Hibiki, I will answer after Erza is healed." said Natsu. He turned to Wendy "can you please heal Erza, she has been poisoned and is dying?"

She nodded and got to work.

and so ends chapter 9

Thanks again to TeenTitanzzLuva for her help with this story, or I would most likely not be done for a week longer, and it wouldn't have ended up the same.

I am really sorry this took so long.

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