Gamer of Magic
Specterchilypepper: I wouldn't say nerfed, Natsu fighting with only elemental magic is like Mira fighting without using Take Over magic. Of course he is a bit dumber, can't handle the emotions.
Xerzo LotCN: using plain elemental magic, Natsu would be able to beat Nyoko and Gray at best. Using all his magic, it would take Erza, Lexis and Mira fighting together to win. but yeah he will train to get rid of those weaknesses soon. As for talking to Erza, Natsu is unsure if he can. He doesn't know if it will affect his quest to stay disguised but he knows the gamer ability is black and white, so a failure big or small is the same failure.
fahimshahriar871: It's been a while since I've seen that but good idea
AscendedHumanity: yes Natsu does have that capability although, that's why Natsu struggles with fighting Gildarts. If someone can power through rapid fire of ether arrows then Natsu is in trouble.
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"Are… you… serious" the Natsu Golem stated slowly. It clenched it's fist as the right arm's mirage began to lose effect revealing an earthy coloured arm. Hiding the arm behind itself, the golem stepped back to avoid noticeability.
"Princess, I have completed the task" the celestial maid bowed her head.
"Good job Virgo, my plan is definitely going to stop those three" Lucy praised herself.
Virgo blinked "I am not sure about that".
"What!" Lucy yelled.
"Hey Lucy" Happy pointed towards her. "I don't want to be mean but, are you an idiot?"
The golem shook it's head shifting away from the group. 'Minimum magic requirements lowering, form unstable… transferring rune defence magic to original'. Twitching, the golem lost it's Natsu mirage completely, now looking like a moving mannequin. Cracks began to form on the golem before repairs fixed the golem as the mirage reappeared. 'Original meeting magic requirements, form fully recovered'.
(Meanwhile)
Zalty chuckled 'finally, Erza took her sweet time in tying my hands together and gathering her baring'. He used a subtle wind blade to slowly cut the rope that had his hands tied. 'It's been just over an hour since the fight from what I guess, to reach max health it takes just under 3 hours and I'm over a third of the way… not to mention my MP is fully restored'.
"Stop you're laughing, we are nearly at the village where I will be able to deal with you properly" Erza marched, still dragging him.
"Oh is that right" Zalty groaned. 'Okay it's now or never, I can't let Erza led me into the village again… so how to escape' a grin appeared on his face as his hands were cut free from the ropes. 'It's unfortunate Erza that you use armour, against me if you remember… it's your greatest weakness'. Grabbing her free hand then the hand grabbing the hand holding him, Zalty pulled Erza back.
Recoiling in shock, Erza tumbled on her back landing on top of Zalty. "You fiend, how dare y-ack" Erza cut off.
"Got ya" once Erza fell, Zalty grappled his legs around her neck. While he pulled her arms back, trapping the re-quip mage in a choke hold. 'Sorry about this Erza but you need to sleep for a bit'. Erza flailed her legs in an attempt to escape but unable to properly gain a footing on the ground, it failed.
'I can't lose here, not like this' Erza seethed feeling light headed. Crunches and squeaks could be heard as her everyday armour started to bend and crack under the pressure. 'Re-quip Heavens Wheel' Erza changed armour and wiggled, trying to use the new shape to her advantage but the wings of the armour shattered. She gritted her teeth seeing black dots as a sword flew around hitting Zalty on the side but it wasn't enough to move him.
'Nearly there' Zalty thought as Erza's armour disappeared as she returned to her white blouse. 'Any second now' Erza's struggle was nearly gone as the strength in her arms were non-existent but her legs were moving a bit, trying to free her in a failed battle. 'There" he thought and stated simultaneously, grabbing the red head's waist to toss her to the side. As she landed Erza spluttered in a coughing fit, finally getting air again. "It's been an honour Miss Titania but I must take my leave" Zalty floated into the air, quickly making distance between them.
"W-*cough* Wait damn… you" Erza clenched her fists as Zalty stuck out his tongue in response and left in a burst of wind. She coughed a little bit more, rubbing her neck with her bare hand. "Shit… I let my guard down, even though I know it was an S class mission on this island I still was over confident". She stared at the direction where Zalty left "I can't believe he beat me like that, the only one that has beaten me like that is Natsu… he was the only one to use my armour against me, how did that guy know how to beat me like that so quickly when he never fought me in close combat". Erza frowned remembering Natsu's words back when they were teens.
"Erza… no matter what you do, you will never beat me like that… you may have the strongest weapons, the toughest armour but they are only items. Underneath everything you have nothing to be honest, no skills to speak of, you only have the strength that you do because of your items… if you ever want to beat me Erza, look under that armour and discover who you are."
"In the end Natsu, it looks like I haven't grown to challenge you again" Erza sighed. "And I lost because I couldn't lose the armour, if I removed the armour while I still had strength I could've broken out of that choke hold". She shook her head "I guess there's no use thinking about such things now".
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Getting to a far enough distance from Erza, landing in the forest. Natsu removed the tribal mask removing the Zalty persona as well. 'That was close, I doubt Erza would fall for that again… that said I can't believe my elemental magic is that bad, the element take over is far more powerful'. He hummed 'well I suppose usually I mix magic together for a stronger result and intermediate elemental magic is only an uncommon type of magic… so lower stats I guess'.
"Ex-quip" Natsu lost his tribal clothing. In its place Natsu gained baggy black pants and a tight dark blue top. On top of that was a golden colour coat, reaching his shins, decorated with purple flowers and purple fur on the collar. While around his neck was a choker. "I really got to thank her for this coat, it's so comfy… maybe I shouldn't have taken the choker but she did say I looked cute in this".
'Well anyway Erza might come this way so I better move but since she is trying to bring everyone home not knowing I was going on this quest then she may also either go to the village to get answers or the temple where we saw Nyoko's fire a while back… not that it matters, if I approach Erza as myself then I should be able to stop her interfering'. Natsu cracked his shoulder 'But I got to say, this whole thing is pointless, that demon is dead by all means thanks to my gamer ability I know it's not a threat but it should be loot-able… and maybe I could invest more into my Re-quip magic, hardly use it for anything but luggage carrying'.
(In the village)
"Aaaahhhh" Nyoko screamed.
'Oh shit what hap… oh… OH' the golem blinked in a loop while the real Natsu far away chuckled inwardly.
"Who's funny idea was this? We don't have time to be playing jokes on each other" Nyoko yelled from a pitfall Virgo made earlier.
"Don't look at me" Happy shrugged. "It was all Lucy's idea".
"I should've known" Nyoko commented.
"It wasn't meant to be a joke, it was supposed to be a trap" Lucy waved her hands in defence.
The Natsu golem turned its head towards the sky "we have intruders incoming". After the statement everyone stopped chatting and followed his line of sight.
"A giant rat? And it can fly?" Lucy exclaimed jaw dropped.
"Looks like your pitfall is useless Lucy" golem Natsu commented. It tilted its head at the bucket it carried "very heavy duty with traces of magic, it could carry corrosive or molten liquids". Golem Natsu squinted it's eyes looking at the three wizards on top of the rat. 'lvl 51… 53… 49… hardly any threat, apart from Gray that seems injured and possibly Lucy… any one of us would be able to wipe all three of them solo'.
"What is that… jelly?" Lucy wondered out loud a large green drop descended.
"Watch out" Nyoko dived at Lucy tackling the blonde out of the way but the drop never landed.
"It's fine, I have already put in place a multitude of defensive magic around the village" golem Natsu comments. "It took me the whole first day here to write runes all around this village" it walks forward next to Nyoko and Lucy. "I would be disappointed if some weak acid could scratch my defence and I doubt unless they have something equivalent to a Jupiter cannon, they have no chance of breaking this defence". The villagers and Lucy braced themselves as the rat dropped all the jelly only for a dome to appear around the village, letting the jelly slide to the side worthless.
"BASTARDS" Nyoko sprinted to the village wall. Leaping on to the railing of the entrance, she quickly parkoured her way to the top. "I'm not going to let you harm anyone here" she yelled to the flying rat.
'Damn idiot, she's going to be out of the rune's protection' the golem clapped it's hands together. 'Telekinesis – Propulsion' as Nyoko jumped from the wall, a large force blasted her up like a rocket. Ignoring it, Nyoko set herself ablaze. "Lucy do me a favour… stay here".
"Wait you're going to help us but I thought you weren't going to…" Lucy gripped her chest feeling a cold shiver run down her back. Unable to show proper emotion, the golem stared at her. Gulping at the soulless eyes peering at her, Lucy nodded not saying anything else.
"Lucy you are new to the wizarding scene so I don't want to be rude but you would probably be better staying out the way" the golem stepped into an open space.
"And maybe you will learn something new" Lucy shot her head around to stare at the real Natsu walking towards her. Pointing at Natsu, Lucy fumbled all her words unable to comprehend what was happening. He snickered at her face of disbelief before glancing up to see Nyoko the human fireball hit the rat in the gut. "Nyoko looks like she's doing fine but… Telekinesis – Attraction" Natsu pointed his hand to the rat as the beast and three on top began to hurl down towards Natsu. "Happy, my little bud… would you catch Nyoko before she falls?"
"A-Aye sir" Happy flew towards Nyoko at max speed, passing the rat as he did.
Natsu snapped his fingers "Elemental Soul – Steel Golem". Changing it's appearance to a 7ft woman covered in jagged steel, the golem charged at the falling rat. Within seconds the rat and golem collided. Like a ton being dropped, the rat recoiled from the impact sending the three on board flying off, all three landing in a different place. Two inside the village and one out with.
"Natsu" Nyoko yelled as Happy dropped her down beside him. "You said I could do this mission all by myself" a hard fist met Natsu's gut but he accepted it with a low grunt.
"I would hardly say you would be doing it yourself regardless of me helping or not" Natsu hummed. "Aw don't pout, grumpy pants" he brushed a hand through her locks. "But… if you really feel like that, you can punish me after".
"Eh? What do you mean by that?" Nyoko huffed in curiosity.
"You can do whatever to me, ask me to do something or whatever…" moving his hand down, he stroked her cheek. "You can ask me for anything… anything" Natsu finished with a whisper.
A moment passed as Nyoko contemplated his words. "Um..? Oh… Oh!" Nyoko punched her palm in realisation. "Yeah you better remember that for later because you won't be getting out of it".
"You don't have to worry Nyokee~" Natsu shrugged. "Do you really think I would avoid any punishment?"
"Would you two stop flirting already!" Lucy yelled.
"Yeah, yeah Luce" Nyoko waved the blonde off with a grin.
"It's Lucy, did you actually forget?!" Lucy complained.
"You're really loud, Luci calm down" Natsu giggled with Nyoko as Lucy stomped like a child. "Alright serious time, Nyoko be a dear and knock those two out and I'll get the other one". He glanced at Gray "Lucy take Gray with the villagers to a safe place away from all the fighting".
Nyoko grinned "I'm all fired up now".
"Wait I can still… urgh" Gray wheezed losing his consciousness as Nyoko's fist smacked him. Natsu nodded with a sigh looking around. 'Seems I miscalculated… no mistyped the runes, it appears that they don't stop intruders… only attacks' he shook his head. 'Well it shouldn't be a problem anyway'. He crouched down "have fun Nyoko… just don't take too long".
"You bet I will and I will teach these guys a thing or two about attacking the village" Nyoko remained facing the direction of her opponents, only hearing the subtle noise as Natsu left. "I won't let you down Natsu"
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"Jeez what the hell happened" the pink haired woman moaned swiping dust from her dress. "Why did Angelica fall? And what was that bubble over the village?" she gritted her teeth. "What will my dear love think of me?"
"Why does my little pinkette have such stupid rants to herself?" Natsu landed on the ground like a boulder. He looked slightly above her head 'Sherry, huh? Level 51… easy enough'.
"Don't try and mock me with idealisms of love" Sherry screeched at him.
Natsu rubbed the back of his neck "I think I hit home more than anything else to be honest". Closing his eyes for a moment "anyway, are you going to just give up or am I going to have to drag you back?"
"Like I would ever give up, I could destroy you in seconds" Sherry threatened.
"I would look above you before saying that" Natsu motioned up with his finger. "Don't give up and the golem will take you out, simple as that" Sherry flinched as the golem was hanging off a tree a few inches above her. "It's your choice".
"Heh are you sure about that?" Sherry twiddled her fingers. "I would be more worried about myself" she smirked as the golem hopped down from the tree facing Natsu.
"Marionette magic I assume?" Natsu stated flatly without a care in the world.
"Yes and your biggest weakness, you are power…less" Natsu waved his hand and the golem crumbled into dust. "Wait you can just cancel the magic like that?" Sherry blinked in shock.
Natsu crossed his arms "you're not the first to use that magic". He rolled his shoulder "Marionette magic has the capability of controlling the mind of non-humans however, like everything it has weaknesses". Raising three fingers at her, he glanced at her bored "I have three easy ways to beat that magic, one complex golems take a lot of magic to control that you don't have, two there is a clear limit to how much you can control compared to how much I can create, and three I don't need golems to beat you so…" Natsu leaped forward side kicking Sherry's shoulder, sending the mage tumbling back.
"Grrr…" Sherry seethed holding her shoulder. "So what if I can't control your creations, I will make my own, Wood Doll" a tree emerged, uprooting itself as it stumbled towards him.
"Rune – Slash" with one motion Natsu wrote slash, resulting in the tree being cut at it's trunk. "Look, you don't have a chance so just give up" Natsu raised his voice over the tree falling in a thud.
"No I can't… give… up" Sherry began to take steps back as Natsu approached her.
"What's wrong… are you afraid of me?" Natsu chuckled as she stumbled backwards tripping on a small stone.
"Get him Rock Doll" all the rocks and stones formed together creating a giant of a monster but size was all it was.
"Rune – Crunch" another flick of his finger and the giant rock golem crumbled into a pile of pebbles. "You can still give up Sherry, I would rather not fight you" he closed his eyes again. 'Her level is too low for me to even get proper Exp or loot, there's no point'.
"I-I… no I… can't but… I" Sherry gulped as Natsu stopped directly in front of her. "No I can still win" Sherry clenched her fist as she threw a right hook.
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Natsu groaned in frustration as Sherry threw another punch then a kick but he caught her leg. "Goodnight Sherry" he grabbed her forehead with his other hand. 'Now if I do this right' Natsu threw her head back against a tree as Sherry's eyes rolled back. "Ah perfect a nice easy and quick knock out, probably hurt like a bitch when she wakes up but everything else is good". Natsu lifted Sherry up in a bridal carry. 'Nah' Natsu threw Sherry over his shoulder. 'Maybe I should carry her different in case Nyoko complains' Natsu hummed as he moved his hand back and forth, trying to find the most appropriate place to hold Sherry. "Alright here we go" Natsu place Sherry under his arm, holding her waist. "Jeez anywhere I hold someone's going to call me a pervert aren't they?" he headed back to the village but a familiar sight caught his eye.
"Natsu? What are you doing here Natsu?"
"Oh… hey Erza, how are you feeling… on this… um… fine day" Natsu groaned.
Chapter end
Well it's nearly the end of this arc, one more chapter should finish it.