Chapter 10: Welcome Home.
A/N: Once again, another chapter in less than a month! This a pretty long chapter, at least by my standards. But I wanted to fit the entire Lullaby arc into one chapter because the real fun is just about to begin. Chapter 11 should arrive by Tuesday so be on the lookout for that. Please review and Follow me, I really want to get to 500 followers and 200 reviews and I can't thank all of you enough for it. I love you guys!
Natsu and the rest had run away from the army all the way from Hargeon to the outskirts of Magnolia.
"That… was… close..." Natsu panted as he bent over with his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath. Everyone was breathing just as hard as Natsu after running so far for so long.
"I… think I'm gonna… die." Lucy did her best to try an recapture all of the oxygen and energy she lost from that insanely long run.
Gray grabbed Natsu by the collar and lifted him up. "You idiot! If you didn't make such a scene we wouldn't have had to run all the way back to Magnolia!" He barked.
"He was the one who started it so put me down ice princess!" Natsu barked right back and the two began their normal routine.
"How could those two complain about being tired and still have so much energy to fight each other?" Lucy questioned.
"That's Natsu and Gray for you..." Happy sighed, finally regaining his breath.
"Come on, we're only a short ways away. Let's get moving."
They began their trek once more down towards Magnolia and Lucy could hardly contain her excitement.
"My chance to join Fairy Tail has finally arrived!" She thought as she analyzed began to analyze each of them.
"I read that newspaper article about them from two years ago. I can't believe I just happened to run into them on my way here!" She thought. However her musings were interrupted when Naruto decided properly introduce themselves to her.
"You seem to know who we are, but we don't know exactly who you are. What's your name?" Naruto asked with a warm smile. Lucy was nervous. She could tell that they were nice people, but to be around the people she's admired for quite a while so suddenly made her feel a bit giddy.
"Uh, my name's Lucy." She answered nervously.
"Lucy, huh? Well it's nice to meet you Lucy." He smiled and she smiled back.
"That's the girl that I saw Natsu with back in Hargeon." Gray whispered to Naruto and immediately his eyes became full of mischief. His smile with troublemaker written all over it.
"So, Lucy, I heard that you and Natsu were on a dinner date last night. Are you guys dating or what?" Naruto asked, grinning like the big prankster that he was causing Lucy to blush wildly.
"N-no it wasn't like that at all! He saved me from that creep Salamander and I bought food for him as gratitude." Lucy quickly defender herself from the accusations, waving her hands and shaking her head in rapid motion.
"Is that true Natsu?" Naruto asked and Natsu wore a thoughtful look.
"Hmm, I think it went something like that." He mused.
"THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY HOW COULD YOU FORGET ALREADY?" Lucy demanded and all Natsu did was pick his ears in a nonchalant manner. Meanwhile Naruto was having the laugh of his life right now at the expense of this girl. Even Sasuke, who was not known for laughing much had a chuckle here and there. Gray just held a satisfied look the entire time.
After a few more moments they were finally back in the shopping district of Magnolia.
"So this is Magnolia." Lucy marvelled the town's atmosphere. Active and full of energy, just like the guild that was occupying this town.
"They say the guild controls the atmosphere of the town." Gray said.
"Aye! Happy guild, Happy town!"
"I do have to ask, were you guys coming from a job when you came into Hargeon?" Lucy asked.
"Nope, we're coming from a two year training trip." Natsu answered.
"Training trip, for what? She asked.
"To get stronger, Duh." He answered and Lucy smacked her forehead in annoyance.
"I know to get stronger but why?" She asked.
"To protect our contracts. Simple." Gray answered and everyone looked at Lucy with smiles.
"You're gonna be a member of Fairy Tail soon, so you're our comrade too." Natsu said.
"Right."
"The first thing I want to do is get a place to live, we've basically been homeless for two years. And get a nice bowl of Ramen" Naruto said.
...
Inside the Fairy Tail guild, it happened to be one of their rare peaceful days. Everyone was either sitting around either eating, drinking, chatting or just a combination of the three. Master Makarov was sitting down on the counter enjoying the rare peaceful day that they were having.
"It's even more peaceful than usual today isn't it Master?" Mirajane asked. Ever since Lisanna died, she started to work even harder as a server in the guild. Her demeanor had also changed from her mean, tough and aggressive tomboyish personality to one that was more lady like. Even her style of clothing changed to match her personality, now she was wearing a maroon colored dress with frills on them and matching shoes. One could even say that her smile radiated just as much as Lisanna's did.
"Yeah, it's a bit too peaceful. That can only mean one thing..." He answered and Mirajane gave him a curious look.
"Those fools are due back at any time." The doors of the guild hall slowly creaked open and the sunlight beamed into everyone's eyes. The only thing that could really be seen were the shadows of 6 individuals.
"Who is that?" Levy questioned and a cloud passed over giving everyone's eyes a break. There stood the four young (and not so young) men and blue cat and blonde young lady who seemed to be shaking in her boss in the door way.
"Yo, we're home." Natsu grinned from ear to ear, waving to his fellow guild mates that he hasn't seen in 2 years. Everyone was frozen, taking on the surprise that had just walked through the doors of their home. Hardly a second later they all rushed the group with tears in their eyes and their arms stretched out for an embrace. They all cried out, "Natsu! Gray!"
They mauled the group with their love to the point where they had trouble breathing. They bombarded them with endless questions about their adventures and how much stronger have they gotten since they left.
"Woah guys one at a time." Gray requested. Makarov cleared his throat loudly and everyone focused their attention towards him.
"You know you kids caused a lot of trouble for me while you were gone." Makarov said in his strict parent tone. Natsu and Gray chuckled sheepishly while rubbing the back of their heads. However, Makarov smiled warmly at them and asked, "Did you have fun?"
Natsu and Gray looked at him confusingly for a second.
"Yeah!" They smiled.
"Alright then, Mira bring out the booze! Let's party!" Makarov declared and the guild erupted into cheers. Makarov noticed Lucy standing there, looking really nervous and asked, "How can I help you young lady?"
Lucy was about to answer him but Natsu decided to speak up for her instead. "Her name's Lucy gramps, she said she was dying to join Fairy Tail." He said making Lucy feel a bit bashful.
"Well, ummm…"
"That's great then! Mira get this girl a stamp!" Makarov ordered as he made his way to the railing on the upper floor in the guild hall. Mirajane approached Lucy with a stamp in her hand and asked her where she wanted her guild mark to be.
"It's really Mirajane in the flesh! I read about you in Sorcerer's weekly all the time! It's such an honor to meet you!" Lucy gasped, shaking in excitement as she held out her right hand. Mira smiled as she placed the stamp on the back of Lucy's hand and when she removed it, it left a bright pink Fairy Tail mark. Lucy hadn't felt so excited about anything her life as she looked at her guild mark with the biggest smile she could make. She ran over to Natsu holding up her right hand to show off her mark.
"Look Natsu, I got my guild mark now!" Lucy beamed.
"Yeah that's nice Luigi."
"It's Lucy!"
Makarov stood on top of the railing on the second floor of the guild hall and whistled as loud as he could to get the attention of his guild. Once he got their attention and they were all quiet, he cleared his throat and began to give a speech.
"Today is a very special day in Fairy Tail. We not only welcome back the dunderheads we all know and love from their two year tenure away from the guild, but to also welcome Lucy, our newest member!" Makarov said and the guild erupted into cheers once more.
"Although they might cause a massive amount of trouble. Although they might make me have to write countless letters of apologies to the Council. They are the prime examples of how wizards should live! They live with no fear, no hesitation, and live their life to the fullest! If we constantly worry about who is watching us and we will not leave ourselves room to grow as individuals! Because living freely… Is what Fairy Tail's all about!" Makarov finished and the guild erupted into the biggest cheer of the day.
They sang, they ate, they drank, and had the most merry time of their lives. Although they had to stop Natsu from getting into Alcohol a few times, based on a story that Gray told them. They shared stories of their adventures during the two years that they were gone.
"Yeah, we actually happened to run into Cana while she was out on a job once." Gray said.
"That was one of the funniest and probably the scariest time I've ever had around these guys." Cana hiccuped, drinking as she would do every single day.
"Don't even remind me..." Naruto said somberly.
"We almost died a few times during that trip." Gray said and everyone was shocked to hear that.
"Was the training that harsh?" Makarov asked and Gray shook his head in decline.
"Natsu punched Gray into the wall of a bath house once. Gray's head got stuck in the wall and all the ladies thought he was peeping. You can guess what happened next." Naruto snickered and everybody else laughed along with him.
"I thought we would never speak of that again!" Gray yelled and everyone continued to laugh.
"Hah! Gray you're so lame." Natsu taunted as he continued to laugh at the ice wizard's pain
"What about that time Natsu got eaten by the same shark twice." Sasuke asked with a deadpanned expression, and everyone began to laugh even louder.
"Why would you even bring that up?!" Natsu wept tears as the laughter was suddenly shifted in his direction.
"You got eaten by the same shark twice and I'm lame?" Gray laughed at his rival and they began butting heads like they always do. Shooting off lame insults like "pinky" or "stripper".
"I'm just realizing it but, where's Erza?" Sasuke asked
"She went out on a job yesterday actually, so you just missed her." Mira answered.
"It's because she's a man!" Elfman declared and everyone questioned, "What the heck does that even mean?!"
"I wanna fight Erza! I wanna show her just how strong I've gotten!" Natsu said excitedly
…
Almost a week had passed since those four returned and Lucy joined the guild. During this time Natsu had saved Macao from Mt. Hakobe and Lucy went on her first job to destroy a book called daybreak. Unfortunately the job didn't go so well because they didn't get paid. Natsu, Lucy and Happy were on their way back to Magnolia after 'completing' the job
"I could've gotten that 2,000,000 Jewell but nooooo." Lucy complained.
"You should've just let me burn the book but nooooo I wanna read it first." Natsu mocked Lucy right back.
"So it's my fault that you don't have a taste for literature?" Lucy spat back.
"Nope but it's your fault we didn't get paid." Happy said.
"I don't need your comments.." Lucy said hanging her head. They arrived to Lucy's recently purchased apartment and the group went their seperate ways. When Lucy opened the door to the lobby of her building the sight she saw was pretty peculiar. She saw Naruto banging on the first door to the right.
"Oi Sasuke do you have any soap I forgot to buy some and the shops are closed!" Naruto asked. He noticed Lucy standing in front of the main door of the lobby.
"Oh Lucy I didn't see you there, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing, Naruto-san." Lucy responded and Naruto waved her off.
"Just Naruto is fine, we're comrades and I'm only like a year older than you. Although that's not exactly true..." Naruto said. Suddenly the door Naruto was banging on opened and a bar of soap came flying out and struck Naruto right in the head.
"If you're going to bang on someone's door like that at least have better reflexes to dodge or catch that, that could have been a shuriken. Idiot." Sasuke said as he stepped out the room slightly. Naruto recovered and they immediately started butting heads.
"You tryna start something, chicken head bastard?" Naruto growled.
"Start? It's already over?" Sasuke said with an extremely smug expression.
"Grrrr I'm about to wipe that grin off your face." Naruto growled before a presence appeared behind them and said
"I'm going to wipe both of you off the face of the planet if you continue to fight in my lobby." It was the land lady, she was a pretty large, intimidating woman with short purple hair and she had facial hair. Right now she was wearing a regular pair of jeans with a white button up shirt, she was wearing black shades so nobody could see her eyes at the moment. Naruto and Sasuke immediately bowed and said
"I'm sorry. It won't happen again." The land lady just huffed and left the building.
"Jeez they're like Natsu and Gray, now I know where they get it from." Lucy said out loud.
"Don't get confused Lucy. Natsu and Gray were like that before we joined Fairy Tail." Naruto said and Lucy was startled by his answer. Sasuke didn't even say anything as he just went back into his place.
"Well it's getting late see you tomorrow neighbor." Naruto said as he jogged back to his door.
"Why do I get the feeling that I'm not going to like them being neighbors?" Lucy thought.
…
"WE'VE GOT TROUBLE! ERZA'S BACK" Loke shouted and many people in the guild gasped and shivered. Lucy took notice at the reaction to Erza's name and wondered why they were so afraid.
"Is she really that scary?" she asked
"As much as I hate to admit it, she's the guilds strongest female wizard. Even Natsu and Gray are afraid of her." Mira said and Lucy was surprised.
"Natsu and Gray are afraid of her? Is she some kind of monster?"
"Fairy Tail has five S-Class wizards. Out of the S-class wizards in our guild she's the fourth strongest. The ones being stronger than her are Mystogan, Laxus, and Gildarts in that order." Mirajane explained.
"But wait, what about Naruto and Sasuke, it's hard to believe that they're not S-Class wizards." Lucy asked.
"It doesn't matter how strong someone is. It's Fairy Tail's rule that anyone that wants to be S-Class must take the S-class wizard exam." Mira explained and Lucy understood the logic in it. She was about to ask another question but the arrival of a red haired woman carrying a gigantic horn on her back. When she dropped the horn it caused a tremor in the building.
"Uhhh what's that thing you got there Erza? A random guild member asked.
"It's the horn of a monster that I slew on my job, the locals decorated and gave it to me as a gift. Is there a problem?" she responded sternly and the guild member cowered in fear denying that there was any sort of problem.
"Mira, where is the master? Erza asked.
"He went to the regular meeting, he left yesterday so he should be back tomorrow. Erza something really special happened while you were gone." she answered and Erza tilted her head in confusion.
"What?" she asked as she saw a blue cat flying towards her calling her name. The blue cat flew right into the breast plate of her armor.
"Happy? Wait then that means..." Erza said as she turned towards the doors of the guild hall and her eyes widened.
"Yo Erza." Natsu greeted with his huge smile. There they were, the four who left two years ago finally returned. Erza felt ecstatic that they were back, she tackled them in a huge hug, making things very awkward for them. Lucy had to pull Erza off of them and save them from any more embarrassment.
"I know it's been two years but that was a little much don't you think? Gray asked rhetorically rubbing the back of his head in discomfort.
"When did you guys come back?" Erza asked.
"Almost a week ago. When we came Mira told us that you were out on a job." Naruto said.
"As much as I'd like to catch up, I'm afraid that there's trouble brewing. The dark guild Eisenwald is planning to use some kind of magic called Lullaby that was sealed away some time ago. If it was sealed away, it must not be good." Erza said.
"Lullaby is actually a demon from the Books of Zeref. It usually looks like a brown flute with a skull and three purple eyes. But its true form is that of a giant demon." Sasuke said and Erza was surprised.
"How do you know that?" she asked.
"While we were gone, I spent a lot of time researching Zeref and his creations."
"Alright we set out for Eisenwald tomorrow morning at eight o'clock sharp." Erza said.
"I'll come under one condition." Natsu said getting Erza's attention.
"You have to fight me when we get back." he said holding up his fist. Erza smiled at him thinking about how innocent Natsu used to be. "His flame has certainly gotten stronger, I can tell even from here" she thought.
"You've got a deal Natsu, I acknowledge that you've gotten stronger." Erza said.
"Wow, Naruto, Sasuke, Natsu, Gray and Erza as a team. This might be the most dangerous team in the entire guild, no, the entire world!" Mirajane said in amazement.
...
The next morning everyone met up at the train station as planned.
"Ugh the train again... Can I just walk?" Natsu asked and Erza shook her head.
"The fastest way to get there is by train, so suck it up Natsu." Erza scolded.
"Oi Naruto can't you just use your flying whatever thingy?" Natsu asked and Naruto hung his head.
"I didn't mark the train stations..."
"Well enough talking, the train's gonna leave without us." Sasuke said and they all boarded. Everyone was up to their usual schtick while Erza gave them the whole rundown about also she thought Eisenwald was planning.
"Lullaby... just what're they planning to do with it? Surely it must be evil." Erza said as she clenched her fist in anger.
"They're planning to use it to kill the guild masters." Sasuke said non-chalantly while staring out the window. Erza was shocked and angry beyond measure. Of all people they were targeting the guild masters, if they wanted revenge why don't they target the magic council? Not that it makes it any better by doing so.
"How do you know that? Why are they targeting the guild masters?" Erza asked.
"My side effect tells me so." Sasuke smirking.
"Side effect? Uhhhh you do know what universe you're in right?" Erza asked.
"What are you talking about Erza-senpai?" Gray asked. Erza looked over and paled at the sight of Gray's face. He was making the anime style duck-face and Lucy was down right lost.
"He called Erza senpai? Why? I thought Gray was in the guild longer than any of us here." Lucy said.
"I'm surrounded by idiots..." Erza grumbled while she heard groaning coming from her right side.
"Seriously though, my side effect tells me what is going to happen." Sasuke said and Erza looked up curiously.
"How? are you like a psychic or something?" Lucy asked.
"I can't just see the future when I want to. It seems like I can only see the future when my rinnegan is active as well and even still it's pretty random, that's why I call it a side effect." Sasuke said, unconsciously putting his hand on his left eye.
"What else have you seen, since you've realized you had this 'side effect'?" Erza questioned.
"I have seen quite a few things, one being the Eisenwald. I figured that only myself and Naruto are the only people alive with these effects because of the six paths, another reason why I call it 'side effect'." he explained.
"Wait Naruto has a side effect too?" Lucy asked and he nodded.
"The ability to sense malicious intent. That's Naruto's side effect." Gray said.
"With the ability to sense malicious intent, and that extraordinary sensory abilities he has. It's almost impossible to sneak up on him. But that's ONLY if he is in chakra mode." Sasuke explained.
"Oh so that's why you said it probably has something to do with the six paths." Gray mused.
"All this six paths and chakra mumbo jumbo is confusing the hell out of me." Lucy complained
"Anyway, all we have to do is stop them before they follow through with their plan." Gray said relaxing in his underwear.
"PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON!" Lucy yelled loudly. After about 20 minuets of traveling they arrived at station. They made it to the station safe and sound however there was something off. Someone was missing.
"Where's Natsu?" Lucy asked.
"I think he's still on the train." Gray said.
"He departed." Happy said waving to the leaving train.
...
Natsu was still on the train defeated by his motion sickness. Then a guy with pineapple shaped hair walked up to him and noticed Natsu's guild mark.
"Oh? What do we have here? A goody two shoes from one of those legal guilds. You know what we call you?" The person asked and then planted his foot into Natsu's face.
"FLIES THAT'S WHAT WE CALL YOU, FLIES!" he yelled and then suddenly the train came to a screeching halt.
"Hey you can't go pulling the emergency break like that!" An employee at the train station scolded Erza who pulled said break.
"Sorry it's for our comrade please understand." she responded
Natsu released some of his flame power and pushed the man away from him. "I don't know who you are and I don't care, but making a mockery of Fairy Tail earns you a personal beating pal." Natsu warned.
"A personal beating? Don't make me laugh, you really think you can beat me? I'm Kagayama, the right hand man of Erigor, the strongest wizard in Eisenwald." Kageyama boasted.
Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon. Natsu charged his flame covered fist towards Kageyama who didn't even move.
Guard Shadow. A bunch of shadow like tendrils came from the ground and guarded against Natsu's fist. Kageyama has secretly underestimated Natsu, he noticed this when his shadow actually began to crack. However, Natsu didn't continue with the attack, instead he jumped back.
"Heh, not bad, I didn't use even half my power there and your magic held up." Natsu boasted and Kageyama grit his teeth.
"Now I'll finish this."
Fire Dragon Ro- Natsu didn't get to finish his technique due to the interruption of the train conductor offer the intercom saying the emergency stop was a false alarm.
"Oh crap, we gotta settle this later." Natsu said as he grabbed his stuff and jumped out the window as fast as possible.
The rest of the gang had rented a magic four wheeler and were cramping up inside.
"Erza you're going too fast, you're going to overload the SE plug!" Gray yelled from atop the four wheeler.
"I have to move this fast or else we wont catch up to the train." She replied. When they finally caught up to the train they saw Natsu suddenly jump out of the train window and crashed into Gray.
"What are you doing you pink haired bastard?!" Gray questioned angrily, rubbing his head in pain.
"How was I supposed to know you would be there, ice princess? Natsu asked rhetorically.
"ENOUGH!" Erza scolded
"Yes ma'am." They said simultaneously while sitting on their knees.
"What happened on the train? I felt some of your magic power before we caught up." Sasuke asked.
"I was sick on the train and then some bastard kicked me in the face! Said he was Fukuyama from Eisenwald or something." Natsu explained and then Erza slapped him in the face.
"You Fool! They're the ones we're after!" Erza scolded as Natsu rubbed his cheek that has a red hand mark on it now. Erza strapped back on the SE plug and everyone piled into the car
"I think I'm gonna... Hurl" Natsu said groggily as his cheeks puffed up.
"NOT ON ME YOUR NOT!" Lucy screamed as she pushed Natsu back over to Naruto.
"Oh Lucy! I'm supposed to give you something but I can't remember what it was." Happy said and Lucy sweatdropped.
"What was the point in telling me then?"
After a while of traveling they finally reached Oshibana station where the train looked to be stuck in the station and a really large group of people standing outside the station.
"A train derailing? How did that happen?"
"Who could've possibly derailed the train?" were some of the murmurs they heard amongst the crowd. Erza was asking employees what the situation was inside but head butt them because they didn't answer quickly enough.
"At least give them a chance to speak..." Gray said.
"Ummm does she usually do this?" Lucy asked.
"That's Erza for you." Happy commented.
"Well, no time to waste here." Gray said as he slung Natsu over his shoulder, Sasuke gripping the back of Naruto's clothes and held him in his hand and they all trekked inside the station. They noticed all the imperial guards slumped over and defeated. They never stood a chance against a wizard guild. They arrived to train platform and saw the entire Eisenwald guild, seemingly waiting for them. Their leader really stood out as he was an extremely tall, lean-built and yet mildly muscular man with silver hair, which is held pointing upwards in spiky strands on top of his head, but hangs down to the left of his face in a distinctive tuft, partially covering it, and reaching down to his shoulders. His eyes are dark and he has an elongated face with sharp features and somewhat pointed ears, but seems to lack eyebrows. His eyes are circled by dark lines and each of them has a simple tattoo right below it, consisting of a pointed line going down vertically, crossed with two more, larger horizontal lines. The upper part of his body is similarly tattooed, but with much larger, intricated and blue-colored motifs, which take on spiraling forms, and adorn his shoulders, biceps, pectorals and back.
He also dons a torn Japanese-like outfit befitting his role as the shinigami. He is shown bare-chested, with all of his tattoos visible, and his lower body is covered in different layers of clothing: he sports a long, worn skirt, reminiscent of a hakama, below a darker, shorter cloth, held up by an even lighter and shorter one tied like a belt. He has a black scarf wrapped around his thin neck, with its edges hanging on his back and traditional geta sandals on his feet. His attire is completed by a pair of distinctive dark gloves, each adorned by a light "X" on the back, and by bandages wrapped around his forearms.
"Look what we have here, it seems the Fairy Tail flies have shown up." the man said from atop the train.
"I'm assuming you're Erigor." Erza said pointing towards the man.
"Indeed I am, and it's too late for you to stop us now! We're going to take away all the rights of others to show how the Council took ours away. If we can't have rights no one can!" Erigor declared and his guild mates cheered for him.
"You fiend! That's not going to give you any rights! Just what are you planning to do?" Lucy demanded and Erigor chuckled.
"Think about it. What does this station have?" Erigor asked.
"We already know what your true goal is so save the act." Sasuke said with a stoic expression and Erigor raised his eyebrow.
"Oooh, Sasuke Uchiha... I never expected to run into you. I'm honored that someone of your strength has been sent in an attempt to stop us. It seems like the Orange Spark is here as well. But it doesn't matter now, no one can stop us." Erigor said as he floated up to a lamp post.
"Woah did he just fly?!" Lucy questioned in shock.
"He uses wind magic, so it gives him the ability to fly." Gray said.
"Not that it matters to people who will be gone soon." Kageyama said and Natsu immediately recognized the voice and jumped up when he heard it.
"That voice..." Natsu started.
"That's the voice of the bastard that kicked me on the train!" Natsu yelled and everyone sweat dropped.
"So that's what he notices..." Lucy mumbled.
"Well I don't have anymore time to waste on you Fairy Tail flies. I've got a performance to play." Erigor said as he went to fly down the hallway but he was cut off by a wall of ice.
"Going somewhere?" Gray asked staring Erigor dead in the face. Erigor couldn't belive what just happened. He got cut off by a fly from one of those legitimate guilds. He got cut off by a wizard who uses maker magic, known as some of the slowest wizards in the magic community.
"What incredible speed. Just what kind of training have they been under the past two years?" Erza thought. Sasuke sat on the floor crossing his legs and everyone else looked at him confused.
"Look at the amount of enemies we have to face, this isn't the time to relax." Erza scolded and Sasuke shrugged his shoulders.
"Gray this shouldn't be a problem for you should it?" Sasuke asked. Gray stood in his signature 'ice make' stance and smirked. "Not at all." He said as his magic energy began to flow in his hands.
Ice Make: Geyser. A giant geyser of ice erupted from the ground like a miniature mountain of sorts. It covered nearly the entire area of the train platform, effectively dismantling the train as well. Most of the Eisenwald members were taken out from this one attack.
"Wow… he took out so many people with one attack." Lucy said gazing at the miniature ice mountain. Erigor was absolutely livid, this nobody just took out nearly all of his guild members with a single attack. "If I hadn't moved out the way I would've been a goner myself." he thought, then he was forced to dodge many spikes coming from the ice geyser, a few of them barely nicking him on his bare upper body.
"Oi Gray you're taking too long!" Natsu called out with Gray developing a mark of frustration. Shouting out fine he created two long swords made of ice.
"You guys mind cleaning up the rest of the stragglers that I didn't get?" Gray asked and the two girls nodded. The Eisenwald members faced the members of Fairy Tail.
"Wait a second, that guy looks familiar." Sasuke said, narrowing his eyes at Kageyama. Naruto, still dazed from motion sickness saw the blurry image of Kageyama. All he could make out was his pineapple shaped hair and just said the first thing that came to his mind.
"Shikamaru?" Naruto asked. "What are you doing here?"
"My name isn't Shika-whatever, it's Kageyama!" the Shikamaru lookalike declared.
"He does look like Shikamaru, and if he's the one who attacked Natsu, he also used shadows." Sasuke thought. "I wonder if Shikamaru is one of his ancestors."
Sasuke, Happy, Erza, a scared Lucy, and Naruto were face to face with the quite a few members of the Eisenwald guild. There was a pretty heavy tension in the air, but the ones feeling the most pressure were the members of Eisenwald.
"Even with our numbers, it'll be impossible to defeat them. Even Erza Scarlet is here. The only way we can defeat them is to force them into an ultimatum using the weakest link to our advantage. That will be our best bet, to attack the blonde girl." an Eisenwald member with whiskers named Byard thought as he turned his attention towards Lucy. "We also need to strike before the Orange Spark has a chance to recover."
"All members of Eisenwald follow my lead!" Byard ordered as he stretched his hand outward and a magic circle appeared in front of his palms. All of the Eisenwald members complied and followed Byard's actions and readied for battle. The leader of this force quickly aimed his magic circle at Lucy and everyone followed suit understanding what Byard was trying to accomplish.
"WHY ME?!" Lucy cried out as she did her best to shield herself by crossing her arms in front of her, and closed her eyes preparing for the worst. Feeling the pressure of magic colliding but not on her skin or anything she opened her eyes. Lucy was a bit taken back from what was in front of her. She saw what seemed like a purple aura surrounding her.
"So you're targeting Lucy as a way to gain leverage I see, Eisenwald truly is a cowardly guild. I will wipe you all out myself." Sasuke said as he let his Susanoo disappear.
"Don't kill any of them, Sasuke." Erza warned and he ignored her, slowly walking towards the crowd of dark wizards pulling out his sword.
"Is he really that strong to beat them all without using any magic?" Lucy asked.
"No way, that one guy can't handle all of us without magic, LET'S GET HIM" Byard declared and Eisenwald charged towards him. In the span of a single moment Sasuke appeared behind the entire crowd of wizards, the second his sword sheathed entirely all of the Eisenwald members went down. Gray regrouped with them, his ice sword disintegrating, leaving behind, Erigor's defeated body behind.
"Wow, I didn't even see what happened just now." Lucy said.
"I'm quite impressed Gray. You were able to defeat Erigor all by yourself."
"Well he's always been like that." Naruto said.
"Now... You're going to tell me where you got that flute from." Sasuke ordered. Byard smiled confidently and said, "I'll never talk."
Sasuke activated his Sharingan and looked down on him in the most intimidating face he could make. "I didn't ask if you would talk. I asked where you got it from." Sasuke said sternly.
"Woah he's kind of scary." Lucy said.
"That's Sasuke for you!"
"All you humans are weak! I'll annihilate you all myself!"
...
At the guild masters meeting all of the masters present were just sitting around eating food, drinking and enjoying themselves.
"You know Makarov, the council is worried about your guild, they're too destructive." Master Bob said.
"Yeah, they might end up destroying an entire city one day." Master of Quatro Cerberus said.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Makarov said with a slight slur in his voice. Then a bird carrying an envelope and calling out "Master Makarov". He took the envelope from the bird and thanked it for the delivery. He placed his pointer on the envelope and a green magic circle appeared and a holographic projection of Mirajane appeared.
"What do you think about our poster girl, boys? Isn't she great?" Makarov boasted.
"Master, I thought I should report this, I don't know if it's good news or bad news. Natsu, Gray, Erza, Naruto, and Sasuke formed a team together." she said and Makarov paled intensely and his hair started to fall off his head.
"Looks like the council has a right to be worried." Goldmine said
"Sasuke alone could destroy an entire city! WITH THOSE 5 TOGETHER THEY COULD PROBABLY DESTROY AN ENTIRE ISLAND!" Makarov yelled.
…
"All you humans are weak! I'll annihilate you all myself!" a voice boomed from within the train station. Suddenly a large brown creature erupted from the Lullaby flute. Citizens fled from the station and the city in fear of the massive creature as it was larger than the station itself. When the creature came to be, the train station was nothing but rubble at that point. The Fairy Tail team stared at the giant creature while it stood there in all it's glory.
"So this is Lullaby's true form." Sasuke said as he took in the demon's form.
"We have to protect the people of this town! Please help me evacuate them!" Lucy cried out.
"That won't be necessary." Naruto said and the women looked at him confused.
"I'm going to take this guy down in one shot." he continued.
"A mere human taking me down in one shot?! That's a riot! I'm going to kill you just f…" Lullaby started but was immediately silenced by being completely split in two in a vertical manner. Erza, Lucy, and Lullaby were in utter shock at what just happened. Lullaby was split in two by a massive shuriken made of wind, that same shuriken coming back towards him. Once it reached him, the demon was enveloped in a huge explosion.
"Too bad for you. I'm no mere human." Naruto said with a smirk on his face as Lullaby screamed in terror.
"I'm the Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja, Naruto Uzumaki!" he declared and everyone sweatdropped. The explosion finally settled and the dust was clearing.
"Honestly, how could someone like that, really be so strong?" Erza thought as she looked at the sight of what happened. Not even a single trace of Lullaby was left. There was just a gigantic pit where the monster used to be.
"Who would have thought that a goofball like him would be strong enough to destroy a demon from the books of Zeref with no effort?" Lucy asked.
"You have no idea." Sasuke said.
"It's good that you defeated Lullaby and all but what are we going to do about that?"Gray asked referring to all the rubble and property damaged caused by this fight.
"We'll figure it out later, but we seriously need to get the heck out of here before the council comes!" Natsu exclaimed as he grabbed Lucy's hand and was about to make a run for it. However unfortunately for them it was too late, they were all surrounded by the magic council.
"Hold it right there!" the magic council captain ordered.
"No worries guys, everyone just grab on to me." Naruto said and everyone complied while Lucy was a bit hesitant.
"Wait, what are you about to do?" Lucy asked.
"Just trust me okay?" Naruto said with a reassuring voice, and she nodded. She grabbed on to him and the very moment she did, they all vanished. The magic council was completely dumbfounded at what just happened. "Where did they go?" the captain asked and his squad had no answer.
…
Back in the Fairy Tail guild there was an unusual quiet in the guild that day. Of course with the louder members being gone for the time being, it certainly seemed like a much more civilized guild than when they are there.
"So what do you think they'll destroy this time?" Cana asked Mirajane, cradling her barrel of booze.
"Hmmm, it depends, but I don't think they'll destroy more than a building or two." she replied and Cana laughed out loud.
"You sure have a lot of faith in those idiots."
"Well they are with Erza and Lucy so surely they must be kept in check to some extent." Mira answered.
"By the way where did you get that thing around your neck?" Cana asked referring to the necklace that Mira was sporting now. It was a three pronged kunai with a light orange handle and shiki formula written on it. She held it up slightly above her breasts staring at before answering, "Oh this? Naruto gave it to me." Suddenly the kunai began to glow, surprising both girls. Then in that same instant, out popped the group who went to take on Eisenwald.
"Woohoo we're back in no time flat!" Happy exclaimed as he and Natsu high-fived each other.
"Woah how did we get here so fast?" Lucy asked while frantically looking around the guild.
"Because of this I assume?" Mirajane said holding up the special kunai.
"Oh you turned it into a necklace? That's awesome!" Naruto complimented.
"But anyway, to explain what just happened, I used a technique called the Flying Thunder God. It allows me to be able to instantly move to wherever I place these markings." He explained while holding up a kunai to show everyone.
"That must have took a long time for you to create. That's a really useful technique, is there any weaknesses to it?" Erza asked and Naruto shook his head.
"The only weakness is probably the jutsu itself. I can only teleport to where the marks are, so if someone could figure out where I would jump to, I'll be at a disadvantage. Other than that, there's no limitations for how far I can warp. Just can't jump through dimensions or anything like that." he explained.
"Anyway, you guys came back on such a short notice, did something happen?" Cana asked.
"Yeah, this one destroyed the train station, so no trains could run anyway." Erza said, glaring at Naruto whoo rubbed the back of his head sheepishly before coming to a realization.
"Hey he destroyed it first!" Naruto declared while pointing towards Gray who was about to argue but got cut off by Natsu.
"You should've seen it! Naruto brought down this giant monster in one attack, and left a huge crater in the station!" Natsu said ecstatically, Happy adding in sound effects while he acted out the explosions.
"Oh I bet the master would love to hear that story." Mirajane said and Natsu smirked with an evil gleam in his eye directed at Naruto. Naruto flinched and his eyes became wide as dinner plates.
"Not so nice, when someone's blaming you for something is it?" Natsu thought.
"Karma… She be a cruel mistress." Gray said.
"You think he's still mad about what happened with Ultear?" Sasuke whispered to Naruto, who was paralyzed by the scene.
"Uhm would you please not tell the master about that please?" Naruto asked, almost begged everyone.
"The council already knows about what you did, there's not even a point in trying to hide it." Erza said sternly and Naruto hung his head in shame.
"I knew I should have just let someone else do it..." Naruto mumbled as he looked at the contents of his wallet.
"Well I'm going to go home to rest up, I''ll see all of you tomorrow." Natsu said as he ran out of the guild with Happy in tow.
"Rest up? Rest up for what?" Naruto asked.
"Natsu and Erza are going to fight tomorrow, don't tell me you forgot already." Sasuke responded and Naruto rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Oh yeah… I forgot..."
Next Chapter #11: The Ultimatum!