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Ch 10: Connors first job.

After their night in the forest the wizards continued their journey to the city of graden where they had been called to exterminate an unknown beast. Connor and Wendy had seemed to bond and walked together the rest of the way.

Within an hour or so they had arrived at the enormous city. Graden was considered one one the largest cities in fiore. It was a famous gambling city filled with casinos.

Though the once lively city had been quiet as of late because of the beast that had attacked their city. As the wizards walked through the town everywhere they looked there was wreckage. The many stalls and stands which had surely been lively long ago were just piles of lumber. Houses were torn down and pieces of buildings that looked like they were from completely different buildings were strewn across the street.

"Man looks like a typhoons hit this place" Natsu said.

"Lets quickly find city hall" Erza said with determination. She wanted to quickly eliminate whatever did this.

The group made way to what looked like city hall. As soon as they approached a tall man came rushing out he wore a black tux and a sash around him which read mayor. "Please tell me you're the wizards we sent for.." he said in a panic while he gripped Erza's shoulder.

"We are indeed sir" she replied.

"Then please, help us"he begged "it'll be here soon please stop it". Suddenly a loud stomp was heard echoing through the quiet city. "Its here! Please please kill it! Before it's too late!" The mayor shouted hysterically.

Then as he said those words an enormous beast came bounding down the street. The mayor panicked and ran into city hall.

"What the hell is that?" Connor asked squinting at the approaching figure.

"It looks it might be a dog" Lucy guessed.

Sure enough Lucy was right because as the figure came closer it was revealed to be a large dog about as tall as an average human man and just as wide, Its mouth was full of fangs, it's fur was jet black, and it's eyes were a dark shade of red.

"Well It really was a dog good guess Lucy" Gray commented.

"Connor do you know anything about this creature" Erza asked.

"There's not much to know. That beast is a hellhound it's a large species of dog that are incredibly fierce and carnivorous It's actually quite common where I'm from" he replied "but there's something off about it.."

"I don't care what it is!" Natsu shouted "if that's the thing hurting these people I'll bring it down!" He charged the hound his fists blazing with fury.

The hound barked and charged him as well. When Natsu reached the beast it simply knocked him aside into a wall.

"Natsu!" Wendy shouted running to his side.

"Wendy wait!" Erza shouted a little too late.

As the young girl ran to Natsu the hound simply ran past her and kept forward. Connor looked at it in bewilderment.

"Okay I'll give it a shot now" Lucy said drawing one of her golden keys.

"I've got your back Lucy" Gray said.

"Thanks Gray now let's bring him down! Open gate of the golden bull! Taurus!" Lucy shouted twisting her key like she was unlocking a door and out flew the giant cow-man Taurus.

"Hey there Luuucy your body's looking good as always" he said while staring at her chest.

"Stop being such a perv and attack that thing" she shouted angrily.

"Anything for a smooooch from you lovely Lucy" the bull said charging at the beast and readying his golden axe.

"Alright now it's my turn" Gray said slamming his fist into an open palm"ice make Excalibur!" He had sculpted his ice into an enormous blade and also charged the beast.

As the two warriors attacked the hound it simply barked at them and picked up speed and barreling right through them. Taurus being big as he is was hit directly and sent flying into a wall while the lighter Gray dropped his ice blade and quickly dodged.

"Why the hell is this thing ignoring us?!" He shouted angrily.

"It must be after the mayor!" Erza shouted back. "Connor you and I will take this thing on and protect the mayor"

The dragon slayer nodded "Roger!"

As the hound came closer Connor and Erza stood their ground awaiting his attack. The beast picked up speed once again and was soon right above Connor picking him up in his teeth and tossing him in the air before he or Erza could react. The strangest thing was he stopped and allowed the young man to land on his back and then took off down another street.

"What just happened?" Lucy deadpanned.

"I have no idea" Erza replied.

Meanwhile Connor was struggling to keep on beasts back not wanting to fly off at this speed and end up knocked out on the ground. "why me!" He shouted. The hound was bounding across the street smashing into buildings long abandoned. As the hound smashed through the city Connor noticed it was holding back in order for him to stay on. He gripped the monsters fur for leverage and held on tight "you better get me out of this you guys.." he thought.

Erza, Lucy, and Gray had taken off after Connor and the hound as soon as he was taken. Lucy took to the streets this time around she summoned Scorpio. Erza had re-quipped into her black wing armor and took to the sky. And Gray tried to flank and intercept them to set ice traps.

Erza saw the hound and flew down at high speed "moon flash!" She shouted and slashed at the hound. To her surprise it jumped and landed on the roof of a nearby building then continued running.

Lucy and Scorpio managed to get ahead of stunned Erza floating in the air. Lucy could see the hound on the roof and shouted to Scorpio "get that thing back down here"

"You got it!" He said " sand buster!" Suddenly a stream of sand came shooting out of his metallic tail barely hitting the beast but managing to force it down to the ground.

It was back up in an instant and then off running again. It managed to get a good lead on them before making a right turn and smashing into an ice wall.

"Ha! Gotcha!" Gray shouted.

The beast whined and then backed up and charged forward and broke through the wall smashing it with it's paws and nearly smashing Gray who stood behind the wall.

"What the hell will it take to make this thing stop" he said angrily.

"Having trouble ice princess?!" A newly revived Natsu said above the ice make wizard with Happy holding him in midair "I got this thing! Mach speed Happy!"

"Aye sir!" The exceed shouted happily going at an increased speed toward the hound.

After arriving above the beast Natsu lit his fists on fire shouting "bombs away!" And igniting his body on fire. Natsu landed directly on the back of the beast and in turn on top of Connor slamming the three of them into the ground. The hound yelped and whined as his fur burned when it tried to walk it limped and then fell to the ground howling in pain. Natsu got up "I got him!"

Connor got up and made a mental note to pummel the pinkette later for nearly killing him. He could hear the whine of the hellhound and quickly ran to it. Now that It was still Connor could see it was male. It looked bad he was scorched in several different places and he bled profusely in his left leg where he had gotten a piece of shrapnel stuck in his thigh. And as Connor looked at the damage he thanked his resistance to fire magic or he could've turned out the same way. The hound was crying and howling trying to run away. Connor suddenly came to a realization and shouted to Happy who was watching the whole thing from the air "Happy go get Wendy quick!"

"Why? Are you hurt?" The little cat asked.

"Just go!" Connor commanded.

"Aye sir!" Happy shouted and went to fetch the blue haired dragon slayer.

"Why are we getting Wendy?" Natsu asked.

"We made a terrible mistake Natsu" Connor replied.

"What do you mean? We got it" Natsu asked again confused.

"This hound is only a puppy he was just playing and the townspeople mistook him for a monster" Connor said "I knew there was something odd going on"

"A puppy! This things huge!" Natsu shouted " he attacked us and abducted you"

"Most young hellhounds are this big. And did he actually ever attack you directly while you chased him?" Connor asked

"Well no.." the pink haired man said.

Suddenly the rest of the team had finally caught up along with Wendy "Connor what's going on Happy said you might be hurt"

"No I'm fine. But please help the dog and do it quickly" he urged.

"But why?" She asked.

"Please Wendy just do it" he begged

"O-okay" she said giving in and rushing to heal the young pup.

"Why are you helping this thing?" Gray asked.

Connor quickly explained the situation.

"But it attacked us" Lucy said.

"No it didn't not intentionally at least" he argued "when you charged him he mistook it for a game and knocked everyone out of the way. If he wanted to kill us he would've been much more ferocious and used his teeth"

"I guess you're right" Lucy admitted.

"Um guys what am I gonna about this?" Wendy said pointing to the enormous piece of shrapnel in the pup's leg.

"I'll get it" Erza offered.

"I'll help" Connor said.

Together they gripped the piece "Wendy be ready to heal it or he'll bleed out" Erza said to which the the young girl responded with a nod."okay one! two! three!" Erza shouted and they yanked the piece out. The poor pup howled and cried while Wendy fixed it's wounds. Once it healed it slowly stopped crying and then stood on all fours looking at the three wizards who assisted it and then pounced them all at once and gave them a thorough licking. Erza and Wendy managed to get out but the pup kept licking Connor for a good five minutes. The group of wizards were laughing hysterically while Connor was getting drenched. The hound finally let Connor free and allowed him to stand.

"Wow Cus you're so slimy!" Natsu howled with laughter to which Connor replied with a deep throated growl.

Connor lit his body on fire and dried the saliva from his clothes and body "thank goodness for fire magic" he said. Erza and Wendy glared at him still soaked in saliva he laughed nervously fearing what they might have in store for him.

"So what do we do with the big guy?" Lucy asked "We certainly can't leave him or he might cause more destruction"

"Well he seems to like Connor" Gray observed "maybe he could take him"

"You can not be serious" Lucy said.

"That's an awesome idea Gray!" Connor said excitedly "I've always wanted a pet" Connor then rushed to the dog and wrapped his arms around "I'll call you Cerberus" the newly named Cerberus barked approvingly.

"You can't really be serious about this!" Lucy shouted "he isn't a tiny little beagle he's an enormous animal!"

"Hey if Natsu gets to have a flying cat I get to have a dog from hell" Connor argued.

"I agree with Gray and Connor in this case" Erza cut in "this would be the best solution"

"But...but...oh whatever no one listens to me" Lucy said admitting defeat.

"We should go tell the mayor what happened" Wendy said.

"Then I'll see you over there" Connor said getting on top of Cerberus' back "hey Natsu we'll race you and Happy"

"You're on Cus" Natsu said "let's go Happy!"

"Aye sir..." Happy said weakly falling to the ground.

"Happy?! You okay little buddy?" Natsu asked kneeling beside his best friend.

"I think I used too much magic power going mach speed" he groaned and passed out in Natsu's arms.

"Happy! Hang in there little buddy" Natsu shouted.

"Lets go Cerberus!" Connor commanded sending Cerberus dashing away.

"Connor and I shall meet the rest of you there" Erza said re-quipping into her black wing armor once again and taking off.

Lucy, Gray, Wendy, and a distressed Natsu were left in the dust.

"I wish Carla were here right now.. and not with the exceed queen" Wendy complained.

"We better start walking" Gray said.

Suddenly Natsu went sprinting past them cradling his exceed friend "don't worry buddy I'll get you some help!" He shouted quickly turning into a dot in the distance.

The three left behind all sweatdropped and kept walking. It had taken maybe ten or twenty minutes before they got back. Connor and Erza were arguing with the mayor and Natsu was still holding Happy close to his heart.

"this creature, this monster has to die" the mayor said "he's caused too much destruction to my city and will cause even more, accident or not"

"That's bullshit!" Connor shouted angrily holding Cerberus close "you can't kill my dog!"

"Then you get no pay!" The mayor shouted back.

"Mister mayor would you honestly kill an innocent animal?" Erza asked.

"Hell yeah I would this monster is going to cost me millions to repair all his damage!" He shouted "he's going to pay for that"

"Fine! Keep your stupid money! I'm keeping Cerberus" Connor shouted.

"Then get the hell out of my city!" The mayor shouted.

Erza sighed and grabbed Connor by the hood of his cloak and dragged him off as he looked he was about to burn the mayor to ash "come on Connor were going home"

Wendy had just finished helping Happy to calm Natsu down when Erza walked past with Connor behind her

"What happened Erza?" She asked.

"We're going home Wendy" she said still dragons Connor on his heels.

Connor huffed wanting to knock the mayor out then thought of a better option and smiled devilishly "Cerberus come here boy" Cerberus came to his master waiting to hear what he said "go give the mayor a little love" Cerberus sagged his tail and bounded toward the mayor.

The mayor began to panic when Cerberus pounced and began to lick him thoroughly "guards arrest that brat! He shouted.

Connor was laughing hysterically as the guards came out and began chasing after the Fairy Tail wizards in order to arrest them. Cerberus came bounding back barreling through the guards and back to his master's side barking happily.

And as he ran alongside his new friends escaping the guards that pursued them he thought to himself "I love this guild!"

Hey it's Natsu here

Hope you enjoyed this fun little chapter I enjoyed writing it. Well have a nice day.