"Man, whose stupid idea was it to walk anyway!" Gray moaned. "We didn't have much of a choice" Erza reminded him. "Happy! You've gotten us lost, again haven't you?" Mortis asked, with a growing smirk. "No" Happy shouted unconvincingly. Mortis raised her eyebrows as she said "We've been walking for three days." "What would you have done?" Natsu asked, defending his blue friend. "I said we should follow the train tracks back! But noooo. You convinced the group to follow Happy" Mortis reminded him. "How rude! I didn't get us lost the last time!" Happy moaned. "Look let's just get home and never get into a situation like this again" Mortis begged.
"Man I want some food!" Natsu moaned. "We all do! Talking about it will just make us hungrier!" Gray spat. "I can't help it if I'm hungry, jerk!" Natsu spat. "No but you can stop running your mouth can't you!" Gray shouted. "Listen up! We need some food" the master groaned. "Yeah we know!" both the boys shouted. Mortis couldn't but to notice that even though they hate each other because of their magic abilities, but in so many different ways they were the same.
"Enough!" Erza snapped. Then they all heard her growling stomach. Everybody stared at her as she stood there annoyed. "your stomachs trying to tell you something, isn't it?" Natsu said. "No it's not! Your hearing things!" she snapped. "Uh yeah, real convincing Erza" Gray said. "She'll make a meal out of you both if you don't shut up!" Mortis said, elbowing them both. "Come on. Are you saying you're not starving like we are? I mean you can't even create fire for Natsu to eat!" Gray argued. Mortis shrugged and said "I'm used to the feeling. We all ate last night, that means we haven't eaten in thirteen hours."
Happy suddenly screamed with joy. "What are you so excited about?" Natsu asked. "Down there! Look Natsu! LOOK!" Happy screeched. Everybody gathered around to see the flying yellow and blue fish singing "We can fly." "Those are winged fish! They are a legendary delicacy. And they're super yummy from what I hear!" Happy explained. He then started to chant "yum!"
Mortis looked down to the scaly fish and even though her stomach grumbled, she didn't like the look of them. "Legendary delicacy?" Gray asked. "Winged fish" Erza pondered. "Sound good to me" Natsu growled. "I dunno guys, they don't look good" Mortis said.
Natsu suddenly grabbed her by her scarf and screamed "so what! We're starving!" Mortis pulled back smirking as she said "fine, but I'm not having any." "We're not arguing about that" Gray said. Makorav had started crying by the time he reached Happy and said "well done Happy. You have made me so very proud."
"Come on! It's time to fish!" Happy ordered. Mortis walked off as the others sat on the edge of the cliff and started fishing. She led down and stared at the blue sky. Her injuries had started to clear up, but her strength was still weak. The master had seen her injuries and highly advised not to use her magic for a while.
Her stomach suddenly growled. "Still don't wanna fish?" Gray asked, laughing. "Nope" she said. She crossed her arms behind her head. She stated to reflect on her first adventure. Most of the time she felt useless. She had let her guard down all the time. She felt like a burden. "Was I a burden?" she wondered.
Natsu with his dragon hearing had heard that. He looked back to see her staring at the sky. "Hay guys, how do you think Mortis did during the battles?" he asked. "She did way better than I did that's for sure" Gray said. Erza laughed and asked him "may I pry for more detail?" "Well I took a job when I eight to protect a village against teen mandates. They had magic swords. I did such a terrible job" he explained.
The master laughed as he said "oh yes, I remember that. Your clients called for me to send someone to rescue you." "I just can't believe you chose Natsu" Gray growled. Natsu couldn't help but to laugh and tease "I was new then too!" "Shut up fireball!" "You should have done your job properly then! Ice princess!"
He then heard Mortis quietly laughing. "But no, Mortis is very talented at her dragon slayer magic" the master said. "Her ice magic needs more work" Erza said. "I'll sort that out" Gray smirked. "We've gotta fish harder guys!" Happy snapped.
Natsu started to wisper so only mortis's dragon ears could hear him. "See you weren't a burden" he said. Mortis smirked and whispered "thanks Natsu." "Seriously why aren't you fishing with us? I can hear your stomach and your starving more than we are from the sounds of it" he asked. He heard her take a deep breath. Mortis didn't want to confess, but he isn't stupid. "I use to starve myself. Before I met Igneel that is. I would go five days with no food and eat something small, then start the five days again. So, I'm used to this feeling" she explained.
"Are you serious? Why would you do that to yourself?" he asked. "Get into my belly, you hear! I'm gonna eat you fish!" Happy shouted, impatiently. "I don't really want to explain why. All I'll say is, I hated my life at the time." "Whatever I give up" Happy said. Mortis sat up and said "really? Come on Happy." "I didn't catch any fish Mortis" he said, scowling. Mortis walked over and knelt down to the blue cat an said "you were saying five minutes ago how much you really wanted to eat one. Come on Happy you can do it" she smiled. Happy looked up at her, then ran off crying "I can't help that I'm little!" Mortis was confused and shouted "I was trying to be encouraging!"
She stood up and walked over to the edge and said "Gray make me a spear." Gray stood up and said "Ice make spear!" and spear form. He gave it to Mortis. She aimed for one of the fish and threw it. it pinned a fish to the side of the cliff. "There!" she said. Happy flew down, scaring off the other winged fish and brought up the only catch.
"All that trouble for one fish!" Erza growled. Mortis had started to become scared of Erza when she became angry. Natsu used his flames to cook the fire. "Go ahead and eat it Happy" he grunted. "But that wouldn't be fair on you guys would it?" he asked. "It too small to split up, if we had a bite we would just want more" Gray said. "Go on Happy. I did catch it, thinking of you" Mortis smiled. "Just hurry up and eat it before we change our minds!" Makorav screamed. Happy picked it up happy as he said "ok don't mind if I do!"
As he ate the fish, the other started to go insane as their stomachs were begging for the smallest of bites. Mortis was surprised when she found herself acting the same. "GROSS!" Happy screamed, spitting the taste out of his mouth. "What!" Natsu screamed. "Are you joking?!" Gray shouted, frustrated. "Told you so" Mortis said.
They started walking again. "I hate to say it but…" Natsu started. "All that fishing" Gray continued. "Made me hungrier" the master finished. "Look talking about it won't help. Talk about something else and before you know it, we'll be home" Mortis suggested. "A village!" Erza announced. "Houses!" Gray smiled. "And that means there must be…" Happy said. "FOOD!" Natsu screamed as they ran into the village. Mortis ran along laughing. However, they stopped when something didn't feel right. "There's no one here" Gray said. "Way to state the obvious" Mortis said. "It's really quiet, isn't it?" Happy asked. "Maybe they're taking an afternoon nap or something" Natsu suggested. "Hay! Anybody here!"
"how can an entire village be napping at the same time?" Mortis asked, wondering how his pink haired brain worked. "I dunno what else could it be?" he asked. "Maybe nobodies here" Mortis said, shrugging. "Either that or they passed out drunk" the master suggested. "No this isn't the guild" she said. He laughed as he said "we do love our spirits don't we?"
They all stared off wondering where all the villagers were. Mortis quickly reminded herself of the episode she was at. Episode nine? This was a very weird episode. She didn't really know what happens or why it happened. This was just a small story that had no huge impact on the main story so she decided to let this story plan out as it should.
"You guys can stay out here all day if you want, but I'm gunna find a kitchen to raid!" Natsu said, running off. Gray had caught up with him as he said "shame on you for even thinking of robbing this place Natsu!" "Your just mad I thought of it first." Mortis sighed as she started to catch up them as she said "thirty."
She was surprised to see that they were running faster than she had ever seen them on an empty stomach. And that Gray can run faster than Natsu. They ran up to the nearest home and Natsu started banging on the door. "Hay any one home?" he panicked. When he didn't get a reply he grunted and started banging on the door again as he pleaded "come on give us something to eat, we're dying." Then the door opened. They all walked in to find bread and rice hot on the table. The smell did make Mortis stomach growl to the point it hurt.
"Looks like nobodies here" Gray observed. "Who cares? There's food" Natsu said, picking up a bread and smelling it. "Natsu! That's somebody else's food" Mortis said. "So? They aren't here to eat it, so its up for the grabs. Mmm, it still smells fresh. Open wide" Natsu smiled. "Not so fast" Erza ordered. "What is it now?" Natsu moaned like a child. "There's something strange here" she said. "She's right. Who would leave a table full of food left like that? If somebody cooked this, then where the heck are they now?" Gray wondered. "How should I know. Anyway ready to dig in Happy?" "Aye" Happy drooled. Before they could take a bite, Mortis created two small icicles and shot them at the bread, taking them from their hands and pinning them to the walls.
"What was that for?!" Happy moaned. "Come on Mortis we're starving" Natsu growled. "I wouldn't trust that food" she said. "Yeah right. Anyway you're not suppose to be using your magic anyway!" he moaned. The master nodded in agreement and said "Mortis you should use it until you've eaten and your wounds have healed. I don't care if was a small amount of energy you used." "OK, but we should investigate the village before we eat" she suggested.
"Are you serious?" Natsu moaned. "NATSU! We investigate first. Well held on this long, we can hold on…" Her stomach interrupted her. "Her stomach made other plans" Mortis mumbled. "Which one do we listen too?" the master asked. "Search the village for mushrooms or anything that looks edible. Don't eat the food in the village ok!" Erza ordered. "While you four are doing that master and I will figure out what's going on!" "Yeah Yeah I hear ya. Let's go Happy. You coming Mortis?" Natsu asked. "Right behind you" she answered.
They walked to the woods outside the village to find loads of small mushrooms. Mortis cringed at the sight of them. They looked disgusting and like they had been spat up. "Stupid Erza, how am I suppose to get full on a bunch of mushrooms? The food back there look really good too, o…" Natsu finally saw the mushrooms. "Hay look mushrooms" Gray glanced. "I take it back. These look tasty!" Natsu drooled. "I wouldn't eat them" Mortis said. "Oh come on. This would be the part when Natsu does something really stupid!" Happy said. "Give me some credit Happy, you think I would fall for some lame gag like that?" He turned towards them and said "no way."
He stood up with his arms full of mushroom and said "these mushrooms aren't very big but if I keep eating them, I'm bound to get full right?" Gray stuffed his mouth as he said "better start picking faster." Mortis started to remember what happened when you eat the mushrooms. Natsu suddenly gagged and held his neck. "What's wrong?" Mortis asked. Suddenly a pink mushroom sprouted from his head. "That was scary" Natsu breathed. Mortis blew raspberry's as she slapped her hand over her mouth.
Gray walked up next to Natsu and asked "what you laughing at Mortis?" He had a ble mushroom on his head. Mortis was laughing as she said "look at each other would ya?" they turned to each other and pointed and screamed. "Ha Ha. There's a mushroom on your head" Natsu laughed. "Oh yeah, well I bet yours is bigger than mine!" Gray shouted. "Oh man! Shut up! Natsu your mushroom is bigger! Gray your mushroom is uglier! Now shut up!" Mortis shouted. "Hay droopy eyes, what the heck you laughing about?!" Natsu asked, glaring at Gray. "Me? What you laughing about Shroom Head!" then they started to fight each other. "Crap" mortis moaned. Her stomach was in a lot of pain form her side wound and she was struggling to keep up her energy.
They stopped to catch their breath. "Guy's come on. You're wasting the energy you have on fighting each other, just pack it in!" Mortis begged. "Hay Mortis! Check out this mushroom" Happy said, with a mushroom the same size as him. "Wow that's a big one Happy" Mortis said, turning around. "Wow it's huge" Natsu said. "Yeah we could eat of that thing for days" Gray said. "Just eat the mushroom on your headfirst" Mortis said.
Happy bit into it. "Oh man Happy!" Mortis moaned, while pace palming herself. "What?" he asked. She then pointed to both Natsu and Gray. He then choked as a mushroom grew out of his head. "wow I guess that's what happened to everyone who eats these things huh?" Natsu suggested. "I wonder if the villagers knew some way around this problem" Gray pondered. "Yeah, like maybe they cooked it first!" Mortis spat. "Who knows maybe they like the way it looks" Natsu said. "Yeah maybe we'll be in style when we get back to town" Gray laughed. Natsu and Mortis laughed too. "It's not funny this time" Happy cried. "Hay you gotta laugh at yourself sometimes!" Mortis shouted. She looked over to Natsu to see his mushroom had grown bigger.
Suddenly a sound like growling and howling filled their ears. "Do you hear that?" Natsu asked. "What is it?" she asked. The boys mushrooms glowed then fell off their heads. "Yeah, the mushrooms fell off" Happy cheered. "Nope, you still have yours" Mortis said.
Everybody started to run back to the village shouting "Erza! Gramps!" "Get this thing off my head. It's not funny when the joke it on me!" Happy moaned. "So is" Mortis mumbled with a growing smirk. "Erza!" Natsu shouted. "Gramps" Mortis said. Red glows came from lines through the village. "Be careful Happy" Natsu warned his friend. "Aye" Happy said. "Here Happy" Mortis offered. He flew up on her shoulders.
Suddenly some of the village buildings started to glow red and ripple. "Wow what's with this place? Natsu asked. "Why are only certain building moving?" Mortis wondered. "They're having a dance party huh!" Happy chirped. "I don't think that's it Happy" she said. The ground started to ripple. Mortis was glad her balance had improved, otherwise she would have fallen.
"It can't be" the master said. "It's time to rumble gramps" Gray said, shirtless as he summoned his ice magic. "No wait!" "What why?" he asked. "We need to get to higher ground. There's something I have to check" the master explained. "Alright guys let's go! Try to stay close" Erza said. Happy jumped off Mortis's shoulders and started to fly. They ran up to a cliff edge that looked over the intire village. By this point, all the buildings in the village were glowing red and rippling.
Suddenly the village turned into massive brown purple monsters. "Man, looks like we got out just in time" Natsu said. "yeah no kidding" Mortis said, wide eyed in wonder. She didn't feel the same fear she had when she saw lullaby so she took the opportunity to analyse the creature so she could remember for the future. "Now I see. It was a magic circle" Erza said. "Huh" they looked at her. "That's right. Those lines we saw were carved into the ground, to form a massive magic circle for a type of magic that was banned many years ago a sealing magic that was known as ami" the master explained. "Ami?" Mortis asked, as she looked back to the creatures. "How does it work?" she asked. "See for yourself. It's exactly what it looks like, it has the ability to turn examinant objects into living creatures. It appears the villagers cast the forbidden spell, only to end up being eaten by the very monsters they brought to life!"
"Man that's brutal, but why would they do that?" Mortis wondered. "This village was home to a dark guild" Erza said. "No way" Natsu gasped. Mortis slumped and said "we just got done with Eisenwald!" "While investigating I came across a collection of magic tools that was tucked away in a shed. After further inspection, they were tools used to practise black magic" Erza explained. "knowing how reckless dark guild can be, they properly thought up some plan and wound up being burned in the process. But! There is one thing we should be grateful for" the master said. "Oh yeah?" Natsu asked. "What's that?" Gray asked. They all looked at the master for his answer. "the dark guilds mischief brought these creatures to life. And most living creatures can be turned into food!" he shouted.
Gray and Natsu both had a smirk on their faces as they prepared to kill the creatures. "Gray put your damn shirt on!" Mortis screamed. "Huh?" he asked. All their stomachs growled together. "Now it's times to chow!" Natsu shouted. "Yeah. I'm right behind you Natsu" Happy jumped. "At this point I don't even care what they taste like!" Gray shouted. Erza brought out a sword and threw it to Mortis. "Here. You shouldn't be using your magic, so use this for the meantime" she said. "A sword?" mortis asked confused. "I saw your skill with weapons with the battle of Lullaby. You will do much better with this" she said. Mortis smirked and said "thanks." They both nodded.
They jumped off the cliff edge. "It's time to get some grub!" Natsu said. "Save some for me you guys!" the master shouted. They landed by the side of the magic circle and the monsters. Mortis felt confident as this would be a new type of test. A test of her strength and weapon skills. "Now listen up dinner! Before I eat you let me tell you a little secret" Natsu shouted. Mortis was smiling at Natsu for his sense of humour. "I'm an awesome chef. And I love to flame bam!" he said. "You cook? Whatever!" Mortis laughed. "Shut up you know what I mean!" Natsu shouted. He jumped to the creatures shouting "fire dragon, iron fist!" and hit the creatures hard." "Sorry but your toast!" he shouted. He used his iron fist again. He then kicked into some of the boulders causing the crumbled rock to fall on the creatures, trapping them. He landed on top of the trapped creatures and said "I'll cover them up and let them steam for a little bit."
"Normally I'd save dessert for after the meal. But not today!" Gray smirked. "Man they're puns are so bad" Mortis said. A creature raged at Gray. "Ice make fishnet!" he shouted, trapping the creatures in ice. "Anybody want to try a monster popsicle?" he asked.
Mortis suddenly saw a monster raging towards her. She jumped backwards, landing on top of the monster after it crashed into the ground. Everybody stopped and watched her run up its back, while sliding her sword in its back. "Argh!" she screamed as it was exhausting and she couldn't use her magic. She jumped after the sword was sliced through the head. The creature roared and fell to the ground. Mortis knelt as she landed. She flicked the blood off the sword as she stood up and looked back to the creatures. "She used no magic power to kill them" Natsu said. "She definitely strong even if she didn't have any magic abilities" Gray said.
The remaining creatures were left to Erza. "it's time to start cooking" she said. "Reequip!" she shouted as she changed into her chef's armour. She sliced the creatures into many pieces. They started to fall like rain. "Wow" Mortis said. "The trick is to cut them into perfect little bite size pieces, exactly 5cm long and 4mm wide" she explained.
As the master watched them killing the creatures he said "I wish they would hurry. I'm starving here." Natsu jumped down from the cooked meat he just fried. Mortis walked over asking "any spares?" he looked over and said "sure. I also cooked the one you killed. Here you go!" he said, throwing a cooked tentacle at her. She grabbed it and said "thanks!"
Happy screamed behind them as he was stuck on top of a living chair. It ran past them. "happy?" she asked. "What's going on? I don't care how hungry he is, he can't eat a chair" Natsu said. "Natsu he looks stuck" she said. "he'll be fine. Anyway, dig in!" he said. Everybody bit into their meal and swallowed. Everybody paused with the taste. Mortis was disgusted by the taste. She could still feel the tentacle moving on her tongue. Its roasted blood tasted like tomato juice mixed in with milk and a rotten egg. She spat it out and said to herself "man I forgot that these were bad."
"What the heck were you thinking Gramps? There's no way we can eat this nasty stuff" Natsu asked. "you trying to kill us you old geazer!" Gray spat. "You want us to get food poisoning?" Mortis shouted. "True, I would hardly call this edible" Erza said. Suddenly Happy and his living chair crashed into the side of the cliff. "Happy?" Mortis asked.
Every saw him laid on the ground hurt. Suddenly his mushroom fell off. "your mushroom finally fell off look" Gray said. "I don't care about the stupid mushroom. I want to know why you guys didn't help me!" Happy screamed, waving his arms frantically. "How could you be so mean I thought we were friends?!" "We are" Natsu said. "you weren't just goofing of right?" Gray asked. Happy stood there dumbfounded. Mortis smacked his head and said "Gray! Anyway why didn't you just let go of the chair and fly away?" Mortis asked Happy. He still stood there shocked.
"What are we going to do now? I would rather starve than eat more of that stuff" Erza asked. "I guess that's what we get for trying to cook up a bunch of monsters" Gray said. Mortis nodded in agreement as Natsu said "Man this sucks all that barbequing made me even more hungrier than before."
Mortis suddenly saw a monster rise behind Happy. "Happy!" she shouted, kicked it hard in its stomach. Happy ran to Natsu. Their tentacles surrounded the group. "Man these things are nasty!" Gray said. "In more ways than one" Erza agreed. Mortis raised the sword ready to strike. "I'm going to blow them to pieces!" Natsu shouted. He jumped and shouted "fire dragon wind attack." "Ice wall!" Erza reequipped into her knights armour.
Mortis jumped up as high as she could and started to spin, with her sword pointed out, striking down the monsters as she flew to the ground. "Take this!" she shouted as she landed. The monsters fell cut up into pieces. They all landed together. But more monster rose from the ground. "They just keep coming" Natsu said. "How much longer can we keep this up?" Mortis asked. Suddenly everything around them started to glow red and purple. "The magic circle!" Gray shouted. "Are you kidding me?" Natsu asked, shocked. "Wow it's so pretty" happy said. "yeah it is" Mortis said. She knelt down to get a closer look at the circle. "This is bad" Erza said. The monsters started to sink into the circle, leaving it left.
Mortis stared deep into the circle as she saw a face appear in it. "Zeref?" she whispered. She couldn't be sure, but she recognised his smile, like he was observing her. The cliff started to crumble. "Run for it!" Erza shouted. Mortis didn't hear her as the face vanished. The ground crumbled under their feet and they started to fall into the circle. They all screamed apart from Mortis. She stared at the sky getting darker as she wondered what Zeref was doing in the circle.
Mortis walked with the group. "I'm starving like for real!" Natsu moaned. Happy flew past him as he said "I can't walk another step you guys" "Well it's good thing you have wings, you show off" Gray grunted. Mortis was still deep in thought. "I'm still confused" she admitted. "um master?" Erza said. "yes" he said. "I'm not satisfied with your explanation sir." "Is that so?" the master asked.
Two hours earlier the group were back in the village with its people. "Now spill it! What were you people trying to pull?"" Natsu demanded. "We were using the magic circle to cast forbidden spells, but those monsters appeared and took over everyone in town" a villager explained. "So those monsters we fought, you trapped inside them?" Erza asked. "We stepped into the circle we activated the spells, then we didn't have any control of ourselves" another villager with a small tree on his head explained. "Well you don't have to worry about that happening again" the master announced. The villagers were all in shock. "Why?" Mortis asked. "there no need to explain my child" the master smiled.
His face then grew serious as he said "now as for all you villagers! You should be grateful that somebody came along and freed you from your possessions. I assume you've learned your lesson from this the miss use of magic and as long as it doesn't happen again I won't report it to the council. Is that a deal?" the master asked. "yes of course. We never want to go through that again! Thank you so much." "You have our word." Mortis was scanning through the villagers looking for Zeref. "Mortis come on. We're going now!" Gray said. She turned to them as she said "yeah, ok."
"So they made some kind of self-destruction spell within the circle. That's when you came in" Erza said, working it out. "in a blink of an eye you saved us, saved the villagers and destroyed the magic circle before it could destroy the village and everyone in it. How did you do it?" she asked, intrigued. "I'll tell you someday. But what matters now is that…" "We're all still hungry!" they all shouted. Mortis joined in so she wasn't looking suspicious. She had many questions. But the biggest one was why did Zeref appear in the magic circle?
Hi Guys. So I have finish episode 9. Please leave some reviews as I really do appreciate them. And let me know what you think should happen next with Mortis and her knowledge of the future.