The Tenrou Group Lives On - Chapter 11 - The Dragons
What happens if Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza gets left behind? The guild is gone. There are only three people left to protect Fairy Tail for 7 years. There are only three members of Fairy Tail to take control and run Fairy Tail till they return. Natsu must become the guild master until they return.
Natsu x Mirajane x Erza
"My keys..." Lucy whispered as she ran across the abandoned white clean hallways of the castle with Mirajane and Erza behind her. As they ran she hadn't realized that there wasn't a jingling noise coming from her hip. When she looked down her loop of gold and silver keys were gone. "They're gone!" Lucy gasped as she stopped and kept patting her hips were her keys should have been.
"Maybe you dropped them?" Mirajane asked as she turned around and looked along the floor for where they could have dropped onto the ground while they ran. They were in a hurry as the Dragons were supposed to be coming at any moment and they needed to find a spot to be at during the fighting that was bound to come.
"No... I would have heard them hit the ground." Lucy replied as she began to shake in panic. Her keys were her love... they were everything to her. "They had to have been taken or stolen from me..." Lucy whispered as she panicked even more. Her mind was going in every direction as she panicked even more.
"Who would want to steal your celestial keys?" Erza asked as she looked at her. They were standing in the white hallway of the Crocus castle while at any moment Dragons could come and attack. Erza was trying to think and figure out who would want the keys.
"That's easy... the only device that's using them to unlock its door."
"Loke?" Lucy gasped as she watched Loke's door open out of nowhere and Loke in his black suit walked out to greet the three ladies. Loke stood there with his orange hair spiked like a lion as he looked at Lucy with a bright white smile.
"Yes my dear?" Loke replied Lucy as he walked up to her. He could already feel someone who he didn't know holding his key, he knew that Lucy didn't have her key. So Loke used his own magic to go through the gate and see what was going on, there he saw that someone had stolen Lucy his masters key's.
"I'm sorry... I think my keys got taken." Lucy cried as she looked at Loke with a few tears rolling down her pink tainted cheeks. She honestly didn't know what she would do without her keys.
"Don't worry, will get them back. Just one question... why were you running in the opposite direction of them?" Loke asked as he used his magic to sense were his golden key was being held at.
"Opposite...? You've got to be kidding me... that means were going towards where the Dragons are supposed to come!" Erza yelled. She didn't mind going back as that meant she could help Natsu in the fight but she was also worried about the two children growing in her and Mirajane's stomach.
"Dragons...?" Loke muttered in shock as his eyes opened wide in shock over what he was hearing. This was the first time he was hearing that Dragons were coming to Crocus.
"Yes... Dragons. Hm... That means you didn't get to listen to Haru and Fuyu's story." Lucy replied back as he began to think. She was trying to figure out what Loke didn't know.
"Who are Haru and Fuyu? Also why do they sound hot?" Loke replied with a perverted smile on his face.
"Ahem... Fuyu and Haru are my husband's, Mirajane's, and my daughters." Erza told Loke as a tick mark appeared on the side of her head. Erza made a small smile on her face as she walked up to Loke and slammed her fist in his face.
"W-what... daughters? When the hell did you even get pregnant?!" Loke yelled as he rubbed the large new pink bump on his head from Erza's hard fist.
"Oh my... I think we've never told Loke." Mirajane giggled as she looked at Erza.
"I guess we haven't..." Erza sighed as she agreed with Mirajane.
"Never told me what?" Loke asked Mirajane as she raised his eyebrow up and looked at her.
"This isn't really a good time to tell people but... me and Erza are pregnant." Mirajane answered Loke with a beautiful smile.
"Okay... well congratulations to you both... but tell me. If your two children are still um... growing inside of you... how can they tell you a story?" Loke asked as he tried to make sense of situation and ask them question.
"There from the future." Lucy helped explain to Loke.
"Future... got it." Loke replied with a sigh and started to think.
"We're not crazy Loke and shouldn't we be figuring out how to get Lucy's key back. Also what's being done with them?" Mirajane suggested and asked as she tried to get everyone back on topic. Time was running past them quickly and the Dragons had to be coming... or be coming from the gate.
"True... keys first, that's the first priority. Ok here's a good plan, I'll go with Lucy while you two go hide and be safe." Loke suggested as he thought of a plan.
"No thanks... I think me and Mirajane are going to be getting into this fight whether Natsu wants us to or not." Erza replied as she took a deep breath and smiled. Even though she understood why Natsu didn't want her in the fight, she needed to be there for her husband.
"What about your children? If you get hurt you might lose them." Loke replied as he looked at her with a bit of a sorrow. Children were always a reason why some people couldn't fight and now it was hitting Erza and Mirajane.
"Fighting for someone is always important. But like Loke said they both could hurt the children that just started their life in them... but whose say there isn't a way to protect them?" Mavis announced from where she was standing. Mavis was above them standing on a white beam.
"Mavis?!" Erza yelled in surprise. There above them was Mavis standing on a beam looking down upon them with a cute smile on her face.
"Mavis...? What are you doing here?" Mirajane asked in shock. She knew Mavis was lingering around Crocus as she had been there cheering on Fairy Tail as they competed in the Grand Magic Games.
"That's quite easy... I'm making sure none of my fairies get hurt. That includes those two." Mavis explained as she floated down to the white tile ground like a fairy. She was pointing to both Erza's and Mirajane's stomach. "If you two fight the chance of hurting them is quite great." Mavis informed Erza and Mirajane as both of their faces began to grow sad.
The two women didn't want to hurt either of their children. They just didn't know how to fight without hurting them.
"Then what do we do? If we fight... will hurt them or we might lose them. But if we stand back and don't fight... will feel like cowards." Mirajane replied as she looked sad and rested her smooth hand against her stomach. Her stomach already had a small hard bump sticking out from it. But no one could tell unless she had her stomach showing.
"Mirajane... Erza... you do know what type of guild we're in... correct?" Mavis answered with a smile that became ever bigger and brighter. White magic began to poor out of her hands and wrap around them like two gloves.
"Could... magic do that?" Erza whispered in disbelief at Mavis. She watched as white pure magic wrapped around her arms and began to form a small ball of light in each of her hands. Magic from all over her body went to it.
"I am a ghost… with a spirit. But... what most people don't know is that I can use magic if people channel their thoughts together and focus them. As of right now... your husband wants to protect you and the children. So do you two. With that... let me show how I can help protect them." Mavis announced and informed Erza and Mirajane as the two balls of light began to grow.
"FAIRY SPHERE!" Mavis screamed as she threw the two spheres at Mirajane and Erza as she watched them begin to work. Both orbs quickly broke apart in midflight and as they arrived at Mirajane and Erza. The white magic went straight through Erza and Mirajane's clothing as they started to wrap around there stomachs. Bright light began to shine and blind everyone as the magic invoked and began.
"They are now safe... now fight and protect the city. Fight together with your love." Mavis explained to Erza and Mirajane as the light died down and all what was left was a golden Fairy Tail symbol on both Mirajane's and Erza's stomach.
"Thank you Mavis..." Erza whispered as a tear rolled down her face. Erza quickly wiped the tear away and looked at Mirajane. "You ready?" Erza asked.
"Of course... seems were going to be bad girls. I hope Natsu punishes us after..." Mirajane giggled as she let her demon side loose once again. Sinister black magic began to glow around Mirajane as she turned around and began to walk toward where they were running from. Mirajane and Erza were about to join the fight.
"Seems you two are pumped up... guess it's our turn my lovely lady." Loke announced as he looked at Lucy with a bright smile.
"It seems so..." Lucy sighed and began to run with Mirajane, Erza, and Loke toward were the Eclipse Gates were at.
"So... we basically need to make sure this gate stays closed and Princess Hisui doesn't attempt to open them. Alright everyone?" Natsu informed all of Fairy Tail as they stood in a circle around Natsu. They were listening to what Natsu was telling them and getting direction on what to do.
"Wouldn't getting Princess Hisui not to open the gates be easy, we just have to tell her what's going on." Sting suggested as he listening to Natsu. They were all out in the castles courtyard while the King of Fiore was getting his guards to evacuate all of the town's people.
"Yeah... it should be. But we don't know what's going to happen. We will just have to wait and see what happens." Natsu replied as he gave them all his classic smirk. "Now let's go! Let's go to the Eclipse Gate and stop the princess before she does anything stup-." Natsu began yelling as he turned around.
Crack!
"Oh... don't tell me..." Gray began to mutter as everyone heard the cracking sound of two large heavy doors opening. The cracking earring sounding was sent all over Crocus as everyone stopped in shock. The gates had already begun to open.
"RUN!" Natsu screamed as he pushed off and started dashing at full speed towards the front of the castle. Time wasn't on their side and if they failed this, a large battle would be coming their way.
"High Speed!' Jet yelled as he caught up to Natsu and sped towards the gate as fast as he could. "Master... I'll meet you there and try to stop them." Jet announced as he pushed off in a dash, leaving everyone else behind him.
"Hopefully he'll get there in time." Natsu muttered quietly as everyone sped off towards the Eclipse Gate. A large fight was on its way.
As they all ran towards the gates, they passed empty homes, shops, and buildings. The city was slowly being evacuated so hopefully no one would be hurt in the battle was that was on the horizon. As they ran they only heard there footsteps hitting the brick paths and the grunting of their breaths. They needed to get there before anything else happened.
"Eclipse..." Erza muttered in shock as they ran out of the massive gray castle. As they entered the courtyard there breath was taken away at what they saw. In front of them were two insanely large bronze doors opening with well over 100 guards standing in front of it. In front of the guards was the princess of Fiore, Princess Hisui.
"My keys..." Lucy muttered as her eyes opened wide. There in Princess Hisui's hand were 12 golden keys. Her and Yukino's keys.
"Lucy?"
Lucy, Loke, Mirajane, and Erza all looked over and saw Yukino standing next to the princess and a guard that wore celestial white armor.
"Yukino...? What's going on, why does she have our keys?" Lucy asked Yukino as she saw the white haired girl from Sabertooth that looked like Lisanna.
"I'm helping... the Eclipse gates need to open so we cans top the 10,000 Dragons that are on their way here." Yukino explained in a small voice. She was like Lucy and didn't like someone else holding her keys but she knew that this was the right thing to do.
"Helping? I don't think you understand, the princess has been tricked!" Mirajane yelled as she butted in the conservation. The gate still was creaking open even more, time was running out. Even the guards were becoming scared as she saw them shiver with fear.
"That's wrong..." Princess Hisui muttered in reply. "That can't be right; the Eclipse Gate is a weapon. It will help us defeat the Dragons that are on their way here now!" Princess Hisui screamed. She trusted that man that told her about the information from the future. He even showed her that the future he told her was true; he knew that Fairy Tail would win even though Sabertooth would hurt them. The man named Larmin that told her that future was right.
"The... gates." Jet gasped for air as he arrived at the Eclipse Gates. As soon as he got there he looked up and saw the gate creaking open, things were already in motion. "CLOSE THE GATES!" Jet screamed at the top of his lungs. All around him people went silent, only the cricket from the night could be heard with the sound of creaking.
"What's going on? Why would we close the only thing that will save us?!" Princess Hisui yelled back. "We need the Eclipse Gates if we want to defeat the Dragons, we cannot close them!"
"You don't understand, you've been tricked! The gates are where the Dragons are going to be appearing from!" Jet yelled back. Of all people to scream at, he knew he was long passed the border as he screamed at the Princess of Fiore. But there was no time to think, only act. They were seconds away from the gates being open. Time was about to be up.
"Do not yell at our princess." The white night that stood by Princess Hisui spoke as he walked forward. He stood mighty in front of Jet.
Creak.
"The Eclipse Project has finished opening!" Princess Hisui yelled as all the soldiers around her burst into applause and cheering.
"No..." Lucy muttered as she shook with fear and took a step back. The Eclipse project was fully open, they failed. All hell was about to break loose.
"RAAAGGGGHHHH!"
Everyone stopped and stood there in silence as their eyes opened wide in shock. Their blood went cold, and there skin turned white. The first Dragon roar sounded across the city of Crocus with a long deep echo. The only problem was that the roar didn't come from behind them. It came from the doors.
"T-that... n-no…" Princess Hisui muttered in shock and fear. She took a step back as her body began to tremble; a tear ran down her face as it smeared her decorative make up. From her long flowing green hair to her green watery eyes and to her white dress she stood there as fear groped and ravished her body. The roar of the Dragon didn't come from behind her like it was supposed to; it came from in front of her. The only thing that stood in front of her was two large metallic bronze doors. The Eclipse Project.
No one moved a muscle, everyone stood in fear and shock as the first tremble ran through the ground. It sounded like a large boom hitting the ground and it made the ground tremble yet again. The Eclipse Project glowed white as it kept its bronze doors open, slowly by surely the white became black as a shadow appeared from it.
A large foot crashed onto the ground as everyone eyes looked at it. All they could see was a massive claw attached to a large foot. The foot was covered with blue swirling scales. Everyone in their mind wished that it wasn't true... in front of them, a Dragon was emerging.
Another loud booming sound echoed through the city as another blue swirly scaly foot came out of the white shinnying Eclipse Project. Slowly by surly the two foots pulled the rest of the body out of the gate and it showed itself. A Dragon walked out. This Dragon was light blue from every angle and each scale had swirls. Its heads was had a short neck and a long snout. It's under jaw was quite discolored and was gray as it kept its mouth closed. The light blue Dragon slowly finished stepping out of the portal and looked up.
"RAAAGGGGHHH!" A long echoing roar sounded throughout the city of Crocus, the first of many Dragons had walked out the Eclipse Gates. The Dragons were here!
Everyone Fairy Tail member stopped dead in their tracks. They were still running towards the Eclipse Gates as they heard a loud and mighty roar echo throughout the city. All they could do is stand there as fear coursed through their body. Fear was the only logical thing that there body could stand at that moment. Their blood went cold and a few of them shivered.
"They're here... they're actually here." Haru whispered tears began to run down her face. From her past she remembered that roar. A roar that she heard almost every night as the Dragon devoured humans and killed her family. A roar that she head when she watched her father die as her mother showed her how he died. A roar that she could never forget. Hers and her sister's plan failed, the Eclipse Project was active and Larmin had won.
"Shh… don't worry. We'll take care of things, I promise you." Natsu whispered in Haru's cold ear. His warm fiery breath sent waves of heat through her body and comforted her. Natsu grabbed Haru and brought her into a strong hug as he helped her best a father could.
'Don't worry? You're supposed to die here dad...' Fuyu thought to herself. 'Doesn't matter... Haru and I can make sure that doesn't happen this time. We're going to protect him and make sure he lives!' Fuyu told herself and looked up at the bright mood light shinnying down onto everyone. The white moon light kept the city lit up so they all could see easily; the longest night in their life was ahead of them.
"Master... what do we do? The Eclipse gates have opened." Sting asked as he stood there in shock. This was the first time he witnessed that Master Natsu's plan fail. But it wasn't just that, hearing a Dragon roar once again sent shivers down his body. On one side he was glad to hear a Dragon roar, but on the other side he was afraid to hear it again.
"Be ready to fight." Natsu answered as he looked at Sting. Natsu left a warm kiss on Haru forehead and set his eyes on Gajeel. Gajeel's body was still lined white badges but he knew he could still fight. "Gajeel, Laxus, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue... start preparing yourselves. All of us Dragon Slayers are about to be in the biggest fights of our lives." Natsu announced as he looked at each and every Dragon slayer.
They had no idea how many Dragons were going to coming out of the gates but they had to be ready. Everyone in Fairy Tail began to prepare there selves as they yet again heard a large roar echo throughout Crocus. They watched as glass from stores, homes, and towers crack and break instantly. A large stomping sound was heard as they all looked up and gasped.
A light blue scaled Dragon was slowly walking in the middle of Crocus. For most of every wizard there including Fairy Tail members, that was there first Dragon they had ever seen. It also might be the last thing they see.
Another large booming sound was heard as everyone gasped again. Every guard was shivering; every person stood there in shock as they watched another dark shadow appear from the white gate of the large bronze doors.
The first thing they saw was a large red smooth scaly foot step out of the gate. Another Dragon had arrived. From its large body which was coated red as they color of blood to its head where two large double spiked horns sat on top of him. Its snout was black as the night sky and its eyes glowed yellow like the sun. The bottom of its jaw was dark red as the top of its head was black. Its dark black and red body was covered with little jagged spikes that covered and protected it.
Everyone watched as they Dragon walked out and watched as the red Dragon open its wings. Its wings were black like night sky. A few of the guards stepped back as they felt the wing push them slightly.
"RRRAAAAGHHH!" The dark Dragon roar as it followed the first Dragon but instead of walked it got onto its hound legs. The dark Dragon suddenly pushed off into the air and began to fly around Crocus. The wind that the dark Dragon made from taking off pushed multiply guards down and everyone watched as buildings behind them collapsed down.
"Fire…?" Lucy muttered as she gasped again. She watched a red fire began to emerge from the large white gate and begin to light up the area where they stood. From the green grass to the cracked and destroyed road, it was now lit up as If it was day time.
"HEHEHE! RAAAAGHH!" Another long echoing sound was sent throughout the city of Crocus. As soon as they saw a large head appear from the gate which was on fire they gulped in fear. Instantly they all felt the blast of heat pass by them. There in front of them was a Dragon that was on fire. They watched it began to walk and roar again as buildings were caught on fire when the Dragon passed them.
"Three... Dragons." Loke muttered in shock as he stood there. Even though he was a celestial spirit and he had lived for a long time, he still had never seen a Dragon himself. He was dumbfounded at what he saw in front of him. Three large Dragons that towered over them and made the buildings in Crocus look small.
"RAAAAGGH!" Another Dragon screamed as a large shadow appeared in the white portal of the large bronze doors. Again everyone watched a large foot step out of the gate and saw it was dark brown like dirt and it looked like a rock. As the Dragon waked through and showed itself to everyone they saw how the Dragon looked like. It under belly was light brown while the Dragon looked as it was made out of rock. It head was cracked with stones sticking out were ears or horns were supposed to be. Its eyes shined black and its teeth were white. It scales were a mix of brown and gray like stone and dirt. It wings looked as if they were heavy to lift.
"Four Dragons..." Jet muttered in disbelief. 'How many Dragons are we going to let through before we close the gates?' Jet thought to himself as he began to looked around. Princess Hisui still was holding the twelve gates keys and her shinnying night In white now stood in front of her as he tried to protect her.
"RAAAAGGHH!" The large rock Dragon roared again as he walked out and leaned down. They saw the brown Dragon's tail as it looked like a huge ball of stone was stuck on the end of it. The bronze Dragon kept walking and its tail was free to roam and move as it wanted. Its tail raised high into the high and as it reached the highest it could go it began to fall back down to earth at the same location where Mirajane and Erza both stood in shock.
"That's four Dragon roars..." Natsu muttered as he ran through dimly lit pathways. He was trying to get to the Eclipse Gates the fastest he could. His own fiery blood was running cold from what he was hearing. Like his daughters told him... the Dragons would come from the Eclipse Gates and so far they were right. Everything that both of them had explained to him was coming true. Time was up.
As Natsu reached the courtyard where he saw the metallic bronze gates of the Eclipse Gates his mind screamed. It wasn't that large brown ad gray Dragon that stood there that made him mentally scream. It was what was coming down right onto his wives; Mirajane and Erza.
"MIRAJANE, ERZA!" Natsu screamed at the top of his lungs as he grabbed the corner of the building he passed by and pulled himself at an alarming speed towards his wives. He watched them finally break the trance they were in as they tried to get out of the way. But it was to no avail as they saw they weren't going to make it. The large boulder that was attached to the brown Dragon's tail smashed onto the ground as it destroyed everything under it as the ground cracked and became destroyed.
"Erza... Mirajane..." Lucy muttered in shock as she looked over to where Mirajane and Erza stood. As she watched the large brown Dragon's tail lift up, there was nothing there. Only a deep creator was left where they stood.
"Yes?"
Lucy quickly turned to the right and saw Mirajane, Erza, and Natsu all lying down on the ground. Natsu was gasping for air on the floor while Erza stayed in Natsu's strong grip. Mirajane also stayed there for a few second before she replied to Lucy.
"You know... there was a reason why I asked you two to stay in hiding and in a safe place." Natsu announced as he calmed himself down. His wives were safe and that was the most important that.
"We know... but did you really think we wouldn't join this battle?" Erza asked she replied to Natsu. She had been married to Natsu for well over 5 years. They all three knew everything about each other.
"Heh should have figured that you two would do that." Natsu laughed as he pulled himself up and sat there holding Mirajane and Erza. Natsu smiled as he moved Erza's messy red hair out of her face and captured her red lips. As he kissed her he moved Mirajane's messy snowy white hair from her face and kissed her as well. "Are you sure you two can fight? What about them two?" Natsu asked as he touched Erza's stomach with his left warm hand and touched Mirajane's stomach with his right hand. He felt two small bumps and ran his hand across hem as he knew those two small bumps were a bump of a child.
"Don't worry about us... Mavis has taken care of it." Mirajane replied as she pulled her shirt up slight so her stomach was showing. On her stomach a golden Fairy Tail mark was shined brightly to Natsu's amaze. "Fairy Sphere..." Natsu muttered in shock as he looked at the symbol.
"That's correct that what Master Mavis casted on us to protect our child." Erza informed Natsu with a smile. Erza went to lean onto Natsu for another kiss but was interrupt by a large booming noise. They watched as another large dark shadow appeared from the large white gate. The fifth Dragon had arrived.
Another Dragon emerged from the gate and this Dragon was bright red. Its scales were small but from far way you could tell they were sharp. The red Dragon walked forward and showed its head to everyone. The red Dragon had a massive claw that attached to it head. The top part was a part of its head and the bottom part was connected to its jaw. Together to the parts could cut down anything it wanted to. As the red Dragon finished walking out of the gate it looked around. It red scaly body began to walk forward again as it ignored all the humans walking round. Five Dragons had appeared from the gate so far.
"Jellal..." Ultear whispered as she walked up to him. She, Jellal, and Meredy were all three looking at each other as they waited there in silence for someone to speak next. All three of them were standing on top of a large mountain that over looked Crocus. All three of them knew what the meeting was about... they could still hear the roars from where they were at. So far they knew there were 5 Dragons in Crocus already rampaging and walking around.
"If what Fuyu and Haru said were true… then are best bet is to get him out of jail, isn't it?" Meredy asked as her words were sent at Jellal. Of course they did want to break yet another person out of jail. But they had almost no choice because of the moment and what was going on.
"Or we could attempt to talk to the magic council..." Jellal suggested as he knew if they were to break yet another person out of jail. The magic council would try even harder to find him. At the moment he was lucky that the council was going quite easy on him.
"That's true... some of us do listen."
Another dead silence happened as Jellal, Ultear, and Meredy looked to their side to see who else had arrived. As they looked over they saw a man with a deep scar on the left side of his face. The man had jet black hair, green eyes, and wore the white and blue magic council uniform. To the right stood another magic council person... a man with black hair as well and glasses.
"Lahar... Doranbolt." Jellal announced the two names out into the open air with a hiss as he took a step back. Jellal was ready to run and leave everything behind again.
"We're not here to arrest or take you down Jellal." Doranbolt announced with his rough voice. He took a step forward and began why he was there for. "We need a plan to save Crocus and stop the Dragons that are still coming through the Eclipse Gate." Doranbolt announced as he looked at Jellal, Ultear, and Meredy.
"Master Natsu and Fairy Tail are attempting to close the gate now before any more Dragons come out of it. But still… they will also be using the other Guilds to help stop the Dragons. The Dragon Slayers are the main people we need to help." Ultear explained what was going on in the city to Doranbolt and Lahar. Still they had no idea how many Dragons would walk out of the gate and knew they needed every Dragon slayer they could get their hands on.
"So... who would you need out of jail to help? I only know of one Dragon Slayer that we have locked up." Doranbolt informed Ultear as he stared into her gray eyes. Doranbolt could tell that Ultear wanted to help more for a reason. There was another reason why that she was hiding.
"Hm... I see. Let's make a deal then." Lahar announced as he smiled.
"No, Jellal isn't going back to jail!" Meredy firmly yelled at Lahar. She wasn't going to let Jellal go back to jail just to unlock one other man. It had taken them over three months of planning and almost six months to break Jellal out of jail when herself and Ultear first came back from the Tenrou island accident.
"Let me explain first before you interrupt me." Lahar sighed aloud, before Meredy interrupted him he was going to add what the deal was. "We will release Cobra, the Dragon Slayer we have locked up if Ultear tells us the rest of the information of why they are trying so hard to help. We were never told why convicts have tried so hard to help and why Fairy Tail took you three in." Lahar informed everyone.
"That's simple. I love Natsu and in the future this is where Natsu gets killed at. I will not let that happen this time around." Ultear told Lahar and Doranbolt with a straight face. It was the truth and she was not going to let anything happen to him. Whether Mirajane or Erza liked it or not... she was going to love Natsu more than anything in her life.
"We were lucky as well. After Ultear and Meredy broke me out of jail... they both fell ill. Apparently one of your guards had poison on his sword. During the break out both Ultear and Meredy got hurt and well... we were lucky. Natsu, Erza, and Mirajane came around and saved their lives. Since then Natsu has helped us keep hidden from the magic council while we corrected our wrongs." Jellal finished informing Lahar and Doranbolt. Every word was the truth. Ultear and Meredy both would have died if it hadn't been for Natsu.
"Direct Line." Doranbolt muttered as he began to shiver and suddenly disappeared. All that was left where he was standing was a bit of dust.
"Doranbolt will grab Cobra... let's hope were in time to help them." Lahar announced with a smirk on his face. Even though his body told him to take Jellal out here and now... he knew the right thing to do was to save Crocus first. Saving lives were more important than taking Jellal out.
"RAAAAAGGHH!"
"Another Dragon..." Natsu muttered quietly. Both Mirajane and Erza were leaning on Natsu as they watched the shadow appear. Another Dragon began to walk out of the gate as it slowly walked forward. All they could do was sit there on the broken crushed pathway and watch as the massive Dragon appear from the gate. A sixth Dragon was here.
The sixth Dragon that walked out was a dark vomit green color. Its scales were jagged and his skull was flat with a flat nose. The green Dragon had a pair of massive large green wings and in between his wings there was a row of spikes. The green Dragons belly and under wing was light green.
"RRRAAAAGHH!" The Dragon roar as everyone watched it open its mouth and show its large white canine sharp teeth to everybody.
"Six Dragons... how many are we going to let in?!" Jet asked as he yelled at the top of his lungs so everybody could hear him. He was nervous out of his mind scared. The story that Haru and Fuyu told everyone was coming true.
"I don't know... we don't even know how to close the gates!" Natsu replied as he stood up and helped both of his wives up. Once they were both up Natsu, Erza, and Mirajane ran towards where Loke, Lucy, and Jet stood. "Do any of you know how this Eclipse Gate is running or how we can close it?" Natsu asked to everybody.
"In a way I do... I think." Loke replied as he began to think. His thoughts ran through his mind but as soon as his eyes looked at his key in the palm of Princess Hisui's hand he knew the reason. "Celestial keys..." Loke muttered as his eyes staid focused on the golden keys.
"What about them?" Erza asked as she looked over to Princess Hisui. Yes there were 12 golden celestial keys in her hand. But what did they have to do with the gate?
"That's how the gate is running. Now I understand." Loke thought aloud and began to explain. "First look at the gate... how many locks are on it?" Loke asked as he began to bring together his thoughts and idea.
"Twelve..." Mirajane announced as she looked up and saw 12 bronze locks surrounding the two large bronze doors. All twelve looked as if a pin had been brought into each one. They were unlocked.
"Exactly... it's using the magic of the Celestial keys to unlock and run. The Eclipse gates were a project that the city of Crocus built to go back in time and kill Zeref. But instead it became a portal... the red moon, the lunar eclipse above us must have interfered with it." Loke informed everyone as he processed his thoughts and explained it to everyone. The process was simple, but someone had tricked the Princess to open them on the day that the red moon appeared. The full red moon high in the sky interfered and changed it from a portal to the past to a portal from the past. Now Dragons were coming out of it.
"RAAAAGHHH!"
"Another one..." Loke muttered. "We need to close the gates fast!" Loke yelled as he looked over at Natsu. Natsu's cold black eyes were set on the gates as his white wizard saint jacket flapped back in fourth in the slight wind around them. His ears were perked up and looked as if he was ready to pounce on something.
"Get your keys back from the princess and close the gates..." Natsu muttered as thoughts ran through his mind. At that moment as the seventhDragon appeared his nose picked up a strangely familiar smell of someone. The smell of a demon that had attacked his family. Natsu turned around and began to walk towards the center of Crocus.
"Good luck Natsu... don't get yourself hurt, alright?" Mirajane whispered as she watched Natsu leave without a word.
"Natsu!" Natsu heard to his right and as he looked over he saw a blue fur ball with white wings flying straight at him. "Hey Happy..." Natsu waved at him as he kept walking.
"Where are you going?" Happy asked as he hovered over Natsu.
"Going to go stop someone..." Natsu replied. "If you can... please stay with Erza and Mirajane, they could use your help." Natsu asked as he smiled at his little buddy.
"Aye sir!" Happy yelled with a small smile and dashed towards where he saw Erza and Mirajane standing. Even though his little heart was beating fast in fear, he knew to stay close to his family as they would always help and protect each other. As Happy arrived he stared in awe at the bronze gates and the shadow that was appearing from it.
"RAAAAAGHHH!" A seventh Dragon roared aloud as its large claw appeared from the gate. Large... that was the only word that you could really use to describe him very well. Everyone watched as a blue scaly large Dragon began to walk out of the Eclipse Gates. The Dragon towered over buildings and the ground shook as the Dragon walked. On its head it had a small blue haired like beard and its ears looked like it had fish's fins on the side of its head. Its scales didn't look like normal Dragon scales that had been like the past six Dragons, the blue Dragon scale's looked like fish scales. From its head, running down his back, to his tail ran a large fish like fin that stood up and shook back and forth as he walked. This Dragon was humongous.
"RAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!" Another Dragon roared as they kept freaking out. An eighth Dragon was beginning to walk through the portal.
"I'm sorry, but I need these back!" Lucy yelled as she snatched her golden keys out of Princess's Hisui's hand and rand toward the gates. 'I need to get this closed before another Dragon enters!' Lucy thought to herself as she ran. When she arrived at the bronze gate doors to the side of it was a large bronze cylinder. On it was a handle that you could infuse magic into. "This must be it..." Lucy thought aloud as she looked at her small petite hands. She quickly wrapped her hands around it and began to channel her magic through it.
"Lucy, hurry up!" Happy called out as he watched the eighth Dragon begin to emerge from the bronze doors.
'Do I not have enough magic?' Lucy asked herself as she kept channeling her magic into the bronze object. She was trying her hardest and was going as fast as she could.
"Do you need some help?"
Lucy looked over and saw Yukino standing there as she offered her hand to help close the gate. "That would be amazing." Lucy replied with a smile a she stopped channeling her magic and got her keys out and ready. Lucy smiled at Yukino as she bent and dropped onto her knees. Yukino did the same thing as her and they grabbed each other hands.
"Open the Gates of the Twelve Zodiacs!" Lucy and Yukino screamed as they channeled there magic through each other and there keys began to glow in between them. Each of the gates suddenly sprang forward up high into the sky as a door opened for each key.
"Let's go!" Loke yelled as he launched himself up towards the 12 golden keys as the other eleven appeared before everyone. Aquarius the water bearer, Taurus the golden bull, Cancer the great crab, Virgo the maiden, Sagittarius the archer, Leo the mighty lion, Aries the ram, Scorpio the scorpion, Gemini the twins, Capricorn the goat, Pisces the paired fish, and Libra the heavenly scales all appeared and launched there selves at the bronze glowing gates.
Everyone watched in awe as each celestial spirit used their magic to slowly push the large bronze gates closed. The eighth Dragon that was attempting to get out was beginning to get trapped as the gates closed. Lucy and Yukino kept pushing and channeling there magic as the 12 golden key celestial spirits pushed the doors shut. With a large bang the gates were closed.
"The gates... there finally closed." Mirajane sighed as she wiped her sweaty brow. Everyone was very anxious and worried as they saw the Dragons coming through. Now at least no more Dragon could come through.
"They might be closed... but what do we do about the seven Dragons that did get through?" Erza asked as she looked behind herself and saw seven Dragons walking around crocus. They were destroying buildings and knocking them down.
"I don't know..." Mirajane whispered as she looked back and saw what Erza was looking at.
Suddenly out of know where every watched all seven Dragons spread their wings and push off into the air as waves of wind were sent to every direction. Mirajane, Erza, Happy, Jet, Lucy, and Yukino all had to grab onto a random object as the wind forced them onto the ground.
"What are they doing?" Jet asked aloud as the wind died down and he looked up. He saw all 7 Dragons flying in a large circle round Crocus. It looked as if someone what controlling them.
"Heh... well look at what we got here." A sinister dark voice announced throughout the court yard.
Everyone looked up and saw a man they had never seen. Was he a man? Most thought as they looked up in shock. Flying above them on was the blue Dragon with swirly scales. On the top of the Dragon stood a man who didn't look like a man. This man had normal hands, no shirt on which showed ever muscle of his, and his head looked normal other then two small black horns piercing out of the side of his forehead. The unhuman like thing was his legs. Instead of human legs this man's legs were pitch black and boney. Hit feet were two massive bloodied red claws. His head had a full head of jet black hair and his eyes shined bright crimson. His teeth were sharp and as he talked you could see that his teeth were slightly tainted red from blood.
"Who the hell are you?" Princess Hisui asked as she stared at the man. Why did this man look so familiar?
"Who am I? I am surprised you do not now..." The man announced as he smiled demonically. "I go by the name of Larmin." The man laughed aloud as the large Dragon stared down at everybody. The other 6 Dragons flew around in a circle above him.
Natsu ran as fast as he could. He jumped from building to buildings as he smelled high in the air. Back at the Eclipse gates his nose had caught a smell that was all to familiar to him. It was a smell of a demon that enjoyed blowing him up.
"RAAAAAAGH!"
Natsu glanced back as he saw that six of the seven Dragons were circling the bronze Eclipse Gates and one Dragon stood in front of it. It had looked like a man stood on top the blue Dragon with swirly scales. "So he must be the one controlling them..." Natsu muttered to himself and pushed off again in the direction he knew where the smell was coming from. 'Jackal... he's back.' Natsu thought to himself as he ran. Every huff that came out of him was more drastic as he kept thinking. If Jackal was here... then the man that was controlling these 7 Dragons must be from Tartarus.
"See? I told you the pink haired Dragon slayer would show up."
Natsu came to halt as he announced one word. "Jackal..." Natsu said aloud without any emotion. His eyes lightly closed and stared at him. From his brown hair... to his black eyes... Natsu stood there as stared and readied himself for a fight.
"Heheh... don't worry. I'm not here to fight; I just wanted you to meet my master." Jackal announced with a demonic dark laugh as another man stepped forward.
There behind Jackal was a man with think long flowing black hair, a coat with a flame pattern on it, and with dark bloody red eyes. From every inch of his body oozed dark black magic from every viewing point. But most importantly in his hand was brown leather book with three letters on it. E.N.D was written on the book.
"Who are you?" Natsu asked as he looked at Mard Geer. Natsu stood tall without fear. His salmon colored spiky hair was blowing in the slight wind that was around them and his white wizard saint jacket was flowing back. His black sleeveless shirt was dirtied and still tight around his muscular chest and his loose pants were loose as they were ready for him to move quickly.
"Me? Hmm... Then I should introduce myself. My Name is Mard Geer; I am the king of the underworld and the master of Tartarus." Mard Geer explained to Natsu as his smiled at Natsu. "But that's enough about me... why does my Lord Zeref want to meet and see you so bad?" Mard Geer asked as his right eyebrow rose up slightly.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Natsu asked as he stared at Mard Geer. Streams of steam slowly began to rise from Natsu's arms are they began to heat up.
"What do you mean what are you talking about? You basically grew up with him!" Jackal screamed at Natsu. He slammed his foot into the ground and began to mutter to himself. Around him from the stomp the ground cracked and the stones broke. Luckily the two homes around them stood still and didn't collapse.
"Yes, I've heard of Zeref. But I personally don't know him." Natsu replied with a monotone type of voice. Why would he know anything about Zeref? Zeref was the evilest man alive and the great dark wizard. He had nothing to do with him.
"I see... so that's why. Before he left you, he must have locked them away." Mard Geer announced as he sighed to himself. "Well Natsu... it was a pleasure meeting you." Mard Geer sighed as he bowed his head slightly at Natsu and turned around. He began to walk into a dark shadow while his own body began to slowly disappear without a trace.
"Guess I better go to... sadly I was told I couldn't fight you to today. Another day I'll take revenge out on you." Jackal sighed and quickly pushed off the ground into the air as the ground under him gave away. All that was left after was Natsu standing in the creator.
'What the hell were they talking about?' Natsu wondered to himself as he turned around to look at the seven Dragons. Now one Dragon stood by the Bronze Eclipse Gates and the other six Dragons were either flying around the city causing havoc or finding fights.
'Good the other guilds came together and formed teams... let's hope we can take them down at least. Then ill figure out how to deal with the Tartarus problem.' Natsu sighed as he quickly pointed his nose into the air and smelled were his wives were at. As soon as he located them he pushed off towards them.
"Not really... my favorite snack is humans."
Mirajane, Erza, Lucy, Yukino, Jet, and Princess Hisui's mouths all dropped as they heard what the Dragon told them. After Larmin announced his plans on bringing havoc and taking over the world with Dragons, he had flown off leaving the green Dragon, which they found out who he was, he was the jade Dragon. Once he was the only Dragon left the jade Dragon began to speak and informed everyone that he was the Jade Dragon named Zirconis.
"You've got to be kidding me... he can't just do that." Princess Hisui muttered in disbelief as her eyes showed fear.
"Why not? I was told I could do as I pleased and humans make my mouth water." Zirconis laughed aloud as he stood there staring at all the knights of Crocus and wizards. "Now let's begin!" Zirconis roared with laughter as he sent out a beam of green light at all of the guards. Suddenly all the women there gasped in shocked at what they saw; their faces went red in disbelief.
There in front of them was every guard... they were still alive but missing one important thing. All of the guards armor and clothing were missing as it left them in their birthday suits.
"Aye, everyone is stripping like Gray!" Happy yelled in surprise.
"What kind of magic is that?!" Lucy screamed in disbelief as well. She couldn't stop her face from going red and her female part getting a bit wet. There in front of her was at least fifty shocked naked men in front of her and none of them were trying to even hide their male part.
"Magic, all Dragons have magic to strip humans of their dignity." Zirconis announced with a hefty laugh. "Also humans taste better without clothing's. But men also taste bad... women taste the best, so I'm really ladies kind of a guy." Zirconis laughed again aloud as he raised his head high into the air.
"That's... disgusting!" Lucy yelled back at Zirconis.
"What do you expect?" Zirconis questioned as answered it and looked to the side. His moved his large green head slightly sideways and squinted his eyes. Was it just him or was a large beam like stream of viscous wind coming straight at him?
"Sky Dragon Roar!"
"GAH!" Zirconis roared in pain as everyone watched him get slammed in the ground by a massive beam of white wind.
"Wendy?" Erza said aloud as she turned around and saw Wendy flying straight at them. Carla was holding on Wendy as her wings were out and was flapping like crazy to carry Wendy towards Zirconis.
"Dragon Slayer Magic... I have not seen that type of magic in sometime..." Zirconis announced as he slowly picked himself up. Everyone noticed that a small stream of dark red blood was running down his green scales. Wendy's attack had hit him.
"The only way to defeat a Dragon... is with Dragon slayer magic." Wendy announced as she was dropped down by Carla and her blue hair flew back in the wind.
"Wendy... why are you here?" Mirajane asked as she looked at Wendy.
Wend turned around and only smiled back at Mirajane as she pointed towards her small ears. Suddenly a loud booming voice roared all over Crocus, a voice everyone knew, and a voice that two women deeply loved for who he was.
"THESE DRAGONS ARE DEFEATABLE! ALL YOU NEED IS A DRAGON SLAYER TO DEFEAT THEM, SO DRAGON SLAYERS GET OFF YOUR ASS AND SHOW THEM WHAT YOUR MAGIC WAS MEANT TO DO. THIS IS WHAT WE'VE ALL BEEN TRAINING FOR, ITS ALL LEAD UP TO THIS!" Natsu screamed as his voiced echoing through the now silent Crocus.
"Natsu..." Erza whispered quietly as she smiled. 'So that's why she came here.' Erza thought to herself. "I guess it's about time we fight back." Erza suggested as she looked up at Zirconis with a smile. "Requip: Fairy God Armor!" Erza yelled as all around her began to glow. She rose her hands up in the air as her all of her clothing began to change colors and become bulkier.
Fairy God Armor... Erza's strongest armor set. The set of armor was the armor that Mavis herself wore when she still lived and did battle. When the guild hall was being redone, Natsu had found it and Erza had instantly fallen in love with it. The downside was that the amour sets could only be used for a limited amount of time but it was a insanely strong set of armor.
Her armor was celestial gold and had two fairy wings on the back of the breast plate. She wore a metal skirt that went down to her mid-thigh, it also had a pair of thigh high boots that was a boot and covered the rest of her legs. Not one bit of her leg skin was showing. On Erza's arms was two gloves that covered her hands to her shoulders, her hands were covered with a gold plate that could easily move and defend. Erza's hair was tied up into a single hair piece which was gold as well, on that hair piece was the Fairy Tail symbol. Her breast plate also had the Fairy Tail guild symbol and showed her cleavage greatly. Lastly were Erza's two viscously sharp swords in her hands, the swords were pure gold with a white blade.
"It seems so. We should help out Wendy the best we can. I wonder if my take over counts as Dragon slayer magic..." Mirajane thought aloud as her beautiful heartwarming smile began to turn into a demonically evil smile. Slowly a dark aura began to pour out of Mirajane as her magic began. "Take Over: Demon Dragon!" Mirajane screamed a magic seal circle appeared around her and began to transform her.
The demon Dragon take over form was one of many take overs that Mirajane had gotten during the 7 year Tenrou accident. The first thing that you would notice about Mirajane was her massive red blood dripping claws. On both of her hands were claws just like a Dragon and a set of red massive wings attached to her back. Her legs were normal as they showed off her silky skin thighs and her feet had a pair of black leather high heels on them; Mirajane's wings kept in her air always so she never had to walk. Around Mirajane's stomach was a piece of black and red crisscrossing leather that also covered her sex and large breasts. Lastly was Mirajane's face, both of her cheeks now had scales on them and her head had to black horns sticking out of it.
The two most powerful women of Fairy Tail were ready to fight back, a large fight was coming.
"Fire?" Natsu thought as his stomach grumbled and as he looked over he saw a huge bonfire pit that was a Dragon on fire. The fire was deep red as he attacked mages.
"Do you really think you could win against Fairy Tail wizards?!" Master Makarov roared as everyone watched Master Makarov began to grow in size. He quickly watched as he pushed forward and grabbed the Dragon with his bare hands.
"How does it feel to be burned?" The Dragon fire Dragon laughed as he was punched. The punch had no effect on him as he stood there looking at the shrinking man. The old man's hands were burned and looked as if there was no Dragon slayer in this group. "It seems like this group won't be easy to take out." The fire Dragon laughed aloud until he began to feel his fire around him disappear.
Everyone began to worry as they heard a munching sound. For some reason it was coming from behind the Dragon. As everyone including the Dragon looked behind him they were in for a surprise. There stood a pinked hair Dragon slayer eating the flames off of the fire Dragon's back.
"Now this... this is some damn good fire!" Natsu yelled as he scooped out another round of fire and eat it.
'That boy is eating me!' The fire Dragon thought to himself in surprise. In all the years he had been alive only one Dragon ever had been able to actually eat his flames off of him. That Dragon was named Igneel. 'Don't tell me that this human knows Fire Dragon Slayer magic and why does he smell so much like Igneel?' The fire Dragon again thought and asked himself in surprise.
"Natsu! What the hell took you so long?" Gray yelled as he looked over and saw Natsu munching on the fire Dragon's flames.
"Sorry, got hungry." Natsu laughed aloud as he smirked.
"Who are you?" The fire Dragon announced as he brought down his head to Natsu's eye level and looked at him.
"Me? I'm Natsu Dragneel, Fire Dragon Slayer, and the Fourth Master of Fairy Tail." Natsu replied with a smirk on his face. This was going to be the easiest fight ever for him.
The fights are beginning... the twists are turning... who will die next chapter? Who will live? The twists are large... will see in the next chapter of The Tenrou Group Lives On!
A/N:
The first part of this chapter was extremely hard to write... the only thing Lucy really is... is girl who cried in every arc and needs help everywhere and everytime... ._. Ugh this was hard to write and painful. For at least only the Lucy part. :p the rest was fun to write! Also...
Woo! Erza and Mirajane are getting joining in on the fight, also there is a reason why erza isn't using her Dragon armor yet... just wait till next chapter please!
Another quick things is... Minerva is coming back next chapter... youll see why.
I'm having Happy and Carla actually be active... again. I keep forgetting about them... thank you for the reminders and...
About the future of this fic.
I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS STORY! I promise you that... but... I have college starting in less than a month. So my writing time will decrease even more... :/ luckily my other two stories are wrapping up and I can focus more on this story!
So... once I finish those two other stories I can focus on this story and a few one shots. :p
Also I finally wrote my Natsu x Ur story... was a one shot now it's going to be a full on story. It's called Unlocking the Frozen Flames if anyone wants to read it. :D
Thanks for reading!
-ValinNight