Chapter 12: Poison Poison Jelly Problems

"A bold proclamation." Reitei spoke calmly, though it could be seen he was enraged on the inside. "You must be the infamous intruder."

"So my fame already proceeds me?" The swordsman chuckled. "Funny, seeing as I just got here. My name is Kivex Rain, in case you were wondering, and a little birdie told me that there was some Moon Drip on this island."

"Did one of you blab!?" Cat face shouted.

"Not us." "Uh-uh." "Certainly not." The other three replied.

Reitei just smirked. "You have some nerve making proclamations like that...you four continue! I shall deal with our uninvited guest."

"Yessir!" The group agreed before once more running.

"I don't prefer blood but...it seems it is necessary at this time." Reitei said.

"Heh, weird, I actually quite enjoy it." He held his chained sword out against the robed figure.

'This is serious.' I thought. 'The village about to be attacked, and these two look ready to start a serious fight! What are we supposed to do in this situatio-'

"I'M TIRED OF SNEAKING AROUND ANY LONGER!" The rest of us went bug eyed at Natsu's outburst, as he had stood up and made himself completely known before inhaling and shooting a ball of fire straight at the sky. "We're the ones who're gonna stop you!" This caused everyone to pause and look at us.

"Damnit all...well, I should've expected this." I sighed.

"Only Heaven knows what will happen next." Lucy said as she gripped her keys tightly.

"That mark, they're from Fairy Tail!" Sherry observed.

"I see...the townspeople contacted a Guild for help." Eyebrows muttered.

"What are you doing? Go and obliterate the village." Reitei commanded.

"On?" Cat Face presumably asked.

"Pardon?" Popeye Wrestler asked.

"Eh?" Lucy contributed.

"Why?" Natsu finished.

"Whether it be Villagers, Guilds or swordsmen, anyone who gets in our way, anyone with such plans, you're all our enemies." The masked man stated.

"Whyyyyyyy!?" Natsu facefaulted angrily.

"Yoooouuuuu!" Suddenly Gray ran forward. "Stop that useless ritual!" He placed his palms on the ground, causing icicles to spike up towards him, and Reitei surprisingly did the same, cancelling each other out! "...Leon...do you know what your doing!?"

'Soooooo he knows him?' I thought. 'Oh boy, plot twist.'

"Fufufu...it's been a long time, Gray." Reitei, or, 'Leon' replied.

"You know him!?" "Eeeeh!?" Lucy and Happy cried.

"What are you doing!?" Gray yelled again.

"I'd never imagine that the Mage, which the townspeople have sent, would be you." He smirked. "Did you know about this, or was it just a coincidence?...Well, it doesn't matter."

"Is he an acquaintance of Reitei Leon?" Eyebrows thought aloud whilst Cat Face commented with an 'Oon!?'

"Hurry and go. I can take care of them all myself." Leon said.

"Yes, sir!" Sherry said whilst Cat Face went 'Oooon!'.

"I won't let you!" Natsu roared as he gave chase.

"No! Natsu! Don't move!" But Gray's warning was too late as the fire Mage was beaten with a barrage of ice. "Happy! Take care of Lucy!"

"Aye!" Happy nodded as he sprouted wings and carried Lucy off.

"Alain! You get out of here too!" Gray shouted as he fired chunks of ice at Leon, who simply blocked it with a perfect wall of ice.

'Crap!' I thought as I jumped away, just before ice could crash into me.

"Oh? Chill Magic is it?" Kivex said as he swung his sword, making the Chill Magic around him disperse. "I wouldn't get cocky if I were you."

"That is no ordinary sword." Leon commented.

"Correct. And I'm going to kill you both with it." Kivex smirked as he, Leon and Gray faced each other. That was the last thing I saw as I ran down the forest slope.

"Those guys were really dangerous..." I spoke to myself. "Can Gray last against both of them!?"

"Aaaaaaalaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiinnnnn!"...What was that behind me?

"NATSU!?" I facefaulted as Natsu frozen in the shape of a ball with only his appendages and head sticking out tumbled towards me! "Stop! STOP!"

"IIIIIIII caaaaaaaannnnnnnnn't!" I could only scream as he crashed into me and we were both sent tumbling down until we crashed, with me fearing I'd broken my crown.

"The world is spinning..." I groaned as I got up and stumbled around as my vision readjusted.

Natsu meanwhile jumped to his feet despite his comedic round frozen body with a head on fire with rage. "Gray, that bastard! I'll remember this!" He roared at the top of the mountain. He placed his blazing palm to his icy sphere of a body to try and melt it, but with no luck. "I can't melt this with fire!? What's up with this ice!?"

"Let me try." I lit my own hands and placed them against Natsu's ice ball, but with no luck. "This must be some strong magic."

"Meh, there's no time for this! We need to get to the village stat!" He started waddling along. "Shit! It's hard to run!"

"Here, let's try this." I kicked him on his side and started rolling him. "There, now we're making good progress!"

"Wah! Alain! Stop that! I'm gonna..." He didn't look well.

"You can't get motion sickness form this!" I raged at him.

I pushed him along more until we reached a beach...where Natsu had thrown up and I had to right him.

"No more...rolling..." He groaned. "Please..."

"Okay, okay." I then looked around. "Hey...do you know where the village is?"

"Eh!? I thought you knew!" Natsu facefaulted.

"I have a terrible sense of navigation!" I argued. "Great, what are we gonna do now?"

Natsu grumbled before looking up at the hill. "Oi...let's go back up the hill."

"Back up?" I echoed, looking at it. "Are you kidding?"

"We should be able to see it from up there! C'mon!" He righted himself.

"There was a powerful battle going on there." I said. "Besides, what if you get fully frozen?"

"That won't happen." He stated bluntly, making me hang my head in defeat.

"Fine, let's go." I started walking and he started waddling until something stopped me. "Huh?...What's that?"

"What's what? We need to get moving!" Natsu growled impatiently.

"Can't you hear that?" He glared at me before sighing and listening.

"...oooooooo"

"Hey, your right, I can hear something." Natsu said.

"oooooooooooo"

"And it sounds like its coming...closer..." I looked out to see and saw something out there. "...Natsu...what is that?"

"What's whaaaaa..." He stared at the figure, and both our jaws dropped.

"ooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!" It was Vincent carrying Maggy! And he was RUNNING ACROSS THE OCEAN!

"It's that guy and girl again!" Natsu facefaulted.

"And he's running across the ocean like FRIKKIN JESUS CHRIST ON STEROIDS!" I also facefaulted.

"GET OUTTTA THE WAY YOU GUUUUUUUUUYS!" He yelled at us. "I CAN'T STOP! MY TENSION'S JUST TOO HIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH!"

"Hit the deck!" I pushed Natsu out of the way as Vincent crashed into the beach with a tremendous explosion, sand and pebbles rained down on us from the impact, and we cautiously looked up when it stopped.

With a massive scraping distance in his wake, Vincent was face down on the beach, with a ghost white scared stiff Maggy sitting on top of him.

"The hell are you annoying guys doing here!?" Natsu shouted.

"Natsu!" I smacked him upside the head as I helped Maggy up. "Are you both okay?"

She seemed to calm down before speaking. "W-W-W-We p-p-planned to h-head on a sh-sh-ship, b-b-b-but then V-Vincent s-said he could c-carry us b-both across to the i-island...th-then he started r-r-rubbing his fists together to use his M-Magic and generate st-st-static...th-then he carried me here at th-that i-insane speed..."

"Wait, his Magic is Static?" I thought for a second. "That's not how static works!"

"Oi! This guys asleep." Natsu said, holding up a snoring Vincent.

"H-He used up a l-lot of energy, s-so I guess he just f-fell asleep." Maggy guessed timidly.

"...Again. THAT'S NOT HOW STATIC WORKS!" I emphasised.

"Whatever, all you guys have done is slowed us down!" Natsu complained. "We need to get to the top of the hill fast!"

"At least we have two new fighters now." I pointed out.

"That doesn't mean anything if we're not at the village!" Natsu gestured.

"Th-There's something you should know." Maggy spoke up. "E-Erza has gotten a ship, a-and she's on her way here right now."

Now it was our turn to have the colour drain from our faces.

"We're dead! Dead! Oh so very dead!" Natsu panicked with tears streaming from his eyes.

"We're gonna die on this island!" I sobbed.

"Alain, before we die, I just wanna say you've been a great teammate." Natsu sniffled.

"You too, Natsu." I wept.

We both lifted our heads up simultaneously. "But we're gonna go down fighting!" I slung the sleeping Vincent over my shoulder. "Onwards!" And so we bravely marched forth, with Maggy tailing us.

The trek up was tough to say the least, what with having to carry Vincent and push Natsu, where we found Gray badly beaten, and everyone else gone.

"Something rough happened here..." I said, sureveying the frozen and broken ground.

Natsu meanwhile stood over Gray with a disappointed sneer. "Lame, your almost beaten to death."

"Natsu...Alain..." Gray groaned. "Why...are you...here?"

"We weren't sure where the village was, so we climbed up to this high place." Natsu stated as he grabbed his comrade by the shirt and started dragging him. "It's that way! C'mon, let's go."

"Where's...Leon?" He panted.

I helped lift Gray onto Natsu's frozen body as he spoke: "I don't know, no-one was around, and the ritual already ended. Shit! If Lucy's being attacked, it'll be our fault."

"Do you know what happened to that Kivex guy?" I asked him.

Gray breathed heavily before speaking. "He got...caught in an Ice Make...and then I...think he fell down the mountain..."

"Tch, so he was the cocky one. Serves him right." I sniffed.

"K-Kivex?" Maggy whispered. "Alain, th-there was nobody called Kivex in this Arc."

"So he was a Disturbance?" I whispered back. "Okay, we'll go and find him later, first we have to get to the village."

We made our way back down and began to trek through the forest when Gray spoke up: "Natsu..."

"Huh?" He replied.

"I can't...blame you for anything...I really can't..." We then realised that Gray was crying, this was obviously going to lead to an emotional talk between the tw-

"Don't feel insecure just because you lost!" Natsu just shouted! "We are Fairy Tail! We're from the Guild that doesn't know when to stop! We won't survive unless we continue to run!"

"Fuck yeah!" I cheered, driven by the moment. "Even through a burning building!"

"Even through a raging twister!" Maggy added.

"'Cause we're Fairy Tail, damnit!" All three of us cheered.

"...Shit, it's even harder to run." Natsu complained, prompting us to help him.

A bit later...

Somehow we managed to make it back to the village, thankfully the gate was open as we ran in. "Guuuuuys! Are you alright!?" Natsu yelled.

Everybody seemed to have a look of horror on their face though. "Natsu! Alain!"

Lucy waved her hands frantically. "No! Don't come over here!"

"Huh?" Both me and Natsu grunted when Maggy suddenly held me back.

"Hold it! Stooooooop!" At Lucy's shriek Natsu halted just before a...was...was that meant to be a pitfall? It was blatantly obviously there! Only an idiot would fall in that!

"What's this?"...I repeat, only an idiot would fall in it. Which is precisely why Natsu fell in. "Hey, hey, hey, who pulled this little prank at a time like this?"

"Lucy of course." Happy pointed.

"I knew it!" Natsu shouted.

"No, not me!" She panicked before looking at me. "Alain, I'm glad you-EH!? Why are Maggy and Vincent here!?"

"They ran here." I stated plainly.

"Like hell I'll believe that!" She shouted.

"I'm glad all of you are fine, Natsu!" Happy called to him.

"We're not fine at all. Gray's down." Natsu said.

"Was he defeated by that masked guy!?" Lucy asked fearfully.

"Yeah." I nodded before I noticed something. "Hey Natsu, your not frozen anymore."

"Huh?" He looked down at himself and gasped. "The ice broke! Even when fire couldn't melt it!"

"I'm assuming since your away from the caster, the effect of the Magic has weakened." Oh hey, Virgo was here.

As Natsu and Gray were helped out, I dumped the sleeping Vincent and massaged my sore shoulder, before returning to the conversationjust as they were discussing about the lateness of the attackers.

"Wh-What's that!?" A villager suddenly pointed at the sky, and we all looked up to se-That maid mouse was flying! And carrying a bucket!

"That mouse can FLY!?" I facefaulted.

"That's cheating! Ruining my effort of making a perfectly good pitfall!" Lucy complained.

Maggy tugged on my sleeve. "A-Alain!"

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Th-That bucket is filled with Poison Poison Jelly!"

"What?"

"Lucy!" I snapped my head back as Natsu grabbed Lucy and jumped out of the way as a blob of poison jelly fell from the bucket and burned a hole right through the ground!

"...Okay! That stuff is dangerous!" Sheesh, that was even worse then Smaug's stuff!

And then, the whole bucket got thrown at us! "How do you expect us to stop stuff like that!?" Lucy wailed.

"Everyone! To the centre of the village!" Natsu shouted. "Happy, can you fly!?"

"Aye sir!" The cat said as he sprouted wings and took off with Natsu holding onto him.

"He's going to explode and disperse it!" Maggy told me.

"Then we'd better be ready to counterattack!" I declared as I got into a battle position. "Besides, there's a new move I've been working on that I've been dying to use."

"Salamander's...Brilliant Flame!" Clapping his hands together, Natsu unleashed an explosion that blew the jelly around the villagers instead of onto them.

The ground burst open in front of us as Virgo emerged carrying the mayor. "We have to punish the Mayor."

"Virgo!" We cheered.

"You sure are reliable what with that digging and all." I nodded.

The village was completely destroyed, along with everyones possessions and memories, and somehow Vincent had managed to sleep through it.

And through all the destruction, four figures walked forward.

"We have to eradicate all of Reitei-sama's enemies." Sherry said. "For pity's sake, we were going to give you an instant death, but I guess we'll see a lot of blood now."

"Oh...they'll be blood alright." I hissed as us Fairy Tail members shot our harshest glares. "But its gonna be YOURS after I'm through with you fucking sadists!"

"I am going to tear them limb from limb." Maggy threatened.

Well, our heroes are pissed, so you know there's gonna be violence next chapter.

And uh...yeah, don't have much to say this chater, only that Maggy and Vincent are here now! Yaaaaay!...Right?

So...really, that's it. Thank you for reading, and I'll see you guys next time! (By the way, to Wildlian, sorry for altering your OC's Magic a bit, I just thought iw ould fit a bit better with his martial arts).