Follow up on last chapter coming right up! It's time to make some serious progress in the mission, because it's sure as hell needed. I never thought I'd make the first mission this... is interesting the right word? Idk, depends on you folks' opinion. Anyways, I wanted to ask something. People that read my other story know this, but a good friend of mine on this site has got herself in the hospital. Now, Wednesday, November 19, is her birthday. So I wanted to ask anyone that'd be so kind and willing to send her your best wishes on that very day. It would mean a lot to me. Rosy Fire's her pen name. You'll know who it is if you see the story "Wishing for a Brighter Tomorrow" under her name. It sucks to be in the hospital during your birthday, that's like just as bad as my birthday was... Well, maybe just a bit better. No, no it's not. Maybe, idk. I won't stand for it, though! I wanna brighten that day up for her as much as I can. Alright, I ranted a lot there. I'd just appreciate it a lot if some of you were to actually do that.

On another note, I was thinking about creating a page for Violet on the Fairy Tail OC wiki. Though, I don't think I can get an image for her. I was wondering if some of you wanted to help me out with that? I'm being very demanding today, aren't I? :P I'm terrible at descriptions, so I just wanted to have that there for people to get a general idea from. Or, hopefully, a very detailed idea. Please let me know if you're up for that! Alright, I'm actually gonna give you guys the chapter now, don't worry.

"I think we can be pretty sure about the whole daylight thing now." I nod in response to Natsu.

"But we still don't know a whole lot about them. We need a sample, a hostage. And that's what we're here for."

"Right. I'd say the general idea is for me to get as many off your back as possible while you snatch one."

"OK, but that's not nearly enough to just charge in and try that out. How do we go in?" Natsu made a suggestion for our general plan of action, but it's not a strategy."

"Why, by using one of these, of course." He points at his frames behind him.

"We just send two down there, see what happens. We gotta focus hard not to just let them vanish, and give them a proper death animation." That sounds difficult, but we can give it a shot.

"I suppose it's worth a try, but we need a quick follow up to the confusion that our entrance would cause. They might lower their guard, but we can't delay our actions for long after that."

"You're right, we're gonna have a small time frame if we plan on using all of these at once in combat. That's gonna be draining. I'd say, once we enter combat with the full amount, we have a minute at max." He's right, controlling combat motions of so many at once is gonna be extremely hard on our magic pool.

"So, we send two in. The moment they drop, the rest follows. We go in last. You spread out and keep as much distraction up as possible while I use three to contain one. Now, how will we escape?" Natsu strikes a thinking pose as he hums.

"Climbing isn't an option. We could probably do it, but it's too slow. Laddering up the frames is just ridiculous."

"I got something..." I announce.

Natsu's POV

I'm not too happy with this plan, it's risky. But it's the only one we've got. In the end, everything'll come down to me to get us out of there safely.

"I'm counting on you."

"I'm aware of that. I won't let anything happen to you." I give her a stare filled with conviction.

"Right, let's do it." She nods. The moment she gives the sign, we both let one frame drop down. We still need to come up with a better name for these... We really do. The two down there are currently standing still in the sunlight, cast upon them from the opening that gave them entrance in the first place. Nothing attacked them, nothing came out, everything was still.

"I'm getting a bad feeling about this." I make Violet aware of my suspicions that something bad is going to happen. The moment I said that, a flurry or projectiles is unleashed at the two below.

"What is that?" Violet nearly gave us away by talking too loudly, but that's what I'm wondering as well. My frame's hit by the stuff, but it doesn't seem to harm him. Instead, it seeems to lock him in place.

"It's some sort of sticky web, so they do have something ranged to them." I whisper out my conclusion to Violet.

"But they still can't come into the sunlight, for as far as I can tell. So it's not something that greatly concerns me. However, if we get caught like that in the shadow, we have an issue. " She's right about that much.

"Looks like we gotta bring the fight to them. Ready to go in?" Violet reealizes this too and nods. And so, we send our small legion downwards, while following ourselves. As we come down, the first thing I do is spread everything out. I can feel my magical power being drained by the second every single one of these guys are in combat. I gotta pull through, I need to give her time. I look over to Violet and see that she managed to get one from behind while he was fighting one of my own. Looks like it's about time. I watch her run to the center of this giant mess with our hostage knocked out on one of her frame's back. I focus on evading and striking as many enemies at once as possible. Her voice echoes through this giant hole in the ground.

"MASS DELUSION!" As she shouts, a dim wave of her flame spreads from her over the entire room. As it passes the creatures, their attention is averted from us. As if we disappeared from their mind. Just as Violet foretold, she faints immediatly as she cast the spell. Her frames fade and the unconscious body we have falls to the ground. They all rush towards a single point, right before Violet. As planned, they form some climbing contruction. Violet must've projected us flying up through the whole with one of them or something, making them chase after the illusion. So, they're creating not only a way for them to get up, but for us as well. It should be safe for me to climb, since she said her spell would affect all senses. This includes touch, so they shouldn't react if I come into direct contact with them.

"Alright, now it's all up to m-" As I start talking to myself, I trip over my left foot in crash into the ground.

"Huh?" I immediatly turn my head and see that my left foot has been hit by one of those sticky things.

"NO!" NOT NOW, NOT WHILE SHE'S VULNERABLE LIKE THIS! I look over to her helpless body, she can't do anything. Violet didn't tell me how long the spell lasted, it could end any second. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do. Looking over to the frames I got, I see them vanishing thanks to my lack of magical energy. Damn it, this couldn't go any more wrong! Just as I say that, I hear a weird cracking behind me. It's like something's waking up from a deep sleep. I look over my shoulder. A giant spider with fur on it's torso gazes at me. Besides the 4 legs in the middle, the 4 outer ones look like the legs and arms of a gorilla. It has a tail with a needle at the end. I calm myself down, and try to think straight. That must be the damn thing we're hunting. As it passes me, it applies the sticky string to my left hand as well as my right leg. It must not have been affected by Violet's spell, judging by the way it's acting. Almost incapable of moving, I am forced to watch it crawl over to Violet.

"Damn it, DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" What can I do? Think of something, Natsu. THINK OF SOMETHING.

"GAAAH, BLAZE, I NEED YOU RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!"

"I'm with ya, kid." I hear a voice from my left. As I look over, I'm surprised to see the source being a flying, crimson flame that had a ball shape. It immediatly flies around my back to my right. Before I can even question it, it latches onto my arm and spreads it's fire over my flesh.

"Natsu, remember the very first move I performed during our fight? I want you to use it."

"What!" How am I supposed to do that? I've never done that before!

"NOW, NATSU!" I suppose I've got no time to waste. Without thinking about my actions, I raise my right arms and clench my fist. Then, I send it crashing into the ground. The flames surge into the ground, a hot and blazing crack spreads over the surface and makes it's way over to the giant spider-like creature. As it increases in length, the ground starts to split. I don't believe what I'm seeing, but down there is lava. It starts concentrating, until it spits out an eruption that scorches every body part of the spider queen. It's screech fills the cave. Much to my surprise, I see the crack shift over towards the big pile of underlings, who seem to be retreating from their formation. I think the spell just about lost it's effect. It doesn't appear like it'll matter much, for also their screams are now reaching my ears.

I stare in awe at the pile of bodies before me. Without any clue whatsoever about any of this, I stand up. The string was burned from my skin while all of that was going on. Slowly, I make my way over to Violet. The only other signs of motion I detect are a few twitches from the limbs of the downed legion.

"I don't know what happened, but I suppose it turned out alright." I let out a bit of soft laughter.

"I suppose I messed up, huh? This isn't exactly what we planned for, but at least it's over." I comb my hands through her long, violet hair. As I move it away from the fair skin of her face, I detect something on her neck.

"W-What's this?" These are bite marks, and they have some sort of liquid dropping out of them. I take some of it on my finger and bring it to my nose. As I take in it's scent, I realize that it's venom. My eyes go wide in shock. I quickly look over to her body, rid of energy, again. Realizing the ernst of the situation, I take her on my back and get back to the village as fast as my legs would carry me. I entered the village, panting and breathing heavily.

"I need a doctor, medic, whatever, SOMEONE THAT CAN HELP ME!" I yell at the top of my lungs. The villagers guide me towards the village's healer. I let him run his regular diagnosis on her, hoping for a positive result. As he walks over to me, I cross my fingers.

"I'm afraid I don't know this poison, thus I cannot give her an antidote." My head feels like it's shattered in pieces, glued together, frozen and fired into a poisoned lake from a cannon that was then set on fire.

"Though, it's weird." I hear him mutter.

"What is?"

"You're both fire mages, right?" I nod.

"Usually, thanks to your magic, you should be practically immune to the effects of any poison. Your natural body heat should take care of it immmediately." He's right... THAT'S IT!

"I KNOW WHAT TO DO!"

Violet's POV

I feel something annoying, something bright touching my face. I force my eyes shut even more than they already are and turn away from the heat that covers my skin. Wondering what it is, I open my eyes slightly. Immediately after that, shouts of happiness and relief fill the room.

"YES!"

"It worked!"

"She's awake!"

I jump up in surprise. As I open my eyes, I hear something hit the ground to my right. I look over the edge of the bed I awakened in and see Natsu lying flat on his face. I release a slight giggle, only to meet his anger a second later.

"What're you laughing at?!"

"Why, you of course, silly." He backs down immediately and smiles at me, showing sincere happiness.

"What's wrong? I-Is there something on my face? Did you draw something while I was sleeping? Wait, why was I sleeping? Where am I?" I check my surroundings to see that I am in a room in the village. This looks like the medical bay.

"Hehehe, things didn't really go as planned..." Natsu starts, oh this better be good.

"...And that's...That's what happened."

"So, you're saying that not only did you fail in following the plan, I also nearly died?"

"When you say it like that, it sounds like I fucked up terribly!" He retorts.

"Well, you did."

"No, I didn't! I killed the damn thing!"

"Because you fucked up." I add. His angered face is cute as all hell.

"I saved your life!"

"But endangered it in the first place." I can hear the people around us laugh at our argument.

"Anyways, so if I was poisoned, and I couldn't get rid of it naturally thanks to being all out of magic power, how'd you fix that?"

"Well...uhm..." Natsu looks away shyly.

"Allow me to explain." The villager that seems to be in the position as doctor steps forwards.

"After explaining to Natsu that the poison should have no effect thanks to a fire mage's natural body heat, he came to the conclusion that it would be best to share his own with you." ...Realizing what he just said, my face becomes red as a tomato.

"YOU DID WHAT?!" Natsu immediatly ducks under the bed.

"I did it to save you, I promise!"

"You didn't peek, did you?" He gulps.

"DAMN YOU!" I jump out of the bed and chase him around the room.

"Well, looks like she's just fine." A random villager speaks.

"Yup, good thing he made sure to remove her clothes for the maximum effect." I become even more enraged after hearing that.

"NATSUUUUUU!" He abruptly stops and turn around. I run right into his embrace.

"You know, I was really really worried about losing you."

"Wh-What're you saying all of the sudden?"

"The truth. It helped clear something up for me, but I can't be certain just yet."

"Uhm, well ok then. You...You can let go now." I try to push him away from me, heavily embarassed by his actions. After getting some distance between us, he tilts his head and gives me a sincere smile. Oh man, he knows just how to get me cornered like that, doesn't he?

After getting all my strength back, Natsu and I are preparing to leave for Magnolia. We were rewarded with a decent sum of 150.000 jewels. We wave all the villagers goodbye and depart. I smile while we make our way back. I'm happy our first mission was so exciting, at least, I thought it was. In the end, it turned out to be quite hectic too. It scares me that things can get this dangerous. But, on the other hand, I'm not scared anymore when I picture it with Natsu. Some idle conversation keeps us entertained until we reach our destination. I mentioned how he was a pervert, every once in a while, which got him very flustered. I love it. However, that came to an end upon our arrival.

"Back home."

"Back home." I repeat his words.

"We're back!" He shouts upon entering the guild hall.

"You were gone for quite a while, how'd it go?" Mirajane immediately asks us.

"It was great, I loved every bit of it!" I grin widely at her.

"Mirajane, can we use the library?" Natsu presents a new subject.

"Huh? Sure, but why?"

"I just need to look something up." He explains as he pulls me downstairs.

"So, what're we looking for?"

"Blaze told us that we couldn't do anything fluffy there, in particular. Remember?"

"Yeah."

"He told me to look up that tree that caused all that trouble in the first place."

"Oh, well, let's do it then!" After a little while of searching, I ended up finding it. It wasn't that difficult, thanks to the alphabetical order of the books.

"Here it is, the Yokobu tree!" I motion him to come over as I place the book on the table in the center of the library.

"This tree is one of the malicious seven among plants and trees." Natsu starts reading.

"The malicious seven?" I ask. He ignores me and continues reading.

"It has an aura that stimulates one of the seven sins, lust."

"That explains why everyone around there was so touchy." I knew that wasn't natural.

"Just like all others of the Malicious Seven, if one is under it's effect for an extended period of time, E.G. a year, the effect becomes irreversable."

"Looks like they won't be changing, then." I comment again, Natsu gives me the same treatment and simply continues reading.

"This tree has a different effect on arachnids or anything of the sort. With these, it stimulates gluttony instead."

"So that's why they were after that wood, they wanted to consume it. Weird, I don't think I ever heard of spiders eating wood. I suppose these effects can be pretty powerful." Natsu finally turns to me, as he finished reading the most important bits.

"Yeah, but that means that we were under it's effect while we were there as well." Thinking back about it, we did get pretty bold at some points.

"Yo, Blaze."

"So, ya know now, eh?"

"Yeah, thanks for looking out for us."

"I wouldn't want you two to make any mistakes under any sort of drug, no problem."

"But, it says it only stimulates lust, not anything else, right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Then, I'm certain."

"About wha-" I was silenced when Natsu forces his lips upon mine. I stare into his eyes, before pushing my lips upon his own as well. He backs away, I feel the pressure on my lips go away.

"I love you, Violet." I feel shocked, but also happy. My eyes get watery. I move my head forward to engage into another kiss.

"That's not something I'd think someone'd do with their 'childhood friend'." I recognize Gray's voice. Surprise, we both look over to the stairs. I'm pretty sure that's about half of Fairy Tail grinning down at us.

"Mind your own business, will ya?" Natsu immediately yells back at him.

"Whatever you say, man. Show's over, people!" And so, they leave again. That was weird, I suppose they got what they wanted.

"After thinking I'd lose you, I figured out what it is that you mean to me. Seeing your helpless body made me realize how precious you are to me." Natsu explains to me.

"It made me realize that it really is love what I feel for you." My eyes now overflow, and tears roll down my cheeks.

"I happily return those feelings." Now, I actually engage another kiss...

Damn, I ended giving ALL the answers AND more. Well, I suppose it was about time, am I right? :p I may have rushed it a bit, but c'mon. All of us, including me, have been dying to see SOME love. I liked the chapter, though. It had some comical elements in it, as well as something that I would maybe dare to call a fight. I'd call it more... Idk. Help me. Ah well. Think about the things I said, please! Help me out with Violet's page, and be sure to give Rosy your best wishes this Wednesday!