Chapter 37
"WHY IS ONE OF THE 12 IN MY BATH!" Lucy screamed as she saw Brandish sitting in her bath
The spriggan looked up at here, "join me" she said much to the blondes surprise
"are you serious, breaking in to my house then taking a bath and then asking me to join you" Lucy screamed at her
"I see" she held up a miniature Marin and placed him in a small container, "problem solved now get in"
"NO WAY!" Lucy shouted
"I'm sure you remember what my magic can do, I could shrink this town to nothing in a few seconds" Brandish threatened, "but all I want to do is enjoy this bath right now, if you do what I say you'll be alright"
"why are you doing this?" Lucy asked, in response Brandish snapped her fingers and a rumbelling sound could be heard, "what was that?"
"the house next door, I shrunk it" Brandish told her, "this is your last chance get in"
Lucy relented and undressed as she climbed in to the bath with her enemy, "aww I wish I could see" Marin said from his container, "please let me out Lady Brandish"
"why are you here?" Lucy asked
"you're not really that cute" Brandish held up cat ears and a bell, "wear these"
Lucy said nothing as she put them on and sat in the bath wearing nothing but cat ears and a bell around her neck, "oh my how adorable" Brandish looked at her like you would a cat
"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?" Lucy screamed
"have I seen you somewhere before?" Brandish asked
"I wrote for sorcerer weekly for a year and modelled for them as well" Lucy told her
"never heard of sorcerer weekly" Brandish said
"well I was on the winning team in the grand magic games" Lucy said after some thought
"never heard of it" Brandish tried to think, "I don't remember where"
"don't tell me you came here just for that?" Lucy asked
"yeah that's right" Brandish answered, "also take those off already we're having a serious conversation"
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" Lucy screamed to the sky
"wash my back" Brandish ordered as she got out the bath
"fine" Lucy climbed out and began to wash her foes back
"what is your name?" Brandish asked
"Lucy" she answered
"I could take her out right now" Lucy grabbed Aquarius' key as she raised her arm to stab the spriggan in the back, "she's lowered her guard"
"Layla's daughter" Lucy stopped at the mention of her mother
"you knew my mother?" Lucy asked
"so it's true then you are Layla's daughter" the room started to shrink
Lucy ran out in to her room and jumped out of the window in to the street below as he house shrunk to the size of a doll house, Lucy turned to look back at her house to find a fully clothed Brandish standing over it.
"what happened between you and my mother?" Lucy asked
"it's to much trouble talking so I won't say anything" the killing intent was clear in her voice
"GET AWAY FROM HER" Brandish dodged some cards as Cana appeared to help Lucy
"thanks for the save Cana" Lucy said relieved to see a friendly face
"I love your new look Lucy" Cana joked as Lucy realised she was only wearing cat ears and a bell
"IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK" Lucy screamed
"it really doesn't matter any way" Lucy held up the Marin container as he threw it on the ground and smashed it with her foot, taking out Marin, "now I can use my celestial magic, Star dress, Aries form"
Lucy was suddenly dressed in a fluffy dress with ram horns on her head, "this brings back memories of Tenrou island" Cana said as they got ready to fight
Before they could start fighting a sandstorm appeared out of nowhere and blinded them all. The storm soon passed and the fairies got ready to face the spriggan but Brandish started sneezing, again and again and again.
"what's with this pollen?" Brandish asked as she kept sneezing
"ok enough of that" Cana hit the spriggan on the back of her head and knocked her out
"wow that was easy" Lucy said as she helped Cana pick their captive up
"we're probably the only ones who managed to capture one of the 12" Cana said as they carried her to the guild
Just off the coast of Hargeon a Alvarez fleet headed for the port town, on the deck of the command ship a young man with messy black hair and a devilish grin lay on face down. He started to laugh like as mad man as a blonde woman turned to him.
"you're ruining the sound of the waves" she told him as he kept laughing
"thing just got way more interesting" he sat up
"what is it?" she asked
"the head hunter says hey" he relayed the message as he started laughing again
"oh what is it?, speechless?" he asked as she said nothing, "I know what'll make you feel better, they also took down Azir and have captured Brandish"
"that is funny" she started to laugh, "even if he is here I'll kill him"
"maybe I'll beat you to it" the man's arms turned in to a giant cannon, "target Fairy tail"
"that's over 400km away are you sure you can hit?" she asked
"Dimaria you know better than to underestimate, the Machina elite, Whal Icht" the cannon powered up, "LONG DISTANCE ANTI-MATTER MAGIC CANNON!"
At the guild hall Warren picked up the blast heading straight for them, "SENSORS PICKING UP A FAST MOVING SOURCE OF MAGIC HEADING THIS WAY FROM THE SOUTH"
"Freed's barrier will block it" Max said
"if it's what I think it is" Kalex walked in to the guild, "it won't, that ting will take out most of Magnolia"
"incoming 700…600..500" Warran tracked it's progress
"WE GET IT" max grabbed the telepath as the guild panicked, "IT'S GONNA HIT US!"
As the blast came in to view the guild looked up to the sky to see and winged ship flying in to the path of the blast, "is that cristina?" Levy asked, "what's he still doing here?"
The blast completely destroyed the flying ship as Ichiya's voice could be heard by the entire guild, "this is a fight but not one you will fight alone" Ichiya contacted all the other guilds around Fiore and called them to arms
The mages recovered Ichiya from the wreckage of Christina and everyone regrouped back at the guild, "we fended off their vanguard but unfortunately it seems they are attacking from all sides" Makarov caught everyone up on the situation they were in
"yeah but we've got all the guilds in Fiore backing us" Jet said, "our power has increased by ten fold now"
"this is Fairy tail's problem" Mavis looked saddened, "I didn't want to get others involved"
"it was pointless to try and keep them out" Kalex told her, "they are invading Ishgar so Ishgar is gonna have to fight not just Fairy tail"
"Kalex is right we need to accept their help and come up with a new stratagem to defeat our enemy" Makarov spoke up, "now Warren report on the current state of the battlefield"
"yes sir, three of the 12 are advancing from the east" Warren stood in front of his screen, "just west of us is a massive force of a million soldiers, from reports they managed to take out all the guilds in Bosco but they seem to have halted their advance"
"no way they took out an entire countries guilds" DRoy couldn't believe what he was hearing
"we also have two other armies heading for us from the north and the south" Warren continued, "but Sabretooth and Blue pegasus are going north while Lamia scale and Mermaid heel are heading to Hargeon"
"we can't just sit around here and let all the other guilds have all the fun" Wakaba said
"yeah we need to back them up" Romeo suggested
"of course we will; Mirajane, Elfman, Lisanna, Gajeel, Levy and Lily will go North" Mavis ordered, "Natsu, Gray, Juvia, Wendy and Laxus will head south"
"wait where is Natsu?" Gray asked as he noticed it was uncommonly quiet
The guild tried to find the fireball but he was nowhere to be seen, "Natsu is fine" a bandaged Erza stood up, "I'll join you in the south, it will be nice to see Kagura"
"fine Lucy and Cana will watch over our prisoner" Mavis told them, "and the rest of you will be in charge of the defence of the guild"
"what about the forces to the east and west?" Makarov asked
"the western forces have halted for now but they are most likely headed by Zeref himself" Mavis deduced, "for now the biggest threat is from the east and I have gathered our strongest to meet them"
"what are you talking about first?" Makarov asked
"the magic council and the top four wizard saints, I have asked them help us defeat Alvarez" Mavis told him
"I have a problem" Kalex spoke up, "are you really just gonna leave me at the guild?"
"no I want you to do something special for me" Mavis said with a smile, "how long does it take you to cover all of Fiore?"
"a few minutes maybe less" Kalex told her, "why?"
"I want you on all fronts at once" Mavis told him
"what is she talking about?" members of the guild asked
Kalex cracked a smile as he realised what she wanted, "you want me to cause chaos in their ranks, I'll appear cause devastation and then completely vanish, if I do this enough times they'll be too afraid of the next attack to focus on the fight they have right in front of them"
"I FOUND HIM!" Warren shouted as he pointed to a blip on the screen, "it's Natsu"
"where's he going?" Gray asked as the dot flew across the screen
"HE CAN'T BE SERIOUS!" Makarov shouted as they realised he was heading straight for Zeref
"he's an idiot, I guess we're changing the plan" Gray was stopped by Erza
"we'll follow the first's plan" Erza told everyone, "leave Zeref to Natsu"
"if we're following the first's plan then my first target is the western forces" Kalex picked up his cloth wrapped sword as he walked out of the guild
"wait" Erza tried to stop him
"I'm not gonna stop him from facing Zeref" Kalex reassured her, "I'm just gonna give him back up"
End of chapter 37