Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Fairy Tail, the rights to them belong to Hiro Mashima. Not me.

Spellbound voice


The hot-tempered Dragon slayer ran, he didn't know how long he'd been running for but it felt like hours had passed him by.

He dashed as fast as he possibly could while he used his nose and heightened sense of hearing to guide him through the deep and dark corridors that seemed to go on forever. The hallway seemed to stretch on and on with no end in sight, all there was was darkness and not much else. It was hard to navigate around these dark hallways and corridors but he adamantly refused to let the low ambience of this gloomy castle interfere, though, as he swore that he wasn't going to let anything happen to Lucy, he would rather die then let something like that happen!

He stopped for a sec and straightened his posture.

He started sniffing once again with his nose pointed high in the air but there was a strong combinations of scents that crossed and drowned his sinuses in confusion as he tried his best to pick out that one smell that he hoped would belong to Lucy, that Poacher of sounds or both.

'Where could he have taken her...?' He wondered.

The Dragon slayer didn't even have the sense to use his fire magic to alight the area.

Not only that but but Natsu was very anxious about that light that shined before he entered without the rest of the guild.

What was that light?

Could it have been Lucy's voice?

He just kept running and running as fast as he could, sweat started to drip from his head to the floor below as his energy began to run low. He started to grow breathless as his energy fizzled out like someone snuffing out a feeble flame and he was forced to slow his steps and he started to feel this need to take serious caution the further he ventured into the dreary stone hallways.

The pink-haired dragon slayer's onyx eyes drifted slowly from left to right, his posture was as stiff as stone and he couldn't rid himself of a dark and horrible feeling that had settled in the pit of his chasmic abyss of a stomach.

He slowly stalked through the corridor for what felt like ages, his unease growing by the second.

He soon stopped when he suddenly found himself in a strange-looking area, his eyes widened, his mouth dropped wide open, his heart dropped into his stomach for the second time, his skin started to crawl and break out into goosebumps.

This cell felt cold as he meandered into it and he started to gaze warily at his surroundings.

The air was dark and filled with this sense of brooding.

The atmosphere was so heavy that gravity itself threatened to crush him, the place was really dark and strangely circular...kind of like some sort of arena with a dungeon twist.

The floor was made from dark cobblestone, the amalgamated granite walls were constantly threatening to crumble, the air was damp due to the mild condensation that hung in the air. There were chains strapped to the walls, moisture dripped from the ceiling, the sound of metal echoed through the hollow and round chamber. The door was like a cage made from sturdy iron bars that Gajeel would probably find to be quite a treat.

But the main feature of this strange enclosure was the large and fluffy blue monster asleep in the centre. It snorted loudly as it was clearly very much unaware of the pink-haired fire wizards presence...or anything else for that matter.

Natsu blinked.

He recognised that thing as the Poacher of sound's pet from the beginning of this entire mess.

When that wizard ambushed them all in the forest!

The large creature snoozed away as it slept, its inhales and exhales sounding much like the revs of the engine of a Ferrari. It's eyes were closed and it seemed to have a cat-like mannerism of laying on its side as it slept apparently soundly...but there was this beastly air about it; Natsu felt like a rabbit caged with a fox. It was dark and the Dragon slayer could hardly see but he remedied this by making his own fists light themselves aflame and he ground his fangs.

Regardless, he made sure to be quiet as he crept up towards the slumbering monster yet it's snores were so loud that the pinkette almost felt inclined to cover his sensitive ears.

He stalked closer and closer, stopping to the side of the monster's face.

Natsu felt his heart stop for a moment when he suddenly saw the ursine-like monster's big red eye flicker open and let out a low and monstrous snarl. It's muzzle scrunched up and it bared it's razor sharp teeth at him as it seemed to regain enough consciousness to try and stand on all four of its huge claws. It's ears flicked backwards and the fur on its back raised into hackles to show its aggression.

Natsu stepped back in reaction to the monster awakening but scowled and adjusted his battle stance in an equally fierce and vicious gesture.

He was determined to seize this moment and then grab it by the horns.

He refused to let this fuzzy beast get in the way of him rescuing Lucy!

"I'm fired up now..."

The monster stomped a claw and unleashed a roar so mighty that it caused the entire cell to tremble and quake, it shook violently under the force of its loud voice, the magical bars of the cell crumbled like bits of dried up clay and fell and melted apart due to the intense burst of heat. The chains jingled and jangled and clinked as they vibrated with the roar erupting from the beast caged within it.

It snorted aggressively and chuffed as it crouched down and snarled at Natsu.

The stone floors cracked under the dragon slayer's feet.

But he refused to be intimidated!

Intense flames burst all around the dragon slayer. His muscles clenched and tightened, his eyes glowed a rich jade green, his jaw wrenched tight, his spine trembled, his kneecaps bunched up. His eyes narrowed and his fangs gnashed tightly. He leaped up into the air, fist flaming, and thrust his flaming fist so it collided right into the monster's jaw and the impact of the punch made the monster's head snap to the left.

"FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" Natsu cried, his voice carrying a terse echo.

The fur on the beast's muzzle was now singed and the flaming punch was severe, the collision was like a meteorite smashing into the earth.

The two went at it for quite a while; the monster kept right on charging for Natsu and trying to get at him. It unsheathed it's sharp claws and made several attempts to swat at the pink-haired fire wizard and even made multiple attempts to chomp down on him but Natsu always dodged and fought back with his own attacks such as his "Fire dragon roar" or his "Fire dragon talon".

It felt as though an eternity had passed but Natsu was not giving up.

The fire wizard of Fairy tail landed hard on the now-cracked cobblestone floor and gave a soft "oof" as he landed on his knees —the fire on his body extinguished and left his hair and shoulders sizzling and smoking. He hung his head and huffed and puffed from the very depths of his lungs that felt quite deflated after using so much power. He breathlessly panted hard as he clutched at his chest.

He lifted his gaze, pushed himself to his feet and saw that the monster collapsed to the floor unconscious for a few moments. He didn't hesitate so he ran up alongside the collapsed giant beast, circling it, and he skidded to a halt to its right.

Now that it was temporarily down for the count, perhaps he could take advantage of it.

He smirked to himself.

This was his chance!

He jumped up, spread his legs apart and mounted himself on the monster's back whilst he grabbed hold of some of the fur on the monster to keep himself from toppling off.

The second Natsu jumped on top the beast it instantly came to and started bucking and making violent attempts to try and shake him off. He growled with strain as he jerked the fur of the bear-like beast and this caused it to go flying towards the wall with its head down and it let out roars and shrieks of fury as it bucked and kicked to get the wizard off of its back, literally. The pinkette refused to be shaken off, though.

He kept himself perched on the spot that he'd just clambered on to and gripped on tight to some large tufts of cobalt blue fur.

The beast snarled angrily...only to be stopped abruptly when Natsu aggressively leaned in close, his face inches away from the beast's large snout. All animalistic fury immediately melted away from the large blue-furred beast and was very quickly replaced by a look of terror. It's eyes were wide as it gazed fearfully into the slitted emerald green reptilian pupils that belonged to the fiery dragon slayer himself.

The pinkette snarled.

"Look here, fuzzy-wuzzy!" Natsu's scowl could have easily bore scorch marks into its soul. "I am going to save Lucy and get that voice you and your freakish rider stole back! I need to get to her as fast as possible and you're gonna let me ride ya! Understand!?"

The ursine-like beast gave a hurried nod and a conceding huff through its nostrils.

The beast didn't make anymore sounds of protest as he let the Dragon slayer climb up and sit on his back. He kicked the monster in the side to nudge it into motion and it proceeded to charge right out of the cell with newly-found vigour as it bashed through the magic bars, with Natsu's assistance, thanks to him melting the bars into mush, and he grabbed on tight to its fur to steer it.

Natsu growled to himself.

He was going to save Lucy!


A/N: Heres a new chapter, guys! I hope you lot have enjoyed it, I made a battle between Natsu and that bear monster. Next up it's time for Natsu to rescue Lucy! Can he (and the rest of the guild when they make it) get there in time to save her?

Will her voice vanish?

Stay tuned to find out!

-Chloemcg