A Savior is Selected
Natsu, Erza, Seilah, Wendy, Laxus the Thunder Legion, Levy, the Exceeds, and Kinana and Erik after five months of Training, they were all heading back home.
"Well I must admit you guys wouldn't have made it this far if I hadn't seen another way" Natsu smirked "I guess I have to thank Erik for that" he said.
"I understand you were worried about what would happen, if you weren't around to protect your friends ,mates, and Guild" Erik responded "you were pushing them so they could stand on their own and you just saw to Train them hard as your Dragon teacher's and how well you changed" he theorized.
"First off they are the father, brother and sister of my father Igneel" Natsu corrected "and honestly compared to them I was going easy on you guys" "The training under them was 100 times harder and strenuous, not to mention many times stricter and intense than I was with you guys" he clarified.
"If you had a tough time coping with the strictness I showed in the beginning, you would've had a heart attack from training under my trainers" Natsu stated "But the point is you showed me a better way and we grew alot in these 5 months" he smiled.
"well you definitely allowed yourself to smile more, in front of other members not just us" Wendy smiled "Besides you have a nice smile" she said.
"Okay No chick flick statements" Gajeel groaned.
"I agree enough of this gooey sh-" "show of emotion" Natsu joked, then he felt a pinch in his head and saw images of unknown people dying in gruesome ways and placed a hand on his face.
"You alright?" Laxus raised a brow.
"Yeah still don't like riding trains" Natsu replied, which was quite believable and shook his head clearing his head.
"Well we are half way there" Erza smirked "still amusing how someone as strong as you, still doesn't like Transportation" she teased.
"It still makes me uncomfortable and don't think I'm forgetting the times you and Happy would leave me on the train" Natsu reminded "fish and cake on the brain?" he joked.
"Hey leave my cake out of this" Erza replied.
"and my beautiful fish" Happy complained.
a few hours later they arrived at the train station and headed home, Returning to Fairy Tail as they opened the doors.
"Ah you guys are back at last, how was your trip" Makarov sipped his beer.
"Tough" everyone spoke.
"Well I can sense it was worth the trip" Romeo said as they could feel a change in their magic and Seilah's Curse Macro
"It was hard but it was rewarding" Laxus admitted.
"we also learned so much from this trip" Erza smiled.
"Cobra seems smiley" Macao pointed out, Mira walked up to Natsu who smiled at his other mate.
"you seem more lively" Mira smiled and the two kissed and hugged each other lovingly.
"Lets say I learned a few things on the trip to" Natsu smiled "Turns out Erik made me realize you shouldn't force your friends and Guildmates to the conditions you were subjected to" "There's another and more rewarding way by working together, I also needed to lighten up a bit" he said.
"like you told us, theres a easy way and hard and the right way" Erik spoke "since you don't like taking the easy way" he said.
"Nope" Natsu shook his head.
"You overlooked the rightway and that was working together" Erik continued "what would happen if you kept being too hard on us and being a wack job the whole time" "You would've drove us away" he spoke.
"Well the way I saw it, yes I knew my way would've made you guys drop me from the friend list, but if you could continue on without me because of my upbringing which I was trained under then that was a small price to pay, and would've been fine with it" Natsu said then sharply inhaled when Mira pinched him in the side "However I would regret my actions afterwards because my mild extreme training ways, I was being too serious" he finished.
"It seems you all learned something from this experience" Makarov noted.
"We learned team work, but still trained hard and as a bonus we grew together" Levy said a smile.
"I learned to be more understanding and willing to try another way" Natsu spoke, then he went quiet as he felt another pinch in his head.
"Salamander" two young voices spoke in his head, but Natsu grimaced pushing the voices out of his mind.
"You okay Man?" Erik/cobra asked.
"Aye just after-motion discomfort from riding on a train for several or so hours" Natsu rubbing his head with a hand.
"So someone as strong as you, still hates transportation?" Laki said.
"I don't hate transportation as much as I use to, but still don't like it" Natsu frowned, then images of random people dying in horrible ways and great loss, lots of ruin and death.
"Hello can we talk" A girl's spoke in his mind "Hello anyone home?" A boy's rang in his mind again.
"I need to step out for a moment" Natsu excused himself as he bonked his head with his hand and cleared his mind and pushed the voices out again and shielded it.
Natsu headed to his private hiding spot "Now were alone what do you want?" he questioned in annoyance.
"Finally he answers, your hard to contact" A young female.
"I don't like unwelcomed voices in my head" Natsu scowled then he squinted his eyes sensing two energies inside of his mind "Or correction uninvited guests poking through my brain" with a grunt two energies of light were expelled from his head in front of him "Now get out" he frowned.
"Man this guy's mind was tough" A boys voice spoke from one as the light pulsed .
"And you were hard to get and keep out" Natsu noted.
"Apologies for contacting you in your head, which by the way was blocked off so we couldn't look into your memories" a girl's voice spoke from the second as the glowing light pulsed.
"Oh believe me, you don't want to see what I have seen and experienced, which is why I kicked you two out" Natsu stated seriously, remembering the horrors he has seen, in Hell, Purgatory, Azuriana, and Ozarkan Lands, which Ozarkan wasn't bad but still had it's share of trouble, as giant like creatures of rock and solid fire that still shimmer with flames called Anti-Ozark's that try to attack the newly spawn Fire, Hell, Azure, Purgatory dragons and his dominion's creatures are formed.
from what his Grandfather, Aunt and Uncle told him, the Ozarkan Lands, the creatures from their dominions are created in the lands and when they are mature and fully grown he makes sure, they get sent to their respectful places and it's his job to protect the lands, but that was for another time.
Natsu has seen many and done terrible things in, Hell, Purgatory, Azuriana. Hell; he has sent many evil souls of the evil and wicked writhing and wailing in pain of their sins and suffer for eternity, Purgatory; either he sends the stand by evil guys who deserve no section to Hell, or they stay and when they turn they turn into Shallows ghoulish like monsters that simmered with Purgatory fire and bodies covered in reaper like cloaks and they roam the plains, Azuriana; as the flames of one massive and deep Pit filled with brilliant blue and azure flames that are so hot, you just throw a evil monster or dark mage in it, the flames instantly extinguish them from existence soul, spirit and body all.
If any lesser mage or man saw whats even in a part of a memory of a duty he had to uphold, they would be traumatized and emotionally and psychologically scarred for months, But if ever want to be The Fire Dragon Prince or a higher level like Fire Dragon King you must harden and toughen yourself to grow immune and unaffected by the horrors.
"Well moving on you must be wondering about the images you have been seeing recently?" the female spoke again making The Dragon Slayer frown deeper.
"What do you know of that?" Natsu raised a brow.
"we planted those images in your mind, another Guild is calling out for you for help" the boy's light spoke.
"are the people in my head dead already?" Natsu asked "Mr and ms?" he said.
"Oh forgive us we're not use to contacting people, especially from two different worlds" the Female replied.
"We're Kami and Yami creators and Rulers of every universe and that includes yours" Kami and Yami explained.
"quite a job" Natsu claimed.
"anyway what we showed was premonition of whats gonna happen, we want you to stop it" Kami's light blinked "But like we said this conflict is going to happen on another world different from yours" she said.
"the reason why you saw them because we bridged a link between your worlds" Yami informed "But we can only send you there if you accept, we have rules as creators and rules of these whole different universes: We can't interfere with conflicts, and we can't force anyone" he explained.
"Will it be forever?" Natsu sighed.
"No only till this war in that other world is done" Kami assured.
"That could take awhile, should I bring anyone?" Natsu spoke.
"As long as they don't mind taking a life" Yami said sternly.
"Hmm?" Natsu thought, neither member would be comfortable with killing and shook his head " 'sigh' Alright if someone needs my help, then Yes I'll go to these world alone, but I'll need to tell my Lovers and Guild something" he requested firmly.
"Granted" both lights spoke
Natsu returned to his Guildhall and entered "Well thats better a walk sooths my mind" he spoke.
"Hello Natsu!" everyone spoke.
"Hey lets celebrate" Makarov drank his liquor.
"Actually it will have to wait, on my walk I've been selected for a job" Natsu replied.
"Yeah Team Natsu is back" Romeo cheered.
"Actually I was told I couldn't bring anyone but myself" Natsu replied.
"Say what?" Erza said as she walked to him.
"I asked if I could but was told no" Natsu informed.
"Then I have one thing to say, make Fairy Tail proud loverboy" Erza smiled as the two kissed "Now get to it" she said mock sternly, Natsu kissed Mira and Seilah to "see ya when I see ya" he told everyone.
a minute later, he got his travel bag and packed sleepwear, toothbrush and toothpaste, a change of clothes, a solid oak walking stick and returned to the spot where he was talking to those two talking lights.
"Alright I'm ready" Natsu stated and just like that, Kami's and Yami's glowing lights appeared again "Lets go, A world needs my help" he said, then the two lights touched each other and cosmic energy gather around them and formed a circle.
"alright step in" Kami instructed, Natsu walked on to it "Now hold onto our lights" the Fire Dragon grabbed the light with both hands.
"now your probably not use to travel between dimensions" Yami spoke.
"Right, cause I ever crossed over to another world" Natsu stated sarcastically.
"fair warning you may feel discombobulated and avoid surprises, the Travel and the Surprises may make you edgy" The two warned as a column of cosmic energy flared out and formed tunnel in the sky.
"Well lets jet" Natsu frowned and crouched as fire engulfed his form and formed a fire sphere formed around him and turned into a five foot tall and wide ball of fire and blasted up at breakneck speed and flew in the hole, as he went in it puffed away and cosmic energy faded away like a light, but leaving the two and the two returned home.
in another plain in space
Kami and Yami appeared in their domain again
"Uhh, shouldn't we have told him that shooting up before being beamed up, he would've been coming at the ground, and going at a fast speed will only make the dimension jumping sickness worse" Yami rubbed his head.
"I was about to but he bolted up before I could" Kami replied.
"Well I hope he's sturdy" Yami sighed.
"Still his eagerness is funny" Kami smirked "but their Salvation is coming" she said thinking about Night Raid's Fate without Outside help
Well look out Empire The Dragon Prince is coming for you.
Mysterious Stranger's Arrival
Back at Night Raid, the sun was just about to completely set, the members of the Assassin Guild just left the dining room from eating dinner, they had been talking about this mysterious outside helper, that could show up.
"Well we don't know if it's he, maybe it's a woman" Sheele spoke.
"Hate to break it to you, but those two weird glowing lights told us it was a man" Mine snorted.
"And whoever this person is, Kami and Yami told us this person is strong enough to take down Esdeath" Najenda stated as she puffed out a cloud of smoke from her cigarette.
"If what they say is true, we don't want to provoke this person" Akame said calmly.
"Especially with a title of The Prince of Dragons and also called the Prince of All Fire Dragons" Bulat stated.
"If it's a Dragon Prince, that means an actual Dragon is coming here" Tatsumi scratched his chin.
Leone just laughed at the claim "you need your ears checked, those two simply said it was a person" she pet his head.
"Maybe it's a Hybrid, A offspring of a human and a Fire dragon, since the other title is The Prince of All Fire Dragons" Sheele cutely spoke putting a finger to her cheek thinking, as the others sweatdropped as they comically saw an image outside Sheele's head, A chibi human wearing pants to his knees, was covered in scales, with horns, wings, dragonlike fangs, a tail and breathing flames from his mouth.
"How the Hell would a giant Flaming Reptile mate with a human" Mine scowled, just then they were passing by a window in the hallway when suddenly high up in the sky a hole opened up and a large Fireball came falling out and crashed down 2 miles into the woods surrounding their headquarters, the impact was so great it shook the ground, sending aftershocks throughout their building.
"Go find whatever that was" Najenda ordered pointing.
"Yes boss" Leone nodded and the group ran outside and to the thing that crashed down in their woods, 5 minutes later they arrived to the sight, what they saw was a 4 meter deep and a 6 meter wide crater in the ground they spread'ed out went to different parts of the crater, they crouched and looked what they saw was a 6ft 1 and a body of a veteran and seasoned Decathlete with spiky salmon hair, dressed in obsidian black pants tucked in black lightweight breathable combat boots that went to his mid shin with two buckles on the cuffs, had on a form fitting midnightblack elbow length shirt under a mahogany waistcoat and a mahogany cloth was around his waist fastened by a black leather belt a golden belt buckle with orange flames on the cloth and waistcoat, on his hands he wore black leather fingerless gloves with a scarlet orange strip around the top and bottom edge and finally wore a mid ankle obsidian black wool cape-like cloak fastened by two metal clasps hooked to two hooks on the other side and white scaly scarf wrapped around his neck and two scars across his left eye one was longer than the other, flat on his back with a travel bag around next to him.
"is he an alien, he fell from the sky" Lubbock whispered to himself.
Just then the man opened his eyes and stood up with a groan and stood on shaky legs "worst way to travel, ever" he shook his head, thinking of Kami and Yami's transportation methods.
"Haven't felt this way since I had motion sickness, and worst case yet" The man stated, then closed his eyes and swooned to the ground as he felt lightheaded.
"We should bring him in for help" Akame stated "Bulat I think your the only one strong enough to carry that man" she said, Bulat walked down and carefully picked him across his shoulders and carried him out, Akame grabbed the persons bag and brought it with them.
They went back into their headquarters where Najenda gazed at them "what was it, the thing that crashed?" she frowned.
"Uh not a thing it was a he Boss" Leone stated as she pointed to the youngman across Bulat's shoulders.
"He's what fell from the sky, get him to the medical room" Najenda "He must have been injured badly from going that fast and that high up" she said, as she followed them Bulat laid the man down on the table carefully, Najenda checked his pulse with her left hand.
"Should we check to see any damage?, he was staggering around and went unconscious I think he hit his head" Tatsumi spoke.
"only take the upper clothes off" Najenda said, Akame, Leone, Najenda took the clothes off his upper body
"What is it with these three stripping people?" Tatsumi said in his mind as he sweatdropped.
The members were awestruck how built this man was even though he had tattoos and light thin scars on his torso and collar and two scars across his left eye, one was longer than they thought, it was down on the left side of his face at the top corner of his cheek down his jaw and glanced along his neck and start of his collar.
"Well I know for a fact from battle wounds, those scars were not caused by his crash landing they are very old but we know he's a soldier" Bulat spoke "He does have the correct build but he's still shorter and thinner than me" he said.
"What I can't figure out, how is he not hurt he fell at least 1000 or 2000 feet from the sky and not a bloody scratch or bruise" Mine scowled.
"He is very muscular and toned but your right he has a smaller build" Sheele stated.
"Hey me and Tatsumi may not really built, but still toned" Lubbock said.
"Who you kidding you have less muscle tone than Tatsumi" Mine snorted, Leone had walked up to Natsu and picked up a arm with her hands and rubbed his shoulder, down his bicep, and along the side of his well developed arm.
"his muscles, feel like their made of high grade tungsten steel wire ropes, and the fibers are like high tensile Titanium cables" Leone spoke as she stroke along side a muscle with a finger.
"Big sis stop messaging his muscles" Tatsumi cautioned "Remember we don't know him or what he can do, so don't be touching him" he said.
"I have to agree" Akame spoke "The Tattoos maybe radioactive" she warned.
"Then why are you touching him?" Leone pointed with a smirk at Akame's hand which was laying against his peck.
"I was seeing if his heart was beating" Akame stated.
"Well someone wake him up" Lubbock pointed as he grabbed a mallet and medium size from a room and got ready to swing.
"I wouldn't startle him" Najenda spoke too late, Lubbock swung hard.
'GOOOONNGGGGGGGRGRING!' rang out as the mallet slammed into gong, Making the man bolt off the table the team and Najenda covered their ears and the man's eyes snapped open.
"We're under attack!" The man yelled, the stranger sensed he wasn't alone, he turned around with a piercing glared and a cold and hardened expression, he saw behind him was 8 other people, 3 other men and 5 women, he saw they had weapons out in defense from his sudden wakening and yelling.
"Enemies 6 o clock" He narrowed his eyes getting in a combat stance.
"At ease Youngman we're not here to harm you" Najenda told him.
"What are you lady, a cyborg?" he frowned seeing this women had a mechanical arm ", Hold the Fire whiskey, Where I am and where did you take me and why is half my clothes gone?" he demanded fiercely.
"Calm yourself as Boss said we" Bulat started and placed a hand on his shoulder, The man acted as soon as the first the contact landed, he grabbed his wrist with a hand turned and rammed his elbow in his stomach doubling larger man over grabbed his arm and threw him over his shoulder into Mine seeing she had a gun pointed at him knocking them down.
"Restrain him and calm him down" Najenda ordered, Sheele jumped at him swung with a huge pair of scissors but the man ducked turned and swung hard with a fist, Sheele raised her scissors as a defense.
'Grunch!' sounded as the man's fist slammed against the blade's scissors leaving a large indentation of his fist and sent Sheele back, Tatsumi swung with his sword trying to use his hilt but, The man stepped to the side and stopped his attack and sent a hammer fist in his stomach and an elbow to his chest and sharp short uppercut to his chin and sent a roundhouse across his chest sending Tatsumi back.
Leone jumped at him from behind, the man snapped around stepped in and caught her with an arm and turned and pushing his hand on her lower stomach flipped her over his shoulder with a arm, then Lubbock wrapped his Cross Tail threads around his upperbody trapping his arms at his sides, but as Lubbock pulled to real the man in, the man planted his feet on the floor and he was reeled in and banged against his back but wrapped his arms in a bear hug.
"Now Akame!" Lubbock strained, Akame dashed up to them at a blinding speed and got ready to hit him with her hilt of her Katana, but the man acting quickly bashed Lubbock behind him with the crown of his head in his nose and bent his upperbody forward at the waist and Lubbock was awarded with a headache as the butt of Akame's sword hit him in the forehead making Lubbock let go, he sprang forward and rammed his shoulder in Akame's gut sending her backward, then with a grunt he pulled his arms to the sides and snapped the very durable threads like cheap string, then slid to the side and stopped Akame's arm who tried another attempt and headbutted her in the face knocking her down.
"That does it" Mine snapped and got ready to fire at the man, but The man raised an arm and blocked a beam of Spiritual energy from Her Pumpkin and smoothly deflected the shot off the side of his hand directing it into a blank wall making a large hole in it and the man jumped back and avoided a strike from Leone and grabbed a arm turned her away and gave a swift but strong roundhouse to her backside sending her across the room into Sheele.
The man ducked under a mechanical hand attached to a reel that Najenda sent at him and rolled to the side and jumped high over Tatsumi and Bulat who jumped at him as they slammed into each other headfirst and the man landed near the hole, picked up his upper clothes and travel bag in a second and to their shock jumped out.
'CRASH!' as a loud thunderous crash sounded as the man landed on his feet in a flawless three-point landing with a ground-breaking impact on the ground leaving 7 foot long cracks in a 360 degree circle around him, he then let out a loud grunt and with mighty leap that left a 2 feet deep and 3 feet wide crater jumping 100's of feet in the air and on a tree top sprung high into the sky.
'whoosh!' sounded as flames lit his under his feet and blasted off into the distance at a high speed, the other's looked at each other and turned to Lubbock with a frown.
"Nice going, I said don't startle him" Najenda said with irritation .
"Well to honest I think he was alarmed with our weapons directed towards, wasn't just me" Lubbock frowned.
"I don't know who he was but he was no slouch" Akame stated rubbing her sore face.
"Tell me about it he dented Extase with one of his punches" Sheele said as she showed the imprint of the man's fist in the Blade of the large pair of Scissors.
"My ass hurts from his kick" Leone spoke up rubbing her backside with a hand "Yup that left a mark" she winced.
"Actually it left imprint of his boot" Lubbock pointed.
"Normally I would break your fingers or arms for that, but even with my Lionelle active It still stung" Leone stated as it was shown it still in use, Her short hair was longer and reached her back and had lion like ear on her head, her hands were larger and yellow fur and had sharp claws, had a medium long tail, her golden eyes had slits in them, she deactivated her Teigu returning back to normal.
"And snapped the threads from Cross Tail and yes their threads but still extremely durable" Lubbock said picking up some broken strands.
"While he was fighting, I could not only see was he a seasoned fighter but also battle strategy of who or what to engaging first" Najenda said.
"Your right I saw it to" Bulat agreed "He went after Mine first cause she had a blaster, he made Akame hit Lubb, he made me and Tatsumi crash into another" he counted.
"Not to mention none movement was wasted, every move was precise, swift, and well timed" Najenda scratched "He may have be a Stranger but he is incredibly skilled in Hand To Hand combat but he has battle strategy of a well rounded Soldier or Captain" she said.
"Not to mention he wasn't at least bit wary or scared of us when we choose to confront him" Tatsumi said "At least he didn't kill us, he just wanted to escape" he said "Not that you can blame him"
"Forget that he saw our faces and did you see what direction he was going, He was headed to the Capital" Mine snapped "and I don't think he knows about whats in there" she said.
"Well Shit" Leone muttered.
"Keep an eye out for out Mysterious person" Najenda ordered "Leone, Lubbock, Tatsumi, Mine go to town but spread far out" she said, the said Assassins nodded "and try to bring him back and we'll explain things to him" she said.
Next Chapter will be a longer Story arc, that will take a bit of time to complete since it will be the whole Akame ga Kill arc and beginning at the end of Kill the Dream and the start Kill the Absolute Justice Episode.
