Chapter 46

The Dragon Slayer Duo of Fairy Tail


Natsu


I raced down the street in the direction of Happy and Elfman. I could pick out their scents clear as day. I only hoped I could reach them before they could beat Freed. Wendy came flying up next to me, being carried by Carla.

"They're in this direction?" she asked.

"Yeah," I replied, "I hope we get there before the battle ends."

"Do we have a plan?" Wendy asked, "I wanted to discuss a plan of attack, but you seemed busy with Erza."

As she said, I was busy with Erza. I was overjoyed by her return to Fairy Tail, and I wanted to talk to her about what happened at the Tower of Heaven. It's not like we said much though. The wound was still fresh. All Erza could muster out to say was how sorry she was for her actions. Shô also apologized for the same reason.

Getting back onto topic, I answered Wendy's question, "Yeah, we're gonna beat up Freed."

Wendy fell silent. I got the sense that she was expecting something more, but I don't know what she expected. That was all we had to do.

"I meant like a strategy. How are we going to go about beating him up?"

I looked at Wendy with a toothy grin, "I'm gonna punch him really hard in the face."

Rather than agree with my course of action, Wendy instead buried her face in her hands. Carla joined Wendy in disappointment with a groan of her own.

"We aren't going to be able to operate like we do with Mystogan." Carla mumbled.

"Yeah…"

I frowned at the two girls, "You know I can hear you."

"We know." They deadpanned.

Finally, we reached our destination. It was a wide-open grassy valley. Down in the valley, Elfman we found Elfman was in his Beast Soul Takeover. Happy was flying right next to him. The two looked like they were fighting someone, but it didn't look like anyone else was fighting. Suddenly, Elfman kneeled over in pain.

"What's going on? Why does Elfman look like he's hurt?"

"Where's Elfman?" Wendy asked, "Isn't that Freed right next to Happy?"

"No, that's Elfman's Beast Soul."

Wendy's eyes widened, "That's um…scary."

Carla audibly groaned.

"Freed, show yourself!" I yelled as I dashed down after them.

Elfman and Happy began to glow with a familiar light teal-blue color. Wendy flew right beside me with her hand outstretched.

"Freed placed a rune on him." She informed me.

"Can you remove it?"

"I can try."

I rushed over to Happy, "You alright, Happy?"

Happy gave me a thumbs up, "Aye! But what are you doing here, I thought Porlyusica said you can't fight?"

"I have to say, I'm surprised to see you two as well." Freed chimed in.

I jumped in surprise, "Whoa, where did you come from!?" Freed stood in front of me. I was surprised by the black and purple wings that were sprouting from his back.

Freed was taken aback by my statement, "You too? That brute didn't notice me either...regardless, why are you here? Laxus said you suffered a major head injury."

I pointed over to Wendy, who was flying right next to me and looking at Elfman wearily, "Wendy healed me."

"Hm, interesting," Freed mused, "Well, either way, I can only assume you are here to face me?"

I cracked my knuckles, "You know it."

"Very well, allow me to finish my battle with Elfman, and then I shall attend to you."

"Gah, there's no way I'm waiting for that!"

"Be a man and wait your turn!" Elfman yelled at me, "Freed's mine!"

"I ain't waiting!" I yelled back, "You're sister told me to take down Freed!"

"Yeah, right!"

Wendy nervously chimed in, "She did."

"Well, I can't just back out now! I have to save Lisanna!"

Freed chimed in with a mocking, "He's right, it would be unmanly for him to back out now."

"But beating Freed wouldn't save Lisanna," Wendy pointed out.

"And we already saved her." I added.

Freed raised an eyebrow, "Oh really, then please enlighten me as to how you did that? I would have been notified if Evergreen was defeated."

"Siegrain released the spell."

Freed looked at me surprise, "Are you telling me that Siegrain, the ex-Council Member and Ten Wizard Saint, is here right now?"

"He came back with Erza and another guy." Wendy explained, "He used magic suppression handcuffs to disrupt the spell and dispel it."

Elfman roared at us, scaring Wendy, and leading her to hide behind me, "Enough of this! I'm finishing this fight!"

Elfman charged at Freed who immediately activated his magic, "Suffering!"

"Enchantment: Resist Suffering!" Wendy yelled from behind me.

Freed's eyes bulged in surprise as Elfman continued his rush at him. He jumped out of the way and flew into the sky, safely away from Elfman.

"Let's go, Happy!" I called.

"Aye sir!"

Happy flew behind me, grabbed onto my back, and flew me forward. I met Freed in the sky and slugged him in the face with a flaming fist. He fell back towards the ground but caught himself before he hit the ground.

"He's mine, Natsu!" Elfman shouted.

Before I could reply, Wendy flew up next to me and addressed Elfman, "Please Elfman, let us deal with Freed! I really wanna fight with Natsu!"

Wendy held her hands together in a begging fashion and stared at Elfman with her puppy eyes. Elfman looked up and finally relented. He cancelled out of his Beast Soul and looked away, "A real man can't say no to that…"

"Yeah!" Wendy and I celebrated and high fived each other.

"Thank you, Elfman!" Wendy called down to him.

Elfman folded his arms and looked away with a 'humph'. There were no hard feelings though. We knew he was just putting up an act.

Freed began to say something, but once again, I punched him in the face.

"You're fighting us now!"

Freed looked annoyed, "That's not how this works. You can't just forfeit the match!" Freed's eye began to glow a black and purple color as he drew out a rune with his sword.

As he did this, Wendy casted an enchantment, "Vernier!"

I began to glow a green aura as I felt my body grow significantly lighter. Freed finished his rune and fired it at us, saying, "Dark Écriture: Fear! You will wait your turn!"

He fired his rune at me, but it didn't even come close enough to hit me. Happy, who I assume was also affected by Wendy's spell, flew us out of the way with time to spare. Behind us, Wendy and Carla were following behind. They were also glowing green.

With my speed boost, I flew at Freed and hit him with a barrage of punches and kicks. He was helpless to fight back against my awesome speed and strength. Finally, Freed got a slash on me with his sword. I cried out in pain and backed off. The pain from the wound quickly subsided, and when I looked down, there wasn't so much as a scar to suggest I had been hit.

"Hehe, that the best you've got!" I taunted.

Freed didn't react to my taunt, much to my annoyance. Instead he seemed focused on the battle at hand, "Alright then, I guess I'll have to go all out. I'll show you the power of a demon!"

"That's Mira's thing," We all, Elfman included, told him.

"Dark Écriture: Darkness!" Freed ignored us and inscribed a rune on himself and proceeded to transform.

His entire body became covered in black scales, dark horns sprouted from his forehead, and his body became significantly bulkier. With his transformation complete, he darted Wendy's direction and threw a punch at her.

"I'll take your supporter out first!"

Happy and I turned around and rushed to Wendy's rescue. She had a terrified look on her face as Freed zoomed up to her. The look of terror turned into a slasher smile though. She shrouded one of her legs in wind and proceeded to kick Freed. The resulting impact blew Freed away from her.

"Sky Dragon's Claw!" She cried, "I can fight too, you know!"

The attack didn't seem to do any damage to Freed though, and he went in for another attack. Fortunately, I was able to intercept him this time and throw him off course. He easily rebounded from my attack and came rearing up to attack Wendy once more.

"We need more strength." Wendy muttered her observation, "Arms! Armor!"

I felt a strength enter my body like never before, and my body as a whole felt a lot tougher. I intercepted Freed once more and decided to see what I could do with this new strength.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" When my fist made contact with Freed, a flaming explosion erupted, rocketing Freed down to the ground below, "That was awesome!"

"Here he comes." Wendy warned me.

Freed rocketed up past me and aimed to take out Wendy again. He lifted his hands and an orb of darkness manifested in them. He brought it down on Wendy and launched her towards the ground. She fell with a girlish scream and I chased after her. Freed intercepted me though and used the same spell he used on Wendy on me to knock me away.

Happy and I landed on the ground roughly, but the pain we felt was significantly less than we anticipated. Wendy and Carla flew over to us as we picked our selves up.

"Are you guys okay?" Wendy asked.

"That was a pretty nasty attack." Carla added.

"I'm okay, Carla!" Happy replied.

"Yeah, we're just fine, thanks to you." I gave Wendy a thumbs up, but observed that she was bleeding from her nose, "Are you alright?"

Wendy wiped the blood from her nose and replied, "Yeah, it'd probably be worse if I didn't use Armor on myself."

"Oh really?" Came Freed's voice from behind her.

Freed came rushing at us, with the darkness magic emanating off his fists. I grabbed Wendy and threw her behind me as I parried his punch with one of my own. An explosion rang out as our magics collided, knocking us both back. I was left standing pretty, thanks to Wendy's timely healing and enchantments. Freed on the other hand looked like he was on his last leg. His breathing looked rough and the black scales that made up his demon form were peeling off, giving way to the bruised skin underneath.

"Let's end this." I told Wendy as I slammed my fists together.

"Right!" Wendy replied, copying my motions.

Freed, realizing what was happening prepared an attack of his own. He brought together darkness magic and fired it off at us, "Darkness Breath!"

A magic circle appeared in front of me, and a similar one in front of Wendy. The two magic circles fused together to form a single magic circle. We both smirked as we fired off our attack.

"Unison Raid: Fire and Sky Dragon's Roar!"

Our combined attack collided with Freed's and easily overpowered it. The spell continued forward, enveloping Freed in an explosion of fire and wind. The explosion blinded us for the duration. It wasn't until the dust settled, that we found Freed lying on the ground unconscious. He laid in the rubble badly bruised and beaten. His clothes were cut and burned in various places.

Wendy and I flew down to Freed. Wendy immediately got to work healing her as Elfman and Gajeel met up with us.

"You're really gonna heal him?" Gajeel asked.

Happy jumped and screamed at Gajeel, "When did you get here?"

"He's been here the whole time." Wendy and I replied to him.

It's the truth. He followed us out the guild shortly after we left. Wendy must have picked up on his scent as well. I didn't make any mention of it since he was just standing back watching. I figured he wanted to see us in action.

"And he's still a guildmate. I can't just sit by after we beat him like that." Wendy explained, "It wouldn't be right."

Gajeel folded his arms with a scowl, but didn't push further.

"He didn't even stand a chance!" Elfman celebrated, "You've really gotten stronger, Wendy!"

Wendy turned away from Freed for a brief moment, "Thank you, Elfman, but I couldn't have done it without Natsu."

"Are you kidding, you're the real MVP here!" I told her, "Healing, enchantments, and fighting? You've got all the bases covered!"

"Even I'll admit, it was really impressive." Gajeel added.

Wendy's cheeks were red as roses as she finished healing Freed, "We should return him to the guild so he can rest up."

I cracked my knuckles, "And while you guys are doing that, I'm going after Laxus!"

"You aren't leaving me behind this time! I want a crack at him!" Elfman added.

"Um, guys…I can't carry Freed." Wendy pointed out.

"Can't the cats carry him?" Gajeel asked.

"Aye!"

"Gee, thanks for volunteering us."


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