Ch. 4- Fairy Girls vs. Eisenwald
Fairy Tail © Hiro Mashima
Story and OCs © Me
The five Fairy Tail wizards, plus their cat and wolf, all glared at their enemies before them: the entire Eisenwald Guild, headed by Erigor, who smirked as he glowered down at the group of heroes menacingly while holding his scythe over his shoulders.
"So these guys must be the Eisenwald Guild," Haru surmised while Blue Fang growled at her side, his fur bristling.
"Look at them all," Lucy said, growing a bit nervous. "There has to be at least 20... maybe a few more."
"I've been waiting for you... Fairy Tail," Erigor said with a wicked grin.
"Erigor," Erza said with a hiss. "So finally, we meet."
"Huh?" muttered a man with black hair and facial hair that looked like rat whiskers. "That red-haired chick in the armor... I think I've seen her before."
"I get it now," said a large man with a fish-like face and no nose. "She's the one who figured out our plot."
"You damn flies!" shouted Kageyama, who had bandages around his ears for some reason. "Because of you, Erigor damn near sliced my ears off!"
"Now, now, Kageyama," said a tall, slim man with a yellow jacket that had black stripes around the hood.
"Erza, that's him!" Haru exclaimed as she pointed at Kageyama. "That's the guy who had the weird flute!"
"Just what are you plotting?" asked Erza, her hair suddenly rising and falling as if she were surrounded by a powerful wind. "What I do to you lot depends on your answer."
"Oh, not much," Erigor replied. "We're just playing a game, is all. You see, since we're out of work, we've got more time on our hands. Right, men?"
The rest of the Eisenwald Guild started to burst into mocking laughter, causing the group to sneer at them.
"And just what the hell is so damn funny?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, 'cuz I ain't seein' the joke!" Natsu added.
"You don't get it, yet?" asked Erigor before he suddenly began to float up into the air. "There's actually something very special about this train station."
"Whoa! He's flying!" Lucy exclaimed.
"He's using Wind Magic!" Happy added.
"The station?" Erza asked. "What about it?"
Erigor chuckled as he flew around the ceiling much like how a witch would fly on a broomstick, making mocking buzzing sounds as he floated toward the loudspeakers... and it didn't take very long for Erza to put two-and-two together, causing her to grit her teeth in both anger and horror.
"Don't tell me," she said, "you plan on broadcasting Lullaby?!"
"No way!" Lucy cried.
"What was that?!" Gray questioned.
"Oh, no...!" Haru whispered while Erigor and the rest of the Eisenwald Guild cackled.
"I'd say there's more than several hundred... no, several thousand fools gathered outside the station!" Erigor proclaimed. "And if I play Lullaby loud enough, the sweet melody of death could spread throughout the entire town!"
"You're talking about indiscriminate mass murder!" Erza shouted.
"Oh, no, I wouldn't call it 'murder'!" Erigor refuted. "This is more... a purge, if you will. A purge of people who don't realize that others' rights have been stolen away! They tout their own rights and only work to preserve their petty way of life. I'm purging this world of those fools! It's a sin to live without knowing how unfair this world we live in truly is, and I, the Grim Reaper, will merit out punishment! Namely... death!"
"And you think that'll give you back your right to work?!" Lucy questioned. "You brought this on yourselves, you know!"
"You think we care, little girl?" asked Erigor. "We're not here to regain our right to work. We're here to claim our right to rule! When we're in charge, we'll wipe our hands of the past and take absolute control of the future!"
"You guys are insane," Lucy said, glaring at the Eisenwald Guild Leader in defiance.
"Call us what you will," Kageyama began as he put his hand to the ground, casting his shadow forward, "but we are going to usher in a new era!" As he said this, a giant shadowy hand formed in front of Lucy, who gasped as she shielded herself... but then, before the hand could grab her, Natsu suddenly appeared in front of Lucy in the blink of an eye, set aflame to his hands and severed the shadowy with a fierce glare in his eyes.
"You, again...!" Kageyama hissed, hatefully.
"N-Natsu...!" Lucy whispered in awe as he stood before her, not taking his eyes off his opponent.
"Luce... you all right?" Natsu asked.
"Y-yeah," Lucy replied. "Thanks."
'Luce...?' she thought, bewilderment.
"Good going, bro!" Haru exclaimed.
"I meant what I said, buddy," Natsu said with a confident smirk. "It's payback time for that walloping you gave me!"
"They're all yours, men," said Erigor as he hovered above them. "Show these flies the dark power of Eisenwald!" With that, he soon flew off, smashing right through a window!
"Erigor!" Erza shouted as she attempted to chase after him. "You won't escape from us!"
"Dammit!" Gray cursed. "He's gone into the other block! Now what do we do?!"
"Natsu, Gray!" Erza shouted. "Hurry and get after him! I'm sure with the two of you working together, even Erigor is no match for you!"
Natsu and Gray glared at each other, looking none too pleased about having to team up... but then, WHA-PASH! They yelped as Lucy suddenly cracked her whip against the floor in front of them, causing them to embrace each other in fright.
"GET GOING!" Lucy shouted with a heated glare, causing the two to run off.
"HA!" Haru laughed. "Nice one, Lucy!"
"Hey, two of them just ran away!" said one of the Eisenwald members.
"Are they seriously trying to go after Master Erigor?!" asked another.
"Just leave them to me," said the hooded wizard, Rayule, as held up his hand, causing these black bands around his fingers, which suddenly extended before they grabbed onto the stair rails and pulled him up. "I'll stop them both and be right back in no time!"
"I'll go with you, Rayule!" Kageyama exclaimed as he put his hand to the floor. "I've got a score to settle with that pink-haired punk!" With that, his own shadow engulfed him and he disappeared.
"Haru! Lucy!" Erza called out as she glared at the rest of the Eisenwald Guild. "You two, help me clear out the rest of them!"
"Got it, Erza!" Haru replied as she stood beside the armored wizard while Lucy gulped nervously, but nonetheless, she steeled her nerves and gripped the handle of her whip, ready to fight.
"Rayule and Kageyama just left us here with these chicks!" said the rat-whiskered man, Byard. "I don't understand! Playing with these girls looks like way more fun!"
"They're doing this for the sake of the mission," said the rotund wizard, Karacka. "That's a lot more important than what you like and what you don't like!"
"Once we deal with them," Erza began, "we'll chase after Erigor, too."
"Got it!" Lucy and Haru exclaimed while Blue Fang growled.
"Heh," Byard grinned. "And what can three little girls and mutt do against us? Although I gotta say, you ladies do look pretty cute."
"Yeah!" agreed one of the Eisenwald mooks. "It'd be a shame to kill them!"
"I got an idea!" spoke a second. "What do you say instead of killing them, we take them prisoner and sell them off as slaves!"
The word 'slaves' seemed to cause Erza to tense a little, which Haru noticed out of the corner of her eye, but then she turned her focus back to the Eisenwald Guild.
"Wait, I got a better idea!" declared a third. "Let's force them to take off their clothes and do a lap dance for us!"
"Excuse me?!" Lucy questioned in anger.
"Oh, I'm gonna enjoy this," Haru growled.
"You pigs," Erza growled as she held up her hand, causing a red magic circle to appear, and soon after, a broadsword appeared in her hand. "If you insult the Fairy Tail Guild, one more time, I promise you're going to regret it!"
"Whoa!" Lucy exclaimed. "Is that a sword?!"
"Yeah! A magic sword!" Haru replied.
"So she has a sword, so what?!" asked one of the Eisenwald members as he and several others summoned swords of their own. "We've got swords, too, you know! Let's cut off that armor and see what she's got under there, boys!"
The men soon charged at Erza, who glared at them before she lunged forward, and with one fell swing, she cut them all down, causing Lucy to gape in awe.
"That's... amazing!" she said.
"That's Erza for ya!" Haru replied as Erza practically leaped and spun around in the air while cutting down her foes, almost as if she was doing some sort of dance. When some more wizards attempted to hit her with some Projectile Magic, to their shock, her sword disappeared, replaced by a long spear, and, using its long reach, she swung it at her foes, taking them down with ease, and after that, she summoned not one, but two swords into her hands as she continued to mow down the Eisenwald members like they were nothing, followed by a huge battle ax!
"What kind of magic is that?!" Lucy asked.
"That's Requip Magic!" answered Haru.
"Aye!" Happy added. "Magical weapons are a lot like how you summon your Celestial Spirits, Lucy! They're stocked in another dimension from which Erza summons them! To change out one weapon for another is called Requip Magic!"
As the blue cat said this, Erza soon summoned a huge claymore to her side, which she quickly used to cut down several more thugs.
"That's... so cool!" Lucy exclaimed in amazement.
"If you think that's cool," Haru began, "wait until you see what happens next!"
"Aye!" Happy agreed with this almost sinister look in his eyes, again. "This is where Erza's magic really shines!"
"Wha...?" Lucy muttered before she turned to watch Erza, who glared at the Eisenwald mooks and still finding that there were still several standing.
"So there are still a lot of you left, eh?" she asked. "Very well... I'll take you all down in one shot!" Soon after this declaration... her armor disappeared, leaving Erza's naked body enveloped in a golden light... which, of course, left the mooks drooling like a bunch of baboons.
"What's she doing?" Lucy asked. "Is it some sort of seduction attack?!"
"Not quite," Haru grinned as the light around Erza began to disappear, revealing her now wearing silver armor around her body with her cleavage and her midriff being the only things left exposed. The silver itself had a feather-like design from the shoulder plates to the waist plates, as well as a neck-guard and a tiara around her forehead that held tiny wings, and there two pairs of larger metal wings adorning her back.
What stood out the most, however, was that she not only held two swords in her hands, but multiple swords surrounded her, as well, moving in a circle.
"Whoa...!" Lucy whispered in utter awe at Erza's transformation while Haru grinned.
"The standard wizard-swordsmanship only requips weapons while fighting," Haru began, "but Erza took hers a step further. She can not only requip weapons, but she also can requip magic armor to enhance her abilities! It's called Requip: Knight Style!"
"Wait... Erza...?" Karacka muttered. "But... that can't be!"
"Heaven's Wheel Armor..." Erza muttered as her swords began to spin around her at a rapid speed. "CIRCLE SWORD!"
Like a buzzsaw, the swords swung around Erza in a circular motion, cutting down the remaining Eisenwald wizards, who screamed as they all fell to the ground in bloodied heaps.
"You bitch!" shouted Byard as he charged at Erza with a glowing aura around his fist. "Now you're gonna face me!"
"Wait, Byard!" Karacka cried. "Don't do it! That woman is the second strongest woman in Fairy Tail Guild!"
"Huh?!" Byard asked.
"That's right," Haru grinned. "They call Erza... the Fairy Queen, Titania!"
Before Byard could even so much as blink, Erza cut him down with her swords in no time flat, causing him to tumble along the ground before he hit the wall, out cold. By now, Karacka looked utterly horrified that one of his comrades had been taken down in one hit like that while Lucy stared in complete and utter amazement.
"That... was... AWESOME!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Yeah... but I wish she saved a few of them for us," said Haru in mild disappointment before she noticed Karacka fleeing the room. "What the-?! Hey! That blowfish guy is getting away!"
"Haru! Lucy! Quickly!" Erza called. "Go after him! He's probably going to wherever Erigor is!"
"Right!" Lucy replied before she noticed that Erza seemed to be a bit out of breath and was swaying, too. "Hey... are you okay? You look a bit dizzy there."
"I'm fine," Erza assured. "Just hurry and go."
"Erza..." Haru whispered in concern.
'She pushed herself too hard... using up most of her magic on the Magic 4-Wheeler really took a lot out of her.'
"Lucy, Happy, let's go!" Haru called as she jumped onto Blue Fang's back. "We gotta track down that blowfish!"
"Coming!" Lucy replied as Haru hoisted her up while Happy clung to Blue Fang's tail, and soon, the silver wolf took off running after Karacka. As they did, the former took a quick look over her shoulder at the Eisenwald wizards that had been defeated.
"Hey," Lucy spoke up. "Those guys back there... they're not dead, right?"
"Who, them?" Haru asked. "Nah. Erza could have easily cut them all in half if she wanted!"
"Well then... why didn't she?" asked Lucy.
"Look, they may be criminals," Haru began, "but we're not like them. We're not the types to kill our enemies just because we have clashing ideals."
Lucy's eyes went wide while the Beast Wizard smiled at her, but then, her smile quickly fell as she, Lucy, Happy, and Blue Fang all arrived in a room where there was this huge locomotive, as well as other train parts.
"This must be where they take the trains for repairs and such," said Haru while Blue Fang sniffed around for him.
"Where'd he go?" Lucy asked as she looked around. "This room isn't that big and he's pretty heavy. There's no way he got away that fast!"
"He has to be hiding somewhere," Happy said as he looked around, as well. "Where could he be?"
All of a sudden, Blue Fang's ears perked up and he snapped his head to the left with a ferocious growl, causing Haru to look in the same direction before she let out a gasp.
"LUCY, LOOK OUT!" Haru cried as she tackled the Celestial Spirit Wizard to the floor, causing her to let out a yell of surprise... but her surprise quickly turned to shock as a dagger suddenly flew through the air, narrowly grazing the very end of Haru's ponytail and snipping off a few hairs before it collided with the wall. That's when Haru spotted Karacka... whose upper half was sticking out of the floor!
"There he is!" Lucy cried.
"Why's his head sticking out of the ground?!" Happy asked.
"Why you-!" Haru growled as she ran to kick the fat man in the face, only for him to phase right through the floor and disappear! "Huh?!"
"Heheheheh..." Karacka was heard laughing. "You can't hit what you can't see."
"Where are you?!" Lucy asked as she looked around. "Show yourself!"
"Watch out!" Happy shouted as he pointed up to the ceiling, causing Lucy to gasp as she spotted Karacka phasing through it while holding another dagger, which he threw at the blonde girl, but she quickly dodged the knife as it was thrown at her before she tried to bring out her whip, but before she could do anything, he ended disappearing again. The girls both looked around, wondering where Karacka would end up appearing next, and even Blue Fang growled as his eyes darted about and Happy just whimpered nervously as he hovered over them.
"This is creepy!" the cat cried. "Where is he?!"
"He has to be around here, somewhere," said Lucy as she stood back to back against Haru, who growled as she had her fists up.
"Look at you two little flies," said Karacka as he stuck his head out from a wall. "You two really think you can face off against me?"
"HRAGH!" Haru roared as she tried to punch Karacka, but he phased through the wall before she could hit him, but she did end up leaving a sizable dent in the wall, which caused her to grunt as she shook her hand. "Ow...!"
"You sound pretty confident," Lucy said as she looked around. "Maybe you think that because Erza's not here and you can use your magic to hide away, you have a chance at beating us?"
"I'm no fool," said Karacka. "I wouldn't dream of fighting Titania!"
"Heh!" Haru smirked. "So you think we're not as dangerous as Erza is? Oh, you're in for a big surprise, blowfish." As she said this, she looked over at Blue Fang, whose ears were twitching and swiveling about.
"You can't stop us," said Karacka. "Soon, Erigor's plan will come into fruition and we will take our rightful place as rulers of this era!"
"Says you!" Haru shouted. "We're gonna put a stop to you whether you like it or not!"
That's when Blue Fang's ears stopped twitching and he looked toward the right, right where Lucy was standing... and that's when Haru saw a familiar yellow magic circle appear.
"Lucy! There!" Haru shouted as she pointed at the wall, prompting Lucy to gasp before she twirled her whip, then just as Karacka appeared to grab her, she swung it around him like it was a lasso, which tightened around his fat body.
"W-what the-?!" Karacka questioned as he tried to phase back through the wall, but Lucy kept a tight grip on him.
"Gotcha," Lucy smirked before she pulled out one of her golden Gate Keys. "Open a door to the Gate of the Great Crab! CANCER!"
Soon after, there was a flash of light, and this man with black hair and tanned skin appeared dressed in a blue shirt, black trousers, and a pair of white boots, and he also had on a pair of sunglasses. However, his most prominent features were the six grab legs growing out of his back and the two red cornrows on his head that resembled crab claws.
"Hey, it's that crab again!" Happy exclaimed.
"Hey, baby," he said while snipping a pair of scissors in each hand. "So what style is it, today?"
"How about we give this guy a new look, Cancer?" asked Lucy before she swung the whip, pulling Karacka toward the crab-styled spirit, who swung his scissors like a pair of swords.
"SNIP-SNIIIP!" he exclaimed, and soon after... Karacka was left bald and his shirt was in shreds.
"Haru! Comin' at ya!" Lucy called as she swung the rotund Phasing Wizard toward Haru, who smirked as she dropped down on all fours in an animalistic manner.
"Feral Beast Style! WOLF TAIL ROUNDHOUSE!"
Raising her right leg in a circular arc, Haru kicked Karacka right in his noseless face, sending him crashing right through the wall.
"Thanks for your help, Cancer," said Lucy.
"Anytime, baby," said Cancer before he disappeared, headed back to the Celestial Realm.
"WHOO-HOO!" Haru cheered as she and Lucy embraced. "We did it, Lucy!"
"We sure did, Haru!" Lucy exclaimed. "Man, this guy was a chump! These Eisenwald guys turned out to be all bark and no bite, huh?"
"And you did good, too, Blue Fang!" Haru said as she pet the silver wolf on his head. "Great job, listening for him! Who's a good boy, huh?"
Blue Fang barked before she licked the Beast Wizard on the face, causing her to laugh as she hugged his neck... but then, out of nowhere, they felt this huge tremor, causing them to yelp as they fell to their knees.
"What in the world was that?!" asked Haru.
"I don't know!" Lucy answered.
"Maybe it's my tummy," Happy said as he put his paws over his belly. "I am kinda hungry."
"That's way too loud to be your stomach, Happy," Haru countered.
"Natsu's tummy, then?" Happy asked.
"Natsu's not even in this room!" Haru rebuked. "And besides, even his stomach doesn't rumble so loudly that the ground would shake!"
"Well, then, where did it come from?" Lucy asked... but then, they heard a familiar shout.
"LUCY! HARU! HAPPY! BLUE FANG! COME QUICKLY!"
"Erza!" Haru cried as the two girls, cat, and wolf all headed to where Erza was calling, and as they made their way back to her, they found Gray also standing with her... but that's when they saw something that made their blood run cold.
"Oh... dear... Mavis...!" Haru whispered in shock.
"W-what is that?!" Lucy asked in horror.
"...A trap," Erza answered, grimly... as the group found themselves staring in front of a massive vortex of wind. "Erigor put it here to stop us... and then he left."
"Wait, what?!" Haru questioned. "You mean he's not here?! What about his broadcast throughout town?!"
"That was never his plan to start with," Gray answered. "It was a ruse." He turned to Haru with a grim stare. "Haru... Erigor was never after the townspeople... he's headed to Clover, where all those old guys are having their meeting!" His eyes narrowed while Haru's and Lucy's eyes went wide. "And that means... Gramps is in serious danger."
"...No way...!" Haru whispered in horror.
I thought I'd have Lucy and Haru work together a little on this one. Not bad, right?
Review, please!