Hi everyone, I'm back in business with a new and awesome chapter, well according to me that is.
English is not my native language, it's Hindi. So if there are any corrections in the writings please PM me. My PM is open to all; I'm just 14 after all I do make mistakes.
I will also try not to be much descriptive because….it is a huge pain.
Yeah, I turned 14 years old on 7th November, that is. How was the prologue written? Well, there was some mistake for which I want to apologize.
Answer to the riddle:
A promise (or Heart, even though it was not the answer)
Oh! Anyways, we're getting off-topic here's the new chapter.
Year – X784 in Magnolia
Lucy did not know if she was having a good day or a bad day. Why one must ask.
Lucy is a busty blond celestial spirit mage. She has tied her hair with a blue ribbon and is wearing a white top with blue trim lines and a matching blue skirt. She has a loose belt hung around her waist which has a whip hanging at her left side and her keys at her right side.
She was having a normal day at the guild, looking at the request board. The guild was in complete chaos as the master of the Fairy Tail guild was in clover town for the guild master conference, that is. Then there was her stupid teammate, Gray Fullbuster lounging on the chair with his feet on the table. With happy the talking cat alongside
Gray was a young man with raven black hairs and dark blue eyes. He has a much toned muscular body; has a necklace that has a sword with a stone in its centre. He is currently wearing his boxers. The most noticeable point is that he has an extremely bad habit of taking his clothes off.
"Picked a job already Lucy!? It's your turn to pick a job this time." Gray said lazily.
They did the job at Duke Everlue's mansion…which is nothing but rumbles. All thanks to Gray. Lucy turns around to retort, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to its source and saw none other than the resident playboy of Fairy Tail guild, Loke. He is a handsome young man with orange hairs who is wearing azure tinted glasses, a green jacket with an orange undershirt and brown pants.
"Hey beautiful, why don't you and I have a date." He asked….more like stated. "Beautiful girls like you-"suddenly his eyes went wide. "A-are y-you a celestial spirit mage?" He shuttered.
"Yes, I'm a celestial spirit mage and I have three golde-" before she could finish her boasting Loke ran away saying "sorry beautiful, me and you are not destined to be together."
"What's with him?" Lucy asked herself confused at Loke's sudden change in behaviour.
"It's just he had a bad past with one celestial mage." Said Mirajane smiling. Suddenly Elfman threw Nab like a ragdoll in Gray's direction saying "Pick a job like a MAN!"
Nab was again thrown across the guild by Gray while shouting "If you want a fight then bring it on!" he challenged everyone. And a whole new guild brawl started.
Suddenly the door of the guildhall was flung open and in came Loke panting. "She…is…back." That was all he said. The whole guild went silent trying to process what he said. Then…Chaos erupted. Everyone was trying to fix what was broken; Gray was running around trying to find his clothes; Macao and Wakaba sat in the corner watching the events fold.
"What's with all of them, one moment they are all out in fighting and the next moment they are fixing everything?" Lucy asked herself who is this 'she' they are afraid of.
"It's because Erza is coming." That was all but Mira said sweetly.
"Who's Erza?"
The door was shattered, or that was supposed to happen. The sound of heavy, iron-clad footsteps was heard. "Even the air is completly still." commented Macao. Then in came a scarlet haired woman carrying a huge decorated horn.
"Jeez, from these reactions, is she a demon or something." asked Lucy to herself.
The woman wore the Heart Kreuz armour and a dark blue skirt with knee-high black combat boots.
"I have returned, where's master Makarov?" Asked the red-headed woman while keeping the huge horn on the ground with a big boom sound.
"Welcome back Erza, the master is at a conference right now." Mira informed her.
"I see." replied Erza.
"So, um, what's that humongous thing you got there?" asked a scared max. "It's the horn of a monster I defeated. The locals were so thankful, they decorated it and gave it to me as a souvenir." Then suddenly, "Do You Have A Problem with it?" she asked in a threatening tone. "No not at all!" Max exclaimed.
"Now listen up!" Erza yelled in an angry tone, "While I was on the road, I heard a few things. Word is... Fairy Tail is causing nothing but trouble as of late. Master Makarov may not care but I most certainly do!" Then she turned toward Canna who was drinking a barrel of booze and yelled, "Canna you need to start controlling your drinking!" Canna spite her booze in surprise. "Vejeeter, please take that dancing outside." and continued, "Wakaba, get rid of that filthy habit!" and turned toward Nab, "Nab, I suspected I would find you dawdling in front of the request board. JUst pick a JOB!"
"Macao!" she sighed. 'Please say something' muttered Macao.
"I don't even know where to begin with you, You've caused so much trouble, I've almost given up!" said Erza while holding her head in exhaustion.
After some more discussion.
"Elfman, Gray I need you to do me a favour." Erza not-so-requested. Both said mages jumped in surprise Erza continued, "While travelling I overheard something that has me worried. Normally I would consult with the master before acting, but he's not here and this is a matter of utmost urgency. The two of you are the strongest wizards here, I could really use your help." Erza finished. 'Did that just happened' 'No way Erza is asking for help' Whispers started inside the guildhall. "We'll meet at the train station tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock." informed Erza.
"Erza, Gray and Elfman working together! I never saw that one coming. This can be the strongest team Fairy Tail have ever seen!" Exclaimed a serious Mirajane.
Magnolia Train Station - 8:00 A.M.
"This is the worst! Teaming up with you MAN freak is the worst." Yelled Gray.
"No teaming with you is not MANLY at all!" Yelled Elfman. The duo of wizards was gaining a lot of attention from the general public at the station. "Let's pretend we don't know those two." sighed Lucy while holding Plue.
"Then why did you tag along Lucy?" asked Happy while munching a fish.
"Mira asked me to tag along." she sighed.
"Sorry I'm late, I hope I didn't kept you waiting long." came a sweet vice of Erza.
"No not real-" Lucy turned white from shock. There stood Erza who had a huge mountain of luggage behind her. "Woaw! look at that luggage."
Inside the train.
After some talk about magic, the group sat in silence until Gray decided to break the ice.
"Erza it's about time you tell us about the mission we're going on."
"Of course, I have reasons to believe that the dark guild Eisenwald is planing something big; I'm not sure what exactly, but it has to do with a magic item called lullaby." finished Erza
"Lullaby!?" Lucy, Gray and Happy exclaimed while Elfman and Erza sat confused at their exclamation.
"I see, so you've run into the Eisenwald guild before." Erza summarized.
"It was MANLY of you to beat them up.!" Yelled Elfman.
"Well I'm not positive that they were part of Eisenwald, but they did mention Lullaby." Gray told her.
"It sounds like they were the members who dropped out of the guild and gone into hiding, perhaps they wanted no part of whatever it is that's coming." guessed Erza.
"So this thing is even bad that it scares dark wizards?" asked Gary
"So all we need to do is beat those dark wizards and take Lullaby right. We will do it in a MANly fashion." Elfman announced
"Let me start from the beginning, Just the other day I was heading home after completing my job... I stopped by a pub in Onibus that was a gathering spot for local wizards...
Flashback
"Come on hurry it up bartender!" yelled a fat black-haired man.
"hey! relax a little" said another black-haired mage who had tied his hairs.
"And how am I suppose to do that!? we finally managed to figure out where Lullaby is hidden, but we can't do anything. BEcause of some seal!?"
"keep it down man." said a man wearing yellow and black clothes.
"Don't sweat it, you guys...Let me handle this one," said the black-haired mage while standing up from his seat, " You just Zhead back to the guild. Alright?"
"You sure kage?" "You will be okay on your own?"
"You don't have to worry about me just tell Erigor that I will be coming back with Lullaby in three days." said Kage.
"Lullaby , that's like a song you sing kids to sleep." said Lucy.
"Yes and the fact that it must be sealed away must mean that it is very powerful magic." Erza explained.
"Are you sure that the MEN you saw in the pub were with Eisenwald?" asked Elfman to Erza.
"Yes, I can't believe I was such a fool that day... I didn't recognise his name...Erigor - the ace of Eisenwald. He only accepts assassination requests. This is why he's earned the name Erigor - The Reaper." Erza informed them.
"He kills for money!" exclaimed a freaked out Lucy.
"When the Magic council outlawed assassination requests, Eisenwald decided that money was more important than the council's rules. As a result, they were kicked out of their wizard leagues six years ago. But that didn't stop them, they've disobeyed orders and remained active to this day." finished Erza.
"Okay! I should be heading back home now." pleaded a sweating Lucy. "Ewww! Lucy is slimy all of a sudden." teased Happy
"It's sweat!"
"How could I be so careless! If only I would've recognised Erigor's name I could've pulverised them! I could've forced them to reveal their schem to me" Erza exclaimed in frustration. 'She's scary' thought Lucy.
"So I got this, Eisenwald is planing to do something with this Lullaby and you wanna stop 'em. " summarized Gray while looking at Erza who had a very angry expression on her face, he turned pale as a ghost... He looked in Lucy's direction but she was blushing and had steam coming out of her ears while Happy was laughing with puffed cheeks.
"Gray..." Erza started
"Not MANLY Gray. Be like a MAN!" Elfman interrupted.
"Where are your clothes!?" said Erza in a Not-So-Friendly tone.
Gray looked down to see himself stark naked, somewhere along with Erza's explanation he stripped off his clothes thank to their private seats nobody saw him, "GAhhhh when did that happen!" he quickly wore his clothes but Erza had other plans.
She hit Gray on his head with her metal gauntlet knocking him unconscious. "That should do it." Erza said happily as if nothing happened.
"We're storming the Eisenwald guild." Finished Erza
Onibus Station
"Lucy are we missing something here?" Happy asked innocently.
"Yeah, something's missing in this scenario...buwhat?" Lucy questioned herself while Erza and Elfman unloaded Erza's luggage.
"AHHHHHH! How can we forget THAT" the blond yelled?
"What did we forget Lucy?" asked Erza in a commanding tone.
"We forgot GRAYYY!" reminded Lucy to everyone there. Erza gasped,
"How can I be so foolish! This is all my fault that our comrade is left behind, you may hit me for my penance." she said while bowing down to be hit.
"You are like a real MAN Erza, but you don't need to do that. Now we have to bring Gray back."
Meanwhile
"Well look who's here, it's a Fairy Tail wizard." said a black-haired man cheerfully while eying Gray's Fairy Tail guild mark on his bare chest, the guy continued, "How's the guild treating you these days huh? Is it worth stickin' around?" he said in mock amusement to the half-unconscious Gray who was gaining consciousness slowly.
"Wh-at did yo-" mumbled Gray while getting up but was interrupted when a foot was slammed on his chest where his guild mark was. "Don't you dare act all high and mighty just 'cause your in a legal guild! Mr Fairy, you guys just blindly follow the Magic council, do you know what you look like to us? just Harmless little FLIES." exclaimed and laughed the black-haired intruder.
Suddenly the train came to a halt and both of them jerked forward. A wooden skull-shaped flute with three eyes came flying out of the now known illegal mage, but Gray paid no attention to that flute as he had some debt to pay. "You know you should've listened to me when I was speaking," smirked Gray while spreading his legs apart and taking his ice-make stance and continued, "Do not underestimate the Fairy Tail wizards - Ice-make: geyser!" yelled Gray.
Several ice geysers were sent toward the dark mage who parried that with his own attack, "guard shadow!" lots of snakes made of shadows came and protected the dark mage from the geysers. The whole compartment was blasted apart.
"That was the power of a Fairy Tail wizard" suddenly there was a voice saying, "Attention passengers the emergency stop was a false alarm and we will be departing soon."
"Crap, I gotta go!" said Gray who was stripping, the dark mage looked at him oddly, "Why're you staring at me?"
"Why are you stripping fairy?" in response Gray yelled, "AHHHH what am I doing!?" and wore all his clothes and swung his bag.
"Hold on, I'm not letting you go away that easily. Don't forget that you are dealing with Kage of the guild Eis-"
"Cut the crap, I gotta go." and with that Gray jumped out of the wrecked train and hit straight on a burning engine. The engine stopped and he saw that Erza and Lucy who was holding Happy were standing there and Elfman was getting off from the roof of the engine or 'Oh its a Magic mobile'
"Did you hit your head hard Gray?" Erza asked.
"How come you guys left me on the train. Do you know I got attacked by a shadow freak there?"
"I'm just thankful that you weren't badly injured Gray, I apologize," said Erza while hugging Gray on her breastplate, Elfman turned blue on seeing that.
"It's okay, but I also saw a skull-shaped flute that had three eyes on it" informed Gray.
"The three eyed skull?" wondered Lucy
"That's not very MANly," said Elfman
"Is there something wrong Lucy?" asked a concerned Happy.
"It's just...I've heard about that flute before...Lullaby...the cursed song!" suddenly Lucy exclaimed,
"Its Death Magic!"
Somewhere in the mountains of Fiore
There was darkness everywhere he looked. He looked left, nothing. He looked right, nothing. He looked forward and backwards still, there was nothing to be seen except the endless darkness. He did not where he was nor did he know how did he come to be here.
He touched his signature white scaly scarf his father had given him to calm himself. Even after many years, his father's scent did not fade from it. He smiled showing his razor-sharp canines which only a dragon slayer can have and ruffled his long pink locks that reached his mid-back in the darkness. He then brought his hand and ignited a fire in one figure to see through the darkness, but that too was of no use. He wore his black cloak that was torn and ragged held by a white cloth tied around his neck and wore baggy pants which were also ragged and were held by a string. This man had a dragon tattoo that spiralled on his right hand. His eyes were silted and looked ferocious. This was Natsu Dragneel who was not afraid of anything. During these years of isolation and adventures, he had gained so much experience not to lose his calm in any kind of situations and adapt to the situation itself.
Natsu was walking endlessly on the dark path, but he did not find a single clue as to how he was here. That was when he smelled something faint, he will always remember this smell till his last breath.
The smell was of Vanessa's, the smell of coffee. Then in came another smell but it was still dark. He froze and ran toward the source of the other smell. He saw some light, but wait... It was red in colour. The horrific scene there froze him to death.
There was a pool of blood, and he knew whom the blood belonged to.
It was Igneel's blood.
There in the centre lied Igneel with a hole in his chest but he also heard something and faint whisper in a shrill voice which he recognized very well. Natsu turned around and saw the brunette who had stolen his heart centuries ago. She was standing there with a beautiful smile gazing at him lovingly like she did before she died.
"Natsu..." she said in a faint whisper.
"You can ...do it." she said while going backwards and then...
She disappeared.
"Natsu..." He heard another voice which he knew very well.
"Igneel..." came a whisper from Natsu.
"Natsu...the time has come...for you...to-"
He woke up gasping for air, Natsu checked where he was. He was at his cave and it was night time then what happened. "Maybe it was a dream but, what was Igneel trying to tell me?"
"The time has come for me to... do what?" he asked himself.
"Perhaps, the dragon king festival? The time for the Dragon King festival has come?... What is your plan...Zeref my big brother?" he wondered under the shining algae which made his cave's ceiling.
That was when he sensed something, "Looks like there is something to entertain me, let's check it out." he said in amusement.
Hello, my beloved readers,
Not much Natsu in this chapter but I will try to finish this Eisenwald arc in two to three chapter, with that being said the words are fewer in this chapter [3,300 words only]. I wrote less because my new academic session has started and we have online classes like for five freaking ours. I mean seriously from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM what the heck!
The riddle of the week:
What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; That which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
This is a very hard one which I picked for my dearest readers.
NO ONE WILL GOOGLE THE ANSWER! NO ONE