Walking Dangerous Encounter of the Ruin City
"Man, it's like we have a thing for falling." Elina groaned in pain.
"Is everyone alright?" Natsu asked.
"Yeah, I think we're all okay." Lucy answered, then she yelps in surprise.
Natsu was confused of Lucy making a little sound like that until he gasps realizing that Lucy is lying on top of him with their face so close to each other, their face turns red of embarrassment though at the same time they feel calm with their bodies connecting and all.
"Oh my, such a couple thing." Virgo commented playfully though her expression didn't change.
"Shut up!" Natsu and Lucy snapped at her.
"Does that mean you'll punish men now?" Virgo asked.
"She's really into punishment." Leina weirded out of Virgo likes being punish.
"This place is weirder than the last one!" Happy pointed out.
"You know, Princess, this reminds me of how the rulers of Amara before you would bury their bodies and place their organs inside of jars within the pyramid." Setra mentioned.
"You're right, I remember hearing about this during my lessons." Menace remembered.
"Gross past, let just get a move on." Natsu said.
"Princess, I finish repairing this for you. Here." Virgo handed Lucy her whip.
"You fixed the Fleuve d'étoiles! Hang on, sorry, but it looks like an ordinary whip now." Lucy noticed the big difference.
"It's far from ordinary, but I did make a few changes to make it more functional." Virgo informed.
"And something tells me you're gonna need it for what may lies ahead in these ruins." Claudette believed.
"That's awesome! Wow, I can't thank you enough!" Lucy smiled which made Virgo happy to see the owner of her key smiles like that.
"Is it just me does Lucy live to crack whips?" Romeo asked Happy.
"She's not the only one, Elina's spear can also expand into a whip making them both weird." Happy commented.
"Did you two say something?" Elina asked with a scary glance at them.
"Yeah, please continue what you were saying?" Lucy said with the same scary expression making Romeo and Happy feel scared on the inside.
"We should get going, Happy…" Romeo suggested.
"Aye, sir!" Happy nodded.
"This suck, I don't see a door anywhere." Natsu exclaimed.
"Perhaps we could walk down this hallway, maybe we can find a way out." Claudette said, hoping there is one.
"Whoa, check out these angry-looking statues!" Happy flied up to one close.
"Think those are actually coffins." Michelle said making Happy gasp.
"She's right, looking at all these coffins definitely reminds me of home." Menace smiled.
"Being surrounded by so many of them gives me the creeps." Elina shivered from her spine.
"Yeah, not argument here." Leina agreed.
"I wanna touch them, but considering what happened to us last time, I know that I probably shouldn't, but that only makes me want to touch them even more." Lucy admitted her curiosity.
"In that case, I'll give you something to touch and it's with me!" Elina groped Lucy's breasts again.
"Hey! Will you cut that out, girls! Help me!" Lucy struggled to break free.
"You know, Lucy. I'm interest about those spirit servants you have." Menace commented.
"Hey, don't call them servants! They're my friends, they have the same feelings of emotions like we do and anyone disrespecting them will get a taste of pain from me!" Lucy lectured.
"You sure are touchy." Menace surprised.
"That's how she is when it comes to Celestial Spirits." Romeo said.
Meanwhile, Natsu is looking at one of the coffins with a golden mask and growling at the gold face as the resemblance is close to that of Gray's face looking down and being angry at Natsu which triggered him to fire punch the gold face right off the coffin.
"Natsu! What do you think you're doing?!" Claudette asked shock and anrgy.
"Sorry, that statue just looked so much like Gray, I just couldn't help myself." Natsu explained.
"So much for not touching." Lucy worried.
"But you do realize that if you did something to one of the coffins then…" Michelle's sentence was cut off when they heard a rumbling noise.
"Oh great, what is it this time?!" Elina panicked a little.
"It feels like there might be something coming this way." Happy noticed.
"Yeah, I knew that would happen. Guess it was smart of me to bust it after all!" Natsu smirked feeling proud of himself.
"Oh, Natsu! You're so brave and daring to trigger a trap!" Menace hugged Natsu with one leg up to his waist.
"Yeah, even though it was stupid." Setra chuckled.
"WHICH IT WAS?!" The four Heartfilia sisters screamed at Natsu.
Then suddenly a huge bolder came rolling in as the trap to flatten the intruders that stumble upon the sacred graveyards, the Fairy Tail group saw this shock and started running for their life!
"This is why it's always important to not touch anything unless it's safe!" Lucy screamed.
"I'll take this lesson to my grave!" Michelle cried.
"No one is dying on watch! We got to at least try to slow it down!" Natsu prepared to unleash his fire magic attack.
"Beats than just running away." Claudette agreed.
"Fire Dragon Brilliant Flame!" Natsu threw a big fireball at the bolder.
"Great Spark Arrow!" Claudette fired a bigger version of her Spark Arrow.
"Royal Thunder!" Menace unleashed her purple lightning attack.
"Hold on, guys!" Leina wanted to help too, then she notices a small trace of Natsu's fire magic is coming into her sword.
All three attacks hit the boulder dead on but reveals to have failed as the bolder is still in one piece and rolling to the wizards of Fairy Tail.
"Our attacks didn't do a thing!" Natsu gasped.
"Could this bolder be curse or something?" Menace wondered.
"I don't want to die to find out!" Lucy said.
"Hey, look! Are those bridges?" Romeo asked looking at the three fin rock structures.
"Yeah, and there's three of them." Happy said as everyone see them too.
"I have a feeling only one of them is real." Michelle worried.
"We've got no way of knowing which ones are fake, what now?" Lucy asked as the bolder is getting closer.
Everyone tries picking which bridge to run on: Natsu, Elina, and Menace picked the right bridge. Lucy and Leina picked the left bridge. Michelle, Claudette, and Setra picked the one in the middle.
"Alrighty, Romeo! Two choices are tied, and we need to help pick which one!" Happy said like an announcer at a wrestling match.
"Uh, I think it's… the Middle one!" Romeo picked the middle one and everyone ran on the bridge.
Few seconds later, the other two bridges crumbled as it would seem Romeo's instinct had helped him choose correctly.
"Nice going, kid! You might have more brain in that head of yours." Setra complimented in his own way.
"Whatever, let just focus on surviving." Romeo stated and his eyes widen of shock.
"Oh no, look up ahead!" Romeo alerted the others of another boulder coming this way.
"There's one in front of us too!" Michelle panicked.
"Are you kidding me?! Just how thorough were these idiots who built this place?!" Elina asked shock.
"What should we do now, Natsu?!" Happy asked freaking out.
"It's like we're stuck in a pincer attack!" Natsu commented trying to think of something.
"I say the only option we have is to jump down. I think I can see another bridge below us." Claudette suggested.
"Then that's what we'll do. Romeo, hold on to my arm." Natsu offered to help Romeo jump.
"I can take care of myself, Natsu." Romeo stated that he is not the same little boy from seven years ago.
Natsu can see in Romeo's eyes that he is stronger than he was all those years ago and decided to trust him on this.
"Okay everyone, we're gonna jump!" Natsu informed.
"Happy, make sure you carry Michelle safely." Lucy said.
"Got it, just as long as I don't have to carry you." Happy joked on Lucy's weight at a time like this which angers her.
"Get ready to jump!" Claudette shouted.
Everyone quickly made the jump just as the two boulders colliding into each other and break into a little pieces as the Fairy Tail have jumped from the bridge down.
"Told you I can take care of myself." Romeo smirked.
"Impressive jump, kid." Natsu complimented making Romeo smile and blush a little.
"Okay, we just need to make sure we land on that bridge." Lucy pointed at the bridge below them.
However, the bridge suddenly crumbled and collapse into little pieces as they become utterly shocked and they are now falling further down the cavern as they scream for their life, and one heavy piece of rock it Happy on the head knocking him out and dropping Michelle.
"Romeo, grab something with your magic!" Natsu suggested as he quickly use his flame magic to grab onto a rock pillar.
"You got it!" Romeo nodded and used his purple flame to do the same.
"My Lady! Use your cloth as well!" Setra suggested.
"On it!" Menace threw her long to grab onto something for dear life.
"We're doomed!" Michelle feared.
"No way that's happening!" Elina fired a sharp end of the spear to latch onto a rocky wall and grabs Claudette.
"Leina, Michelle, grab onto me! Let see what the new and improved Fleuve d'étoiles can do!" Lucy whipped her magic whip around a rocky pillar swinging themselves to one.
But the impact cause Michelle to accidentally let go of Lucy to start falling along with the unconscious Happy.
"Big sisters!" Michelle cried.
"Michelle?!" Lucy, Leina, Elina, and Claudette gasped of fear as they were about jump in hopes of saving their young sister, and Happy too.
"No worry, I got her." A voice called out.
Before anyone could ask who that voice was, a figure blitz past everyone before they could react and grab Michelle by the waist and threw a chained-sickle latching the blade onto the rocky pillar swinging to it and holding onto the young woman in the pink dress strong in the arm.
"Well, never thought I run into all three of the Vance sisters in a place like this." A woman said.
"Wait, I think I know that voice." Leina recognized and looks down as her eyes widen of shock.
"No, it can't be… Shizuka!" Leina shocked which brought the attention of Elina and Claudette.
"Hey there, Leina. I see you've been doing all since we last saw each other." Shizuka smiled.
Shizuka is a beautiful young woman with fair skin in her early twenties. Her lavender colored hair is kept short on the sides, a long strand hangs from the right side of her fringe down to her chest, and the hair at the back of her head is a bit thicker and reaches down to her shoulder blades. Her lips have been colored lavender, matching her hair color. Her eyes are light blue, and she possesses quite an ample bosom. She wears a short, sleeveless, dark purple tunic with black edges. The front and back of the tunic are open which shows a hefty amount of her cleavage and fully exposes her back. The tunic is kept together by a red obi belt tied on the front of her waist. On her forearms, she wears dark brown leather bracers. Her right elbow and shoulder are bare, while her left arm is covered by a fishnet sleeve and a simple shoulder plate. Shizuka's legs are almost bare, save for dark purple socks and tabi shoes. Around her neck is a dark purple choker. Breasts sizes: E-cup.
"I don't believe it, you're alive!" Leina shocked.
"Yeah, surprise to me too." Shizuka said.
"Hold on, are you talking about the same Shizuka who was that ninja girl you knew back in the Queen's Blade and died to help this other friend Tomoe to move on?" Lucy recalled hearing that story from Leina some time ago.
"Hey, can we save the story until we get out of this mess?" Natsu pointed out that they are literally hanging for dear life.
"He's right, and I say the only way we can go now is by going down." Shizuka suggested.
"That's a lot easier said than done." Lucy gulped.
"Well, it's not like we have any other choice." Leina pointed out.
Everyone carefully made their way down without slipping while also making sure the partner they have are still with them, it took them a while to get down on the ground though some were scared of the fall until they managed to reach the ground level. The height from where they are isn't that far to jump down to and they finally let their feet touch solid ground again.
"Thank you so much for saving me and Happy, I thought we were done for." Michelle thanked.
"It's no problem, jumps like those are nothing to a ninja." Shizuka bragged.
"Shizuka!" Leina called out as she runs to her and grab her face.
"Is it really you? You're not an illusion or an ugly demon in disguise or something?" Leina asked while getting a closer look to see it what she is seeing is true.
"Yes, I'm pretty sure I am the real Shizuka, now would you please let go of me!" Shizuka forced Leina's hands off.
"Hey, I remember you, you're that warrior woman who was with the priest at my pyramid and was in the capital for the Queen's Blade Tournament." Menace recalled.
"Oh wow, the hot ninja babe!" Setra excited to see Shizuka again.
"Hey there, you two. Glad you're doing well since I last saw you." Shizuka greeted.
"Would you mind telling me how are you here alive when you were revealed dead before the round between Leina and Tomoe?" Claudette asked.
"To be honest, I'm not sure how I'm alive again. All I remember was that my spirit was wondering in the living world before I passed on." Shizuka explained.
(Flashback)
The scene shows Shizuka heading toward the light got Heaven as she reaches her hand out knowing she has no regrets now.
"The next thing I knew, another light came at me, and I was caught in it." Shizuka mentioned.
The spirit Shizuka turned around seeing that other light and engulf her in it.
(Flashback End)
"When I woke up, I found myself alive and in this weird-looking cave and saw you guys getting chase by those boulders and jumped." Shizuka finished her story.
"Huh, you think one would get use to the weird things that happens around them." Elina commented.
"Owie, what happened?" Happy asked as he wakes up.
"Hey Happy, we're safe from the fall and it looks like we met another friend of Leina's." Natsu answered gesturing to Shizuka.
"Sup, name's Shizuka, the Rogue Kunoichi." Shizuka greeted.
"Wow, I never would have guessed that you knew a real-live ninja, big sis Leina!" Lucy amazed.
"Big sis, you got yourself a fan here, Leina?" Shizuka asked.
"Actually, this here is Lucy, my young sister." Leina revealed shocking Shizuka.
"For real? I thought you only have two sisters?!" Shizuka gasped.
"It's true, Lucy here is our sister and we apparently been separated into different worlds." Claudette said.
"Okay, this is all getting confusing." Shizuka exclaimed.
"You know, beloved, you could make that one your own lover and servant for our future kingdom." Menace suggested causing Natsu to blush.
"Don't put perverted thoughts into my head!" Natsu snapped though Menace just giggled and hugged his arm.
"Speaking of confusing, where are we?" Romeo asked as everyone notice their surroundings.
Everything around them appears to be all ancient ruin from the looks of things and upon seeing them closer, some of the structures look like buildings with candles being lit up.
"It must be the lowest level of the tomb." Michelle guessed.
"Tomb, are you serious?" Elina asked with a raise eyebrow.
"Yeah, it looks more like a city to me." Happy pointed out.
"The monks who were charged with guarding Zentopia's Holy Tomb lived their entire lives down here. At least according to legend." Lucy explained.
"Sounds like they never felt sunlight on their bodies at all." Elina commented.
"Sounds like you got yourself into quite the adventure." Shizuka said to Leina.
"Indeed, we have. We'll explain everything to you later." Leina promised.
"Right now, we got a clock piece to find which might be harder in a huge place like this." Natsu stated.
"What's wrong? Can't you just sniff it out, Natsu?" Romeo asked.
"Nah, it's like the clock hand. For some reason, I can't really smell it." Natsu answered, but then he notices a scent in the air.
"Head up, everyone. Looks like we're not alone." Setra alerted.
Everyone look up as they are all surprise to see Dan and Coco inside the tomb, except for Shizuka and Menace since neither of them have met those two before.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Forgot to mention I'm doing this story to celebrate Lucy's birthday which was on July 1st!
Along the way to through the ancient tomb, they had a little run in with a couple of boulders and met up with Shizuka the Rogue Kunoichi alive and kicking as she was also transported to Earthland too. Now, Natsu's group have stumble upon the city tomb and met up with Dan and Coco of the Legion Platoon meaning a fight is gonna break out.
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