Back with a new chapter
Sorry for the last chapter! I know it's short but it was kinda cute isn't it?
"speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story:
In the sky
Night
Natsu with Erza in his arms were flying their way towards Galuna island as they soar in the night sky
"what is the client's distress about?" Natsu asked while looking at her
Erza holds onto his neck as the wind blows on her hair
"they requested to be saved from their so-called curse" Erza replied as she saw an island coming into view
"there!" Erza exclaimed and Natsu looks forward and saw the island
Natsu squinted his eyes as he saw purple light coming from the island
"That can't be good" Natsu said as he tightens his hold on Erza
"hang on" Natsu then increases his speed as they dashed to the island in high speed as the water was sliced from his high speed
Erza hugs his neck tight as to not fall from the high speed
Natsu saw that they were getting closer to the island as he folds back his wings and ignites his boots backwards in order to decrease their speed
And then they reached the shore lines as Natsu skidded on the sand
"phew! You okay, Erza" Natsu said as his helmet opened up to see Erza
His face paled as he saw that some of the sand were on Erza's face and hair while the scarlet hair looks emotionless
"A-Ah! Sorry!" Natsu apologizes as he had a comb, a bucket of water and a sprayer magically appeared in his hands as he professionally cleans up the mess on Erza with high speed
And in a few seconds, Erza's face and hair were all cleaned up as she sparkled when he finished
Natsu smiled a bit to Erza who still looks emotionless
"U-Um, Erza?" Natsu asked her as she turns her head to look at him like a robot
Suddenly her eyes sparkled in amazement to Natsu as she looks like a little kid
"That was amazing! Let's do it again!" Erza squealed like a kid as she holds his hands and shakes it up and down
""okay?"" Natsu said in his mind as his Armor disappears in flames
""note to self: Erza likes extreme things"" Natsu made a note in his mind as Erza was waving her hands like she just rode a roller coaster ride
He then heard something with his enhanced hearings as he could make out the sound of people fighting
Natsu turns to look at the temple and squinted his eyes as he saw that an ice blast appeared on top of the temple and two figures were falling down from it
"I see someone fighting on top of the temple" Natsu said as he equips his chest Armor and sprouted his wings
"Who?" Erza asked him
"judging from that ice blast, it might be Gray" Natsu then turns to look at Erza
"go to the client's location. I'm going to check that place out" Natsu said to Erza as she nodded
Natsu jumps up and flies towards the temple as Erza looks at his flying figure before walking towards the direction of the clients
With Gray and Lucy
Lucy was helping up Gray who fell down the temple with her as she leans his arm over her shoulders
"we got to get to the village and warn them!" Lucy exclaimed while struggling to help up Gray
"I know!" Gray retorted to her before he grunts in pain while holding his gut as it had a light purple bruise on it
"Gray!" Lucy exclaimed as she gently lets him down to see his wound
They then heard something flying and saw Natsu coming towards them
"Natsu?!" Lucy exclaimed in surprise as the latter landed near them and made his wings disappear while looking surprised from the whole thing
"first you guys took an S-class without permission and now I see stripper boy all injured?" Natsu said sarcastically
"are you two stupid or something?" Natsu asked them
"we don't have time for this, Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed to him
"we need to warn the villagers to evacuate because Lyon ordered his gang to destroy the village!" Gray retorted to him as he got up before falling down as he holds his aching side
Lucy then holds his waist and helps him up as Natsu saw the injuries on the man
Natsu exhales as he sighs in annoyance
He snaps his fingers twice as the Enryūō no Yoroi appeared beside him
"carry them up" Natsu ordered his Armor as it moves on its own and carries up Gray and Lucy like some bags of beans
"Wait a minute, Natsu!?" Lucy exclaimed as Natsu's Armor grabbed her waist and hoists her up
"guide my Armor to the village you were talking about" Natsu told them as he walks pass them
"I'll be taking care of this whole situation" Natsu snaps his finger again and his Armor flew up and headed towards the direction Lucy was pointing to
Natsu then cracks his knuckles together as he squats down a bit
"going up!" Natsu exclaimed as he did a high jump up and landed on top of the temple
He landed with a safe for almost falling back
"now then!" Natsu said as he saw that there was no one there with him on top of the temple
"where can I find this Lyon guy?" he then started to look around before spotting some stairs that leads downstairs
"might as well" Natsu said with a shrug of his shoulders and walks to the stairs
With Erza
Erza had already arrived to the village and got the whole story from Moka, the Mayor of the village
"I apologize again for my friends' misbehaviour" Erza said to Moka while bowing her head to him
"it is fine, miss mage" Moka said to her
"something is coming!" a villager shouted while pointing to something red that was flying to them
"it's alright! It's just my friends!" Erza exclaimed as she saw that it was Natsu in his Armor and was carrying up Gray and Lucy
They landed near them as Natsu puts down Gray and Lucy
"you found them, Natsu!" Erza said as she walks towards them
Natsu didn't reply as he just stood there motionless
"Natsu?" Erza said while waving her hands in front of him
"it's just his armor, Erza" Lucy said as she flips open the helmet and Erza was surprised to see it hollow
Then the helmet flipped back close as the Enryūō no Yoroi burst into flames as it disappears
Erza then looks at Lucy and Gray who was getting some help from his injuries from some of the villagers
"we will talk later" Erza said as she faces upwards and saw a giant rat that was flying towards them while holding a giant bucket
With Natsu
Natsu was in the middle of a fight with a light bluish hair man as Natsu swings his Sluggers at him
The man jumps away and sends flying ice sculpted eagles at Natsu
Natsu scoffs as he burns them all with his flames
The sluggers then made a turn back as they were caught by Natsu who swings them again and they manage to graze the man's clothing
"Tch!" the light bluish hair man grits his teeth in annoyance as he made some gestures with his right hand and came out a giant ice gorilla
Natsu caught his sluggers that were flying back to him as he then attaches them to his gauntlet and spin his body around like a top and destroys the ice gorilla into pieces
Natsu stops his spinning as he throws up his sluggers and caught them as he holds them up in front of him
"you're quite agile" the light bluish hair man said to Natsu as cold air seeps out of his hands
"I get that a lot" Natsu replied while spinning his right slugger in his hands
"you must that Lyon guy, stripper was talking about" Natsu said as they started to circle around each other
"I didn't know that Gray got a babysitter" Lyon said with a smirk as the both of them dash at each other
Lyon created an ice lion head on his arm as he strikes at Natsu with it
Natsu lifts his sluggers in an x shape and guards against the attack
"like hell I want to be that guy's babysitter" Natsu said in disgust and annoyance as he pushes back Lyon with effortless attempt
They then jumped back from each other while watching each other's movement
"mind telling me the whole plan you guys are doing?" Natsu said as he attaches his sluggers back to his gauntlet
Lyon scoffs as he bluish aura surrounds him as cold air burst through the whole area
"I plan to resurrect the demon of Chaos, Deliora and defeat it!" Lyon exclaimed as he freezes the whole room, they were in
Natsu looks around the room and smirks in amusement
"I'm starting to think you're a better fighter than Gray" Natsu said amused to him
Lyon smirks to Natsu
"thank you for the compliment" Lyon said to him as he made gestures with his right hand before lifting it up
Suddenly a giant ice dragon appeared behind Lyon as it roared
"but you won't be getting out of here alive!" Lyon shouted as the ice dragon launches itself at Natsu
Natsu grins as he cracks his knuckles and punches the ground before getting confused as he didn't hear the usual crack sound from the ground
"eh?' Natsu said as he looks down and saw bellow him was a hole
"aaarrrreeeeeeeeE?" Natsu screams as he falls down the hole
Lyon was surprised from the whole thing as he looks at the hole
"that Zalty?! He did something unnecessary!" Lyon said with gritted teeth as he clicked his tongue in annoyance
Down the temple
Natsu came falling from the hole as he hits his head on the ground and a big red bulge appeared on his head
"Owwww!" Natsu said as he rubs his bulge and looks around the place, he was in
"where the heck?" Natsu said as he turns to look around and saw it
He stares at the giant demon encased in ice as he looks at it up and down
"so, this is Deliora" Natsu said as he made his sluggers disappeared along with his gauntlet as he walks near the ice encased demon and saw the water around it
"now I get it" Natsu said as he scoops up some of the water and sense some magic residue in it
"Well what do we have here?" Natsu heard someone talking as he looks up and saw a guy wearing a weird looking mask was smiling looking down at him.
Natsu just looked up at him with emotionless expression.
"It appears we have a rat lingering around here." The masked man said as he holds up a crystal ball in his hands. Natsu stares at the man as he did the same
"does bad luck comes when I'm with you?" Natsu asked as he sighs while holding his face with his palm
"excuse me?" the masked man said while having a curious face
"quite with the acting, I know it's you, Ultear" Natsu said with an annoyed face
"sharp sense as always, Natsu" the masked man said as he takes off his mask and transforms into a woman
Natsu palms his face again while sitting down as he let out a tired sigh
"still sighing when you see me?" Ultear said as she jumps down near him
She then laid her hands over his neck while pressing her chest to the back of his head as she leans her chin to his head
"is that any way when you see your girlfriend here?" Ultear asked in a seductive voice as she touch his lips with her fingers
"you mean Ex-girlfriend" Natsu corrected her while getting out of the embrace as he crosses his arms and looks at her
"still not forgiving me after all this time?" Ultear asked with a raised eyebrow as she traced her fingers to her lips to look seductive to Natsu
"still not" Natsu said as he turns around
Ultear then stands up with a smirk as she traced her hands on Natsu's back as she reached to his chest while running her hands up and down his body
"not even after our nightly activities?" Ultear whispered in a husk voice as she reached to his neck and blows a hot breath puff to it
"something that I'm starting to regret" Natsu retorted as he grabs her hands and yank her off of him
"I thought I made my point clear that day when I found out that you were using me for your own personal gig" Natsu said while glaring at Ultear a bit
Ultear chuckles as she leans her chest to him and leans her mouth to his ear
"and did that stop you from having my body every night from all that time we spent together?" Ultear asked as Natsu's eyes widen as he jumps away from her
"I'm starting to hate my own rule" Natsu muttered out in annoyance
"My body still remembers the tingly feeling you gave me every single night" Ultear said while holding her body as she shivered in delight to a memory
Natsu clicked his tongue in annoyance as he faces towards the ice encased demon
"are you helping Lyon in freeing this thing?" Natsu asked her while not looking at her
Ultear then had a serious face on as she squinted her eyes at Natsu. "and If I was?" she said to him
"I'm sure you already figured it out by now, haven't you?" Ultear asked back while walking across
"Iced Shell, a powerful ice magic that transforms the caster's body into a freezing ice coffin that can't be melt" right?" Natsu said to her
"correct" Ultear said as she turns to look at Natsu
"and if I'm not mistaken, the ice mage who was last known to have used Iced Shell was a woman by the name of Ur" Natsu said as he turns to look at Ultear whose back was turned to him
"your mother" Natsu then turns back to look at the ice encased demon
"correct again" Ultear said as she turns back to look at Natsu
"what would you like to ask me now?" Ultear asked as Natsu turns to look at her while summoning his Armor on, piece by piece
"the question now, should I take you in or let you go? Natsu asked as his helmet closed on his face as two red eyes glowed in it
"intimidate your voice all you want Natsu" Ultear said as he walks around Natsu while letting her finger slide around his metal plated armor
"I know you better than anyone" Ultear then flicks open his helmet as she reaches towards his lips
"even than yourself" Ultear then gives his lips a peck before leaning back as she turns around to walk away
"see you again Natsu" Ultear said while swaying her hips as she walks.
she then stops and turns to look at Natsu who stood there
"maybe we can have some skin ship when we meet again" Ultear then blows a kiss to Natsu as she started turning transparent before disappearing
A few seconds after Ultear had disappeared, Natsu sighs in relief as his Armor disappear
"I'll pick Erza over her any day" Natsu said with a glad face when he remembered Erza's gentle touch on his head when he wanted a lap pillow from her
"Now then" Natsu said as he turns to look at the ice encased demon
"what to do with you?" he then summoned his gauntlet sluggers on
"might as well wait here and let them do the work" Natsu said as he grabs a tree branch that was growing in the cave and breaks it
He then sits down and detach one of his sluggers and started carving the branch as he does it till the Moon Drip starts
With Erza and the others
The village that once stood there was now a barren wasteland as everything was gone
Erza and Lucy with the exception of Gray who was taken away by the villagers because of his injures, stood in the middle of the only standing ground as they watch Yuka, Toby, and Sherry ran away in defeat on the giant rat
"it's a win for us!" Lucy said as she raised her hand up for a high five with Erza whose aura turned deadly hostile
""she's angry!"" Lucy said in her mind as she slowly pulled down her hand while sweating in fear
At the temple
"I'm telling you, they're strong." Toby said as he was talking with Lyon.
"We're not stopping. We're this close in our plans." Lyon said as he turns around to look at the ritual that was progressing slowly
"If Fairy Tail wants to fight, then let them come to us." Lyon said as he turns around to walk away
"Toby, you stay here. I want you to help with the moon drip ritual. we'll hold them off."
"UNDERSTOOD!" He said as he saluted.
"let's go" Lyon said as he walks down the strairs with Yuka and Sherry following him
Lyon then awaits Fairy tail's arrival while having cold air coming out of his hands
Elsewhere
"We should be getting close." Gray said as the group was following him.
"Regardless of your actions, we still have a job to do." Erza said as Lucy and Gray cowered in fear a bit from her.
After explaining the whole situation to Erza and after Gray made it clear that he wasn't leaving, Erza said that they might as well get the job done, but they would be punished later.
"I wonder if Natsu is ok?" Lucy said out loud to ease up the mood as they were walking.
"I'm sure he's alright, I mean, the guy is like super strong compared to us." Gray said.
"He's strong. I know that much." Erza said as she remembered how Natsu defeated Lullaby with ease
"..." Erza stayed silent for a moment as she remembered the display of power, he showed them. ""Lullaby was strong, me and Gray could beat it if we kept going...but he took it down in just a few minutes. I don't think he was even using his full power.""
"We're here." Gray said as they were now looking at the front of the temple.
"I'm going to stop you, Lyon!" Gray exclaimed as he runs towards the temple with Erza and Lucy following by
Back with Natsu
Natsu was in the middle of carving his wooden sculpture of Erza in her armor as he was finishing up some of her face detail
"and done!" Natsu said as he raises up his master piece and smiles to it
Behind Natsu was a pile of failed pieces of wooden sculpture that looks to be amateur's work
Natsu smiles happily to his wooden sculpture of Erza before his eyes widen in surprise as Natsu then looks up and saw a giant rock fist was coming at him as he jumps away
"I assume you are my welcoming committee?" He said half-jokingly to Sherry who was riding on the rock golem's shoulder.
"Silence! In the name of love, I shall crush you!" She declared as her golem tried to smash him again only for him to dodge it with ease.
"Too slow." He said as he pocketed his wooden sculpture and run on the wall like a ninja
"stop running!" She said as her golem lifted up its fist.
"not intimidating at all, you know?" Natsu said as he backflips away from the attack.
"Shut up! For Lyons sake, I will stop you! "Stone Doll!" She then summoned another golem as it rose from the ground and was made of the stone bricks around the temple.
""a magic that lets her make puppets through the materials around her."" Natsu said in his mind as he dodged another punch. The golem then charged him as it was about to hit him.
"HA, you stand in the way of love, you will re-!?" Sherry's eyes were wide in shock as Natsu was blocking the golem's fist with one finger. The golem was trying to flatten Natsu down, but it couldn't move at all as Natsu pushed it back with a poke as it lost its balance.
"Ah! no!" Sherry screams in panic as the rock golem was falling straight for Sherry as it knocks down the golem she was riding on as they both came tumbling down.
"ANGELICA!" Sherry shouted and on cue came her giant rat pet, Angelica came soaring down from the ceiling and was about to crush Natsu.
CRASH!
Angelica came down on Natsu as a huge dust cloud surrounds the are
"love prevails…." Sherry said as she smiled while standing up.
"That was too predictable." Natsu's voice spoke out as he was sitting by a stone as Sherry stared wide eyed and in shock at Natsu who stands up from his seat as he had his arms crossed, and was staring at her hard.
Sherry felt cold sweat running down her neck as she could have sworn, she saw an aura of a red dragon behind Natsu as it looked like it was growling at her.
Sherry took a step back as she felt an old fear coming back to her.
"But you were over.." She turned around and saw Angelica was out cold with swirly eyes.
Sherry then fell to her knees, and looks down as she began to sob.
"Lyon will never acknowledge my strength...or love.." Sherry said as she felt like crying.
"Just ...kill me." Sherry begged Natsu
"if that's what you want." Natsu said as he raises up his sluggers and began walking towards her.
"Chelia." Sherry muttered out as she closes her eyes as she awaits the strike that would allow her to see her family again.
She then heard Natsu's sluggers grazing each other as it made metallic noises
Sherry started to shake. ""mother, father, everyone." She thought.
Natsu then swung his sluggers down as the sluggers reached her neck before stopping mid-way on her neck.
Sherry opens her eyes as she realized she wasn't dead and looked up. She was now face to face with Natsu as he bent down and look at her straight in the eyes.
"Wh-why..?" She asked as she was too afraid to move.
"I should be the one asking. Why are you so willing to throw away your life?" He asked in a serious tone.
"I-I-...I.." She didn't know how to answer.
"Well?" He asked a bit more forceful this time which seemed to get her to speak up.
"L..Lyon...I would...for...him. I just...want him to...acknowledge me." She said as she faced the ground.
"And by dying get you that?"
"After following him all this time...I'm happy to be by his side... even dying for him..I have no regrets." She said as she smiled a little.
"Drama Queen….." Natsu said in a nonchalant voice as he then stood up straight. he spins his sluggers in his hands and walks away.
"Y-your letting me go?" She asked surprised.
"Yeah." Natsu said as if it was obvious while making his sluggers disappear.
"But I was ready! You could have killed me!" She protested.
"I have three top rules missy" Natsu said as he raises up three of his fingers
"One, I only kill as a last resort"
"Two, I don't let someone who has someone he/she cares, die stupidly"
"What's that supposed to mean!? How would you know what it feels to have everything you love gone in one day in your childhood!? I've wanted to see the defeat of that demon who took everything from us" Sherry screamed while pointing at Deliora
"three years! Three years of anguish pain! I left behind my cousin just to see this through, and now you people come and try to take that chance from us..." She shouted. "YOU ARE THE VILLAINS HERE, NOT US!"
"and yet you were about to kill an entire village that had nothing to do with your little plan here, and are trying to revive that immortal killing machine. I can't speak for the others, but I think that the villains here are you guys." He said as he turned to her.
"Hmph, say what you want, I plan to help Lyon reach our dream no matter what! Love is on our side after all!" She proclaimed as she stood up and had hearts coming out of her.
""my work here is done."" Natsu thought as he was positive that she didn't want to die anymore.
He was about to leave when Sherry suddenly spoke.
"Wait." He then turned his head "What was the third thing you wanted to say?" Natsu then turned his head back to the front as he continued walking.
"three, don't let a woman die." Natsu said as he turns his head to look at her a bit
"especially a pretty one" he then winks as Sherry made a noise of surprise as he walked down the hall. She was now left with an unconscious Angelica as Natsu's words echoed through her mind.
"Hm-Hmph! Like I want to hear your compliment!" Sherry huffed while having a blush as she then thought more of Natsu's words.
"At least I have someone..Well, I guess he was right about that...Errrgh! I must not let this man get inside my head!" She then turned to Angelica as she was trying to wake her up.
"She was really a weird girl" Natsu shrugged as he continued walking down the hall.
"I should probably go find the others and see if Erza found Lucy and Gray on the island." Natsu said while holding ups his hands as he made cracking sound on it
"Now then.." Natsu punches the ground and summons Gaia Ken as he spins it around before gripping it hard
"it should start right about…" Natsu then saw the Moon Drip starting again as violet shines down the cave
"Now" Natsu then ignites his blades in flames as he spins it around in his hands as it turned into a cyclone
"worst case scenario: I might have to fight against an immortal demon that I'm going to accidently revive" Natsu said as he swings his blade at the ice encased demon and a burst of fire fired from his blade as Natsu increased the heat of his attack
""this is going to take a while"" Natsu then continued putting on the heat on the ice as the ice was starting to melt as water were flowing down the ice
That's a wrap
Bye Bye