Chapter 2
Strife opened his eyes and saw that he was on the planet, "earthland…" was what his mind said it was, how the hell did he know that already?, Strife checked himself over, he still had everything on him, he didn't come here by crashing like a meteorite obviously from the lake of scorch marks and a crater.
He was in another forest, then came a caw, it was the two Ravens of Raziel, possible to act as a guide, "if i fall of a cliff i'm taking pot shots at you two" Strife warned the twin birds, Strife followed them to the edge of a forest and did lead him to a cliff but not over the edge luckily. And from the cliff he saw a harbor town, "this looks like a good place to start" Strife said to himself.
Strife made his way in town, he still could not summon Mayhem but he didn't need to yet, Strife was soon walking through the town and saw a large amount of people, but none of them were uncomfortable from seeing his sword. Strife arrived to a crowd of girls surrounding a dark blue haired man with a cape. Strife was curious about what was going on. He noticed a young blond-haired lady walking toward the crowd and called out to her, "Excuse me miss, what is going on here?"
The blonde revealed her brown eyes to him. The girl was amazed by his shining blue eyes, but she knew it was no time to be amazed. "The famous Salamander, who can control fire magic that cannot be sold in stores, is here in town. Do you want to come along?", Strife nodded yes and followed her to see this Salamander. When the two arrived every single female was captivated by his appearance except for the blond girl next to him.
The blond girl noticed the two rings on Salamander's right hand. One had a picture of a sleepy crescent moon shaped like a face with a blue background. His second ring had a pink heart picture with a purple background. She recognized the second ring and gasped, "Wait that ring! It can be!" Soon she succumbed to the Salamander's charm like the rest of the females.
Before Strife could ask her what was wrong he was pushed aside by a slightly tan skin boy with spiky pink hair. He was wearing an Arab outfit with a white scarf with a scale-like detail on it and black sandals. He had a light red jacket on with a green backpack and a red sleeping bag on top of his backpack. Below him was a blue cat with a green backpack next to his leg. The unknown pink haired teen yelled out, "IGNEEL!"
The blond girl snapped back into reality and looked at the confused teen. The boy gave a disappointed look at the blue haired man who was wearing a cape, "Who the hell are you?", The man made a surprised stance for a few moments until he calmed down. "Perhaps you heard of my name, the famous Salamander?" He saw that the teen was leaving and yelled with shock, "He just left?!"
Soon his fangirls attacked the walked away teen and started to beat him up. "How could you ignore that man!" One girl said
"Nobody disrespect Salamander-sama when I am around!" Another said "Show him some respect and kindness!" Said a third.
The teen managed to talk while a girl was choking him, "What is wrong with you people?"
"Ladies please, just leave at that. He does not mean any harm by it.", While all the girls were amazed by his kindness, the blond haired girl crossed her arms and glared at Salamander. Salamander started to write his name on a board and gave it to the rose haired teen, "Here take this. Feel free to show my autograph to your friends for fun."
"No thanks, man," the disappointed teen replied. His reply caused Salamander's fan club to get extremely pissed. Soon he was lying on the ground twitching on top of the broken barrels.
The teen's blue cat spoke, "Look like we got the wrong guy." Strife hurried to the injured boy and assisted him off the ground, "Are you alright?" he asked "Yeah thanks" the boy nodded. "Well I have to get going girls, but there is a party on my boat tonight. Every single one of you is invited to come."
All the girls stop glaring at the rose head teen and give a loving start to Salamander, "Okay we will be there Salamander-sama!", Salamander snapped his fingers and chanted a spell, "Red Carpet." Soon his snap created a red magic circle into the air. Then a purple flame line appeared and stopped at Salamander's feet. He rode on it and was now headed for his ship.
The rose haired man saw the blue haired man disappear into the air leaving him with a confused look, "What the hell was that about?" "You got swarmed by girls though not in the way other men hope for" Strife said, "just ignore the asshole he's just trying to gain attention".
"He is the true definition of a scumbag." The two boys and the blue cat turned to see the blond girl standing. She smiled at them, "Thanks a lot." The three looked at her and spoke at the same time, "What?"
Later on the four were in a restaurant after Salamander made his leave. The pink haired teen was stuffing his mouth like crazy which caused everyone in the restaurant to stare at him. The blue cat next to him was busy eating a fish. The blonde was just staring at them while sweating a little, Strife didn't fare much better, he didn't have any need to eat, though the food did look good, he sighed, he had been eating human food for all the time he had been disguised as one.
It had grown on him, off course with his mask on that was going to be tough he took a sandwich, Strife sighed and undid a special mouthpiece on his helmet and took a bite out of the sandwich, it was as good as it looked, "by the way thanks for your generosity miss" Strife thanked the blond, "yeah thank you" the salmoned hair boy said.
"There's no need to thank me" said as she raised her hands, "after all you did save me from being hypnotized by that Salamanders charm magic", "charm magic?" Strife asked, raising his eyebrow. "Yeah, you see charm magic is a kind of-" the girl began, "i think i can guess what it does just tell me why he's a scumbag for using it other than the obvious" Strife interrupted, "um well it's a band magic" the girl said, then scowled, "what kind of person goes that far to get popular?".
"The kind that likes to get under a lot of people's skirts?" Strife suggested jokingly, "oh that makes me so much better" the girl said sarcastically, "but anyway thanks to you lot i got snapped out of it, my names Lucy heartfilia what's your?", "names Strife" Strife said then turned to the salmoned haired boy as Lucy commented, "that's a strange name" and asked "what about you kid?" "Natsu dragneel," the boy responded, "and I'm Happy" said the cat.
"I can see that now what's your name?" Strife quipped, "uh Happy" Happy repeated with a miffed look and Strife burst into chuckled, "i got you there" he chuckled, "so are you a wizard?" Lucy asked, Strife wasn't too sure how to answer that but Lucy continued, "because if you haven't noticed i'm a wizard, even if i'm not part of a guild yet", "uh Guild?" Strife asked, "You mind elaborating on that for the benefit of those who are dunderhead?".
"A guild is where wizards from all over Fiore gather to share information and take jobs. It is a requirement to become a full-fledged wizard." Lucy said getting a little carried away "There are guilds all over fioreThere are guilds all over the world to choose from. I really want to be in a guild that has amazing wizards and is very popular."
Strife asked her another question, "Do you have any guild in particular that you want to join?" Before Lucy could talk, Happy spoke in an upset tone, "You sure talk a lot"
Lucy starts flapping her left hand in a fast motion, "Oh, sorry about that. Sometimes I get carried away talking about an interesting subject." She stopped to look at them, "However I am still looking forward to joining a guild and doing a lot of jobs. Anyway Natsu you were looking for someone?"
Happy answered, "Aye, Igneel!"
Natsu said after finishing his pizza, "We heard that a salamander came to this town, so we decided to go check it out." He crossed his arms while he spoke, "Talk about disappointment."
Happy nodded, "Yeah, he doesn't look like a salamander at all." Natsu nodded yes to his blue cat pal.
Lucy raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean? How can a human look like a salamander?"
Natsu looked at her, "No, Igneel is a real dragon."
Lucy and Strife made a surprised face to pose, "I'm sorry what?" Strife eventually said. Strife looked at Lucy then to Natsu who was giving an explanation about dragons. "Then again, compared to what I had seen, is it so hard to believe too?" He saw Lucy put down some money on the table, "You are leaving?" She turned to Strife, "Yeah I have to get going. I hope you enjoy the meal."
While she was heading toward the door, the waitress was telling her to have a good meal, but her attitude swiftly changed to a shock. Lucy turned her head a little and was also shocked. Natsu and Happy were on their hands and knees thanking her, "Thank you for your kindness!"
While the blonde and rose haired boy were chatting, Strife was surprised by what the boy did. He barely knew Lucy, but he is willing to go to that fair to thank her. Such a rare kindness was hardly seen in this world. He spoke to himself for a second, "Whoever his friends are, they must be proud to have just a kind friend."
A little later
Strife and Lucy found a bench, "so you want to join fairy tail too?" Lucy asked as she read a magazine, "yup didn't cross my mind till you mentioned it, but figured it might be a good place to start" Strife replied, "anyway what you got there?" "oh it's the latest edition of sorcerer's weekly" Lucy replied, "okay?" Strife said, not sure what she was talking about, "Wait, you never heard of sorceress weekly?" she asked, surprised.
"Not a clue" Strife confirmed, "related to that guild you want to join? What was it called again? Fairy tail?", "kind of. It's the main magazine that covers all the guilds in fiore, including Fairy tail, Lucy explained as she sat next to Strife and slowed him the magazine, "looks like fairy tail wiped out a bandit clan a while ago, but they destroyed several houses in the process.", "and I thought my previous job was destructive" Strife thought.
Lucy then turned the page to reveal a beautiful white-haired woman wearing a bikini, "okay that's not creepy at all on the producers part" Strife thought dryly, "oh wow it's mirajan" Lucy exclaimed excitedly, "she is part of Fairy tail?" Strife asked, "damn that name sounds weird".
"Yeah and she's so pretty too" Lucy said with admiration, "I hope I get to meet you".
As Lucy hummed while admiring the magazine, Strife's senses kicked in as he heard a rustling of bushes, he stood up and whirled around drawing redemption and firing a single shot at the soil in front of the bushes, "ah don't shot" cried a panicked man jumping out of the bushes, it was that Salamander bastard from earlier.
"Christ man, do you have a death wish?" Strife yelled at the man, "you again?" Lucy exclaimed jumping up and getting ready for a fight while Strife cocked his pistol, "whoa whoa no need for violence" Salamander said recovering and putting his hands in the air, "then what were you doing spying and sneaking up on us?" Strife asked not lowering his weapon.
"Me? Well i was just in the neighborhood when i heard you two were talking about trying to get in" Salamander answered, "what's it to you creep" Lucy fired, "uh creep?" the man said his ego was damaged, "burn" Strife thought, "come on Strife" Lucy said beginning to walk away, "wait don't tell me you haven't heard of salamander one of fairy tales wizards?" Salamander asked, both of them stopped dead in their tracks and looked at him.
"You're a fairy tail wizard?" Strife asked with skepticism, overhead he could see the two ravens Huninn and Muninn circling the man, "of course and if you come to my boat party you can join fairy tail" Salamander said, "i get to join fairy tail?!" Lucy screeched in joy, "you're really buying this bullshit?!" Strife screeched in disbelief.
"Think over it big guy, I'm sure you and your girlfriend will have a wild time," Salamander chuckled, "Girlfriends?" Strife thought, "Girlfriend!?" Lucy screeched, "wait hold on he's not my-" "well i best be off now tata for now" Salamander said as he used his flames to fly off, leaving Lucy with a heavy blush and Strife with a lot of suspicion, "okay first of all he does know i'm a lot older than you right?" Strife said as he was indeed a lot taller than her, "and second i don't like him".
The first comment did make Lucy stop blushing, besides she barely knew the guy, but then she thought of the bigger picture, getting into fairy tail, "your not serious" Strife said as he saw the look on her face, "hey come on all we have to do is put up with that guy for one night and then were in and on our way to Fairy tail" Lucy replied.
Strife saw that arguing was pointless, "okay fine but i'm not wearing a tie" Strife replied reluctantly, Lucy then went off to go shopping while Strife decided to just wait on the bench, Huninn cawed, "don't you start" Strife warned and that was when a splat of bird crap landed on where Salamander had formerly stood, "and why didn't you do that while he was still here" Strife demanded.
Later that evening
"This is still a bad idea" Strife told the blond, as they walked through town and towards the harbor where the yacht with the party was supposed to be.
Lucy had found herself an admittedly lovely long crimson dress that showed off her curves and would make any sane man want to lust after her, along with matching heels and a ribbon for her hair. "I know you said that already. And you know you could have at least put something nice-er on", Lucy commented, "never was a fan of fancy clothes" Strife said bluntly, "plus i think Salamander really doesn't give a shit about me and rather have some time with you".
"Don't remind me" Lucy said crossing her arms, "but if we want into Fairy tail then we'll have to suck it up for tonight like i said earlier", Strife grunted, agreeing not as wholeheartedly as he normally would have as he was thinking of the many ways this could go wrong and how he could capsized a boat this big when something did go wrong.
When the two made it to the docks, Strife and Lucy saw the girls from the crowd earlier, all dressed up fancily and getting on a rather large yacht. Lucy walked onto the ship with no problem but Strife was stopped by two crew members, "hold it friend, no weapons allowed, Fraid you're going to have to have to hand them over" one said.
"Oh come on" Strife thought as he took his pistols out and gave them to the two crew members, "don't lose them" Strife warned, "yeah yeah enjoy the party" the crew member said as he allowed Strife on board. Music was nice, and drinks were enjoyable and in Strife's opinion, not enough men on board.
"Having a good time?" a familiar voice said and Strife inwardly sighed as he looked over to see Salamander with a bright smirk on his face as he looks at Lucy, "yeah just feeling a little outnumbered if you know what i mean" Strife admitted, "what can i say, the ladies love me" Salamander said with Pride, which made Lucy shiver a bit.
"Anyway how about we talk about getting us to Fairy Tail" Lucy said as she stood in front of Strife and pushed her breasts together, using her sex to try and appeal to him, needless to say it worked, "ah yes" Salamander said as he looked at Lucy, "i like to my interviews one at a time so why don't you and i have a little chat and he waits here".
Strife just narrowed his eyes at Salamander and was about to retort but a look from Lucy told him to go along with it and that everything was going to be okay, so Strife just allowed her to go with. As Lucy and Salamander went to the 'interview' Strife resorted to sneaking around and seeing what exactly was really going on.
Strife walked along the edge of the ship then stopped as the sound of footsteps reached his ears, and two men stepped out of the corners either side of him, "well well what do we have here huh?" one asked, "a little straggler looks like, Parties back there bud" another said, "just wanted to have a stroll, never felt comfortable in crowds" Strife told them.
He didn't expect any of them to believe him and he did not want to kill humans, oh well everyone had to work outside their comfort zone every once in awhile "okay Raziel said to access the magic flow of this world to us my powers" Strife thought as the thugs began advancing, "sorry buddy no hard feeling but the boss has orders not to let you leave" on thug said.
"Oooohhh" Strife said as he felt the magic in his hand and he knew what to do, "you should not have told me that". The thugs charged but Strife dashed to the nearest one and sunk his Saber into the nearest one's Chest then wrenched it out.
"Where the hell did that sword come from?!"" one thug exclaimed, "shit he's a mage" another said in panic, "but i didn't see any magic circle, like it just appeared from thin air" another said and then Strife dashed and slit his throat with a single slash to the throat, he then punched another in the nose nearly breaking it and then kicked the final one overboard.
Strife walked over to the man and held his Single Saber at the man's throat in the backhand position, blood oozing from the man's nose in mouth "the hells going on? You better answer quick" Strife said, "w-what d-d-d-do you want to know?!" the man responded in terror, "what are the girls for?" Strife demanded pressing the blade closer to the man's throat, "slaves' ' the man blurted out, "we are going to sell them as slaves in the Bosco market", Slaves, of course slaves, female slaves always got the most money.
"And my weapons?" Strife asked, "the captain's quarters' ' the man blurted out in fear pointing to a door in the side of the wall, Strife nodded to the man, before in a single swift movement slight the man's throat, the wound almost cut the head off. Strife quickly opened the door, careful not to be spotted, spawning his saber while doing so.
There was a crew members inside but they hadn't noticed anything yet, however when Strife took his next step there was a squeak, "hey" the crewmember said finally noticed Strife, "hey Stop-" but he wasn't quick enough as Strife dashed up to him grabbed him by the mouth and stabbed the sword into the man's neck and wrenched it out causing blood to Spray out of the wound.
"Shit close one" Strife muttered to himself, Strife kept his Sabers ready to summon as he found Mercy and Redemption and holstered them, "alright time to show salamander what happens when i'm pissed".
Interview room
It was official. Lucy Heartfilia was having the worst night of her life.
She already knew she wasn't going to have that much of a grand time since she had to spend it sucking up to this creepy 'Salamander' guy to get to Fairy Tail, but she figured after that it would all be okay.
She was wrong.
The blue haired mage proved himself to be an even bigger creep than before, as he tried to put her under a sleeping spell for him to do god knows what. She was lucky enough to be able to see it coming and stopped it before she could fall under its influence.
It didn't stop there though, as she found herself now surrounded by a dozen men carrying the girls from the ship as hostages, which she found becoming after 'Salamander' took her keys and threw them out the window.
She felt like she was going to cry. This man, no, this monster just took one of her most prized possessions, her ability to call upon her spirits, and threw it out the window like it was trash. She looked over at the man, no, this slime responsible for all this with hateful teary eyes, wanting nothing more for him to suffer for what he had done.
Suddenly a loud boom echoed through the ship, and everyone looked back to see none other than Arthur, now in his full gear armed and ready. And boy did he look a bit pissed.
"Strife!" Lucy cried in happiness, glad that he was safe and here. "You!" Salamander yelled, surprised that the Masked man was still on the ship and not thrown over the edge. "It's over Salamander you son of a bitch," Strife said as he pointed his sword at him, "I know of your plan to sell the girls into slavery."
'Salamander' grit his teeth as he looked at Strife, but then remembered he was only one kid. Sure he must be robust since he was able to take out the four guys she sent to get him, but what about a dozen men?
"Really now? You think you could take on my crew and me?" He asked with a smirk, earning a few laughs from his men, "Get him, boys!" "This is going to be easy," A rather burly crewmate said as he charged at the man, eager to get the first hit.
"Arthur, look out!" Lucy cried, only to be silenced by one of 'Salamander's men covering her mouth and keeping her from moving. "Sorry tuts, your boyfriend's messing with the wrong crew." Salamander said with a confident smirk. "He's not my Boyfriend!" Lucy yelled, her voice muffled through the guy's hand.
Strife simple drew Mercy aimed at the head and fired, the entire head was blasted to oblivion, brain matter, skull and skin sprayed all over the other crew members, Salamander and Lucy, everyone stopped dead in there tracks and looked at Strife a few making a good impression of a fish out of water.
They never thought that a wizard would be willing to kill, especially one of their own, Lucy was no better, Eyes wide as she stood like a statue at the sight of what was basically a murder, Strife however didn't look phased infact he seemed almost casually as the corpse fell to the ground at Strifes feet, "oh god damn it, you god blood on my boots!" Strife said in disbelief, "now you just made it personal '' Strife drew his Redemption and fired at the hip in a gunslinger like fashion.
Three bullets sailed through the air and hit three more crew members dead center between the eyes, "What the hell are you doing?! get him!" Salamander ordered, Four of them charged at Strife holding ax's and using anything that could protect them from the shots, two had serving trays while the third held a chair and the fourth was behind the third.
They all hoped to get the tackle on Strife all at once but he dashed back, hostering his guns with inhumanly speed and summoning both his sabers as the Men recovered, Strife stabbed the closest one in the stomach and took the ax he was holding and swung it and left it embedded in the man's neck. The second one Strife simple cut stabbed the man in the shoulder and slashed at the mans chest three times, Strife then despawned his sabers and drew Redemption, ducked under a man who tried to dive and tackle him after jumping from a bit of furniture and shot three apple sized holes into him.
As for the final guy in the room, he gulped and backed up from the man in the purple cloak, he grabbed the closest thing to hand, which was a candle and charged recklessly, "really?" Strife thought. But the cangle had reminded him of an ability he could use, using the fire power in the pistols he put them together and a torrent of flame like a flamethrower launched at the man, the burning of skin was smelt and the cries of agony came from the man's mouth.
The man was asking for mercy so Strife used Mercy to finish the job, with the floor littered with fresh bodies, Strife turned to Salamander and the remaining crewmembers all too scared to move, sweat dripping off the their foreheads as he looked at the gunslinger glaring at him with his yellow eyes like that of a monster.
Lucy just looked at Strife with a mix of awe and fear. When she first met him, he seemed like a very carefree character, didn't take things seriously and always relaxed, but seeing him now, in battle, as he tore through his foes, it was like watching a monster. Strife just wiped the blood off his armor in a casual manner then returned to glaring at Salamander.
"Stop, don't try anything?" Salamander yelled as he went up to Lucy and made a magic circle aimed at her, "take another step and your girlfriends toast'', "huh you do know i'm a lot older than her right?" Strife asked as he aimed for Mercy and redemption before Lucy could retort, "and second what's protecting you after she's dead?" That was a good question and had Salamander sweating a lot more than before.
Then the Ceiling above them collapsed and there came a familiar pink haired boy, "Natsu?" Lucy asked as she recognized the boy coming out of her stupor of his sudden appearance, Natsu was about to say something but then the ship rock and his cheeks swelled and looked very sick indeed. "What?!" Everyone went, "way to ruin my badass moment Natsu" Strife said, "Oh hey guys" came a voice from above, it was happy flying with a pair of wings.
"Happy?! Wait, since when did you have wings!?" Lucy exclaimed, "what the hell" Salamander thought, first the gunslinger, then a pink haired boy with motion sickness, and now a flying talking cat. What's next? Demons from hell? Angels from heaven?.
"Huh what happened here" Happy asked in shock as he looked around at the bodies, "uh-you know what forget it, just get Lucy out of here while i deal with these assholes? Got it?" Strife said to the cat twirling his guns, "wah? Oh yeah!" Happy said flying over to losing, picking her up and flying her at high speed away from the boat.
"Oh no you don't" Salamander said as he summoned another magic circle, "promin-AH!" he finished as Strife shot two of his fingers off with Redemption, "i'm hurt you already forgot me" Strife quipped, "don't forget me" Natsu said trying to get up but his motion sickness kicking back in, "you can't even fight pinky" Strife told the kid.
"Just watch-" Natsu began but his motion sickness once again kicked in, "why do i get stuck with this hopeless bastard?" Strife thought, then again he did get stuck with war a few centuries back.
"Red Shower" Salamander said invoking his spell and shot bright purple flames, Strife ducked out of the way and fired Mercy and Redemption at two of the thugs, two more drew swords and charged at Strife, Strife shot both swords by the hit and then charged up a power shot and knocked both men back on the behinds. Strife then shot one man in the leg who charged at him, then purple flames Struck him and he nearly went overboard.
"Damn" Strife cursed as he crawled back on deck, he was barely phased, "damn it why won't you just die already?" Salamander cursed, "because I'm too damn tough to die'' Strife shot back in more ways than one.
Then all of a sudden the boat rocked violently and a tidal wave headed towards the boat, it hit and sent everyone on board flying in vigorous directions, Strife made a grab for Natsu but lost him just before the Yacht washed ashore. Strife had landed not too far away, and saw Lucy and Happy on the same shore not too far away, Strife rushed over to them, and made sure they were okay.
"The hell happened?" Strife asked as he pulled Happy out of the sand, "one of my celestial spirits is a bit rebellious" Lucy said, Strife resorted to asking about Celestial spirits later.
Remembering the missing pinkette, Arthur looked around to try and look for him and found him standing on the top of the shipwreck, looking a lot better now and staring down at Salamander and his men.
"Hey!" Natsu yelled to Salamander, "You're the guy who claims to be a part of the Fairy Tail guild?"
Salamander just glared at the kid, already fed up with today, "Yeah, and what's that matter to you!?" He demanded
"Because," Natsu said as he tore off his red jacket, revealing a bright red emblem on his right shoulder, the mark of Fairy Tail, "My name is Natsu Dragneel, I'm a Fairy Tail wizard, and I've never seen your face before!"
"What! Natsu's a Fairy Tail Wizard?" Lucy asked in surprise as Arthur looked at him with surprise.
Meanwhile 'Salamander' and his crew looked damn ready to book it out of here, wanting to run back to their mommies and hide.
"That mark!" One of the crewmen said as he pointed to the Fairy Tail emblem, "This guy's the real deal, Bora!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT YOU IDIOT!" The now identified Bora yelled to his crew.
"Hey I know that name," Happy said as he looked at the blue haired mage, "That's Bora The Prominence. Rumour has it he was kicked out of Titan Nose a few years ago."
"And look where he is now," Strife chuckled as he looked over to the scared faker.
Bora grits his teeth, but then remembers something about this kid compared to the other, that he was pathetic since he can't even handle a little motion sickness. So with a smirk, he stretched his arms out wide and called forth his magic.
"So what, you think you can stop me!? Fat chance! The Salamander said, "Prominent Typhoon!"
As he called forth his magic, a swirling column of purple flames flew right at the pinkette and initially the yacht. The yacht suddenly went up in flames.
Lucy looked on in horror, thinking that Natsu was in serious trouble while Strife drew his pistols ready to charge at Salamander and finish this. However, before he could, Happy flew in front of him, stopping him from moving.
"What are you doing?" Lucy asked, "Just watch, Natsu's got this," Happy said with pride. "Huh?" Strife and Lucy asked, confused at what he meant.
Back with Salamander, he looked on with a small smile on his face. Sure that other kid managed to stop his red shower with that shield, but this kid seemed like a total pushover from what he's seen.
"Hah, looks like he was all bark and no bite," Bora said as he turned away, hoping to flee out of town before the army got here, and avoid running into Strife.
"Oh man, this is disgusting!" Yelling Natsu in disgust, Salamander just went wide-eyed, whipping his head back to the flames.
"Are you sure you're a fire mage? Cause these are the worst flames I've ever tasted!" Natsu said again.
Everyone present and watching just stopped. Natsu stood on the ship completely fine, with the flames from Salamander's spell going into Natsu's mouth, like he was eating them.
Lucy and Strife looked at the display with wide eyes, Strife almost dropping his guns in surprise at what he was seeing.
Salamander and his crew, however, looked on in complete surprise, yelling out like scared children while Salamander felt a twitch coming on.
"Thanks for the grub though poser!" Natsu said with a smirk as he put his fists together a bright fire red magic circle forming in front of him, "Cause now I got a fire in my belly that's just raging to get out!"
"FIRE DRAGON~."
Natsu then swelled up his cheeks as he brought his hands up to his mouth as if he was about to blow something out.
"ROAR!
Suddenly, a vast torrent of red-orange flames came forth from Natsu, hitting Bora and his crew, while also destroying the ground from beneath their feet and what remained of the yacht. Bits of sand and wood flew everywhere as Bora's men were blown all over the place.
Bora, for the most part, remained unscathed as he used his magic to keep himself above the ground to avoid the wrath of the rival fire mage.
"Bora, I've seen this guy before!" A crewman said as he pointed at Natsu, "That pink hair, and that scaly scarf! There's no doubt about it. He's the real deal!"
'Salamander!/Salamander?' Lucy and Strife thought to themselves.
"Hope you're paying attention!" Natsu yelled as his hands were engulfed in flames, "Cause this is what a Fairy Tail Wizard can do!"
Natsu then went on the offense, while Bora started yelling out attacks in fear to try and keep the other raging boy from coming at him, but failed to do so as Natsu ran at him and punched him a reasonable distance away,
"What in the nine hell was that?" Strife asked as he turned to happy.
"It looked like some sort of spell, but I've never seen anything like it," Lucy said as she watched Natsu and Bora fight.
"Natsu has dragon lungs that allow him to breathe fire, dragon scales to help him dissolve fire, and dragon claws to help him attack with fire. It's an ancient spell that gives him all the properties of a dragon" Happy explained as he watched Natsu punch Bora right in the face.
"Wait, so he has all the powers of a dragon?" Strife asked, somewhat baffled by what he just heard.
"Pretty much. In fact, this type of magic was used to fight against dragons. Igneel was the one who taught it to him." Happy explained
Igneel. That was Natsu's father, who he said was a dragon, right? How the hell does someone learn to use the powers of a dragon?
Turning back to the fight, Strife saw Natsu eat one final attack from Bora, before rushing at him and punching him right in the face, sending him flying back through a few buildings before he hit the bell of a belltower.
"Wow, that was amazing," Lucy said in awe at the display of magic power.
"I agree, but," Strife began as he looked around the city, which was a bit destroyed and on fire and sweat dropped "I think he overdid it."
"Aye!" Happy agreed.
Suddenly the three all picked up the sounds of many heavy footsteps and the clanking of armor and looked to see a bunch of armed, and uniformed men headed their way.
"The army!?" Lucy said in shock.
"Shit, hang on maybe we can read-" Strife began
But before he could finish his sentence saying how they could probably talk this out with them, Natsu rushed right over to him and Lucy, grabbing both of them before running away.
"Come one we gotta get out of here!" Natsu yelled as he dragged the two away against their will. "Hey, wait for me!" Happy cried out as he flew as fast as he could to catch up.
"Uh why" Strife said recovering and began running alongside Natsu still dragging Lucy, "well you want to join Fairy Tail right?" Natsu smiles, Lucy smiled as she realized the implication of this and though no one could tell, Strife had a smirk under his mask.