Back with the continuation
"speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story
Natsu and the others were currently chasing the three treasure hunters from Sylph Labyrinth in the frozen village
The spike haired man was known as "Sword" Hiroshi, the long-haired man's name was "Sniper" Drake, and finally, the big man was known as "Hammer" Rala.
"We can use that Moon Drip you got to rescue those giants!" Gray petitioned.
"No way! You have any idea how hard it was for us to get our hands on this Moon Drip?" Drake asked rhetorically.
"We had to go to that island that was heavy with all those demons, and look so heavily hard for it!" Hiroshi answered.
"Besides, it's Duun scary to bring those giants back to life!" Rala finished.
"Hold on!" Lucy said. She and Wendy brought up the rear of the chase. The blonde looked behind herself and noticed that a certain dame was missing. "Where's Erza? She was just here a minute ago."
"She said she was staying behind to look for more clues in the village." Wendy answered.
"I hope she's not breaking of the giants" Natsu said as he knew his wife might try something crazy
"They'll be fine…I think." Charla said apprehensively.
"These guys are starting to be a real pain! Let's take them out!" Drake suggested.
"We should give them a heavy takedown!" Hiroshi added.
"Time to take them out like Dunn!" Rala nodded.
The three men stopped and turned around to face the Fairy Tail wizards.
"Drake, take your position!" Hiroshi ordered.
"Right." Drake complied as he took off further ahead. Hiroshi and Rala ran in place, waiting for their pursuers to catch up. Once they were in sight, the two took their fighting stances. Hiroshi grabbing the hilt of his blade while Rala grabbed his giant fist-hammer.
"If we let some dumb wizards treat us like crap then it's heavily over for us!" Hiroshi said.
"We'll take out anyone who gets in our way! Treasure hunting is a dangerous business! Duun!" Rala declared.
The Fairy Tail wizards stopped in their tracks, also ready to engage in battle. "If you wanna fight, then bring it on!" Gray challenged. "We'll take you out and get that Moon Drip."
"Duun!" Rala yelled. He swung his hammer, slamming it into the ground and cracking it. Gray and the others barely managed to dodge the initial impact.
"That fist thing is a weapon?!" Lucy shouted with surprise.
Rala tightened his grip on the polearm of the hammer. "The might of Stronger will come down on you, Duun!"
Natsu appeared in front of Rala as he caught the giant hammer fist
"you're annoying" Natsu said before he destroys Rala's hammer before punching the man away
"Duuuuuuuuuuuuun!" Rala screams in pain before he falls down, out cold
"Rala! Damnit!" Hiroshi curses before he dashed towards Lucy.
"I'm gonna cut you heavy, girl!" Hiroshi exclaimed as he swings his sword at Lucy who dodged but got some of her hair cut by the sword
"Lucy!" Gray exclaimed before looking in relief as Natsu caught Hiroshi's sword before melting it with his flames
"Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed before Wendy pushes her away
"Look out, Lucy-san!" Wendy exclaimed before
BANG!
"A gun?!" Lucy exclaimed
"Where did it come from?!" Charla exclaimed as everyone tries to look for Drake
Drake who was far away in the frozen bushes, laid on his stomach as he was sniping at Lucy and the others
"Ho? I'm surprised you avoided that shot." Despite being so far away, his voice could be heard by his targets. He reloaded. "The next one is going through your head!"
"Where is he?!" Charla exclaimed before she jumps to dodge another shot
"I can smell gunpowder." Wendy said before she pointed to a clifftop to the east that was covered by a few of the larger trees. "It's coming from up there!"
"Got it!" Lucy reached into her pouch, unlinking one of her zodiac keys.
"Open! The Gate of The Archer! Sagittarius!"
Sagittarius appeared with his bow and Arrow readied
"yes there! MoshiMoshi!" Sagittarius said as he fired an arrow to where Wendy pointed before the Arrow was shot by Drake
"You're kidding…" Wendy gasped.
Lucy was shocked as well. "He shot the arrow?"
Sagittarius was angered, his pride more hurt than anything. "Why that little…"
"I'm a genius sniper." Drake boasted. "I won't go down that easily!"
"enough" Natsu said as he grabs Hiroshi's face before throwing him to where Drake was position at
"what!?" Drake exclaimed in shock
"Karyu no!" Natsu took a deep breath as flames gathered in his mouth
"Hoko!"
Natsu breathes out a torrent of flames that went barraging towards Hiroshi and Drake and sends them flying in the sky
With Erza
Erza looks at herself as she touched her face
"What is happening here?!" She panicked before quickly regaining her composure. "I wonder if I have any armor that will fit this size…" she said before her foot slips on the ice and she tumbled down the side of the mountain, landing on her stomach at the base.
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
She sat up, sitting on ground with her legs crossed as she rubbed her sore backside and looked at the backs of the Giant sentries in front of her. "My body isn't doing what I want it to. Is it because of a gap between my mental self-image and my body?" She placed her hand on her chin to think. "Whatever the case I have to find a way to change back, because if I don't…"
Erza's mind began to drift away. She imagined what her friends would say if she remained a child forever:
"Now I'm the big sister." Wendy would boast happily. Although even in Erza's shrunken state she was only slightly shorter than Wendy.
"Looks like you're ready to take me on, Titania." Gajeel would smirk as he cracked his knuckles, Gray nodding in agreement. Erza would be no match for them – or anyone for that matter – in her current state.
""not to mention, Jellal!""
Jellal stares at Erza for a moment as the woman quivers in fear
"sorry, I'm not into little girls" Jellal told her as she cried
"noooooooooooooooo" Erza screams in horror
"I have to find a way to change back! Wait! I wonder if…" Erza gritted her teeth as she mustered up all her magic before a sword appeared in her hands
"At least I can still use my magic, but it takes much more time and energy in this state." She began to swing the sword around before she stops as she was tired.
"Sluggish. It seems my physical abilities have decreased as well."
She then started to walk around trying to find the others before she stops when she heard a voice in front of her
"How far the mighty Titania has fallen."
Erza's eyes widened when she recognized the person in front of her. "Minerva?!"
"What are you doing here?" Erza demanded of Minerva.
"I just recently entered a new guild. But I never imagined that I would encounter you on my first assignment. Fate must be smiling on me."
Erza's eyes lowered until she was looking at Minerva's new guild mark. She recognized it instantly. And was not pleased by its representation. "Succubus Eye?! You joined a dark guild?!"
Minerva showed her trademark smirk. "My role is to reign over the strongest guild in the world. It doesn't matter in the slightest if that guild is above ground, or rooted in the underworld. The view from the strong is always the same."
Erza's eyes narrowed in anger. "And you believe Succubus Eye is that guild?"
"They are merely a stepping stone on my way to…greater heights."
"Have you lost all pride as a wizard?!"
Minerva spread out her arms, her territory magic beginning to mold around her open hands. "Enough. Let us face one another in battle once more. Though I doubt there is much you can do as you are now." She couldn't help but lightly chuckle at Erza's less than favorable bodily status.
Erza pointed her sword at Minerva. Her little hands were tightly gripped around the hilt. "You did this?"
"No, that was the doing of my partner. It is simply fascinating the types of magic the underworld has to offer."
"So you're resorting to cheap tricks now?"
"The underworld has its own way of doing things. I simply expanded my options. You would be wise to prepare yourself. This will not be the same as in the Grand Magic Games. This is a fight to the death!"
Erza clenches her teeth as she prepared herself for a fight
With the others
They were all finished dealing with Sylph Labyrinth as they were trying to use the Moon Drip
"here goes nothing" Natsu said as he drops a bit amount of the potion to the ground and sees that some of the ice was melted but not completely
"it barely melted it" Lucy said as they sigh
"even with this much, I don't think it will be enough to unfreeze the whole village" Gray said while rubbing the back of his head
Natsu sighs as well before his ears picked up a voice
"what was that?" he muttered out before he kneels down
He stares at the part of the ground that was melted for a minute before pouring the whole moon drip vial towards it
"hey!" Gray exclaimed at him
"shush!" Natsu shushed him as he got on all four and pressed his ear to the ground
"I hear a voice"
"a voice?" Lucy said
"I don't hear anything" Wendy said
"no, I definitely heard something" Natsu said as he press his right hand on the unfrozen ground
His bracelet suddenly glowed as Drac appeared on Natsu's hand
"I feel weak" Drac said as the gauntlet glowed weakly
"I knew it" Natsu said before he swings his hand right in front of Lucy and caught a flying bullet
BANG!
"eep!" Lucy squeaked in surprise as she heard the gunshot
"them again?!" Gray exclaimed as he sees Rala and Hiroshi running towards them
"Gray, Lucy, Wendy, you three handle them. I need to find the source of the voice" Natsu said as they nodded to him
He then started running towards a path as his ears followed the voice
Back with Erza
"Nngh!" Erza grunted in pain as she had used her sword as a makeshift shield to block another one of Minerva's attacks.
Minerva laughed with evil glee as she continued exploding the ground around Erza with her territory magic.
"This is fun! The great Titania Erza, now helpless as a child before me." Minerva mocked with sadistic joy. She knew full well the irony of the situation.
Erza slid across the ground after Minerva finished her salvo. She attempted to stand despite her numerous injuries, but her moment of rest was cut short when Minerva kneed the redhead under the chin. Erza slid back once again, but this time she managed to stay on her feet. Although she quickly fell back to her knees after a few seconds. She grabbed her jaw, checking for lasting damage. Any harder and Minerva would have knocked out a couple of teeth.
Minerva grinned with an overwhelming sense of sick superiority. "You really are only a child!" she ran to Erza, kicking her hard enough in the stomach to send her flying.
"Here! I'll give you more pain! And more! And more!" She followed Erza, knocking her back to the ground with another hard kick. "I won't stop! Not until I have completely forgotten the humiliation, I suffered in the Grand Magic Games!"
With Natsu
He was running around the frozen village in search of the voice
"Drac, sense this ice" Natsu ordered the gauntlet as he keeps on running
"I cannot, this ice is weakening my power" Drac replied to Natsu
""must be a type of anti demonic magic"" Natsu thought before he stopped running as he turns to the side and sees a large man with huge muscles barely contained by his very tight shirt. He wore a bandana over his mouth that ironically had the picture of an open mouth on it.
"I found one" the man said as he walks towards Natsu
"are you another one of those robbers?" Natsu said to the man
"I am no robber." The man answered as he raises his hands up
"Whether you believe me or not doesn't matter."
The giant man said as he swings his hand around and a weird glow appeared
"Now, go back…go back…to a day long past."
Natsu felt something weird swelling up in him as the man felt something raging in him
"this is…." Natsu said before his eyes turned black
"you're!" the huge man exclaimed in shock as he took a step back in fear "not human!?"
"you've just made a big mistake" a dark voice spoke as flames overtook the whole area
That's a wrap!
Bye bye