Chapter Thirty-Three: This Is No The Fight For That

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Previously:

The fire dragon slayer grit his teeth and lit his hands up. There had to be a way to get to the man and weaken him. However before he could think of any ways to do that the man blew up several bombs beneath him and caused him to land on the outer edge of the forest. The forest was burning badly now, causing a new tree to catch fire quickly if it was too close to another one. Jumping back to his feet Natsu gave a small startled yelp as he dodged landing on his left foot. The feeling of pain literally crawled up his left leg causing him to fall to the ground gripping his ankle. In the corner of his eyes he could see Happy watching in dread his paws covering his mouth. This fight wasn't at all going like he had hoped it would and Natsu did not like it. Before the man could try to stab him with a dagger water get out from the lake behind the slayer shoving the man and his flying weapons right into the forest that was now being put out by the force of the water.

Struggling to get to his feet Natsu gasped in pain that he felt in his left ankle. Turing to his buddy he waved him down. Unfortunately before the flying cat could reach him Natsu found himself on the ground being dragged into the water with a surprised gasp. He could hear Happy calling out to him with his sharp hearing as he got dragged further into the water below.

Now:

Natsu woke up and pushed himself to his hands and knees. He didn't remember going to sleep. The last thing he remembered was waiting for Happy to give him a ride back into Lakeview Town when he was dragged into the water. He also remembered that his ankle was in a vast amount of pain, despite him being able to stand on it just fine. Looking over at said ankle he paused when he realized that he no longer felt any pain and that he could smell fish close to him. Glancing up he came face to face with the aquatic lizard, "Uh, hey."

"What ever you do, don't threaten her." Natsu looked at his fellow dragon slayer leaning against the side of the nest. "The last thing we want to do is cause her to become violent."

The pink haired dragon slayer nodded and stood up to walk over to the white haired slayer. Looking at his half wizard he asked, "Why does my ankle not feel as sore."

"I healed it as much as I could. While that particularly wasn't an injury that could hold you back it is best that we are in the best condition we can be when we take on the man who is causing all this to happen."

Just hearing the mere mention of the guy he had been fighting earlier caused the onyx eyed male to narrow his eyes, "I am seriously going too kick his ass."

A bleached eyebrow went up as teal eyes looked at his fellow dragon slayer, "We will in time. Right now we need to find a way to get out of this nest without sending the mother into a frenzy."

"Can we just get out of here?" Natsu asked slightly annoyed by the careful planning the other was going through, "It's not like she could stop us." Behind Natsu the mother nudged him sending him crashing next to the white haired slayer, "Hey!"

"While that may be true, we don't want her attacking the town because we decided to act rashly. Why do you think I am still here and have not made my way out?" Toshiro replied, glaring at his teammate. "Stuff like this in a mission needs careful planning. We know the man is after her not the town's people. We are in a better position right here despite the fact we have to be careful."

Natsu sighed and leaned against the side of the nest, "Why is it people like you always plan things through? Not everything needs a deep plan."

Toshiro pinched the bridge of his nose in exasperation. He couldn't help but keep comparing Natsu and Ichigo together. The closeness of the twos personality was far too uncanny. The largest difference between the two was how they cared for the others around them. Kurosaki's care for those he loved was at a distance in a sense but was always there to protect them should the time arise. Whereas Natsu was very physically affectionate, hugging and picking fight with the others, and was very quick to get angry should anyone in fairy tail be in a danger. He had not seen it personally but he could tell that was true just from what he had seen back at the guild so far. However what the two shared most over all, other than their need to befriend Toshiro upon first sight, was their impulsiveness. If there wasn't someone to keep them in check they would run straight into a trap or even off a cliff to save someone. And now that Natsu saw the creature as innocent he was dead set on running straight into battle without gathering all the necessary information. "Because it is extremely important that we get all the facts we know in line so that we can take him down effectively and quickly."

"You couldn't have picked up that much information while down here."

"Actually, I have." Natsu looked at him trying to understand how he did. "While down here I was able to figure out how he is using his magic energy to make the bombs and how to combat them. In addition I know what his spiritual pressure feels like so should we be unable to find him using our senses I can find him that way. And when you were fighting him I learned how the weapons felt when they were being controlled. The energy they give off is very different from when he makes the energy bombs."

"But…that is all how you can feel with your spiritual pressure."

"A little information goes a long way in the right hands. Unfortunately your fight with him didn't last as long as I would like due to the mother so I was unable to get the best reading on how he fights. What I do know is he is crafty and thinks faster than the normal human being." Seeing Natsu frown made Toshiro think, "However what I was unable to gather was what he wants with the creature. Did he say anything while you were up there that could clue us in?"

"Well he did say that her and her offspring were worth millions of gems." Natsu replied. Seeing Toshiro narrow his eyes in thought caused him to be curious, "You have an idea what that could mean?"

"It honestly can mean any number of things." The ice dragon slayer stood up and walked up to the mother holding his hand out. Tilting her head she allowed him to touch her snout as she stared at him lovingly, "He could be working with others, so even if we did get rid of him there would be more looking for her. Another idea that comes to mind is that she isn't a normal creature, perhaps an experiment of some kind or perhaps even rare to come across. She's unnaturally intelligent in the fact that she understands every word that we are saying. However if he is the only guy looking for her how did he get her in the first place? And when we take care of him how are we going to relocate her and her offspring. Sure they are aquatic but even then they are pretty limited where she can be right now."

Natsu tilted his head, "What do you mean?"

"When she left she was likely pregnant which means that where ever she ran away from he or they have a male there or caused her to be pregnant by unnatural means." While his hand was still touching the mothers snout he it fisted, "If she was still pregnant she could have kept going and probably found a safer area to hide her and her young." Teal met onyx eyes, "She likely only stopped because she had to give her eggs the safest places she could currently find. There has to be far safer locations than this town and their strange island."

Natsu let that though sink in as he gazed at the eggs in the nest with them. They weren't moving but he could tell that they were ready to hatch any day now. He wondered if Igneel would have done the same thing if he was in danger and still young. Because he remembered where he and Igneel lived was so safe that the dragon could walk around without being spotted for a good amount of time. Yet here was this mother with young that still had yet to hatch being in great danger. "Then we have to take him out before he can hurt them."

"Be that as it may we still need to find out exactly what happened and if there are more people heading this way when we do indeed take him out." Toshiro replied walking back over to where he had been sitting, "If we can I'm sure we can set the male free if there is one." The moment the words left his mouth the aquatic lizard looked at him in surprise. "Is there a male?"

She snorted and nuzzled one of the eggs that started to wiggle. Toshiro and Natsu looked at each other with determination. They knew what they had to do. Before the two of them could try to plan anything the island moved causing both of them to have their negative reaction. Natsu slumped over green in the face while Toshiro groaned as his headache was instant. The mother lizard moved over to them gently nudging them to assess if they were okay. The ice dragon slayer put his hand on her snout as his way of letting her know they would be okay. Not convinced she laid down continuing to look them over for more signs that were worrisome. When the island stopped moving Natsu growled, "I hate this island. It's a nightmare."

Toshiro nodded in agreement happy that the headache went away instantly. Putting his hands in his lap he took calming breaths, however before he could speak the island shook causing a small amount of debris to fall on them. Teal eyes looked up at the ceiling alarmed. "Damn it, he's digging his way in here now."

Both dragon slayers stood up with Toshiro pulling out his zanpakuto. "Be careful with your sword."

"Don't worry I will." Toshiro replied holding the hilt tightly. The aquatic lizard looked at the two of them as they looked ready to take on who ever was coming in above her. The fact that one of her new children had a sharp and pointy object didn't help her worry.

The half soul reaper's eyes narrowed in at the ceiling. He would have frozen the roof above him but then he'd only make it easier for the man to get to the aquatic lizard. Giving a small growl along side Natsu he tried to come up with a good plan for the two of them to pull off. He had to be careful to keep a good grip on the hit of his blade. The last thing the two of them needed was for the man to control his zanpakto. 'Do not worry my hatchling. If he tries I will find a way to flash freeze him for doing so.'

Toshiro resisted grinning in amusement, 'Thank you, Hyorinmaru. That will mean a lot to Dragneel and I.'

'Of course my son, I will do my best to protect you no matter what or what state I am in.'

Seeing a small hole in the ceiling caused the two slayers to glare at the man looking down on them. The man's dark grey eyes glared down at the two in the nest with the creature he had been searching for. Natsu's hands lit up in flames while Toshiro coated his fingers in ice claws. "You little ass. I knew you were the one that froze my bombs." The teal eyed male narrowed and decided not to dignify the man's anger with a response. The man's dark grey eyes looked down at the blade in Toshiro's hands and grinned, "It's far too bad that you that you brought your own doom." Almost instantly the zanpakuto in the ice dragon's hands tried to jerk free. Taking on the challenge the hilt of the blade froze and stuck to his hands. The man blinked and looked down at the sword still in the youthful looking fairy tail member's hand, "Really, you think that freezing it to your hand that it will stop me."

"Trust me, you will have no chance to control my blade." Teal eyes bore into dark grey, "I guarantee it."

Natsu grinned widely, "You are going to regret taking the two of us on. We are going to kick your ass."

"We'll see about that." The man growled letting explosions tear the rest of what was covering the aquatic lizard and her eggs. Toshiro quickly leapt high into the air risking low gravity as he sent out his hand out reciting a shortened kido barrier around the eggs and lizard. The man looked at him, "What the hell did you do?"

"I'm preventing you from getting to the one thing that you want." The ice dragon slayer replied as Natsu leapt up as well.

"And you are going down before you can even get close to them. You can forget getting your hands on them." The fire slayer replied as he sent out a fire ball.

The man dodged the fire only to be hit to be forced to block the ice dragon slayer's blade with a sword from his side. "You little pests are nothing to the power I have."

Toshiro barely resisted rolling his eyes at the man's speech. This man seemed like all talk with a limited set of skills, at least for the time being. He would be keeping an eye out for anything else that seemed important to note. Putting his zanpakuto away for the time being he held his ice claws ready to attack at any point in time. He was happy that Hyorinmaru taught him the ice claw due to its multi purpose use. Seeing three daggers flying at him he twisted and used his ice claws to swatting the daggers away easily. Landing on the ground teal eyes stayed focused on the man trying to get to the animal snarling and standing near her eggs to protect them.

The daggers flew back at Toshiro, narrowing his eyes the ice held on his fingers ready, "Ice Dragon Scales." He could feel ice scales forming on his arms across his shoulders and to his neck, and just in time as the three daggers slammed into his left arm. Feeling pleased with himself in casting the spell in time he looked up with slightly smug eyes. The grey eyed man growled in his throat angrily and charged at the smaller dragon slayer while Natsu dealt with several weapons flying in his direction. Sucking in a breath Toshiro watched as the man tried to stop himself from getting closer. However the man didn't get himself out of danger in time as the slayer let out a roar hitting the man sending him flying into a tree with ice cold icicles cutting into his skin.

Natsu caused all the blades to crash into tree trunks however since he unfortunately was in the air he crashed into the ground hard with a grunt when gravity decided to be mean. Getting up he saw the ice roar colliding into the man trying to capture the aquatic lizard. Grinning he stood and as his hands lit up with flames again. The animals on the small island scattered to get to safety. Getting a nod from Toshiro the two slayers charged at the man getting away from the tree he had been blasted into. Looking at the two dragon slayers heading his direction his eyes widened in shock as he was hit with two different element hands, a flaming fist to the face and an iced clawed hand across his side. Landing away from the two that had attacked him, he looked at them in surprise. He had not been expecting the two of them to attack quite as roughly as they had, especially the slayer that left claw marks in his side. It was painful and it reminded him when he first used his bombs and accidentally attacked his own self.

Glaring at the two dragon slayers he tried to find the best way to take them out since they were in his way and far more dangerous than he had anticipated. He had written off dragon slayers as just any other magic user, but these two had an entirely different level of fighting. And despite both being dragon slayers he was seeing that just being two different elements gave them different attacks that they could use. Looking at the claws on the ice dragon slayer dripping with blood made him sneer. 'The brat isn't even affected that he made me bleed like this. I thought light guilds didn't like to hurt people. Yet this kid…' The man looked at the white haired child, '…is acting like this is a completely normal thing. What kind of parents did he have? Where they dark guild members and he ran away or something?'

Natsu had enough of waiting and ran at the man who simply dodged and sent several weapons flying at the other one to keep him occupied as he was not fond of the idea of being clawed by those dangerous claws. Making several bombs beneath the two slayers sent the two went flying despite the white haired one's attempt at getting out of the way after sending the blades that had been flying at him with some kind of weird magic he didn't have to say anything for. As weird as that was he knew that he had to take out the two slayers before the mother got too irritated and helped. Teal eyes narrowed as the owner of those eyes pulled out his sword again.

Grey eyes immediately took notice and started to control of it. However to everyone's surprise it stayed in the white haired male's hand and a blast of freezing energy went flying causing the man to shiver at the cold energy. However it wasn't only the energy that came off that made him shiver it was also the fact that the sword itself seemed as if it itself was defying him. Now that he realized what he was feeling he could feel a powerful energy coming from the sword in general as well as the person holding it. It was almost like the two were one in the same with the way that energies connected. It was slightly terrifying how powerful the smaller male felt.

As if he could feel the fear coming off him the white haired child charged so fast that the man barely dodged the strike across his chest. Quickly retaliating the grey eyed man made several powerful bombs beneath the child's feet sending him flying into the air and out of sight as gravity decided to act out making his opponent go higher than normal gravity would allow. "Hitsugaya!" Natsu yelled. The man grinned and took full advantage of the teenager's distraction and ended up cutting the pink haired slayer's arms and torso that his arms didn't block.

"Should have never turned your back you brat." Onyx eyes locked onto the man's dark grey angrily, flames covering his hands up to his wrists. "If you are not careful you could accidentally burn the forest down."

The teenager's response made the man want to fall over in surprise, "Won't be the first time that happen."

"That… What the heck? Why are you saying that like it's a normal thing?"

"Cause that is usually what happens." Natsu replied charging forward as he yelled out his wing attack.

The man yelled getting out of the way just in time to only have his arm get a slight burn in the process. Glaring the man sent many of the blades he had with him flying at the pink haired dragon slayer. Just as the blade about made contact with the teenager two things happened Toshiro came from between two trees putting their opponent on the defense in surprise and the other was the aquatic lizard's tail coming out and wrapping the pink haired dragon slayer with her tail and dragging him out of the way as she let out an angry protective roar.

Toshiro kept swiping his sword at the man making sure to keep the man on the defensive so that he had a hard time coming up with a way to attack. The scales that were on his arms were starting to crack telling the ice dragon slayer that he needed to finish the fight as quickly as possible otherwise the two of them were going to have to come up with a different way take the man out. It was really making Toshiro mad that they were having such a hard time with a man that was more limited than the statue spirit they had taken on in his very first mission. This just told him how desperate that he was to get his hands on the creature. Humans were an incredible force to recon with when they really wanted something. He would use his shikai but he didn't want to use it on someone like this man. Not only was it cruel to kill this man that way but is was also not the way that he wanted to handle this situation. He wanted to save those attacks for a force that was a larger struggle. This man was not that the kind of bad guy that he should use it on.

With that decided Toshiro once again put his zanpakuto back in its sheath and started swiping at the man with his claws. It was pretty clear that he hated it the first time he had gotten clawed in the side. Sensing the next energy bomb beneath his feet the white haired male jumped back as Natsu squirmed free from the lizard. Hyorinmaru smiled at how his son was handling the situation. When he had first gotten them back into Earthland he had been a little scared that his son would kill people like he would hollows but it was now clear that his fears were unfounded. Toshiro had always respected those that were alive and the life that they had. Why the ice dragon thought his son would kill his full living opponents was beyond him. However a worse fear reached the dragon's heart when he saw what his son did. As the blade flew closer to his son's chest Toshiro twisted instinctively with the blade hitting the ice scales shattering them and sending them into particles. He knew that his child was going to use the other new move that he had taught him while they had been between the two missions.