Hello everyone. FanMic here and welcome back. Here's some hot cocoa with marshmallows, a cookie, and a nice fire place. So gather around my fellow readers, because today I will continue the story of how a legend became a reality.
In front of the Fairy Tail Guild: Early Morning
Team Natsu, and their new member Ika, woke up this morning to start the journey to their employer. And pretty early too. The sun is barely even starting to rise.
"Is Lucy not coming?" Wendy asked with yawn.
"No. She said that she had other things to do here." Happy responded.
"Like what?" Gray questioned.
Happy just shrugged his shoulders.
"And where's Ika?" Natsu asked with a frown.
Just as he asked, he felt something brush against his leg, making him yelp and jump onto Gray's arms.
"I'm right here Salamander." Ika greeted with a wide grin while using his tail to wave to them.
Natsu growled.
"You can get off now." Gray insisted.
Natsu looked over to Gray, blinked twice, and got off his arms with a nervous smile.
"So, where to?" Ika asked.
"We are going to Shirotsume Town." Erza explained.
"Shirotsume? Isn't that where Lucy, Happy, and I went to get that book from a rich guy?" Natsu asked.
Happy nodded his head. "In fact. The one who requested the job was that same guy." he added.
Natsu growled at this information. "Why would I help someone like him? He did force someone to write a book for him, AND tried to kill us. And isn't he arrested or something?!" Natsu questioned.
"They released him a not so long ago. And from what I can tell he has turned over a new leaf." Erza explained
"So, when do we leave?" Ika asked, admittedly pumped up.
"Right now." Erza instructed, pulling a large wheeled platforms with a mountain of luggage.
At the sight of it, Ika's jaw hit the floor. "That many for only a one week trip?" He asked.
"You may never know when you're going to need extra clothe." Erza replied with a smile and a thumbs up.
"Even though you never end up changing into any of them." Happy mumbled.
Erza heard the talking cat's mumble and shot a death glare at him.
And with that, Team Natsu plus Ika went to the train station and on their way to Shirotsume Town.
Time Skip: On a dirt road to Shirotsume
After an hour or two of train riding, the group decided to travel by foot to their destination.
"Hey Ika." Gray started. "Why are you always bare-footed?" He asked.
Ika shrugged his shoulders. "Never liked having my toes getting all cramped up."
"There's always sandals." Natsu said grimly.
"Never liked them either." Ika responded in the same way.
"But what do you do if there's really hot rocks, or a field of spiky roses?" Wendy questioned with a frown.
"I can fly remember." Ika reminded, pointing at his back.
"What if you get tired?" Carla asked.
"I just suck it up." The Kraken Soul user answered.
"You're making yourself sound tougher than you look." Erza commented.
"And aren't I, Natsu?" Ika said, smirking towards the Fire Dragon Slayer.
"You wanna fight?" Natsu growled.
"Let's go Salamander." Ika did the same, connecting foreheads with Natsu.
Their ordeal didn't last a minute because Erza shot her famous, or infamous, death glare towards the duo. They sensed it and immediately placed an arm around each other's shoulders.
"We're buddies, we're buddies. Hey buddy, is that the Shirotsume Town over there?" Ika asked with "glee".
"It sure is buddy! Let's go!" Natsu exclaimed.
The two "buddies" then walked ahead of the group with sunshines and rainbows following them.
The rest of the group stood there with white dots appearing above their heads
"Their worse than what you and Natsu have Gray." Wendy commented.
The rest of her friends nodded in agreement.
Shirotsume Town: Outside of the Everlue Mansion
This town was small in size, but is still prosperous in it's own way. A while back, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy came here to retrieve a book from Everlue, the riches man in town and it's "governor". Of course, his reign of terror ended when the Team Natsu of the time stopped him and got him arrested.
But now he's back and seems to have had a change of heart, and he needs some help.
"I don't like this one bit." Natsu growled.
"Just get over it." Ika sighed. The Kraken Soul user then walked over to the large gate and knocked on it. "Besides, what could possibly go wrong?"
When the gates opened. The newcomers (being Erza, Gray, Wendy, Carla, and Ika) had unique reactions at the sight of a maid.
Gray barfed off screen, Ika screamed and made the face in that one painting with the screaming guy in the bridge, Erza covered her eyes and shouted, "I'M BLIND FROM BOTH EYES!", Carla sat on the ground rocking herself back and forth, and Wendy… she just passed out.
"You must be the ones for the job." The literal long faced maid said. "Hey." She then added narrowing her eyes. "You're the one who put my master in prison!" She then shouted, pointing at Natsu.
The Fire Dragon Slayer didn't flinch… but was still hold on to his breakfast.
"Yeah so what." He growled.
"My master wouldn't employ someone like you!" The ugly maid shouted, her voice making the group want to be deaf.
"What's going on here?" A male voice asked.
"N-nothing master." The maid said.
The man she called 'master' didn't buy it and put her aside to see their visitors.
The man was Everlue. A short, chubby, man with a nose-tache, a well worn suit with a blue tie, a red rose, and a large yellow/golden button on his belly.
"What, you again!?" Everlue exclaimed.
"We are here to get your medallion back." Natsu said.
Everlue started to sweat and sighed. "Fine. Please come in." He insisted.
By now the rest of the group sort of recovered from the life scaring sight and followed Everlue into his mansion; all while avoiding any and all sight of the maid.
"Wait!" Everlue shouted stopping Ika on his tracks.
"What?" He asked.
"No shoes, no entrance." Everlue explained. "Unless you wear these." He added, taking out fancy shoes from seemingly nowhere with a serious expression.
Ika looked down at his feet and back at the shoes. "Can there be an exception to that rule?" He asked with an innocent smile.
"No."
Ika sighed and grabbed the shoes. "Let's make this quick." He begged.
Inside Everlue Mansion
The mansion was the biggest, tallest, fanciest building in town, and Ika's first. It had from golden statues of himself to a fully functioning, 100% golden toilet.
The team was siting in a large couch across from Everlue who was siting in a singular couch. Right behind him however were the four ugliest maids in the world, whom the team was trying to avoid eye contact.
"So. What is this medallion you want back and from whom?" Erza asked.
"This medallion is a blue jewel surrounded by a rare metal called platinum. It's called 'The Kraken's Eye', and it's been in my family for a long time and I can't afford to loose it forever." The rich man explained, with a genuine sense of distress and fear.
"And do you know who took it?" Carl asked.
The rich man nodded his head. "It's the dark guild called, Eisanwald."
Team Natsu did not like to hear that, much less Ika who stiffen.
"And why did they steal it?" Ika growled.
"I'm not sure myself. But I bet it has something to do with the legend behind the medallion." Everlue started.
"We're listening." Carla said.
The rich man cleared his throat.
"According to legend, the jewel is an actual eye of a monster from long ago that was found in a beach; speculating it came from the ocean. It had to be, in a way, incased by a metal with a magic seal. As a kid, I've been told that whoever managed to consume it would have the ability to transform into that monster." Everlue explained.
The team was a bit suspicious to this, especially Ika.
"Of course, it's just a legend. I've had that thing for all my life and I never felt any magic energy coming from it. But if they plan to sell it then that would be a bigger problem because I may never see it again!" Everlue exclaimed, starting to cry.
The rich man then got cuddled by his maids, which once again made Team Natsu want to throw up.
"Where did they take it?" Wendy asked.
Everlue sniffed and rubbed his eyes. "I don't know exactly where, but I know that there's base on the other side of the mountain." He said.
Being fed up with this, Natsu got up. "Ok, we'll get your dumb medallion back." He growled.
"WAIT!" Everlue shouted. "You can't just go in there and take it. They'll know I sent you there and kill me. So instead, take this…" The rich man snapped his fingers and one of the maids, came up and gave Gray a medallion. It was a blue jewel held in the middle by a silver shining metal.
"This is a replica of the original. An ordinary person wouldn't tell the difference between the two. I want you to replace them." Everlue instructed.
"The switching technique. You got it!" Happy exclaimed.
"Oh, thank you very much. And please don't ruin it. I'm aware of what you Fairy Tail members can do." He said the last part in annoyance.
"You can count on us." Erza said and left with her teammates.
As they left, one of the ugly maids tapped his shoulder. "You think they'll pull it off?" She asked.
Everlue started laughing but then put on a serious face. "Pack your stuff girls, we might be leaving tonight."
On the other side of the mountain late at night
It took them the rest of the day, but they finally found it. The Eisandwald mini base. It was not so large but not small either. From the outside one could tell that it was rectangular in shape with some windows on the main floor. There was only one way in and one way out that that was through the large, wooden, double doors in front of the building.
"He wasn't lying." Happy commented. Team Natsu where behind some bushes, looking down from a higher elevation.
"Well? What are we waiting for? Let's get it back." Natsu suggested with a smile and fists aflame.
"Hold it Natsu. Remember what Everlue said?" Erza questioned.
Natsu thought for a second before shaking his head.
"He told us to replace it with the replica, meaning he wants us to be stealthy." Gray reminded.
"And you have any idea how we're going to do that?" Natsu asked.
"Actually, yes. What we could do is make someone come out through the door, knock them out, and get in." Gray suggested.
Wendy hummed and looked back at the base. There was people out guarding it and more on the inside.
"I don't think that'll be possible." Wendy commented.
"We could fly on the roof, cut a hole, and get in from there." Happy suggested.
"And how would we make that hole?" Carla asked.
Happy opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.
"How about a distraction." Erza said.
The rest of her comrades looked at her.
"Yes. Here's how I see it. Natsu and Gray will unleash attacks near the base, driving everyone to chase you. Happy and Carla will go with you to make are you have a safe escape." Erza started.
Natsu growled. "Why run when we could just take it by force."
Erza gave Natsu another glare, silencing him. "Yes ma'am!" He then exclaimed.
"And You, Wendy, and I will go in and get it." Ika finished.
Erza nodded her head towards Ika. "I may have thought of it on the spot, but I'm confident we can do it." She said enthusiastically. Her team nodded and went to their places.
Before unleashing their plan, Ika took off his shirt. He had a feeling he's going to need to use his magic.
Down in the base
An Eisanwald member who was guarding the entrance yawned loudly. "Man I could go for a drink right now." He said.
"Just a little longer. Our shift is almost over." His partner sighed.
"Do you think we could ever see the secret passage?" The member asked.
"That's a good question. I tried asking Kageyama when that will happen but he just kicked me in response." His partner said.
"One of these days. One of these days." The member said.
Just then, they heard a rustle in the bushes. "Who goes there!?" They both said, ready to cast their magic. In response, a pillar of ice crashed a few feet in front of them, making them hit the wall.
"Intruders!" They shouted. Then, all the ones in the outside came running to the front, blocking the entrance. There was a moment of silence… until a large flame was appeared in on their side, knocking some of them out. "We need back up!" Someone shouted.
Then in no time, almost everyone that where inside ran outside to help their members.
"Get them, their running away!" Someone shouted as they saw two figures running into the forest. They all took chase, unaware that the door was still open and three people walked in.
"So far so good." Ika commented.
When they got in they saw that the building was mainly one room with some tables and torches as a source of light.
"This place is empty." Ika observed.
"There has to be something. We didn't come here for nothing." Wendy added.
Erza thought for a few seconds before snapping her fingers. "I over heard that there's a secret passage somewhere around here." She recalled.
"But where?" Wendy asked.
The three of them looked around but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
"Maybe it's under us." Ika suggested. Erza, Wendy, and Ika then got on their knees, placed their ears on the wooden floor and started knocking on it. After a few seconds of doing so, the wind dragon slayer found a hollowed sound in the middle of the room. "Found it!" she shouted.
"Are you sure?" Ika asked.
"I'm always sure." Wendy growled.
"Now… how do we open it?" Erza questioned
Meanwhile with Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Carla
"I think we lost them." Gray stated, looking back behind a large rock.
"I hate this plan!" Natsu shouted.
"I think I heard something!" An Eisanwald member exclaimed.
"Way to go 'Flame Brain'." Gray growled.
"This is going to be a long night." Carla sighed with a face-palm.
Back with Ika, Erza, and Wendy
The trio sat on circle thinking on what to do.
"We could try and smash it open." Erza suggested.
"But that'll leave evidence that someone took the medallion." Ika said.
"Maybe a torch also doubles as a lever." Wendy said.
Ika and Erza looked around them and saw that the room was filled with them.
"It might take a while, but let's try it." Erza instructed.
Wendy and Erza started to check the torches from the floor, while Ika tried the ones that where on top and out of reach. After a minute or two of trial and error, they heard large gears turning and the middle of the floor started to open up like a ramp. Erza was about to congratulate her comrades for finding it until she heard some voices.
The trio started panicking. Ika then blew the flames off some torches in the corner of the ceiling, suggested Wendy and Erza to hold on, which they did, and flew to the darkened corner. Wendy was hugging Ika like a sloths do to their mothers, while Erza did the same on his back. He wrapped his tail around them to make sure they didn't fall.
"I told you that it you have to do it upside down." The voice of Kageyama said.
"But it doesn't make any sense!" A random member shouted.
"I know it doesn't but that's how its suppose to be done!" Kageyama shouted back.
Just as the two where about to argue, they heard explosions from outside.
"What now?" The member asked in annoyance.
"I don't know, but we need to check it out." Kageyama suggested.
In no time, the two of them ran outside to see what's going on.
Ika quickly dropped down, let Wendy and Erza go, and the trio ran to the closing ramp like passage. The entrance closed behind them, leaving them in a long hall lit with torches and a door at the end.
"Something feels off." Ika commented.
"Agreed, this seems to easy." Erza admitted.
Ika then walked forwards using his tail in case if something was there. He went step by step and made it to the other side of the hall with no problem. He looked over to his teammates and shrugged his shoulder. Erza and Wendy took a few steps together before rushing towards Ika in the blink of an eye.
The Kraken Soul user looked at them then where they were; but decided to shrug it off. Wendy opened the door to reveal a small room with MORE torches.
"They do love their torches now do they." Ika mumbled
In the middle of it was a pedestal holding the medallion they seek.
"Give me the replica." Erza said. Ika reach down to his pockets and gave it to Erza.
The 'Queen of the Fairies' slowly approached the pedestal and scanned it. She weighed the replica,,dusted some stuff off, headed her free hand on the original, and quickly switched the two.
After a few seconds of waiting, she turned to Ika and Wendy and gave the thumbs up… before the room started to rumble.
"What's happening!?" Wendy shouted. The universe answered her question by nearly impaling her with a stone spike that came from the ground. `
"We need to move!" Ika suggested.
Erza nodded and dodged another spike. The trio quickly ran to the hall until they herd a large slam behind them. They looked back to see a wall. Their eyes were about to fall out when spike grew out and headed towards them. The trio ran as fast as they could to avoid getting crushed.
Erza ran in front, equipped her giant armor, jumped, and made a hole to get out. Ika grabbed Wendy bridal style, (which surprised her) "equipped" his tentacle wings, and flew out of the hole.
Outside
Titania, the Kraken Soul user, and the Wind Dragon Slayer panted heavily.
"That… was… way to close." Wendy managed to say.
"At least we got what we came for." Erza reminded. flipping it like a coin.
"Let me see." Ika said. Erza gave the medallion to Ika.
Ika looked at it with curiosity. "Why are you called, 'The Kraken's Eye'." He asked the medallion in a low voice. When he rubbed his thumb over the blue gem, it started to glow a light blue.
"IKA!" Erza shouted as she bought him before hitting the ground. She knelt down, holding the Kraken Soul user's head on her lap. His mouth was open; Erza removed the hair covering his eyes only to see them glowing as intense as the gem. Wendy even tried to get the medallion, but Ika's grip was to strong.
"What's happening to him?" Wendy asked.
"I don't know, but we need to get it off his hands." Erza instructed.
Ika's Dreamscape
"Hello?" Ika called out. "Anyone there?"
Ika didn't know where he was, all he could see was a thick fog.
After walking for a few seconds, he could feel water under his feet. Soon afterwards; the fog cleared out to reveal that Ika was in the middle of… an ocean?
"Where am I?" He asked himself. The water looked deep, but Ika was walking on it as if it was a glass floor. Ika looked around him, and from the corner of his eye… he saw something. Ika turned around and saw nothing.
*Growl*
Ika turned again and saw nothing. It then went silent. The Kraken Soul user was on high alert, and despite that he didn't see the large blue scaled tail rise and submerge into the water. Ika sense that something was coming beneath him. He looked down and only had a few seconds to react.
A set of large teeth surrounded Ika, who managed to get out right before they snapped shut. He rolled on the water and couldn't believe his eyes. From the water came a dragon. It was large in size, with deep blue scales, large wings, white eyes, and scars covering it's body. It was standing on the water just like Ika was.
It looked at Ika with full intent to kill, and Ika knew it.
It roared so loud the next continent could hear it, and started to charge. Ika wanted to move but he couldn't, he was to afraid to move. The last thing the Kraken Soul user saw was a set of teeth, followed by complete darkness.
Back with the world of the living
Ika woke up gasping for air.
"Whoa there." The voice of Gray said. After breathing heavily for a few more seconds, Ika calmed down and looked towards the ice mage; to which he realized they were in the room they rented for a day or two.
"What happened?" Ika asked, trying to sit up, but laid right back down at the response of a head-ache.
"You were in a trance or something and couldn't let the medallion go." Gray explained.
"Your eyes glowed the same color as the gem." Wendy added from across the room.
Ika sighed. "It took us a great amount of effort to get it out of your grip." Erza said, walking over to Ika.
"We had to use a crowbar." Happy replied.
"Did we finish the job?" Ika questioned.
"Yes we did." Natsu confirmed.
A sigh of relief left Ika's lungs. "What now?"
"We leave later today, but for now we can have fun here in town." Carla instructed.
"Go on without me. I'll stay here." Ika suggested.
"Are you sure?" Erza asked.
The Kraken Soul user nodded his head.
"Well you heard him. Let's go!" Natsu exclaimed. "Aye!" Hay followed.
After a few minutes, the Kraken Soul user was left alone in the bed thinking about what he saw.
"What does it mean?" He asked himself. He looked over to the window and saw the sun was shining through it. Ika concluded that is the next day and sighed.
"Out of all the places, it had to be Magnolia." He reminded himself.
And that's where he's going to be for the rest of the day until they left.
Night: The Eisanwald base
It has been about two hours sense the incident, and Erigor was still not happy about it.
"And still nothing?" he asked.
"No sir"
"Well, it looks like someone had it rough." the voice of a man called out.
Erigor looked towards the man, and instantly placed a big grin. "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy, you're here kinda early." He said.
The man snorted. "I was too excited to wait." The man said with smile.
This man was of average hight, wears a thick coat with an odd skull of a tusked monster, has well combed black hair, with some white hair too, black fingerless gloves, thick pants, and heavy boots.
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Erigor rhetorically asked, tapping the wood with the scythe. That made the secret opening come up from the ground and both him and the man went in.
As the walked along the hall, the man couldn't help but notice the hole on the ceiling.
"Don't ask." Erigor said instinctively.
When they finally reached the room with the medallion, the man nodded his head.
"It looks like they failed to get it." He said.
"I meant what I said and said what I meant."
The man walked over to the pedestal and reach out for the medallion.
"Wait!" Erigor shouted.
The scythe wielder then took out a cube and quickly replaced the medallion with it from its spot.
"Safety measures." Erigor stated.
He then gave the medallion to the man, who inspected it with curiosity. After a few seconds… he frowned.
"… It's a fake…" He said.
Erigor didn't like what he heard. "What?"
The man then let the medallion fall to the ground and proceeded to stomp on it. The gem and the metal shattered beneath his boot.
"The real one wouldn't shatter so easily." The man said.
Erigor was shaking with anger. "So he managed to get it back." He growled.
"I can see that you wasted my time. It looks like the deal is off." The man reminded, turning around and started to leave.
"William wait." Erigor insisted.
"It's Cabot to you, Erigor."
"Ok, Cabot, I'll get it back from him AND give you a gift."
Cabot hummed and faced the scythe wielder.
"All I ask of you is a little more time." Erigor plead.
Cabot looked at him before nodding his head. "Do what you must."
Everlue Mansion
It was around midnight by now and Duke Everlue did his nightly visit to the throne. After he was done, he paid a visit to the pedestal holding 'The Kraken's Eye'.
"Those Fairy Trash members actually did it." He said to himself.
He then proceeded to go back to his room, but when he got there… he was greeted with a scythe around his neck.
"Erigor?" The duke asked in disbelief.
"You better believe it."
"But how? How did you find out?"
"Easy. With some help."
The duke was sweating like crazy.
"What did you do to may flowers.?"
"The same thing I'm going to do with you."
Meanwhile
Carla shot her eyes open and gasped for air.
"What's wrong Carla?" Wendy asked weakly, woken from her sleep.
"The duke." Carla mumbled.
"What?" Ika asked, being awoken as well.
"He's dead."
Ika and Wendy were now wide awake.
"Wake up the rest." Ika ordered.
"But you can't go in alone." Carla warned.
"Watch me."
Ika then opened the window, transformed his body, and flew to the mansion.
Everlue Mansion
The Kraken Soul user flew through the night sky, with a full moon, and got his sights on the mansion. When he was above it, Ika let himself drop down and through the glassed roof. He landed, with the shards of glass around him, knelt down with the tentacle like wings spread out on his sides. He looked up, with his eyes glowing light blue.
Ika the quickly got up and shook his head. "I have to stop doing that." he told himself.
"Look who decided to show up." a voice said from the darkness.
Before Ika could react, someone punched him in the cheek.
"Kageyama." Ika whispered.
"The one and only."
The dark mage then punched him again, and again until Ika had enough.
Aftershock!
Ika extended his tentacles, created the dome of electricity, and discharged it. Lucky for him, that attack landed on the dark mage, which made him come out of hiding and into the light that was being cast by the moon. Ika stomped towards Kageyama, grabbed him by the neck with his tail, and slammed him into the floor.
"What did you do to Everlue." Ika growled, claws at the ready.
The dark mage coughed and placed a nasty smirk. "Why should it matter to you? Didn't your mother ever tell you not to be nosey?"
Ika tightened his grip on him.
"Let him go, Ika." Erigor said from behind. The Kraken Soul user then felt a blade around his neck, and let Kageyama go.
"I never thought I'd find you here." Erigor started.
"I could say the same to you."
"What business do you have with Everlue?"
"None that is yours."
Erigor frowned, but then placed a smile… but then frowned again when he say the Fairy Tail symbol on Ika's back.
"So it was you. You're the one that stole the medallion that we stole."
"That sounded like mouthful." Ika commented.
"A bit. But what's important is that I get to kill one of Forge's kids and a member of Fairy Tail." Erigor said, which made Ika stiffen. Kageyama then kicked Ika on one off his legs, and made the Kraken Soul user kneel down. Erigor then lifted his scythe to finally kill Ika.
"May you find your place in the dreaming world."
But before he could finish Ika off, a large pillar of ice knocked the scythe wielder on the side, which made him hit a wall. Kageyama didn't had time to react when a funnel of air blew him into the same direction. Ika turned to see Gray, Wendy, and Carla standing there with enraged faces.
"Leave him alone." Gray growled.
Ika smiled towards them.
Kageyama was the first to get up, and he didn't look happy. "You again."
"Kageyama? But I thought you were sent to prison." Gray said.
The shadow mage smirked. "You thought wrong." he then placed his hands on the floor while a purple light started to shine.
Shadow Orochi!
From the ground, a barrage of shadow snakes charged towards the ice mage, who jumped out of the way and into the upper floor. Kageyama then ran pass Wendy, Ika, and Carla and took chase.
Wendy sweat dropped. "Wait, if he's fighting Gray… then that leaves us with…"
"Me."
The wind then started to surround him as he lifted his arm.
Storm Shred!
Erigor then swung his arm downwards, making a magic sea and sending a barrage of wind blades at the three mages. Carla grabbed Wendy while Ika flew off to opposite directions.
Vortex!
Ika quickly inhaled and send out the swirl of electricity, which Erigor easily avoided. Wendy, after Carla let her go, followed by inhaling herself.
Sky Dragon Roar!
The large blast of wind caught Erigor off guard, which hit and sent him through a wall.
"Ok, that was pretty cool." Ika admitted with a whistle.
"Ika! I told you to not go in alone!" Carla nagged.
"I'm sorry, but if I waited for the rest, they would've been long gone." Ika explained. "Speaking of which, where is Erza, Happy, and Natsu?"
Meanwhile
"YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" Erza's voice boomed as she sent a group of dark mages into the air.
FIRE DRAGON RAOR!
Natsu exhaled a large wall of fire, incinerating the dark mages' clothe off for the exception of their underwear.
"Raaahh!" Happy shouted as he slapped someone with a fish.
Back with Ika, Wendy, and Carla
Erigor raised from the crumbled wall and and flew straight towards Wendy. The Sky Dragon Slayer panicked a bit and crouched down covering her head. That worked some how because Erigor's scythe missed it's target, for the exception of the very tip of Wendy's hair. Erigor turned around to have another go, but the Kraken Soul user tackled him to the ground.
"This is between you and me Erigor!" Ika exclaimed.
Erigor smirked. "As if you ever stand a chance."
Ika managed to exhale small clouds of steam from his nose.
With Gray and Kageyama
Ice Make: Ice Cannon!
Gray created an ice cannon and shot it at Kageyama, who disappeared into the shadows.
"What do you want with the medallion!?" Gray shouted, looking for his opponent.
"Why does it matter to you?" Kageyama asked from the shadows.
"If a guild like yours want it then it can't be good."
From the darkness, Kageyama's laugh was heard all over.
Gray turn around when Kageyama rose from the shadows with an odd looking weapon over his shoulder.
"What is that?" Gray growled.
"A weapon. Courtesy of Mr. Densetsu." Kageyama answered.
He shot that weapon, sending an energy projectile. Gray couldn't react fast enough, so when it made contact with his chest, it exploded.
Back with Ika, Wendy, And Carla
Erigor got thrown across the room and hit the base of the golden statue. He growled at his enemy who grabbed him by the neck.
"I thought you were stronger than us." Ika said.
Erigor frowned but then smiled. "We might be a dark guild, but even we can make a plan of attack."
Just as he said that, a large explosion followed by fire went out of a room while sending Gray crashing into the floor below. Wendy and Carla gasped while Ika threw Erigor again and ran towards Gray's unmoving body. The three knelt down while checking for wounds.
"Is he…?" Wendy mumbled.
"He's alive." Ika finished while seeing him barely breathe.
Ika turned to Erigor who slowly stood up.
"Heh, you know what's funny?" Erigor started asking. "How he took a shot that was meant for you."
Ika had about enough. He made his claws longer and lunged to the scythe wielder; but he stopped half way when Kageyama appeared with the weapon Ika recognizes all to well.
"Asta la vista, Ika."
Kageyama fired the weapon and Ika braced for impact.
The projectile exploded, but against Ika, but against Erza's adimantium shield.
"Fuck." Erigor and Kageyama said at the same time.
"Erigor!" an angry Natsu shouted.
"Welp, it is time to take our leave!" Erigor said with a smile and flew away and Kageyama disappeared into the shadows.
Just then, Natsu finally arrived hungry for battle. "Ok, where is he!?" Natsu shouted.
"He's gone." Wendy informed.
"With the medallion." Ika added.
Erza switched back to her normal armor and looked at the Ice Mage.
"How is he doing?" She asked.
"He's fine." Wendy answered while healing him.
Erza then turned to Ika who looked away.
"You could've gotten killed." Erza said angrily.
"I know."
"So now what?" Happy asked.
Erza looked up at the ceiling where Erigor flew off.
"Even if we manage to catch up to Erigor, there is a higher possibility that Kageyama has the medallion. And sense it's night, he has the advantage of mobility thanks to his magic.
"And what about Everlue?" Carla asked.
The Queen of the Fairies looked at the white cat and sighed. "We tell the local law enforcements what happened."
With that, Team Natsu left the mansion, Erza having Gray over her shoulders.
"There're involved now." Ika thought, looking at the still unconscious Gray.
In a hidden location
"That was close." Kageyama commented.
"You can say that again." Erigor agreed.
"Had a hard time to get it I see." Cabot said from behind.
"Yes, but we got it." Erigor said and took out the REAL medallion.
Cabot grabbed it for Erigor and inspected it. "I recall you saying something about a gift."
Erigor smiled. "Greedy… I like it."
The scythe wielder hinted Kageyama to get the gift. The shadow mage went into the shadows and came back with a the weapon from earlier on his shoulder.
"What is that?" Cabot asked.
"This is what our weapons expert call, a "Rocket Launcher"." Kageyama answered.
Cabot looked at it with amazement. "I have seen ice mages make them before, obviously they shoot ice projectiles, but this is something completely different."
"We know, you'd be surprise the designs he has back at our base." Erigor said.
Cabot looked at the 'Rocket Launcher' then back at the medallion.
"Erigor, do you think your "weapons expert" can make a weapon out of this?" Cabot asked, pointing at the medallion.
"Maybe. But that's going to cost ya." Erigor warned.
"I'll pay what I must." Cabot said.
With a deal made, Cabot left Erigor and Kageyama with the weapon in a large bag. He then took out a communication lacrima and "called" someone.
"Hey Parnell, are you there?" Cabot asked.
Then the image of a man with dark skin and black goggles appeared.
"Yeah Boss?"
"It looks like it's finally time." Cabot said with a smile.
Longest chapter I have ever done. Maybe not word wise but as in how much you have to scroll down.
I had a massive writers block near the end, which may not be as good as I thought. And yes four chapters in and I am moving the plot.
That is all I have to say today so, see you next time.