A/N: Hey, everyone…it's been a long enough wait…hasn't it? I know you're ready for what is to come next…because I sure am…the time of the one we have all been waiting for is at hand…Erza's chapters are here…enjoy…
Fairy Beach, Tent:
"OH-MMMMM!" Small hands clapping together over her mouth, suffice it to say the younger Strauss sister had just heard quite a bit of startling news. Her big light blue sapphires expanding as they gazed upon the fair spirit sitting before her, the girl couldn't believe what she was hearing! "You've gotta be kidding me!" she half shouted at the pink haired maid, her own short white locks waving about, being almost the exact same style as those of the girl she was speaking to, but whereas Lisanna's hair was as white as snow…Virgo's…was as pink as her cheeks…
It was the day after the dragon slayer of fire's return and all seemed to be going well for the fairy girls who'd gone to the beach for their training. In only a few days they had already helped each other improve dramatically; their magical powers and fighting skills honed from sparring or training with one another in their respective skills, the ladies of Fairy Tail were much more confident in themselves than they were before. The sun only partway in the sky now, its warming glow was a welcome change from the cool chill and damp breezes of the night before. Many a fairy would have thoroughly enjoyed being out in weather such as this; dancing, training, singing, these were all things girls of their caliber of grace and power enjoyed…but then there was one other thing that overrode such hobbies for the ladies…one that would put an end to any chance of other activities once it rose its head…and that was a nice, big juicy gossip sandwich!
Her expression unchanging, the Strauss sister continued listening to the other girl as she spoke, to the story which had stolen away her breath the moment it left the spirit's lips… 'I can't believe what I'm hearing…' she thought to herself as she leaned in to hear more of the delicious details, her ears filled like Natsu's mouth at the end of a long mission. Watching as her friend's chest expanded before continuing, Lisanna couldn't help thinking back to how they had come to sit here like this, two members of the same guild who had virtually no contact, let alone time alone like this…now confined to a tent together exchanging embarrassing tales…
Prior to the arrival of the little pinkette, Lisanna had spent the night in her tent alone. Curling up on her blanket, the girl wished her big sister had been there to comfort her as the cold night fell upon her, to hold her close and keep her warm, but at the same time she understood that when Mira said she had something important to take care of, that meant it was VERY important. The magical sisters had last seen each other at dusk, both of them still in the bikinis they wore during training and many bouts of relaxation throughout the day. Lisanna recalled perfectly the look that had been on Mira's face when she departed, an expression of sad acceptance with a hint of happiness, of hope which she had worn when she placed her hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, little sister, it's only for the night…" The bar maiden had said, but even as the model clad in her black bikini had tried to slip away, Lisanna held fast to her arm, hugging it to her chest as she pleaded, "Please! Big sister! Don't! Whatever it is I know we can do it together!" The older girl whom had changed from a punk to an angel since the younger's death still smiling back at her, it was a hug that ended their conversation the way it did.
"Trust me…Lisanna…" Mirajane smiled as she laid a kiss on her little sister's cheek before stepping away, her bright sapphires beginning to water with an emotion the short haired female had never seen on her sister, or anyone for that matter before, "…It has to be just me…" That conversation had ended almost eight hours ago…and yet it seemed like it had happened only eight minutes ago to the sister still lying in her tent afterwards, the girl lying alone waiting for her elder's return.
Her body clad in only a powder blue nightie, the short haired wizard had stared at the ceiling of her tent until she had thought her head was bound to explode! She was so lonely here now…so alone…Thinking back to the day that had come before this lonesome night, it was then the young lady realized just how isolated she really was. All the other girls on the beach had someone to keep them company, someone to accompany them throughout all hours of the day…and night; to be there to make them laugh, and hold them when they slept… Lucy had Erza training her during the day and Levy to keep her company all night up until the twin she had come to know so well during her time in Edolas joined them, even then the brutish version of the chipper blonde was still a girl who understood the importance of closeness. Laki had Kinana to show around the shore, and despite what most people would say at first sight, the two actually DID have a lot in common besides their exotic hair color, having a greater appreciation for the outdoors and an interest in nature that few ever imagined despite how obvious it should have been. Juvia, ever the little water balloon of excitement when she was near her beloved, had spent a great deal of time training with Wendy, who also had Carla ever present at her side, though since Natsu had returned Juvia had been...well…she was somewhere on the beach, but not a soul had seen her since towards dusk…if the girl wasn't as powerful as she was and if half the beach wasn't her ELEMENT then some of them would have gone out to look for her, but as things stood though the others just assumed she wanted some time alone. Speaking of wanting to be left alone that brought up the last pair wandering the shoreline together. Arguably the one duo to avoid when they were full of energy, Cana and Bisca were hanging out and making some sort of concoction with the local fruit somewhere just in the tree line; the two rather perverted ladies always happy to keep their fellow fairies on edge one way or another.
Yes, everyone had someone to do something with, just as Lisanna had her big sister, but with her sister now having left her for the time being, the younger girl could feel the chill of night now much more than she could EVER have imagined. A soft sigh escaping her lips, she had rolled over to try and get some sleep, but as her blue orbs went to slide shut, it was another…newer pair of blue oceans she found herself looking into. The Strauss sister may have had no idea where the little spirit had come from or how she'd gotten so close to her without her noticing, but she didn't care! A happy smile spreading across her small pink lips, Lisanna was just thankful that the celestial girl had joined her. And while the pair may have spent the night together without saying a single word between them, their two petite forms snuggled up against one another for warmth…Lisanna knew that she was finally at peace as she felt the spirit's strong thin arms holding her close. It wasn't the same as her big sister's huge melons squishing against her back, but Virgo's round pair were enough to let her know that someone was there for her…
But no matter how wonderful that night had been, the night was over and now…now it was morning, and the tale the quirky little spirit girl was regaling to the animal takeover wizard of Fairy Tail was one neither would soon forget. "He-he saw your…your…" a distraught look spreading across her features, Lisanna slowly looked down at the other girl's chest, her round thirty two D's sitting quite comfortably in her frilly maid style bikini top…the SAME bikini top which was the center of the pinkette's story.
"…You…you were topless in front of Romeo?..." The Strauss sister imagining it all happening in her mind, she had to admit it was QUITE the experience to behold! The strings of her top undone by the ever mischievous hands of a certain drink loving brunette, Lisanna could see Virgo's bikini top springing away from her breasts, the twin globes of pale flesh, globes she could tell were fairly similar to hers in size as well as consistency, even if they were just a tad bigger, bouncing out to take their natural forms out in the open…and all in front of a…boy.
Her eyes closing as she slowly nodded back at her young friend, Virgo, despite her obvious blush, didn't seem all that fazed by what happened. "Yes, he saw me topless, Miss. Lisanna," she answered as calmly as though she were talking about him passing her in the market. "…And by the look on his face I think he really liked what he saw." A sweat drop falling down the takeover wizard's forehead, the spirit's lack of concern for a young man like Romeo getting an eyeful of her goods was certainly getting to her. In fact the story which she'd just been told was hauntingly familiar to her.
"Heheheh…I see…" Rubbing the back of her head nervously, Lisanna had to close her eyes to keep what remained of her composure in check. It was quite the experience, as many girls could attest, when a wardrobe malfunction results in flashing a boy a couple of their most cherished features. It was as embarrassing as it was humiliating, ESPECIALLY if it happened on purpose because of someone else. During one of her many talks with the Heartfilia heiress, Lisanna had learned of just how often the blonde had gone through such an event, up on stage during a theatrical performance by Erza, in battle against a mind controlled Juvia…and those many times Natsu had snuck into her apartment and startled her into dropping her towel for an unplanned, but certainly not unwelcome sight for the dragon slayer. Throughout it all though, no one had seen her body save for the fiery man himself. Erza had sliced her dress to pieces, but concealed her with her cloak even as the crowd gawked with heart shaped eyes at the sight of her body surrounded by momentarily floating scraps of fabric, and Juvia had been in the way of the metal head freak seeing her before she covered up in the blink of an eye.
Virgo though… "…So you're okay with him seeing them?..." Lisanna asked as she finally reopened her eyes to look at the celestial girl, the girl who was different from the others when it came to her body being momentarily exposed. "…I mean…you don't seem all that bothered that another boy saw your breasts like that." Blue orbs meeting, the transformation wizard, despite knowing full well just who she was talking to, was still shocked that the pinkette didn't seem to mind flashing her pale pillows to the young Romeo. While most girls would have been mortified by what had happened, the fact that the boy had a nosebleed following it assuring anyone who heard the story that this was NOT like Lucy's many experiences and that he HAD actually gotten an eyeful making it all the more embarrassing, Virgo, on the other hand didn't seem to care all that much.
Looking away as a heavier blush adorned her cheeks, Lisanna couldn't help remembering what had happened to her the night of the auction. While her experience hadn't been anywhere NEAR the worst that night, Lucy's taking the cake, what happened when her big sister had helped her with her knots was STILL something that made her face turn red whenever she thought about it, though if it was from the experience itself or the fact that it was her sister who was responsible she couldn't tell. "Funny…" she started to smile a little, still looking away from the intrigued spirit. "…during the fairy auction…when we were getting ready…" her blush increasing, the lost girl soon felt a calm pass over her as Virgo laid a comforting hand on her thigh, looking up at the pinkette, she smiled, continuing on as best she could. "…My big sister, Mirajane was helping me tie my top on and…well…" She looked right at the maid, her face burning with embarrassment, "It just popped right off!...I mean…my breasts were…"
"Yes, I saw them, they were quite nice, Miss. Lisanna." The deadpan demeanor of the quirky spirit girl suddenly interrupted, her face still just as blank as it had been before. Paling at the knowledge that someone else HAD in fact bore witness to the most embarrassing moment in her life thus far, the white haired maiden deep down would have preferred at least a little more…admiration…but she took the compliment anyway. 'Well…at least it was still only another girl who saw me…' The wizard mentally shook her head at the thought.
Looking back at the celestial maid, her composure having returned, Lisanna hoped her relating of her own embarrassing disrobing had helped…but… "Do you wish it WAS a boy who'd seen your naked breasts, Miss Lisanna?..." Virgo's head tilting to one side as she spoke, her short pink bangs moving as it did, and with a single finger lifting up to her pert lips, the younger girl had to question just WHO it was she was talking to, because at the moment the small female before her seemed a lot less like Lucy's spirit maid and a lot more like a certain booze loving brunette!
"W-what?!-No! No! Of course not!" Scrambling back on her palms, her firm bum sinking into the sand as she reared back away from the pinkette, Lisanna's cheeks burned with the intensity of a scarlet knight's hair, "W-why would I want a guy to see my boobs?" she asked, her arms quickly crossing over her special endowments defensively, the perky flesh rising up under the pressure of her arms against them.
CLANG! WOOSH! CLING!
Ignoring the ongoing racket outside and getting down on her hands and knees, Virgo's gaze was locked solely on the Strauss girl's own blue gems, her movements slow, but methodical as she crawled towards her, her prey scooting back at the same matched pace. "I didn't mean a guy, Miss Lisanna…" the spirit maid kept a studious eye on her, watching for how she reacted, how she blushed, how she…squirmed. "…I meant THE guy…" Lisanna scooting back into the sand the closer the smaller girl got, she was quickly running out of room, her lean back soon bumping against the back of the tent, the girl glancing over her shoulder in fear right before she felt a faint breath on her chin. Turning back round, she was face to face with the zodiac now…her heart hammering in her chest as she was asked the question she had known was coming.
CLANG! CLANG! WOOSH!
"Miss Lisanna…" Virgo asked, her own pale cheeks slowly pinkening at what she was asking of another girl, "…do you want Natsu to see you topless—"
Swish
Their conversation of a girl's inner desires cut short, Lisanna looked up to see who on Earth Land had come to her rescue, who her savior was from the needling of a spirit who had obviously been mentally corrupted by the likes of Cana. That very same spirit turning round as well, the petite duo were met not by the visage of heroism…but rather of…suppleness… "Ahhh…now THAT is what I call a relaxing shower…" Kinana said as she let out a deep sigh. The beach had been rather cold the night before as everyone well knew, and the way the busty purplenette had figured it there was no better way to warm up again than a nice hot shower.
Stepping over towards the pair, it seemed like the purplenette had just walked out of a Sorcerer's Magazine page, what with how her curves sat in her…towel. "You two really should stop arguing and just go relax for a while…it feels SOOO nice!" A look of pure joy and content spread wide over the taller girl's lips, her hands gently went about toweling off the beads of water out of her still soaked hair, the purple strands flicking up as they were freed of the weight. "Uhhh…" As good a recommendation as it was, it was not Kinana's words that the girls were paying attention too, but rather the miraculous way her towel somehow seemed to remain wrapped around her body. Staring at the bar maiden's huge E cup knockers as they jiggled around in the tiny towel, the pair of soft masses wobbling over the edge like an overfilled glass of water, Lisanna couldn't help being happy she wasn't as 'blessed' as her friend was.
CLING! CLANG! CLANG! WHOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!
A new voice calling out of seemingly no-where, the girls all went to look back past the purplenette as suddenly a new fairy made HIS appearance on the scene.
"WWUUUUAAAHHHH!" Screaming at the tops of his lungs as he was struck by an almighty kick to his abdomen, Natsu Dragneel, the ONLY man for miles around found himself on the receiving end of his foe's feminine strength! The impact from Titania's foot sending him spiraling into the tent, the poor man tried desperately to grab onto something…ANYTHING to slow down his speed…and unfortunately for Kinana…
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!..."
BOING!
The strong fingers of the dragon slayer curling around the first thing he felt, Natsu held firm to the soft fluffy thing he'd latched onto…the results something he would have wished he had seen if only he hadn't been so dizzy from his spiral. A small gasp barely audible over his own groans of distress, it was only the girl's fellow fairy girls who saw her this time…the irony of their previous conversation not at all lost on them.
'Heh…and I thought losing MY top was bad…' Lisanna paled as watched in awe as Kinana's soft melons ballooned out from her chest when her towel was pulled from her body, her puffy pink nipples hardening in the chilled air as she was exposed in her entirety before her two female friends. '…At least as big as mine are…' she looked down to compare her Ds to Kinana's massive Es, '…they don't take two hands to put back in…' Natsu flying through the other side of the tent, towel in hand, he left two blushing girls and one nude fairy in his wake, said naked fairy feeling just as happy as one would expect given her circumstances and situation, her mouth opening wide to let out a resounding…
"AGAIN!?"
Her big green eyes growing wide as she stared down at her naked body, her slightly damp lower lips squeezing together just as the monstrous melons she had so far only shown to one man wobbled and jiggled around on her chest like two massive water balloons. Her legs shifting and arms crossing over her bountiful chest, sinking into the soft masses of boobflesh as her emeralds then slammed shut just as hard as she yelled up at the sky, "WHY DOES THIS—"
"-guy not stay down?" Erza finished the younger purplenette's screams of anger with a low mutter to herself; despite the screaming naked girl in the background though, her words were easily picked up by the dragon slayer whom she was sparring with. Her twin katana lowered to her sides, Erza Scarlet was already feeling the heat from her fated battle with the man she wanted to call 'hers'. All through the night she had watched over him, waited on him, guarded his masculine being with her feminine one just as she knew he would for her if the situation was reversed. 'No matter how hard I knock him down…' the knight's blades rose once more as the familiar form of Natsu Dragneel appeared from the eruption of sand, she smirked at seeing how so far he'd shrugged off her attacks despite the marks they left on his tanned hide, '…he just keeps coming for me…' That expression of hers widening, the girl couldn't help a red tint forming on her cheeks…the thought of him…coming…for her one she would gladly repeat over and ov—
"AGH-UH!"
Like lightning he moved, the shadowy form she had only moments ago gawked at now upon her, Titania blocked his strike with her katana just in the nick of time! "Gah!" Another hard grunt leaving her pinkened lips, she had to squint to see him, the sand that had masked his strike still enshrouding them. Her swords holding back a fist of searing hot flames just mere inches from her delicate cheek, its heat just as warm as her rosy skin, she had only just begun to think that his assault had been blunted on her defenses…and it had, but only if his physical attacks were being counted.
His lips curling up into a grin, his words passing over her alongside breaths of exertion, Natsu made sure at the very least his words hit her. "What's the matter, Erza?..." The sand finally started to die down as dark eyes met brown, her lashes batting before him, "…put on the wrong armor?" The woman's breath hitching for just a moment, but it was all the dragon slayer needed to deliver a flaming uppercut into her slackened jaw!
"GUH!" Her blades of steel flying off in either direction as his blow knocked her back, Titania's bare feet quickly found purchase on the soft sand, her heels digging in just as the heat of a lizard beyond time enveloped her! "AAAGHHHH!" It had been a long while since the mighty wizard had let loose such a scream, but this was no scream of agony nor one of anger…it was a scream of surprise! It had indeed be a long time…since Erza had been caught off guard like that…the strike to her jaw still beating with a hollow pain, the flames surrounding her on all sides were NOTHING compared to her disappointment in herself for being caught so easily by such a predictable attack. 'Damnit…I can't keep having those kinds of thoughts while fighting him…' She rubbed the spit from her lips with the back of her wrist as her thoughts passed through her mind, '…if it was anyone else I could get away with it, but Natsu…' A grin akin to the one currently spread proudly across the dragon slayer's mouth now gracing her, the ever encroaching heat of the flames fell away as a light enveloped her form, '…I can't take my eye off of him for a second…'
Slowly lowering his cupped hands from his jaw, the embers from his roar still falling into the sand, said fire wizard was all but certain he had gotten her with that one! "HAHAAA!" He began rubbing the back of his spiky pink hair, "Nice try, Erza, but I guess my moves are just a liiiitle…" he pinched his pointer finger and thumb together to show how close he meant, "…too smart for ya!" The man rearing back to begin a series of laughs hearty enough to fill an empty Nab for a week, his mood was soon dispelled by the furious swipe of edged steel…
"FLAME EMPRESS ARMOR!" Calling out her latest exquip, Erza dashed the male's hopes for a swift victory just as easily as she had his surrounding flames, the armor of scalding hot air rising up to surround her, her being was soon impervious to anything the heated wizard could throw at her! Landing back on one foot, the knight's scarlet hair spun around as she turned, her whole body coming to a stop moments before she shot forward once more, launching herself just as he had before! Her target? A certain man with just one too many taunts to his name.
Sching!
He didn't have even a second to react… "Gugh-ah!" The staff of the Empress's Flames slamming into his side, Natsu felt her movement before he'd even seen them. 'Huh?...Where the hell did that come from?...' Shock and a fair bit of awe coursing through his mind, going with the direction of the blow was all he could do to keep himself together, the impact knocking him off his feet and sending him flying east into a nearby sand dune, the gritty substance exploding up like a geyser upon impact.
But while Natsu was currently down in the sand, the smirk he had previously worn was still standing strong…although it now adorned the soft lips of a battle maiden, rather than a dragon of fire. Grinning like the satisfied and preening cat she was, Titania set herself down in a much more graceful manner than her opponent, her feet nesting in the sand just as he manage to pull himself back onto his toned ass. Twirling her staff with a flourish around her wrist, she slammed the butt end down with a gratifying 'thud' much like the one it had made just moments earlier. 'Heh…that sure shut him up…' Recalling his most recent taunt, and feeling like a little bit of indulgence was safe at this point, she called out to her foe,"Hey! Natsu!" Erza's voice reaching his ears, the male wizard expected another blow to follow, just as always when they sparred, he squeezed his eyes shut, the wallop he was bound to receive too late to dodge about to make contact with his thick skull.
But then it didn't come…
Those dark orbs of his reopening, the dragon slayer had only just started to look up at the knight when she continued. "Do you think I'm wearing the right armor now?..."
Never mind…it DID come…and man did it hit him HARD!
Jaw dropping, it took a moment for realization to hit him. 'Did she?...Did she just?...' his gaze rising to meet that of the female a dozen yards before him, Natsu then realized that if her words hadn't topped off the sundae she'd started making when she knocked his ass back into the ground...she certainly had with that…that… 'She's SMIRKING at me!?' There she was, only a short distance from him, Erza Scarlet…and she was smirking up a STORM over making him eat his words for breakfast! "C'mon, Natsu…" she kept that teasing smile, complete with its hint of satisfaction planted firmly on her lips as she pointed her staff square at his face before landing her assured finishing blow on his ego and pride, "…don't tell me you LIKE being on the bottom…"
Fiery pink spikes flicking back and forth as they were thrust into the air, their owner was soon back on his own two feet, the fires of revenge burning hot in his palms. "Oh, yeah?..." Finding the dame's words plenty enough to get his spirits aflame once more, he focused his gaze right on her twin rocks of bronze. "…well we'll just have to see about that…" his grin reviving just as hers formed into a scowl to withstand what was coming her way, the man crouched to spring himself at her, "…because today is the day I take YOU DOWN, ERZA!" Orange flames engulfing him, Natsu dug his fingers into the sand down to the knuckle just as he kicked back, his arms soon shooting behind him, in moments the male had gone from fairy to fireball, a fireball heading straight for the mighty Flame Empress herself!
His charged strike was blocked, with as little effort as before, as was his attempted follow up with a hook to her face! Without letup, he ducked his head to the side, dodging her staff then sidestepped from her punishing kick.
He was NOT going to fall for that trick a second time!
Taking advantage of his position, he threw a kick at her back, however it was too slow, and Erza effortlessly ducked under it, bringing her staff to bare in a wide sweep, a sweep he BARELY managed to block, the impact making his teeth rattle and the bones in his arm throb. Ignoring the momentary pain however Natsu winced as he used the recoil from her blocked strike to grab hold of her staff and pull her towards him, hoping to catch her off guard.
It was not to be, as it was he himself that was struck, this time by her elbow driving into his stomach like a hammer before she yanked her staff free from his grip and spun it around aiming right for his head!
Throwing himself to the side, he evaded it and retaliated with two fireballs, not powerful enough to do much, but it did put her on the defensive, allowing him a chance to charge her again and try to get close enough that she couldn't attack him with her staff at least, leaving her with only her free hand, both feet, elbows, knees, head...basically her entire body he soon realized as she continued to avoid his every strike all the while returning his misses with hits of her own, each of which only continued to spur him on more and more!
A flurry of punches and kicks, each carrying enough force to shatter stone, his foe slipped and maneuvered around them in an elegant dance, an elegant dance that comprised of beating him with the sides and back end of her staff, with the occasional kick, punch and head butt putting him on the defensive just as quickly as he had been the aggressor.
The battle was picking up second after second, moment by moment as the two amazing wizards exchanged blows across the beach, one a flaming mass of muscles and grins, the other an elegant red mirage, the lady within it dodging each and every attack he sent her way, all the while her staff ate up his fires like a starved man at a feast. "Gah! Come back here and—" His words were cut short as a well-aimed flick of her staff sent a splash of sand right into his face, which was followed by that same stick sweeping his legs out from under him, the dragon slayer sent tumbling face first into the ground right before making contact with his female prey. "Ugh…why that little…" Not wasting an instant to think over what had just happened, he was at it again! The pair crossing the vast beach as if it were a small park it seemed that no matter how close together they came, they touched but only the briefest of instants, and those being either her blocking him, or her striking him.
Though he had yet to land another blow on her, she was being forced to bring out her A game against him, relying more and more on dodging and deflecting his attacks rather than blocking as her arms and wrists were beginning to hurt from the power behind those strikes. Not to mention, hitting him wasn't all that different from hitting a stone wall.
"Gah! Damnit!" The fireball that was a man soaring right past the maiden he pursued, for a moment he felt the flames on his right side dissipate as she attacked him, her strike just as off target as his was when he rolled to the side in midair. "Ah! Darn!" The silken cloth which was girl landing off to the side, she knew that attack would have landed for sure when they'd started sparring this morning…but now…now she wondered whether she was starting to tire in this amazing test of endurance they were locked in…or worse still… 'Is Natsu becoming stronger than me?...' The words which the knight had always known she would one day be forced to say about the dragon slayer appearing within her mind, she had to shake them away to keep her head in the game, '…No! It's still years too early for that to be the case…' Erza grinned as her composure returned to her in full, '…there are still MANY things that he has to learn before that day is here…'
Launching herself back as another fiery explosion erupted in front of her, Titania was soon bounding backward across the hot sands, the clouds erupting where she had been only moments prior a sign that the dragon slayer, while mighty, did indeed have some catching up to do if he was to nab her…for whatever reasons he wanted to.
After all, he may be getting closer, but fractions of an inch were the difference between not only life and death, but multiple levels of skill.
The sand flying through his hair like the sunny rays of midday that now surrounded them, Natsu couldn't believe just how hard this was turning out to be. The wizard had been through so many fights in his life, battled with monsters, men, wizards and mercenaries, but NEVER had he faced someone as skillful or powerful as the FEMALE which was currently avoiding his next burning strike before he even knew where he was going to land it! Even Gildarts he could at least tell WHAT DIRECTION he was going to get hit from next, but this girl… 'Erza…' he thought as she avoided him yet again, the man watching as she fluttered about him, avoiding even the heat from his last flaming attack, '…how are you this strong?' The duo had sparred many a time over the years leading up to this day, but despite losing almost instantly each and every time they fought, it was only now, now that he was holding his own against the knight that it hit him, when out of habit he cast a cautious eye for where Lucy was…just why Erza was so powerful…
'Because she has to be…' Why he had never thought of it before was beyond him, well, not really. Recalling the many times Lucy had reprimanded him for his foolishness it was rather obvious why he hadn't realized it before…the fact that Titania was the force to be reckoned with that she was, was not just because of natural abilities, or even her love of training and honing her skills that straddled the thin line between hobby and obsession.
It was because she HAD to be.
Of all the ladies in Fairy Tail, none were stronger than Erza Scarlet, but there again, none were as independent as her either. Lucy, Mira, Lisanna, Juvia, and Evergreen, they were all girls possessing no small measure of power when it came to magic, yet each of them was nothing compared to the magical might that the redhead wielded so easily…and for good reason, they didn't have to be. Lisanna was always with her older brother and sister for support, Evergreen was a proud member of the Thunder Legion, a team that almost never split up, Juvia, well…she HAD always been tagging along with Gray, but then…
Shaking the thoughts from his mind, the man got back to the last two girls on the list. All things considered Lucy was probably the most obvious in terms of why she wasn't a femme powerhouse like Erza was. Apart from only recently starting out as a wizard she was almost ALWAYS, he blushed at that fact, by his side, and considering his near obsession with protecting her…needing to stand on her own 24/7 wasn't a necessity. After Lucy, Mira was a close second, an S rank wizard in her own right and quite powerful, she still always fought when part of a group or team to help balance out her weak points. Erza though was not like the other girls. Before forming into a permanent team with himself, Lucy, Wendy and Gray, for years the knight had always gone on jobs alone. S class, A class, even the odd assignment to clear out a herd of rampaging wombats she had undertaken with just her old team; me, myself, and I.
Erza was strong because she had always kept to herself, because by and large she didn't let people in, even after they had become a team she fought on her own instead of with a partner at her side or back. His fist exploding into another sand dune, the man leapt back into the air to swing at the scarlet figure floating before him only to miss again.
She didn't wear a short skirt and cleavage revealing vest like Lucy, or a flowing dress like Mirajane; she adorned herself in a suit of armor to conceal herself and protect herself from all on the outside, to prevent anyone, even her close friends from being able to touch her. Yes, she did wear a skirt, but it was only just short enough to be feminine while still conservative enough to not attract unwanted gazes. She was the most powerful female in all of Fairy Tail, bar none…and she was because she had to be, because she never allowed herself to depend on someone else.
His next attempt on her being missing by the skin of his fangs, the pair landed in the flowing sand right next to one another. "Ha! I gotcha now!" Dark eyes widening as he swung at her yet again, this time he hit home…home on her staff that is. The red orb atop the Flame Empress's weapon glowing as it dispelled the heat of his punch, it seemed as if once again he had got her in a deadlock just to lose out…but then something else happened. "Heh…don't think I'm runnin' out of steam on ya this time, Erza…" His teeth barred as the fires around him continued to soar despite their being constantly dispelled by the knight's staff, he caught her eye, the look in the center of her exposed brown opal one he had seen not too long ago, and not in too unfamiliar a setting either.
'Now you're gonna pay!' Those were the words which had been let loose into the room the last time the man had seen such a look. Although last time it had been in a pair of brown orbs just as it was now, they could not have been more different. As Lucy Ashley had lunged at him, her fist outstretched just as her heart burned with a desire to see him in pain, he had seen something other than a want for revenge in her eye…a want for something more desired by her kind than revenge…love.
Natsu knew just by looking in her eye how much this sparring match meant to Erza, what it meant to be able to go all out and somehow match each other. They had both known the stakes of this duel when it had begun, she wanted him and he wanted her, but claiming the heart of a girl as strong and independent as Titania wasn't as easy as soothing the pain of a jilted soul mate from another world, or hell, even admitting for the first time in his entire life that a girl could be ALL he could think about to THE very naked girl whom was the center of his thoughts. No, this was going to be the hardest fight, the hardest conquest, the hardest victory of his life.
His muscles bulging as he increased the pressure on her staff, the air between them was beginning to waver from the intensity of the heat spewing from his tanned flesh, Natsu could feel her giving it her all just as he was. It was funny, he was panting for breath, bruised, and grinning from ear to ear while Erza was so calm, so cool, apart from the fiery look of desire and enjoyment in her eye one never would have known just how much of herself she was putting into this fight. The maiden's staff moving back up to keep pace with him, the pair were evened out once more as the revelations continued coming.
While the knight of Earth Land was so controlled, the master of submission who previously had resided in Edolas was a MUCH different story. When he had fought Lucy Ashley, the dragon slayer had held back a great deal. Even though her rage was something no man would ever want on his ass, the furious blonde's power didn't hold a candle to what Natsu could bring to the table. Chasing him throughout the guild hall, smashing tables and even the floor to splinters with her angry punches, Luce had never once posed an actual threat to the man she loved. Going all out from the start it hadn't been hard for him to pick up on her level and keep himself far above it while still holding back.
'Luce…you really need to see this…' Recalling how she'd pursued him, the male now compared it to what he was facing now, a deadlock with a girl even more toned than the babe of Edolas was. Over there he had been able to do so much during their fight. Dodging, sprinting, leading the girl about wherever he chose so that none of their innocent observers would get caught in the fray all while only being hit once by the girl chasing him, Natsu had done it all. 'Heh…maybe…' putting even more pressure in his hands to push her back, the dragon slayer chanced a glance down to the maiden's cleavage, the round swells of her firm breasts reminding him of what he had DARED to do to Luce's soft boob even while fighting her. '…at least I already knew where her nipple was…'
The idea turned down as a bad one in his head, Natsu blushed at that fragrant move of his. Coping a feel on a busty blonde when she can't hit you was one thing…but feeling up a redhead who could, and would kick your ass was another thing entirely. He had been able to dodge all but one of Luce's punches, kicks, and blows with ease despite her fiery rage once he got going, but Erza…he had been going at one hundred percent since the very beginning and she wasn't just holding on…she was BEATING him! Sure, he was still conscious, a massive upgrade from their previous fights, but he had only landed one actual hit on her, while he knew he was going to be aching for days after this was over. '…but if I win…' his cheeks reddening as he remembered just WHAT it meant would happen if he lowered the maiden's defenses enough to get through to her heart, he had unwittingly just given away one HELL of an ace to said knight.
'Oh, so THAT is why Lucy isn't always wearing a bra…' Her eyes following his as they dipped down to her own armored free range melons, Erza now had a card in her hand that only a person of her sex could play, and she knew just how to get it out of her hand and onto the field. "Ah…what?..." the red gem atop her staff suddenly blinking, the attention of both wizards was pulled to it as it became faster…and faster…and faster…the light of the orb growing brighter and brighter each time it pulsed. "What is happening to my?..." Watching as the top of her staff suddenly burst, Natsu and Erza each shielded their eyes from the minor explosion, a brighter light engulfing the feminine warrior just as it happened.
That was JUST the kind of motivation Natsu needed to get back in the game! An opening, something to give him the chance to push the attack and put HER on the defensive again! The light fading once more, Erza's Flame Empress armor was no more, the mighty female's ultimate armor to combat the fires of the dragon slayer now lost to her for the remainder of their confrontation. "Ah! So ya ready to admit I WAS right?" The son of Igneel grinned widely at his opponent, the girl, her hair still in a high pony tail, now back to wielding a pair of katana rather than a staff of flame, "…you really WERE wearing the wrong…"
The male's eyes sinking right back down to the twin pillows of feminine flesh he loved so much, Erza played the card she had just drawn and played it beautifully! Her body clad once again in nothing but her signature black string bikini. 'Men…they'd be hard to crack if we didn't have these…' The knight was now the one to grin as she ran at him, her melons giving a healthy bounce and bob with her charging run as her katana were flipped round in her grasp so both hilts were lined up to jam into his chest.
Still staring at Titania's girls, Natsu didn't stand a chance! "UGHHH!" The very tip of her left katana striking him right in the center of his right pec, the male felt the drool which had been gathering in his jaw now shoot out of his mouth when she hit him, the girl managing to knock the air out of his lungs in more ways than one!
Not one to EVER be outdone though, not by man, or woman, Natsu was back up before the sand flying around him had a chance to settle. The flames which powered his thirst for victory and his opponent soaring to new heights, he fought through the pain jolting through his chest as he inhaled, his lungs expanding as air filled them, the fires of victory burning hot in his throat. "Fire Dragon's!" He yelled as he closed his eyes, the amount of heat within him more than he had ever felt before, "ROOOOOOAAAAARRR!"
"Huh?!" Her body quickly consumed by the fires of Igneel's spawn, Erza had just enough time to realize what was happening, sadly for her though, not nearly enough time to shield herself from the heat and flames which scorched her. The air, sand, and sea around her soon becoming nothing, but a searing orange and red haze of flames, Titania let out a scream of both frustration and pain as the man had at long last delivered a blow to the mighty wizard.
Calloused feet sinking into the hot sand below him, Natsu let his fangs shine through his lips as he grinned at what he'd done. It may have only been one hit, one shot, one flaming breath of magic, but he had done it. He, Natsu Dragneel had BESTED Erza Scarlet in a round of combat, something he had never ONCE accomplished in his entire life! He had defeated evil, claimed the love of the most desired girl of his guild, and even managed to outrun Gildarts, something nearly impossible given the man had no idea what 'going around' something meant, but this…this was something MUCH different. This was something he had dreamed of doing almost as far back as he could remember…he had done it…he had gotten the best of Erza…and he couldn't WAIT to tell her that! All he needed to do now was open his mouth wide and say it straight to her smug…burned…face…
Ching…cling-ting…
But when the smoke cleared…the last thing the dragon slayer was capable of doing was mocking… The smoke of his attack blown aside by the cool ocean breeze, there stood a sight all the men who had ever fought the scarlet knight would have died to see. Her katana colliding as they clattered to the ground, the image of her disarming was only added to by the ashes falling near them. The breeze which had cast aside his smoke blowing away the charred remains of her hair ribbon, long strands of scarlet silk now cascaded down her shoulders, their flowing strands like a wave of rubies as they fell down to cover her ears and neck. That very same breeze then blowing behind her, it was like he was looking at an old painting from long ago, the way those scarlet rivers flowed around her neck and face with the cool wind was…breathtaking…and it would have taken away everything he had…if it hadn't already been sucked right out of him by the…other effects of his magic on the female.
"Er…Erza…wo…whoa…Erzaaa…" His back hunched over and a long line of drool leaking from his parched lips, Natsu could only stare in dumbstruck awe at what he was seeing.
Appearing out of the smoke, her hair down around her neck and her only means of defense out of reach was Erza Scarlet…her hands…while once gripping her katana with all her might now spread themselves over a different pair of weapons, her arms crossed as tight as she could possibly make them over her bare bosom, the pale flesh of her huge breasts seemed to squeeze out at every opening. Erza may have been able to defeat any foe she faced, and stomach no end of sweet pastries, but she was still a fairy girl…and that meant there was never enough to her small hands or thin arms to cover the bountiful amounts of bouncy flesh wobbling around on her chest.
Natsu's eyes about as big as the knight's own pair of oversized marshmallows as she squeezed them against her chest in her bid to cover her prized assets, the man's low groans of lust and need only seemed to make her situation THAT much worse! "N…Na…Natsu…don't…don't look!" she managed to get out, the strongest female fairy's face about as red as her own hair at this point as her topless body was ogled just like that of a regular girl who lacked any of her abilities or strength, the panicked look on her face only seemed to add to the vulnerable aura she was giving off. While she HAD only just been a mighty warrior, NOW she was a topless girl with a little too much for one person to hold…and that made her easy prey for the increasingly horny dragon slayer.
Shaking his head back and forth, it was no use! He just couldn't manage to take his eyes off of her! All he could do was keep staring, drooling, watching in ever-increasing need as this powerful maiden gave off the same cues, the same looks of helplessness and self-consciousness that he had seen time and time again…Lucy had…Levy had...Juvia had… each girl had ended up with the same thing happening to their ripe, supple fun bags…
One foot sinking into the sand in front of him, it was soon followed by another step…and another…and another. His feet moving on their own, the male was soon wandering towards that pair of overweight and under-supported girls like his life depended on it! His eyes now rising up to take in the whole picture, it was beautiful…her toned arms crossed over her increasingly plush breasts, her hair blowing over her swan like neck…and best of all…that look on her face...that bright red and incredibly embarrassed…smirk?
The man's feet carrying him straight into the lion's den before he even had a chance to think about how wonderful things had suddenly gone for him, he only had time to look up as a wide smirk spread itself out on the girl's mouth, his gaze only on those red lips, they soon shrunk down to pinheads as Erza simply said one word and one word only…
"…Gotcha."
Pink eyebrows shooting up as he realized he'd been caught with his pants down by a topless girl, Natsu reeled back just as a hard roundhouse kick slammed home into his skull, the ball of her foot colliding with his forehead, her toes giving a mocking tug on his pointy spikes as they went their separate ways.
His body sent tumbling back through the air, it was only through upside down images of the lady knight that he understood the full reality of what had happened to him. A bright light shining around the once topless fairy, said girl was soon fully clothed once more, the black bikini top which he had thought fell to the ground in ashes now back in its proper place cupping her large breasts. THAT WAS IT! His flames…his fires of victory hadn't turned her bikini top into a pile of ash and exposed her bare breasts to the cool ocean air; it was HER! She had exquiped her bikini top right as the flames had hit her to fool him! Landing head first into the sand, all Natsu could really say to what she'd pulled over on him was a groan before muttering, in a very angered tone, "Clever girl…"
That smirk which she had worn the moment she'd caught him still spread wide over her flawless pale features, Erza had her own thoughts to contend with. 'So Mirajane was right about me after all…' The girl felt a wave of warmth pass over her as the realization swept her into a new realm of existence. '…Natsu was looking at me just like the others…he stared at me exactly as he does Lucy's and Mira's…she was right all along…there is nothing wrong with not being as soft as the others…' she thought with an increasingly strong aura of pride, '…I can still turn him into a jabbering idiot just like they ca—'
Lost in her thoughts, it was only thanks her body's swift reflexes, reflexes honed over years upon years of training and fighting that she was able to catch his next attack in time! Her slender fingers locked into his thicker ones, the pair was right back where they started, only now Erza's confidence was much harder to break; and Natsu was just much…harder… "Hey, that was really dirty, ya know that?" He couldn't hold back a grin at how well he'd been had, but even still he was not about to let her think it would happen again. "…Maybe next time I'll burn off ALL your clothes and see how you like it!"
Her smirk not faltering in the least, Erza just stared back into those taunting dark orbs of his, her expression sending the teasing right back his way along with a nice little shot of her own. "Really?..." she looked at him with an almost serious amount of confusion, "…you're going to burn away ALL my clothes?..." The girl smirked at the way he seemed to blush even more now than he did when she was topless before him, "…because if that is how you react to seeing me topless; then how are you going to handle seeing me completely naked?..."
His face now making her hair look blonde by comparison as naughty thoughts of Erza's nude body ran through his head, her huge breasts, her flat belly, not to mention an ass so firm it spanked you back when it was struck, he was once again sent flying back into the sand by the female knight; thus making it the second time in the span of five minutes that his defenses had been shattered by the female figure.
BRRRRRRIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!
Sand flying up in all directions, the cloud which had previously marked the dragon slayer's crash site was sent pluming into the air as an explosion of fire erupted from beneath it. The form of a man who had been beaten in the test of the sexes not yet ready to throw in the towel rising from his crater, the sandy sweat which now clung to his chiseled form soon being turned to glass before dripping off from his form by the inferno which now engulfed him. Looking his opponent straight in the eye, through her curtain of scarlet hair…he knew this round was his. "ALRIGHT! YOU ASKED FOR IT!" The spit from his resounding roar evaporating as he shot past it, he was on the fabled knight right as she moved!
"Heh! Give me all you have, Natsu!" the woman sidestepping his punch at the last moment, her thin fingers wrapped around his scalding hot wrist to redirect his momentum downward, casting the furious dragon straight back into the ground! Not letting up the pressure though, Natsu was soon back on his feet again, the male sending first a right hook then a left one at the blinding light before him, to a casual observer, nigh even another powerful wizard it seemed like he was trading blows with the sun's rays themselves!
Though she had opened the distance between them to greater than his limbs could reach, it didn't mean SHE was out of reach yet, not so long as he could continue to send fire her way!
That blinding aura of magic at last dissipating, the strained grunts of a girl were also heard below the huffs and clings of metal making fireballs explode upon impact! While not the best of armors for the close quarters that they were in, the Robe of Yuen was the only set which Titania was able to grab in time. 'Natsu…he's…how did get to me so fast?...' the lady of iron thought to herself as she was now the one being pushed back. Gone were her taunts and easy dodges from just moments prior, it was her time to be on the losing end of this battle between Fairy Tail's finest. '…Damnit…this isn't the best armor for this…but it was all I could do to—' "Gu-ah!" Knocking back a swift chop aimed at her side, the knight doubled over in pain as the purple robes which covered her stomach were suddenly met by a bare foot!
"UUUUHHH!" All the air in her lungs leaving her, Erza looked up, her vision met by only another searing hot flame! Those brown orbs of hers shrinking as the heat grew closer and closer, there was only one thought which crossed her mind before it hit her. 'I don't know what he wants out of this fight…' The flames which had burned away the air as it left her body meeting even more of the empty gas as it passed its target, the man who wielded it spun round, the trail of a spotted tail one no one could mistake.
'…but he wants it bad…' Ears flicking back while her large bosom gave a bounce to dispel the momentum built up within their fleshy molds, the momentary sight of a girl with the armor of flight was one the fiery wizard knew better than to let away from him. Rushing head on towards her assailant, clawed toes left long lines in the ground as her body lifted off into the air, the images of her as she darted towards him mere afterimages by the time the light reached his eyes.
Natsu could tell already that he was in a bind, as long as the knight wore the armor of the predatory cat, he had no chance of catching her; she was simply too fast for him to—'Aha!' While not the smartest fairy by a long shot, the dragon slayer was FAR from the dumbest! Watching the afterimages left by the scarlet haired girl as she darted around him, confusing him with her every step, she was at the same time exposing a fatal flaw in her sleek and speedy armor.
'You're pretty fast in that armor…' A grin spreading over his battered and bruised cheeks, the man's dark orbs watched as with every blur of the knight to come into focus her chest was in the same position. '…but all that running around needs a lot of air…' For the first time since he and Lucy had danced the primal dance Natsu looked past the twin globes of fat on Erza's chest to see that while she was in a different pose, position, and location every time he saw her, her chest was in the EXACT same position…meaning that just as he had thought, Titania was consuming a HUGE amount of oxygen to keep running at the pace she was. A glimmer of sunlight reflecting off a bared fang, the son of Igneel knew just how to counter this seemingly uncatchable foe.
Shooting from one direction to another, the sand kicking up behind her the only evidence of her having passed through apart from the occasional afterimage, Erza could tell that her speed show was taking a toll on the man. 'That's it…just keep following the fairy…' His eyes trying desperately to keep up with her, the result was nothing more than the biggest series of eye crosses the knight had ever seen! '…you'll knock yourself out before I even touch you—'
"Huh?..."
If she hadn't been running so quickly she might not have caught onto it as fast, but…it…it was suddenly much…MUCH harder to breathe… "Ugh!...Agh! Uagh!" Doing her best not to let up her pace, Erza could feel it, the air…the air around her was growing thinner and thinner by the moment! 'Why…why is it so hot all of a sud—NATSU!' Bringing her head back up to look at the male, the feline warrior was proven correct in her thoughts!
His face pointed down at the sand between his feet, Natsu clenched his eyes shut as hard as he could, at the moment there was no fight, no Erza, no nothing…there was only the fire inside him. Concentrating as hard as he could, the air around the dragon slayer slowly began to shake, the sheer intensity of the magic seeping from his muscular form burning the very air around him. FRRUSH! That was it! Orange swells roaring up around him, he had transformed from a man, a mere mortal to a walking flame; and the hotter and brighter his fire grew, the more air it needed in to sustain itself, and as Erza was finding out…the SAME air she needed to keep running.
"I have you now, ERZAAAA!" The leopard skinned knight at long last coming to a halt in front of him, it was now that Natsu struck! His fist cleaving the air in twain as it forced its way into the girl's abdomen, even the spit that left her mouth evaporated just as her breath did. Brown eyes darting around, coughing was all she could do at the moment, her air both knocked out of her and sucked away from her, she could feel her strength failing her… 'No…not now…I…I can't lose like this…' Her vision fading fast, Erza had to think of something to keep her chance of victory with her! Luckily, as the last of the air left her ears the swordswoman heard a sound that told her just how she could still make it through this.
That grin still on his face, it wasn't that seeing Erza in pain brought him any sort of joy, but the fact that he HAD in fact outsmarted someone, let alone, ERZA of all people had him grinning from ear to ear. 'I can't believe it worked!' He watched as his opponent, once a mighty warrior, now a coughing girl fell lower and lower before him, first to one knee and then two, her loss in this fight inevitable. '…Not how I wanted to beat her…' his expression lessening the longer he looked at her, the man resolved to end it now. '…but this might be my ONE chance to show her how much I need her.'
His fist pulling back once more, the gasping knight felt a moment of reprieve when the air behind her was sucked over her mouth and into her ears, the sounds of salvation with them. 'This is it…my one chance to get this going MY way again!' The end of their match heading right for her, the flames around each of the man's fingers sucking the air away from her lungs, Erza used the last of her energy to throw herself backward, her chin clearing the flaming fist mere moments before impact.
The battle had been a long one, it had been a hard one, but it was one that Natsu was GLAD to see finished! Ever since he had first joined Fairy Tail, defeating Erza Scarlet had been a dream of his, an intangible goal which he could never meet no matter how hard he tried or what attacks he threw at her. Today though…he had met that goal…that dream. But as his fist hit only more thin air, the fact that there was no longer a rare spotted fairy at his mercy was one that struck his mind worse than a Taurus in a magic shop. "Wait…where is…she?…"
SPLASH!
A bright light erupting from the surf, it was the sound of salvation to the panting knight! "That was a pretty smart trick…" The words left the recently refreshed lips of Titania as she rose to her feet in the shallow surf, the woman's gaze centered on the flaming mass of man a dozen yards away from her, "…burning away the air so I would run out of breath was certainly a good one, but…" Her blade coming up to point directly at the dragon slayer, the now watery babe turned it so that the edge ran straight down his torso, "…you should have known it would take a lot more than a bad run to take me down."
Her smirk meeting his bewildered gaze, taking a deep breath was the LAST thing the man of fire should have done in that moment, "WATER EMPRESS ARMOR!"
FRUUUUSH!
Cheeks billowing out like the happily freed melons of Kinana whenever she wore a towel, Natsu realized all too late what Erza had done! He hadn't wanted to win by taking her breath away, but as it seemed, she didn't mind seeing if he would buckle under the same pressure he had only just put her in! "Agh! Bptuuaaaahhh!" Feeling the heat which he had built up over the past few minutes washing away just as the jet stream of salty liquid poured into his mouth, the fire dragon slayer let out a loud grunt as he spat it all back out again, his will, like Erza's being too great for something as simple as suffocation to take him down.
The middle of the day had long since passed by this point in the battle, and although the two wizards had started their duel of duels early in the morning, neither of them was ready to let up just yet…at least, not while the other was still standing. Reeling her blade back, the water around her soon parted as Titania swung it around her, a monumental wave spewing forth and riding straight for her fiery man. It was something else this match, it had been a long time since she had to go all out like this, and the first time against him…watching him…Natsu as he jumped directly into the path of her attack, the knight could only grin as his palms lit up, fire shooting out from them as he angled them around him. "Not even the ocean itself can stop you…" her eyes, both the exposed one and the other that was still hidden lit up with the energy of battle when he angled his hands so that the fire coming from them turned him into a human corkscrew. "…but then again, I control the ocean!'
Her sword holding firm when a pair of steaming claws crashed against it, the force shaking the knight down to her watery boots, the pair exchanged looks of pure and utter JOY at what they were doing, his grin meeting her smirk, both expressing pure unbridled glee! Here they were, the strongest man and the strongest woman going ALL OUT! It was like something from a legend, a fable, only it was real! With a flick from one dainty wrist a huge blast of water sent the spiky haired man back from whence he came!
Landing back with a series of tumbles across the water's surface, Natsu looked more like a skipping stone than a mighty wizard as he bounced, tumbled and rolled! His feet catching fire, they created a mist as they made contact with the surface, the bright orange ribbons sprouting up around his feet turning the water to steam and leaving skid marks in his wake just as if he were on the beach again. "Heh…heh…heh…damn…that really felt weird…" Looking down at his scraped up arms, the man's chest moved up and down with each badly needed breath, never would he have thought it was possible to get road rash from the water…but then again he WAS fighting a girl…and if he had learned anything from seeing Lucy outsmart her foes, or Mira outmaneuver them…it was that they ALWAYS had another trick up their sleeve.
Bringing both of his open palms up so that they were outstretched by his sides, the dragon slayer licked his lips, "…Let's see how ya handle this one, Erza…"
A small breeze blew between the pair as both of them gathered up the magic they needed…brown orbs staring into black everything went silent…and then…it wasn't… A fusillade of fireballs shooting forth from Natsu's hands like a pair of cannons, they were met halfway by a similar salvo from the Water Empress, the watery spheres ejecting from the front of her sword crashing into his, meeting them blow for blow as each fiery explosion was nullified into a small wisp of steam heading up into the sky. "GAH! ERZA!" Calling out the name of his foe, Natsu fired one more shot from each hand before springing forward. Water kicking up around his bare feet as he ran right for her, like his fireballs of moments prior he was met by a stream of cool liquid.
No matter how hard he came at her, no matter what he threw at her, she was ready for him, and had plenty to give back. But then again, no matter how many times she knocked him down or how far she threw him back, he WOULD get back up and he WOULD charge her again!
Watching through a determined gaze as the male disappeared in her hydro pump, the look on Erza's face as she realized that Natsu had in fact not been knocked away was priceless… Swimming up the immense stream like a human torpedo, the dragon slayer was already right before her by the time her eyes had widened in alarm! "QUIT IT WITH THE WATER ALREADY!" His bellow sounding out across the shoreline, an immense brrruuuch! could be heard as fist met armor! With the momentum he'd gathered from swimming up the knight's attack, Natsu drove his water soaked fists up into right side of the female, shattering her armored plating and sending her hurtling off into the sky once more!
Her hair fluttering around her pale face as she sailed back through the now evening skyline, Erza could feel the difference between the last time she had allowed the excitable man to spar with her…and now… All the times before it had been ego…his big, stupid tough guy streak and its bravado heavy accents had been the driving force behind those previous matches. It had always been to prove he was stronger than her, that he could BEAT an S class…but this…these attacks were different… Opening her eyes to see him running along after her, his feet sinking into the surf before propelling him towards her again and again, she could see the passion that he fought with now. His expression, the determination the very same as it had been that night at the auction, that moment he had seen Lucy up on that stage, when their eyes locked...
'Is this really what I think it is?...' Erza thought as she watched him, watched him chase after her. These blows of his were FAR too strong to come only from a desire to win a fight…the power behind his attacks was as ferocious as it was determined, just as they had been back at the Tower of Heaven... '…Are you truly fighting with your heart and not your ego Natsu?...' The ground coming closer and closer the longer she mused, Titania wondered if this was really it…was she feeling the power of his heart as it yearned to be with hers…or was that the good old fighting spirit of his trying to best the one girl who ALWAYS defeated him for the thousandth time?
Did he want the win? Was it victory he yearned for and desired?
Or...was it…her?
Letting her hair overcome her as the ground neared, the chocolate eyes of Scarlet sprung open just before impact! Small feet digging into the sand, Titania seemed like an angel to the exhausted man as she leapt over his lunging punch, the light of yet another armor blinding him, but only for an instant. Pants as heated as the fires reforming on the dragon slayer's hands spreading down her legs while her large breasts bound themselves in miles of white bindings, Erza barely had time to think as just as quickly as she requiped her Benisakura armor, the man below grabbed her by the same nimble foot which had just allowed her to evade him! "Yer not getting away, THAT easily!" Natsu's roar and Erza's grunt of alarm meeting in the air between them, he could see her swinging down with her blades just as she could see him punching up with his fist, the two shattering the flames between them and shooting sparks out at all sides!
Both figures knocked back from the force of the aftershock, Natsu skidded back a short distance, his feet digging deep treads into the sand as his hands anchored themselves to help stop him, while Erza herself simply used the force of the blast to propel her into a flip, then landed on both feet in a defensive stance, her sword raised and exposed eye locking with his. Weary, showing signs of fatigue, but still ready to keep going.
Allowing his hair to dangle over his eyes, Natsu looked across at the battered knight…the...girl…the fantastic warrior he had long courted in the field of battle at long last was here with him, on even footing. '…Erza…she's…amazing…' watching her swing her sword in a slow figurate before her, the female waiting for him to charge her for the umpteenth time so that she could take him down once and for all.
Natsu may not have realized it, but it didn't take long for his admiring gaze to turn into a downright STARE as he continued to eye the blossomed maiden. '…For most of my life you were the only girl I ever knew…' his eyes followed the round curves of her body as they moved up along her pale form, '...sure there was Mira, but she was always too evil to hang out with…' the man blushed as his eyes seemed to sculpt the knight's flat belly, carving away at her until all he saw was fit perfection. '…then there was Lisanna...' quickly shaking his head to dispel the thoughts gathering therein about the lost girl who'd come home, he continued slowly moving up the mighty wizard, observing her, taking in her form, '…and finally…I met Lucy…' twin orbs focusing on a certain pair of bound mountains as his minded refocused to accommodate his blonde lover, a small pink blush spread across his cheeks as he followed the journey of a small bead of sweat as it ran down the top of Erza's cleavage before disappearing into heaven, '…but before all of them…'"GAH!"
He had not even blinked, yet he still missed her sudden movement!
Dipping back into the sand to avoid a series of slashes sent towards him, Natsu had to bend his spine first to the right, then back, to keep from being sliced in two by the katana of Scarlet. He'd heard her brag before about being able to slice an opponent seven times in the blink of an eye, he wagered that number had gone up since then as evidence by the thin cuts he felt along his skin. The eyes which had previously been ogling the swordswoman were now remaining fixed on her blade to better predict her attacks, the wind itself around him quickly being cut to ribbons while slash after slash parted the air and his skin. "You better learn to concentrate on the fight and NOT my breasts or this is going to be over VERY quickly, Natsu!" The taunt from his sweaty comrade reaching his ears, the male went to send a fairly expletive retort her way only to receive a well-placed sword hilt to the gut!
'Before all the others…there was only one girl I could never beat…' He squinted through the pain as she lowered her sword down to aim at his throat, '…Titania…Queen of the Fairies…' The girl preparing to charge, he knew she was the one to end all girls, '…Erza Scarlet…' It had been quite the journey they had gone through together…from the strong comrade to tough older sister, to partner and teammate to the girl he couldn't dare lay a hand on… His cheeks flushed as he recalled waking up that morning, his body SOAKED in the scent of Lucy…but in all that sexy blonde scent there was another one laced on top of it…
Teeth forming into a grin, Natsu KNEW that someone had slept on him last night…someone who had crawled on top of him only after the Heartfilia heiress had left him, 'Heh…You really did a number on me, Erza…' He chuckled on the inside at how foolish he'd been. Erza slept on him last night…and in a bikini at the very most… She wished to sacrifice her life for his at the Tower of Heaven, went along on a mission with Mira because he'd be there too…and now…now she slept on him as if she had already decided he was her bed… Despite having so many girlfriends at this point the only ones comfortable enough to literally use him as their bed were Lucy and Luce… "Erza…" he gulped at the way her name sounded on his tongue, like a badly needed drink in the middle of the desert. The icing on the cake was the memory of the images his mind conjured up when he was forced to finger… The man taking in a deep breath, he let his mind clear and soul expand with the new sense of calm he felt now.
Drawing on the memories of that night in the cave, not on what he did, but why he did it, and the soul crushing pain he felt as he heard her voice when her eyes, though closed looked to him and asked that one simple question, over and over.
"...Why don't you ever look at me?..."
"Natsu...why?...why wouldn't you look at me?...Am I really just...a...sister?..."
His eyes now meeting the knight's once more as they charged each other, he was certain now… She WOULD be HIS!
"GEEEEYAAAAHHHH!" A torrent of flame deflecting off of the front of her impenetrable Adamantine armor, Erza opened up only to see the dragon slayer charging up another fierce fireball. A grin spreading over her cheeks, the light which had characterized the ever changing pace of their battle sprung forth once more! The mighty Queen now adorned in her Heaven's Wheel armor soon appearing in the sky over top the alarmed man!
Making sure the fires churning in his palms were still growing hotter and hotter by the second, Natsu looked up at the beauty floating overhead, a glistening circle of pointed blades revolving around what seemed like an angel from the heavens. "What?...heh…heh…Afraid I was going to melt your invincible armor?...heh…" he panted at her, the maiden merely smiling in amusement at his taunts. "No…I don't think I could wait that long." She grinned, Erza's blades still slowly revolving around her whilst the man's hands continued to burn brighter and brighter.
"Oh, yeah?..." his hands opening up, Natsu held them in the air as he took aim at the hovering knight. "Yeah…" Erza pointed each of her spread palms down, the space at the center of her fingers taken up by the man whose last seconds of consciousness for a long while were upon him. The two titans of Fairy Tail beaming at each other with pure excitement, excitement for the battle they had been waiting their whole lives for, Erza commanded her blades to rain down upon the dragon slayer just as Natsu swung down and blasted the flames from his hands into the ground, the male turning himself into a flaming missile aimed directly at the scarlet knight! The explosion of steel meeting flame erupting like an exploding star, all went quite as the air was sucked inward, the sphere which now housed their magical powers as well as themselves growing into what looked like a star mere moments before it swept outward with a colossal…
Another Fairy Tent:
While the courtship of war raged across the sun swept beach, in another corner of the relatively peaceful oasis sat a tent, a tent which contained a much different kind of bombshell than the one going off half a mile away. But this other kind of bombshell, this softer, smoother kind, was not alone, no…like any pair of bombshells…she had a counterpart…an Earthly counterpart. And despite the sparring match of epic proportions going on so close by, getting up to deal with it was the LAST thing on the mind of that counterpart…
"C'mon! Get up already!" Luce shouted as she pushed angrily at her sleeping 'twin', the equally busty and blonde girl simply rolling over with a happy snore instead of getting up. "Grrr…" The fact that the snore coming from the sleeping Lucy sounded more like that of a kitten than a girl NOT at all easing Luce's wrath over being cooped up all day to babysit the dozing fairy. She'd had about enough of this already, sitting around watching her sleep and so peacefully at that! Running her fingers through short strands of blonde silk, the brawler could only scowl at just how peaceful the Heartfilia girl looked, and to make matters worse it was the REASON why Lucy was sleeping so soundly that really got to the grumpier blonde and drove her to clawing at the drowsy girl to escape.
Her soft melons jiggling as they moved around in her overly small bikini top, she would have given ANYTHING to be in her twin's place that last night…right there…on all fours out in the open, where any girl who passed by could have seen them, her delicate pale body…clad just in a floral bikini as she was held still only by the suction of her man's lips between her two huge boobies. Her cheeks turning red at the memory, Luce remembered just how he had slid Lucy's bottoms down over her round bottom before a pair of marauding fingers wiggled their way between her thick thighs…working their way through her defenses before making the girl who they were violating let out an adorable 'EEP!' of joy…
"No…I don't wanna get up…" But that had NOT been Luce experiencing all those wonderful sensations…THAT was why SHE was up, her body aching to feel the warmth of her star crossed mate as he fucked her into the ground where she belonged…taking her like the brute he was and showing HER that as strong as she was…HE could do anything he wanted to her…and there was not a thing she could do to stop him… "Stahp…sleepy…"
Slowly wiping the drool off of her leaking upper lip, not to mention the currently marinating lower pair, Luce stared down angrily at her counterpart once more, her brown orbs not nearly as accommodating as they had been the previous night…not now that her fire was lit that is. "Are you really going to sleep all day?" The foreign blonde crossed her arms over her wobbling bosom as she stared down at the other girl, the cuteness of the currently still naked Lucy as she lolled around on her blanket having no effect on the exhibitionist at all.
Gently rolling over onto her back like the snoozing bouncy kitten that she was, Lucy let out a soft sigh before replying, her cheeks tinting a darker shade of red than even Luce's had been as she recalled the 'reasons' why she could not simply just get up like the other blonde wanted her to. "How can I not sleep all day?..." The Heartfilia girl cooed, her voice, as well as her mind sounding as if she were in a dream-like state, the world around her not at all mattering as long as the touch of her lover was still felt on her sensitive skin… "…After all the things he did to me..." Lucy sighed before hugging her arms to herself, squishing her Gs up near her face, "…I feel so tired..."
Rolling her brown orbs just like the celestial wizard's bigger whiter pair did when she moaned, Luce picked up the sleepier girl's swimsuit, her will now bound and determined to put it back on her so she could go out without risking leaving what was basically her body open to a Cana attack. "No!" Unfortunately though… "No clothes!" The nude female wasn't ready to leave her dream land version of her mate just yet…
Letting a low growl leave her gritted teeth as she pressed the white flowered triangles of fabric onto Lucy's huge melons, Luce didn't really know what was more annoying…that she had to go through this to ensure that her other self wouldn't be visited by the grope fairy and her green haired assistant for a morning checkup…or the fact that she was in fact coping a feel of herself! 'Whoa…these are actually pretty nice…' The Edo babe gave in to a small smirk as she sank her fingers into Lucy's pliant peaks, the pillowy soft skin sliding around between her fingers as she tried to catch them in the bikini top, '…No wonder the other girls couldn't take their eyes off of them when Natsu fucked me...my girls are spectacular!...in fact…' A mischievous grin spreading over the rough sex loving blonde's pink lips, she squished her fingers even deeper into Lucy's bouncy globes, the cheeks of both blondes turning redder and redder while the white mounds of flesh being mashed around the weaker girl's chest grew pinker and pinker with every grope and squeeze.
The job of getting a very satisfied and very nude fairy clothed for a day of training and…as much as Luce hated to admit it considering what it sounded like…playing with herself getting increasingly more and more irritating by the moment though, Luce could feel her patience slipping, especially since after successfully squeezing the celestial wizard's boobs back into their flowered triangles she didn't have anything to admire! Well…there was…that…but grabbing her other self's boobs was one thing…that was another entirely. "ARRRRGHHH…WOULD YOU JUST GET SOME CLOTHES ON SO WE CAN START TRAINING!?" Screaming the 'request' at the tops of her lungs, Luce was certain she was going to lose her own top in the struggle if the naked girl kept on wiggling and squirming in her grasp. Luckily for her sanity though…she had a guardian angel in the sky…
BANG!
The sonic boom from the other side of the beach at long last reaching their tent, the light, thin orange fabric of the campsite was torn up and thrown into the air as sand and various articles of clothing, mostly naughty underwear seeing who it belonged to, swept by to litter the sandy beach around them. "OKAY! I'M UP! I'M UP!" Lucy shrieked in panic, her eyes now the biggest white things around as the sheer intensity of the noise was enough to get even the deepest sleeper up on their toes! It was certainly not the way Lucy had expected to start her day...err night, NOR was it the way Luce had wanted to begin her aerial training exercises, but with their soft figures spiraling through the air they had little choice. One blonde drawing a fanged key of a sand dweller while the other lit her fist aflame with the heat of the cosmos, the day may almost have been over, but still...it was time to train…
The explosion knocking the two wizards to the ground, Erza landed in only her black bikini, the intense heat and power behind the blast ripping her armor to pieces. Her eyes barely open, a small grunt left her lips as she tried to get back on her feet, only for a louder and much harsher sound to erupt from her battered form as she was tackled to the sandy beach by a figure bigger than her…and as she would soon find out…
"Heh…heh…heh…"
Much more determined to keep her from getting up again than she was to stand…
Long draws of air being sucked into his starving lungs, Natsu stood on all fours over the knight now…over Erza… Hands holding firmly onto the female's arms, his sweat, like a sea of sailors escaping a sinking ship flowed down over his muscles, the many dips and ridges where the man's muscles met one another slick with the aftermath of the fight to end all fights…
Natsu was exhausted…completely and utterly…he was a man who had given it his all in the effort to conquer the girl he wanted so badly…but in his bid to claim her, to make her his…he had failed…even with everything he had he could never tame such a maiden...because she too had given it her all, the woman who he now held below him, who he now stood above for the first time in his life had emptied her bottomless pool of magic and stamina in order to hold him off…and in the end neither won…at least…not yet…
Natsu's dark orbs running over the scantily clad body of Erza Scarlet, her fair skin marred by burns and cuts and bruises, all his doing, he could see just from looking in her eyes that even though both of them had, had it…they weren't finished yet… But he was still on top of her though…and that certainly mattered for something… "Guh…" Gasping as he gazed down at her, it was clear as day that Titania, in all her glory was just as sweaty as he was, but being a girl…there were certain…differences between what sweat did as it slid down between his hard pecs…and what it did when it accumulated underneath her bikini top…
Staring with wide eyes, Natsu could only look on in awe as, with every move he made every slight fidget, Erza's breasts would wobble slightly, her slick, slippery melons swaying and then slipping from one side of her chest to the other as he adjusted himself over her, the tiniest of his movements causing her boobs to work against her soaked bikini top in ways that made his blood run red with lust. Moving up made them slide down in the thin black triangles of her bikini top, down made them slide up again, but while her large breasts slid all around her chest, the girl's top stayed right where it was…eventually one of those movements would cause a round globe to stray from the safety of its triangle…the sight of one small bump inching towards the edge of a scrap of fabric telling the man just how close he was to Erza's pinkest flesh…
Feeling his cheeks heating up at the sight of her breasts slowly stripping themselves of their only covering, two globes of pale fat doing their best to expose themselves to him on their lonesome, Natsu snuck a peak up at the face of the girl who owned those two naughty…naughty melons, the look… 'She's blushing…' the look on Erza's face as she too watched her large F cups slowly slide out of her top with nothing she could do to stop it was simply too much for the dragon slayer to handle. His body warming up as the hormones which having a beautiful girl under him caused flowed throughout him, the heat soon baked away the sweat on their bodies, thus ensuring that while they still moved with every twitch and breath either wizard made, Erza's girls could not break free on their own anymore, that tiny pebble staying right where it was on the thin edge of that one black triangle of cloth.
The threat of expulsion gone for the time being, Erza looked up at the man who had her body on her back, just as Natsu looked down at the girl who had his heart held over her. Their eyes locking the moment they met, Natsu was the one to speak first, his chapped and worn lips uttering the one word he had been thinking since the first blow had been exchanged that morning. "Erza…" He said it in such a primal way…it caught the unarmored knight totally off guard! It was so deep and masculine…every sound that left his mouth dripping with desire for the one girl whom it was meant for.
Large breasts rising as brown orbs widened, Erza's breath hitched in her throat as she looked up at him, the man who she had been going all out against all day long now on top of her. Things didn't click right away for the young knight…they took a few moments just to sink in…the fact that he…the boy whom she had trained since his boyhood years had now become a man…a man who…for the first time…had her pinned…
"Natsu…" her breath hitting his face as she said his name, the dragon slayer couldn't help being taken aback with just how delicate she sounded…how the girl he'd sparred with all these years, and who had always spoken with such a strong voice reeking with masculine power now seeped feminine vulnerability with every flick of her tongue. More than her voice though, it was the face from which it came which truly struck Natsu. Her eyes…they were like two perfect orbs…spherical, yet full of supple curves of their own…not round like Lucy's or angular like Juvia's…strong…her eyes shone her inner strength up at him each time they met his, reminding him of just how powerful she was…while at the same time…telling the man that no matter how tough the owner of those eyes seemed…there was still a girl under it all.
Keeping himself steady, Natsu kept his eyes locked on hers, the girl under him looking back at him, her composure suddenly shifting as the soft hold keeping her arms pinned to the sand now turned into a harsh grip. "Erza, I need to ask you something…" he said, the fire wizard watching her all the while, monitoring her every reaction and glance, flick and twitch; he had seen how nervous she'd become when the reality of their situation had sunk in.
The woman of a thousand armors laid still in nothing, but a few scraps of onyx fabric as he waited for her to respond, her eyes still hidden beneath her long strands of scarlet hair, she nodded…slowly… Natsu wasn't stupid though, he could SEE how much this was affecting her, to be pinned…to be made defenseless…this was NOT a feeling Titania was used to feeling. It was not one she was used to feeling because she had NEVER liked it…being bound…it made her feel so weak…so helpless…it reminded her of that day…that…that horrible day at the Tower of Heaven… The soft skin of her throat moving up and then down as she swallowed the pain of that day one more time, she nodded once more, a small orb of water welling, but not yet falling from her eye "Erza…I need to know…no more fights…no more games…okay?..." The man could feel his own eyes burning with the need to cry, but he brushed it aside for now, "…I just need to know…"
That tear still welling in the corner of that one eye, it and its beautiful remained hidden from the view of the ones who wished to see them most, she nodded for the third…and final time… The time was now…the time to answer the question which had hung between them for so long. Both of them had their ideas, their expectations and wants, but neither was certain of what the other wanted. This may have been Erza…Queen of the Fairies he was dealing with, but Natsu knew that he still had to ask her… His eyes disappearing into the darkness beneath his pink hair as the sun began to set after a long and hard day's battle…he did
"…Do you want me to do it?"
Silence passing over the two individual wizards, warriors of magic and skill, it seemed as if nature itself ground to a halt to allow the reply which was to come to come. The wind dying off just as the sands around them settled, all Natsu could do was wait…wait for the only thing more terrifying than asking a girl that one ancient question…her answer.
Watching with ever-widening eyes, Natsu stared down at the girl as she spoke with perfect clarity. Her thin pink lips parting to tell him her answer, all that could be heard leaving them was a small, "Yes…" the rest of what the girl had to say to the boy however…was lost to eternity…
"OOOOOHMMMM!"
Just like it always was.
The sun silhouetting them, forming two beings into one just as the pair met in the most intimate way their love-flooded minds could think of, it happened…the lips of Erza Scarlet being at long last sealed by those of Natsu Dragneel, the boy kissing the girl…it was everything she could ever ask for…
His tongue slowly sliding into the soft cavern of her mouth, the tongue of Natsu Dragneel at long last found the slick maiden of Erza Scarlet. Their movements, each about as tentative as they could possibly be, were small at first, the tip of each pink muscle pressing together for a mere moment of togetherness, they repeated the move several more times in bursts. Only with each passing time though…each passing lick and lap…they became more…and more…hungry… "Mhhhhmmm!" Natsu's eyes popping wide open, the gentle slowness of their first kiss coming to a sudden and violent end, it was Erza who went for it first. A girl may have been expected to always wait for the guy to make his move, but Erza wasn't like regular girls…SHE would make sure the move happened at the right time…whether he made it…or she did… "Oooohhmmmm…" And Natsu didn't mind…not one…little…bit…
Her tongue smashing into his, the soft morsel of flesh had soon driven her male companion back into his lair. Like the fire wizard had been with so many girls so far, SHE now had her way with him, slippery pink softness roaming over his sharp fangs and around his tender gums, Erza wanted him to face her one last time, to duel her like only HE could…and he did…but whether or not her tongue appreciated the pleasure she soon garnished from that challenge was yet to be heard.
Like the dragon boy that he was, Natsu ran his tongue all over that of the knight, like his body as it pressed up against her own, his tongue explored that of its love through sheer force of feeling alone. Sliding down against her, forcing her down and making her understand the kind of lust she had begged him for before finally slamming that fragile thing up against the side of her mouth and ravishing her to his heart's content!
"Mhhhhmmmm!" "Oooooohhhmmmm!"
The couple of dragon and knight, fire and steel now a mess of eager hands and sensitive skin as they rolled across the cooling sands which now shone orange in the glow of the sinking sun, it was not until the need to see more of each other…rather than the need for air ended that first destined kiss. Their little trip into a less war torn section of the beach, although now a VERY hot one at an end, Erza rose herself up, her shoulders hiking up the large breasts which stood firm in her bikini top giving a slight wobble as she looked down at him. Her brown eyes shining, things had certainly changed for the better, because as much as Erza liked Natsu on top of her kissing her; she loved being on top of Natsu so much more… Her mind a pink of feeling of love and lust, there was only one thought she had to what was to come next between man and woman…
'It's been a long enough wait…'
A/N: It really has been…hasn't it? It's been WAY WAY WAAAAAAAY too long since I last updated I know… A lot has happened since I posted chapter 20 of NBF, my first real job mainly; although it is by far not the biggest reason for my lack of updates over these last what 6 weeks? Ugh…I have usually only had Saturday nights to do any real writing, but the problem was honestly that every time I got to that night something horrible would happen or I would become immensely depressed to the point that writing of any strong emotion or effort was impossible for me. It was because of my only writing day a week falling apart 4 times straight that nothing happened for over a month despite me having a full outline for Erza's fight as well as her lemon. The original plan was to get the bulk of the lemon done this past Saturday night, but due to an issue with a close friend of mine that night resulted in not a single word being written.
Talking with another friend that night though I realized I could still get you all something. It has been a really…REALLY long time since I last posted and I wanted to get something out considering I just revised the summary of the story, which I only do before posting an update. And also and really what swung the decision to split this chapter in two in favor of it was the fact that THIS is my first real fight…ever. The fight between Natsu and Luce was indeed a fight, but so far all my reviewers have agreed with me it wasn't a full on fight, it was one sided and Natsu held back the whole time, only getting serious right as he pinned Luce Ashley. This on the other hand IS a real fight. It is back and forth, it's all out combat, it is Natsu and Erza at their finest head to head for the other. This is my first real fight and the last thing I wanted was for it to be overshadowed by a lemon regardless of how good that lemon is.
Plus…we all know those 30k chapters were too big and just looking at the size of this one WITHOUT a lemon, I think we can see that it would easily hit that threshold if I didn't split it. This chapter was a blast to make and I PROMISE that the next one won't be any more than 2-3 weeks out from the posting of this one. Besides…I think we can all agree Erza deserves more than one chapter for her time, eh?
The chapter following Erza's big moment will be arguably one of the most interesting chapters I will ever write because it may very well end up being a one shot connected to NBF or chapter 23. The previous one about sexy embarrassing scenes has been taken note of so no worries there. This one though is more plot based in that I am asking for your opinions on who should have more screen time! So please, once you've left that nice review I know you want to leave, head on over and vote!
I appreciate every REVIEW I get so please send some love my way, and if you can, please let me know how I did with this first real fight! IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK!
