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A/N: Okay, Chapter 5, let's see how this goes.

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Chapter 5

Fire Spirit vs The Golden Bull

Summoner and summon stare at one another for a moment, each of them shrouded in silence after Kasai's initial question while Lucy and Levy merely look on.

"You have yet to answer my question, Kit", Kasai says, "Did you miss me?"

Romeo lets out a scoff and shook his head.

"Hey, Kit, I knew you miss me!", they yip before bounding towards Romeo, leaving a trail of burnt grass in their wake.

"No Kasai! No!", Romeo screams as he turns to run but it was too late as the kitsune pounces on him from behind and takes him to the ground, sitting atop of him as the boy could only give a blank stare in response at Lucy and Levy.

"Kasai reminds me of a dog with the way he acts sometimes", Levy comments while Lucy nods in agreement.

Meanwhile, Gajeel, Gray, and Juvia were watching the speculate from the confines of the train.

"Hey Stripper", the dragon-slayer calls over, "Since you actually had a human teacher, how would you rate Bunny Girl so far?"

"Wait a minute, didn't Juvia have a teacher?", Gray questions, wondering why he was the only one getting asked.

"Juvia-chan's magic was self-taught", the Water Mage answers and Gray dwell on this for a moment to realize that he was the only one in the car, including Erza, who was taught magic by a non-dragon.

"Huh, that explains why I'm the only sane one. Anyway, it's too early to tell since they just started today. Though I am surprised that she's jumping straight into combat training so soon", Gray says, "To be honest I was a little skeptical when she told us that she was going to teach Romeo seeing how she has trouble with her own spirits sometimes."

Gajeel shrugs, "True, but at least it will be entertaining to watch", as he hears, "Gate of the Golden Bull!", and a bright light emits from Lucy. Moments later, a giant Minotaur was next to her, begrudgingly kneeling to the fire spirit who was still sitting on top of his summoner.

"Kasai-sama, it's been a while", Taurus says in a dark tone, catching everyone off-guard but Lucy notices that he was smiling.

Kasai gets off of Romeo and moves closer to the Celestial Spirit until he was right in his face, "Bullshit, how you been? Unwell, I hope.", he growls.

"Never better", Taurus says before standing up and turning around to his summoner, not even waiting to get permission from the kitsune to get up. "Mooooooooo! Lucy, you are smoking! Seven years have done nothing to your perfect body, especially your boobs!", he says with hearts in his eyes, not noticing the downtrodden look Levy was giving her own chest after that statement.

"Flat is justice", she mumbles to herself while Lucy just laughs nervously at the boldness of the Celestial Spirit.

"It's good to see you again too, Taurus, but I didn't summon you so you could admire my body", she says.

"Could we do that the next time you call on me?", Taurus pleaded.

"I'll think about it, but you're here to help Romeo have his first combat lesson with Kasai and get used to seeing him fight" Lucy declares.

Lucy observes Taurus' reaction, half expecting him to refuse such order or try to find a way out of it. Instead, she was greeted by the sight of him eagerly grabs Labrys off his back and points it at Kasai who was still standing in the same place. A sinister smile appears on his lips, revealing his long, razor-sharp teeth, and the fire spirit's eyes open and the Golden Bull found himself staring into the kitsune's fiery glowing eyes. Even Romeo was taken back by this and scoots away from him from his summon.

"I see, so Kasai opens his eyes whenever it is ready to fight, just like it did with Virgo. Perhaps it's used as an intimidation tactic ", Levy says next to Lucy, "That would match perfectly with your theory from last night."

Lucy nods, "Taurus has Virgo beat in stamina, offense and defense capabilities while she only wins out in speed so I think it's safe to say that Kasai is no pushover in combat if Taurus is taking this type of approach."

"Actually, the environment can be a major factor in the overall strength of an Elemental Spirit", a voice says from behind them and the girls turn around to see the Leo the Lion otherwise known as Loke standing on top of the train behind them.

"Loke?", said both Lucy and Levy, "What are you doing here?"

"Why enjoying the sight of two lovely ladies who I haven't seen in quite some time", Loke answers before flipping off of the train and landing directly in front of the two on one knee. He quickly takes Levy's hand while placing the other over his heart.

"Ah, dear sweet Levy", he began, "You know, I have yet to receive an answer from you regarding going out on a date with me."

Levy shakes her head in annoyance, "And you're never going to get one."

Loke gives a nod and then turns to Lucy, "Lucy, you haven't aged a day since we last met and your beauty is radiating as ever."

Lucy joins Levy in shaking her head, "Good to see you too, Loke", she says before looking behind him at where Kasai and Taurus have now moved out into the field, facing one another with slasher smiles on their faces while Romeo was in between the two groups watching the two spirits, "What were you saying about an Elemental Spirit's strength?"

The Lion Spirit eyes the Golden Bull and Fire Spirit for a moment before looking back at Lucy, "Much like the Celestial Spirits, an Elemental Spirits can grow stronger if their summoner grows stronger but also depending on the area around them, that also can give them a boost."

Levy puts a pen and notebook from out of nowhere and began taking notes, "Please, tell us more."

Loke throws his attention over to Romeo, looking the boy up and down, "Wow, he has really grown up. I would have never have thought that he would be the Elemental Spirit Summoner even if he was from the Konboruto line."

Lucy's eyes widen in surprise and she waves her hands around, "Wait, wait, wait. You knew that Romeo was from the Konboruto line even when you were in Fairy Tail?"

Loke raises an eyebrow at his summoner, "Of course, the Celestial Spirits and the Elemental Spirits all live within the Spirit World together and I used to visit them all the time between their reincarnations so I knew all about the Konborutos and their pact with the Emperor. I honestly just never thought that Macao's kid would be the one to get it seeing how he has distant cousins over in the east who could have gotten it."

"Reincarnation?", both Lucy and Levy question.

"Oh, Kasai hasn't told ya?" Loke ask.

"He hasn't been exactly forthcoming in information", Lucy answers.

Loke lets out a chuckle, "Sounds like him, he's not exactly the nicest when it comes to dealing with humans. That's a story for another time, but anyway, once again unlike the Celestial Spirits, Elemental Spirits only get one summoner every several centuries or so", he states before looking up at the sky, "If my math is correct, Romeo should be summoner number thirteen for the Elemental Spirits since the Emperor allow them to be used by humans."

"Thirteen spirits, the pact was invoked on Romeo's thirteenth birthday, and he is the thirteenth summoner. A lot is revolving around that specific number for some reason", Lucy thought to herself.

"But back to your original question, Levy, Kasai and the others was magically linked to their summoner in terms of power and can only grow in might if they do though they do start out with a boost in the beginning", the Lion Spirit states, "With that even at Romeo's current level of magic and seeing how there isn't anything around that can give "The Trickster" a boost, Kasai and Taurus are almost on equal footing with Taurus having a slight advantage."

"This should be a good test for him then", Lucy tells Levy as she began walking out to the field, coming up behind Romeo while doing so, "You ready for this?" she says as she taps him on his shoulder.

Romeo breaks out of his thought and looks up at Lucy, "What exactly do I have to do?"

"Well, actually it's pretty simple", Lucy admits, "You just tell your spirit to attack a target and they basically do the rest with you every now and then commanding them to move to a different target if it poses a greater threat. This is more of a test to see Kasai's fighting capability."

"Ehhhh, I'm going to stop you right there", Loke said as he came up on Romeo's other side.

"Loke? When did you get here?", he asks.

"I've been here for a while now. You really need to pay more attention to your surroundings for it's going to play a major factor from here on out", Loke tells him.

Romeo cocks his head at the Celestial Spirit, "Say what now?"

Lucy follows suit with the head movement, "What he said."

Loke rubs his eyes, "Didn't think I was going to be getting Spirits 101 lessons today, but Elemental Spirit's combat is different than Celestial Spirit's combat."

Levy pops up next to Leo, startling him, "How so?"

"Geez, did you learn stealth magic when I wasn't looking?", Loke asks before straightening himself out, "Anyway, the spirits of the elements rely on their summoners in combat far more than the Celestial Spirits do. Let me show you an example. Lucy, Romeo, tell Kasai and Taurus to begin their match, they look like their getting a little antsy out there, anyway."

Both summoners look at one another for a moment before turning to their respective spirits who were still having a staring contest with each other.

Lucy was the first one to give the order, "Taurus, go after Kasai!"

"You got it, Lucy! I have been waiting for this rematch, Kasai-sama!", the Golden Bull bellows as he rushing Kasai, raising his ax high above his head before bringing it down with a thunderous crash on top of the kitsune. Kasai merely smirks at his attacker before evading Labrys with a swift backflip, putting him a couple of yards away from the crater creating by Taurus who continues his assault with another bullrush attack, this time jumping high into the air and coming down with his axe on top of Kasai once more.

This time the fire spirit leans to the side, letting the axe narrowly miss him his shoulder and crash into the ground right before he launches with a claw swipe at Taurus's expose face with his right paw. The Minotaur moves his face back just in time to avoid taking the full brunt of the swipe but the tips of Kasai's claws still made connect with his face, leaving four bloody claw trails across his left cheek.

Taurus leaps backward and away from a snickering Kasai who greedily lick the blood off the ends of his claws.

"Hmmm, I bet you go good with some seasoning, maybe sprinkle with some pepper and herbs", Kasai mocks Taurus who merely smirks back in response.

"I'm going to make you into a pelt which I'm going to show off at the Spirit Ball and then wear you until your next reincarnation", he declares with a puff of smoke out of his nose.

Lucy finds herself taken aback by the statement from the usual pervert spirit. She looks over at Loki who was watching the match with an intense glaze, "Is there some sort of history between those two?"

"Taurus and Kasai have been rivals long before Fiore was even a country. While they have been ordered by both the Celestial Spirit King and Elemental Spirit Emperor to be more civil with each other, give them a chance to fight and they'll hold nothing back", Loke explains, "At one point, their fighting scratched the Grand Spirit God's throne and they were almost banished from existence."

"Interesting", Levy states as she wrote everything the Leo was saying down just as a roar erupted from Taurus who once more leaped straight up into the air, spinning his axe while doing so.

"Rampage!"

And with that he brought the axe back to the ground with such force that a shockwave was created, traveling toward Kasai and shooting rocks everywhere with even a couple of them heading toward Lucy and the others, but luckily Loke intercepted all of them with his fists, reducing them to dust. Anyway, the shockwave hit Kasai dead-on, sending the kitsune flying back across the field and into one of the large rock formation, shattering it upon impact as he blasts through it and straight into the forest beyond.

Before anyone could comment on what just happen, Kasai appears back on top of the rock, the fire on his tail now revving up as his eyes took on a more intense glow.

Meanwhile back on the train, the rest of the Fairy Tail crew excluding, Natsu, Happy, and Erza, were watching the scene unfold when the Requip Mage stomps back into the cabinet, an aura of murderous intent oozing off of her. Gray moves away from her on sheer instinct, backing up into Juvia who was squealing with joy.

"What's the manner with you?", Gajeel asks, tearing his eyes away from Levy and Loke, a little disgruntled about the Solid Script Mage being so close to the Lion Spirit.

"We're catching a train back to Magnolia when we hit the next station", she growls, visibly shaking with rage.

"What? Why?", Carla asks.

"I just got off the line with the mayor of Oak Town and it seems are services are no longer require. Another guild has taken our job.", Erza explains.

"Who the hell did that?", Gajeel says.

"Apparently a guild called Sabertooth", Erza explains, "I will be informing Master Makarov of this and he will no doubt file a formal complaint with the Magic Council regarding this manner but for now we are heading home.", she says before she turns her attention outside.

"What's going on here?", she asks.

"Lucy is trying to get some combating training in for Romeo while the train isn't going anywhere", Pantherlily explains.

Erza nods once more, "Lucy is taking any opportunity she can get to train her young pupil, a wise move. Truly a sign of a well-prepared teacher."

"You know Levy is helping out as well, right?", Gajeel grumbles.

Taurus lands a solid punch down on top of Kasai's head, sending him straight to the ground with a crash. Kasai quickly struggles to get to his feet but wasn't even halfway up before Taurus brought the flat of his ax down on top of him, once more sending him to the floor.

"I'm not going too hard on you, am I?", Taurus taunts as he hefts his axe on his shoulder, "It seems you've gotten a little rusty since the last time we fought out here in the Human World. It must be hard to not be able to use your magic as freely as I can."

A feral growl was all the Minotaur got in response as he jumps back to avoid a storm of claws aim at his head as Kasai retaliates with fury, his eyes glowing ever brighter while the flames on his tail seem to burn hotter.

Kasai launches himself at Taurus, ducking an axe swipe to his head and clamping his on the bull expose lower left leg, drawing blood as his teeth sank into flesh. The Celestial Spirit's howls of pain echo throughout the forest but he gritted through the torment and brought Labrys down on top of Kasai's back only for the fire spirit to let go of his leg and side jump the axe, and causing it to strike the ground with a thundering crash, but Taurus found himself to unable to get it out before Kasai renew his assault, turning around and expelling the flames from his tail directly into Taurus' face, temporarily blinding him and forcing him to let go of the axe in an effort to shield himself with his arms, thus leaving him even more vulnerable.

The kitsune then pouch on the Minotaur, digging the claws on his hind legs into the Celestial Spirit's thighs while impaling Taurus' board chest with his front ones. The frosting on top was Kasai once more using the razor-sharp teeth in his mouth to bite down hard on Taurus's right shoulder, pools of blood instantly spraying out as the Minotaur once more howls in anguish as a sea of red blankets his body.

But the Elemental Spirit wasn't done as he raises the intensely of his flames so now Taurus was being stabbed, bitten, and cook at the same time as his skin started to become burnt.

"You can't fool "The Trickster", you masochistic bastard! You're enjoying all of this!", Kasai cries out and he applies more pressure to his bite. Taurus grits his teeth and using both of his arms that Kasai failed to restrain, he wraps his hands around the inside of the fire spirit's jaws and uses his superior strength to pry them open off of his shoulder. Using one hand to keep Kasai from biting him again he used the other to latch onto the back of the kitsune's neck and hurl him away, despite the pain caused by Kasai's claws suddenly being violently pulled out of him.

Kasai lands gracefully a dozen yards away while Taurus slumps to his knees, grabbing his axe and using it keep him from collapsing to the ground as a pool of blood gathered around him.

"This may be getting out of hand", Lucy says as she watches Taurus struggle to get back on his feet.

"It usually does between these two but there's nothing to worry about", Loke assures her, "In fact, Taurus would actually be mad at you if you were to stop him now."

"Seriously?", Lucy said, surprised to hear that the perverted Minotaur would actually be upset with her if she intervenes.

"Their rivalry runs that deep", Loke says, "They're like Natsu and Gray in a way, only their grudge has been going on a hundred times longer."

"I guess that makes sense", Lucy says, "Any idea what caused it?"

"It's a personal matter between them and I have no business talking about it. I hope you understand, Lucy", Loke answers.

"Argh, you're no help", she huffs, "But still, it looks like someone is going to really get hurt here soon."

"Don't worry about it. Remember, when a Celestial or also an Elemental Spirit reaches a certain threshold of damage they're instantly sent back to the Spirit World", Loke states.

A baffle expression falls on Romeo's face as he turns to look at Loke, "Really?"

"It's rare but yeah, Celestial Spirits automatically go back to the Spirit World if they get severe injure, and they recover quickly while there. Though it usually means they can't be re-summon for at least a week. I figure the same applies to Elemental Spirits as well", Lucy adds, "It's a ex…Levy, I appreciate the enthusiasm but you don't have to write down every little thing we say."

The petite mage looks up for a moment from her notebook, "You're sure? I feel this will become important later on."

Back to the duel between Kasai and Taurus, the Minotaur was paying for his underestimation of the fire spirit. The last time the two of them have fought out in the Human World was so long ago that a majority of Earthland's current nations weren't even around. The two of them are forbidden by the Celestial Spirit King and Elemental Spirit Emperor from fighting in the Spirit World unless under extreme circumstances ever since their incident with the Spirit Throne, but out here there are no laws to bind them. But because Kasai hasn't seen combat in a while, Taurus thought he was a little rusty but that doesn't seem to be the case.

As the bull struggles to his feet, he readies himself for another round with his rival who was now pacing back and forth, stalking Taurus with predatory eyes, his back arch up while his claws dug into the ground underneath him.

"Kit! Give me a spell and be quick about it!", Kasai barks at Romeo, his eyes still on Taurus, "I want to end this now while he is weaken!"

"Give him a what?", Lucy says as she looks to Loke for answers but caught the Lion Spirit shaking his head.

"This is exactly why you were always the last one to be summoned, Kasai. You don't want to interact with your mage at all outside of combat, even for training", she hears him growl before he looks down at Romeo, "Listen, you need to command Kasai to use a spell in order for him to cast it in combat."

The sound of Levy's furiously scribbling down notes was the only thing that could be heard between the four as Romeo and Lucy merely look at each other then back at Loke.

"Come again?", was Lucy's response.

"As I said before, Elemental Spirits are way less independent than Celestial Spirits when it comes to combat. Where a Celestial can fully operate on its own, an Elemental needs their summoner to give them a command to cast a spell or ability", Loke explains, "Other than that, an Elemental can only attack with basic attacks like slashing with their claws, biting with their teeth, or in special cases like Kasai, using the flames from his tail but that's only at extremely close distances.

"Fascinating", Levy comments as she jots down more notes while Kasai catches The Golden Bull off-balance and tackles him to the ground. Taurus was using the shaft of Labrys to keep Kasai's jaws from clamping down on him once more as the kitsune was biting into it and the Celestial Spirit had to work to make sure his axe was still able to keep the fire spirit's claws at bay as well.

Romeo keeps staring up at Loke for a moment before speaking, "O-Okay, what spell do I cast?"

The leader of the Celestial Spirits taps his head in thought, "I believe Fireball is one of his spells. At least one of the ones I remember seeing him use."

"So he just….?", Lucy twirls her hand.

"Just say "Kasai, cast Fireball" and he'll do the rest", Loke tells Romeo.

"Just like that?", the former fire mage asks.

"Just like that", Leo repeats

"And say it with some coincidence in your voice", Lucy instructs, "Remember to show him that you're in charge."

Romeo looks at both Lucy and Loke before turning his attention back to the battle between Kasai and Taurus, "Okay, here goes nothing. Kasai, cast Fireball!", Romeo commands and the next thing a magic circle opens up underneath him and he instantly started to feel the magic within him leaving his body.

Across the field, Taurus had managed to push Kasai off of him and the two prepare to face off once more when a voice rang out the field.

"Kasai, cast Fireball!"

Taurus briefly turns to look at where Lucy and the others were at, spotting Romeo holding out a hand toward Kasai, as if he was calling forth his magic as a magic circle opens up underneath him.

Kasai, on the other hand, merely smiles as a magic circle of fiery origins appears underneath him.

"Took you long enough, Kit!", he says as he opens his mouth. Soon enough flames began to rise up out of the magic circle and gather in his mouth into a sphere that kept getting larger and larger until it was nearly half the size of Taurus.

"Try this on for size, Bullshit! Fireball!", Kasai shouts as he releases the spell and it streaks toward The Golden Bull for only had time to bring Labrys up in front him in order to provide some level of protection, but it was nearly all for naught as a moderate explosion of fire engulfs him, pushing him back a few inches before forcing him to stagger backward and fall back down to his knees.

Kasai lets out a roar of laughter, "That spell was way weaker than I thought it would be but it did the job! Time to finish this!", and he starts to stalk toward the down Minotaur but didn't get far before another magic circle, this one of the summoning style, open up underneath him. The kitsune snaps his head to where Romeo was and saw that the boy was on the ground unconscious, being tended to by Lucy, Levy, and "The Lion" who he just realizes had shown up. With his super hearing he could hear the Lion Spirit uttering the words, "Damn it, I knew that was something else I forgot to tell him!"

But the fire spirit paid no mind to these words as he had a few of his own to shout out "Really?! Already?!", right before he vanished in a pillar of erupting fire.

A/N: You can start to see where the pokemon theme is starting to appear.

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