I'm so sorry it took so long to make this.
The kingdom of Fiore.
A small, peaceful nation of 17 million, and a place filled with magic. Found in every home. Bought and sold in every marketplace for most, magic is merely a tool. A mundane part of everyday life. For some, however, magic is an art, and they've devoted their lives to its practice. These are the wizards. Banded together into magical guilds, they ply their skills in search of fame and fortune. Many such guilds dot the landscape of Fiore.
But there's a certain guild in a certain town that sores high above the rest. One from which countless legends have been born. A guild that will no doubt continue to create legends well into the future. Its name is Fairy Tail.
However, they weren't the only ones that knew magic. For long ago, giant monsters roamed the lands. Extremely powerful and intelligent creatures that lived in Earthland alongside humankind. Some even considered them to be the true rules of the world and called them the Titans. Some lived in harmony with humans and were worshiped as gods, while others were vile and wanted nothing more than to destroy whatever they saw. And others simply wanted to be left allow.
They were engines of ultimate destruction, but as time went on, most of these Titans disappeared. And their existence remained in legends.
But there was one that didn't go away. A Titan considered by many to be an alpha predator that brought balance to nature, magic, and humanity. Some call him Earthland's last line of defense against total annihilation. Some call him an animal that's merely driven by instincts. But all believe him to being a god incarnated.
The King of the Monsters.
His name is…
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Godzilla
The Titan-Slayer of Fairy Tail
Skull Island Part 1:
"Two Slayers"
"YOU'RE A TITAN-SLAYER!?" Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Jasper shouted in total shock. Their faces cluttered together for a moment when they yelled at Ernst right after he proclaimed himself Kong's Titan-Slayer.
Ernest giggle with a big, teeth grin. "Yeah, isn't that awesome?"
"Totally, man! That's super cool!" Natsu said with stars in his eyes. "Change you transform and have crazy Atomic Breath too?!"
Lucy quickly came over and pulled him away. "Don't crowd the poor boy," she said to the Dragon-Slayer.
"Hang on, I thought that there was only one Titan-Slayer," Gray said, frowning at Sam.
"I never said that. There's more than one Titan, and the Magic Council also said that it was possible for other Titan-Slayer out there," Sam told the blue-haired Wizard before gesturing to Ernest. "It just so happened that we came across another one on this island."
"Why is this place called Skull Island?" Happy asked, flying up to Ernest.
"I really don't wanna know," Lucy whimpered while holding her arms. She could only imagine the worst things like skulls were covering the island.
Ernest's answer came when he grabbed a stick off the sand and drew in it. Drawing the shape of the island's shape for the Fairy Tail Wizards to see that it resembled the shape of a human skull. "Huh, well, that explains the name," Jasper said.
Throwing the stick away, Ernest looked up at the older kids. Curiosity filling his eyes. "So, what are you guys doing here," he asked them. "Skull Island's not really a great place to come visit for a vacation."
"We're Wizards from the Fairy Tail guild. We're responding to your village's request to lift the curse," Lucy answered with her fists on her hips. Trying to look heroic as the boys gather around. At first, she expected Ernest to look at them with a sense of wonder, hope, and joy. Knowing that someone had answered the call to free his people from the curse that had plagued their island.
"...What curse?"
Lucy's body went comically white as she stared at the kid with a dumbfounded face. "Huh?"
"The demon curse. The request you people sent to our guild was to lift the curse," Sam clarified, pulling out the job request that brought them here in the first place. He handed it to Ernest, and the boy looked at it.
"Oh! That curse. Yeah, I didn't send that. The Iwi did," Ernest told Sam, handing him back the request.
"That's a weird name," Happy said, standing on the ground.
"But, aren't you cursed too," Lucy said, couching down to Ernest's level with confused eyes.
"No, I've been doing great! Thanks to Kong's power, I haven't been affected by the curse at all," Ernest said with a big grin. Smacking his chest with a hardy attitude. "The Iwi are the only people that inhabit the island and have been affected by it the most. If there's anyone that you'll want to see, it's them."
Sam nodded and looked at Natsu and Lucy. "We're already here, and there's no way we'll be able to leave this island unless we find another boat," he told them with a serious expression, turning his head to glance at the hurricane that walled off Skull Island from the rest of the world. "We're breaking the rules already, might as well see this mission through."
"Not so fast..." Everyone turned to see Gray staring at them with a serious expression. "I'm coming with you."
That statement drew a look of confusion from the other team members, especially from Natsu, Happy, and Lucy. Ernest just wondered what they were talking about.
"There's no way I'm gonna let you three clowns make S-Class before I do," Gray stated plainly. "And if you were kicked out, the guild would be pretty boring. Gramps'll be upset, but if we pull this off, he won't stay mad at us for long."
Sam nodded and turned back to Ernest. "Can you take us to the Iwi?"
"Sure! Follow me!" Ernest grinned confidently. Natsu, Jasper, and Lucy smiled while Happy jumped in excitement.
"Yeah!" The three shouted.
"Aye!"
Sam smiled and nodded towards the jungle. "Lead the way!"
"Just stick with and wake your steps!" Ernest said, turning around on his heel and started walking off. Walking with while steps and swinging his arms back and forth as the others followed him. "No, seriously. Everything on this island will kill you in excruciating ways."
That killed the mood.
As the day dragged on, the group continued to follow Ernest through the jungle. Now they were traveling through a forest that had tall bamboo. So far, it seemed as though they would never reach the village. Not when their progress was slowed down repeatedly by Natsu shouting out into the jungle for something to fight him, followed by Gray insulting him. The two would then come at odds with one another. Lucy also didn't help with needing to rest every so often. Natsu would occasionally get sink traveling up steep slopes. Gray would lose his clothes almost every mile.
Needless to say, it wasn't exactly a quick and easy trip thus far. Happy and Jasper weren't all that upset about the journey. Happy kept his usual cheerfulness. Jasper traveled by riding on Sam.
"Are we almost there yet?" Lucy moaned tiredly, stopping a moment and leaning a hand on a bamboo tree. With her other hand, she grabbed her right boot and took it off.
"Do you ever get tired of bitching, Lucy?" Jasper asked in response to Lucy, almost constantly complaining throughout the journey.
"Shut up, you stupid cat!" Lucy yelled furiously at Jasper, emptying the leaves and twigs in it. "You've got it easy! You're riding on Sam!"
"Will you two knock it off," Sam said, looking back at Jasper and Lucy. Ernest suddenly stopped and started sniffing the air. Bring the boys to a stop. "What is it?"
"There's something here..." Ernest looked around the forest. Trying to find where the smell was coming from. And then he looked at Lucy and saw her hand on the bamboo tree. His eyes widened with terror. "Lucy..."
Hearing her name, Lucy looked up and saw Ernest looking at her with fear.
"Take your hand off that leg."
Leg? Lucy looked at the bamboo she was using as support, before slowly looking up. The other members of Fairy Tail did the same and craned their heads up. And what they saw sent a chill down their spins.
Towering over them and blocking out the orange sky was a gigantic spider-like creature that stood around 5 to 7 meters tall. The bamboo Lucy had her hand on was one of its incredibly long legs that resemble bamboo stalks. Allowing them to blend in seamlessly with the surrounding forests, with their legs posing as plants and their upper bodies held high above the canopy. The top half of the giant spider was covered in leaves with 8 red eyes. In addition to its eight legs, it possessed two additional limbs located closer to the head, which was equipped with pincer-like claws.
Lucy stared at the monstrous spider in a state of horror. The horror turned to terror when fleshy tendrils shoot down from the abdomen. They snagged onto her arms and left leg before pulling her up.
"Lucy!" Natsu yelled, trying to grab her as she was pulled up. But he missed her by an inch.
"NATSU!" Lucy screamed as she was pulled towards the hungry Mother Longlegs. Sam was about to transform and attack the Mother Longleg when someone else rushed past him. Climbing up the trees.
Lucy tried to pull the tendrils off her arms and leg with all her might to get free. Looking up, she screamed when she saw the body getting closer, and the Mother Longlegs reaching down with its pincers to grab at her.
But then, just when it was about to grab her, Ernest suddenly appeared. Jumping up into the air. High over the body of the Mother Longlegs.
Just like Sam, Ernest's body had changed. His hair had turned an orange-brown color, with a noticeable growth of hair that framed his face. His arms and legs were slightly larger than normal and were longer than his legs with the orange-brown hair spreading on his limbs. He had fangs in his jaws as he roared out like an animal. To put it simply, he transformed into something that would resemble primates like chimpanzees or gorillas.
Ernest landed on the back of the Mother Longlegs and slammed his fist down onto its head. Smashing through the skull and killing it instantly. The spider let out a short shrilling shriek before it's life was cut short. The tendrils on Lucy got loose, and she started falling to the ground. Natsu quickly jumped up and saved her, as Ernest landed on the ground. The Mother Longlegs collapsed through the trees and onto the ground.
Beating his chest with his fist like a gorilla, Ernest let out a roar that rocked the tree and echoed through the jungle. When he finished, he turned to the others. They've all looked at the young man, noticing his gain in muscles, and have grown slightly taller. "What?"
"Dude...your Titan-form kinda sucks," Natsu and Jasper said.
"HUH!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT SUCKS?!" Ernest yelled angrily at the two. His eyes bulging out of his sockets.
"I think it looks pretty cool," Sam said in his fellow Titan-Slayer's defense.
"Yeah, but you have a tail and those dorsal plates," Grey said, agreeing with his fiery rival.
"FORGET THAT! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Lucy screamed hysterically, pointing at the Skull Island creature that nearly ate her.
"You guys don't have Mother Longlegs in the mainland?" The Titan-Slayer of Kong asked, as if it was just a casual thing that happens daily.
"What? No, we don't!"
"Honestly, I'm surprised it took us this long to get to something trying to eat us," Ernest said, scratching his butt. "Normally, we would have run into something like a Sirenjaw, Spore Mantis, Holy Tigers, or any of the carnivorous plants that are on the island trying to kill us."
Lucy collapsed on her knees with a comically frightened expression. Why-out of all the places that this quest had to be on-why did it have to be on an island that was a living death trap. "I wanna go home..." she whimpered.
Ignoring her, Sam turned to the other Titan-Slayer. "How much further to the village," he asked.
"It shouldn't be too far," Ernest said, turning and jumping up into the tree. Hanging off of one of the branches, he turned back to the Fairy Tail Wizards. "Just follow me!" And then he was off into the jungle again with the others following on the ground. Jasper and Happy opened their wings and flew into the air to be closer to Kong's Titan-Slayer.
Sam, Natsu, Gray, and Lucy ran through Skull Island's jungles for about a minute before Jasper and Happy came back to them.
"Where'd he go?" Gray asked as the humans stopped after running.
"The little bastard was too fast, and we lost him," Jasper said, landing on the ground and kicking a rock in frustration.
That rock hit a piece of the few remains of an archway. Cover in foliage and the roots of the island's trees' roots and had strange yellow marks on it. Likely having been built thousands of years ago by humans before being destroyed.
The Fairy Tail wizards stared at the ruins for a moment, glanced at one another, before turning their heads back. Cautiously, they entered into the ruined area, looking around the stone structures and the markings on the walls.
"What the hell is all of this?" Grey asked.
Sam sniffed the air. "Don't know, but something here," he said, walking ahead of the others. "Be on guard." Lucy walked closer to one of the structures. Staring at the markings painted on them. Turning her head slowly to the right as she followed the designs.
Suddenly a pair of eyes opened on the wall, as a human face appeared.
Lucy screamed and jumped back. Sam snapped his head to look behind and saw someone coming out of the corner of a wall. His body painted completely to blend into the stone architecture. There were also yellow tattoos adorned on him. Not only that, but his arm was monstrous-looking with claws.
The two people seemed to come off the wall as they approached the wizards completely—Spears in hand.
"Behind us!" Natsu yelled as he ignited his flame in his fists. Sam turned his head and saw more of the tattooed people coming out from the architecture. Each of them with a spear pointed at them and with a monstrous body part—arms with claws, legs with talons on their feet, and even horns on their heads.
They completely surrounded them. Realizing that they may be the Iwi, Sam quickly said, "Stay calm! Don't attack them!"
"Yeah, tell them that!" Jasper retorted, summoning his guns and pointing them at the Iwi people advancing towards them. Spearing pointed at them. Just then, more of the Iwi's came out from behind an archway. They weren't colored to match the stone but still had the tattoos as their comrades. They also wore red clothing, with an elder-looking man having some kind of writing on his bald head.
Everyone stood still for a tense moment, and just as the fighting was about to kill off, Ernest came down for the trees, landing in front of the wizards.
"Okay, everyone, just calm down!" He said to the Iwi people, raising his hands in a gesture to lower their weapons. But the tribe didn't. He turned to the wizards and saw they, too, were ready to start attacking. "Come on, now everybody. Keep your wigs on now."
"Where did you go!?" Sam demanded, ready to transform.
"Sorry, I-uh, I kinda forget my own strength sometimes," Ernest said sheepishly. He then turned to the Iwi people. "It's okay. It's fine."
One of the non-warrior natives started talking in surprisingly good English. "What business do you have on our home?"
Sam and the others were a little taken aback by this, but the Titan-Slayer of the guild replied for them. "We're wizards from Fairy Tail. We're here to help you."
The Iwi people looked at one another. "Why weren't we notified that you've accepted the request?" One of the leaders of the hunting party asked. Suspicious of the wizards' sudden appearance on the island.
In Sam's mind, it was a rational thing for the Iwi's to be suspicious of them. Especially when they had taken the job against the rules, he was about to come up with a reason, but Gray beat the Titan-Slayer to the punch. "There was probably just a mix-up with the paperwork," he said with his arms crossed.
"We didn't mean to trespass on your land," Sam said with his arms up, trying to show the people respect. "We'll leave if you want us to."
"I'm not going," Natsu hissed at the Titan-Slayer.
"Do you want a spear shoved up your ass?" Sam hissed back.
"Show us your guild marks." The Iwi man said, narrowing his eyes. The warriors pointing their spears and got ready to attack.
Sam lifted his left hand to show his atomic blue guild mark. Natsu moved his scarf away from his right shoulder to show his red mark. Happy moved his knapsack to show his green make on his back, while Jasper turned around and pointed at his white guild mark on the back of his head. Gray lifted his shirt to show his blue emblem on his chest. And finally, Lucy showed her pink emblem on the back of her right hand.
The moment the wizards showed the Iwi's their mark, the warriors pulled their spears away from Sam and the others.
"Come with us," the man said.
As the day started to turn into night, the wizards and Ernest were seated into small boats. Ernest had transformed back into his human form. The people of the island rowed them across a large river towards a massive defensive wall. One that encircled the village to protect them from the monsters and creatures of the dangerous island.
The rowboats approached the wall of the village. The lower section of the wooden wall peeled up as they got closer, allowing them access to its inside. The Fairy Tail wizards stared up at the wall in wonder as they passed under it, before looking back ahead of them. There was the village, right in front of the water. And waiting for them were more of the Iwi.
There were some with purple robes and some with blue robes. And just like the warriors, they too had various demonic body parts. Not even the children were safe from the curse.
"It's just like what happened to that boat guy," Gray murmured, as the rest of his guildmates looked with wide eyes.
After the boats landed on the village's shores, the Fairy Tail wizards got off and approached the villagers. Greeted by an older man with a clawed arm, carrying a staff with a crescent moon on the top. "Greetings, wizards and..." the man looked at Ernest, and his eyes narrowed. "Titan-Slayer."
Ernest looked away with an upset look on his face.
"I'm Moka, the village chief," the said lead figure. "On behalf of everyone here, I welcome you. As you can see, everyone on Skull Island has suffered a disfigurement because of the curse. Even the animals of the island are affected."
"We mean all the animals aren't big and scary and trying to kill us?" Lucy asked, hopeful that the Mother Longlegs was just a one-time thing.
"No. Everything was like that before. Now they're just scarier."
Lucy whimpered as Sam asked the chief. "Are you absolutely sure that it's a curse?" He wasn't even sure if he was sensing a curse. "Not to be rude, but this could all just be a disease or infection."
"Many of us had left the island to consult with dozens of doctors, young man," the chief said. "But they all said that there's no such disease."
Sam still couldn't shake the feeling that something about this island felt off. Skull Island's smell and scent were so much different than anything that he's ever smelt. The island itself felt really weird, and it was messing with his senses. Like something was blocking them. Being in front of the villagers at the moment, he could sense their magical energy. But he wasn't able to do so from the beach.
Moreover, they didn't smell like they were humans. But Sam chalked it up to the curse messing with him again. "When did it all happen?"
"It all started when the moon fell under an evil spell," Moka said.
"An evil spell?" Lucy repeated.
The chief held up his arm to the sky, and the wizards looked up, and their eyes filled with wonder. High in the sky, aurora lights danced in the night sky. "Since ancient times, the island has drawn its power by absorbing the light of the moon. However, several years ago, the moon's color began to change. And an eerie purple glow was cast upon the island."
"Ever since then, Skull Island has become even more dangerous than it was before," Ernest said.
Happy looked up at the sky and gasped. "It's coming out from behind the clouds!" He called out, pointing up at it.
The wizards and two Titan-Slayers looked up to see the moon appearing after a cloud moved out of the way. Revealing to them that it had indeed turned an eerie purple glow.
"Stand back," Moka warned the group. "The change is upon us!"
Before anyone could ask what he meant, the Iwi villagers started to convulse and moan in absolute agony. That's when their bodies began to change. Their human limbs shifted into those of a demon, giving every one of their appearances the look of a demonic being. Now Sam understood why they didn't smell like humans, and his sympathy for the Iwi people grew the longer he stared at them.
"I'm sorry if our appearance frightens you," Moka said, sporting purple, scaly skin with fangs, pointy ears, and a pair of horns.
"It's okay," Sam said, now understanding why they didn't smell like humans. His sympathy for the Iwi grew. But then Sam and everyone here the sounds of the wildlife out in the jungles of the island. They were transforming into things worse than what they were. "Is this the extent of the curse?"
"Yes. As you can see, whenever the moon comes out, everyone in the village takes on the form of a demon. If this isn't a curse, then what is it? We return to normal when the sun rises; however, there are some among us who lose their minds and never change back. The only thing we can do for those poor souls is to put them to death."
The others were shocked. Even Ernest was surprised to hear that. "But they might get better someday!" Natsu protested.
"If we wait too long, they will kill us all. We tried to capture them, but there was no hope once they entered the island's jungles. They would have been killed for sure!" Moka said sadly. Tears fell from the old man's eyes as he pulled out a photograph. "There's no way to reverse it. This curse has forced me to take the life of my own son."
The Fairy Tail wizards looked at the photo and were surprised to see Bobo was the chief's son.
"That's the guy who took us here on the boat!" Lucy said softly.
"But, we just saw him yesterday…" Jasper began before being interrupted by Gray.
"Shh!" He turned to the blonde and cat and spoke to them in a quiet tone. "I guess we know why he just vanished now. Hopefully, he can rest in peace now."
"Please, lift the curse," Moka begged the Fairy Tail wizards. "If you do not, it's only a matter of time before we all fall victim to it and die!"
There were many things off about Skull Island. Things that Sam didn't really know what as of yet. But that didn't matter. He was going to find a way to help the Iwi. His instincts wouldn't allow him to ignore their suffering. It was Sam's duty to bring balance when it's been threatened. Not caring if he got in trouble with the guild. "What must we do?" He asked with a deadly serious expression.
"There's only one way to lift this curse," Moka said, pointing towards the moon. "The moon…the moon must be wiped from the sky!"
"...Uh, what?"
Needless to say, the Iwi chief's demand has left the team rather stunned. All of them wondered if they really had to destroy the moon. They were ushered into a small hut, away from the purple light that shined on the island. The villagers reluctantly allowed the Titan-Slayer of Kong to join them, and Ernest followed the wizards to the hut.
Inside, Happy was looking up at the moon. "I never knew the moon could be so creepy," Happy said sadly, staring up at the purple moon through a window in the hut.
"You really just realized that," Jasper asked, looking around the hut for another of value.
"Hurry up and close the window!" Lucy shouted. "You heard the chief! We have to stay out of the moonlight! You may not care, but I don't wanna risk turning into some freaky monster!"
"Oh, wow! What a horrible thing it would be to turn into a monster," Sam said sarcastically, feeling a little insulted. He was already annoyed with Godzilla, who had not stopped laughing inside his body after hearing the Iwi chief telling them to destroy the moon.
"Exactly!" She exclaimed before noticing that Sam was giving her a deadpan expression with an eyebrow raised. He was sitting on the ground with his legs crossed, as well as his arms. Realizing what she just said, Lucy rubbed the back of her neck. "...sorry."
"I'm not sure about this job, guys," Natsu said, looking down at the ground with a frown.
"How can these people expect us to destroy the moon?" Gray asked.
"Especially with how much the world will be thrown into chaos," Sam added.
"I wonder how many punches it would take?" Natsu wondered. "You think I can handle it?"
"I think you shouldn't even try it. Okay, dad! We get it! It's impossible! You can stop laughing now!" Sam yelled out loud, startling some of the others, except for Ernest.
"Yeah, even I'm getting tired of it," Ernest said. Thankfully, Godzilla fell silent again.
"Natsu, eh...Godzilla is right? There isn't a wizard strong enough who could do that." Lucy said to the Dragon-Slayer, before turning to the youngest amongst them. The young boy was behind Natsu, grooming his pink hair as a primate would. Picking out the bugs or dry skin beneath the hair. "And Ernest, what are you doing?"
"What? This is normal, right?" Ernest asked,
"...No. No, it isn't."
"But, we were hired to do it!" Natsu object. "If we back out, it'll make Fairy Tail look bad!"
"I'd have to agree with Sam and your friends, Natsu," Ernest said, having stopped grooming Natsu's hair. "You're talking about doing the impossible and destroying the moon and throwing the planet into chaos will really make your guild look bad. Like evil-bad."
"Besides, how were you going to get to the moon in the first place?" Gray asked.
"With Happy, of course," Natsu said, pointing at the blue cat.
"Huh?! No way!" Happy shook his head.
"The job was to end the curse, right?" Jasper asked, with his arms crossed. "Just because these idiots think the only way to end it is to destroy the moon, doesn't mean that it's the only way."
"I'm not even sure about that. Ever since we've got to Skull Island, I've just been getting this bad feeling about this place. I can't sense anything like I'm able to." Sam stated, then looked out the window and stared at the moon. "Moreover…I feel something's emanating from. I don't know what it is, but I sense some type of magic."
He turned back to the others. "Not to mention the moon wasn't always purple. And this only seems to happen on Skull Island." Sam looked at Ernest and said, "Ernest, you've lived out in the jungles, right? Surely you must have noticed something strange about all of this too, right?"
Ernest cupped his chin with one hand and through for a moment. "I have. Strangely enough, I've felt my senses are much weaker than they were before. But...I'm not affected by the curse at all. But Kong explained it was likely due to me having him inside of me. I've tried to end the curse. To find a way to stop it, but I couldn't do as they asked. It's bad enough that some of them don't like me for being a Titan-Slayer."
"Why?" Lucy asked.
Ernest looked at them before shaking his head. "I'll show you guys in the morning. It's not safe to go out right now, and we're going to need our sleep." The youngest of the two Titan-Slayers then jumped up onto one of the hut's ceiling joists and laid down on it.
"Hey, Sam?" Sam turned around and saw Gray staring at him with a serious look. "Why did you decide to go along with this moron? Why risk going on an S-Class quest knowing the consequence?"
"If you think that I'm in this to become an S-Class wizard, then you're mistaken. I don't care about the consequences or the money. You can call it being stubborn or out of instincts as Godzilla's Slayer, but...If being kicked out or punished by Makarov means that I can stop the suffering of these people - if I can save them in any way that I can...then I'll gladly do it over and over again.
Gray stared at the Titan-Slayer of the King of the Monster with slightly shocked eyes. But the more that he looked into Sam's eyes, but more he saw that he was completely honest with his answer. "You know...I'd figured you'd say something like that," he said.
"Did you?" Jasper asked.
"Shut up, Jasper!"
"Make me! And put your clothes back on!"
"How did he do that so fast?" Ernest asked, looking down from the joists.
"Enough!" Sam said loudly, silencing everyone in the room before a fight or argument could break out again. "We'll investigate the island tomorrow. Search for anything that could help us understand what's going on."
"I'll show you guys around the island. There are some places that I can think of that could help us," Ernest said, laying down on the wooden rafter. The others laid down on the sleeping mats that the Iwi's gave them.
Sam laid down on his mat and closed eyes. Letting sleep take him into the night.
Early in the morning, Ernest guided the team to where he wanted to show them. To help explain why some of the Iwi's didn't like him as a Titan-Slayer. Sam was up and ready to go, just as Lucy was too. On the other hand, Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Jasper were extremely tired looking. Struggling to keep up with the others as they approached their destination.
"'I hate waking up this early," Natsu whined.
"Hey, you guys kept me up all night with your snoring, and you don't hear me complaining!" Lucy snapped.
"They were snoring?" Sam asked, having snored like a log last night.
"We're here!" Ernest said. The team he was accompanying looked up and were a little confused when they saw the wreckage of an old boat that had watched upon the beach. It was rusting, had pieces of its hull missing, and had foliage growing on it.
The wizards stared at the boat for a moment before Happy spoke up. "I don't think that's going to float."
"Yeah," Ernest said, walking towards the boat. "From what I can tell, it washed up years before I was born." He entered through a hole in the bottom of the ship. Sam and the others looked at another before following the Titan-Slayer inside the boat. They walked down a narrow hallway, passing by some of the Iwi's that were there as guards. "This is all hollow ground to them, so if you like your hands, don't touch anything."
They turned a corner and entered into a large chamber that would have been used for cargo. Now, it was turned into a temple with many murals. Sam and the team walked into the temple with wide eyes filled with wonder, as some of the people in the temple rose up from their praying and turned around to face the Titan-Slayer of their savior and his guests.
Sam looked to his left and saw a standing stone collection with some white paint drawn on them. At first, he didn't understand it until he was right in front of them. Revealing a mural of two monsters attacking the Iwi's as they tried to defend themselves.
"The way they tell it, before the curse, for thousands of years, the people on this island lived in fear," Ernest told the team.
"That's a helluva long time to be scared," Jasper said, riding on Sam's shoulder.
Natsu walked up to another mural and saw the Iwi. They were in praying poses to what looked like the face of a giant ape. "And then, one day, the damnedest thing happened. Some of the things they were afraid of started protecting them against the things that were eating them."
Lucy looked at another mural and noticed a pattern that looked like ribs. Moving to stand in front of it, she saw a mural of a single ape kneeling in front of two ape skeletons. "But nothing lasts forever, I guess," Ernest said sadly. "I guess you can say I'm an example."
"What do you mean?" Gray asked.
"When Kong was bound to my soul and I'd become his Titan-Slayer, it was like taking away their savior. I've been trying my hardest to fill in that hole left. Guest, you can say I felt it was all my fault," Ernest said, looking down at the ground.
Sam then came over and placed his hand on his shoulder. Ernest looked up and saw his fellow Titan-Slayer smiling down at him. Trying to offer some kind of comfort. The youngest of the two smiled back before walking up to the temple's last and largest mural. One that had Kong towering over the Iwi.
"This place was where they honored the last of their saviors," the young boy said, pointing at the mural.
"Is that...?" Lucy trailed off as she stared up at the mural.
"Yeah, that's Kong. He was king around here, and God to these people. Just like Godzilla. Kong's a pretty good king. Kept to himself, mostly. This is his home. We're just guests. And now, I'm his home," Ernest said, patting his chest.
"I hate to be rude," Jasper began.
"No, you don't," Lucy interrupted.
"But why'd you bring us to this creepy old place? All we really have to worry about is the curse, right?"
Ernest shook his head. "No. You have to worry about them." Ernest pointed to another mural. "Kong was the god on this island, but the devils live below us."
They turned their heads and saw the image of a large reptilian creature with only two long forelimbs and no hindlimbs, as well as long, prehensile, serpentine tails. However, Sam's eyes widened when he noticed the monster's head, which had the appearance of a skull.
"Skullcrawlers," he said with a whisper. "They're Skullcrawlers on this island?"
"What's a Skullcrawler?" Lucy asked with a frightened whimper.
"They're big lizard things. Nasty. Crafty bastards, and mean as hell. They come from the vents deep down. And for many years, that's where they've stayed, but this curse had woken up a bunch of them," Ernest said, feeling his anger rise. But he remained calm. "Kong hates them for what they did to his parents, and I've been able to take most of them out. That's the only reason we've made it this far. They're manageable when they're still small."
"What happens when they get too big?" Gray asked.
"Then they become Skull Devils. Also known as 'the big one.'"
"How big is it?" Happy asked.
"It's bigger," Ernest said, placing a hand on his chest. "It wiped out his whole family. Making Kong the last of his kind. That's why I'm still here, because if Kong's still on this island, then the big one comes up. And with the curse going on, it's bye-bye for everyone."
"There's a temple we should look into first. It's called the Temple of the Moon," Ernest told the others as they followed him through the jungles of Skull Island. After Ernest led them out of the village, they began their search around the island for any clue as to break the curse that plagued the island. "Just keep your eyes open. Up in the trees too."
"Why?" Jasper asked.
"Ants. Big ones," Ernest said. They all then heard the sound of birds chirping. "There's one. Sounds like a bird, but it's an ant."
"You really think we'll be able to find another way to lift the curse?" Natsu asked Sam as he and Gray walked on both sides of the Titan-Slayer.
"Well, there really isn't anything else we can do. That doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try and find another way. Destroying the moon will throw the world into chaos and upset the balance of nature for the planet." Sam said to the Dragon-Slayer. Even he knew the importance of the moon. "The oceans would be thrown out of order, and there would be no lights in the sky during the night.
"Without it, salmon could go extinct," Happy mention, walking next to Jasper.
"Why would that be a problem?" Jasper questioned, with his hands behind his head.
"They're my favorite fish!"
"Ugh, gross!" Jasper said, before whispering. "Sardines for life!"
"'Would you guys keep it down? We don't know what's lurking out here, so we shouldn't draw any attention,' the lady demands impatiently," said the Horologium spirit that Lucy was sitting in once again.
"Lucy, get out of there," Sam said, a little annoyed with Lucy using her spirit again when she was the one that wanted to get an early start on the mission.
"Listen, I was nearly eaten alive by a giant spider yesterday, and this curse is really freaking me out. We have no idea what we're up against, and I'm scared," Lucy said nervously inside of Horologium.
"Are you kidding me? This is awesome! S-Class quests rule!" Natsu exclaimed excitedly, pumping his fists. They walked out of the jungle and were now trekking across an open plane. Littered on the ground were some large rib bones.
"Yeah, I bet I could probably freeze that stupid curse," Gray boasted. Seemingly not noticing the bones. But Sam did.
"Think again, Gray, and take this more seriously, Natsu," Sam said to the two boys, looking at the bones. "I hate to say it, but Lucy's right. Skull Island is dangerous, and the creatures on this island are also affected by the curse. I, for one, don't want to see what a Skullcrawler's like when it transforms."
"Aye," Happy commented.
Ernest walked up a hill before stopping. The others caught up to him and were shocked by what they were standing in front of. In front of them was what could only be described as a boneyard of a battle. Bones were shattered everywhere, with the most noticeable being the skeletons of two giant apes. The area was covered by a yellowish mist that had a foul smell—the smell of death.
"Are those…" Sam trailed off.
"Yeah...That's Kong's parents," Ernest said grimly. "Along with the rest of his species. And the temple's right on the other side of the boneyard."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Natsu exclaimed, ready to run down into the misty graveyard before Ernest quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"Wait, don't!" He said, yanking Natsu back. Thanks to his strength, he pulled the pink-haired boy off his feet. "This place is a big 'no-no' place."
"Well, it's what we need to go through to get to the temple, right?" Gray asked, walking past the Kong Titan-Slayer and started making his way towards the boneyard. "Whatever's down there, we'll handle it." Natsu got up and followed his rival, not wanting for Gray to get ahead of him. The cats and Horologium followed, but when Sam walked past Ernest, he stopped and turned back to his fellow Titan-Slayer.
"You coming?"
Ernest sigh. "I've only lived here for 14 years. What do I know?" He grumbled before moving forward.
Sam was the last one to enter into the gas covered mist and was hit with the deathly smell. His bare feet, which were used to stepping on rough surfaces, landed on a mixture of dirt and bones. Some were animal bones, and some were human bones. With his senses gone, he was treading cautiously and looked around for any kind of movement. Lucy was still inside of her spirit, but Natsu and Gray were on guard. Jasper Re-Constructed a laser gun, and Happy got on Natsu's back to hide behind him.
Together, they walked among the remains of Kong's parents. Having died together. Ernest looked around before noticing a large, three-toed footprint in the ground. The other Titan-Slayer walked over and looked down at it. The two looked at one another before they both transformed into their Titan forms.
The only other sound that was heard beside their footsteps was the ticking of Horologium's clock.
"Geez, I can't see anything," Natsu said, walking next to a hole. He lit a fire in a palm.
Suddenly the air coming out of the hole ignited into a large fiery explosion that knocked Natsu and Happy onto the ground.
"Watch it!" Ernest yelled from where he stood. "This place is filled with those holes."
Natsu got up and brushed off the dirt on his body when Gray gave a snide remark. "Looks like you can't use your fire, lizard brain."
"What was that!?" Natsu yelled, slamming his face against his Gray's as the two started arguing.
Sam was going to shout at the two to stop fighting, but was suddenly stopped by the sound of a creature. When he heard it, he turned around and was facing Lucy inside of Horologium. He heard the sound of the ticking, and his eyes widened in terror. "LUCY, WATCH OUT!"
But it was too late. The jaws of a large Skullcrawler came down and bit down on Horologium. Lucy screamed in terror as the monster pulled up and started shaking the spirit around.
"Lucy!" Natsu, Gray, and Happy screamed. Rushing to try and save her.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Jasper yelled as he opened fire on the Skullcrawler.
But just as Lucy was about to be eaten, her Celestial Spirit suddenly poofed away. With the Skullcrawler still shaking its head, she was thrown out of its jaw. Flying threw the air as she screamed. The Skullcrawler saw Lucy and shot out its prehensile to grab her.
But then Natsu jumped up, grabbed Lucy, and punched the tongue away.
"Get away from Lucy, you bully!" Natsu roared in anger, as Lucy blushed a little.
The Skullcrawler screamed in pain as it pulled its tongue back into its mouth. It was about to attack again when Gray sent at it a wave of ice. The monster jumped over it and then dodged one of Sam's Atomic Breath before scurrying back into the gas mist.
Natsu set Lucy down and asked with concern. "Are you okay?" Lucy, still blushing slightly, nodded.
"It'll come back for another attack!" Ernest shouted, hearing the Skullcrawler roaring in the mist. He grabbed a bone as big as his body to use it as a bat.
Everyone got into a defensive circle in the center of the graveyard. Natsu ignited the flames in his hands. Sam's dorsal plates glowed as he powered up his Atomic Magic. Gray got his Ice-Magic to make him a shield and sword. Jasper was on the ground and summoned another gun to fight. Ernest clenched his ape fingers around the bone.
Everyone remained still and looked around for any signs of the Skullcrawler. Sam's ears picked up the sound of large feet, taking light steps on the ground, and looked in the direction it came from. Gray looked around before he suddenly heard the sound of the monster moving in front of him. But when it looked, there was no one Skullcrawler.
Ernest smelt the air before growling and turning to his left. He raised his bone weapon to strike.
"Death before dishonor," he whispered.
The Skullcrawler lunged out of the mist and charged at Ernest.
Ernest jumped at the Skullcrawler and swung his bone bat. Breaking into pieces as it smashed against the face of the monster. It shrieked in pain before quickly recovering and charged at the wizards. But was punched in the face by Ernest. The strength of Kong in him sent the Skullcrawler flying back and landing on a pile of bone.
"Now it's my turn! Fire-Dragon's Roar!" Natsu roared as he fired a powerful column of flames at the Skullcrawler. The creature screamed out in pain, as the fires covered most of its body.
"Ice-Make: Lance!" Gray extended his arms forward, creating long, curved ice lances that he shoots toward the Skullcrawler. But even though they pierced the skin, it just whipped its tail to break the ice connecting Gray and the lances.
The Skullcrawler then whipped Natsu in the chest, sending him flying into Gray. The two flew through the air before slamming one of the ape skulls. Rocking it, which caused the situation to go from bad to worse when hundreds of large pterosaur-like creatures that were about the same size as adult humans came swarming out of the skull. They were green in color with yellow heads, orange wings, and long spear-like snouts covered with jagged edges.
"Those are some ugly-ass birds," Jasper said.
"Leafwings! Get out of there!" Ernest yelled at Natsu and Gray, as the smart-mouth cat started shooting at the swarm of Leafwings.
Natsu and Gray quickly got away as the Leafwings started descending on the wizards. Sam and the others fought them off. Now they were fighting not only the Skullcrawler but these little terror buzzers.
Sam used his Atomic Titan's claws to cut any bird that got too close, before noticing Lucy wasn't fighting. "Lucy! Use your whip!" He said, whipping his tail at another Leapwing. "And fight!
Lucy looked down at her whip and grabbed it. With a smirk, she started swinging it around. Taking out Leafwing after Leafwing with each crack of the whip.
When the birds were mostly gone, their attention was back on the Skullcrawler. The monster charged at Sam and attempted to eat him with the Titan-Slayer used his Atomic Titan's Claw to punch it in the face. Rearing its head up and then fired a short burst of his Atomic Breath.
The Skullcrawler screamed in pain as it managed to burn into, before rushing away. But before it could get any further, it heard the sound of Ernest's roar. Ernest had jumped high into the air, holding a triceratops' horn in his arms.
With a mighty roar, Ernest stabbed the horn through the head of the Skullcrawler. Instantly killing it. The monster's body slammed down into the ground and skidded across the dirt and bones before coming to a stop. Sam rushed over to the body, seeing Ernest climbing out from behind and stood on the back of the fallen monster. Both of them were panting before smirking and bellowing out their own roars into the sky. Claiming victory.
Jasper sent his weapons back to where they came from and joined the others as they were a little exhausted from the fight. "So, that was a Skullcrawler," he said.
"Haha! Did you see that thing when I burnt it?!" Natsu exclaimed with a big grin on his face. After leaving the gas-filled boneyard, they were back to trekking to the temple of the moon. Lucy was walking with them, but was looking around more. Anxious than before now that she was out of Horologium and the fact that she and the others had just fought against a Skullcrawler.
"In case you didn't see, your flames didn't do anything to stop it," Gray snarkily said.
Natsu glared at him. "Oh, like you really did to stop it."
"You wanna go, you fiery-mouth breather!?"
"Will you two stop it! You're going to attach another one of those things!" Lucy yelled at the two rivals.
Only to realize that Ernest, still in his Titan form, was randomly on her shoulders and trying to pick the bugs out of her.
"WILL YOU GET OFF OF ME, ERNEST!" Lucy angry screamed, throwing the Titan-Slayer off her shoulders and into a tree.
"I'm sorry, but you had a bug in your hair," Ernest said, rubbing his head.
"What?! Where?! Get it out!" Lucy screamed again, shaking her hair away.
Still in his Titan form too, Sam stopped and turned to tell them to keep it down, when the sounds of giant footsteps stopped him. "Now what?" He groaned, turning with everyone else. Standing over the trees with the sun blocking out its appearance was a giant figure. The creature started giggling in a high-pitch, threatening hiss.
The monster began reaching towards them when it was suddenly hit in the face in the face by Sam's Atomic Breath. The low powered beam of magic knocked it out, and the creature came crashing down onto the ground. Revealing it to a giant rat wearing a black corset-style top with pink frilly edges tied up the front with black strings. Completing the outfit was a white lace headband and a red ribbon tied across its chest. It also had turquoise fur and a huge tail.
As it laid before them, Sam pinched his nose when he smelt its foul breath. "Ernest, what the hell is this rat thing?"
"I don't know. I've never even a creature like this before!" Ernest said, more confused about why it was wearing clothes.
"Well, whatever it is, we should leave before it gets back up," Sam stated.
"We should kick it butt while we have the chance!" Gray and Natsu yelled simultaneously as they started beating up the knocked out rat. Even Jasper got in on the action by hitting it with a bat.
Sam sighed while Ernest laughed at the other boys and the cat. "Hey, Ernest! Is that the temple," asked Lucy, pointing in the direction of a clearing. The others turned their heads to see a large stone temple with a half-moon insignia at the top of the entrance. The structure was covered in cracks, vines and looked like it hasn't been stepped into for years.
"That's it!" Ernest exclaimed, running towards the temple. Sam grabbed Gray and Natsu, pulling them away from the unconscious rat, before they, Lucy, Happy, and Jasper followed Kong's Titan-Slayer. They were soon walking through the ruin's entrance, entering into a large, mostly empty room.
The inside of the temple, like the outside, was in complete disarray. Stones and columns were all but destroyed, and the room looked like it was ready to come down at any moment. It was surprising that it was able to last as long as it did.
"Uwah, it's spacious," Lucy commented in an impressed tone., scanning over the massive room.
"And ready to fall apart at any moment," Jasper said, knocking on a block of stone. "What the hell is this place anyway?"
"I don't know. Must have been a temple the Iwi's built before I was born," Ernest said, looking at some of the statues. "Chief Moka said that Skull Island collected the moon's energy. Maybe this temple has something to do with it."
"What about Kong? Does he know about this place?" Sam asked.
"He mostly kept to himself, but this was likely made before the thousands of years in fear," Ernest said. "But it does make you wonder, huh?"
Meanwhile, Natsu had stopped paying attention and started slamming his foot on the floor. "This floor's really shabby too. Is it even safe to wake on?" Sam turned and noticed this. He was about to say something when the floor suddenly collapsed, sending everyone plummeting into the dark abyss.
"YOU DUMBASS!" Gray and Jasper yelled before they all landed.
A moment later, down at the bottom of the hole below, there was a piece of rocks in a pile of rubble. About fifteen seconds after the team fell down into the hole, the rubble pile started to shift before Sam rose up from the rocks. The rubble on his back and between his dorsal plates rolled off him as he stood up to his full height.
"Is everyone okay?" He asked, looking at the others that had landed around the pile of rocks.
"We'd all be okay-if pinky here hadn't blown the floor out!" Jasper stated, glaring at the Dragon-Slayer. "Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you, you little asshole?!"
"It worked out okay, didn't it?" Natsu countered.
"Yeah! It worked out that we're now stuck down here because of you! None of this would be happening if it weren't you, Natsu!" Jasper yelled.
Ernest looked up at the top of the hole with Gray. Seeing that they were all now in the basement of the ruins. "So, what's the plan to get out of this place?" Gray asked everyone.
"I guess I could climb everyone out one at a time, but it'll take a long time," Ernest admitted with a shrug. "But we better get out of here. This cavern could be another one of the Skullcrawlers' tunnel system."
"It's a secret cavern! Since we're here, let's explore a little!" The Dragon-Slayer of the group, running off into a nearby passageway.
"Would you quit running around like a maniac!" Gray shouted.
"Is he always like this?" Ernest asked Sam and Lucy, as they all started running after the pink-haired young man.
"You have no idea," Lucy sighed.
They ran after Natsu down in the passageway, who was surprisingly fast. Thankfully, Natsu had stopped not too far ahead. "Natsu, don't go running off like that!" Sam chastised, walking up to his friend.
"Whoa…" Natsu said in awestruck, staring up at something. Sam looked up, and his eyes widened in shock, as was everyone else when they gazed upon it.
Imprisoned inside a massive chunk of ice was a massive, dark blue, humanoid monster. It had a large torso and two large arms that end in scaly hands. On the left and right part of the creature's torso, as well as around his neck, it was covered with a series of spikes. In addition, the beast had two large legs, whereas the feet resemble the ones of a bird, with additional spikes on the back. Its hair was mane-like in shape, and it flowed down to the nape of his neck. It had a pair of horns that point upwards, jutting from a plate on his forehead. The monster also has large pointed teeth as well as two hollow eyes.
Sam stared at the monster in silence, just everyone else that was present. His senses were going crazy, telling him it was dangerous. Like it was radiating off the monster. In fact, he remembers this scent. It was too long ago that he'd sensed something like this before. "Godzilla...that's not a Titan...right?" He asked his father with a shaky voice.
"No. It's a demon. Just like Lullaby."
"That's impossible…" Gray trailed off. Sam turned his head to Gray and noticed that he out of everyone there looked the most disturbed. His pupils were shaking, sweat was dripping down from his brow, and he went pale. And his face carried with it a look of absolute shock and horror. "Deliora!?"
"You know this demon?" Sam asked, surprising the rest of his team.
"Wait, that thing's a demon?! Like that Lullaby thing!?" Jasper exclaimed, pointing at Deliora.
Gray ignored them and stepped forward. "How? How could this happen? How is it here?!" Gray asked frantically. His voice growing louder and slightly hysterical. Then Gray turned to Ernest and grabbed him by his shirt. "What the hell is it doing on Skull Island?!"
"I don't know!" Ernest exclaimed angrily, grabbing Gray arms and pulling them off. "I've never even seen this thing before!"
"But you have, right Gray?" Natsu asked, less unsettled by the demon and more by how his rival was acting. Never seeing the Ice Wizard losing it like he was now.
"T-There's no way…" Gray's arms were now trembling.
He was silenced when Lucy grabbed his shoulder. It was clear that Gray was not in a position to think rationally. So they first had to calm him down. "Gray, try to calm down."
Gray took a few deep breaths of air, and his shaking lessened. But he still had a look of terror.
"Gray," Sam said, walking up to the Ice-Make Wizard. His eyes were firmly staring into his. "This is a demon, right?"
"Yeah," Gray said through clenched teeth. Glaring at the demon with a look of hate. "Deliora, the Demon of Destruction."
"How do you know its name?" Sam asked, before the sound of footsteps behind them caught his attention. He gestured to the others to take cover, and they all hid behind a nearby rock formation. Once they were hidden, two men came out of the cavern.
The first man was a short, slim young man distinguished by his extremely brushy, squared black eyebrows. His eyes, too, are black, while his hair, which was arranged in a number of spikes pointing upwards, was unusually bright blue. He sported a green coat reaching down to his knees, sporting black sections in correspondence to the sleeves' outer part and on the sides' lower parts, below the plain dark belt with a rectangular buckle which, together with the two vertically striped, overlapping hems placed on the front, kept the garment closed. His pants were dark and loose, while his plain shoes were light-colored.
The second was a lean-built, mildly muscular young man of average height with distinctive animal features. He had a pair of canine ears sitting on his head, a small dark nose and a lower face which was colored differently from the rest of his body, bearing a resemblance to a canine muzzle. He had shoulder-length, straight brown hair, large round eyes with black pupils, and dark eyebrows. Tattoos adorned both of his biceps: the right one bears the kana Sashimi (さしみ), while the other was adorned by a single, more elaborated one that looked like a guild mark. He was bare-chested, wearing an extremely loose pair of pants with mildly torn hems, held up by a long belt covered in many rhombs, with the part left out from its plain rectangular buckle hanging down. Such pants bared a large, dark shield-shaped logo emblazoned on the right knee. Then, there was a red collar covered in hollow studs around his neck, and donned a pair of simple dark shoes, each adorned by a light, stylized footprint, similar to that of a cat, or maybe a small dog.
"The voices seemed to be coming from down here," said the short man before sighing. The dog man scratched his stomach. "I hate being awake during the day. But I don't want to be out there during the night."
Sam narrowed his eyes as he peeked over the boulders to watch the two guys. Listening in on their conversation.
"So, Toby, were you exposed to the Moon Drip? I mean, you've got those pointed ears," the blue-haired man said jokingly. This, however, just aggravate his companion.
"I already told you, they're a fashion statement, you jerk!" Toby yelled.
"I'm just teasing you, idiot," the blue-haired man said calmly.
"You don't have to be so mean about it," Toby grumbled.
"Moon Drip? Did he mean the curse?" Lucy whispered.
"It's possible," Sam said, noting how the short man pointed out Toby's ears. "And if I had to guess, they're the ones behind it."
"Yuka, Toby! Something terrible has happened!" said a feminine voice, as a third person emerged from the cave system. That person was a young woman with blue eyes, pink hair, large breasts, and a curvaceous body wearing make-up to match her appearance. Her hair was tied into pigtails, her choker tied into a ribbon, a purple and pink short spaghetti dress with light pink trimmings, black leggings, and high-heeled sandals. Her dress appears to have two long and thin wings at the back.
"What is it, Sherry?" Yuka asked as Toby greeted the woman with a friendly wave.
"It's Angelica," Sherry said mournfully. "She's been attacked, and I'm so sad."
"You're crying because your stupid pet rat was attack?!" Toby barked. "Newsflash! Everything on this island is trying to us!"
"That rat was her pet?" Ernest asked. "And I thought Lucy was the weird one."
"Aye," Happy said.
"Shut up, you two," Lucy whispered in a low, threatening tone. Glaring at the Titan-Slayer and blue cat.
"Angelica is not a rat," Sherry said fiercely. "She's a brave hunter, prowling the jungles to protect us. She is...love."
Jasper turned to Sam and mouthed out a big 'WOW.' Sam nodded in agreement. "Yeah, she's completely nuts," he said.
Ernest took a whiff of the air, and it made him pull back his lips to expose his sharp teeth. "And they're not from Skull Island," he said, noticing how their scent was different from the Iwi.
"And they don't seem to be cursed," Happy commented.
"Are you sure it wasn't the Skullcrawlers? Ever since we began, they've been popping up everywhere on the island," Yuka said.
Ernest's eyes widened, and his anger grew. So they were the reason the Skullcrawlers were coming out. Whatever they were doing was disturbing them and bringing them up to the surface. He clenched his fists in anger and was ready to attack the three when Sam placed a hand on his shoulder. Stopping him from doing something reckless.
"No, she wasn't eaten. It was intruders. And it's almost time to begin collecting moonlight again," Sherry sighed. Sam's eyes narrowed. Was that what the Moon Drop is? Collected moonlight? Why were they doing this? And why weren't they affected by the curse. "Oh, this makes me so sad. This news would displease the Cold Emperor. We should get rid of them before he finds out. Yes, we must find them before the moon's first light."
"Agreed," Yuka said, grinning a sinister smile. Toby nodded.
"If they were here, then they've seen Deliora, and that means we can't allow them to live," Sherry said, clasping her hands together. "We shall give them the gift of eternal rest. We'll give them...love."
"IT'S CALLED DEATH! WE'LL KILL THEM!" Toby yelled, stomping his foot.
Sam looked down at the ground and picked up a rock from the ground. He quickly threw it down the tunnel and got back behind cover. The rock hits against the walls of another cavern, getting the attention of the trio responsible for the curse. After hearing the echoing sound of the rock, they went to investigate. Leaving the Fairy Tail alone in the demon's final resting place.
"Good thinking, Sam," Lucy.
"What now?" Natsu asked grumpily. "Why didn't we just jump those guys and beat some answers out of them?"
"Yeah! They're the reason the Skullcrawlers are going wild in the first place! Next time I see them, I'm gonna crush them!" Ernest exclaimed with anger.
"Will you keep it down?! We don't know anything about these guys. Why they're here? What is has to do with Deliora? And who this Cold Emperor is and what he wants with the moon," Sam said to the others. He then shot Gray a look, as the young man was still staring up at the frozen Deliora. "Gray. You know more about this thing than any of us do, so it's time that you start explaining what's going on."
Gray was still wondering what the three people they just saw wanted with Deliora and why they bring it here. But, he nodded and started to explain. "Alright...It was sealed in an iceberg on the northern continent a decade ago," he said, causing Natsu and Lucy's eyes to widen. "It's an immortal demon that went on a rampage in the Land of Isvan. Killing countless people. My master, Ur, the woman that taught me my Ice-Make magic, sacrificed her life to seal it."
Lucy gaped, and Natsu looked slightly shaken by this. Sam's hardened expression turned to one of empathy and sadness.
As his fist clenched tightly, Gray's hand began to build up frost. A cold mist billowed off his arm. "I don't know how it's related to Skull Island's curse, but this isn't something that should be here. The Cold Emperor...I don't care who he is, but if he's going to tarnish Ur's legacy, I'll make him regret the day he was born!" Gray exclaimed in rage.
Sam grabbed Gray's arm and used his powers to absorb the ice magic. "We will stop them, but please, try not to lose yourself," he said gently, but firmly. He then lets him go.
"Why don't we just finish it off?" Jasper asked.
"Yeah, a little fire will do the trick," Natsu said, approaching the frozen Deliora while stretching his muscles.
Suddenly, Gray punched Natsu in the jaw, sending him tumbling to the ground. Happy gaped in shock, Lucy put her hands to her mouth, and Jasper summoned two guns and pointed them at Gray. "Whoa! Whoa! What the hell's your problem!" He yelled, ready to pull the triggers.
"Yeah! Isn't he your friend?" asked Ernest, also ready to fight against the Ice Wizard.
"Everyone, stop!" Sam said, placing himself between the two and Gray, before turning to the latter. "The fuck do you're doing?"
Gray shot him a serious glare. "I don't want Natsu, his flames, or anyone else anywhere near it!" He shouted before continuing in a dangerously low voice. "If the ice melts and Deliora get free, nothing will be able to stop it."
"Oh, hello! Get a clue, Ice-Stripper! Natsu's fire wouldn't even leave a dent in that iceberg," Jasper said, lowering his guns. With Natsu nodding.
Gray tried to retort, but fell silent. Tearing his gaze away from the others. "If this thing was so powerful, how was your master able to stop it?" Ernest asked.
"Ur cast a magic called Ice Shell to trap Deliora," Gray explained, his hair covering his eyes as he stared at the ground. "It made a type of ice that can never be melted. Even with some incredible fire magic, this ice wouldn't melt. If they knew they couldn't melt it, why would they bring this demon this here?"
"Maybe it had something to do with that Moon Drip thing that they were talking about?" Lucy offered.
"Then our best bet will be to wait for the night to come," Ernest said. "We'll find out what's going on, and we wouldn't have to be out in the jungle to get eaten." Sam nodded his head in agreement. When the night comes, they'll finally be able to put an end to this curse. All they had to do was wait.
Godzilla will Return!
AN: Again, I'm so sorry for how long it took me to get this chapter out! I have school work and projects, and not to mention some writer's block that I had to overcome. But I've finally finished this chapter. We're starting the Skull Island Arc off with a bang with action and comedy.
So, let's talk about it.
First off, we have Ernest. While he doesn't have as big of a role, he is still one of the main characters for this arc. Skull Island is his home after all. His Titan form was rather easy to do since Kong's an ape. I kind of image Ernest's Titan form as a mixture of human and chimpanzee or gorilla. There really wasn't much of him showing off his powers, as he's only shown to have the same strength and agility that Sam has. But I'm likely going to give him lightning powers. In the original King Kong vs. Godzilla, Kong was able to absolute electricity, but wasn't shown to have any lightning power beyond that. I'm not sure if the Monsterverse will give Kong powers of his own for Godzilla vs. Kong, but I'd like to see him have lightning powers or something to even the odds.
And just as Skull Island takes over as Galuna Island, the Iwi's from Kong: Skull Island are the people who live on the island. Other than that, though, they're still the same people. But considering that the Iwi people are the only people to live on the island, I fingered just to make them the island dwellers. Although, some of them don't seem to like Ernest all too much. Not like how the village treated Naruto, but Ernest now must take on Kong's responsibilities.
And then we have so of the island's nasty creepy crawlies and monsters trying to kill them. With Lucy almost getting killed by the Mother Longlegs and the team fighting against one of the Skullcrawlers and a flock of Leafwings. While I would have loved to have them fight off more of the monsters on the island, I'm not sure if I'll be about to get to all of them. I know I'm not going to get to all of them. So, I might as well get to as many as I can.
I'm going to move onto "The Seventh Son," but then I'm coming back! I'm going to zig-zag from "Godzilla: The Titan-Slayer" to my other stories until I'm completed this arc, and I'm likely going to continue doing that whenever I get to an arc for this story.
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