At the Moon Temple, the Moon Drip Ritual continued as inside, a battle is going on.
Natsu is in a head on battle with Lyon as he dodged several flying Ice Eagles before he kicks a large stone rubble right at the ice mage who created an ice shield to protect himself. The ice shield breaks before Natsu appeared in front of Lyon whose eyes widen in surprise.
Natsu swung his leg forward at Lyon who guard with both arms up but the force of Natsu's leg swing caused him to fly and crashed to a wall.
Lyon grunted a bit in pain before he looks at Natsu who is in front of him with a fist pulled back.
"tch!" Lyon dodged a punch from Natsu as the man's punch went right through the wall before he pulled it back out.
"so this is the power of the Salamander" said Lyon with gritted teeth as Natsu isn't using magic but he is giving the ice mage a hard time. Natsu cracked his knuckles before he took a few steps forward.
"surrender, Lyon Vastia" said Natsu as he punched a fist into an open palm. "or I will make you"
"never! I've come from a long way to stop now!" exclaimed Lyon as he slammed both hands on the floor and the entire room frozen in ice. Lyon then swung his right hand to the side as an Ice Tiger appeared and growled at Natsu.
Natsu scoffed before he caught the paw of the Ice Tiger as it was about to swing its claws at the man.
"I thought that you are stronger than Gray in magic power" said Natsu as he grips the ice Tiger's claw and caused it to crack then shatter its whole form into pieces. "but I am wrong. Your magic isn't stronger than Gray's"
"what did you say?!" exclaimed Lyon as Natsu dashes towards the ice mage with a fist pulled back when the floor in between the two suddenly crumbles into pieces and creates a large hole. Natsu jumped over the hole but the ceiling came crumbling down on him too.
"Damnit!" exclaimed Natsu as he fell into the hole and plummet into the depth darkness.
Lyon looks at the hole before to the side as he saw a man with a weird mask on.
"what are you playing at!?" exclaimed Lyon.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean" replied the masked man.
"Don't play dumb with me, Zalty." Said Lyon with gritted teeth
Zalty chuckled, "Just aiding you, my dear Reitei. We can't have you losing too much energy before you take on Deliora, now can we?"
"Hmph... you really think I'll lose to him?" Lyon's form started to glow a light blue color "I, Reitei Lyon, am the only mage that can defeat Deliora. It would disgrace my name if I can't even beat that man."
"My, my..." replied Zalty with a chuckle before he went out of the room.
Lyon froze the whole room before the ice by the wall started to crack and shatter to reveal an open hole where Gray came in. the ice mage stood tall as his gaze is right at Lyon.
"Lyon..!" Gray glared at him hard while getting into a fighting pose
"Gray" Lyon smirked at him while doing the same fighting pose as he is
They look at each other for a moment before they dashed at each other and connected their fist in their brawl
Natsu falls into a deep hole as he landed on the ground where he is back into the underground cave where Deliora lies within.
"so this is the sealed demon" said Natsu as he stands up and looks at the ice encased demon of destruction.
Natsu looks at the sealed demon before he glanced to the side as he sensed someone's presence. His right hand went to grab the handle of his katana as he slowly pulls it out and then push it back in.
"you, huh?" said Natsu as Zalty appeared above a large boulder. Natsu looks at Zalty with squinted eyes before he looks away and started walking away.
"where are you going?" said Zalty while holding a crystal ball in hand.
Natsu stops walking and turn his head a bit to look at Zalty as they were glowing red.
"a Dragon's Slayer senses are higher than that of a normal mage" said Natsu "you aren't fooling me, Ultear Milkovich"
"keen as always, Daimou-dono" said Zalty with a chuckle before reaching for his mask and takes it off. Zalty then transforms to his real form as Ultear Milkovich.
"I don't know what your connection in all of this is" said Natsu as he squinted his eyes dangerously "but If you try to plot something"
Ultear merely smirked in reply as her body is covered in purple aura. Natsu's body is covered in raging red aura as it rages like fire. The two stood in their place as their magic power rises to the limits, causing the small pebbles, water rising, and the entire cave to shake.
It took a few minutes, but the battle of magic power ended between the two. Ultear sighs as she turns around.
"what am I thinking that I can take on the former 7th Wizard Saint on my own?" said Ultear "my magic won't work so well against yours"
Natsu looks at Ultear as he isn't letting up his guard against her as she isn't just a Councilwoman.
"don't worry" said Ultear as she glanced at Natsu "my plan is done, all that I have to do now is to let Lyon do his job"
Natsu looks at Ultear as she started walking away before she disappeared into thin air and was gone.
"that woman fell too deep" said Natsu before he felt the entire cave rumble and violet light shines down upon Deliora. Natsu looks at the ceiling and the melting water that is flowing down Deliora's ice coffin.
Natsu placed a hand on the handle of his katana and pulls it out of its scabbard then swung it to the side.
"hey, wake up" said Natsu as the skeletal demonic shadow appeared in the reflection of the katana's blade.
"what? I was having quite a peaceful nap" said a dark voice as it comes from the skeletal demonic shadow on Natsu's katana. "ho? The Immortal Demon of Destruction, Deliora, huh? It has been a few decades since I last saw a demon of Zeref"
"if this demon is indeed immortal" said Natsu as he holds the katana upwards and runs down his left palm on the sharp edge, cutting the skin of his own hand. "then I will need your help"
"immortal is one thing but invulnerable is a different matter" said the dark voice as Natsu's blood runs down the blade of the katana before it gets sucks into the weapon itself. Natsu's katana transform into a demonic sword that is coated with dark and black energy.
Natsu waved his left hand over his face as a blood red demonic mouth mask appeared on him.
"as long as I can taste blood" said the dark voice before Natsu's eyes darkened and both his pupils turned reptilian. "there is nothing in this world that I cannot cut down"
a huge chunk of ice falling down the pool of water and an ear deafening roar was heard as the cave shook from it. Another block of ice fell again as Deliora's right arm was freed
"let's finish this quickly" said Natsu as the demonic katana pulsed with energy and Natsu's reptilian eyes glows yellow. "cut it down, Chitetsu"
"very well" said the dark voice as the demonic skeletal shadow smiles evilly.
Meanwhile with Gray.
Gray had defeated Lyon with an Ice Bazooka as he stands over to look at the fallen old friend of his before the temple suddenly shook
"What the!?" Gray exclaimed in shock as he tried to maintain his balance
ROAR!
"No...it can't be..." Gray was shaking as he remembered the awful wail of the demon Deliora that destroyed his village.
"Hehehhe.." Lyon weakly chuckled as he turned his head to everybody. "Looks like...Toby came through."
Gray quickly made his way out of the throne room so he could hopefully stop the ritual. But the sudden roar that echoed loudly through his ears, made him stop in his tracks, "Deliora… he's revived."
Images of his past experience with the demon ran through his head as another ear-splitting roar echoed loudly through the temple. Gray started to sprint down the large corridor, looking for a way to get to the cavern below. 'There's only one way to stop it now,' he proceeded to grit his teeth as he ran. "Ur… Gramps… everyone… I'm sorry… but there's no other way now."
"W-what was that?! That roar?!" Lucy asked her companions, Erza, Kiara and Mira as they finally made it to the temple entrance.
the four quickly made their way to the temple to assist in the disruption of Deliora's revival. But as soon as they entered the temple, they instantly were met with a powerful roar that seemed to echo through the entire island.
"Kyuiiiii!" Kiara sneered at the floor as her fur stands up like an angry cat
"Could this be…? Deliora?" Erza cut in as she guessed at the origin of the roar. Lucy instantly jumped in horror as she heard Erza's words.
"What? It couldn't be?! They've already revived it!" She panicked.
"Damn it!" The two women then turned their heads toward the angry Mirajane as she pointed at something. They followed her finger to spot a purple magic seal glowing on the floor as well as an eerie purple light flowing into it from the ceiling. "That's the damn Moon Drip!"
ROAR!
Another roar shook the room. As Lucy jumped in fear and began to shudder at the thought of the large demon being free.
"That's scary!" Lucy stated as she trembled.
"I wonder…" Erza was ignoring the two bickering as she studied the situation. "We can hear the demon roar, but they're still performing the ritual to resurrect it. Which must mean it isn't fully revived yet."
"Yeah, that must be it." Mira agreed with Erza
"Uh… Erza, Mira-san." Lucy attempted the women's attention as she didn't know what they should be doing.
Mirajane and Erza looked at each other and shouted at the same time, "We need to reach the top of the temple!"
"But… Deliora's below us." Lucy pointed out as she gestured to the floor.
"If we can stop the Moon Drip, we may be able to stop the resurrection! Now let's go!" Erza shouted back as she rounded a corner.
Lucy nodded as she grabbed Kiara and let the little Pop fox hang onto her shoulder as they made a turn around the corner
Gray had finally made it to the underground caverns that sat directly beneath the temple. The cavern was now full of water that seemed to have melted off the encased Deliora as it was about to be free.
Deliora roared as it breaks off the other ice around it's left arm. Gray looks at the demon before walking towards the pooling water as he bent down and reached his hand into the water that he thought his master's Ice. Turning it over for the palm to face up, he rose it back out with some of the water in his hand. He watched, sorrowfully, as the water rushed down back into its original puddle.
"Ur…"
Deliora roars again as it was hammering the ice encasing its bottom part
"Kukuku… we finally meet again… Deliora." Gray turned at the sound of a low and raspy voice as he sees the beaten Lyon, crawling slowly across the ground as he was making his way in the direction of Deliora.
"finally!…" he stated gruffly as his eyes were maddened with obsession. "I've waited!... I've waited for this day to come!"
"Lyon…" Gray muttered, feeling sorry for his old friend.
"I will!... finally!...surpass Ur! This is the only monster...that Ur couldn't defeat...I will defeat it...with my own hands...right now...I will surpass her!" Lyon shouted, remembering some of the memories he had with his teacher.
Gray looks in pity to Lyon as he moved behind him and delivered a karate chop to the back of his neck, knocking him back down.
"That's enough... Lyon..." Gray said before feeling the entire island shaking as a roar was heard
"ROAR!"
"Oooooh…" grumbled a flying Toby after he was struck by Erza and Mirajane.
The four had finally made it to the top of the temple and had found said dog-man performing the Moon Drip ritual all on his own. Erza and Mirajane, quick to act, jumped at Toby with her sword and slashed at him and Mira knocking him out with a right hook. Interrupted, the seal from the Moon Drip flickered and faded away, as did the purple light it attracted.
"Erza, Mira! You did it!" Lucy piped. "You stopped the Moon Drip!"
All of sudden, Toby popped his head up to glare at the trio, "You're too late!" he shouted with a victorious smirk.
"ROAR!"A roar shook the temple again as a green pillar of light burst through the circle of the ritual circle
"I-it can't be…" Lucy muttered in disbelief as the light faded.
Erza and Mirajane gritted their teeth in anger, they were late and now a disaster will be unleashed on the Island.
"Let's go down!" Erza said after recomposing herself.
Gray was standing in the chamber as his eyes widened. Deliora was staring down at him as it was growling.
"...You took my parents." Gray then assumed a stance. "...You took my village." A large magic circle appeared below him. "..You took my master...I...WON'T LET YOU CAUSE ANY MORE DEATHS, YOU DAMN DEMON!"
He then began glowing as a blue light was shining all over the cave as Deliora grunted a little.
Erza and the others came running in as they widened their eyes at Gray.
"Gray!" Mira shouted as she then saw the immortal demon of chaos in front of them
"What is he doing? That magic feels very powerful!" Lucy asked as she stared at the large magic circle around them.
"Gray, what is this!?" Erza demanded.
"Get out of here.." Gray said.
"Huh?" Erza asked as she couldn't quite hear him.
"I SAID GET OUT! THIS IS MY PROBLEM AND I'M GOING TO FIX IT!" He shouted angrily." I'm sorry guys...but this is goodbye." He said as his hair foreshadowed his eyes. The magic pressure was intense, as Erza was going to try to stop him.
"GRAY!" Erza shouted worriedly.
"Keep everyone at the guild safe...I'm sorry..." He said as he looked up at the demon's eyes."
"Iced..." He began to say as he was almost about to cast the spell.
"DON'T DO IT!" Lucy screamed.
Lyon looks up and saw what Gray was going to do.
"NOOOO! DON'T DO IT GRAY! THIS IS WHAT I BEEN WAITING FOR!" He shouted as he watched as Gray was about to cast the spell that would once again seal Deliora.
"She-!? Huh?"
Gray was about to cast Iced Shell when he stopped when the whole cave suddenly turned pure dark
"Mugetsu-Ryū:….."a nearly demonic voice spoke in the dark cave as Gray and the others then saw a glowing red orb appearing and a streak of flames as well. It then rained glowing Sakura petals as they illuminate the whole cave.
Gray and the others then saw someone standing in front of Deliora with a flaming katana as the figure suddenly disappeared.
"is that!?" Mira exclaimed. Deliora suddenly roared as it arms fell off with the other following as well, the body started crumbling into pieces as Deliora's head fell off to the pool with the body and legs breaking into pieces as everything from the once known immortal demon of destruction came crumbling down as its remains sunk into the water.
"What the..hell?" Gray asked in shock as the darkness disappeared
They then looked on the other side of the cave as they saw Natsu with his katana being held over his shoulder as he swings it down and then slowly sheathes it.
"….Shin Yasha Senku" the salmon haired mage muttered out.
"Natsu!" Lucy shouted happily.
"No way...he defeated it?" Lyon asked in shock. "All these years, I've spent in preparing to kill the Immortal demon but it was easily slain with a single attack!?"
Natsu then reached his hand to his face as he wipes it down, making the demonic mouth mask disappear while his Katana transforms back to normal.
Gray and the others went to him with bewildered faces
"How did you do that thing?!" exclaimed Gray, wanting to know how Natsu destroyed Deliora.
"How did you do that?" Lyon's voice suddenly demanded as everyone turns to look at him "how did you do that?!"
Natsu drew his katana but Gray stopped him with a hand reached out and a few head shakes. Natsu looks at Gray before to Lyon.
"I just cut him down" said Natsu as he slowly sheaths away the katana. "that is all"
"don't fuck around! Just cut him down?! That was Deliora! The immortal demon!" exclaimed Lyon, not believing that Natsu is able to cut down an immortal demon so easily.
"so what if that beast was immortal? I cut him down easily" said a dark voice as everyone got surprised to hear it.
"you" said Natsu as he glanced at his sheathed katana. "who told you to speak?"
"I do not remember that I must ask you permission," said the dark voice with a chuckle "I talk when I want to talk, and now I want to talk because of that brat saying that I could not cut down that beast"
"hey hey, since when does a katana talk!?" said Gray as everyone took a few steps away from Natsu.
"good question, since when do humans talk?" said the dark voice "I don't even know when am I able to talk too"
"silence, Chitetsu" said Natsu as his eyes glows red.
"very well, we'll have our conversation for another time" said the dark voice before it disappeared and everything went silent.
"since when can your….katana…talk, Natsu?" said Erza as she couldn't believe that the katana could talk.
"that is a story for another time" said Natsu as he turns around and started walking away before he stopped and took a glance at Lyon. "Deliora was presumably already dead in the first place"
"what?!" said Lyon with his eyes wide in shock.
"for anything that is immortal, being sealed for years could not allow it" said Natsu before he walked away.
"So, Ur really killed it..." said Lyon as he was frowning. "All this time...I just wasted it all chasing ghosts..Ur would be ashamed if she saw me now."
"You shouldn't feel bad Lyon," Gray said. "Ur may not be here in human form, but I have a feeling she's happily watching over us, her disciples," Gray said as he came over and offer Lyon his hand. Lyon then looked up and took it as the two then shook as he scoffed a little.
"let's get back to the village," Natsu said as he entered into a cave "it's time to deal with another problem"
back at the village, Natsu and the others arrived back at the village that is somehow mysteriously restored back.
"how is this?" Gray asked while knocking on a house's wall with his knuckles
"the whole village is back to normal!?" Lucy exclaimed in surprise
"Ultear, huh?" Natsu thought in his mind as Ultear appeared in his mind.
"ah! Everyone!" a villager called out to them as Moka and the others heard the calling villager as they all walked to them
"thank you for restoring our village, Mages!" some of them thank Natsu and the others while bowing their heads in gratitude
"But we-" Lucy tried to retort but Natsu stopped her
"let's leave that for a later time" Natsu said before his kids dashed to his legs and hugs it
"PAPA!" Haruka and Haruo hugged his legs as Natsu smiled a bit while patting their heads.
Natsu then saw Moka who was walking towards them from his son's tombstone, "Oh...you are back. Tell me Fairy Tail wizards… When will you finally destroy the moon for us?!"
"Hold on a minute..." Lucy said as she raised her hands to try and calm the old man.
"Before we do anything, I want to ask you and your villagers a few questions so I can double-check something." The scarlet-haired knight said while scanning the environment around them, "Can you please get everyone together?"
"Huh? S-Sure..." Moka agreed to Erza's request and went to gather everyone at the village's entrance, and Erza quickly studied each and every one of them.
"To make sure I understand things correctly… you all gained those appearances when the purple moon first started to show up, am I correct?"
"W-Well to be more precise, we only turn like this when the moon is out," Moka replied with a bead of sweat falling down his face.
"That started three years ago, according to your story, correct?" Moka and the other villagers nodded their heads while some whispered among each other, "However, the Moon Drip ritual has been held daily for three years on this island. You should have been seeing a ray of light at the ruins every day."
As she was saying this she was walking towards a suspicious patch of earth, though since her eyes were closed, she didn't see it as she took a step on it. The obvious trap gave way as the weight from Erza's foot pushed down on the surface and she fell into the pit. "KYAH!"
"T-That was… kinda cute..." Gray managed to say, he had never heard Erza do something girly like that before.
"I didn't do it! I didn't do it!" Lucy was panicking behind the three, they turned down her pitfall trap plan earlier!
Natsu glanced at Mirajane who whistles while looking at the sky above as if it interested her.
Erza quickly got out of the pitfall and continued to talk as if nothing had happened, "In other words, that's the most suspicious part of the island. So, let me ask you this, why didn't you investigate it?"
"She continued talking as if nothing happened." One of the villagers muttered with a sweat drop falling down the back of his head.
"She's a tough one." Another villager nodded his head in agreement.
"T-That's b-because it is forbidden for anyone from the village to go to those ruins," Moka spoke up to answer for his village.
"Yeah...but...the situation was serious, wasn't it?" Lucy asked, "I mean, you did have casualties and even offered an expensive reward for it."
"Can you tell us the truth?" Erza finished as Moka started to sweat nervously as he looked down at the ground.
"To be honest… we don't know what is going on either." Moka admitted, looking up at the wizards with a serious expression, "We tried to investigate the ruins a bunch of times. However, we couldn't get anywhere near the ruins, even if some of us charged with weapons. We noticed that every time we tried to go down the road toward the ruins, we would always wind up in front of the village gates."
"Wh-What do you mean?" Lucy asked as she and Gray was shocked to hear this. They had gone to and entered the ruins quite a few times and the group didn't have to trouble any of those times.
"We don't know...but we kept it quiet because we thought you wouldn't believe us!" One of the villagers spoke.
"But it's true! We tried many times to get to those ruins!" "But none of the villagers were able to go there!"
"… It looks like I was correct with my suspicions." Erza said suddenly.
"Eh? Suspicions?" Lucy repeated while blinking a few times as a look of confusion grew on her face, "What do you mean by that?"
"things here aren't as they seemed to be" said Natsu as he stepped forward and placed a hand to Chitetsu then draws the katana out of its scabbard.
Natsu grips the katana with both hands as veins started to pop out all over his hands.
"move back" said Natsu as Chitetsu's blade glows. Everyone backed away as they can feel a rising magic pressure coming from Natsu.
"destroy the moon? Should I lend you enough power for that?" said Chitetsu with a chuckle as Natsu's eyes glowed red.
"silence" said Natsu as he lifted Chitetsu above his head before he swung it down
CRACK!
Everyone in the village heard the sound of glass breaking as they all look up and saw a crack appearing on the middle part of the violet moon before it broke into half.
"NO WAAAAY!"
The splitter moon then cracks and so did the sky as it then exploded and rained down to the village. Almost everyone was surprised by what was happening, Lucy was the first one to speak as she raised her hands to catch the falling pieces in her hand like snow,
"It wasn't the moon that was shattered… but the sky instead…?" said Lucy
"It wasn't the moon or sky that was the issue, it was the layer of evil energy that had been covering the island," Erza explained to the others
"Layer?" Haruka and Haruo asked as they tilted their heads to the side with Kiara doing the same.
"Think of it as leftover gas made by Moon Drip, as the gas crystallized and created a layer in the sky. That's why the moon looked purple." The Scarlet Knight finished as the villagers began glowing, "That's why the moon and sky looked normal that night when we first arrived, we were outside the layer's reach. But on the Island, it was different."
"W-Wow..." Lucy commented at the beautiful light the villagers were emitting from their bodies.
"Now that the layer is gone, the villagers should return to their normal forms," Erza said as she and the others watched the glowing villagers being freed from their curse.
But to everyone's shock, however, the light surrounding the villagers disappeared to reveal that they were still in their demonic forms.
"And just like that, they're back to normal." Natsu said as he walked towards his kids
"What are you talking about, Natsu? They didn't change at all!" Gray yelled back as he looked away from the villagers to the Fire Dragon Slayer.
"Why would they change?" Natsu questioned with a raised eyebrow, "The Moon Drip didn't do anything to their appearance, just their memories. That's what they've always looked like."
"No way… Are you saying that…?!" Lucy's body started to shake as she slowly turned back to the villagers.
"That's right. It wasn't that they turned into demons only at night, they were demons, to begin with." Erza told him as she looks to the villager
"You've got to be kidding me!" Lucy shouted, falling to her knees.
"S-Seriously...?" Gray questioned as he stood in front of a villager, who seemed to be as surprised as them.
"W-Well… things are a little fuzzy, but now that they mention it…"
"They all have the ability to transform into humans. It was simply a case of them starting to believe that they were truly humans and their true forms were the altering effects of a curse. That was the effect that the Moon Drip had on their memory." Erza explained.
"But why weren't Lyon and the others affected?" Lucy asked.
"It's because they were humans." Mira crossed her arms as she answered the question, "This Amnesia thing only effects demons. Also, the villagers can't approach those ruins because they are demons. People from the darkness can't approach the ruins which hold holy light within it."
Erza nodded to her rival's explanation, "Even if they themselves had forgotten about being demons, their instincts reacted whenever they would get too close and send them right back to the village."
"Very impressive… I'm glad I left it in your hands…" A male voice was heard coming from the side, making everyone turn in the direction of the voice and were complete shock to see Bobo who was waving his hand to them while in a demon form,
"Thank you… Fairy Tail wizards."
"AAHHHH! GHOST!" Lucy screamed as she hugged Haruka and Haruo away from the so-called ghost.
"Y-You're that sailor!" Gray shouted in shock as well.
"… Bobo…" Moka muttered while his body began to tremble at the sight of his son, who was alive and well.
One of the villagers took a step forward, "B-But you were…!?"
"Getting stabbed in the chest isn't enough to kill us, demons. Something as simple as that would never work." Bobo said with a grin before he started to laugh at their reactions.
"B-But you vanished from the ship…" Gray started to say as he thought about how the person in front of them had disappeared without a trace. Bobo simply smiled at him before suddenly disappearing again, making Gray and Lucy's eyes widen in shock.
"I'm sorry for not being able to tell you the truth back then." Bobo's voice was heard and everyone looked up to see him smiling down at them, on his back was a large pair of wings.
"I got away from the island because I was the only one who got his memory back. I was scared of everyone because they thought they were human."
"B-Bobo…!" Moka had tears building up in his eyes as his own wings shot out of his back, and the old demon flew into the air towards his son, "BOBOOO!"
Bobo managed to catch his father mid-charge, and smiled happily as the two hugged each other, "I'm glad you regained your senses pops!" The villagers all cheered for the reunion between father and son as they joined them in the sky.
The group of wizards all watched with grins and smiles as they watched the villagers fly around happily. One of the villagers screamed something about a party, which everyone happily cheered for.
Natsu smiled to the partying demons as Lucy and Gray joined them with the addition of Erza and Mira
"yaaayyy!" Haruka and Haruo cheered while smiling as they run to the party before Natsu carried them up
"no partying for you two, it's past your curfew," Natsu told them as he carried them into the hut, they were staying for the night
"but we want to join!" Haruka and Haruo whined to their father while having fake tears and puppy dog eyes to him
"not going to work this time, and besides.." Natsu said as his face was shadowed with two glowing red eyes appearing
"Papa haven't forgot your punishment for leaving home without permission" Natsu said in a scary voice as Haruka and Haruo face paled and they screamed "nooooooo!"
Gray and the others look in sympathy to the twins as they're about to face a cruel (Maybe) punishment up ahead
"I haven't forgot about yours, Mira…Erza" Natsu said as he looked at Mira and Erza as both flinched in fear as their entire body turned white.
"Kyuiii" Kiara squealed while drinking some water from a coconut shell
the next morning came as everyone is readying themselves to go home. Ash coming to the island as the wyvern sat on the sandy beach while getting luggage packed up to its saddle.
"W-What? You can't accept the primary reward?" said Moka in shock to what Erza had said as she turned down 7 million Jewels.
"Yes, we were just happy we could help you guys out." Replied Erza with a smile
"Red is right. Your happiness is enough for us." Mirajane said in agreement.
"B-But..."
"While our guild had officially accepted your request, you requested us to destroy the moon which we didn't. So, taking the reward will shame our guild's name." Erza told him.
"But that still doesn't change the fact that this village was saved because of all of you and your hard work. Will you accept this as a token of appreciation between friends instead?" Moka offered, wanting to show how grateful he was for their help.
Erza let out a soft sigh as she gave them a soft smile, "When you put it that way, it's difficult to turn it down…"
"Sweet! We're getting 7 million Jewels!" Behind the two, both Gray and Lucy had excited looks on their faces at the chance they would be getting the reward after all.
"But by doing so, we would go against our guild's principles. Especially since it was what our master had ordered upon completing the job." Erza finished saying, "Though we'll happily accept the additional reward you were offering, the Gold Spirit Key."
Though her refusal of the reward money was a downer to Gray, Lucy was still happy to get the additional reward, "You are the best!"
"well then, it is time we be off" Erza said as she and Mira walk back to the others
"Our first team S-class mission and we only get a key?" Gray asked in a down voice while Lucy was all joy and happy
"no problem for me, though!" Lucy said to him while her eyes sparkled to the key
"which spirit is it, Lucy-neechan?" Haruka asked while being carried up onto Ash's saddle with her father's help
"the Centaur, Sagittarius" Lucy replied to the little girl
"Centaur!?" Mira and Gray exclaimed as an imagination bubble of a man with a horse head appeared
"it's more like this, though," Lucy said with the imagination bubble of a real centaur appeared above her
While for Haruka and Haruo, they were imagining a man's head on a horse's body in their imagination bubble.
"that's wrong too," Lucy said with a sweat drop
"let's get back home" said Natsu as he jumped and landed on Ash's head before having Kiara climb upon his shoulder.
Natsu whistled once as Ash growls a bit and started flapping his wings a few time.
"Everyone! Thank you so much for everything you've done for us!" Bobo shouting at them and waving his hands goodbye, his father was standing next to him doing the same. A lot of the villagers were standing behind them waving and shouting their goodbyes, which made the Fairy Tail's wizards, plus two extras, happily waved their own goodbyes back.
Watching from a cliff on a different part of the island, a bandage up Lyon and his group were watching the ship as it sailed away. Toby was denying that he was crying even though he was obviously bawling.
"And there they go." Yuka said before turning to look at Toby with a deadpanned look, "Just how long are you going to do that?"
Ignoring the two, Sherry turned to look at Lyon, who had a peaceful look on his face. "Are you sure you're okay with this Lyon-sama? You're not even saying goodbye to your former junior student. that is love~!"
"I'm sure, it's not like I won't ever see them again," Lyon replied with a smile. He looked up at the sky, which seemed to be bigger than he remembered, "Tell me … is it fun being in a guild?"
in the sky, Ash flew above the ocean as the Wyvern heads straight for Magnolia.
"Sorry, Papa~!" whined Haruka and Haruo to Natsu who sat on Ash's head with a solemn look. "PAPA~!"
"don't try to whine at me" said Natsu as he glanced at his kids. "no dessert at Fairy Tail or anywhere for an entire year and you can only have bell pepper and broccoli for breakfast, lunch, and dinner"
"Papa~!" cried out Haruka and Haruo as the twins hate not having sweet dessert nor do they even like eating bell pepper and broccoli as kids have dislikes at some point.
"come on, Natsu. give them a break" said Gray, feeling a bit sorry for the twins' punishment "it's not like they got hurt or anything"
"yeah and having bell pepper and broccoli for entire meals isn't a good idea for kids as young as they are" added Lucy with a sweatdrop.
Natsu glanced at the two before to his twins as the two were crying with puppy eyes, he looks at them before rolling his eyes.
"fine" said Natsu as Haruka and Haruo's eyes glitter in hope before their hope gets crushed when Natsu added "you don't have to eat bell pepper nor broccoli for your entire meal, but there won't be any dessert for two years instead"
"Papa~!" whined Haruka and Haruo as they still wanted sweet dessert.
"or would you like eating bell pepper and broccoli for two years and still be able to eat dessert?" said Natsu as he changed the punishment again.
"we don't want Bell pepper and Broccoli! Papa~!" whined the twins as they started crying for their father's forgiveness.
"don't think that crying would subdue my anger" said Natsu as he ignores their cries.
"Papa~!" Haruka and Haruo cried even more as they latched onto Natsu's back and started tugging him.
"you think he is just playing around and make them learn to not do this anymore?" said Erza to Mira who shrugs her shoulders.
"beats me, but knowing how Natsu teaches them, maybe?" said Mira with a small smile.
Natsu looks at the front as he keeps ignoring Haruka and Haruo's cries to him before he glanced at Kiara who squealed at him.
"fine" said Natsu as he sighs and glanced at his twins, both Haruka and Haruo in tears while sniffling. "if you promise to never do this again, I won't force both of you to eat bell pepper and broccoli, alright?"
"we promise!" said Haruka and Haruo as both hated Broccoli and Bellpepper, they would do anything to avoid eating the two vegetables at all cost.
"very well" said Natsu before hearing Ash growl to him once as the man looks forward and sees Hargeon coming into view even though the town is quite far away.
Ash flaps his wings twice before the Wyvern head straight for Hargeon and then back to Magnolia.
That's a wrap!
Bye bye
