In the travel to the Sun Village, Natsu and the team arrived to the location as Draco landed on the ground for the group to get down and see that they are in the area of a rocky prairie where they can find a few rocks which are covered in ice which was something very odd for them to find.
"these rocks are frozen." Said Lucy as the group checked the frozen rocks while Draco disappeared into sparkles. The blonde picked up a smell pebble and could feel how cold it was. "it's literally just covered in ice."
"this would mean that Warrod-san was literally correct in everything of the village and its surrounding being frozen." Said Charla as the group checked the frozen surroundings. "rocks, trees, and even the animals must be frozen."
"you two seen anything like this?" Erza asked Natsu and Gray who just shook their heads.
"I've froze some ground and rock…" Gray stated as he checks a frozen tree and tapped it rock hard like cold surface. "but these ones? They literally frozen to the core."
"this is the work of a rather unique magic." Said Natsu as he held up a frozen flower that he twirls around. "a magic that I have no clear clue on what it is."
"let's go and find the village." Wendy stated. "maybe if we find the village; we find a clue as to how this began."
Erza and the others nodded as the group started to go to the direction of the frozen land.
The group walked through the frozen forest's trees as they just made through everything before they find a large wall surrounding an area that is just frozen in ice.
"Wow, he was right." Lucy said as she looked around the frozen village in awe.
"I wonder what happened." Wendy thought out loud.
Erza searched the visually scanned the village for any signs of life.
"According to Master Warrod, the people were frozen as well. But I don't see anyone." Erza stated as she checked for anyone in sight.
"Maybe they were frozen in their homes or something." Gray suggested as he scanned the area and try to find a frozen person.
Natsu looks around before he looks up and his eyes widen a bit.
"hey" Natsu called out as the group turns towards the salmon haired mage who pointed a finger up. "I think I found one of the villagers."
Everyone looks at where Natsu is pointing and their eyes widen in shock and surprise as a large and giant frozen statue was in front of them
"SO BIGGGG!" the group minus Natsu screamed in shock.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Gray exclaimed as everyone was looking at a giant frozen in ice.
"giants!?" Lucy exclaimed.
"I think Warrod-san forgot to mention this part…" Charla stated while sweatdropping as she can already imagine the old tree man just laughing with a sheepish smile at his home.
Gray looked up at one of the giants, seeing it frozen reminds him of his past.
"Hey." Lucy called out. "Are you alright?"
"Yea…it's nothing." Gray replied as he nodded before looking at the frozen gian."It's just…seeing these frozen giants brought back some stuff I'd rather forget…"
"r-right…." Lucy spoke, knowing of Gray's traumatized past.
"I never expected the 'people' to be giants." Erza stated as she checks the giant's foot and could see that whatever is covering them is the same type of ice that froze the trees and everything else. "I thought they only existed in fantasy."
"Look, even the dogs are huge." Wendy pointed out as she stood in front of the humungous animal in question.
"I wonder if that is a dog?" Charla said with a sweat drop while Kiara squeals.
"Just how are we supposed to save them?" Lucy asked the group.
"Natsu, I think this is where you go first." Said Erza as Natsu nodded before his hands ignites in flames.
Natsu swings his hands back before to the front as he unleashed streams of flames at the giant's foot.
Everyone watched Natsu as he keeps up his flames for about 5 minutes and then stopped to see that the frozen giant's foot remained frozen.
"it didn't work?" said Lucy with a surprised look.
"what about this?" Natsu asked as he performed several hand signs and then instantly spewed out blue flames from his mouth at the frozen giant; but it yielded the same result.
"even with Natsu-san's magic and fire chi can't melt the ice." Wendy spoke before looking at the others. "what are we going to do?"
"if fire can't melt it, how about Gray tries it?" Charla said as Gray nodded
Gray walked to the giant and pressed his hand against the ice. His gaze narrowed as he felt the magic flow into his body.
"What is it, Gray?" Erza asked. "Did you find a way to thaw them out?"
"no" Gray shook his head. "I don't know what this ice is. It's some sort of ice magic that I have no idea on."
"I assume that means you can't melt it either." Said Charla as Gray nodded
"This is going to be a long job isn't it?" Lucy sighed while rubbing a hand to her head.
"Looks like someone beat us here." A voice said from above, alerting the Fairy Tail wizards.
"They must be the one's behind that huge fire we saw earlier." Another voice said.
"Dun!" a third voice shouted.
Erza looked up to the cliff where their surprise guests stood. She saw three men, each with varied hairstyles. "Who is there?"
The long haired man on the right spoke first with a smirk. "We're the treasure hunting guild…"
"Sylph Labyrinth!" the spike haired man in the middle finished.
"Duun!" the large man on the left added.
There was a moment of silence. The men spoke again, in the same order as the first time.
"We're the treasure hunting guild…" "Sylph Labyrinth!" "Duun!"
"We heard you the first time." Erza replied.
"A treasure hunter guild?" Wendy questioned.
"My guess is they hunt for jewels and things like that." Lucy assumed.
"Sorry, but the treasure stashed here is ours." The long haired man said. "So you guys better not get in our way."
"Treasure?" Natsu said while raising an eyebrow.
"We don't care about stuff like that." Gray retorted as this made the three treasure hunters taken aback by the ice wizard's answer.
"Wait!" the long haired man shouted. "Ain't you guys after that eternal flame thing?!"
The spike haired man shouted his response as well. It seemed that quiet was not these men's fortes. "If not then what's with your heavy wizard presence here?!"
"We're here to melt the ice and free the villagers," Natsu told them
The three treasure hunters looked at one another after hearing Natsu's answer. They looked to be discussing something, but no words were exchanged. Suddenly their faces turned and they looked back at the Fairy Tail wizards with anger.
"Then you do want to get in our way!" the spiked haired and long haired men shouted in unison.
"Duun!" the large man added. Fairy Tail looked up at them with gazes of both confusion, and apathy.
"That flame has been burning in this village for hundreds of years! It's super rare!" the long haired hunter informed Fairy Tail.
"So for treasure hunters like us, it's like a really heavy, S-Class heavy, treasure! But because of those damn giants, we ain't been able get near it." The spike haired man continued.
"Then for who knows what reason, the giants went and duun froze up, right?" the large man stated
"So this is like, the perfect time to get the flame." The long haired man resumed.
"But that flame is the guardian god of the village!" Wendy argued. "It's really important to them!"
"Yeah!" Lucy chimed in.' "You coming here and stealing it makes you know better than common thieves!"
The treasure hunters looked at another once again in one of their silent meetings. Once again they turned to the Fairy Tail wizards in a burst of anger.
"It's a treasure hunter's job to get their hands on the treasure!"
"That means if somebody lets their stuff get taken, then it's like, so heavily their own fault!"
"Duun! Duun!"
"Screw this! Let's just hurry and take the treasure before they can get in our way!" the long haired man suggested.
"You're right!" the spike-haired man agreed. "Let's go!"
"Duun! Duun!" The Sylph Labyrinth members turned on their heels and began to run back the way they came, but they were stopped by Gray's questioning.
"'Take'? I hate to break it to you guys, but that flame is frozen in a kind of ice that…" Gray stated but he was cut off by the spike haired hunter who turned around with a wry grin on his face. He held up to them a vial containing a small amount of a glowing purple liquid.
"Treasure hunters are heavy with treasure hunting skills." He said. "We got this heavy potion, 'Moon Drip', and it's heavy into melting all sorts of ice!"
"Whaaa!" everyone exclaimed in surprise
"Moon Drip?!" Lucy exclaimed. "That's the magic that Lyon used on Galuna Island, right?!"
"How did they obtain it in liquid form?" Erza questioned.
"Wait. If we use that we can thaw out the villagers, right?!" Gray stated as this made everyone look more wide eyes.
"You're right!" Lucy exclaimed.
"then we just have to take it." Said Natsu as he now holds the vial containing the Moon Drip. "but I doubt these much will thaw the entire village out of this ice."
"just how did you already have that?!" Gray and the others exclaimed as so did the treasure hunters who saw that their item is now in Fairy Tail Team's possession.
"a bit of help from the shadows, you can say." Natsu replied as Tengu suddenly arises out of the salmon haired man's shadow.
"Tengu!?" the group explained in seeing the raven spirit.
"gaaah! That guy stole our Moon Drip!" the three treasure hunters screamed out. "he's a thief!"
"silence." Said Natsu as he glanced at Sylph Labyrinth with glowing red eyes.
Before long, the salmon haired man summons Draco who is charging up electricity in his large jaws.
"Orion's Quasar!" Draco roared before unleashing a blast of lightning directly at the three Sylph Labyrinth's treasure hunters.
"aaaaghhh!" they screamed as Erza and the others sweatdrop to see the three blasting off to the sky and disappear into a twinkling star.
"so cruel…" the group spoke in unison while looking at Natsu who summoned back Draco and Tengu to the Celestial Spirit World.
"we didn't even get to know those three's names…" Charla muttered out while Kiara squeals.
After taking Moon Drip from the three Treasure Hunters; the group tested a few drips on the ground and sees that the ice had thawed out but only in a small spot.
"it worked so easily." Said Lucy in seeing the brown ground surrounded by the ice.
"but only a small spot was unfrozen." Erza stated as she leans down and touched the unfrozen ground. "We might have to find a way to reproduce Moon drip."
"wait." Natsu spoke as he gently got down and leans his ear on the unfrozen part of the ground. "I want everyone to be quiet."
Everyone looks at Natsu a bit confused but they did as he asked.
Natsu listens closely to the ground as he could hear a whispering voice that is just calling out to him.
"I don't know if you guys can hear it, but someone is calling for help." Said Natsu as he got up and looks around at the surroundings.
"someone is calling for help?" Lucy asked "who?"
"someone who I thought I would never see or hear from ever again." Said Natsu as he looks at the frozen giants. "are all the giants facing one direction?"
"one direction?" Erza stated as she checked the frozen giants and her eyes widen in realization. "they are!"
"what's wrong with that?" Wendy asked while confused.
"ever giant is facing on direction…and they have weapons…" Lucy muttered out before she looks at Natsu and Erza with a face filled with revelation. "you mean that whatever happened; the frozen giants were trying to fight it!"
"and that would mean whatever they're trying to fight is actually for something." Gray added as Natsu nodded before he looks south.
"those Sylph Labyrinth were after treasure." Said Natsu. "and this village of giants has only one valuable treasure."
"the Eternal Flame!" everyone stated before the group started to move to the direction where all the giants were facing away from.
High above the skies of Sun Village, a winged cyclopean creature soared through the air; carrying two passengers on its back. One of the riders was a man of considerable size. His bulging muscles nearly ripped through his tight shirt. He also sported a bandana - with the picture of an open mouth with teeth bared - over his mouth. He looked over the side of the creature with annoyance.
"Treasure hunters and wizards…?" he said. "They're both problems. We have to eliminate them. That's our job."
"I care not for the thieves." His companion who is a woman scoffed. "The problem is the wizards."
"That's true." The man nodded.
"Fairy Tail." The woman hissed with an angered tone.
The man turned his head to look at his companion. "You know them?"
"Of course." She smirked. "Only the most terribly ignorant lives in this world and not know of Fairy Tail. Or if you are living under a rock."
"I know nothing of the outside world." The man stated plainly, looking down at the ground once again.
"It doesn't matter." The woman said quickly, her smirk slowly turning into a devilish grin. "I never thought my chance at revenge would come so quickly." She grabbed the end of her long black hair, twirling it around her finger amusedly. "The shadow world has its advantages after all."
"I don't care about that." The man declared. "This is a job. Let's go, new girl."
"'New girl'?" the woman repeated with an amused expression. She nearly eked out a laugh at the blatant disrespect. She turned to him. "You are to call me, 'Princess'."
Her name is Minerva Orland, Former member of Sabertooth and was now a member of a dark guild, Succubus Eye
that's a wrap!
bye bye
