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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Three: Leone's Argument

"Got any threes?"

"Go fish."

Chelsea groaned as she drew a card from a deck. Being stuck in a house with rain pouring down non-stop really didn't leave a lot of entertainment options. Chelsea and Akame decided to play a game of Go Fish to pass the time. So far, it really didn't help as much as Chelsea thought. "Jeez. I thought things would be a little more exciting in 'rebuilding the Fairy Tail guild.'"

Akame saw the irony in the other girl's words. "I never thought you would be the one to say that considering you often avoided conflict in the first place."

Chelsea could understand what Akame was getting at. "Who said anything about conflict? I'm just kinda jealous Leone went off with Natsu and Lucy off to Sabertooth and then who knows where." The whole issue was bugging Chelsea a lot. She regretted not being the first to volunteer to go along but it seemed she was still being cautious even though Chelsea learned magic to fight with. She looked over to Wendy who was tending to Juvia. "Need any help with that?"

Wendy started to unbutton Juvia's shirt. "No, I'm fine. I'm just going to wipe Juvia is all." When she fully unbuttoned the older girl, she felt a little embarrassed how…large Juvia was. The young dragon slayer was once again reminded how small she was and had hoped her growth would be just as big as Leone.

Carla sitting on a wooden box with a bowl of hot soup. "Wonder if Natsu and the rest caught up with Gray yet."

Wendy dipped a towel in a bucket of water. "Yeah…it'd be nice if they did, though."

Now the Exceed couldn't help but worry about them. "I hope they're not fighting."

The sky dragon slayer smiled at the words. "Fights aren't something new to them. It's Natsu and Gray we're talking about."

Carla had to admit Wendy was right. "That's true."

Akame drew another card from the deck and looked up to the ceiling. She really starting to miss Leone. "I hope you're alright, Leone."

B

The battle in the Avatar basement continued as Gray and Natsu crossed punched each other at the same time. Leone and the rest saw them duke it out and the two mages separated. Leone really couldn't take eyes off their battle. Lucy, on the hand, didn't like it at all. "Hey, stop it you two!"

Her cry was ignored as Gray rushed over to Natsu. "What the hell are you guys doing here?!"

He delivered a punch at Natsu but the fire dragon slayer blocked it with his arm. "Right back at ya!"

Natsu sent a counterattack but Gray dodged to the side. "I do what I want."

The fire dragon slayer continued his attacks and kicked Gray with fire. "Juvia's waiting for you bastard!" He jumped over to gray with his fist engulfed in fire. "I'm waiting for you and we need you to bring back Fairy Tail!"

Gray delivered his own counterattack and struck the fire dragon slayer. "This is stupid." He slammed his hand down to the ground and massive ice spikes came out right at fire dragon slayer. "Fairy Tail is no more!"

Natsu waved his arm and his fire incinerated the ice. "that's what they all say…but all the memories…and the bonds we shared are still there." He pounded his shoulder with his fist. "Fairy Tail's right here. Has been and will always be."

The ice mage scoffed at the speech. "Your solutions right there, isn't it? If it's as you say, then you'd have no need for me so leave me alone, won't you? I will go my way, you go yours."

Leone was beginning to be pissed more and more by hearing Gray's words. "Why you little…"

Gray glared at the fire dragon slayer. "Fairy Tail is no longer part of me. So could you please drop the whole BFF act with me?"

Lucy had enough of what Gray was saying and walked up to him. She then slapped him across the face. Gray didn't seem to be affected but Lucy still has something to say. "BFF act?! It wasn't an act! We're comrades till the end! Please don't say things like that." She looked away from the ice mage. "I don't want to hear it. I…we…" Lucy suddenly felt a sharp intense pain in her stomach and dropped to her knees while clutching her stomach. "My stomach…it hurts…"

Natsu was instantly worried about her "Lucy!"

Gray knew whose doing it was. "Mary?"

Mary was behind Gray and was smiling innocently. "Who are you people? Gray's friends from before? The ones from that guild that no longer exists?"

The fire dragon slayer gritted his teeth in anger at Mary. "What did you do to you!?"

Unbeknownst to Natsu and Virgo, they were suddenly chained up by Goumon's magic and Natsu fell forward. "Ochaaa!"

Virgo knew what they were being cuffed with. "These are…magic seals!"

"Natsu!" Happy tried to run to his friend's aid but then was sudden thrown back to the floor. Abel was toying with the doll in which Happy was under control. "Mr. Cursey!"

Avatar was beginning to take control of the situation now. "Huh…you've saved us the trouble, Mary."

Mary loved the way Lucy was in pain. "You weaklings shouldn't have gone in the first place. Dear me. Does it hurt? It hurts, doesn't it? My black magic."

Despite being chained up, Natsu ran over to Gray. "Gray!"

Goumon tried to reel him in but found it to be surprisingly difficult. "Even while we've sealed his magic…how it is he's still so strong?"

A sword was pointed next to Lucy's head. "Don't move." Jerome looked over at Leone "I would suggest you do the same miss."

Leone growled at him as the situation became very dire. "Damn it…"

They couldn't do anything against the Avatar members as they were helpless. "This is what you get for sticking your nose into other people's business…Natsu."

Natsu was desperate at this point in trying to get through Gray. "Snap out of it Gray! You're being possessed by a demon!"

"I'm perfectly sane." Gray took off his jacket to reveal that the Fairy Tail mark he once had was now replaced by the Avatar mark. He pounded his right pectoral. "I destroyed that 'family link' of ours of my own accord. Now does that answer your question?"

Everyone couldn't believe what they were seeing. They couldn't believe that one of their own would betray them like this. However, it was enough for Leone. "So that's it huh? You give one giant ass middle finger to all of them huh?"

Gray narrowed his eyes at the second blonde. "And what of it? Come to think of it, who are you and why are you here with these two?"

Leone bared her teeth at the ice mage. "If you really mean what you say by all of that crap, then that's make you an enemy of mine."

Jerome noticed the look in Leone's eye and noticed something dangerous about her. "Her eyes. They appear to look more like they belong to a beast rather than a human." Everyone in the room was feeling a little unnerved by the sight of her.

Leone cracked her knuckles. "Which means…" She jumped over to Gray with her claw extended forward. "YOU'RE DEAD!"

Out of reflex, Gray swiped his arm across and Leone was instantly frozen before the tip of her claw reached his face. Even Gray would call it too close for comfort. Natsu and the others couldn't' believe Leone was really serious about killing Gray. With everything resolved, there one thing left to do. "Put them all in a cell." Jerome ordered.

B

The soldiers of the Detention Enforcement Unit set up camp for a short rest. Lily shifted his eyes to the side. "Someone's approaching Gajeel."

The iron dragon slayer narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, I hear em. This smell, though."

They saw the person approaching them. It was none other than Levy. "Thanks for waiting."

The other soldiers were happy to see her again. "Levy, thanks for the hard work."

"Must've been tough work sneaking in."

"Ah, the merits of being small."

Levy waved her hand at them feeling a little embarrassed. "Thanks and sorry for the wait." She recalled her details of her mission. "Everything went smoothly at first but boy, getting out was just painful." She walked up to Gajeel. "That aside, have you heard about Gray Gajeel?"

Gajeel nodded at the question. "Yeah."

Levy pondered the reason why Gray was in Avatar in the first place. "Wonder what happened to him? It's like his entire heart's been engulfed by darkness."

Gajeel had a different thought on the matter. "Got nothing to do with me frankly. Our job's to stop their 'Purification' from happening."

Lily didn't except the iron dragon slayer to say that of all things. "Nothing to do with you? Gray used to be a comrade of yours wasn't he?"

Gajeel scoffed at that. "He sure as hell ain't one now. If the 'Purification Ritual' of theirs pulls through, lots of innocent people will die. You telling me I should consider a man who's involved in that crazy ass plan a comrade of mine?"

He brought up a good point. Lily had one more question to ask. "Will you be able to fight, though? Against one that used to be our own."

Gajeel was long prepared for that situation. "If our paths are different, that doesn't make us anything but enemies. And that's why we have to stop it. The Purification Ritual." Levy couldn't help but feel worried about how all of this will turn out in the end.

B

After they were captured, Natsu and the group were thrown in a cell sitting on the floor handcuffed. Happy had one cuffed around his body. "Are you feeling okay now Lucy?"

Lucy smiled gently at him. "Yeah…I'm good."

Happy noticed one of them wasn't here for a quite a while. "Where's Virgo?"

The blonde held up the cuffs she was wearing. "She's been sent back because of the sealing stone."

Natsu sat up against the wall trying to figure out what went wrong. "That damn Gray. What the hell happened to him."

That was something Lucy really wanted to know as well. "There must be a reason for this. He could've been possessed by something…or…or maybe he's under someone's control."

Happy had to agree with Lucy's theories. "Yeah…Gray wouldn't do something like this."

"Oh please." The three looked over to Leone back in her human form who was sitting at the side of the cell also wearing the magic seal cuffs. "All of you heard what he said and he meant every word. He's not possessed or whatever you think. He's gone off the deep end and hate to say it but there's no way he's coming back. I'm starting to think anyone who uses ice are freaking psychopaths."

Lucy glared at the other blonde. "And that's why you thought it was a good idea to kill him?! He's our friend!"

"Some friend he turned out to be!" Leone yelled back. "Whether you admit it or not, he's become the enemy and anyone who's an enemy has to be dealt with no matter what it is or what it takes."

Lucy closed her hands tightly as she couldn't believe what Leone was saying. "Is that how things worked back in the world you came from?"

"You're damn right!" Leone replied harshly. "At least I was the one who prepared for the worst."

"We're here to take Gray back."

Leone looked over at Natsu who was glaring at her. "Take him back? Buddy, he switched sides. There's no going back for him."

Natsu refused to believe that. "No, he's our friend and if he doesn't believe in himself…then we will even if you don't."

Leone knew this kind of logic would never fly back in her world. To her, Gray was a lost cause. "Whatever but I will promise this. Next time I see him; I'll make sure he'll pay for freezing me over. That's the second worst experience I've had."

Lucy wondered what was the first. Lucy and the rest heard the door open and looked out the cell bars. "Someone's coming." All of them saw Goumon enter the room and for reason bowed. It freaked Lucy and Happy out a little. "He's bowing even though there's nobody in front of him!"

"Creepy!"

Natsu slammed against the bars while being angry at the Avatar member. "Where's Gray! Bring him here!"

Goumon wasn't intimidated by him. "Gray, along with everyone else isn't here anymore. They've all gone to prepare for the Purification Ritual and I've come here to get some information from you. Even if it means by force."

Happy didn't understand why he meant by what he said. "Purification Ritual?"

"The purification of the soul. And death is the only way of attaining it." Goumon explained. "And the smell of death will only bring Zeref closer to us."

Lucy didn't like the sound of any of that. "Don't involve Gray in strange things!"

Goumon eyed at the blonde. "So you've noticed that…I've been cosplaying as Lord Zeref."

Leone didn't know whether to chuckle or groan at the guy. "This guy really isn't all that smart."

Goumon pointed at the kanji tattooed on his forehead. "My admiration for is so strong that I got this done back in the east." He turned his back on his prisoners. "I don't know much about kanji but apparently it's read as Zeref."

Lucy had to disagree. "Uh…no? That reads as matcha."

Goumon didn't take that very well and turned back around. "Sh-Shut up little girl!" He raised two fingers up.

The chains on the cuffs began to move and hoisted Lucy up until the chains reached the ceiling.

Happy figured him out what he was doing. "That freak…he's controlling the thing's in here!"

Natsu grabbed the bars glaring at Goumon. "Let go of her!"

Goumon chuckled and sent both Natsu and Happy to the back of the cell with their cuffs being attached to the wall. The only who wasn't affected was Leone was she was sitting idly by with her eyes closed. He entered the cell and approached Lucy. "Just stay right there and watch. My torture show."

Lucy struggled to break free as did Natsu. "Lucy!"

Happy tried to break his cuff but had little to no success. "I can't get this off."

Goumon brought up a table being covered with a white cloth. "These are all anti-magic restraints you see." He removed the cloth to reveal different kinds of torture tools. He showed off what some of them were. "Whipping…candle wax dripping…watering…roping…or even the licking of your feet. Where oh where should I start first?"

Lucy wasn't comfortable with all of them. "You're…You're sick!" And Goumon bowed away from her. "And stop bowing in places where there's no one else in front of you! It's creepy!"

"Alright, I've got it! We'll start with the licking. It hurts the least!" Natsu suggested.

Lucy though that was even worse. "No way! Just the sound of it…"

Goumon chuckled at the decision. "I see. You don't seem to understand why it's classified as torture. We start with dipping the soles of the feet in salt water in a fixed position and then a goat will start licking the soles for the salt content. But as time goes by, the barbs on the tongue of the goat will tear through the skin and to the meat. Even then, the goat won't stop and will keep going."

It sounded so much worse than what Natsu thought it would it. Happy was feeling sick just hearing the description. "That seems to hurt more than imagined."

Goumon started to take off Lucy's stockings. "So let's try it out?"

Lucy was very much against it. "Nooooo!"

Before Goumon could continue, he stopped when he and everyone else heard Leone laugh for some reason. He stopped and looked over at the second blonde. "And what is it that you find so amusing?"

Leone continued to laugh until she settled down enough. "You're joking, right? This is what you call torture? Either you have low standards or you're a freaking amateur at this."

Goumon growled at her. "How dare you! I've thought of these torture techniques myself!"

That only made this all the more hilarious to Leone. "Then you're an amateur compared to this one person I know. The torturing she can do, oh…just hearing about them was enough to make a person crap in their pants. Face it pal. Your kind of torture is a freaking joke and a lame one at that."

Lucy really didn't want to meet this person Leone was talking about this their kind of torture was worse than what Goumon was about to do. Speaking of Goumon, he felt really insulted about what Leone said about his torture techniques. "Shut up!" He raised two of his fingers and hoisted Leone up. He then walked over to Leone and stood in front of her. "Never mind the maid girl. I'll start my torture with you first! Then we'll see if you can still laugh when your feet are no more!"

Leone grinned at him. "Just the way I want it." She suddenly went into her beast form and broke out of her cuffs.

Goumon opened his eyes in shock. "How did you-" Leone roared as she punched him to the other side of the cell. He crashed into the wall and coughed up blood. Goumon struggled to keep his head up looking at the second blonde. "That's…impossible. You shouldn't be able…to use magic…"

Lucy and the rest were just as surprised. "How was she able to use magic while wearing magic seal cuffs? This doesn't make any sense at all." She had a sudden thought. "Unless…she isn't using Take Over magic at all and if it isn't, just what is she using?"

Leone walked over to Goumon while cracking her knuckles. "Now then…" She stopped in front of him. "Time for my own torture technique. It's a bit simple but it's effective. You're going to tell me where the Purification Ritual is and if you don't, I'll beat your face in each time you don't tell me until it's a bloody pulp."

For the first time, Goumon felt afraid. Even more so when he saw the look in Leone's eyes up close and person. "Just what are you? Some kind of monster?"

Leone laughed at the question. "Please. There are those who are worse than monsters back where I came from." She pulled back her arm. "Now start talking." Goumon didn't speak at all. "Alright then…let's see how much you can take!" Before she could start pummeling the guy, Goumon was instantly frozen over. Her fist stopped just barely in front of the face and pulled back while being confused. "What the hell?" Natsu and the rest were just as confused. All of them heard footsteps and turned to see Gray walking into the cell. Leone growled angrily at him. "You…" Leone suddenly heard cracking and turned around to see the cuffs everyone was wearing were frozen and were destroyed. Now Leone didn't understand what was going on. "What the hell is going on?"

All of them heard Gray sigh and saw him ruffle his hair to what it originally looked like. "Ah…damn it. All that hard work gone because of you people." He pulled out something strange out of his pocket and made a few swipes on the screen. Gray placed it next to his ear. "This is a code blue. We've got trouble." Everyone didn't know what was going on. "No that's not it." The black markings Gray had over his face were starting to recede. "Yeah…I don't know. You talk to him." There was a slight pause. "Yeah." He threw the device at Natsu and he caught it. "Put that to your ear."

Natsu did as he was told which as rare. "What the hell's this?"

"Is that you Natsu?" Natsu gasped as he recognized the voice and couldn't believe it. The person on the other end smiled. "My, my. Now, what have you done to Gray's undercover mission?"

Fairy Tail member: Erza Scarlet