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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Ten: The Assassin's Destination

A large boat from Ishgar was sailing over the ocean to the Alakitasia continent. On board the ship were the members of Fairy Tail and the three former members of Night Raid. With this being transportation, naturally, Natsu would feel ill to no end. In fact, he was sitting down near the side of the ship trying not to lose his lunch. "W-We're going there by…boat?"

This kind of scene wasn't new for Gray. "How else could we?

The fire dragon groaned sickly. "I dunno. Get Mest to teleport us there in an instant or something."

"I can't do something that far."

Natsu stood up and wobbled over to where Wendy was. "Wendy…your magic…please…"

To his and Lucy's surprise, Wendy wasn't faring much better than Natsu as she was hunched over the railing. "Wendy!"

Leone rubbed the younger girl's back to help ease the sickness. "There, there. It's alright."

Wendy groaned as she turned around and slid down sitting on the floor. "I'm sorry. I forgot to tell you I'm bad at transportation too."

Lucy couldn't believe Wendy of all people would get motion sickness like Natsu. "Are you okay?"

With Wendy out of commission, there was little the young dragon slayer could do to help Natsu. "Now that that she's like this, it'll be impossible for her to use Troia." Carla explained.

Gray picked up both dragon slayers and walked over to a door. "Alright, alright. I'll carry you two in then." He went inside and the door closed. Not a second later, he came back out but something was obviously missing. "And…done."

"Where are your clothes!" Lucy shouted at him.

Leone was just laughing at the sight. "He's in his freaking underwear!"

At the back of the ship, Chelsea was leaning on the railing deep in thought while looking over the ocean. "So this is where you were." Chelsea looked back to see Akame approaching her. Akame stood next to the other girl. "Thinking about something?"

Chelsea sighed as she continued to look at the ocean. "What are the chances that our enemy just so happens to be another empire? We're going in completely blind."

Akame could see why her teammate was concerned about all of this. "I know how you feel but this is a rescue mission. We're not going there to fight. It's get in and get out quickly as possible."

Akame may have brought up a good point but that still didn't make Chelsea feel any easier. "You think it'll be that easy? We should know better than that due to what we did before. I know we came along knowing the consequences but I can't help but feel that something might go wrong."

Akame had the same thought but she was confident about one thing. "Even if that may come true, we have others that we can count on. Just like before."

Now that did bring a little comfort to Chelsea. "I guess you're right. I would rather have the guy who literally one shot a giant god on my side."

Akame couldn't agree more to that. "And it's not only him. As I've said before, we have the others and most importantly, Wendy."

Chelsea giggled happily a little and smiled. "Yeah, that's true. Although, the one thing Wendy or Natsu can't beat is transportation." Both girls laughed together.

On the front end of the ship, Erza was doing the same as Chelsea, staring at the ocean but was thinking of something different. "What's wrong Erza?" The new guild master looked back to see Mest walking up to her. "Oh wait. Should I be calling you Master now?"

Erza didn't care one way or the other. "No, Erza's fine." She looked back out to the ocean. "The guild's disbandment. Master Makarov went to such lengths just to protect us and to keep Lumen Histoire out of the hands of the enemy as well. But…as long as the Lumen remains a mystery to us, I can't help feeling as if what we're doing is meaningless."

Mest had a guess to what Lumen Histoire was. "It could be something equivalent to a weapon probably."

Gray and Lucy overhead the conversation and the ice mage recalled something what Makarov said before. "Well, from what I remember, the old man once said that he was gonna use it to stop Face."

Lucy remembered that too. "Yeah…but he also said something about not having the courage to do so."

Hearing that made Carla wonder about something. "So…if he had used it, it could've stopped Face at that time?" Happy was amazed if Makarov could pull it off.

Erza turned around to face everyone. "And the First's body is the biggest mystery of all."

Gray crossed his arms trying to figure that part out. "We can't even tell if she's still alive or not."

Carla remembered all the times they've seen the First since the Grand Magic Games. "So the First that we've been seeing all this time is an astral projection?"

The ice mage leaned on the railing of the boat. "There are too many questions left unanswered."

Lucy still thought they had a chance to figure all of this out. "But I'm sure we'll find out once we save the Master."

Leone groaned as she rubbed the back of her head. "Man…all this is so freaking confusing. This is way too deep for me."

Gray recognized those words all too easy. "I'm guessing you're not the kind of person to think things through."

He wasn't wrong about that. "Technically, yeah. I'm more of an action kind of girl. You know, beat the crap out something first and ask questions later."

And Lucy recognized the philosophy. "Yep. She definitely fits in with us."

Erza looked over at Mest. "How long till we reach Alvarez?"

"It'll take ten days to reach Alakitasia by ship, so I'd say a few more if we're to reach the capital." Mest explained. Leone hasn't heard that word in a while.

Ten days. It was longer than what Erza had thought it would take. "Master."

Mest understood what Erza was going through. "I understand your impotence but we can't afford to mess up now. We'll need to make a short stop at Caracall Island before proceeding to refill our fuel and food."

Lucy recognized the name wasn't after a flower. "That just goes to say that we're no longer in Fiore territory."

Gray was still unsure about their brief stop. "Do we even have time to make a pit-stop?"

There wasn't much they could do at this point in their travels. "It's like I said, we can't mess up now. Preparation is important if we're serious about infiltration. We'll be meeting our intelligence guy in Caracall. That's when we'll plan our route." It was good a plan as any by Leone's standards. The fact they have an inside guy would make this a little easier. But that didn't mean it would stay like that for long.

B

Back in Fiore, Gajeel and his group were doing their own thing with the iron dragon slayer leading them to Laxus' whereabouts. Elfman had some doubts about this, though. "Are you sure Laxus is here?"

Gajeel did his trademark grin. "According to my information, yeah. Along with his lackeys, of course."

Elfman was surprised to hear that "The Thunder Legion too?"

Cana chuckled at him. "Heh, you came for Ever, didn't you?"

Juvia was a little sad for two reasons. One was that she was in the group and two is that she didn't know where Gray was. "Why is Juvia here with this team?"

Lisanna felt a little sorry for the water mage. "There's nothing we could've done. Gray left before us."

Mira questioned why they were doing this in the first place. "That's true but…I wonder if there was any point in splitting teams."

"They did say it was an infiltration so this is the smart move." Lily explained.

Gajeel still his doubts about that plan. In fact, he knew it was futile. "We wouldn't stand a chance if we were to get in a fight with them. Our chances of winning are zero percent." Everyone became a little worried when they heard that. "And there's no guarantee we'll succeed in the infiltration to begin with."

"Our chances of victory and getting in successfully are close to zero. So that's why we need to do all we can to raise the chances. Thus, the whole separate teams thing. Right?" Levy finally caught up with the group and wasn't too happy with them. "C'mon you guys. How could you leave me behind like that?!"

Gajeel chuckled as he opened his bag. "Huh? Man, with your size, I thought you were already inside my bag."

Levy didn't take too kindly with the joke. She tried to hit him hard as she could repeatedly at the iron dragon slayer but they didn't have an effect on him. "Stupid! Stupid!"

Juvia saw it as something different. "They're flirting…"

Cana suddenly grabbed Juvia in a place that won't be mentioned. "I could flirt with you too you know Juvia."

The water mage let out a slight squeak. "Juvia…. Juvia's not interested."

Levy stopped hitting Gajeel and turned to the rest of the group. "But the enemy we're up against this time is no laughing matter. Don't even think about fighting them."

B

Leone was enjoying the view of the ocean. Looking at it somehow made the blonde feel very calm and peaceful. "You seem to be enjoying yourself."

Leone looked to the side to see Akame and Chelsea walking up to her. "Hey there Akame, Chelsea."

The two girls joined the other girl. Chelsea stared off into the ocean. "Enjoying the view?"

The blonde grinned at the question. "You know it." She looked back and sighed. "It's something else huh? We never got a chance to see the ocean. I mean, we did whenever we came to Hargeon but seeing it up close like this, on a boat no less, makes this all the better. It makes me wish the others could see this. I wonder how they're doing?"

She brought up a good point. There were times Akame wondered how Kurome was doing. Her and the others. She smiled at the thought of them. "I'm sure they're doing just fine. Although, I wonder how much time has passed over there." It was a good question considering the time gap between their worlds was rather large.

"I see it! Caracall!"

"Hey, get yourselves ready!"

The voices grabbed the attention of the three girls and turned to the front of the ship where they saw the island. Leone smiled as they finally arrived at their not quite destination. "Finally. About damn time."

Before they could celebrate, Erza noticed something in the distance. "That ship!"

Upon a closer look, Mest gasped at what they were. "The Alvarez Empire's navy ship!?"

Happy became a little worried. "What's it doing there?"

"Caracall isn't under Alvarez's rule is it?" Carla guessed.

Mest looked a telescope to get a closer look. "It seems they're checking for something at the ports."

That didn't sound good at all to Gray. "Doesn't that mean we can't get any closer?"

Natsu and Wendy were hunched over again still not feeling well. "They're probably looking for spies…"

Wendy wasn't faring well either with her motion sickness. "And it…doesn't…look like they've caught them yet."

Lucy didn't understand what they meant by that while Chelsea wondered where did they suddenly come from. "When did you two get out here?"

Lucy looked off into the distance and back to the two dragon slayers. "You guys can hear what's going on from here?"

Natsu almost lost his lunch but kept it in. "Well, sure…a little."

They sudden appearance did through a wrench in their planning. "What do we do?" Mest asked Erza.

The new guild master studied the situation carefully. "We need to get to the spies before the navy catches them."

All of them arrived at the island and there was security everywhere they looked. "We're sealing the port off temporarily!"

"Get in line!"

"We will have inspections for those coming and going out of the island! Leave your luggage too!"

The people of the island thought it was strange soldiers were here in the first place. "What's happening?"

"I heard a spy has entered the empire and is hiding somewhere on the island."

"Such troublemakers."

The group was almost at the checkpoint. Erza wanted to make sure this went off without a hitch. "Behave yourself Natsu."

Natsu really didn't need to be told twice by her. "Okay, okay."

They finally arrived at the checkpoint. "Next!"

As they were on an island, the whole group was wearing swimsuits and Carla was in her catgirl form. They tried their best to act like tourists. Lucy gave the soldiers a big smile. "We're here on holiday!"

"I hear the Star Mangos are to die for." Erza added.

Wendy smiled at Erza. "I'm looking forward to it big sis."

Mest questioned Wendy's choice of words. "Big sis huh?"

Gray could only cringe. "Wait, was that even necessary?"

Leone was the only one who chuckled. "I wonder what Erza's reaction would be if she found out that Kagura is Wendy's older sister."

One of the soldiers noticed their guild marks. "That mark. Are you part of a guild?"

Lucy had no problem flashing her guild mark at the soldier and continued to smile. "Yeah, we're part of a wizard's guild called Cait Shelter."

Erza felt rather proud of their cover up. "Heh heh. Our disguises are perfect."

Wendy couldn't help but feel nostalgic at looking at her old guild mark. "This brings back memories."

"I haven't heard of a guild like that before."

"Yeah well, we only know a handful of those from Ishgar anyway." The soldier's words made Wendy feel a little sad.

"What do we do? We've been told to be thorough with those from guilds."

"But would a spy come through our front door bearing guild crests?"

"True."

Lucy, Erza, and Leone decided to turn up their charm on the soldiers. "Hey…" All three of them approached the soldiers and gave their best performances while accentuating their…assets. "Are we done yet?"

"There'll be no more Star Mangos by the time this is over."

"You can let us through, right?"

The soldiers became a little flustered and somehow blushed through the helmet. "O-Okay! Your bags! You're clear to go!"

All three girls felt rather proud that worked. Lucy flashed a victory sign to prove it. Natsu and Gray were rather impressed with what they did. "Woah. Girl power…"

"Is one not to be trifled with."

Carla easily understood why it was so easy. "Heh. Human males aren't that hard to deal with."

Wendy giggled awkwardly at that. "I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with us, Carla."

"I still think you look cuter in your cat form." Happy pointed out.

While they were walking, Erza glanced over at the two strange disks hanging on the sides of Wendy's legs. In fact, the whole group noticed them when they changed into their swimsuits. Whatever they were, it wasn't important right now. They may have passed through the checkpoint but there were still a lot of guards stationed. "But the number of guards in the town itself…we can't move around much like this."

Lucy turned to Natsu. "Natsu, behave."

The fire dragon slayer wondered why he was being targeted. "Why me?"

"Because you're the one that doesn't seem to understand the word 'infiltration' the most." Erza pointed out.

Natsu felt insulted and wrapped part of his scarf around his mouth. "I do! It's, that, isn't it like those ninjas I like?" He made a hand sign. Akame could almost facepalm at his description.

"Gimme back my daddy!" The group turned their attention to a kid that was crying at one of the soldiers. "Where did you take!? Daddy!"

The guard was annoyed at the kid's constant whining. "This brat's exactly like his rebellious father."

Natsu growled at the scene. "Calm down Natsu." Erza cautioned.

"You mustn't do anything." Mest added.

Leone wasn't happy with it either. "Damn it. Wish we can help the kid without making a scene."

The kid continued to cry until the guard decided he had enough. "I'll make you shut up if you don't!" He pointed his sword downward at the kid.

The people saw what was happening. "He's taking it out on a kid!"

"Is he out of his mind!?"

Before the guard could harm the kid in any way, he and the rest with him were suddenly knocked out by Natsu and the others while Wendy made sure nothing bad happened to the kid. "It'll be okay."

Mest couldn't believe that all of them blew their cover already. "Shit!"

Ironically enough, Akame and the other two former assassins also joined in and had the exact same thoughts. "Screw keeping a low profile." They never would've done this back in their world but there were circumstances that they couldn't ignore.

Natsu grinned at the defeated guards. "Ninja art: Eat my Fist Jutsu."

All of their roughhousing caught the attention of the crowd. "What's all that?"

"Those kids in swimsuits are fighting the soldiers."

"Why would they?"

"Two of them look older, though."

More of the soldiers arrived to detain the group. "You brats! Stay right there!"

Mest saw that the situation was starting to become worse because of what Natsu and the others did. "We can't get out of this island!"

Carla came up with a simple solution of how to deal with all of this. "Right…not unless we take all of them out."

Wendy and Happy had the kid in their care. "Leave her to us."

"Wendy's got a great nose so I'm sure she'll find your dad in no time." Happy assured.

Akame weighed the options available. "Leone, Chelsea, let's help Wendy out."

Leone obviously wasn't a fan. "Aw, really? But I want to kick some ass!"

Chelsea didn't have a problem with Akame's suggestion. "I'm pretty sure they have it covered."

Gray glanced over to the former Council member. "Mest, you go with her too."

"But…" Mest looked over at Wendy and Carla who were leading the kid back to where the father was. Leone and the other two girls kept them company. He may have seen something else. "An angel?"

Lucy pointed at the other direction. "Not that! We need you to go meet the informant!"

Mest turned to Erza and Natsu. "I see. While you guys keeping them occupied here…"

Erza nodded at him. "That's a good idea."

Natsu made another hand sign. "Split the group."

Mest understood the situation. "Alright. Be careful you guys." He instantly vanished.

Just in time too because more of the Alvarez soldiers running toward the Fairy Tail group. Natsu didn't hesitate in striking them all down. Erza turned to the rest of the group. "Don't go too crazy okay!"

Gray was more than ready for the fight up ahead. "Well, it's getting hot here so let's cool down for a sec."

Lucy readied Fleuve d'étoiles. "Let's go!"

More of the soldiers arrived at the scene. "Seal off the port!"

"Capture those brats!"

Natsu kick them all away. "Try it!"

Everyone in the Fairy Tail group made quick work of the Alvarez soldiers and they were all defeated. Gray couldn't believe how easy the fight was. "This is disappointing. You sure these are the guys that the old man is so afraid of?"

Erza saw the ship still docked a little away from the island. "I have a feeling reinforcements will be coming from the ship."

Natsu suddenly had an idea. "Hey, why don't we just ask these guy for Gramps' whereabouts?"

Lucy thought it wouldn't be that easy. "I don't' think we should. It's highly unlikely that they would have a clue and they'd find out what we're here for. That's not a good thing."

"Either way." Erza took a bit out of something. "We've got to be ready."

Both her and Natsu were eating the famous Star Mangos and were sitting at the at the shop. Both of them were enjoying it. "This is good!"

The blonde saw the irony in what they were doing. "Their actions now are contradicting the things they're saying and they're unaware of it."

The shopkeeper chuckled at the bunch. "It would be great if you guys could tone it down a bit."

Erza turned to him. "Sorry about that."

Gray grinned at the shopkeeper as he was surprised the old man was still around. "Heh, even in this mess, you're still opening shop. That's some commercial spirit you've got there."

The shopkeeper smiled at what the ice mage had said. "Fight always happen around here anyway. Nothing's more important to me than business. I'm gonna save my money to get to Ishgar. You lot are from Ishgar no?"

They were surprised that he guessed right. "Yeah…" Gray replied.

The shopkeeper thought as much. "I'm gonna popularize Star Mangos in Ishgar and make the best dessert shop there."

Erza was more than happy to support him and gave him a thumbs up. "Yes, that sounds deliciou-" She cleared her throat. "It's a great dream."

The shopkeeper was happy to hear that. "I'm stuck with this shabby hut now but…I'm a man with big dreams too. There's no way an ordeal like this will-" And the shop suddenly exploded and parts of it scattered all over. The shopkeeper was devastated his shop was destroyed while the group was surprised that an explosion happened. Erza was a little made that her Star Mangos was gone along with the shop.

Next thing they heard was someone clapping. "Well done. Well done."

Erza growled angrily and turned to where the voice was coming from. "Who is it! How could you!"

The person responsible approached them. "Ah, that's a wonderful face you've got there. Very well done." He stopped in front of them. "My name is Marin Hollow and I'm from the Brandish Force. A part of the Alvarez Empire's army."

Alvarez Empire Brandish Force Army member: Marin Hollow

Everyone in the group was mad at what he had done to the shop. The shopkeeper himself was crying over the loss of his shop. "That man…my dream…"

"Run." Lucy spoke.

Gray handed the shopkeeper a bag of their money. "This might not be enough but take this as some compensation."

Erza glared angrily at the person responsible for destroying her precious treat. "I will exact revenge for the Star Mangos." The shopkeeper took the money as an understanding and immediately left.

Despite her glare, Marin continued to smile. "Well done, well done. You'll get a well done from me anytime."

The new guild master has had it with their sudden opponent. "Enough with that nonsense. I'll show you the wrath of the desserts. Transform!" She tried requiping into one of her armors but nothing happened.

Natsu had never seen that happen to Erza before. "What wrong, Erza?"

Erza was perplexed by this as well. "I can't use my transformations."

Marin giggled at her situation. "Of course, you can't. 'Space' is something I own."

Gray didn't know what he meant by that. "Space?"

"The Knight. It's a kind of magic that enables me to equip anything I want and that's why you can't use any of your 'spacial' magic against me."

"Well, in that case…" Lucy took out one of her golden gate keys. "Open! Gate of the Archer!"

Marin shrugged at her attempt. "Celestial Spirit magic. That's spacial magic too, you know."

Learning that meant Lucy couldn't summon her spirits at all. "No way…" Erza was equally displeased by this.

Marin held up a finger. "Ah. I forgot to say this…" Strange white foam began to appear on the two girls' bodies.

Both of them wondered what was going on. "What's this?"

"My body…"

"But those that have managed to break free of my laws of space…get an invitation to my own personal relaxation space."

The two girls yelled as the foam overtook their bodies. "Lucy! Erza!" Natsu tried to save them but passed through the foam and they were gone. Both Gray and Natsu couldn't believe they vanished like that. The fire dragon slayer growled at their enemy. "Hey! Where'd you take Lucy and Erza you bastard!"

Marin put up an innocent face. "Didn't you hear me? I said I invited them to my relaxation space. Those two have done so well…I've decided to make them mine. But you guys…" He smiled at Natsu and Gray. "You have failed." His expression changed drastically in disgust. "FAILED, YOU HEAR? JACKASSES!"

Gray didn't expect him to act like this so suddenly. "Woah, he turned one eighty."

Marin snapped his fingers and Mest appeared in front of him lying on the ground heavily injured. "He is one of yours, isn't he?"

Natsu had never seen the former Council member this hurt before. "Mest!"

Mest cringed in the pain that was coursing through him. "This one too tried to use spacial magic in front of the great me!" Marin's face darkened at the two male Fairy Tail members. "FAILURES! UNCLEAN! HOW DARE YOU SHITHEADS USE SPACIAL MAGIC! IT'S NOT SOMETHING FOR MEN TO USE DAMNIT!" Natsu had enough of him and his fist was engulfed in fire while running toward his enemy. He extended his arm forward and a large stream of fire erupted from the fire dragon slayer's fist. Marin suddenly appeared behind Natsu. "The great me, a specialist in spacial magic…" Natsu was surprised and turned around for his next attack but Marin disappeared again. "AND YOU'RE NOW IN MY DOMAIN!" He struck the fire dragon slayer from behind.

Gray turned to him but Marin but he disappeared again and kicked the ice mage to the back of his head from behind too. Gray rubbed his head and tried to find him. "How did he get behind me?"

"The one that controls space…is the victor!" Gray and Natsu turned around and saw Marin sitting on top of the hallway roof connecting two buildings.

Gray thought he would be more of a pain to beat than he or Natsu thought. "That guy is too much trouble." While Marin was busy gloating how great he was, someone came up from behind him and he looked back. The hallway he was sitting on was destroyed. Dust and debris scattered everywhere. "Now what's happening?"

Marin teleported to the ground. He barely managed to avoid the surprise attack and was curious as to who would be either stupid enough or brave enough to challenge him. "And who might you be?"

Two shadowy figures could be seen within the dust cloud. "I could ask you the same thing asshole!" The dust cleared to reveal Leone in her beast form and Akame. Leone growled deeply while scowling angrily at their enemy. "Care to explain what the hell happened to our friends?"