Why are my hands purple? Why do my hands smell like grape? I haven't had grapes for like a year… WHY DO THEY TASTE LIKE GRAPE? What did I do?


Guest, thank you! I'll try and sneak a little NaLu in, but as stated in the description this is gonna be relationship free so you might have to close one eye and squint the other and turn your head just so. Also, Natsu is gonna have to really warm up to everyone.

The real narnia, haha, thank you. Yes, welcome to this story. You have Empra to blame for the smarter Natsu. (She's a bit like me, total bookworm. I sorta envision her with horn rimmed red glasses… Huh.) once again, you have Natsu meditating to blame on a certain sparky gold dragon. Ooh, Laxus. I'm looking forward to Laxus. That's gonna be fun writing. Thank you, once again, and happy reading! :)

Enjali, yea, I was kinda toying with the idea. Like, 'should I? No, I really shouldn't… DOING IT'. You'll find the others thoughts are along the lines of 'what the hell is he doing' and 'why the hell is he doing that'.

Erza Ashley, ok, uh, let's all calm down here… Aaand she's gone. Alright. That went well.

Warmachine375 , well, hopefully I'll be able to work around any reservations, but I'm sorry to say, I'm not caught up with the manga. The last episode I saw was the one that had Natsu melt the Grand Magic Games arena. (I should probably check when more are coming out…). I am planning on diverging more from canon, but I find stories that go too far in that aspect a tad bit.. Ah, how to say it… I find stories that go that way less enjoyable to read. I struggle a bit with keeping what's going on and who's who straight. For example, the story BLAZE. I managed to keep things pretty straight for the first one or two chapters but after that I ended up pretty lost. I imagine it's an excellent story, just not the type I can enjoy. My intentions for this story is to have it be a bit more of a… Character study? No, more character focused. See, this Natsu has trust issues, which will be addressed I more detail in a couple chapters, and I plan on kinda building up to that and then.. Well. We'll see.(Also I don't think it's a good thing for the author to be confused as to what's happening in the story…) Ive also seen the 'Natsu absolutely demolishes Lullaby' story a few times. I think we can agree Lullaby ends up pretty demolished in canon, but as I've said this is more of a character study and I want Natsu to learn he can trust Fairy Tail, and I imagine Lullaby will be instrumental in that. (Eh? Ehhh?) oh, right, another thing, I'm planning on having Natsu being more reserved in showing off his magic, something I hadn't thought of when I wrote the first couple chapters. I'm planning on fixing that in the near future. Once again, his reasoning for that will be revealed in a couple chapters. Ooh, this God Serena guy seems interesting. I'll be looking forward to that. Mm.. Now I kinda want to do something with Natsu training with someone to hone hi- AH-HA! I KNOW WHERE I CAN WORK THAT IN! I see it all so clearly now! Thanks for the idea! It is ok if I use it, yes?

If you'd like, I can work with God Serena, I imagine. I'm already planning on reworking the Daphne arc in such a way, I could try and do the same with God Serena. Granted, I don't exactly know his character or design or motive or anything, just his name.. And that he has eight Dragon Slayer Lacrimas, but other than that.. Hey, I'll do my best and give God Serena a good run. I do indeed like your suggestion, and thank you for the input. Thanks for the fave and follow! :)

Phoenix, I did indeed update! Thank you! Yes the cliffie was an absolute necessity 100% yep. Your wish is my (still slightly delayed) command!

Phoenix(2), ah! Thank you! Good to see people are picking up on the bounty, I was little worried I was being too vague. Ooh, there's a thing I haven't thought of. I may just do that! Well have to wait and see, won't we? Unfortunately, I'm unfamiliar with Avatar, but I may do something where he can heal minor injuries like a scrape on the knee with his Water Dragon Slayer magic. Come to think of it, Whirls personality does kinda hint that she'd be a good healer, doesn't it... Hmm…


Geez this replying to the review section is getting long… I think I'm gonna have to switch up my formula a little. Anyone who's logged in I'll reply to with a PM and leave this section for the guest reviewers like Erza Ashley and Phoenix, among others.


"FIRE DRAGONS ROOOAAAR!"

The powerful fire attack blasted the demons hand back for a second, and in that second Natsu leapt away, fire spinning around his hands. Erza squinted up at him, before a brief glow covered her and she reemerged in her Black Wing armour.

The sturdy wings flapped, once, twice, and then she joined Natsu in the air, only to find herself used as a springboard as he launched off her shoulders and into Lullaby's face. "Fire Dragons Wing Attack!" Pulling his hands backwards, he built two long whips of flame around them and snapped them around into the demons face.

Lullaby snapped its head back, unwittingly exposing its throat, which the flames burrowed into and ate away at. "Wretched human!" One great hand swung upwards- or at least, it would have, if a certain bull hadn't cut away at the connecting vines and branches.

Lullaby screeched. "Im going to kill you all! All of your souls will be mine, I swear by it!"

It made a grandiose gesture, like a performer that was making his or her debut, and it's mouth creaked open, "Cover your ears!" "It's no use!" "Tell my plants I love them!" and it made the sound of dozens of cats who's tails had been stepped on while nails were dragged across chalkboard and trees groaned in the wind.

In short, it sounded bad. Really bad.

Lullaby stopped in its 'song', and coughed to clear its throat, only to have ice blasted across its mouth. "There, that should do it!" Gray winced, and covered his ears again.

Everyone's ear were a bit sensitive after being subjected to… That.

Taurus had returned to the spirit world.

Natsu had basically died.

Somewhere far away, a man with spiky black hair was silently suffering as well.

Lullaby was loud.

But it wasn't deadly.

And that was the important thing.

But there was a slight problem. You see, as Natsu's fire had opened up Lullabys throat and stopped its song, Grays ice had closed those holes. Ergo, if that ice wasn't melted, then Lullaby's death song would play.

Which, as you can probably tell, isn't a good thing.

Lullaby raised its remaining hand, well aware of the mages still launching attacks on its body, and began to beat at the ice covering its mouth. Gray's ice held firm, however, and even as chips and shards rained down, melting as they plummeted through the warm night air, the 'gag' held steady.

Natsu managed to use Erza as a springboard once again, he could almost feel her anger, and landed on Lullabys other shoulder, dashing along the remaining appendage and pulling flames around his fist so they appeared as a great talon.

This, he swung down at Lullaby's wrist, letting the flames eat away at the wood.

With a shriek of rage -that wasn't good the ice must be weakening- Lullaby raised its forearm and swung it down at Natsu, the branches still cut through.

And just as Natsu prepared to spring away- Erza. She blocked the limb with her adamantium armour, the giant shields proving effective. "Erza…" "Keep at it, I'll cover you!" Natsu nodded, determined.

The red haired warrior let half of her shield disappear in favour of a halberd, it's curved axe-like blade glinting cruelly. With a cry of rage, she buried the blade deeply into Lullaby's already damaged wrist.

Lullaby wrenched its arm away, pulling Erza along with it as she refused to let her blade go. Natsu was slightly bewildered by this turn of events, but decided his time would be better spent getting rid of Lullaby's remaining hand rather than attempting to figure out the red-heads thought process.

Surely enough, with a colossal groan, the few unburnt branched began to snap, and Lullaby let out a screech of despair, rapidly pulling its other forearm down, Erza still clinging to her axe which was beginning to pull itself out-

And then the axe was free and it slipped from Erza's grip and with the force that it had been removed from Lullaby's arm it flew straight towards Natsu who was a split second too late in reacting- almost.

He was almost a split second too late.

The axe passed him by the breadth of a hair, and cleaved through Lullaby's arm, passing though the snapping and burning branches down to the few that stubbornly held on, and then it cut through those and continued on its way to the ground.

Essentially, Lullaby finished the job.

And that made Lullaby mad. No, beyond mad. That made Lullaby furious.

And a furious demon is a demon to be feared beyond all else.

The colossal demon whirled to face Gray, who had just finished making several ice lances that he was arming himself and Lucy with. Lullaby raised one of its stunted arms, and then slammed it down.

A shockwave ripped up air and ground, through ice and sky, but, thankfully, not flesh and bone.

You see, Lullaby is still used to having hands, and now it doesn't have hands, and as such it's attack was toned down.

Even so, it took a lot out of Gray, as he had made a gigantic ice shield to cover himself and Lucy.

Erza flipped and spun around the newly planted arm, using stray branches to propel herself upwards. She had requipped out of her Black Wing armour in favour of the raw power of her Heavens Wheel.

Natsu was doing much the same, except he was flipping himself around Lullaby's torso, using bursts of flames to both burn Lullaby and keep him in the air.

It was just as Lullaby was launching its second rage-filled attack that a certain somewhat forgotten party decided to join in.

You see, while the Guild Masters had been more than willing to watch while the Fairy Tail mages take Lullaby on, there comes a certain point when enough was enough.

And right now, enough was enough.

Lullaby, to put it simply, didn't stand a chance.

To put it in more complicated terms, Lullaby was punched, lit on fire, doused, frozen, thoroughly humiliated, lit on fire again, and put through a very confusing set of circumstances that included but we're not limited to: a dance number, a rabid chicken, a crabby set of newts painted green that were waging war on even crabbier crabs whilst someone's sense of time was being hijacked and shaved.

It was effective, to say the least.

As what had been Lullaby vanished, Natsu, Erza, Gray, and Lucy stopped to catch their breath. It had certainly been an arduous fight, Makarov even felt a little out of breath just looking at it.


After that fiasco, Kageyama was sent for five years in prison. His sentence had been drastically reduced by his actions with Lullaby, namely, his refusal to play it.

The Guild Masters and Guild Members managed to get back to their respective Guilds quite smoothly, though Bob, the Master of Blue Pegasus insisted on seeing Gray again sometime.

All in all, things had calmed down again.

But then the magic council showed up.


Most people seem to complain about writing fight scenes. I, personally, really enjoyed it. It's a great way for me to flex my writing muscle, me thinks. Makes me wonder if I could write a Quiddich(?) match, since a lot of people seem to have trouble with those too… (even J.K. Rowling)

I should really get a Beta reader sometime. Hmm.

Anyway, back to panicking over the fifteen assignments I have due on Monday. ~ShadeShadow

(Completely forgot to mention this but there's a reference to ChangelingRins Dimensional Links in here. Anyone who can spot it, eyyy)