Happy and I rushed down the hole, wind blowing in our faces, barely able to keep our eyes open. That was a bit of a problem, because I needed to see where I was going.
"Slow down a bit, Happy!" I yelled.
"Aye sir!" Happy slowed just enough for me to open my eyes, and it was just in time, too. I opened my eyes and we were at the bottom.
"STOP! Woah!" I yelled before we almost crashed into the ground. My heart was pounding a thousand miles per hour and I swear that I could feel it coming out of my chest.
"Whew. That was close," I sighed.
"Aye."
Where are we? I thought. I lit a Flame Ball as a light source. After turning around 180°, I saw another hole that Everlue must've made, but it was too small to stand up in. If I crawled there, that could take forever. I looked into the hole. I saw complete darkness. Not a trace of light. How would we get through? I wasn't strong enough to punch through all of the rock. My arm would probably get tired within a few minutes. What can break through the rock? I thought. Suddenly, I knew a way.
"Go! Tyranitar!" I Summoned Tyranitar's ball and sent him out. "Alright Tyranitar, Mega Evolve!" I Summoned my Mega Stone and Tyranitar's Tyranitarite began to glow. Tyranitar began to change shape and finally, Mega Tyranitar appeared before me. "Okay Tyranitar, let's smash through this rock wall!" Tyranitar grunted, and then charged up a punch. When the dust settled, I lowered my arms from my face and there was a massive tunnel where Tyranitar punched the wall in. We all ran down into the tunnel until we reached the next wall.
Suddenly, I heard some bad sounds: one was a faint explosion, that couldn't be good. Dammit, Natsu! I thought angrily. The other noise was a very faint, "Boyoyoyoyo!" which got me so enraged, I was ready to punch that fat bastard's face in.
"Tyranitar! Punch the wall again!" Tyranitar nodded, and did just that. A loud cracking and crumbling sound resounded throughout the tunnel and it had gotten larger. At the tunnel's end, there was a metal wall and Everlue's ass sticking out of it.
"Tell me the secret of the book! What did you find?" said Everlue's ugly voice.
"You're the lowest of the low! You're an enemy of literature!" said Lucy's voice.
"An enemy of literature? A sophisticated, cultured individual such as me, myself and I?"
"Anyone who's happy to have a collection of those ugly maids isn't cultured!"
"There's nothing to mock of my beautiful blonde maids!" Beautiful, you say, you fat fuck?! I thought angrily. I withdrew Tyranitar and punched the wall with my metal arm.
"GAAHHH!" Everlue screamed as he was punched out of the wall. I punched my way into what seemed like an underground sewage system.
"What?! Vinny? Happy? Where's Natsu? What happened to those mercenary guys?"
"Natsu is fighting those guys," said Happy.
"Ugh, I have a feeling that he followed through with Plan T. He's gonna hear it from me," I groaned.
"Jeez, make up your mind. First you said 'That's a bit excessive', then you say, 'Hah! Good one-"
"Shh! Do you hear that?" I interrupted because, 1. No one likes to be proven wrong, and 2. I had a feeling that Everlue wasn't finished off just yet.
"Hear what?" questioned Happy.
Suddenly, the ground cracked and up came, guess who?
"Boyoyoyo! Did you really think I could be defeat-" I punched towards Everlue's ugly face but he dodged just in time by escaping underground.
"COME OUT AND FIGHT ME, PUSSY! Lucy, stay back! He could be anywhere! Oh, wait! I know! Come on out, Mewtwo!" I Summoned Mewtwo's ball and sent him out.
"Mewtwo, use Psychic to find Everlue and remove him from the holes!" Mewtwo nodded, and then used his psychic power to seek out Everlue. Unfortunately, Everlue popped up behind Mewtwo and struck him down.
"So you decided to use your pet to sniff me out, eh? Boyoyoyoyo! It won't work!" Everlue drilled into the ground again.
"Mewtwo, are you alright?" He nodded. "Try again with Psychic! I have an idea!" Mewtwo used Psychic to track down Everlue again, but he was too fast.
"Mewtwo! Dodge Everlue's attack!" Sure enough, Everlue came up from the ground and tried to grab Mewtwo again.
I emitted a Flame Ball and waved my arms around in a circle, lighting more Flame Balls as I spun my arms around faster and faster.
"Flare Wheel." I released the two flaming wheels from my arms, in which they ran along the ground at high speed and hit Everlue before he had a chance to attack.
"Ooft!" He fell to the ground, on fire. "AAAUUGGHH!" Everlue ran around like crazy until the thought crossed his mind that he should jump into the sewer water.
"Just as I hoped. Mewtwo! Return!" I withdrew Mewtwo while Summoning Gyarados' Ball and my Mega Stone. "Go! Gyarados!" Gyarados emerged from the ray of light. "Mega Evolve! Mega Gyarados!" A ball engulfed Gyarados as he Mega Evolved into Mega Gyarados.
"Gyarados! Finish him off with a Dragon Pulse!" At that moment, a ball of energy formed in Gyarados' gaping mouth and a large beam of dragon energy shot out from the ball, but Everlue was too fast, still.
"Alright then, use Surf! Then Hydro Pump!" Gyarados created a large wave of water which hit Everlue and immediately after, a blast of water was shot at him, slamming him up against the wall. I returned Gyarados and ran up to Everlue who was struggling to get up.
"I've been wanting to do this! Flame Kick!" My foot ignited and I rushed at Everlue at great speed, kicking him in the stomach and sending him flying. In the process, somehow the water on him evaporated and he caught on fire again. Unfortunately, he had enough sense to shed his flame-engulfed clothes, as he presumably didn't want to jump in the water again which left the fat turd in his underwear, his flab hanging out for all the world to see. I'm pretty sure that if he looked at himself in the mirror, the mirror would not just shatter, but actually explode.
"Ahem, you can just throw your clothes in the water, thank you very much. Oomph- *thwapth*" I started, and then puked.
"That's gross, Vinny!" said Lucy.
"No, that's gross!" I retorted, pointing at Ever-nude.
"Argh, fine! If that's how you want it, that's how you'll get it!" yelled Everlue angrily.
"*Thwapth* Ah, no thank you. I'm not into men. Especially not men like you," I barfed.
"No! Not like that! I mean, taste the pain of you own medicine!" yelled Everlue. He took out a key. "Open! Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" At that moment, a bright light shone and, guess who? The fat ugly maid from before. But wait- there was someone on her! A certain someone with, pink hair.
"Natsu?!" cried me, Lucy and Happy at the same time. "Why are you on Virgo? How are you on Virgo?" said Lucy.
"I don't know! I saw her beginning to move again, so I grabbed onto her, but then suddenly, I ended up here," answered Natsu.
"Wait, but that means that you would have to pass through the spirit gate in order to get here! That's physically impossible for a human!" exclaimed Lucy.
"Who cares?" I said. "The important thing is that Natsu's here, and so is that fat gorilla maid, so we gotta kick her and Everlue's asses!"
"Alright! You said it Vinny! I'm all fired up-"
"I'M GONNA DEAL WITH YOU LATER, NATSU," I said in my menacing demon voice. He jumped when he heard me like that.
"What did I do wrong?" he questioned.
"You destroyed the mansion up above, presumably. Correct?" Natsu nodded slowly.
"I didn't think you were serious about trashing the place. But you did it anyway."
"Er, force of habit-"
"WELL, BREAK THE GODDAMN HABIT THEN!" I yelled. "Next time this happens, I'm gonna kick your ass. I don't care that you're my guildmate, either. For now, let's kick their asses. Natsu! Let's use a combo fire attack!" He nodded and we faced Virgo.
"Fire Dragon..."
"Flare..."
"ROAR/BURST!" Simultaneously, Natsu and I unleashed two spiraling attacks that soon combined into one large beam of fire that hit Virgo right in the chest, sending her flying back into a wall, and also struck Everlue and also singed his hair off. However, the force of Virgo hitting the wall with such immense force caused the other walls to start crumbling and breaking in.
"Shit! Oh god, uh, we need to get out of here, and fast! Uh, okay, quick! Back through the hole that Tyranitar made!" I shouted. We ran back through the big hole and back to where the hole lead up to the library. The walls sere crumbling behind us, so we had to act fast.
"Happy! Fly Natsu back up to the library! Come out, Fearow! Lucy, take my hand." I called out Fearow and grabbed Lucy's hand. "Alright, now hold on tight, Lucy! Fly us up, Fearow!" Immediately, Fearow spread his broad wings and shot up. In less than a few minutes, we reached the library, or rather, the ruins of it. Natsu directed us to fly back to Melon's house.
"Lucy! Where's the book Daybreak? Don't tell me you have it!" I shouted as we flew through the sky. She looked away for a second, and then slowly pulled the book up, guiltily. "Dammit, Lucy! Now we're never gonna get that 50,000 Jewel! Why did you keep it?"
"Y-you'll see!" she shouted back.
xxxx
"What? I thought I requested this book to be destroyed! I never wanted to see this book ever again!" said Melon.
"Destroying it is easy. You should be able to do it yourself," said Lucy.
"Then I will wait no longer! I cannot allow this book to exist!"
"I know why you want this book to be destroyed. It's to protect your father's honor. You're Kemu Zaleon's son." I gasped. How could she figure that out? Smart girl, I thought.
"How did you know?" said Melon, astounded.
"Well, have you read the book yourself?"
"No. I could never bring myself to do it. It's trash. Even my father said so."
"What?!" yelled Natsu. He grabbed Melon by the collar. "So you were just going to have the book burned just because you think it's a sucky book? That's taking it too far man! Your father wrote that book!"
"Natsu! You're the one who's taking it too far! Didn't you hear Lucy? It was to protect his father's honor! Calm the hell down!" I yelled.
"That's correct." Melon sighed. "I was ashamed that my father wrote Daybreak. 31 years ago... my father came home tired and crippled. He walked in the door and I wasn't even expecting him. I said, 'Where were you writing for three years? You had us all worried sick!' He tied a rope around his arm, and grabbed a cleaver. He shouted, 'I quit being an author. I'm never writing another book again!' And then he swung the cleaver at his arm." Natsu, Happy, and Lucy all gasped and looked horrified at this. I was the only one unfazed by this.
Melon continued. "My father ended up in the hospital after that. I went to go visit him, but I was so angry at him. 'How could you?' I shouted. 'I told you three years ago, the commission wasn't worth it!' He lay there, smiling. 'I'm so glad I finished that piece of rubbish.' he said, weakly. 'Why the hell are you smiling?' I yelled. 'Because of that stupid garbage, you neglected your family for three years!' He responded and said, 'Kaby, I was thinking about you the whole time.' I said angrily, 'Then why didn't you write something decent and come straight home? You abandoned your pride as an author and your family! You were right about quitting as an author. Someone like you with no pride isn't fit to be one. Or even a father.' Shortly after that, he died. I hated him ever since. But as the years went by, that hatred slowly turned into remorse. And yet, my father isn't alive in this world for me to apologize to. I figured the least I could do was destroy his last remaining work to protect my father's good name. My father would agree." He lit a match.
"No he wouldn't," said Lucy, bravely. Suddenly, Daybreak began to glow. "It's begun! Kemu Zaleon! His real name was Zekua Melon! He cast a spell on this book!" As she spoke, the letters on the cover began to rearrange.
"With m-magic?" The letters on the cover rearranged to form the words, "Dear Kaby" Melon silently mouthed those words. At that moment, every word removed itself from the book and rearranged themselves. The whole room was filled with strings and strings of letters, anagramming, then placing themselves back into the book.
"He cast a spell on the whole book, so that if someone read it normally, they wouldn't be able to understand it! Zekua Melon gave up being an author not because he wrote his worst book ever, but most likely because he had written his best! It's a letter to his son!" At last, the book stopped glowing, and the letters stopped flying everywhere. The book settled down in Melon's hands.
"Thank you father. I cannot allow this book to be burned," he cried softly.
"Well I guess that's that! We won't be needing that reward!" said Natsu.
"Huh? Yes we do!" said Lucy.
"C'mon. Let's go back to Fairy Tail. We didn't complete the job. So we don't need that reward." Suddenly, Kaby looked up.
"Wait! You are from Fairy Tail, correct?"
"Yes," said all four of us at once.
"You there! With the pink hair! You are a fire wizard, correct? Are you the son of the Great Charizard?"
"The Great What?"
"The Great Charizard! The elite dragon of the Charizard Legion. You must be his son, correct?"
"Uh, sir..." I began.
"I was raised by a dragon, but no Char- Whatever."
"Natsu! How dare you speak about my father like that!" I yelled. "He was my father. Natsu was raised by a dragon named Igneel. My father's name was Jerry, oddly." Kaby nodded.
"Come on, Lucy! Happy! Vinny! Let's go!"
"Give me a minute! You guys go on ahead. I'll catch up later," I called. I turned to Kaby, who was gone.
"Okay then... Why does Kaby know about my father?" I asked Kaby's wife, presumably.
"Are you serious? Who doesn't know the name of The Descendant? Everyone knows The Great Charizard. Kaby knows him because, well, he's in your father's debt. When Kaby heard about his execution, he couldn't take the pressure and he nearly committed suicide." Kaby entered the room again, but with a large brown book, slightly bigger than Daybreak.
"Your father left this in my possession before he was executed. I had nothing to do with it, because I couldn't read it. If you can read it, then that means you are the True Descendant. Other Charizard in the Legion couldn't read this sacred book, and that's why your father was so powerful. I only wish I could've repayed him before he died. Think of this book as just that. Oh, I insist, please take the 2,000,000 Jewel. Please. I want to repay your team for helping me so much. It's only fair."
"I guess, but the book. How can you not read it?" I asked, confused.
"It's in a different language, an ancient language that no one else can understand. This book was used by The True Charizard from many centuries ago, when the Legion was first formed."
I opened up the book. There was a little note inside that said, "Kaby. I believe that my son is the True Descendant. Please give this book to him, in remembrance of me. -Jerry" I opened up to the first page while trying to hold back tears. The heading read, "Book of Magic" with the sub heading reading, "Physical arts" and a bunch of other small text under it. The page on the right was just magic spells and how to cast them. I turned the book to Kaby.
"You're serious? You can't read that at all? Read that heading." He looked at the page and said, "I can't. I don't know what it says."
"You're not playing me? You're dead serious?"
"Yes."
"Come on! That's three words! "Book", "of", and "Magic"! How? Alright, how about this: what does that look like to you?" I pointed at the word "Physical". No joke, he started tracing invisible lines and curves on the page that weren't actually there. "Honestly, it's too complicated to read. It's just a bunch of lines and squares and curves," he said. I was enormously confused.
"Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it," I thanked.
"My pleasure. Thank your blonde haired friend for me, okay?"
"I will. Bye!" I dashed out the door and went after Lucy and Natsu.
xxxx
"Hey, Natsu, I want you to do me a favor," I said. We were seated around a fire that Natsu had built and was roasting fish around.
"What is it?" said Natsu with his mouth full of fish.
"Read this." I pointed to the heading, "Book of Magic".
"What?! I have no idea what that says!"
"Are you serious right now? It says 'Book of Magic'! Do you not know how to read?"
"Well excuse me for not knowing how to read... Whatever that is. What language is that?"
"English, duh."
"Are you okay, Vinny? Do you see squares and lines and curves and other rectangles too?"
"No, all I see is, 'Book of Magic. Physical arts. How to use this book: when you fight monsters, you will unlock more spells to use. The rest of the pages are blank to anyone else who tries to use it.'" I read a little bit of the "How to use" section.
"Woah. You can read all that? That's incredible!" exclaimed Natsu.
"So you're saying that you don't see English in the book, but a different language instead? That's wacky," I said.
I stayed up to read the book a bit more. It turned out that some of the pages were already filled up with complicated Magic spells that my father had used before me. Some of the spells were less costly of Magic Power, and less powerful, whereas the more complicated, stronger spells were more costly. I've played enough games to think, that's some pretty heavy RPG shit right there.
"I can't believe you outright rejected 2,000,000 Jewel, Natsu! That was an opportunity of a lifetime right there! Now I'm never going to pay my rent!" complained Lucy.
"Hey Lucy," I said.
"What now?" she retorted.
"Here." I handed her half the money I got from Kaby.
"Huh?! Wha-"
"It's a million Jewel. Take it or leave it. Kaby said thank you for him."
"How did you...? Thank you..." she accepted the money from me.
"Kaby greatly insisted that I took the money. I know they probably needed it more than we did, but I didn't wanna hurt his feelings after what happened."
"Really, Vinny? Why?" said Natsu.
"I told you! I didn't want to hurt his feelings!"
"Do you think you split 500,000 with me, perhaps?"
"No way! You were the one who outright rejected the money, Natsu! Money, get back, I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack..." I belted out in song.
"Really, Vinny?" said Natsu. Happy laughed.
xxxx
"'Are you sure this is the way we're supposed to be going?', she says," said Horologium. It seemed like we were lost in the middle of nowhere. We were walking through some kind of swamp in the forest, or rather, a forest somewhere. "'I think Vinny had a map. Why don't you help us all out and check your map, Vinny?', says milady."
"Yeah, and why don't you walk by yourself? If you're so tired of walking, why do you even come along on these missions? Lazy ass," I retorted.
"'Don't talk about my ass!', she yells."
"I was talking about you, not your Gluteus Maximus. Speaking of a map..." I quickly Summoned my big map.
"Okay... so... Shirotsume... *mumblemumble*... forest area, yadda yadda yadda... ah! Magnolia is to the..." I looked up. I looked back down at the map. "Southeast- I mean, southwest. Damn, uh, sorry. I always get those terms mixed up..." I trailed off. "We gotta go that way!" I pointed southwest.
Beep-beep beep-beep! A digital clock sound went off and Horologium disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Ah, Lucy. So I see you've decided to join us! How nice. Get up. We need to walk another four and a half miles to Magnolia," I said.
"Don't patronize me..." grumbled Lucy as she got up slowly and started walking. Happy landed on Natsu's shoulder to take a break from flying.
Suddenly, something moved in the bushes. Natsu suddenly got into a battle stance and dove into the bushes to fight whatever was coming.
"Is he looking for a fight?", said Lucy.
"Judging on the kind of guy he is, the answer is yes. He is that crazy," I said.
"Get 'em, Natsu!"shouted Happy. Suddenly, Natsu jumped out of the bushes with the creature. Only it wasn't a creature, it was Gray, the naked weirdo from Fairy Tail.
"Gray!" shouted Natsu.
"Natsu!" shouted Gray.
"Why is he naked?" questioned Lucy. Which was true, because he was, in fact, in his black boxers.
"Yeah, why are you in your underwear in the middle of the forest?" repeated Natsu.
"I was looking for a bathroom!" he retorted.
"Why were you looking for a bathroom in your underwear? Do you have to do everything naked?" I said.
"How were you expecting to find a bathroom in the middle of the forest, idiot?" said Natsu.
"Who're you calling an idiot, flame butt?" insulted Gray.
"Walking ice tray!"
"Matchstick!" Gray and Natsu went at it for a whole minute.
"They're acting like a bunch of little kids," said Lucy.
"I got this," I said. I jumped up and brought my fist down in between them. "Hammer Arm!" The ground around us shook and many cracks appeared. Earth from below rose up around us and a shock wave was sent in all directions, knocking Natsu and Gray back. Angrily, they dashed at me with incredible speed. I quickly did a handstand and curled in my legs. "Flame Kick!" I extended my legs and kicked Gray and Natsu in the chin. Natsu ate the flames from my feet and made a comment about how grimy it tasted and tried Fire Dragon Roar on me. Gray on the other hand, who couldn't swallow flames, was smacked down to the ground. I stood there and absorbed the attack. I couldn't eat the fire either, but it had no effect on me, it just knocked me back a few feet. Enraged, Natsu jumped towards me and used Fire Dragon Iron Fist, and I jumped to counter it with Titanium Fist. Our fists collided, and we were both thrown back. Natsu hit a tree, and I nearly fell off a cliff.
"Huff, huff... Are we done here?" said Natsu.
"I was the one who was trying to stop you guys in the first place, you god damn fire breathing son of a bitch! Goddammit, can you two ever stop fighting?! Jeez!" I exhaled heavily. "Is that all you think about? Do you really have to get into a fight with him every time you see him?" I yelled.
"Heh. You're tough, Vinny. Now I wanna fight you! When we get back to the guild, let's fight!" said Natsu.
"Man, you really are naive. You never learn, do you?" I said. "You know what? Screw it. I accept your challenge. But we fight tomorrow at noon. I have shit I need to take care of."
"Man, I'm all fired up!" shouted Natsu. What a child, I thought.
"Gray, why were you really in the woods?" I asked. "Don't give me any of that 'bathroom' crap. Also, put some clothes on."
"Well, the part about the bathroom was true," said Gray, frantically pulling on a shirt and some pants out of nowhere. "I just got done with a job request."
"Ah, you were coming back from a job. Why didn't you say so?"
"Well, I was going to! But stupid Firebutt over there had to attack me before I had a chance to explain myself!" protested Gray.
"Who're you calling Firebutt-" started Natsu angrily.
"Shut it, pyro," I interrupted.
"Whatever, Vinny. Just get back to the guild, Gray," said Natsu.
"Of course. I was going to be getting back anyway, because," Gray paused and shivered for a second. "Erza's coming back to Fairy Tail."
Natsu and Happy's jaws dropped. Lucy gasped. I tilted my head.
"Er- who?" I asked.
"I wouldn't blame you for not knowing," said Gray. "While not the strongest Mage, Erza is the strongest woman in all of Fairy Tail."
My eyebrows raised. "So she's pretty good, huh?"
"What?! 'Pretty good'?! She's what's known as an S-class Mage."
"S-class...?" My eyes widened at that. "Is Natsu an S-class Mage?"
"Hah! No, and neither am I, but as much as I hate to admit it, Natsu is one of the strongest non-S-class Mages in Fairy Tail. He's on the brink of being one, but he's just too childish."
"You're telling me? Natsu, say nothing, or I'll smash your head in!"
"Heheh, it's funny. You remind me of Erza," chuckled Gray.
"Speaking of, what is she like?" asked Lucy.
Natsu, Gray, and Happy all looked like they didn't want to say.
"Scary," they all said at once.
"Wild animal?" said Natsu.
"A beast," added Gray.
"That's an understatement. More like a demon!" said Happy.
"Woah! Is she big?"
"Yeah! She's bigger than all of Magnolia!" said Natsu.
"I wouldn't go that far," said Gray.
"Yeah, but that's just about how scary she is," said Natsu.
"She could crack a mountain into three pieces with one kick!" said Happy.
"Naw, three is exaggerating. It's more like two," said Gray.
"Still, knocking down a mountain in a single kick, is still pretty scary," said Lucy.
"Whatever, guys. I guess we have to wait and see. Let's head back to the guild now. It's um, southeast, argh! No, I mean, southwest! Dammit!" I laughed. "Again! I messed it up. Well, just follow me. I have a map-"
Suddenly, a blast of sand exploded out of nowhere. When the dust settled, we were all half buried in sand.
But Happy was gone.
"Happy!" yelled Natsu, with sand flowing out of his mouth.
"Ugh... just as soon as we were about to go back. Why are we being constantly stopped by everything?" I said, spitting out some sand.
"They took Happy!" cried Lucy.
"Well, what good are we doing just standing around, being useless? Let's go after Happy!" I said. I heard voices talking nearby.
"... I'm not shaking because I'm scared, I really have to pee. If you eat me, I'm sure I'll taste weird," said Happy's voice. Oh, so they're gonna eat Happy? Not on my watch, I thought. I jumped up on a high rock.
"Hey, you idiots! That's our friend you're about to flambé! I don't care if you're hungry, but if you're thinking about eating Happy..." I lit up my metal fist. "Then I'll punch your heads in!"
"Get 'em!" yelled the short gray guy. All of his team members spread out quickly. Natsu and Gray took on the two guys with the Sai while I took on the big chicken dude. He wielded a staff that could ignite, not that it would do anything to me.
"Your staff is useless against me!" I said, missing a swift Flame Kick. "Oh, you like to dodge?" I Mega Evolved, and charged a Flame Ball bigger than normal over my head.
"Dodge this, bitch." I threw the Giga Flame Ball down at the chicken guy, who lay there singed and unconscious.
"Sand Bomb!" The stumpy gray guy used a sand attack which created a huge ball of sand. Natsu, unfortunately, was too slow to dodge, and got caught inside.
"Natsu! Don't worry! I'll get you outta there!" I yelled. I Summoned my Book of Magic and flipped through a few pages.
"Let's see, Shadow, Water, Earth, ah! Wind Magic! Uh, let's see... oh, okay! Wind Magic: Wind Blow!" I read what I thought would be a useful spell to get Natsu out of the Sand Bomb. Suddenly, my lungs filled up with an immense amount of air, and my cheeks puffed up. And then, when I couldn't contain it any longer, an extreme air blast stronger than a jet turbine blasted out from my mouth and blew every single bit of sand away from around Natsu. From behind me, Gray had taken out the weird one who wouldn't fight back and Lucy untied Happy from the spit. Natsu was out of breath from being trapped in the Sand Bomb.
"I've got him, Natsu. Step back." I flipped to the 'Shadow Magic' page. "Shadow Magic: Shadow Switch!" I sunk into the ground and I was instantly teleported to the guy's shadow. I came up and used Flame Punch, but he was a bit too quick, so he was able to block it with a Sand Wall. I looked around, and saw that he trapped me inside some kind of sand prison. I looked up. There was an opening, but it was too high.
"Fine. You wanna play cheap? I'll show you." I jumped into the air and aimed my metal fist downwards. "Hammer Fist!" Just as I hoped, the sand around me collapsed (And got into my shoes). The sand guy looked over and was about to mutter, "Impossible!" but he didn't really finish. I dashed at him and used Flame Punch, sending him flying. Natsu rounded up all of the weird guys, who were now unconscious, and he tied them tightly to a tree.
"Humph. You don't have to get serious with these small frys," scoffed Gray.
"Yeah, well how about I fry that mouth of yours?" retorted Natsu. And yet again, the two began arguing loudly. I was about to go punch them, but then, the short gray guy muttered something.
"Lu...by..." he muttered.
"What? I couldn't hear him- oh for crying out loud..." I rushed over to Gray and Natsu and punched them both in the head. They were obviously pretty pissed because of it, but then I pointed to the short dude.
"T-the... Lulla... by..." muttered the short guy.
"What? What's he talking about?" said Natsu.
"I don't know, but I don't like the sound of it," said Lucy.
Suddenly, a giant shadow in the shape of a hand covered the area. It loomed over the tree were the guys were tied up and appeared to grab it. Then it pulled the tree down into the ground, possibly killing those idiots. But a shadowy figure could be seen in the trees, fleeing the scene. I assumed that he or she forced the tree into the ground.
"Who is that? Vinny, do you have a speed spell to chase after him?" said Natsu.
I didn't even bother to look. "No. And frankly, I don't care to chase after him either, because the way I see it, he just did us a favor. Now let's get our asses back to the guild."
xxxx
"You can't read it either, huh?" I asked Levy, a girl with blue hair. I had asked her if she could read the Book of Magic just to see again if I really was the only one who could read it. Also because she was a total bookworm, so I thought she could help me.
"No, I can't read it, unfortunately, but this is a very rare and valuable book. It's an ancient language from long ago, created by dragons. I wonder, did Igneel make it?"
"I don't think he did. It was passed down my father. Did you know him? He was a dragon, sort of."
"No, I heard a lot a dragon being in the guild at one point, but I wasn't around to see it. But you're saying that your father was a dragon?"
"Sort of. He was a Charizard."
"Oh! I have heard that name before! I heard of the Great Charizard, but that's about it. He was your father?"
"Yeah, I never got to know him. He was killed, so I'd been living with my mother for ten years."
"That's unfortunate. Well, if you ever need anything, I can help you."
"Thanks Levy." I went to go sit down at the bar where Mirajane was. I thought she was kinda pretty. I guess you could I was sort of attracted to her? She was very nice, as well.
"Hey Mira. How's it going?"
"Well, it's pretty busy, but I don't mind. How was your first job request?"
"Pretty exhilarating, actually. I got 1,000,000 Jewel from it, so I guess that's pretty cool."
"What?! You're joking, right? You can't be serious! S-rank jobs sometimes don't even go up that high! Well actually, that's not true. Never mind. But tell me, how did you do it? Did you take half the money for yourself?"
"Huh? Well, uh, technically, yes, but that's because Natsu and Happy rejected the money. Lucy took half, and so did I. Now she'll have something to pay her rent with."
"Uh, no, you still owe me 70,000 Jewel," said Lucy from behind me. I jumped in surprise.
"What?! You got that money, so why don't you use it to pay your stupid rent?"
"Because. You owe me. You were the one who begged to sleep at my place." Mira laughed.
"But I had no money or a place to begin with! I'm from a whole different land!"
"Whatever. Get your own place from now on. And that doesn't mean I'm letting you off the hook."
"Okay! Fine! Jeez..." Lucy left and I turned back around. "Don't blame me. Yesterday was only my first day in Fairy Tail."
"Haha! Hey, don't worry! I don't blame you! Y'know, she was pretty lucky to get a place, 'cuz people are always fighting to get a place." Suddenly, the guild door opened dramatically. Mira gasped. Everyone fell silent.
"What's wrong? Why is everyone quiet all of a sudden?"
"It's her. She's back."
"But who's back though?"
"Erza. Erza's back."
