Chapter 4: Killing the Authority and New Arrivals
Gajeel, Pantherlily, and Levy stopped as soon as they arrived in the city.
The Iron Dragon Slayer looked around left and right. "Hmm, this quite the city." He commented.
Levy noticed people walking around and noticed their faces. "Look the people." She pointed out.
"What about them?" Gajeel asked.
Pantherlily observed the people from afar, one was a man, second was a woman and another was a little girl with long light yellow blonde hair, wearing a dress that was torn, they looked depressed and had fear in their eyes. "Sounds like something has gotten them in fear."
Gajeel was about walk over the people when Levy stopped him with her arm. "Wait, I'll go to talk to them, besides if Pantherlily is seen by these guys it cause a scene."
The Panther Exceed nodded. "I agree, I maybe just a cat but I can talk so it might startle the people here."
Gajeel sighed. "Very well, let's stick to the shadows then."
His Exceed nodded respond as he and his owner leaped back quickly and hide in a dark alleyway not too far from the people nearby.
"Excuse me." Levy called waving her hand. "Something got you people scared?"
"Yes, our youngest daughter Lila was kidnapped by a group of bandits." The mother said as she began to teary eyes. "We have give the bandits money to get her back."
"I see, from the look on your faces, it sounds like you don't have the money." Levy guessed.
"Correct, all we got is 500 gold coins." The father said as his eyes twitched. " The bandits however want 1500 coins but we don't have that kind of money, since we didn't our daughter will be executed."
Levy gasped in horror.
Gajeel hearing this pissed him off and Pantherlily gritted his teeth in anger.
"Can you tell us where these bandits are?" Levy asked.
"What, are you going to rescue her?" The mother asked.
"How can one girl like you rescue our youngest one on your own?" The father asked.
Levy gave them a confident smile. "I have two friends that are with me, we'll rescue her."
"You got that right." Gajeel said coming out of the shadows.
"Who are you?" The blonde haired girl asked.
"Call me Black Steel." The Iron Dragon Slayer replied with a grin. "Anyway, tell us where this Bandits hideout is."
Meanwhile at Night Raid's Hideout.
Tatsumi was cutting potatoes with Gray.
As Tatsumi peeled the potatoes, he remembered the day he was cooking with Sayo and Ieyasu.
"This will be in hand we run out of food." Ieyasu stated. "Including how to prepare food."
"I want seconds!" Mine called. "Me too." Lubbock said putting up his bowl.
Tatsumi went back to the kitchen with Akame. "I thought we were suppose to become assassins not a stupid chef."
Gray chuckled. "(Reminds me of training with Master Ur)."
He remembered again when he started training with Ur but wasn't like this.
Flashback scene.
Ur and Lyon took Gray further up the ice mountains. "Oh, I thought you were going to teach me magic?" The black haired boy asked panting.
"I told you training with me would be hard." Ur said.
"I know, but I have to become stronger than Deliora because someday I'm going to beat him." Young Gray said with determination.
Ur turned around and stripped off her clothes making Gray exclaim in total shock. "Wha- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" He asked blushing.
"The first step is to strip." Ur said only wearing a green bra and panties.
"ARE YOU CRAZY, BACK ME UP LYON!" Gray complained as he noticed his classmate was half-naked too. "YOU TOO?!"
"Come on, you want to learn magic, right?" Lyon asked with a smirk and clenching his hand.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE MAKING ME DO THIS, IT BETTER NOT BE SOMEKIND OF JOKE!" Gray spatted stomping his feet.
Flashback scene.
"Don't look me I just put food the plates." Akame said chowing on some grapes. "Oh, is that because you're eating the food?" Tatsumi asked.
"Not really." The black haired assassin said playing dumb.
"She's not a good liar." Gray grumbled.
"So the rookie and ice boy are here in the kitchen." Mine teased.
"What'd you call me?" Gray spatted.
"Anyway, Gray, you'll be coming with Mine, Sheele, and I to hunt down a Gangster named Pierro who lends people some money but if he's not paid back full, then the people he loan money to gets executed." Bulat explained. "We located his chamber to a hidden cave from the west of the capital.
"That's sick." Gray growled looking so disgusted. "But I'll help out anyway, anyone who kills the innocent needs to punished."
"I like your attitude." Bulat commented with a smile.
"Taran and Juvia will be with me, together you ladies and I were be tracking down a tribe known as the Wild Woodsmen, the leader's name we have to get is one named Kovu." Lubbock said giggling with a sneaky look.
"Should I go too?" Tatsumi asked.
"You stay here in the kitchen and cook up some food meals for me." Mine ordered laughing sinisterly.
"(What does she have to act like that so much?)" Tatsumi asked looking offended.
Gray noticed his face. "(That look reminds me of Natsu.)" He thought with a chuckle.
"Something funny?" Sheele asked.
Gray shook his head.
A short time Gajeel, Levy and Pantherlily made their way to the forest outside the capital on a dirt path.
"Lily, scout from the trees and be careful." Gajeel ordered as his black Exceed nodded grew white wings and flew into the trees.
Gajeel and Levy dashed ahead straight the dirt path.
Akame took Tatsumi to a waterfall.
"This is great, so what do we do here?" Tatsumi asked.
"Today, we'll catch fish." Akame said taking off her clothes.
This surprised Tatsumi that he covered his face with his arm and made him fall on the ground.
"What is your problem?" Akame asked revealing a swimsuit.
Tatsumi sighed in relief. "Oh, its just a swimming suit.
"The target is large river tuna." Akame explained as she went closer to the edge of the cliff.
"Huh, aren't those hard to catch?" Tatsumi asked.
Akame ignored the question and jumped into the water.
A few seconds later several large tuna was throw up the water and into the basket that Tatsumi had on his back.
Akame came out of the water but stayed in the water looking up at the browned haired boy. "First swim all the way down to the botton and conceal your aura and make your attack."
Tatsumi stripped off his shirt. "I got this!"
A short time later, there were only two tuna.
"So he only caught two fish." Najenda said.
"Akame said you ripped off your shirt and said some stuff: I got this!" Leone teased.
"This will take some time." Akame commented.
"Why the hell would she say something about that?" Tatsumi asked.
"Anyway Leone, what did you found out?" Najenda asked.
Leone took out picture of two men. "There is Orge the Imperial Guard and Gamal the Oil merchant according to our client..."
Flashback scene.
Leone was talking with a woman wearing a cloak and hoody over head in a graveyard while the cat Assassin leaned behind a tree.
"Orge has been accepting bribes from a oil merchant, whenever he manages to get himself into trouble, Orge finds a way to pin the blame on someone else." the unknown woman explained
Leone continued to listen and was digusted. "My fiancee fell victim to this, he then was setenced to death, I'm begging you to do something."
The Night Raid Cat glanced at the woman. "Understood, I'm make sure that manic gets what he deserves."
Flashback ends.
Leone put a bag of cash on the table. "This is what she gave us."
"Really, I'm surprised that she gave us all this." Tatsumi said surprised.
"She smelled sickly, in other words she must be giving her body." Leone explained as her body twitched.
"She's not lying, is she?" Najenda asked.
"My senses never failed me before." Leone said with no doubt on her face. "He's guilty."
In the forest.
Pantherlily flew from tree to tree until he noticed a camp base with bandits. "This must be the place."
He flew away quietly as he made to his friends who were not too far away.
"You find anything?" Gajeel asked.
His exceed nodded. "Yes, follow me but careful."
Gajeel and Levy followed the Exceed then hide behind a large trees.
"Mommmy!" A voice cried.
They glanced to see a girl being dragged by two bandits.
"That must be the daughter." Gajeel said as he noticed something one of the bandits holding a bowl.
"This will shut you up." The man said with a wicked smile. "More like it'll poison her." the second said chuckling sinisterly.
The three former Fairy Tail members gasped in shock.
"Ok, Levy and Lily go and rescue the girl, I'll distract any other bandits that might come your way." Gajeel ordered.
"Be careful." Levy said with worry.
Gajeel's face went red. "Uh, I will."
The girl was taken into a tent and tied to a chair.
Levy dashed inside. "SOLID SCRIPT OIL!"
"What the?" The man said as he and his comrade began to lose their balance and fell on the ground.
The girl was surprised.
"Who the hell are you?" One of the bandits asked angrily.
Pantherlily then came inside and got taller with massive muscles.
"What kind cat are you?" The other bandit asked looking scared.
"We're the guys that are going to bring you down." Pantherlily asked with a glare as he punched the second bandit on the face.
Levy turned her attention to the girl. "SOLID SCRIPT: SWORD!"
Her spell wrote the word sword in the air and sliced the rope the girl was tied in.
"Thank you." The girl said with a smile.
Levy comfort the girl. "Let's go."
Pantherlily nodded his head and ran outside the tent.
Gajeel was taking on a several bandits and that were knocked out easily. "This guys are such pushovers."
"I'm not." A voice said who was large taller man with massive muscles, black beard that covered his chin and around his lips, wield two twin swords that were black. "You better return that brat to me."
Gajeel just grinned. "You want then you'll have to go through me."
"You will regret saying that." The Bandit leader growled viciously. "My name is Keith the Bandit King."
The bandit King then lunged with this two swords.
"SOLID GUARD!" Levy proclaimed writting the word Guard which appeared in the air and created a barrier that protected her friend.
"What the?" Keith said surprisingly.
Gajeel then punched the man in the face hard which sent the bandit king rolling across.
The bandit struggled to get up. "Who are you guys, some kind of monsters?"
"We're not giving that info." Gajeel said with a scary glare. "Let's finish this, IRON DRAGON'S CLUB!"
The Iron Dragon Slayer's arm turned into a iron like club and punched the bandit king in the face causing him to crash into a large tree
The tree then collasped on top of him crushing his whole body.
"Hmm, let's go kid." Gajeel said with a smirk.
Levy wondered if the tree crushed the bandit king. "(I wonder if that bandit is...)"
"Hey, let's go." Gajeel said glancing at the girl.
"Oh right, I just spaced out." Levy said as she took the girl's hand.
Pantherlily transformed back to his original form. "Come on, let's take this young lady to her family."
"Whoa, a talking kitty, so cute!" The girl said with sparkly eyes.
Pantherlily was a bit creeped out as a sweat drop was on the back of his head.
Meanwhile at Night Raid's kitchen.
"Its settled then, he needs to divine punishment." Nanjenda stated.
"We shouldn't have much trouble with the oil merchant." Leone said. "However Ogre will be a pain in the ass, he's very skilled with a sword even the hitman are scared of him, he's always surrounded by a group of supportives, he's so careful that Gamal delivers payments to his chambers but on his days off he goes drinking on the main street."
"Alright, we know when to strike." Tatsumi said.
"That area however is heavily guarded, we can't send in Akame cause they know what she looks like." Nanjenda stated.
"Hello!" Leone said raising her arm. "They don't know what I look like yet!"
"Can you do it?" Najenda asked.
"I think we should wait until the others are here." Akame suggested.
"But we don't know when they'll be back right?" Tatsumi asked.
Akame nodded her head answering yes.
Tatsumi slammed his hand on the table. "Well I say we head out on this mission without them."
"Oh, are you thinking of taking on Ogre on your own?" Najenda asked.
"Careful how you say that you're a big shot otherwise we'll make you as backup." Leone said with a warning.
"Secondly as you are now, you can't do it." Akame added. "So when the others get back, I'll send either Juvia, Gray, or Taran with you."
"I'm skilled swordsman." Tatsumi said.
"I mean you can't kill people." Akame said remembering his first kill against Aria. "I mean you did kill Aria but you were blinded by rage, so how can you kill without stopping to thinking about it."
"I'm not sure but if Orge is blaming something on another innocent person while we're standing here arguing about it." Tatsumi said as his hands twitched. "We can't stay here and wait, I know losing someone isn't fun, I just don't want anyone else to get hurt."
"Its settled then, good luck." Nanjenda praised.
"You got spuk, I like that." Leone said wrapping her left arm around Tatsumi.
"I would like you two ladies to deal with the Merchant." Najenda ordered.
Akame got from her chair. "See, I can take care of business when it comes to shove." Tatsumi said confidently.
"I'll hold judgement until you complete the mission." Akame answered coldly but didn't bother looking at the boy. "Also being overconfident and arrogant can get you hurt or killed.
Tatsumi was little upset at the girl's words. "(I'll show her when I do complete this mission.)"
Leone and Tatsumi made it to Main Street.
"Here we are." Leone said gazing at the street. "Did you memorize the map?"
"Yeah, I got." Tatsumi said still a little offended.
Leone noticed the boy's face. "Let me tell you about Akame, when she was a little girl, she along with her sister were sold to the empire, they were placed in a training camp with other abandon kids, she learned to survive the harsh surroundings as well as the art of murder."
Flashback scene starts.
"She joined the empire blindly doing the empires dirty work, as she got older she saw the darkness the empire was holding, one day she was sent to kill the boss." Leone continued. "But it didn't happen, somehow she convinced Akame to join the Revolutionary Army, but before she could do most of the kids she grew up with were already dead."
Flashback scenes.
Leone turned her face to Tatsumi. "Are you realizing what I'm saying?"
The boy crossed his arms. "Yeah, yeah, a professinal killer and for a rookie like me, there are still things I need to learn."
A short time later.
Gajeel, Levy and Pantherlily returned the girl to her parents home which was next to capital's entrance.
The parents were waiting outside their house.
"Mommy, daddy!" The girl called out as she ran over to her parents.
"Oh my baby!" The mother cried happily as she took her daughter into her arms. "Our daughter is safe." The father said looking relieved and shedding tears.
"Sister!" The girl cried as she hugged her older sibling.
Gajeel handed over a bag of food. "Here this chow should last for you people to eat."
"Thank you sir for saving me sister!" The blond girl asked as she hugged the long haired man.
Levy's body twitched.
Pantherlily just chuckled.
"Uh, sure, you can thank my friends too." Gajeel said with a grin.
Levy and Pantherlily smiled.
"Anyway, we should go now." Gajeel added as his friends nodded.
"Where should we go to stay for the night." Levy asked.
Pantherlily and Gajeel went quiet.
The father gave a them three small bags. "Uh, what are these?" Gajeel asked.
"This some of our coins." The mother said with a kindly smiling. "Think of it as our way of saying thank you."
"Are you sure, this is ok?" Levy asked.
"No, problem." The child's older sister said smiling generously.
"We'll take the award." Gajeel said as he and his two friends got three each of the small bags.
As they walked out they opened the bags, inside was coins that shined.
"This is so shiny." Levy said with sparkle eyes. "No, kidding." Gajeel added with an awe look. "I have wonder where should we stay?"
His two partners went silent.
"We should ahead into the forest." Lily answered quickly. "Besides something is very odd with this city."
"What'd you mean Lily?" Levy asked the Exceed.
"I have admit, ever since we came into the city, the other people look so uneasy but actually they have look of fear." Gajeel agreed. "What they fear is I don't know, but for now we need to look for the others."
The oil Merchant Gamal was walking down his hallway. "Wow, that bathroom won't be same ever, now its time for me to get back to living the dream."
Just then a claw came from behind and grabbed him by his neck. "Wait a second, I got a better idea."
Akame came out of nowhere stabbing the merchant in the chest with her sword.
Gamal fell to the ground after Akame removed her sword out of his chest.
In the Main Street.
Orge was walking down. "Ah, nothing like living life of torture then knock it back a cold one."
"Excuse me Master Ogre." Tatsumi said who had his hoody that hide his head.
The imperial guard turned his head. "I have some importantance of discussing I want speak with you."
"Is that so, what'd you need?" Ogre asked.
Tatsumi turned his head left and right. "Um, can we speak privatly?"
The two walked together down the street.
Gajeel noticed this. "Hey, over there." He whispered.
"What are those two up to?" Levy asked. "Who knows." Panterlily answered in a whispering tone. "Perhaps we should follow."
"(This kid doesn't have an aura.)" Orge thought. "Alright kid, speak up."
Tatsumi turned on his knees. "Please, I need some money to help feed my family!"
Ogre groaned at this putting his hand on his head. "Ugh, this again, follow the procedures."
"I tried..." Tatsumi said beginning to take out his sword. "They wouldn't take my application."
Ogre sensed this and took his sword slowly. "Its not my fault you're a puny little weakling!"
Tatsumi dashed quickly slashing the Imperial guard's side. "(He's fast, been awhile since someone defied me.)" The guard thought as he fell to the ground.
Gajeel, Levy, and Pantherlily were eavedropping from afar a corner.
"Yeah, that's how it is!" Tatsumi stated.
"Remember I'll hold my judgement until you complete the mission." Akame said.
"Oh right, I need to return." Tatsumi said.
Ogre began to swing his sword.
Gajeel and Pantherlily's eyes widen.
Levy prepared to use her spell Guard.
Gajeel put his hand on her shoulder. "Give him a chance."
Tatsumi blocked the Imperial guard's sword.
"Do you think you can defeat me?!" Ogre stated as he swung his sword a few times making Tatsumi to the wall. "I have to guess, you must be a Night Raid assassin."
"(An assassin?)" Levy asked herself.
"(This kid might an assassin but something off about his opponent.)" Gajeel said sniffing the scent coming from the guard.
"Whatever you are, the weak can squeal all they want but the strong will always prevail in this empire." Ogre stated harshly.
"(The weak can squeal but the strong will always prevail.)" Levy thought.
"(That is so wrong.)" Gajeel said looking very pissed off. "(This guy is so messed.)" Pantherlily thought with angered face.
"WHO YOU DEEM IS NOTHING, I JUDGE THE FATE OF THE PEOPLE!" Orge stated in fury.
Tatsumi jumped quickly in the air. "I WON'T LET YOU KILL ANYONE ELSE!"
His and Orge's sword collided.
"Who's order have you come to me, certainly that woman's fiancee that I had executed?" Ogre asked.
"(He killed a woman's fiancee?)" Levy asked looking horrified.
"(That punk!)" Gajeel thought looking more pissed. "(This manic is very messed up.)" Pantherlily thought gritted his teeth more.
Tatsumi raged face confirmed Orge's question. "I was right, I told myself I should've knocked off that wench while I had the chance, well I could if I wanted to, first things I'll chase that woman down, find anyone she knows that and bring them on charges and then toture them to death while she watches, BUT NOT BEFORE I KILL YOU FIRST!"
That filled Tatsumi's rage which gave him the chance to free himself by cutting off Orge's arms.
"(Its piece of scum like that, I would like to slash into pieces!)" Tatsumi thought as he slashed the Imperial Guard again.
The three former Fairy Tail members watched in surprise as the big solider fell on the ground.
"He's dead." Levy said looking a disturbed. "At least, that boy is fine."
Gajeel was little disturbed but then grinned. "(I had feeling the pipsqueak has spunk)"
"That kid is strong than he looks." Pantherlily said with a grin. "Shall we follow me, he might lead us to our friends."
Gajeel and Levy nodded in respond.
Later that night.
Lubbock was walking through the woods back to the hideout.
"You ladies, were so amazing, Juvia washed those wild tribesmen away like a tidal wave, Taran controlled their bodies, it was so cool!" The green haired boy chuckled with a blush and grin. "What do you say that we get know each other more tomorrow?"
"I'd say..." Taran began to say as she punched in the man in the face. "You're an idiot."
"Sorry, but my heart belongs to Gray." Juvia said not bothering to look at the Night Raid Pervert.
Lubbock was left in silence.
In another part of forest was a stream.
Gray was walking shirtless but he was holding his shirt over his shoulder.
"My, never thought someone like him would strip off his shirt." Sheele said looking flustered. "Man, did is his master really teach to do that?" Mine asked looking creeped out but was hiding her faint blush.
"Come on, I bet his classmate did this too." Bulat said with a grin. "Isn't that right, Gray?"
"Uh, yes." Gray said as his body cringed in annoyance.
Just then Lubbock and the two wizard ladies appeared.
"Well, look who showed up." Mine said.
"You three do well?" Sheele asked.
"Yes, it was a blast, the ladies are quite skilled then I thought." Lubbock answered. "Not mention so cute."
Taran elbowed the green haired boy's stomach. "Pervert."
Juvia then hugged Gray's arm. "My beloved!"
Lubbock's eyes twitched. "(I'm not jealous, I'm not jealous, I'm not jealous.)" He thought while his eyes were shut.
"My, she really is smitten with him." Sheele giggled.
"Yeah, but next time don't strip next time!" Mine spatted with a red face.
"Come on, I think it was cool." Bulat said doing a thumbs up and smiling.
"SO CREEPY!" Gray screamed.
"Touch him and I will wash you away!" Juvia growled as an dark aura engulfed her body.
"You think you should be quiet." Mine whispered a little shaken up.
Just then sound of rustling came from nearby bushes causing the gang to turn to the direction of the sounds.
Tatsumi went to talk with the three Night Raid members in the meeting room.
"You killed an Imperial guard on your own, I'm impressed." Nanjenda said with an impressive smile.
"See that, I did all you told me to do." Tatsumi said proudly. "Tell me I'm awesome."
Akame lift up the boy's shirt which surpised. "Uh, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Leone, Boss, grab him." She ordered as his pants were pulled down instantly.
"Aah!" Tatsumi screamed in embrassment.
Akame looked around his body by moving around him in a circle for few seconds. "Thank goodness." She said blushing red and smiling. "I've seen a lot of people die from infecting cause they were too proud report their injuries, so its good you didn't get hurt."
She offered his hand so did Tatsumi.
"See, she was hard you before cause she was worried about your safety." Leone explained.
"Learning to cook helped you with your commuication and hunting helped you use basic killing tactics." Nanjenda added. "In other words, the training was for you for a specific reason."
"Oh I didn't realize that, I'm sorry for my rudeness." Tatsumi said.
"Its ok, just keep coming back alive." Akame said with understanding look. "As long as you keep looking out for me." Tatsumi said.
Leone burst giggling witih a red hues on her face. "This is cheesy the fact you're half-naked."
"Hey, you're the ones that took my shirt off!" Tatsumi spatted as he went all red.
"Next day, you'll be working with Mine." Najenda said.
"Ouch, into the frying pan into the fire." Leone teased.
"SHE'S EVEN WORSE!" Tatsumi screamed.
Mine heard this. "I have a bad feeling suddenly."
Out came three former Fairy Tail members.
"Who are you three?" Mine asked taking out her Pumpkin
"Where are you doing here too?" Sheele asked preparing to take out her large scissors.
"Gajeel, Levy, Pantherlily." Gray stated looking stunned. "Is that really you guys?" Juvia asked completely stunned as well.
"You know them?" Lubbock asked as he noticed Levy. "Including the cute chick?"
Levy was getting creeped out. "(He is talking about me?)"
Pantherlily noticed Taran. "Aren't you Taran?"
"Yes, I am." The Psychic Wizard replied with a nod.
"That cat is talking!" Mine exclaimed in surprise. "A talking cat, so strange!" Lubbock added equally surprised.
"Technically I'm Exceed." Lily replied crossing his arms.
"Holy molly!" Lubbock exclaimed next.
"Looks like we have new recruits." Bulat said as he gazed at Gajeel then did a wink.
"(Did that guy just wink at me?)" The Iron Dragon Slayer asked looking uneasy.
"Looks like our friends are here." Gray said with a smile.
Juvia was letting out tears of joy causing a flow of water to flood area. "Levy, Lily, and Gajeel are here!"
"Stop your girlfriend!" Mine screamed trying to swim.
"Yeah, we're getting soaked here!" Lubbock yelled.
"SHE'S NOT MY FREAKING GIRLFIEND!" Gray exclaimed as he was nearly washed away.
"(At least, we found our friends.)" Levy thought with relief.
"(Let's just hope we can find our way home.)" Gajeel thought. "FIRST, TELL JUVIA TO STOP CRYING!"
Lily was flying. "(Hmm, brings back memories in Fairy Tail.)" He thought with a smile.
End of chapter.