Chapter 18
Warning: Nightmare Fuel
In a land far, far away lies the kingdom of Fiore, a small, peaceful nation of 17 million, and a place filled with magic. Found in every home, bought and sold in every marketplace. For most magic is merely a tool, a mundane part of everyday life. For some, however, magic is an art, and they've devoted their lives to its practice. These are the wizards. Banded together into magical guilds, they apply their skills in search of fame and fortune. Many such guilds dot the landscape of Fiore. But there is a certain guild in a certain town that soars high above the rest, one from which countless legends have been born. A guild that will no doubt continue to create legends well into the future. Its name... is Fairy Tail.
Last Time:
"What about Murabba? We just going to let him go like that?" Edo-Dakura asked, holding his injured gut with a wince.
"He knows what he's doing. Unlike the Kaito we knew this guy is a tactical genius among other things, not to mention an absolute powerhouse with his different beetles." Edo-Enkaar explained, gazing off into the distance…
Now:
Within the walls of the capital, a deep rumbling sound was heard echoing throughout the walls.
"What the- what the dickens is that?" Voice the lone guard patrolling the hallways as the noise grew louder, followed by an increasingly loud scream until the wall to his right began to cave outwards before exploding due to a fist of what looked to be pure black energy pummeling through it, Kaito standing behind it as it retracted back into his sleeves. Glaring at the the guard that was there he slowly stalked towards the man, his beetles forming a cloak around him that made him look more demonic than before.
"Now, you are going to tell me where you put the dragon slayers," The enraged man calmly began, the demonic cloak forming a clawed arm over his own that grabbed the frightened guard's collar, "Or this is going where the sun never shines."
"Ple-please don't kill me I-I just started here last week. I ha-have no idea where high class pri-prisoner's would be kept." He nervously answered, a dark patch forming around his uniform's crotchal region.
"Then if you don't know where they are take me to someone who does." Kaito growled out, the claw tightening its grip slowly as Kaito's eyes glowed a much deeper red than normal.
"O-okay sir." The near unconscious man saluted, staying awake only out of fear for what Kaito may do to him.
(with Dakura)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Dakura continued to shout drowning out both Natsu and Wendy's shouts of pain mainly due to the fact that he is getting more magic drained from him. Dakura was barely able to see something going on at the entrance of the chamber they were in. He was just able to make out some guards closing the large doors and placing a large beam across the doors. Though this proved to do nothing because the walls around the doors were soon battered by an unknown force before exploding inwards revealing an enraged Kaito holding a limp guard in his right hand and a bottle of what looked to be pills in his left.
"Finally, this took forever to find especially with this guy," He motioned to the man held in his arm, "Leading me constantly towards the incinerator. What is with people these days huh?" Opening the glass bottle in his left hand, he grabbed a few pills out before tossing one to the prone form of Dakura. "Here, let's get you out of here shall we?" Sending some soldier ants out the insects made surprisingly quick work of the bindings on the three dragon slayers, Natsu and Wendy unconscious from the pain. Grabbing the thrown pill, Dakura popped it into his mouth as soon as his feet touched the floor. Dakura bent over as if he was in pain, but the smile on his face and the dark aura surrounding him said otherwise.
"Oh yeah! That's that good shit!" The noirette exclaimed. Dakura stood completely straight and looked straight up. "DARK DRAGON ROAR!" Dakura shouted as he fired the beam of dark energy. Once he finished he looked straight at Kaito and gave him a thumbs up. "Thanks man. I knew I could count on you to get me out of that bind."
"Ha ha. Very punny now let's grab those two and get out of here." The insect user stated, thumbing over to the comatose dragon slayers that were also in the room. "Anyone else held up here?"
"Yeah Lucy is still in the dungeon and Happy and Carla went to go meet with the rest of their kind." Dakura explained as Kaito slung Natsu over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Dakura looked at Kaito a little closer and noticed something new. "What happened with you you seem different?"
"Let's just say I found someone I thought I lost a long time ago." The albino mysteriously replied, a small smile adorning his face. Dakura just shrugged his shoulders and did the same with Wendy, but gentler. They were about to leave when two people they didn't expect to appear came running in.
"Lucy! Popsicle Stick! How did you two get here, and why are you naked?" Dakura exclaimed as he pointed at Gray only clad in his boxers.
"No time for that. We have to get out of here and fast, or else we will be too late to stop the kings plans." Lucy exclaimed, cutting of an enraged Gray from ranting. They all nodded and started running through the corridors, but Dakura and Kaito both stopped when they passed by a large hole in the wall. When they looked through the hole the both ducked dodgeing a sword that was sent flying through the hole. Dakura looked back through the hole and could barely believe what he saw. It was Erza Knightwalker fighting his little sister Erza.
"This is the most bizzare thing I have ever seen." Dakura stated. With Kaito nodding in agreeance. They both quickly caught up with Lucy and Gray and they quickly found their way out of the castle to one of the balconies. Dakura placed Wendy down and Kaito did the same with Natsu, feeding each of them a pill. They both swallowed the pills and started coughing and quickly waking up. After both woke up fully they were both informed of what has happened so far and that they have their magic back.
"So what's the plan then? If the king has our dragon slayer magic then he must be planning something with it." Wendy stated.
"I think we should find the king and beat the answers out of him." Natsu exclaimed while punching his fist into his open palm.
"You can't solve everything by punching things Flame Brain!" Gray exclaimed, butting heads with the dragon slayer.
"Actually he may have a point here, Gray." Kaito said, his sunglasses back in their normal spot. "From what I have heard the King of Edolas is even more boneheaded than Natsu."
"Is that even possible?" Lucy muttered quietly.
"Well then let's go pay a visit to the King." Dakura said as he started walking in the direction of the main tower with the rest of the group following close behind. The group continued to walk through the maze of halls for what seemed like forever.
"Man, they could fit an amusement park in this place." Lucy joked as the exited a really long hall entering a large room with an amusement park in it. "I was kidding!" The blonde exclaimed.
"Was this really necessary?" Kaito muttered as the entered the park. When they were passing the merry go round it suddenly turned on with a flamboyant male in pink armor riding it.
"AH! PEDOPHILE!" The Albino screeched, sending some of his flame beetles at the man with a raise of the hand, the insects charring the man slightly but otherwise doing nothing.
"Whoa talk about judgemental." A voice said as the pirate ship swing almost hit them. On the ride was a man in a closed white trench coat with purple hair with a white band on the side and a wand in his hand.
"What, you gonna flash me?" Kaito asked of the man, sending more flame beetles out to char him as well, however he just jumped over the initial stream but didn't expect it to come back from behind. Once the two men recovered from the attacks they both got annoyed looks on their faces.
"Alright who do you think you are going around attacking the kings generals like that?" The flamboyant man exclaimed as he started sliding on the ground using his breastplate as a 'skate' and started circling the Earthland mages while scraping his sword on the ground, and where the blade touched the floor it turned to liquid. The Earth land mages started to sink into the liquified floor rapidly..
"Okay, screw this noise. Burrowing Antlions!" Shouted the resident insect mage, the called insects burrowing around him quickly and carving a pit out beneath the armoured man still sliding around on his chest like an idiot. Not long after the sinkhole opened up and the trapped earthland mages managed to escape the pit trap made by the now half buried man.
"Well didn't expect that. Uh, Hughes a little help would be appreciated." The buried man stated as he started to melt his way out.
"Oh don't worry Sugarboy, I have some surprises for them to." Hughes said as he waved his wand causing the roller coaster to turn on and hit Natsu and Dakura. The cart then grabbed the two dragon Slayers with mechanical arms and placed them both into the seats of the cart. The coaster speed up drastically doing crazy and sporadic maneuvers. "How are you two liking the Hell Coaster? It lays down its own tracks as it moves for endless fun." Hughes asked mockingly, but when he looked closer at the two victims of the Hell Coaster he saw that the both looked as if they were about to puke at any moment. "Hahahahaha! You have got to be joking me they both have Motion Sickness! This make this ten times better!" Hughes stated as he started to flick his wand faster and randomly causing the coaster to move faster.
"Ka-*URP* Kaito a little *GROAN* help p-please?" Dakura got out between moans of discomfort.
"Alright, I got. Spider Clone!" Shout this out, a swarm of arachnids pooled out from his feet, forming the clone as commanded, though the copy was far more arachnid in appearance, having four spindly legs out of it's back as well as a smaller pair of eyes above the normal set. "Huh, wasn't expecting that kind of look." Kaito then sent the spider clone out to destroy the coaster cart that held the two dragon slayers. The clone promptly moved it's head in the direction the coaster was heading, proceeding to have it's lower face split open with a spider-like set of jaws appearing out of the spilt, before a ball of webbing was fired out of the center of the arachnidian mouth stretching out between two poles and forming a web that stopped the cart dead in its tracks. The two dragon slayers quickly shook off their motion sickness and broke the mechanical arms of and quickly jumped off the cart to the ground next to the clone. Dakura looked over to the clone with its mouth still open, and shuddered.
"Thanks for that image Kaito. I will now be haunted by that for weeks." Dakura state as he quickly looked away from the creepy spider clone to a creeped out Hughes and an absolutely terrified looking Sugarboy.
"Hey, I didn't think it would do that to be honest. I'm kind of new with spiders compared to my usual beetles." The insect mage admitted, scratching the back of his head bashfully. Dakura waved him off and quickly made a giant hand out of darkness and grabbed the spider clone and flung it at Sugarboy, getting the expected reaction and more.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Sugarboy screeched like a little girl as he saw the spider clone come flying at him at insane speeds. Sugarboy promptly pushed Hughes towards the Flying spider clone and started skating away.
"What the hec-AAAAAHHHHH!" Hughes exclaimed as he was crushed by the freaky clone which proceeded to pummel him with the extra limbs sprouting from it's back, dissipating when Kaito grew freaked out by the rouge clone himself.
"Okay. what the hell even was that. Normally they won't do stuff like that without me telling them to..." The Albino muttered to himself, beginning to mentally communicate with his swarm afterwards.
"Well that happened." Dakura stated. When the spider swarm completely got off Hughes, he was revealed to be unconscious with multiple bruises and cuts all over him. The group then continued on through the amusement park looking for a way out and also keeping an eye out for Sugarboy in case he decided to face them again. They got through about half of the Amusement park until a little girl with burned feet holding a large key ran around a corner and tripped from the pain in her feet. Behind Some distance behind the little girl the old man that drained the Dragon Slayers Magic running after her.
"Coco, you get back here with that Key!" The old man shouted to the little girl on the floor. Lucy ran up to Coco to see if she was alright. Coco lifted the key to Lucy and started crying.
"Please. You have to get this key away from them. If they use it bad things will happen." Coco pleaded with Lucy. Lucy was about to take it, but Sugarboy suddenly came skating by and grabbed the key and took off to the entrance of the amusement park.
"Damn it . Kaito you and Gray go after him and get that Key. Me and the others will stay here and take care of the old man. I want some payback for what he did to me." Dakura ordered. Kaito and Gray nodded and that both took of after Sugarboy, Kaito in his swarm form and Gray on a bike he found. The old man managed to catch up the moment Dakura said 'old man' and got mad.
"Why you brats just love to get in the way so much is beyond me. I expected more from you Coco, don't you want everlasting magic raining from above?" The old man questioned of the injured Coco.
"Not if it means losing my friends, Byro!" Coco retorted. Natsu at this point got fed up with the talking and after recognizing Byro wanted revenge.
"Hey old man! Maybe you should not mess with our friends! Fire Dragon ROAR!" Natsu shouted sending forth his signature spell.
"So he is like a human dragon after all. No matter. Water Liquid!" Byro exclaimed as he took out a vial and splashed the blue liquid into the stream of fire before him, putting out the fire. What Byro didn't notice was the shadow behind him caused by the fire was becoming more solid.
"This is payback old man. Dark Dragon Claw!" Dakura said as he sent Byro flying through one of the wall of a fun house nearby. Dakura nodded at the group and they started walking towards the entrance of the amusement park to meet up with Kaito and Gray, but they stopped when they felt the ground tremble and looked back at the fun house Byro was in to see is fall apart as a giant squid with Byro's head grew bigger than the ferris wheel in the park.
"Behold my form after ingesting Octopus Liquid. You will all perish before my might." Byro exclaimed while swinging a tentacle at the four Earthland mages forcing them to dodge.
"I thought it was impossible for him to get any uglier, but he just did." Lucy stated preparing her keys.
"Natsu, Wendy let's teach this guy to not mess with Dragon Slayers." Dakura said with a smirk to his fellow dragon slayers receiving a nod from both, and they all started inhaling.
"Sky Dragon-"
"Fire Dragon-"
"Dark Dragon-"
"ROAR!" The three dragon slayers shouted as they let loose their respective shouts. The three beams combined into a swirling beam of darkness, air, and fire. The beam impacted Byro straight in his face, causing him to fall on his back where Taurus delivered an axe blow straight to his face, finishing him off. Once they made sure that Byro was sufficiently unconscious they made their was down the corridor to meet up with Kaito and Gray.
(Meanwhile…)
Following the much more flamboyant man, Kaito galred from within his swarm.
"What is it with these guys, huh?" Came from his mouth, though due to the fact that he was in his swarm form it was distorted a bit. "Well, we may as well make the first offensive, eh Gray?"
"Sure, Ice Make: Floor!" shouting out the spell, a coating of ice covered the ground between the two and Sugarboy, causing him to slide into a wall painfully.
"What the hell even is that key for, Pedophile?" Kaito yelled, using the title he gave the flamboyant man earlier.
"Stop calling me that! And it activates the Dragon Chain Cannon." As he stood back up shakily, grasping the key regardless as a stream of insects shot off from Kaito as he had landed, grabbing onto the key firmly.
"Then it seems I should break it!" Shouted the insect user as the grip around the key tightened slowly, causing a crack to appear under the hold.
"Wait! Don't do that, you could use the Cannon to turn your friends back!" Sugarboy shouted, as the crack slowly widened under the insect grip.
"We have four Dragon Slayers and myself a Hive Mind user so we should be fine. It seems the tables have turned on you, 'Sugarboy' if that even is your real name!" Kaito argued, sending a shock down the stream of insects to hopefully cause the flamboyant man to relinquish his grip of the key. The electricity had the desired effect, causing Sugarboy to drop the key out of pain allowing Kaito to retract the stream he sent out and increase his grip on the item. "Time to end this!" Declared the insect user, coating his hand in soldier ants that soon ate away at the key, which soon destabilized it's shaft and ate away at the teeth. Not long after the Dragon Chain Cannon Key was nothing more then scrap.
"You Idiot! I wasn't lying when I said the Dragon Chain Cannon would be able to turn your friends back!" exclaimed the captain, who rushed Kaito with his sword drawn back to bisect the insect user. As he did this, Kaito nodded to Gray who flash froze the man's feet. This only slowed Sugarboy down enough to let Kaito jump back to avoid his first few slashes but not long after one connected, causing a rift in Kaito's cloak and the albino's top half to fall to the floor. This only caused Kaito's top half to burst out laughing, looking directly in the eyes of Sugarboy before his seemingly lifeless legs kicked the man away, followed by him supporting his upper half with only his arms as he rushed at the 4th division captain as a ball began to form behind him.
"Hey Pedophile, get a load of this: Hive Mind Secret Art: Beetle Meteor Spider Variant!" shouting this out, he ball launched out from behind the insect user's top half which soon launched back towards his legs, seamlessly refusing with them shortly after. As this happened, Sugarboy looked on with fear as the dark glinting bodies of the arachnids he was deathly afraid of could be seen crawling over the surface of the spell, before dozens of their eyes turned towards him as it continued hurtling towards him. As he stared on in abject horror the meteor impacted with him, coating him in spiders which caused him to pass out in fear. At that moment the rest of the Earthland mages came running down the hall, and all stopped once seeing the state of Kaito.
"Kaito pull yourself together we need to get going." Dakura deadpanned, acting as if this was a normal occurrence.
"Alright, alright. No need to get cross with me." The Albino placated, vaulting his upper body on top of his still standing legs, connecting the two quickly. "It never gets old seeing the reaction of others to that little trick of mine." Kaito chuckled referring to the other Earthland mages with creeped out expressions. Suddenly a body came flying through the wall a few feet in front of the group. When they all looked at the body it they recognized it as Erza Knightwalker, and from the hole came their Erza, who was had cuts and other small injuries all over her body.
"Erza? Is that you?" Dakura asked gaining the attention of the younger Scarlet.
"Dakura! You're okay!" Erza exclaimed as she ran to Dakura and hugged him. "She told me that they drained you of your magic power, and that you would most likely die from it." Erza said while still in the embrace of her older brother.
"Well Kaito stopped it before it could get to that point, and like they could kill me when I promised you I wouldn't leave you again." Dakura stated as he let go of his little sister, and they both shared a smile before Erza suddenly gaining a horrified expression.
"They plan to use the Dragon Slayer Magic to make the lacrima with everyone in it collide with the Exceed island of Extalia to give them everlasting magic." Erza explained. Everyone, but Kaito, gained surprised looks.
"How do you know?" Wendy asked.
"The other me got cocky and ranted off their plans." Erza explained.
"Well then I guess we have to stop them from unleashing the Dragon Slayer magic then." Gray stated with a smirk.
"Well then I guess now is a good time." Kaito said with a chuckle.
"What do you mean?" Dakura inquired of his friend.
"I kind of already stopped that from happening. Remember that key the Pedophile ran off with? Well that was to activate the Dragon Chain Cannon, which was going to achieve what Erza explained." Kaito revealed with a smirk.
"Well that makes our jobs easier, now we just have to free everyone, take down the King, and find a way home." Dakura stated with a wide grin, showing off his fangs.
Rage: Well this was full of nightmare fuel.
Blueghast: Heh. Sorry. I tend to go a bit overboard when thinking up this kind of stuff.
Rage: Meh don't blame yah.
Colys: Glad I finally re-emerged from wherever I was for a few months.
Blueghast: Hey, stuff like that is hard to write, okay? It needs time to actually achieve the quality I bring.
Rage: Also I got to HAND it to yah, that was a good chapter.
Blueghast: One might say it got a bit EXPLOSIVE at some points.
Nuada: OK WE GET IT I LOST MY HAND IN AN EXPLOSION!
Blueghast: Whoa man, spoilers. We were just cracking small jokes. No harm done.
Rage: Meh don't worry you will be gaining a lot more in the future to compensate.
Drake K & Drake J: *Stares at Rage expectantly*
Rage: Ah calm down you'll get your chapters within the next month. Things are going on.
Blueghast: As always, read, rate, review, and favorite.
All: SHAAAAAAUN!
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