Sylveon=Nymphia
Pokedex=Pokemon Zukan
Chapter 3: First Job and Explanation
Inside Lucy's apartment
"Yo!" Natsu greets at Lucy as Happy who has a fish in his mouth, waving their hands at her. Unfortunately for the two, Lucy had just exited out of her new apartment bathtub as she had a towel wrapped around her body and immediately seeing both of them shocks and freaks Lucy out.
"MY ROOM!" Lucy yells in shock and Lucy kicks Natsu in the face and Happy is slam between the wall and Natsu. "WHY THE HECK ARE YOU TWO HERE?!"
"'Cause we heard from Mira that you'd picked out a place…" Natsu says as he holds the side of his bruised face.
"Aye…" Happy adds.
"You heard, so you barged in?" Lucy says in anger as her vein pops out of her head and points at Natsu and Happy who begin to sweat in terror of receiving another kick from her. "No matter how close friends we are, don't you understand the concept of common courtesy? You just committed breaking and entering! That's a crime, you know!"
"Hey, that hurts, man." Natsu says.
"I'm the one who's suffering here…" Lucy says to herself.
"Nice room!" Happy says as he scratches his claws against the wall.
"Don't sharpen your claws, you cat creature!" Lucy yells out in horror.
"Oh, what's this?" Natsu says as he is over at a desk and picks up a stack of paper that intrigues them.
"! Don't look!" Lucy shouts as she back kicks away Natsu who are sent flying back in the air.
"Now I'm curious. What is that?" Natsu asks as he sits back up with a bump on his head as Lucy holds the stack of paper and shaking in embarrassment.
"Haven't you done enough? Go home already!" Lucy pleads as tears streams down her face.
"No way! I came to hang out!" Natsu says
"I can't believe this guy…" She says as tears continue to come down her face.
Then they hear someone knocking on the door and Lucy opens it. Once they door opens, they see Sakura standing front of the threshold.
"Sakura!" Lucy calls.
"Good morning, Lucy." Sakura greets. "Can I come in?"
"You can!" Lucy says and Sakura enters her apartment and she sees Natsu and Happy.
"Why is Natsu and Happy are in here?"
"They barged in here." She answers.
~Later~
After Lucy put some clothes on and calms down, Lucy, Natsu, Happy, and Sakura sit down at a table.
"I just moved in, so I don't have anything to entertain you. Go home after you finish your tea, okay?" Lucy says at Natsu and Happy.
"She sure is cold-hearted…" Natsu says in disappointment as he looks down with his eyes closed while Happy stands on the table.
"Aye…" Happy adds.
"Cold-hearted, you say?" Lucy says
"You're the one who barged in here in the first place." Sakura say.
Just then, Natsu shoots back up as he remembers something. "Oh yeah! Show me all those key guys you have, Lucy."
"They're not 'key guys' they're Celestial Spirits." Lucy says in annoyed.
"How many Celestial Sprits do you have contracts with, Lucy?" Happy asks.
"Six! Three silver and three gold!" Lucy shows her key ring which holds three silver and gold keys and places the keys individually on the table. "These silver keys are the ones that are sold in stores. 'The Clock.' Horologium. 'The Southern Cross,' Crux. 'The Harp,' Lyra. Then the gold ones are super-rare keys that open the twelve Gates of the Zodiac. 'The Golden Bull,' Taurus. 'The Water Bearer,' Aquarius. 'The Giant Crab,' Cancer!"
"A CRAB!?" Natsu yells out in joy as he and Happy jump up with saliva drooling from their mouths.
"A CRAB!" Happy yells out in joy as well.
"There they go again zoning in on the weirdest parts…" Lucy mutters herself. "Now that I think about it, I still haven't made the contract with the key I bought at Hargeon. Since you're here and all, I'll show the process a Celestial wizard goes through to make a contract with a Celestial Spirit."
Lucy stands up, snapping Natsu and Happy out of their trance while gaining the interests of them.
"I wonder if she has to sign a blood pact?" Happy whispers to Natsu.
"Sounds painful… for your butt." Natsu whispers back.
"Why are you talking about my butt? And you know I can hear you." Lucy says in annoyance and gets her new key. "Whatever, just watch. I am the link to the path to the world of Celestial Spirits! Now! O Spirit, answer my call and pass through the Gate! Gate of Canis Minor, I open thee! Nicolas!"
Streams of yellow lights shoots out from the key and fly towards the ground as they all form up together as then what appears to be a small about Happy's size snowman-looking like creature appear really twitchy. Natsu and Happy appear to be shocked with their mouths and eyes widened.
"There's always next time." Both of them say.
"I didn't screw up!" Lucy yells at the two and Sakura looks at the spirit.
"This guy is pretty cute." She says
"You think so too." Lucy says as she hugs the little spirit while Natsu and Happy stare blankly at the two.
"I-it is?" Natsu says.
"It doesn't take much magic power to open Nicolas' gate, so they're popular to keep as Spirit pets!"
"Natsu, this is clearly a case of human pride." Happy whispers again at Natsu.
"Luigi is definitely a scary one…" Natsu whispers back.
"It's Lucy! And I can hear you…" Lucy says in anger. "Okay, let's move on to the contract" She kneels at the spirit with a pencil and notepad in her hand.
"Pue, pue." The spirit says.
"How's Monday?" She asks and the spirit shakes her head as Lucy marks it down. "Tuesday?" The spirit nods and Lucy marks it down. "Wednesday?"
Natsu and Happy are at the table as Natsu drinks his tea and Happy eats his fish.
"Kind of basic, huh?" Natsu says.
"Aye." Happy agrees.
"Okay, contract complete." Lucy says happily as then the spirit jumps happily into the air.
"Looks pretty simple." Happy says.
"Yeah!" Natsu agrees.
"It seems that way, sure, but it's crucial. Celestial wizards work by contract. In other words, promises are everything to us. Therefore, there's no way I'll break a promise! See?" Lucy explains.
"Ohhhh…" Natsu says.
"Oh yeah. I have to decide on a name."
Sakura widens her eyes after that sentence, remembering how she decided to pick a name for her Pokémon.
"Wasn't it named Nicolas?" Happy reminds her.
"That's the name for the variety. That's it! Come here, Plue!"
"Plue?" Natsu and Happy say.
"Doesn't the name sound cute? Right Plue?" Lucy says as she cuddles Plue in her arms.
"You sure he likes it?" Natsu asks.
"Of course he does." Sakura says. "There's no way that Plue wouldn't like his name."
"Oh yeah, Sakura." Happy calls. "What's that moth you brought out when we were on Mt. Hakobe?"
"You mean Recca?"
"That's it! What is that anyway?" Natsu asks.
"Recca is one of my pokemon. I have five more on me."
"Then can you show us to them?" He asks and Sakura gives a thought and looks at Lucy before she smiles.
"Okay. With this much space, I can bring out two of them." She says and takes out two poke balls. "Come out, Aiko! Latias!" The two poke balls pop open and Nymphia, Aiko and Latias come out. "Let me introduce you, they are Aiko, my Nymphia and Latias."
Lucy recognizes Latias back at Hargeon and Latias remembers Lucy and she flies over her and rubs her head at Lucy.
"You're from that time in Hargeon, aren't you?" Lucy asks and Latias nods her head.
"Looks like Latias is really fond of you, Lucy." Sakura says as Aiko wraps her feeler around her arm.
"Hey can you tell me what Latias is?" Lucy asks.
"Better yet. I'll let this guy explain." Sakura takes out her pokemon Zukan and points at Latias.
"Latias, the Eon Pokémon. It communicates using telepathy and its body covers in down that refracts light to make it invisible." The Zukan says.
"Then what about Aiko?" Happy asks and Sakura points at Aiko.
"Nypmia, the intertwining Pokemon. It wraps its ribbon-like feelers around the arm of its beloved trainer and walks with him or her."
"He-h. Then Aiko is really attached to you with her feeler around your arm."
"Phia!" Aiko says understanding what Happy said.
"You can say that again." Sakura admits.
Then Plue jumps out of Lucy's arms and begins hopping around on the ground.
"II wonder what it's trying to say?" Lucy says.
"Plue, right on, man!" Natsu says in an outburst as then Plue gives off a toothy grin and thumbs up.
"They communicated!" Lucy exclaims in shock and Natsu stares intensely at Lucy creeping out a bit. "W-what?"
"Okay, I've decided! All of us join and let's form a team!" Natsu says to Lucy and Sakura.
"I see!" Happy yells in joy as he jumps into the air.
"A team?" Lucy and Sakura say confusingly.
"Aye! Everyone in the guild are allies, but the people who really get along well join together to form teams. A request that might be difficult for one person can be handled easily by a team, see!" Happy explains.
"That's great! Sounds like fun!" Lucy says excitingly.
"A team… That's sounds interesting." Sakura says with a grin.
"Okay, we're all set then!" Natsu exclaims.
"Signed and sealed!" Lucy exclaims.
"Let's do our best!" Sakura adds.
"Aye sir!" Happy yells in joy as he and Plue jump into the air.
"Let's hurry up and do a job!" Natsu shouts as he pulls out a request paper.
"My, how hasty you are… Let me take a look." Lucy says as she wipes the paper from Natsu's hand. When Natsu looks away, he suddenly has an evil grin on his face which Sakura saw and send chills down her spine wondering why he's grinning like that. "Shirotsume town, huh? No way! 200,000 jewel just for taking a single book from the mansion of this Duke Everblue person?"
"See, isn't it a steal?" Natsu says as Lucy looks over the request more and something about the Duke.
"Caution: He's a dirty old pervert and currently recruiting blonde-haired maids."
"And Lucy's a blonde, isn't she?" Natsu says sarcastically as he and Happy smile as Lucy stares at the two with widened eyes, jaw dropped in complete shock.
"Let's get her to infiltrate the mansion dressed as a maid." Happy says.
"You planned this from the beginning!" Lucy cries out as tears shoot out from her eyes and Natsu and Happy jump up happily.
"You can't do that, Natsu!" Sakura exclaims.
"You tricked me, huh?!" Lucy yells out in anger at Natsu.
"Okay, it's practice time. Try to call Happy 'Master.'" Natsu calmly replies.
"No way! Not to a cat!" Lucy cries out.
~Later~
On the road to Shirotsume town
Before they go to Shirotsume town, Sakura returns Latias into her poke ball. Now Natsu, Lucy, Sakura, Happy, and Aiko ride in a carriage being pulled by a purple boar-like creature.
"Are you having a comfortable ride, Master?" Lucy says with an evil sarcastic tone.
"I-it's a maid in hell…"Natsu says sickly as once again he experiences motion sickness.
"This wouldn't happen if you didn't trick Lucy in the first place." Sakura says.
"Phia." Aiko nods her head.
"By the way, Natsu…" Lucy calls getting Natsu's attention.
"Why did you want to form a team with me and Sakura?" She asks.
"'Cause you two are pretty sweet, you know?" Natsu replies, catching Lucy off guard.
"I think he's trying to say he recognizes my skills…" Lucy thought.
"But you're also pretty weird…" Natsu says in disgust at Lucy, catching her off guard again and shocking her as she becomes annoyed.
"This guy just called me weird?" Lucy thought again.
"Anyway, this is my and Sakura's first job, okay? I'm going finish this up quickly!" Lucy says.
"Wait, didn't you dislike it?" Happy asks.
"I'm up against a dirty old man! I might not look at it, but I'm just a little bit confident in my sex appeal." Lucy says as she puts her hand to her cheek as she thinks about how sexy she can be.
"As a cat, I really can't tell." Happy says shocking Lucy.
"Let's get this straight! Since you aren't gonna be involved, the reward split is 4 to 4 to 1 to 1!"
"Are you sure about just getting the 1 part, Lucy?"
"I'm the 4!"
~Later~
In Shirotsume town
After a long time of the road, the group finally arrives at the town where their job is taking place and they are currently on their way to meet with the client aka the person who posted the request on the board.
"I'm never riding a carriage again." Natsu says still feeling the effect of his motion sickness.
"You say that every time." Happy points out.
"Anyway, let's get something to eat."
"I would bring out Recca, but that will catch attention to the town." Sakura says.
"How about you eat your own fire?" Lucy suggests.
"You really are cold-hearted, you know. Would you eat Plue or that cow of yours?" Natsu questions.
"Of course not!" Lucy replies in shock of what Natsu said.
"Well, it's the same as that."
"So you're saying you can't eat your own fire then?" Sakura asks.
"Nope." Natsu replies bluntly.
"Let's go in here!" Natsu points at a restaurant as he looks happy and no longer sick to his stomach.
"You guys go on ahead." Lucy says as she begins walking away from the group, confusing them to what she could be doing.
"What's with her? It'd be fun to all eat together." Natsu says.
"Aye." Happy agrees.
Inside the restaurant
After getting a table and ordered food, Natsu chows down on the greasy food that he ordered and Happy eats sushi. Sakura eats normally to her food as Aiko starts to eat pokemon foods that Sakura provided for her.
"Let's bring to fatty parts to Lucy!" Natsu says with his mouth full.
"She looks like she likes the fatty parts." Happy says.
"Don't give her that! She doesn't need all the fat parts." Sakura points out.
"Also, since when did you decide I like fatty foods?" Lucy question Natsu and Happy.
"Lu… cy?" Natsu trails off as he, Sakura, and Aiko look at her now wearing a maid's outfit poses with a finger on her chin as she lets out a small giggle.
"It's true. I look good in anything, don't I?" Lucy asks them and both Natsu and Happy hang their mouths wide in complete shock seeing Lucy.
"Have you finished with your meal, Master?" Lucy asks in a way that she wants attention as she twists around in her spot with her hands over her mouth.
"What are we going to do? We were just joking, but she's really gone and done it!" Happy whispers to Natsu.
"Can't tell her it was just a joke now, can we? M-maybe we could just go for it like this?" Natsu replies.
"I can hear you!" Lucy says in anger.
"N-now, now, let's not get into a fight." Sakura says. "Let's go to the client once we finish eating."
~Later~
At the Client's Mansion
"I am the client, Kaby Melon." Kaby Melon says to them. He an old man wearing a black suit with white under-collared shirt and red tie with gray hair and sporting a toothbrush moustache. Behind him, is his wife who sports a pink dress and has brown hair.
"Melon?!" Happy says as he drools from his mouth.
"You have one tasty name!" Natsu says, also drooling with wide eyes.
"Hey, that's rude of you!" Lucy whispers to the two as Natsu, Happy, Lucy, and Sakura are sitting on the couch as Aiko sits on the floor beside Sakura and Kaby laughs a bit.
"I get that all the time." He says.
"Well then, let me tell you about this job." Kaby says as the mages and the pokemon trainer listens in. "My request is to destroy a book in the possession of Duke Everblue, Daybreak. Or burning it is fine, too."
"Burning it? Then why don't I just burn down the whole mansion?" Natsu suggests as a small fire appears on top of his hand index finger from being piqued by the request.
"Piece of cake!" Happy agrees.
"You can't! You'll get thrown in jail for sure!" Lucy says the two and Sakura decides to speak up.
"I'd like to know the reason…" Both Lucy and Sakura say together, catching each other off guard as they look at each other.
"Who cares? It's 200,000!" Natsu says.
"No, it's 2,000,000 jewel." Kaby says shocking Natsu and the others.
"2,000,000?!" Everyone yells except Sakura who remains calm and begins to question by the increase of the reward again for a book.
"2,000,000 jewel? This is getting strange. If this were a reward after a battle, then that amount can't be possible." Sakura thought.
"Oh, you weren't aware?" Kaby says.
"2,000,000 divided by four is… Whoa, I can't even do the math!" Natsu tells out as his head explodes from a huge amount.
"It's simple! I get 1,000,000, Natsu gets 1,000,000 and Lucy and Sakura get the rest!" Happy tells out as his eyes look dizzy.
"Good thinking, Happy!" Natsu says.
"Aye!" Happy agrees.
"THERE'S NONE LEFT FOR US!" Lucy yells in anger at Natsu and Happy.
"But still, 2,000,000 jewel for a book? Isn't it strange that huge amount for a book?" Sakura asks.
Then Kaby tightens his hands together as if something was angered him, or troubling him. "I want to destroy that book no matter what. I cannot allow that book to exist."
Just then, Natsu's head lights up on fire scaring Lucy a bit.
"Okay, I'm all pumped up! Let's go Lucy!" Natsu yells as he grabs a hold of Lucy's arm and in a gust of speed runs off with Happy flying with them. Sakura calmly stands up as Aiko follows her and begins to walk towards the door just stops a few inches from it.
"Melon-san, I've seen people lied to other people in order to hide something." Sakura says and she moves her head at Kaby. "Tell me, what's so dangerous about this book that needs to be destroyed?"
"Daybreak… It is a book that must be erased from this world." Kaby says, not answering Sakura's question. Sakura continues to look at him as his wife puts her hand on his shoulder to reassure him. Seeing this, Sakura and Aiko exit the room and Sakura closes the door behind her before she gets out a poke ball from her pocket.
"Come out, Takeru!" Sakura calls out as the poke ball pops open and Lucario, Takeru comes out of the ball before he looks at his trainer. "Did you hear our conversation?"
Takeru nods his head as Sakura leans on the door. "Can you figure out his emotions through his aura?"
Takeru closes his eyes as his appendages rise as he read Kaby's aura. Once Takeru's appendages falls down, he opens his eyes and he softly growl, communicating Sakura. Sakura then sighs as she knows what Takeru said.
"'He's too afraid of the book.' Huh? I thought it was unnatural that the client raised the reward, but being afraid of a book is another story."
"Phia." Aiko calls Sakura and Sakura looks down as Aiko uses her feeler to point at the direction that Natsu ran.
"You're right." Sakura says and looks at Takeru. "I'm going to call you again when I need you okay, Takeru?"
Takeru nods his head and he returns to his poke ball. After putting the poke ball away, Sakura starts to run after Natsu, Lucy, and Happy.
At Everblue Residence
As Natsu, Happy, Sakura, and Aiko are hiding behind the trees in sight of Lucy who is at the entrance to Duke Everblue mansion.
"Hello!? I've come because I heard you were recruiting maids! Is anyone home?!" Lucy calls out.
"Good luck." Natsu whispers out to her.
"You can do it!" Happy also whispers.
Then a rumbling sound catches everyone's attention as Natsu, Happy, Sakura, and Aiko notice the ground behind Lucy begins to crack and breaks upward which Lucy also takes notice of as she turns around. The ground shoots upwards as then a very large figure is seen flying out, the large figure then lands back on the ground to reveal a rather large and grotesque maid with pink hair as Lucy yelps out in shock and surprise.
"A maid recruit?" The maid says in a deep voice.
"Y-yes!" Lucy quickly replies.
"It seems you came because of the advertisement of our placed for maids." She says and the ground next to her shoots out upward as well as a large grotesque man in a suit is seen flying out of it as he lands back on the ground in front of Lucy.
"Boyoyoyo! Did you call for me?" Duke Everblue says. He is a short, plump, ugly man with skinny arms and legs sporting a curled mustache which directly protrudes from his nostrils, a bushel of wavy hair atop his round head a formal black suit with his jacket fastened with a large, gold button and adorned with a decorative red flower beneath his jacket is a white collared shirt and a blue neck tie.
"There he is!" Lucy says to herself in shock and fear, but quickly gets back to acting cute for the Duke.
"Let's see here." Everblue says as he looks at Lucy.
"Thanks for having me!" Lucy says as stars sparkle around her.
Everblue continues to stare at Lucy and while she doesn't look like it on the outside, in the inside she is really frightened and grossed out.
"Is Lucy going to be okay?" Sakura asks as she whispers and then the Duke turns away from Lucy.
"No thanks. Go home, ugly." Everblue says without remorse.
Hearing this catches Lucy off guard and literally stabs her out of nowhere as she is then picked up by the big maid.
"Go on home, ugly." The maid says stabbing Lucy again with that word.
"Understand? For a person as magnificent as myself…" Four more, really grotesque and ugly maids appear from out of the ground behind Lucy. "…only beautiful girls will do!"
Seeing the ugly maids, Lucy becomes quite shock. Later, recovering from her horrified sight of the maids Lucy is now depressed state and sits against a tree while Natsu, Happy, Sakura, and Aiko are looking at her.
"So much for sex appeal." Natsu says actually thinking it's Lucy's fault.
"That's not the problem! That Everblue guy just has a really whacked out sense of beauty!" Lucy exclaims at Natsu as tears stream down her face.
"Excuses." Happy says causing Lucy to start crying even more as her tears shoot outward onto the ground.
"It's so frustrating!" Lucy cries as Sakura looks for something to cheer her up and she looks at the leaves on the trees and has an idea. Sakura walks towards a tree before reach one of the leaves on the tree. When she grabs a leaf, Sakura picks it off the branch and begins to do a leaf whistle after she closes her eyes.
(Insert song: Oracion-leaf whistle version)
Natsu and Happy look at Sakura as Lucy stops crying and also looks at her. Also, Aiko closes her eyes and listens to the melody. After Sakura plays the last note, she opens her eyes and Natsu, Happy, and Lucy applauds at Sakura performance.
"That was really good, Sakura!" Happy complements.
"Thanks." Sakura says and looks at Lucy. "Are you feeling better now, Lucy?"
"Yeah! Thanks to you I'm all better!" Lucy says and Natsu slams his fist into his palm.
"Okay! Since we're all set up, we'll have to go with Plan T!" Natsu exclaims.
"Yeah! I'll never forgive that old fart!" Lucy says in determination and anger. "Wait, what is Plan T?"
"T is for 'Take-them head on!'" Happy explains.
"How exactly a plan?!"
Atop Everblue's Estate
Before Happy carries Natsu and Lucy and Latias carries Sakura to the rooftop, Sakura brings back Aiko to her poke ball. Once they are on the rooftop, Natsu places his right hand on a window and then within a few seconds melts right through it allowing his to reach in and unlock and open the windows. Also, after Latias did her job, Sakura brings her back into her poke ball.
"Sheesh… What part of 'head-on' don't you get? We should have just busted through the front gate!" Natsu complains at Lucy as he looks at her disappointed by not doing a full on attack.
"No way! If we're careless, the army will show up!" Lucy says to Natsu.
"What's with you? Didn't you say you'd never forgive that guy?" He asks.
"Indeed, he'll get what's coming to him. Not only am I gonna burn that book, I'm gonna hide his shoes or something!" Lucy says with determination in her eyes which then turns evil red.
"Whoa, how petty." Natsu says feeling sorry for Lucy for thinking that's something big.
"Aye…" Happy agrees.
They enter through the opened window to find themselves in what appears to be estate storeroom.
"This seems to me a storeroom." Lucy says.
Suddenly, Happy pops out of nowhere wearing a skull head over his head, scaring Lucy half to death as she slumps against one of the cabinets as Natsu kneels down and le looks at Happy who calls for their attention as Sakura goes over to Lucy and rubs on her back.
"Look, look!" Happy calls.
"Lookin' good, Happy." Natsu complements as Happy begins to jump up and down in joy.
Exiting from the storeroom everyone begins opening one door after another trying to locate either a book or the library of the estate as all they come across. They also continue to sneak around quietly as they hug the wall with their backs coming into the main entrance hall of the mansion which contains a golden statue of the Duke with his tongue out.
"Wait, you plan on searching through each room?" Natsu asks.
"Of course." Lucy says.
"Wouldn't be faster to grab someone and ask them where the book is?"
"Aye!" Happy agrees.
"Still, shouldn't we see some of the staffs here?" Sakura asks.
"We're infiltrating without anyone finding out. Like a ninja and that stuff, isn't that cool?" Lucy says which catches Natsu and Happy's attention.
"Ninja…" Natsu says in a daydream.
"I think he's got some weird mental image again…" Lucy says in disbelief.
Sakura then hears something break and the floor explodes upwards as four of the maids armed with metal staffs bursts through the floor.
"The intruders have been located!" The four maids say.
"Eliminate them!" The final maid says as she also appears as well.
"They're here!" Lucy yells and Sakura jumps up to the four maid and begins to knock them out before she lands on the ground.
"Natsu, I'm leaving the big one for you!" Sakura says.
"Flying Virgo Attack!" The maid yells out as she flies up in the air as she then tilts forward bring her entire body on top of Natsu.
"NATSU!" The three yell out in shock.
"Hey, take that off already." Lucy whispers to Happy.
Then the maid now identified as Virgo begins to get lift off the cracked and crushed floor as Natsu is seen underneath her lifting her up by her belly before tossing her high into the air and then coating his legs in flame and jumps up delivering a kick to Virgo as he wears his scarf around his face like a ninja.
"Ninja!" Natsu yells out as he sends Virgo flying and crashing to the ground floor. "We can't have them discover us-de gozaru!" He says now acting like a ninja as Happy also acts like one with a weird face as he stands on Natsu's shoulder. "Nin-nin!"
"Nin-nin!" Happy repeats.
"I'm sure that we've already been discovered." Sakura says.
Arriving on the ground floor, they open two large doors up and find themselves in the library.
"It's a mountain of books-de gozaru!" Natsu says.
"Aye-de gozaru!" Happy says.
"This is going to take a while to find that book." Sakura says.
"That old man's actually quite a reader, I guess." Lucy says in shock.
"Let's search!" Natsu proclaims looking happy about it.
"Aye sir!" Happy agrees.
"They split up to search for the book, but no one could find it yet.
"We have to find one book in all of these?" Lucy questions as Natsu and Happy are fooling around as they find a book that they got interested.
"I found the golden book!" Natsu announces proudly as he held above him a golden book.
"Hey! Search seriously!" Lucy scolds and then Lucy gasps in surprise upon seeing the title of the book that Natsu has in his hand. "Daybreak?"
"Like dawn?" Happy asks then it dawns on Happy and Natsu as well a gasp in shock. "We found it!"
"Seriously?" Natsu says.
"You picked up a book without even looking at the title?!" Sakura questions.
"What an easy 2,000,000!" Lucy says in joy.
"Let's burn it!" Natsu says as he ignites his fist prepared to destroy the book.
"Pretty simple, wasn't it?" Happy says.
"Wait a sec!" Lucy yells as she grabs the book from Natsu's grasp. "Isn't this book written by Kemu Zaleon!"
"Kemu?" Natsu says.
"He's a wizard who was also a novelist! I'm a huge fan! I thought I'd read every book he wrote, but maybe this is an unpublished work?" Lucy says as she fan girl over the book.
"Whatever, let's hurry and burn it." Natsu says with a fire on his finger.
"What are you talking about? This is important cultural heritage! Burning it is out of the question!" Lucy says to Natsu, trying to protect the book.
"You're abandoning the job." Happy says.
"Didn't I say I was a huge fan!?" Lucy yells out at the cat in annoyance.
"Let's just burn 'em both."
"How about we tell him that we burned it, and I keep it…" Lucy pleads.
"I don't like lying." Natsu says.
"Aye." Happy agrees.
"I see, I see." Everblue voice catches the four of their attention. Then the floor in front of the doorway explodes upward as Duke Everblue appears. "So you intruders are after Daybreak, are you?"
"See, this is what you get for hesitating." Natsu says to Lucy as he points at Everblue.
"S-sorry." Lucy apologizes.
"What have you done to your mansion's floor?" Happy ponders.
"I thought that you wizards were all coming to search for something, and it turns out it was that stupid book!"
"Stupid?" Natsu repeats.
"So wait, it's okay if I take it?" Lucy asks with a smile on her face.
"No! What's mine is mine!" Everblue shouts out in a temper tantrum.
"Miser." Lucy says.
"Shut up, ugly." Everblue says as he picks his nose with the word again stabbing Lucy.
"Then how about we burn it?" Natsu questions as he lights a flame on the palm of his hand.
"No! I won't let you!" Lucy wines.
"Lucy, this is our job!" Natsu says as he gets angry.
"At least let me read it!" Lucy says as she falls on her knees on the ground and opens the book shocking everyone in the room except Sakura.
"Right here?!" Everyone yells at the same time except Sakura.
"Enough nonsense! Do you know who I am? Get your filthy hands off my book! Vanish Brothers!" Everyblue yells out and a secret bookshelf passageway opens up revealing two men.
One of them is a massive and mildly tan man. His head is mostly shaved, with noticeably long, dark red hair being present only the back of it, where it is tied into a braid reaching down below the man's back with a light ribbon circling the end. He has slanted dark eyes, sharp facial features with prominent cheekbones, a dark-colored upper lip, with his mouth usually retaining a slight grimace, giving him a perennially serious look, and four distinctive tattoos of kanji adorning his face. He wears a light tunic with a high collar, possessing dark stripes on the loose cuffs and flanking the fastening crossing the chest vertically, a pair of traditional, dark Chinese shoes paired with light socks. The other man, being notably tall and massive as he stands at almost twice the height of the other man. He possesses long limbs, especially if compared with his massive torso with long, dark and curly hair, which is arranged in a distinctive hairstyle, with four large, straight tufts jutting upward on top of his head, getting smaller near their outer edges. His face is squared, with a very prominent, mildly rounded and hooked nose, and his dark eyes are topped by a light bandana covering in spiraling dark motifs, obscuring his forehead and keeping his hair back, and sporting western look, consists of a dark sweatshirt, with slightly puffy sleeves reaching below his elbow, adorned by light, wavy markings on the shoulder and the sleeve areas and bears three light, diagonal stripes on each side of the torso, simply light pants and light trainers.
"Good afternoon." The one with a light tunic greets.
"Even mother would be surprised to see these brats are Fairy Tail wizards." The tall one says.
"Who are they?" Sakura asks.
"That mark! They're from the mercenary guild, the 'South Wolves'!" Happy exclaims in shock upon seeing their guild's marks on their armband.
"So you hired these guys?" Natsu says as he cracks his knuckles.
"This…" Lucy says as she continues to read the book but notices something in the book.
"Wolves are always hungry, yes? Prepare yourselves." Everyblue says as the two Vanish Brothers stand behind him.
"Natsu, Sakura, buy me some time. I think there's some secret to this book." Lucy says.
"Okay." Sakura says as she gets Takeru's poke ball and throws it in the air. "Now it's your turn, Takeru!"
The poke ball pops open and Takeru lands on the floor as he glares at Everblue and the Vanish Brothers. Natsu, Happy, and Lucy are taken aback by Takeru's sudden appearance.
"Lucy, go somewhere else for safety." Sakura says not looking at Lucy.
"Got it!" Lucy complies as she runs to a nearby doorway and runs through it.
"I'm going after the girl! Deal with these brats and that creature!" Everblue orders as he slowly begins descending into the ground.
"Yes sir." The Vanish Brothers say.
"Happy, take care of Lucy." Natsu says to Happy.
"I'll back you up!" Happy says.
"No need. Besides Sakura is here to back me up." Natsu says as he stretches his arm.
"But just in case…" Sakura takes out Latias Poke ball. "Come out, Latias!" The poke ball pops open and Latias is in the air looking at Sakura. "Latias, go with Happy to where Lucy is!"
"Come on, this way!" Happy says as he flies over the Vanish Brothers as Latias follows him.
"Hey! I'm telling mother on you!" The tall Vanish Bother exclaims.
"Calm yourself. Cool down." The other Vanish Brother says. "Come on, fire wizard and tamer."
"Huh? How'd you know I'm a fire wizard?" Natsu asks.
"Fire was wrapping your legs when you defeated Virgo. There's no mistaking it; you are an ability-type fire wizard."
"I'm guessing I'm the tamer?" Sakura says. "Well in your opinion I am, but I'm more just that."
"So, I guess you're all prepared for this, huh?" Natsu says as he explodes in flames which all travel to his fists. "Cause I'm about to burn you to a crisp!" He shoots forward and throws his fist forward. However, the older Vanish Brother pulls out a gigantic sized frying pan and turning around placing behind him as Natsu's flames-coated punch impacts into it, but to no effect.
"Sorry to say this, but we are especially skilled against fire wizards." The Older Vanish Brother says as he then twist kicks Natsu back.
The tall Vanish Brother meanwhile crouches down and then pounces upwards before twisting around in the air and coming down with a swinging kick towards Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru who all dodge the attack as it impacts in the ground. Just them the older Vanish Brother appears and swings his frying pan at Natsu sending him flying out the door as he safely hands on the tongue of the Everblue's statue.
"Natsu!" Sakura yells out as she and Takeru look toward the door before they turn around and see the Vanish Brothers charges at the two and attack them, sending them flying out of the room as Takeru helps Sakura landing alongside Natsu on the tongue.
"You guys all right?" Natsu asks.
"No problem." Sakura says and Takeru nods his head.
"You wizards might be from Fairy Tail, but in the end you're still mages! You're no match for professional fighters like us mercenaries." The Younger Vanish Brother boasts.
"Hmph. Takeru and I have been battled tough times before." Sakura says.
"So that's all you got?" Natsu taunts.
"Brother, they're talking trash to us!" The Younger Brother complains in anger.
"Do you know what a wizard's weakness is?" The Older Brother asks Natsu.
"You mean transportation!" Natsu says in shock and fear as he eyes widen causing the Sakura face palms on her face, dumbfounded by Natsu's reply.
"I think that might just be a personal issue you have…" The Older Brother says.
"He's totally talking trash about us!" The Younger Brother says. "Their weakness is their body!" The Older Brother crouches down and then with incredible speed jumps upward towards Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru bringing his giant pan down on them as they quickly jump off the tongue which is hit and breaks off the statue. "To train oneself in magic takes discipline of mental focus!"
"Watch out!" Sakura yells as she and Takeru barely dodge the Younger Brother as a quick dart towards them, slams his fist into the wall.
"And as a result you end up lacking the training of your body." He says.
Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru land back on the ground as does the Older Brother across from them. "In other words, against people like us who train out bodies daily…"
"You can't match our strength and speed." The Younger Brother finishes.
"Whoa, so scary. So, when are you going to get serious?" Natsu taunts.
The Older Brother is taken back by Natsu's taunt.
"Brother, do the combination attack!" The Younger Brother suggests.
"Okay!" The Older Brother replies.
The Older Brother then holds out his frying pan as then his brother jumps on it and holds his arms outward. "Finishing Move: Destruction of Heaven and Earth!"
"Get ready, Takeru." Sakura says and Takeru is getting into his fighting stance.
"Bring it!" Natsu challenges.
Meanwhile
In the sewer system of the Estate
Lucy with her wide-reader glasses; a magic item which allows the wearer to read things quickly scans through the pages of the Daybreak book trying to find out what secret this book is really holding.
"I can't believe this book contains such secret." Lucy says to herself.
Suddenly, the metal wall behind her bursts outward as then Duke Everblue halfway emerged from it and grabs the wrists of Lucy's arms.
"What did you find? Tell me the secret to the book!" Everblue demands as Lucy cringes in pain from the Duke holding her wrists with much strength.
"You're the lowest of the low! You're an enemy of literature!" Lucy exclaims.
With Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru
The Older Brother swings his pan upwards as his younger brother goes flying upward at incredible speed catching Natsu and the others off guard.
"Face toward the heaven and…earth is where we be!" The older brother then hits with his pan at full force sending him flying as he crashes into the wall.
"NATSU!" Sakura yells.
"Face the earth and…heaven is where we be!" The younger brother yells as he slams his foot down on Takeru who yells out in pain.
"TAKERU!" Sakura yells and she holds him in her arms.
The two brothers then form back up as the older brother stands in front of his younger brother.
"This is the Vanish Brothers' combination attack. Finishing Move: Destruction of Heaven and Earth." The Older Brother says.
"There is no one that can survive this—" The Younger Brother stops seeing Natsu stand back up looking like he isn't hurt as much or showing any injury marks as Takeru slowly gets up with Sakura helping him.
"What were you saying about surviving that attack?" Natsu says.
"NO WAY!" The two brothers yell in shock and disbelief as sweat runs down their faces.
"Are you okay, Takeru?" Sakura asks and he nods his head as he stops leaning on Sakura. "Then let's do 'that'."
Takeru smirks and nods his head before the both of them looks at the brothers as Sakura reaches for her Key Stone.
"Takeru, Mega Evolve!" Sakura exclaims as she touches her Key Stone as Takeru carries his mega stone on his armband starts to glow and streams comes out of both stones and the two different streams connects to each other before Takeru's body starts to shine and change, mega evolving into Mega Lucario. Takeru's body stops shining and everyone in the room see Mega Lucario standing in front of Sakura.
"That's so cool!" Natsu exclaims before he looks at the brothers again. "Then I'll blow you away with this! Fire Dragon's Roar!" He yells as he breathes a stream of fire magic towards the two.
"Here comes the fire magic!" The younger brother says as he and his brother smile gleefully.
"It's over!" The Older Brother says. The fire impacts into the pan but does no damage to it. "Flame Cooking! Suck up all the flames, transform it, and spew it back!"
The fire gets absorb into the pan and he twists it around as the fire is fired from the pan towards Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru who don't even flinch with the fire heading towards them as the fire explodes.
"It's a Fairy barbeque!" The Younger Brother says in joy.
"Goodbye." The Older Brother says.
However the fire is seen being vacuumed in as the two brothers see Natsu breaths in the flames into his stomach as all of the flames disappear into his stomach and he sighs in relief. Seeing this shocks and frightens the Vanish Brothers immensely as they scream in terror.
"I can't believe this!" The Older Brother exclaims.
"Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up!" Natsu says.
"O-Oi brother, let's try the combination attack again." The younger brother suggests.
"Right."
"Finishing Move: Destruction of Heaven and Earth!" The two brothers yell as they attempt their combo attack again.
"Not this time! Takeru, use Aura Sphere both the brothers!" Sakura orders and Takeru puts his hands together and he creates two blue ball of energy before he fires it at the two brothers simultaneously. The older brother is thrown back to the ground from the impact of Takeru's Aura Sphere and the younger brother is knocked him back by the second Aura Sphere to the ground next to his brother as the two struggles to get back up, groaning in pain.
"Natsu! It's your turn!" Sakura yells and Natsu smirks.
"Okay! Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" Natsu yells as he swings his arms forward, sending a whip-like stream of fire towards the Vanish Brothers.
Following next is a massive explosion as the estate explodes outward in a massive boom as smoke immediately rises from its ruin catching the attention of nearby every single person in the nearby town as to what's going on. As the smoke clears, the entire mansion is totally destroyed as rubble litters the ground everywhere. The smoking and burnt up bodies of the Vanish Brothers are seen as nearby Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru, now transforming back to Lucario, standing back up and while Natsu looks at the bodies of the Vanish Brothers.
"Oops, I think I overdid it." Natsu says without a problem and in a calm tone.
"Aren't you too calm about this!" Sakura exclaims at Natsu while she points at him.