I'm back! Did you guys enjoy the stories I made while I was gone? Well, here's the new chapter continuing form the previous chapter. But before that, here are some notes for this chapter.
Seperior=Jalorda
Unfezant=Kenhollow
Chapter 4: Daybreak's True Secret
The brothers lay smoking amongst the rubble as their eyes are white, and their faces showing expression of fear.
"What the heck kind of wizard is he?" The older brother questions as smoke come from his mouth.
"Mommy, I can see fairies…" The younger brother says as smoke comes from his afro hair.
Natsu, Sakura, and Takeru looking at the smoking remains of the two brothers who are clearly dazed out and no longer any trouble.
"What a mess." Natsu says.
"Yeah." Sakura agrees and Takeru nods.
"Guess we should go look for Lucy and your friend, Sakura."
"Yes. I just hope that Latias found Lucy before Everblue does."
"There's one thing I'm wondering right now… who are those guys?" Natsu asks catching Sakura and Takeru in a state of shock as they can't believe Natsu already forgot who they fought.
"We're mercenaries." The two brothers say and Sakura brings out Takeru's poke ball.
"Good work, Takeru." Sakura says and Takeru nods his head before returning into the poke ball.
As Natsu and Sakura begin to walk off to try and locate Lucy, Virgo's eyes light up.
In the sewer system
Everblue still hods Lucy's wrists in his grasps as she grits her teeth in pain from how hard he's holding them.
"An enemy of literature?" Everblue questions. "A sophisticate, cultured individual such as me, myself, and I?"
Anyone who's happy to have a collection of those freakish maids isn't cultured!" Lucy retorts.
"There's nothing to mock of my beautiful blonde maids!" Everblue says as he tightens his grip on her wrists and forces her forward a little so he could see Datbreak closer. "A treasure map? A spot to hide valuable? What kind of secret does this book hold? Tell me! Or I'll snap your arm into two! He threatens.
Despite Lucy's position, she sticks her tongue out at him, meaning she won't tell him a thing. This action catches Everblue off guard as them out of feeling of disrespect from Lucy, he slams her into the ground.
"This girly doesn't get her situation! I got Kemu Zaleon himself to write this book for me! Therefore any secret in that book is mine!"
Just as Lucy thinks her arms are about to be torn, Happy comes in flying and kicking Everblue, sending him flying from his hole and releasing Lucy at the same time.
"Happy!" Lucy calls and Happy gives her a toothy grin. "Nice one! Cool!"
Happy's wings disappear and he spins into a ball before Latias catches him as Lucy sees her.
"Latias!"
"Why, you! What's this cat and that creature?" Everblue questions having recovered from the kick.
"I'm Happy and this is Latias." Happy says and Lucy looks back at Everblue and takes out one of her keys with a shape of its point looking like a crab.
"The tables have turned! If you let me have this book, I'll consider forgiving you. I really want to smack you one, though." Lucy says to Everblue with confidence, but the Duke laughs out of amusement.
"A Celestial Wizard? For a bookworm you sure misuse language! 'The tables have turned' implies that you have the upper hand! But having one extra cat and that creature on your side isn't going to able to defeat my Diver magic!" Everblue laughs out as a yellow magic circle appears on his back and he goes into the ground.
"So that was magic? And that means Everblue is also a wizard? Happy says having both him and Latias rejoin Lucy on dry ground as the sound of a drill can be heard all around them.
Just them they notice the ground below them start rumbling and the three quickly jumps up into the air just as Everblue bursts through. They split apart as Everblue crashes into the ceiling and begins digging through it, almost immediately Everblue crashes through another part of the ceiling towards Lucy who dodges again as he goes back into the ground. Lucy is force on the defense as Everblue begins popping out of the ground and ceiling in almost every direction forcing Lucy to keep hopping around the place to escape his attack.
"It's written in this book! A horrible story with you as the main character, Everblue!" Lucy explains making Everblue stop for a moment as Latias is floating behind Everblue with Happy close to him.
"What's with that? Happy asks.
"It's wonderful that I'm the main character. But that story is crap!" Everblue says as he goes back into the ground and begins jumping all over the place again. "For Kemu Zaleon, of all people, to write such rubbish!" He appeared in the air behind Lucy, catching her off guard. "It's a disgrace!"
Latias uses Psychic to hold Everblue in the air as her eyes glow in blue light. She then throws him away from Lucy and once he land on the ceiling he begins to dig again.
"You forced him to write it! How conceited can you get?" Lucy demands.
"Conceited? I am a great man! It is an honor for someone to labor to write my book!"
"You blackmailed him to write it!" Lucy yells in anger.
"Blackmailed?" Happy says in shock and confusion and Latias is also shock from Lucy's statement.
"What about it? It was his own fault for refusing me in the first place." Everblue says as he appears from the side of the wall behind the three with a smile on his face.
"What do you mean?" Lucy questions.
"I told him to write a book where I was the main character, but that idiot refused!" His voice echoes throughout the sewer and them his hand pops up behind the three again as they look at it. "So I told him; 'Write the book, or I'll revoke the citizenship for your entire family!'"
"If you did that, they wouldn't be able to join the merchant of craftsman guilds! Is the Duke really that powerful?" Happy asks.
"I told you, I'm a great man! And in the end he wrote it!" Everblue exclaims in excitement as he jumps out of the ground again in front of the group. "But I was annoyed by his first refusal, so I made him write it in prison! 'I'm an author' he said! 'A master craftsman!' But I broke that pride and haughty attitude of his!" He then spins up into a ball and launches himself at the three forcing them to retreat to safety as he bounces all over the places.
"How dare you do such things just to satisfy your own desires! You put him in solitary confinement for three years! Do you have any idea what he must have felt?" Lucy questions.
"Three years?" Happy says in shock.
The ground then erupts in front of them forcing Lucy to jump back a few feet as Everblue appears through the dust.
"Perhaps he finally noticed how great I truly am?" Everblue says.
"No! He was fighting that pride of yours!" Lucy exclaims. "If he didn't write it, his family would be in trouble. But he couldn't allow himself, as an author, to write a book you as the main character!"
"How do you know these things, you pest?"
"It's all written in this book!" Lucy says as she shows Daybreak at him.
"Huh? I read that book as well. Kemu Zaleon never appears in it."
"It's true that if you read it normally it's a word that'd make any fan cry! But you should now that Kemu Zaleon was originally a wizard!"
"He couldn't have…" Everblue says as he begins to realize what Lucy is getting at.
"He used up all his remaining strength, and cast a spell on this book."
"So that was his scheme! When the spell ran out, it'd turn into a book defaming me? H-how rude!" Everblue yells in anger and begins to attack at Lucy, but she dodges each attack.
"You have no imagination, have you? It's true that this book contains everything about how it was written! But the words that Kemu Zaleon left in this book were nothing so petty as that! The real secret is something else!" Lucy exclaims as Latias floats next to her.
"What, what?" Happy yells out in wonder.
"The real secret?" Everblue says.
"That's why I'm not going to let you have this book. In fact, you never had a right to it in the first place!" Lucy proclaims as she holds out one of her Celestial Spirit Keys. "Gate of the Giant Crab, I open thee! Cancer!" She yells out as she summons one of her Zodiac Spirits.
A bright light appears in front of Latias and Lucy as then a humanoid crab appears before them; having black hair braided in red cornrows that end in a shape that resembles crab's pincers, wearing a blue striped shirt and dark trousers with two aquamarine stripes each side and two boots, a golden necklace around his neck and sunglasses with green shades, with six crab legs protruding from his back and wielding two scissors.
"Cancer!" Cancer announces.
"It's a crab! Make sure to end all of your sentence with '-kani (crab)'! You've got to do it! You're a crab after all! Just trust me! Say you promise!" Happy says in happiness as he dances on both legs in place with drool coming from his mouth and stars in his eyes and twinkling all around above his head.
"We need to concentrate now. If you don't shut it, he'll pinch your paws." Lucy says annoyed by Happy's antics.
"Lucy, how would you like to have your hair done today…" Cancer says looking at Lucy. "…-ebi"
"EBI?!" Happy yells in complete shock and Latias tilts her head in confusion.
"Could you take a look at the situation please? We're in a battle! Beat up that bald old man!" Lucy says to Cancer.
"Okay-ebi." Cancer replies.
"I thought it'd be like a straight jab, but go figure, it turned out to be a hook. You can go home now." Happy says as he leans against the wall depressed.
"How about you go home?" Lucy says annoyed again at Happy.
"The real secret? Could it be he wrote down the illegal underbelly of my various business enterprises? I can't have that… If she hands it over to the Council's inspection wizards… that'd be the end of me!" Everblue thought as he shivers himself in places on what she means by real secret. He then takes out a key, specifically one of the Zodiac keys.
"Gate of the Maiden, I open thee! Virgo!" Everblue yells a then a dark purple magic circle appears in front of him.
"The same kinds of magic as Lucy!" Happy yells.
Then the ground behind Everblue erupts upward as the grotesque maid, Virgo appears. "You rang, Master?"
"Virgo! Get that book!" Everblue orders.
"No way! She's a Celestial Spirit?" Lucy says in shock.
"Ebi." Cancer says.
Lucy then catches something causing to gasp in shock, Happy, Everblue, and Latias take notice of this and look at Virgo and seeing what she sees also gasp in shock.
"Natsu, Sakura?!" Lucy and Happy yell as they and Everblue throw their arms into the air from the shock of seeing Natsu and Sakura above holding onto her clothing and looking confused at whatever just happened as Natsu holds Sakura in his other arm.
"Why are they with Virgo?" Eveblue questions and Latias flies up to Sakura.
"How'd you two…" Lucy also questions.
While Natsu kneels down on her shoulder as Sakura gets on Latias back, Virgo appears confused as question marks pop up around her head.
"After she started moving again, I went to get her before grabbing Sakura and then… I don't have a clue!" Natsu says sounding just as confused as the others.
"And Natsu, don't grab me all of the sudden!" Sakura yells at Natsu.
"Get her… You mean you grabbed her, right? He couldn't have come through the Spirit World with her, right?" Lucy questions as she imagines a diagram of Natsu grabbing onto Virgo with Sakura in the Lobby and then traveling into the Spirit World where her other Spirit resided and then to their current location. "That's undelievable!"
"Latias, good job protecting Lucy." Sakura says and Latias is happy from Sakura's praise.
Just then Virgo bends forward and begins reaching back trying to grab Natsu as to get him off her.
"Lucy, what should I do?" Natsu yells and Lucy quickly gets back to reality and thinks of what Natsu can do.
"Do something about him!" Lucy yells as she points at Everblue.
"Virgo, exterminate these pests!" Everblue orders.
"Understood!" Virgo replies as she pulls up her fist into the air just as Natsu jumps off her and lands on the ground in front of her and looks back.
"I'll blow you away! Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu yells as he blast fire from his mouth.
"Latias, Dragon Pulse!" Sakura commands as she points at Virgo and Latias fires a multicolored dragon-shaped beam of energy from her mouth at Virgo with Natsu's attack, sending Virgo flying back.
You pervy mole!" Lucy exclaims as she takes out her whip, subsequently wrapping around Everblue's body. "You can't run away digging any more holes!" Lucy then lifts Everblue in the air. "A bit-part in the novel…" The whip unwinds itself as Everblue is in the air and Cancer jumps towards him before he did a consecutive slashes at Everblue. "…Is more than you deserve!"
Cancer lands far away from Lucy and Everblue lands in between them with all of his hair on his head, leaving him bald.
"Sir, what do you think of this look-ebi?" Cancer says.
"Haha! Nice one, Crab!" Natsu says and realize what Cancer said. "Wait, '-ebi?'"
Then the ceiling begins to collapse above them. With haste, the Fairy Tail Wizards and the pokemon trainer with Latias race towards the surface before they can get trapped underneath the sewer making sure to grab Everblue as they do so as to turn him over to the authorities.
Above ground
Due to Everblue's digging underground, the entire ground beneath the mansion, or what's left of it has become highly unstable as soon the ground begin to cave in and with it, the mansion falls. While Natsu and Happy look at the remains of the mansion in glee, Lucy looks on in complete shock, her eyes white and widen and her mouth dropped open in horror. As for Sakura, she watches the mansion going down with surprise along with Latias.
"Nice and flashy, Lucy! You did us Fairy Tail wizards proud." Natsu complements.
"Aye! But we ended up destroying things again." Happy adds.
"Is this my fault?" Lucy questions.
"Well, technically this is a mansion belong to a bad guy, so this isn't our fault." Sakura points out.
~Later~
At Kaby Melon's Mansion
"The composition and style of this book is just awful. There was no way I could image it having been written by Kemu Zaleon." Lucy explains to Natsu as the group is on their way to Melon's mansion.
"So?" Natsu says.
"So that's why I thought there was some secret."
After arriving at the mansion, Lucy approaches Melon who is sitting on the couch directly and presents him the book shocking him as he looks at it, wondering why it wasn't destroyed like he said to the wizards he wanted it to be.
"What is the meaning of this? I'm quite sure I requested that you destroy it." Melon says to Lucy while Natsu and Sakura are standing behind the couch as Latias floats next to her.
"Destroying it is a simple task. You should be able to do it yourself, Mr. Kaby." Lucy says.
"Then I will eliminate it! I don't want even want to look at it!" Melon says, sweat running down his forehead, the book shaking in his hands.
"I know why you can't allow this book to exist. It's to protect your father's honor. You're Kemu Zaleon's son, aren't you?" Lucy says catching Natsu, Happy, Sakura, and Latias attention as they are shock by this revelation.
"Why do you know that?" Melon asks.
"Have you read this book?" Lucy asks.
"No. I couldn't bring myself to read it. It's trash. My father said so."
"So that's why you wanted to burn it?" Natsu questions as he takes a step forward.
"That's right." Melon replies and Natsu becomes angered by this statement as he then walks over and grabs Melon by his collar.
"Burn it just cause it's dumb? Isn't that going too far, man?!" Natsu questions as quickly Lucy and Sakura rushes over and attempts to pull him off him. "Your dad wrote that book!"
"Natsu wait! It's to protect his honor." Lucy says to him.
"Correct. I'm ashamed that my father wrote Daybreak. 31 years ago… my father, after coming back after three years of having been gone finally returned home. I wanted to know where he was, but as soon as he opened that door, he went to a chest and pulled out a long piece of string. He… he tied his arm tightly, it was then that be grabbed a cleaver and then—"
Hearing and know what was about to come and imagining it caused Lucy and Natsu to scream in terror as their eyes shrink into white dots and their mouths dropped wide as they scream. While Sakura covers her mouth in shock at what his father did, all because Everblue had forced him to write that story and had broken his spirit.
"…He was brought to a hospital, but it was too late, he had lost too much blood. He didn't have long to live, however, instead there by my father side in sadness, I was angry at him. He said that he was always thinking of me, but all I said to him was horrible things, how he was correct to have quit being an author, how someone with no pride like him wasn't fit to be one… or a father. He died soon afterward. And I hated him… Hated him ever since. But as the months and years went by, the hatred I felt turned into remorse. And yet, my father is no longer in this world to apologize to. So I felt the least I could do to atone was to destroy this last worse book of his. I wanted to rid the world of it for the sake of my father's good name." Melon finishes and he grabs a match box from his pocket and takes out a match light it, preparing to light on the fire. "My father would agree."
"No, he wouldn't." Lucy says catching everyone's attention. Then the fire on the match blows out. "It's begun!"
Suddenly, the book lights up as a light purple magic circle appears on it forcing Melon to cover his eyes from the bright light.
"What is this?" Melon questions.
The magic circle then shrinks back down and soon disappears as then the title of the book literally jumps off the cover and begin glowing.
"Kemu Zaleon… His real name was Zekua Melon! He cast a spell in this book." Lucy says.
"Magic?" Melon says shock by this. Then the title rearranges itself into Dear Kaby. "Dear Kaby?"
"That's right! It's written to his beloved son, Kaby." Lucy says as the book levitates out of Kaby's hands into the air. "He cast a spell that rearranged the letters. On the entire thing!"
Then the book flies open as all of the words fly out from it and begin flying in circles all around the entire room, rearranging themselves into what is really written in the book. Seeing this amaze Natsu, Happy, Sakura, and Latias as Lucy look on in happiness seeing its secret come to life.
"Pretty!" Happy yells.
"The reason he quit being an author is probably not because he wrote the most terrible book ever, but because he wrote the most incredible one!" Lucy explains as Kaby stares in shock at what is happening while his wife looks on in happiness. "This incredible book is a letter to you, Mr. Kaby!"
As the words begin to go back into the book, thinking of his father's final words to him and hearing what this book truly is, causing a tear to appear in his eye as then the book's light dies down and it descends right back into his hands. "That's the true book that Kemu Zaleon left for you." Lucy says as the others stare happily at Kaby who falls to his knees and holds the book to his chest.
"Father… thank you. I cannot let this book be burned." Kaby says.
"Guess we don't need that reward then." Natsu says as he puts his hands behind his back in a 'mission accomplished' manner.
"Aye." Happy agrees.
"You're right." Sakura agrees.
Hearing this shocks Melon and his wife and especially Lucy.
"The request was to destroy the book. And we didn't complete that." Natsu continues.
"B-but, that's…" Melon trails off.
"Yeah… it's such a kind offer, why don't we take him up on it?" Lucy hesitantly asks.
"Greedy." Happy says in disbelief at what Lucy is trying to do as Natsu begins heading towards the door.
"Hey, Sakura, what do you say?" Lucy asks Sakura as she smiles with her eyes closed and her hand is on her bag strap as she begins walking toward the door as well with Latias following behind her.
"Sorry, Lucy, but there are times that you have to give up on the reward." Sakura says. "And what happened to all those cool things you said earlier?"
"But that's different!" Lucy yells.
"We don't want it, so that's that." Natsu says.
"We do! I want it!" Lucy says as she runs after Natsu.
"Let's go home. You too, Melon. Go back to your real home." He says as Natsu looks back at Melon and his wife as he says that last part.
"That part catches the two off guard while also confusing Lucy, Sakura, and Latias.
~Later that night~
Not wanting to take on wagon back, the group find themselves on a long trek back towards Magnolia. As Natsu and Happy continue walking normally, Sakura is riding on Latias as Lucy walks in a sulky mood, sad that they didn't get the reward money for the job.
"I can't believe this! Is this normal to let 2,000,000 slide just like that?" Lucy says saddened.
"Taking money for a request that wasn't completed would damage Fairy Tail's good name." Natsu says.
"Taking money for something you didn't do is just like stealing that person's money." Sakura says.
"Aye!" Happy agrees.
"But we did such a good job! Why not? And we're walking home?" Lucy asks. "Those people weren't rich. They said they just rent it for appearance." She says annoyed thinking back to finding out that the two actually living in a logged cabin.
"Makes you wonder if they actually had 2,000,000 since they rent that mansion." Sakura says.
"I would've taken the job even if they hadn't gone through all that trouble." Lucy says.
"I wonder about that." Happy says.
"Yes, I would have!" Lucy yells.
"Probably."
"Hey, Natsu. Don't you think it's a good idea to head off into the forest and find a clearing where we can sleep for the night?" Sakura asks.
"Yeah, probably a good idea." Natsu agrees.
The group head off into the forest away from the road and finding a clearing set up a place to eat and then sleep. Sakura grabs some firewood as Natsu then lights it up with Happy and Natsu placing their food on sticks next to the fire, which isn't exactly tasty to Sakura, but luckily brought her own food before she takes out five poke balls.
"Come out, everyone!" Sakura shouts as she throws the poke ball in the air, subsequently, they pop open, releasing Aiko, Takeru, Recca, Kenhollow, and Jalorda. Natsu, Happy, and Lucy are surprised seeing the rest of Sakura's team. "Natsu, Happy, Lucy, these are my Pokémon team: Vent, my Jalorda. Tsubasa, my Kenhollow. Aiko, Takeru, Recca, my Ulgamoth. And Latias."
"They're amazing!" Natsu says excitingly.
"Hey, Sakura, can you do that thing like you did this morning?" Happy asks.
"Sure." Sakura replies and takes out her Pokémon Zukan and points it at Vert.
"Jalorda, the Royal Pokémon. It can stop its opponents' movements with just a glare. It takes in solar energy and boosts it internally." The Zukan says and Sakura points at Tsubasa. "Kenhollow, the Proud Pokémon. The Female Kenhollow's flying skills surpasses that of male Kenhollow."
"So there are different forms of the gender?" Lucy asks as she takes a peak of the two forms that the Zukan is showing.
"That's right." Sakura answers and she points the Zukan at Takeru.
"Lucario, the Aura Pokémon. Lucario reads the thoughts if others and anticipate their movements by sensing their auras." The Zukan says and Sakura finally points at Recca. "Ulgamoth, the Sun Pokémon. When ash from a volcanic eruption darkened the sky, it is said Ulgamoth's fire replaced the sun."
"Wow!" Happy says as he looks at Sakura's Pokémon team, but when he looks at Vent, he glares at Happy, causing him to retreat back to Natsu's leg. "Vent is kind of scary."
"Ah, sorry about that. Vent here can be cautious of people who he hasn't met yet." Sakura explains as she walks to Vent before she pets his head.
Then Sakura gives out the Pokémon food for her team as she, Lucy, Natsu, and Happy are gathering around the fire.
"Oh yeah, how did you notice the house wasn't theirs?" Lucy asks Natsu.
"Oh. They smelled different than the house. Anyone could've noticed that." Natsu says as he chews on some meat.
"Aye." Happy says.
"Well, we're not animals." Lucy and Sakura say finding Natsu's statement redundant.
"But I really look up to a writer like that." Lucy says in awe.
"Just as I thought." Natsu says in an amused tone catching Lucy's attention. "That thing you were hiding…" He says causing Lucy to become panicked by what she knows he is referring to. "It's a novel you're writing isn't it?" Natsu asks referring to the pile of papers on her desk back at her apartment.
"That's why you know all about books." Happy says.
"He-h, you're trying to be a writer, Lucy?" Sakura asks causing Lucy to blush bright red and smoke come out from head in embarrassment.
"D-don't tell a soul, okay?" Lucy says in a panicked tone.
"Why not?" Happy asks and Lucy puts her hands in front of her eyes and begins shaking her head.
"I-I'm still bad! I'd just die of embarrassment if someone read it!" She panics.
"Don't worry, no one will." Natsu promises.
"We won't tell anyone about it." Sakura says.
"That doesn't exactly make me feel better." Lucy says.
~The Next Morning~
Before they continue their way back to Magnolia, Sakura brings back her Pokémon into their poke ball except for Latias. Now, Natsu and Happy knowing a shortcut, lead the others towards it, which unfortunately is through a swampy area for some of the journey. Going through it, Lucy summons Horogium to ride inside of him and Sakura is riding on Latias.
"'Wait a sec, are you sure this is the way?' She says."Horogium says speaking for Lucy.
"'Happy said to go this way, so this is the way we go,' says I." Natsu says annoyed by Lucy's whining.
"How rude. I'm a cat, obviously! Cats have an excellent sense of smell." Happy says.
"Isn't that dogs?" Sakura asks.
"'And what does smell have to do with direction?' She says."
The group soon exits out of the swamp into a large open clearing.
"Anyway, how about walking yourself you two?" Natsu questions Lucy and Sakura.
"It's fine. Latias got use to me riding on her back. Right, Latias?" Sakura asks her and Latias nods her head.
"'I'm tired.' She says."
"Sheesh." Natsu says as then a bush in front of the group rustles and two eyes twinkle through it. This catches the group attention as then Natsu tosses his sack aside and jumps towards the bushes where the noise came from. "Who are you!?" He yells as then smoke immediately rises from behind the bushes as Natsu and the unknown person collide.
"'Is he trying to pick a fight?' She says."
"Go for it, Natsu!" Happy cheers on.
"Is Natsu going to be okay?" Sakura wonders.
Then jumping out from the bushes is Natsu and a half-naked Gray who's only wearing his boxers. The two looking angrily at each other as they land on the ground couple feet away from each other.
"It's Gray!" Happy says.
"'Why is he wearing in his underwear?' She says."
"Where did Gray come from?" Sakura questions.
"I was looking for the bathroom!" Gray yells.
"Why did you strip before you found one, jerk?! And there's no way there'd be a bathroom in the forest anyway!" Natsu yells in annoyance.
"And weren't you the one barging in when a guy's going to the bathroom, you bastard!" Gray retorts.
The two then butt heads and begins exchanging insults at one another as Lucy sends Horologium back to the Spirit World and looks at the two with a sweat drop on the back of her head.
"What are they, in the third grade?" Lucy questions.
"She says." Happy says popping behind her.
Managing to calm the two down, the group head to a nearby cliff overlooking the ocean trying to find out exactly what's going on while Happy is with a fishing poke tries fishing for fish.
"I see! You're coming back from a job." Lucy says.
"Cutting through the forest is a shortcut back to Magnolia." Gray says.
"See? See, see!" Happy says.
"You were bragging about your nose, but you didn't even realize Gray was there." Lucy says to Happy.
"There are some things you don't want to smell." Happy says.
"What's that?!" Gray says annoyed as a vein pops out.
"Enough of you. Get back already by yourself." Natsu says relaxing with a smirk on his face.
"Of course. I'll be in trouble if I don't get back soon." Gray says as he stands up.
"Trouble?" Sakura questions.
"What kind of trouble?" Lucy asks.
"…Erza'll be back shortly." Gray says.
Hearing this causes Natsu to gasp in shock.
"Erza… you mean her…" Lucy says having heard of her before.
"Erza? Who is that?" Sakura asks as Latias tilts her head in a confusing manner.
"Huh!? You're telling me you've never heard of her before?!" Lucy says shock by this.
"Yes… Should I?" Sakura says.
"She's the most powerful wizard in Fairy Tail!" Happy says with a freshly caught fish in his mouth.
"Then she's more powerful than Natsu?" Sakura asks.
"Yep." Gray says.
"Awesome! I want to meet her! But I've never seen a picture of her in a magazine, so what kind of person is she?" Lucy asks as Natsu and Gray look really sad.
"Scary." The three wizards say together.
"Eh?" Lucy and Sakura say.
"Wild animal?" Gray says.
"Beast?" Natsu says.
"More like an evil demon!" Happy says causing Lucy and Sakura to think of a really giant woman with two horns on her head, breathing fire and stomping through Magnolia. "She's not that big."
"But she's bigger than you think!" Natsu says.
"It's about right if you're talking about how scary she is. Actually, maybe even worse." Gray says as he and Natsu think of describing her with the giant woman again this time kicking the top of a mountain.
"Like this bad!" Natsu points out.
"No, I think she would blow away a mountain into three pieces with a single kick!" Gray says in a fearful tone.
"Three pieces is exaggerating, I think it's more like two." Happy says in a serious tone.
"A woman that can blow a mountain in two with a single kick? That's pretty scary." Lucy says now feeling a little bit of fear on her now.
"But… isn't that exaggerating a bit?" Sakura asks.
"Anyway, we've got to hurry back to the guild!" Gray says to the others.
"Crap, let's go!" Natsu says.
Then the cliff explodes all around the group. The group find themselves in sand as Lucy coughs from what just happened, with Sakura sitting behind her as Latias floats above her, Gray only having his head sticking out and Natsu upside down in the sand.
"Where did that come from?!" Sakura yells out.
"A wizard!" Gray exclaims.
Natsu then flips himself back up and with sand seeping out from his mouth.
"Happy!" Natsu yells as his partner disappeared in the explosion.
At another camp nearby
Aye…" Happy says in a frightening tone as he soon finds himself tied to a branch and hung over a yet to be fire pit as around him are five people. A tall, slim man with black eyes and black hair that hands on either side of his head, bordering his face, wearing a white shirt under a collared purple jumpsuit with metal shoulder and thigh guards and a pair of black boots with a purple orb hovering over his hand. Two twins with orange slightly long hair and black eyes, wearing identical dark red and white collared coats under of which is a black and khaki colored V-neck shirt, also wearing a pair of dark blue trousers and brown shoes. A small humanoid being with dark grayish skin and no hair wearing a green shirt with a hood and a pair of red gloves, brown trousers under a dark white quilt and a pair of black shoes. Finally, a big humanoid chicken by the looks of it with yellow skin and red hair and a beard, wearing blue overalls hanging from his mouth.
"We're going to be getting us some protein for once!" One of the twins says in joy as drool hangs from his mouth.
"I'm so sick of fruits and nuts!" The other twin says with drool hanging from the side of his mouth as well.
"Meat!" The humanoid chicken says.
"Looks delicious." The man with the orb says.
"Man, this guy is shaking." Once of the twin says as Happy is shaking on the branch.
"Sorry 'bout this. Guess you're scared 'cause you'll end up in out bellies." The gray skinned wizard says.
"No. I'm not shaking cause I'm scared." Happy says confusing the gray skinned humanoid. "I have to go to the bathroom."
"Huh?" The orb man says.
"I might not be able to hold it in. if that happens it'll make me taste weird, I'm sure."
"Shut up, do it." The gray skinned wizard says to the chicken.
"Meat." The chicken replies with a nod and a red magic circle appear on the staff that the chicken is wielding as flames appear on it.
"Medium, please." The orb man says.
"I can't stand it! Are you sure about this? Are you sure about this? I'll taste weird!" Happy says.
"Wait a minute!" Natsu's voice rings out surprising the Chicken as well as the other wizards who all look to a nearby cliff to see an angry looking Natsu and Gray along with Sakura, Latias, and Lucy.
"Happy!" Lucy yells out.
"Thank goodness! I won't taste weird!" Happy yells in a grateful tone.
"You're still going on about that?" The gray skinned wizard says annoyed.
"You've got out friend there bub. You may be hungry, but we can't let you eat him." Natsu says as he cracks his knuckles.
"You're also wizards right? What guild are you from?" Gray asks.
"None of your business. Get 'em!" The gray skinned wizard ordered to his comrades.
"Gray, let's do this." Natsu says.
"Don't order me around." Gray retorts as the two jumps off the cliff.
Natsu and Gray dodge the attack from the twins and the chicken.
"Take this! Sand Bomb!" The gray skinned wizard yells as he slams his fist into the ground creating a yellow magic circle beneath it.
A strong force of wind surrounds him as then the ground in front of Natsu goes up in the air in front of them catching them off guard. Flying into it, the sand then forms around them trapping him inside a giant sphere of sand.
"Natsu!" Lucy and Sakura yell.
"Leave him! Take care of Happy!" Gray insists.
"R-right." Lucy says as she and Sakura rush over to Happy.
The twins wield a single sai and in the air charging at Gray and Gray knocks their blade and them out.
"Oh no! I'm going to be eaten by Lucy!" Happy says with his eyes closed as Lucy unties the rope around Happy's wrist.
"Shut up cat!' Lucy yells in anger and annoyance.
Suddenly, the humanoid chicken appears to Lucy's left, noticing what Lucy is doing and the two look at see the angry chicken as it raises its weapon about its head with it lit aflame. Lucy screams in terror raising her hand up when just then, Latias with Sakura on her back floats in front of Lucy and Happy.
"Latias, Dragon Breath!" Sakura yells and light blue waves of energy start swirling around Latias before she fires a light blue beam of energy from her mouth at the chicken. Sending him flying backwards in the air to the ground as Lucy and Happy run.
"Hmph, those two aren't half bad. All right then, who's next?!" Gray challenges.
Then the man with the orb appears before him, his orb seeming to power up as he also lets out a groan if powering up.
"You'll get an unexpected visitor. The stars point trouble with water and woman." The man says.
"Fortune teller?" Gray says as sweat drops appear on the back of his head and a vein pops out from annoyance. "Shut up!" He elbows the fortune teller in the face.
"He's not even using magic. Amazing!" Lucy says. However, somehow in a blink of an eye Gray has somehow stripped back down to only his boxers. "Uh, your clothes…"
"WHOA!" Gray yells out.
"What is that guy?" The gray skinned wizard says and his sand sphere suddenly explodes and he covers his eyes from the explosion as Natsu lands in front of him. "Uh, oh!"
"Look here you! How dare you make my mouth all gritty!?" Natsu says as he spits out what sand is left in his mouth. He then slams his fists together. "Take this! Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" He launches himself forward and throws a fire coated punch into the wizard causing a huge explosion.
~A Few Minutes Later~
Having knocked them out, the group quickly ties the group of wizards to a tree.
"You don't have to get serious with these small fries." Gray says as he and Natsu look in different direction with their backs to the tree.
"How about I fry that smart mouth of yours." Natsu threatens.
"I doubt you could. Not with those lukewarm flames of yours." Gray responds.
"Oh yeah!" Natsu says.
As the two begin fighting again, Lucy and Sakura with Latias behind them attempt to find out who these wizards were and what they were doing out here.
"Lulla-" The leader says die to being half conscious.
"Huh?" Lucy and Sakura say confused by what he was trying to say.
"The lulla… by…" He manages to say, catching both Natsu and Gray's attention.
"Huh?" Natsu says.
"Lullaby?"
Latias then turns her head, sensing something coming towards them and she notices a large mass of shadow moving towards them on the ground. Latias quickly gets Sakura's attention to warn about the shadow and Sakura turns to her.
"What is it, Latias?" Sakura asks and sees the shadow is coming towards them before she turns her head to the group. "Watch out!"
While the shadow sends the Fairy Tail wizards flying into the air, Sakura gets on Latias' back to avoid it in time. The shadow goes directly towards the group of wizards and forms into a hand, the wizards seeming to know what it is,, their faces show fear as the and then closes. All of the sudden the lower half of the tree and the wizards with it are pulled into the shadow as the shadow retreats away at a fast speed.
"What was that?" Lucy asks.
"Who is it?" Natsu asks as well.
"I can't sense them anymore already." Gray says.
"It's probably someone who is really fast." Sakura says.
"Damn it! I don't get it at all!" Natsu says in anger.
"Lullaby?" Lucy wonders.
~Few hours later~
Magnolia
A large shadow creeps down the street, the people of the city, upon seeing who is producing the shadow, all stop and stare in shock and awe as that person carries with just one arm, a giant horn of a monster walking down the street. That person is a woman with long, scarlet red hair wearing knight-like armor, a blue shirt, and black boots.