Chapter 6: Fairy and Trainer vs. Eisenwald
Kunugi Station
"The guy with a giant sickle barged on board all of the sudden!"
"I know them! They're those bastards from the dark guild that hangs around this area!"
Various passengers from the train explain to the army soldiers who were there. From on top the nearby hill, Sakura, Latias, and the Fairy Tail wizards watch as the passengers explain what happened as it appears that not that long ago the members of Eisenwald had attacked the station to retrieve their member who had the Lullaby flute with him. Although instead of escaping by other means, they simply took the train themselves and continued on the track.
"I could understand getting on a cart or a boat, but a train?" Lucy questions.
"Aye! What's the benefit of escaping on a train that can only run on rails?"
"It's fast however." Erza mentions.
"You're right." Sakura agrees.
Inside the car, Natsu sits on the floor and lays his head on the seat, motion sickness especially from Erza's driving not making him feel very well at all.
"Those guys from Eisenwald must be in a big hurry for some reason then, you think?" Gray as he is once again stripped down to his boxers.
"Why'd you strip!?" Lucy yells in shock as her eyes bulge out at him.
"Well, look at that…" Gary says not that surprised.
"But the army's already on the move… Isn't it only a matter of time until they're caught?" Lucy asks, back in the matter at hand.
"That would be nice, if it happens." Erza says as she and Latias quickly then takes off again heading towards the city where the next train station is.
Later
The group arrives at the next city and begins recklessly driving through its street as Latias follows Erza to get to the train station where they believe the Eisenwald guild may be or at least past through.
"Erza, you're going too fast! Look, the SE plug is inflating!" Gray yells.
"If we let that flute be played, a great number of innocent people will be victims! Just by hearing the sound, a person's life is stolen from them!" Erza yells back.
"What are we supposed to do when we get there, and you don't have any magic power left?" Gray asks.
"If that happens then I'll fight with a stick if I have too! And you two are here, as well!" Erza says with confidence.
"And don't forget about us! We can help you guys out!" Sakura says and Latias nods her head agreeing to Sakura's statement.
Meanwhile in the car
"I have a feeling I should say something to you, Lucy." Happy says as he looks like he's trying to remember something as Natsu lies on the floor still motion sickened.
"To me? What?" Lucy asks.
"I forgot. I just know it had something to do with you, Lucy…" Happy trails off.
"Gonna hurl…"Natsu says in a highly weakened state.
"That might me it!" Happy says.
"As if!" Lucy says angrily.
All of the sudden Natsu throws himself up the window and hangs out of it looking like he'd could fall out through as both Lucy from inside and Sakura from the outside beside the car on Latias begin panicking.
"Natsu!" Sakura calls out.
"Wait Natsu! You'll fall out!" Lucy yells.
"Let me off!" Natsu says.
"Hmm, what was it…" Happy says as he tries to think of what it is he had to say to Lucy, who is now holding onto Natsu to make sure he doesn't fall out of the car. "If it's not, 'Lucy gonna barf…" then… Lucy, weird… fish are yummy? Healthy? Weird… Weird… Weird…" Happy continues saying which annoys Lucy just as she pulls Natsu back in.
"Stop saying I'm weird already!" Lucy yells at Happy.
"What's that?" Erza questions as Sakura looks ahead and sees smoke trails out from the city's train station.
Onishibana Station
"Please stand back! There has been a trail derailment! We can't let you back into the station!" One of the workers of the train station yells into a megaphone at a gathering crowd.
"A train derailed? Really!?"
"I hear a rumor that someone dangerous guys are holed up in that station."
"Please stand back!" The worker says as two more stand behind him to make sure no one goes in. Erza then walks up to the worker with the megaphone.
"You! What's the situation inside?" Erza questions.
"Who the heck are you–"
Before he can finish his sentence, Erza head-butts the worker, knocking him out to the ground and she then moves onto the next worker as the others stare in bewilderment at her method of getting information. "What's the situation inside?"
"Eh?"
Erza again head-butts at the second worker and moves onto the third one.
"What's the situation inside?"
The next worker makes the same mistake and is also head-butted to the ground.
"Guess she doesn't have use for people who don't answer promptly." Lucy says as she holds Natsu on her shoulder as he is still sick.
"But if she knocks all of them out, how are we supposed to know what's going on inside?" Sakura questions.
"Understand what Erza's like know?" Gray asks the two, stripped to his boxers again.
"Why'd you strip?" Lucy asks.
The three workers all now lay on the ground, smoke coming out from two of their mouths and the third has smoke coming from the back of his head as Erza looks at the group.
"Eisenwald's inside! Let's go!" Erza orders.
"Right!" Gray agrees.
"Is this one my responsibility?" Lucy asks talking about Natsu.
"Well, let's all go inside." Sakura says.
Inside the station
The group rush in as Latias flies beside Sakura.
"An army platoon stormed in, but it seems they haven't returned yet. It's likely that they engaged Eisenwald in battle." Erza says.
As the group continues running down the hallway to the stairs leading up to the train tracks, they then spot something up ahead that makes Lucy worried. They see the army soldiers scattered on the stairs, unconscious as their weapons and shields are scattered and broken about.
"They've been wiped out!" Happy yells.
The group run up the stairs and slows down as they begin to examine the carnage of the downed army soldiers.
"They were up against an entire guild. Every single one of them are wizards. An army platoon hardly stood a chance." Erza says.
The group walks through a doorway and soon find themselves in the station. Then they hear someone chuckles.
"I know you'd come, You Fairy Tail flies." The voice says.
Before the group, the entire Eisenwald Guild. All of them, wizards as a few stand out such as a fat man with green hair, a man with a hood that's covered in black and dark yellow stripes, and a man with black hair tied in a short spiky ponytail wearing a white shirt with a high collar.
"There's so many of them!" Lucy says in a scared tone.
"You fiend! So you're Erigor, I take it?" Erza questions at the man sitting on top of the train and the man, Erigor chuckles.
Erigor has silver hair, which is held pointing upwards in spiky strands on top of his head, but hangs down to the left of his face in a distinctive tuft; tattoos on his face and bare-chested body, and wearing nothing but a long, worn skirt, reminiscent of a hakama, below a darker, shorter cloth, held up by even lighter and shorter one tied like a belt, a black scarf wrapped around his thin neck, with its edges hanging on his back and traditional geta sandals in his feet, completed by a pair of distinctive dark gloves, each adorned by a white 'X' on the back, and by bandages wrapped around his forearms.
Lucy lays Natsu on the ground and begins shaking him, trying to wake him up.
"Natsu, wake up! You've got work to do!" Lucy says.
"Not a chance. Trains, four-wheelers, Lucys… It's motion sickness times three!"
"So I'm transportation now!" Lucy yells by Happy's comment as she thinks of her face on front of a train and the car.
"You damn flies! It's your fault master Erigor got angry at me…" The man in the white shirt says. This seems to wake Natsu up from his sickness.
"That voice…" He says.
"What are you scoundrels after!? What do you plan to do with Lullaby?!" Erza questions in a demanding tone.
"You don't know?" Erigor asks then a gust of wind appears from nowhere and he flies up into the air and hovers. "What's here at the train station?"
"He flew!" Lucy says shocked.
"It's Wind Magic!" Happy says.
Erigor then flies down to the top of a loudspeaker and crouches down on top of it. This gives Erza the idea.
"You plan on broadcasting the Lullaby!" Erza exclaims and Erigor laughs evilly at this as they figure out his plan.
"I wonder how many thousands of onlookers are gathered around here? And if you increase its volume, it'll reverberate throughout the city. The melody of death, that is." Erigor says.
"You plan on making innocent people listen to the flute's lullaby?!" Erza questions as the anger on her voice continues to rise.
"It's a purge. I'm purging the fools who guard their own rights and safety without even knowing there are those whose same rights have been stolen away. Their sin is living without knowing that this world isn't just. And so… The Shinigami has come to punish them!" Erigor proclaims.
"You're not going to get your rights back by doing something like this." Lucy questions.
"Also, weren't you thrown out of the league because you did ton of bad stuff?" Sakura questions.
"Now that we've come this far, we don't want rights anymore. It's power! Those with power can wipe the past clean, can rule the future." Erigor says as he holds his left hand and then clenches it.
"You're completely idiot aren't you!" Lucy yells.
The man in the white shirt crouches to the ground and puts his left hand on it. "Too bad for you flies. You won't get to see the new dark age because you're heading to the afterlife!" He says with a crazy look on his face as then the ground below him starts glowing purple. All of a sudden, three long shadows on the ground rush at the group with blinding speed before they come out of the ground, high into the air and forming into hands which then proceed to go down towards the trainer and wizards in an attempt to take them out.
However, before they can hit, Natsu finally recovers as he destroys the shadows with his fire.
"It's you!" The white-shirted man says in an annoyed tone.
"So that voice was you." Natsu says with a gleeful smile as he looks at the man who he had engaged in the train.
"That shadow…!" Sakura says recognizing the shadow magic.
"He's back in the nick of time!" Lucy says in joy.
"Oh? There's a bunch of 'em!" Natsu says.
"Enemies, every last one of them!" Lucy says.
Natsu slams his left fist onto his right hand as a dark shadow covers the middle of his face which has an eager look on it.
"This is gonna be fun." Natsu says.
"This is Fairy Tail's strongest team! You'd better prepare yourself!" Lucy announces.
"The rest is up to you! Let them see how fearsome a dark guild really is!" Erigor says as he begins floating away and all of a sudden he vanishes into this air.
"He ran away!" Happy and Lucy yell in shock with their jaws dropped open and eyes blank.
"Natsu, Gray…you head after him." Erza says to the two who look at her. "As long as you two work together, there's no way you'd lose. Even to the 'death god' Erigor." Behind her, Natsu and gray are in each other's angry face, and Erza turns around angered herself. "Were you listening!?"
"Aye sir!" Natsu and Gray both yell as they run off together.
"They ran off!"
"They're trying to follow Erigor!"
"Leave then to me!" The man in the hood says as black bands appear around his fingers and he throws his arm forward at a railing to the second floor. The black bands extending outward towards the railings as they wrap around them and the man pulls himself up. "I, Rayure will bring them down!"
"I'll go too! I won't forgive that bastard!" The man in white says as a yellow magic circle appears under him and disappears, a circle of shadow appearing under him as he sinks into it and disappears.
"After we clean these guys up, we're going after them too." Erza says.
"Three girls against this many?" Lucy says in a worried tone.
"This might be a good experience." Sakura says as she pulls down her glove.
The rest of the Eisenwald guild see just who's before them all the members smile gleefully.
"Three girls? What do you think you can do?"
"We're going to pluck off your wings, fly-babies."
"But we're so cute… you wouldn't dare…" Lucy says trying to act cute and sexy.
"Lucy, come back!" Happy says as he floats beside her as Sakura puts the meadow plate on her glove, causing it to turn green.
"Wretches!" Erza says as she holds her right hand outwards as a red magic circle appears. Suddenly, a sword with wings for its hilt appears in the air above Erza.
"A sword appeared! A magic sword!" Lucy says surprised as the sword flies into Erza's hand and she grips it.
"One more insult to Fairy Tail, and I can't guarantee you'll see tomorrow!" Erza yells.
"Let's go, Latias!" Sakura says as Latias flies closer to Sakura.
Then a large group of the Eisenwald solders jumps towards the group.
"That ain't nothing we've seen before!"
"We've got plenty of our own magic swords!"
The group of Eisenwald wizards flies down towards Sakura and Erza, Erza swings her swords and in one sweep, takes out all the Eisenwald wizards that jumped at them in the process even breaking all of their swords. Seeing this much power in one swing surprises Sakura and Latias.
"A-amazing…" Sakura says.
Erza jumps towards another group of Eisenwald soldier, as she lands Erza swings her sword again and once again takes out the large group.
"Take out the girl with the creature!" An Eisenwald wizard yells as he and one other jump at Sakura and Latias. Sakura notices this and leaves appear in between her gloved fingers.
"Razor Leaf!" She exclaims and throws the leaves at the two wizards, subsequently, cutting their clothes and they cry out in pain. "You'll be in pain if you underestimate me."
"It seems that Mira's information was correct. But why do I have a feeling that this girl has hidden ability." Erza thought after she saw Sakura's attack.
Just then, two other members jumps up behind her as they about to attack, but Latias goes behind her and uses Psychic at them as they float in the air. Sakura turns around and sees the two wizards are being held by Latias' Psychic.
"Thanks, Latias." Sakura says and she gets her left arm in front of her as her arm starts to glow light green and a sharp blade comes out. "Leaf Blade!" Sakura slashes at two wizards and once Latias stops using Psychic, both of them fall to the ground.
Meanwhile, Erza sweeps through the Eisenwald ranks as she changes her sword to a spear.
"It turned into a spear!" Lucy exclaims.
With the spear, Erza takes out two large groups of enemies with it before then requipping to a pair of dual swords, taking out even more Eisenwald wizards.
"It's a pair of swords this time!" The green-haired fat wizard says.
"This woman… She can requip so fast!" A fellow Eisenwald wizard says standing close to the fat man.
"Requip?" Lucy asks.
"Magic swords are similar to your Celestial magic, Lucy. It works where you can call out weapons that are stored in an alternate space. Switching out which weapon you have is 'requipping'." Happy explains.
"Wow… And Sakura used another plate." Lucy says.
"Well, Erza's just getting warmed up." Happy says with a creepy kind of look.
"Erza?" The fat wizard says quietly, feeling like he's heard the name somewhere before.
"Okay, I can fight too!" Lucy says as she reaches for her keys.
"What!? This was supposed to be Erza's highlight scene!" Happy yells.
"If that's the case why are Sakura and Latias allowed to fight!?" Lucy tells at Happy. "Gate of the Giant Crab, I open thee! Cancer!" She yells as she summons out the Zodiac spirit Cancer.
"It's also a fight this time-ebi?" Cancer asks Lucy.
"Cut this fight short, would you?" Lucy asks with a grin and a twinkle star above her head.
"You with the freakish hairdo!"
"We'll get you good!"
The Eisenwald wizards around Lucy pounce towards Cancer, Lucy and Happy. Cancer sees them coming and in a split second does his work as he snip snaps his scissors cutting not only the wizards' hairs, but also their weapon as hair and pieces of weapon fall to the ground.
"My weapon!"
"M-my hair!"
"It's almost like…"
"Kappa…" Lucy says as then a stone that says 'Kappa' lands on top of them, crushing them.
"YOU'RE SO CRUEL!" The Eisenwald wizards cry.
"Nice cut-ebi." Cancer says.
"Not bad." Erza says seeing the fight but is now also wielding a giant two-handed battle axe.
"Aw, it really wasn't… All right, I made a good impression!" Lucy says joyfully giving herself a thumbs up.
"So that was your goal!?" Happy yells in surprise.
"However, the way he ends his sentences intrigues me. '-Ebi?' I just don't see it. At least say '-snip' or something." Erza digresses causing Lucy to be a little embarrassed.
"Not good enough?!" Lucy says with her hands to her face cheeks.
"Ebi-snip?" Cancer begins questioning himself.
"But there are still so many left. This is a pain. I'll wipe them out!" Erza says as her body begins glowing in a bright light.
"Ooh, her armor's coming off!" An Eisenwald wizard yells as now all of them have heart-shaped eyes and stare in joy at Erza.
"Magic knight usually fight by requipping different weapons. But Erza has increased her own ability and can fight while requipping different magic armor as well! That's Erza's magic. It's called: The Knight!" Happy says as he, Lucy, Sakura, and Latias look towards Erza as it appears that her armor is changing as two wings make of individual blades appear.
The light dies down and Sakura, Latias, and Lucy see Erza's new armor; plated armor covers her chest, with a large metal flower over it, she wears a large billowing skirt that has metal plating in the upper area. Her stomach and neck are uncovered, and she has large metal wings that appears to be made individual blades, as well as a wing-like headpiece.
Seeing how beautiful Erza looks, Lucy and Sakura can't help but blush as all of the Eisenwald wizards become distracted by her new armor due to a certain area on her chest standing out a bit.
"Dance, my blades!" Erza yells as she hovers into the air and swings her two swords outwards, summoning a circle of swords around her.
"Erza… could she be…" The fat wizard says even more convinced of knowing who she is.
"Circle Sword!" Erza yells as she swings her two blades across her chest which sends the swords around her spinning at an incredible speed before being launched at the Eisenwald wizards, sending a larger group then any before flying all over the room.
"Whoa… She wiped most of them out in a single blow!" Lucy says but her face written with fright due to how powerful that attack was.
Aye!" Happy agrees.
"Damn you! I'll take you on!" The Eisenwald wizards as he then launches himself at the group with his hands engulfed in bright light.
"There's no mistaking her! She's the most powerful woman in Fairy Tail…" The fat wizard trails off as Erza slashes at the wizard who was about to attack her. "The Fairy Queen, Titania Erza!"
Erza requips back to her main armor as Sakura takes out the plate from her glove.
"Wow! I think I'm in love!" Lucy yells as she blushes and stars sparkle in her eyes and she clasps her hands together.
I'm not going up against that!" The fat wizard yells as he runs away to an open doorway leaving a trail of smoke behind as he turns to the left upon running through.
"He might be heading towards Erigor. Go after him." Erza says to Lucy.
"Me?" Lucy asks.
"I'm counting on you!" Erza says as her eyes completely white and her voice booming in demand.
"Right! Off I go!" Lucy screams in fear as she and Happy head off after the survivor.
"Latias. Go after that guy with Lucy and Happy." Sakura says as Latias nods her head and quickly flies off after the two leaving Sakura and Erza in the middle of all the unconscious bodies of the Eisenwald wizards.
"Why aren't you going with them?" Erza asks.
"Because aren't you worn out after all this?" Sakura replies.
Erza smirks as she then falls onto her knees, exhaustion overcomer her due to all of the magic she used up on the four-wheeler and fighting the Eisenwald wizards.
"You could tell." Erza says.
"I had a feeling and usually my feelings are correct." Sakura explains and she reaches her hand at Erza.
"You're very kind." Erza says and she grabs Sakura's hand before Sakura helps Erza to stand up. "Let's go outside. We have to tell the citizens about Lullaby."
"Okay." Sakura says as she nods at Erza and they go outside of the front entrance.
~Later~
Back outside at the Front Entrance
A megaphone siren is heard as all the civilians notice two people walking out from the station.
"Someone's coming out!"
"What?"
Erza and Sakura walks out with Erza having the megaphone in her hand as she raises it in front of her face.
"If you value your lives, get away from here immediately! This station has been taken over by evil wizards! And those wizards are attempting to perform magic that will kill every person here! Evacuate as far away from here as you can!" Erza announces as all the civilians hears this start talking amongst themselves in panic. Soon after, every single civilian start running away from the station in a mass panic.
"Hey, you! Why'd you make everyone panic like that?"
"It's better than them all becoming victims, right?" Sakura questions.
"Speaking of which, you people should evacuate here as well." Erza says to the three workers.
Immediately, the workers rush away from the station as well as Erza and Sakura watch the large crowd of civilians runs off in the distance.
"Now there are no longer people around the station. What will you do now, Erigor?" Erza says when all of a sudden, the wind starts to heavily pick up drawing Sakura and Erza back to the station. "What!"
"The station… is being surrounded by wind?" Sakura says.
As the two continue to look at the wind that surrounds the station, Erigor appears in the air behind them. Erza senses this as she turns around and sees Erigor. Sakura notices this as she turns around and also sees him.
"Erigor!" Erza yells.
Erigor chuckles evilly. "I always did want to fight you, Queen. But alas...I have no time to play with you now!" Erigor says he holds his left hand open and a purple light appears. This blinds both Sakura and Erza and then blast them right through the wind surrounding the station but unharmed.
"Erigor!" Erza yells as she spots his shadow just outside. She then runs towards the wind, but as she slams her arm against it to get out, she finds that the wind is as tough as stone as it scrapes against her arm before then finally blowing her back away from it.
"Erza!" Sakura exclaims and goes near Erza.
"Don't even try. This magic wind is one-way: you can pass from outside to inside. If you try to exit from the inside, the wind will cut you to shreds."
"What in the world are you up to?!" Erza questions.
"Thanks to you idiots I've wasted quite a lot of time. If you'll excuse me…" Erigor says and flies away from the station.
"Wait! Damn that Erigor… Where could he be heading? So he wasn't targeting this station after all?"
"Hey, Erza." Sakura calls. "What's the next city after this one?"
"It's Clover Town. Why do you ask?"
"Isn't the Master regular meeting attending there?"
Immediately, Erza realizes what Sakura is saying.
"Erigor's aim is at the regular meeting!" She exclaims. "Let's hurry figuring out a way to get out and stop him before he can get to the Masters."
"Of course!" Sakura replies.
Meanwhile
Inside the station
"Where did that fat one go?" Lucy questions as she, Happy and Latias continue their search for the Eisenwald wizard who escaped from them.
"If you don't find him, Erza will throttle you!" Happy says.
"E—H!" Lucy complains in fear as Latias moves her head from left to right to look for the Eisenwald wizard.
Author's Note: If anyone wondered about another OC coming out, the OC will come out later in the chapters but I'm not going to say where exactly because that will be a spoiler. It's better be off not telling you until the second OC comes out.