Chapter 9: Sakura's First Job
Magnolia
Lucy's apartment
Lucy sits in her apartment at her desk, in front of her she is writing on a piece of paper with a quill.
"The incident with Eisenwald targeting the Guild Masters at their regular meeting became big news immediately and everyone in the country learned of it. I wound never believe I'd be at the center of such a huge event. Even so, I'm living my day to day life just like I always do. Sometimes I think back on what happened and get all excited, though. I got a wind that most of the Eisenwald's members were arrested, including the guy named Kage. Well, I guess that's expected. The one thing that scares me is that they don't seem to have caught Erigor. What'll I do if he comes to take revenge on Fairy Tail? But it'll be okay! Natsu, Erza, and Gray are Fairy Tail's strongest team! Plus: Happy and me are there too! Oh yeah, and I can't forget about Sakura and her Pokémon team. This guild's the best, so don't worry Mama! I'm doing just fine. P.S. Keep this a secret from Papa, 'kay?" Finishing her letter, Lucy sighs in relief as she then folds the paper, places it in an envelope, sealing with a red stamp with a capital 'I' on it.
"Maybe I'll do some shopping today. Thrilling adventures are great and all, but you can't beat relaxing at home!" Lucy says to herself as she then stretches her arms upwards.
"Rent for this place is 70,000 jewel? That'd really cheap."
Lucy hearing the voice turns around, wondering who that is.
"You found yourself a nice pad, Lucy!" Gray says as he sits on Lucy's couch half naked only wearing boxers.
"Trespassing!" Lucy yells in shock as her eyes bulge out and her mouth drops open revealing sharpened teeth. Lucy jumps out of her chair and kicks Gray in his chest. "And don't stripped in other people's homes!"
"Hold it! It's a misunderstanding! I was already naked when I arrived." Gray says as he turns away from Lucy who still angry.
"Leave." Lucy says pointing to the door.
"Today's the day, remember? I figured you'd forget, so I came to get you." Gray says.
"Huh?" Lucy says now confused on what he meant by that.
"Yup, you forget. Natsu said so before we left, right?" Gray asks.
In front of the Fairy Tail Guild Hall
A large crowd of Fairy Tail wizards are gathered in front of the building forming a circle around Erza and Natsu, as both of them were ready for their guild for their duel that they promised each other before leading out on the Lullaby incident.
"Get'em!"
"Fight Erza!"
"Natsu!"
The Fairy Tail wizards all cheered loudly for who they felt or wanted to win the battle.
"Natsu and Erza are fighting!" Gray reminds her.
Lucy appears on the scene, Lucy pushes Wakaba out of the way so she get a view of the two.
"W-wait, they were serious?" Lucy says in awe.
"Oh, hi Lucy!" Mirajane greets as behind her is her brother Elfman Macao.
"Serious as can be! If they didn't take this seriously, they couldn't call themselves men!" Elfman says.
"Erza's a woman you know." Mirajane points out.
"More like a female monster." Macao also points out.
"But is two of the people in one of the strongest team clash…" Lucy says.
"Strongest team? What're you talking about?" Gray asks.
"You, Natsu, and Erza, duh! You're the top three in Fairy Tail, right?"
"Huh? That's dumb. Who told you that?" Gray asks as Mirajane continues to smile as she turns towards Gray. Then she turns away and is now crying her eyes out in sadness, shocking Gray as he now feels bad knowing it was her who told Lucy that. "Oh, it was you Mira-chan…"
"You made her cry!" Lucy says to Gray.
"I do recognize Natsu and Gray's manly spirit. But I wouldn't go calling them the strongest. There's a ton more strong people in Fairy Tail. Like me for example!" Elfman says with a grin with a grin as he points at him with his left thumb.
"Erza is probably the strongest woman though." Levy says to Lucy.
"If you're talking about the strongest man, It's probably Mystogan or Laxus." Jet says.
"I just thought that Natsu, Gray, and Erza worked the best together!" Mirajane says as she continues to cry. Lucy though is surprised by what she said due to something that she said before.
"Oh? Weren't you saying how you always worried Gray and Natsu would fight without Erza around?" Lucy says and she notices someone is missing. "Hey, where is Sakura? I thought she'd be here already."
Mirajane stops crying by this point and has wiped away her tears as she's already back to her normal happy attitude. "Well, you missed her. She left a couple hours ago."
"Left? Left where?" Lucy asks.
"As soon as she came to the guild, she went to the request board, found a job and went on her way." Gray says.
Wait, she already left another job?" Lucy says.
"If I remember correctly, that job was about a people having nightmares every night and can't seem to sleep at all the past week." Mirajane recalls.
"Nightmare for the past week? That's weird." Lucy says.
"Well, when Sakura saw the job, she immediately picked it." Mirajane says.
"I wonder why?"
On a dirt road
In a carriage
Sakura is looking at the sky thinking about the job.
"People having nightmares for the past week… If I'm right about this, there is a Pokémon that give nightmares, but…"
Sakura brings her bag closer and takes out green feather.
"If it is that Pokémon, then there's the reason why its doing this."
Arriving at the town, Sakura gets off the carriage and begin walking through the streets. Looking around she sees the people are lying against the wall with bags under their eyes and nodding off. As she is walking, she approaches a woman and decides to ask for help.
"Um, where is the mayor's office?" Sakura asks.
"Well… *yawn* it's the biggest building down the road." The woman replies sleepily.
"Thank you." Sakura says.
Thanks to the woman's information, Sakura arrives at the mayor's building and walks in, walking up the stairs to his office on the third floor and greets his sleep deprived assistant. The mayor's assistant knocks at the door.
"Sir, a wizard from Fairy Tail is here…" The assistant says.
"Let the person in." The mayor says.
The assistant opens the door and gestures Sakura in, Sakura walks in and towards the mayor who sits behind his desk. Like the people in the town and his assistant, the mayor is also sleep deprived as a black aura is emitting from him.
"Hello there… I thank you for coming here."
"Hello, Mayor. My name is Sakura and about the job you requested…" Sakura says.
"Yes, about *Ya–wn* about the job, it all happened a week ago when we started to have nightmares night after night and it start to be unbearable to sleep anymore. Also, each nightmare shows a some kind of creature suffering in pain."
A creature…?" Sakura says.
"Nightmare and a creature… it's really that Pokémon. But it shows the nightmare that its suffering…?"
"Mayor, leave the nightmares to me. Once I solve the nightmare, it will end."
"You would do that?" The mayor asks.
"Yes. That's what I came here to do. First, has anything happened before you received the nightmares?"
"Hmm… there was a group of people gathered around the cave near this town before we had these nightmares."
"Is that so. If it's okay, may I check that cave you mentioned?"
"If you could stop the nightmares then please do."
Sakura then turns and walks out of the room and exits the building. Once she is outside, Sakura takes out a poke ball and throws it in the air.
"Come out, Latias!" Sakura yells as the poke ball pops open and Latias appears floating in front of Sakura. "Latias, if you see a cave can you tell me?"
Latias nods her head and flies up to look for a cave that is supposed to be near the town.
"As for me, I should look around the town." Sakura says and starts walking through the streets.
In the air
Latias is looking around for a cave that her trainer is looking for as she flies around the area. Then when she sees two humans going into the cave and looks at it for the moment before going back to Sakura to tell her that she found the cave.
Meanwhile, Sakura is looking around the street as she walks, some of the people are lying on the table or on the ground as they are sleep deprived.
"This is too horrible. Whoever those people are, I won't forgive them." Sakura mutters as she clutches her hand into a fist. Just then a shadow fly over Sakura as she notices this, Sakura looks up and sees Latias coming to her.
"Latias!" Sakura calls as Latias flies down to her. "Did you find it?"
Latias nods her head and turns around, pointing to where the cave is.
"It's over there, huh?" Sakura jumps onto Latias' back. "Let's go. If my hunch is right, then I have to stop them."
Latias' flies away to where the cave is. Once they reach to the cave, Latias floats near the ground and Sakura gets off.
"So this is the cave the mayor mentioned…" Sakura says and she goes into the cave with Latias following behind. Walking through the cave with Latias following her, Sakura sees lights away from her. Once she gets near the light, she and Latias hides behind a rock and sees three men are sitting on a rock in front of a machine that shows a shadow in it.
"I still can't believe that this creature would be so useful!"
"Yeah. To think that this guy can give nightmares to other people."
"Thanks to this baby that this creature can't give us nightmares."
"You said it!"
The three men starts to laugh as Sakura grits her teeth.
"What a bunch of low lives…!" Sakura murmurs and looks at Latias. "Let's go, Latias."
Latias nods her head and Sakura moves away from the rock as Latias follows her.
"That's far enough!" She yells as the three men looks at her.
"Who are you?!"
And how did you get here!"
"I'm a Fairy Tail member, Sakura! I'm here to stop the nightmare for the town!" Sakura exclaims.
"F-Fairy Tail…! You mean that Fairy Tail!"
"Looks like those people in town decided to get wizards from guild for help…"
"The people in the town are suffering from sleep deprive for a week. Why did you need to do this?"
"They're just test subjects for the creature's power."
"What…!"
"Ever since we found it, we decided to research it and discovered that this guy and give nightmare. So we decided to use it on the town near here."
"That's unforgivable…" Sakura mutters and points at the three men. "You forced it to use its powers against the people in the town!"
"So what, it's not like they're going to die or anything."
"Also, that creature, Darkrai is suffering because your forcing itself to use its power on innocent people! That's why, I will stop the nightmares and save Darkrai!"
"let see if you can try."
The three men get different metal knuckle braces from their pocket and put them on.
"In that case if you want to fight fist, then with fist. Come out, Takeru!" Sakura shouts before she throws the poke ball in the air and pops opens as Takeru lands in front of Sakura. "Takeru, can you stall these guys while I save Darkrai?"
Takeru nods his head and Sakura and Latias go to the machine as the men watch them go near the machine.
"Wait!"
The men run after the two, but Takeru stands behind Sakura and Latias, stopping the three men. Takeru then puts out his paws together and spreads them apart, creating a light blue bone energy.
"Don't get in the way!"
One of the men charges at Takeru as he gets his fist in the air, but Takeru swings the bone at the man hitting him on the side. Meanwhile, Sakura and Latias reaches to the machine and both of them look at each other.
"Let's look around find a some kind of switch." Sakura orders and Latias nods her head as both of them start to find the switch. As Latias looks around at her side, she sees a red button on the side of the machine and she calls out for Sakura. Sakura stops looking and goes towards to where Latias is and sees the button.
"Good job, Latias!" Sakura praises and looks back at the button before pressing it.
Meanwhile, Takeru continues fending off the three men.
"What is this guy!"
"At this rate, that creature will escape if we don't do something!"
Just then, they hear something opening up and they turn their heads and see the machine is beginning to opening up as Darkrai opens its blue eyes open and rises up from the machine.
"Darkrai!" Sakura calls and Darkrai looks down staring at Sakura. "You're free now!"
Latias flies up to Darkrai and nods her head. It then quickly turns its eyes towards the three and puts its hands together creating a crimson and black ball in its hands and holds it above its head, releasing three smaller balls from the larger one towards them. When the small balls hit the men, the balls form a pink crimson bubble around it that fade away into dark crimson. Once the bubbles disappear, the men fall asleep, having nightmares.
"'Eat your own medicine.' Huh? Well, they do deserve that after all." Sakura says and turns to Latias and Darkrai. "Let's go. We have to tell the mayor that we did it."
Sakura takes out Takeru's poke ball and points at him.
"Takeru, return."
Red light envelops Takeru's body before returning into the poke ball.
~Later~
Sakura is riding on Latias as two green vines wrapped around the three men and Darkrai follows the two to the town. Once Latias floats down near the mayor's office, Sakura undoes the vines around the men as she takes out a rope from her bag and starting to tie them up. After the finish tying them up, Sakura looks up to Latias and Darkrai.
"Latias, can you stay here a bit? I'll come back soon." Sakura tells Latias and she nods her head. "And Darkrai, you're free now."
Darkrai stares at her for the moment before taking off.
"Don't get yourself caught again!" Sakura shouts and enters the building to go to the mayor's office before seeing the mayor's assistant. The assistant knocks on the door.
"Sir… the Fairy Tail wizard has come back…" The assistant says.
"Let her in…" The mayor says and the assistant opens the door letting Sakura enter the office.
"Mayor, the nightmare has ended." Sakura states and the mayor perks up from her statement.
"Are you sure…?" The mayor asks.
"Their culprits are outside tied up and having nightmares right now." Sakura says while using her thumb to point outside.
"Thank you very much!"
"But can you give me the reward tomorrow? You and the towns people need a week worth of sleep don't you?" Sakura asks.
"Yes. You're right."
~Night~
The towns people are fast asleep as Sakura is still awake while looking out the window from the room that the mayor has set up for her to stay for the night and Latias is curled up on the side of the bed.
"I'm so glad the towns people will have a peaceful sleep." Sakura says and Latias opens her eyes and lifts her head. Sakura notices this and turns to her. "Sorry, Latias. Did I wake you up?"
Latias flies near her as Sakura turns her body and rubs Latias' head.
"Latias, do you think there are other Pokémons are in this world? Like with Darkrai?"
Latias tilts her head to the side answering her question.
"You're right. We don't know until we see them." Sakura then stretches her arms and stands up. "We should sleep now. After all, we're going back to the guild tomorrow."
Latias nods her head and both of them go to the bed to go to sleep.
~Next morning~
The mayor's office
Sakura is in the mayor's office for the reward as Latias is waiting outside for her trainer.
"As promised, I will give you the reward for our request." The mayor says looking refreshed compared to the other day.
"Thank you very much." Sakura says as she receives the reward for the job request.
"No. It's thanks to you that we can sleep peacefully without having nightmares."
~Outside~
Latias sees Sakura coming out of the building and she flies towards her.
"Let's go back, Latias." Sakura says and Latias nods her head and Sakura gets on her back and Latias flies off to go back to Magnolia. Once they arrived back in Magnolia, Sakura dismounts Latias and walks towards the guild as Latias follows her.
"I wonder how the fight between Natsu and Erza went?" Sakura says. "Erza probably beat up Natsu all over the place. But it will be surprising that Natsu won."
Sakura and Latias soon spot the Fairy Tail guild as they begin approaching it. They then notice someone walked out of the Guild hall and both of them stop in their track. They see a man wearing a dark blue coat with his arms and legs mostly covered in bandages, a dark blue bandanna with a silver forehead protector, and a green mask obscuring the bottom half of his face, and in his hand appears to be a long wooden staff like with its head fan-shaped. Then man stops in his tracks as he senses Sakura's and Latias' presence and also look at them.
"A Fairy Tail member?" Sakura thought and looks the request paper in his other hand. "Looks like he is… but I never seen him before. He probably came back from a long job."
Sakura begins walking towards the Fairy Tail wizard as Latias follows her.
"Hi. Are you a part of Fairy Tail? I'm the new recruit to Fairy Tail, Sakura and this is Lati–" Before Sakura could finish introducing Latias to him, the man begins walking away. "Hey!" The moment Sakura turns around a gust of wind which then blows away along with the Fairy Tail wizard.
"He… disappeared…" Sakura says as a strap from her back falls down. "Who was that guy? Maybe the others know who he is."
Sakura and Latias go through the open door and what they see confuses them. Everyone gets up look like they had just woken up from a deep sleep as they all have drowsy looks in their eyes and some of them are even rubbing their eyes.
"This feeling… was Mystogan here?" Jet questions.
"That bastard." Droy says.
"He always uses such powerful magic." Levi says.
"Mystogan?" Lucy questions having of never heard the name before.
"One of the strongest men in Fairy Tail." Elfman explains as even he and Gray seem to have been awoken from a sleep.
"He does this because he doesn't like other people to see his face." Gray says.
"So that's why he disappeared." The wizards hear Sakura's voice says as they look towards the door to see Sakura and Latias coming towards them.
"Sakura, Latias, you're back!" Lucy says in joy to see Sakura and Latias again.
"The man just walked out of here was Mystogan?" Sakura asks as she and Latias overheard everyone else talking about Mystogan.
"Wait you saw him?" Gray asks.
"Since she was out, she wasn't affected by Mystogan's sleeping spell. And right outside as he left." Elfman says.
"He-h, that would explains you look all sleepy when we came here." Sakura says.
"When he comes to take a job, he always puts everyone to sleep like this." Gray says.
"What's with that? That's way too suspicious." Lucy says.
"So no one other than the master knows what he looks like." Gray says.
"No. I know what he looks like." A voice from the second floor says to the group as they all look up.
A very tall and muscular young man with blonde hair, slicked back, numerous spiky strands pointing backwards, though some falls down in a small tuft on his forehead, a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his right eye, a pair of magic headphones over his ears and wearing a leopard-print green tunic, a coat that is back with gray fur trimming, wine-red pants and gray shoes.
"Laxus!" Elfman yells in surprised.
"You were here?" Wakaba also says in surprised.
"That's rare." Macao says.
"Another one of the strongest." Gray says to Lucy and Sakura.
"Mystogan's shy. Keep your noses outta it!" Laxus says with a rather evil grin on his face.
At that moment, Natsu who is still sleeping, walks up and darts right up to his feet.
"Laxus! Fight me!" Natsu yells.
"You were just beat by Erza second ago!" Gray points out.
"Eh? Wasn't the fight yesterday? Why was he defeated a few seconds ago?" Sakura asks.
"It's a long story…" Lucy says with an embarrassed look on her face.
"Did… something happened yesterday?" Sakura asks with a sweatdrop.
"That's right! If you can't even beat Erza, there's no way you can beat me." Laxus says.
"What are you implying!" Erza questions with an angered look on her face as Gray begins sweating worriedly.
"Whoa, calm down Erza." Gray says.
"That I am the strongest!" Laxus proclaims as he raises his arms outward.
"Then get down here and prove it, jerk!" Natsu yells.
"How about you come up here?" Laxus says/
"Fine by me!" Natsu says as he jumps off the table he was standing on and starts running towards Laxus. Natsu jumps over the bar table as Makarov is sitting on it, as he then swings his left arm outwards and enlarges it, crushing Natsu underneath it before he can reach the staircase leading up to the second floor.
Lucy, Sakura, and Latias are a bit taken aback by this action.
"You cannot go upstairs! Not yet." Makarov says and Laxus chuckles as he seems to enjoy this.
"Seems you've made him angry." He says which seems to antagonize Natsu even more as he attempts to get out from underneath Makarov's fist.
"Laxus, enough!" Makarov says.
"I'm not giving up my seat as the strongest in Fairy Tail for anyone! Not to Erza or Mystogan either. I am the strongest!" Laxus yells.
~Much later~
Night
"About what master said before. How he can't go up to the second floor. Why is that?" Lucy asks as only her, Sakura, Latias, and Mirajane remain at the Guild Hall. Lucy and Sakura are sitting on at the bar as Latias is floating beside Sakura and Mirajane is cleaning leftover dishes.
"Is there some kind of rule?" Sakura asks.
"It's a bit early to talk to you two about it. But you are right about the rule part, Sakura. It's because on the second floor is another request board has job posted to it so difficult they don't even compare to the ones on the first. S Class quests." Mirajane explains.
"S class?" Lucy and Sakura ask.
"These are the job where the slightest mistake would mean death. Of course, the rewards are correspondingly higher. Only wizards who the master approves off can take on S Class quests. If you include Erza, Laxus, and Mystogan, then there are only five people who can do them. S Class is not really something you should seek out. They're all jobs where you'd should seek out. They're all jobs where you'd need great number of lives!"
"Seems like it." Lucy says with a smile.
~A few minutes later~
Lucy walks back to her apartment as Sakura and Latias accompany her, especially Lucy wanted to hear about Sakura's first job.
"Wow! You saved the town and a creature?" Lucy asks in amazement.
"Yep, Darkrai was forced to use its power to give nightmares to the towns people. They were sleep deprived for a week." Sakura says.
"And not only that, you got a high reward. How much?"
"500,000 jewels." Sakura answers causing Lucy to shriek out in shock as her eyes widen and her jaw drops open.
"5-500,000!? That much?" Lucy asks.
"Yep, and Mirajane recommend a place to stay."
"Wow, why can't I get as lucky as you?" Lucy questions as she becomes depressed, her arms drop down.
"Oh yeah, about Natsu and the other, I heard from Gray and the others, the fight between Natsu and Erza was interrupted yesterday?" Sakura asks.
"Mhm. A messenger from the Council came, placing Erza under arrest for all of the destruction that was caused during our battle with Eisenwald and Lullaby." Lucy says.
"Erza?! Wasn't she the one of the people stop them?"
"It was nothing too bad. The Council apparently did it just for show, in order to preserve the order of the magical world, they have to make a show of enforcing law among wizards. She would've been guilty, buy no real punishment would've occurred from what Mirajane told me. In fact, she would've been back sometime later last night… except for the part Natsu went to the Council and literally interrupted the court with a bang. Tried to pretend he was Erza…" Lucy says as the last part lowers her head in annoyance and sweatdrop.
"So that's what happened…" Sakura trails off.
"And not much happened before you and Latias came back. Natsu challenges Erza again, charging her and before she even accepted it all she did was punch him and went down. But the battle before seemed like it was actually going to be interesting before the Council interrupted."
"I bet it was."
As Sakura, Latias, and Lucy near her apartment, a small boat with two men on board pass by on the river that goes through the town.
"What your step missy!" One of the men shouts and the three look at the man before Sakura waves at him.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Sakura, Latias. You're going to go to the place that Mirajane recommended you right?" Lucy asks as she turns to the two.
"Yeah." Sakura replies.
"Do you need someone to take you there?"
"It's all right. Mirajane told me to go to a hill nearby to go to there."
"All right, good night you two." Lucy says.
"Night, Lucy." Sakura says as she and Latias turn around and go to the place where Mirajane recommended for her.
Suddenly, the two hear Lucy screaming from her room and they turn their heads to the window.
"Lucy!" Sakura exclaims and starts to running back to her Lucy's apartment with Latias following her. Sakura quickly open the door and run up the stairs that leads to her room, reaching for the door and Sakura turns the knob and bursts through the door with Latias behind her. "Lucy! Are you–" Sakura stops her sentence as they see why Lucy screamed in the first place.
"If you're gonna weight lift, do it in your house!" Lucy yells at a bare chested Natsu as Happy seems to be lifting a barbell.
"What are you saying? We're a team right?" Natsu questions innocently as he holds his stomach which Lucy had kicked him in anger.
"Looks like Natsu and Happy broke in again." Sakura says.
"Here, you try!' Natsu says as he pulls out a pink weight and holds it towards Lucy who is confused by this.
"You like pink right?" Happy asks as he appears behind Natsu.
"Sure, but I don't care about barbells!" Lucy yells in anger and her eyes bulge out.
"E-to, what's going on here?" Sakura asks finally getting Natsu's, Lucy's, and Happy's attention.
"What are you doing here?!" Lucy yells as she is now questioning why she and Latias are in her room.
"We heard you scream outside so I thought you need help."
"Ah! Sakura! Perfect timing! Now you can join us!" Natsu says in excitement.
"In what exactly?" Sakura asks as Natsu and Happy are now on the ground doing push-ups.
"We've got to get more powerful if we're gonna beat Era and Laxus." Natsu says.
"Aye sir!" Happy says with a determined look on his face.
"It doesn't matter to me, now leave!" Lucy complains.
"Lucy is right. When you're training, do it outside." Sakura says.
"We're gonna train all night!" Natsu says as if he didn't hear Sakura's comment and he and Happy start doing push-ups at a faster rate of speed.
"Someone save me!" Lucy cries.
"I decided." Natsu says as he and Happy stop as Lucy, Sakura, and Latias wondering what Natsu means by that. "Let's do an S Class, Lucy! And you can join in as well, Sakura!"
Happy now on Lucy's bed as he pulls out an S class quest, a normal looking quest paper with a big red circle and a capital S in the middle of it with a title saying 'Help us!'
Lucy and Sakura are terrified and shocked at what they see as Lucy's eyes widening up.
"How'd you get that?! I thought you couldn't go up to the second floor?!" Lucy questions.
"We went up and took one." Happy simply says.
"Cat burglar!" Lucy yells at Happy.
Natsu, now put his clothes his clothes back on as he slides over to the three.
"Well, it's out first time so I picked the cheapest one. Even so, it's still 7 million jewel!" Natsu says with a smile.
"No way! We don't have permission to do an S Class." Lucy says.
"If we do this right, then gramps'll have to recognize us." Natsu says.
"More like the master going to recognize for stealing a S Class request that we can't do." Sakura points out and Lucy sits down and sighs.
"Really, you're always doing crazy things like this. At least follow the rules of your own guild." Lucy says.
"If I do that, I'll never be able to get up to the second floor!"
"Can't you wait until Master recognize you as an S Class wizard?" Sakura asks.
"Anyways, I can't go. You two go and enjoy yourselves." Lucy says.
"It's a job where we're supposed to rescue an island." Happy says.
"An island?" Lucy says.
For a few moments, everything completely silent for some reason and suddenly, both Natsu and Happy put on a scary look on their faces.
"Galuna, the cursed island!" Natsu says in a spooky tone.
"Now I'm definitely not going!" Lucy exclaims.
"Even if I don't give you half the fish?" Happy asks.
"That's not an incentive!" Lucy yells.
"Don't bribe someone after you said that!" Sakura exclaims.
"Tch. We're leaving." Natsu says.
"Aye." Happy say.
"Go cool your heads a little, sheesh." Lucy says as she then notices Natsu and Happy going through her window. "Hey! Leave using the door!" She yells at the two, but they are already out. Lucy then sighs as she turns around and then spotting the S Class poster on the floor as she freaks out. "Thy left the poster here! Wait, now it looks like I stole it! What am I going to do?" She then sees something on the bottom of the poster and she picks it up to look at closer. "No way! You also get one of the Twelve Golden Gate Keys?"
Lucy continues to stare down at the poser as Sakura and Latias are surprised that was a reward as well, but wondering now what Lucy is going to do.
"Lucy…?" Sakura calls trying to get her attention.
Lucy looks up from the poster and her eyes are wide as they can be and a mischievous look on her face. She then run towards her closet, grabs some clothes, runs into the bathroom, out of it in a few seconds wearing those clothes and out of the door in an instant.
"There she goes…" Sakura says and suddenly her eyes glow purple as she sees a blurry visions of a crescent-shaped island, a demon encased in ice, and Gray fighting a man. As she sees the visions, Sakura clutches her head and sits on the floor while Latias looks at her with a worried expression on her face. Once her eyes stop glowing, Sakura puts her hands on the floor for support as she pants heavily.
"It's been a while since I saw 'that'." Sakura mutters and looks up at Latias. "I'm all right now, Latias. You don't have to worry. Ta–ku… of all the times, 'that' power appeared. Let's go, Latias. We're going to follow Natsu and Lucy."
Down the street from Lucy's apartment
Natsu, Happy, and Lucy who has caught up to the two, are on their way when all of the sudden hear Sakura's voice.
"Wait up!" Sakura shouts and the three turn around to see her and Latias catching up to them. "Are you really planning to leave us behind?" Sakura asks.
"I thought you didn't want to come." Lucy points out.
"Well, I changed my mind." Sakura replies and looks down. "And there's another reason I'm going…"
"All right then, let's go save an island!" Natsu exclaims as the group heads off.