Now, I haven't put a message at the start of a chapter in a long while now since usually it was to reply to guest reviewers that I can't do in a message. However, I recently received a review from NPrime with the following message:
"Read this till chapter 24. This story had a great and unique start. But gradually it becomes more like creating different platforms/settings so that this version of Natsu can show his power and gloat about it. I can't imagine someone taking such pride for being a murderer, even if he is killing monsters, evil Mages or dragons etc.
Then there situations like he can cut reality/space and travel through it. Did that with celestial world, GMG and other places. But can't whem it comes to save Lucy which can be pretty fast. There is no consistency when it comes to that.
But I like his relationship with other mages especially his Gfs. He acts like a typical but a little forward Natsu which is cool. I love this story so far and I hope you will continue to write it and other new stories as well. Good luck."
Now, while I understand the points this person has made, I noticed they have ignored a lot of points in the story as well as misunderstood some of the connotations found in situations such as when Natsu turns into a berserk demon with a demonic bloodlust… So, like with the message I sent to NPrime in response to this review, I'll explain the rationale and provide some counterpoints. I hope the following, which is a direct copy of the message I replied with, helps clear up any issues some may be having with the themes of this story:
"Firstly, with his show of power I would like you to think of it this way, a post-war Natsu has travelled to a place where the power levels were that of him something like three or four years prior. With how much Natsu had grown in the year of training he had post-Tartaros and the fact that Lucy, the person closest to Natsu, couldn't even recognise his magical signature and immediately went into evacuate everyone mode upon his return and entrance into the GMG after his training, when you factor in the amount of growth he would have had after the war and also how he became one with END which unlocked even more power, you will see the massive gap in power between GMG era mages and Natsu himself. There is also the point that the Etherious are powered off of Negative Energy, as stated in the Tartaros arc. The more of that energy is around, the more powerful the demons become, and since Natsu is an Etherious he too becomes more powerful. When the dragon apocalypse was happening, everyone was full of fear and panic, this fueled Natsu to be even stronger.
My second point carries on from that demonic power of END, in the story END has his own personality inside of Natsu's body. This causes a state of flux between his humanity and his demonic nature, stylised by the change in demeanour and his eyes changing to red from their normal green. END, while a comedic perv, is by his nature a sadistic demon and this personality bleeds into Natsu's own and sometimes becomes the dominant personality, as shown by when his desire for revenge and hatred of Future Rogue as well as his irritation from the events leading up to the encounter on top of his own mental state from being away from the people he loves, his true family, it all started to take a toll on him and made him tip over the edge. Think of it as something like split personality disorder, there is two Natsu's in the one body and both are conscious personalities. Throughout the story I've mentioned how Natsu is changing from the man he used to be, this is the result of having merged with his demonic side and due to this factor, Natsu is becoming a darker person and heading down a different path than other possible versions of himself.
The third point is Durandal's ability to cut through space, it wasn't a matter of him not being able to do it, but more of the possible repercussions, as was mentioned in the chapters. Had he taken that route to save Lucy, it would have been narrowed down to a Fairy Tail mage saving her, and the only one who has demonstrated the ability to travel in and out of there (save for Mest who doesn't remember himself right now) was Natsu himself. Having realised that, there was a chance that the Crown would have taken action against the guild itself, be it stripping them of their legal status, arresting them, or sending the Executioners after them. The only route that would've solved the issue was to infiltrate the castle and to rescue Lucy, while also neutralising the Executioners to prevent them from being sent after the Guild, this also leads back to the power difference in the fact that Fairy Tail beat the Executioners at that time, what would have this Natsu been capable against them."
I had omitted the opening and closing sentences where I thanked this person for reviewing and expressing my hope that this has cleared things up with them. I'm sorry for spotlighting this particular review, but it brought to my attention the possibility that some people had missed some things and were confused about the state of the story. I hope this has helped with any confusion people may have had, if you have questions about the story then feel free to message me directly and I'll try and reply with a suitable answer. That's enough of my rambling, let's get on with the chapter, I hope you all enjoy!
Natsu stood on the second floor, leaning on the railing and watching the members of various guilds mingling below him. A handful of days had passed since the guilds had the massive brawl that almost completely demolished the ground floor. The mages who were wounded in the fight were promptly healed by the various healers throughout the guilds and things had for the most part calmed down since then. The salmon-haired man had been waiting on Levy to come to him when she was ready to look for a suitable testbed for her vehicles, but he hadn't heard a single peep from her beyond the passing greetings they've had when they bumped into each other either out in town or around the guild itself.
"Natsu? I figured you'd be busy somewhere?"
The pinkette glanced to his side as Queen Hisui came up to the railing. She had forgone wearing her fancy attire and had just donned a simple white sundress with a green belt around her waist to form the dress to her curves, she had white thigh-highs and a pair of green simple shoes. The crown she wore was also notably missing. "Hey, Hisui. You look beautiful today." The man returned his gaze to the floor below as he watched people mingle. "I had planned on heading to another universe today or sometime soon to find a suitable base for a vehicle to use in the development of the vehicles here."
The regal woman blushed faintly at the compliment but quickly brought herself under control. She smiled at the man and stepped closer to him, leaning down on the railing too so she could people watch. "You know, it's strange seeing how the guilds get along with each other. I was here before they all turned up, since this will be where we hold the meeting between myself and the dignitaries from Alvarez. But when they all arrived, they stayed in their guild groupings, separating themselves from the other guilds and staying in their little bubbles. But now, well, look at them." The monarch smiled proudly as one of the fairies carried some food over to a table with members from Mermaid Heel and Blue Pegasus and joined them at the table. "They all intermingle like they are all friends. Yeah, there are people who don't like each other, but the environment here allows them to work it out."
"Probably by starting a fight." Natsu chuckled softly. His eyes drifted once more back to the woman, following the curve of her body down from her shoulders, dipping down at her arched back and up to her ass.
'Dare you to grab it.'
"Natsu." Hisui muttered softly before lightly hitting him in the side. "Stop staring at my butt." The woman was pouting but she was giving him a mirthful look with her eyes. Finding it funny that she caught him staring at her like she was just another woman instead of the Queen of Fiore. "You're lucky my guards aren't here and Arcadios is outside doing some training."
'Go on, grab it. See what happens.'
"Where are your guards?"
"I sent them back to Crocus, I have no need for them here and I didn't want to keep them away from their families for too long." Hisui folded her arms on the railing and rested her chin upon them, accentuating her natural arch even more. "Right now, I'm just a woman staying at this guild."
"You know… If we taught you Transformation magic, you could sneak over here when you are feeling bored and play guild staff for a while?" Natsu suggested with a small smile. Of course, there was the issue of her getting from the Castle all the way to Magnolia but they could work out some kind of way around that issue given time.
"Hmm?" Hisui turned her head to the man, her eyes wide with surprise. "That actually sounds really fun. I would love to do that."
'Touch the booty. Touch it!'
"I think you'd enjoy it here. Yeah it gets rowdy but that's just how we are, never a dull moment here." The man gave her a fanged grin and placed a warm hand on her shoulder. "If you want to give it a shot then talk to Mira, she's the head barmaid. She'll be able to teach you Transformation magic too so you can blend in."
The Jade Queen slowly gave the man a warm smile. He was one of the few people who didn't treat her like royalty but just like a normal person. She admired that trait, it made her feel welcome. Like she had a place to belong where no one would treat her differently or judge her. "I'll do that when she isn't busy." Hisui said cheerfully as she gazed down at the bar at the opposite side of the ground floor where Mira stood behind the bar, directing the staff to different locations all while pouring drinks for people at the bar itself.
'Come on… Make like a pirate and grab that BOOTY!'
Natsu groaned and covered his face with a hand. The action drew the attention of the Queen beside him who glanced up at him curiously. "Sorry, Hisui, just my inner demon being an idiot again."
"What's he saying?" Hisui was familiar with the voice inside of Natsu's mind. From what she had been told by various people, END was very perverse and would frequently tell Natsu to do something to every woman he comes across. "Is it about me?"
"He wants me to grab your ass." The man replied flatly, shooting a glance back at the raised rear end of the woman. "He just told me to "make like a pirate and grab that booty"…"
The woman burst out in a fit of giggles, covering her mouth as she tried to reign them in. She glanced around the floor for people watching the two of them and on a whim, she moved her butt towards the man a little while giving him a small smile and a playful wink. "Go on, I won't tell anyone."
'Yes! She's into it! NOW GRAB IT!'
Natsu let out a small sigh and shook his head. He slowly ran his hand down the woman's arched back and onto her ass before giving her right cheek a hearty squeeze, earning a sharp gasp from the woman as a blush rose to her face.
'Fuck Yeah!'
Hisui shivered then stood upright as Natsu's hand fell from her behind. She gave him a small smile and leant close to her ear. "You should do that more often, and maybe I'll let you squeeze other places." She whispered playfully before giving him a squeeze on the ass and moving downstairs to talk to Mira.
A pair of soft full breasts pressed up against the man's back as supple lips kissed his neck. "Master, did I see what I think I saw?"
"I told her what END was saying and she decided to let him have what he wanted." Natsu turned to the etherious woman and staggered back a little when she pushed herself firmly against his chest. "Wanna come check on Levy? We might see about heading over to another universe."
"Only if I get squeezed like she did." The purple-haired demon pouted up at the man as her purple demonic eyes shone with jealousy. She wanted to be touched again, to feel her master venting his desires for her on and in her body. She knew it hadn't been all that long ago but a girl has her desires too.
"I'll squeeze you and fill you as much as you would like, Seilah." He replied with a chuckle. The man took her hand and took her down to the Workshop. Levy wasn't in the main section, but it looked like she was there recently. Natsu could detect her scent leading into the vehicle bay. "Have you seen her new addition to the workshop?"
"No, what is it?"
"She created a vehicle workshop, she's got all kinds of equipment there." Natsu led the demon into the next room. They found Levy bent over a magic mobile in a short orange dress that had ridden up and was showing off her ass and light blue lace underwear.
"Come on you bastard, get back here…" Levy grumbled as she tried to reach a tool she had dropped down through a gap.
Seilah placed a hand over her Master's mouth and winked at him before making a loop with a finger and thumb and inserting another finger through the hole with a devious grin. She gave Natsu a little shove forward towards Levy, urging him forward to toy with the woman.
'Hehehe, do it! Seilah's idea is brilliant!'
Natsu sighed internally and shook his head at the two naughty demons. He'd go with their idea just this once, though he believed there was a high chance that it'd result in him getting backhanded across the room. He slipped his right middle finger into his mouth to wet it as he quietly approached the busy woman. The man carefully hooked a finger into the underwear of the blunette and pushed it aside before easing his finger into Levy's exposed pussy.
Levy groaned and tightened around the hot finger. She instantly knew just who had done it from the radiant heat the man was giving off. So she lifted her head and gazed at him with a smirk. "Let me guess, END told you to do it?" She asked with a wiggle and roll of her hips, getting the digit to move inside her.
"Actually, it was Seilah. But END did agree." Natsu replied as he started to remove his finger, only to be stopped by Levy's hand wrapping around his wrist and pulling him back in.
"I didn't say stop. I need the morale boost right now since I dropped a tool down into the chassis and have been trying to reach it for the last ten minutes." Levy buried herself back into the car but wiggled her ass to urge the man to continue. "So finger fuck me already."
"Alright." Natsu inserted a second finger into the blunette's womanhood and started pumping them rapidly, easing a long moan out of the woman's lips as she arched and buried herself further into the magic vehicle. He felt her become rapidly soaked as she moaned louder and louder.
A giggle rang out from over his shoulder as Seilah came over and pressed herself against his back. "I told you to do it because Levy has said multiple times how she dying to have you inside her. So I decided we should give her a tiny surprise."
"Damn, Seilah." Levy grumbled at the tool that was just out of her reach. "Next you'll be getting him to stick his huge cock into me when I least expect it. Not that I'm against that idea, but at least lube it up before it gets shoved into me, I'm a small woman after all and that monster may just split me in two."
Seilah slowly started to grin at the moaning woman. She slid her arms around Natsu's waist and slowly unzipped his pants. "Maybe next time." The demon started stroking her master's cock to get it nice and hard before guiding it closer to the bent-over woman.
"Seilah." Natsu muttered flatly as he looked at the semen demon over his shoulder, only to get an innocent look as if she wasn't handling his cock right now. "You're playing with fire…"
The demon gave him a sweet smile before rubbing his tip against the blue-haired woman's clit, earning a shocked gasp from her as she quickly looked back and glared at Seilah. "Let the man stick it in me of his own accord, damn it! I know I want to get endlessly railed by him, but let him fuck me himself!"
"Anyway." Natsu put his cock away and gave the demon a quick spank on the ass and a cross look before turning to the angry but soaking wet blunette who was letting out loud moans thanks to his fingers still pounding at her pussy. "I came to check up on you, do you want to go and look for that testbed now?"
"I-in a moment~." Levy started to pant as she coiled around the pair of fingers inside of her. She was nearing her climax and didn't want to be left unsatisfied. Her moans came faster and louder as she drew nearer and nearer until the dam broke and pleasure shot up through her spine. "Oh Fuck yes~!"
"Now would you like to go?"
The limp blunette grabbed the tool from the chassis and pushed herself off the car. She felt Natsu's fingers leave her body but they left behind a desire for something larger that could penetrate her much deeper and turn her mind to mush. "Yeah, let me grab a few things. I don't think we'll need our armour." Levy led the way back into her main workshop and headed right for her desk. "Jessie, engage follow mode."
"Following, Ma'am."
The small woman glanced back at the dragon slayer and smirked deviously, she reached under her dress and pushed her underwear down her legs until the only thing she had on was the dress and her sandals. She dropped them into a draw then gathered a bag full of tools and equipment, she slung it onto her back and opened up a portal. "I haven't done much recon of this place but I believe it should serve our purposes." She grabbed her Laser Rifle from a case on the nearby wall then approached the swirling vortex.
"What is this, the no panties parade?" Natsu asked satirically as he glanced between the two women, knowing that Seilah basically only wears a kimono and thigh highs, and now Levy is going commando. He just shrugged his shoulders and requipped Durandal onto his back along with his new rifle and the Boltok onto his hip. "END is going to have a field day…" The man muttered as he crossed through the portal.
Location Unknown, Universe 8008-13S
The trio emerged out into a street. The road was paved with asphalt and the overall look of the area around them was fairly futuristic by their standards. The only off-putting thing about their surroundings was the eerie silence for such a built-up city. Natsu could pick up faint sounds of shuffling and groans in the far distance, along with the occasional pop of bullets flying through the air. "Levy, where are we?"
"Universe 8008-13S, I chose it because it has a lot of valuable technology that could be taken with little resistance."
'800… Hey! That spells out BOOBIES!'
"Oh, fuck me…" Natsu muttered as he shook his head. He had to overcome the extreme urge to punch himself and knock himself out for fear that END could possibly take control of his body and he didn't know what would be worse, having to listen to the annoying demon or said annoying demon having full control of his body… The possibilities were nightmare-inducing. "OK, is there anything else we know?"
"Jessie, can you search around for information. Come find us once you find something."
"Yes Ma'am."
"Alright." Levy turned to the two Etherious, placing her hands on her hips while the Duraframe Eyebot floated away down the street. "Can you two feel anything?"
"Death, despair, and a whole fuck-tonne of fear." Natsu replied as he glanced about the street they were stood in the middle of. He glanced down at his hands and tried out his magic by igniting them, his hands becoming engulfed in a brilliant orange fire that was his natural dragon slaying flames. "Magic works here, that'll simplify some things."
"At least it feels warm here, I'm guessing that it is late spring." Levy murmured as she started walking down the street, following the Eyebot slowly. "The breeze is nice, gives me the tingles."
"I'm not sensing any living beings around us for a good distance." Seilah informed the group as she used Macro to start floating a handful of inches up off the ground. "Maybe we should check one of these houses?"
"Good idea, we'll find out more about their world if we do." Natsu replied with a quick nod. He walked over to one of the tall brick fences and pushed on the gate. "Locked…"
"Just bust it open. We don't have to finesse things here." Said the blunette as she pushed the man aside and tried kicking the gate open. Only to bounce back and fall on her ass onto the grass in an undignified mess.
The salmon-haired man chuckled softly at the small woman's plight before driving his fist into the door, sending the gate flying off the hinges and clattering along the ground. "Open Sesame."
"You could have just used Macro to unlock the gate, you know?" Seilah shook her head and walked towards the house and used her curse to unlock the door itself. She pushed it open and looked back at the two mages. "See?"
"Show off." Levy murmured while she was being helped up by Natsu. The short woman pushed past the female demon and moved into the house, she saw a flashing panel on the wall that was requesting a passcode. She quickly held up a panel from her Archive magic and overrode the panel, preventing it from doing whatever it was about to do. "This place looks fairly cosy."
Natsu sniffed the air, searching for the scents of the inhabitants. "This place has been deserted for close to a month now. The only scents here are old ones, no looters either."
Levy moved around the house, looking for something to tell her something about the place they were in. She found a calendar hung on a wall in the lounge room. "Seems like we are in the month of April." The woman looked over her shoulder at the dragon slayer as he entered the room. "You said that this place has been uninhabited for about a month? Whoever lived her crossed off the days on this calendar as they passed by, and the last cross was midway through March."
"Convenient." The man muttered as he walked past, glancing up at the clock on the wall. It was half-past three in the afternoon going by the hands of the clock. "Anything on what happened here?"
"Nothing right now."
"Hey you two, this bed is super soft!" Seilah called out from what Natsu and Levy could only guess was the Master Bedroom. "You should come and check it out!"
"Did you have to bring her along?" Levy murmured quietly, knowing full well that she could be heard by the dragon slayer who was currently raiding the kitchen.
"She wanted to come, and I saw no issue with it. Just bear with the little distraction, she won't be too much of a handful."
'Unless you've got her tits in our hands, then she'll be a handful!'
"I hope she won't…"
"She's pretty easy to reign in if she does go a little bit wild." Natsu said as he came back to the lounge room. "She may be a demon but she does have a mind, personality, and common sense. Just tell her to cool it and why and she'll come around. She's just a bit excited to be in a world that doesn't resemble our own."
"I guess I can understand that… I was giddy when I first travelled to a safe universe." Levy murmured. She turned to the man and sighed softly. "Not much here to use. Let's check the garage then move on."
"Alright." Natsu stuck his head into the bedroom, finding Seilah undertaking a panty raid in the previous owner's draws. "Seilah, we're moving out."
"Coming, Master~!" The demon cheered. She quickly floated out of the room and circled around the man, drifting backwards with a playful smile. "I like it here, feels homey."
'Cop a feel!'
"God damn it… END is particularly active today." Natsu grumbled while his eyes drifted down to the pale woman's endless cleavage which caused the woman to giggle and grab his hands. She placed them onto her bountiful breasts and made him squeeze the melons.
"Is that better, Master~?"
'Fuck Yes~!'
Natsu sighed softly. Yes, they were fantastically soft and squeezable, in fact, he gave them a few quick squeezes himself to get it out of his system. But that didn't stop the fact that they had a job to do and they couldn't allow to be side-tracked just yet by the pleasures of flesh. If he followed the rabbit hole that his inner demon wanted him to then all he'd be doing is screwing Seilah and Levy and not getting anything productive done beyond reducing the two women to a drooling mess of lust and semen, and while that was admittedly an enticing idea the man had things he had to do. "Yes, they feel great and are wonderful to sleep on, but right now I can't play with them."
"Aww." Seilah murmured as she wrapped her arms around the man's neck and started kissing him slowly. "But I want to play~."
"If we are here overnight then we can have some fun in this world. But right now we need to focus." The man murmured against her soft lips, he gently sank his fangs into her bottom lip and earned a sharp gasp from the demoness as her eyes darkened with lust.
"You tease~!"
He gave her a spank and walked to the front door where Levy stood waiting. Natsu walked outside and moved over to the garage, unlocking it and lifting it up with Macro. "Let's see what is in here."
To their great disappointment, the garage was empty. Though there were some canisters that were labelled Petrol sitting in the corner. Levy walked over to the cans and opened one, giving it a tiny sniff before scrunching her nose up. "Yeah, that's fuel… Since it is labelled Petrol and not Gas, it must mean we aren't in a place like that USA that McGarden was telling me about. Hopefully Jessie will provide more information when it gets back."
"We should take these cans with us, just in case we'll need what's inside them." Said Natsu as he came up to the woman's back. He reached down and tapped the three 20L cans of fuel, causing them to flash for a split second before vanishing. "Ready to move on?"
"Yeah, I don't think there is much else to find here." Levy replied. She led the group out of the fenced-off house and continued along the footpath. Towards them floated the Eyebot belonging to the blunette.
"Ma'am! I've discovered something!"
"What is it, Jessie?"
"We are currently in a place called Tokonosu City in a country called Japan. It is currently the 23rd of April and 28 days ago an unidentified contagion spread throughout the city, transferring through bodily fluid to infect the next person. The local military has declared the city a Code Black Quarantine Zone, no one can enter or leave without authorisation."
"Did you find anything more about this contagion… Like what does it do?" Levy asked as she drew her Laser Rifle from her back and glanced at Natsu, prompting him to do the same with his Suppressed Rifle.
"It transforms the victims into human husks. They showed very little cognitive activity in my scans except when a stimulus was added, they registered something similar to a group collective." The Eyebot relayed to its master. It started to drift along behind the group as they proceeded down the street. "It seems that they have undergone tissue degradation akin to that of a rotting corpse, slowing the movement of the older subjects, though the newly infected subjects seem to retain a high degree of movement and can achieve and maintain speeds of professional athletes without the brain stopping them before damage takes place."
"Well, fuck." The blunette muttered and turned to the salmon-haired man. "I think we are dealing with the walking dead. I think it's a good idea if I go back for our armour. Keep moving, I'll lock onto your signal and come right back."
"Alright, we'll be moving at a decent pace. Going to cover as much ground as we can." Natsu replied quickly. He cycled his rifle and took it off safe so he could be ready to pop heads in an instant. "Whelp, I guess now is a good time to learn how to use this gun."
"Seilah, take my rifle, I modified her to have a recharging cell bank so don't worry about running short. She also has an SE power system in the grip that'll amplify the rifle's power though I'm not sure if you'll be able to use that feature." The small woman tossed the rifle over to the floating demon. "Take care of her for me." Levy tapped the even more compact version of Natsu's PIT that was strapped to her wrist like a watch and opened a portal nearby. She hurried through it, leaving the two Etherious behind.
"Wanna fuck?" Seilah instantly asked Natsu, her head snapping across to her master with a sultry grin. "Come on, Master, I'm so wet I could irrigate a desert~."
'Do it! Come on, fuck her senseless!'
"Sorry, Seilah. We've got a job to do." The man replied softly before taking off at a quick jog down the street. "Jessie, on me!"
"Coming, Sir!"
Seilah giggled playfully and floated along after the man, lazily spinning and flipping in mid-air while gliding circles around him. "But Master, don't you want to play hide the wiener with me?"
"I do, but it has to wait." Natsu sighed softly. He grabbed the woman by the wrist and pulled her towards him before giving her a long and loving kiss. "The rest can come later."
"Oh, there will be plenty of coming later~." The woman purred as she drifted through the air.
The two Etherious continued on, going back and forth about sex for fifteen minutes before they were greeted with another portal. Out came Natsu's saviour in the form of a petite but fiery blunette, she had her armour on which seemed to resemble a smaller version of his armour but with a streamlined helmet, like one would see on a motorcyclist, and no duster just clean streamlined armour. She was lugging a bag behind her, grumbling under her breath about the weight of it. "Here's your gear, Natsu. How the hell you move in all this is beyond me."
"You notice it less once it is on you." The man replied as he quickly grabbed the bag, it vanished in a flash of light, then his clothes flashed as they were replaced with the formfitting under-suit and the armour on top of it. He left off the helmet for now, but if it turned out he needed it then he'll requip it on. Noting his decision, Levy handed him her helmet, deferring to his preference.
"Hold onto that for me, if things go bad then I'll need it." Levy smiled and watched the helmet disappear in a flash of light. "Let's go."
Seilah handed Levy's rifle back to her and floated along closely behind Natsu as the trio continued through the neighbourhood, searching garages as they pass by for suitable test vehicles. When they found cans of Petrol, they stored them away for research purposes. Maybe it was possible to synthesize a similar fuel in Fiore, and if not then at least Levy had a good reference for creating her Lacrima Fuel.
As night fell, they found themselves in a small shopping district. They had been lucky so far, avoiding the walking dead thanks to Natsu's hearing. But the areas they had been were fairly sparse for resources. Forcing them to push deeper into districts inhabited by Shamblers, as they had dubbed the slow-moving dead.
"I hope they have some food here…" Natsu muttered, his stomach grumbling loudly the group entered a shopping centre.
"At the very least, they'd have frozen stuff that we'd just have to heat up." Levy replied quietly. Something was feeling a little off, she lightly elbowed Natsu and tapped her ear, silently asking if he could hear anything, only to get a shake of the head.
"Nothing inside so far, I hear shuffling down the street through…"
Even Seilah had quietened down about how much she wanted to be pounded up against every conceivable surface though judging from her scent and the occasional glimpse Natsu got of her wet womanhood, she was definitely still thinking about it with every last neuron in her brain.
"We should check the grocery stores, they should have some food there." Natsu murmured softly. He crossed the large hall over to a caged off shop where he could see various food items inside. "One second, I'll get us in."
Levy shouldered her rifle and spun around, giving the man her back as she scanned the area around them. "Make it quick and quiet."
The man ignited a finger with a jet of fire and took to the metal bars like he was using a blow torch. He cut through piece by piece slowly and carefully, making sure to put each bar down on the floor gently so they didn't clatter and draw attention.
"I sense humans…" Seilah whispered as she lowered herself to the floor and crouched down next to her Master. "They are coming closer, I sense fear and dread. They're alive."
"Lev, do you have anything that'll kill the lights?"
"Yeah." The small woman replied quietly before pointing up at the lights above them. "Solid Script: Surge." She murmured as a bolt of lightning in the shape of the word shot from her finger and raced towards the light. Blowing the circuits belonging to the building's lighting system and bathing them in darkness save for the glow of Natsu's flame. "We'll need our helmets to see. Seilah, I've never asked this nor did I think I ever would, but how well can you see in the dark?"
"About as well as any other person, probably a bit better." The demoness murmured. "Have you got anything for me?"
"I've got goggles, they're welding goggles that I added some stuff to that allowed me to see in dark places for when I was working in dark and cramped locations." Levy pulled out the goggles from a pouch on her belt and handed it to the woman. "I keep them with me since it's easier to use them than the helmet sometimes." She also handed the demonic woman a Laser Pistol that she had holstered at her hip. "For self-defence."
Natsu paused his task of cutting through the bars for the moment as he requipped the woman's helmet into his hands and handed it to her along with putting his own onto his head. He tapped a button on the side of his helmet to activate his Night Vision mode. Due to his helmet passing his voice through a modulator, his voice was coming through the helmet's external speakers distorted but still easily understood, a precaution to prevent people picking up on his vocal signature. "Just be aware, my helmet's lenses and my armour lights glow red and blue."
Levy reached over once she had her helmet on and hit a button in the inside of Natsu's throat protector, shutting off the armour's lighting. "They are both synced together, you can toggle the colour from red to blue on the inside of that guard, there is also an on-off switch to shut them off completely. Figured it'd be useful for when you don't want to be seen."
"Thanks Lev." The man got back to cutting through the bars as quietly as he could. He was thankful that Levy had installed some pretty advanced external microphones into the helmet, it allowed his enhanced hearing to work perfectly and not be muffled like his old helmet had. Though, his sense of smell was blocked due to the hermetic seals. "Almost done, just two more bars."
"They are in the carpark outside." Seilah whispered to the two mages. She pointed in the direction that her demonic senses were picking them up in and glanced at Levy who trained her rifle at the nearest entrance in that area.
"We're in." Natsu rose to his feet and stepped inside the store. He was quickly followed by Seilah then Levy who backed her way in with her rifle still aimed at the door. "We should get some food to cook then get the hell out of here, if we get into a firefight it could draw the dead here."
"Hell, I don't even want to risk a shouting match…" Levy muttered quietly. She swung her gun around and tapped Natsu's shoulder as she passed by. "Take the rear, you can hear better than me." The woman heard the rustle of his armoured duster as he turned and brought his rifle to bear on their rear. Levy moved through the preserves isle and grabbed a bunch of tinned food, enough to feed them for all for a few days should they need to be there that long. "We're lucky this place hasn't been fully plundered…"
"That canned food can't be as bad as Gray's cooking." Natsu said as he took a glance at what the woman was grabbing. "Probably pays to grab the highest priced stuff since we don't have to pay for it."
"Yeah, that's what I'm grabbing." Levy replied as she stuffed the cans into her backpack. "We'll need stuff to drink too, and maybe we should grab some frozen meals while we are here. If they are still here…"
"You're the boss." Natsu kept his focus on the people who had entered the shopping centre, they were being quiet but it seems that they didn't know that his group were there. He glanced at Seilah, she had her eyes closed but he knew that she was tracking them too through their emotions. "They're in the building, they don't know we are here."
"Let's keep it that way…" The blunette slowly moved around the store, grabbing items of value to them but leaving anything that could be out of date. Once she decided that they had enough supplies, she shouldered her rifle once again and nodded to the pinkette. "We're all set to move."
Before they could leave the grocer they were pillaging, the sounds of a scuffle reached Natsu's ears. Metal was hitting metal, sending loud clinks and clanks through the building. Moments later the sound of shattering glass echoed through the echoed down the hall and an alarm started screeching, wailing through the darkness.
"Fuck." Natsu uttered, swinging his rifle around to the disturbance but not seeing anyone in his lit up visor. "We need to get out of here…" Before he could get a reply from either of the women, a loud almost inhuman roar permeated the building, shaking the walls. "Fucking Run!"
The ringing alarm echoed through the dark and dense night air as the heavy footfalls on Natsu thudded against the tiled floor. He was sprinting full tilt yet somehow Levy could maintain the same pace, running alongside him while Seilah flew behind them. Levy noticed his glance and smiled to herself. "My armour is built with a Power Assist function, I can carry more weight and run faster for longer since about eighty percent of the work is done by the armour itself. It was necessary for expeditions with you, I needed to be able to keep up."
As the trio burst out into the night, they were met with a horde of dead sprinting towards them, screaming their lungs out in undead rage and hunger. There had to be well over a hundred ragged corpses pouring into the carpark from the streets around them. Some were missing an arm or two while others had been sliced open and had their intestines bursting from their stomachs, some were even missing jaws.
"Oh fuck, that's nasty…" Remarked Levy, loudly. She was thankful her helmet blocked out the smell of rotten flesh and faecal matter and whatever other odour was coming off these monstrosities. Taking the initiative, she lined her sights up with the closest ghoul and let loose a storm of lasers.
"I want to know how the fuck it can run so fast while it has half its guts hanging out!" Natsu half-shouted while he flicked up his Vintorez and started sending subsonic rounds into the zombies, aiming for their heads in hopes that it puts them down. "I mean come the fuck on!"
The fast zombies kept pouring in, climbing over the ever-growing piles of freshly re-killed people. They had started to surround the trio, forcing Natsu to switch to hand-to-hand combat to beat off the undead. He hooked a heavy armoured boot through the air and smashed through the skulls of a handful of monsters, yet the more he killed, the more came. It was seemingly never-ending.
"We need to move!" Levy shouted in a slight panic. There were too many of them. She had folded the stock of her Laser Rifle along the side to bring it in closer to her chest but it was still too crowded. She glanced at Seilah who was floating above the horde, dodging grasping hands and zombies that were clambering over each other to get to her while she blasted away with her Laser Pistol. "Natsu, clear a path! I don't care how you do it, just fucking do it!"
"Alright! Stay Close!" He heard screams from inside the shopping centre, the zombies must have gotten to the other group. Fire burst from his arms and formed into a full-sized Tower Shield which Natsu braced in front of him. A growl escaped rumbled out of his throat as he started charging through the monsters, thankful that his armour had been protecting him from their teeth and nails.
The zombies howled and roared as more and more joined the horde. Just how many of them were in this hellhole of a city… And these were only the fast ones, how long would it be before the Shamblers get there and clog up the streets even further?
"Natsu! Help!" Levy shouted. She was struggling against the horde that started to collapse in behind the dragon slayer, leaving little room for her to stay right behind him. "Get off me, you ugly motherfuckers!"
"Levy, get down!" Natsu shouted as he reached behind his back, wrapping his hand around Durandal. He had wanted to avoid tainting his blade with these bastards but he had no choice.
The woman had barely any time to react. Dropping into a ball just as the jet black blade tore through the bodies that were trying to eat her alive. "Shred the fuckers!"
The blade whistled through the dense night air, splitting zombies at their waist before coming back in a flash and removing the heads.
Levy looked up from the ground, watching as the duster billowed around her and the man slice and stab his way through the horde around them, piling the bodies higher and higher. She had seen him in action before, but not against this amount of hostiles. The numbers were becoming too much.
Fire burst from Natsu's left fist as he made a copy of Durandal from his fire. The black God Slaying flames bifurcating the ghoulish enemies with just as much ease as the real version. "Seilah! Get Levy Out Of Here!" He shouted up at the demon above them who was taken pot-shots at Zombies not yet struck by Natsu. "Get To Safety, I'll Catch Up!"
"But Master?"
"No buts! Get Out Of Here, Now!" Natsu shouted as he unceremoniously hooked a foot under the crouched woman and flicked her up into the sky towards the other Etherious. "GO!"
As he senses the two women fly to safety, even with Levy making a loud fuss about it, not wanting to leave him behind. Natsu stabbed his swords into the asphalt and slowly removed his helmet to free all of his senses. Yes, it meant that he didn't have the Night Vision built into the helmet, but he didn't need it when everywhere he looked were zombies. He dropped it at his side, the helmet vanishing in a flash of light, leaving behind particles of pixie dust-like light that faded as they fell.
'Let's do this.'
In an instant he launched forwards, grabbing his swords and cleaving close to a dozen zombies through the middle, causing them to combust into flames in his wake.
The two black blades hissed and hummed through the air, mercilessly shredding the reanimated dead. The man had no one to protect anymore, so he could go on the offensive.
Blood, guts, and gore littered the road, giving it a slippery red coating.
Natsu's heavy armoured boots demolished zombie after zombie that didn't fall to his blades.
Embers leaked from the corner of his snarling mouth as the man turned to a cluster of ghouls and let loose a Fire Dragon's Roar, turning the corpses into ash.
Still, the more he killed, the more zombies sprinted to the battle. But he couldn't retreat, not yet. He had to buy enough time for Levy and Seilah to get to safety.
Unlike in his own world or versions of it, he had to restrict his use of fire and explosives to a degree, he had no idea what he could set off if he misplaces a single blast or gout of flame.
The man continued his charge through the horde, hacking and slashing, ripping and tearing. He could sense the incoming tsunami of Shamblers drawing nearer, he had to lead them away from his group.
He landed a heavy boot against the chest of one of the monsters, sending it flying into a crowd with a spinning yellow circle on it.
An explosion ripped apart the group as Natsu sprinted through the red mist, shredding his way through wave after wave.
The commotion of the fight started drawing in more fast-moving zombies. Natsu decided to call them Runners, due to being able to run fast unlike the Shamblers.
The Runners were running along the tops buildings and leaping over fences while their slower brethren were clogging the streets, slowing the demon down with their density.
His started to frown as the endless onslaught was starting to take a toll on him, his armour had taken all the damage meant for him but he had lost count of how many undead he had cleaved into chunks. And while Durandal doesn't use any magic in its inert form, the clone is a channelled spell that was siphoning his magic to remain a fully useable sword.
Natsu didn't slow down though, he couldn't. If he did then it could be the end for him. So he kept charging through the zombies, annihilating them the best he could.
His teeth were gritted, fangs shining in the streetlights. There was no break, no pause, not one step back. While he was certain that his friends had made it to safety by now, he couldn't afford to break off now and go looking for them. The zombies would chase him down, the Runners at the very least.
The momentary lapse in concentration almost costed him dearly as a Runner leapt from the nearby house and came within inches of tackling him to the ground, thankfully he was midway through a swing at a zombie below it and the Runner got split down the middle.
"Fuck!" The man shouted in shock, his eyes flickering between crimson and onyx. He leapt into the air and landed on a high brick wall, sprinting along it to at least put some distance between them.
He didn't know how long it had been since he had been overrun by the zombies, how long he had been running for, nor did he know just how far he had run. Did he give Levy and Seilah enough time to escape to safety, was he going to be able to find them when all he could smell is rotting corpses, blood, guts, shit, and every other foul-smelling thing one could imagine would be in a reanimated human.
It was a pity that there wasn't much negative energy around. The dead obviously didn't feel anything, they were just husks of their former selves. Probably was a good thing that there was a lack of energy, Natsu wanted to keep collateral damage to a minimum and not draw the attention of survivors, that was if any of them were actually alive out there.
Having had enough of a break from the fighting, Natsu dived off the brick wall and into the fray once again, making his swords hum and thrum as they slash and slice through the undead.
A far off rumble reached his ears, he had no idea what the hell it was. Was it some mutated zombie, was that even possible…? The sound drew closer and closer, growing into a loud roar. Two loud bursts of a horn echoed through the horde as a large black armoured vehicle screeched around the corner.
A hatch opened on the top and out burst a mess of blue hair. It was Levy, she had found one hell of a vehicle and decided to mount a rescue.
The behemoth showed no sign of slowing down as a loud click-clack echoed over the roar of the vehicle, Levy had cocked the heavy machine gun mounted to the SUV and shouted as loud as she can. "MOVE YOUR FUCKING ASS, NATSU!"
The muzzle of the massive machine gun lit up like a never-ending lightning storm, the deafening concussive blasts from the gun firing shook the windows of the buildings around them as a stream of hot lead raced towards the horde.
The massive rounds punched through the undead, blowing them apart like watermelons, one after another. Natsu jumped up into the air, using jets of fire from his feet to hover momentarily before landing on top of the vehicle behind Levy. "Welcome To The Party!"
"WHAT?" Levy shouted over the din of the HMG, she glanced back at Natsu for a moment before turning back to the monsters. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THIS THING!"
Natsu noticed that she had wrapped one of her solid script spells around the barrel, it said Water Jacket, and he guessed it was probably to keep the barrel cooled since she was firing it practically non-stop, shredding everything in front of them while brass casings flew out to the side of the gun and off the vehicle. He glanced down past the woman and saw Seilah at the wheel and Jessie the Eyebot deactivated on the back seats.
It didn't take the reunited group to punch through the horde, using their new vehicle as a battering ram and splattering everything against the armoured front while the massive machine gun shredded everything else. Once they were clear, Levy slumped back against the hatch and let out a long sigh, her ears ringing loudly but they were safe.
Natsu coated his hands in his green rejuvenating flames and cupped his ears, fixing the damage the gun had done to them. He sighed blissfully at the lack of ringing after a few moments of exposure, his ears back to normal. So he reached forwards and sorted out Levy's hearing too. "Where the hell did you find this thing?"
"A Police Station." The blunette replied, turning on the spot to look at the blood-and-guts-soaked man. "You need a shower."
"I need more than a shower… I need to completely burn off everything on me."
"Levy, apparently we are getting low on fuel." Seilah called out from the driver's seat. "What do you want to do?"
"The fuel we have isn't suitable for this vehicle, we need a different version of it called Diesel. Stop by a Petrol Station when you see one, you can't miss them." Levy glanced down at the demoness then turned back to Natsu. "You should cleanse yourself now, before we have to refuel, I don't want you blowing a hole in the ground because you ignited yourself."
"Alright, alright." The man leapt backwards off the moving vehicle and used Macro to keep himself in mid-air, albeit in a very wobbly, unstable way. He instantly ignited himself but was careful not to burn or cook off any of his gear, just to remove any and all contaminants on him.
"How is it that Seilah can float so gracefully through the air but you are like a fish out of water?" Levy laughed loudly as she made sure the heavy machine gun was safe then dropped back down into the cabin, taking the passenger side spot in front.
"Go easy on Master, he doesn't have the amount of experience that I do with that curse."
"I guess you're right." Levy's stomach grumbled and she glanced at the bag on the back seat. "We should find a place for the night. I don't care where, as long as it is safe."
"After we put fuel in this thing." Natsu replied, dropping through the hatch like a brick and landing on the back seat while pulling the hatch closed behind him. "I want to keep this thing. May not be the testbed I wanted but it's still going to be useful."
"I agree." Levy said with a smile. She reached down into the footwell and grabbed her helmet. "That was fun, being behind that turret. But I need to do something about the hearing damage it can cause. That thing fires huge rounds."
"So what the hell are we riding in?" The man finally asked, looking around the vehicle for any signs or identifiers. "And what is that gun on top?"
"I had Jessie scan it and cross-reference with the world's information network. This vehicle is apparently a Terradyne Gurkha LAPV, this one is a military spec one hence why it has the big fuck-off gun on top. It was surrounded by a bunch of military personal, dead though, seems like they bit the bullet instead of being turned into those ugly fucks." Levy replied as she knocked on the armoured window. "According to the documents, this baby can withstand high calibre armour piercing rounds. Speaking of which, that big bad boy mounted on top of this girl is an M2A1 Browning Heavy Machine Gun. Fires huge fuck-off rounds."
Natsu chuckled under his breath, he could tell that Levy's emotions were running high due to her foul mouth, at least she wasn't angry at him. Then again, she didn't exactly do much in the way of not shooting massive bullets in his direction. "Alright, so why is your robot looking like it has passed out after a long night of drinking back here?"
"Pull in here, Seilah." Levy instructed as she pointed out a station. She glanced back at the pinkette then down at her Eyebot. "Didn't do so well in a vehicle, couldn't stay still while we were racing back to get you. So I told it to go to sleep." The large vehicle rolled to a stop beside the bowser that Levy had pointed out, the blunette hopped out, followed by Natsu. "Seilah, keep her running, flick that fuel switch by your knee. Natsu, I want you to check inside, there may be a button you need to hit to start these things. And make sure not to set off any alarms."
Natsu crossed the field of concrete as his helmet reappeared on his head. It seemed like someone had already busted into the station since the glass door had been shattered and was now spread out across the tiled floor. The shelves were almost fully barren, obviously whoever broke in was hungry.
"Hey Natsu! Find that button, pumps aren't working!"
The man glanced out the windows, sparing a quick look at the vehicle before moving behind the counter and looking around. He found a lit up switch with a number above it, a quick glance up at the bowsers told him that it was the correct one so he activated the pump and went back to looking around the station for goods they could use. He found a few empty 20L cans, labelled Jerry Cans, so he grabbed the four remaining cans and took them out to Levy. "Found more Jerry Cans, also found what they were called."
"Good, I'll fill them up and put them in the back." Levy replied, glancing over at the armoured man who set the metal cans down next to her. "Once we are done here, we'll push on some more. We've got enough food for tonight and tomorrow, and now that we have transport we can keep looking for another suitable vehicle."
"Alright. I'm going to get up on the ceiling and keep a lookout." Natsu walked out from under the building then leapt up to the top of the roofing over the bowsers. He took the Vintorez off his back and took a knee, using the scope to look around.
'While we are up here, you should get some practice in with that rifle.'
'Yeah, good idea.' The man checked how many rounds were left in the magazine in his rifle. 'Six left, I'll use them for practice then put a new magazine in I guess.' He took aim at a faraway zombie and took a shot at it, missing by a fair bit. 'Ok, what?'
'Gravity and wind, you need to adjust for both. Shoot again but what the bullet's trail.'
Natsu fired another suppressed subsonic round, his eyes following the bullet's trail and watching it hit the ground again. He adjusted the aim then tried once again, taking the leg off of a zombie. 'Getting closer.'
'We definitely need to spend some time with Bisca, we need her to teach us how to use this thing.'
After two more rounds, Natsu managed to split one of the zombie's heads apart like a watermelon. With two more rounds left, he hit another zombie in the chest and blew the arm off another. 'Yeah, definitely need her help.' He took the mag from his rifle and places it into a pouch, replacing it with a full thirty round mag, he'll refill the empty ones later.
"Natsu! We're done here!" Levy called out from below him. Prompting the man to join her on the ground. "Mount up. We're moving out again."
Natsu climbed into the armoured vehicle once again but this time Levy joined him in the back, moving her robot to the front seat. The vehicle lurched slightly as it took off slowly. "We need to find someplace soon to rest up."
"Yeah. All three of us are hungry, tired, and in need of some rest." Levy glanced out at the road ahead of them, they were moving into what seemed to be an upper market residential area. "This place looks promising. Seilah, use your intuition to find us somewhere good. Maybe you could sense residual emotions tied to the garage?"
"I'll do my best." Seilah replied, glancing up in her rear-view mirror at the blunette. "This neighbourhood has a different residual feel about it."
Natsu's stomach grumbled, causing him to look at the bag sat at Levy's feet. His eyes slowly drifted to her armour, now that he had a decent look at it, he could see that it had been built upon a very slim sub-frame. "What's up with your armour? I think this is the first time I've seen it."
"Hmm?" Levy glanced over at the salmon-haired man. "Oh, that's right. You weren't there when I built and tested it. I took a power armour frame from the Boston Wasteland and reverse-engineered it. Recreating it but with lighter and stronger materials that are found in our world. I also refined it to be smaller but the downside to that is that it only fits me. Oh, I also changed the power system. It now runs on a passive magic power system with SE support so I can manually charge it with my own magic if it is running low."
"Ah, so that's why you look a little bit larger than usual? The armour is mounted onto the framework?"
"Yeah. And it is designed to open up like their power armour, but in a different fashion. It splits in two down the spin, and the backs of the arms and legs." She held up her hand and inspected it, the gauntlet reflecting off of her visor. "These are like gloves, I slide my hands into them when I step into the armour. The boots are basically slip-ons too."
"How do you open it?" Natsu asked curiously, watching as the woman brought a hand up to the neck guard at the front of the chest plate.
"There is a button in here, like what I did with your armour." Levy took her helmet off and smiled at the man. "The fit is so perfect that you don't see any seems, plus I placed hermetic seals in them to prevent stuff getting in. The helmet has one too like yours, I actually made sure everything you have I have, but with a different base helmet."
"It looks very sleek but tough."
"Still, I can't wait to get out of it… Once we find somewhere to stay for the night, I'll get out of it." Levy sighed and glanced over at the man next to her once again. "You wouldn't happen to have a pillow somewhere in your requip storage? I want to lie down."
"No, sorry Levy."
"Alright, I can wait until we get to shelter." The woman murmured, however, she still laid down on the seat and rested her head against Natsu's armoured thigh. "Or I could just do this."
Natsu shook his head softly with a small smile. He sent his armour and weapons away in a brief flash of light, allowing the woman to rest her head on him. "Better?"
"Much." She closed her eyes and felt butterflies in her stomach when the man started to run a hand through her hair. His warm fingers massaging her scalp softly and easing the slight headache she had. "Seilah, how's your search coming along?"
"I can sense a place up ahead, a few blocks away, there seems to be a concentration of passion, anger, hate, and love. But it doesn't seem to be directed at another person since it is all from a single individual."
"Head to that place, it may hold what we are after." Levy instructed. But after a moment she sounded a little hesitant. "Come to think of it, maybe it could just be some perverse fuck…"
"If she's only picking up on the emotions linked to one person, then it's possible that they lived alone?"
"I think it's an isolated part of the house, there are more residual emotions within the same area, but these are strong in one part of the house." Seilah glanced over her should as she started slowing down. She used her Macro to open the gate then pulled into the driveway. "We're here."
"Jessie, wake up." Levy commanded while pushing up off the seat and getting out of the large vehicle. She grabbed her backpack and swung it over a shoulder then grabbed her helmet. "Shut the car down, Seilah. Let's go inside."
Natsu walked over to the door and tested the knob, finding that it was locked which was a good sign. He used Macro to unlock it and went inside with Levy on his heels. She shut off the alarm while he made his way to the kitchen, flicking on the lights as he went. He heard a series of clicks behind him and when he turned to investigate it, he found Levy stepping out of the back of her armour. She was still in her short orange dress.
"I'm going to check the garage, Natsu, could you do some food?"
"Alright." The man grabbed her bag then went into the kitchen. Thankfully the cooking equipment seemed normal so he didn't have any issue with making their food. A pair of large, soft breasts pressed up against his back as the owner kissed his neck softly.
"Are you alright, Master?"
"Yeah." Natsu smiled softly and kissed the demoness' cheek softly. "Thank you for asking."
"I was worried about you when you told us to run away…" She murmured against his neck. "Levy was too, she was beside herself with anger and panic."
"I'll have to go apologise to her." The man replied, he felt the woman shift and she moved under his arm to in front of him, a small smile on her face.
"I love you, Master."
Natsu leant down and kissed Seilah softly. "I love you too, Seilah, my beautiful demoness."
Seilah balled her hands into fists, grabbing a hold of the man's shirt as she returned the kiss with as much love as she could. Tears began to well up in her eyes. She had witnessed what seemed like Natsu's final stand, and even though he had told her to run away with Levy. When the petite woman suggested they take the armoured vehicle back to Natsu and get him out of there, she had immediately got behind the wheel without hesitation. After a least a few minutes had passed, Seilah pulled back from the kiss and smiled at her lover. "I'm going to have a shower, just leave my food on the bench for me."
"Alright, it won't be much longer." Natsu replied as he gave her a quick peck on the lips and watched her disappear further into the house. He could hear Levy moving around the garage, chatting to herself animatedly and giving instructions to Jessie, so he guessed she found something interest. He started serving up the food they had scavenged and left Seilah's plate on the bench while he took his own and Levy's to the garage. "Lev, food is done."
"Natsu! You have to check this baby out!" Levy called out excitedly as the man entered the garage. She hurried to the pinkette, her orange dress swishing around her thighs. "I had Jessie do some scans on this beauty and she fits! Look how sexy it is!"
Natsu looked at the sporty two-door car, it looked older than the ones he had seen out on the street but it also had bits bolted onto it. It definitely didn't come like that from the factory… "What is it?"
"Jessie, repeat your findings to Natsu."
"Yes, Ma'am." The Eyebot floated over to the man as he handed the food over to Levy and sat on a nearby workbench to eat his own. "This vehicle is a Datsun 240z, though it is a modified example of the car. The owner's logs say it has a Pandem Aero body kit, which has been painted with Black Cherry paint. The engine has been swapped out for a modified Nissan RB26DETT from another vehicle called a Nissan Skyline R34 GTR. The transmission is a six-speed manual, linked to the rear tyres with a limited-slip differential that has a ratio of…"
Natsu glanced at Levy, these names and items meaning absolutely nothing to him. "Ok, ok. I get the picture. It sounds like a nice car. Do you think it'll be a good testbed Levy?"
"Well, I need to make sure it runs first. Jessie told me that the work was all complete and that it believes that the car last ran just over a month ago." Levy looked around the garage. There were all the things she would need to take care of the car, she had even spotted a few workshop manuals pertaining to the car and the various parts put onto it. "I might spend the night in here, go over this baby with a fine-tooth comb. Once I know it won't destroy itself, you can take it for a spin."
"I'll take you with me, just so we can both experience it." Natsu smiled as the two of them finished their food and Levy got to work under the bonnet of the car. As the man passed by on the way back into the house, he glanced at under the bonnet, letting out a long whistle. "That looks really nice, I don't know what it is about it but I like it."
"I know right! I really want to leave this as it is, hopefully, I can make the fuel compatible with these engines." Levy glanced back at the man with an eager smile before turning her attention back to the engine. "Jessie, walk me through this."
"Yes, Ma'am."
Natsu headed into the kitchen once again, finding Seilah had returned from her shower and was dressed in a light blue towel that was barely large enough to cover her. He started doing the dishes in the sink, not wanting to leave a mess. "Levy hit the jackpot it seems."
"That's good." Seilah smiled back at the man, she arched her back to cause her ass to stick out a bit more while giving him a playful wink while giving him a juicy view of her womanhood. "Wanna play?"
"Semen demon." Natsu said teasingly as he reached over and trailed his fingers up her thigh.
"Only for you, my Master~." The woman purred, she wiped her mouth clean with a tissue then took her plate to the sink, pressing up against the man as she slipped it into the water. "Always for you~, there is never a moment when I don't think about you."
"Oh, I'm sure there are other things that go through your mind besides me." He chuckled softly and brought her in front of him. Seilah dropped her towel and bared her assets while revealing her horns. "Such a pretty demoness."
"I know I am, Master~." The woman looped her arms around Natsu's neck and pressed herself firmly against him. "And while I really want you to fuck me senseless, I think you should devote tonight to Levy, she's been after you for a while now. Think of it like a "thank you for coming back for me" thing."
"Are you sure it's a good idea to disturb her while she is inspecting the car, what if she misses something?"
"Come on, Master, it's Levy. She won't miss anything, unless you really start going to town on her." The demoness replied playfully, fluttering her eyelashes and kissing along the man's jaw. A shiver shot down up her spine when his fingers found their way to her sensitive horns and lightly heated them up while rubbing them. "Master~, you're such a tease~!" Seilah gave the man a warm smile and rests her forehead against his broad chest while closing her eyes. "I love you more than anything, Natsu, even my books."
"Wow." Natsu chuckled softly and moved his arms down to her waist. "I'm shocked you put me above those books, I'm honoured."
Seilah giggled softly and lightly rapped the man on the chest, she looked up at him with mirthful eyes and a wide, loving smile. "You dolt, Master." The woman's kimono flew in from the hallway and wrapped itself around the demon, covering her up. "I think I've had enough excitement this trip, do you mind if I go home, Master?"
"I don't mind, my beautiful demoness, got any plans?"
"I may see if Ika is still up, tell her about our travels in this world over a few drinks. I've seen undead before but nothing like this."
"Alright." Natsu smiled and kissed her forehead. "Just don't destroy our house while I'm away."
"I'll do my best not to, Master." Seilah stepped back, smiling while Natsu opened up a portal home, allowing her to return to their house. "See you when you come home."
Natsu watched the beautiful Etherious woman sashay her way through the portal, his eyes following the sway of her hips with a small grin. Before she completely vanished, he reached out and gave her a quick spank, hearing a distorted gasp as the woman jumped through the portal. Natsu shook his head with a loving smile and headed for the garage once more.
"Oh gods, this baby is so well done!" Levy cheered giddily from under the front of the jacked-up car. "Jessie, what else needs to be checked?"
"Just the oil in the rear differential, Ma'am. Then this vehicle should be ready for trials."
The blunette quickly shifted the jacks to the back and slid back under the car, not realising she is being watched while she worked by Natsu. "The oil is pristine."
"Seems like it's all good?" Natsu asked curiously, leaning down to look under the car and getting a pretty decent look up the petite woman's dress since it had ridden up a fair bit from all of her moving about. "Well, don't you look ready for some fun."
Levy grinned playfully and spread her legs wider. "If you're offering~."
"A very, very tempting notion." Natsu lightly grabbed her by the ankles and pulled her out from under the car, causing her dress to shoot all the way up and bunch up under her arms, revealing her perky B cup breasts. "Hello, hot stuff."
"That's my line!" Levy reached her hands out and unzipped Natsu's pants, pulling down his underwear and releasing the sleepy monster within. "Oh, hello big guy~." Much to the woman's disappointment, Natsu adjusted his grip onto Levy's hips then rotated the woman until she was upright. She glared at him and crossed her arms over her chest. "Oi! I was about to stick it in my mouth so I could make you hard!"
"Yeah, but let's get the car on the road first and tested." Natsu put the woman down and removed the jacks, clearing the way for the car to be driven out of the garage. "Hopefully there is enough room around that vehicle outside… what should we call that by the way?"
"Well, it's big and tough, so how about calling it Rhino? Since we did use it to charge through a horde of undead just to rescue you." Levy replied. She was still pouting but struggled to hide her eagerness to test out the car. "I think we should decide on a name for this one after we've driven it, just to see what we come up with in the heat of the moment."
"I was thinking about calling it Ruby or Cherry…" Natsu replied absentmindedly as he got into the right side of the car where the steering wheel was. "Ah, we need keys."
Levy slid in on the other side and quickly leant down across the man and inserted the keys into the ignition. "I found them when I was doing my inspection of the workspace." She made sure that the car wasn't in a gear then started up. The deep, rough grumble echoed around the garage, sending a shiver of excitement racing through the duo. "It sounds a little odd. Jessie, what's going on?"
"Ma'am, the car is in perfect condition, the sound you are hearing is the aftermarket camshafts giving the idling engine that note."
"Well, I suppose we should get started." The man used Macro on the garage door to raise it up. Thankfully the driveway was wide enough that they could pass the Rhino. "So, how do I do this?"
Levy climbed across the cabin and planted herself on Natsu's lap, relishing the feel of his hot manhood against her silky smooth labia and definitely not hiding the fact. "Push that far left pedal all the way in and grab that stick to your left, it's the gear stick, you want to move it left and up into First." She felt the man's leg move under her as he did as she instructed. "Now ease off the clutch and slowly press the far right pedal when you feel a change in the clutch, that's when it starts binding and you'll be sending power to the wheels." When the car lurched and stalled, Levy gave a kind smile up at the pinkette. "Don't worry, it took me a bit to get used to too. Just take it back out of gear and start the car up again."
It took a few tries for Natsu to get it down properly but once he did, he started to ease the car out of the building and passed the massive armoured vehicle. He used Macro once again, opening the gate for them. "This thing sounds mean, I love it."
The man's warmth was starting to get to Levy as her womanhood started to dampen and moisten Natsu's slowly hardening cock. While the man started driving down the street and practice shifting up and down the gear, she spread her legs a little wider and slipped her hand between them, starting to rub her clit while she groped one of her perky little tits. She started to slide along Natsu's thickening cock, pleasuring herself with it while getting it ready to penetrate her.
Natsu did a few laps around the block then some fast passes up and down the street, getting a feel for the car and how it handles. He could tell that whoever it was that had built the car, they had done a great job. He could only hope that they would be able to preserve the car's character when they convert it.
When he finally pulled back into the driveway, Levy started to scrunch into a ball, becoming so close to an orgasm that it was unbearable, every time she came close during their drive she would back off a little, edging herself to make the moment when she finally finishes mind-blowing. "N-natsu~ I want you to shove your cock into me, just ram it in!" The woman begged while the duo went into the house, she was still fondling herself to keep her on the edge and it was excruciatingly unbearable, she needed relief and it needed to be right now. She bent herself over the arm of the couch and presented her oozing pussy for the man. "Slam it right in here!"
"Alright." He grinned while lining his large, throbbing cock with the small woman's entrance. Without a moment of hesitation, he drove the thick member inside, right up to the balls. She was tight, so damn tight.
"FUCK~!" Levy moaned loudly as she was sent flying over the edge of the cliff she had been so delicately teetering on for the last three-quarters of an hour. She strangled every last inch of the man's cock with all of her orgasmic might. But it didn't stop there, her ecstasy only grew to new levels when Natsu drew his cock back sharply until he was only barely inside before ramming it all the way in once more. "OH FUCK YES!"
Getting a feel for the woman's desires, Natsu brought his hand up before driving it down against the blunette's taut ass, earning a sharp gasp from the woman.
"Again~!"
His hand came down once more, spanking the same spot on the pale skin and leaving a handprint. "You like that, don't you~?"
"Oh~ I love it rough~." Levy purred while she got pounded into a mess by the substantial mass inside of her. "Gajeel always treated me like a porcelain doll when we fucked… But with all the rough treatment he gave in other matters, I started to desire a nice and rough fucking. But he wouldn't do it…"
"Well, I'll take care to ensure that you won't be sitting down or walking straight for a week." Natsu replied with a devilish grin. He slid his hands up the front of the woman's dress and grabbed her small breasts firmly, kneading them and pinching her nipples.
"Oh fuck~! That sounds perfect!" The woman moaned loudly, her body arching and pressing her tits into his grasp. "Use me, fuck me senseless, leave me a mindless mess~! I don't care when or where, or even if you surprise me with a dick in my pussy! Just give it to me as rough as you can! Every time!"
The man grinned wider, moving one of his hands back to her hips to give him better purchase on her body, allowing him to pound the woman much harder and faster. She wanted him to break her, well, she's in for a wild ride then. He lowered his head down to her ear, his fangs glistening as he whispered into it. "Enhancement: Increase pleasure times two."
Levy gasped as her eyes shot wide open, it was one of Natsu's curses and by kami was it fantastic. Her sensitive body became even more sensitive, her pleasure skyrocketing. His hips began slamming against her even harder as the man drove his cock deep into her, moving faster with every push until he began to piston in and out of her. "Oh~ this is so fucking good~!"
Natsu felt the woman start to rapidly coil around him, quickly approaching another orgasm. So he decided to up it even further, doubling the pleasure again so it was four times the normal amount. Levy was already fairly tight due to her small stature but it was almost unbelievable just how much tighter she became when she orgasmed. If it wasn't for the fact that she was sopping wet, he'd probably find it hard to pound her like he was.
Levy quickly drifted off into a pleasured haze, her mind going completely blank. The only thing she could register was the immense pleasure brought on by the massive intruder that was penetrating her. She was moaning like crazy and didn't realise they had changed positions until he found herself looking up at the grinning man.
Natsu lowered his head down and captured one of her sensitive nubs in his mouth. Sucking on the nipple and lightly pinching it with his sharp fangs, causing the woman below him to go man with pleasure. He could feel his own end drawing near, faster than he expected but considering the pleasure the tight woman was giving him, it didn't really surprise him.
"NATSU~!" The woman cried out for the umpteenth time, she had already lost count of how many orgasms had surged through her body, but she could feel something different about the cock inside her. It had started to pulse with need, he was drawing close. Levy wrapped her legs around the man's hips and pulled him in with all her might, forcing him as deep as possible inside her as he blew his top like a bottle of champagne. "OH FUCK YES! YES! YES~!" She was being flooded with Natsu's hot spunk, the sensation of the heated goo was instantly addicting and she needed more right away. "KEEP GOING, NATSU~!"
Hours passed by as the two mages broke every last piece of furniture in the house with their colliding bodies. By the time they had finally stopped, the sun was peeking over the horizon, probably having been woken up by the woman's non-stop moaning. The two laid in a naked mess of limbs on the bed in the master bedroom, still connected at the hip but both exhausted and drenched in sweat.
Levy groaned softly and tried to move but her body wouldn't respond, so she sluggishly rolled onto the man and used him as a body pillow. "Stay put, I'm tired…" She didn't even bother to remove the man from her body before she passed out, she had gotten her wish for mind-blowing sex and then some. Natsu wasn't far behind her either, falling asleep fairly quickly with his arms around the petite woman's waist. They'll deal with the vehicles and go back home once they finally recover, or once they finish screwing each other, whichever came first.
Well, that's another chapter done. I hope you have all liked it. I'll keep this short since there was a massive note at the start of the chapter. Basically I just want to clarify some choices for the vehicles. Starting with the armoured vehicle, the Terradyne Gurkha was originally going to be a Lenco BearCat G3, however, when I was doing a bit of research I found that I liked the Gurkha better in regards to the looks. As for the car, well that was more close to heart for me. One of my favourite cars is the Datsun S30s, which are the 240z, 260z, and the 280z, I just love how they look. As for the engine, well I have experience with Nissan's RB series of engines since I own a Nissan Skyline R34 myself, it isn't the GTR but a GTT which has the RB25DET NEO engine. Growing up the R34 GTR was my fascination, I adored that car, along with the other GTRs, the R32, R33, and the R35 when it came out. Recently, I've wanted to get myself a 240z or a 260z shell and modify it, dropping in the legendary RB26. So that was the main reason I gave that particular car to Natsu. If you are wondering what the car looks like, then you can google Pandem Aero 240z and you'll see it there. Same goes for the engine if you are curious at all, just search RB26DETT and you'll see examples of it. At the time of writing this, I actually have found a good example of a RB26 swapped 240z when I searched for the car and engine combined.
Anyway, that's enough of me babbling about how much I love cars, I hope you have enjoyed this chapter. Follow and Favourite if you haven't already, and if you have any questions or anything you'd like to say then feel free to leave a review or message me directly. See you all next time.
