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Chapter 8 : Supersonic threat

In front of the guild, the silence was heavy, the heavy atmosphere made the surprise and incomprehension almost tangible. While Wendy, Romeo and Cherrya had been put offside by Daniel, the Strizer of the sky, who was ready to kill Charla to force Jellal to come to fight him, Happy, revealing a new hybrid form to his friend, mainly human with cat ears, tail and claws, covered in several places with blue fur with white spot, had come out of nowhere and had vaporized the Strizers tornado jail, saving Charla and slashing the arm of the young warrior at the same time, which enthralled all the present mages, but also the Strizer who, after recovering from his surprise, decided to break the silence.

- "STOP ! Time-out !" He began, making a T with his hands. "We didn't knew that this Exceed could transform ! Since when is he able to do that ?"

- "You can trust us, we are as lost as you are right now." Began Panther, speaking in the name of the guild before turning to his blue furred friend. "Happy, is that really you ? But what happened to you ?"

- "Nothing beside the fact that I decided to change a little. I won't be just the guild mascot now. From now on, I am going to fight, too !" Proudly announced Happy, his back facing his friends.

- "You took your time to arrive." Scolded Jellal, his arms crossed. "Where were you ?"

Happy didn't answered right away, sliding his hand in a little bag which was hanging from his belt.

- " Well, I flew over the market and " he then took a fish out of the pocket which he start eating, turning around to face the the others, a wide smile on his face. " … There was a discount on the fish, I couldn't miss that. "

- " YOUR BULLSHIT COULD HAVE COSTED CHARLA'S LIFE, YOU FLYING GLUTTON ! " Roared Lucy, outraged to see that in spite of his obvious changes, Happy was still thinking with his stomach and his love for fish as much as before, but it made her smile either way : even despite his new form, he was still the same old Happy.

- " Sorry, but now, I am going to take over, trust me, OK. " By saying these words, he had sent a small scowl at Natsu, without any wickedness nor blames but reminding the dragon of the reasons why he left in the beginning, which Natsu answered with a nod. He got the message. Erza then approached Jellal, her head full of question.

- " Jellal, these changes in Happy, you are partly responsible for them, isn't it ? What happened exactly ? How did you find each other ? Is it him who asked for help or you proposed it yourself ? " Jellal stopped her by putting a finger on the lips of the mage warrior, which made the latter's face go as red as her hair.

- " I will answer these questions later. For now, let us just look at the fight. " This is when he noticed where his finger had landed and his face suddenly took the same shade as her childhood friend and he removed his index all of a sudden as if Erza's face had burned him, which wasn't impossible judging by the heat her face was releasing. " S-Sorry ! It's not I… "

The other mages just smiled before turning their attention back on Happy, who faced Daniel, a full fishbone hanging between his sharp teeth. Charla then began to wake up, opening her eyes and took some time to understand what she was doing on the ground, then she looked up and came face to face with a blue back on which proudly stood a green Fairy Tail mark. The white Exceed opened wide eyes, pronouncing the only name she could link with this description. When he turned his head to her, hearing her move behind him, she was able to confirm that it was not a hallucination but a reality.

- " Happy ? " She asked, eyes moistening realizing that it was indeed her dear friend who was standing in front of her.

- " Aye ! " Answered Happy, showing his usual smile, with a voice deeper than what the other had grown accustomed to, but still easily recognizable, the white Exceed reddening even more with each passing second. Daniel the coughed awkwardly, gaining the attention of everyone once again.

- " Well, I see that getting your mascot back made you all really happy (A.N. : *badum-tss*), it's all really nice and all and I understands you in a way, but we are in a fight, and I am afraid that even with an overgrown cat it doesn't change the fact that you'll lose. " he taunted, very confident in his chance to win.

- " Hey ! I did not trained 24/7 to hear that my presence is not going to have any consequences. " said the Exceed indignantly. " And I am going to prove it !"

He plunged his hand into the fish back he had on his belt and took out of it, under the spectators skeptical looks, a handful of fishbones which he threw at Daniel, the Strizer slapping them away with the back of his hand. But he just had the time to swipe them off that Happy appeared in front of him in an instant.

" He is fast ! " Thought all the spectators by watching Happy readying a punch which Daniel evaded but in the same movement, Happy got over the Strizer by swirling on himself, wrapping up his tail around the neck of the blond young man, the momentum of the rotation pulling the Strizer off the ground then throwing him back like a suplex to send him crashing on the ground head first. But the Strizer recovered fast by putting his hands on both side of his head, stretching his arms and legs at the same time, both foot joined together aiming at Happy's face.

RISING STORM KICK !

Daniel's feet sent a burst of swirling air on the Exceed who dodged with a backward somersault. When Happy touched the ground, he immediately rushed at Daniel, who because of his last assault was still in a handstand position, his back to the Exceed, a perfect target for the feline who threw himself in one leap at the Strizer like a missile to bury one of his fists in the Strizer back, sending him behind, the body of the young man digging a furrow in the pavements all while fighting to stood his ground and don't lose his support. The 2 stopped one moment to gauge the other, leaving to the public the time to exchange about what had just happened.

- " I just can't believe it. Happy dominates him totally ! " Exclaimed Freed, like the others totally surprised by the fighting performances of Natsu's winged partner.

- " I don't know what kind of training he went through, but it clearly did the job ! " Added Erza, turning her head to Jellal. " I hope that you will answer our questions after that. "

- " I will, but just know that Happy is far from having shown everything he can now do. " Answered mysteriously the blue haired mage without looking away from the fight. From their part, Wendy, Charla, Romeo and Cherrya observed the fight, also totally surprised.

- " I can't believe that it's really Happy. It's almost as if it's someone else." Admitted Romeo who was enthralled by the show.

- " I just hope that he knows what he's doing. This guy is strong. " Cherrya added, Wendy agreeing with a nod while holding Charla in a sitting position by her shoulders, the Exceed looking at Happy, not missing a single moment of the fight, squeezing his small green bag against her.

VACUUM SHOT !

These words made the mages came out of their own world and their attention returned to Daniel, who had positioned his hands in front of him to form some kind of triangle which began sucking all the air around him like a vacuum cleaner, Happy fighting with great difficulty not to be inhaled but the inhalation was too strong and after a few seconds, while Happy was barely one meter away from the Strizer, all the air he had inhaled focused in one blast breath which struck Happy right in the chest, sending him crashing in one of the surrounding buildings, under the mages cries, afraid for their friend who got up without great difficulty. But Romeo began thinking about the Strizer techniques.

"These pressurized air attacks are powerful." He thought " The penetration force of those things are deadly, if only I … Hey, wait ! What's the principle already ?"

/- Memory -/

- " Pressurized air is a real marvel. Putting as most air as possible in the smallest volume as possible..."

/- End of the memory -/

Romeo lowered his head towards his hands. "And what if that worked with other thing than air ? And if …" Lost in his thoughts, Romeo forgot the fight which started once again between the Strizer and the Exceed. Daniel tried to reach the feline with his hands covered with blades of air but the Happy's feline flexibility allowed him to dodge everything, the Exceed exploiting the slightest fault in his opponent's defense to strike Daniel even if the latter was also very talented to dodge, until they both took advantage of an opening in the other's defense to strike their opponent in the face, both fighter getting send back a few meters away at the same time. Wiping the blood flowing from the corner of his lips, Daniel crossed his arms in front of him, forming an X and flexing his fingers.

THUNDER CYCLONE CANNON !

A mass of black clouds formed on his arms, lightning bolt filling them more and more. Then the wind suddenly got up, clouds swirling on themselves then Daniel stretched his arms forwards, throwing a real tornado made of thunderclouds on the Exceed who didn't move.

- "Happy, don't stay here doing nothing. Do something !" Shouted Elfman, before noticing that the claws of the Exceed were beginning to shine.

CLAW SLASHER !

Happy scratched the air in front of him with his glittering claws and they threw what seemed to be thin, horizontal and parallel white energies blades, three of them, towards the electric tornado of the Strizer, the blades cutting through them without any problem, cutting the gust all at once and kept on going forward, reaching Daniel and cutting him across his face, his arms and his waist, but the blades still continued farther, leaving cuts on the walls of the nearby buildings on several meters. Daniel remained motionless one moment, letting some blood pouring from the cut on his body before asking a question, still without moving an inch.

- " What the hell was that ? "

- " Claw Magic. I learnt that to be as useful as possible on a fight. It is not which is going to make me as strong as Natsu or Erza, but that will be enough to allow me to deal with people like you. Your winds won't be very useful against those claws, I'm afraid. " Answered Happy, smiling, chewing on the tail of the fishbone he had between his teeth. In front of him, Daniel seemed to stay unfazed, standing upright.

- "Well. If I can't use my wind, the air or any other thing, I'll have to kick it up a gear. Literally. "

All of a sudden, the temperature soared suddenly by several degrees, taking the mages by surprise, the warmed air making the air undulate around the Strizer, who was still not moving.

MACH 1 PUNCH !

An explosion was heard and in a blink of an eye, Daniel had covered the distance separating him from Happy and had threw a punch in the feline stomach, propelling the Exceed up to the facade of the guild hall which explode due to the strength of the impact. Happy got out of the rubbles, nursing his bruised stomach, trying to understand what just happened.

- " What was that ? Since when did he became so fast ? " Wondered Gajeel, constantly on his guard in case the Strizer would decide to change his target.

- " I know ! It's the speed of sound ! The explosion we heard, it was because he moved so fast that he moved faster than sound itself. " Explained Levy, and doing so establishing the common factor between the explosion and the sudden speed of the young man.

- " Hey ! I too, can be fast! " Countered Happy by spreading his wings, who thank to his new appearance had grown to be as big as his arms. Using his famous speed, he threw himself on the Strizer which took off, the fight now taking place in the air, between punches and projections, Happy succeeding, thanks to a lot of effort, to adapt himself to the Strizers speed but Daniel had more than one trick up his sleeve.

- " You seem to have become used to my speed. I congratulate you for that, but we are far from the end. It was only my first gear. Let's kick it up a notch."

The temperature raised up once again and Daniel prepared a new punch. Happy got ready to intercept it, but regrettably.

MACH 2 UPPERCUT !

The blow came so fast that Happy barely had time to see it began moving that he had already reached his jaw, cracking the bone and sending the Exceed several meters into the air, the feline recovering thanks to his wings but when he lowered his head to find Daniel, the latter had already disappeared, reappearing suddenly behind him and Happy could nothing to dodge the right jab that he received right in his face sending him to crash with violence on the ground, joined quickly by Daniel who stayed some meters away, concentrating his power, the heat around his body increasing even more.

- " RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! "

MACH 20: HIGH HYPERSONIC SPEED !

When Daniel stopped, his body had become as red as a boiled crawfish and was literally smoking, the air totally blurred around him, as if the mages were looking at a mirage in the desert. When Happy finally got up, he saw Daniel about 30 meters away, he blinked and Daniel was now just in front of him, the Exceed surprised by that speed, but not as surprised as the heat he felt coming out of his body. Daniel caught Happy's face with one hand, burning it in the process, readying his other fist.

MACH 20: HIGH HYPERSONIC FURY !

He shot several punches all at once on Happy, a flurry so fast that from the outside, it looked like the Strizer had several arms, each blow burning the feline body before Daniel finally let go of the face of his victim, letting the last blow, which was stronger than the other, send Happy back to his friends, writhing in pain.

- " By being sound and air, I can exceed the speed of sound whenever I want, and even reach speed that are normally unreachable. Furthermore, the faster I get, the hotter I become, which makes me hot and fast enough to leave bad burn on my opponents. Well, now, whose turn it is ? " Taunted Daniel who, satisfied with his explanation, felt his couldn't-care-less attitude return little by little.

" The faster he is, the hotter he is ? This is giving me an idea... " Thought Romeo, deciding to try something new.

But he was not the only one who hadn't giving up yet. Wendy and Cherrya got up and threw themselves on Daniel, determined to finish this as quickly as possible. But regrettably for them, the fight had become more than unbalanced. Daniel was far to fast for the Sky Sisters and if by chance they managed to strike Daniel, the almost volcanic heat of his body made them suffer more than he did. They had to find a way to counter-attack and Wendy got an idea.

- " Cherrya, tries to keep him busy, I have an idea. " Proposed Wendy, without giving more detail to her best friend who agreed immediately, totally trusting her Dragon Slayer best friend.

- " OK, I am going to try, but whatever you want to do, do it fast. "

GOD'S SKY DANCE !

The young God Slayer gathered her magic and began pursuing the Strizer, aggressing him ceaselessly with swirling gusts of wind whenever she was close enough to strike. But Daniel's extreme speed made him almost unreachable even if his speed had begun to decrease slightly, his body emitting less heat. Taking advantage of a moment when she had managed to seize her opponent, Cherrya took a few second to gather her breath.

- "Well ? Can't keep up ?" Defied the mage, panting, which mage the blond young man grin.

- "I already said that the faster I go, the hotter my body get and if I'm heating too much, I could end up cooked like a boiled crawfish. Then I have no choice but to slow down, but it's not as if I needed to be faster than that. I am already fast enough for you."

And to prove his points, he moved in an instant to be in Cherrya's back, back to back before striking the young mage with a kick in her lower back, sending her to the ground. But he didn't have time to celebrate his victory that he was taken by surprise by an unidentified flying object which he identified very quickly. Long wild pink hair and eyes of the same color, small wings in the back and some sorts of feathers on her wrists and ankles, Wendy had just switch to Dragon Force mode. Going out of the heap of rubbles in which he had landed, Daniel seemed annoyed, but not discouraged by all that.

- "You know, it's not a power boost of this kind which is going to protect you."

Wendy didn't answer, she just called upon her powers, surrounding herself with a green light.

ILE VERNIER !

Taking advantage of the speed boost granted by the double enchantment and her Dragon Force mode, Wendy rushed at Daniel, taking the latter by surprise, not expecting an acceleration as brutal as this one, which gave him a lot to deal with despite his already impressive speed and because of Wendy's dragon instinct which allowed her to feel his presence. But he nevertheless kept the advantage and he was about to make sure that it will stay like that.

SKY ARMY: BLADED SWALLOW !

A huge flock of swallows came out of the sky and swept down on Wendy, the fowls made of air with wings as sharp as razor blades assaulting Wendy from everywhere, the poor mage not knowing where to look and thus wasn't paying any more attention on Daniel, his speed way to high to allow Wendy to handle everything. But Daniel, in his euphoria, forgot that he hadn't just a single opponent.

BLUE FLARE : COLD BURST !

Daniel's field of vision found itself being filled with blue extremely cold flames which decreased his speed rapidly, allowing Wendy to finally counter-attack.

DRAGON'S SKY ROAR !

Filling her lungs with air, she unleashed the power of the Dragons Slayer signature attack on the Strizer, getting rid at the same time of a big part of the swallows which were attacked her, the rest being eliminated by Happy and Charla, who had recovered enough to help their friends. When Daniel got back up, kneeling on the ground, he clearly wasn't looking happy.

- " You have to wonder what happened, no ? " Asked Romeo, blue flames dancing in his hand. " Blue Flare is a cold fire and since you said that your speed was bound to your body heat in a way, I figured that to slow you down, it was better to cool you down. And that worked pretty well it seems. "

- " … Well, I'll have to admit that I might have underestimated all of you. It was a mistake, I admit it. But now, I'll to go all out on you. Be ready to suffer. "

The temperature went back up all of a sudden, reaching a whole new level of heat, the ground seemingly melting under his feet.

MACH 25 : RE-ENTRY SPEED !

Daniel's body had become blood red, a monstrous quantity of vapor emanating from his body whose skin began to crack here and there, the heat was way too intense and his body couldn't bear it completely. But this time, it was worth it. He had become so fast that even Wendy's instinct weren't enough to follow the Strizer who began to hit everyone and everything without a care in the world, eventually sending the Dragon Slayer crash into yet another building and jumping back just in time to avoid a stream of blue flames.

- "Ah yes, you and your flames. I have exactly I need to take care of you."

GLOBAL CLIMATE: HEAVY STORM WINDS !

The wind suddenly got up and began blowing so hard that Romeo was unable to use his flames anymore, the strong wind putting them out as soon as they got away from his body. Happy and Charla nevertheless kept on with the assault, fighting against the wind and their wounds to try to save time so that the others could find a solution.

- "How are we going to beat this guy ? He is far too fast, there's literally nothing we can do !" Complained Cherrya, her spirit brought down by the situation.

- "I have a plan." Simply stated Romeo.

- "Really ? What kind of plan ?" Asked Wendy.

- "The stupid kind. Do you trust me ?"

- "Well …"

- "Absolutely !"

Cherrya didn't had time to give her answer that Wendy had given hers without the slightest second of hesitation, taking Romeo and Cherrya by surprise, the young man blushing slightly before Wendy realized what she had just done, blushing too because of her outburst.

- "Well, I m-mean that, I-I t-trust you, Romeo."

- "Oh ! Yeah, t-thank you." Answered the fire mage, his face as red as Wendy's.

- "Ah, love ! It is so beautiful!" Commented Cherrya, her hands on her cheeks, literally daydreaming.

Romeo and Wendy would have blushed even more if they could, but the noise of a body crashing in a building brought them back to reality, Romeo concentrating on his flames. Meanwhile, Happy and Charla were suffering against Daniel, putting themselves between the Strizer and their friends to let them have time to think about what to do, but Charla had reached her limit and Happy was at the end of its strengths but still remain standing in front of the Strizer, his body covered in wounds and bruises, his fur and his skin both soaked with blood. Nevertheless, he kept on fighting.

PIERCING CLAW !

Pointing his claws to his opponent, he threw his arm forwards, sending some kind of white energy darts on the Strizer who, by no means worried and with a derisive smile on his lips, blocked the attack with the back of his hand before calling upon his winds, which kept swirling around him at a crazy speed and used it to send Happy back with Charla, and it was at this moment that Romeo appeared once again, a blue sphere in the palm of his hand, the fire mage sweating and panting, apparently totally focused on something.

- "You didn't learned the lesson, it would seem. Your flames are of no use with a wind as violent as mine." Reminded Daniel, Romeo standing his ground, pointing his palm at Daniel who chuckled.

BLUE FOCUSED FLARE : COLD BLASTER !

The small blue sphere burst and threw a torrent of flame concentrated on a single point at the Strizer, the stream so fast and intense that the storm swirling around them was not enough to weaken them out enough and Daniel got hit dead on by the blast, the bite of the cold flames making the temperature of his body fall all at once until his speed was brought down to normal, hoarfrost forming around the impact point.

- "GAH! What was that ?" Roared the young Strizer, surprised that flames could have survived while getting through his high-powered winds.

- "Well, in a way, you did that to yourself. It is you who gave me the idea with your pressurized air. I said to myself that putting the as much material as possible in the smallest space as possible could also work with flames. And apparently, it is working pretty well." Answered Romeo, panting and feeling his strengths leaving little by little because of his wounds, sign that he won't be able to kept fighting for a very long time now, a fact that also applied to the other mages and Exceeds.

- "Cherrya, I have an idea." Began Wendy, an idea suddenly occurring to her. "Call upon your winds, I am going to eat them."

- "What ? But you can't do that ! My wind is not a normal wind !" Answered Cherrya, not having enough strength to get up.

- "I can do it ! Natsu has already done it with the flames of the Fire God Slayer. I can do it too !"

After a small moment of hesitation, Cherrya agreed with a nod and wrapped Wendy in a whirlwind of black winds and Wendy, locking her own magic away, began to swallow it, something she was normally not intended to do. Daniel understood what was taking place and aware of his own situation, know that he had to do something to prevent her from doing it.

- "Yeah right ! As if I'm going to let you do that !"

CYCLONE DRILL SPEAR !

Daniel formed a long spear of dark air and threw it at Wendy, well decided to prevent her from succeeding, but an obstacle stood on the road of the spear, an obstacle with purple hair. Romeo had put himself in harm way to protect Wendy, finding himself with a spear impaling his stomach. Wendy, seeing that, was ready to rush to the young mage but, seeing the look he was sending her, she swallowed her concern and ended absorbing all of Cherrya's winds and once that was done, her magic peaked all of a sudden and she turned to Daniel, a magic circle appearing at her feet, a tornado forming around the Strizer and the young Dragon Slayer.

SKY DRAGON GOD'S SECRET ART : …

- "Yeah, no thank you ! I'm off !"

Daniel tried to take off and get away, but he realized that he was kind of literally nailed to the ground and by looking down, he saw that his feet were glued by some orange flames, Romeo smiling in spite of the pain he was feeling from his wounds.

- "Bastard !"

… LIGHT SHATTERING: SKY DRILL !

Wendy then unleashed her power, calling upon a more powerful version of her SKY DRILL which rushed towards the Strizer which, being unable to run away, began to gather his own winds but while he got ready to counter-attack, Happy and Charla, in a last effort, threw themselves on the Strizer, striking simultaneously on his 2 temples, the 2 impacts making him lose his concentration and, completely knocked out, was then totally unable to protect himself from the gust which collided with him and send him up to the main square of the city which was reduced to nothing but rubbles by the power of the attack, the Strizer laying in the middle of the ruins, eyes white and completely knocked out. The mages didn't lose a single second and rushed to their young friends, carrying them one by one towards the infirmary to look after them as quickly as possible, Wendy asserting being in a good enough shape to do her job and look after her friends. All were extremely proud of what they had demonstrated and looked forward to letting them know it. After 2 hours of care, the 3 mages and 2 Exceeds were finally all looked after, even if Romeo and Happy had to be bedridden due to some deep wounds. If lights had to be shed on many matters, there was one that was more important for them.

- " HAPPY ! I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU AGAIN ! " Natsu wept buckets, squeezing Happy in his arms.

- " AND YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE ME SOON IF YOU SQUEEZE ME SO THIGHTLY ! " Complained the Exceed, now back to his small form, but still wearing a miniature version of the pants he had earlier and also the same bandages on his arms.

- " AH ! Sorry! "

- " It doesn't matter, but it was horrible, like I was suffocated by Lucy's breast. "

- " Why does it always have to come back to me ? " The blonde complained whereas Erza got closer to Happy, arms crossed.

- " I would like to know, Happy : How did you met Jellal ? And why did you decided to train him ? " Ended the warrior by turning to the blue haired mage who answered on the same tone.

- " It is a strange and quite long story, in fact. I'm going to tell you. "

And here it is ! Happy is back, the young generation showed its ability against one of the Strizers. I hope that you liked it and that you will appreciate the rest of it. See you !

Next time : the encounter of Happy and Jellal. Pouring oil paint on the fire. Kidnapping and confrontation on the volcanic land.