Fairy Hidden in the Dark, a Naruto and Fairy Tail Crossover
Author's Note: Hey people and non-people, first off Merry Christmas, (if your religious belief is one that does not celebrate Christmas, then I wish for you to have an excellent holiday during the month of December) and a Happy New Year. I finally got another one of my Fairy Hidden in the Dark chapters done, and I am proud to say that I am getting to the point where the story will get better.
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Chapter 3: Broken Heart and Damaged Fairy
Unknown Location 774
Naruto was left gaping when he saw the Ace of Fairy Tail, the one guild that Master Hades would continuously tell him was the weakest guild due to their beliefs, standing less than fifty feet from him with his face set in a stone cold glare and his magic power practically crushing Naruto's young form. At ten years old it did not take much magic to frighten someone into freezing on the spot, but with Gildarts who is a famous S class wizard there was no way that Naruto would be able to stand up to his strength.
Feeling his knees shaking while he is being stared down by Gildarts, he almost did not sense it until it was too late, but all at once he felt the surge of magic coming from right behind him. Not turning to look he just fell forward and rolled to the side of where he was sensing the magic, and a second later he felt something like a small explosion go off next to him. Continuing to roll away from the threat he soon got up and turned his gaze to the stranger that was standing where he had been a moment before.
Standing there at approximately five foot ten, was a man with a unkempt blonde hair, which came down to his shoulders, and he wore a white lab coat much like a doctor would. His face was thin like he had not eaten in days, but when Naruto saw his eyes hidden behind a pair of cracked glasses he was sure that there was more to it than that. His face was in a twisted smile much like a clown, but when you see his eyes you can almost feel the insanity that was coming off of him.
"Oh, you were able to dodge my attack, I guess you are just some brat that was hidden earlier. And look who we have here, Gildarts the walking catastrophe, hahaha. This is too perfect of a chance to test my skills against a legend like you, hahaha." The whole time that he was talking he was turning between Naruto and Gildarts, but when Naruto saw the ground in front of the stranger where he had been standing earlier he was shock at the sight, there carved into the ground was a perfect 'E'.
'What the hell? How was he able to do that, it felt like an explosion but I don't see any burn damage on the ground, and it would be close to impossible to form a shape like that with an explosion.' Looking at the hole a little more Naruto was still confused as to what could have caused that sort of damage.
"I see that you like my work, if you promise to not move I will give you a closer demonstration." The strange man that Naruto could only refer to as E turned and looked at Naruto as he spoke. "Just hold still you little BRAT!" As he said the last word he charged at Naruto and when he held his left hand up Naruto saw that on his palm there was a black rune that was a perfect copy of the 'E' that was being left in the bodies of his victims.
Naruto began to form a theory on how E's mysterious power worked but before he could confirm his theory he was going to need to see the attack at least once. Jumping back to keep some distance between himself and the crazy man with the deadly attack, Naruto saw movement out of the corner of his eye.
The next moment Gildarts was in front of Naruto and he threw a punch out that caught E in the stomach sending him flying back somewhat. E quickly righted himself and was once more looking at Gildarts with that insane grin on his face as though there was some kind of inside joke that neither Naruto nor the Ace of Fairy Tail understood.
"Hey kid, am I right in assuming that the two of you are not friends?" Gildarts said to Naruto as they both kept their eyes on the dangerous man in front of them.
"Yea, I was ordered by my guild to find this guy, but they never said that we were going to be allies." Naruto lied to Gildarts, he just could not honestly see the man accepting his story about being asked to recruit or kill the man. "From the way that they spoke I believe that they wanted for me to take him to the nearest royal guard to have him arrested."
"They didn't tell you right out?" Gildarts asked as he sent a questioning look to the young man that he was now conversing with. "What sort of guild doesn't tell you what your job is, as a matter of fact what guild are you with?"
Naruto was suddenly nervous, if the stories that Master Hades had told them about Fairy Tail were true then he did not want for this man to learn what guild he was with. "If you haven't heard of my guild yet just keep an ear out for my name, I am Naruto Uzumaki the man that will make his guild rise to the top."
There was a moment of silence between the two as Gildarts examined him but after a moment a large grin broke across his face. "Heh, you're a cocky little brat, you actually remind me of a kid from my guild. Fine I will wait and see if you can keep your word about that."
"If the two of you are done talking, I want to see how many holes I and make in you before you die!" The two were forced to pay attention to the madman as he charged at them, but Naruto noticed that Gildarts was not that concerned. Deciding to watch and see what happens, Naruto was left gaping when he saw Gildarts use his Crush Magic to stop whatever E was doing. "Don't do that, how am I going to see you bleed if you keep blocking me?"
Naruto was attempting to figure out what the man's magic was, but he couldn't seem to grasp the concept behind it. All he was able to see was that E would force some form of pressure out of his hand that would carve an 'E' into his intended target, but how the ability works he doesn't know.
"It looks like I don't need to worry about this insane guy as long as Gildarts is around." But at the same time he could not let his guard down, because that is what would get him caught in the crossfire. "If only I could figure out the magic he is using."
"You want to know more about me?" The crazed man said with a wicked gleam in his eye, "Well let me tell you a little about myself before you forced to leave this world. I was a former member of a dark guild, and I studied the ancient art of Brand Magic, which is almost the same as Rune Magic but with one main difference. Runes are temporary or removable, but brands on the other hand are permanent which makes them less useful for a support type of magic like runes. What makes Brands so much better than the simplistic runes is that they are used to improve upon one's own body." With this he held up his left hand again and showed the black 'E' on his palm. "It was after much experimenting that I finally created my masterpiece, this is the Ejector Brand, and with it I will kill Gildarts and the child before me."
With that last statement being some sort of signal, both Gildarts and E charged at one another their magic fighting once more for dominance, but much like before they ended in a stalemate. Naruto did notice something odd about the conflict though, in all of the time that E and Gildarts had clashed never once did E use his right hand to attack. He figured that either it means that he was not taking the fight seriously or that he could only attack with the left hand; perhaps the left was his attack and the right was his defense?
Deciding to test his theory Naruto searched the ground for something that he could use against the crazed man, and as luck would have it he found a small rock about the size of his fist. Throwing the makeshift projectile at E's back he watched as E noticed the stone and lifted his right hand towards it.
'So that hand is used for some form of defensive magic,' Naruto thought to himself as he watched E's actions very carefully. Right when the rock was about to hit E's hand it suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing behind to show that it had even been there. Before Naruto could attempt to figure out what had happened to the rock, he saw where it had gone.
From his left hand a large stone 'E' suddenly launched itself at Gildarts, but it did not seem to matter if it was stone or not, Gildarts magic crushed the stone much like its name implied. Slowly realizing what the Brand Magic user's ability was, Naruto had to see one more thing before he understood what the invisible attack was. Watching for the next time that he attacked, Naruto finally saw what he was looking for.
"I got you now." Naruto spoke with confidence, even though he was sure that if Gildarts was not there he would be dead, even if he had known about the man's ability. Quickly circling around behind him Naruto attempted to get close enough that he could land a blow on the man's back.
"Not going to happen my little friend," with that said the man's leg launched out and caught Naruto square in the gut, but seeing it at the last second Naruto was able to use his magic to defend his stomach area. Wrapping his arms around the leg before it could be retracted Naruto pushed forward to knock the man off his balance, and he was hoping into the hands of Gildarts.
"Gotcha!" Naruto looked up in time to see the man's right hand, and in that moment he saw that the brand on the palm resembled that of an 'A'. Not knowing what would happen he twisted around until he was sure that he was out of the way of the hand. At the last moment Naruto felt the air around his head get suddenly sucked away from him, and he was struggling to breath for a moment. That moment was all that his opponent needed to withdraw his leg and send it back into Naruto's gut, this time without the protection that Naruto would have provided.
"GAH!" Naruto let out a brutal gasp as he was sent flying away from the fight. Recovering he looked up with one of his eyes being closed due to the pain, but he was still in the fight and wanted to make sure that he got some sort of hit in.
'Let me think, I have figured out the main function of the brands that he has on his hands. The right hand absorbs whatever it is aimed at, whether it is stone or air. And if I had to guess by the way that he aimed it at me, it can also absorb flesh. If what I felt when he absorbed all the air around me was anything to go by, then if he was successful in absorbing the flesh of someone they would suffer near instant death. But that leaves the question, why has he not tried to absorb Gildarts, but instead has settled for a stalemate.'
Naruto thought over all of the information that he had been able to gather so far, and he had come up with only one theory that explains why Gildarts did not have to defend against the absorbing hand. When Gildarts defends, he does so by using his magic to destroy the opposing magic, so the only thing that made sense was that E could not absorb magic. Unfortunately Gildarts was already preoccupied and Naruto's own magic was unfortunately a body enhancing magic, meaning that if he was wrong about E that he would have put his body in the direct line of the absorbing hand.
It was a risky move but at this point, unless Gildarts was able to pull a win soon, he was looking at death anyway so he would rather go out fighting.
Knowing that it was going to be a one shot attempt Naruto took a deep breath to help him relax and plan out what exactly he was going to do. He was only able to harden his muscles when he was not moving, and that means that he would have to stay still until he was sure that E had attempted to use his Absorb Brand on him, and then he would charge him while he is surprised. But that is assuming that he can't attempt the absorbing in rapid shots, if that is the case then all he can hope is that his magic protects him and he provides Gildarts enough of a distraction to take the man down before E returns his attention back to Gildarts.
Charging at E once more he waited until he was close before he began to keep an eye out for the motion that he was on high alert for…There! As soon as E began to lift his right hand Naruto picked up speed and tried to get to him one time before he had to risk being ripped apart by the Absorb Brand. Realizing that he was not going to make it in time Naruto instinctively used his magic to protect himself and something incredible happened. Naruto once more felt that same feeling from when he had first used his magic and all of a sudden he was about twenty feet away from where he was a moment ago. Looking around he saw that E had his hand pointed at where he was supposed to be and was still focused on Gildarts, taking advantage of this sudden change Naruto grabbed a rock from the ground and threw it high in the air.
Once the rock landed on the other side of the crazed scientist mage, E turned his hand in the direction and that was when Naruto ran at him and once he was five feet away he jumped into the air and coated his fist in his magic. Coming down from the apex of his jump Naruto was unable to move or risk his magic dispelling so he had to aim in midair, but when he fell his fist was on target and landed square on the back of E's head. The force of the punch combined with Naruto's magic and the extra gravity from his falling from the sky caused E to be slammed into the ground.
Gildarts, seeing that Naruto had knocked the man down, stopped his magic long enough to raise his foot and slam it down hard on the skull of the insane murderer who was starting to get up. The force of his stomp was strong enough to shatter the ground underneath the man's body and sent him into the ground until he couldn't move. Next he turned back to Naruto and extended his hand to help the young blonde up from the ground.
"Good work kid," Gildarts said before he slammed a fist to the top of the blondes head causing a bump to form, "but you should have stayed out of it and let me handle him."
"I'm not some defenseless kid who needs someone to protect him, I can take care of myself." Naruto said while glaring at Gildarts. "Besides you weren't doing anything so someone had to protect you."
"I was waiting for the right moment to wail on him so hard that I knocked the insanity out of him, but I couldn't do that because you were running around and constantly in my way." Gildarts shouted at him with a visible tick mark standing out on his head. "If you had wanted to help you should have gotten out of the way and let me fight him."
"Well from the way that I saw it, you were getting your ass kicked and I was the one that gave you an opening that you used to defeat him. Even if you didn't need my help, I saw that you wasted no time in using the opening that I gave you."
Gildarts shut up after that, while it was true that he didn't need the kid's help, it was also true that when the kid had provided him such a good set up that he went ahead and used it.
"I just wanted to end the fight early so that I could ask you about that speed magic that you used earlier." Gildarts said and while Naruto figured that he was lying to cover for himself, he could also see some genuine curiosity in his gaze.
…"Honestly I have no idea how I did that or that I could do that. I have been training in my magic for years and today was the first time that I was able to move like that." Naruto stated while thinking about what he had done to cause himself to move so quickly. The only thought that made sense was that to him was that he coated himself in his magic and then attempted to move while in deep distress which allowed him to do so with the additional benefit of greater speed. But how he did it was still a mystery to him and at the moment one that he did not have the time to figure out.
"So what are you going to do with him?" Naruto asked Gildarts as he looked at E and wanted to change the subject away from his magic which after years of training in was either still evolving or he was still unlocking secrets of it.
"I will take him to the nearest town with Rune Knights living within it and hand him over to them so that they can deal with him." Gildarts said as he began to pick up the knocked out and bleeding scientist, "What about you, you heading back to your guild?"
"Yea, I better head back so that they won't worry about me." Naruto said as he was desperate to get away from the man that was from Master Hades old guild and who had the strength to end him in an instant.
"Alright kid, you be careful out there and don't be scared to drop by Fairy Tail some times." Gildarts said as he began walking off with his prisoner slung over his shoulder.
Naruto kept up his neutral face until he was sure that Gildarts was no longer able to see him and then he let his grimace be seen. This would put a slight damper in Master Hades plans and that would mean that Ultear would be pissed at him for the foreseeable future. More than it meant that his first chance to impress Master Hades had been crushed by Gildarts, although he had to admit that if had not been for that man he would have probably died at the hand of E.
Heading back to the guild empty handed was not something that he was looking forward to, but he did not have anything better planned so he began the trek back. The whole time though he could not get his meeting with Gildarts out of his mind, there was something wrong with the way that it happened. He was halfway back to the guild three days later before he finally realized what it was, Gildarts was the ace of Fairy Tail the guild that Master Hades had described as being weak and foolish. Being classified as the ace Naruto could understand why he was so strong but nothing about him screamed 'fool' like Master Hades had painted them to be.
He continued to think on this and somewhere in the back of his mind he contemplated the idea of joining Fairy Tail but he knew that it was just a childish dream. Although Master Hades himself had come from that guild, so maybe that is what he needed to understand the foolishness that Master Hades had spoken of. But again he would not abandon his guild so easily and neither would he betray Master Hades' trust that that had finally been given to him.
Flashback End Back to the Present 776
Now that brings us to here, Naruto is standing on top of the hill overlooking the city as it burns, but what was worse was that he knew that his guild mates, his comrades, his friends were the ones that were causing the devastation. Looking across the city he could see the black flames of Zancrow rising up in a corner, and next to it a large mass of trees grew up before they detonated in a mass of explosions.
A little closer to him he could see Capricorn and his army of humans attacking the civilians and causing random destruction to the town itself. And at other spots in the city he could make out the results of the other members of the guild magic, such as the dark blue and black field that was Bluenote's Black Hole, imagined beast of Rustyrose's monster tearing apart the town and finally Ultear's Time Arc magic causing buildings to fall apart and for the rubble to reassemble before breaking apart again. He learned firsthand how deadly her reconstructing just one of those buildings could be, and she was tearing down multiple buildings within a span of ten seconds.
"What are they doing?" Naruto could not help but ask as he watched the rest of his guild wreaking havoc on the town of innocent people. He continued to watch in stunned silence, as though if he continued to watch the massacre it would somehow give him the answer to his question. But the longer that he watched the worse he felt about the whole ordeal. It was during this time that he remembered the thought he had a couple of years ago.
'Join Fairy Tail.' The thought had seemed appealing to him a few times before now, but this was honestly the first time that he was considering it. He had to endure the pain that these people were going through and he knew that there was never a true cure for the darkness that it plants in your heart, and it was for that reason that he no longer wanted to associate with the guild that he had known for years. 'Join Fairy Tail.'
The more he contemplated about it the more that he approved of the thought, leave behind the dark and embrace the fairy's light. But it would not be as simple as that, Mast-no he was no longer his master, Hades would not let one of his Kin of Purgatory leave so easily. He would need to think of a plan, some kind of reason for him to be allowed to leave the guild and possibly even tell Hades that he would be with the Fairies for the conceivable future. And while he did not want to leave his guild, the only home that he had known since the attack, he could no longer view these people as the friends that raised him.
But watching the destruction in front of him, he did not think that he could call them his friends any longer, and more to the point if he did not participate who knows how Hades and the rest will react to him. All he knows is that he needs to find a way to get out of Grimoire Heart and make his way to Fairy Tail, with any luck without causing a big scene that could get him on the wrong side of his old family or hated by his new hopeful family.
End
AN: So to those of you who thought that there was going to be a Naruto versus Gildarts fight, what is wrong with you? Gildarts is so overpowered that I can honestly say that he is the only Fairy Tail mage that had a chance to become one of the top four Wizard Saints, and you wanted to see a kid fight against him? Shame on you!
Onto E, he was an idea that I had for a while and may possibly show up later in the story as a member of one of the dark guilds, but I am not fully decided on that yet and may simply let his character die out through some event.