"Nah we'll be good, I have a plan" Natsu said with a smirk
"Oh and what's that" Kinana asked as the two approached the bar, they now had the attention of everyone in the hall, Mira and Natsu just laughed, they had found hidden funds in Fairy tails accounts labelled damages and they had plans to expand the guild, they had decided not tell the guild for now.
"Well that would be telling" Mira giggled.
"Aww come..." their happy conversation was interrupted by the guild doors blasting inwards reviling 6 plus mages standing at the guild doors.
"Can I help you?" Natsu asked stepping forward.
"So this is the once great Fairy tail" the man a front of the group said Ignoring Natsu.
"This is Fairy tail yes what can we do for you?" Natsu asked again calmly, taking another step forward the other members stood up to face the intruders and Mira walked till she was next to Natsu.
"We're from twilight ogre a new guild opened on the other side of town my name is Thibaut and we just came to make sure you flies know the new pecking order" he spoke confidently.
"Is that right, so who's on top of that pecking order?" Natsu asked still staying calm.
"We are of course and if you don't like it" he said drawing his mace "I'll make you like it" he said as he swung his mace at a nearby boy.
"Romeo" Natsu called as he suddenly appeared between Romeo and the mace covering the boy with his back to the attack, it hit him square in the back and he winced in pain for a moment before standing up to face the person who tried to harm one of his guild members.
"Romeo go stand over with you dad" Natsu said starting to get angry, he watched in the corner of his eye to make sure Romeo for over there safely. "Now I don't mind you disrespecting the guild but never try to hurt a Fairy tail member" Natsu said glaring at the mage.
"Oh yea what if I do" he said raising the mace and swinging it towards him, Natsu caught it easily.
"This, fire dragons iron fist" Natsu said lighting his hand on fire and striking Thibaut in the gut Knocking him back into a nearby wall. " Anyone else?" Natsu said turning to the rest of the group.
"He got Thibaut" one panicked.
"It don't matter get them" another said as the he and a few other began charging in to the guild hall.
"Fairy tail get em" Natsu ordered soon Fairy tail mages began raining spells down on the intruders, Macao used his purple flames while still guarding Romeo, Mira had turned into her Basic Satan soul and Bisca and Aslack were providing ranged support, Natsu stood back to see if his guild could handle the competition and he was rewarded as soon all of them had ether been knocked unconscious or had ran out the guild.
"Well that was fun" Wakaba smirked watching them run.
"We certainly made easy work of them" Mira said cheerfully as she looked around to see if anyone was injured and glad to see everyone was fine.
"Well well looks like the fairies have some fight left in them after all" a load voice spoke from the guild halls broken doors, everyone looked to see a large man with a square face and wearing a yellow pinstriped suit.
"We can defend ourselves of we have to" Natsu said glaring at the man.
"I'm sure you can you made easy work of my men" he spoke taking a smoke of his cigar. "I'm afraid you won't make such easy work out of me" he spoke with authority.
"Oh yea what makes you think that" Natsu said getting into a fighting stance will the rest of his guild stood ready.
"It simple you have a weakness, your desire to protect those around you it will be you downfall. Smoke magic: poison cloud" as he spoke he inhaled and blew out a large purple smoke which quickly spread round the guild. "Don't think your demon take over will save you spent the last year creating a spell that would easily deal with you fairy scum" the man spoke with laughter.
'Damn' Natsu thought as he looked around to see his guild to begin to choke 'There's only one thing for it my lungs should be able to hold the poison for a while I have faith my guild can deal with this guy' he began to inhale the poison sucking in the poisonous cloud as he did Mira looked over when she realised she wasn't choking to realise what was going on.
"Natsu don't that much poison could kill you" Mira cried out, soon all the poison had been absorbed Natsu stumbled down to his knees.
"I'll leave this one to you Mira" Natsu said before collapsing on the floor unconscious.
"Natsu" Mira yelled as she saw him collapse thinking the worst but her concern quickly turned to anger "Jet I'll deal with him as soon as you can run and get Porlyusica" Mira said calmly but her demonic aura was radiating off her jet simply nodded. "Take over Sitri" Mira yelled quickly changing forms from her usual take over to one with golden horns on the side of his face, he clothing changed to white and blue battle gear with a black cape her hair grew longer still staying in its back pony tail.
"You think you can.." the man began to say but as soon as did Mira was directly in front of him, her claw like hand raised above her head it quickly swiped down and hit it's target out of the guild hall and into a nearby wall.
"Jet now" the she devil ordered he usual angelic voice gone replaced by a deeper more menacing one, no sooner than the order was given that jet had disappeared at blinding speed out the guild. The she devil walked up to the supposed leader of twilight ogre and saw he was still conscious. "Now listen" Mirajane began as she picked him up by his head. "You will leave this town and if I even catch the slightest hint that you or your guild return I swear I won't be so nice next time" she then let go of him a watch as he scurried away in fear thankful he had just looked in to the devil's eyes and lived. Once she saw he was out of sight she let go of her take over and proceed to head over to where Natsu was laying, she knelt down next to him and was relived to see he was still breathing though it was ragged.
"Is he still alive?" Macao asked timidly
"He is we just we need to get him into the infirmary and hope Porlyusica will have a cure" Mira reassured.
"What an iwalking over to Natsu with Macao and picking him up.
'This is why you make such a good master Natsu' Mira smiled to herself as she followed the two into the infirmary and no sooner than the two laid him on the bed that Jet appeared carrying Porlyusica.
"What he done now?" the healer snapped, Mira quickly explained what had happened and Porlyusica examined him and laid her hands on his chest as a bright light shined from them, after a few moments the light dimed and the healer stepped back.
"How is he?" Mira asked.
"I've got rid of the poison but it has caused damage to his lungs but if he makes it through tonight he should be ok" Porlyusica explained. "He'll need someone to stay with him I'm going to be staying in the guest room in the guild so if anything happens I'll know"
"That's no problem I'll stay" Mirajane announced the healer nodded and left the room. "If any guild business comes through tell them the master is out" Mira told the two older mages in the room.
"Not a problem" Macao spoke seeing the serious look on Mira's face he and Wakaba turned and left to tell the others in the guild. Mira sat down in a chair next to Natsu's bed and just watched. Soon afternoon turned evening and she was still sat in the same chair but she heard a knock at the door.
"Come in" Mira said calmly, the door opened showing Bisca standing there. "Hey Bisca is everything OK?" she asked worried something else had gone wrong today.
"No I just came to say the magic council has picked up the twilight ogre members" Bisca said.
"OK thanks for telling me, it's good to know there being dealt with" Mira said forcing a smile.
"How is he?" Bisca asked waking in to the room fully looking over at the unconscious Natsu.
"Still the same, but a least he hasn't got any worse" Mira replied losing the smile.
"Why haven't you told him how you feel?" Bisca asked seeing the worry and love in the take over mages eyes.
"That obvious " Mira sighed turning her attention to Natsu.
"I'm pretty sure the whole guild knows how you feel about our young guild master and how he feels about you" Bisca said.
"I know but it never seemed like the right time" Mira said with a sad smile.
"I know what you mean it took me a while to tell Aslack how I feel" the cowgirl laughed. "Anyway I'm sure he'll be fine he's made it through worse" Bisca said as she left the room. The night went on and soon Mira had fallen asleep resting her head on the side of Natsu's bed unfortunately it didn't last she was awoken at some point in the night by Natsu convulsing and struggling to breath.
"HELP" Mira yelled realising what was happening, soon the door burst open and Porlyusica ran in to the scene.
"What happened" she demanded.
"I don't know if woke up and he wasn't breathing" Mira said in a panic, Porlyusica moved to the opposite side of the bed to Mira and summoned her magic at his chest again, Mira was horrified at the scene in front of her. "Don't you die on me Natsu" Mira whispered as tears started falling down her face. "I can't lose you too" Mira yelled gripping his hand tightly. After a few minutes which felt like hours he calmed down and Porlyusica stopped her magic.
"He's stable again" she said tiredly. "Call me if he worsens again" she said leaving the room. Mira let out a sigh of relief looking down at Natsu his breathing had returned to normal. The rest of the night went by quietly and Mira forced herself to fall back to sleep.
Natsu felt himself wake up feeling a weight on his stomach he slowly opened his eyes and saw the infirmary ceiling. 'Well I'm not dead that's always good' Natsu thought to himself and laughed a little causing pain in his chest, he looked down his body to see white haired laying on his stomach it took him a few moments to realise it was Mira he smiled and began stroking her hair.
Mira began to wake feeling soft hands running through her hair, she felt warmth and comfort coming from the hand then she realised who it was.
"Natsu" Mira said sitting up in her chair.
"Hey didn't mean to scare ya" Natsu said weakly trying the sit up.
"No its ok, I'm just glad your awake" she said helping him move and adjusting the pillows.
"So what happened did.." he was cut off by Mira hugging him.
"You dummy promise me you'll never do anything like that again" Mira said relived as tear of joy fell down her face., Natsu wrapped his hands around her.
"I can't promise that I need to protect the guild" Natsu said quietly "I need to protect you"
"I'm just happy to see your ok" she said pulling out of the hug btw what Natsu did next shocked her, as she pulled away he gently took the back of her head and pulled her in for a kiss she quickly got over the shock and started kissing back, this lasted for a few seconds before they both pulled away leaving Mira in a small state of shock.
"Umm sorry about that it just felt right" Natsu said panicking at her reaction thinking he misread her feeling towards him.
"There's nothing to be sorry about" Mira said snapping herself out of her shock "I'm just surprised"
"Well I've been thinking about a lot of things recently and one of them if how I feel towards you" Natsu said. "Mira I love you" Natsu confessed, Mira dived in for another kiss.
"I love you too Natsu I have for a while now" Mira said braking the kiss and gently hugging him.
"I'm glad" Natsu smiled hugging her back. "Thank you"
"What for?" Mira asked.
"You've stayed by me this last year I'm not sure I would of got through it if it wasn't for you" Natsu said pulling back to look into her eyes.
"You've help me too you know, but it nothing Natsu I will always be there for you" Mira said. The two spent the rest of the morning talking and eventually rejoined the guild where a day long party lasted all through the night but Natsu and Mira headed home early because Natsu was still feeling a little weak the two feel asleep wrapped in each others arms.