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Everyone in the guild hall grew doubtful faces as Natsu would even go to the Council room. Where Erza was being held at and dismissed Lucy's claim. Mirajane and Makarov were surprised that Natsu would actually go into such a court room. It was against the law to walk into a middle of her case but then again. Makarov knew that Natsu greatly cared for Erza but did not show it in the slightest. He knew that Natsu was controlling his emotions to keep them in check and not give any hints. That he was still in love with her.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about that, least hope he doesn't do anything stupid." Makarov accepted her answer.
"Master are you serious? Natsu couldn't just go into Erza's courtroom trial, I mean have you seen how he treated her?" Gray asked.
Makarov went back to his memory with Natsu rudely handing Erza a poorly made Strawberry Cake. The young man turned around and ignored Erza's protest. It was true that Natsu had pushed the redhead away but knew that was in order to discipline his emotions, He looked at the guild and noticed they were not believing him. This marked red flags for him in his mind but he did not pursue it, and just stayed quiet.
Back at the courtroom.
The courtroom doors were slightly opened and everyone paid attention to the black fur coat cat came into the courtroom. There was silence, and everyone was curious as to how a lone cat got into the courtroom. The feline made its way to Erza before looking at her, Erza seemed to look down at the cat in surprise. However, the feeling wore off before she bent down and gently stroked the cat's chin with her finger. The cat gave a purr, before moving away from the redhead. The cat went to the stands and up the set of stairs on the right. He got to the top of the stairs, once he did so the cat jumped onto the long single desk. The magic council members were stationed and laid down before sleeping on the desk itself. Everyone shrugged the cat's presence off, before continuing the court session.
"Erza Scarlet, you will be held accountable for these charges. The property damages of The Guild Eisenwald, the destruction of clover leaf railway, multiple accounts of civilian property destroyed, and finally the Masters meeting place in Clover Leaf. You hereby will be put under arrest." The cat heard from the man above the council say.
Ultear glanced at the cat, she felt as if the animal was spying on them. She would follow the cat, wherever the feline wanted but made sure to keep a close eye on the animal. She glanced at Seigrain who gave a nod. He, also felt the same way about the cat as she did. Erza glanced over at the now 'asleep' cat and pondered. Why would the animal even be in the room with them, was it just by pure luck that the animal got into the room, or someone infiltrating the court meeting. She did not know but put the bulk of her attention as she was escorted out of the court meeting, before being sent to her jail cell. Everyone else in the courtroom vanished in thin air, the black cat opened one of his eyes. To see that the council was only here in spirit aside from Ultear, who looked down at the cat. She rested her left cheek on her palm and looked at the feline dreamily.
"To others your just a lucky cat, however, I know you're using transformation magic. I have to admit it would have slipped by me as well if I didn't dwell in the art." Ultear told the cat.
"Yes, believe me, I think you caught me earlier, now is someone attracted to cats?" He asked her.
"Try as I must, I think the cat wants me." Ultear countered.
"I rather not, especially if we just meet." He informed the woman.
"I didn't know I was unattractive." She fired back.
The cat got up and stride its way over to Ultear, once the cat got to the woman. Ultear watched as the feline came towards her, then once in the right position. His tail made contact with her cheek, she smiled at him. The man had some guts, before moving his legs forward. The tail on her cheek moved to her jawline, as it slides across the jaw bone. The tail proceeds to go to a part of her chin before breaking contact by the animal.
"My, my it seems you that you can't contain yourself." Ultear told him.
The cat merely took a look over his shoulder to make eye contact with the woman.
"It seems your trying to make me feel bad, sorry my love. I don't feel it in the slightest.
Ultear giggled it seems the person behind the transformation would be worthwhile to meet, it would test her skills.
"We have a date don't we, least see if you can keep the end of your bargain." The cat informed her.
The woman grew a smirk as she figured out who the cat was behind the enchantment. It was none other than Natsu. Tonight would be an interesting one for the councilwoman. She got up to her feet, she decided to carry Natsu. Her arm extended outward and made her hand straight. Natsu glanced to see her wanting to hold him as they went to their date. He accepted as he walked up the women's arm before resting himself on her shoulders. Ultear began to walk down the stairs before exiting the room, finally getting out of the building and onto their activities for the rest of the day.
The next day at Fairy Tail.
Everyone saw Erza and Natsu walked into the building almost at the same time, however, the redhead glared at Natsu heavily. As her face show a clear imagine of bitterness. The guild members were shocked that Natsu did, in fact, go to the court meeting to 'rescue' Erza. He most likely was put in a jail cell with Erza. Though that happened in an entirely different universe, not this one. Everyone was happy that they both returned home without much of a punishment. It was a slap on the wrist more like it. Natsu and Erza made it to the front of the bar counter when a voice ringed out the hall.
"The rumors were true you are alive, Natsu."
Everyone look over to the second story railing before their eyes widen, a figure was sitting on a chair. The man had spiky blond hair, His eye color was a shade of black, his choice of clothes was a black fur coat. A purple button up t-shirt underneath the coat and black pants. To top it all off there were white tennis shoes on his feet. He leaned in the chair as he looked down at the entire population inside the building.
"Woah, talk about Laxus your never here." Wakaba stated.
Lucy sitting down next to Gray and Elfman grew a confused face.
"Laxus?" She asked.
"Yep, meet the grandson of Master Makarov. He is an S-class wizard like Erza and Mystogen. He is the strongest of the S-class wizard as of now." Natsu answered for her.
Laxus grew a grin and jerked a thumb at himself.
"I'm the strongest here the rest are two people who hardly show up at all or is a chick that was made a fool out of yesterday." Laxus stated.
Erza glared at the older male upstairs, the fight was interrupted, it never finished.
"I have to agree with Laxus, she hides behind her armor. She is too slow." Natsu said.
Laxus chuckled at his comment, Erza was fuming while Lucy gave a sign. Gray didn't mind the insult, as it occurred to him. That Erza indeed was hiding behind her armor, cutting off many emotions and trying to be closed off. The armor did seem to match the touchy subject. He would let the insult slide this time. Everyone else were shocked that Natsu openly insulted Erza but it quickly diminished. It became an expected at any time of the day. They didn't do anything but watch the scene unfold.
"Damn, Natsu. Didn't think you had it in ya." Laxus replied.
The mentioned person just gave a shrug, he wanted to help her. If insulting her worked then so be it, after a few moments of silence. The conversation died down and Natsu headed towards the mission board. Erza went to sit at the bar counter to try and blow off her steam on the assault to injury by Laxus and Natsu. Makarov mumbled something about how troublesome Natsu was right now. He and the guildmates didn't see eye to eye. Gray grew a groan before standing up and walking over to Natsu. He stood next to him, they didn't say anything to acknowledge the presence of the other. After a few moments of silence did one of them speak.
"Hey Gray, need something?" Natsu asked him.
Gray didn't answer immediately, he waited a few moments before speaking out his question.
"Where did you go exactly, for five years?" He asked.
Natsu look at his old rival.
"Well ice princess, if you really want to know. Then you owe me a favor," Natsu answered.
Gray eyes widen in surprise at Natsu's request, his mind was wanting him to refuse. The instincts screamed to accept Natsu's offer, damn the consequences. Natsu gave Gray some time to answer his request. When the wizard wasn't going to answer. Natsu attention went to the board but before he could divert attention. Gray brought him back to him.
"It's a deal flamebrain." Gray answered.
Natsu cracked a grin at him. He didn't look at Gray but answered the male's question.
"It's a place called The Soul Society."
Gray became confused at Natsu's answer.
"What is the Soul Society?" Gray asked.
"Ah, It is a place where spirits go to once they pass. For example, if you died then if your spirit passed on, then it would go to there but you won't know your past life. Think of it as reincarnation like your turned into a baby again, Just don't remember your life before you died." Natsu answered.
"What is it like in soul society?" Gray asked.
"Let us sit and talk about it, I have a feeling it will take some time." Natsu told him.
The two wizards went to an empty table within the guild hall, the two sat across from the other. They look each other in the eyes before Natsu answered Gray.
"Well, it depends on the area you went to, I personally have been to the center the first time. I actually there but did some country walk before heading to the capital. For this, I really have limited on the whole Soul Society. I know that there is four gates and said gates are guarded by gatekeepers. You beat one or have legal passports you can go into the capital city or have a bunch of soul reapers attack you. If you choose to fight the keeper and win. Don't think about trying to destroy the gates or walls surrounding the city it's useless. Least see, yeah remember when I said soul reapers attack you if you fought the keeper. The capital holds The nobility of the soul society, which I am a part of one."Natsu said with a smug smirked.
Gray paused for a moment to digest the information. He had just heard from Natsu before he jolted up from his seat.
"You can't be a part of a noble family!" Gray nearly shouted.
"Last time I checked my master adopted me into her family." Natsu answered.
Gray felt his brain fry out on him for s few seconds, the male sat back down on his seat. He took a few even breaths before regaining the ability to speak once more to Natsu.
"Is it the reason you don't call the Guild Master by his title?" Gray asked.
"More so than that." Natsu answered.
Gray gave a nod to him.
"Continue." Gray said.
"Well, there is the Military, which there is the Captain Commander the leader of the Gotei Thirteen. He oversees the entire Military but there are 13 divisions and for each division is a Captain. Now each Captain is the strongest out of the entire division. Each captain is assigned two lieutenants and so on and so forth until their Division is made. The Military is dubbed the soul reapers or shinagami's. They defend the Center or Capital of Soul Society. IN addition specific key areas of the area around them and lastly earth. They defend against spirits or beings with high spiritual power. All I can really tell you for now." Natsu finished.
"What exactly is a soul reaper?" Gray asked.
"A wizard but they do more enchanting to make the spell work properly, here it would be called magic but in the soul society its called kido. Things only get complicated from there so just refer it back to Kido for now. Soul Reapers can also fight hand to hand, armed combat and all high-speed movements. Their job is to keep balance within their worlds they are responsible for and makes sure light and darkness. Are not overpowering the other since more of one or the other will cause imbalance and chaos. They also do all sorts of things." Natsu answered.
Gray pondered on the information as his eyes went to the ground and then back to Natsu.
"So you were a Kido user?" Gray questioned.
Natsu shook his head. Gray looked visibly stunned as he saw a mage from Fairy Tail not strive in a magical field.
"What are you talking about!? You're a dragon slayer! A mage from Fairy Tail! How can you not excel in that field!?" Gray asked.
"Our magic is inferior to the Kido's they use, in many ways." Natsu told him.
He couldn't believe Natsu for a second but then he began to think, he hasn't been there so that it was possible. Gray would give Natsu the benefit of the doubt, even if he didn't believe him.
"Alright if this is true, then what did you excel in?" Gray asked
"I will let you figure that out but I have to go, need to pay our rent for the apartment. Later." Natsu told him.
He got up from the table, leaving a baffled Gray behind him.
Later that Day.
Lucy gave a sign as she entered her apartment, she wanted to sit back and relax. That is what she wanted but to her wonder. Natsu was sitting on their couch, nothing to be surprised about but what surprised her. Is that Happy was laying on her bed doing sit-ups like crazy, she walked fully into her apartment and shut the door. She went over to her roommate, who look at her to acknowledge her.
"Why is Happy here?" Lucy asked.
"Oh, I asked him if he wanted to come on a mission with me. He said yes." Natsu told her.
"I thought you already went out on a quick mission." Lucy said.
"They weren't worth the while, aside from the ones I found upstairs. Here take a look." Natsu replied to her.
Lucy watched as Natsu put a piece of paper in front of her, she glanced over the material on the paper. It wanted them to cure some curse on a Guluna island but her eyes popped out of her sockets. The mission was S-class, Mirajane told her about this earlier at the Guild Hall.
Flashback.
Lucy went to have a strawberry milkshake and therefore was sitting at the bar, her mind wondered until her eyes took a look upstairs. She wondered what was up there, she saw no one go up the second story floor aside from Erza, Makarov and sometimes Mirajane. Though the woman's time up there was short and seemed to attend only business matters. As of this moment, the barmaid was cleaning the dishes and soon caught Lucy's looking upstairs at the railing. She finished her set of dishes before walking over to the blonde woman. Lucy vision of the second story railing was replaced with Mirajane. Lucy began to sweat, hopefully, Mirajane didn't catch her.
"I can tell you, what is upstairs if you want." She told her.
"I don't want to cause you any trouble, I can ask Natsu later." Lucy answered
"Nonsense, I can tell you. As you can tell the only ones who go up there are a handful of people. One of them is Laxus, the other Erza, myself and the Master. The reason no-one else goes up there is simple, up on the second story floor. Is a separate job board for S-class Wizards. However, those jobs are so difficult that only S-class wizards can do them. That is why you have only seen Laxus and Erza go up to the second story floor. I go up there in order to change the jobs. It is forbidden for any other member who isn't S-class to take those jobs or go up to the second story floor." Mirajane told Lucy.
Flashback.
"Look, I mean this is a nice job and all. It's just S-class, you can't just take it! We could get in serious trouble!" Lucy strongly told him.
"I can take your answer as a no then?" Natsu asked.
"Yes, I don't want to get in trouble!" Lucy replied.
Natsu took the paper away from Lucy, putting it on the couch.
"Pleasseee Lucy! I will give you half the raw fish I buy!" Happy pleaded as he did his sit-ups.
"Not bad, Happy. Go faster since you can talk like that." Natsu instructed him.
Happy doubled his efforts while Lucy watched in disbelief.
"No, just no." Lucy said.
"Too bad, I would really hate to give this Celestial Golden Gate Key to someone else." Natsu teased Lucy into the to Natsu and saw his feline grin, the kind of grin that was familiar to her. Her eyes looked into his own, Lucy gave a groan. He won the game quite easily, knowing her weakness and bargaining tool to satisfy her. She slumped her shoulders along with her head to face her defeat.
Lucy glanced at the paper to see what Natsu was saying was true, and it sure enough on the paper. The reward did include a Golden Gate Key. She brought her
"Fine, least get this over with." Lucy said.
Natsu gave a laugh at Lucy's reaction to the ordeal. However, the blonde wasn't too thrilled about this at all. She stood straight back up.
"Why do you enjoy getting a kick out of people!?" Lucy shouted at him with rage evident in her voice.
"I can't help it, you looked as if I took your favorite toy." Natsu managed to say before laughing even more.
Soon, Happy was laughing at her, due to the lack of concentration the cat wasn't able to perform sit-ups. Lucy couldn't help but chuckle herself.
The next day at Fairy Tail.
Makarov was drinking a cup of tea and swallowed the liquid down his throat. The old man sat on the bar counter top overlooking the guild hall. However, his eyes were shut in peace and content. Mirajane ran down the stairs and towards the bar with great haste. Despite the bar being a few feet away from the staircase. Mirajane didn't waste a second longer to inform Makarov, who was drinking his tea once again.
"Master, I have terrible news! Someone has taken an S-class mission and it's the Guluna Island one!" She shouted at him.
Makarov eyes snapped open after a split second of her saying those words and proceed to spit out his tea in shock. Afterward, he used his arm to wipe the tea off the corners of his mouth. He put her attention towards her. The guild members hall stopped their chatter, or whatever everyone was doing in order to look at the scene. That began to unfold in front of them.
"Who is stupid enough to steal an S-class mission?" Marco asked.
"Let alone the Guluna island one." Another member stated.
"What are you going to do now, old man? Stealing an S-class mission could get you expelled from the Guild." Laxus informed them the punishment.
'Laxus you know, who took it. You have been up there all of yesterday." Mirajane said.
The man seemed to glance down at her.
"All I know is that some black cat took the job from the board." He answered.
"Black Cat?" Mirajane asked.
Everyone hearing an animal take the paper were all confused, what reason would the cat need with the piece paper? Gray scanned the crowd it was all too confusing but yet obvious like someone wanted them to notice who took the job. He noticed that there was the absence of pink and blonde colored hair. Then there was no flying blue cat, Happy usually stayed with Mirajane, no one else. It occurred to him that The Feline went home with Natsu. Now for what Gray could tell, Natsu and Lucy would have been here by now. It smacked him in the head that Natsu and Lucy were most likely on that S-class mission.
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