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It was a nice and clear sunny day for the people of Hargeon and as before, the streets were crowded with people. On a specific set of people were a group of three, known as Lucy, Natsu, and Happy. Lucy decided to wore an orange tank top but still had her blue skirt and black boots. Happy was carrying a green sack, while Natsu ditched his jacket, instead just wore a blue t-shirt with another shirt underneath his shirt. The three traveled down the streets towards the docks and Lucy became nostalgic.
"I felt like it was yesterday when we apprehended a bad guy here." She said.
"Yeah, it was a few days ago. Nothing to get excited about." Natsu replied.
"Killjoy." Lucy grumbled.
"Aye." Happy agreed.
The group of three reached the harbor and appeared local fishermen. Once they told them off where they were going, they were rejected. No matter what they tried to do, every fisherman or boat captain would not take them to Guluna Island. It was a curse and they would not be stuck with that curse and became afraid to go near it by just the curse. Eventually, the group found the last fishermen. He also rejected them.
"Please, we need to get there!" Lucy begged.
"I caught you both." Gray said suddenly behind them.
Natsu glanced at Gray while Lucy jumped into the air. Gray wasn't wearing his usual white button up colored shirt but a navy blue. Natsu raised a brow.
"What are you doing here?"He asked.
"Master nor anyone else in the guild knows that either of you is taking that S-class mission, I am here to bring guys back and make sure you aren't the ones to get in trouble." Gray told the three.
Lucy shivered in fear and thanked the gods that they weren't found out.
"And?' Natsu asked.
"I am here to take you three back." Gray said.
"I like to see you try, princess." Natsu replied.
Gray grew a ticked off look and stepped back, and raises his right arm into the air. His hand started to glow with a magical circle before an ice shard erupts from his hand. Natsu grew a grin and raised his guard but it was loose. It wouldn't provide much protection but Gray knew that he wasn't faster than Natsu. Especially if he, himself couldn't beat Erza in speed, Gray knew it was useless but he could try to bring Natsu back. However, before the two could square off, the fishermen in the brown boat seemed to interrupt them.
"Wait are you both wizards?" The fishermen asked.
Gray turned to look at the men, he had on a cloak and a hat that covered his head.
"Yeah, why?" Gray asked.
"Get in." The fishermen ordered at the group.
Gray grew a questioning look at the order, he just received. Natsu took his chance to make Gray forcefully go with them. Natsu reached his hand into his pocket and pulled out some wire. He then gave a thrust forward with his hand. The wire came open to reveal it to be a net and the net landed on top pf Gray. The Ice Wizard grew wide eyes. When he felt wire surround his entire body and stuck to him like glue. He flexed his arms to try and escape the wiring but pain engulfed his arms. Natsu chuckled as his misery and Gray glared at him with vengeance. Natsu ignores the glare as he walks towards Gray and picked him up off the ground. He put the ice wizard on his shoulder, before looking at the fisherman.
"Alright, let's go." Natsu told him.
Lucy, Happy and the fishermen sweat dropped at Natsu course of action to start the mission. Everyone went into the boat and peacefully left the harbor.
Later at sunset.
The four people were at sea on a small wooden boat that they were using to get to Guluna island. The man who was their guide to the island began to speak.
"Please, help my people." He told the group of four mages.
"What exactly is this curse, first of all?" Lucy asked.
The man guiding them closed his eyes. He gave a deep breath full of sorrow, before opening his eyes again. His left hand went up to his cloak and pulled some of the fabric up. Lucy, Gray and Happy all grew shocked face, while Natsu looks at the man's arm. The fishermen's arm was not brown but now a blue color with fingertips as claws. It occurred to Natsu, this island wasn't cursed but he had to figure out why. He put his demonic arm away in order to look at the island on the horizon. Gray still trapped in the wire Natsu put him in, did the same as he looked out towards the horizon. Eventually, everyone on the boat attention went to the island that they were advancing towards.
"That is Guluna island." The fishermen said.
Lucy began to hear sounds coming from the island.
"Can anyone hear that?" She asked.
"Aye." Happy answered.
"I suggest we go to that temple as soon as possible. I don't like the fact we can nearly hear what they are saying." Natsu said.
Lucy gave a nod.
"What? I did not agree to this and will you let me go!?" Gray shouted.
Natsu looked at Gray.
"Well, it's not like you have an option now, boy. You are a part of this mission whether you like it or not, so shut up and do it." Natsu told him with heated authority.
Gray felt a shiver run up his spine and he began to sweat in fear. As Natsu looked down at him. He gave a nod in acceptance, telling Natsu. That he was going to join the mission. Lucy turns her head to look at the two and saw something else. Her eyes widen in horror, she began to wave her arms frantically, this grabbed Gray's attention and he looked at her. Natsu, look to wherever Lucy held her attention and saw why the blond was freaking out. There was a tsunami wave headed towards them and easily towered over the group of four. Natsu moved his right hand in order to grab Happy, before quickly bringing the feline into his arms. Happy became bewildered at the sudden action from his foster father and then felt Natsu twisted his body in the opposite direction. His eyes saw a wave of waters getting closer to them and it was only going to come at them like a hungry lion.
"TSUNAMI!" Lucy screamed with fear written in her entire voice.
Gray turn his head to see that the wave was indeed about to engulf them all in mere seconds. He saw Natsu holding Happy before, the man pulled the cat into his chest. To offer the cat as much as protection as possible. Gray cursed loudly before watching the shadow of the tsunami wave overshadow the entire boat and crashing into the object. The boat was instantly torn into pieces as the group of four were thrown into the wave and their world went black.
Hours later.
Natsu opens his eyes, as life returned to him. He saw the bright sun beating down on him and it landed on his eyes. He had just woke up thus making his eyes sensitive to the light. He shielded them with his hand before adjusting to the increase of light. Natsu sat up as he removes his hand shielding his eyes to look around the beach. It wasn't barren as Lucy and Gray were on top of each other while some parts of the boat were scattered on shore in front of the trio. He felt something in his lap, his head went down to look at Happy. The cat eyes stirred open to signal. That he regain consciousness. The cat's head looks up weakly to meet Natsu's gaze. That is when the energy jolts back into him and gave Natsu a tight hug.
"I am so glad you are alive, Natsu." Happy voice muffled out of his mouth.
Natsu rolled his eyes but gently stroke Happy's forehead. The cat began to think to himself as he stays glued to Natsu's chest. His foster father was alive. The cat broke from Natsu's embrace and flew into the air.
"All better now?" Natsu asks Happy.
"Aye, sir!"
Natsu chuckled at the now happily flying cat, his legs moved on their own to get him on his feet. The young man look over at a passed out Gray and Lucy unmoving from the other. His eyes grew a teasing look in them.
"Oi! You two get a room, this isn't a place for that kind of play." Natsu told the pair in order to get them awake.
It works as Gray and Lucy's eyes slowly came to life, once their orbs meet did the two slowly begin to realize. What position they were in, their pupils shrank considerably as their eyes widen in shock and the blush that filled the duo's faces. Lucy became the first responsive to Natsu's teasing as she moves her leg back. Then delivered a swift kick to Gray's gut. Gray thanked his reflexes as he managed to push himself off of Lucy before she could him in the gut. Once on the sandy beach did the young man give a glare at a now laughing Natsu. Happy held his paws in front of his mouth as the cat's tail wag in enjoyment.
"You likee each other." Happy told the duo.
Lucy could only blush more from Happy's accusation and grew an angered expression.
"Shut up! You lousy cat! What the hell Natsu!?" Lucy shouted at her partner.
Natsu responded by stopping his laugh before giving off an innocent face at her, which only her made her annoyed at his stunt that he pulled on the two. Gray, on the other hand, was pissed at Natsu, since he had been dragged to the s-class mission taken up by Natsu. He was about to voice his declaration about still him and Lucy back to Fairy Tail but what was the point? They were already on the island and there was not another mode of transportation. That and his rival would not get ahead of him in completing an S-class mission before him. His anger vanished at that point, his mind was made up. Gray put his attention to Lucy, who tried to punch Natsu but the male dodge her attempts with a smile plastered across his face. Happy watch the scene unfold them with joy.
"Hey." Gray said to them.
The trio looks over at Gray seemingly forgetting their actions beforehand.
"What's up, stripper?" Natsu asked.
"I will be joining you on the mission." Gray told them.
Lucy grew unbelievable look in her eyes as did Happy. Where did the sudden change in attitude come from? He so persisted in getting them back to Fairy Tail just the other day. Natsu knew Gray's sudden change in attitude, in turn, cause him to release a chuckle from him.
"Alright, I'll try to make it worthwhile for you. Come on let's go find the village." Natsu told them.
The group follows Natsu into the lush jungle waiting for them at the end of the beach. The group traveled throughout the wilderness trying to the find their client but it took until the stars and the moon came out to greet them. The four finally reach a huge wooden wall that towered over them immensely. It was meant to keep things out and keep things inside.
"Who approaches at the gate!" Someone shouted.
Natsu and Gray look upwards to the top of the wall, there stood two people covered in cloth looking down at them. Lucy and Happy followed their partner's eyes in order to look at what Gray was seeing through his eyes. Natsu spoke the unanswered question.
"We are here because of the job that you sent out to the local guilds. We have come to complete your mission."
"Then why weren't we notified of your expedition!" The guard shouted at them,
"It must have been a mix-up with the papers!" Gray shouted his answer.
"Then prove you are from a guild!" The second guard countered.
All four of them showed the two guardsmen their guild marks and this was enough to convince the pair to let the group come through the gate. Happy watch as the gate began to open by it being lifted off of the ground. Behind the enormous gate stood a village that was littered with tents shaped in an upside down cone. In front of the houses, where the majority of the villagers were standing just beyond the gate waiting for them. However, all of them were wearing robes and hanker, chefs, this causes them to cover up their entire physical features from eyesight. Natsu felt something and his eyes went upwards at the sky. He squinted them as he tried to see something that was invisible. However, a villager brought his attention back to earth.
"As you may know already but this island has been placed under a curse. That has affected us with a terrible sickness that we have only obtained. We would like someone to lift this curse from us. It has made our lives very difficult." A man told them.
The group looks at the man who told them of their curse, he had a walking crane made out of wood. Which help the man stay upright and he was also in the middle of the crowd of villagers. He was also in front of the crowd allowing himself to be the center of attention.
"How can you be certain that this isn't just a disease or sickness?" Gray ask the man.
"Because we have tried dozens of doctors and they never have ever seen something as ravenous as this disease and it came down to it being a curse. As we are the only people exposed to us." He answered.
"How did this curse started?" Natsu asked.
"By the moon, every night during the full purple moon. We transform to our full curse form. Let us show you the process so far that has inflicted us all." He told the group of four.
Lucy watch as all of the villagers took off their robes and hanker chefs in order to show what they look like to the outside world. She saw many different color skins from the villagers, blue, brown, orange it could go on for some time. Lucy saw patches of skin that were not expected to be there as a woman had an orange arm and leg. A man held a navy blue chest and a black tail, a crying baby boy had two greenhorns and the mother holding him. Her arms were blue and black spots also littered her arms. The man who was speaking with them had a blue body with black spots also covered his body. His sideburns were long and reached near the end of his waist, his eyes held black color to them. Lucy covered her mouth as sympathy wash through her body and Happy was a little freaked out by the ordeal. Gray became indifferent with what had seen, he knew the people didn't want pity. He chose to look at them as if it was normal for it to happen to him. Natsu looks at the villagers as if they were stupid. He knew this wasn't a curse but there was something off, they all should have been fully transformed not partly. A strange purple light began to shine down on the villagers and this caught Natsu's attention. He looks up to see a purple moon and that's was the cause of the problem. Then painful groans and moans erupted from the villager's mouths that made Natsu fell absolute pity for them. Once their groans died off, Lucy shivered in fear and became slight horrified. As the villagers stood as demons and not part demons and most people but as pure demons. Gray became a little sick as he had to watch the majority of the villagers transform into these beings and envied Natsu for not looking at them. Gray, Lucy, and Happy had to endure the torment of watching as wings came out of some of the males and females back. The tails came to life as well as horns, the transformation took mere seconds in order to be complete. Natsu looks down at the elderly man, who greeted them earlier.
"Where is the chief?" Natsu asked him.
"I am the chief of the village." He answered.
Natsu nodded at him before asking him another question.
"What is it that you want us to do?"
"I want you to destroy the moon that is causing us this curse." The chief replied.
"We can do just that but first, you are demons, to begin with you are not cursed at all. Gray, make me a spear." Natsu said to the Chief and ordered Gray.
"WHAT!?" They both shouted at him.
"Gray just make me a spear, and I'll explain just give me a spear." Natsu ordered this time.
Gray mumbled under his breath but did as Natsu told him. He made a fist in one hand and put his palm upwards so that when the young man's fist came down. It slapped into the palm of his hand and frost began to form from Gray's hands. Eventually, the frost covered both of his hands, before calling out a spell.
"Ice Make: Spear."
Everyone watched as Gray's hands separated from the other and as they did an ice stick formed as they pull apart. Finally, after some moments. Gray had a fully made ice spear and tossed the weapon at Natsu, who caught the object. He positions the spear as if he was going to throw it and Lucy immediately covered her ears. As if she knew what Natsu was going to do. The villagers stare as Natsu aimed the spear upwards towards the moon. Gray grew a wide mouth as he thought Natsu lost his sanity. Then he saw the young male reared the spear back, before throwing it into the air. There was a loud boom when Natsu release the spear from his hand. Everyone followed in Lucy's footsteps. The group of villagers or his teammates didn't think he had to throw it that hard. However, as they all watch the spear fly through the sky it suddenly stops in mid-air. It had stopped on the moon and this got a tense feeling to be formed in the atmosphere. Their eyes widen as the purple began to show cracks appear all over it before they started to spread. However, It just wasn't on the purple moon it spread across the sky. Happy began to freak out.
"Natsu destroyed the moon and the sky!" Happy screamed.
Gray and everyone else uncovered their ears but they ached from the noise Natsu produced as he threw the spear. However, Lucy was unaffected by the noise and her ear drums didn't hurt as much as the others. Everyone was ready to yell at Natsu for pulling his stunt without warning. The reason they didn't was because a shattering sound came to life from over their heads. The attention that was going to be given to Natsu was then given up to the sky. They saw that a glass-like material flew down from above, there wasn't a purple moon but a white colored moon. The sky wasn't destroyed but the same black and starry night. The villagers were left in stunned silence as the moon was still there but not in a purple color.
"The moon is never purple and the reason you thought you were demons was from the dust shield covering the island. The dust fell on your skin or the artificial purple light covered parts of your body. This made the dust negate your true form and turn you to part human. This is not a curse but you were always like the chief here from the very beginning. The entire population has been affected, even newborn babies. The newborn shouldn't be affected by the curse unless they perform something that you triggered. Is there any questions?" Natsu asked them.
The villagers were about to shout their protest but when they noticed they were not able to revert back. They stay the same not turning to their human counterparts. Instead, they stayed the way they transformed from the purple full moon. He most likely was right due to the fact that they would have reverted back to humanity. Everyone felt relieved that this wasn't a curse but slowly one by one everyone started to grow smiles. The group of villagers began to shout in the joy of their hero. Lucy, Gray, Happy and even Natsu were a little shock on how the way they took the news. It wasn't, what they were expecting to be their response.
"Thank god! We were never under a curse!"
'I feel they would have said to destroy the moon despite the truth in front of them.' Natsu thought to himself.
"Is it true?" The chief asks Natsu.
"Yes, if anything you are not the first group. I and Lucy have seen a few communities of demon creatures like you all."
Lucy looks a bit off guard by Natsu's statement and look at the chief of the village and gave a nod in confirmation. The Chief came to his knees, the hand fell to the ground, palms grasping the dirt.
"All this time, the curse was a lie." He told himself in a whisper.
Everyone look over at their fallen chief and began to see tear stains on the ground. However, the next words showed how the chief actually felt on the issue.
"I am so glad that this wasn't all real." He said.
Everyone began to cry of happiness at his words. The group of four just settled for watching how everyone would react to the news. Natsu decided to tell them his other thoughts that were kept suppressed.
"We are not done with the mission." Natsu told them.
Lucy was the first to react to Natsu's statement.
"It is about that temple, isn't it?" Lucy asked.
"I figured that you were gonna say something like that, it seems too easy to complete the S-class mission." Gray put in his opinion.
"Aye, sir." Happy agreed.
"Tomorrow, we will be going to that temple." Natsu stated.
"Excuse me." The Chief came into the conversation.
They look at him in order to see what he wanted from them.
"We may not have any money to pay back. What you have done for us, but what our hospitality." He told them.
Lucy lost herself at the thought of not receiving pay again. Her and Natsu had to make a living, this wasn't an all free service. Natsu glance at Lucy seeing the worry on her. He agreed to her that, they had to get paid one way or another. Natsu thought about the temple and this could mean some items to sell in the store in Magnolia. That was their best bet at the moment. He brought this attention to the chief again.
"Can we go into the temple on the island further out into the forest?" Natsu asks them.
"Yes, your group may go but be careful. There are demons in the forest that you best not disturb, please wait until the morning to go to the temple." The Chief told Natsu.
"We were going to wait until the morning anyways and Thank you for your hospitality. Where are we sleeping for the night?" Natsu responded.
The elderly man motioned them to follow him, which the group did follow him. In order to arrive at a shack.
Done! Sorry for the long update. Now Natsu does have a Zanpakuto however, it will be used occasionally or rarely. Here is the poll's update.
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