Hello Readers! I'm still alive, don't worry :). I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long time, I've been backed up with school and such. I apologize that the nothing really happened in the last chapter, but I hope you enjoy this chapter that contains my attempt to fill you in on what happened. Well,
without further ado, Chapter 3.
FT POV
The sun was finally setting. The orange beams of the sun painted a warm yet cooling scene. Down to the front of the Survey Corps Castle sat our beloved Fairy Tail mages.
Fear covering their faces, they couldn't move due to the trauma they were trying to get over.
What was that thing?
*Flashback*
The large and loud thumping noises were approaching them fast. Erza, who had been leading the charge towards the Walls, looked back to the forest they had just escaped. The top of the trees swayed fiercely back and forth- whatever it was that was following them was coming closer. But then,
The thumping stopped.
Erza sighed. Her heart began to slow down just as the pace of her horse. It was too soon for the FT mages to relax.
The 60 foot tall, naked Humanoid launched itself forward to them at a horribly fast speed. The beast boldly showed its creepy smile.
"What is that thing?!" Gajeel yelled.
The Titan swung its arms to nearest wagons/carriage, successfully breaking them. Wendy, Laxus, and Mira had violently fell out on the field's green grass. It just as painful as it was. Everyone halted their horses and turned to face their fallen friends. The Titan charged to the three unprotected mages.
Mira and Laxus got up and got ready to fight the Titan. Mira transformed into Satansoul and Laxus was getting charged up. They prepared their stance against the monster that was charging towards them. Just when they were about to clash with the beast, it pulled an unexpected turn and charged toward the weak sky dragon slayer. Mira flew toward Wendy as fast as she could, but it was too late, Wendy was in hands of the Humanoid.
Fear struck the hearts of the mages, but that didn't stop them from charging towards the monster. The beast raised Wendy to it's mouth. It began to stretch its jaws the 180 degrees.
"NOOO!" Wendy cried.
The jaws of the Titan snapped together so hard that it gave a loud clap sound that could be heard throughout the plain. Each wizard's face turned a lifeless shade of white. The raining drops of blood left them in severe shock.
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SLICE
Right before the Titan's teeth could make contact with Wendy's neck, Gajeel used his iron dragon slaying magic and turned his arm into an iron sword. He completely sliced the Titan's arm off, causing it to fall to the ground and drop Wendy. Its blood sprayed out all over them. Luckily, Natsu was there to catch Wendy, who had fell unconscious. The Titan screeched in pain, clutching the remaining ligament that was still attached.
After Laxus and Mira jumped in another wagon and Natsu hauled Wendy up on Lucy's horse, everyone urged their horses to pick up their speed and run to the walls again. Freed boxed the monster with his rune magic to prevent it from chasing them. In result, the Titan flailed and squirmed because it couldn't get free.
A few minutes later, they finally arrived to the Walls. They were left with one problem though, How are they going to get inside?
"Crud..." Laxus muttered. The walls were over 50 meters tall and the way to get inside was blocked by a massive boulder.
"What now?" Lucy asked. There was not much time left, Freed can't use his magic forever.
Erza and Levy scanned the area quickly. There were no signs of possible entries anywhere.
"What are we going to do?!" Levy panicked. She eyed Erza hoping that she would have the solution to their predicament.
Erza quickly thought. No solution was coming through. No, they can't die, at least not now. Not now when they haven't even started their mission. She quickly looked to the fire mage.
"Natsu!" the dragon slayer whipped his head back to the redheaded requip mage. "I want you to make flares. Launch multiple ones into the sky. NOW!" She commanded him while pointing to the orange and clouded sky.
Natsu sucked in as much oxygen as he could, causing his stomach and cheeks to inflate. "Fire..." He continued to breathe in air. "Dragon..." He began to pressurize his air, alot, that way he can launch an extremely luminous flare. Now he began to heat up his mouth to temperature greater than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. "ROAR!" He aimed his face towards the sky and released. Natsu shot up the most brightest fire he had ever created; it was almost blinding.
"It would take a blind idiot to not see that." Gray mumbled trying to shade his eyes from the bright light that was now fading.
"Guys, we have a problem!" Bickslow shouted. Everyone tried to find where seith magic user was. He was holding a trembling Freed who had completely ran out of Magic Energy. Fear had overcame them at a higher level. They all looked to the distance and saw a figure charging to their direction.
Erza looked back at Natsu. "Natsu! AGAIN! LAUNCH ANOTHER FLARE SIGNAL!" The fire mage nodded and began to start again his routine.
"What the heck?" Laxus eyed the beast.
"How is that even possible?" Juvia cried. Her eyes focused to the mid-left of the Titan's body. "The arm... it grew back..."
Gray began to create an icy mist around his hands; he was ready to fight.
"Gray, No!" Erza shouted. The ice mage showed his questioning eye. "We can't get caught using our magic!"
"But Natsu just used-" Gray protested.
"That is the only exception!"
"I hope help is coming soon, that thing is getting closer!" Mira shrieked. She was right, the beast was only a good 5 minutes away.
"Erza..." Laxus was not one to worry, but he was beginning to show little signs of being so. Who could blame him? The thing that just tried eating Wendy was approaching them once again, and, apparently it could regrow its ligaments.
The distance between the Fairy Tail guild members and the Titan was growing shorter by the second.
"ERZA!" Juvia yelled to Erza. (It was more like a begging for them to use their magic).
Just when she was about to give the ok, the requip mage was interrupted by a zipping sound. She looked above and saw 10 men maneuvering through the sky. Was that a guild mark on their backs? She watched them fly over her and head to the beast that practically in front of her. In less than 2 minutes, they had taken the Titan down for good.
"Is it dead?" Mira quietly asked.
The leader of the group jumped off the Titan's body and landed on the ground perfectly. He looked to Erza. "You, are you their leader?" He made his way to her. She hesitantly nodded. "I am Mike Zacharias. I am one of the four squad leaders of the Survey Corps." He stuck a hand out, giving off a friendly gesture (even though his facial expressions was stoic). Erza took it. "You do not need to fear, the Titan has been exterminated."
"Thank you." She replied.
"Now," He said. "What are you all doing outside the Walls? Don't you know that that's practically suicide?" He gave a cold glare to Erza.
She calmly replied, "I need to speak with Hanji, Zoe. I have urgent matters to talk about with her." He gave her a look that told her that he wasn't planning on trusting her. "Look, you saw the sky earlier today?" she quietly snapped, her tone of voice threw him a bit off guard. "I have questions concerning that unnatural thing" she then said more calmly,"Consider me as someone who wants to help humanity." She didn't know how to make him believe her without giving away any information about her or the rest of her nakama.
His attitude suddenly and a bit awkwardly changed.
"Fine." He said. "Follow me." He nodded to his squad, telling them to help the rest get through the wall. "Don't worry, I'll take your friend to the medical camp." He said while looking at Wendy.
"Thank you." Erza said. This man wasn't as bad as she thought.
END OF FLASHBACK
It was night now, and Erza still hadn't come back and no one has seen Wendy since she was taken to the medical camp. Natsu was starting to worry. He gripped the edge of his cloak. That's right, not only him, but the rest of the guild were given cloaks that were long enough to cover their clothes so that they wouldn't stand out. Being reminded by the fabric, Natsu raised the cloak over his shoulder to reveal his right shoulder covered up with bandage wrappings. They're not supposed to reveal their guild marks.
"Juvia, are you alright?" Lucy lightly shook the water mage.
"Juvia... Juvia can't stop seeing blood..." She began to hyperventilate.
"Juvia! Calm down!" Lucy wrapped her arms around the girl to comfort her. "Sshshshs, it's ok... it's ok. That thing is gone." She comforted.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH" She screamed. Tears began to fall down her face. This also caused Lucy to become tearful. Gray moved to sit on the other side of Juvia and he joined the comforting hug.
"Calm down, Juvia." The ice mage said. She nodded, still gasping for air.
Seeing this and his other nakama becoming the same way painfully tugged at Natsu's heart. He couldn't bear to see this so he decided to take a little stroll around the creepy place. He managed to slip away from the others and found some nifty ledges that could help him climb over and into the castle.
"Haha" the fire mage chuckled to himself. Another beautiful and gaceful ninja landing by the one and only Natsu Dragneel. He stood up and looked at his surroundings. He landed near some stables. To the far northeast of him were the stairs to the castle doors and to the east were some type of supply sheds. It was quite dark for him to distinguish the rest of the grounds.
****moving on****
Natsu quickly put his back to the side of the stable; he was trying to blend. *No one in sight* he thought. He made a ridiculous B line through the castle grounds, found a bush, and jumped in it. He heard voices nearby- it's a good thing he found this bush to hide in.
"Ahh man, I'm bushed." A male voice sighed. "My arms are so sore from cleaning the shelves and walls..." He popped his back. "Why did you have to make that stupid impression of Captain Pequeno?"
"Dude, I already told you that I'm sorry. What more do you want from me?!" Another voice jokingly exaggerated.
"It's not fair that Armin lucked his way out of it..." the shorter one complained.
"Hanji's pet..." The taller boy mumbled. "He's like her disciple." The two boys laughed. "Well, I'm happy that he is a great contributor to humanity. It's because of his help, we're getting one step closer to destroying the Titans." His eyes were starting to show a dangerous passion.
"Eren, calm yo-self foo..." The boy rested a hand on Eren's shoulder. The green-eyed boy chuckled at his best friend's awful fake accent.
"Thanks Connie..." He smiled to the 'buzz' head. "Hey, you got the stuff?"
"I actually hid it in this bush." Connie pointed to the bush that Natsu was hiding in.
*Crud* Natsu thought. He couldn't run anywhere; there were no near hiding places. He saw the two boys approaching him. *Shoot! I need to do something...* Natsu rotated around in the bush. He felt his foot kick something. He picked up the object. *I know this smell anywhere!* He unraveled the object from the cloth. "It's meat!" he excitingly whispered to himself.
"Man, you have no idea how hard it was to keep it away from Sasha. She was practically sniffing me and giving me a body search." Connie blushed.
"You're welcome." Eren flashed a sly smile and winked to his friend.
Connie groaned in annoyance and reached his hand towards the bush. Instead of feeling the bag the contained the hearty snack, he felt hair. He quickly grabbed the locks with his fingers and yanked upward to reveal who had found their meat stash.
Onyx eyes met his brown ones. Eren gaped.
"What...the... he-"
Natsu quickly grabbed Connie's arm and flipped it, causing Connie to awkwardly bend forward. Natsu threw him to the ground and tried to make a break for it. He totally forgot about the other boy.
"Oh, no you don't!" Eren shouted. He grabbed Natsu by his scarf (it managed to escape the confinements of the cloak). He yanked the dragon slayer back, the scarf coming undone from his neck.
"Give that back" Natsu growled to the Green-eyed boy.
"Give the meat back, then I will." He tried to negotiate.
Natsu didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say, he ate it, and it was OH SO good...
Eren felt the scarf, it was like silk. He wondered how the boy in front of him got his hands on something that only suited an aristocrat. *Probably stole it, just like the meat* he thought.
Their staredown was interrupted by Connie shoving Eren into Natsu and hiding the three of them into the stables.
"Crap! Squad Leader Mike is coming!" The boy feared of being caught because they aren't supposed to be out of their quarters this time of night. If they were caught, they were in a heap of trouble.
*Into the Stables*
"Whew, that was close" Connie sighed.
"Hey, who are you and what are you doing on Survey Corps grounds?" Eren instantly began to interrogate Natsu.
"And why would I tell you that?" Natsu smirked. Eren flashed the scarf that was not around Natsu's neck. His smile dropped. "Fine. My name is Natsu. I'm here because I was ordered to be here." He yanked his scarf from Eren's grasp. "I don't have your meat because I ate it. Sorry..."
"No you're not..."Connie tearfully mumbled to himself. It took him two whole days to hide that from Sasha-that's a lot of work! It was good meat, very good meat.
Eren could feel Connie sulk behind his back. He felt his pain. "Why were you ordered to come here?"
"My superior would kill me if I told you." Natsu could feel the wrath of Erza, it made him shudder.
"That is correct." A voice from spoke up. The three boys looked to the entry of the stables. There stood the redheaded superior Natsu was talking about. Next to her was Squad Leader Levi.
"Crud..." The three of them said in unison.
After a good 10 minutes of disciplinary beating for sneaking around and staying out passed curview, Erza gathered the rest of the Fairy Tail mages inside the Castle grounds. They were introduced to Squad Leader Levi, Eren, and Connie.
"I understand that you all have had a long day, but get some rest. Tomorrow you start training." The short statured heichou said before turning on his heels and disappearing into the dark night.
I'm pooped! haha whew... ok I hope this chapter is ok with you guys. I find myself always typing chapters at night and by the time I come to the end of it, I loose steam. I need to find better typing schedules lol. Ok so Sasha's body search is the kind of search you would expect security to do if you wore metal during a metal detector scan, Ya pervs... I hope my chapters are ok. If you have any advice please don't be shy! Until next time my faithful readers! P.S. sorry this chapter is short!
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