A/N: Last night, my mind was flooded with ideas, so I was up until midnight writing this whole chapter. I hope you like it.
"What's this job for anyways?" Jasper asks. We were all on a train to a town called Llyn. It was far away from Magnolia, so that meant a very long train ride. I look at Natsu, Erza had already knocked him out, and he's laying his head on Lisanna's lap, on the seats next to ours. I'm feeling a little nauseated myself. I look at Jasper, as prideful as he is, trying to hide it.
"Some monster in a cave. It's an S-class mission." Erza replies. I see Jasper's face light up, just for a second.
"What kind of monster?" I ask. Erza shrugs, and hands me the job flyer. I skim over it, "This doesn't look like it should be an S-class job," I say.
"Master insisted that it should be. He said it was very dangerous." She leans back in her seat and closes her eyes. I also doze off, and my head falls to Jasper's shoulder. To my surprise, he doesn't shove me off, but adjusts himself to make me more comfortable. After awhile, everyone goes to sleep.
When we arrive at Llyn, I am surprised at the amount of people living in one small spot. There are only about six blocks of houses and a few shopping areas, but an astounding amount of people are walking around. Erza directs us to a house on the edge of the town.
"Hello?" Erza knocks. An old woman opens the door. "We are here for the job request." She holds up the flyer. The woman welcomes us in, and we all squeeze onto a small couch.
"Thank you for helping us." She bows her head.
"No problem. Could you tell us what we're dealing with exactly?" Gray asks. "The request wasn't very descriptive." He states.
She pauses before she speaks, "Yes, I apologize for that, but if we would have explained it on the job request, we were afraid no one would come." She sighs, "The beast, we believe is some kind of demon. It is terrorizing the village every night."
"How long has this been going on?" I ask.
"About, four months maybe?" I stare at her in surprise, this same thing has been going on for months and no one has done anything?
"What does it look like?" Lisanna asks. The woman describes a large, plump.. thing. I could not picture it in my head.
We go to the cave that the demon is believed to reside. We walk in, and realize that this would be harder than we thought it would be. There were three different paths.
"Of course." Gray groans. "Let's split up into pairs and search down each one." He concludes. Natsu walks over to me.
"Lucy and I will go down the first one." He takes my arm and starts walking towards the cave. I look back at Jasper for help, but he just silently chuckles at my dilemma and waves me goodbye. I glare at him, and walk behind Natsu into the first cave.
"Lucy, did you actually teach yourself dragon slayer magic?" Natsu asks as we walk through the stone passageway.
"No," I sigh, "I know I shouldn't've lied to the guild, but I don't think anyone would believe what actually happened."
"How did you learn?"
"Dragons trained me." He looks back at me, but still keeps on walking.
"Dragons?" He emphasized the 's', "Not just one?" I knew what was coming. I would have to tell him about Igneel at some point.
"Yes I've learned many dragon slayer forms." I tell him.
"That means.. Igneel?" He stops and turns around with a look of wonder on his face. I'm about to answer, but then we hear a large rumble coming our way. I grab Natsu's scarf and pull him behind a rock. I look at him and hold a finger to my mouth to tell him to be quiet. He nods in response.
"I hear someone!" An enormously loud voice says, coming our way. "I hear. I hear. I hear." It waddles towards our rock, but doesn't look down until a few seconds later. It gives us a disturbingly ominous grin. "Found you."
We run towards the entrance of the cave with the creature rumbling towards us. We tried to use magic, but it just absorbed it into its slimy outer layer. We run outside the cave, so that we could have more room to fight. However, the creature must not be able to survive in sunlight, hence why it only attacks the town at night, so it doesn't come out. Instead, it makes a gurgling noise and crawls into one of the other caves. Natsu and I look at each other, and run back in.
Everyone was aware of the creature by now, and we were all playing a game of cat and mouse. We would chase it around the caves, but then lose it. We had been going at it for hours.
"Lucy, are you doing alright?" Jasper finds me and makes sure that I am okay.
"I'm fine, what about you?" I pant. He nods, saying he is fine as well. I see a flash of movement, and shoot an explosion of fire in that direction. The creature runs towards us, and Jasper tries to pull me away. I shake his hand off. I remove the sapphire ring from my finger, and set it down a rock. I release a large amount of power, and the area around me is lit up by my magic.
I use Celestial Dragon's Roar, and the demon is thrown back. I keep hitting it with attacks, but nothing is working. I remember that my mother had taught me a few requipping techniques. I thought if magic wouldn't work, maybe I should go with something non-magic, and rely on my physical skill instead.
I requipped a sword, and slashed at the demon. It screeched. I smiled, it was working. I kept slashing at it, and heard cheers behind me, the rest of my team must've found us.
After a about three minutes, the creature was very weak. I execute the final blow, stabbing my sword in the middle of it's head. It tenses up for a moment, then explodes. Black sludge flies everywhere. I stand, covered with the monsters insides, smiling at my team, who is also covered in the black substance.
"Thanks Lucy." Jasper wipes off his face. I laugh at him.
The people in the village cheer for us as we return from the forest. We collect the reward, and head back on our way to Fairy Tail.
"Good job today, Lucy." Jasper compliments me. I smile at him.
"Nice job today, Luce!" Natsu holds his hand up for a high five. I return it, and he grins at me.
When we get to the guild, and before I am about to leave, Natsu grabs my arm.
"Lucy, could you tell me about Igneel?"
A/N: Review and tell me if you liked this chapter!