Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Chapter 14: From Electric Shocker To Earthy Rocker
Another week had gone by, and Lucy had been getting some time to bond with her new magic. It had come as a result of the book being covered in Suna's magical mud that had filled the Desert Resort, and the spell book itself was now in the color of orange. The book had also informed her that this fifth type of magic was Earth Magic, capable of helping Lucy work with much more strength and defense, and she could also work with rocks. The Earth Magic had allowed her to manipulate sand and mud as well, molding objects such as weapons or shields out of them as her non-spell abilities.
Sting had been training with her in the mountains of Fiore where rocky terrain would obviously be located, and he had been helping her get it strong early on for it to not have a weak start like with the Lightning Magic. He had made her try to pick up enormous boulders and turn solid cliffs into sand or mud, but those feats didn't surprise Sting as much as when he saw Lucy eat mud, rocks, and sand to replenish her energy. The book seemed to be making these inedible pure for her each time as well, making an orange aura surround her body, and they weren't hurting her digestive system in any way.
Lucy was so happy to have Sting as her boyfriend and training partner, since they worked really well together on jobs, and they had the white dragon slayer was happy to have someone like Lucy as a girlfriend. The brown-eyed girl had been very supportive of him, cheering him on when he had to handle something that would seem difficult, and Sting loved the way how Lucy could get along with almost anyone. Not only did she possess a great bond with the orange spell book, but she also had a good bond with her Celestial Spirits.
In fact, she even used Scorpio and Taurus to help her test out the Earth Magic by respectively creating vortexes of sand and slamming huge chunks of earth upward with one blow from a mighty axe. Lucy's average running speed had grown majorly overall, most likely thanks to the Lightning Magic, but her average amount of strength was growing because of the Earth Magic. She didn't look more muscular in any way, but Lucy had enjoyed lifting up boulders when her new Earth Magic was there as a nice means of support.
She was currently having lunch with Sting today at the Sabertooth guild, eating a cheeseburger with fries while her boyfriend was eating a large steak, and they were discussing more about the upcoming Grand Magic Games as well as the Grand Fiore League that Rufus had once mentioned. Sting told Lucy that he couldn't compete in the Grand Magic Games this year, since the master of a guild could not be in the tournament, and he was trying his best to hope that Sabertooth would come out on top this year to regain their former glory.
He also let Lucy know that the Grand Fiore League was a tournament like Rufus had said it was, but that competition was not like the Grand Magic Games. There were battles, but there was more to winning than just brute force. Battles in the Grand Fiore League involved appealing, which meant showing off strength and the beauty of spells in very creative ways. Showing off the glamour of spells could also cause opponents to lose points, and Sting let Lucy know that those types of battles would end when one side got knocked out or lost all 100 points.
The Grand Fiore League had judges like the Grand Magic Games did, and that competition also had its own set of rules. For example, the teams in the tournament would have to pick their least and most experienced mages at different times because of special rules informing everyone that the matches would involve full battles. Full battles involved six types of magic on each side, and whichever side ran out of magical power first or got knocked out would be eliminated from the tournament. Even one-on-one battles could be stressful, causing some people to have to choose very carefully for a winning chance.
"Lucy, I hope you are very psyched up for whichever tournament you decide to enter. I want Sabertooth to win the Grand Magic Games, and it would really be awesome to see you win for our guild. You have an entire arsenal of spells in your book, even though the Earth Magic hasn't given us a single spell yet, and I just know you'll do great. In fact, you could even show Fairy Tail a thing or two while you're at it." Sting told her in a calm tone while smirking arrogantly, having complete faith in his girlfriend's abilities while sitting across from her at the table.
She responded in a kind manner, determination in her brown eyes as she smiled back at Sting, "Thank you, Sting! I'm glad that you believe in me, and I won't let you down! I want my new guild to see that I'm nothing like I was in Fairy Tail, and I will definitely show Natsu that the powers of my orange spell book can really make a rocking rumble! I haven't been able to use any dragon-slaying moves like Runo could, and maybe the book is understanding the mental images of the spells I make with its own unorthodox logic thrown into the mix. It keeps on surprises me, no matter how many new spells I get."
The blonde mage had heard rumors of the Grand Magic Games being replaced with the Grand Fiore League, but rumors were never really the real deal. Nobody had a clue about what would happen, except the one piece of information that stayed really consistent. One of these big events would be occurring in two months from now, and they both gave people lots of ambition with pressure added. One tournament would decide the best guild in Fiore with events and battles, but another would decide the Fiore League Champion with battles and the stylishness of a mage included. One had ferocity, and one was simply fabulous. However, both competitions would be fierce.
While Lucy was feeling comfortable in Sabertooth with Sting, how was her old guild doing without her? The curiosity made its way into her cocoa brown eyes, wondering who Fairy Tail would pick for their teams that would compete in this year's Grand Magic Games, and she obviously knew that Lisanna and Elfman would be replacing her and Wendy. However, Lucy certainly had no idea that the young sky dragon slayer and Happy had gone back to their old guild with Carla to finish some business. Were they going to get harsh treatment from Natsu, or would things be a bit less tense?
At the Fairy Tail guild...
Due to her desire to spend more time with Lucy, not wanting to be really far away from the blonde mage, Wendy had come to the Fairy Tail guild to get her guild mark removed. Lucy had told Wendy all about how the guild had kept Natsu's affair with Lisanna secret from her thirteen months, always telling lies to her face, and Lucy also let Wendy know that her old friends had only lied to her while clearly being on Natsu's side of the affair. Those guys had definitely been supporting Natsu's affair, but Lucy did not even know about what she had been responsible for.
She had not exactly done anything that was to be considered wrong, but the speech that she had given to the people in her former guild had really caused them to feel guilty about their actions towards her. Lucy had been getting duped by her slimy, deceiving, lying, two-timing jerk of a boyfriend for thirteen months, and no one deserved to have their heart and mind played to the thought where the love could be true. It was certainly not a shining love, since Natsu had tainted that love by cheating on Lucy with Lisanna, and many of the guild members could not shake their guilt.
Juvia had even returned from her job with Lisanna to try and admire Gray, only for the ice mage to look utterly depressed about the fact that he had done nothing to keep Lucy's heart out of the path towards emotional harm. A true friend would have actually done something to save Lucy from being hurt, especially if she was getting seen as nothing more than a tool by a dense guy like Natsu, and Gray had really wished that he could find his blonde friend to deliver an apology to her. Erza had wanted to deliver a sincere apology as well for betraying Lucy, just letting her suffer all alone like a pawn in Natsu's game, but the scarlet-haired mage had no idea about where she could be.
Wendy could see that most of the guild members were looking pretty upset over their previous actions towards Lucy, really wanting to make things right with her, but the young sky dragon slayer had promised Lucy to not let anyone from her old guild know where she was. They could all truly be upset about the fact that Lucy would not be their friend for quite a long while, since she had been betrayed by those fake friends of hers for thirteen months, but everyone else would possibly be pretty miffed with her for joining the rival guild known as Sabertooth.
Natsu had never liked anyone from the Sabertooth guild because of how Jiemma had excommunicated Yukino from the guild during the Grand Magic Games last year, and the fire dragon slayer would probably go insane if he found out that Lucy was now officially part of the guild that was run by the guy that he hated the most. It was not like he had any intentions of getting the brown-eyed girl back, since he was now with Lisanna, and let's just say that Natsu had done a little something with Marina as well. He had no idea of what she was planning, however, and Natsu simply stayed with Lisanna for a while.
Wendy could see the pink-haired dragon slayer getting cuddly with his white-haired lover, giving her soft kisses on her lips while his fiery hands gently gave warmth to her breasts that were behind the green plaid bikini top that she was wearing right now, and Lisanna had been giggling happily while Natsu was feeling her nice body. She had loved being touched by him, most likely because he had always been so gentle with her, and that was a real difference from when Natsu had been with Lucy. As Wendy looked around for Master Makarov, she had accidentally run into Cana.
The brown-haired woman told her in a somewhat startled manner, looking down at her while seeming more interested about the blue haired-girl's return instead of the fact that she had just finished the last keg of alcohol in the guild, "Hey, Wendy! You're finally back from that job you went out on! We were all really worried about what had happened to you, since we didn't hear a single word from you or Carla! We were about to send out a search team, but then the stuff with Lucy came up. You don't even know much about that, so I can only tell you that she's gone. She came in here the other day, but now Lucy has left the guild for good."
Before Wendy could even reply, Happy spoke up in a very reproving manner while correcting Cana's statement, "For your information, Cana, we actually ran into Lucy one day. I'll have you know that she told us how you were all extremely uncouth to her, so very rude to keep such a big secret like Natsu's affair from reaching her ears, so don't even act like it's just unimportant events that happened in our absence! If this is supposed to be a guild of friendship, you should not have been so disloyal to let Lucy's heart get hurt like that! At least she's doing fine now."
The words of Happy had made people like Erza and Gray widen their eyes with curiosity, making the blue Exceed immediately look embarrassed while covering his mouth with his hands, and even Natsu looked over to see his pet cat floating in the air beside Carla. The fire dragon slayer was really glad that Happy had come back, but he was not exactly joyful to hear that Lucy was getting even more sympathy from people who did not even witness her beat him down with Fire Magic. It seemed that many people were now on her side, and they had every right to be.
Gray had politely asked Happy about where Lucy was now, really wanting to apologize for letting her solely deal with the emotional pain that Natsu had sent her way, and the ice mage narrowed his dark blue eyes when Happy refused to say anything about that topic. Erza had even looked at Happy with a stern glare on her face, demanding that he tell them where Lucy was, but the blue Exceed was loyal to his blonde friend. Unlike Erza and Lisanna, Lucy had actually spent some of her jewels to get ten fish per day for Happy. She had been nice enough to return the favor, since he had taken her all the way to Rustboro, and now Happy was going to protect his dear friend.
Wendy, Carla, and Happy had all refused to say anything about where Lucy was located right now, not wanting to betray their friend like how everyone else from the Fairy Tail guild had stabbed her in the back, but being around people from Sabertooth came with a price. Natsu looked suspicious while sniffing the air, detecting the strange scent of what seemed to be an intruder, and the fire dragon slayer narrowed his eyes at Wendy while angrily clenching his fists. The smell had not come into Fairy Tail, at least not until the blue-haired girl came through the entrance doors, and that scent smelled similar to strawberries with a mix of a leftover blueberry scent from a certain dark guild that Wendy had delivered food to.
Probably guessing that Lucy was hanging out with people from Sabertooth, Natsu got up from his seat to run out the door. Lisanna had ran right behind her boyfriend while looking concerned, hearing him mutter something about Lucy really being a traitor now, and the white-haired mage did not want any problems to arise. The drama was bad enough when Lucy's departure had made the guild begin to simply implode on Natsu with people hating him for actions, and starting a fight with Lucy would only bring about more strife. Erza, Gray, Wendy, Happy, Cana, and Carla had followed the duo as well, trying to stop Natsu from possibly getting back at Lucy for beating him down.
Back at Sabertooth...
With the Grand Magic Games coming up, everyone was eager to know who would be selected to compete this year. Sting had really wanted to join in on the fun, but he also had to maintain his position of being the guild master of Sabertooth. Rogue let him know that the team would definitely do good for him, though, so there would be nothing to worry about. However, there was also the possibility of the Grand Fiore League being the main event. Things were still under speculation, and no one knew what would happen.
Sting had told everyone to sit down at tables in the guild while they were awaiting the results of his selections for the upcoming event, thinking that this team would be the strongest team that would definitely help Sabertooth win this year, and Lucy sat at a table with all of her friends near Sabertooth's entrance doors while Sting was behind the golden reception desk located at the back of the guild. After all of her hard work, would Sting make the unbiased decision of choosing Lucy? Did he want to see his girlfriend give it her all?
Lucy wanted the chance to prove her strength against Fairy Tail, and she had worked really hard. Her cocoa brown eyes were filled with confidence while she held the orange spell book in her hands, and the blonde mage hoped that there was also some way for her and Sting to have the grand opportunity to be in a tag-team battle. She wanted him at her side, not just watching from the sidelines during the whole thing, and Lucy had seen Sting's face when he had realized that he couldn't compete alongside her. That wouldn't be too good, right?
She didn't want him to be sad about this, and there had to be some way for the white dragon slayer to show his strength. He had even been bragging about a few new moves that he had created as well, not even have shown them off to anyone yet, and Lucy really wanted Sting to have contributed to the guild's possible win. He had some confidence in his charming blue eyes while taking in a breath of air, and he was getting ready to announce who he had selected to represent the Sabertooth guild. Even if he could not compete, Sting still wanted to support his friends.
Lucy was a little nervous about Sting calling her name, since she hadn't exactly been the strongest mage in the guild, and she wasn't the newbie anymore only because of Wendy joining the Sabertooth guild. She thought that Sting would want only the already powerful members on the team, caring only about strength for something like this, but something came as a great shock to her. The white dragon slayer calmly announced with a smile of confidence that the members of Team Sabertooth would be Rogue, Yukino, Rufus, Orga, and Lucy.
The blonde mage exclaimed excitedly, hearing her name be called by her boyfriend, "Sting, that's great! I love you so much, and I will not let you or the team down! I plan to win, and that's exactly what I'll do! We will win for you, Sting, and there has to be some way for you to be a reserve member or something! I can't do this without you, and neither can your fellow teammates! We need you on the team, Sting, instead of just cheering us on! It won't feel the same to have any victories, if you're not right by my side."
Sting looked amazed at the amount of dedication and concern that Lucy had for him, really wanting him to be alongside the team when they were announced for anything, and he blushed a bit from seeing how confident Lucy looked. She had realized that he was feeling a bit down about not being able to compete with everyone else, and Sting was glad to have a girlfriend like Lucy. She really did care for him, wanting him to work with her when they came across enemies, and her speech had really lifted Sting's spirits.
Competition was something that Sting really loved, and he knew that there would have to be some way for him to join his friends in the Grand Magic Games or the Grand Fiore League. He began to give it some thought, but he could not rush into any decision without good judgement. Lector did not want Sting to be upset, either, and the red Exceed knew that his blond friend could beat down anyone in a tournament of any kind. He thanked Lucy for her kind words, and Lector smirked a bit when he knew that Sting had found the right girl to be with.
"What's with all the silence, people? This is a time for us to be cheering, since yours truly will find a way for us all to be happy!" Sting told the silent mages with a somewhat annoyed look, before giving Orga the signal to be the DJ for some music to play and hopefully make things more lively.
20 minutes later...
The entire guild of Sabertooth decided to celebrate the choosing of the team members with a party that included food, music, drinks, and a cake. While Orga was spinning the records and playing some music, Rogue was being admired by many of the girls in the guild who liked him. He would just hold their hands gently, but they would faint from how hot he was to them. This always made Frosch giggle, and it smiled happily at the fact that Rogue had been chosen once again for a chance to redeem himself. Could the shadow dragon slayer win against Gajeel, if they were chosen to fight against each other once again?
Rufus was simply enjoying the gourmet food while he was reading a book about memories, and he had been interested in Lucy's orange book like the rest of the team had been. Lucy had even shown the languages in the book to Rufus once, but he couldn't decipher a single word. The characters weren't like any language that he had memorized, and even a spell known as Memory-Make: Translate to Japanese had no effect on the pages in the orange spell book. What kind of book was Lucy wielding, anyway?
Speaking of Lucy, she sat at a table with Sting and Lector while smiling happily at the fact that the white dragon slayer had brought her a three-layered cake as her reward for giving such an inspiring speech to cheer him up. He had really wanted to thank her for really lifting his mood, and Lucy had also done it as a way of returning the favor from when Sting saved her from drowning in Runo's mud that had filled up the Desert Resort. He had saved her life, and she definitely felt like she owed him for that kind act. Even if the chocolate had tasted great, eating all of that sugary substance would just make Lucy get fat.
After all, it's not every day that a girl got to spend a great amount of time with the guy that she really liked. Lucy had gotten the 400,000 jewels from that job in the Desert Resort, giving half of the money to Sting, and he had really helped her out in that battle against Runo. Despite being tough at times, Lucy certainly did get to see Sting's sweet side. He cut a slice of the vanilla cake for himself, revealing the cake's interior to be creamy chocolate, and Sting had playfully put some vanilla frosting on Lucy's face before licking the rest off of the cake slice.
She cut a slice of cake for herself as well, putting it on the golden plate, and Lucy wiped the frosting off of her face before she tasted it. The vanilla frosting was delicious and really sweet, having an elegant sugary taste, and the chocolate cake tasted as if it was the finest chocolate in the country of Fiore. It tasted so heavenly with sugar added, making it simply delightful. Lucy cut up her second slice with a spoon, before feeding it to Sting in a cute manner like some girlfriends would do for their boyfriends.
"Thanks for making me feel better, Lucy. You're a really kind and cool girl, and getting to know you is just the most awesome thing in the world to me. Without you, I'd probably still be the same jerk from last year who was manipulated by Minerva to help Sabertooth win the Grand Magic Games. That's not the case with you, though. Instead of manipulating me, you encourage me. I couldn't ask for a better partner." Sting told her in a kind tone while making his left hand touch her right hand in an affectionate manner as he smiled while looking into her beautiful brown eyes.
Lucy responded happily while giggling a bit, blushing a light shade of pink from Sting's soft hands touching her hands, "Sting, those are the sweetest things that you have ever said to me! I only learned how to be more confident from being by your side on jobs, and I love how I'm getting to know you as well. You're such a great guy, better than Natsu or any other guy in Fairy Tail, and you really make me feel like I can do anything with courage in my heart. Sting, you're really the best boyfriend that I've ever had. You always lift me up when I'm feeling down as well, so I'm really grateful to have you in my life."
They could both feel their hearts beating from this beautiful moment that they were sharing while looking into each other's eyes, sensing the love that they had for each other, and Lucy smiled a bit from noticing that her boyfriend still had some creamy chocolate on his lips. She slowly leaned over the table, preparing to get the delicious off with a very sweet kiss that Sting would certainly share with her, but the sound of Sabertooth's entrance doors being kicked open certainly put a halt to her simple yet perfect plan.
Sting quickly turned his head to see that Team Natsu had just barged into the guild, and Natsu looked angry. What could they possibly be here for, and what could be so upsetting to them? Lucy could only wonder if they had come here to try and pick a fight with Sabertooth, since that is something reckless that Natsu would do, and she saw the flames that were engulfing his fists. She had also wondered if they had forced Wendy to tell them where she had last seen the blonde mage, as Lucy could see a regretful look on the face of the blue-haired girl. Even though Lucy was glad to see Wendy, she was not exactly happy to see the others.
They were the same people who had been cruel enough to side with Natsu, letting Lucy be duped by him for thirteen months of her life, and her former friends had just let all of that time be wasted while not even being nice enough to say a single thing about the fire dragon slayer's affair with Lisanna to let Lucy know about it. Even though she had found out about the secret from hearing Natsu discuss it with Erza and Lisanna, they had still been talking behind her back while thinking that she was not around to hear their conversation. Besides, Lucy had also seen Natsu walking towards the guild with Lisanna while they had come from the beach.
It was nothing to worry about if a girl saw her boyfriend walking back to the guild by himself, but it actually was a serious matter to Lucy when she had seen that dense pink-haired jerk walking to the guild while Lisanna had rested her head on his left shoulder. The happy couple had been blushing with joy, loving the fact that they could be cuddly and romantic together, but their relationship had been formed behind Lucy's back. That was certainly being dishonest, and Natsu had even alternated between nights to keep a little schedule of his cheating. Really, how deceitful and low was he willing to go?
As Lucy focused her cocoa brown eyes on Natsu, still keeping her lips close to the ones that belonged to her new blond boyfriend, she could only shoot a harsh glare at the fire dragon slayer for being such a two-timing liar. He was the jerk from her past, the guy that she had never wanted to even see again, and the blonde girl had clenched her fists tightly. She had not been the same person who would nearly be killed in a fight by Natsu, not the same girl who would cry over not getting the love or outcome that she wanted, and Lucy would not cry over the fact that her old friends in Fairy Tail had been such backstabbers. What were they here for, anyway?
Natsu asked his ex-girlfriend in a shocked manner, taking a few steps back while his eyes could not believe what they almost witnessed as his feelings of anger were now overshadowed by shock and confusion, "Lucy, you were... seriously about to kiss the guy who is my biggest rival of all time? I really am confused as to why you're in Sabertooth, Luce. Is this really your way of getting back at me for what happened when you found out about me cheating on you? I knew that you had gone somewhere, but here?! Removing your Fairy Tail insignia is a real stab in the back, Luce. I never thought that someone like you would do something like this!"
The blonde mage narrowed her cocoa brown eyes, before replying in a tone of voice that was icy like a cold winter, "It's funny how you accuse me of stabbing you guys in the back, yet you all did that to me by taking Natsu's side. You kept his affair with Lisanna secret from me, refusing to stop be from becoming a mere plaything for that damn jerk, so what kind of friends are you? When you guys revealed what he was up to, all that really went through your minds was how much longer he could keep up this affair. You weren't even thinking of helping me, not even wanting to save me from falling to pieces, so you let me down. The Lucy that you knew is long gone, Natsu, and I've been through more than you'll ever know. Sting is my boyfriend now, a very great guy that you could never measure up to, and you're just the garbage that I don't want to see."
While Wendy and the two Exceeds had ran into the Sabertooth guild, hiding behind Rogue as they could guess that another fight was about to start, Sting had a stern look in his blue eyes while he got up out of his chair to intervene in the tense situation going on right now. The white dragon slayer was not going to accept party crashers into his guild, especially if their presences were making Lucy feel really uncomfortable, so he told them that they could choose the smart option of leaving with their heads held high or him and the others would personally get them out of the guild. Lucy already had drama from dealing with Shelly, and Sting knew that his sweet girlfriend did not want any trouble to transpire right now.
Much to everyone's shock, however, Natsu charged towards Sting before quickly delivering a fiery punch with his left hand to the white dragon slayer's face. Sting was sent sliding backwards, but he was still on his feet while he simply wiped his bruised face with some light that was generated in his right hand. His holy light had healed the damage from Natsu's attack, making the fire dragon slayer get even more enraged, and the pink-haired male delivered a slamming kick to his rival's chest! This made Sting cough up some blood, making everyone worried.
This made Lucy gasp in shock, worried for Sting, and she became even more concerned when Natsu used his Fire Dragon's Sword Horn to slam Sting into the wall before hitting him with fiery punches that made him scream in pain. Sting was burning from the heat, since Natsu was being very vicious enough to not even stop for a second, and seeing him was definitely making Lucy's blood come to a boil. She couldn't believe that Natsu was now trying to kill her new boyfriend because he told that dense idiot to leave the premises, and Lucy's building rage caused her orange spell book to emit orange beams of light from the fifth section where the Earth Magic was located.
Sting gestured at Lucy to run past the other members of Team Natsu while she still had a chance, and he smiled a bit from seeing her use the non-spell ability of lightning speed from the Lightning Magic. He thought that she had used that to flee quickly, but then something surprised him and Natsu. Lucy came in between them, a stern look on her face while anger entered her brown eyes, and her emotions kept up building up while she proceeded to start off this battle with quite a rocking rumble. Some sand would also be thrown into the mix, as payback for when Natsu had come back from the beach with Lisanna.
"Gate of the Scorpion, I open thee! First spell of Earth Magic, I create and call upon thee as well!" Lucy shouted with strong emotions in her voice while the orange spell book continued to glow, taking Natsu and Sting by surprise, as the brown-eyed girl pulled out the golden key that summoned Scorpio.
A brown boulder appeared in her left hand, and she threw it like a bowling ball towards Natsu. He evaded the attack, following up with Fire Dragon's Roar as a means of paying Lucy back for humiliating him, but Lucy's boulder rolled back around quickly to shield its blonde master from the flames. This spell turned Natsu's flames into mud, making the boulder grow in size while it rolled even faster, and it managed to strike him from behind with tremendous force. An orange blast of Earth Magic transpired, but all of its power was concentrated into one point to damage Natsu.
When the smoke cleared up, the fire dragon slayer was almost unconscious while he was down on the ground. He tried to stand up, but Lucy grabbed him by his spiky pink hair and repeatedly slammed his head against the ground with massive amounts of force for trying to hurt Sting. She also wanted payback for what Natsu had done to her as well, and she also slammed her left fist against his back with a punch that was as hard as the densest rocks in Fiore. Despite all of that, the fire dragon slayer's durability helped him stand up again.
He turned around to face Lucy, a bit shocked to see that she was in the town that was across the sea, but he was more angry with her for defending his greatest rival. He threw a large fireball at her, hating the fact that a supposed weakling got in his way, and this prompted Lucy to activate the second spell of Earth Magic. It was known as Sand Fang, and this move caused Lucy to unleash four beams of brown sand from her hands. They all took the shape of a beast's mouth, having numerous fangs, and they all bit Natsu's fireball at the same time. Scorpio even smirked confidently while using Sand Buster from his tail cannon, adding more sand to Lucy's attack for its size and pressure to increase by a large amount.
While this attack seemed mediocre, the sand mouths were eating away at the fireball while crushing it with enormous pressure. They all lunged at Natsu, determined to help their master, and the sand mouths bit down hard on his arms and legs. Natsu screamed in pain from the sand crushing his body with intense pressure, biting with a grip that kept getting tighter, and the sand began to make painful gashes in his arms and legs. He growled angrily at Lucy, not determined to let her get the best of him, but who had the stronger conviction?
Seeing no other choice, Natsu told Lucy in a harsh tone while glaring at her as flames engulfed his fists, "You're just a filthy traitor to us now, Lucy! Not only are you going against me, but you're going against everyone in Fairy Tail by being a part of Sabertooth! I could care less about the bitter feelings that you have towards me, but you're just dating Sting to make me jealous! I bet that's what your stupid plan has to be, but it's not going to work on me! I love Lisanna much more than I loved you, and she is better than you in every way!"
He charged at her while running at high speeds, his fists blazing brightly, and Natsu swung a punch at Lucy. However, she quickly leaped back and narrowed her brown eyes at him while activating the third spell that was known as Rocky Combat. Lucy's fists and bare feet became surrounded by an orange aura, and she jumped up into the air while more power was building up in the palms of her hands and on the soles of her feet. Natsu jumped high in the air above her, looking down on her in a literal and mocking sense, but Lucy waited for his descent. When he was coming down near her, Lucy dealt a powerful uppercut to his jaw.
She began to deliver a series of powerful punches and kicks to Natsu's body, really making him feel the pain that he had caused her, and Lucy felt the Earth Magic boost up her attack power with every hit. She used one last punch to catch Natsu off guard, but then Lucy grabbed Natsu's left leg before throwing him down to the ground with all of her might. The fire dragon slayer was sent smashing hard into a table, crashing right through part of a wall in the guild, and this spell had exponentially increased Lucy's strength with every hit. A 24-hit combo would certainly knock out Natsu, that's for sure.
Lucy asked and told the other four Fairy Tail mages in a heated tone while she panted a bit, looking somewhat aggressive while the orange aura surrounded her body, "Does anyone else want to try and hurt my boyfriend?! I suggest you guys leave now, before you make me angrier than you already have! Also, Cana, I don't ever want to see you again! On the day where Natsu admitted to dumping me, you acted all suspicious with me while it seemed like a certain secret was about to leave your mouth! You're not my best friend anymore, since you didn't even care about how I was hurting! In fact, none of you cared! Get out of my sight, you poor examples of true friends!"
While Lisanna went out of the Sabertooth guild to wait for her friends, Gray and Cana both stood next to Erza with respective looks of frustration and sadness on their faces. Gray was angry at Natsu for starting yet another fight with Lucy, and now it seemed like making up with her would possibly be a pipe dream. The ice mage had truly wanted to be her friend, and he was about to state that before Natsu had charged at Sting to start this mess. Really, would the fire dragon slayer not receive the grand prize for being the worst ex in the entire world?
Cana could only shed a few tears while running out of the guild, knowing that Lucy had every right to say what she had said to her, and the brown-haired woman knew that she should not have acted so secretive about something involving her best friend. In fact, Cana would not even been able to do the S-Class Trial on Tenrou Island X784 if Lucy had not volunteered to be her partner. This was just like the time that Cana had used a Sleep Card on Lucy for her own selfish actions, betraying her friend, and she had swore to never do that again. However, no one should ever make promises that could not be kept.
Erza could see the heated temper in Lucy's brown eyes, the orange aura around her body giving off a tremendous amount of magical power, and the scarlet-haired woman just had to wonder why she was sensing this animosity from Lucy. The blonde mage had every right to hate Natsu for the things that he did, but she really hated him to such a degree where her emotions were strengthening her level of power by this much? Erza knew there was no way for her to stop this level of power, and she motioned for Gray to try and cool Lucy down with some ice.
The ice mage gulped a bit with some worry in his dark blue eyes, as he unleashed ten large ice shards to try and freeze Lucy, but she unleashed the fourth spell of Earth Magic to end things here. This spell was known as Muddy Bombs, and the effect caused Lucy to spit ten blobs of brown mud from her mouth. When one made contact with an ice shard, a large orange blast of energy would occur with the side effect of leaving behind sand that would enter Lucy's hands to give her some more energy and defensive power.
As the fourth spell had taken a lot out of Lucy, she had managed to cool down and pant heavily while Erza asked nicely, "Wow, Lucy. You're dating Sting? He's taking good care of you, right?"
Lucy responded kindly while glaring over at Natsu and eating a piece of the wall that had fallen apart, restoring her energy with Earth Magic, "Yeah, he's the best boyfriend that I've ever had. Sting is the greatest guy ever, and he was really sweet when we had our first kiss. By the way, have you heard of the thief from Aqua Kyogre named Shelly Izumi? She is my rival now, and I will not let her flirt with Sting or kiss him!" (Notice how she is competitive with a user of Water Magic, and it's a reverse of Juvia being intense against Lucy because of Gray?)
Gray had gone over to Natsu for him to apologize to Lucy for the conflict that he started with her, but the fire dragon slayer could only be frozen with shock like when he had found out that Lucy had joined Sabertooth. Natsu couldn't believe what he heard, and he couldn't believe what he was seeing when the white dragon slayer walked over to Lucy. He was unharmed, fully healed like Natsu never damaged him, and this was most likely because of him eating the light from Lucy's energy blasts. They certainly did have healing properties for a dragon slayer like him, and Natsu nearly felt like fainting when he saw Lucy and Sting share a soft kiss of victory while Scorpio's gate had now closed.
Natsu dropped his jaw at the fact that he had not only lost Lisanna, but the girl that he tried to make jealous had actually moved on from him. Lucy wasn't even moping over Natsu like he thought she had been doing, and he would probably never believe that she had a female rival who made him look like an easy opponent. The pain from the third spell made Natsu clutch his chest tightly while his arms and legs were in excruciating pain, and Gray sighed in an annoyed manner while deciding to carry Natsu on his back. Erza also felt bad for the disturbance that Fairy Tail had caused, since it seemed like Sabertooth was trying to have a peaceful party, prompting Titania to leave Sting with a hammer made out of rocks that had been gathering dust in her inventory. The Rock Hammer could create and mold rocks to fix buildings, rather than destroying them, and all it took was one strike on or through the areas of damage.
While Erza and her team walked away from the Sabertooth guild, having supposedly failed utterly in their missions from Erza's viewpoint on the situation, Sting asked Lucy as he looked pretty curious, "Hey, Lucy. Instead of ending it so quick, couldn't you have just healed me first and let me handle Natsu afterwards?"
"You know how much I don't like Natsu for what he did, and I wasn't even using my full power to beat him down into the ground where his low attitude is located. The Grand Magic Games is where this will all finally be settled, or maybe it'll all end for Natsu in the Grand Fiore League." Lucy replied coldly with a harsh look in her brown eyes, before trying to brush her dark thoughts aside and enjoy the fact that she was now on the competing team for the guild that was run by the guy who could always make her present and future better than her past.
How was Chapter 14? Did you like it? Sorry about the three-day delay. College is a pain. Sting and Lucy have gotten more development in their relationship, and they keep getting cuter! Sorry about Sting not fighting Natsu, but that will happen later in the story. However, he will show off his moves before that happens. Anyway, will Lisanna get suspicious of seeing Natsu being nursed by a certain spy? Will someone's guilt make them try to regain Lucy's trust, especially when this person meets her friend's fated rival? Standby for the update!