"So, everyone could you hold on to this. I'm arranging some transport." The said the guy who hired Fairy Tail members. He gave each some rectangular sheets (the cat included). Produced a pen from one of his pockets and scribbled some signs on it. It was more like some ancient secret cult characters. The other people noticed that whatever stroke he gave on the white sheet, same were produced in theirs in real time.
After half a minute of childish and gibberish scribbling on the paper with red ink. The self-proclaimed lord spoke, "Now do as I do." Saying this he stuck the scribbled page over his eyes and said something incomprehensible nor sensible in English language, nearest words are, "Thurthureah PADAM khahah, MATDHAMAM Dagdagati paadam, thuchuk thuchuk padam, sursureah phurphureah snigidah katukakudham KUTUMBHAKAM".
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Everyone stood dead silent as if someone had died. None of them can't believe what they saw. Their expression "DEADPANNED".
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At first it looked horribly lame to all as nothing happened for 7 seconds straight. Imagine a fine gentleman with a black cloak yelling something incomprehensive and getting on his knees, then trying to do a bhangra n breakdance fusion or whatever it is and failing miserably. But then the signs started rotating and joined forming. Straight lines from the scribbles or whatever it is joined to form a circle on the ground. Eventually, it evolved into a spinning vortex eventually sucking air with ample speed. Then the guy who nearly made a great fool out of himself said, "Why, are you all standing like trees. Copy my moves."
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All burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. All of them. "Guys, why're you all laughing? Guys? ", His voice was unheard.
Eventually all entered their respective right sized vortex. With Lucy and Erza getting stuck, the boys didn't understand why.
While inside the vortex, everybody was aside each other and saw a sky blue coloured spirals. Only if you follow it with your eyes, you can also see the spirals slowly falling for the darkness, much below their feet. Deep pitch black fluid like substance, as if the creature or whatever it was they fought earlier had been part of this dark fluid.
Among the turgid frequency of the vortex, one can distinguish occasional yelling of Natsu, "OH uhh … uuff. I'm never gonna… travel in any more vora.. *uhhq*…tex or anything". "Ignore him. He just says that every time he travels." Happy corrected.
"Listen gecko-head, don't you spread the glittery stuff in here", Gray said as he took off his shirt subconsciously and Natsu (perhaps willingly) spread his bodily fluids towards Gray. "You Bastard" was the drenched man's reply before Erza did her demonic magic.
…And some unearthly hymns. But this was coming from the black pool below, but from above their heads, something holy. Some person, spoke as if addressing someone,"…The holy birth takes is taking place in me could also mean an awareness of all those people I might like to place in my nativity scene, all in my own santons… ." Sasuke's keen eyesight noticed Nero looking straight above, and easily enough noticed his keen expression to hear some more. Before the heavenly speech could end, a sharp rays of light engulfed all before anyone could react.
sfx: CRASH, Plooppp…, Clop, Ka-ching, clop, clop
Sasuke, Nero and Erza executed a perfect landing while Natsu and Naruto fell on a branch and Gray fell in the swamp like pool nearby. As for Lucy, Happy happily made a touchdown with her. Unfortunately, a crocodile was preying on Erza, resulting in its demise.
"I love the land…uhh…" the dragon slayer says away before passing away. "I should change to my bikini" Erza said and was about to do so but Lucy's pleas stopped her.
All of them found themselves in a deep forest, all could notice that it was noon at that place. There were huge trees, with tremendous height, efficiently making someone falling for an illusion that the trees are touching the skies. The canopy of those trees were so dense that only diffused sunlight reached the jungle floor. If one stays completely silent, can distinguish calls of many diverse animals from the jungle's ordinary hum.
BGM- Think of an amazonian jungle without Bear Grylls or play Space Quest 2: Vohaul's revenge and play the jungle soundtrack where the protagonist is stuck in an alien jungle
"Eeu… this sticks to my skirt and boots" Lucy complained in a vain attempt to drop the swamp mush accumulated on her legs and cloths while being airlifted by Happy. It was not that high a temperature but humidity made it hot like hell. Everybody excluding Gray was bathed in sweat on their own. And as for Natsu he suffered as he came out of the portal which brought them on this sticky land, he suffered what he suffers the most and nearly emptied his stomach on Sasuke but was stopped with a death glare comparable to that of Erza's. Erza however went just behind Nero efficiently halving whatever came in the way. After recovering for a few minutes (and to not feel Erza's wrath for bringing her to this sticky place) he jerked himself off from his recovery rock and then resumed with the rest of the group. Naruto and Sasuke gained an advantage by navigating through the tree tops and branches.
After average five minutes of struggling, they came to a clear patch of land with Nero in the lead. Suddenly Naruto closed his & powered up to his NINE TAIL'S CHAKRA MODE.
Even Erza's lips parted to speak a small, "ooh" towards Naruto's current condition. "SOO…COOL", said the dragon slayer and the blue feline in flight as they watched the junchuriki's yellowish amber to dance in the air.
"I sense malice from every nook and cranny of this forest. As if we are prisoners who escaped executions. Even the very leaves are the same" the blond boy said he open his eyes slowly, his tone serious.
"So, that is why I said this will be an out of the book mission for you guys. Here keep this." Saying this Nero distributed a small comma shaped bead to everyone. "This is a magatama bead. With this we can communicate with each other and call for backup if required. Also it can act as a long term enhancement for using magic and jutsus."
"But it tastes like metal and rock" Happy spoke while continuously licking the charm. "Hey, that not your food don't eat it" Erza thundered at Happy as she tied the bead with a string on her wrist.
"We wasted enough time, time's running out. Look at your right arm…" everybody noticed that the once white paper had turned to black in colour and the red lines were disappearing serially as that were etched on it.
Nero, "EARTH STYLE: PLANET CRACKER"
With little effort, he made a small passageway made of dry soil, and formed at a little above the swamp below. In the least they all were spared from wading in it.
Sfx: rustle, rustle
Natsu and the Fire village ninja pair stopped dead in their tracks as they said altogether, "Something big is approaching us". Happy said, "I'll look from above" and dropped Lucy over Natsu. He caught her, bridal style and earning a "Good Job" from Erza and Nero with sparking teeth. Happy saying, "They liiike each other".
"SHUT UP" Lucy yelled, her words echoed even in the dense atmosphere. Not too far away there came a sound of a huge tree being snapped from the stem and thrown on the murky water. "OH CRAP. It's approaching USss…." The flying feline returned.
SFX: A sharp cry. With a hissing ending. The murky puddles shakes with the low frequency *Duum~duum* noise. Birds forfeited their resting places as the sound became louder with time
The last few trees snapped off as the creature made an appearance. It was a large sized lizard mounted by the same kind of thing which they all faced not too long from now. Its face was totally covered by the dark matter and acquired the shape of a black empty skull.
"Oh you, got yourself a host" Erza said as she took on her heaven's wheel armour. The creature approached them with tremendous velocity. Nero similar to her took out two medium sized scythes from his now wet cloak. He focused his energy as the blades of his weapon glowed a ghastly green light, which on rotation or sudden precise movement, projected a sharp wind blade which goes straight for the direction it was etched. As for Titania her swords did the talking.
"GUYS, THE MISSION OFFICIALLY STARTS NOW!" yelled the scythe bearer and charged alongside Erza. Even with its huge body it diligently manoeuvre itself away from everybody's initial attacks.
Sasuke, quickly did some hand seals then spoke, "FIRE STYLE: PHEONIX FIRE JUTSU" and produced multiple medium sized flaming projectiles aimed at the lizard. Alongside the offensive Uchiha, the Ice mage gave his signature, "ICE MAKE: SPEAR and ICE MAKE: HAMMER." Erza like an empress, gracefully made her summoned swords to pierce is scaly skin. Naruto just gave out many demon wing shurikens tagged with explosive papers. For its huge body, the lizard with an enhanced brain, made some acrobatic manoeuvres missing the king sized ice hammer and ran behind the trees to take cover from the oncoming projectiles. Even after such feats, its left thigh got frozen after getting impaled by the cold sphere, and got Erza's multiple bruises.
"EARTH STYLE: JAWBREAKER" Nero said after performing some hand seals. From the murky water a huge fist punched the jaw of the creature. From the huge impact, it had a very short aerial time and fell with a watery thud on the muddy ground. Just in front of Sasuke. It tried to whip him, who grabbed the tail by one of his mechanical arm, effortlessly throwing it on the jungle floor. Backside down.
Naruto, "My turn, RANSENGAN RIOT" and seven elongating arms joined to form a huge sized blue ball of chakra, and that was a direct hit over its belly.
Sasuke, "FIRE STYLE: GRAND FIREBALL TECHNIQUE" conjured a massive ball of flame with addition to Natsu's, "FIRE DRAGON'S: ROAR". Since, wind fans fire, the outcome was devastating as the three attacks met to take a further devastating form. However, after steam erupted from the swamp, everybody's instinct told them to hold their nose.
Suddenly, inside the smoke, there came the sound, not from the Lizard but from the parasite it hosted. The same sound of a screeching howl inexpressible in words. Following which came tentacles with harpoon like warhead. The smoke cleared to reveal that the skull had grown partial smaller in size and an exoskeleton had formed starting from the skull to the tip of its tail. Resulting in an armoured Lizard.
"Atleast, someone is getting serious" Gray sighed as he, "ICE MAKE: FLOOR" freezing the low water below immobilizing it. Thankfully, no one from his side got his feet frozen.
Nero and Erza efficiently cut off any tentacles that came out of the body. Nero joined the twin scythes making it an efficient cutting weapon, shredding both thick and thin, while Erza with her swiftness created an attacking barrage, nothing could escape the death circle without getting diced and sliced. The sliced tentacles withered like live worm cut in half before dissolving in the water.
Lucy, "OPEN: GATE OF THE BULL: TAURUS".
Sfx: DING DONG
With an ample amount of smoke, a man-bull appeared with a huge axe. "I'm SOOOHH… EXCITED. MY MASTER HAS SOME MHOOOBS… What am I to wreak? ", Naruto and Sasuke's eyes went a complete 'O' as they saw a 'Minotaur' for a first time to be summoned from thin air with a shiny key forget his speech.
"SHUT UP! Now kindly cut those two trees neatly near the thing so that it gets pinned down." Ordered the blonde with a little more femaleness in 'kindly'. The bull sang, "The Lady wants the Tree on the Ground; I'll be her Greyhound; and the lizard will get a fatal wound. MOOOH…YEAH." His broad axe sliced through the heartwood of the trees like a hot knife through butter.
Lucy, "LIMBOOOO….." as the nature grown wooden pillars fell on the infected amphibian. It withered in pain and mostly from agony of being defeated. Before approaching it, and for more secure feeling. Erza summoned several blades suspended in mid-air, pointed towards the pinned beast. "And… BULLSEYE." Added the axe bearing mercenary before jumping for her. "I wanna spent a GOOOOHD time with YOUUUHHhhhh…." As he disappeared with golden glitter. Naruto gave her an uncertain look, with a poker face expression. Everybody approached the fallen beast with uttermost care. The animal lay still silently but resumed heavy breathing. Nero produced his ghastly red hand for extracting the soul orb from the fallen animal.
"So, all the half-people you summon are… for your body" The blond jinchuriki said in a discouraging tone. "OF COURSE NOT" her voice echoed the jungle again.
Just like the previous, incident all noticed several other sound of multiple snapping of roots coming from different directions.
SFX: An opera of sharp cries. With multiple (hissing) endings. All from different directions. The murky puddles shakes with the low frequency *Duum~duum* noise. The birds had already forfeited their nests before the fight
"This day can't get more exciting." Lucy looked at Natsu as he let body go aflame, grinning from the excitement.
"Oh god." Nero sighed as he completed the extraction and prepared for oncoming threats.
[To be continued...]
AAnd.. I've done it. Its pretty cold at my place *brrrrr* only cups of hot chocolates are keeping me running. And the "PADAM" thing is taken from the movie " 3 idiots".
Its actually a jeopardised and degraded sanskrit sloka... Here it means, "Oh lord, let me fart like a bird, similar to a motorcycle's revving;
may my medium of farting may be the easiest work in my life;
I fart slowly and even slowly;
and oh lord make its propagation frequency be as low as a leaking tyre so that nobody notices." (Anybody who is feeling enraged after reading these lines towards the left... DEAL WITH IT) ;)
I have a big sister, currently working in India. She acquired a fluent hindi speech. Now that I think about it after english, hindi, spanish and french she can even understand sanskrit... O_O ...
she brought home a dvd and I watched the subtitles
Recently finished 'Assassin's Creed Unity' pre-ordered from ubisoft. They actually broke their bank, this time. Its loaded with amazing graphics, astonishing buldings as if you are looking with an oculus rift. But heavy toll is taken as their game is too buggy. Sometimes, you will be spawned in mid air without falling below for death, or get the bug where Arno (only eyeballs and teeths) kisses a damn hot Elise. Or you may see an highway to hell. BELIEVE ME!
My semesters are finished, and I'm FREEEEE...