Natsu ran a wide circle around the large former, it lumbered along slowly it's head following him. He slid to a stop beside Rikimaru and Grey, both watched the large black piece of moving flesh lumber towards them with determined expressions. Ayame landed in front of them lightly, Erza slid into step beside them.
"Ayame and Erza," The two girls looked at him "Keep the smaller ones occupied, if we all focus on the big one the other's might go straight into the town, we can't have them killing all those people."
They nodded and flew towards the slow moving group's on either side of the larger monster. Grey and Rikimaru stared at Natsu impassively.
"We are going to rip the big one to shreds." Natsu growled angrily.
The pair chuckled and reset themselves slightly, returned to their comfortable stances, Natsu disappeared in a black whirl running a long gash up the arm of the giant creature, it swatted at him the same way a human would swat a mosquito. Natsu ran to its shoulder blade deep within the things arm before flipping over the top and landing with a thud he looked up at the wound he had inflicted, black tendrils reached out and interlaced pulling the flesh back together with a sickening squelch.
"It's the same as the others!" Natsu shouted loudly "We need to take its head off."
The other two nodded before charging the thing, it raised a large hand and slammed it into the earth Grey dived left as the ground shook from the force of the blow, Rikimaru sliced clean through the wrist "Natsu! Get it on its knee's!"
Natsu's head darted between the joints in the knee, he lifted Karite slightly and pushed of his back foot rocketing through the knee on the left, it cut clean and the large creature buckled, Natsu hit the ground and bounded through the right leg, the thing leaned forward and landed on its remaining arm, it's head bowed low, Rikimaru ran for its neck dodging it's futile attempt to swipe at him with its remained arm, as he neared its head it let out a deafening roar, he slid to a stop and raised his arms crossing them in front of himself and dropped his weight into his heel's, The wave of sound hit him hard, he slid back a few meter's before he slammed his sword into the ground. Gray followed suit, slamming the blade of his weapon into the ground like an anchor. Natsu went high, flipping his body over the wave barely, he rotated and his eyes focused dangerously on the thing's neck, he started falling he rotated and ripped his body in a circle, his Scythe building momentum around his body as he went through the back of the thing's neck, he landed on the ground Karite's blade in the earth standing on the long handle of the blade panting hard. The head of the thing fell with a ground shaking crash, the body followed before the hissing of the thing melting away filled the ear's of the three men.
Natsu felt drained, more than he had before and it confused him, he looked at Rikimaru who was staring at him in open mouthed shock, he frowned, turned to look at Grey, his eyebrow was raised in surprise.
"Wh-" Natsu cut off at the dryness of his throat, swallowing hard "What?" He croaked out.
"I will explain I later," Rikimaru responded giving his head a small shake "I think we should help the other two."
Natsu frowned and nodded, lifting Karite higher and flipping him around before resting him across his shoulders. Natsu ran towards the largest group of Former and worked his way into the centre of them, he slid to a stop in the small clearing occupied by Erza, he pressed his back against hers and watched the slow moving enemies around them.
"You looked like could use some help." Natsu taunted
Erza scoffed "Speak for yourself!"
Natsu chuckled cleaving a large gap in front of him "Don't get killed on me." He said seriously as he charged forward.
Erza's eyes flickered to him and back to the opponent's in front of her "I can say the same to you." She almost whispered as she attacked.
Erza spun around taking the neck's of the thing's around her, their bodies hissed as they melted, and she curved her body as a set of attack flew over her, she wrapped the hook around the ankle of the thing in front of her and pulled, the thin flew up, she rotated and sliced it's head as it moved past her, she ducked under another sword and sprang forward, she all but disappeared as she moved through the crowd of former ducking weaving attack's before relieving the shoulder's of the weight of the head as she moved through the group of enemies. An incredibly loud whistle cause Erza to wince and place her hands over her ears, the remaining Former turned slowly back towards the forest, before beginning to lumber past the group of still stunned Hunter's.
Erza watched the last of the thing's disappear behind the tree's, she felt a hand on her shoulder and she turned to see Natsu watching past her seriously "Let's head in." He said flatly.
She nodded and the pair moved towards the village slowly, Ayame and Rikimaru watched the pair slowly move towards them, Grey leaned against the wall of the city his face set in an angry scowl.
Grey shot forward as Natsu entered earshot and lifted the pink-haired man by the collar "What the hell did you use to kill that big one!" He demanded.
Natsu brought his hand up and shoved the black-haired boy away "I don't know." He answered quietly.
Grey stared at him angrily but didn't ask any more questions "Let's go check on the villagers." Natsu said simply.
The group nodded as the made there way into the town, they went to the northern gate where people tried to stay in hoped that any attack's would be diverted before it reached their end of the village. Most of the people finally believed that the monster's were coming out of the forest now, they huddled together fearfully and watched the road leading to the southern gate.
The group of hunter's rounded the corner, eliciting loud cheers from all present.
A/N: I know this chapter is shitty alright? I am nervous as hell about my night and am not really in the right frame of mind to write well (My Girlfriend and I are meeting my parent's for dinner. And I worry all right…Sue me.)