/Author's Note/
Chapter 7! I didn't realize I've already made it until chapter 7. Hahaha.
Sorry for every mistakes in grammars and spellings..^^;
/Special Thanks to/
AznAkatsuki , darkhuntressxir , Indh13 , ocdanime , DivineCluster
for the review! ^^
/Disclaimer/
Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima. Not mine.
Chapter 7 / Solution
Knock! Knock! Knock!
The door suddenly opened. "Good evening. My name is Michael, I'm Mr. William's personal butler. May I help you with your needs?" The butler greeted.
"Can we speak directly to your master? We need his help to dispel a magic spell." Erza said.
"Alright, I'll tell Mr. William right now. He's in the upstair, playing with her sister. Let me show you the living room." After telling them to wait and sit down, the butler left to call Mr. William.
=====meow=====meow=====
"So… What can I help you, ladies and gentlemen from Fairy Tail?" William asked politely.
"Do you remember giving a magic book to one of our members when she helped you with your mission?" Lucy asked.
"That blue haired girl from your guild? What's her name… Levy, right?" Everybody nodded. "Yes, actually she picked the book herself. I really thanked her for taking my mission on the job list. It's a mission to collect herbs for my little sister's potion. She did a really great job with her team and my little sister is now getting better. Hehe.."
"Big brother.. Who are they?" A little girl came down from upstair while hugging her teddy bear.
"Ann! Oh, they're from Fairy Tail guild, the one that helped you with the potion. And Fairy Tail, this is my little sister, Ann." William introduced them all.
"Really?" Her eyes widened in excitement. "You're very great, Fairy Tail! I wish I could join your guild after I fully recovered and become one of Fairy Tail's mage. Hehehe~.."
"Then, you could come and join us, meow! We welcome everybody who loves magic, meow!" Neko-Natsu grinned and replied.
Ann's eyes sparkled after seeing Neko-Natsu. "A talking little kitten! How cuuutee~!" She approached Neko-Natsu. "What's your name, kitty~?" She smiled.
"Uhmm.. Nyatsu.. meow.."
"Nyatsu?" The little girl confused.
"It's 'Natsu'. Hahaha." Gray helped Neko-Natsu spelled the name.
"Oooohh~… Hey, hey, Natsu! Do you wanna play with this?" She pulled out a fluffy cat tickler wand from her pocket and started to swing it in front of Neko-Natsu.
Swinging fluffy wand~! Sweeett~! Neko-Natsu's eyes transformed into heart shape and followed Ann, tried to catch the fluffy wand with his paws.
"Hahaha. Your guild contains a lot of funny people and creatures." William laughed. "Anyway, back to the topic. What do you need my help for?"
Gray, Lucy, and Erza explained the situation. About Natsu was actually a human, the magic book was accidentally burned, and they only had 3 days left to turn Natsu back to human.
"I see." The nobleman took a book and opened it. "Okay. Here's the way to dispel the magic." He pointed at the 'Dispel Potion' script. "You need to collect these items and bring them back to me, I could mix them for your friend. You could get those items from the forest."
"Clear berry, Verdant granule, Rare dark interest, and…. Pure Aqua.." Lucy read the items list. "Pure Aqua? What's that? It's the only one which doesn't have any picture to describe it."
"I don't know either. I've never made this potion before." William held his chin. "Aqua… Maybe it's something related to water." All of them were thinking in silence.
"Meow~.. Miaaw~!" And those mewls totally ruined the serious moment. "Meeooowww~…" Neko-Natsu was playing happily with Ann, trying to catch the swinging fluffy wand, not even paying attention at all to their serious conversations.
"Hahaha! Looks like they're having so much fun!" William broke the tense moment. "Let's leave it for tonight. I'm gonna check it out from my books, maybe I could find something about Pure Aqua. All of you could stay in the guest rooms for these days." William stood up from the couch. "Michael! Would you please escort our guests from Fairy Tail to their rooms?"
"Certainly, young master." Michael bowed down. The butler walked through the corridor, followed by Lucy, Erza, and Happy. While Gray was still in the livingroom, waiting for Neko-Natsu who was still busy playing with Ann.
"Time to go to bed, Ann. I'll read you a bedtime story." William smiled, holding Ann's hand.
"I want 'Snow White'!" Ann was very happy. "Bye-bye, Natsu~! Let's play again tomorrow~!" She waved good bye and walked upstair with her big brother.
"Bye, meow~!" Neko-Natsu waved back with his paw.
After Ann and William disappeared to upstair, Gray spoke. "You're totally enjoying your kitty-time, aren't you?" Only to be replied by a big grin by Neko-Natsu. At least he's not feeling down anymore for being a cat. Haha..
Suddenly William came down. "Gray, Natsu! Thankfully you're still here." He then put the small bottle on Gray's hand. "I forgot to give it to you before. It's a 'Temporary Antidote'. Natsu could turn back into his human form but only for a few hours or maybe days; I don't know exactly how long. Haha... So, use it wisely, okay?" William smiled and walked back upstair.
Looking at the small bottle, the two faced each other. "Wanna try? But we don't know how long this antidote would take effect." Gray made sure.
"Myes myes myeeess, meooww~! I wanna go back to my human form as soon as possible, meow!" Neko-Natsu gave an eager expression. "Now give it to mew, meow!" Gray opened the bottle and gave it to Neko-Natsu who immediately drank the antidote impatiently.
"… Anything different?" Gray asked after Neko-Natsu finished drinking the antidote.
"Uuhh… Nyot..really…meow.." Neko-Natsu turned around and he's still in kitty form.
Then the two walked through the corridor while waiting for the antidote to take effect. Since William's house was so big with many rooms inside, every one of them got their own room. They saw Michael was waiting for them in the corridor.
"Good evening, sir. May I help you showing your room?" Michael asked Gray.
"Yes, Michael. Thank you." And the two followed Michael until they arrived in front of the room.
"Your room, sir." Michael opened the door and Neko-Natsu hopped in immediately, rolling around on the bed, leaving Gray and Michael outside the door. "Do you need anything else, sir? Or maybe you wanted to have your cat sleeping in the next room like the blue cat before?" Michael asked.
Happy even got his own room? Wow.. Gray chuckled. "Thanks, Michael. But I'll just sleep with my cat here." Of course I would rather sleep with Natsu! Haha.. And then Michael excused himself.
Suddenly Neko-Natsu bursted out. "Huh? Michael said Lucy and Erza got their own privat room, meow? Even Happy? Nyot faaaiirr!"
Gray laughed seeing Neko-Natsu priceless 'whuaatt' face. "So what? Don't you like sleeping with me, kitty?" He teased.
"I-it's nyot like that either, meow…" Neko-Natsu blushed. "Let's go to sleep so we could go hunting tomorrow meow.." Neko-Natsu hopped on to the pillow. "Nite, Gray meow.."
Seeing Neko-Natsu had already curled into a black fur ball, he decided to go to sleep as well since these days had been very tiresome days and he couldn't sleep well.
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…In the peaceful morning after…
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
A/N: Not much action in this chapter. It's just a transition chapter about how to dispel Neko-Natsu's "curse" before they started their adventure finding the items for Neko-Natsu's potion. So, I'm sorry if it's kinda boring.
Author's Question: By the way, do you guys have any idea about how they would find those items? The setting is in the forest. I seriously haven't thought about that at all. Hahaha.. But as for 'Pure Aqua', I already have the story behind. Haha.. Thanks before! ^^
Oh, and also, I'm making a sequel story from "Online". It's "Offline", yeah, I'm too lazy to think about the title. Haha.. Hope you guys like it! ^^