Hi Reader!
Here's the second chapter, I hope that you enjoy it!
I got a review! I know it isn't much (at all), but seriously, I'm definitely not qualified to be writing stories for people to read yet and I really don't post a lot of my stories for other people to read.
(I get embarrassed really easily.)
So I really hope you enjoy!
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"Yo! Flame Head, Erza says to pick a job, Lucy needs rent money!" yelled Grey Fullbuster, an Ice-Make Mage of Fairy Tail, with some difficulty seeing as another brawl had recently started and it was getting progressively louder by the minute.
"You do it!" Natsu Dragneel, or 'Flame Head' hollered back, delivering a flaming punch to an unfortunate Mage's gut. Cackling, he jumped over a table and promptly proceeded to continue fighting.
Rolling his eyes, Gray got up off the stool and walked over to the request board. Tapping his chin he looked through the numerous jobs posted, quickly ruling out any performance or cooking-related ones. His eyes scanned over to a request posted near the bottom left of the board. He grinned and pulled the request off the board, waving his hand to alert Erza of his decision.
"I got one! All we've got to do is defeat a Dark guild called Reaper's Eye, should be a piece of cake," Gray told the Titania, earning a approving nod.
"Natsu! Lucy! Wendy! Be at the train station in a half-hour, anyone who's late will be punished accordingly," she said and walked out of the guild. Grinning excitedly, Natsu grabbed Lucy by the hand and dragged her out of the guild, ignoring the girls protests. Wendy skipped off, taking the opportunity to escape her white exceed for once. Gray rolled his eyes and walked over to Mira.
"Another job Gray?" said S-Class Mage asked sweetly, wiping down one of the few intact glasses.
"Yep, Lucy needs rent money again," he replied, passing the request to Mira for the approval stamp. She took it and her eyes widened.
"This should be perfect for you Gray! Rumors have it that there are two Mages, not including the Master, who are super strong. If anyone could take them down it would probably be Team Natsu!" Mira says passing the request back to Gray.
"Right, see you later Mira," Gray shouts over his shoulder, slamming the doors closed behind him. Mira frowns as she recalls having signed that same request several times already, nobody coming back with it completed.
"Master do you think that Team Natsu will be able to complete this job?" Mira asks, handing another mug of beer to the tiny man.
"I'm sure that they'll be just fine Mira," Master replied calmly.
Sighing, she heads to the storage in order to get another barrel of alcohol for Cana.
Half an hour later Team Natsu were calmly boarding the train, all five of them having escaped Erza's punishment. They boarded the train with little difficulty, managing to convince the attendant to give them a private compartment thanks to Natsu's motion sickness.
"Hey Erza, what's the job this time?" Lucy spoke up after about an hour of travel time, Wendy sleeping soundly on her shoulder while pointedly ignoring Natsu's head on her lap, although there was a faint blush on her cheeks.
"I'm not sure. Grey you picked it, explain to us what the job is," Erza said, looking over to said person.
"The person who requested is the mayor of the town, apparently they've been having quite a bit of trouble in their town lately thanks to the Dark guild and need us to take it out," Grey said, checking the request.
"What is the name again, of the Dark guild I mean," Lucy asked, setting down her book.
"Reaper's Eye, personally, I hadn't heard of them before this but Mira said the request had been taken quite a few times but not completed," Gray said, shrugging. Erza and Lucy frowned, trying to remember if they'd heard of the Dark guild prior to now. Shrugging it off they went back to doing what they were before, Lucy reading, Grey forming random objects with his ice and Natsu trying hard not to throw up on Lucy.
Three hours later they had arrived at the town, the six of them walked down the street, past the vendors and people who looked slightly stressed. Team Natsu frowned, not liking the dismal atmosphere. Walking up the steps to a large white building they knocked on the double doors at the front and waited for someone to answer.
"You must be the Fairy Tail Mages! Thank goodness you came, this situation is getting out of hand!" an old man said as soon as the door was open. He ushered them in and up a staircase into what looked like an office.
"I am so glad that you've come, all of the other Mages have failed but Fairy Tail is the strongest guild right?" the man said hopefully. Team Natsu smiled and assured him that if anyone could defeat the guild, it would be them. They left the mayor's house with directions to the Dark guild. Lucy reading the map and Erza yelling at Natsu and Grey for fighting, Wendy simply watching the three with her magic prepared in case anyone got seriously injured, which was quite likely if any of their past fights were something to go by. The townspeople just stared at them with varying degrees of hope in their eyes as they realized that that the five people and the flying blue cat were Mages.
"I'm all fired up!" Natsu yelled, running ahead as soon as he got to the forest pathway.
"Oi! Flame Breath, wait for the rest of us!" Gray yelled, sprinting after him.
"Guys! Wait for us! You don't know where you're going!" screamed Lucy as they ran off into the forest. Erza, Lucy and Wendy ran after them, relying on the trail of ice and charred wood to lead them to the two idiots.
"I'm going to kill them," mutters Lucy as her skirt snags on branch. Erza was hacking her way through the branches with her one of her many swords, Wendy following behind her. Voices rang out ahead of them.
"I beat you here, Droopy Eyes!" yelled a certain pink-haired dragon slayer.
"No way, Squinty Eyes! I was here first," retorted the ice-make Mage.
"If you two don't both shut up I will hack you to pieces!" roared a very pissed off Erza as she Re-quipped her Purgatory Armor. The boys cowered in fear as Lucy looked at their surroundings; they were in a large clearing with a building in the middle. The building itself wasn't very wide but it was very tall, designed for the occupants to be able to see over the forest. The walls were black with seven visible windows on the outside. A large sign displaying the name 'Reaper's Eye' was hung up above the door.
"Uh guys? I think we're here," interrupted Wendy. The three fighting Mages stilled and looked up, noticing the looming structure for the first time since arriving.
"Aye!" Happy said cheerfully.
"Alright! Let's do this!" shouted Natsu, leaping towards the guild doors.
"Not so fast! We need a plan!" said Erza as she grabbed Natsu by the collar, choking him and dragging him back to the others.
It took roughly twenty minutes to come up with a decent plan with the interruptions from Natsu and Happy. In the end they decided that since it had only one door, and they couldn't detect in magic affecting the walls or their surroundings they were relying on Natsu to utterly destroy the wall. Effectively creating a diversion in order for the rest of them to take out the enemies from behind while they attack Natsu. Which he could definitely handle by himself.
"Natsu, now!" Erza whisper-yelled as they got into positions, Lucy already putting some power into her Fleuve d'Étoiles and Grey getting into attack position. Wendy was charging up her magic.
"Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!"Natsu yelled, causing a massive ball of fire to destroy the wall.
"Now!" shouted Erza, rushing forwards and into the mass of fire and falling debris.
"Open, Gate of the Bull, Taurus!" Lucy chanted, ignoring the spirits perverted comments and jumping in after the others.
Ten minutes or so later, Team Natsu was standing in the middle of a burning room, each of them looking around suspiciously.
"I don't understand, if numerous attempts had been made to complete the job, why was it so easy for us?" Lucy asked quietly holding out a key. Natsu looked disappointed that there were so few enemies to fight and Erza was frowning. Wendy looked relieved.
"Maybe the Master is super strong, speaking of which, where is he?" Gray asked, picking up his discarded shirt.
"I'm right here, I see you have defeated almost everyone here. Although I don't appreciate you coming in here and harming my guild members, good job on defeating my Mages," a tall man said, standing in a doorway barely visible in the smoke. He stood there, clapping slowly as he talked.
"Are you the Master of Reaper's Eye?" Erza demanded, pointing her numerous swords from her Heaven's Wheel Armor towards the man. He glanced at the swords and looked slightly concerned. He scowled.
"Indeed. I'm assuming you are the one known as Titania and judging by the destruction of my lovely guildhall, Salamander and the famous Ice-Make Mage, Gray Fullbuster," the man said smoothly. In the background, Lucy was quietly seething for being excluded. The rest scowled.
"I'm afraid we will have to arrest you, all of your guild members have been defeated so surrender or else we will use force," Erza said, glaring. The man smirked, enraging her.
"Oh, but not all of my members have been defeated, you missed two," he said. The others narrowed their eyes, preparing for a battle.
"You called Master?" two monotone voices said from behind them. The five turned around swiftly and raised their weapons, Natsu preparing a fiery fist. Two girls around the age of seventeen were standing near the entrance, facing the Master. One of them seemed to be radiating cold and the other had her face covered, concealed by a hood.
"Ah, defeat these people for me would you Glacialis, Twifox? They're quite strong but shouldn't pose a problem for you two," he said confidently, smirking creepily. Natsu charged forward towards the one radiating more magic power. Grinning he prepared to strike the girl, to knock her out before she managed to use a spell. Throwing his fist out he struck faster than the average eye could follow, a blow that would surely kill the average human.
It was a shock when it was caught inches from her face. Natsu watched, his eyes widening, as her head tilted and she stared with emotionless eyes. With a quick flick of her wrist she threw Natsu headfirst into a wall, shocking the rest of Team Natsu. When Natsu didn't get up they began to worry. Watching with fearful eyes, Wendy went to see if Natsu was okay while the others got into battle stance. They hadn't noticed the other girl disappearing.
"I'm going to say this once, and only once: should anybody dare attack me or my guild again, I will send my two strongest Mages after them," the master said in a menacing voice.
They observed the girl, trying to get a reading on her strength. It was quite obvious that she was strong, abnormally so judging by the swiftness and ease which she had caught Natsu's flaming fist. On that note, she also seemed to have a certain resistance to heat and flame since she had no physical evidence of being harmed by Natsu's fire. The girl seemed to be of about seventeen or eighteen, so about their age. The magic felt similar to Gray's, leading them to believe that it was a form of Ice Make Magic. Erza frowned, Gray may be able to deal with this Mage and it seems like Natsu would have an advantage but there was still the other girl, who had disappeared.
"We can't simply abandon our job!" Erza said with determination. "Lucy, find the other Mage; she disappeared underground a few minutes ago. Wendy, get Natsu back up and healed, then you can help Lucy with the Earth Mage. Gray, help me with her until Natsu can fight."
Nodding, Lucy summoned Virgo and gave her spirit instructions, jumping in after her when Virgo waved Lucy down into the tunnel.
"I guess you will not be surrendering. Oh well, it was worth a shot," the Master said frowning. He waved his hand upwards and down, causing the girl to take action. Jumping forward, she kicks Gray in the chest, knocking him backwards and then ducks as Erza swipes her sword into the air near her head. Launching herself backwards she lands in a crouch several meters away from Erza and Gray.
"Damn, she isn't using magic," Gray mutters, keeping his eyes on her.
"Her movements are very robotic, even if she is a skilled fighter she doesn't move very fluidly," Erza remarks, frowning.
"What freaks me out is that her eyes are almost completely black, that is definitely not normal," Gray said, smashing his hand down onto his fist and summoning his Magic.
"Ice-Make: Lance!"
The girl stood there, not bothering to move as the projectiles shot towards her. Sidestepping most of them, she reached out and plucked one from the air. Inspecting it closely, she twirled it around in her fingers.
Then she did something so completely out of the ordinary that it blew away everything she'd done up until this point.
She opened her mouth, and bit the tip off of the glistening ice spear.
Gray stood there gaping, someone was eating his ice. Sure, people could eat ice but this girl was chewing on it with just her teeth! His ice was some of the strongest, unbreakable ice out there!
"Gray, I have a feeling that her magic isn't normal Ice-Make," Erza said.
His eyes widened as he took note of the girl taking deep breaths of the air that had suddenly dropped several degrees in temperature. They both recognized the magic that was about to be performed even if it was a different element. Feeling the immense amount of magical power, Erza Re-quipped into her Adamantine Armor and shielded herself while Gray dove behind a table.
"I think I preferred it when she wasn't using magic!" Gray mutters under his breath as he creates an Ice-Shield, presuming that a simple table would not block the attack sufficiently.
Then two shouts were heard from opposite sides of the hall.
"Ice Dragon's Roar!"
"Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Okay, well that was the chapter!
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