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I am extremely sorry that this update is so late! A lot of crap was going on in my life and I haven't had the chance to sit down any type out this chapter.

Anyways…. I give you chapter 9!


Last time:

What if Allen really wasn't human. What if it wasn't Igneel. What if there was more to this whole thing. Why would Igneel tell her to be partners with someone who possibly had horrible secrets? And the pull, Natsu thought about that for a moment. She… she felt it too! Like there was something almost literally pulling them together! Was this one of the side affects of becoming a partner?

Natsu shook her head and laid down on the lower half of the bed and fell asleep.

Little did Natsu know that she had only hit the tip of the iceberg, and an avalanche was coming soon.


Now:

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHREEEEHHHAAAAHHHHHH!" in other words, a loud scream ripped through the air.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED?!" Allen demanded, pulling the covers up to cover his beat red face. Natsu blinked slightly.

"Sleeping, same as you. Your bed's comfortable." she replied lazily as she snuggled in to a pillow.

"No, no, no, NO! Your supposed to be in your room, in YOUR bed! Why are you here?!" Allen reiterated, still blushing.

"Geze, it's not that big of a deal. Like I said, sleeping. You do know what sleep is right?" Natsu asked now concerned for his heath. "AHH! You have a fever too?" Natsu put the back of her hand to Allen's forehead.

"No! I'm fine, Natsu." Allen said while swatting away the pinkette's hand.

"Oh, ok! Then lets go! I want to go see if we can get a mission! Its too quiet around here! Kibbles left on a mission a few days ago!" Natsu said, still getting Kanda's name wrong.

'It was quiet until you and your friends showed up.' Allen thought with a sigh.

"Come on! Hurry, hurry, hurry!" the dragon slayer said as she ushered Allen out of his room. As soon as Allen exited the door, Natsu grabbed his hand and ran at full speed towards the dining hall, Allen flopping in the wind as she went.


Allen had never been more thankful to see the doors of the dining hall in his life. He stumbled though the doors and collapsed to his knees, resting his forehead on the ground. That girl was crazy…


Erza was not one that you could call dumb. She wasn't quite smart as well. The word 'idiot' fit best seeing as it was a common trait amongst Fairy Tail members. It spread almost like wild fire. Erza was brighter than most 'idiots' in the guild. She could come up with thousands of different battle strategies in a blink of an eye and take her opponents down even faster. Erza could notice when the magic in the air around her was disturbed, if it was 'scared' or if someone's magical capabilities were off or dark.

Erza sat in the corner of the dining hall, observing her surroundings. As the self appointed strategist and 'smart one' if Team Natsu, she could never be too careful. The situation that her team was currently in was too farfetched for the information they had currently gathered already to be the strait forward truth. There had to be something else. She knew for a fact that you did not have to die to change worlds, seeing as Erza was still up and breathing before and after she came here as well as the rest of Team Natsu, sans Natsu.

Erza was better than most at seeing though deception and lies. She had developed many ways to do so. Actually, she had about ten. Sometimes, more than one method needed to be applied to a situation to get an answer. Often, one method would reveal a clue and the next method would find a different one.

Having confidence of her superior brain capacity, Erza vowed that she would get to the bottom of this mystery. One method at a time.

Erza started with method number one: 'What would I do if I were an evil genius…'

A sadistic grin found its way to Erza's face as her sword found its way to her hand in a faint burst of yellow light.

'Ohhhhhhh Natsu~….' Erza thought merrily.

Yay.


Natsu's pinky finger on her left hand started to twitch, the twitching becoming more frantic with each passing second. The dragon slayer's eyes widened.

Her 'Erza is out to kill me' radar was going off. Levy installed it for her years ago after that one incident…

"RAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Erza screamed as she began her assault on the Lavi Appointed™ puff ball. Natsu dropped the plate of food she was holding and jumped to the side.

Natsu looked up at her attacker with a gob smacked expression clearly written on her face. "What the Hell, Erza?!" she exclaimed.

"I'm thinking like an evil genius to see *slash* if it *slash* will help me figure out this mystery!" Erza replied in between attacks.

"You're doing THOES messed up deduction techniques!? Damn it! I thought Master BAND those!" Natsu said as she continued to narrowly dodge Erza's pointy sword.

"Stay still damn it!"

"And let you slaughter me?! HELL NO!"

"I'm trying to save you! The person after you has to have some sort of motive!"

"SAVE ME!? You're trying TO KILL ME DAMN IT!"

"I'm thinking like the enemy!"

"TO HELL YOU ARE! STOP TRYING TO KILL ME!"

"I would never try and kill you! You're my best friend!"

"REALLY NOW? THEN I'M SERIOUSLY STARTING TO DOUBT YOUR DEFINTION OF 'FRIEND'!"

"Stop moving, Natsu! This is for the betterment of the team!"

"GOD DAMN IT, ERZAAAAAA!"


'Method number one was a failure…' Erza thought sadly to herself. Natsu continued to glare at her from across the room. Natsu had made sure that she was the farthest possible distance away from 'the red haired demon fairy'. 'Initializing method number two…' Erza crackled with glee, 'Interrogate prime suspects…'.


Erza silently snuck up behind Allen, who had been heading back to his room. Erza would not allow that, he was too suspicious.

'Just who are you, 'Natsu's partner'?'. Erza thought. He was one of her top suspects, seeing as he claimed to be Natsu's partner. And from what information she had gathered from Natsu, Igneel had told her that he was to be her partner. 'Suspicious…'

Double checking to make sure that no one was looking, Erza quickly wrapped a hand around Allen's mouth and dragged him into a closet.

When Erza had finally un-gagged him, Allen yelled, "What's your problem! You don't just gag someone and throw them into a closet!" Erza's face took on a dark look, her eyes glinted with an unreadable emotion, and her hair flared out behind her.

"Who are you?" she asked, her voice dangerously low. Allen began to sweat.

"A-Allen W-Walker, ma'm." he gulped.

Apparently, this wasn't a good enough answer for the reequip mage because the next second, Erza had Allen by the neck and was violently shaking the poor boy while screaming, "WHO ARE YOU REALLY?!" and "WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME!?"

By the time Allen managed to escape the demon's hold, he was nothing more than a twitching mess on the floor mumbling about how all females are crazy (Natsu and Erza).


Feeling slightly dejected after her failed interrogation of 'Allen' (Erza refused to admit that Allen was truly Allen, so thus she calls him 'Allen'), Erza decided that she had to rethink her interrogation methods. Apparently, you can't 'scare' the answer out of someone. But, Erza always had a back up plan and went with interrogation method number two.

Erza made her way around the Black Order headquarters to find Prime Suspect #2: Lavi.


Lavi was having a fine day. He got to watch a crazy one-sided fight between two beautiful women, Panda had given him a complement, Lavi had discovered his first piece of fan mail (which was actually Happy and Natsu pulling a prank on him. Lavi should have been able to figure this out considering how the edges were burned, the content of the letter was extremely stupid, and it was signed with a paw print and a doodle of a fish), and Lavi got to draw on Allen's face when Lavi found him passed out in a closet.

Nothing could knock him off his pedestal. Too bad he didn't account for the sadistic-crazy-demon-lady-with-an-obsession-with-p ointy-things (her friends call her Erza) charging at him.

The last think Lavi remembered was a blur of scarlet and a very sharp object stabbing his behind.


Erza had also failed to realize that one can not simply 'slash' the information out of someone. Sadly, Erza still refused to admit that this was true seeing as it would go against her life motto that swords can solve anything. But she wasn't about to sit back and watch these seemingly innocent people (which she also failed to realize were all accommodators for INNOCENCE, and thus innocent) get away with crime.

Erza crossed Prime Suspect #2 off her list and moved on to Prime Suspect #3: Kimba, or was it Kita? She couldn't remember…


After her talk with Natsu, Erza decided that she was going to try a whole new way of interrogation.

~0o0o FLASH BACK o0o0~

"NATSU!" Erza yelled as she approached the pink haired girl.

"I DIDN'T DO IT! IT WAS ALL HAPPY'S IDEA!" Natsu exclaimed with panic evident in her voice. Natsu had already been beat up once today, she didn't want to get beat up a second time because of a prank. Erza blinked slightly.

"What?" the reequip mage asked confused by Natsu's sudden out burst. Natsu scratched the back of her head chuckled uneasily.

"Hehehe… SO! Erza! What's up?" Natsu said quickly, trying to avoid any further interrogation from Erza.

Forgetting Natsu's suspiciousness, Erza asked, "Natsu, if you were interrogating someone, how would you get them to talk?" Natsu rubbed her chin, contemplating an answer (unfortunately, Natsu did not use the word 'contemplating' as she thought about the question. The word does not exist in her limited vocabulary).

"I dunno. I think I would try and scare them," Erza sighed, she should have known better than to ask Natsu of all people about interrogation. "But, I could try and slip some sort of truth telling potion thingy in their food! Yeah! And then it would make them turn green with polka dots, Oh oH! And maybe some flowers would grow out of their ears! Wouldn't that work, Erza? Erza?" Natsu looked around, but the spot that Erza once stood was no longer occupied.

~0o0o END FLASH BACK o0o0~

The pink haired dunce had been little to no help. But, Erza did decide that if one of her methods was something that Natsu had managed to come up with, than she needed a new plan.

'Target in sight.'

"Hello, Kimba." Erza greeted. A vain popped on 'Kimba's' head.

"Its Kanda." he spat back.

"I see you have a sword." Erza said dryly. Kanda resisted the urge to face palm.

"Yes."

"That's nice." Erza said and then proceeded to stare down the blue haired man. Although he did not show it, Kanda was starting to get uncomfortable. "I'll be leaving now," Erza said and then walked off.

'Interrogation success, Prime Suspect #3 admits to carrying a weapon that could potentially harm Natsu.'

If only Erza had been just a tad smarter. She would have made a great smart person.


Yes, this chapter was mainly Erza centric. I had to start the KandaxErza relationship somewhere… They needed to be introduced first before I could write about anything in between them.

So far the pairing count is at:

NatsuxGrey- 46

NatsuxAllen- 54

Wow! Allen made a huge comeback! If you are a Grey fan, no need to fear, the voting has not closed yet!

I talked with a few of my buddies and decided to put some possible upcoming stories here. I have over 40 and I need to get some of these ideas on the site! There are three story previews with the title of the story, which fandom(s), and the summary. Please vote on which story you would like to see! (vote number 1, 2, or 3)

1. Title: Binding a Soul

Fandom: Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist

Summary: Maka was never scene with out a book by her side. She had always thought that books were always an amazing source of information. So when she finds a book on alchemy, she decides to try it for herself. However, she never could have guessed it would lead her here... Then again, where exactly is here..? EdxMaka

2. Title: The Aftermath

Fandom: Soul Eater

Summary: The final battle against the Kishen was over all thanks to Maka and her courage. Now, as the DWMA struggles to recover, Maka Albarn and Death Scythe Soul Eater continue their partnership with the discovery of Maka's weapon blood. But this time, Maka and Soul strive to turn Maka into a Death Scythe. SoulxMaka

3. Title: The Afterlife is for Losers

Fandom: Fairy Tail and -Man

Summary: Never in a million years did Lisanna imagine that when she 'died' in the hands of her brother, she would wake up here with some sort of permanent Take Over transformation on her left arm… and as a five year old.

Please vote for Allen or Grey AND vote if you want to see story 1, 2, or 3!

~Slayerofthewind