So I'm thinking I'm gonna start with an actual story and maybe branch off every now and then with some side missions and other stuff so let me know what y'all think. Enjoy!
They were both sweating. The effort it took to not collapse was so intense that it took both their concentration to not hyperventilate. The session had gone way to well, a straight hour without any breaks for rest or water and Lucy had sat close by watching it all.
"You're getting slow Erza."Natsu adjusted his position ever so slightly.
"Wanna bet?" Erza put more weight on her right back leg and flipped her knives so that the wooden blades ran down the underside of her forearms. Pushing off she swung the right one for Natsu's head and when the man blocked that shot brought her left leg in a roundhouse kick at his head. Natsu ducked under the kick and threw out his own into the back of her exposed right knee. Any normal person would have gone down immediately but Erza had a different plan. Hooking up her left arm she brought it around the back of Natsu's neck and used it to swing herself up and onto his shoulders. Off balance and weighted down the man hit the practice mat and groaned as his wooden blades went flying away out of his hands.
And that is how you lose." The red-head ruffled her friends hair and got off of him. "Time for a shower I think. Joining me Lucy?" She winked at the blonde while walking by.
"No thanks Erza. I've gotta go see Makarov about a new job." Erza shrugged and continued on her way.
"Maybe I'll get Natsu to come one day." Erza purposefully swayed her hips as she walked down the hall to the showers. Natsu was still laying on his back watching when Lucy pounced on him and pinned him to the mat.
"Excuse me your girlfriend is here." She grinned and kissed him. "Now come on, we gotta go see Makarov." Jumping to her feet she hauled Natsu up and hand in hand they walked out the door of the dojo that stood in the middle of their town.
"Hey Happy!" A small greyish blue cat rubbed itself against Natsu's leg just below where his white shorts ended at his knees when they exited onto the street. "Looking well fed as usual I see." The cat purred harder and wrapped its tail around the mans right leg.
"No time Natsu. You can play with your cat later." Lucy grabbed his hand and dragged him along down the street with the cat following along closely. The hot Mexican sun shone down on them as they made their way up the street towards the bar that housed the base of the organization known as The Fairies. Nobody really knew why it was called that, nobody really cared that much anymore either. The people they passed nodded and smiled for them on the dusty road, going about their business knowing that they were almost like family to those in the company.
"Lucy! Natsu!" Hitting one of two four-way intersections in the town about three blocks away from the bar, Coming around the bend Alzack, Bisca and Asuka, who was currently riding on her fathers shoulders, met up with them and continued their walk to the bar. They wore their usualy jeans and plaid shirts with Asuka and Bisca wearing their orange and red cowboy hats respectively. Alzack for his part was also wearing his poncho but somehow wasn't hot
"Hey you two! Turkey go well?"
"Really well actually! I mean I almost got shot but-"
"Almost?" Bisca raised an eyebrow to her husbands remark.
"Alright so my right arm but it could have been a lot worse!" Asuka giggled from her dads shoulders and reached over to play with Lucy's ponytail. Lucy giggled and grabbed her hand to pull her off Alzack to swing her around in a circle. The girl laughed and Natsu grabbed her from the blonde to throw her up in the air and catch her again. Reaching the front door of the two-story bar they entered quickly and breathed in the smell of smoke, booze and laughter.
"Natsu, Lucy! Over here please." The two walked towards the bar where Makarov sat in his white shirt and flower print shorts. The two made their way past Gray and Juvia who sat at one table with a drunk Cana and Wakaba smoking from a pipe at the table beside them.
"Sup boss?"
"Get to the back room. We've got a new job for you." Natsu got serious. There was no greeting, no asking why he was out of breath nothing; just straight to business.
"Sure boss, whatever you say." Lucy led the pair to the left of the bar and through the door that led to the staircase. Making their way up the stairs they hit a long hallway with three doors on either side. Dimly lit with no windows the halls brown wooden hallway would have been espeically eery if it wasn't for the Persian carpet that stretched its way along the floor. Walking to the end they hit the last door on the right and into what had been so nicely named the Panel. Upon entering one could immediately see why. Every wall was covered in LCD screens along with the giant mahogony table that could seat at least twelve people comfortably was also one giant touch screen with state of the art 3D imaging like something out of a sci-fi movie. Nobody really knew how Laxus had figured out how to rig it up the way he did; after so many years nobody really cared either. Sitting at the table was Laxus himself, squinting at a tablet in his hands and muttering about the power.
"Definitely can't let the power go out again or Mira is gonna nail my balls to the wall and have a drink under em. Course she's under em most of the time anyways..."
"That was too much information." Natsu crashed down into the chair beside the blonde spiky haired man and looked over at the tablet. "Oooh an assassination! Who is it?!" His answer was given in the form of a punch straight to the side of the head.
"How about you wait until everybody gets here and then we can talk about it!"
"Everyone? Who's everyone?" The door to the room swung back open and two people entered in and took their seats around the table. The pair were holding hands, their leather jacket sleeves covering a multitude of tattoos and studs that covered their bodies. The head of a black dragon snaked across the left side of his neck and the same dragon on her right. Levy sat across from Lucy, Gajeel sat across from Natsu.
"Team Redfox." Lucy eyed the two coldly. "Last I heard you guys were in Iraq hunting terrorists, what happened?"
"I called them in." Makarov entered the room and swung the door closed behind him. "They're going to help you with your next mission."
"Speaking of; what is our next mission?" Gajeel's gravely voice resounded around the room.
"A very large organization has asked us to take out an international terrorist worth a couple billion dollars." Makarov hopped up on a stool beside Laxus.
"Large organization? What kind of organization would want us to take down a terrorist?" Levy twirled her dyed-blue hair and frowned at her boss.
"The United Nations. It seems Zeref finally overstepped his boundaries."
Well here's the second chapter. Sorry it's taken a while, I usually write at least half the story before I start putting it out but this one was a little different. Anyways enjoy and please let me know what you think!