Ch.2 Lullaby
"Uh Erza is all this luggage really necessary!?" Drake grunted as he lugged the giant cart of suitcases towards the train station. It was just his luck that while he slowly walked towards the train that he would bump into Erza who some how talked him into pulling the cart instead of her.
"Yes Drake it is." Erza answered with a wistful smile watching Drake struggle to keep the cart from being pulled down hill by gravity and run him over in the process. Letting out a quite sigh Drake hung his head and followed the sound of Erza's foot steps all the way to the station.
Once they arrived at the station Erza told Drake to start loading her things onto the train. Drake really having no response just decided to say fuck it and do what she said. While he was doing that Erza was getting to know the new girl, Lucy after that Natsu challenged Erza to a duel which she accepted. "All aboard" yelled out the conductor ushering everyone onto the train. Erza, Gray, Lucy, Natsu, and Happy were all seated together while Drake was two seats down from them. So because of that little situation he didn't get to see Erza knock Natsu out cold or hear her explain what their mission was. All he knew was when the train stopped where they planned on getting off that Erza forgot to grab Natsu. Sighing Drake picked up the ill looking pink haired idiot and moved him towards the door. Meanwhile outside the train with the others Erza was looking around for the said dragon slayer. As Erza heard the train pull out of the station she watched as Drake pushed Natsu off the train but wasn't able to make it off himself.
"Wow Erza if it wasn't for Drake we would have forgotten Natsu on the train!" Happy pointed out.
"I was so busy talking that I forgot. I'm such a fool. Now we just lost one of our members on a train because we forgot to help Natsu off. This is all my fault I need one of you to come and hit me for my penance!" Erza said to the group
"That's a little much." Lucy responded
Drake sat back down in his seat. Great now he would have to wait until the train stopped at the next station and then he would have to get a ride back to his guild mates. While Drake was in mid thought. Some freaking black haired punk came up and said "Well looky here a Fair Tail wizard. How's the guild treating you these days? Is it worth sticking around?"
Looking up at the guy Drake was barely able to catch the in coming kick that this stranger was trying hit him with. "You know buddy you shouldn't pick fights with people who are not in the mood for you're lazy ass punk shit!" Drake growled out loudly before twisting this dumb fucks right foot so hard to the left that the only noise that could be heard on the train was a sicken snap followed by an agonizing cry. Throwing the guys leg in the air Drake watched as he lost his balance and fell backwards. As the punk fell Drake caught a glimpse of a flute in the guys jacket pocket. It was a three eyed skull flute but Drake didn't pay it much mind. The black haired man clutched his leg where part of his shin bone was sticking out in a jagged angle with blood starting to pool around on the floor.
"Next time think before you act bub." Drake said starting to turn around but before he could the punk's shadow came to life and sped towards him delivering a hard blow to Drake's jaw making him stumble backwards "That's what you get for messing with Eisenwald. Before Drake could regain his balance the train suddenly jerked to a halt making him loose his footing all together and crash to the ground. The punk with the broken leg used his shadow magic to hold said leg together so he could retreat to a different train car with more people so he could hide easier but not before leaving a surprise behind for Drake.
Drake pushed himself off the ground and stood up. As he did the train lurched forward and started moving again. Drake took only about two steps forward when he heard a click sound looking at his feet he saw a shadow bomb. Dashing towards the right side of the train Drake leap out one of the windows just in time. As the bomb blew up behind him as he jumped out the window Drake was met by Erza and the others driving up along side the train in a magic mobile. Not really being able to do anything Drake crashed right into the top of the car and bounce off of it before landing on the ground in a heap. Hearing the mobile stop Drake watched as Erza hopped off of it and came running over to him. Kneeling down she stared at him for a few seconds before he sat up groaning slightly at the pain.
"Are you ok?" Erza questioned with a some what worried expression.
"Yeah I'm fine. I was just having a nice little chat with a member of Eisenwald before he tried to blow me up." Drake answered.
Before he could react Erza had slapped him across his left cheek and hard. "You fool. We are trying to go after Eisenwald! How could you let him escape?!" She yelled at him.
"What? This is the first I've heard about this!" Drake shouted back still sitting on the ground holding his poor cheek.
"I explained everything on the train! You should listen when people talk to you!" Erza continued to yell at Drake.
"If you don't remember I was seated two rows down from you guys so I wasn't even present when you filled everyone in!" Drake shouted back standing all the way up meeting Erza eye to eye. Huffing she turned around and walked back to the magic mobile
"If it helps this guy had a weird looking flute with him. It had a skull on it but it had three eyes." Drake explained turning to the others.
Lucy seemed to be deep in thought until her eyes lit up and she announced " I've heard about that flute before...Lullaby a cursed song! It's death magic!"
"Death magic? Like an incantation?" Gray inquired
"I've only read about them in books before but there are some deadly spells out there that are forbidden to be used by wizards!" Lucy said
"So it's a magic that if used on a person it kills them?" Drake asked
"That's right there are cursed black magic spells that kill whomever it's used on." Erza answered Drake
"Yeah but Lullaby is the worst whoever hears it's melody dies." Lucy added in.
"Well then no time to waste. The guy who has the flute is on the train so lets get after it!" Natsu shouted hopping onto the mobile along with everyone else. Meanwhile as the heroes took off to catch up to the train Esienwald had already intercepted it and was currently taking over the train.
As the car jet-rocketed across the landscape towards the station all Erza could think about was that if they didn't stop Eisenwald in time it would not end pretty. Drake on the other hand was trying to hold on to the top of the car and not go flying off. Why the hell did everyone else get a seat but he had to sit on the roof!
If you were wondering where Makarov was when Drake came crashing into the Fairy Tail guild well he was at a guild master meeting drunk and bragging about how sexy his wizards were. That was until a bird came flying in with a letter from Mirajane. Opening it Makarov started to listen to the recorded message.
"Oh master you wouldn't believe what happened! Erza, Natsu, Gray, and some guy named Drake all teamed up. I think they might be the most powerful team Fairy Tail has every seen! Isn't that wonderful! I just wanted to tell you as soon as I could. Have fun at the conference. Bye!" Said the recorded Mirajane hologram. As the message came to an end Makarov was currently keeled over on the table he was standing on. One thought was going through his mind. "Oh god! Those three could really destroy an entire city!" Makarov thought completely forgetting what Mira said about Drake.
Back with Drake and the others. They were at Kunugi Station listening to complains about the dark guild punks who hijacked the train. "Well looks like it's up to us to figure out what Eisenwald is planning." Gray pointed out.
"Well then let's get to the next station and see if they took a premature stop there." Drake added in. With that Erza put the magic mobile into high gear and took off for Oshibana station.
Before long they were driving through a city. Drake was still holding on top but couldn't help himself and took a glance at Erza. She was putting a lot of her magic energy into powering this transportation. He knew why she was in such a hurry. If Eisenwald used Lullaby a lot of innocent people could die and it was all up to them to try and stop it. His thoughts were interrupted by Erza shouting "What's that ahead?!"
Looking up in front of them Drake saw a pillar of smoke coming from the station. Pulling over everyone got off the car. Lucy was helping a sick Natsu over to the entrance of the station while Erza was trying to find out from the police standing in front of the building and if they didn't answer her fast enough she would just knock them out cold. Drake was standing next to an unclothed Gray watching as Erza headbutted a cop before walking over to them and saying "Eisenwalds inside. Let's go!" Lucy was still helping Natsu but was following close behind Erza and the other two as they charged off into the station.
As the group ran down a long corridor Erza was explaining something to the others but Drake failed to pay attention more focused on the iron smell of blood in the air. As they came to a flight of steps Drake heard Lucy gasp at the scene before them. A small military group had been sent in to deal with Eisenwald. From the looks of it they were all dead. They either lay or sat in a pool of there own blood. Drake heard Erza growl under her breathe which was followed by her sprinting off. Drake and Gray took off after her leaving Lucy to drag Natsu up the stairs and into a giant room where the others were standing. Lucy's eyes widen when she saw all of the Eisenwald that were in this room waiting for them.
"So the little fairy flies have fallen into our web." Said a white haired freak perched on a window seal.
"You must be Erigor." Erza said in an icy flat tone. Drake couldn't help but shiver. She seemed ready to kill these bastards and in all honesty he didn't blame her.
"Hey you! Because of you Erigor got mad at me and on top of that you broke my leg!" Yelled a familiar looking black haired punk.
Natsu luckily enough was finally back on his feet now but was still swaying a bit. Drake noticing this decided to keep them talking. "So what are you planning to do with Lullaby?" He asked.
Grinning Erigor flew into the air and then landed on a announcement speaker. "What do train stations have?" He asked
"You're planning to broadcast it!?" Erza yelled at Erigor with disbelief
"Haha thousands of nosy onlookers are gathered around this station. Who knows if I raise the volume high enough I may be able to extinguish the entire city with my melody of death!" Erigor answered laughing
"What reason do yo-" Erza was unable to finish her sentence because Drake had just jumped into the crowd of wizards and sent a handful of them flying. Glaring up at Erigor he said "Don't get to comfy I'm coming for you bitch."
With that said a wizard came up behind Drake but didn't get to attack since Drake delivered a quick backwards kick into the guy's chest sending him flying backwards and into a group of his colleagues. Drake was to busy fighting off wizard after wizard to notice a couple shadow fists heading his way. Before they could hit him though a explosion of flames derailed them and also took out half the guys Drake was fighting. Turning to look over his shoulder Drake saw that him and Natsu were currently back to back fighting of a group of enemies. While Gray and Erza were on the other side of the room kicking ass as well and Lucy had summoned one of her spirits who was currently cutting Eisenwald freaks down like nothing.
Catching a fist thrown by a wizard Drake spun around pulling the wizard off his feet and said "Natsu batter up!" As he said that Drake let the guy's fist go sending him flying into the awaiting fist of the dragon slayer. Hearing a loud crashing noise Drake turned around and what he saw made his eyes bug out of his head.
Erza had just wiped out all the guys on her and Gray's side of the room and one swing. Chuckling Drake ignited his fists in black flames deciding he should up his game a bit. He swung his right arm sideways and in a flash a wave of fire had consumed another group of Eisenwald wizards leaving behind smoldering ashes in its wake. By then most of the Eisenwlad member had started to retreat while the rest remained past out on the floor.
"Who are you!" Shouted one of the Eisenwald members that choice not to fight the Fairy Tail wizards.
"Just a wander." Drake answered before slugging the guy in the face. Walking over to Erza and Lucy, Drake over heard Erza tell Lucy to follow the fat member of Eisenwald who just took off to see if he would lead them to Eirgor. As soon as Lucy left Erza began to collapse but Drake had quickly caught her. Sighing Drake said "I guess you over did on the magic mobile."
Chuckling Erza said "Yeah I did didn't I."
"Well Natsu, Gray, and Lucy are all looking for Erigor so I guess I'll just sit here with you encase he comes back." Drake responded lowering himself into a sitting position along with Erza.
"So you use requip magic. How does that work?" Drake asked trying to start a conversion.
"More or less I can summon weapons from a storage dimension with just a thought. I can also switch armor. Allowing me to swap to an armor that will help in whatever situation I'm in. I'm the only requip mage who can swap armor though making me one of the most powerful woman in Fairy Tail." Erza answered
"Cool." Drake said
Suddenly a force of wind hit Drake sending him flying into the wall on the right side of the building. Erza turned to see Erigor flying towards her. She tried to move but she was still to drained. Erigor kicked Erza to the floor before landing with his right foot on Erza.
"Look at you, fly, so pathetic that I'm going to kill you just by snapping your neck with my foot." As soon as Erigor finished his sentence a blade of black fire sliced through his ankle. Screaming Erigor fell backwards onto his ass. Looking up he saw Drake standing there a sword made of flames in his hand. Making the sword disappear Drake walked up to Erigor who tried to fly away but soon found he couldn't due to the fact that he was tethered to the ground by another object made of fire.
"What the hell!" He shouted to no one in particular.
"It's my magic. I used it to keep you in place." Drake said walking up to Erigor "Now I''ll warn you this next part is going to hurt like hell."
Drake placed his index finger on Erigor's forehead. After about a second Erigor screamed in agony as Drake's dragon reaper magic did it's work of slowly cooking every organ in Erigor's body to a crisp. First Erigor's blood was lit a flame followed by his liver then his stomach and so on until he fell to the ground and all of his insides came flowing out in a piping hot organ soup.
Walking over to Erza, Drake helped her up. "What type of magic did you use to do that?" She asked him.
"I'll explain later for now we have to find that punk who tried fighting me on the train. I haven't seen him since the fight started and he was the last one to have Lullaby." Drake said as Lucy, Gray, Happy, and Natsu returned.
"Erza they are planning on attacking the guild master conference!" Happy shouted
"Alrighty then let's get going" Natsu said running out of the station followed by everyone else.
Two hours later they had arrived at the location of the conference. "Ok let's split up and look for that punk." Gray said taking off in a random direction. Erza and Lucy took off in the same direction as did Happy and Natsu leaving Drake to wander off into the woods near the building that the masters were in.
Drake came to a cliff over looking the meeting place. There he saw a very short old man who was about to listen to that black haired punk play Lullaby. Quickly rushing over Drake punched the guy off the cliff but not before grabbing Lullaby from his hands. Turning around to the old man Drake was about to say something but the flute all of sudden started to glow with a people hue before flying out of his hand and into the sky. Drake looked up where it went and to his surprise saw a giant freaking monster fall from the clouds.
"I shall feast upon your souls!" The creature howled
Grinning Drake flung his his hands at the creature a couple times. With each swing he sent a fire ball hurtling towards the creature. Each ball hit with a loud explosion leaving behind holes in the creature. The monster seemed unaffected. "Now listen to my song of death pitiful wizards." The creature screeched but when it tried to play it's music it couldn't. By now all of the guild masters had gathered outside to see what was going on.
Taking that as a good sign Drake jumped up into the air above Lullaby's head. Raising his hands above his head Drake started to form a giant fire ball but this one was different instead of being just black it was a mix of black and white fire.
"Here's a little treat for yah flutey! A Deal with Death!" Drake shouted throwing the fire ball into Lullaby.
"Where am I?" The demon asked finding itself in a world with nothing but sand and dead weeping willows for miles. Above in the sky was a broken moon that was glowing white and black.
"You're in my world now." Drake said from behind the demon
Turning around Lullaby saw Drake floating in the air wearing a black cloak made of dragon scales and was wielding a scythe made of white and black flames. Before Lullaby could even move Drake had already attacked. Drake using his speed delivered multiple attacks all around the demon's body. Stopping his attacks Drake flew up to the monster's face and looked it in it's eyes and said "All the wounds I've given you shall now burn like the blazing sun. The fire will consume you body, soul, and mind not letting you die for days on end until all that's left is a shell of what you once were then and only then shall you die."
With that Lullaby caught on fire as Drake disappeared back into the other world. What Drake did nobody else saw. What the onlookers back in the world of wizards saw was a quick explosion followed by raining bits and pieces of Lullaby. Landing on the ground Drake walked back to his group of friends only to find that they were giving him a weird looks.
"What?" He asked
Erza walked up to him and said pointing at a giant crater where the conference building used to be "You over did it."
"Sorry about that I wanted to make sure that Lullaby never say day light again." Drake lied sheepishly scratching his head "Anyways let's head home. I kinda want to get a job I can get paid for." With that Drake, Erza, Gray, Happy, Natsu, and Makarov all started walking home ignoring the yells from the other guild masters about how they needed to learn some self control.
Well I hope you guys enjoyed this and don't worry I'll explain what dragon reaper magic is in the next chapter. Hell I'm still trying to decide what that magic can do. Anyways see y'all next chapter.
Maniac out!