A/N: Konichiwa~ Alright! Another chapter's coming out! Hm.. Let's see what news did i brought again? ..Right! Kirito won't join Team Natsu on the Galuna Island Arc. Why? Because personally i think the Arc's a bit weird. I mean, there's a membrane around the moon just from a ritual, bla bla bla.. and don't ask me to talk about the anti-climax ending! Why in the name of the 7 lucky gods did Deliora just crumbled mere moments after his awakening! That's just soo~ annoying.

Anyway, i decided to get Kirito a mission of his own and add the inevitable humor when he came back from his mission and saw Lucy and the gang bawling their eyes out, begging the master not to punish them. Yeah, that sounds like a good enough plan for me.

Now, let us go to Review Reply section!

to DualStarduster: Ah.. that mistake. So sorry for that, my eyes are getting heavy at that time so i kinda slipped here and there and of course, I too, am interested in how the magic will work out. Sadly, its difficult to balance between overkill move and normal move in Kirito's arsenal. I'm desperate for ideas people!

to Vangran: A plate of chocochips cookie for you! Correct, Cheryl says name it Marionette or Puppeteer and i agree, the first episode is boring.

to Teal96ko: Haha, Glad u liked it. The original design for Blackland magic is for assasinations and spying, but because of the rules of killing being banned, i decided to make it a tricky multi-functioning magic. And yes, it can be used to store things, it will be explained in the next chapters if not here in the third. Thank you for your support.

to Raiden312: Don't worry about it, thanks for notifying me about that. Lets just asume, Lucy told him for now. Good idea, i'll make limitations on it. Also, its different from rouge's Shadow Dragon Slayer magic, and he can still eat the shadow Kirito used,only with side effects since i intent to make BlackLand a malevolent magic. for the last of your question, me and Cheryl intend on giving Kirito 2 swords after having him work some mission solo. or right in this chapter. Thanks for your support Raiden-san.

to Telron: Uuh... Yeah, i kinda said that i'm a bit slippery in the finger, and still trying to make it right. How am i supposed to get a Beta? I'm so stupid, i don't know how! But still, thanks for your comment.

to Dark Meow Meow Kitten of Doom: Unless i want Truth to mess with Kirito, i don't think so.

to Idea: Well, the end game goal is none. Just to separate him from Asuna and get him to do shit load of actions.

to GUEST & VioletGardevoir: Thank you so much!

to Kramer53: I don't think i will be pairing him with anyone and he will stay true to Asuna until either i got bored or i have a change of heart, and no, Asuna isn't going to make it to EarthLand anytime soon. That'd be a plot hole on my part.

to Deathgrips099: Yes. Later there will be an arc dedicated to Kirito and BlackLand magic itself. Fufufu, but until then, it is a secret~

WildImaginationOtaku: Of course, i'm planing to give Kirito 2 magic swords. For your second question, it will be a draw at best and lose at worst for him if he ever fight Erza. After all, Erza is supposed to be the strongest female mage in Fairy Tail and a master swordswoman.

to Nora678: Thanks! Enjoy the stories, Nora-chan!

And that's for the review reply sect. Now, why is it that i couldn't break my target again !? Huaaaa~ i'm depressed... Hiks! Review Please Review guys! I need it for the continuation of my sanity!

You know how Disclaimers went, so i skip that and on with the chapters!


Black Fairy

Chapter 3: Fire Dragon, Monkey, Cow and.. What Is That?

[Magnolia- Fairy Tail Guild]

Fairy Tail's headquarters resided in an imposing building consisting of three floors and incorporating several architectonic styles: it took on a shape reminiscent of a pagoda, with each floor being smaller than the one below it and sitting on the latter's roof. The roofs also bore great resemblance to those of real pagoda, consisting of extremely long, arched tiles lined up one after the other and possessing simple curved protrusions jutting upwards on the building's angles. On the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple, round and pointed dome, highly reminiscent of those seen on Arabian buildings, which bore a flag on its point. The roof below the one with the dome, the middle one, housed a large banner with Fairy Tail's symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles. The building's large entrance was again Arabian in design, with its shape being reminiscent of that of the dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape and flanked by a pair of carved fairies. Stylized heart shapes were also visible on the frames of the numerous, large pentagonal windows located on each floor, with the top floor housing smaller, arched windows partially covered by banners.

The inside was similar to a large lunch hall, and mainly consisted of wood, possessing a parquet floor and a mezzanine held up by wood beams overlooking it. Several long benches and the related tables stretched across its length with a bar at the end. The request board was located beside the bar.

There's also the second floor, which served as the S-class wizard's lounge hall. It is stictly forbidden for mages below S-class to enter this floor. However, our interest weren't here nor there. Outside of fairy tail, three mages and one cat stood. Kirito has magically succeeded on travelling them from Hargeon to Magnolia (which he doesn't know where) through the shadow. It had merely taken them around five to six hours to get there without trouble since Natsu and Happy gave him the general direction.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" Happy said grandly.

Natsu smiled upon seeing the baffled look of his two companion. Lucy was looking wide eyed with astonishment and grinning happily. Kirito wasn't faring much better, only he wasn't too happy like lucy is. Unlike her, he has no obsession on entering any special guild, which ever one is fine as long as he could get payment, buying a house to live and eat. Though, he have to give it to the Fairy Tail-ers, the building is is artistic while screamed HAPPY and FRIENDLY. They have some great architects to build this building.

That amazing moment was ruined, however, when Natsu lunged to the door, happy hot on his tail, and kicked the door open with one leg. "I'm home!" He shouted boisterously. "We're home!" Happy followed.

Looking inside, we could see many people gathering, simply sitting together with a glass of drink; either a beer, alcohol or juices and talk together about everyday things, all happy and laughing. Kirito looked at them all quizically; the place looked more like a bar in a restaurant rather than a guild. Looking from his experience with guilds, they were filled with people who wore grim expression all time, unlike Fairy Tail who seems like a hoise full of sunshine. They waved at Natsu replying with simple 'Hi' or 'Welcome Back'.

One guy in the back with buck teeth looked at Natsu and smirked playfully. "I heard you did something reckless again back in Hargeon-" He didn't get the chance to finish his sentence as Natsu jumped up and gave him one hell of a flying kick to the face, throwing him almost all the way across the room, destrying many furnitures in the process. "You bastard!" Natsu shouted.

"Why!?" Lucy screemed, cupping her face comically as she did so.

"That information you gave me about salamander was fake!" He yelled angrily as he stood atop some furniture -or what was left of it.

"How should i know!?" He yelled back indignantly as he sat back up. "I just told you the rumors i heard!"

Is it just me or people in this world seem kind of more durable and overpowered? Kirito mused as he felt his eyebrow twitch and a sweatdrop trailed down behind his neck. Kirito filed this little tid bit of information for later experiment. Who knows? Maybe he gained a boost of strength just by being in this world? On that note, Kirito decided to tune out the commotion that brewed to sort through the many spells planted to his head.

"Do you wanna fight!?" Before long, Natsu started to throw punches to random people left and right, sending bodies flying across the room and crushing furnitures here and there. In a heartbeat, everyone was caught in the fight, fighting randomly without known reason just for the hell of it. Lucy stared at the scene, gaping like a fish while Kirito merely stared with a sweatdrop, unimpressed.

"Take it easy, Natsu. Don't need to- Ayeeeee!" Happy tried to calm his friend before he got blasted to a wall courtesy of a flying someone.

Poor cat.. Lucy cringed.

Lucy smiled soon though, elation plastering her face as she smiled wide and bright. "I'm finally in fairy tail!"

"They're really rowdy, huh?" Kirito mused aloud, silently inspecting the brewing commotion in the guild hall. Unlike the Knights of Blood guild, Fairy Tail seems really homey and friendly. He enjoyed it here already, it also helps that the people here are soooooo amusing.


Upon the start of the usual classic fairy tail brawl, A certain black haired mage with no clothes but his boxers stood up after sending a guy flying somewhere in the back of the guild. His name is Gray Fullbuster, a mage who uses the Ice Make Magic. Gray's most prominent feature is his spiky black-colored hair. He has dark blue eyes, and his body is toned and muscular. He wore a silver necklace shaped like a sword with a stone on top. He did his job fine, if he could wear his clothes most of the time."You say Natsu is back?" He growled. "let's settle our previous fight Natsu!" He said and walked over to the human pile in the corner.

"Gray, your clothes." A cool feminine voice that screamed femme fatale said. Looking to the side, there's a brunette woman sitting in the bar with a glass of rum on her hands.

"Shit!" Gray yelped.

This is Cana Alberona, the drunkard of Fairy Tail. Cana is a tall, slim, young woman with an ample bust. She has long, mid-back length brown hair. Two shoulder-length strands of hair frame her face, with the left one starting from a prominent, high fringe. Cana has large brown eyes and visibly long eyelashes. She possesses a very voluptuous figure, with large breasts and curvy hips. She wore a blue bra, and brown capri pants, proudly exposing her black Fairy Tail mark on her abdomen.

Cana suddenly sighed, looking disappointed and eyes glinting with grim acceptance, as if she resigned herself for a dark condemning fate. "This is why i hate the men here.. They're so undignified." She said, before promptly gulping down a barrel of rum straight fro the barrel itself.

Kirito watched, mouth agaape with a mixture of shock and awe. Lucy stared with bulging eyes at the rather unlady like manner, the drinker was displaying. And she says the men are undignified!? they thought as one. Kirito shook his head, anymore of this crazy absurdity and he might break.

Gray, still in his black boxer, kicked a guy (i deem him unimportant so he shall be unmentioned) away into a wall before called out to the pink haired DragonSlayer. "Oi Natsu! Let's fight!" He shouted with a snarl.

"Come back when you have some clothes!" Natsu replied.

When Kirito heard the sound of a wooden geta, he expected to see an old man with a monk outfit, but instead was greeted with a brute of a man wearing a traditional black high school uniform of japanese hooligans. "Yapping in the middle of the day.." The giant started as he closed the distance between him and the newbie duo. "You're not kids you know!?" He said.

Somehow, this guy reminds me of yakuza and yankees back home. Kirito mused with a sweatdrop.

This giant man is Elfman Strauss. Elfman is a large, muscular man with tan colored skin, whose height causes him to tower over most of his fellow guild members. His long white hair is kept styled upwards in long, wavy spikes, his dark eyes possess no visible eyebrows and his rectangular, elongated face has a stitched scar running down its right side, crossing his right eye. His black Fairy Tail stamp is located on the left part of his neck. on the back of his uniform was the japanes kanji for "the greatest" .He is a man that works with only his fist.

As absurd as it is.

"Men should talk with his fist!" He declared proudly.

"So... All he do is fight." Lucy summarized. Seemingly growing tired all of a sudden.

"I think so." Kirito nodded his head.

They watched in acceptance as Natsu and Gray formed a temporary truce and ganged up to punch Elfman in the face together and sent him flying to a faraway wall in the guild, saying something about interrupting their duel. Kirito instinctively ducked his head from a flying flower vase, while praising himself for having the eye of the mind skill.

While Kirito focused himself in watching the classic brawl, Lucy finds herself attracted by a squeal of woman and looked over to the corner where she spotted a man and two women, who was sitting by his laps. "My.. They're so noisy" He commented while carressing the women in his lap. This man is Loke. He is a handsome young man of average height, distinguished by his delicate facial features and his orange hair. His hair is kept in a mildly short, spiky cut, with spiky strands covering his forehead, and other, longer ones jutting upwards from the top of his head. Loke wore a green coat with a wide collar, complete with prominent, spiky, brownish-white fur trimming lining the hood, over a light red shirt covered in many flower-like motifs, black pants and whitish sneakers, each adorned by a pair of light green stripes. He's at the top of the most wanted mage as your boyfriend list.

Suddenly, a bottle knocked him hard on his forehead sending hims falling to the floor. Geez... He grumbled and stood up, brushing his clothes clean of imaginary dust for bravado and style. The girls swooned around him, a bit worried. Somehow, Loke summoned sparkling glitter around him while giving a charming smile and a thumbs up to the girls "I'll join the fight just for you." He said, causing the girls to go fangirl mode and squealed.

Lucy prodused her magazine that instant, somehow getting a marker from god-knows-where and crossed the picture of Loke in the magz. "Definitely not on my list anymore..." She grumbled in annoyance. "Oh geez! What's with this place, There's no one normal here!" She whined as she watched Natsu smash a guy with broken table and the others beating each other senseless.

"I'm here and i'm normal." Kirito complained in irritation, annoyed to be put in the same class as the others.

"That's a moot point and you know it." She sighed as she rubbed her temple.

"Oh my, Newcomer?" A sweet, melodic voice greeted them from behind. Kirito and Lucy immediately spun on the balls of their feet to see the person who greeted them, only to meet blinding sweet smile. Lucy had hearts on her wide eyes and shocked face. Kirito, despite his efforts, failed to contain the healthy blush forming on his face.

"Holy mother of cows..." Kirito started.

"The real.. Mirajane Strauss!" Lucy finished, squealing at the end of her sentence.

The woman -Mirajane- smiled warmly at them, one hand holding a tray of drinks. Mirajane is a slim young woman of below average height. She has long, white hair which curls slightly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her chest; her hairstyle's most distinctive trait is a short, upward ponytail obtained by gathering and tying the hair covering her forehead. She has large blue eyes and a curvy, voluptuous body, with large breasts. She is really well-known, being Fairy Tail's model and has posed numerous time for the Sorcerer Magazine.

"U-um shouldn't you stop them?" Lucy asked timidly, nervous to be in the presence of such beautiful and popular model, and pointed to the cloud dust obscuring the violent activities within.

Mirajane, however, took it in stride and answered. "They are always like that, so its better to leave them be." Se was about to continue, not noticing the approaching thrown body of one Elfman Strauss heading straight towards her. "Besides-" And Elfman's giant body struck her hard and send the two to kiss their new friend; the dirt.

"M-Mirajane-san!?" Kirito cried in worry.

"Aaaaaah! Mirajane! Get a grip!" Lucy screamed when she saw her grew a bump on her head and a bit of blood flowed down from her forehead.

Mirajane raised her head weakly, smile never faltering, and continued where she left. "-It's fun right?" She then promptly passed out with her soul comically flying out from her mouth.

"Mirajane-san!?" Lucy screamed again. However, before she could continue, she and Kirito fell prey and immediately get struck by the naked body of Gray, his boxer now gone, revealing him in his birthday suit. Not so far away, Natsu smirked proudly, having managed to steal Gray's last article of clothing and was now absentmindedly twirling it in his hand.

"Ah! My underwear!" He growled, not actually minding the fact that he was literally naked in public.

"Kyaaaa!" Lucy screamed, covering her eyes with her hands, a blush on her face.

Gray immediately took notice of the duo, particularly Lucy, and head over to them, face cool and unconcerned of his current of state of dress; or lack thereof. "Miss, if you don't mind, can i borrow your underwe-" He never get his chance to finish his snetence as Lucy somehow -again- pulled a tool from god-knows-where. The tool in question is a massive, paper fan.

She then promptly slapped him away. "Like i would do that!?"

"Seriously, first a magazine and a marker and now a paper fan!?" Kirito shouted incredulously. "Where in the world, did she keep pulling those from!?" Kirito continued to watch as Lucy get scooped brial style by the playboy, Loke, he reminded himself. Then, as Loke tried to woo her, He got punched in the face by Elfman and thrown away, releasing Lucy down in the process. Elfman was about to yell his motto again when Natsu suddenly came and gave him a spin kick that send him flying in a manner similar to Loke.

"Ah too noisy" He distinctively heard The brunette drunkard woman in the bar complained silently. She developed a tick mark on her head as she gripped her glass so hard, her knuckles turn white. "I can't drink my beer peacefully." She immediately pulled out several cards from her back, which suddenly glowed an eerie emerald and a green magic circle appeared in front of her. "Cut it out already!"

Gray took a stance, one fist balled and slamed into the other hand's open palm, creating a cold mist in the process. Out from his knuckles appeared an icy blue magic circle with a snowflake insignia in the middle. "Now i am angry!"

Elfman Raised his knuckle and out appeared a purple magic circle which tranformed his hand into stone covered limb. "ORRAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Loke held his ring with one of his hand and it immediately summoned a green magic circle much like Cana's. "You guys are troublesome." He said.

Natsu gathered fire in his fists hands poised to strike. "Bring it on!"

"F-fighting with magic?" Lucy mumbled in fear, somehow, this time, she pulled Happy out of nowhere with a kanji for shield engraved in a tag which was somehow hanging from the blue feline's neck.

"Aren't you going a bit cruel there Lucy?" Kirito asked, eyeing the happy-shield gripped in her hands.

Suddenly, before the shit hits the fan, a giant foot stomped down on the wooden floor. A giant man -literally- appeared in the middle of the hall. Seriously he was so tall that everyone have to look up just to have an eye to eye contact. "Will you cut it out already, you fools!" He roared.

"H-huge!" Lucy stared up at the giant with a fearful expression.

"That's an understatement there, Lucy." I commented absent mindedly.

"Can't you get enough of your smart-ass remark?" Lucy galnced at me with a sweatdrop, her previous fear forgotten.

"Eh, its fun." He said. Kirito turned his head around, eyeing as everyone went stock-still, pausing from everything they did before. The silence was palpable and thick enough to be cut with a dagger.

Mirajane, who has regained her consciousness sometime before, was the one to destroy the silence. "Ah, so you were here master?" She asked the giant with a smile. The giant in question turned to her and gave her a 'yeah' as an answer.

"He's the master?" Lucy asked fearfully.

"Well ain't that obvious. A guild full of people hell bent on spreding destruction with a giant as its master. Lucy, this guild is perfectly normal." Sarcasm was definitely there in the two last words, and Lucy seems to catch on rather quickly.

"Its not my fault." She whined.

While everyone seems to know when to stop and kept their trap shut, Natsu seems to not be bothered one bit by the giant and instead opted to brag. "Daahahahaaha! You all got scared!" He said boisterously, not even realizing the shadow that had decended upon him. "This fight is my victo-Uegh!" and just like that 'Master' put a stop to his tirade with a stomp of a leg. It was at this time that the master finally took notice of the duo and stared at them.

"Oh? Newcomer?" He asked.

"Y-yes!" Lucy squeaked.

"Mhm." I nodded.

"Muwooooo!" He roared as he started to emit wind-pressure. Lucy started to whimper and Kirito started to look a little bugged until he realized that the master's gigantic size was starting to shrink until he was the size of a tiny diminutive old man. "Nice to meet you." He greeted cheerfully.

Lucy stared at him in wonder. "He shrank!? Wait, she called you 'master'.."

"Yep! He is the master of Fairy Tail. Makarov-san." Mirajane chirped in.

The diminutive old man then jumped up into the second floor, doing loop de loops along the way and unfortunately hit his back on the wooden railings. The old master then immediately stood up to his full height in the railing, looking down on those down stairs. He cleared his throat before starting his speech. "You did it again, Jerks!" Okay, that wasn't what Kirito thought an opening to speeches are like. "Look at these documents that i got from the magic council!" He said, showing a stack of paper in his right hand. "They are all complaints!" he complained.

Now before you ask, the council is the organization that manages and control all legal guilds in Fiore.

"All you jerks do is make the council angry at me." Makarov reprimanded. Before long he started to shake, either in rage or he was actually bursting a vein nobody knows. Everyone looked down in shame while Lucy just looked worried. "However.." The stack of paper burst into flames, not the thing he expected, mind you. "The council is just a piece of shit!" He said like it was the most common knowledge even a cat knows of. He threw the burning paper into the air, where Natsu, like a seal jumped and snatched the thing before eating it.

Lucy looked shocked and Kirito just looked amazed. This is the best speech he ever listened to. After all, no one used the word 'shit' so freely in a speech no matter where and when.

"Listen up!" He started. "The power to overcome reason is born from reason itself. Magic is not a miraculous power! Its the synchronized and incarnated form of Spirit Energy Partical that flows within us and nature! It requiers willpower and concentration. I mean, pouring all of your sould on what you do is magic. worrying about the watchful eyes of the higher-ups , won't improve your magic. Don't be afraid of those council fools! Just follow your own path. That is what being a Fairy Tail mage is all about!" He raised his index finger up in the air and everyone followed suit.

Kirito decided that instant, that Fairy Tail is cool.


And So...


With a press of the magic stamp in the back of her hand, Lucy gained her pink Fairy Tail mark. Mirajane looked at her with an amused smile, enjoying the sight of the giddy blonde girl who was grinning happily as she admired her new mark. "There! Nice right?" Mirajane said. "Now you are officially a member of Fairy Tail. She twirled around with a happy 'Waa~aaii'

"And what about you Kirigaya-san?" She asked pleasantly.

"Please, just Kirito will do. I would like it in.. Hm... Ah! Here, in black." Kirito pointed to the base of his neck, right on the collar bone. He figured that many displays their mark proudly and thus, he opted to have it where anyone can sees it. But judging from his clothing which essentially was covering mostly everything, he can only have it either in the face or the neck area, and so, he chose his collar bone.

"There!" Mirajane exclaimed happily as she stamped the mark on his collar bone.

"Thanks a bunch, Mira-san!" Kirito exclaimed happily, tracing his new mark slowly, admiring it.

Lucy went to tell Natsu, who seemed not too interested in the matter. He even mistook her name from Lucy into Luigi. He joined the two by the request board where various job request was posted for everyone to take. Mages can take the jobs posted here. "Lets take a job with high rewards!" Happy proposed.

Natsu pulled a job request and eyed it hungrily. "Woah! 160K jewels for exterminating thieves!" He read the prize aloud.

"Its settled then." Happy said.

However, the quartet's attention, which included Kirito, Natsu and Happy by the Request Board and Lucy in the bar, was caught when a little boy came to Makarov asking if his dad was back from his mission.

"You are annoying, Romeo." Makarov said bluntly. "You are a mage's son, so go home and believe in your dad." He continued, reaching for his mug to chuck another gulp at his alcohol.

The boy, Romeo, countered his remark. "But, he said he'd be back within 3 days.." He said. "Its been a week since he left!"

By this point, Natsu, Lucy, Kirito and Happy was openly eavesdropping on their conversation. "If i'm not wrong, its a job at Mt. Hakobe right?"

"It isn't that far away right !?" He asked again, hoping that with another push, the old master will send someone to search for his father. "Please go there and look for him!" He begged.

However, it seems that fate isn't on his side as Master Makarov roared at him. "Your dad is a mage, right?! There's no mage in this guild that couldn't take care of himself! Go home and drink milk or something!" He ordered.

In one impressive bout of frustration, Romeo jumped into the table where the old man sat and delivered a straight punch to his face. "Idiot!" He screamed. Before cried and dashed out the guild building. "Damn it!"

"Its very stict huh?" Lucy mumbled off-handedly.

Mirajane turned from her mug-washing and looked at lucy. "Even though he said that, Master is actually worried as well."

*CCRRAAAACK!*

Lucy and Mirajane turned to see a paper shoved inch deep into the wooden board, where a quite shocked Kirito stood loocking at Natsu who had immediately head out of the guild with happy, leaving one of the guy who was looking at the board to gumble about destroying the job request and some other things. The Master silently sighed as he watched Natsu pick up his things and went out.

"Master this is bad." The previous guy in tribal clothes said. "He's going to save Macao."

"That's why he is still a kid." Another guy added.

"This will wound his pride, y'know?"

"No one can decide the path one must take.." The master mused silently. "Let him be."

"You see, Natsu is just like Romeo." Mirajane said silently. "Maybe he sees himself in him" She paused before continued in a slightly faraway tone of voice. "We, Mages of Fairy Tail, all carry something with us. Scars, pain, or suffering." She said.

Lucy looked solemn while Kirito grimaced. Her words had strike a bit too close for comfort to him. So, looking at Lucy who was eyeing the doors with some kind of interest, Kirito went over to him, so sure that she wanted to help their pink haired pyromaniac friend. "I take it you want to go with him and help?" Kirito asked, the answer was obvious enough to him, but he wanted to hear it from her own mouth.

"Yeah." She said.

WIth that, they head out to follow Natsu for their first unofficial mission. "Save Macao." mission.


"Why are you here?"

Inside a carriage pulled by a weird purple thingy, Natsu was, as usual, was moaning in pain and agony. Across from his seat where he lay, was Kirito and Lucy, the latter sweatdropping at the sight of his usually boisterous pain reduced into a whimpering and moaning mess.

"Why not?" Lucy shot back her reply. "You and vehicle really don't mix, huh? I feel bad for you in so many ways." She cupped her face and shakes her head in exasperation.

"What's that supposed to mean!?" He groaned.

"Oh? Nothing."

"Alright~ Enough with your lover's quarrel!" Kirito adorned is poker-face that he labelled as Kirigaya Kazuto Poker Face no.9Which involves setting one's face as straight and deadpanning as possible and point out some smart ass remark to annoy the shit out of people. It is ranked 9 in his many other poker face bacause he rarely uses it.

"We're not lovers/S-screw.. you!" was the reply of both Lucy and Natsu respectively.

"Mm.. Look! Happy agrees with me!" I said pointing to the cat sitting calmly at the floor, absently nibbling on his fish. Sure enough, he gave Kirito his signature aye, gaining a victorous smirk from him. "Told you so."

"Traitor!"

It wasn't in his nature to annoy people, Kirito is a rather silent kind of person, but he does have a keen insight to people's feeling. This light hearted teasing wasn't his forte, it was only to distract Lucy and by extension, himself, from remembering the brief information Mirajane had gave them about Natsu's past. He had to admit, he feels for the guy.

Anyway, after sometime, the carriage stopped. Natsu roared a small stream of fire from his mouth while jumping from one foot to the other on his seat, doing his signature victory dance with happy beside him. "It stopped! Hell yeah!"

"Sorry, this is as far as i can take you to." The driver said.

Lucy opened the carriage and was immediately greeted by roaring winter winds filled with bits of snow. "Wh- what is this!?"


After some hiking...


"Its cold!" Lucy screamed, hudling herself with the blanket Natsu brought by luck, trying to save as much warmth as possible. "I'm freezing! I know we're on the mountain but this is supposed to be summer!" She screamed at the top of her lung.

"Cut it out! You'll cause avalanche if you're too loud!" Kirito scolded. He pointed his hands to her in an accusing manner while giving her a 'i told you so' glare. "Besides you should have at least wore some more closed clothes unlike those!" He pointed to every clothes she wore; which is a sleeveless white shirt and a blue mini skirt.

"This blizzard isn't normal!" She said.

"That's what you get for wearing something so thin." Natsu chided.

"You're not dressed any differently!"

"Man.. You're annoying!" He said.

"Aye." Happy agreed

"Ouch. That's harsh.." Kirito mused.

"Oh right!" She pulled one of her silver keys from her keyring and twirled it in her fingers. "Open! Gate of the clock contellation! Horologium!" The key summoned a large bluish white magic circle. With the sounding of a giant bell, smoke rose from the circle and out came clock gears, which flies to the sky before falling to the ground, already forming into a wooden grandfather clock that sprouts a hand and has a face. It's inner body was hollow like any other graandfather clock.

"Cuckoo!" It said.

"Oh! It's a clock!" Natsu said in awe.

"Cool!" Happy said.

Lucy, who was inside Horologium, appeared to be talking, but nonetheless, nobody outside could hear it. Kirito, curious to this, put his ears to the glasses separating them from Lucy and listened as she talks, but he couldn't hear a thing no matter what. "It seems to be soundproof."

"Wha-? I can't hear her." Natsu said.

Horologium's hand moved and he talks in a weird voice. "'i'm staying here.', She says."

"Then what's the point of coming here?" Natsu asked irrately.

"'What job bought Macao to a place like this?', She asks"He relied.

"You came along without knowing a thing?" Natsu asked her before turning to face Kirito who was shaking his head in an uncarring attitude and just shrugs his shoulder. " He was gonna subdue a Vulcan, a vicious monster."

"'I wanna go back' She says."

"Be my guest. I replies." Natsu said as he moved onwards with Happy on tow.

Kirito just shrugs and walked with them. "Meh. Cold.."


Kirito wasn't so sure of himself.

After following Natsu and Happy trudging around through the thick snow of Mt. Hakobe, leaving Lucy behind in the protection of her spirit; Horologium, for more than an hour, he had begun to grew a bit cold. [Coat of Midnight], after all, wasn't as thick as a winter coat. Of course, unlike Natsu whose magic was sired and taught by a REAL honest-to-god fire dragon, his magic didn't grant him extreme weather survivability. So... it took him quite the effort to not freeze and fell asleep in the numbing cold of the blizzard.

He hadn't been so sure how, but he could hear whispers. Soft, but with an underlying tone of power. His own magic, whose dominion over the element of Darkness and Shadow rumored to be legendary, was telling him- No, forced him- to follow the soft whispers. As if attracted, like moths to fire.

So, with the ever growing coldness in the background, he let himself be lulled by the whisper and trusts his magic's instict to guide him to the source of the soft and now comforting whisper, which he now realised was actually a poem.

All my life,

now and forever,

Will be you and me.

Travelling the world and sea

Till the very end of the Galaxy.

Through my eyes,

You shine so bright

Overpowering the energy of a star.

With your voice saying lightly

"...We'll be together"

No matter how far

Above the stars

I hope to see you there,

With the light glistening,

Above us.

We'll walk on forward,

With our hearts burning bright red,

Putting the past away

To head for a better day.

For a closer tomorrow.

To be together.

I'll spend eternity with you,

Through out the endless days

I will stay.

When the sun falls down,

And the moon has ended the day,

I'll sing to you and say

"..All my life,

I've been searching for someone..

Just like you

To hold my hand

Till the very end

Someone i can give my heart out to

And that's no one..

..But you."

Kirito didn't realize when, but when his hazy vision has came back to focus, he noticed the wet feeling on his cheeks and the feeling of warmth, totally different from the icy blizzard raging and hitting his body with all the force of a truck. His hand raised, softly tracing his cheek where bits of tears flowed from his eyes. He looked down to see a mixture of ground and snow with bits of rocks here and there. He looked around, realizing that the song has brought him to a cave of some sort. In the back of the cave, right in front of him, he could see a shrine.

Dedicated for two beautiful swords.


To Natsu & co ...


"Macaoo!"

Natsu and happy has been calling the names of their missing guildmates for hours now, but there's still no sign of his existence there. Lucy was lagging behind, due to Horologium's lack of feet, they couldn't move so fast. The situation has gotten worse, when they realize that Kirito had also gone missing i the blizzard. Natsu tried to sniff him out using his enhanced sense of smell, however, as their crappy luck would have it, the blizzard has erased all traces of him.

"Kiritooo!"

They knew that they were fighting a losing battle against the intense snowstorm that attacked them, they will eventually be forced to either retreat or search for a place to rest and wait. Either way, they're clearly at the advantage. It only got worse when a giant gorilla appeared out of nowhere. It was a giant anthropomorphic primate with elongated chin, long ears and an long head resembling a single horn. It has gigantic arms and big toned body with a much smaller lower body parts. It has white fur with black spots here and there.

The monkey eyed Natsu and Happy silently, analysing them, before turned away, clearly looking uninterested with them. As he turned and faced Horologium, he peered inside the glass on his body that showed Horologium's empty spot, where Lucy resides in. The Vulcan immediately gained a perverted smile, commonly possessed by old men in train stations looking to grope females. The mongkey immediately picked the clock-like spirit and brought it away, all the while giggling like mad.

Natsu, just watched, dumbfounded, before he decided to follow monkey might led him to Macao after all, and so, with that decision in mind, he began to dash with all the speed he could muster under the thick snow covering his feet, happy flew above him, keeping track of he Vulcan and leading him to it. Hopefully, by the time he catch up, Lucy was still in one piece and Macao still save.

Kirito could wait. Natsu told himself that. He had seen the guy in action and he admitted he is strong. He could handle himself just fine in this crappy weather disturbance. He would have to duel him later though.. With that particular fought in mind, Natsu kept moving, steadily growing faster and faster.


Back to Kirito..


[..So, You wield the power of the True Essence of Darkness?]

Kirito was currently seated inside the cave, in front of him, buried half deep into the snowy ground was the two sword. He had got a pleasant surprise from them when they revealed their ability to talk telepathically to anyone in a certain range from them, the range was amplified to those who wield magics associated with Darkness. That is why he could listen to their calls. From then on, he has been having a decent talk with the two swords, which he found out was named the [Nightfall Swords].

The two swords has distinct difference to them. One of them was a long, well-sized Katana made from black metal. Its hilt was cross shaped and shrouded by ripped dark blue cloth. This katana was called Stargaze. The other one was smaller-sized, double edged nodachi made of glinting silvery steel. Its hilt was simply round shaped with its handle wrapped in black leather. This nodachi was called Elis-Lunare. He found out from the two that Stargaze was actually the eldest from the two swords.

"Yep." He replied their question. "Though now they're called BlackLand Magic."

The two swords had taken a liking to him after they talked about random topics. To them, he was a great change since people who learned Darkness magic mostly labeled as either 'evil', 'bad guys', 'villain', or at best 'better avoid him at all cost.' Most of them were even truly are bad persons. So, they enjoyed the rather fresh change Kirito had brought to them.

{Never thought the Legendary True Essence of Darkness to be wielded by a child less than even 2 decades old..} Said the younger of the two sword.

[Nevermind that. I feel a slight flux in magical energy, perhaps, it is your companion that did this, Kazuto.] As expected of Stargaze, he was always so composed. His blade quivered for a moment as if humming to himself. [But still, that brought the question, what are you and your companions doing in this wayward place ?] He asked, curiously, his black blade giving a soft glint of dark blue.

"Well, its to help find our missing guildmates. He went here for a mission to exterminate vulcans, but he hasn't come back for a week, is what the rumor says. So, me and my companions are banding together and search for him." Kirito answered, hoping they could help him with his search for this Macao guy.

{Those primates..} Growled Lunare. {I recall that they have ever tried to grab me and use my splendour for their own gains on kidnaping female travelers that passes on this mountains. But of course, their grubby hands are not fitting enough to wield my blades and i refuse to be wielded by such hideous creature! Thus, i blasted them off with my power and-

[I believe we're getting sidetracked here.] Stargaze interjected quickly, swiftly stopping his little brother's boasting of his power.

{Right. Forgive me. Anyway, if you want to save this Macao person, you gotta hurry. Vulcans are capable on performing Take-over magic to steal ones body and if they stay in their new hosts for a certain amount of time, the host will die.} Lunare informed grimly.

"What!?" Kirito immediately stood up, ready to run and get to the others and tell them his discovery before he stopped and realized that he was stranded in the middle of a mounted trapped in a raging blizzard.

[It seems you finally catch on to your current predicament, Kazuto.] Stargaze's cool voice sounded from his blade into Kirito's mind. [..and judging by your expression you don't have any maps with you. However, fear not, for us the Nightfall brother will lend you our hands and lead you to you friends.]

"Why do I sense a 'but' coming on?" Kirito mused aloud as he looked at the two sentient blades. "There must be a catch right?" He asked.

Lunare quivered violently and in his mind, Kirito heard an appraising laugh. {As expected from a warrior such as yourself! Yes! The catch is rather simple. We want you to wield us. Decades have passed since the last time we have been used and we feared that our blades and strength has dulled as time went on and on. So, we ask of you, to be our wielder.} He said, his rather odd way of speaking, like knights on arthurian legends, sounded in his head.

[And truth be told.. We're bored.]

Just like that, Stargaze destroyed the building mood. Kirito and Lunare both gave a sigh. "Very well." Kirito said and grabbed the hilt of bothe swords.

[Let us march forward!]

{At last!}

"Let's do this, guys!" Kirito roared and pulled the swords out of their confines on the ground.


To Lucy..


Lucy wasn't having a good day. No, her day had deteriorated from good to bad since she joined this retrieval mission. Now, she was in the presence of a giant monstrous monkey creature known as Vulcan. Currently, she was brought into a cave, which she assumed was the den of the Vulcan. It was at first, but it turned out sour for her when Horologium suddenly disappears after telling her that she had timed up.

"Aah! Horologium don't disappear on me!" She screamed. "I demand an extension!"

Now, there's no use in pleading. The Vulcan prepared his big caloused hands to do whatever horrifying things it had in mind to Lucy. She whimpered and her body shook in fear. She colsed her eyes and huddled together in her blanket, preparing for the worst. That is until she heard the loud stampeding sound of Natsu's feet. "Oi! Monkey! Where's Macaoo~!"

And he slipped on the ice before he fell on his back and rolled over to an ice pillar.

"Eeh.. How lame." She said with a sweatdrop.

Natsu jumps back to his feet and immediately covered his fists on fire and snarled at the Vulcan. "Now then. Where is Macao!?" He glared daggers at the creature. "I know you can understand me, answer my question!?"

The Vulcan made an 'aha!' motion as if he understands what Natsu said and immediately waved one of his big hands at him while the other pointed to a large hole in the wall leading outside of the cave. Taking the motion as the Vulcan telling him that Macao was there, Natsu quickly went over there and peered outside. "Where?" Before he could react, the Vulcan gave him a strong push that threw himout of the cave and down into the deep dark abyss down the mountain.

"Damned Mooooonnnnnkkkkeeeeeeeey!" He screamed.

Lucy Immediately dashed over to see the fate of Natsu. Seeing that he was nowhere in sight, Lucy immediately blanched and gasped, fearing for the worst. Fear turned into anger, Lucy immediately glared at the Vulcan who was currently doing what she assumed as his victor dance. She clenched her teeth and threw her blanket away. She pulled one of her golden key and twirled in on her finger. "Open! Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!" with that, her key summoned a bluish white magic circle, after an echo of a ringing bell, the ground erupted and out come a humanoid cow wearing a speedo wielding a giant battle axe.

This is Taurus. Taurus is an extremely tall, heavily muscular and athletic humanoid whose physical features are highly reminiscent of both a bull, as his theme implies, but, most notably, of a cow. His body is covered in a black and white pattern similar to those of dappled cows, and the upper part of it, from the waist up, seems more massive than the lower one. His head is bovine in shape, with small, elongated ears jutting outwards from the sides of his head, and a pair of horns, testifying him as a bull, sitting on top of it. He has dark eyes, and his flat nose bears a large golden ring in it, similar to those carried by real bulls. Taurus' massive body is mostly left bare: he's shown wearing a dark indument, similar to a pair of swin briefs, covering his groin, held up by a red, studded belt, with a circular, thin, golden metal buckle, with a pair of curved protrusions jutting outwards from it in its upper part. He also wears simple dark boots with lighter upper edges, consisting of three lines circling his legs, and has a red belt circling his neck, to which a golden cowbell is attached. His forearms are wrapped in bandages, and he wears brown fingerless gloves. Crossing his chest diagonally and passing over his right shoulder is a large, plain dark belt closed by a simple buckle, to which Taurus attaches his signature axe.

"Mooooo!"

"Cow?" The Vulcan muttered as he eyed the summoned spirit.

"Yeah. Taurus is the strongest spirit i currently have contract with!" She said proudly.

"Oooh! you always have such a nice body, Ms. Lucy. I'm Mooved!" He said with hearts replacing his eyes and a lecherous smile in place.

Lucy blanched and face palmed. "This one's a pervert too."

The Vulcan then glared at Taurus. "Don't take my woman!" It said.

Taurus immediately went full battle-mode and glared right back at the Vulcan. "'My girl' !?" He repeated. "Those are fighting words!"

"Taurus!" Lucy gave the unspeaked order, which Taurus immediately obeyed. Taurus picked his axe from his back and twirled it expertly in his hands before striking the ground with as much strength as he could muster.

"Fierce mooooove!"

The ground immediately cracked, forming fissures that crawled towards the Vulcan sending pieces and chunks of rock and ice towards the primate-like monster. However, the monkey proved itself to be agile despite its size and managed to jump away from the attack. It jumped and reared back its fist, ready to deliver a punch. Taurus tensed his body, ready to swing his axe until..

"ORRRAAA!" Natsu swiftly came in and kicked the poor spirit in the chin and sent him flying to an ice pillar where he slumped down. His soul, shaped like a cow, came out comically from its mouth.

"Looks like this is the end.."

"So weak!" Lucy screamed, eyes bugging out in shock.

Natsu turned nonchalantly at Lucy, looking as innocent as ever. "Hey, is it me or there are more monster now?"

"He's an ally! He's a celestial spirit!" Lucy roared at him.

"This monkey?"

"The cow!"

"Wait, how did you survive?" She asked in relieve and curiosity, since, no one should be able to survive a fall that high.

Natsu grinned his trademark feral grin to Lucy, showing his sharp white canines. "I owe that to Happy." He said confidently. "Thanks!" He said to the blue cat flying above them with its wings unleashed.

"Aye."

"You're no good when it comes to riding vehicles, but fine riding Happy?" She mused aloud.

Natsu immediately gained a put off look on his face. "What are you talking about? Happy isn't a vehicle, he is my friend." He said. "W-wow, you're simpleminded." He said mockingly.

"Y-yeah.. I see."

The Vulcan, feeling ignored, immediately roared out its annoyance and jumped to deliver a hammer strike to Natsu from behind. "My girl!" it roared aloud. However, before Natsu could react and its punch could connect with him, a large sweeping arc of dark energy tinted with light blue erupted and strike the Vulcan, throwing it away from Natsu.

Natsu turned to the direction where the blast had been sent and immediately caught the sight of Kirito holding a pair of mismatched sword. The blade was slightly glinting blue and it was emitting smokes.

"I made it in time." Kirito said as he panted.

"That's so cool!" Happy gushed.. well happily.


The battle ended so quick that it might as well called a scuffle instead. Between the use of Natsu's Fire Dragon Slayer Magic and Kirito's BlackLand magic as well his newly acquired swords, the battle had become so one sided that it was pitiful to watch. In the end, with a stike from Natsu's Fire Dragon's Iron Fist and Kirito's barrage of Shadow Clutch, the Vulcan was immediately taken down and subdued. They however was shocked when the vulcan turned into a man with blue hair.

It was Macao.

Kirito explained to the the information he received from his sentient swords and its fitting to say that they're relieved. With the first aid kit that Lucy brought in her bag, they managed to gave Macao some minor treatment to his wounds. He had informed them afterwars that he was facing against 20 vulcans and managed to defeat 19 but the last managed to use take over on him.

In the end, they managed to bring back Macao into Magnolia to get his treatment and leave him in the care of his worried son. Kirito could honestly say that his day was productive. Overly so.

He was pleased.

But then he remembered that he doesn't have a house to sleep on, and he immediately fell to the ground on his knees while crying anime tears.

"I'm in deep shit."


A/N : Aaaand Cut! There you have it! The 3rd chapter. I'm sorry for the late update, but i've got some serious things going on (coughhighschoolcough) And its troublesome to search for a spare time to write.

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