A/N: Heyya! PartyCrazy here! Alright. Now we finally move on to the more exciting part and leave behind the entire boring beginning of Fairy Tail. Oh, there's something i forgot to write in the previous chapter's Note. The poem isn't made by me. Tehee~ As much as i want to claim it, i can't. It's from a video in youtube. Joy, i've took a very looong vacation from writing and now i'm back!
Now, for our most beloved Review Reply section.
To ideagetthe: Well, I agree. The crappy ending might be from fatigue of writing in rapid movement for 5 hours.. I might have gone a bit over the top there. Kirito isn't Kirito without a sword.. That's a 100 for ya! Make sure to keep reading because the action starts from this chapter.
To Vangran: Err... lets be honest, I'm bad, like REAL BAD at grammar. I will have to learn more from school and the books for dummies. However, the mistakes in POV will be eradicated as best as I can.
To o RealisticFantasy o: Mhm. It's a pain in the finger to use my pinky to reach the SHIFT button for capitalization, and yes, i worked hard for beating my typo mistakes. *Cheer!*You know, i've planned to use his and Asuna's sword for the poem, but then, it would mean that Truth was giving him more gift and leeway without payment. That's a no-no. Your idea, however, was much much accepted. That'd be hilarious.
To Wingd Knight: Of course! There will be a time to do that. But that'll a loo~ooong time from now. Keep reading my story 'kay?
To Jackpot 2: You serious!? Thanks man! I'm taking you as my BETA then! Woohoo! But how do i do it? I never had a beta before, so i got no clue.
To Telron: Kinda funny. Thanks for the review.
To Jose19: I have a plan for that, it'll be a bit mellow and maybe teary (i have never written a sob story). But i've planned it to be around his second or third personal missions, maybe on later chapters, just wait and see.
To Raiden312: Well, let me explain. Stargaze and Elis-Lunare has a limited ability of telepathy, as they have stated in the previous chapter, they have a connection with darkness magic and this extended to the mage as well, so they can only talk to those that has the element of darkness. But of course, they can choose whom they will project their voice and thoughts to. Truth will mess a bit with FairyTail verse. Just a tad bit, mind you.
To bluesonicblast: Actually, your idea can be used to answer Raiden312's question about Truth messing in The FT verse. This is good. Like it. Will do, thanks Bro!
To Shugokage: Thanks a bunch!
To TheLiteHasTruth: Nah, its fine. Getting an idea and a critic comment is rather building, so i don't really mind. Thanks, but i haven't imagined any Oc to pair and or go with Kirito, seeing as in Prologue he sacrificed his whole life in his homeworld for Asuna's sake.
To Mars. : Will do! Stay tuned a'right!
To DavyCrockett100: Aww thanks man!
To Antex-the legendary Zoroark: I think its rather crappy than funny, but thanks anyway. Stay tuned.
To Master DK: Hmm... This is a difficult question. But for now, no. Kirito will not learn how to use re-quip magic and he will not use his sword skill. Unless i make it as his secondary magic. Hehehe.
To Myzor King of War: For now, i intend to leave him to Lucy. Natsu just doesn't seem to click with the cool type like Kirito, if anything, Gray would be a better chance. But for now, Lucy sticks with him.
To Nyra242: Yeah. Of course. You see, i wrote one part ahead and skipped the Everlue arc.. Damn it.
To Aoi Kishi: Thank you, glad you liked it.
To DndKeg: Don't count on it. I'm no sure there will even be Asuna there.
And that's it for this chapter's Review Reply section, guys! By the way, I've got some trouble with writing here. Each time i typed and saved, it will turn into a code and i'm soooo annoyed. Can anyone share and help me with this? Cuz' i'm not too used to write my story in Mic. Words..
You don't know how motivated I've become when I see a bunch'a reviews in my fic! *Sob* I'm crying tears of gold! Look, Jackpot even offered me his help! God, thou hast blesseth me. Look, i'm startting to ramble now. I'm sure you guys are palming your face as i babble things like my school project, my single status, my days, and.. Oops. Let's just start now.
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Black Fairy
Chapter 3: Of Roomings, Missions and Maids.
Kirito stood sat awkwardly on a plushy brown sofa in Lucy's apartment's main room, his signature black cloak wasn't worn, leaving him with only his V-neck black shirt and black trousers. He sipped his tea, courtesy of lucy, and sighed in content. It really was a good luck for him. He really dreaded to have a stay in Natsu's house after he saw what it looked like. Gosh! That place made the ruins of Titanic look neat. An impossibility if he ever saw it.
Kirito continued to enjoy his drink, silently falling down to his memory lane. It really is a fantasy world here. When he saw how the world worked, how magic existed, how everything is like... he seriously thought that he was thrown back into one of those death games. Then, the friends he made pulled him out of that line of thought. True, they weren't close enough to call a ood friend, but they certainly went along the right path. There's no death threat in this world, no monster waiting to kill you each time you set foot outside the save zone, no death game, no nothing. He sighed.
He really missed Asuna. Sometimes he wondered how she is doing there by herself. He really wished that Truth would let him have her with him here in this fantasy world. He wondered how she will react if she ever saw this place... Still, no place is perfect they say. He had seen, on his first day, the dark side of this world. Slavery. That word alone made his fist clench painfully around his cup and his shadow to writhe in agitation.
That dark thoughts brought him a much lighter one though. Lucy, Natsu and Happy. His three new friends and the new guild that he is a part of. Fairy Tail, the name was. They were many things; rowdy, fun, extraordinary, friendly, warm, but they certainly is not dull and boring. Today, he, Lucy and Natsu has saved the life of Macao. It made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
He didn't realize it right now, but his smile would make most women swoon and blush.
Kirito fel his mind brushed with magic, a sign from his sword that they're requesting a link with him. He accepted whole-heartedly, if anything, they could pull him from sulking in his nostalgia. After a brief mental approval, the link formed with a soft mental clink, followed by the unmistakable boisterous voice of one of his swords.
{Y' looked like a dead fish! Wat'za matter?} Elis-Lunare spoke.
"I'm not a dead fish, damn you!" He countered. "Anyway, I'm fine, just feeling a bit nostalgic and falling down memory lane. You know? Remembering old times with my... old friends." He was feeling a bit melancholic at the mention of his old friends and really, he made no effort to conceal it. After all they wouldn't know anything about them, or him for that matter.
[Correction, Kirigaya.] The stern, monologue-like, flat tone of Stargaze's voice cut through his melancholic thought. [Lunare is currently browsing your memory without a care in the world. Do feel free to punish him for his intrusion.] That brought him to a pause, and he had to resist adding a dramatic effect of freezing up and letting his cup fell to the floor. He was quite sure that Lucy wouldn't be too happy with that.
"WHAT!?" He screamed loudly-
-and at that moment, Lucy stepped out of the bathroom, clad in only her towel, which, truthfully speaking, did nothing to hide the curvaceous body and buxom figure she possessed. Kirito fored a healthy blush on his face and a small stream of blood flowed from his nose. He tried to change the image his traitorous mind conjured of Lucy's naked body with the thought of Asuna. But that failed miserably as his mind took a reapproach and formed the image of both Lucy and Asuna naked with him in the middle.
The sound of Elis-Lunare's amused laugh and Stargaze's amused chuckle was a horrible background music for him.
"What happened, is there a thief!?" Lucy was blissfully unaware of her new friend/roommate/bodyguard's predicament about her choice of clothing as panic filled every fiber in her. The thought that Kirito was a very capable mage never crossed her mind in the slightest.
Nope. Never.
"Why are you screaming, Kirito?" She asked, her hand clenched around one of her keys, ready to summon one of her Celestial Spirits if the need ever arise.
"N-n-nothing." Kirito stuttered, trying with all of his willpower to force down the urge to touch her and- No. Bad thoughts! "It's p-perfectly f-fine!" he said, still looking downwards to avoid having his eyes practically raping her with his gaze alone.
"Why are you stuttering, and for that matter, look at me when i'm talking, its rude to look away when others are talking." She lectured sternly, not realizing that the cause for her roommate's discomfort was growing by each second. Upon realizing that her lecture went unheard, she immediate headed to him and, standing right in front of him, she bowed down to look at his face, unknowingly giving him a freeshow of her well-endowed chest. "Do you hear me, Kirito?"
"L-l-lucy!?" He yelped in shock as he realized, to his growing discomfort, that her towel was loosening in a rapid pace. "I-I heard you alright! Now, get back there and-"
ALAS, it wasn't to be.
It was in that exact moment that, much to his horror, lucy's towel went down from the count. Leaving her body in her birthday suit, naked as she is when she was born, without an ounce of clothing on her. Lucy looked down, then to Kirito, then down again before the literal bomb exploded.
"Kyaaaaaaaa!"
She screamed. She used one arm to hide her breast and rising her leg, gave Kirito one huge blow to the head using a goddamn hard side kick. The attack sent him right into the wall with an audible *Bam!*. Kirito was sure that if the kick fifn't kill him, his nosebleed certainly will. With those innocent thought, his consciousness drifted to black, the last thing he heard was the uproaring laughter from both of his sword.
I hate you guys... he thought to himself.
Hall of Truth, Akasha.
The white void beyond the mortal plane was nothing but plain. Plain as in empty and spotless clean of all other color except white. The color representing nothingness. This is also the place where Magus' form a certain dimension pursued relentlessly to achieve, they dubbed this place the Akasha or Root. But in reality, this place was nameless. One dimension called it the Hall of Truth, the other called it Root, and there's also one which dubbed this place as The C's world.
But of course, the one and only resident of this space could care less for such a trivial thing. It doesn't matter what you want to call its home, what it cared is that it functioned just fine.
Truth was just cool like that.
The All and Nothing smirked in his usual perch atop the giant stone gate. His smirk made it look like christmas came early this year. He snickered, chuckled, giggled, before throwing his head back and let out and uproarious laughter that echoed all around the empty space. He wiped his 'eyes' with his 'hands' as if he was tearing himself up by laughing.
"You certainly is humorous.." He said to himself. "It is a testament to my perfection in the art of.. what was it again.. Ah! yes.. Trolling. It really reminds me to the time when i made you trip yourself and had your hands fall on top of that girl's chest. Ufufufu.. Human and their amusingness." He chuckled agains before he sighed a pleased sigh.
"Continue your excelent job in amusing me, Mr Black Swordsman~" He said in sing song voice before completely blending in the vast whiteness of the dimension, disaappearing altogether, leaving only the massive stone gate behind.
"I look forward to watch the drama of your life."
Magnolia, the next morning...
Kirito awoke with a start, followed by a searing pain in the cheek. He sat himself up from his position of face down in the floor and bottom pulled up into the air. He groaned and rubbed his bruised and abused cheeks, so sure that it was bruising or at least, brigh red and swollen.
"Did someone find the truck that hit me?" He moaned absently.
"The heck's a truck?"
He never really expected an answer, actually. He opened his bleary, sleep-induced eye and after gathering his wits together, looked at the room. He was still in Lucy's main room, the exact same position after he was assaulted by her righteous feminine furry. The wall's cracked too... She sure packs a punch. Though there is an addition to the room.
The once, clean and neat room was now filled with bits and pieces of cookie crumbs and other forms of litters. Seated on one of the sofas in the room were Natsu, smiling his insuferable grin and waving a good morning at him, Happy by his side, nibbling a fish. He found that his smile was quite contagious and smiled back at him and greeted him with a nice "Morning."
It was, again, at this point that Lucy suddenly emerged from his bath with only her towel covering her form. Feeling a horrible case of deja vu and trauma, Kirito immediately pulled away to a tactical retreat and out of the main room into the kitchen to get a glass of water. It was only a bit after he had done so that he heard Lucy's scream.
"MY ROOM!" She screamed. The scream was soon followed by the sound of flesh hitting flesh. "Why are you two here!?"
Kirito came back with a tray of tea in his hand to see Natsu and Happy embedded into the wall, just one head away from the cracks that marked his head last night. He sighed in bemusement and put the tray of tea down on the table after shoving away all of the litters and bred crumbs into the trash can. He turned to see Natsu and happy moaning on the ground, on their knees.
"Morning lucy." He greeted.
"Ah.." She turned to him, and promptly blushed a thousand shade of crimson. "I-I'm sorry about last night. You know- i didn't mean to- i mean you- Sorry." She stuttered out.
"Its okay. I suppose its normal for girls to be that way when that happens, you know, going all ballistic and homicidal like you did." he said with a chuckle, earning himself a playful glare and a pout. "Anyway, I forgive you if that give you any pleasure. By the way, can i borrow the bath? I really stink!' he exclaimed with his tongue sticking out, implying that he was midly disgusted by his own smell.
"Go on." She said.
"Thanks."
The bathroom was quite spacious and nice enough to have a proper japanese bath, he admitted to himself. Kirito took of his V-neck shirt, buckled off his belt and pulled down his trousers, folded them all up and put them in the basket. Once he was rid of all article of clothing, Kirito stepped inside the shower stand and turned the shower on, feeling the warm water flow down his skin. He sighed. This is the first time after he was dumped by that white bastard ( Truth ) in this world that he has taken a bath, and he was quite enjoying himself. After making sure that he was clean, he proceeded to relax in the tub.
Ah... The simple pleasure of life.
Kirito twitched his nose, a tingling feeling he had associated with magic energy or eternano appearing. There was a loud bell-like Ding-Dong! noise outside, indicating Lucy's use of her magic. He felt the tension left his body. Just a false alarm. His body slowly sank back down neck deep into the tub.
Ten minutes later, he stepped out of the tub, feeling thoroughly pleased and relaxed. After borrowing a towel from Lucy and drying himself of every bit of water, he stepped out the bathroom door, fully clothed and fresh.
"Ano... Did i miss something important?" He asked hesitantly, unsure of what to do when he saw a mischievous looking Natsu with a i'm-guilty-and-i'm-proud smirk on his face, Lucy kneeling on the floor and crying anime tears while mumbling about being tricked, while happy was dancing with... is that a dog shaped marshmallow? "Lucy, is that a living marshmallow dog?" He asked, a small drool leaked through the corner of his lip as his eyes took a predatory glint in it.
"M-marshmallow dog!?" Lucy spluttered in indignation. She grabbed the little white thingy and hugged it hard to her chest, which caused it to bounce slightly.
He wasn't looking at her jiggling boobs. Nope. Just the dog, focus on the dog in the middle of her-
"This is plue! He's my Nikora, the Celestial Spirit of Canis Minor!" She said prouldy, unknowingly stopping him from losing his battle with his inner pervert. "A dog, i tell you! Plue is a dog!" She stressed her point by hugging the lucky thing tighter into her chest.
Damn.
"Oookkaayy... ?" His answer somehow ended more like a question though. "So, Natsu, what got ya smirking like a devious devil?"
"Hm? Oh! Lucy here agreed on taking a job with us! The reward's massive! It says that if we could get a weird book from this fat-ass duke, we'll be paid 2.000.000 jewel! Lucky we get it first right?" He grinned. "Lucy going to infiltrate the mansion of this fat-ass duke."
"Mm.. How? Lucy and you, especially you, aren't exactly the most subtle fish in the pond." He said, a raised eyebrow the only indication of his apprehension of that idea. "Knowing you, you'd probably burn the whole mansion before thinking of taking the book." He sweatdropped at the image of Natsu spewing fire from his mouth standing on top of a burning ruins of a castle.
"Great idea!"
"That's not exactly an idea."
"Well, apparently the fat-ass duke wanted a new blonde maid to hire. Lucy's blonde, so there you have it!" Natsu grinned like a loon.
"Sound enough. At least it was better than burning the castle to the ground." Kirito sighed and rubbed his temple, feeling a migraine from talking with the less-than-inteligent pyromaniac mage. "If it's stealth you need, i can help you with it. Want a helping hand? I need some job anyway." Kirito offered, eager to fill his nonexistent pocket.
"Okay." Natsu grinned happily. "The more the merrier!"
"Aye!"
And so...
"Ufu.. Is this carriage comfortable enough for you.. Master?" The last word of that sentence was filled with so much sarcasm that it physically hurt just to hear it. Lucy smirked deviously, her inner devil shining through her usually docile attitude.
"I.. I see a maid from hell.." Natsu moaned as he sank deeper into his seat, his face all but drained off of its color.
Happy wailed and waved his tiny furry blue paws around in mock anger. "I'm the master here!" He screamed as he tried to regain his usurped position as the master of the newly minted maid, Lucy.
"Haha.. I'm also interested to be your master, Lucy. I'll be sure to spoil you rotten if you want.." Kirito teased with a sly smirk that often made Asuna blush and stutter incoherent things. It really amuses him to see her like that from time to time. According to her -which he never really agrees with- that devious smirk of his enhanced some of his already high charm. Something about making him seem wild or naughty or whatever. That's why, it was unsurprising and infinitely pleasing for him to see Lucy blush and splutter in embarrassment.
After all, if the infamous flash wasn't immune to his teasing and his patented 'naughty devil smirk', someone as innocent and harmless as Lucy will never be able to be immune to it.
"S-Shut up!" She screamed in embarrasment, prompting Kirito to laugh and Natsu to moan painfully. They left her then, giving her enough time to regain her lost composure and calm her raging blush. Kirito was quite sure that anymore than that, her face will turn into a tomato. "Oh, right. Natsu?" He addressed the currently suffering pink haired pyromaniac. The sick fire mage turned to her, his gaze showing how much he wanted to flee from the vehicle and burn it to ground for its sin of ever existing in the world. "Why did you pick me to be your team?" Inquired the blonde mage.
"Err.. you are a good person." He managed to talk while struggling to throw up.
Lucy paused in her seat. Her face set in a shocked but pleased face. Even though he said it that way, he acknowledged me..
Kirito, maintaining his teasing persona, was about to jump at the chance to tease the two of them about seeing the first sign of love when Natsu, the most idiotic and blunt bastard in the world, said something to ruin that chance. "You're also a weirdo.." He said as he crossed his hands on his chest.
Lucy gritted her teeth in annoyance. He called me.. Me... a weirdo!?
Natsu was looking like a paper sheet by now. Perhaps, moving and talking made him ready to die there.. "Anyway, this is my first job i'll do it without fail!" She said proudly.
Kirito, however, focused on another glaring breach on reality. Happy had just changed his first salmon into a dried squid and was now eating a... is that the suppossedly endangered species of fish, the sunfish, he's eating. Kirito twitched an eyebrow when he saw the cat nonchalantly eating the rare fish while talking to Lucy, who either don't know of the fish's endangered status or didn't care one bit about it.
Poor thing.
Now they're talking about the sharing of the payment, which is utterly unfair in his opinion. Lucy says she will take 7 parts of it and the rest 3 part are going to the males, since, according to her, they won't be doing much. Kirito frowned and looked down at his empty wallet, imagining it turning into some kind of rabid dog, growling and sneering in search of gold and gems... Not a good image.
Speaking of animals... Kirito turned towards the sole non-human in the group. Happy, currently muching on what seemed like the famously poisonous blue-ring octopus. Flying cats... Were there any flying dogs? If possible, a wolf. It'd be awesome! He thought to himself, scrutinizing the blue magical feline with such intensity that made his silvery black eye seemed to glow an eerie light.
Happy broke into a cold sweat, face pale while his eye sneaked a glance at the shadow mage. S-scary..
The town of Shirotsume was really nice, Kirito admitted. The town, while still keeping its western design like many others, was notably more down to earth and very nature friendly. It really helps you relax here.
However, one certain fire mage was not in peace with himself.
"I'm never going to ride a carriage again." He grumbled to himself as he rubbed a spot in his stomach that he has emptied clean today.
"So you say." Kirito responded with a benign smile. "However, we can just take a train or a magic car later. It doesn't have to be a carriage Natsu." He suggested. Having learned about the various method of transportation in Earthland, Kirito knew many ways of transport, though he still prefered his black motorbike from back home. "It's no problem see?"
"That's exactly the problem." He groaned.
"I know." Kirito replied with a nod.
"Sadistic bastard."
"Should we take another carriage?"
"I'm sorry. Please forgive my mistakes." Natsu prostrated with his head bowed low into the ground, face greening as he imagined another ride in the carriage.
"Thought so." Kirito nodded, satisfied despite himself. He paused right then and there. His sadistic side, which he never had before, appeared again and this time, while lacked any malicious intent, could be felt. Its there. Just sitting and waiting to show itself. Kirito frowned. Lucy's a bad influence on him.. "Let's get going guys!" He called.
"Let's go eat something!" And Natsu was back to his usual self in an instant.
"Can't you just eat your own fire?" Lucy asked him with a raised eyebrow. Having seen him eaating the fire of Bora's magic, wouldn't it be more cost-friendly if he just burn something and eat the fire like he did Bora's?
"What a cruel person.." Natsu grumbled, still feeling irate from his latest ride in the carriage of hell.
"Huh?" Lucy asked, not catching anything from him. "What do you mean?"
"You see Lucy, Dragon Slayer magic, while able to eat others of its element, couldn't eat their own. Say, Natsu could eat Bora's fire, because it wasn't his own fire. If he burn a house with his own fire and try to eat the flames, he will just hurt himself." He explained, adopting his teacher pose. "That's one of its limitations."
Natsu dashed away to a restaurant building several meters away, smiling a happy megawatt grin that seemed to be able to brighten the world. Kirito sniffed the air, smelling the drool-enticing smell of cooked meat wafting in the air. He smiled and walked up to his current teammate and his pet, ready to fill some room in his stomach. However, they stopped when they saaw Lucy walking ahead of them, no sign of stopping.
"You guys go ahead and eat." She stated. "I've something to do."
"What with her?" Natsu asked, folding his hands across his chest. "It'd have been more fun if we eat together.." He grumbled his complaints.
"Well, maybe she needs to use the toilet or something?" Kirito supplied, wanting to difuse his teammate's discomfort. "Anyway, let's go inside and eat some food!" Kirito skipped happily into the small building of the restaurant.
"Aye!" Natsu and Happy smiled happily, glad to have someone who understood the importance of a full stomach.
In a bit, their table was covered without any spare with foods. Porks, chicken meats, steaks, sushis, pizza, you name them. Kirito took his time to enjoy a particularly nice looking rib steak. He seriously has to give the cooks their well deserved praise for these foods. It tastes good. He grinned as he muched at his chicken, enjoying its flavor. Natsu was off to his side, greedily taking anything that his hands could reach and stuffing it into his bottomless pit of a stomach.
"Let's leave this one for Lucy!" Natsu said happily as he took another bit from the juicy piece of pork meat in his hands. "I think she loves the oily one."
Kirito glanced at them from his food and couldn't help but sigh. His time with Asuna as a married couple had told him that, under no condition should you ever present an oily, fatty, and colestroll filled food into a young woman, least you suffer the wrath of an angered goddess. This one, the one meat Natsu wanted to give to Lucy, was possibly, the most oily and fatty meat he has ever seen in his life. Lucy will probably burn it to hell than eating it.
"Since when do i like oily things.." Growled a feminine voice from behind.
"Oh.." Happy turned.
"Hey Lu..cy." Natsu's voice died in his throat as he beheld the sight of his current teammate.
"Holy hell.." Kirito whispered.
In front of them, stood Lucy in all her maid-like glory. She apparently changed her clothes into that of a french maid outfit, her hair tied into two cute short twintails. Some locks of her hair framing her cute face. She giggled at their gobsmacked expression, putting a finger at her lips she hummed happily. "I really do look good on everything i wear." She said before she winked.
Kirito turned his head to look at Natsu and Happy, both of them with wide eyes and gaping mouth. He blinked his eyes as he saw some flashes in the background. He swore, he just saw that their background seemed to turn black and lightning started to crackle there.
Magic. Let's leave it there.
Lucy clasped her hands in front of her mouth, acting like a shy maid in front of her possessive master. "have you finished your meal master?"
Natsu and happy immediately huddled up in a deep conversation. "What should we do? We were just joking that time but she took it seriously.." Happy whispered his friend.
"We can't tell her that it was joke now right?" He asked.
"I can totally hear you two!" Lucy ground her teeth so hard, Kirito could hear it crack.
Later..
Kirito forced himself not to twitch his brows or to snicker. Right now, they're inside the manor in which, their clients lived. The client was an older man in his fourty's and his wife. The problem wasn't the manor or the clients appearance. Kirito had to consciously stop himself from complaining about the idioticy of the people of this reality.
His name. Motherfucker! his name was so silly that Kirito couldn't take the billionaire seriously even if he did try to.
Kaby Melon.
Stress on the word MELON.
In the dictionary, Melon was described as a round fruit with the color of light green with rough skin. Now, however, it seems that the definition changed into a billionare man in his fourty's with grayish hair and moustache.
Fuck! His eyebrows must have twitched since the man paused in his greetings.
"You have yummy name!" Natsu expressed his mind openly at the man and earning himself a stern reprimanding from Lucy. seemed to take the joke about his name slide and eyed all of them with amusement in his eyes.
"It's okay. You don't need to apologize about your joke. In fact, its quite funny." He said, humoring the three teenage wizards in front of him benignly. "I heard that a lot too.." He murmured with a smile.
Where have i heard that name before..? Lucy thought to herself, eyeing the indulgent client with scrutinizing look in her eyes.
"Well then, let me tell you about the job i assigned to you." He started, smile still in his face, however, his voice gained a noticeable edge in it. Ignoring the cheers from the mages, he continued. "My request is for you to tear up and destroy a book called 'Daybreak', which is in the possession of Duke Everlue." He paused to let the information sink in once more.
Natsu opened his mouth, ready to ask his question when Mr. Melon raised his hand to stop him.
"You can also burn it." he smiled.
He grinned happily. "I can just burn it huh? Then let's just burn the whole mansion down!" He said happily, a small fire lit up from his index finger with a slight fwoosh.
"No, you will get thrown into a jail for sure!" Lucy reprimanded sternly.
"Yes mother hen." Kirito smiled as she blushed and stutter at him.
"No fun.." Natsu and Happy sulkedin their corner.
"A-anyway, Mr. Melon, i want to know the reason why you want that book destroyed." She asked, looking away from the grinning Kirito beside her. Natsu huffed at her, making 'tut tut' noise as he did so with a shake of his head.
"Who cares? It's 200.000 Jewel here!" He said happily. However he was interrupted when Mr. Melon raised his hand.
"It was 2.000.000 Jewel." He corrected.
Kirito, Lucy, Natsu and Happy paused in shock before their eyes bugged out of their sockets in a comical way as they voiced their shock. "2.000.000 Jewel!?" They exclaimed together in shock. Kirito had a dollar sign in his eyes now, the same with Lucy. Natsu and Happy gained a manic glint there, like a hungry predator ready to kill its prey. They then slumped into a dreamy state of bliss as their head counted their share.
"It seems you came here without knowing about that." He smiled indulgently, chuckling a bit here and there.
"I-if we divide 2.000.000 by 4, h-how much is it?" Natsu mumbled to himself, eyes a swirling spiral in confusion. Suddenly he reered his ehad back and grabbed his head as if in pain. "Aaah! I can't even count it!"
"Its really easy!" Kirito exclaimed happily, a drool escaping his mouth as he readjusted a black reading glasses he took out of nowhere. He raised a calculator for them to see. "According to my calculation, it will be-"
"No! I will get 1.000.000 and Natsu will get 1.000.000 then Lucy and Kirito will get the rest!" Happy exclaimed in a slurr.
Black aura rose from Kirito while glowing pinkish aura came from Lucy. Their hair rose up and wavered in an imaginary breeze as their power skyrocketed. Kirito's eyes glowed a menacing dark purple while Lucy had straightened the whip she usually armed herself with. "Dear, Little catty wished to be disciplined." Kirito muttered with a smile, a hand on his left cheek in a false kindness. The face would be cute if there's no gleaming dark evil eyes on him or the apparition behind him.
"Ufufu.. Isn't he?" Lucy agreed while straightening her whip with a noticeable thwack.
Natsu and Happy hugged each other, whimpering in a pitiful state as they gazed fearfully at the apparition behind Kirito. It took the form of a robed figure, though they could see that below the robe was nothing but bone. It also wore a necklace made of crying babies in its neck. On its skeleton hands were knives with blood stains. It cries and laughs, a combination of sound so impossible to make, yet the apparition perfected it and made it so much creepy it was horrifying.
The robe figure put down its robe to reveal the skeleton face it had. The eyes was an endless pooll of darkness, it grinned at them and-
"Hem hem." Mr. Melon coughed into his hand. Obviously fake. "We're getting sidetracked." He seemed pale when they looked at him, and he was noticeably shaking with his wife, trying to maintain their smile witch was now shaking too. "And please, dispell that horrifying image." Natsu and Happy nodded their heads with a meek aye, still hugging together in fear.
Kirito cocked his head to the side, an action copied by the spectre behind him, making it all the more unnerving. "What magic are you speaking about, Mr. Melon?" he asked innocently.
"What magic are you all-" Was as far as Lucy can say after she laid eyes on the spectre behind Kirito, still spewing its wailing laughter with glee as the babies hanging in its neck cried.
Kirito turned his head to look at what they talked and saw nothing but the pristine wall of Mr. Melon's mansion. "Pfft. You're joking. Funny." He said dryly as he then whistled an innocent albeit jaunty tune.
"A-anyway" Still shaken, he started again. "I want that book destroyed. I can't allow that book to exist." He answered in a despairing voice.
Natsu's head suddenly when alight with red flames, making Lucy jump in shock. "Alright! I'm fired up!" In a bit, Natsu has grabbed Lucy's hand and Lucy grabbed Kirito. With a shark like grin, Natsu dashed at lightning speed out of the mansion. "Let's go!" he said.
Meanwhile, inside the mansion, Mr. Melon still sat on the sofa, head down in serious contempt. "Daybreak... That book has to be erased from the face of the world." He muttered to himself.
Duke Everlue's Residence.
Duke Everlue's mansion, Kirito grudgingly acknowledged, was large and nice to the eyes. It was colored maroon with its large windows gleaming in the sunlight. The garden too, was very well maintained, while also very disturbing. The plants there was cut to the shape of the short stubby egg-like man, all grinning that blasted pig like smile. The gate, however, was a definite bitch.
It was made of 10 centimetres of iron.
"I heard you were recruiting mage so i come!" Lucy shouted from her stand in front of the iron gate. Below here, hidden nicely inside her shadow, was Natsu, Kirito and Happy who was trying not to wiggle around so as not to wave Lucy's Shadow. "is there anyone home?" She shouted her question.
Lucy glanced down at her own shadow, feeling the stared hidden in its darkness. She gritted her teeth in annoyance. Allure an old man, grab the book, destroy it, and i got 2.000.000 jewel! Piece of Cake! She cheered a bit in her head.
"Do it well.." Natsu cheered to her from her shadow.
"Good Luck!" Happy joined in.
Not wanting to be outdone, Kirito made his own cheer for her. "I know you can do it!"
Then there's a small rumble from the ground before it exploded upwards, sending dusts, pebbles and bricks away and into the surroundings. From it, out came an ugly pink haired giant in a maid outfit, not unlike Lucy's own. Her eyes glowed a bit as she gazed at the small form of Lucy. "Ho? A maid applicant? Master! There's someone who wants to apply!" She said shouted in her gruff voice.
Another hole erupted from behind Lucy and out of it, came a pudgy short man with brown hair and brown mustache, wearing a black suit with a silly pig-like grin in place. "Boyoyo! Did you call for me?" He asked. This is Duke Everlue, the master of this residence.
I bet Asuna will chop him if she ever saw him. He looks more like a pig than a human.. Kirito thought to himself.
"Let see.." He scrutinized Lucy who was currently smiling a very crooked smile.
He gave me goosebumps.. Gotta endure! For 2.000.000 jewel! Lucy thought to herself.
"No thanks." He said, waving his hand at her dismissingly. "Go hom Ugly." He said.
Kirito wondered if the man could create stone arrows with the word ugly on it and sent it flying for someone, because at that instant, Lucy seemed to froze in place before an arrow made of stone with the word 'ugly' on it appeared and pierced her on the heart. She was then picked up by the gorilla like maid, her limp body shook slightly at the painful jabe at her sex appeal.
"You heard him. Go home Ugly." She said and another arrow made its way on her stomach.
The stubby pig turned, grinning at her. "Only beautiful girls, Fit a great man like me." At that mention, the ground errupted once again and out of it came four lanky, skinny and extremely ugly maids with various shape of faces.
They're not human! Kirito mumbled inside the shadow. No human can be that ugly!
The ugly maids started to woo the pig-like duke with honey words, while Lucy was left with hanging jaws, looking at the disgusting scene of how ugly peoples congregate among themselves. They left back inside the mansion, laughing like idiotic loons. Lucy picked herself and sat on the ground under a tree, crying for her crushed pride. Kirito came out of her shadow, Natsu and Happy in tow and looked at the crying blonde.
"They're the ugly ones." He said, without really thinking. "You're cute. That's all that matters."
Lucy looked at him, teary brown eyes gazed at his own steely orbs of silvery black. She was about to say something for him as a thanks for the encouragement when Natsu, being the dense bastard that he was, commented slightly. "Man, that's a bit useless."
"Its not my fault!" She screamed indignantly. "That guy's sense of beauty is just too unique."
"More like twisted." Kirito added his own two scent before Happy, deciding to be the cruel cat, commented.
"Excuses." He said calmly. Lucy cried harder then.
Natsu punched his fist into an open palm, ignoring the bawling Lucy who was being comforted by Kirito. He grinned his insuferable grin, showcasing his sharp canines to the world as he did so, making his grin all the more animalistic. "Okay.' he started, feeling excited by the second. "Since it came to this, we'll go with plan T!" He said.
Lucy gained fire in her eyes. Fire so hot it burnt the grass around her. She stood up and glared at the mansion as she so very wished that the mansion would burst and gone in flames of hell along with its resident. "I'll never forgice that old fart!" She shouted, fury burning bright in her eyes. "But what's Plan T?" She asked in confusion.
"T stands for Take-them-heads-on!" Happy explained.
"Simpleton!" Kirito said. "How about we do Plan I-O instead?"
"And what is it about again?" Lucy asked, cocking his head to the side.
"I fo infiltrate and O for obliterate! Its like this. Me and Lucy will move through the shadow to infiltrate and search for the book. You and Happy will make a distraction by destroying the mansion with your fire! How about that? More practical if i do say so myself." Kirito nodded to himself sagely, proud for his ability to make plans on the fly.
"That's good!" Natsu said. "Let's burn it down!"
They never see a crystal orb floating above the tree just right behind them.
...
Kirito and Lucy appeared through the shadows in a storage room located on the highest floor in the mansion. Kirito stood up, leaving Lucy on the floor, wheezing to get her bearing back after her first try at shadow-travel. The shadow mage eyed the room, eyes roaming over the armors and swords displayed while keeping himself vigilant over any method of spying. Finally, after a few moment, Lucy stood up, a bit shaky, but still..
"Okay.. Now we're inside the mansion, what do we do?" The stellar mage inquired with a raised eyebrow. "Natsu should be ready in a minute or two.." She muttered to herself, adopting a thinking position. "Should we check this room for the book?" She suggested.
"I doubt it that the pig-duke would leave the book here." He said coolly. However, his eyes immediately took a predatory glint to it as he eyed the shelves and boxes in the room. "However, that doesn't mean its impossible. Also, i think i'll scavenge anything interesting here. You know, spoils of war and all that stuff.." He trailed off as he skipped away into the shelves, searching for interesting books or tomes about magic.
"S-scavenge.." Lucy trailed unsurely. Sighing, she followed the shadow mage in stripping the room bare of any of its possible secrets.
Kirito picked some books from the shelf, turned some of its page before stuffing it back into the shelf where it belonged, finding it useless and unimportant for his interests. He turned again, this time inspecting some of the armors displayed. The shadow-mage knocked on the iron plates, gaining himself a hollow clanking noise from it and he nodded to himself, assured that the thing was made of pure iron. He turned then to the boxes where he found a plastic skull the size of happy's head. He grinned and promptly threw the object into his shadow where it sank into the bottomless darkness.
"What's that skull for?" Lucy asked as she pulled her head away from a book. "Is it some kind of magic item?"
"Nope." Kirito answered, not bothering to look away from the box he was inspecting. "Souvenir for Happy." he said. From there on, it was a game of pick and throw between lucy and Kirito, where they picked any object they found interesting and dumping it on the shadow-mage's shadow to bring home later. It was only because of an explosion that they were rminded of their mission.
"Crap!" They screamed together before banging out of the door and into the hall.
They entered each room they passed, not bothering to care at all on how they searched the room. Kirito thrashed the room off all its things with his shadows and Lucy sparred no kindness in turning the neat room into a replica of the sunken Titanic ship. One by one, the rooms were all detroyed, some better (Lucy) and some thoroughly destroyed that it was irreparable (Kirito). They passed an open area, near a gigantic white marbe stair where they saw all five of the ugly maids laying face down on the floor with burns on their body and their maid outfit shredded.
Lucy huffed happily at the sight. "Hmph." She harrumped. "Serves them right!"
"Yes yes." Kirito placated her. "You can come later to rub it on their face after we get the book now lets go!"
With that, they moved further into the corridor, destroying rooms all the while. With a bang, they burst into a big spacy room filled with shelves upon shelves of books. The library, they speculated, was probably their best bet in finding the book. Nodding to each other, the two mages set upon founding the book that was their ticket for a straight 2.000.000 cash.
"Err.. Where the hell is that book." Kirito growled, even after using the helps of his shaodws to search for the book, he was still far from finding even a glimpse of it.
"I'm stumped here..'' Lucy whined as well.
The room suddenly bursted open, Kirito and Lucy was already in position with their respective fighting stance. However, their tenseness was gone when they saw that Natsu with his muffler drapped on his face like some sort of mask and Happy on his shoulder entered the room. Kirito eyed the both of them strangely, especially on how their fingers was making a handsign universally linked to the ninjas from back home.
"Err.. what are you-" He began but was immediately cut off.
"Oh! It's Kirito- de gozaru!" Natsu grinned from behind his mask, Kirito was sure of it. "This room is full of books- de gozaru!" The excitable fire mage began as he surveyed the room, hands still on the ninja handsign.
"Aye- de gozaru!" Happy copied.
Kirito slapped a hand to his face as he looked aat the both of them, searching for the book with child like glee. Shouting at the top of their lungs when they found a book with funny titles. Kami, he also found a porn there.. With a sigh, Kirito pinched the bridge of his nose, getting ready to deliver a tongue lashing at them to be serious at this job for his life depended on it, or its price to be exact, before suddenly, Natsu pulled out a certain golden book with a triumphant smile on his face, oblivious of how important the book is.
"Hey look! A golden book!" he said.
"Natsu! Please look for it seriously!" Lucy reprimanded from her corner after stuffing in some books she checked. However, she immediately paused upon laying her gaze on the title on the golden book. "Eh! Its Daybreak!?" She said.
"Looks like a sunrise.." Happy commented airily.
"We foudn it !" Kirito exclaimed, truely shocked.
"For real!?" Natsu said, just as shocked. "Well then lets burn it!" He said, fist burning up in red hot flames.
However, it wasn't to be. "W-wait a minute!" Lucy exclaimed, snatching the book from the pink haired mage's grasp in lightning quick movement. The fire mage extiguished the fire from his fist, letting the limb drop back to his side as he eyed the stellar mage in confusion. "The author of this book is.. Kemu Zaleon!?" She squealed in shock.
"Kemu.." Kirito and Natsu cocked their head to the side in confusion.
"He was a mage who was also a novelist!" She exclaimed happily. Glitters appeared around her as she squealed happily. "I'm a big fan of him!" She said. "I thought i've read all his creations but this one must be an unpublished work!" She squealed as she hugged the book to herself.
"Whatever, let's just burn the book!" Natsu said, lighting his finger like a matchstick.
'What are you saying!?' Lucy turned to him with a scandalized look on her face as if she had just heard the biggest and gravest herecy in the world. "Whis could be a Cultural heritage! Burning it is unthinkable!" She said.
"You're abandoning your job!" Happy piped in.
"I said i'm a big fan, didn't i!?" She roared.
"And now you're shouting at us.." The duo started to stalk on her, like a pack of lions ready to pounce on a poor deer.
"Let's say we burned it and i'll keep it." She cried a bit at the prospect of detroying such a book.
"i don't like lying." Natsu said slowly, threateningly.
It was then that they were interrupted by an annoying voice of Duke Everlue. "I see, I see." It spoke. Suddenly, the floor exploded upwards, sending debrises and tiles upwards into the air. The ugly obese duke jumped up from the hole he made, grinning madly all the while. "So it was Daybreak you want, eh?" he said.
"See? Its because you're so slow.." Natsu saaid, pointing at the fat duke while giving Lucy a I-blame-you look.
"I-I'm sorry." She said apologized dejectedly, feeling guilty for holding the down.
"What's up with the floor of this mansion.." Happy commented randomly in a hushed voice to Kirito. "I pity whoever is tasked on repairing them." Kirito murmured in the same hushed voice in reply.
The Duke sneered at them, a mocking smile on his face. "I was wondering what those mages were looking for. Hmph! So it was just that worthless book!?" He exclaimed loudly.
Our client is willing to pay 2.000.000 jewel to see this book to be destroyed? And yet, the person keeping it, Everlue, called this book worthless... Something is fishy. Lucy thought to herself. She then turned to Natsu, a twinkle in her eyes. "So, i can keep it right? Since its worthless and all.." She persuaded.
"No!" The old man began to throw a tantrum in his frustration. "What's mine is mine!"
There's something wrong with that book. Something's not adding up.. Kirito narrowed his eyes on the book.
"Shall we just burn it then?" Natsu asked, feeling a bit bored with the useless prattle going on between the stellar mage and fat duke.
"No!" Kirito denied sharply.
"Absolutely not!" Lucy agreed vehemently.
"Okay, Lucy i could understand, but you!? What's your reason not to destroy that book! Its our mission!" Natsu shot a glare at the two of them, but neither flinched nor cared at his harsh look. Kirito kept his cool steel-like eyes on the book while Lucy pouted.
"I'll just read it now then!" Lucy declared while putting herself on the floor and opening the book without a care in the world.
"Right now!?" Natsu, Happy and Duke Everlue shouted indignantly in shock. Kirito shook his head, hands crossed across his chest and looked at Natsu seriously with one open eye, displaying the cold steel color of his orbs.
"There's something in that book concerning Everlue and Mr. Melon, otherwise he'll not care about those papers one bit." Kirito said in a calm tone. 'We got to find out about it before we destroy it. Maybe its important and we can report it later to Mr. Melon." Kirito suggested.
"Enough! Seeing your hands on the book that belongs to my fabulous self, make me sick!" he all bout shouted at the band of mages in front of him before he snapped his fingers and roared. "Vanish brothers!" He called. Suddenly, one of the shelves slid open, showing a secret pathway behind it, where to people stood.
One was a man with slightly tanned skin. He has bluish black hair that was styled to resemble a four pointed star, held back from his face with an orange bandana. He wore a high collared blue T-shirt with yellow zigzag designs on its side. He wore a white armband with a symbol of a blue wolf with a blue S behind it.
The other one was a bald man with caucassian skin. His face was decorated with chinese characters. He wore a white high collared white shirt withgreen zipper. On his arm, was the saame armband as his partner. Drapped on his back was a giant frying pan.
"That emblem!" Happy, being his usual intelligent self, pointed to them. "That's the mark of the mercenary guild, Southern Wolves!" He exclaimed.
"So you hired these guys, eh?" Natsu, punched his open palm, getting fire up at the prospect of a fight.
"Boyoyo! The Southern Wolves are always hungry. Prepare yourselves!" He said, as the two mercenaries stood at his side at the ready.
"Natsu buy us some time! This book has a secret in it!" Lucy said as she dashed to the door to make a haste retreat. The door closed with hard baam! and with that the room was plunged into silence on again. Kirito exchanged glances with Natsu and as though through silent conversation, both boys nodded to themselves and set their eyes on the blue cat.
"Happy. Go get Lucy." Natsu ordered. "Me and Kirito will take care of this."
The Duke gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as he focused his magic on the ground. Suddenly, the ground started to tremble and sank in on itself. "My fabulous self will go after the girl. You take care of the boy." He said as he disappeared through the ground.
"yes sir." They answered.
"Come on, fire mage, shadow mage, show us what you can do." The bald mercenary, who for convenience' sake, will be dubbed as White, said.
"How did you know?" Kirito asked, shoulders tensing, hands set on the hilt of- "Crap. Forgot to bring my sword." he muttered to himself, mentally kicking himself for making such a rookie mistake.
"Your legs were wrapped in fire when you defeated Virgo. There is no doubt about it, you're a fire mage. As for you, You thrashed the rooms with your shadow aren't you?" White explained coolly.
"Then that means you've prepared yourselves right?" Natsu asked, making some kind of menacing monster pose with his hands spread upwards. Then without warning fire erupted from him in a small explosion as his body was covered in flames. Kirito was forced to erect his shadow and form a wall to protect him from the flames. The fact that he could still feel the warmth of it was a testament of Natsu's ability as a fire mage. Finally the flames subsided, leaving only his fists and feet aflame. "Take this!" he shouted, dashing up fast and threw a flaming punch-
only to be blocked by a frying pan.
"Sorry to say this but we fight our best against fire mages'." He said, holding his frying pan in his back while presenting said back arrogantly at Natsu. Kirito frowned at the blatant insult at Natsu's fighting prowess. However, his thought was cut as Natsu was sent through the wall with a slap from the frying pan.
"Nat- Shit!?" He cursed when the other guy appeared behind him in a burst of speed and kicked him in the back, sending him into the same hole natsu made. Kirito twisted his body nimbly and landed on the golden tongue where Natsu stood. "Bastard."
"You may be a mage from Fairy Tail, but you're just a mage in the end." Blue, the mercenary with the star shaped hair, said. "You're no match for pro fighter mercenaries." he said condescendingly.
"Tsk." Kirito clicked his teeth and rolled his neck eaarning a pop. "What do you think Natsu?"
"Hmph!" he harrumphed. "You guys joined forces and thats all you got?"
"Brother those guy is looking down at us." Blue said, a tick mark on his head.
However, White kept calm and asked another question at the fairy tail mages. "Do you know what a mage's weakness is?"
"You mean motion sickness!?" Natsu asked in shock.
Kirito face planted at that. "it's only you Natsu.." he said.
"Their weakness is their body." White said as he tensed his leg in preparation for a jump. Indeed, he jumped high and slashed down on the golden tongue, the two mages were standing on, cutting through it. Kirito, not wanting to be outdone, willed his shadow to rise to the air and grab the large slab of gold before throwing it into the White mercenary.
"Hmph! useless!" he roared and promptly batted the peace of gold away from him with his frying pan. "In order to learn magic, you have to train your mind!" he roared.
The two fairy tail mages were then assaulted by wall breaking punches by the blue mercenary. "As a result you're neglecting your body." He said. He doesn't seem perturbed that his attack missed, as he kept his calm and kept on throwing another punch.
"In other words, against us who trained our bodies everyday, you're no match in either power or speed." The blue mercenary finished.
"Is that so?" Kirito asked dismissively.
"Whoa.. I'm scared.." Natsu jeered dryly. "So, when will you got serious?"
"Brother, Lets use our combination attack!" Blue said. White set down his frying pan, letting Blue to jump on top of it, hands clasped in a praying position. "Special move: Destructing Heaven and Earth!" They said together in a practiced speech.
"Bring it on!" Natsu yelled.
Kirito merely summoned a black magic circle on both of his hands, focusing on summoning dark energies from it. Soon his hand were no longer human palms but black, fog-covered, claws with spikes along the wrists. "Shadow make: Claws!"
"HAAAA!" With a roar of effort, White sent the frying pan upwards, throwing Blue with such a force that a miniature shockwave was sent at them. Natsu, distracted at seeing the blue sent upwards, never noticed that White was blurring up to him. "When you face the heaven-" However, Kirito noticed it and immediately set himself in front of Natsu and set himself in a guarding position. "We're down on earth!" he said and slapping the frying pan so hard he was sent slightly up into the air, despite his guards and slamed him hard onto the opposite wall.
Natsu didn't stay idle either, he rolled on the floor and immediately jumped away and looked up to see the Blue one was targeting him with a kick. "When you face the earth, we're on the heaven." He kicked down hard on his back, sending him into a crater on the ground.
They jumped away and stood with each other, calm as they ever be. "That's the combination attack of the vanish brother."
"There is no one that could survive after-"
"After what?" Came the irritated voice of Natsu.
"Tch, That made me cramp." Kirito commented. "Oy, Natsu! Let's show them what we can do!" he said.
"This will blow them apart!" Natsu punched his fist rogether, summoning a red magic circle in front of him and quickly inhaled. Forming his hand as if holding a trumpet, he quickly exhaled. A stream of hot white fire flew from his mouth, like a giant comet rocketing to their target. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" He announced his spell.
Kirito formed a slightly bigger pitch black magic circle on his right claws as he gathered purplish dark power on it. The energy crackled as its power increased, quickly encovering the entire right claws. Kirito braced himself by setting his foot apart. Finally as the energy hit its maximum limit, it formed into a giant dark purple cresent from his claws up to his shoulder. "Crescent Claws!" He sent the crescent moon shaped energy blast upon them.
The two attack moved with Natsu's slightly faster than Kirito's at mach-speed and onto their targets. White, apparently able to keep himself calm, set his Frying pan down and unto the incoming fire. The fire hit straight into the frying pan and it was immediately absorbed. Quickly, White sent the absorbed fire back into the incoming wave of darkness.
The two attacks collides and exploded on each other, sending smokes apart.
"Natsu." Kirito called from behind him. "Do you feel up for a bit plagiarism?" Kirito asked mischievously, an evil glint in his eyes.
"Ho?" Natsu grinned. "I'm listening."
The smoke and debris settles down in few minutes. And what they showed afterwards shocked both of the mercenaries enough that their jaws hit the hard floor and stayed that way for quite a while, neither seems to notice this as they pointed one shaky finger at the two mages in front of them. Kirito, in all his glory, stood there with a giant black frying pan in his hand. Atop said fryinf pan, was Natsu with his fists glowing in red fire.
"Shadow Make: Frying Pan!"
Kirito then, copying their foes technique, threw Natsu up into the air, resulting in a giant shockwave that sent their foes a few ways back. Having done its job, the dark energy that was used to form the overgrown piece of kitchenware turned back into its wispy form which then abruptly cover both of Kirito's hand, not unlike Natsu's own.
Forming a magic circle, Natsu let Gravity took hold of him as the fire in his hands danced, turning into something resembling a giant bat wing. "Kairyuu no Yokugeki!" he roared as he slammed his fist downwards.
Kirito dashed forward as he summoned his signature magic circle on both of his fists where the wispy black energy turned flame-like in quality, gaining an ethereal feel to it. It quickly formed into the form of a giant flaming claws. As Kirito narrowed his enemy, He immediately punched forward, sending the black claws of darkness into their petrified enemy. "Okami Hametsu!" He roared.
"Special Move: Kairyuu no Hisan kassai!" They both roared as their attack combined, forming a reddish black flame. With a loud boom, the mansion went up in a giant conflagation of black fire. As the smoke and dust settled down, th mercenary duo was shown unconscious on the ground, both burnth and black, mouth hanging open in shock.
"That's what we call-" Kirito started.
"-A special move!" Natsu finished.
They both fist bumped.
Battle: Natsu & Kirito V.S Vanishing Brothers. Winner: Natsu & Kirito.
A/N: There you go! A new Chapter! Hope you enjoy! Waiting for your Review, minna-san! Jaamata ashita!
