Here's the next chapter of my story. Hope you guys enjoy this new chapter. I will still like to thank NeoNazo356 for his help. Check out his new Story out for all you RWBY fans, "Giant Slayer."
*Sewers*
Lucy faced Everlue just after Happy saved her from two broken wrists. She had pulled out one of her Golden Gate Keys and said, "The tables have turned on you. If you consider just letting me leave with the book, then I will go easy on you."
"Celestial Spirit Magic, huh? Still for a book-loving girl, your vocabulary needs some work. To say the tables have turned indicate that you have an advantage on me. I know you aren't referring to your friends, because judging from that explosion, the Vanish Brothers have finished him off." Everlue said to her still looking arrogantly sure of him.
"Besides, that stupid cat can't save you from my Diver Magic." Everlue said as his feet glowed a bit before sinking into the ground and left a hole in his place.
"This isn't good." Happy said as the two of them looked around to try to see where he would strike from. There question was answered when Everlue came out of the ground right by Lucy's feet and tried to grab her from there, luckily for her she jumped out of the way. This type of attack continued for about a minute.
"It's all in this book. It's an awful adventure story based on you as the main character." Lucy yelled at him as she held the book out.
"My being the main character is wonderful! But the story is a piece of crap." Everlue said as he dug himself into the ground once more and started turning the walls of the sewers to look like Swiss cheese. "I couldn't believe the great Kemu Zaleon even wrote this crap. It's unacceptable." Everlue yelled as he jumped out of the ground and lunged at Lucy.
Lucy was able to jump out of the way again as Everlue went back to digging around her. "How dare you act all high and mighty, you blackmailed him into writing this book."
"I dare because I am high and mighty. Anyone would jump at the chance to write a story based on me. But he had the audacity to say no." Everlue replied as some rocks were falling down from the ceiling due to his digging. He then poked out from right behind her and Happy and said, "So what if I blackmailed the man to write me that book, it's his fault for rejecting me."
"What are you saying?" Lucy asked not letting him out of her sight, afraid of him doing a sneak attack.
"I told him to write a book with me as the main character, but he said no. So I threatened to revoke his family's citizenship of he didn't!" Everlue said to them as he calmly swam trough the floor like it was water.
"But if that happened, his family couldn't join any merchant or craftsman guilds." Happy said realizing how devious this man really is. "Could you really do that?"
"Of course I can, because I am high and mighty. I'm practically above the law." Everlue said as he burst out of the ground. "In the end I got him to write the book."
"You threw him in an isolation cell in jail for three years!" Lucy yelled at him in disgust.
"Three years?" Happy asked in shock.
"In the end he came to realize how great I am. Now, how do you know all about these facts?" Everlue said to Lucy as he was starting to get curious about how she knew all these things.
"He poured all the magic he had left in him and put a spell on the book to hide what was truly written in the book." Lucy told him as he was shocked.
"Wait so if the spell was broken, then all the mean things he said about me would show? That's unforgivable." Everlue said as he went on the attack again.
"He did write about everything he went through but only once he was done. In the end that was what Kemu Zaleon wanted to leave behind, the real secret is something else entirely. That is why I won't let you get the book back. It wasn't meant for you to begin with anyway." Lucy told him as she put the book behind her and brought out her Golden Gate Key again.
"Open, Gate of the Giant Crab! Cancer!" Lucy said as she summoned one of her celestial spirits. This spirit was that of the Cancer constellation. He wore a striped blue shirt, a pair of black pants, and wore sunglasses over his eyes. What drew attention to him was that he had six crab legs sticking out of his back, his hair was styled in a dread look with parts of his hair to look like crab pincers. He even had a pair of scissors in each hand where the handle of the scissors even had a crab look to them. To put it simply, he had the appearance of a hair dresser.
"Ah yeah a giant crab." Happy said as his mind went straight to food once more. "Does he say crab at the end of each sentence? He should because he's a crab and that should go with his look."
"I'm trying to concentrate here so shut it or else." Lucy said as she didn't want to deal with this cat's antics again.
"What hair style do you want today… baby." Cancer said as the last word he said shocked Happy.
"What?!"
"Cancer take a hint please, were in the middle of a fight. This is a fight; take care of this ugly old man here." Lucy told Cancer.
Everlue however was thinking over about what Lucy had said to him about what was really in the book. 'Real secret?! Don't tell me that he wrote an exposé about all the underhanded business dealings that I have had. That's bad, if the council's inspectors find out about this… I'll be done for.'
"Open, Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" Everlue said as he threw out his own Golden Gate Key.
"What the…?" Lucy asked as this caught her off guard.
"Did I hear my master summon me?" Virgo said as she appeared out of the ground.
"Wait, she's a Celestial Spirit?!" Lucy said in shock at this revelation.
"Virgo, get me back that book." Everlue ordered her. However there was something that shocked everyone in the room but the Celestial Spirits. Both Natsu and Ryuma were both holding onto Virgo's collar.
"Natsu, Ryu?" Both Lucy and Happy said out loud in shock.
"What, just happen? One minute we're in the lobby area, the next we're in some stinky sewers with holes all over the walls." Ryu asked as he was unsure of what happened.
"What is the meaning of this?" Everlue asked them.
"What are you two doing up there?" Lucy asked as she wanted to know what is going on.
"Well we saw her get up and jumped her and all of the sudden, we ended up here." Natsu said as he was still on Virgo's shoulder. Ryu jumped down to the ground not trying to land in the sewer water.
"So you guys grabbed a hold of her inside the house?" Lucy asked picturing the two of them holding onto Virgo and imagining them going through the Celestial Spirit World and back here. "But that means you must have passed through the spirit gate with her. That's impossible."
"That would explain that weird place I saw for a brief second that looked like we were in space. Also, it could explain why I saw a mermaid cuddling with a dude with a metal scorpion tail." Ryu said as he now rejoined Happy and Lucy's group. He thought it was strange to see a place that looked like a realm that was in the stars.
"What now?" Natsu asked as Virgo tried to get him off her shoulder.
"Finish what you started." Lucy replied back.
"Virgo, clean up this trash," Everlue ordered.
"As you wish." Virgo said as she went to punch Natsu, who jumped off her shoulder. Natsu countered this punch with, "Fire Dragon's Roar." This caused her to go flying back twenty feet.
"Oh man, I'm out of here." Everlue said as he tried to use his magic to escape only for Ryu to stop him.
"I don't think so. Cosmic Dragon's Claw," Ryu said as he kicked Everlue up into the air.
"You dirty, little, mole man. You can't dig your way out of this one." Lucy said as she used her whip and tied him up. She then threw him into the air towards Cancer. Cancer then used that moment to unleash his skills and cut all of the hair that was on his head.
"Alright, I'm done. Does this look suit you, baby?" Cancer asked Lucy.
"Oh yeah, that is how we roll crab man, uh baby?" Natsu said as he questioned what Cancer said at the end.
"Alright now let's get out of here before…" Ryu was telling everyone as the sewers started to fall apart. They all ran outside with Natsu carrying Happy and Ryu threw Lucy over his shoulder. Once they all got outside, they saw the mansion fall to the ground.
"Well, that could've gone better." Ryu said in a sarcastic tone.
"I like your style Lucy, going out with a bang." Natsu said to her.
"Yeah your definitely a Fairy Tail mage now Lucy." Ryu told her as she started to cry dramatically because of all the damage that was done.
"I hope I don't get blamed for this." Lucy said while still crying dramatically.
"Don't worry, if anyone's to blame its Everlue. If he didn't make all of those tunnels under his house, weakening the foundation that it stood on, then it wouldn't come down like this." Ryu explained to Lucy, making her feel better about it and not feeling sad anymore.
*Melon House*
"This book has such an awful structure and style that it was hard to believe that Kemu Zaleon even wrote such a book." Lucy said as she stood in front of the client with book in hand.
"So?" Kaby asked.
"It was that alone that made me think there was a secret to it. Also, it helped that Ryu voiced a question about the book." Lucy said as everyone looked at Ryu who was sitting on the couch.
"Hey, I just thought it was weird why you would want a book, made by a famous writer, destroyed. Why do you want this book destroyed so much?" Ryu asked as he wanted to know why they went to so much trouble just to burn some book.
"T-that isn't important." Kaby said as he tried to be calm about this.
"Isn't it? Look, we got the book for you, if you want to burn it," Lucy said as she handed the book to the client. "… then you can just burn it yourself right now."
"Alright then I will incinerate this book. I don't even want to lay my eyes on it." Kaby said as he held the book in shaky hands.
"I figured out why you want this book destroyed. You wanted to protect your father's pride and legacy. You're Kemu Zaleon's son." Lucy said as this caught everyone in the room off guard.
"Hey Ryu, did you know that?" Natsu asked as he whispered to his friend.
"Nope, I did not see this coming. I thought he was just a number one fan of Zaleon's." Ryu told Natsu.
"How did you know?" Kaby asked her.
"Did you read this book?" Lucy asked back.
"No I didn't. My father said that it was just garbage." Kaby replied.
"So you're just going to burn it?" Natsu asked.
"That's right." He replied back.
Ryu got tired of this and slammed his fist on the table accidentally breaking it. "It's your own father's work. Even if it was garbage, your father put work into it, doesn't that mean anything to you." He said as he couldn't understand why anyone would do this.
"Ryu, it's to preserve his dad's pride." Lucy said as a way to try and calm him down.
Kaby was shocked by the berating and decided to tell him what that book did to his family and his father. Apparently when Zaleon returned home after he wrote the book 31 years ago, he went over to a meat cleaver and decided that he would never write again, he cut off his writing hand. That surprised everyone as they never knew that.
After he went to the hospital for emergency surgery to stop the bleeding, he and his son got into an argument about the job that was responsible for this. As he smiled saying that he wrote garbage, his son was infuriated with him. Soon after, Kemu died and his son was regretting the fact that the last time he talked to his dad was in an argument and he couldn't take it back and tell him that he was sorry or what was said. Kaby thought that the only way to properly say he's sorry was to make sure that book was destroyed.
The team was heartbroken by the story not realizing the affects of Everlue's greed had done to this family, all to have a stupid book written about him.
"You're wrong." Lucy said catching everyone off guard. After she said it, the book suddenly started to glow a bright light. "It's begun."
"What is this?" Kaby asked as he had to cover his eyes from the light.
"Kemu Zaleon, no his real name was Zekua Melon. He placed a spell on the book." Lucy said to Kaby.
"What, a spell?" Kaby asked as he then saw the title of the book; "Daybreak" was then rearranged into "Dear Kaby."
"Yes he left you a message. He placed a spell in the book that rearranged the letters. The entire book is rearranged." Lucy said as the book then started to float in the air. Then as the book opened and the pages were turning by themselves, the letters in the book flew out of the book and then went back into the book in the places where they were supposed to be.
"The reason he gave up writing wasn't because he wrote his worst book ever, it was because he wrote his greatest book. That book was a letter to his son." Lucy explained as everyone in the room witnessed the book revealing its true contents.
After the spell was done, the book then floated back into Kaby's hands. "That is the true book that Kaby left behind." Lucy said as he held to the book.
"Dad, thank you. I cannot burn this book now." Kaby said to himself.
"Well then I guess we don't get the reward then." Natsu said as Happy and Ryu nodded.
"What?" Lucy asked.
"Well the job was to burn a book, and since we did not burn the book, we didn't accomplish the mission." Natsu told her as she now understood.
"I wouldn't feel right about this, please accept the reward." Kaby said to them.
"W-well since you are offering…" Lucy said to the man before Ryu interrupted her.
"No thanks, you guys don't have to do that for us anyway. Besides," Ryu said as he gave them a small stack of Jewels to them from his reward for defeating a dark guild. "…I owe you guy's money for the table I smashed. Also there is some extra in there for you as well for some small renovations to your home."
Lucy was smiling at seeing this as she saw this act of random kindness in play. "Come on guys, let's go home. You two should also head back home too." Ryu said to his friends first then to the clients.
"Huh?" Lucy asked as to what Ryu meant from that.
*Magnolia*
It had been two days since they came back from their mission in Shirotsume. Lucy was shocked to find out that their clients were only borrowing a friend's house just to keep up with appearances for wizards who accepted the job. They had to walk all the way back to Magnolia when Natsu said he would walk then take a carriage again. Along the way, they even ran into Gray who was coming back from a job himself and was in a rush to get back home.
When asked why, Gray told them that Erza was coming back. Once they started to move a bit faster, they ran into some rouge mages who tried to eat Happy. Once they were defeated and Happy was saved, the mages said something about a 'Lullaby.' But before they could get more info, they disappeared in a shadow that came out of nowhere.
Now, they are enjoying some time at the guild and watching everyone have a good time. "Hey Mira, three more beers please." Someone said asking Mira for more booze.
"Coming right up," Mira replied to that person.
"So Mira, when are you going to go out with me?" Wakaba asked her. Wakaba was an older member of the guild that had a pompadour hair style with a green flower shirt and brown pants. He was also a bit of a smoker.
"Not again," a female mage said sitting across from him. She had on a white dress with few blue stripes on it, she even had on a pair of glasses and two red bows, one on her collar the other in her purple hair. This girl was Laki.
"Wakaba, there is just one small problem with that." Mira said as Wakaba felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw a big woman with brown curly hair in a blue dress. This was Wakaba's wife and at the sight of her, he jumped out of his chair in fright. However, a puff of smoke revealed that it was actually Lisanna under a transformation spell.
"You already have a wife Mister." Lisanna said as she giggled at his reaction.
"I hate it when you two do that to me. It's creepy." Wakaba replied to them.
"Can't a girl drink in peace without too much noise?" Cana asked as she sipped more alcohol.
"You drink all the time." Macao said to her.
Lucy walked right towards a table that held her friends Natsu, Happy, and Ryu. She was wearing a red v-neck shirt with black boots, a white skirt and a pink ribbon in her hair. "We got to get back to work…" Natsu said as he had his head resting on top of the table.
"Aye, we're running out of food money." Happy said as he was currently chewing on a fish.
"I knew we should've accepted the two million jewel reward." Lucy voiced her opinion.
"They didn't have the money. They were just using their friend's house to keep up appearances. Besides, it wouldn't feel right." Ryu told Lucy reminding her of that. Turns out the Melon's weren't even rich or had the two million jewel reward. Both Natsu and Ryu knew from their first interaction with them that the house did not smell like the married couple at all. You can fool the eyes, but you can never fool the nose of a dragon.
"Yeah I know. But I got rent coming up soon so I need to find work too." She said as she went over to the request board as did Ryu. He just wanted to help her find the perfect job that Lucy could do.
As she approached the board, they stood next to a tall man who wore what some may call tribal clothing. He had on an open vest with no shirt, a necklace of skulls (unknown if they are real or fake), and a loincloth on with an ankle bead bracelet on both feet. He also had on a head band and wore some face paint on his face and shoulder. This man was Nab, another mage here at the guild.
Lucy was skimming over the request board looking for the right one to pick. "Let's see here: Finding a magic bracelet, breaking the spell on a cursed cane, reading someone's love horoscope, and Hunting a volcano demon?! Wow, these jobs do come in all forms." Lucy said out loud.
"Well, let us know which job you're interested in taking." Mirajane said as she and her sister came up to Lucy.
"Yeah, the master is out at a conference so he left the two of us in charge until his return." Lisanna explained to Lucy.
"Wait a conference? What kind is it?" Lucy asked the two of them.
"It's one for guild masters. Every once in a while they get together to talk about the state of things." Mirajane explained to Lucy about the conference.
"Yeah but once they get done talking about that, they start drinking and talk about their mages. It's kind of funny when that happens." Lisanna told her.
"It's kind of like the magic council but not." Mira said as she held a finger to her chin in a thinking-like manner. "Excuse me Reedus, could I borrow a light pen please." She asked another guild member who was at the bar. Reedus wore a white shirt with dark pants, pointed shoes, and a hat that was crooked and looked like a typical wizards cap.
"Oui." Reedus replied handing her a light pen. The pen was a special kind of pen like no other, a light and dark green blend in color with a glowing tip on it. This pen was special as it can grant the user the ability to write in the air.
As Mira started to write in the air, she began to explain things to Lucy, "The council, Era, is the most powerful organization in the magical world. It's only one step below the government. It has ten members and it serves all magical rules and regulations. If a wizard breaks one of those rules, they will be tried by the council themselves." As she said this, the drawing was done and it looked like a tree chart starting with the Government, then Era, then finally the Guild Master Leagues with numerous guilds attached to it.
"Then we have the different Guild Master Leagues, which are local groups who work together, then the individual masters. It's their jobs to pass on the decrees of the Council. They also talk to other guild masters on a regular basis. I guess you could say they are the glue that holds us together. Pretty stressful job huh?" Mirajane finished explaining to Lucy.
"Wow, I didn't know that guilds were so interconnected like that." Lucy said processing the information.
"Well it is important that we communicate with each other, otherwise the system would fall apart." Lisanna told Lucy.
Suddenly a scary voice spoke behind Lucy, "And then the guys in black show up." Both Lucy and Lisanna screamed a bit and punched said person in the face on instinct. As it turns out, it was Natsu trying to be funny again.
"Ha, that's what you get for trying to scare someone like that Natsu." Ryu said as he went to the bar to enjoy some dessert that was given to him by Natsu.
"In all seriousness, Natsu is right." Lisanna started explaining to Lucy. "The guys that Natsu spoke of are known as the Dark Guilds. They chose not to join any of the Leagues. They are the bad apples of the group and most of them are involved in magical crimes."
"Wow." Lucy replied hearing about these Dark Guild guys.
"But don't worry your pretty little head Lucy," Lisanna said to her in a slightly teasing manner. This caused Lucy to blush a bit. "Guilds are given requests by the Council whenever a Dark Guild needs to be dealt with, but some mages do go on their own without having to be asked. In fact, there are a few mages that are well known because they deal with Dark Guilds. There's the 'Dark Guild Wrecker', the 'Wind Waker', and I think there was the 'Bread Man'," she said counting them off. "The 'Wind Waker' is from a small-time Guild out by the Worth Woodsea, while no-one knows the identities of the 'Dark Guild Wrecker' and the 'Bread Man'."
"Bread Man?" Lucy asked with a confused look on her face. "Are you sure you aren't thinking of a famous baker?"
"That's what I asked too, but apparently a Dark Guild was taken down by a mage who used only bread sticks," Lisanna answered.
"I didn't know bread sticks could be used like a weapon. But I was wrong. I was wrong!" Gray shuddered visibly.
"No-one really knows what he did either, since the Dark Mages were so traumatized afterward, the Council couldn't get a straight answer out of them," Lisanna stated, while Lucy shuddered at what could've been done with bread sticks that could traumatize Dark Mages.
"Would you just pick a job already?" Natsu said as to Lucy as he wanted her to pick the job.
"What makes you think I would do that?" Lucy replied.
"We are a team aren't we?" Natsu told her.
"Yeah, we picked the job last time and now it's your turn." Happy said to her.
"As far as I care this team is disbanded. You guys just tricked me last time because the mission needed a blonde." Lucy told them as she gave the two of them an annoyed look. "Besides, I think I would rather team with Ryu than you guys again. At least he helped us with on the mission after he finished his." She said to them.
"Don't be ridiculous, that wasn't the only reason we picked you. We picked you because you're so nice." Natsu said with a big toothy grin on his face.
Over at a nearby table Gray spoke out to Lucy. "Hey Lucy, I wouldn't hang with those two losers if I was you. You'll get plenty of offers from other teams."
"Coming from the guy in his underwear," Cana told Gray making him realize he was in his underwear once more. Even when they were kids, she had to tell him when he was in his underwear.
"You jerk." Natsu said to Gray. Suddenly Gray got into Natsu's face and they started throwing insults at each other.
"What did you call me Dragon boy?"
"You heard me, what are you going to do about it?"
"Birdbrain!"
"Ice Cube!"
"Stink Breathe!"
"Male Stripper!"
"That's it." After that last insult was said they then went into a small little fist fight that remarkably, did not drag any of the other members of the guild into the mix. This brawl would continue until either one won, or when someone disrupted the fight.
"Here we go again." Happy said as he looked at the two mages got into another argument.
"Why not join the team of love Lucy?" Loke said as he popped up out of nowhere and was hitting on her. Ryu couldn't help but feel annoyed by this.
"Say what?" Lucy asked not sure what is happening.
"You really are beautiful. I have to keep my shades on when I look at your dazzling beauty." Loke said as he played with his sunglasses a bit.
"Do girls really fall for that?" she replied back.
"Some of the girls in town fall for it, but not the girls here." Ryu said as he ruined the moment Loke was trying to make. Loke would've retaliated until he saw the keys on the side of Lucy's hip.
"Y-You're not a Celestial Wizard are you?" Loke asked as he backed away in fright.
"Yeah she's got cows and crabs she can summon." Happy said as he ate a fish.
"Not only that but I did see that she had a mermaid on contract with." Ryu told him as well.
"What a cruel twist of fate. I'm sorry, but we can never be together." Loke said as he ran away in tears out of the guild hall.
"What was that all about just now?" Lucy asked in confusion.
"Don't worry about him; he just has a bad history with Celestial Wizards. I heard he dated one long ago and it ended badly." Lisanna explained to her as she then had to pull her away from her spot just as Natsu came crashing into the spot they were in before. When Lisanna pulled Lucy away from Natsu and Gray's tussle, Lucy lost her footing and fell into Lisanna. Ryu started to sport a blush on his face as he saw that Lucy accidentally kissed Lisanna on the lips. Only Ryu, Mirajane, and Cana saw this as Lucy and Lisanna moved away from each other a bit to hide their embarrassment.
'I can't believe my first kiss was with one of my idols.' Lucy thought to herself.
'I can't believe that I kissed a girl. I-I kind of like it.' Lisanna thought as she didn't think this would happen to her.
'Damn that was kind of hot right there even if it was an accident.' Ryu thought as he left his slice alone for a bit.
'Aw that was cute right there. I should talk to my sister about that kiss and what she thought of this.' Mirajane thought as she felt that this was something that only a big sister should do for her baby sister.
'Well, this is interesting. I guess Ryu likes this kind of thing given his reaction. I should do that to Lucy in front of him as well.' Cana thought as she drank more alcohol.
As everyone's attention was focused on Natsu's and Gray's argument/fight, Loke suddenly slammed the door opened. He held an expression of terror before he yelled to everyone, "I got bad news." Everyone remained silent from hearing Loke say this.
"Let me guess, one of the women you slept with was a dude in drag?" Ryu said to Loke, getting some chuckles from some guild members.
"What? Ew. No. Ew." Loke responded.
"Um, a woman's husband is coming to 'have a word' with you." Ryu guessed again.
"No!"
"I give up. What's got you worked up?" Ryu asked as he ran out of funny things to guess.
"It's Erza… she's on her way here." Loke said as everyone in the guild started to panic. Even Natsu and Gray, who had each other in a headlock, were starting to sweat in fear.
"Wow just mentioning her name and the whole place freaks out." Lucy said seeing everyone's reaction to Erza's name being mentioned.
"Well Erza is the strongest female Fairy Tail wizard. And she can be quite intimidating." Mirajane told Lucy.
"Yeah she sure is sis. She's even scarier if she catches someone eating the last slice of her favorite cake." Lisanna said to them as she turned her attention to Ryuma eating some cake.
As he noticed the girls looking at him he asked, "What?"
"What kind of cake is that you're eating?" Mira asked him. "It's not Strawberry, is it?"
"Yeah it is. Why do you ask?" Ryu asked in confusion until it dawned on him, he was eating Erza's last slice of strawberry cake. "Natsu you son of a bitch, you gave me the last slice of Erza's favorite cake." Ryu did the only thing that he could think of doing in his rational mind; he jumped over the bar and hid there until he knew the coast was clear.
"Wait, why is Ryuma hiding?" Lucy asked Mirajane. She would've asked Lisanna, but that kiss was still on her mind.
"Well, one day he went to bring out a cake for Erza but he tripped and fell face first into the cake. She then beat him up for ruining her cake." Mirajane said as she drew it out with the light pen. It showed a doodle of Ryuma with cake on his face and an angry red haired woman whose fist was in his gut.
The sounds of heavy steps suddenly came to the guild and caused everyone to freak out. They knew only one person who could make that noise, Erza Scarlet. A shadow came to the entrance way of the guild hall and appeared to be carrying something huge. Then they saw her, she had long red hair that went below the middle of her back, high black boots, a blue skirt, and armor plating on her chest and forearm areas. She had a Heart Kreuze design on the chest plate with a Fairy Tail symbol on the right area of her chest. And it turns out the thing she was carrying was a giant horn that had some jewels and special designs on the base of it.
"I have returned, where is Master Makarov?" Erza asked Mirajane who was standing between Lisanna and Lucy.
"Wow, she's pretty." Lucy said as she thought Erza was some kind of 30 foot giant demon woman who breathed fire. 'I got to stop believing Natsu and Gray about these kinds of things.'
"Welcome back Erza. The master is away right now at a conference." Mira explained to Erza on Makarov's whereabouts.
"I see." Erza said understanding it.
"So um, what's that gigantic thing you have their Erza?" one member of the guild asked.
"It's just the horn of a monster that I defeated. The locals were pleased and decided to decorate it and gave it to me as a souvenir. Do you have a problem with that?" Erza told them.
"N-no not at all." The guild member replied.
Cana was sitting at the bar about to drink more alcohol when she said to Ryuma, "I bet she's heard about what happened in Hargeon."
"Shut up Cana, I'm not here." Ryu told her in a whispered tone.
"Listen up now; while I was on the road I heard a few things. Word is that Fairy Tail has been causing nothing but trouble as of late. Master Makarov may not care but I most certainly do." Erza said as she was about to start berating some of her guild mates.
"Cana," she said to her as she drank from another barrel. "…You need to control your drinking. Get a mug."
"Wakaba, if you're not going to get rid of that filthy habit, at least use an ash tray." She said to Wakaba as he was smoking a pipe.
"Nab, I thought I would find you dawdling at the request board, just pick a job." She said to Nab as he stood in front of the request board. She was going to berate some more until… "Is that the last slice of my cake I was saving for later? Who ate it?"
The guild remained silent not sure how to answer it, until some members pointed to Ryu who was poking his head over the bar to see if the coast was clear. He quickly hid back behind the bar when Erza came walking up to it and pulled him over the bar by the collar of his shirt.
"I'm sorry I ate your cake I didn't know it was yours, please don't kill me Erza." Ryu begged her as he did not want to be on the receiving end of her punishment again.
"I forgive you. But you are going to buy me a new cake of my choice." Erza said as she dropped him on his ass.
"Yes ma'am." Ryu said as he stood back up.
"Wow, she's really tough on everyone." Lucy whispered to the Strauss sisters.
Happy popped up out of nowhere saying, "That's Erza for you."
"Where are Natsu and Gray?" Erza asked as Ryu quickly pointed to the duo that were currently holding the other one in a headlock.
"H-Hey Erza, were good buddies as usual." Gray said as the two of them started sweating like they were in a sauna. "Aye," Natsu said surprisingly. That caused Lucy to freak out a bit, asking why Natsu is acting so much like Happy.
"It's good to see that. But, it is natural for even the best of friends to fight sometimes, too." Erza said as she finally decided to stop berating her guild mates. "With that said, I'm glad that you're getting along like that."
"Were not exactly 'good friends'." Gray told her as Natsu once again said, "Aye."
"I have never seen Natsu act like this before! And why does he keep saying Aye?" Lucy asked once more hoping for an answer.
"I can help explain that." Ryu said as he went to where the girls were. "You see a long time ago, Natsu challenged Erza to a fight and got his ass handed to him." While Ryu explained this, Lisanna decided to draw a cute image of Natsu getting kicked by Erza. "Then after that, she caught Gray walking around butt naked and kicked his ass, too."
"Didn't she beat up Loke for hitting on her?" Cana asked as she stood behind Ryu.
"Yeah I think she did. He kind of deserved it." Ryu said recalling.
"Natsu, Gray, I have a favor to ask of you two." Erza said as she got everyone's attention. It's not every day that an S-class mage like Erza, would be asking for a favor. Natsu and Gray became less rigid when they heard her.
"I heard about something bad while I was on my last job. Normally, I would consult Master Makarov about this but he's not here at the moment. Also it is a matter of utmost urgency." Erza told the two of them. "Will you two help me?"
"Wait, Erza's asking for help?"
"Is this really happening?"
"That's a first."
"We will leave tomorrow at the train station. Make sure you are ready for this." Erza said to them. Natsu and Gray were staring at each other with a look of uncertainty.
"Erza, Natsu, and Gray; I never would've imagined it." Mirajane said as she never thought this day would come. "This could very well be one of the most powerful teams this guild has ever seen."
"Ryuma," Erza said getting his attention as well.
"Y-yes Erza. What do you need?" Ryuma asked.
"I will need your help as well. This mission requires your expertise." Erza told him. He had a feeling she knew about his other title and that could mean that this could get ugly real quick.
"I'm in." He responded to her.
"Now Ryuma's joining them; this definitely is the most powerful team that Fairy Tail has ever produced." Mirajane said out loud.
After that happened, the group dispersed. Mirajane and Lisanna went over to Lucy to ask her something important. "Hey Lucy, we want you to go with them. Natsu and Gray will be at each other's throat when Erza's not around and when Ryuma's not looking. Can you please keep an eye on them?" Mirajane asked her.
"Um, sure I can try." Lucy said as she felt as well to get ready for the mission tomorrow.
After she left, Mirajane turned to her baby sister and said to her, "So Lisanna, I think it's my responsibility to have a word with you about that whole kiss thing you had with Lucy." Lisanna was sporting a huge blush on her face as Mirajane dragged her to the back to have a sister to sister talk.
*Ryuma's home*
It was evening when Ryuma was in his room packing and making sure that he has everything ready for what may come tomorrow. As he was packing he heard Cana drinking a bottle right behind him. "Ryuma, are you sure this is a good thing to do now?"
Ryuma took a deep breath before saying, "Yes Cana, it is a good thing to do now. With the way Erza saying that to me in the guild, this may involve a dark guild."
"Look I know that you have a hatred for them, but I'm just being afraid of what could happen is all." Cana said to her friend. "You know I have been meaning to speak with you about another thing on my mind."
"What's that Cana?"
"Why did you tell Lucy about your status about being half dragon?" Cana asked him as he was caught off guard.
"How did you know about me telling her about it?" He asked her.
"I overheard you and Lucy talking about it after her first night here. I know that it's your secret to tell but she hasn't been a part of the guild for a while and you tell her an important secret like this." Cana told him with concern in her voice.
Ryu turned to Cana and told her, "Cana, I know you're worried but there is just something about her that makes me trust her. No one has asked me about my dragon side at all since I told her. That makes me believe that she is one more person I can trust with it."
"I know. I made sure she could keep it a secret when she and I took a bath together. Of course that kiss she had with Lisanna and your reaction means that you wouldn't mind being in the middle of that." Cana told him on purpose just to get a reaction from him. He did blush hearing her say that.
"Cana, stop trying to get me embarrassed!" Ryu told her as he finished up packing his things. He then got ready to get some rest before the big trip.
As he pushed Cana out of his room, she said to him, "Aw come on, you know it's easy to get a reaction out of you."
"Good night Cana." She heard Ryu say to her. She left to head off to her room to change into her pajamas, which pretty much was just her underwear. When she knew that Ryuma was sound asleep from his light snoring, she snuck into his room and climbed into bed with him. She went as far as to make sure that he was spooning her in his sleep. When she heard that Erza was looking for his help dealing with something dangerous sounding, she began to worry about him. So she decided right then and there she needed to make sure he felt nice before he went on this mission.
"Ryuma, I know that it feels like I'm like an older sister to you. But I want to be more than that with you. I love you, and I don't care if you love someone else, I will still love you and wouldn't mind sharing you with any other woman." Cana whispered under her breath as she blushed confessing to him her love. She knew he wouldn't know about this due to him being a heavy sleeper. She did know however that he would be in for one hell of a wake up.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. A lot of this happened and the next chapter will bring about some things that you guys may not see coming at all. Also I have mentioned two more people who are known of dealing with Dark Guilds.
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