Hello fellow readers. The new chapter is out and it will have things in it that you won't see coming. I hope that you guys enjoy this. So enjoy.
Also, I have to say to the guest that asked for me to put Erza and Mirajane in the harem. My answer is no. The pairing stays as is.
Now then, on with the story.
*Ryuma's Home, Morning*
The sun's shine way beginning to come through the window blinds of Ryuma's bedroom. He was getting a bit groggy and wanted to sleep a little longer. However something felt weird, for one the bed felt warmer and he felt something soft in his right hand. He squeezed a couple times until he heard a moan. When he heard that noise, he began to open his eyes to see a head of brown hair. When he realized what it was that was in his bed, he could only give off one reaction.
Lucy was just waking up and was going to try and get her head off the pillow until she heard a very loud noise. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH." It was from that noise that she became fully awake and was about to wonder who made that noise until she heard, "CANA! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED?" Luckily for her, she knew that was Ryu and apparently, Cana was involved somehow. She will ask him about this when she sees him outside.
Ryu had fell from his bed onto the floor after realizing that Cana had snuck into his bed again last night in her underwear. This wasn't the first time that this happened, however he just realized now that, during the night, his hand went under her bra and when he fell out of bed, the bra came with him. So now he's red faced of embarrassment staring at a topless Cana in his bed.
"Aw, I just wanted to sleep in the same bed with you, just like old times. Besides, the both of us liked it when you groped me in your sleep." Cana said as she crawled to him on his bed.
Ryu quickly got out of his room in a rush as Cana could only stare and find the humor in his speedy getaway before getting of the bed, picking up her bra and went to her room to get changed for her day at the guild.
After that fiasco of a wake up, Ryu got to the door and said to her, "Well, I'm off. See you later Cana." And with that he left his home to see Lucy outside her apartment as well. She was wearing an orange shirt with a zipper in the middle, a blue mini skirt and red heels; she even had a red ribbon in her hair.
They both decided to both walk to the train station together. "So Ryu, what was Cana doing in your bed?" Lucy asked him which caused him to blush again.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about." Ryu said to her trying to play it off.
"Really, I heard you shouting at Cana, wondering why she was in your bed." Lucy explained to him. "I'm pretty sure the guy across the river heard you."
"Sorry, she snuck into my bed last night when I was asleep. I didn't even know until I woke up to seeing her asleep in front of my face." Ryu told her.
They remained silent for a while until they reached the train station and waited for the others to arrive. They found out which train they were going to take so they went to the terminal and sat on one of the benches. While they were waiting, Natsu, Happy, and Gray arrived as well. Once Happy sat in between Ryu and Lucy, Natsu and Gray started to argue with each other.
"I hate this. Teaming up with you is the worst idea ever." Natsu told Gray as he held a fiery red aura around him.
"Tell me about it. Erza made a mistake asking a loser like you to come along." Gray told him with an icy blue aura around him. What the two of them were not aware of was the crowd of bystanders looking at the both of them in confusion and worry.
"Fine then, go by yourself! I don't want to go!"
"Sounds like a plan to me. Let Erza beat you up then."
As the arguing idiots were busy, Happy was sitting right by Lucy and Ryu. "I wonder, if we ignore them, maybe no one will know they are with us?" Ryu asked quietly to the others.
"I like that idea." Lucy told him.
"Why did you decide to come with us anyway Lucy?" Happy asked her.
"Yeah, I'm wondering that too. Not that I'm complaining or anything. I'm just being curious." Ryu said to her as he didn't wanted to sound offending.
"Well Mira asked me to tag along to make sure that those two over there from doing something stupid." Lucy explained to the two.
"Well you're not doing a very good job." Happy told Lucy.
"I don't see you trying to stop them either Happy." Ryu told the cat. "Besides, I can see Erza coming over here right now." After Ryu said Erza's name, Natsu and Gray began to freak out and try to act cool.
"Sorry I am late, have you guys been waiting long?" Erza said as she arrived on the scene.
"Oh, no not really." Lucy said calmly as she turned to Erza. Her face turned into one of shock as she saw how much luggage Erza was bringing with her. It looked like she packed everything in her apartment except for the kitchen sink. "Why do you have so much luggage?" she asked not sure what the answer she gets will be.
"Yeah she always likes to take a lot of stuff with her for some weird reason." Ryu explained to Lucy.
Meanwhile Natsu and Gray were holding onto each other and doing a little dance. "It's time to go good buddy." Gray said to Natsu.
"Aye." Natsu replied back.
"Listen, one Happy is bad enough." Lucy said to Natsu.
"Yes. It's good to be on good terms." Erza said looking at the duo dancing. "I'm sorry but I don't think I got your name? Didn't I see you at the guild yesterday?" she asked looking at Lucy.
"I-I'm Lucy, I just joined recently. Mira asked me to come along to help you guys." Lucy told her.
"That's nice to hear. I'm Erza." She said then turned her head to check on Natsu and Gray. They were about to argue, but one look from her and they were dancing again. "Wait, aren't you that girl who defeated a mercenary gorilla with just your pinky?" she asked Lucy hearing about the Vulcan on Mt. Hakobe.
"W-well that's not what happened really." Lucy said shaking in slight fear.
"Yeah I took on the mercenary gorilla; Lucy here took on an ugly mole man all by herself." Ryu said as he held his arm around her shoulder, trying to make her feel better. She was happy that Ryu was complimenting her and get some facts straight.
"My apologies then, I guess I have been misinformed." Erza explained to the two of them. "Ryu get your hands off of her. I'm keeping my eyes on you." She told Ryu as he jumped slightly.
"Oh come on. Just because Cana is my roommate does not mean that I am a pervert." Ryu said trying to defend himself. Ever since Ryu let Cana live with him, Erza has been on his case about things like that. He didn't know why she was like that over the fact that a boy and a girl were living under the same roof. It may have to do with the fact that one day; he spotted Erza coming out of a book store with a book in hand that said 'Magical Love.'
"Hey Erza, I'll come with you but only under one condition." Natsu said to her.
"Shut up man." Gray told him not wanting this to get ugly real quick.
"Oh, then what is it?" Erza asked Natsu.
"When we get back I want to have a match with you. I'm a lot stronger than I was before." Natsu said with determination in his voice.
"Alright then I accept. But only after you have a match with Ryuma." Erza told him as she pointed to Ryuma.
"Wait what? Why am I getting dragged into this?" Ryu asked Erza as he wanted to know as to why he was getting dragged into this.
"Because, I am curious about who is the tougher Dragon Slayer among the two of you?" Erza explained to them.
"Oh yeah, I'm all fired up now." Natsu said as he knew that now he got to see which one was the toughest Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail.
"Just try not to cry when you lose Natsu." Ryu told him about their upcoming fight.
"Don't worry, I won't." Natsu said with a determined look on his face. Everyone was giving him a funny look until he realized what he said. "L-Lose I won't lose."
"Too late, you fucked up." Ryu said as the team gave a slight chuckle.
*Train Car*
The Fairy Tail team was riding the train to their destination. Erza was sitting on one side of the booth they were sitting in along with Natsu and Happy. On the other side was Gray, sitting by the window, Lucy in the middle and Ryuma, sitting in the aisle seat. Both Natsu and Ryu were looking paler than usual.
"I swear you two are just pathetic. Natsu challenges Erza and finds out he has to fight Ryu first to get to her, and now the both of them are just like this." Gray said looking at both Dragon Slayers.
"Up yours Gray; I forgot to take a Healing Lacrima before I left home." Ryu responded trying to get the feeling under control. His motion sickness wasn't as bad as Natsu's. He just had to keep his mind off of the motion he was feeling.
"It's got to be tough on them going from place to place." Lucy said as she saw out of the corner of her eyes, Ryu keeping his eyes closed to prevent himself from acting all dramatic like Natsu was.
"Don't worry; the two of them will be fine." Erza told them as she moved Natsu closer to her. "Now just relax okay."
"Aye." Natsu replied before Erza gave him a punch in the gut and knocked him out. His head resting on her lap and the others tried to ignore what she just did to Natsu.
Lucy was starting to grow concerned over how Ryu felt, until she felt his head resting on her shoulder. She was starting to blush from this until she heard a light snore coming from him. Turns out, Ryu was concentrating so much that he put himself to sleep by accident. She couldn't help but let out a small giggle at this.
"Hey Erza, I think it's time you told us what kind of mission were going on now." Gray said as he wanted to know what they were about to deal with.
"Of course," Erza understandingly said. "I have reason to believe that the Dark Guild Eisenwald is planning something big. Not sure what it is but I believe that it has something to do with a magical item named Lullaby."
"Lullaby?" Gray and Happy asked at the same time.
"Wait we heard about that before." Lucy told Erza as she explained to her about the group of mages who took Happy and tried to make a meal out of him.
"They must have been former members of that guild and left on their own accord." Erza said to them. The train hit a small bump and Ryu's sleepy head went right into Lucy's lap. She was about to prop his head back on her shoulder but he then got more comfortable and just slept there peacefully.
"So this Lullaby thing is so bad that it even scares Dark Mages?" Gray said trying to understand the situation.
"What do you think they are going to try?" Lucy asked as she wanted to know how bad this will get. She was unconsciously rubbing her hand on his head.
"I'm not sure really but let me start from the beginning." Erza explained as she told them about how before she returned to the guild, she overheard some people in a pub she stopped in. What she didn't know at the time was that they were members of Eisenwald and spoke about unlocking a seal on a magical item that was named Lullaby.
"The fact that it's sealed away means that it must be either powerful magic or something very dangerous." Erza told them.
"You sure they were with Eisenwald?" Gray asked her.
"Yes I am. I should've even recognized the name they said." Erza said to them. "Erigor the Ace of Eisenwald. He only accepted assassination requests, which is why he was known as Erigor the Wind Reaper."
"He kills for money?" Lucy asked terrified.
"Yes, but once the council outlawed assassination requests, their guild thought money was more important than what the council said. Thanks to that action, they became a Dark Guild." Erza said to them.
"Okay I think I want to go home now." Lucy said as she started to sweat a bit.
"Lucy just got slimy." Happy said looking at Lucy.
"Its sweat you stupid cat." Lucy yelled at Happy. After a stop, the team got some food to eat. Lucy tried to use her charms to get a discount, this time it actually worked and got one. Once they got back to their seats, they returned to the same spots and positions they were in before. Natsu was unconscious on Erza's lap and Ryuma was still asleep on Lucy's.
"If you don't mind me asking, what kind of magic do you use?" Lucy asked Erza.
"That's a good question." Erza replied.
"It's really pretty, it makes her enemies bleed." Happy told Lucy.
"I don't think that is something to call pretty." She said to the cat.
"My magic is called the Knight. I am able to requip different types of armor and weapons to myself at a moment's notice. No other mage can do that with armor. Weapons, anyone can do that but not as fast as me. But personally, I feel that Gray's magic is much more beautiful than mine." Erza said explaining to Lucy about her magic.
"Really, you mean like this?" Gray said as he held a fist in his right palm. When he opened his fist he revealed an ice Fairy Tail symbol. "I use Ice Magic."
"Wow, so that's why you and Natsu don't get along. He's Fire and you're Ice." Lucy said realizing the reason behind the rivalry.
"I never realized that." Erza said just realizing it.
"Nah, I just hate his guts." Gray explained to the two. Once they reached their destination at Onibas, they exited the train. "You guys think those Eisenwald guys will still be in town?" he asked them.
"No clue, that's what we are doing here to find out." Erza said as she pulled her cart of luggage.
"I still think that I should go home." Lucy said still feeling unsure of her being on this mission.
"Hold on, where's Natsu and Ryuma?" Happy asked. All four of them just realized that the two Dragon Slayers. Ryuma was still asleep and Natsu was just regaining consciousness on the train car. They were about to get on the train to get their friends, only for the train to leave when they turned around. They all had a shocked look on their faces as they saw the train leave the station.
Inside the train car, Natsu and Ryuma were confronted by two men they have not seen before. One of them wore black and yellow clothes and had an Egyptian head thing while the other wore white top and black jean pants; he also had a hair style that looked like a pineapple. "Well lookie here, we got some Fairy Tail wizards. So, how's guild life treating you, is it worth sticking around?" pineapple head asked Natsu while his friend was glaring at Ryuma.
Natsu looked up only to get a foot to the face courtesy of pineapple head. The pharaoh looking one turned to Ryu and said to the both of them, "Don't act all high and mighty because you two are from a legal guild. You blindly follow the council; want to know what we call you? We call you pathetic flies." He then noticed that Ryu wasn't even awake for him to listen to. "Hey I'm talking to you." Just like his friend, pharaoh was about to deliver a foot to this guy's face. However it went a little different for him, his foot was caught by Ryu's left hand and swiftly received a hard punch to the nuts from Ryu's right fist. He let out a silent scream of pain as he never felt pain like this before and fell to the floor.
"Rayule, are you okay man?" Pineapple head said as he asked his guild mate, who was on the floor.
"NO I'M NOT KAGEYAMA! HE JUST PUNCHED ME IN THE FUCKING NUTS!" The now named Rayule shouted to his guild mate Kageyama as he pointed to Ryuma. From the yelling Natsu was able to get up and Ryu just woke up.
"You…" Natsu was saying before the train hit a bump and caused him to be nauseous, Ryu was a bit dizzy. Both Kageyama and Rayule chuckled at this, "What kind of magic was that? Let us show you how it's done, Shadow Knuckle/Urumi." Kageyama and Rayule said as they unleashed an attack of fists made out of shadows and of black cables at both Dragon Slayers. They would have continued with their attack until out of nowhere, the train's emergency brakes kicked in causing them to fall and a wooden flute to fall out of Kageyama's pocket.
"Hey the train stopped." Natsu said suddenly feeling 100 percent better.
"What's with the wooden flute?" Ryu asked when he saw the flute on the ground. Something about this flute felt off with him, like it held something dark.
"Oh crap, they saw it." Rayule said as both men were about to be hit with an attack from the Dragon Slayers. "Fire Dragon's Iron fist/Cosmic Dragon's Meteor Fist." Both Natsu and Ryu said as they unleashed their fist attacks, but the other two used their magic to try and block the attack. Once the magic attacks collided with each other, it resulted in an explosion that wrecked the train car.
"Attention passengers," a voice over the PA system announced getting the attention of the two Fairy Tail mages. "…our emergency stop was a false alarm. We will be departing shortly."
"Oh man we got to get out of here." Natsu said as both he and Ryu got their stuff.
"Hold it right there. We aren't going to let you two get away that easily." "Yeah you two are messing with Eisenwald." Both Kageyama and Rayule said to them. They then flinched when they saw Ryu's eyes when he heard who they were with. His eyes held a deep rage unlike they have ever seen before, and they have seen Erigor on a bad day.
"Let's take this outside." Ryu said as he called upon his wings and flew out the open roof of the train car. The train suddenly started to move and Natsu jumped out of the window, only to head butt Gray who was on top of a Magic Mobile. "Oh, that had to hurt. You guys okay?" Ryu said as he flew towards where the downed Natsu and Gray are.
"Uh." That was all he got as a reply from the two of them.
After that fiasco, everyone gathered and tried to get things under control, "That hurt you idiot." Gray said to Natsu with a sore head.
"Gray, why in the hell were you on top of the Magic Mobile in the first place?" Ryu asked as he got no reply from Gray as he had no way to respond from it. "Why did you guys leave us on the train?"
"We didn't mean to forget you guys. We are so sorry." Lucy apologized to the two of them for forgetting them.
"Ah, I can't stay mad at you Lucy. I know you didn't mean to do it." Ryu said as he hugged her. Lucy blushed at the hug but she was okay with this.
"I would like to apologize Natsu, Ryuma. I am just glad you two are safe." Erza said as she shoved Natsu's face into her armor clad chest. She was about to do the same to Ryu but he backed away and stood right next to Lucy.
"We're okay. We got attacked by these two guys, one of them kicked me in the face and the other tried to do that to Ryu but he caught it and punched the guy in the nuts. Hehehe that was awesome." Natsu said, chuckling about that fact.
"Thanks, they even said that they were with Eisenwald, a Dark Guild that's…" Ryu was saying before both he and Natsu got slapped in the face hard by Erza's metal glove. "DAMN IT ERZA, WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!" Ryu said with an angry expression at her.
"You idiots, those guys are among the people we are chasing after. Why did you let them get away?" Erza said matching his expression. Lucy and Gray were watching from the side not wanting to get involved in this.
"I was asleep the whole time. I had no idea who we were going after." Ryu yelled back at her. Erza gained a look on her face realizing her mistake. She then remembered that she also knocked out Natsu before her explanation as well.
"Well then, let's get moving then." Erza said getting the Magic Mobile ready.
"What were they like?" Gray asked.
"They didn't look like normal members of a Dark Guild at first glance but they did have a weird flute with a three-eyed skull on it." Ryu told them. Lucy suddenly gasped when she heard this description. "Have you heard of this thing before Lucy?" Ryu asked her.
"Yeah I have. Lullaby, the cursed song, it's Death Magic." Lucy explained, shocking everyone as they now know the danger of this flute. "I have only read about them in books before. There are some deadly spells out there forbidden by everyone to use."
"Correct, there are some cursed black magic spells out there, they kill the person they are used on." Erza said fearing what Eisenwald has in store with that flute.
"Well if I am right, Lullaby's even worse." Lucy said to them. Natsu and Gray joined Erza on the magic mobile to get them to the train to stop Eisenwald's plan. Lucy was about to join them until Ryu picked her up and held her in his arms. His wings were once again out. "What are you doing Ryu?" Lucy asked blushing red once more.
"I'm going to carry you while I fly with the Magic Mobile. Erza is kind of know to be a crazy driver and now knowing what's at stake, she will be even crazier of a driver to stop them." Ryu explained as they either drove or flew to catch up to the train.
*Clover: Guild Masters Meeting*
The Guild Master Meeting Hall was located in a corner of the town of Clover. The building had a small tower like structures on each corner and had the feel of a town hall to it. Inside, the guild masters were all enjoying a tradition after each meeting, getting drunk and comparing wizards of their respected guilds and see who is better.
"I'm jealous of you Maki," a man said while wearing a dress with wings on the back and purple stripped shorts. This man is known as the flamboyant master Of the Blue Pegasus Guild, Master Bob. "You have wizards that are so full of life and they are cutie pies. I heard about a new girl you have that gave some big shot quite the punishment."
"Oh you must be talking about Lucy. Yeah and she's got a body that won't quit." Makarov said to his friend.
"I wouldn't be joking about stuff like that," said a man who had a spiked collar around his neck and one on his hat he wore, he also had on a pair of sunglasses and dark clothes. This was Makarov's other friend at these conferences, the Master of the Cuatro Cerberus Guild, Master Goldmine. "They maybe spirited but they go too far. The council is afraid that one of these days, they will destroy a town."
"Ah let them worry, they are just jealous that my mages are more attractive than others." Makarov said being a little tipsy. Suddenly, a small blue bird came into the hall and delivered an envelope to him. As he opened the letter, a magic hologram appeared before him and took the form of Mirajane. Everyone gathered around just to ogle at the beauty Mirajane had.
"Greetings Master, I'm glad you made it to the conference safe and sound." Mira's message said to him.
"See this is our poster girl Mirajane; grab some eye candy while you can." Makarov said rubbing it in the other master's faces.
"Oh master, you won't believe what has happened. It may be the greatest thing to happen in Fairy Tail. Erza, Natsu and Gray have all teamed up. It's an amazing combination; they even got Ryuma to join them. I think this may very well be the strongest team Fairy Tail has ever seen before. Sorry for bothering you but I just had to send this message to you. Bye Master." Mirajane's message said as it ended.
Makarov was completely worried about what to think. On one hand Erza, Natsu and Gray could very well destroy a town. On the other hand, they had Ryuma with them, in a team like that he could very well be the wild card, an unknown factor to say in a team like that.
"So how is little Ryuma doing these days?" Goldmine asked. It has been a while since Ryuma was brought to a Guild Master's Conference, and back then he was shy about all the new people he had met.
"He's turned into a great young man who often times helps out some members of the guild with problems." Makarov said with a smile on his face.
"Oh my, he must be a real ladies man by now then." Bob said to this.
"Well that part I am not sure about really. I think he's maybe kind of dense when it comes to knowing if a girl even likes him. He knows when a girl likes a guy but not if he's the guy in question." Makarov said with a smile on his face, he has seen how Lisanna and Cana act around him and just recently, a little bit of how Lucy acts with him too.
*Oshibana*
Erza was driving the Magic Mobile down the streets of Oshibana to get to the train station and to stop Eisenwald while Ryu was flying right behind her with Lucy in his arms. When they reached the train station they found out that Eisenwald was inside the station. When they got inside they saw that the Army tried to stop them and found them all on the ground defeated. They finally were able to reach the main terminal where the train was and saw the entire Eisenwald guild just waiting for Fairy Tail to arrive. Before Erigor flew off for the rest of his men to deal with the group, he told them that he would use the flute with the PA system to kill everyone around the station.
Ryu would not stand for this so after saving Lucy from a shadow attack Erza told Natsu, Gray and himself to try and find Erigor and stop him before it is too late. He knew that they can deal with these guys very easily due to them being underestimated because of their gender, if there was one lesson his uncle Genryu told him about it was that you never underestimate anyone. As the guys went down the halls they found themselves at an intersection, they all went down a different hall to find Erigor and stop him.
While Ryu was going down the hall he began to think about something. 'I don't understand, Erigor said that he wants revenge for their guild being kicked out of the leagues. So how does killing civilians make his revenge complete? They have no real power when it comes to what guild leagues do.'
As he ran down the hall, he passed by a train map. He paused in his run for a second and went to check the train map on a hunch. Ryu noticed something that shocked him, "Wait the next station after this one is in Clover, now why does that seem so import- OH SHIT THE GUILD MASTER CONFERENCE!" Ryu yelled as he held his head in shock. He ran back to the main terminal to let the others know what their main goal is.
As he got to the main terminal all he saw were the down members of Eisenwald and Erza standing over them talking to Gray about what happened. "If they aren't after the PA system, then what are they going to use Lullaby on?" Erza asked after Gray told her that they aren't going to use the PA.
"They plan on using Lullaby on the Guild Master Conference." Ryu said to them as they saw him arrive.
"What?" Gray and Erza asked.
"Yeah I just saw a train map and saw the next station after this one is in Clover. Erigor said that they wanted revenge on the council for being kicked out of their guild league, what better revenge than killing a group of Guild Masters at once." Ryu explained as they went to find the others to get them all out of the station and to stop their plans.
They quickly found Lucy and Happy and told them what was happening; Erza went off to find out where Erigor went off to. They were currently trying to find Natsu. "Now if I was a flame-brained idiot, where would I be?" Gray asked the group where Natsu could currently be.
"He would probably be lost." Lucy said as she had a feeling about it being true.
"Yeah that sounds about right. But at least we know where he is exactly soon." Ryu told the four as they looked confused.
"How could we find him quickly?" Lucy asked just before they all heard a loud explosion go off down the hall.
"Follow the sounds of destruction and we will find him." Ryu said as the group left to get Natsu. Once they got to where Natsu was they found Erza shaking an injured Kageyama and some fat guy through a hole in the wall. "What the hell happened here?"
"I fought and beat this guy here." Natsu said pointing to Kageyama who is on the floor. "Next thing I know, Erza came running here and demanded something from him until his comrade tried to kill him. So I punched his fat face in."
"Erza where is Erigor?" Gray asked her.
"He's not here anymore. He put a wind barrier around the building and went off to Clover to kill the Guild Masters." Erza said to them filling in Natsu on what's happening. They left to the main entrance with Kageyama to try to get him up so he could try to unseal the barrier. While they tried that Natsu and Ryu tried to break open the barrier.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist/Cosmic Dragon's Meteor Fist." Natsu and Ryu tried to break it open with their fist attacks, but to no avail did the barrier break.
"Guys, please stop it." Lucy said getting worried about the two Dragon Slayers. "You're going to hurt yourselves badly if you keep doing this."
"I don't care if I get hurt." Ryu said with determination in his voice. "I will not let anyone die today. I will not let anyone feel the pain I have felt long ago." Lucy was caught off guard by what he said, until she remembered the story Lisanna said to her about Ryu's past.
"Wait that's it." Natsu said as he got everyone's attention. "Lucy we can use your spirits to free us." Natsu explained this by reminding her of when he and Ryu teleported from one place to another when they held onto Virgo.
"Well yeah we could but normal people will suffocate to death if they went into the spirit world. Besides, only a Celestial Spirit wizard can only open a gate wherever they are standing." Lucy tried to explain how bad of an idea it was.
"Huh?" Natsu asked confusingly.
"I think what she is trying to say is that there would need to be a Celestial Spirit wizard with the same contract outside the gate. Did I guess right?" Ryu asked Lucy if he understood that.
"Yeah you're right Ryu and only one person can be contracted at a time. Besides doing that is a breach of contract, I didn't care when you and Ryu did that Natsu because it was Everlue's key." Lucy said as well.
Once Lucy mentioned Everlue, Happy just remembered something important. "AAAAHHH! I just remembered Lucy."
"Remembered what?" the group asked what Happy was talking about.
"Look." Happy said as he held out the Golden Celestial Key that Everlue had.
"How did you get Virgo's gate key?" Lucy asked Happy.
"Virgo asked me to give it to you." Happy replied.
"Guys we are wasting time here." Gray told them.
"Why did Virgo ask you to give it to Lucy Happy?" Ryu asked the cat wondering why she would do something like that.
"Apparently when Everlue was arrested, her contract with him was broken and she asked me to give this to you later that day, to sign a new contract with you." Happy explained.
"How does this help us out in our situation? It's not like she can free us from here." Lucy asked.
"Wait Lucy," Ryu said getting their attention once more. "If I remember correctly, doesn't Virgo know how to make tunnels?" They then knew what he meant by that. If they couldn't get over or threw the barrier, maybe Virgo can dig them all out of it from underground.
Once Lucy agreed to give Happy some fish later for the key now, she began to summon Virgo. "I call upon thee in the world of the Celestial Spirits. Answer my call and pass through the gate. Open Gate of the Maiden: Virgo." Once she completed her task on summoning Virgo, the spirit appeared. Virgo appeared out of the ground and looked much different from what they remember her. No longer was she a giant gorilla lady, instead she was slightly shorter than Lucy by a couple of inches, slimmer, and had a beautiful face. She still wore a black and white maid outfit but she also had steel cuffs on her wrists with chains coming from the end of it.
"You summoned me Mistress?" Virgo asked revealing that she had a much nicer voice than before.
"Who are you?" Lucy asked not realizing that this was the same spirit they came across before.
"Hey Burger, you look great. You even lost some weight." Natsu said to the spirit.
"Her name is Virgo not Burger." Ryu corrected Natsu on his mistake.
"I want to apologize for any trouble that I may have caused you guys in the past." Virgo said to the two of them.
"It's okay Virgo. It's water under the bridge now." Ryu told her.
"Wow she's a completely different person now." Lucy stated.
"What do you mean?" Gray asked as this was the first time he met this spirit. The only spirit's of Lucy's he has seen before was Horologium the clock and Plue the little dog.
"I am a loyal spirit who will do anything to please her wizards. So I take the form that will be the most appealing to them." Virgo explained to them.
"I liked it when you looked all big and tough looking." Natsu said to her as she then took the form of the gorilla woman they have seen before. This caused Erza and Gray to freak out a bit at the sight.
"Don't listen to him. I liked the other form better." Lucy yelled at the spirit as she then changed back to the cuter form from earlier.
"As you wish Mistress." Virgo said after she changed back.
"I am afraid we don't have much time to make the contract. Can we please do it at another time?" Lucy asked not wanting to offend her new spirit for not making a contract as soon as possible.
"Of course mistress."Virgo told Lucy.
"Do you really have to call me Mistress?" Lucy asked as Virgo's eyes went to the whip Lucy had on her waist.
"Would you prefer Queen?"
"No."
"Well then how about Princess?" Virgo asked Lucy.
"Yeah I like that one, Princess it is then." Lucy told her new spirit.
"Then is it okay if I can call him Prince?" Virgo asked as she pointed at Ryu.
"Wait why?" Ryu asked her.
"It's because, you look like a tough Prince to me." Virgo explained herself.
"Let's worry about names later and please make us a tunnel under this wind barrier to free us." Lucy told Virgo as she went ahead with the order and made a tunnel wide enough for them all to fit in.
"Nicely done Lucy." Erza congratulated her and shoved Lucy's head into her armor chest.
"Alright time to go now." Gray said as he went in first. The others soon followed until Natsu came to the hole dragging Kageyama with him. "Natsu what are you doing?" Gray asked looking back at him.
"I know he's one of our enemies, but I feel guilty if we just left him here to die." Natsu told Gray explaining his actions. Erza was the only one to notice at the moment but Kageyama partially opened one of his eyes, showing that he was still alive.
*Outside the station*
Once they got outside that saw just how big the barrier really was, it covered the entire building from head to toe in a tornado.
"Wow this wind is really strong." Lucy said suddenly regretting wearing a skirt today. Luckily for her, Virgo held down the other end of her skirt to protect her princess' modesty.
"Princess, I'll keep your panties from showing." Virgo told Lucy.
"Worry about your own." Lucy said as Virgo's skirt went flying due to the wind, revealing her panties to both Gray and Ryuma. Both men were blushing seeing what they saw.
"It's no use." Kageyama said getting the groups attention. "You won't be able to catch up with Erigor. We won, and you lost."
"Where's Natsu?" Erza asked. This got everyone looking for him wondering where he is.
"Hey, Happy isn't here either." Gray told everyone.
"Well I think I know where they went off to. They went to take on Erigor." Ryu said as he would have done the same thing as well. Everyone got into the Magic Mobile with Erza driving it down the tracks to try and catch up with their comrade. Gray was sitting with Kageyama on one side while Lucy and Ryu on the other. Ryu didn't feel well due to his motion sickness so he closed his eyes to take his mind off of it.
"Why did you guys take me with you?" Kageyama asked.
"Because it's obvious that you need a doctor and since everyone in Oshibana left to hide, the only one left is in Clover." Lucy said explaining this to him. "Try to show some gratitude."
"But why are you helping me? We're enemies." He asked them all. "Oh wait I get it, you have me as your hostage to make a deal with Erigor. Well you can forget that plan; he doesn't care about me or his men."
"If you want to die we can make it happen." Gray said catching the attention of the others. "There's more to this world than Life and Death. Try to look for the positive, you and your pals in Eisenwald."
Kageyama looked down at this thinking what Gray said over. After a while, the ride stopped. Everyone inside, even Ryu who felt better, went to see why they suddenly stopped. Their question was answered when they saw a shirtless Natsu standing over an unconscious Erigor and Lullaby by his head, revealing that he defeated the Dark Guild mage.
"You guys just missed me beating Erigor." Natsu said with a smile on his face.
"I'm proud of you Natsu." Erza said as Lucy helped her down from the driver's seat, drained from using a lot of magic.
"Are you going to be okay?" Lucy asked her with concern.
"Yes I am don't worry about me." Erza replied.
Kageyama was looking at what he is seeing. 'I can't believe this. Erigor has never lost a battle before.'
"Oh man, I haven't even fought one of these guys yet." Ryu said when he stood next to Natsu. "The next guy we get to fight, he's all mine."
"Man Natsu you look pretty stupid wearing a scarf when you're half naked." Gray said looking at Natsu.
"You're not one to talk either Gray. Where the hell is your shirt?" Ryu asked Gray making him realize that he had no shirt on. He was happy that he at least kept his pants on.
"Lucy, give me your clothes." Natsu said to her as she was about to yell at him until Ryu punched him in the head.
"Damn it Natsu, stop trying to get her clothes off of her. Here's a shirt I brought for you." Ryu said as he held out a red fire-proof shirt for Natsu to wear. Erza was just chuckling at this.
"Thanks." Natsu said as he put the shirt on.
"Well done Natsu, the Guild Masters are all safe now." Erza said, congratulating him. "While we are here let's ask the masters what we should do with the Lullaby flute."
"Yeah might as well since we are close to Clover." Happy said. Suddenly, the Magic Mobile went over their heads as Kageyama was driving with the flute in hand.
"What the hell are you doing?" Gray asked the injured man.
"Lullaby is mine now. You shouldn't have let your guards down." Kageyama replied as he drove off. They were all shocked by this as they then rushed to try and stop him from killing anyone with the cursed flute.
*Later that night in Clover*
The group finally arrived in Clover. Ryu and Erza led them to where the Guild Master Conference hall was as they have been there before. When they got to a cliff overlooking the building they saw Kageyama holding the flute about to play it in front of their master.
"There he is and he's about to use it on Gramps." Ryu told the others as they were about to stop him. That is until Master Bob stopped them quietly. His appearance freaked out Natsu, Gray, and Lucy.
"Who the heck is that?" Lucy asked as she hid behind Erza and Ryu.
"Oh him, that's just Master Bob of Blue Pegasus." Ryu told her as the Blue Pegasus master saw them.
"Oh Erza and Ryu. You both look great." He said complimenting them.
"Were just about to get to the good part." Master Bob said to them as they looked and saw the rest of the Guild Masters looking over and seeing the outcome of what will happen.
Just as Kageyama was about to play a note on Lullaby, Makarov interrupted him. "Nothing is going to change." What Makarov just said caught Kageyama off guard. "You can't change the fact that those who remain weak will forever remain weak. Now that may just be me but I don't think that is a bad thing at all really. We humans are weak creatures by nature, our insecurity is the reason why Guilds even exist, and it's why we have friends. When we are around them it's easy to remain positive about the future. Think of it this way: if we are clumsy then we may stumble and bump into things. But if we have faith in our future then we continue to march forward, our inner strength will emerge on its own. But we have to chose that path to follow and pledge our lives to the fullest." Kageyama was taken aback by what he just heard.
"Don't let that silly flute stand in your way." Makarov said as he knew what it was right away. Kageyama then decided to drop the flute and gave up trying to kill the masters.
Once it was all clear, the group went to their master and complimented him from stopping an incident from happening. "What the hell are you guys doing here?" he asked as his head went straight into Erza's armored chest.
"Master, your moves have almost moved me into tears." She said to Makarov.
"Ow." Was the reply they heard from Makarov due to hitting a hard metal surface.
The beautiful moment continued until an evil laughter was suddenly heard. Everyone in the area saw what was happening, the flute suddenly grew taller and taller and was telling everyone, "I grow tired of you wizards and your antics. I can no longer hold back. I shall come forth to devour your souls myself." Lullaby revealed its true form of a wooden thee-eyed demon, the size of the mountains surrounding the town. It had a very thick upper body with its gut, arms, and legs looked to be thin and looked like trees.
"I shall feast upon all of your souls." Lullaby said to all who were listening.
"It's so big." Lucy said in shock.
Kageyama saw the demon and asked, "What the hell is that thing? Erigor never mentioned anything about a monster."
Master Goldmine chose to answer him. "It must be a demon from the book of Zeref."
"Why did the flute turn into a monster?" Lucy asked why this is happening.
"That is what Lullaby's true form looks like in the flesh." Goldmine explained to her. "It's forbidden black magic, Living Magic. It's Zeref's specialty."
Lullaby looked towards where the wizards and Guild Masters stood. "Now which of these delectable souls shall I dine on first?" The army marched onto the scene to try and take on the demon only for said demon to destroy one of the mountains with one blast.
As the wizards were the only ones left to deal with the demon, Ryu walked in front of the group and told them, "Guys, get everyone to safety. Evacuate the town and make sure no one gets hurt. Got it?"
"Wait what the hell are you going to do man?" Natsu asked as most of the masters fled to a safer distance.
Ryu looked back at them as they saw that his pupils turned into slits. "I've got a demon to take care of." Once he said that, he grew his wings and flew right towards Lullaby to take it down. The rest tried to go with him but they were stopped by their master.
"Gramps what are you doing? He needs our help." Natsu said as they looked at Makarov with confusion.
"Ryuma said that he will take this demon down and I believe he will. Now do as he said and help with the evacuation. Natsu, Gray, you two evacuate the south area of the town. Erza Happy, you get the north. Lucy, you and I will take the west. Bob, Goldmine, if can please help with the east side of town." Makarov said as they all went to help evacuate the town.
Ryu flew right towards the beast with both his arms glowing with magical power. "Hm, it would seem that you will start as an appetizer."
As the demon tried to grab Ryu, he flew past the demon's arm and unleashed a powerful attack. "Secret Dragon Slayer Arts: Galaxy Wave Meteor Shower." The attack was Ryu unleashing a barrage of fists flying and his magic was fired from his fists, to the demon's chest and wherever he could hit. The demon was angry at this as he had to work for a meal that he hasn't had in who knows how long. The demon tried to swat the mage out of the sky but it was like trying to hit a small fly, impossible to do. The wind from Lullaby's arms swinging was starting to effect the way Ryu was flying in the air. He kept unleashing his attack on the beast circling around it until he was finally hit by the demon's arm. He fell out of the sky, hard into the forest nearby.
"I have had it with this one. It's time to play my song." Lullaby said as he sucked the life out of the vegetation all around him. As the town was fully evacuated, the wizards regrouped and saw the demon about play his song. They all covered their ears until they heard no noise coming from the demon as it tried to play its song of death.
"W-What's going on? Why can't I play my song?" Lullaby asked as it then noticed that Ryu had succeeded in his attack. He made so many holes in the demon that it couldn't play its song at all.
"Oh I get it, now with all of the extra holes in its body Lullaby can't play its song." Lucy said understanding what happened. "Good job Ryu." She yelled to him not knowing if he heard it or not.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat." Lullaby said as it was about to unleash an attack. It then shot out a beam from its mouth straight towards them.
Luckily, Gray blocked the attack from connecting. "Ice Make: Shield." He made a thick ice shield that looked like half of a flower.
Makarov was beginning to worry about Ryu. He knew that Ryu was holding back and not wanting to go too far in fear of harming people. Makarov then decided to give him that last push to deal with this demon. "This is an order from a Wizard Saint, no one is to say a word on what's about to happen next." Makarov said cryptically.
"What's about to happen?" Natsu asked.
"RYUMA!" Makarov yelled to him. "THE CIVILIANS ARE SAFE. IT'S TIME TO UNLEASH THE BEAST!"
"Master? What did you mean by 'unleashing the beast'?" Erza asked as everyone, including the Guild Masters, wanted to know about.
Ryu was trying to stand up after he got knocked to the ground hard he was covered in cuts and bruises. When he heard what Makarov shouted to him, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath and held it. His eyes shot open glowing red and green; he unleashed a mighty war cry and a large pillar of magic appeared where he stood. That war cry soon turned into the roar of a mighty beast.
Everyone's attention went towards the huge pillar of magic. They were able to see a shadowy figure suddenly grow inside the pillar to be the same size as Lullaby before it shot out an arm, then a leg, and then a tail came out. Then the pillar disappeared and revealed what was really inside.
The creature had navy blue skin and what appeared to be red scale like plating on him. Red shoulder guards that went out past his shoulder by a bit, two spikes protruding from his back and a long tail that came to a very sharp point. The arms and legs of the beast were quite muscular and made it look more humanoid with sharp claws. The chest looked to be made out of a purple jewel of which none knew what it was surrounded by white armor plating. The head of the beast had a normal length neck and its face was what caught everyone's attention: red scale armor on the head and gold scales on his face. A blue jewel on his forehead just below the horn on his head, sharp teeth, and the most peculiar eyes, the beast had one red eye on the right side of his face and a green one on the left side. The beast was also wearing pants and it was shown on his right arm, was an emerald Fairy Tail mark.
"Master, what the hell is that?" Erza asked as she needed to know if this was a friend or foe.
"Wait that's Ryu isn't it?" Lucy asked Makarov as the others were wondering if this was true and how did Lucy know about it and not them.
"That's your friend?" Kageyama asked them. He suddenly became glad that he gave up being evil.
"I see that he told you about it. Very well then. To answer the question everyone is probably thinking right now, Ryu is a special kind of being that is only heard about in legends. He is the child of a human mother and a dragon father, he is a Draconian. And this is his dragon form." Makarov explained as they all saw Lullaby stare at Ryu's new form.
"I don't know what you are but your soul will be mine." Lullaby said as it swung its fist at Ryu. However, he caught it in his clawed hand, catching the demon off guard.
"You will not be devouring any souls tonight or ever." Ryu said in a deep toned voice. Lullaby tried again with another fist before it was caught again. The two struggled for dominance until Ryu said, "You want to know your first mistake was trying to punch me? The mistake was not leaving enough room for you to block the tail." The tail then struck the demon in the third eye on its forehead.
Lullaby screamed in pain as it held its eye in agony. "I'll kill you for that." Lullaby unleashed another blast from its mouth, only for Ryu to move out of the way to charge at the demon and start swinging left and right hooks at the demon. Lullaby tried to block and attack back but Ryu just proved he was tougher than the demon.
Lullaby jumped back and saw out of the corner of its eye, the group of wizards frozen in place. "If I can't kill you, then these wizards will do." Lullaby turned around to unleash a point blank blast and kill everyone where they stood. But before it could do that, Ryu grabbed the demons head, hooking his fingers into the demons mouth.
He grabbed the demons jaw and then unleashed a mighty attack on it. "Cosmic Spiral Flame." He shot a spiral flame attack down the throat of the demon. Once the attack was done, Lullaby stood in place and just shook from its imminent destruction.
"H-How can this be? Just who the hell are you?" the demon asked Ryu.
"I will tell you who the hell I am. I am the being that holds no love for those who murder the innocent. I am known by many names: a bastard, a monster, a freak, Dragonborn, and even the Dark Guild Wrecker. But for you, my name is Ryuma Alister. Remember that." He told the demon before he turned away from it just as it exploded.
Everyone was in shock for a few reasons. One was that this young man that they saw just a few minutes ago turn into this huge dragon. The other was that he revealed himself to be the infamous Dark Guild Wrecker. And the final reason was because he defeated Lullaby all by himself.
Ryu then shrunk back down to a more normal height and it was now known that apparently, he was about the same height as Elfman in his dragon form. Ryu saw the flute badly cracked on the ground nearby and walked towards it. He picked it up with both hands and said, "Now to make sure you remain gone." He then broke the flute in half over his knee.
As he dropped the flute, a sudden cyclone of souls came out of the flute. One soul appeared before Ryu and looked to be a person who wore ancient armor for battle. "Are you the one who destroyed that wretched flute?" the soul asked him. Ryu gave a response, "Yes I am. Why do you ask?"
The soul just smiled like no tomorrow. "We have been trapped in that flute for centuries. But now that you broke it, we can finally rest in peace and find our loved ones on the other side. To that, I thank you." The soul of the soldier and the cyclone of souls then vanished, crossing over to a more peaceful afterlife.
After that was all done everyone saw Ryu start to glow and shrink more until he became Makarov's height. When the light went away, he was still in his dragon form and had his pants on. "What the hell? Why am I so tiny?" Ryu asked himself in his normal voice. He then noticed that everyone saw him and that his friends and master where standing right behind him.
Lucy took him by surprise and hugged him close to her chest. "Oh my god, you are so cute and tiny." She said not realizing what she was doing.
Ryu was blushing from being held in her chest and said out loud, "I'm not cute, I'm ferocious." He tried to say but it just made him look like a kid being embarrassed when he was waving his arms when Lucy put him back down after realizing what she was doing.
"Oh man this is so funny." Natsu laughed seeing Ryu all small and non-threatening. That is until Ryu bit him in the shin. "Ow." Natsu then jumped on one leg holding his shin.
"Well done my boy." Makarov said to Ryu.
"Are all Fairy Tail wizards tough like him?" Kageyama asked as he would never have believed, it even if he did see it happen in front of him.
"Yeah they sure are tough. Didn't see the dragon thing coming but yeah for the most part. We should give them a round of thanks." Goldmine said to Kageyama and the other Masters.
"Yeah but," one Master said as he saw a giant crater nearby. "He went overboard!"
The Fairy Tail wizards saw what was left of the Conference hall and were shocked by it being completely gone. "Oh shit, I am so screwed." Ryu said seeing what he had done.
"Ha ha ha, you sure made a mess of the place huh?" Natsu said finding it to be very funny. He then saw the angry looks in the other master's eyes and asked, "You trying to catch somebody? We can help you with it."
"You guys are the one were after." One master said as they all chased after the Fairy Tail Wizards in spite of them saving lives.
Ryu tried to speed up but found out he was starting to fall behind. "Seriously? How can I be so slow now?" he asked not getting a response. Instead, Lucy quickly picked him up and ran with him in her arms to the Magic Mobile as Gray decided to drive off once everyone got in.
Whoa boy this took me a while to get done, but I am glad how this turned out. At this moment in time, this is the longest chapter I have ever written. Ryu's fight with Lullaby had been in my head for so long, I am glad to finally have it written down.
The voice I used for Ryuma's Dragon form is Goliath from Disney's Gargoyles.
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