Hello everyone, welcome back to the next chapter of Cosmic Dragon Slayer. Sorry for the long wait, somethings just slightly distracted me from working more on this story like Life, full-time work hours, some new video games. But now I'm back and ready for more story work. I have another popular story that has a lot of favorites and follows, even more than this one. If you are familiar with the amazing web-series anime RWBY then my other story "Sunset Salamander" may perk your interest.
Anyway, I'm kind of getting off track slightly from promoting my other story, it's time we start the Phantom Lord arc. And remember, I don't own Fairy Tail, I just own some of their DVD/Blu-rays. I do own my OC, Ryuma Alister. Vincent Wilson belongs to NeoNazo356 and he gave me permission to use him.
It had been a few days after Mirajane's date with Vincent. After Vincent went back to pay for the food at the Wok place, he got to spend some more free time with Mirajane as they sometimes hung out at the guild or just around the town enjoying each others company. Elfman tried to object to it a few times but it didn't play out as Mirajane told her brother to calm down before she got angry with him. Now Mirajane isn't as scary as she used to be, but that didn't mean that you should take her threats any less serious.
Meanwhile with Lucy, she was returning back to the guild from a job that she tried to do on her own. 'Try' being the keyword as Natsu, Erza, Gray, Ryu, and Happy had joined her on the simple mission. Natsu was joyful that he had fun on the mission before he and Gray started to argue again. Erza had to break it up and remind Gray that he was in his underwear.
"Hey I don't want to be the downer here guys, but when I took this job I was hoping it would be more of a solo mission," Lucy began to explain to the group. "So I got to ask, why did you all come along?"
"It's pretty obvious Lucy, we're Fairy Tail's strongest team." Natsu told her as she looked at everyone else who happened to agree.
"Heck yeah we are, but hold on Ryuma, why did you join us at the last minute? Not that I'm complaining anyway." Lucy asked getting his attention and not trying to hurt his feelings at the same time. Out of most people in the guild, she considered Ryu to be one of her best guy friends, that and secret crush.
"Well, I was worried about how you would handle your first solo quest. Some solo quests could lead to something bigger than one mage could handle so I would be there to only act just in case that happened." Ryuma explained as Lucy felt her heart beat faster when he told her that he was concerned about her safety. This was one of the many things that made her love for him grow, he was considerate of her feelings and that he would always help her and ask for nothing in return. "That and I'm still trying to avoiding Elfman."
"Wait, why are you avoiding Elfman?" Gray asked as he had other things to do and missed the main reason.
"Why that's easy really, HAPPY HAS THE BIGGEST FUCKING MOUTH IN THE WHOLE DAMN GUILD!" Ryu yelled at the blue cat as he was still angry with him for getting him into this situation. It was worse when the whole guild knew what Lisanna did to him. Half of the guild gave him the stink eye for a whole day, some girls because they thought he was a pervert and some guys because they thought he was a lucky bastard.
"What did you say this time Happy?" Natsu asked as he didn't know what Ryuma was talking about.
"Oh yeah," Happy began to explain. "I told them that Lisanna went an…" Happy couldn't finish his sentence as Ryu shoved a Yellowtail Fish into the cat's mouth.
"Shut up you damn cat! No one is telling anyone of that day in Hargeon." Ryu couldn't get that image out of his mind, no matter how hard he tried. But he had this odd feeling that he didn't mind seeing that, hell that feeling he felt also came when Cana would walk around in either her underwear or was topless or just by being around Lucy and seeing her smile. He may have to ask Master Makarov what this feeling was and what it meant.
Lucy just gave a small laugh at the sight before her of Natsu trying to get that fish out of Happy's mouth and Erza ordering Gray to keep his shirt on when he was in the middle of taking it off. This laughter was short lived when she saw Ryuma looking around in confusion, she looked and saw that the towns people were just staring at them mumbling something to themselves and looking sad. "Why's everyone giving us a sad look like that?" Lucy asked as this got everyone's attention.
This stopped them as they looked around seeing it was true, it only stopped when Erza saw the guild in the near distance. Team Natsu saw the guild too as it was impaled by huge metal rods and had some of the wood cut in a clean slice.
"No way." Gray said in shock.
"Impossible." Erza said as well as she never thought this would happen.
"No… not again." Ryu said as he had a small flashback from his childhood when his hometown was attacked by a Dark Guild. He looked at the Guild in shock and terror as he shook a bit. Ryuma was so tense he balled his hands into tight fists. "Who the hell is responsible for this?" He asked with anger building up inside him.
"Why did this happen?" Lucy was saddened by the state of their guild right now.
"Who the hell is responsible for this?" Natsu loudly asked in anger as he looked at the guild.
"It was Phantom Lord." Mirajane told them as she and Lisanna approached them, Mira was in her usual dress as Lisanna was in more presentable casual clothes.
"Seriously, Phantom did this?" Gray asked as he wasn't sure if this was true. Natsu and Ryu were angered by who did this, they had some run in with some Phantom Lord mages in the past but it never escalated to this.
"There was nothing we could do to stop them, they got us good." Lisanna told them all as Ryuma held her close to try to comfort her.
Mirajane had led them all down to the basement of the guild after going down a path where there wasn't any dangerous debris. The basement was normally used for storage but luckily, it was left undamaged as the rest of the guild were sitting around sulking at what happened.
Jet, Droy, and Levy were sulking at another table wondering how to get back at them for damaging the guild. Jet and Droy wanted to go on the offensive, but thankfully for them Levy talked them out of it. Mirajane had lead the group over to Makarov, who was too busy getting pretty drunk at the moment as he sat on the crate where the guild placed their alcoholic beverages. He was enjoying a drink, along with trying to keep Cana from drinking all the beer again. "Well looks who's back. How did your mission go kids?" Makarov asked as he was plastered.
"Master, what happened here? Why did Phantom do this?" Erza asked in a stoic turn as Natsu was fuming in anger and Ryu was having a similar attitude.
"They attacked our guild, we got to take them down now!" Natsu yelled as he didn't like what they had done to their guild.
"We aren't going to go after them for destroying a guild hall that was empty." Makarov explained to the team as they didn't know that fact. "Yeah, those cowardly bastards don't have the guts to take us on so they attacked the guild hall when there was no one even around or awake."
"W-wait, no one was around when Phantom Lord attacked?" Ryuma asked as he wanted to be clear he heard that part correctly. When he saw Makarov nod yes, he let out a sigh of relief as he was happy no one in the guild was hurt at all.
"We shouldn't have to worry about people who don't have the balls to take us head on." Makarov said as he continued to slur his words.
Natsu heard enough and punched a crate right next to him in anger. "Like hell that will happen, they trashed our place. They need to pay for doing this." Natsu yelled in anger.
Ryuma had some time to calm down before adding his own two cents. "Natsu will you please just calm the fuck down already!" Ryuma yelled at him as this shocked some of the guild members from that outburst. "Listen well alright, we aren't going to war with another legal guild over simple property damage. Besides, we wreck our own guild on a daily basis with all of our brawls that we have. Not only that, but this gives Makarov a good excuse to finally do some renovations that he keeps talking about but never does."
Makarov had forgotten about all the complaining he has made about how the guild could use a new look until Ryuma just brought it up. "Ryuma's right about that, it is time to give this guild a bit of an update. It hasn't been updated since it was first built. However, until then, we will have the request board down here so we can still do jobs and such." Makarov explained to everyone as heard that announcement.
"But Gramps…" Natsu tried to counter before Makarov interrupted him again.
"Natsu that's enough." He extended his arm out to smack Natsu up against his head, but being still tipsy his hand instead smacked Lucy's behind instead by accident.
"Master, why did you spank me?" Lucy asked as she was blushing at that happening to her. Ryuma was giving Makarov an evil stare with his Dragon Eyes as Mira looked annoyed at Makarov who did that.
"Master…" Ryuma and Mirajane said in unison as Makarov just chuckled before leaving.
"Where the hell are you going?" Natsu asked as he wasn't done arguing yet.
"Oh keep your skirt on boy, I got to take a leak." As soon as Makarov left the room, Cana made a beeline for the crate and took a few bottles of whiskey for herself. She noticed how some of the guild members saw her take some booze as they had seen that coming.
"What? A girl needs to have her favorite drinks." Cana responded to them all.
"Why is master being like this?" Natsu asked about Makarov not wanting to retaliate.
"Natsu," Erza began to explain to him. "Have you forgotten that it's illegal for two legal guilds to engage in a war? It could lead to the disbanding of both guilds."
"She's right, besides Master knows what he's doing and is looking out for everyone here in the guild. Just going to war over damaged property just isn't the right course to take." Mirajane explained as she still felt sad about what happened. She was about to go back to her duties as a barmaid with the help of her sister before everyone heard the door open and feet rushing down the stairs. Everyone turned to see it was Vincent Wilson coming down to see them all.
"What the hell happened to you guys? Your guild's a complete mess!" Vincent said as he had to make sure some of his new friends in the guild were okay and unharmed, more specifically Mirajane.
"It's okay Vincent, everyone is fine. We just had some structural damage done to the place is all." Mirajane lied to him as she didn't want to have her crush, Vincent worry about her safety. She also didn't want him to get involved with what was happening.
"Oh thank goodness everyone is safe. Somehow I felt that this may have something to do with all those brawls you guys have." Vincent guessed.
"It may seem like it, so what's with the surprise visit? Aren't you heading home today?" Mirajane asked him as she tried to change the subject away from the property damage.
"Yeah I was about to head home when I saw what happened to your guild. And Mira," Vincent said to her as he looked a bit bashful. "I really want to thank you for the times we have spent this week, perhaps we can do it again when I'm back in town?"
"I would love nothing more Vincent." Mira said as she gave him a goodbye hug just before he left to go back to his own guild and his imouto.
*Later that night*
Ryuma was walking back to his home after the guild closed for the day and after having a very interesting talk with the master after Vincent left.
*Flashback*
Ryuma approached Makarov as he was a bit soberer. "Master Makarov, I want to talk to you about something." Ryuma asked as he approached him alone.
"If this is about me slapping Lucy's caboose, not my fault and I was too drunk." Makarov replied.
"No, however I will want to have a very angry talk about that later… I want to tell you this odd feeling I have been getting in me for a while now." Ryuma said as this got Makarov's full undivided attention. "Whenever I am around some of the girls, I feel funny inside. It makes me happy to see them smile and joyful, but when I see them sad or scared… I-I want to hurt whomever did that to them and make them pay for that before trying to make them feel happy again. Hell I even lose some of my nerves around these specific girls and act more like a fool at times, what is going on with me?!"
Makarov smiled as he heard Ryuma explain his feelings to him, he knew exactly what was happening to him. "My boy, these girls wouldn't happen to be Lucy, Lisanna, and Cana are they?" Makarov asked as he knew who the girls were, but wanted to hear it come from Ryu's mouth.
"Yeah those are the girls, but why do you ask it was them specifically?" Ryuma asked as he was confused by this.
"My dear boy, you're in love." Makarov explained as Ryuma was shocked to hear that proclamation.
"W-What are you talking about, I can't be in love. I'm half dragon, not only that but I have this feeling about three girls, this isn't natural. Who would love someone like me?" Ryuma tried to deny but Makarov knew what to say.
"Well apparently Lucy, Lisanna, and Cana seem to really like you. And besides, stop hiding behind your nature, this is all normal for someone like you anyway." Makarov pulled out a book about Dragons and Dragon slayers.
"What do you mean by that and what's this Master? 'Dragon Slayers and a Relation to their Dragons'?" Ryuma asked never seeing this book before. He flipped through it quickly before looking at Makarov again.
"After you joined the guild, I thought it would be a good idea to keep this book around to see if there would be anything I had to worry about, especially since we had Natsu before your arrival to the guild. There was one part that I want you to look at specifically Ryuma." Makarov explained as he opened up the book to a specific chapter of the book.
Ryuma looked at the chapter and had an embarrassed look on his face. "Dragon mating rituals?!"
"Yes, now normally it says that a dragon has only one mate like what you've told me about your mother and father, but some dragons tend to have more than one. More specifically those of royalty amongst dragons." Makarov explained as he had read that in the book before.
"But my father wasn't a dragon king or a prince in anyway, he was just a normal dragon. The only Royal like dragon I've heard about are Igneel, from what Natsu has mentioned a lot in the past, and… my… uncle Genryu." Ryu suddenly realized that his uncle was a Cosmic Dragon King and he fell right into that category perfectly.
"Yes and this means that you are eligible to have those girls in your own harem, you lucky bastard." Makarov congratulated him with a smile on his face.
Ryuma was shocked by this, the book said that a dragon who knew who his mates were the dragon will do anything in his power to make his potential mates happy. Something he has done a lot with Lucy, Cana, and Lisanna from letting them stay in his place if they needed to trying some new recipes they experimented with to finally helping them out on a mission. He then realized something, "Hang on, Igneel is a Fire Dragon King from what Natsu has said. Does this mean Natsu is looking for more mates, because if he thinks about doing anything to Lucy, Lisanna or Cana I'll…"
"Don't worry about him." Makarov began to explain. "He hasn't shown any interest in a girl, well except for Erza if you consider him breaking into her place as such. Although I have heard he has broken into Lucy's place a few times before, might want to talk to him about that. You don't have to worry about him doing that to your mates." He teased him as Ryuma blushed at the declaration.
"Alright then, now that this has come to realization and I have something to think about with my life, I want to have a word with you about slapping Lucy's butt." Ryu gave Makarov an evil glare as he nervously chuckled at the intense look. Makarov could only nervously chuckle before giving the guild something to laugh about later… Makarov running like hell away from an angry Ryuma.
*Flashback end*
"H-how is this supposed to work? I mean, I can't have a relationship with three girls at once. I may ruin my friendships with them if I try to start something with all three of them. I can't ruin that with them, I may as well hold my feelings inside me until I figure this out." Ryuma explained as he was walking, near the edge of the water, back to his place. He came to a stop when he realized something, "Oh shit, is this what Alzack feels like when I tease him about Bisca? Man, I owe that guy a huge apology."
"Hey be careful not to fall in buddy, we already warned a blonde girl earlier and she did fine." A guy on a passing boat said to Ryuma.
"Oh relax, I'm not going to fa…" Ryuma could say before he slipped and fell in the water. He was able to get out and onto land when he saw the boat guy laughing at him. "Hey shut up man!"
He got to the front door of his place as he was still drenched in water. "Man, I just need to dry myself off and get some rest after what's happened today." As he was about to reach the doorknob to his home, he heard a scream come from Lucy's apartment. "LUCY!" He scrambled to head to her apartment as he rushed upstairs. As he opened her door, he was welcomed to a slap by a surprised Lucy. "Damn it, seriously?!"
"Ryuma, oh my god I am so sorry about that." Lucy said as she helped him back up, she could clearly see the huge red shaped hand-print on his left cheek from her slap.
"Seriously that was smart right there, what do you practice self-defense moves when no one is around Lucy?" Ryuma asked as he saw something surprising behind Lucy, their teammates along with Lisanna and Cana at her table. "Okay now I see why you screamed earlier. Whose idea was it to break into Lucy's place again?"
"Wait, Erza you told us that Lucy invited us over." Lisanna said in shock as she didn't know that she broke into someone's place uninvited.
"Everyone believes that since the guild was attacked by Phantom, some of them may still be in the city. So everyone is pairing up at each others places so we have strength in numbers. Just in case they knew where we all may live." Erza began to explain as she didn't try to deny the fact that they came into Lucy's place unannounced.
"Th-They may know where we live?" Lucy asked in shock as she was terrified by the fact that they may come for them when they were all asleep.
"Aye, that's why everyone is having a slumber party tonight." Happy replied as he started to walk with Plue in Lucy's apartment.
"Yeah, despite Erza tricking us into breaking into your apartment, you are an attractive and sexy woman Lucy. So I wanted to spend some time in your pad and make sure no one you don't approve of does anything funny to you." Cana said as she appeared behind Lucy and groped her from behind.
Ryuma tried to keep his composure from the Cana doing this to Lucy again as Natsu was brooding and Gray had a shocked look on his face. "Cana, stop groping Lucy." Cana reluctantly let go with a pout as she enjoyed doing that.
"Fine, you win for now Ryu." She went back to drinking a bottle she brought with her.
"This isn't fair, we should be looking for these Phantom creeps and make them pay." Natsu complained as he didn't want to relax.
"Natsu, we have been over this, we can't start a war with a legal guild over this. Dark Guilds yes, legal ones not so much." Ryuma reminded him as he knew that specific law. Being one of the few mages to personally deal with Dark Guilds in the past he had to know some of these specific laws to ensure no legal action will befall him, the guild or his friends.
"But why did you all have to come to my place, why not Ryuma's. No offense Ryu." Lucy asked as she didn't have enough room for this many people to stay with her, and Ryuma's place is big enough with plenty of room to spare.
"None taken, and I would've gladly let you stay with me if you guys wanted to." Ryuma responded.
"Despite Natsu almost starting a kitchen fire last time?" Lisanna asked as they still couldn't figure out how that incident happened in the first place.
"I almost forgot about that incident just now. Natsu, your still banned from being in my kitchen alone." Ryuma said as he didn't want anything bad to happen to his home after putting many hours and days into making it the way he has it now.
Lucy meanwhile wasn't happy as she noticed Gray in his underwear getting onto her bed, Natsu was trying to get more candy from Plue's private stash he hid in Lucy's apartment, and Happy… "Hey look Erza, I found some frilly underwear that you may like." Happy lifted a few pairs of bras and panties above his head, ranging from stripped to lace underwear.
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY DRAWERS YOU DAMN CAT!" Lucy yelled as she was blushing full red in embarrassment. She didn't want the others to see her underwear, it was bad enough from the changeling incident, but this was worse. Cana, Lisanna, and Erza were surprised by the variety of the underwear.
"Wow Lucy, didn't know you had a very naughty side." Lisanna said as she blushed from the sexier selection she had and pictured how she would look in some of these designs.
Ryuma however was blushing so much as his mind began to shut down at seeing them. When he helped Lucy move some things into her apartment, when she moved in, Lucy made sure that he never saw the underwear she had in her possession. However, one thought ran through his mind when he saw one pair of green stripped panties. 'Holy crap, that's the same pair she had when I first met her.'
"Your taking this way too far guys." Lucy said as she didn't know how much more she could take.
"We have a huge problem everyone." Erza said as she suddenly became serious. This got everyone's attention, it even snapped Ryuma back into reality. "It's your hygiene boys, I refuse to sleep in the same room with you when you reek of sweet and filth. Go take a bath or something."
"I don't want to." Natsu complained.
"But I'm already in bed." Gray said as he tried to come up with an excuse.
"That's not your bed Gray." Ryuma told him as he pulled Gray off Lucy's bed.
"Well then, perhaps we have to take a bath together like we used to when we were kids." Erza told them as she didn't care about how that would play out as they were full grown adults now. Natsu and Gray looked worried as Ryuma escaped Erza's reach.
"What kind of relationship do those three have?" Lucy asked in shock by Erza's declaration.
"Erza has some weird thoughts about boundaries at times." Lisanna explained to Lucy as she never knew why Erza was like this either.
"Ryu, why don't you join us as well?" Erza asked, putting Ryuma in the spot light.
Ryuma, didn't know how to get out of this until he remembered what happened earlier before coming into Lucy's apartment. "Uh, I don't think that is necessary Erza. I already took one before hearing Lucy scream, see my hair is still wet." He explained as he pointed to his wet hair.
"Very well then." Erza seemed to believe is much to Ryuma's and the others delight. He didn't want to take a bath with her out of not only fear from being so close to Erza, but because Lucy's bathtub isn't big enough for so many people.
*45 minutes later*
After hearing Erza complain about sweat and hygiene, everyone else took a bath as well. Luckily for Gray and Natsu, they took their own separate baths without Erza joining them as well. Lucy was just finishing up her bath as she exited the wash area in her pajamas. Lucy took a stack of papers away from Gray, after seeing him reading it on her desk.
"Hey I wanted to read that," Gray complained as he was curious about it.
"You are not allowed to read this, it's not ready for anyone to read yet and I promised Levy she could read this first." Lucy said as she held it close to her chest.
"Oh you mean the novel your working on?" Lisanna asked as she was curious and in her pajamas too.
"How many people know about that?" Lucy asked as everyone in the room but Natsu raised their hand, Natsu was just asleep at the moment.
"Don't worry Lucy, we promise not to tell anyone else about this." Ryuma said as the others agreed to this. Lucy sighed as she knew this wouldn't be hidden for long after Happy told Levy about it. The room was suddenly filled with a bright light as Erza requiped into her purple Heart Kruze pajamas. Lucy didn't bother to ask about that as she gave up on asking about their quirks a while ago.
"Hey do you guys know why Phantom Lord attacked us in the first place?" Lucy asked as this was bugging her the whole day. Before she joined Fairy Tail, thanks to Natsu and Ryuma, she had a tough choice choosing between joining Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord. But she was happy she made the choice of being a Fairy Tail wizard.
"Not really, we have had our fair share of scuffles in the past but not like this before." Erza told her as she didn't know why Phantom did this as well.
"If gramps wasn't a coward, we would wipe them out for good." Natsu complained again as he really wanted to fight some Phantom butts. He started to sound like a broken record at this point.
"Natsu he's not scared, he knows what would happen if we did retaliate against Phantom Lord for doing this, he is one of the Ten Wizard Saints." Lisanna said as she sat next to Cana by the window.
"Ten Wizard Saints?" Lucy asked as she never heard of such a title before.
"Yeah it's an honor bestowed upon the 10 most powerful wizards on the continent." Cana began to explain as she opened another bottle. "The honor is given to those wizards by the Magic Councils, those freaking blowhards."
"Whoa, that's amazing." Lucy said as she never knew how important Master Makarov was outside of the guild before.
"Yeah but Phantom Lord's leader, Jose, is also one of them as well." Happy replied as he ate another fish.
"Gramp's only afraid because they have more members then we do." Natsu yelled as he slammed a fist on Lucy's table.
"Makarov is not afraid Natsu, he knows what will happen if we did fight Phantom Lord over this. It would spell out disaster that will affect everyone, not only our guilds, so shut up about it." Ryuma said as he got angry at Natsu's constant complaining at this point.
"Are they really that strong?" Lucy was concerned about what would transpire if there would be a fight.
"They aren't that strong, we can beat them." Natsu said as he was still confident they would win.
"Unfortunately, that isn't the case really." Ryuma said as he knew what he was talking about.
"Ryuma's right, if both guilds did engage in a fight against each other, we would both be wiped out." Erza began to explain as the room grew deadly silent. "While they have quantity in magic, we have quality, it's too evenly matched. Not only do they have their master, who is on par with Master Makarov, but they also have an elite group of wizards like our S-class wizards called the Element 4. However, the biggest threat is Black Steel Gajeel. I can wager a guess that he was the one who destroyed our guild hall, he's also known as the Iron Dragon Slayer."
"Dragon Slayer?" Lucy asked in shock about hearing about another Dragon Slayer being out there. "I thought the only ones around were Ryuma, Natsu, and Vincent from Cait Shelter? D-Does this mean he eats iron and stuff?"
"He probably does like how Natsu eats fire and Ryuma… Hang on, Ryu what do you eat to replenish your Dragon Slayer powers?" Gray said as he suddenly made that realization.
Ryu saw everyone look at him as everyone looked at him as they were curious as well. "Well, seeing as how I am a Cosmic Dragon Slayer, I bet some of you think I eat part of the cosmos to replenish my powers. That is not even true, mostly I replenish my energy by the light of the sun's rays, the shine of the moon when it's out, and the stars in the night sky. Also since I'm half dragon, I think I can just generate my power inside myself, like I have some kind of personal galaxy or something I can rely on." Ryu never knew what his uncle meant when he said that to him when he was younger, but didn't care as he trusted his dragon uncle.
"So, now that we got that explanation out of the way, what are the sleeping arrangements going to be?" Lisanna asked as she wasn't sure about sleeping in a small room with so many people.
"I know exactly how the sleeping arrangements will go," Ryuma said as everyone looked at him to learn what his plan is. "The girls will be staying with Lucy here in her apartment, while I take Natsu and Gray back to my place."
"Aw I don't want to leave. It smells nice in here." Natsu said as he didn't want to leave his spot in Lucy's apartment.
"But this bed is so comfy." Gray said as he was back on Lucy's bed.
"You guys are going to sleep in my guest rooms even if I have to drag you both by the hair. Also get off of Lucy's bed Gray." Ryuma said as he didn't have time to deal with their stubborn attitudes right now. So, since they refused to leave from their spots, Ryuma grabbed Natsu by the scarf and Gray by his hair back to his place. Happy tried to hide in the apartment, but Ryuma grabbed him by the bag on his back and dragged him with the other guys. "Sweet dreams girls, see you in the morning."
"Thank you Ryuma." Lucy said as she was happy that the boys won't be going through her more personal stuff in her apartment.
"So now that the boys are gone, let's talk about the boys we do like." Cana said as she embarrassed the other girls. "I know hands down that three of us in this room like the same guy, including me. I don't mind sharing him one bit either. So Erza, who do you like as a boyfriend?" Erza blushed as she didn't want to say, in a shocking moment where she acted like a normal woman would if she was in the spot light.
"Wait, hold on. You're okay with sharing him?" Lisanna asked as she knew who Cana was talking about before seeing Erza embarrassed.
"Hell yeah, I know him and live with him. He has a big heart that no one girl can fill. Not to mention the big package he's got packing." Cana implied as she drank her beer and made all three girls blush harder.
"Are you refering to Ryuma?" Erza asked as she doesn't know what to make of this.
"Hell yeah, who else would I be talking about. I live with the handsome fellow, and he is the only one I will ever allow to see this smoking hot body of mine naked." Cana replied not even caring how that even sounded out loud. This was going to be a very embarrassing night at Lucy's place, that was for sure.
*Phantom Lord Headquarters*
"Gajeel, I heard you and Aria completely destroyed the Fairy Tail Guild Hall. That's awesome." A random Phantom Lord mage said to him as Gajeel ate some screws and bolts in a dark corner. "I bet they are so down in the dumps about their shitty guild hall's destruction that they are ripe for attacking. Serves those fools ri-" He was interrupted by Gajeel turning his arm into an iron pillar and slamming it into the face of that mage. The others laughed at seeing him getting slammed into a wall.
"What the hell did I tell you about disturbing me when I'm eating?!" Gajeel said as he stepped into the light. He was a tall mage with a muscular frame on him. His long black and spiky hair reached all the way to his lower back as he stood up. He wore a tattered sleeveless tunic that reached his knees, metal wrist bands on both wrists, studded finger-less gloves, and wore a pair of loose beige pants tucked into his brown boots. The striking thing that caught everyone's attention when they first meet him were the metal studs on his body. Two on his nose, three on both forearms, and three above his eyes acting like eyebrows. His Guild mark could be seen on his right shoulder. "Besides, who cares about them, we're the stronger ones."
"Well done Gajeel, the wheel and plan is in motion for sure now." A shadowy figure said as it was Master Jose himself congratulation Gajeel for his work.
"Unfortunately, they won't be coming out of their holes anytime soon, even after what we did to their guild. So me and Aria decided to leave another gift for them." Gajeel explained to his master.
"Excellent, but I hope you didn't kill any of them." Jose said to him.
"I did have to stop Aria from doing such to one of them, but don't worry… they'll live." Gajeel said with an evil smirk on his face.
*South Gate Park, the Next Morning*
A crowd of people stood around the tree, in the middle of the park, as they murmured at what they were seeing as they looked uneasy at the site in front of them. It didn't take long before members of Fairy Tail started to arrive at the scene and wonder what was going on.
"Excuse us, coming through, we're with Fairy Tail. What happened here?" Erza said as she and the others divided the crowd to head towards the tree. When they got to see what everyone else saw, horror and anger painted the faces of the guild. They found Levy, Jet, and Droy beaten up horribly, crucified to the tree, and being hung by their arms with metal bands on their wrists. There was a symbol painted on Levy's stomach as to who was responsible for this fiasco, it was the mark of Phantom Lord.
"L-Levy, no." Lucy said in shock and sadness at seeing one of her friends, who wasn't on her team, hung up like that.
"Jet, Droy!" Gray exclaimed as he may not have hung out with them much, but they were still teammates of the same guild.
Erza and Natsu were livid at seeing what Phantom Lord had done to their guild mates. Ryuma on the other hand was beyond livid and angry. He had a horrified expression painted on his face as he flashbacked to his childhood, before he met with his dragon uncle. The horror on his face soon changed to pure rage as his magic began to form an aura field around him and everyone stepped back a bit from seeing him do this. His fists began to clench so hard that, even with his gloves on, he began to bleed from puncturing his hand.
Master Makarov soon arrived as he saw what had become of three of his 'children'. "It is one thing to have your home being wrecked by cowards when no one is around. However, harming a parent's children and seeing their blood spilt by those same cowards, is an entirely different thing." Makarov's magic slipped form his control like Ryuma's was as well.
Ryuma couldn't take this anymore as he began to turn and head off to punish those who would do such a thing. He only made it by a couple of steps before Makarov stopped him in his tracks. "Ryuma, hold on for just one sec…"
"NO! I won't hold on for a damn second!" Ryuma shouted in anger, shocking and scaring some people who have always seen him being the kind and calm one. It even surprised Lucy as she had never seen him this angry before. "Phantom Lord has taken this rivalry too far when they harmed Shadow Gear. I'm not just stand by and let them get away with this atrocity! I'm going to make sure they know what they are in for when they mess with our guild and make me furious!"
"That wasn't what I was going to say Ryuma." Makarov said, surprising the others. "What they have done is crossing the line when they harmed us. And for that, it is unforgivable!" Makarov squeezed his cane so hard that it actually broke from the pressure. "This is no act of cowardice; this is now an act of WAR!"
*Magnolia hospital later*
After getting help from the citizens in town, Lucy sat by Levy's bed as most of the members of Fairy Tail went to where Phantom Lord's Headquarters was located to deal with the problem head on. She looked on at her friend's conditions in sadness as she couldn't believe someone would even do this to such nice people. "Levy, I'm so sorry this happened to you." Lucy said softly as she remembered how she got to know Shadow Gear better.
*flashback*
Lucy sat at one of the benches after completing another mission, she was a bit sad because Natsu went overboard, caused massive damages, and had their pay cut because of it. She didn't stay like that for long when Levy, Jet and Droy walked up to her and Levy sat next to her.
"Hey Lucy, I heard from someone that you're writing a novel, is this true?" Levy asked in a friendly tone. This only caused Lucy to feel dejected.
"The word has already spread like that huh? Remind me to never trust Happy with any secrets ever again." Lucy said as she sent a small glare at the cat on the other end of the guild, eating a fish.
"I'm sorry I didn't know it was a secret. My name is Levy McGarden, and these are my friends, the one in the hat is Jet and the other one is Droy." Levy said as she introduced herself and her teammates.
"Hi there." Jet said as he was happy Levy was making another new friend.
"Wow, your cute." Droy said with a stupid smile on his face. Jet had to jab him in the side with his elbow as they knew Ryuma had taken a liking to Lucy, despite Ryuma not even knowing about it at the time.
"I know a thing or two about stories. But I'm such a terrible writer, so I just stick to reading them instead. May I please read your story?" Levy asked in the sweetest way possible.
Lucy got embarrassed as she was put on the spot like that. "W-Well, I haven't planned on anybody reading it yet, I'm still trying to work out some problems in the story."
"Huh, well why not? I mean, what's the point of putting so much hard work into making a book that no one will ever get to read?" Jet asked as he wasn't sure what the problem is.
"Yeah, people say being an author is like showing your bare butt for the whole world to see." Droy said as Lucy quickly went to cover her butt with her hands. Levy and Jet looked at him oddly.
"No one has ever said that, who do you know has said that before?" Jet asked his friend confusingly.
"Ah you don't know him, he's someone only I know." Droy said in his defense.
"You don't hang out with anyone else but others here in the guild and even then your with us all the time." Jet pointed out as he began poking some holes in Droy's defense.
"Ignoring them, I really want you to show me what you got. And I'm not talking about your butt so don't go weird on me girl." Levy quickly said as she wanted to see the book Lucy was writing and not her butt. "Although I think some guys may want to see your butt, but I think I may know who you want to show only." She teased Lucy as she had seen the telltale signs that Lucy likes Ryuma. This got her even more embarrassed.
"Like I said, I'm not quite finished with it yet." Lucy said as she tried to get off the subject of her book in progress.
"Well then, when your done with it, I'll be the first one who gets to read your work. Oaky?" Levy was excited as she wanted to see what Lucy had ready for her book.
"Well, sure thing Levy." Lucy agreed to it as Levy was happier than earlier.
"Oh thank you Lucy, I can't wait to read it when it's ready."
*end flashback*
Lucy looked on as she was saddened by the state of her friends. "Levy, this should never have happened to you. You worked so hard to save us during the body switching incident. I can't forgive Phantom Lord for what they have done." Lucy began to tear up as she doesn't like seeing her friends harmed and injured so badly from a sneak attack. "They're going to pay for this. Ryuma, guys, make them pay."
*Oaktown*
Located in the Northeast corner of the Fiore kingdom, it was a town where many historic buildings rested as they lay close to a river that divided the town. High up and towering over the town, rested a huge castle like building, this was the base of the Phantom Lord guild. Inside the guild, Phantom Lord mages were laughing and celebrating what they had done to Fairy Tail.
"Hahaha, those Fairy Tail wimps didn't know what was coming to them." One random mage said as he drank some alcohol.
"Yeah. Not only did Gajeel destroy their guild but I heard he and Aria sent another message in totally beating three of their mages to a bloody pulp." Another one said, finding enjoyment in their pain.
"I bet right now their trembling like wimps with their tail between their legs." Another mage said as he believed them to be cowards for allowing this to happen.
"Hey we can't let Gajeel have all the fun, what do you say to going over there, beat them down even more, and claim those Fairy girl's bodies for ourselves." The first one said with a sleazy grin on his face. The other two agreed as they followed him towards the door, hoping to get some with the ladies in Fairy Tail. Just as they reached the door, a loud explosion was made as not only did it gather the attention of the mages inside and those closest to the door, but a beam of Fire and Cosmic Magic shot out and impacted the bar area causing another explosion. This explosion was much smaller.
As the dust cleared away from the door, all the Phantom Lord mages looked on and saw who was responsible for this attack. It was Fairy Tail with Natsu and Ryuma's hands smoking from their attacks. All of their faces had a determined anger on them as they were prepared to deal with Phantom Lord right here, right now. "Fairy Tail has come calling, it's time to count up all your sins you sons of bitches!" Makarov stated as the fight was about ready to begin.
And this is where I'll be stopping for now. Next chapter we have the big fight that Fairy Tail as with Phantom Lord and some more revealing information that will shock Fairy Tail.
The part with the whole book about Dragon's and their mating rituals they have and the correlation between that and some Dragon Slayers, I had asked another Author on this site if he would be okay with me borrowing that idea. I got his permission as his exact words were: "Sure, I don't care."
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this new chapter and don't forget to leave a review at the bottom. See you next time.