Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.
I do own the Original Characters that appear through the story and the idea for the story.
Knowing it from the beginning.
(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)
Chapter 12: 'You'll know soon enough!' – Fran's answer.
(Brammingmont; north side, outside the city.)
"Lahar-dono! There are sounds of fighting close to where the unknown object fell!" One of the officers said to his superior, watching him frown at the words, Lahar stared at where the object from the sky fell and saw clouds of smoke, several explosions and a building on fire. Fire. That meant that the people they were looking for were there. Turning around to face his men, he raised an arm with an open palm and ordered them to move into the city before the fight ended and the objectives ran away.
"Move into the city! Neutralize and arrest all those that try to help Dragneel and his followers!" Several shouts of agreement were heard and the men marched eagerly to the city through the main road, the black haired man crossing his arms while thinking about what it could be happening in there. Minutes ago he saw a flash of light over one of the rooftops, everything was quiet then and now, fighting erupted, probably a feint… or…
His frown deepened, his form moving to follow his knights. 'Dragneel… are you aware of what could happen to your friends if they help you? Or you are just showing your true colors?'
"Ugh!"
"What's this…! ?"
The bespectacled man looked ahead quizzically, hearing the complaints of his men; he walked closer to them to see what was happening, one nervous looking one, whom noticed him first, gave him a salute and pointing at the entrance of the town he showed something that made the Head of the law-enforcement unit frown. A wall of purple colored runes prevented them step into the combat zone.
"Sorry gentlemen but you cannot pass…" A deep serious voice said from nowhere to the rune knights with no trace of humor in it, Lahar didn't knew the voice but he was able to discern the magic used to close the passage, runes, there was a member of Fairy Tail capable of using such magic. Scanning his surroundings thoroughly, he found the source of the voice stepping out of an alley leading to the road they planned to use; Lahar's assumptions were correct, the guild was also involved.
Freed Justine looked at the knights with a calm scowl and crossed arms, his sword sheathed, his robes moving at the rhythm of the blowing wind along his long green hair. His team partners nowhere to be seen. "Please leave, do not interfere with the personal affairs of our guild."
The black-haired man wanted to laugh at what was said, and indeed, a snort coming from him made his men stop glaring at the rune specialist to turn and look at him in surprise. Walking past the men under his command, he stood face to face with the barrier stopping them and looked at the Fairy Tail mage on the eyes, sending a hateful glare in his direction. "Personal affairs? We're here to arrest those responsible for attacking guilds all over Fiore! This stopped being a personal affair long ago. Move aside, Freed Justine, and we'll be let this incident slide."
Freed shook his head, his arms moving to grab the sash and hilt of his sword in a defying fashion, expecting the council's army next movement. Lahar's frown deepened, looking through his coat pockets he pulled out a magic pen and started modifying the runes, letting his men pass to arrest the green-haired man in less than a minute. Charging at him with spears high and some shouts-taunts, the rune knights grew close to Freed as he stood firm on his position, unsheathing his sword when only a few meters of distance remained and screaming just two words that made the council's commander regret sending his men to a blind charge. "Bickslow! Now!"
"Alright baby!" Breaking through the window of a building's top floor to the left, the doll's specialist of the Raijin tribe and Fairy Tail floated over the knights with two dolls supporting his weight as the other three started shooting randomly at the men, making some of them stop their charge to take cover, just a few of them reaching Freed to engage on close combat; which with the man's grace in it wasn't the best course of action.
Lahar gritted his teeth and clenched his fists in anger, as always that damn guild got in the middle of the Council's business and opposed them, be that one of their members was involved or a random friend they made, they always got in the middle with their reckless and carefree attitude.
(Brammingmont; north side, a few blocks away from the fighting between FT and the Rune Knights.)
"Should we intervene, Hyde-san?" Asked monotonously a man leaning against a wall of a dark alley, watching the corner where the stoned floor and the wall of a house joined, his eyes giving away his disinterest in the fight or for anything else for that matter. He wore black full body armor with the neck extending up to cover all the way to his nose, some spikes on the shoulders, knees and the tip of his boots; he had red scarlet hair with its sides and back kept short, while the front was a small bunch of hair combed forward, half narrowed brown eyes and slightly tanned skin.
Hyde looked at him from over his shoulder, shaking his head in answer before kneeling and closing to the end of the alley to watch the situation better; watching the two new arrivals holding off the ones going after their leader at the same time his ears let him know that the fighting between his partners and his leader's old friends still continued.
"Though we should, flame-brain won't hold back much longer and sparky and whinny won't either." Another voice, this one livelier than the previous, said while stepping close to the kneeled man. He wore a dark green trench coat, a black shirt underneath with a multi-purpose belt strapped diagonally from his shoulder to his hip, and trousers matching his trench coat's color. He had slicked back hair with one side black and the other white, one eye completely closed with a scar running up-down over it and the other eye showing to be blue and okay, and paled white skin.
"I know, Fran, but Asa-san's orders are to remain close and watchful; only intervening if Natsu-san gives us the signal…" The light blue haired man said while watching some more explosions occurring close to the crash site and the fight between the two mages against the rune knights getting complicated.
"And just what signal is that?" The man now known as Fran asked bored, putting his hands on his coat pockets and turning to look at the increasing quantity of buildings on fire where his leader was fighting, his eyes moving by reflex to look at three magic shots of different elements coming from the crash site to the sky. Fire, lightning and air coming from different spots but going to the same destination, merging together and continuing their way upwards after clashing in the middle of their route. "Now I know, let's go!"
"No, you go and get those fighting the council out of there; Pierre and I'll go help the others, join us after that." Fran grunted and muttered some insults and incoherencies as he walked towards the fight, leaving his friends behind; both guys nodding to each other before running on the opposite direction.
(Brammingmont; north side, crash site.)
Asis dodging Erza's constant and deadly slashes, Literio having the time of his life with an opponent that could only be defeated if he knocked out his master and Natsu jumping away from ice and fire strikes from Gray and Kaki at the same time he dodged Nova's sword. The pink-haired didn't like the situation of him fighting his friends… daughter and step-brother… but he couldn't be thinking about liking or not liking it, he needed to, no; he had to provoke this fight between them so they weren't blamed for his fault. He knew that the Council would be more than pleased to arrest him, his collaborators and some of his friends from the guild, and he didn't want to give them that pleasure, not if he could do something about it.
Looking ahead, Natsu saw another fireball heading his direction, he only jumped away from its path and found that Nova was expecting him with her swords raised above her head, ready to cut him in half; he flashed a caring smile at her and she stopped wide-eye at the action, bad move. "Don't let feelings rule you…"
"You're one to talk!" He heard Gray's voice behind him, his arms raised at his sides, turned to blades that when they got near to the dragon-slayer's back, were melted by the intense heat his magic pressure did. "Ugh!"
"Go away!" Was all Natsu said before roundhouse kicking the ice mage on the gut and sending him a few meters away, using his remaining leg to spin on his position and kick his daughter on her side, she went flying to the boulder Kaki and she did when they arrived; now with his personal space free, he had a clear view of Kaki running head-on to confront him in close combat; another smile, such a stubborn fella, like himself years ago. Jumping over the flame kick the boy did, he tried the same move and the boy ducked to avoid it, using his contracted legs to make one of the many moves Natsu knew as the back of his hand.
"Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" Kaki ignited his entire body on fire in order to ram into Natsu's mid-section at full speed, and then launch him high into the air with his large horn of fire, but he didn't expect the older fire dragon to grab his head when he was close to him; the pink-haired used the propulsion of the attack and made the boy give a complete twist on the air before sending him head-first crashing against the stoned floor under both of them.
Natsu scowled at the boy before stepping to a side and letting Nova's sword pass close to his left arm with her close behind, his head getting close to hers in that moment to whisper something he felt the need to point out. "You cannot fight fire with fire, especially with a fire dragon-slayer."
She remained stoic at what she heard, quickly turning around on her toes to send another slash at her father that he avoided by jumping back, an action that repeated itself several times before the scarlet hair gave one last slash aimed at his chest and later moved to a side to let a barrage of ice lances take her father by surprise. But his stupidly big grin could almost state the contrary.
"Nice! Fire Dragon's Roar!" Punching his fists together, he inhaled a good amount of air as he leaned back and later exhaled it all as fire that melted the ice yet again; Nova foretold that move, so she remained close to him to launch a second assault, but when she charged at him, he was already expecting the red-head with his fists ablaze, ready to stop her on her feet.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu engulfed his fist in large flames and punched his daughter on the center of her chest, sending her flying away against a surprised Gray that was about to launch another ice spell; both mages rolling on the ground until they stopped thanks to a wall, a few meters away.
The fire dragon-slayer straightened up, looking at his handy work, Kaki's leg twitching while most of his body remained buried in the ground, and Gray and Nova struggling to stand up after the last attack; Gray having a more difficult time as he was still wasted from his fight with the blond now fighting Loke, and his daughter trying to regain her breath after receiving such a blow to her lungs. The pink-haired mage scowled at the image in front of him, mentally scolding himself for doing such things to those he hold dear but understanding that it was for their own good.
"Tired Gray?" He asked in a teasing manner, trying to get on the nerves of his friend as he used to, years ago.
"Y-you wish!" Panting in between words, Gray moved an arm to the close wall to support his body weight, trying to glare at his old friend and rival, but failing miserably with the exhaustion making him cross his eyes in the attempt. "Fuck you flame-brain…!"
"I know, popsicle, but you'll thank me later." He give a few steps towards them, his body showing him as fresh as when the fighting started and his scowling face indicating that he wanted to stop with this; though Gray had other idea in mind.
"Thank you my ass! You start attacking us with no reason and you expect me to 'thank you'? I understand that you have a plan and all that but…!" His rambling was cut short by Natsu; the man grabbing him by the throat was making it hard to continue with his scolding. The dragon-slayer hided his eyes from view, his factions giving away the fact that he was frowning for what was said. "B-bastard…!"
"Father! That's enough!" Nova cried out was heard by all of the present, though that didn't stop them from continuing with their battles. Natsu merely tilted his head to look at her as his hold on the ice mage's throat softened. "I can see why are you doing this, but it's unnecessary!"
"Unnecessary?" The pink haired wizard whispered, moving his arm to throw Gray to a side and start walking towards the young red-head. "You said that but I can see in your eyes that you have no other solutions in your mind."
"That's a lie!" Shouted the girl as she finally stood up, tightening her hold on her sword and readying herself for anything that her father could do to her. "You could…!"
"No!" Natsu cut her short as he stopped in front of the girl and glared at her straight in the eyes. "There's no other way."
"Natsu!"
(Brammingmont; north side, outside the city.)
"I'll say it again! Surrender or we will arrest you!" Lahar said as he avoided yet another beam coming from the dolls of the puppeteer. "Tch!"
Bickslow was about to say something but him, his dolls and Freed suddenly disappeared from sight, letting the rune knights hear only the sound of footsteps coming from one of the alleys.
"Sorry, my illusions have a limit…" A lively voice said to the perplexed knights, as the owner of said voice stepped into view. He had black and white hair. "Now, why don't we have real fun?"
"Who are you! ?" Lahar questioned as he came out of his cover and faced the new arrival. The man snickered.
"Me? Don't worry," He raised a hand and this one soon started to engulf itself with light, a death serious glare coming from the man as he prepared to launch an attack. "You'll know soon enough!"
(Brammingmont; north side, crash site.)
"Natsu!" Erza's scream was heard coming from behind the Salamander, who was still glaring at his daughter and not caring for the oncoming sword heading to his exposed back. She managed to defeat Asis with her Black Wing armor, and now she was focused on getting some answers from the dragon-slayer and his actions; preventing him from doing any harm to their daughter first, that is.
*Clang*
The sword fell to the ground, the sound of it falling stopping and catching the attention of the fighters to where the sound came, their eyes meeting with the unfamiliar figure of a black armored knight with a sword's flat side held in front of him that stopped the blade of the Titania from reaching its target.
"I'm your opponent." The armored figure said as it lowered his sword to look at his opponent in the eyes. Erza and the others were shocked to see and hear the black knight talking but their shocked quickly faded when, the knight charged at Erza with his sword at the ready, Literio took the chance to hit Loke with his Lightning Dragon's Roar and Natsu continued to talk with his 'so-called' daughter.
"There's no other way, Nova," He softened his eyes for a fraction of a second, catching the girl off-guard again, before hardening it again and hitting her on the ribs with his right elbow. She went flying a few meters and hit the hard floor with her back, almost drifting to unconsciousness. "I'm sorry…"
"All you know is to say 'I'm sorry'!" Gray muttered loud enough for Natsu to hear, the pink-haired looking over his shoulder with his eyes hidden again as the ice mage struggled to stand up. "Coward!"
"Don't insult Natsu-san." Was the reply to his words, coming sternly from a man that now stood behind the fire dragon-slayer. The man had light blue hair tied down in a ponytail that rested over his left shoulder. He narrowed his eyes at Gray and the ice mage did the same, with the sudden appearance of the black knight, the appearance of this guy did not surprise him as before.
"Tch! don't tell me what to do!" Gray moved his arms in front of him, his right hand opening with his left closing to a fist before both joined with a light hit; mist coming from the joining before several lances formed and launched themselves towards the frail looking guy. "Ice make! Lances!"
"Good luck." Natsu said before ducking to avoid a fire engulfed punch from his 'step-brother' and kicking him away against a building, following him with his fire-leg thrusters to continue with the fight.
"Thanks." Hyde whispered out of politeness before raising one hand with its palm open facing the ground, an invisible force field surrounding him and making the ice lances shatter on contact. "Light magic, forcefield."
"Tch…!"
To be continued
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Yes, I did actually said that in spanish, sorry about it. It means, without comments, something that maybe you've already guessed.
I'm saying that since three or two chapters ago! xD
Okay, there's some comentarios. Sorry for delaying the arrest and all that, it's just that I feel like trolling you, my readers, as Hiro does. XD
By the way, I've come to the conclusion that, the arrest will be the final chapter of this story.
Why?
Because, the title and the summary were already explained, there's no need to continue the story.
But that doesn't mean that the story will stop here! I'll publish a new one showing what happens during the 'year and a half' before the decisive moment arrives. xD The title for it? Don't know yet. Feel free to throw ideas. XD
So, for now, see you guys around.
Saludos!
PS: That means, regards or respects, as in goodbye. xD
PS2: I'm glad to see more stories about NaZa from others besides my friends, (To which I send my best wishes and a message of impatience for making me wait so long for their updates!) hope you guys continue to write NaZa and encourage more readers to write about them! xD
PS3: I don't have one. XDDDD (Lame joke, I know.)
PS4: To my friends again, I'm still waiting for your chapters for the project we talked about! XD