The 'Blood' Dragon Slayer
It was 12:00 noon and Lucy and Gray were standing outside of Magnolia train station.
"Jeez, where are those guys?" Gray asked impatiently.
"I don't know. I mean, I know how Natsu can be late sometimes, but I wouldn't have thought Erza would be late. I'm not sure about Sienna though..." Lucy responded.
"Well they'd all better hurry up or we're gonna miss this train!" Gray said. Just then, they heard the familiar sound of Erza's cart. Both of them looked round and saw Erza dragging her cart full of suitcases as per usual.
"You finally made it!" Gray said. Erza stopped in front of them.
"Well it couldn't be helped. The Master had a lot of urgent matters that he needed to discuss with me. Where are the other two?" Erza said.
"Not here. And we don't have long left! If we miss this then we'll be waiting another day till the next one, and those two will get a beating they won't forget," Gray said getting more aggravated by the second.
"I see," Erza replied as though Gray hadn't added his comment about beating the dragon slayers. "We still have time before the train leaves. We can wait a little longer," After a few more minutes of waiting, they heard someone calling in the distance. All three of them looked to where the calling was coming from. It was Happy and Natsu running towards them. Eventually Natsu stopped in front of them. He bent over and started panting.
"About time! Where the hell have you been?" Gray asked.
"I...kinda...overslept..."Natsu said gasping for breath.
"Didn't you try to wake him up?" Lucy asked Happy.
"'Cos I was asleep too," Happy said rubbing his eyes.
"YOU GUYS ARE SO LAZY!" Lucy yelled. Natsu stood up.
"So where's Sienna?" he asked.
"Not here I'm afraid," Erza said. A whistle blew behind them. "Let's board now, and hope that she makes it in time," she added.
A little while later, all five of them where sitting down on the train.
"I wonder where Sienna could be. Do you think she decided not to come after all?" Lucy asked.
"Hard to say. I suppose she could be," Erza commented.
"I reckon she was scared off by Natsu," Gray said mockingly.
"Shut up you icy bastard!" Natsu shouted. He then dropped to the floor.
"Oh come on! We haven't even moved yet! How the hell do you have motion sickness already!" Gray yelled at the lump on the floor that was Natsu. The train then shunted, and slowly started to move out of the train station. As the train passed the station, there was a ruckus occurring on the platform, but they didn't bother to look out of the window to see what was going on.
"I really thought she was going to come," Lucy said looking downhearted.
"Hey don't worry about. It's not your fault Lucy," Gray said comforting her.
"Yeah it's not your fault that your face scared her so bad she wouldn't come," Happy added.
"You're not helping cat!" Lucy barked.
"Listen, don't worry yourself Lucy. I'm sure she'll explain as soon as we get back," Erza said.
"I guess so, yeah..." Lucy replied. She was actually quite upset Sienna hadn't come. She was really looking forward to watch Sienna become more of herself. She let out a sigh. At that moment, something slid through the open window from outside the train, just as it passed into a tunnel. It was Sienna. Everyone looked at her in shock.
"Sienna!" Lucy called.
"Where the hell did you come from?" Gray asked.
"And just where on earth have you been?" Erza said in her harsh voice. Sienna stood up.
"Sorry I'm late. Gildarts is more talkative than you first imagine," she explained. She suddenly noticed Natsu on the floor.
"What's up with him?" she asked.
"It's just his motion sickness," Lucy replied.
"It's that bad?"
"Yeah, don't worry you'll get used to it. It's actually kinda nice him shutting up every once in a while when we're travelling," Lucy said.
"I can still hear you, you know!" Natsu was barely able to say through fear he would throw up. Sienna took Natsu's seat that had become vacant next to Gray.
"So you were talking to Gildarts?" Lucy asked.
"Yeah, sorry about that," Sienna replied.
"What were talking to him for?" Gray questioned.
"He's been helping me try and gain control over whatever is inside of me," she explained.
"So you're tackling this straight away?" Erza enquired.
"Well, it wasn't my idea, it was the Master's. I can't help but feel everyone in the guild is on edge after what happened. He wants you guys to realise that whatever that thing is, it won't be occurring again," Sienna explained. Everyone was silent for a few moments.
"Well we'll support you not matter what," Lucy remarked. Sienna looked surprised.
"Um...thank you," Sienna said not knowing quite what to say.
"Yeah. We don't care what has happened or what could happen. We just don't want to have to go through that again," Gray added. Sienna blushed at their words. She was really seeing why so many people joined Fairy Tail.
When they finally reached the town, the sun was already setting. It was much smaller than Magnolia but it still had a fair few shops, hotels and cafes. The group decided to visit the town hall to tell the mayor of their arrival and to get the details of their job. When they got to the town hall, they were redirected to the mayor's office. He was a short, fat man wearing a purple suit. He had his back turned when the wizards walked in.
"I take it you're the wizards from Fairy Tail we requested?" he asked.
"Yes, we are," Erza said, speaking for everyone. He turned around. It was clear now he had a humongous moustache and a large bow tie to match. When he looked at the wizards his face turned to one of shock.
"Is everything ok?" Erza questioned.
"I asked for some wizards, not a bunch of kids!" he explained.
"Hey, who you calling a kid?" Natsu cried.
"Silence Natsu!" Erza barked. "Listen, we may look like some kids to you, but we are strong. Myself, I'm an S-Class wizard and those two are dragon slayers," she said indicating towards Sienna and Natsu.
"Don't we get noticed!" Gray exclaimed.
"You'd of thought we weren't here or something," Lucy added.
"Aye..." Happy said.
"OK then, prove it!" the man demanded. Everyone showed their emblems; Erza on her left arm, Natsu on his right arm, Sienna on her neck, Gray on his chest and Lucy on her hand.
"Well, I'll take your word for it then," the man continued.
"If not, we could always beat him till he believes us!" Natsu said.
"You are SO violent!" Lucy yelled.
"Your job is this. There is a band of thieves wondering around these parts that are believed to have magical powers. It's your job to apprehend these men at once. We have reason to believe that they are located somewhere in the mountains west of the town and are returning to the town in the night to steal," the man explained.
"Of course, we understand," Erza replied. "We will not rest until these low-lives are brought to justice!" Erza exclaimed proudly.
"Is she always like this?" Sienna commented.
"Pretty much..." Lucy responded. Erza turned her head and gave Sienna and Lucy a death stare. Sienna and Lucy instantly froze and their face turned to terror.
"Very well then. I'll leave you to it," the mayor said.
After the discussion, the group headed outside of the town hall. The sun was getting lower and lower.
"So what do we do now?" Lucy asked.
"I think our best course of action would be to travel over to the western mountains and try and apprehend them tonight, once we find a suitable hotel of course," Erza said.
"Right now? But we only just got here! Why can't we wait till morning?" Natsu complained. Erza gave Natsu another death stare.
"I suggest we travel over to the western mountains and apprehend them tonight," Erza said as though she was the calm before the storm. Natsu instantly look terrified.
"Yes...I'm sorry..." he said scared out of his wits.
An hour passed, and the team had found themselves a hotel. They had then travelled to the mountains and were walking along the path.
"Do you really think they'll show tonight?" Natsu said grumpily.
"Probably. They've been striking almost every night for 2 weeks now," Gray explained.
"I still think we should have stayed back the hotel..." he said his face sinking into his scarf.
"I think we'll stop here," Erza said stopping in her tracks.
"How come?" Lucy asked.
"Erza pointed up ahead. The path split into 3 different directions.
"I see. So if we make an ambush here tonight, there's no way we can miss them," Sienna said.
"Who made you the expert, fish breath?" Natsu exclaimed. Sienna snapped. Both of them instantly prepared to fight each other.
"You wanna go, you fiery bastard?" she said.
"I'm fired up!" he replied. Erza instantly knocked the two of them on the back of the head. They bent over, head in their hands.
"Stop this both of you!" We don't have time for this!" she barked.
"Are you kidding me? He was asking for that one!" Sienna yelled.
"I was not! You provoked me!" They built up their stances again. Erza requipped into her Heaven Wheel's armour. Over 50 swords were pointed at the two of them.
"I will only say this once! Behave now or face the consequences!" she barked again. The two of them stepped down, both looking a bit guilty. "Right, let's get ready," Erza said.
Half an hour had passed, and there was still no sign of any bandits. Lucy, Gray and Sienna were on one side of the path and Natsu, Happy and Erza were on the other.
"Do you think they decided not to show up?" Lucy whispered.
"SSHHH!" Erza hissed. The three of them looked over at the darkness where the voice had come from. They saw an armoured finger pointing to the path up ahead. They looked at where she was pointing. They noticed loud voices getting closer. They then appeared out of the darkness and were lit up by the moonlight. 5 guys, all fairly muscely, 4 of them were holding swords.
"I'm so looking forward to tonight's score!" one of them said.
"Yeah, this is gonna be sweet! Those worthless townspeople won't know what hit 'em!" another yelled.
"Hey boss, are you gonna start of the fireworks?" another asked as he looked at the one at the back. He had long brown hair, no shirt, and a tattoo under his left eye. He smiled an evil smile, after his friend asked the question.
"Yeah...I think we're gonna have fun tonight!" he said then chuckled. In that instant all of the Fairy Tail wizards jumped out of the darkness to confront them.
"Eh? Who the hell are you? Oh crap your fairy tailers aren't cha?" one asked noticing their emblems.
"Hang on wait a second guys. That's Titania Erza! And the Salamander!" one more said shocked.
"Wait up...is that...Oh man! Boss, I think that's...The Blood Dragon Slayer!...Yeah, no doubt! That's the one who managed to wipe out a village in a single night!" the first exclaimed.
"Why are we always left out?" Lucy said.
"Now that's just cold," Gray said.
"Aye," Happy added downhearted. Sienna gritted her teeth. She hated people referring to her nickname. Even though she tried for 3 years to get over it, her experience in Warren still haunted her, not helped by the fact her nickname, even though it wasn't spoken of much, it still brought fear to many people.
"Enough small talk, we're here to kick your butts!" Natsu said as he covered his fists in flames.
"I hear ya Natsu. Let's do this!" Gray added. This prompted them all to enter their fights. Erza took the one at the back, looking as though he was the strongest. The other 4 took the ones with swords. Erza ran towards the man requipping two swords.
"ICE MAKE HAMMER!"
"OPEN, GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL! TAURUS!"
"FLAMING ELBOW!"
"TALONS OF THE WATER DRAGON!" All of their attacks sent the men with swords flying, but Erza's attack didn't hit. Their attacks destroyed a fair amount of the forest. Sienna realised the reason why Fairy Tail got its reputation for destroying things. The five of them stood together and faced the one Erza couldn't land a blow on.
"Well, well, well! You live up to your rep Titania, you certainly have some great strength," the man said walking forward a few steps before stopping.
"I take it you're the one who has magical powers. Who are you?" she snapped.
"My name, is Genki. Not that it matters. You'll all be out of the way soon enough!"
"Not a chance! No low-life scum like you who uses magic to steal could ever hope to defeat a Fairy Tail wizard!" she yelled as she charged at the man again. To her surprise the man managed to block her sword with a single arm. Sienna took in Erza's words. The thought made her smile a little; she loved how much every single wizard in the guild felt so proudly of their guild. That sense of pride and belonging was something Sienna hadn't felt in a while.
"What are you smirking at? You think you're gonna keep me down again? DREAM ON!" Scor screeched inside her head. He started to cackle his evil laugh as he tried to gain control over Sienna's body. She lifted her hand to her face, trying her best to stop Scor's take over. Everyone instantly noticed her pain.
"Sienna!" Lucy yelled.
"What's going on?" Natsu shouted. Erza turned her head.
"Don't tell me she's..." Erza instantly realised her mistake by taking her eyes away from her opponent. Genki was fast, really fast. He managed to get away from Erza, slip past the rest of the group, and over to Sienna, where he kicked her in the stomach. She was sent flying into a tree.
"Sienna!" Natsu called as she slumped to the ground. "Bastard!" he screamed as he ran over to attack Genki. Genki turned his head a smirked. He easily dodged Natsu's attack, and punched him right back, sending his flying. Gray then tried attacking, but still no effect on him. He also sent Gray flying, but this time he held out his hand as Gray was soaring through the air. A green magic circle appeared in front of his hand.
"Leaf's rain!" he called, and thousands of small objects that looked like leaves battered Gray. They managed to make shallow, but plenty of, cuts all over his body. Genki then raced over to Lucy, knowing that she would be easy to pick off, and sent her soaring off.
"Natsu! Gray! Lucy! Sienna!" Erza called. "How dare you?" Erza yelled, requipping into her Black Winged amour. She launched herself at him, but another magic circle appeared, and he called:
"Leaf barrier!" A barrier made up of leaves instantly swarmed around him, stopping Erza's sword dead. She looked shocked. "Leaf's rain!" Erza then experienced the same torment Gray went through and landed a fair distance away from him. He looked content with himself.
"Now that that's settled," he said with a smirk. He started to walk over to where Sienna was, on the ground, struggling to push Scor back.
"Oi! I'm not done with you yet!" Natsu called behind him. He turned his head in interest. "Just what the hell do you want?" he ordered.
"What I want, huh?" Genki said. He walked another couple of steps, and grabbed Sienna by her hair. He turned round and swung her in front of him, so Natsu could see. His face looked shocked. He saw how much Sienna was struggling. One of her eyes had already turned a fiery red, and her left arm was covered in blue and black scales.
"What I what is right here!...I want, and I will have, the power of the Blood Dragon Slayer!" he yelled. Natsu's faced dropped.
"What?"
"Once I control the blood dragon slayer, I will become greatly powerful. People will bow down to my superior strength!" he explained.
"Do you seriously believe that will happen? That I'd just let you do that?"
"There's now way you can defeat me! Controlling this demon will be a challenge yes, but that's a small price to pay!"
"SHUT UP!" Natsu yelled, clenching his fists. "Don't you dare refer to her as something so vile!"
"Why the hell do you care? Isn't she the one who tried to kill everyone in Fairy Tail?" he said, throwing Sienna away by the hair. She landed about 15 meters away. Natsu gritted his teeth.
"Face it, Salamander! That girl is nothing but a monster! Look at her! Half of her body has already been taken over!" he roared. "She massacred an entire village in a single night! What else could refer that to other than a beast, a monster, a demon!" he continued. Sienna's heart sank. She began to believe his words.
"He's right. What am I, other than this? Even now, people still fear me," she thought. More of her body grew into scales, as she recalled what the man had said not long ago. "I always feel so helpless..." A tear rolled down her face, and more of her body was consumed.
"You're such an idiot," Natsu said calm, but his fists were shaking. Genki had a puzzled look on his face. "She's no demon. She never was, never has been, never will be. She always has been and will forever be...FAIRY TAIL'S WATER DRAGON SLAYER, SIENNA!" Sienna's eyes widened with shock. She could feel the warm feeling she felt when Natsu was fighting her whilst under Scor's control.
"You're delusional, boy!" Genki shouted.
"We'll just see about that!" he yelled, as he went in for another attack.
"FIRE DRAGON IRON-"
"LEAF'S CLAW!" Genki said quicker than Natsu could perform his attack. A mass of leaves knocked him down to the ground, stumbling backwards.
"Face reality! You're nowhere near strong enough to stop me!" Genki yelled as Natsu stood up. "I won't be defeated by someone as weak as you!" he screeched, then cackling. A voice stopped his insane laughter.
"Maybe not..." The voice came behind Genki. They both looked at the direction it had come from. Sienna was standing on her feet. "But could you really handle both of us?" she said. The scales began to retreat.
"That's not possible! There's no way you could do that!" he said in horror as Sienna's eye returned to normal.
"Sienna!" Natsu called.
"Natsu! I think it's about time we worked together for the first time!" Sienna said as she raced over to his side.
"Yeah. I'm all fired up now! You sure you're gonna be okay?" he asked.
"Don't worry about me! Let's just end this right now! You ready, fire dragon slayer?" Sienna said as she looked at him with a smile. Natsu nodded and smiled too.
"Yeah I am, water dragon slayer!" They turned to Genki and their faces became more serious.
"Spare me the crap!" Genki called.
"Let's rock!" they said in unison. Natsu's fist covered themselves in fire, and Sienna's covered themselves in high pressured water, looking almost like blades surrounded her fists. They both leapt towards him and began pounding him. He was very skilled at blocking their attacks, but it didn't stop them busting up his skin a bit. After about 15 seconds of pounding, they stopped and split.
"FIRE DRAGON WING ATTACK!" Natsu roared as he performed his attack.
"LEAF BARRIER!" Genki yelled. It blocked Natsu's attack. Genki smirked. Then he noticed Sienna running up behind him.
"Crap! I forgot about her!" Genki thought, but there was no time to react.
"SECRET WATER DRAGON ART! WATER LANCES!" she yelled. A load of water jets launched themselves at Genki. There was a bit of dust emitted, and Genki was obscured from view. Natsu and Sienna met up with each other, and tried to work out where he'd gone. Suddenly, he stumbled out of the dust, spluttering. He had significant bruises, scraps and cuts over him. He was bent over a bit.
"You punks...think you can beat me?..." he said. He then snapped his head up. "I will not lose to the likes of you!" he screamed. Natsu and Sienna smirked.
"ROAR OF THE..."
"ROAR OF THE..." Genki instantly realised his mistake of antagonising them.
"FIRE DRAGON!"
"WATER DRAGON!" Both roars hit Genki at once. He screamed and disappeared behind a wall of dust.
"Oh yeah!" Natsu said joyfully. Sienna laughed a bit. "I think that's what you call a beating!" They high-fived each other.
"You can that again!" Sienna said. They both laughed a little. Suddenly, Sienna began to fall forwards. Natsu quickly caught her.
"Hey, are you ok?" he asked worryingly.
"Yeah...just exhausted...that's all," she said as looked up at him and smiled.
A little while later, the rest of the group were back on their feet. They were slightly injured and tired though not as bad as Sienna. Not only had she had to stop Scor, but she had to put up a big fight against Genki with Natsu. As such, Natsu had to carry her on his back, as she could not longer stand on her own. All of the men were all rounded up and captured.
"Well that's the last of them. The knights should be here to take you away soon," Erza said. "Now..." She said and walked towards Genki. He could only keep one eye open at best. Even so, she grabbed him by his collar and started to yell at him.
"Tell me why the hell you began this farce in the first place!" Genki eventually managed to speak.
"Fine...I'll tell you..." he said. Everyone looked at him with baited breath.
"We weren't just stealing...for the hell of it...we had a goal in mind," he said.
"And just what would that be?" Erza questioned.
"...We've been searching for something...something I know you will want as well..."
"What the hell could we be interested in that also interests sum like you?" Gray added.
"Well...maybe not you...but the dragon slayers..." he said. Both of them looked at him.
"The dragon slayers?" Erza enquired. Natsu walked over to him. He managed to turn his head a little.
"You want...to see you dragons again...right?" Natsu looked shocked but then looked angry.
"Of course we do! If you know something then spill it!" he said.
"The thing we've been searching for...it's an artefact...one that can lead you to where the dragons have gone," he said. Everyone looked shocked at the news, especially the dragon slayers.
"Where the hell do I find this?" he yelled.
"...It belongs to a man...a man named Shin Hirako...find him and you can find your dragons..." he said before passing out. Natsu looked so shocked. He couldn't believe it! All the years that he had been searching, the years the others had been searching, could they have only needed to do was to find this Shin guy? It made Natsu angry but he dealt with it.
"Hey, Natsu are you ok?" Lucy asked worried.
"...Yeah I'm fine, don't worry about me..."
"Natsu..." Happy said.
"OK! Let's get back to the hotel! Man I am beat!" he cheered happily. They all turned around and began walking back to the town.
"Hm, Natsu would never admit it, but he's got so many mixed up emotions right now. He must be feeling both thrilled at the prospect of seeing Igneel again, and frustrated he had never come across this information before..." Erza thought.
"Hey, Sienna? Out of interest, how did you stop that thing's take over this time?" Gray asked. There was no response.
"Hey!" he yelled.
"Will you shut up Gray?" Natsu hissed. "She'll tell you in the morning okay?" he said, as he looked up to see Sienna fast asleep on his back. He smiled a bit. His face then turned serious as he looked up ahead at the town.
"Igneel...just you wait...I WILL find you!"