The four member's of Earth lands Fairy Tail had been walking for what seemed like hours before they stumbled across a tree, the gnarled massive expanse of wood was an odd shade of green, but what drew their attention was the symbol suspended by a set of ropes on a curtain above the door, the Fairy Tail Guild mark sat proudly as it rippled with the wind, the four walked to the doors slowly, eager to see if they really had carbon copies of themselves in this alternate world. Natsu pushed the door open slowly, the door opening drew the attention of the people inside, many stared at him in open disbelief before a familiar blonde dropped in front of him, he watched the movement of her landing carefully before raising his arm to block the fist she sent flying at his head.
"Is that how you greet newcomers?" Natsu growled, flipping his grip onto her arm pivoting on his foot and flipping the Edolas Lucy over his shoulder.
"Newcomer?!" Lucy spat "We all know who you are, Fairy killer." She practically hissed the name.
Lucy locked her leg against the ground and kicked up, Forcing Natsu to dodge back and release her.
"You've got me mistaken for someone else," Natsu explained holding his hands out "We are not even from your world."
Raken, Erza and Wendy filtered into the room and looked around, they spotted a few familiar faces in the crowd, but with it came a sense of unfamiliarity, they could instinctively tell these were not the people they had grown up with.
"Hey, Erza's back!" Edolas Wendy shouted excitedly, before looking at the frowning red head.
"I am not the Erza you think I am," Erza said calmly "It kind of difficult to explain, We come from another world, kind of like a mirror to yours we aren't the people you think we are."
"Yeah, Nice try Erza, next thing you know you will try to convince us your world has infinite magic energy or something." Jet joked.
Erza lit her fist on fire and stared at him "It does."
"In short, we are only here because someone from your world opened a whole in ours, they took our entire city and all of our friends with it." Natsu said quickly, the looks of anger he was getting were starting to worry him, he didn't want to have to hurt his friends, even if they were not his actual friends.
"Look at Edolas me," Wendy snickered lifting her Edolas counterpart to her eye level "Why are you so small?"
"Put me down!" Edolas Wendy squirmed in protest.
"Wendy you were as short as her once too," Raken said from the door as he scanned the Edolas guild members "Whatever government you have in place probably made some announcement that they have a way to renew the magic energy in this place."
"You mean the Giant Lacrima the King announced a few days ago?" Lucy looked at him and raised a questioning eyebrow.
"Sounds like it," Raken nodded "Where?"
"The Royal City, it will take days to reach it on foot, you people have some form of transportation?" Lucy asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"No," Natsu answered "But if you tell us where we can get some we would be grateful."
"We got trouble!" The people inside the guild towards he door as Droy burst through the door "The Fairy Killer is on his way!" He puffed out as he breathed heavily, before looking up and recoiling in shock "No way, there's no way you got here before me!"
"Wrong Natsu," Natsu responded before turning to Lucy "What's going on?"
The guild began to panic and a tick mark appeared on Edolas Lucy's forehead "Enough! Levy, we need to move."
"I'm working on it!" Levy shouted from behind a large machine on the wall "This isn't as easy as it looks you know!"
Natsu cracked his knuckles "I can buy you some time."
"Levy how much time you need?" Lucy demanded.
"Ten minutes would be just peachy!" Levy shouted back in annoyance.
Natsu nodded as he exited the guild, looking over the tree-tops they came from, he noticed the irregular pattern of the wind in the tree, he lowered himself and jumped landing atop the tree's closest to the guild he scanned the sky, a small black blot was steadily growing larger, the glimmer of armor caught his eye as he stared at what could simply be described at himself, the black armor Edolas Natsu wore, had a large silver crest on the left shoulder, the right was left bare and a he gripped a long spear in his left hand, the reins of the beast he rode in the other, the chest plate was the same black as the rest of the armor, Natsu growled at his Edolas counterpart, focusing a small spear of energy in his hand he launched it towards the approaching him before launching himself into the air.
Edolas Natsu noticed the glimmer of energy flying towards him and pulled the spear across, slicing the clear spear of energy in half a shadow fell over him and he looked up as another him fell from the sky and slammed into his legion, the beast let out a pain cry as it plummeted to the ground, Natsu leapt back as the beast crashed into the ground.
"Identify yourself!" Edolas Natsu demanded as he landed with a heavy thud.
"My name is Natsu Dragneel!" Natsu shouted
"You are not from around here are you?" Edolas Natsu pointed out flatly.
"No, unfortunately for you," Natsu growled as he lowered towards the ground, he sword materializing on his back as he glared at his Edolas counterpart "So, what do they call you here?"
"Hm, Natsu Nightsbane is what they call me here, but the rats of that so called 'guild' behind you know me by another name," He growled with a wicked smile "The Fairy Killer, I believe is what they call me, I have lost count of how many of those sorry scraps I have ended."
"You would do well to study your opponents a little better," Natsu growled before disappearing, Edolas Natsu pulled his spear above his head a hair's breath before Natsu slammed into him, the ground crunched underneath the force of the blow and sent the wind ripping around them, Edolas Natsu's eyes fell on the mark displayed proudly on Natsu's shoulder guard "I can't believe someone who shares my name is part of that retched guild!"
"Don't worry, I will relieve you of the burden soon enough!" Natsu shouted as he rolled forward slamming his elbow into the nose of his Edolas counterpart, the an audible snap the cartilage broke, Edolas Natsu stumbled back and wiped the blood from his lip before darting forward, Natsu stomped his foot on the ground, a wall of energy raising in between them, Edolas Natsu slammed into it and gritted his teeth, Natsu smirked at his counterpart before slamming his fist into the wall of energy, sending it and his counterpart hurtling away, He turned away and ran back to Edolas's Fairy Tail, running through the door and giving Lucy a simple nod.
"Levy time to go!" Lucy shouted
"Done! We are getting out of here!" Levy shouted in response.
Natsu leaned against the wall and breathed heavily 'I might have over done it a little.' He thought with a smirk.
"So, what is your counterpart like in strength?" Raken asked raising his eyebrow slightly.
"If I didn't catch him by surprise we would be a lot closer, I think he was shocked to see me afterwards." Natsu answered
"Well, they will be prepared for us now, we can't expect to remain undetected anymore." Raken noted as the guild shifted.
"Who said anything about stealth?" Natsu smirked
"Let's face it Raken, Stealth is not Fairy Tails strong suit." Erza agreed
"So, right through the front door?" Raken asked with a smirk
Natsu nodded "Same as always little brother."
A/N: Another short chapter, but this has a bit of action, I am sort of getting back into the swing of things and idea's aren't flowing as well as usual so I Apologize, hope you enjoy regardless and I will see you in the next one! Peace!
