Chapter 3: The Job (FINALLY!)
They were finally here. Lucy had to admit, the journeys getting to the jobs were usually worse than the jobs themselves. She looked at the flyer she'd taken from the request board. Still the same ridiculously high reward for a ridiculously easy job… Lucy frowned. It shouldn't be this easy to get this much jewel. Was this a trap of some kind…? She wouldn't be surprised. After all, the strongest team in Fairy Tail did attract a lot of creeps and weirdos…she really hoped this wasn't a trap.
"Mina, we're here!" Erza called to the two lagging teenagers behind her.
"Woah…" Lucy breathed. "It's…"
"HUUUUGE! HAPPY, LOOK! EVERYTHING'S HUGE! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN! I'M ALL FIRED UP!" Natsu sucked in an enormous breath and let out his famous Fire Dragon's roar, blowing up the church of the now-abandoned town.
Erza and Lucy rolled their eyes. Of course Natsu would get right to the job.
Gray huffed out a breath. "There's no way that flame-headed idiot's going to do a better job than me…Ice-Make, Hammer!" Gray smashed an entire row of titan-sized shops into bits.
"HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE HITTING STRIPPER! YOU ALMOST CRUSHED ME!"
"MAYBE I WANTED TO CRUSH YOU! EVER THOUGHT OF THAT SQUINTY EYES?!"
And then they commenced doing what the two mages did best…trying to outdo one another by means of mass destruction.
"We'd better get going Erza…Erza?" Lucy looked around for her friend.
"There is no way I'm being outdone by two IMMATURE MAGES LIKE YOU!"
And then Erza joined the mass destruction party, letting out a wild cry of "FOR THE STRAWBERRY CAKE!" while her swords went through the residential area of the titan town.
Watching her friends do what they did best, Lucy decided to do what she did best: analyze the situation. She still didn't trust that this job request had been sincere, and wanted to dig deeper into what exactly could be going on. Of course, she wouldn't let her friends do all of the work either.
"Open, Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!"
"Lucy-sama! How may I assist you, my blond beauty?"
"Taurus, help Erza and the others destroy that town!"
"Ok, but on one condition…a kiss?"
"NO YOU PERVERTED BULL! NOW GO DO YOUR JOB!"
With a palpable annoyance that he had not gotten his kiss, Taurus set off to destroy the town. With all four of their powers combined, the team looked like it would make short work of the town. Lucy still had at least an hour to reflect on what she thought of as a suspicious request.
Lord Harwitt…where have I heard that name before…?