In the country of Fiore there is a city known as Era. At the center of this city is a large plateau, where atop sits the headquarters of the Magic council overlooking the city from the peak. A zig-zagging path from its base leads directly to the building's front gates. The Magic council, is the highest authority in the magical world on the continent of Ishgar, and founded at the same time as the kingdom of fiore.
Currently the magic council is holding a meeting to discuss current events, one such incident involves the port town of hargeon. Located in the center meeting room of the building, nine figures can be seen standing on a magic circle, suspended 20 feet in the air.
"Those idiots from fairy tail have gone and done it again, this time they destroyed an entire port!"
"What is the matter with them?" a councilman says with an exasperated tone
"I'm actually quite fond of those idiots and their carefree attitude" a blue haired member says with amusement in his voice, he wears dark pants and a white jacket but his most intriguing feature is a large red mark on the right side of his face.
To his right a another member, a small elderly man, speaks up
"They may be fools, but they are also an extremely capable lot, the paperwork turned in has a lot of successful missions reported, despite the excess damages left behind" he says as he looks through a stack of papers in his hands.
"Yes they poses quite the quandary"
"I think we should leave them be for now" the blue haired member says "After all if it wasn't for those fools, think how boring this world would be"
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During their escape from hargeon Natsu told Lucy that the fairy tail guild was a few days away by foot, located in the city of Magnolia. This confused Lucy as she was familiar with the railways, a train from hargeon to magnolia would only take 5 hours. When she brought this up natsu turned green, happy saying he got motion sick. Despite Natsu not wanting to, Happy agreed with Lucy and they took the train. During the ride Natsu was completely out of it and happily chose to sleep the ride away. Lucy followed suit.
Upon arriving in the city of Magnolia, Lucy was amazed by its beauty. Magnolia is a large merchant city of 60,000 people and filled with ambient magic. The city was a large built-up area, extending over a large, rectangular surface to the shores of Lake Sciliora at the northern part of the city. From the lake multiple canales flowed through the city with fishermen going up and down. Many of the buildings looked to be made of stone and wood work and were very colorful. Located almost in the middle of the town, overlooking the Central Path, Lucy could see Kardia Cathedral, one of Magnolia's most important and distinctive landmarks. Recalling what she read in a book, the cathedral is apparently filled with divine energy. In the northernmost part of the city, sitting on the shore of Lake Scilliora, about 4-5 kilometers up the Magnolia central path, Lucy could see the Fairy Tail guild hall. The southeastern section of the city is the train station where Natsu, Lucy and Happy just left.
Following the central path towards the guild Lucy looked this way and that. It was only an hour till noon but many people were on the streets, entering shops, or approaching vendors. Lucy noted the geography of the city, how it was nestled between forest and a mountain range. Lucy could tell she was going to love it here. Finally they made it to the guild hall.
"Welcome to fairy tail" happy says when they reach the entrance. Lucy looks up amazed by the building. It looked to be about three stories tall with cream colored walls and red roof shingles. The windows were green and red in the shape of diamonds and the large red front door was leaf shaped. An overhang was just above the door proudly displaying the guild name. Stepping back a little, Lucy could see three large banners hanging from the top of the building. The middle one was the biggest, it was orange and had the fairy tail symbol on it in white.
"WE MADE IT BACK ALIVE!" "We're home!" natsu and happy shout as natsu kicks the doors open. Stepping inside, Lucy can see the guild was full of people, who responded with their own greetings.
"Heard you went all out in hargeon natsu, had to go starting troublleeehh.." a member with buck teeth says before Natsu jumps at him, kicking him in the face and sending him into a table and chairs destroying them. This surprised lucy. "Why did you do that?" Natsu ignores her in favor of yelling at the guy he kicked.
"You lied about that salamander, I'm gonna kick your butt!" natsu yells. The member quickly gets up yelling at natsu in turn
"I'm not the one to blame here, I'm just passing along a rumor I heard!"
"It was just a rumor?!"
"You wanna fight, let's go!"
Natsu quickly takes him up on the offer, hitting him again, but this time into a few tables where other members are sitting. The rustling crash causes them to go flying and crashing into even more members. As things start to heat up, Lucy notices a few members near the wall grab some instruments. She realized that their probably bards as they begin to play a fast and upbeat tune that, strangely, fits the current situation.(Fairy tail, can can ost)
"Now now natsu, i think you need to calm dowooonn" happy says before he's elbowed in the face and sent flying, ricocheting off the faces of even more members. Now almost everyone seems to have been dragged into this guild brawl. With chaos growing in the hall, Lucy stands in the middle with a smile on her face. 'wow I can't believe i'm standing in the fairy tail guild hall'
"So natsu finally made it back huh, it's time to settle things once and for all"
Getting up from a table near Lucy, a guy with dark hair and surprisingly no clothes except for a pair of boxers. On his right pec is a blue fairy tail symbol. This is gray fullbuster, a talented wizard who has a bad habit of losing his clothes. As gray marches to join the brawl he's called out by a female guild member sitting by the bar.
"Gray, your clothes?"
"Huh, I don't got time for that" gray yells surprised yet not by his lack of clothes
Looking towards the bar, a young woman with long brown hair is drinking wine from a glass. She wears brown pants and a blue bra, with silver rings around her wrist and black armbands on her biceps. Hir guild mark can be seen on her lower left hip in blue. This is cana alberona, who holds the title of fairy tales heaviest drinker. "Yah see, i don't date the men here cause they got no class" she sighs, before pulling out a literal barrel of alcohol and proceeds to chug it, shocking lucy.
"Come here, natsu" Gray yells as he kicks a guy out of the way. Natsu who was grappling the original guy he kicked yells back at him "not until you put some clothes on!"
"It's barely noon and you guys are acting like spoiled babies," a man says as he approaches from behind lucy. He wears a dark blue jacket and pants with a high collar and sandals on his feet. He has white hair and stitches below his right eye and stands a good few feet above lucy. This brute of a man is Elfman, a muscle bound mage who believes all you need to solve any problem is two strong fists. "I'm a real man and I'm about to prove it to ya!"
Natsu and Gray didn't take well to those comments and sucker punched elfman in the face with their right and left fist respectively, sending elfman flying across the room.
"They knocked him back that easily" Lucy says as she watches Elfman crash on top of a few people.
"Geeze it so nosy around here huh" Lucy turns to see an orange haired guy with two girls in his arms. He has brown shoes, black pants, an orange shirt and green jacket. On his face was a pair of blue tinted sunglasses. This was Loke, who's ranked high on the most eligible wizard bachelors list. Loke was then hit in the head with a flying bottle. "Are you all right?" one of the girls asked. Loke got up from where he was sitting then turned to the girls.
"I'm gonna go fight, only to protect you two."
"Good luck lokeee"
Lucy pulls out her own copy of the wizards bachelors list and crosses out loke's picture.
"Well he's definitely off the list, what the heck is wrong with these people. There doesn't seem to be one sane person in the whole place" she says staring at the chaos
"Oh hello, are you new here?" a kind voice asks Lucy from behind. Turning around, Lucy sees a white haired woman in a red dress. This is Mirajane, a beautiful wizard who's known for her bikini clad photo spreads in sorcerer weekly. Lucy, recognizing her, begins to fangirl towards Mirajane who just smiles. Calming down Lucy points towards the guild brawl "don't you think we should try to stop them or something."
"He he, it's always like this around here, i just leave it alone" mirajane laughs as she glances at all the fighting before turning back to lucy "besides"
As Mirajane was about to continue, elfman came flying out of the brawl colliding directly with her, bringing them both to the ground with elfman on top. "It's kind of fun don't ya think" she passes out.
"Woah, Mirajane are you ok!?" Lucy yells before she herself is hit to the ground by something colliding with her back. The thing that hit her was gray, thrown by natsu who was currently swinging around gray's underwear.
"Give me back my underwear jerk!" gray yells at natsu before turning to lucy completely naked
"Excuse me miss, could i please borrow your underwear"
Screaming and covering her eyes, Lucy grabs a broken table leg from the ground and swings towards gray, knocking him back into the brawl. "AS IF" she yells
Immediately after that she picked up the bridal style by loke. "These guys are so insensitive a woman has needs" he says before he's punched by elfman, who's already back up, dropping her. "Real men speak with their fist loke." Elfmen is then kicked away again by natsu. "I told you to but out" "AYE"
"Uggh it so loud so much for having a drink to relax" cana says as she pulls out what looks like a playing card. "That's enough you guys i suggest that you knock it off" the card begins to glow as a magic circle begins to form.
"Oh Yah, say who" gray responds with his underwear back on as he takes a combative stance. With a fist in an open palm, a light blue glow appears followed by a magic circle. Elfman starts to yell as he lifts his right arm as it begins to change and transform as if it was made of rocks. Loke also takes a stance twisting his ring as a magic circle forms "you guys are such a nuisance"
One by one every member of the guild begins to activate their respective magics. Natsu summons flames in both his fist gearing up for the fight. "I'm ready for yah"
Lucy backs away, lifting happy like a shield.
"They always fight like this"
"UH HUH" happy responds
"You don't seem to worried"
Just as it seemed that round two of the guild brawl was about to level up, a gigantic foot slams down in the middle of the hall and a thundurus voice is heard.
"When will you fools stop bickering like children!" the voice bellows. Everyone in the guild immediately freezes in place as they knew what would happen if they tried to continue. Looking up, Lucy sees a giant figure. It was hard to makeout his appearance because he seemed to be obscured in shadow.
"Im sorry i didn't know you were still here master" Mirajane says sweetly
"That's the master, he's huge!" lucy says
"HAHAHA, man talk about a bunch of babies, guess i won this round you lose…." natsu boasts before being cut off and squashed under foot by the master, who looks towards Lucy and mirajane.
"Oh, it seems we have a new recruit" "yes sir" lucy responds
Lucy then watches as the giant starts to shrink from 30 feet to 20, then 10, then past Lucy's own height, shadows fading as he went. When it stopped Lucy could see infront of her a small old man with a white mustache. He had orange shorts and an orange jacket with blue cuffs, a white shirt with the guild symbol, and a blue and orange striped hat, with horns.
"Nice to meet cha" he says to her
"Allow me to introduce the fairy tail guild master, Makarov" Mirajane says with a smile
Turning around Makarov makes a leap to the guild's second floor doing a couple somersaults and hitting his head upon landing. Rubbing his head he stands on the rail as he turns to address the guild.
"You've gone and done it again you bunch of clouds, just take a look at all the paperwork the magic council sent me this time." Makarov says, lifting a stack of paperwork in his hand.
"This is the biggest pile of complaints yet. HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS, ALL YOU KIDS ARE GOOD FOR IS GETTING THE HIGHER UPS MAD AT ME!" makorov yells
As he looks out over the hall, noting the destroyed tables, he focuses on his members. Noticing their down trodden faces as he scolds them, he can tell at least some of them feel a bit bad. "However" he says "I say to heck with the magic council"
A stack of papers in his hands suddenly burst into flames, makarov using magic to do so. He then throws the burning papers in the air watching as natsu jumps to catch them in his mouth. Makarov notes how we had everyone's attention again so he continued.
"Now listen up, anypower that surpasses reason still comes from reason, magic isn't just some miraculous power, it is a talent that only works when the flow of energy within oneself and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect synchronization. To perform magic, one must have a strong mind and the ability to focus. It should take over your being and come pouring out of your soul. If all we do is worry about following rules, then our magic shall never progress. Don't let the blowhards on the council scare you, follow the path you believe, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MAKES FAIRY TAIL NUMBER ONE!"
All as one the guild cheers as Makarov lifts his right hand, curling his pinky, ring, and middle fingers into his palm while extending his pointer and thumb. Extending his arm all the way up with the back of his hand facing forward, Makarov shows off the fairy tail gesture. The rest of the guild follows suit cheering. With that everyone starts to clean up the mess they made, moving the debris while a purple haired girl with glasses starts to make new chairs and tables with what looks like wood magic.
Lucy smiles admiring how the master was able to scold his guild members and raise their spirits at the same time. Mirajane then led Lucy over to the bar where she retrieved some kind of stamp.
"So what is your name?" she ask
"Oh i'm lucy"
"Ok Lucy, where do you want your guild mark and what color?"
"Here in pink please" Lucy says as she extends her right hand. Mirajane proceeds to stamp the back of Lucy's hands and when she removes it, a pink fairy tail mark can be seen on Lucy's hand signifying her membership.
"There now you an official member of the fairy tail guild"
Looking around the guild, Lucy notices Natsu by the request board standing next to another guild member. Skipping over to he she shows him her new guild mark.
"Hey natsu check it out I got my guild mark"
"Oy yeah, well welcome to the guild looney" natsu says with bland interest
"The names lucy, ya know!" lucy responds
Seeing that natsu was preoccupied, the man next to him decided to speak up.
"Well since natsu is being rude, let me be the first to say welcome to fairy tail lucy, im Nab"
Lucy turned to Nab taking in his appearance, he was really tall with black hair. He was wearing tribal-like clothes and had a necklace of skulls around his neck. He had some tattoos on his shoulders and paint strips under his eyes.
"Thank you" lucy replies "so what is it that natsu's staring at"
"This is the request board, we can pick from any of the jobs listed to earn jewel, each job presents a different challenge and pay rate" nab tells her
"Be sure to pick one with a big reward," Happy says as they all proceed to stare at the board while Lucy goes to sit at the bar.
"Whoa a 16 hundred jewel for taking out some thieves!? '' Natsu says as he takes the request off the board.
Moving away from the group a young boy enters the guild, walking up to Makarov who has come down from the second floor to sit on the bar with a beer.
"How come my dad hasn't come back yet" the boy ask with worry in his tone, and with a sigh makarov responds
"Your starting to get on my nerves romeo, your a wizards son so have some faith in your father and wait patiently for him"
"But master, he said he'd be back in three days but it's been a week now" romeo says
"If i recall, he took a mission on mount Hakobe"
"That's right and it's not that far so why won't anyone go look for him" romeo says now yelling at makarov.
"Listen, your old mans a wizard and a capable one at that, he can take care of himself. So calm down, head home and wait." makarov finishes before being punched in the face by romeo
"JERK!" romeo yells as he runs away with tears in his eyes
The conversation had drawn the attention of quite a few members who had frowns on their faces. As Romeo runs away Lucy speaks up.
"Thats gotta be rough" she says
"I know it sounds like the master doesn't care, but he really is worried, we all are." mirajane responds
A loud crash is heard as they look over to see Natsu who punched a hole in the request board.
"Dammit natsu, you almost broke the whole board" nab says as natsu walks away grabbing his bag with happy following him. Together they leave the guild hall, as nab walks over to lean on the bar next to the master.
"This doesn't look good master, you know how he can be, he's probably on his way to save macao, honestly when is he gonna grow up, the only thing he'll do is hurt macao's pride"
"Remember nab, we can't choose another's path just leave him be."
"Why did natsu get so upset" lucy ask as she continues to stare at the door
" probably because he and romeo have a lot in common, natsu sees himself in romeo." Mirajane responds. Lucy turns to her wondering what she meant as she continues
"Just because were members of fairy tail, doesn't mean we don't have our own personal issues, we've all had our fair share of suffering and loss" she finishes looking down. Lucy turns to see elfman sitting down to her right with his head down and to her left Master and nab also looking down. Lucy thinks to herself, contemplating her own past before lookin at the door again.
In the middle of town, Romeo is walking down the street rubbing tears from his eyes when he feels a hand on his head. He looks up to see Natsu walking past him, with a determined expression.
—-
Some time later on the road outside of town, a wagon being pulled by a large purple boar can be seen coming down the road. Inside the wagon lucy is sitting on the bench sitting across from Natsu who's laying down and looking sick. Happy is sitting next to her.
"Uughh, why did you come with us?" natsu ask
"I thought maybe i could help" lucy says taking note of natsu's state "wow you really do have have bad motion sickness don't you, it's just another reason to feel sorry for you"
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
"Oh, nothing"
Natsu doesn't push, instead becoming sicker as they hit a bump. Lucy drops her smile and looks to the side thinking about the talk she had with mirajane before she left.
Flashback
Back at the guild just after Natsu and Happy left, Lucy and Mirajane are talking at the bar.
"Many years ago natsu's father left and never came back, well technically it wasn't his real father but the one who raised him, he was actually dragon" She says while organizing some bottles
"I remember now, when I met natsu he said he was looking for a dragon" lucy says
"As far as natsu can remember, the dragon found him wandering the forest as a little boy, he took him in and taught him all about dragon culture, their draconic language, and magic, then one day the dragon disappeared and never returned.
"So that dragon must be Igneel, right?"
"That's right and Natsu lives for the day he might see Igneel again. It's kind of cute don't you think"
"It is, i have to go mirajane"
"Just call me Mira, Lucy"
"Ok, bye Mira" Lucy says as she gets up from her seat and rushes out the guild to catch up with natsu
Present
Lucy brings her gaze back to Natsu, when she feels their wagon stop moving. Natsu, also feeling it stop, bolts up with new vigor.
"Alright, we've stopped moving" he yells as he and happy cheer
"Huh I Guess we're here" lucy says as she opens the wagon door. As she does, a blast of cold wind and snow hits her as the wagon driver informs them that this is as far as he can go. Looking around, Lucy takes in the mountain terrain covered in snow. 'Its a frozen wasteland, is Mount hakobe really this bad?' she thinks as Natsu grabs his bag and starts trekking the path with happy. She quickly follows after them, already shivering from the cold.
"It doesn't make sense, I know we're on a mountain but it's the middle of summer and there shouldn't be a blizzard this bad." she say hugging her body trying to keep warm.
"That's what you get for wearing light clothing" natsu says as he continues walking forward, barely even shaking.
"Please your not dressed for it either, now hand over you blanket, sense your not using it"
Lucy reaches forward and tries to pull the large blanket strapped to the top of natsu's bag
"Man she just keep on talking huh" "Aye"
As she's getting the blanket, Lucy gets another idea. Reaching for her belt pouch she pulls out a silver key. On the key is a symbol that looks like a clock face, it is a circle with a line going down the center, connecting at the edge and stopping at the center point. Another shorter line connecting from the center point extends horizontally, stopping half way from the circle edge. If it was an actual clock the time would read 3 o'clock.
"Open astral gate of the timely clock, Horologium"
As Lucy chants, a large magic circle appears beside her with a clock symbol in the center. When she finishes chanting a bell tolling is heard. DING DONG. The circle glows and splits open like a door and from it a large rectangular object emerges, propelled into the air before landing with a loud thump. The object in particular is a large intricate grandfather clock, with a clock face near the top portraying the current time and an open space beneath it that looks like it could fit multiple people inside. Following the large clock, a cloud of stardust emerges from the door before the magic circle fades and disappears. Lucy wasted no time jumping into the clock wrapping herself in natsu's blanket.
"A clock woah" "that is so cool" natsu and happy say. They look at Lucy now inside and see that she is saying something but they can't hear her.
"Ugg wait I can't hear you" Natsu says before hearing a new voice come from the clock.
"She says im staying in here and i'm not coming out"
"Woah the clock is talking" happy says in amazement
"Not quite, though not wrong either"
Natsu and Happy watch as a well dressed man steps out from behind the very large grandfather clock. The man is quite tall, taller than Natsu but not as tall as the clock. He wears fancy clothes, nice black pants and dress shoes as well as a brown two tailed coat. He has a gold tie and black gloves on. His brown hair is combed neatly to the sides and he has a curly mustache on his face. In his head is a pocket watch connected to a chain.
"Who are you?" natsu ask
"I am horologium, madam lucy's celestial spirit" horologium responds before speaking again at the same time as lucy who they still cant hear.
"What kind of crazy job would force macao to come to a place like this, she inquires" natsu seems to just roll with it and answers
"You should have asked that before you came with us, he came to slay a vulcan, it's a big monster" natsu says as he crosses his arms
Upon hearing that the monster was a Vulcan, Lucy became worried, she read that the monsters liked to kidnap women.
"I want to go back to the guild, she proclaims" while speaking for Lucy, Horologiam pitches his voice in a whiny tone.
"Well be my guest, i say back" natsu says as he and happy continue walking "aye"
As they walk, there is movement above them on the cliff. A large figure is rushing through the snow before jumping and landing in front of Natsu with an oomph, kicking up snow. In front of the is a large ape like monster with white fur. It tries to attack but natsu dodges. Natsu takes a fighting stance while happy notes that it seems bigger than normal vulcan. The vulcan suddenly sniffs the air before rushing in the direction of lucy and horologium.
Lucy, having not noticed the beast yet, is surprised when she feels horologium's clock construct shake. Looking up she sees the vulcan's face pressed against the glass, its nostrils flaring and it has a perverse look on its face.
"Me like human woman"
"AAAAHHHHHH, she screams fearfully" Horologium says, standing to the side as he watches the beast lift his clock.
"So it can talk huh" natsu says as he watches the vulcan run off caring lucy.
"Don't just stand there hurry up and save me, you to horologium she says angrily"
Natsu, happy and horologium proceed to follow. Natsu and Happy run while Horologium walks slowly checking his pocket watch.
" why the heck are you walking, we need to catch that vulcan, in might know where macao is, oh and save lucy" natsu says looking back at horologium
"There is a time for everything, good sir, besides madam lucy is currently within my construct, she will not be harmed" horologium says still looking at his pocket watch as they continue on.
With Lucy
Near the summit of mount hakobe, the vulcan has taken lucy to an ice cave. Lucy is still inside horologium's construct and is contemplating her situation.
"How did I get in this situation?" Lucy says as she watches the vulcan dance around beating its chest.
"Horlogium, you can still hear me right?" Lucy asks, placing her hand on the clock's wall.
"Of course madam, my body and construct are connected, i am still very much by your side" horologium voice responses from the clock. The vulcan stopped dancing and got close, staring at lucy.
"Me want woman, but women in box, so me break box" it says as it then smacks the side of the clock trying to break it.
"Un horologium your construct won't break right?" Lucy asks as the vulcan keeps trying to break in.
"Of course my magic is meant to defend and support my summoner and those specified in our contract and my construct is part of that" , Horologium says as mechanical clockwork arms and legs emerge from the clock. The arms catch the incoming fist from the vulcan then runes glow along the arms. Lucy recognizes this as horologium using his magic. The clock then chimes as horologium activates his spell.
"slow"
Lucy watches as the vulcans movement slows down, as if moving at a snail's pace. Normally horologiums magic can affect those lucy has specified in her contract, but if enemies attack horologium's construct physically he can. Taking his hands off the beast horologium's construct backs up a few feet.
"That spell will only last a minute, madam lucy, and seeing that my allotted time is almost up and i have no attack spells, I recommend summoning one of the others" horologium says
"Thanks horologium, ill summon you later so we can adjust the contract to allow you to help fairy tail"
"I will await that time" he says before dissipating in golden lights, leaving Lucy standing in the cave.
With natsu and happy, they watch as horologium's body disappears in glittering lights. They don't know what that means and become worried and start rushing faster to catch up. They weren't too far away as natsu quickly comes rushing into the cave yelling at the vulcan to tell him where macao is before slipping on the ice and sliding past the still slowed vulcan. Lucy walked over to Natsu who was getting up.
"Spill it monkey where is my friend?" natsu says looking at the vulcan who is no longer slowed now that a minute has passed. The vulcan looked around confused at what happened as the woman was no longer in front of it.
"You understand me right, hes a human man, now tell me where he is"
The vulcan looked confused before pointing to a hole in the cave leading to the outside, and gestured for Natsu to come closer. For some reason natsu did and looked out the hole shouting macao's name before he was shoved out the hole and off the cliff. The vulcan proceeds to dance around banging its chest for what it did.
"No like man, me like woman"
"Uggh, how could he get tricked like that, can he even survive out there?" Lucy said, looking out the hole then back at the still dancing vulcan.
"Alright you pervy monkey you're going down"
Lucy reached for her keys again pulling out a gold one, but it wasn't aquarians. This key looked like an ax with horns on its base. The symbol on it was a circle with a half circle above it connected at the edges. Infusing it with magic, Lucy begins her summoning.
"Open gate of the raging bull, Taurus"
Raising the glowing key in the air, Lucy slashes downwards pointing at the ice floor. A magic circle appears in front of her with the inside of the circle reminiscent of a maze and at the center the symbol on the key. As the symbol splits and starts to open, a large cloud of stardust bursts out forcing the gate to open faster, with a BANG.
The cloud quickly condenses and shines revealing a large form. Standing before Lucy is a large, man? He has dark brown skin, a bald head with large bull-like horns emerging from the sides of his head. He's not wearing much clothing a black speedo and armor-like skirt made of multiple strips at his waist that hung down to his knees and a leather strap on his shoulder that crossed his ripped chest,as well as a pauldron on his right shoulder. He had no shoes and a gold nose ring and finally he held a large great ax in his hands.
Looking to the vulcan, Lucy called out in an attempt to intimidate it.
"I should warn you monkey boy, taurus is the strongest celestial spirit i have a contract with"
"You got that right miss lucy, and might I say your body is looking fine, i'm glad you've been keeping up with our work out routine, after all for any women, strength is true beauty" taurus replies in a deep voice
"Got that right taurus, i'm as strong as i am beautiful" lucy says preening under tuarus's compliment in a display of needed vanity. The Vulcan did not take kindly to a man almost as big as it showing up out of nowhere.
"Dont touch my woman" its says glaring at taurus
"Your woman, thems fightin words, miss lucy's hand will only go to someone stronger than I"
"Go get em taurus" lucy yells
With a vigor to defend his summoner, Taurus lets out a roar of his own, sounding much like a bull. As he yells his form starts to change, he grows taller than his already seven foot stature. His horns grow larger and brown hair grows over his body. His face elongates and his nose turns into a snout. His lower half transforms as well his feet turning into hooves. Leaping towards the vulcan with enough force to crack the ice beneath him, Taurus spins his grate ax around him with flare before bringing it down with an overhead strike.
The vulcan was quick on his feet dodging sideways as the ice was broken with a loud CRAACCKK. The vulcan leaps at Taurus aiming to hit with its fist, but he was quick to lift his ax and block with its shaft. Using his superior strength Taurus pushes it back. As he was about to charge, Taurus quickly lifted his hand catching a blow from Natsu who came out of nowhere. Stopping the attack dead in its tracks, he throws Natsu back, who does a flip mid air to land on his feet.
"Where the heck did this other monster come from, he wasn't here when I left." Natsu said glaring at taurus.
"He's my friend dummy, one of my spirits" lucy yells at natsu
"That guy?" natsu points to the vulcan
"NOT HIM, THE BULL!"
While yelling Lucy realizes that Natsu was actually here "Wait a minute, how did you survive out there?"
Natsu looks back at her with a smirk "happy came to save me, thanks little buddy" "aye"
"So you can't handle other modes of transportation but happy's ok?" Lucy asks, wondering how that works. Natsu put on a face like he was disgusted
" what kind of stupid question is that, happy isn't a mode of transportation he's my friend, i mean duh"
"You right it was totally wrong of me to compare the two" Lucy says in a sarcastic tone wondering what kind of thought process Natsu had.
Taurus meanwhile was watching the two bicker and wonder who this pink haired guy was. Looking back at the hand he used to catch the guys kick taurus can't help but think to himself
'Just who is this guy, it's been a long time since anyone has been able to land a hit that did damage to me.' Taurus's hand is still stinging in pain as he looks at natsu. 'There's more to this guy than appears'
As natsu and lucy were talking the vulcan suddenly appears above natsu bringing a hammer fist down on him. Natsu doesn't turn around or dodge, instead lifts his own arm to take the blow, the weight behind it cracking the ice under him.
"Now you listen up, I consider everyone in the fairy tail guild my friends.." natsu says to the Vulcan who then kicks him. Natsu blocks but is sent sliding back.
"..whether it's gramps and mira, or even those annoying jerks gray and elfman…"
The vulcan proceeds to charge at natsu, running on all fours. A warm glow surrounds Natsu as a magic circle appears under him.
".. happy and lucy too. They're all my friends, which is why.."
The vulcan jumps at natsu with anger in his eyes hoping to beat down the man that would take its woman. Natsu is quicker though as he jumps and places a lunging kick into its stomach as he yell.. "I'M NOT LEAVING WITHOUT MACAO!"
Fire then explodes from Natsu's kick, sending the beast flying into the ceiling. It ricochets from the ceiling to the ground but manages to land on its feet. The impact causes icicles to break and fall from the ceiling impaling the ice below. The vulcan uses that to its advantage and starts hitting them towards natsu, who uses heat to partially melt them and take a few hits. The ones that do break upon contact leaving natsu relatively unharmed. As the dust clears, Natsu and Lucy see the vulcan wield a large icicle like a club.
"That's not good" Natsu says as the vulcan makes a horizontal swing at him. Natsu back flips over the attack. The vulcan swings a few more times, natsu dodging as it goes before his footing gets out from under him and he slips on the ice again. As natsu fell on his back the vulcan took the chance to pound him into the ground. Just before the attack connects, Taurus blocks it with his own weapon.
"That was quite the speech you gave there. I'm glad to know that Miss Lucy has some new friends, so as her celestial spirit, my job is to help you in turn." Taurus says while holding back the vulcan that was struggling to overpower him. Taurus then shoves the beast away, knocking the makeshift weapon from its hands.
"Thanks for the help, cow guy," Natsu says as Taurus lifts him to his feet with his arm. The comment has taurus make a face.
"Get your facts straight pinky, i'm a minotaur, the strongest you'll ever meet" he finishes with a smirk as natsu makes his own face at being called pinky.
"Wha'd you call me!"
"Pinky"
"THAT'S IT, YOUR BOUT TO GET IT!"
"Guys!" lucy yells at the two before they get in a fight.
"Finish this fight, before you start another!"
The two look at her, then to the vulcan she's pointing at, reminding them of its presence. The Vulcan gets up in a daze recovering from Taurus's powerful shove.
"Guess it time to finish this" "yeah"
Taurus straps his ax to his back, choosing to attack with his fist as he rushes the vulcan beside natsu, who summons flames around his fist.
"FIRE DRAGONS IRON FIST"
Natsu and Taurus's attack connects, sending the vulcan flying across the cave and into the ice wall, finally knocking the beast out.
"Now that he's down, I'll be heading back Miss Lucy, make sure to keep with our routine, don't want to lose that fabulous body," Taurus says as he shifts back to his regular form before disappearing in a flash of light.
"Bye, taurus, thanks"lucy says in goodbye
"Hey don't just disappear, i still need to kick your but for calling me pinky earlier" natsu yells
"Forget about that natsu, we beat the vulcan" happy cheers
"Yeah but wasn't he supposed to tell us where your friend is" lucy comments
"Oh uh forgot about that" natsu says rubbing his head sheepishly
As the three stare at the downed vulcan its body starts to glow before transforming into a man. Who appears to be a severely injured macao. As Natsu and Lucy are surprised by this, they wonder if macao was the monster the whole time. Happy thankfully explains that macao may have been taken over. Lucy questions what he means, so happy elaborates, explaining that Vulcans survive by taking over people's bodies, using an innate possession spell their kind have. Happy finishes calling them evil body snatchers. Getting over their shock they get a pack of medical supplies from natsu's pack and move macao so they can treat his wounds.
"Looks like he put up a good fight before that vulcan finally got to him" happy says looking at the injuries
"Come on macao, don't you die on me, romeo's waiting for you" natsu says as he begins to stir awake, his eyes opening slightly.
"Hmph natsu" macao says as he gains some awareness
"Man i'm so pathetic, i defeated 19 of those things before the 20th got me, so angry with myself, em embarrassed to go home and face romeo."
"Come on man you beat 19 monsters, Lets go home, your little boys been waiting for you" natsu says as he extends his had to macao who takes it in his.
'Incredible, there were 19 more of those beasts and he took them on by himself' lucy thinks as she watches Natsu lift macao up and help him walk. Getting up to gather their supplies the group starts walking home.
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It's nearing sunset in Magnolia, and Romeo is currently sitting on some steps thinking about what happened a week ago. Romeo was getting teased by some older kids who were insulting fairy tail. The kids called them a bunch of jokes and drunken cowards, saying they'd rather become knights when they grow up and not some dumb wizards. Upset by all this, Romeo remembers how he went running to his dad and begged him to take a job so the teasing would stop and how his dad agreed with a smile. Trying to rub the tears from his eyes he hears a voice call his name.
"Hey Romeo"
Looking up he sees Natsu happy, and that new girl lucy. Beside natsu he sees his dad covered in bandages. With new tears welling up in his eyes he takes off running towards them.
"Daaad" Romeo screams as he tackles macao to the ground. Crying into his fathers shoulder he continues "you came back, i so sorry dad"
"No im sorry for making you worry" macao says as he gives romeo a big hug
"I can handle it, cause i'm a wizards son" romeo responds still crying
"Next time those bullies pick on you here's what I want you to say, can your old man defeat 19 monsters all by himself, cause mine can" he says as he wipes his son's tears.
Natsu begins to walk away with a smile on his face, happy and lucy following. As they do, Romeo turns around calling out to them.
"natsu, happy, thanks for your help"
"No probe kiddo" "aye"
Yelling out again Romeo calls out to lucy with a smile. "Lucy, thanks for helping them bring my daddy back to me"
Macao is waving them goodbye as the trio head back to the guild. When they get there a few of the others are waiting for them. Lucy is curly thinking back on the day they just had, thinking of what shell write in her diary.
'July 4th, it was a sunny day followed by a blizzard but it ended up sunny again. I'll admit that the people in fairy tail are crazy, but they are also warm hearted, nice and a lot of fun to be around. I know I'm still a newcomer around here but I can't help it, I already love this guild.'