DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail, the honor belongs solely to Hiro Mashima-sama.
Fairy dust.. pixie magic.. tinkerbell?
Chapter Fifteen
Taboo
(Normal POV - still trying to be Mr. Narrator-san)
In a mysterious house by the sea, four mages hesitantly enter the threshold. They looked on in wonder at the space of the place and at the antique furniture on the walls and floor.
A pink-haired mage ran to the wall and went back to the blonde stellar mage. He held up something close to the face of the girl and said "Hey, Luce look! It's a tarantula!"
The blonde took a step back and rammed into the ice mage who was right behind her. Gray smirked and told Natsu, "You're an idiot all right. Don't you know women don't like bugs?"
Lucy shook her head at Natsu and said, "Gray is right you know well actually I don't think anyone would like a huge hairy spider thrust into their faces." She shuddered at this.
"You're weird, Lucy. It's just a spider." Natsu said to the girl and returned the spider back to the wall.
Lucy glared at the back of the boy when Gray tapped her shoulder and held up something to the girl. Smiling he said, "Lucy, check it out it's a baby mice."
Squealing the blonde girl hid behind the water mage's back. "Gray, that isn't a baby mice! It's a full grown one!"
The ice mage frowned down at the mice and said "No it isn't. That one is." He said while pointing to the corner. The two girls looked at it and screamed. It was a huge fat rat the size of a seven foot shoe.
They ran into the nearest open door in the hallway. They could hear the two "battling" with the full grown mouse. The blonde looked around the room quizzically and said at the other, "Hey, Juvia was this room opened a while ago?"
She stared wonderingly at the chandelier and at the locked up bay window. She looked back at her silent companion who was picking something up from the carpeted floor.
"Lucy-san! Look I think this is a human skull."
Juvia held it up for her companion to see clearly when the old chandelier and gas lamps on the wall all lit up and a huge explosion occurred just outside the house. The two screamed and grabbed the nearest things to them.
Another explosion occurs and this time the whole house shook from the impact of whatever was attacking it. A scream of terror rips through the air.
"LUCY!"
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Outside the trembling house, a cloaked and heavily bandage man sniffs the air. "Tsk. So there are people inside the house huh."
The man raised his hand and the house was still again. He walked at the magical boundary the house had created while he was attacking it. Whoever thought of giving this house a magic of its own must have been a genius or something.
Spying a fissure by the side of the house the man shook his head. Hope nobody falls out of a window. As he turned his back a new plan forming in his mind, he heard a huge splash and someone screaming out a name. Crap.
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(Lucy's POV)
Whatever happened to falling into the sea?
The water all around me was so cold. I looked around at the darkness of the water. I'm swimming in darkness. I tried swimming up only to end up feeling as if I were in the middle of the deepest darkest part of the sea. If it was possible to cry in the water I would be doing it. I could feel my lungs burning, my body shivering in fear and my heart beating faster than ever.
I'm scared. As this thought crossed into my mind I swam some more, in some corner of my mind I knew I have only been in the water for a minute or two but fear and darkness have stolen all coherent thoughts in my mind. My sight was getting blurry. I felt the need to open my mouth. What was that? It felt as if something had fallen into the water but I didn't have the strength to worry on what it could be.
As I opened my mouth and the water came rushing inside me. I thought a small ball of light was making its way to me and following it was some dark mass. But that couldn't be. How could a light keep its shine in darkness like this?
Then everything went black and I had the eerie feeling that I was falling into nothingness. But this darkness isn't so bad, it's warm and comfortable.
~0~X~0~X~0~
From the shadows of the rocks and boulders by the cliff, Raul looked on into the fissure. Just then a form came up from the dark water. He looked on to see that the boy they had called Natsu had managed to successfully save the girl. The other two were lowering what appeared to be tied up curtains to the boy.
A ball of white light from the dark waters made its way to the man, he scooped the ball of light and whispered "Good work." And the light disappeared. He smiled on at the commotion in the house and said "So risking your own life for a comrade. Is that what a Fairy Tail mage, is? I sure hope you could find the trinket for me though."
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The fire dragon-slayer carefully lowered the girl onto the carpeted floor. "Lucy wake up! WAKE UP!" He snarled forcefully at the unconscious blonde while gripping both of the girl's shoulder.
"Natsu, stop that." Gray calmly told the boy while kneeling beside the girl as well. "We'll have to do mouth-to-mouth something."
The dragon-slayer glared up at him, "This isn't the time for you to try being funny Gray!"
"I'm serious Natsu. I think all we have to do is blow air into her mouth, I think."
The pink-haired boy stared incredulously at the ice mage who was looking at him significantly. "That isn't needed. I'm already manipulating the sea water inside Lucy-san to come out." A voice interjects.
The two boys looked up into the serious looking Juvia standing by them when the once unconscious Lucy threw up water all of a sudden. The two male mages grimaced at this, feeling bad for the stellar mage but at least she was now safe.
Gray and Juvia smiled in relief as Fairy Tail's salamander hugs the surprised Lucy with all his might. The two didn't hear the boy whisper "I thought I was too late." to the blushing blonde.
Hugging back the dragon-slayer, Lucy Heartfilia whispered back. "Thank you, Natsu. Thanks for waking me up from a nightmare again."
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Meanwhile in a cemetery with a clear view to the mysterious house, a fight between four mages was ongoing in full force.
"Lisanna!" The caped Bixlow shouted as he jumped from what appeared to be sharp spikes heading to him.
The white haired take-over mage was trapped in what looked like branches. The girl twisted trying to get free from the vise-like grip of whatever it was pinning her to the tree. The grip of the thing tightened causing the girl to scream out.
"Babies! Break her free!" The five totem dolls shot laser beams onto the thing. Surprisingly it burned very quickly and as the smell wafted to the two mages they evaded new incoming spikes and hid behind a mausoleum.
"Bixlow. These things that are attacking us is hair?" Lisanna asked to the masked man.
"Yup. It's hair magic. I've heard about it from Lucy and Juvia but I have never had the chance to actually encounter it until now." The man replied back.
They crouched down upon feeling the mausoleum cracked and getting destroyed under the strength of the iron-hard hair spikes. They were caught unaware when they were grabbed by what appeared to be extra-long bandages. They watch on as a form floated down before them. It was a middle-age woman wearing a plain white dress and bandages around her arms, legs and neck. She had the appearance of a kind hearted woman if it were not for the dead eyes she had. There was no life at all in the woman's eyes.
"That bastard!" Bixlow muttered vehemently as he stared at the woman. Lisanna looked at her partner in surprise having never heard him talk in such heated tones. She looked back once more at the woman.
"Babies! Shoot her down!" Bixlow ordered at the totems who were evading the woman's bandages. The totems lined up and shot the woman down.
"Bixlow, stop! She could die!" Lisanna cried out upon feeling the bandages slackened their grip.
"She's already dead Lisanna! Heck that's not even her soul inside that body right now!" The man answered back, he shook off the bandages and pulled the girl up.
"Look." He said and pointed at the spot the woman was.
Lisanna's eyes widen, standing there with her clothes burned and dirtied was the woman. The bandages were gone and she saw that the woman was stitched up.
"Oh my, I didn't expect for you to know the truth about her with just a look." A voice mockingly said above them.
The two Fairy Tail mages stepped back and looked up at a man. The man had on a dark suit and gloves. He had receding thin brown hair, a long sharp nose, black squinty eyes and a thin unforgiving mouth. Beside him was a fifteen year old girl who was clearly trying to hide the repulse look on her face at the stitched up woman's appearance. The girl had long silky brown hair flowing down her back and sad lavender eyes.
Bixlow pointed a finger to the older man and shouted, "I didn't think I'd ever meet a mage I'd hate more than you! Have you forgotten the rules that bind us seith mages? We are allowed to harness wandering spirits but only if they are willing to be under our power. What's more we are allowed to contain the spirits in other object or through our own bodies but never into another person's body. Not even in a dead body!"
The older mage laughed at Bixlow's accusations as if he had just said a very funny joke. Lissana saw the fifteen year old girl beside the man glare at him with tears in her eyes. "What's going on Ajowan, you said she wasn't dead? You told me and Areca that Nana was alright! But all this time she was dead! You.. Back then, did you just insert someone's soul into her body as well?" The girl screamed at the man.
The old man slapped the girl. "You should be thanking me, foolish girl! Had I not made it possible for you and your sister to be with your beloved Nana all this time? Had I not kept my promise in making her walk again?" The man grinned malevolently at the shocked girl, "I suppose now I can just finish off two birds with one stone. You see your Nana's body is too weak for the soul I have chosen and you, Anise were never as perfect as your sister, but don't worry now you'll be with your precious Nana forever!"
"Shit." Bixlow muttered as the woman called Nana appeared all of a sudden from behind the girl and proceeded to choke the girl. The girl was rapidly losing color and they could see that she was desperately trying to pry the hands from her neck.
"Lisanna." Bixlow said.
"I understand." The white haired girl answered.
They both jumped up towards the figures on the mausoleum roof. "Babies!" The five dolls once more lined up and shot down the old man. Nana threw the girl towards the huge tree in the middle of the cemetery with all her strength and protected her master. Bixlow threw off his cape at the two and ordered the totems to continue attacking.
The young girl closed her eyes waiting for the impact to the tree, with tears streaming on her face. But then she felt the cold air and a sense of being lifted gently. Looking up she saw that she was being held by a huge colorful bird. As the bird set the girl down away from the seith mages fight, she turned into the white-haired Lisanna.
"Your name is anise right? Stay here, okay? I have to go help out my partner."
"No! Both of you don't fight with him here. This place is his territory, he can reanimate dead bodies!"
Just as Bixlow and Lisanna heard this they saw in shock the dead indeed rise up from the graves. "Bixlow!" Lisanna screamed out terrified as she fought off the zombies attacking her and Anise.
The girls backed up to the tree corner when Bixlow suddenly appears before them saying, "Baryon Formation, babies! We gotta protect these girls first!"
As the dolls shielded their master and the girls they heard a voice shout out, "Darkness Breath!" They looked on as a dark creature landed before them smiling. Anise squealed and hid behind Lisanna when they saw the dark creature produced small white wings.
At this Bixlow laughed out loud together with his dolls. Lisanna's mouth opened in shock at the wings. Anise looked up and said "Oh, is he a fallen angel?"
At this Bixlow started rolling on the floor laughing. Lisanna covered her mouth, "Actually the wings don't belong to him."
"Aye! It's mine!" A voice utters as a blue cat appeared behind Freed.
"U-wah. It's a flying kitty and he talks!" Lisanna smiled down at the girl and looked on to the dark creature saying, "Thanks for the shield, Freed."
The three Fairy Tail mages looked past the rune shield to the zombies waiting outside and the old man who was grinning at the back of the crowd of undead. Anise who was getting acquainted with Happy looked up as well also worried. They were safe from the zombies for now but they were also trapped this fact was clear in the minds of the mages.
First time making fighting scenes. Tell me if it needs improvement and hard to understand. Just tell me what parts are so confusing and I'll do my best in editing them and making it more understandable.