Summary: Natsu and Gray have been forced to complete a quick simple mission together. That is until they are attacked, knocked unconscious and forced to be put on auction for slave owners and crazy scientists. Now they have to stick together for support and strength because if they don't, they may never see their Guild again.
Word Count: 1746
A/N: Sorry for the wait - good news, if you consider this good news - the story will be done in about 2 or 3 chapters! Yay, we get to know who dies soon! ALSO! Happy 1-year birthday for this story! I love all of you! Even the ones who glance at this and then click away! Love you all!
Warning: cussing is in here (obviously) OH! Blood, not too much. Some spelling/grammar errors if I didn't catch them
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, but I do own Shiro and everyone loves him!
"I'm here to get my mice back," Shiro calls out, his hands resting on his hips as he smirks.
Gray swallows his hand clamping down on Natsu's shoulder as he takes an unintentional step back. In front of him, Shiro's smirk transforms into a full on grin, and he laughs manically. "No," Natsu whispers brokenly, "Damn it, no."
"Now," Shiro inhales, "do we want to do this the easy way?" His hand then extends outward, fingers covered in white soft material.
Next to him, Natsu swallows, his eyes flashing and then he steps forward. "You really think we're going to go back with you?"
"No, honestly." Shiro shrugs and runs a hand through his hair. "However, it is a smarter route than the one that you two are planning to go down."
Gray knows the bastard is right. They are in no shape to fight. Nonetheless, Natsu isn't one to go down without a fight, and with this battle, it looks like they are either going to live and go back to their guild or die. And the saddest part of that probability was that Gray was fine with both of those choices. He knew Natsu didn't want to go back to that hellhole, but he felt his stomach knot whenever he thought of returning with Shiro. He wasn't going to let them take Natsu or himself back. No way in hell. But…
He stepped forward and turned his back on Shiro. Gray looked straight into Natsu's eyes and shook his head, his hand landing back onto Natsu's shoulder. "We can't do this."
"What?" Natsu looked confused, pain evident in his eyes, but the fire of combat still seemed to burn. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"I mean," Gray swallowed and heard Shiro chuckle behind him, "we aren't in any shape to fight him."
"You're speaking shit again, Gray." Natsu remarked and frowned.
"You know it's true," Gray muttered. "I've got a broken left elbow, I can't use my magic without fucking something up. I'm pretty sure I'm not even going to be able to even use my magic-"
"Then throw punches," Natsu cut in, "you're good at that."
Gray paused and humorously laughed, "You aren't getting it. I'm useless!" He shook his head and his mouth was left hanging open. "I'm in no shape to fight – and neither are you."
This seemed to get Natsu's attention. "Now you're really talking shit, dumbass."
"You know I'm right," Gray practically shouted and his eyes frowned. He knew he was sharing his emotions to Natsu, his fear of losing. His anxiety of what's to come. He was scared of death. "You got shot, Natsu," Gray tried to talk some sense into what Natsu had already decided. "You almost died, two times." Natsu tore his gaze away from Gray and looked down to the ground. "Shit, Natsu." Gray swallowed and shook his best friends shoulder. "I almost lost you too many times, don't do it to me again."
They both stood in silence and from behind Shiro clapped his hands.
Natsu finally looked up, "We have to try, even if that means we die."
Gray bit his lower lip and paused. He blinked with a nod, "If so, I'm going first."
Natsu snickered with a smirk, "You know I'll be right behind you."
Gray turned, his hand dropping from Natsu's shoulder, and he growled to their 'owner'. "Hey, bastard?" He snapped out, "You think you can take on a Dragon and Devil?"
Shiro reached into his white coat pocket and uncorked a bottle that held pills. He laughed, two pills dropping into his palm before he threw them into his mouth and swallowed. "I guess we're doing this the hard way."
"For you maybe," Natsu balled his fists and sparks of fire resisted, but then ignited around his hands. "You're like a walk in a park compared to the other dipshits I've fought."
"We'll let us see if that is true," Shiro cheered and in a blink of an eye, he was out of sight. He then appeared next to Natsu, slightly of the ground and a leg brought backward. He threw his leg forward striking Natsu on the back throwing him into the field of flowers. The other men that followed Shiro, rushed towards the two Fairy Tail mages and quickly attacked.
While Natsu dealt with the men surrounding him, Shiro quickly made his way towards Gray. Again, he had disappeared and then quickly reappeared in front of the Ice Mage. Gray didn't take any time to think, he brought his hands together, despite his broken limb covered in ice, and tried to mold and attack. Light surrounded the two and the ground iced over, but nothing happened. Gray looked up from his hands and Shiro leaned forward his hand cupping around Gray's chin. "You know I don't only experiment on Devils and Dragon Slayers." The world suddenly sucked inwards, and an explosion ripped Gray from Shiro's grasp. He was thrown backward; back crashing against the ground and his legs flew over him as he rolled on the floor. He came to slow halt; Gray quickly placed his right arm underneath him, already struggling to rise to his feet. Shiro popped next to him and held his hands behind his back, admiring Gray's feebleness. "I take any interesting powered mages, and-" He kicked, his foot crashing against Gray's stomach sending him tumbling towards a tree. Gray slammed into the tree and fell to the floor, his breath stuttering in his throat. "I love it when there are two related Mages. You know, I had these two – brother and sister – perfect siblings. The brother was so very protective of his sister." Shiro reached down, his gloved covered hand seizing Gray's throat. He lifted the Ice Mage like a feather and chucked at the thought. "He had a great power of explosions." Shiro smirked as Gray brought his good hand up to try and freeze the bastards arm, but nothing happened and Gray rasped with a whimper. "But be careful – they're contagious." Gray was sent backward, his head crashing into the field were Natsu had landed. His throat throbbed with pain, blood leaked from a now open wound where his skin had been melted off. "Beautiful magic really. And then his sister," Shiro purred as he strutted forward, "oh she was so beautiful. Her magic of teleporting, truly useful for the most part – but she was much better used for other purposes." Shiro disappeared and then he was seen a few feet above Gray. He fell down like a missile, hands already out to strike Gray. However, Gray reached out with his good hand and forced his magic to help him. The world halted, and Gray felt his surroundings instantly freeze. From above a shield of ice surrounded him and Shiro swiftly crashed into the defense. The ice shattered, but Shiro's attack was stopped as a wave of the attack reverberated across the battlefield. Gray quickly rolled out of the way and strained to stand. His legs shook underneath his weight and his breath trembling with each pant. Gray blinked and focused the rest of his magic on Shiro. However, Natsu seemed to have a different plan in mind, because he quickly flew forward, flames underneath his feet, pushing him towards their 'owner'. His head rammed into Shiro's stomach as Natsu screamed in victory.
Natsu fell forwards and stumbled onto his feet, but he stuck the landing and watched as Shiro tumbled backward, green skid marks staining his white coat.
From behind, Gray quickly turned to see a reduced amount of guards rushing towards them, so Gray growled and pushed his right hand towards them. Ice frosted his fingertips, and in front of Gray, slightly cracked arrows shot out and impaled a few enemies. His world tipped to the right and Gray stumbled to the side, but managing to stay on his feet. He wasn't feeling well, but he needed to finish them so he could kill Shiro, hopefully with some magic left. So swiping his hand parallel from the ground, he formed ice cannons and quickly fired at the remaining soldiers. They all flew backward, chunks from the ground ripping into their chests and impaling them with ice. But Gray didn't pay attention to their screams in agony nor their blood soaking the air in the putrid smell of metallic. He turned and found Natsu struggling against Shiro, though not as much as he had.
Natsu stood, being able to land a few good hits on Shiro, who now had a torn, bleeding lip. "What," Gray called out; snatching the attention of the last two people standing. "You couldn't bring any more henchmen?"
Shiro spit and drew his white glove across his chin, catching the falling blood. "Well Mr. Schiff isn't one for much fighting," Shiro reached into his pocket, drawing out the bottle of pills again. Unscrewing the top, Shiro dropped three pills into his hand. He looked at the three and shrugged. Tipping his head back, he swallowed before continuing, "He also doesn't agree that I should be testing out the product."
"Product?" Natsu asked.
"Ah yes," Shiro rattled the bottle of pills he held in his hand before stuffing them back into his pocket. "Beautiful magic pills."
Gray balled his right hand as his left arm pulsed with agony. "Don't tell me you have more," Gray barked out.
"Loads more," Shiro purred.
Natsu looked confused between the words being exchanged, however, he didn't have time to act as Shiro shot forward. Their 'owner' didn't teleport, this time, but instead brought his hands middle and pointer finger together and with a wink, green smoke surrounded his form. Green daggers shoot towards Natsu and Gray, but the two easily dodged the mysterious magic bullets. Shiro went for Natsu, quickly swiping his open hand to the left, a large cloud of green filled around Natsu before it quickly solidified and green arrows honed in on Natsu. The Dragon Slayer growled and instead of jumping out of the way he cupped his hands together and inhaled. His chest expanded and then flames shot out encompassing the green arrows.
Natsu didn't seem to notice, but the arrows continued downward, Gray quickly took notice and with his right hand he pushed his magic outwards, covering Natsu in a thick ice shield. The arrows pierced through the shield, however, none reached Natsu, as he shared an appreciative glance with his friend.
EternalFlame401- Love and hate are probably the feelings I have for the story, so either one is fine, but thank you xD
PokeTail- Well I read somewhere the anime is adding things in that Hiro wanted to add, but couldn't or didn't, so the anime did it for him – still don't see any changes, though. Well I hope this chapter holds you over until next time I update (which will hopefully be soon)
Cristallina- Someone will die, yes. But hopefully, you all won't hate me because I have mixed reviews saying some what them to live, others want them to die…so I'm kinda scared for the ending because I want all of you to enjoy the ending…
Anniegirl132- Nope, no hope, not in my story xD
Viperhat- Ahaha! Jokes! Well, that's good to know! I honestly don't know how I feel about ending the story, I'm excited to show the ending and all its glory, but I don't want to make some of the reviewers mad – oh well, I can't please everyone right? But enough worrying, the story must go on!
FalynElf- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Shiro's the best, right!? Oh, I hope you're alright! Love and cookies virtually sent your way!
Just Me- I take that as a compliment, killing – in ways – is really hard for me to write. I know! Hold back the gasp of surprise! I love writing them, don't get me wrong, I just can't (from time to time) write the true emotion that I want the characters portraying. But anyway, thank!
DeltaGrayFraza- Gray is the best of all Fairy Tail characters! And thanks!
Abi- Will do! Thanks a bunch!
SashaMonroe- Ahh its alright, sorry for the late chapter xD
Guest- Hahaha xD Thanks
Animefan- thank you, thank you!
Guest (2)- I guess we'll have to wait and see….thanks for the review!
A/N: Alright well I hope to update this weekend because I've already got some of next chapter done. Only 2 chapters left!