"Four friends walk in front of a bar and they all get shots, why?" Speaking
"Whoa wait what? Shots? Like the drink?" Communications
'No they all died of blood lost, it's because the bar was M1918 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle)' Thinking
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Ruby and Natsu returned to Beacon after a nice cuddle at Ruby's house-er-Cabin, after that the day was all about reunions and a lot of I-missed-you hugs from all of Natsu's mates, from Natsu's fire dragon, Yang, to Natsu's favorite chocolate beverage, Coco.
As promised Natsu did greet Nora with a kiss that she so well deserved for waiting for him for so long. The chatted about their next workout session then strangely the topic swifted to who can eat more pancakes. They were about to settle their debate on pancakes till Pyrrha saw Natsu and gave him a loving hug to welcome him back to Beacon.
Natsu gladly returned her love and made sure to give all his mates a day just to catch up...and that is what he did for past few weeks. Natsu basically took one of his mates out on a date for a whole day, this was possible because all the students at Beacon are on vacation. He made sure his mate enjoyed herself when they went on their romantic date by bringing them to places they would enjoy.
A few examples include Blake and Natsu going to tuna festival, Nora and Natsu going to the annual foods day gathering, and taking Cinder out to a well known classy restaurant that's name shall not be named.
This gave Natsu some points with his mates, spending time with them one-on-one for a whole day really made his girls feel very special like it was their birthdays. Natsu couldn't be happier to spend time with all of his lovers and soon-to-be lovers, but sadly all good things come to an end, this end starts with a message he got from Winter about his first patrol. The Vytal Festival has arrived and Natsu had to get ready to serve as a sentry in the Vytal tournaments.
Natsu trained extra hard, with the help of his mates, to prepare for the Vytal Festivals. The week of training went by so fast that Natsu felt like he just returned to Beacon yesterday.
Now the part Specialist stands in the Vytal Festival fair grounds with Winter Schnee, by his side, overlooking plans of all the Atlas's security patrols on an unused booth counter top.
"We have Knights patrolling the fair grounds with Atlas personnel to monitor the Knights' activity here here and here. On top of the high security on the ground, we have bullheads making their rounds above the fair grounds and around the airships to ensure no unwanted aircrafts breach the Vytal Festival's airzone..." Winter explains Atlas's security plans with her handsome lover observing a hologram of the fair grounds and the Vytal stadium with lines all over the place. The lines represent the patrols of the Atlas troops.
Natsu nods as he processes this information, he doesn't want to fail Winter so he's taking everything in so he doesn't miss out on important facts he needs to know, 'That's a lot of people, I wonder what it's like in the stadium?' He thinks as he remembers the patrols in his head for future reference.
"You and I will be deployed inside the stadium itself with other two membered teams to back us up, outside are more Knights and Atlas troops walking around the civilian landing zones. There will be a lot of people in this stadium so we have to split up to cover more ground. I will take the top floors and you will take the bottom floors, we'll keep in touch with our scrolls. We might not see each other for the whole tournament so report in every hour. If you see someone or something suspicious, don't hesitate to act on your instincts, it could save many lives," Winter warns, making Natsu feel on edge for having the responsibility for protecting so many people all at once.
"If things get out of control and we are forced to engage a target, Atlas will deployed the paladins to support the troops, but with all this security and hunters all in one place, we might not have to worry about an attack on the Vytal stadium," Winter assures, trying to make Natsu feel better due to his serious face, which is a rare sight to see.
Natsu nods again, making Winter smile at him, "Don't worry Natsu, relax, this festival's been on for years and nothing has gone wrong in those past years. You'll be fine, besides you'll get front row seats to the tournament so enjoy yourself," Winter assures and grabs his hand gently then rubs it soothingly.
This makes the hunter lighten up and smile back, "Yup you got it Winter, oh and when's our break?" Natsu asks with a sheepish smile on his face.
"Whenever you feel like it Natsu, we Specialists are the elites but it's okay to have a little fun now and again," Winter assures.
Natsu's smile only brightens and he hugs Winter tightly, "Oh this is going to be awesome! Weiss was talking up a storm about you when I told her you were training me, do you want to go visit her, I think we can catch her before she goes to her first match," Natsu offers but Winter only smiles as she breaks the hug.
"My little sister doesn't even know I'm here and I would prefer to keep it that way. I intend to see how she fights without me in her head. I want to make sure that her battle is a fight to win the tournament, not a fight to make me proud through perfection," Winter explains and kisses Natsu on the lips.
Natsu moans in the kiss and gets a little excited over it as she breaks the kiss, "You will have to go to the stadium without me sadly, Officers on one of the airships requests my audience for the security plans. I'll regroup with you in a short while," Winter explains and walks toward the landing zones of the fair grounds to request her capital ship to pick her up.
"Okay I'll see you soon!" Natsu waves Winter goodbye and waits for her to leave his sight before moving on to meet up with team RWBY in their room.
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"Alright! this is it, the first fight of the tournament ladies, let's show everyone how team RWBY handles a fight!" Yang rallies her teammates as they prepare themselves to move out to the stadium.
"We'll be fine, we handled worse than another team of hunters like us," Blake assures and stretches her arm in a deltoid stretch with her Gambol Shroud holstered on her hip.
"Blake's right, this battle is just a friendly competition between schools to see which academy is the strongest...and we all know which school that is right girls?" Weiss agrees with a prideful tone for her academy.
"Okay team, will strength in our hearts and bonds strong as steel, to battle we GO!" Ruby calls and opens the door but bumps into something hard.
"Ouff," She groans as she begins to fall but two warm strong arms catch her.
"Oh sorry Ruby, I should of knocked first," Natsu apologizes and sets Ruby back on her feet.
The rest of team RWBY sigh in relief to see Natsu standing in the doorway with Ruby in his arms. The four girls are happy to see Natsu again, especially Weiss, she's has been thinking of Natsu lately. He took her out on a 'catch-up reunion' a few days after he came back from training but she knows that was a date he took her on. They visited the mall in Vale and mostly shopped for things Weiss wanted that mostly consists of clothes, makeup, cute plushies, like dangos, and ammo for her Myrtenater.
Weiss had a wonderful time with Natsu that day, she loved how Natsu treated her to all her needs and acted as a total gentleman the whole day. Which was a huge need in her list for perfect boyfriend.
He made her laugh, smile, and open up to him like a blooming flower. She told him about her childhood with her late mother and the transition from her father spending his time with his family, to spending time with HIS company. She told him of what her father would always tell her ever since her mom passed away, "You must always be on your best behavior, the Schnee name is on the line understand?" He would say but she knows what he meant. He meant that his name was on the line, he didn't want his second daughter embarrassing him like the first one did.
Weiss played along with his father's strict rules and procedures because she wanted one thing from him, the company, The Schnee Company. If she played her cards right, she would become the heir of Schnee Company and fix what her father broke.
When her mother was alive, she and her father would run the company equally and agree on everything before a decision was made, their was only one argument that she won, keep Atlas out of the Company. The Government shouldn't meddle in the affairs of their company, but now that she is no longer alive to guide the company, Weiss's father unknowingly let the Atlas government into the Schnee company.
How they got in? Through General Ironwood, he and Weiss's parents have always been on good terms in the good old days, but when Weiss's father took control, Ironwood became more comfortable asking for favors of the Schnee Company, then it went on to telling what the Schnee Company can and can't do.
For there on out, the Schnee Company has been losing its money from Ironwood's involvement, but strangely recovering again with several 'donations' from Ironwood. Weiss knows if she was in charge, things would of changed a whole lot better than what her father did. She knows she would make mistakes, but not as bad as HE would.
Natsu listened to the whole story thoughtfully, he told her that she would make an amazing leader in the Schnee Company and said she should do whatever she can to fix what was broken, "If you need my help just call me and I'll be there, we'll fix this together," He said.
Weiss would never thought she would find another person that would support in such a way that reminds her of her mother. Her mother would always tell her to strive for the best and if she fails, don't cry, just try again the next time. Nothing is impossible without a little work. Then Weiss thought of what she liked about Natsu, he wasn't the well-off heir to another company but he was something better like something straight out of a fairy tail.
Natsu was always something different from other boys, when they first met she was simply terrified of him due to his powerful presence, but when he apologized to her in the locker rooms she knew that he was a kind-hearted person. At first she thought she had a little crush on him for his looks, but the more and more he spent time with her team that crush turned to love caused by his compassionate personality and loyal determination to stand by what he believes in.
Maybe one day she'll tell Natsu how she feels but she thinks he already has another girl to love. That makes her heart ache but it won't deter her for trying, she would rather be rejected than to never know she had a chance.
Now reverting back to reality after a long Schnee history session, Weiss shakes her head to gather her senses again to keep her romantic thoughts of Natsu at bay.
"Natsu! Glad of you to join us!" Blake cheers, smiling of her boyfriend joining her before the big match.
"Yeah I heard team RWBY is heading out to start of the Vytal tournament! I just wanted to see my favorite team before the big fight!" Natsu explains and smiles as Blake and Yang immediately hug him as soon as Ruby lets go of him.
"Hey hotshot, if we win the fight can I get a...special reward?" Yang whispers in his ear with a smirk on her lips.
Blake and Ruby overhear this and their cheeks burn a bright red but Blake takes action, "Not if I can help it, I know you'll reward your kitty if she wins right my hunter?" Blake lustfully counters and caresses his cheek.
"Wh-What?!" Ruby blushes madly of her sister's and teammate's lewd requests for Natsu. She knows they like him but she didn't know they would go this far with their teasing.
"Will you two knock it off, w-we have better things to do! Like a battle to fight!" Weiss stutters cutely to Blake's and Yang's affection to Natsu.
Blake and Yang pout then let go of Natsu, they know she's right so they'll leave this dilemma for another time, by another time they mean just make Natsu do steamy things to them later on tonight.
"Okay fine Weiss you win, let's go team, Natsu? Care to join us?" Yang offers.
Natsu nods his head, "I'd love to!"
Blake and Yang nods as Ruby and Weiss walks past them then moves down the hallway. Before Blake and Yang follow their teammates to the landing zone, Natsu grabs both of them by the waist and brings them close.
"If you two win this fight and make it to the finials, I'll have a surprise waiting for both of you after the tournament," Natsu offers, squeezing their bubble booties teasingly.
Blake and Yang smirk of his offer and they both kiss his cheeks, "A surprise huh, okay babe, we'll win this fight right Blake?" Yang asks.
Blake nods determinedly, if winning this tournament means getting some of that dragon meat, she's going to make sure team RWBY dominates the field today.
Natsu smiles of their determined faces as they catch up to their teammates up ahead, 'Those are my girls...' He thinks and follows right behind them.
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"WHAT IS THAT?!" Natsu yells as he hangs his head out of the bullhead, he and team RWBY are on, pointing at a large floating blue building of some sort. Team RWBY on the other hand is holding on to him so he doesn't fall off the bullhead.
"Natsu get inside! That's the Amity Colosseum, that's where we're going to fight!" Ruby screams, fearing for the life of her boyfriend.
Natsu is left in awe of the shining arena, so many ships are hovering around the stadium and the way the Colosseum reflects in the sunlight is truly breath taking. He then sits back down in the bullhead, making the rest of team RWBY very happy, and smiles.
"That's amazing!" Natsu whispers in awe as the bullhead approaches the arena.
"Sigh, thank you, yeah we're fighting there, in a crowd made of hundreds of people all in one place for the tournament. On top of that the tournament will be broadcast all around the world throughout the four kingdoms. Oh I'm so excited!" Ruby cheers.
"Well save your energy for the fight Ruby, I heard our opposition are quite experienced, they could be a year ahead of us," Weiss scolds as the bullhead lands on one of the many landing zones on the Amity.
"Alright here we go, let's do this!" Yang cheers and cocks her Ember Celica back.
As they land a Atlas soldier guides the bullhead down to the ground, when the bullhead touches down, Team RWBY and Natsu disembark. The Atlas soldier talks to the pilot while a staff member of the Amity walks up to Ruby.
"Ah Specialist Dragneel, we've been expecting you," She greets with a respectful bow.
"Ha, thanks, this place is amazing," Natsu admits.
She smiles of his cute antics but her eyes widen to see Team RWBY behind him, "Team RWBY! You four have a battle in 5 minutes, follow me, I'll take you to the stage," She orders.
"Oh yeah, let's go girls, see you later Natsu!" Ruby says her goodbye and follows the lady with her team behind her.
"Bye hotshot," Yang whispers in his ear before chasing after her team.
"GOOD LUCK!" Natsu waves goodbye to his lovers with a big smile on his face.
The four disappear in the crowd of people ahead of him, after looking around of all the people ordering food at the food vendors, people getting their seats, and the troopers patrolling the landing zones and helping people off the passenger ships, Natsu makes his way through the crowd of people to get inside the stadium.
"Oh who is that? Is he from Atlas, he's so hot look at him!"
"Wow dude check it out, it's a Specialist,"
"Atlas must really care about the tournament if they bring the Specialists in,"
"Oh my god look at that guy over there with the pink hair. He's cute, you think he's going to fight in the tournaments?"
"Isn't that Natsu? I thought he was a Beacon student, why is wearing one of those Atlas uniforms?"
"Hey handsome, you look good in that uniform,"
Natsu hears comments about him as he walks through the crowd, he's getting a lot of attention from everyone due to his outfit. He even feels the stares of everyone as he passes by, but he just ignores them and passes by with a smile with the good old excuse me.
He passes through the crowd and finds the entrance of the Amity with guards up front taking tickets and checking for any unwanted items. As Natsu approaches, the guards salute him, "Specialist Dragneel, welcome aboard the Amity Colosseum sir and happy Vytal Festival," Another staff member greets and salutes him.
"Ah thank you very much, have a good one guys," Natsu smiles and nods then pats one of the soldiers on the shoulder playfully as he passes by.
Natsu walks down the hallway and approaches a bright light at the end of the hallway. As he walks into the bright light he stops to the sight of something beautiful, the sounds of hundreds of people cheering for the upcoming battle fills the stadium, everywhere Natsu looks are people of all shapes and sizes.
He then goes the railing in front of him and learns on it to see the giant stage in the center of the arena. It was surrounded with black safety pads on the outside but in the center are several gray pentagons creating a large hexagon formation.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, WELCOME TO THE VYTAL TOURNAMENTS!" Natsu hears Professor-er-Doctor Oobleck's voice the arena's speakers.
The crowd goes wild as several fireworks explode above the grand stage of the Amity to start the Vytal tournaments.
"Live from the Amity Colosseum, it is I, Doctor Oobleck and, with me, Professor Port of Beacon are here today to get this festival on the road, isn't that right Professor Port?" Oobleck starts.
Port then agrees and continues telling the everyone, here and at home, the rules of the Vytal tournament then announcing the first combatants to start of the games. It happened so fast for Natsu, when he saw Team RWBY step out in the field, Natsu was cheering them on that all of Vale can hear him. He knew they could hear them when Blake looked at him and pointed in his direction.
In all the excitement, Natsu hears something bump behind him, he turns around to find a small child sitting down with a fallen chocolate ice cream cone. The child looks to be around 6 or 7 years old, has long snow white hair and baby blue eyes, she is wearing a simple purple dress and black shoes. When she looks up to Natsu, she slightly flinches in terror and starts to tear up.
"Oh I am so sorry," Natsu apologizes and holds out his hand but the girl gasps in fear of a stranger talking to her.
"I'm a friend, see, my name is Natsu, how about you, what is your name?" He asks.
The girl slowly begins to open up to Natsu and she says, "Mia...Mia Ashley," She mumbles.
"Mia huh, that's a nice name, I'm sorry I made you drop you ice cream, tell you what. We can get another ice cream cone, something bigger and better than the last one just for you," Natsu offers.
Mia's eyes brighten up, "Really?"
"Yeah, any ice cream you want I'll get it for you," Natsu smiles at her and holds out his hand.
Mia then smiles back and takes his hand then gets on her feet, "Alright Mia, let's go on an adventure!" Natsu cheers and takes a knee with his back facing her.
The small child climbs on Natsu's back and sits on his shoulders, Natsu then stands up to let Mia get a better view of her surroundings, "Where to Mia?"
She giggles and points to the nearest ice cream vendor, "That way, right in front of us with the smiling ice cream cone!" She cheers.
"Off we go then," Natsu smiles and makes his way toward the ice cream cone.
As he makes his way toward the ice cream vendor, many people spot the Specialist with the child, "Aw, look Sarah, that Atlas soldier looks so cute with his daughter,"
This gives some rep with the people for looking like he's spending time with his daughter. When Natsu gets to the Ice cream vendor, a woman wearing the Amity uniform with a cute ice cream cone hat on her brown, tied up in a pony tail, hair.
"Ah Specialist, what can I do for you today?" She asks with a smile.
Natsu's mouth waters of the sight of all the ice cream in front of him, "Oh Mia, what should we get?"
Mia looks around the ice cream choices and points to only the chocolate swirl, "That one," She says.
"Okay, I'll take a scoop of the chocolate swirl with a cone and bowl and I'll get a scoop of Mint N' Chip, Cookie dough, and chocolate swirl with the same cone and bowl please," Natsu orders.
"Coming right up Specialist," She says with a smile, making Mia smile as she watches her bowl of ice cream come to life.
Natsu gets the ice cream and hands both of them to Mia for her to hold so he can get his wallet, "Oh no Specialist, this one is on the house," She assures with nod.
"Oh thank you, then this is a tip then," Natsu plays the system and hands the lady around 500 lien for her efforts.
"Thank you!" Mia thanks as Natsu waves goodbye to watch the match.
The lady is left speechless of the money he just gave her, even the customers the watched the whole thing go down has a little bit more respect for Natsu, and for Atlas.
For the rest of team RWBY's match, Mia and Natsu watched the two team go at each other at full strength while Mia and Natsu ate their ice cream. The whole time the two are having a splendid time together, laughing and smiling for Team RWBY to win.
As the match comes to an end, Natsu and Mia cheer for team RWBY as Natsu puts Mia down on the ground to throw away her empty ice cream bowl.
"MIA!" A motherly voice calls for the child.
Natsu turns to Mia to find a woman, that looks to be her mother, hugging her with a man standing next to her.
"Where did you go Mia, we were worried sick for you. We thought we would never find you," The mother cries as the man next to her notices Natsu approach them.
"I'm sorry mama, Natsu was with me the whole time, right Natsu?" Mia turns around and points to a smiling Natsu.
The mother immediately gets on her feet and salutes Natsu, suggesting she has a military background.
"Hi, I'm Natsu Dragneel, Mia here was with me the whole time I swear, I made sure nothing bad happened to her," He assures with a nod.
"Specialist, I thank you for watching over my daughter, I don't know what we would of done without you," The mother thanks as the man holds out his hand.
Natsu takes his hand and gives him a firm handshake while the man introduces himself, "I'm Lieutenant Re-I mean-Rey, just call me Rey, and this is my friend Ashley, Specialist," Rey introduces himself.
"It was no problem Rey, Mia was quite the motivator when the fight was on, she really like Team RWBY," Natsu says.
"I'm sure she was, I'm just happy to have her back, thank you again Specialist," Ashley thanks.
"Really it was nothing, well I better get going so you three can enjoy the tournament, Mia, I see you around," Natsu says his goodbyes and starts to walk away from the group.
"Thank you again Specialist," Rey says as he rubs his friend's back.
As Natsu disappears in the crowd, Ashley calms down and hugs Rey and her daughter, "If I was only quicker this never would of happened,"
"It's not your fault, things just happen," Rey assures.
Ashley smiles as Mia hugs her hand, feeling terrible for leaving her parents, "I'm sorry mama," She apologizes.
"Oh it's not you fault Mia, come on let's go watch the match now, see look they are starting up the next match," Rey calms the little girl down.
Mia smiles and nods, "Okay,"
As Mia looks down at a group of boys facing against a group of girls, Rey pulls Ashley into a hug by wrapping his arm around her shoulder, "So that was a Specialist huh?"
"Yeah, the best of best, but didn't he seem familiar to you?" Ashley asks.
"I thought I was the only one, I swear I've seen his face before, was it Salamander?" He asks.
"No it can't be, he's not a Specialist," She confirms as the second match up begins.
It's been several months since he was deployed as a cashier at Blades N Bullets and he has grown attached to Ashley and surprisingly Nila. Nila would always stop by to visit the two whenever she got the chance, the more she visits, the more time she bonds with Rey. They got along just fine, both coming from a military past they clicked like two jigsaw puzzle pieces. They would never admit it, but they loved each other, he loved having her around and she loved having him around. Rey always knew what to say to cheer Nila's day up. Rey usually spends his whole break with Nila when she visits.
While Rey and Nila bonded together, Ashley felt slightly jealous of Nila for taking Rey's attention. Even though she spends everyday work day with Rey, that doesn't mean she won't get jealous of the person she likes. She fell in love with Rey a few months after she started working with Rey. At first, Rey didn't talk much but the more time he spent time with her, he started to open up to her and they became friends, ending up with Ashley falling for him but she never gathered the courage to tell him how she feels.
Now she looks forward to coming to work, when she walks into the store she always finds Rey waiting for her in the break room, which are behind the shooting range, with a breakfast for two meal just for the two of them. This always warmed her heart to have a partner like Rey, but another reason why she never told him how she felt was because she thought he doesn't like her romantically, even though he constantly expresses his happiness to be with her everyday to her. For example everyday he always walks her back to her hotel that she's staying in for the time being, and on special occasions, stay with her in the same hotel room to keep her company.
One of those days is when Rey found out Ashley was a single mother with a daughter named Mia Ashley. Through a bad romance in Ashley's highschool days, she was pregnant with Mia with one of the bad boys of her highschool. Mia's father left Ashley when he found out Ashley was pregnant with his child, all he said was, "I'm not ready for this," and left her without a second thought. Ashley was then left devastated but when Mia was born, she had a new purpose in life to raise Mia.
Through all the hardships of being a single mother and just out of highschool, lucky her older sister, Sophia, took Mia in when Ashley enlisted to the Atlas Military to get a reasonable job to help raise Mia. Rey listened to Ashley's story and offered to help raise Mia with her. He lost his military career after the bullhead crash so currently he has no purpose in life other than to help Ashley. Ashley at first declined the offer but she was later convinced to accept his offer because she loves him, not mention his offer itself help him get points with Ashley.
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But enough about Rey's love triangle, the end of team SSSN and NDGO's battle with SSSN victorious. In all the excitement of congratulating SSSN, Natsu heads down to the stadium floor to assist the paramedics with NDGO's transportation.
"Wow, that kid must of put at least 50,000 volts in these girls, they'll be out for long time, they'll be lucky if they can even wake up tonight," One of the medics comments as they wait for the electricity to die down in the water with another medic beside him.
"When will this die out, we got another match in 20 minutes, 10 so the stage can reset," His partner asks.
"I think I can help with that," Natsu interrupts and walks up to the two medics.
"Oh Specialist Dragneel, yeah you can help, if you can get those girls out of that water it'll be a huge help for us," The medic explains.
"Yeah sure I can do that," Natsu assures and goes into the water, giving no f-cares to the electric water in front of him.
"Whoa don't go in there!" They scream at Natsu it is too late as Natsu steps a foot in the water, but he doesn't get zapped by the water, calming down the medics.
"See I told you the water was-AHH!" One of the medics steps into the water and turns into a burning yellow crisps as he fall back on solid ground.
His teammate drags him out of the water and slaps his face a couple of times, "MEDIC! I need a MEDIC, MEDIC DOWN, MEDIC DOWN!" He cries and tries to slap his friend out of unconsciousness.
While the zapped medic is taken to the medical beds, Natsu picks up all three girls in the water then lays them down off on the sandy beaches of the tropical environment.
"Thanks Specialist, we'll take it from-" Another paramedic comes to put the girls on stretchers but Natsu raises his hand.
"I can fix this, just need a little jump start," Natsu explains and picks up a girl wearing a green dress with one arm and uses his free hand to form a small energy ball of lighting in his hand to give this girl a little...jump start.
The medic wants to say something but trusts the specialist to redo the effects of Neptune's attack. He watches as Natsu's lighting hand touches the girl's stomach. The girl wakes to live after a few seconds and she awakes to find what could be her knight in shiny armor.
"Hello, welcome back," Natsu greets the girl with a smile.
The girl's heart start to race from the close contact with the charming specialist, "W-what happened?" She asks with a slight blush on her cheeks, normally she would resist the good looks of men but Natsu is a special case.
"Neptune got you and your team real good with that lighting attack, but I fixed you right up," Natsu explains and helps the girl up to her feet but she almost falls back down if it weren't for Natsu standing at her side.
"Here, let me help you miss," A medic interrupts and as cart stops next to the three with an open spot just for her.
"Ha...t-thank you," The girl mumbles as Natsu carries her to the cart and gently lays her down on the cart.
Natsu nods his head and gives her another smile as he goes back to the remaining two unconscious girls and repeats the same process with them.
"How is he?" The girl in green asks the medic tending to her wounds while she watches Natsu help her teammates toward the cart with blushes on her teammates' faces.
"That's Specialist Dragneel, good guy from what I hear, heard that he help reunite a lost kid to her parents," The medic explains as Natsu helps the two girls on the cart. One of the victims is a blue-haired girl is wearing a purple combat suit and other is a red-haired girl wearing a dress.
Both girls mumble their thanks to Natsu as they take their seats inside the cart, "Alright, that's three, where is the last one?" Natsu asks and looks around the sandy section of the stage.
"HELP!, can someone get me down from here!" He hears and finds a girl hanging from a rope tied to the beached ship.
"Gwen..." The blue-haired girl mumbles and shakes her head in embarrassment.
"I got you, I'm coming!" Natsu assures and runs over to the hanging huntress with several throwing knives standing in the sands below the girl.
"Ah, I can't reach the rope," Gwen mumbles as she tries to cut herself free from the rope tied to her foot but gives up.
Natsu runs up to the girl and looks at her then thinks of helping her without her landing on her knives below her.
"Help...my foot is starting to hurt here," Gwen calls and uses her arms to keep her dress from revealing her underwear to all the spectators of the crowd.
"Don't worry, I'll catch you," Natsu assures as he lights his left finger on fire and points at the rope tied to the girl's foot.
"Wait what? No wait wait WAIT!" Gwen cries in horror as she feels the rope snap in an instant and she falls toward the Specialist below her.
She screams and closes her eyes as the ground approaches, but she doesn't feel the warm sand on her face as something warm softens her landing. She breaths heavily as she holds whatever soften her landing tightly.
She opens her eyes to find a blue vest, she looks up to find a man groaning in the sand, it takes her a few moments to realize what just happen, her face turns a bright red and she gets off him but fall on her butt in her attempt.
Gwen watches as the man slowly sits up and take in a deep breath as he open his eye, "Oh I didn't plan that out," He mumbles as he ruffles his own hair to get the sand off his his pick locks.
"Th-thank you," She mumbles while breaking eye-contact with the handsome Specialist.
"No, problem, let's get this rope off you and get you to the others," Natsu explains and unties the rope wrapped around her ankle. He then picks Gwen up the good old bridal style way and walks toward the cart where her teammate's are waiting for her.
"Ah, you have our thanks Specialist, we'll take care of them from here," A medic explains as he take a seat in the driver's seat and starts the cart again.
"It was nothing, you four just get some rest and I'll see you all tonight?" Natsu asks, making the girls form confused expression on their faces.
"At the fair grounds," Natsu explains.
The girl with blue hair smiles and nods her head, "We'll be there, right ladies?" She asks, making the girls nod in response, they only met Natsu a few minutes ago and they already like him.
As the cart begins to move, one of the girls nudges the driver to stop, "What is your name Specialist?" The one with blue hair asks.
"Just call me Natsu, Natsu Dragneel," He greets with a smile.
She smiles, "Nebula Violette, team leader of NDGO, I'll see you around," She says as the cart heads toward the medical bay.
Natsu watches as the girls give him seductive looks and winks as they head off stage on the cart. He waves goodbye and makes his way off stage as his scroll begins to vibrate, he takes it out and finds out that Winter is calling him,
"Hey Winter," He answers.
"Greetings Dragneel, my business I mentioned earlier is concluded, I'll be arriving in Beacon for a meeting with General Ironwood and Headmaster Ozpin," She explains in a very formal tone, suggesting that other Atlas personnel are present with Winter.
"Okay I'll meet you there Schnee," Natsu plays along, not wanting Winter to get in trouble because of him.
"Acknowledge, I'm sure General Ironwood won't mind the extra company, on that note I think he would actually prefer your audience, he has been waiting for a progress report for a week now," Winter explains.
"I guess that night was a bit too much wasn't it Winter?" Natsu jokes, Winter actually visited Natsu after his month of bonding with his mates and he ended up...ravaging Winter in his room that very night. The same night Winter was suppose to give Ironwood Natsu's progress report.
"..." Winter is dead silent after his comment.
"Winter? I'll see you there?" Natsu asks.
"Y-yes, I'll meet you there Dragneel...g-goodbye," Winter ends the call with a beep.
As Natsu puts away his scroll, he looks up to find a very fancy ship flying above the Amity, it's Winter's ship and this makes Natsu smirk to himself as he walks off stage, "I'd better hurry if I want to meet her when she lands," He plans and hears the stage transform back into it's initial form as he walks into a dark hallway leading back into the Amity locker rooms.
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"Whoa, those two are going at it,"
"Is he fighting a Specialist? He's done for,"
"GO UNCLE QROW!"
"Winter show him respect!"
Natsu arrives at Beacon and he finds a very large crowd gathered in front of the amphitheater. As he approaches the crowd, several spectators slowly give him some room, "Here comes reinforcements, it's over guys," He hears as the crowd gives him an opening but two huntress's stand in his way of the clashing and fighting up ahead.
"What's going on here?" Natsu asks, making Weiss and Ruby jump to his interruption.
"N-Natsu?! Look, some drunk is fighting Winter," Weiss explains and points to the clashing of red and blue in front of them.
"What?!" Natsu grows anger that someone would challenge his Ice Queen and he lights his fists on fire.
This makes the crowd fear for the drunk as Ruby tries to explain what's going on, "Natsu wait, that's my-" Ruby tugs Natsu's shirt but he ignores her as he charges the red light in front of him.
With rage in his eyes, he finds Winter's opponent standing a few feet away from Winter, and the drunk is strangely familiar to Natsu.
"Winter it's my turn!" Natsu interrupts and dashes past Winter and toward the drunk.
"Natsu wait!" Winter calls but it is too late as the drunk quickly lifts up a thick claymore like sword to defend himself.
"What is he doing here?" The drunk mumbles as he waits for Natsu's to make contact.
As Natsu approaches the drunk his eye widens as he recognizes the drunk and stops his fist from hitting him, "Hey Qrow!? What are you doing here? How have you been?" Natsu greets, calming down with his flames dying out.
Everyone sighs in relief that the fight was over out of happiness or sadness as the drunk lowers his sword and sheaths it, "I should be asking you the same question kid," Qrow shakes his head to clear his head as he observes Natsu, a lot has changed since he last saw Natsu.
"What happened to you?" He asks and raises an eyebrow to Natsu's attire.
"What do you mean-" Natsu asks but someone interrupts him.
"SCHNEE!" Someone yells and everyone turns to the voice to find Ironwood, Ozpin, and Glynda walking toward the group of fighters.
"General Ironwood sir," Winter faces Ironwood and salutes him with Natsu coping her.
"What's going on here?" Ironwood asks but turns his attention to Natsu and Qrow.
"Sir he started to engage in combat with-" Winter starts but Qrow interrupts her.
"No actually she started it," Qrow corrects as Ironwood walks up to Winter.
Before Ironwood could say anything, Ozpin takes control of the situation while Ruby runs up to Qrow and hugs his arm, "UNCLE QROW!"
While everyone starts to clear the courtyard, Natsu helps Glynda restore the courtyard to its formal glory.
"Qrow, Natsu, if you would so kindly join us?" Ozpin calls as he, Glynda, Ironwood, and Winter head inside Beacon.
"I think I'm in trouble," Qrow whispers to Ruby and Natsu.
"Well you did destroy the courtyard," Ruby notes.
"I'll see you later kid," He says and gives Ruby a fist bump then starts to walk toward Ozpin.
Ruby then smiles at Natsu and hugs him tightly, "Hi Natsu, sorry about my uncle," She mumbles sheepishly.
"It's okay, I'll catch you later Ruby," Natsu assures and pecks her on the cheek before catching up with Qrow, leaving Ruby blushing and Weiss slightly jealous that she didn't get a kiss, but Natsu makes her feel better by calling her and waving at her before leaving with Qrow.
"So kid, you and my niece are an item now?" Qrow asks, he saw their hug but didn't see their kiss.
Natsu blushes slightly and starts to reply but Qrow raises an finger, "You know what, I don't want to know, what I want to know why are you wearing that ridiculous uniform," He asks and slaps his shoulder jokingly.
"Oh this, I'm working as a guard at the Amity for the Vytal Tournaments," Natsu explains.
"But they don't give out those uniforms to just anyone, you work for Jimmy now?" He asks.
"Who?"
"The General kid,"
"Nope not really, it's just an one time thing, but it's cool that I work with Winter," He explains with a smile.
"Heh? That's funny kid, working with her, that must be a really pain in your-" Qrow starts but he finds Winter glaring at him.
"Sorry did I say something wrong?" He asks.
"Qrow, no need to put more fuel to the fire, let us return to my office in one piece shall we?" Ozpin suggests.
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"Fine you win Ozpin, but you won't believe what I learned out there,"
Role Call
"Okay, is everyone here?" Chibi Rey asks as he stands in front of a group of unique individuals all wearing fatigues.
"This is everyone Rey," Chibi Nila assures and rests her back against the wall behind Rey.
"Alright, so I'll just want to get to know everyone, I'll go one-by-one so state your name and where your coming from when I point to you," Rey explains and walks up to a man wearing a black billed cap with headphones over his ears wearing green fatigues with the Vale symbol stitched to the right shoulder of the fatigues. The soldier is wearing dog tags over his neck that dangles on his chest lifelessly.
"Sir?" Rey asks and the soldier salutes him.
"Shigasain Venal boss, SWAT unit," He greets with a smirk.
Rey sighs and takes it that Venal will be a joker,"What's your job in SWAT Venal?" Rey asks coldly.
"Pointman, runner, breacher, a lot roles boss, just give me a target and I'll deal with it," Venal explains proudly.
"Hmm," Rey hums and nods his head and moves to the next soldier.
"Loyd Horne, Orchid's elite," He mumbles filled with boredom, not really wanting to be here for this role call but he still salutes Rey.
"So your one of Orchid's body guards, you must be Berserker then, the only hunter that doesn't have a semblance," Rey asks.
"That's right..." He curtly answers.
"Hunter," Rey mumbles then looks at the soldier next to him, he has short afro-styled hair with goat horns curled around his ears.
"Ah Syrian, long way from Atlas don't you think?" Rey casual greets an old friend and the two shake hands.
"Ha ha well, you got to do what you go to do," Syrian jokes and nods to him.
"What's your role?" Rey asks.
"Ah come one Rey don't make me say it," Syrian pleads.
"Just say it, it's all procedures," He says.
The goat faunus sighs and gives in, "I'm just a grunt okay damn Rey, just another Atlas soldier with a gun," He explains.
"That's more like it, next?" Rey asks and looks at the soldier in front of him and he has silver wolf ears and messy silver hair.
"Jason Spartan, Specialist," He greets saluting him, Rey notices that his fatigues are different that they are a dark gray and the Atlas symbol is stitched to the right shoulder of his fatigues like Vale's fatigues.
"Jason Spartan, I've heard that before, don't they call you 'chief' back in Atlas?" Rey asks.
"Yes sir," He mumbles, not wanting to start a conversation with Rey.
"At ease Specialist," Rey mumbles and moves along.
"Silver Storm, Specialist," The soldier greets wearing the same fatigues as Jason.
"Specialist...next," Rey greets.
"Redd Kurosaki, I work for General Orchid's OE," The hunter introduces himself with a nod, filled with energy.
"Kurosaki, The Protector of OE, the hunter with the semblance to create a shield so powerful it can withstand even a Doomsday strike," Rey notes Redd's famous semblance that saved OE more times than they can remember.
"Ha ha, yup that's me," He chuckles and scratches his head sheepishly.
"Hmm, next?"
"Clark Williams, Specialist," The next soldier greets with a salute.
"Atlas sent a lot of Specialists over," Rey mumbles.
"..." Clark doesn't say anything as Rey passes him.
"And lastly," Rey comes to the end of the row and looks at the man in front of him.
"..." He doesn't say anything but he does hand him a note.
"Not a talker, Noah Sterben, Specialist?" Rey asks as he reads the note.
Noah nods to him and salutes him before returning to his idle stance.
Rey walks back next to Nila and looks a the small group, "Well that's everyone, thank you all for coming, we have long day ahead of us with the Vytal Festivals so here's the plan..." He starts and turns on a hologram that grabs everyone's attention but two more soldiers enter the room rudely and stop to see everyone looking at them.
One of the soldiers is a Tiger faunus wearing green fatigues, he has snow white hair with oddly one strand of black hair over his golden eye while his other eye is a ice blue. He walks up to Rey and shakes his hand with his white, black striped tail tries to keep off the ground behind him.
"Well look at this gentlemen, Moroz 'Frosty' Oblako of General Orchid's elite bodyguards OE. You're late Frosty," Rey explains as he fist bumps the faunus and smiles.
"The one and only Reap, cut me a little slack will ya, this Atlas guy was just a little lost...ah what's your name again?" Moroz asks and turns to the soldier behind him.
He is wearing white fatigues like all the other Atlas soldier but he is wearing a black balaclava and black shades to cover his eyes, "Mohammad Zawahreh sir," He introduces himself and salutes Rey.
"What did you just say? All I heard was mumble jumble," Moroz jokes but Rey gives him a glare to shut up.
"Just call me Scarecrow, I'm a Specialist," Scarecrow explains.
"Alright Scarecrow, line up with the other soldiers, you're lucky we just started Scarecrow," Rey scolds and watches as Frosty and Scarecrow line up with the others.
"Now as I was saying..." Rey looks back at the hologram to find that it's showing the Amity Colosseum
Hey hey hey, entering the Vytal tournaments people isn't it exciting? Well it would if I uploaded for frequently so I understand if you're tired of waiting and totally hate and are unfollowing, unfavoriting, writing flames as we speak.
Stuff about the fights in the Vytal tournaments, you all have already seen the fights in the show so why bother rewriting them on this website, just go watch the show and imagine Natsu being there if I do that. I'm not the one to heavily piggyback cannon word for word so I'm skipping the fight scenes and creating my own fights to replace them.
For example, skipping SSSN vs NDGO with Natsu vs Pyrrha (That is THE fucking showdown of Beacon...oh yeah that's another spoiler)
If you want the cannon fights in a fanfic story, this isn't the story for you.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: I know that Natsu having only one eye and being dead is weird and/or retarded, but I'm telling you right here and now...there is a reason for it and this Volume of the series will explain why and redo some of those effects of being dead and/or having one eye (Spoiler I know, but I don't give a fuck no one is going to read this)
GUEST REVIEWS
Guest: Like I said before, the number of Oc will determine if I kill her or not (Spoiler I know, but no one is going to read this). It's up to the readers to decide whether she lives or dies through their actions. For the final showdown, I would tell you everything but you're a guest so I can only talk to you in public and not privately.
All I can say is that Natsu won't die because he is already 'dead' and for other plot reasons that will be explained in volume 4. Here's a question for you: Irene and Maggie are both FULLY grown dragons, imagine what they can do in the Fall of Beacon my friend.
I just want to thank FallenAngelNoah, Barbatos Lupus, and The END of me for submitting their Ocs to the pot. With their help Pyrrha's life has a higher chance of being saved (I'm guessing no one will read this so I can put in a spoiler)
If you didn't get the codeword for the last chapter it was: Tick Tock, my bad for not making it clearer to catch.
For all those people who want Weiss x Natsu, I got you, she'll confess during vol 4 and she'll get a very short lemon (I'll explain in more details once we get there) Nora will probably get a lemon if I feel like it but it'll be the same situation as Weiss's lemon.
Codeword: Cardboard Box
If you like this chapter then good for you
Till next time