Ice Mage and the Dragon Magistrate
Chapter Two
Well Hi everyone once again I like to say I don't own Fairytale, YUGIOH magic and traps and maybe some monsters, or Harry Potter Fanfiction creatures, or some of the powers from Naruto or the Dragon forms from Fire Emblem just my OC please leave reviews and no burns.
The sound of rubber soles of their shoes echoed off and on all by themselves often mixing or merging with the rumbling or massive explosions levels above Gray and Caroline as they ran towards the battle, Gray watched her out of the corner of his eye, his heart was racing so wildly not from the fighting or the danger…but of being so close to her to be able to just touch her back there and feel the softness of her skin agent his was enough to ensure him that she was real. Gray looked on a head when the sound of footsteps were heading in their direction, when suddenly 40 Shadow wizards stopped directly in front of them blocking their patch, stopping dead in their tracks they quickly took a battle stance as the dark wizards laughed seeing their pray so outnumbered "Well well what do we got here? Two Fairy Tale losers; come guys lets wipe these guys out!" "YA!"Caroline looked over at Gray smirking at him, "Hey mind if I take them I need the warm up?" Raising an eyebrow at her then shook his head smiling back at her, jerking his head in the direction of the wizards "Go ahead I'd LOVE to watch you fight." Gray high fived himself in the back of his mind as a full blown blush shoot across her cheeks as she quickly adverted her face, but he had already seen it so there was no point in hiding it
"I don't think it's the best time or place for teasing Gray," she sighed before shooting forward her arms ready to punch who ever she reached first, the look on her face was deadly calm and blank, standing back with his arms across his chest Gray's face was bright red, biting his lower lip as his eyes fallowed her flawless movements not once yet using any magic of her own simply dodging some spell or exchanged places with one of their friends to take the attack. He could feel it in his chest it was like his heart and soul were both screaming the same thing she was the one he wanted, needed! She was a part of him on a spiritual level and the childhood crush that felt dormant reawaken having grown into love the pure and realest kind, shaking his head Gray's blush darkened at how girly that train of thought was…..though the feeling inside him only surged stronger.
One of the dark wizards growled in frustration "Ggggrrrr THAT'S IT BITCH TAKE THIS!" He summoned a black magic sword swinging it down at Caroline who only smirked and whispered something before side stepping and disappearing. The attack halted as he and the remaining Shadow wizards looked around for her "Where the fu—" before he could finish she rematerialized and upper kicked him so hard as he went flying his clothes flew right off him, lowering her leg she turned to the rest sending them a smile that made their blood run cold.
Shooting forwards Caroline disappeared once more reappearing over and over again as she attacked knocking each one of them out cold, as the last one fell, a light sweat formed on her forehead letting out a light sigh she looked up at Gray shooting a small smile to him. Leaning on one hip crossing her arms over her chest that smile turning into a smirk "See something you like there Gray?" chuckling she slowly made her way back over to him stopping when there were no more than two inches in between them, Caroline slid the tips of her gloved fingers along his cheek then down the lining of his jaw ever so softly. Gray's nerves suddenly all came to life all at once, shivers raced down his back but his eyes never left hers till her fingers reached his chin and pushed his jaw up the smirk never leaving its place on her lips, "Better close that mouth before something flies in Gray."
Giving him a wink she turned around and quickly started running ahead and rounded the corner to try and find Natsu…..but to try and lose Gray she wasn't sure how long her resolve would last she had to lose him and find Natsu or the Guild Master of this monstrosity! Gray quickly shook his head "HEY WAIT FOR ME CAROLINE!" but when he rounded the corner she was nowhere in sight "CAROLINE!...CAROLINE!" Gray shouted again and again Caroline heard his voice echoing through the halls but just kept running till finally she came to a new floor just in time to watch Natsu knock out the last of the Element Four looking slightly tired, "Nice work Natsu!" Turning his head his face beamed "Hey cous where have you been…..where is Gray?" Acting as if she just noticed he wasn't behind her she turned with a false stun and confused look on her face "Huh? Where the hell did he go I swore he was right behind me….think we should go look for him?"
Caroline looked toward Natsu as he shook his head "No we can't he'll be fine on his own we have to go save Lucy this Iron Dragon Slayer of Shadow Guild I saw him bring Lucy in here…and…..and I want to beat the crap out of him for damaging our guildhall, I'm going to make him beg for mercy then I'm going to make him tell me everything he might know about where Igenel might be!" Letting out a sigh she walked over to her cousin and placed a hand on his shoulder, the look in her eyes sent his head spinning it was around the time when Igenel disappeared did she come back into his life after being gone for 6 months before he left him.
The look in her eyes was full of sorrow and hidden secrets before she closed her eyes and shook her head looking back at him she smiled "Well then let's go save this friend of yours Natsu." The battle between Natsu and Gajeel was explosive the harder the two fought the more of the room crumbled around them Caroline threw up a energy shield around Lucy, Happy, the members of Shadow guild (cause no one no matter how bad deserves to be crushed to death a fellow guild members recklessness may cause) and herself . Watching the battle ensue Lucy looked over at the woman keeping them safe from the falling stone and bits of metal "By the way who are you miss?" Looking over at Lucy she gave her a soft smile "Caroline Lionheart I'll answer yours and the others questions later right now I need to concentrate on keeping this spell up…and keep my anger under control…." Caroline let her voice trail off pushing her anger and fury into her shield magic to strengthen it further.
Else where in the castle Gray meet up with Elfman and Erza after telling them he had gotten separated from Caroline they decided to take the fight to the Phantom Lord, but Gray and Elfman were quickly taken down leaving Erza to fight agent the heartless guild master while down lower Natsu was getting the snot be out of him after Gajeel consumed metal "Hehehe now I got a fire in my belly" "Hey that's my line AND STOP EATTING METAL HOW IS THAT FAIR!" Gajeel knocked Natsu all the way over to an opening in the wall Lucy, Natsu, Happy and Caroline watched in horror as the massive Phantom creature destroyed their guild hall letting the shield drop Caroline walked over to the hole in a stunned state like Natsu memories of their past flashing through their minds…..their home was gone, but their family was still alive.
Caroline's whole body began to shake violently turning his head Natsu's eyes shrunk in horror he only ever saw her this angry before…and people died, quickly looking over to Lucy summand the only gate key she had Torus thinking he could shoot fire arrows…..not even close and he kept saluting to someone off to the side. Panic, fear, anger, fury all mixing and boiling together in Natsu was not enough to get him to his feet before it started….Caroline went in Fury Mood!
Tossing her coat over to Lucy she turned and faced Gajeel who on the other side of the room watched with amusement that soon was disappearing, the air was becoming stiflingly hot, the energy coming off her was making her hair fly upwards the air around her crackling and snapping with red and black energy was only the begging, throwing back her head Caroline let out an inhuman animalistic roar that shook the whole building, echoing out and down to the fight in the ruined guild courtyard "What in blazes was that?" Bisca asked pausing in her attack agents the Phantom Alzack looked at Bisca then back at Macao "Macao what is going on up there?" Looking back at them with his one good eye he smirked "Well if I had to guesses…they just pissed off the wrong dragon, and are about to get a taste of Dragon Guard Rage!"
Curling into herself Caroline skin had turned black as night covering every inch of her not even a single piece of her clothing was visible all but her earrings and necklace remained, she released a blood curdling scream as dragon horns sprouted from her head, hair turning silver white, the black receding leaving black and blue scales around the outside of her face the center ashen white, the black scales covered her neck, shoulders, upper and mid arms the top of her hands. They continued down her torso then further down till they billowed out around her dragon humanoid feet, that were left ashen white with large black claws, her hands were the same and from her back dragon wings of black scales and blue leathery skin. Caroline released the energy without even lifting her face everyone cried out as they were thrown back in every direction, Gajeel's eye widen in surprise and awe as were everyone else but Natsu's and Happy's they knew that if Caroline stayed in this mood for too, she would over heat her body and die it wasn't her body couldn't handle it, but that it heated the magic inside her hotter than anything a normal dragon or an ancient dragon could produce.
"Well that's a neat trick, but that isn't going to be help you any little girl" Gajeel sneered "AH!" everyone but Caroline jumped at the sound of Natsu and Happy crying running to hide behind Lucy and Torus, "What's the matter with you two?" Shacking in fear they both looked timidly "Caroline has always been small in size so when someone calls her a little kid she gets really pissed off and beats people to a bloody pulp…..a…a….an….and now t….t….th….thh….that she is in Dragon Rage Mood….." Natsu's voice trailed off Lucy looked slowly back over at the dragon woman; 'Who the hell is this woman and how do Happy and Natsu know her?'
Suddenly her head snapped up hair fanning out her eyes snapped open completely blue without any trace of her iris, turning her head in their direction a soft smile played on her lips "Miss Lucy you guys figure out a way to get fire into Natsu I'll be over there beating the crap out of that embracement of a dragon slayer." Turning back to Gajeel her eyes turned a darker blue the next thing anyone saw was the metal armored dragon slayer flying right into the wall behind him. "How did she…" "Hey Lucy stop gawking at Caroline and help me find some fire before she burns out!" Looking over at Natsu, "Burns out?" Happy looked back at Caroline while they tried to figure out what to use to make some external source of fire "Caroline can only hold that form for so long, when she is in this form her magic is stronger than even Master Makarov when is at full power…..but while she is strong like this she is also putting life in danger!" "Huh what you mean?" Happy let out a sigh "It means Lucy that in this form Caroline's magic is being heated to its highest levels with every magic attack she uses to the point that if she doesn't turn back in a human form and cool her body off quickly she will kill herself by being boiled from the inside out. Her heart won't be able to take the pressure that is building up inside her and might stop or explode!"
"Hold on a moment Miss Lucy I think I had misunderstood you earlier, although I can't shoot flaming arrows I can still produce your need for fire." Torus aimed his arrows at the machines lining the opposite side of the room over and over till a huge explosion sending a huge fireball towards them Natsu grinned and started to inhale it all the heat of the fire was raising Caroline's body tempter, jumping back Caroline began to change back to her normal form when Gajeel's Iron fist punched her in the gut that sent her flying into the wall knocking her out.
It was not the best thing to have done Natsu didn't even hold back when he unleashed his fire with each hit and blow shouting names of people that were hurt from either Gajeel or someone else in the Shadow guild but the one name he repeated with the hardest blows was Caroline's name, he was not about to forgive someone for hurting the only family he had anymore. Just as the battle ended Natsu weakly managed to walk over to Caroline and moved her so that he sat agents the wall with her head in his lap, Lucy and Happy came over asking questions while smiling in relief that they both seemed to be ok….though Caroline still hadn't woken up and was burning to the touch; to hot even to Natsu.
Back with Erza; she was floating in the air screaming in pain as the Phantom's nightmare creatures drained her and inflected pain wreaking her, Phantom was going on and on about Shadow Guild being revered as the number one guild and that with Fairy Tale was quickly becoming their equal that it was sicking he would never accept that! He went as far as saying they took Lucy in so that they would have access to the Heartfillia fortune, Erza started to laugh at that "You are sick and pathetic! Lucy came to us on her own, she is a runaway with no access to her family's money, and she's renting apartment for 700 jewels and works hard! She laughs with us, sheds tears and our pain Lucy is a member of Fairy Tale and is proud of it! So if you think you will take our friend from us so easily you got another thing coming!" "So you think well guesses what my dear Erza I'm going to use you to break your friends out there and once they are broken WE WILL WIPE FAIRY TALE OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOREVER! AND WHEN MAKAROV WAKES UP FINDS NOT ONLY HIS GUILD DESTORYED, BUT HIS BELOVED CHILDREN DEAD HE WILL WITHER UP AND WANTS TO DIE! AND WHEN HE GETS TO THAT POINT I'LL COME IN AND KILL HIM MYSELF! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Pulling what strength she had left in her Erza used her magic to raise her sword and slowly made its way to pierce her from behind 'I will not be used in that manner! I will not let him break the spirits of Fairytale or break me….I would rather die!' But just as the sword tip touched the back of her armor a pure white light broke through the windows healing her armor and banishing the dark magic that held her allowing her to drop to the floor that luckily wasn't that far away. Erza looked up and standing on top of stone that fell from the ceiling was Master Makarov completely healed glaring down at Lord Phantom, and it was clear only one of these two great wizards was going to walk away from this battle the victor! Makarov ordered Erza to take Gray and Elfman and get out, not wanting to be caught in such a battle even though they were over joyed to see their beloved master/father figure back up and walking like he was never hurt to begin with, Gray really just wanted to go and look for Caroline going back the way they came they suddenly bumped into Lucy and Happy both carrying Caroline who STILL hadn't woken and was getting so hot that Natsu asked them to take her and either find Gray or anything that would help cool her down.
Gray took Caroline into his arms, his body jerked back at the sheer heat radiating off her. Sweat was rolling off her in waves….her face was contorted in pain that her body was being racked with over and over, quickly Gray took her to and open empty room and make a ice bed and laid her on top Erza found a bowl and filled it with water that Gray chilled "Did anyone grab a rag or a hand towel?" Cursing they started to look around when Gray remembered the handkerchief in her breast pocket, blushing like a mad man Gray reached into her pocket and pulled it out. Gray held it gently in his hands rubbing his thumb slowly over it, there was a little blood on it from earlier when she had that little noise bleed that she thought he hadn't notice but he did and weirdly felt a little smug that he cause her to have a noise bleed! 'She kept it after all this time…she kept it like she promised.' Shaking himself from his thoughts Gray quickly dunked the cloth into the water and began to wash her arms, and face try to cool her off, Lucy had folded up her coat she grabbed and used it to pillow her head, from the either the ice bed or Gray washing her heated skin with the ice cold soaked handkerchief that allowed his exposed cold skin of his fingers to touch agents her.
A small smile appeared on her face as she finally let a sigh of relief out as her body temp lowly started to lower "Gray" she sighed softly almost like a whisper, Gray's eyes widened as a light dusting appeared on his cheeks "Caroline" he whispered back softly his eyes becoming half mast Gray slowly leaned down partly opening his mouth, he could feel her breath agents his lips the smell of her breath was pleasant and only made him want to invade it and see if she tasted the same. Their lips were barely a hair apart when all of a sudden Erza busted into the room "Gray the halls are all cleared let's get her out of here and to a healer." Gray jerked back giving her a quick nod and prayed she didn't see him try and kiss her…..if she did Erza would most likely to tell Caroline later, he quickly pulled her coat out from under her head gently and chilled it before wrapping it around her and carried her princess style running behind Erza and Elfman, Lucy and Happy went back to look check on Natsu.
Half an hour later Natsu was still hadn't returned yet, but Lucy had insured them that he was fine. Master Makarov shook his head at the state of the guild house "Well we can always rebuild, the important thing is that everyone is ok!" Erza came up behind and hugged him into her armored chest "We are so happy your ok Master." Gray smiled up over at the sight before looking back down at Caroline, a shadow fell over them looking up Gray came face to face with the old man. Makarov let out a sigh before a weak smile graced his lips "So you finally come home my dear, I guesses that means you finally did it and you go and over heat yourself again…..Gray, Erza, and Lucy could you three take her to her house so she can rest properly and stay with her till she wakes up. You might have to take turns we don't know how long she will be out and we are going to need as many hands on deck to help rebuild the guild hall."
"Yes sir, but can I ask what did you mean by that she finally did it. What exactly did she do? And could you please also inform Natsu when he comes back so he doesn't end up tearing up the city looking for her." Makarov nodded, "I think it is best for the full explainsion after she wakes up. What I can tell you is that she was picked by a selective group of powerful wizards to be taught under them…..even stronger then the Magic Counsel, and would not be allowed to come back till she completed that training." Murmurs started up as Erza and Lucy picked up her forgotten bags while Gray carried her once more, Caroline snuggled in to Gray sighing once more feeling cooler and safer. Looking down at Caroline Gray couldn't keep the smile off his face even if he wanted too, it took almost an hour to get to Caroline's house that she had mange to buy years ago it looked in need of some meager repairs in some place, but all that mattered at the moment was she could rest up before anything else.
Lucy and Erza quickly got out her bedding and made up her bed before laying her down in it, "I think I should stay with her tonight to make sure her temp drop to the normal level." He raised his hand stopping either woman from saying anything "You both know I'm right plus I'm the only one with ice magic, you two go home and rest once I make sure she is comfortable I'll go and sleep on the couch." Looking at each other Erza came over and placed a hand on his shoulder, a knowing smile on her face "Ok see you in the morning…..don't do anything I wouldn't do." Grays face light up as she winked at him, after the door closed the room became silent once more Gray quickly checked to she was doing before going over to the thermostat and turned it down to 55'F before he went to her broom closet and pulled out her cleaning supplies, since he was going to be here all night might as well keep himself busy and at least clean up a bit till he got tried.
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