A/N Hello Hello! This just in, I am on Thanksgiving break and I will probably post this on Thanksgiving. Yes, pilgrims and Indians got together and had a big feast so the future generations could have an excuse to get together and eat as many carbs as they want. If you're like me, and just eat whatever you want all the time, then you just have a bigger variety of carbs to eat. Fun, fun, fun! Okay, I'm sorry, but it seems I have an issue with my "U" button. I have to press it like five times in order for it to magical appear on my computer screen. I think I'll manage somehow, like I did with this intro.
Gajeel: WHY DO YOU TAKE SO LONG WITH THESE INTROS?
Me: As you can see, some people don't appreciate your yelling at me. Please stop.
Gajeel: Why should I listen to you?
Me: I could make you be nice to me by changing your character into a princess loving, passive, girly-girl, angelic, creature that does no wrong.
Gajeel:….Point taken.
Me: Looks who's got the power now suckers!
Kotone: Get on with the story. We're not interested in your babbling.
Me: Very well. OOOOOOOOHHHHH IMPORTANT NOTICE! The OCs that I am accepting, I've changed my mind about how many I'm going to accept. If I like your OC It will be mentioned and he/she/it will play a role. I can't choose only three and there are more spots that I was going to fill as miscellaneous characters that I thought of off the top of my head. I figured that you guys would like that. ALSO the three OC spots that I mentioned in my last chapter are going to play a major part in my story. I will be accepting OCs until December.
Natsu was shell-shocked by the story Kotone told him, but at the sound of a challenge, he became animated.
"What do you mean we can't stop you? I could knock you out right here if I wanted to," He stated.
Grey stepped in saying, "Even if that doofus over there somehow missed and you managed to get out of his hold, you would have all of us to deal with."
Kotone's face expressed a crooked smile as she looked at the sky. She barked a laugh and replied with, "Natsu's the only one here that has seen some of my magic, but I doubt he's figured out the depth of my magic. To make it easier on you guys, I'll even let Natsu tell you what he knows. In actuality, I don't even need to fight in order to get away. I promise not to use my sleep lullaby on one condition though." She looked back at Natsu, who was still pinning her down. Her hand whipped up and snatched the collar of his shirt, making it impossible for him to turn away. She leaned up as far as she could and Natsu, being a dragon slayer with exceptional hearing, could hardly hear her whisper, "If you tell them I'm a dragon, I won't hesitate for another second on making this choice."
Natsu's eyes widened as he comprehended what that meant, but only for a second. He only had a moment to think before his face met gravel.
Erza equipped immediately and took a defensive stance. She's fast, was the only thought Erza could manage before she was knocked into a tree.
Grey and Lucy could only gawk at the scene in front of them. Three seconds an Natsu was spread eagle and Erza had the wind knocked out of her.
"Crud," Grey commented as he put his fist on his palm. "Ice-make…"
Kotone's face was millimeters away from Grey's. Grey gasped and backed up, losing his concentration.
Lucy made a grab for her keys, but her hands came up empty.
Kotone held them up as she stood in the center of the mayhem, "Don't. You shouldn't use up your magic power summoning your spirits. They won't be helpful and you only waste your magic."
Lucy pulled out her whip, "I can still try!"
Kotone sighed as she side stepped, the whip missing her by inches, "If that's the case then let me see which keys might be helpful…..." Kotone's eyebrow rose in surprise, "Wow, you've collected a lot. I hope you're not like the last celestial mage I met. She was horrible to her spirits…Well," she side stepped Grey's ice-spear, "Aries wouldn't be helpful…Leo would be useless…Aquarius, she's annoying and you don't have any water nearby to summon her with anyway…Cancer! Oh my, Cancer gave me a haircut once! It would be a little hard for me to hurt him so he's the best chance you have at touching me…Virgo is just creepy, always asking for punishment…Yeah, if you really want to use your magic then you should go with Cancer."
Now Erza had regained her breath and Natsu was standing, all of them stared at Kotone in amazement. All wondering how she could know the keys so well.
Kotone just calmly walked over to Lucy and held out the ring of keys. Lucy hesitantly held out her own hand for the keys, but was surprised when Kotone placed the ring in her hand. Kotone held the keys there, hand wrapped around Lucy's, "Just use Cancer if you really want to waste magic. But please don't. Please, don't. They'll need you. Trust me. You'll need that magic at a later time. Please, trust me."
Lucy was taken aback at the look in Kotone's eyes, pure sincerity. Lucy was at a loss at how to respond.
Lucy didn't have to though, Natsu came roaring, "How can she trust someone who is trying to abandon her guild?"
Kotone picked up Lucy and jumped up, landing on Natsu's back as his punch hit air.
Kotone picked up her foot and pushed Natsu's face into the ground with it, "BAKA! You would have hit Lucy if I didn't move her! Here you go." She placed Lucy on the ground, leaving Lucy speechless.
Kotone's head tilted back, narrowly missing Grey's ice-spear and Erza's sword.
"Impatient are we? Don't you want Natsu to tell you what magic I use?" Kotone commented with her crooked smile.
"Mrrph erfff murrr phead," Natsu said, into the dirt.
Kotone lifter her foot, "What was that?"
"I SAID GET OFF MY HEAD!" He screamed, blood vessel popping.
Kotone smiled without emotion, "Sorry about that. Now, if everyone would calmly listen to Natsu, we can start fighting seriously."
She wasn't even fighting seriously? Erza thought. This isn't an opponent to be taken lightly…According to Natsu's report, he said he fought alongside her in Edolas. He said she was good, but not this good.
"My, my," Kotone said, "looks like someone has already heard a little something about me." Kotone looked out of the corner of her eye at Erza, looking almost bored.
She's not bored...she's silently showing me the darkness of the situation. This journey she's taking must have a significant meaning behind it, Erza thought.
As fast as the darkness had come, it was gone again with that humorless smile of hers. Kotone calmly stepped back, in no rush at all. She watched as Erza lowered her weapon, understanding.
Grey followed Erza's example and his spear disappeared. Natsu rolled until he was sitting up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Sound. Her element is sound," he stated.
"Care to elaborate for them? Once the fight starts, you won't get a chance to say another word," Kotone said.
Why is she making it harder for her? Wouldn't it be easier if we didn't know the details of her abilities? Lucy thought, Unless…
"Well, there something weird with her eyes. Other than that, there's not much to tell…" Natsu said.
Kotone sighed, "Well I didn't expect much, but seriously. The dream didn't show you anything about it?"
Grey's expression was clearly confused as he asked, "Dream?"
"It's nothing you need to concern yourself with," Kotone replied.
Natsu was silent, making Kotone sigh again. "Very well, who wants to try first?" Kotone asked.
Erza dove in with her sword, making several rapid swings that blurred into a silver blob. Each time, Kotone would narrowly miss the sword, dodging with ease and grace.
"Ice-make floor!" Grey yelled as the ground became covered in ice.
Grey's eyes widened as he saw his ice floor shatter into microscopic shards of ice, seconds after he created it.
"What happened?" Grey asked himself.
"It's because you use such cruddy magic!" Natsu yelled, jumping over Erza with a flaming fist.
"DON'T ALARM YOUR ENEMY OF WHERE YOU ARE BEFORE YOU ATTACK BAKA!" Kotone yelled.
Erza drew back to get out of Natsu's way, going to say the same thing as Kotone.
Kotone easily dodged and caught Natsu's arm, twisting it behind his back. "When you alarm your enemy of where you are, it gives them plenty of time to think of a counter attack," Kotone pushed Natsu into Grey. "Ice-mage! Stop trying to use your magic, it's just wasteful!"
Grey looked at his hands, trying to think of a way to make it possible to use his magic.
"Dang it!" Erza yelled as she tossed her sword to the ground. "Looks like we're going to have to depend on our martial arts."
"Wait, why can't Erza use her swords?" Lucy asked no one in particular.
"Because they're dull and useless," Happy replied.
Lucy screamed and jumped at the voice next to her. "I forgot you were here as well Happy."
Happy went off into a dark corner mumbling, "Lucy's mean."
"Why can't we use our magic?" Natsu exclaimed, trying to fire up his fist.
Kotone sighed, "Looks like the only intelligent ones here are Erza and the Exheed."
Happy beamed at the praise, coming out of his dark corner.
"Think about it for a moment. What is sound?" Kotone asked.
A light bulb went off in Grey's head, "It's vibrations…"
"Yes. Sound is a vibration that travels through air. Basically I control vibrations and how they affect my surroundings. Your ice is pummeled to pieces by the vibrations and Erza's swords get dull by the constant rubbing of vibrations on her swords. Natsu's fire is a simple chemical reaction. I use the vibrations to move all the oxygen away from his fire, so his fire dies out," Kotone explained.
"Then why did you tell me not to use my keys?" Lucy asked.
"I told you, it would be pointless, just like Grey's ice. In fact, I could make it so you can't call out your spirits. All celestial mages need to call their spirits out by calling the gate. Besides, I've met a few of your spirits, most won't react positively to seeing me. They wouldn't want their owner to see them like that."
Lucy gritted her teeth, "Natsu's right, how can I trust someone who is abandoning their family?" Lucy pulled out her keys, "Tarus the bull!"
A bell rang as Tarus appeared in a puff of smoke, "Lucy! What do you need me to do in order to protect that gorgeous body of yours?"
Focused and ignoring the perverted comment, "This girl recently joined the guild, but now she's trying to leave."
Tarus turned around to see Kotone slightly turned away, watching them emotionlessly as the wind picked up her silver what and twirled it in the wind.
Tarus' jaw dropped as his entire body started to tremble. His axe slowly came up as his knees clanked together. Everyone was silent, watching this unusual reaction.
"Her?" Tarus asked.
Kotone turned to fully face the bull, "Your owner has called you out to fight, don't dishonor her by disobeying a direct command. No matter who the opponent is, do not hesitate to take action on a command."
Tarus took a step back, "You should be dead…The last time I saw you was over 300 years ago…"
Confused, Lucy asked, "Have you met her before?"
"A few times, unfortunately under very bad circumstances. I told you if you were going to bring out a spirit, you should have brought out Cancer. Tarus isn't going to be much help to you as he is," Kotone replied.
Lucy brought out her whip, "Tarus, can you fight?"
"Y-yes! If Lucy demands it, I will fight. Lucy, do you know who you're up against?" He shakily asked.
"No, and we're going to keep it that way if they want to be able to walk tomorrow," Kotone answered.
Tarus gulped as a determined look came over his face, "Very well."
"That goes for you too Nastu," Kotone said, looking over her shoulder.
"I know," he grumbled.
Kotone looked back over to Tarus, "Tarus, it's okay if you want to go back. I know you're not my biggest fan."
Steam came out of Tarus' nose as he flexed his muscles, "That may be true, but I will protect Lucy."
Kotone nodded, "Very well. If it's any comfort to you, I promised Natsu I wouldn't use all of my magical abilities. This means that bell on your neck won't bring Lucy any serious harm this time around."
Tarus seemed to physically sigh in relief, moments before he was knocked into the same tree Erza was. The axe flew out of his hands and Kotone caught it and effortlessly swung it around to catch Grey in the stomach with the flat side of the axe.
Erza reequipped into her Flight Armor, increasing her speed to match Kotone's. She rapidly punched at Kotone, but Kotone dodged everyone with enough time to poke Erza's stomach.
"Are you mocking me?" Erza asked.
"Not exactly, you'll feel that soon enough," Kotone replied, moving like a blur.
"Stop moving around so much!" Natsu yelled, trying to keep up with Kotone.
Kotone appeared behind Natsu, "As you wish." She brought the flat side of the axe up and practically threw it into Natsu's back.
Natsu screamed as he flew into the sky.
Tarus then came charging, bell ringing. Kotone simply side stepped and continued to do so with ease.
Grey snuck up behind her and swung his leg. He took her feet out from underneath her, but she used the momentum and brought the handle of the axe around. She took Tarus' feet out from underneath him and he fell onto Grey as Kotone slid out of the way.
Kotone lifted her hand and caught Lucy's whip, ripping it out of her hands and swung it over to connect with Erza. The whip wrapped around Erza's stomach and Kotone pulled so Erza flew at her. Kotone caught Erza and gently unwrapped the whip.
It was only then that Lucy realized that Erza was grabbing her stomach in agony.
"You need to lie down on your back. The pain will go away faster like that," Kotone murmured as she laid Erza on the ground.
Lucy looked up, hearing screaming. Natsu came rushing down, falling onto Tarus and Grey, who were about to get up, knocking them back to the ground.
Kotone didn't even raise her head at them, but looked at Erza's face twisted in pain, "It's only the muscles contracting. Don't worry it's not serious, it's just annoying." Kotone glanced at Lucy and tossed the whip back to Lucy. "Don't you know how to use a whip? Your aim is terrible. Come on, I'll give you some pointers."
Kotone stood up and walked a little ways away from Erza, waiting.
Lucy glanced over at Grey, Tarus, and Natsu and she forced Tarus' gate closed. Natsu fell onto Grey a second time, causing Grey to moan in pain.
"Natsu, Grey, are you guys okay?" she yelled.
Kotone was silent as they didn't respond for a couple of minutes. Lucy looked at her in fear and felt her hands start to tremble.
"They're fine. Grey's muscles have taken quite a beating from Tarus' bell. Natsu on the other hand, well his own screaming did that to him. The brain is scrambled, sending mixed signals all over in his body. Hhhmmm, I knew it was going to be easier if I fought without a blindfold, but this is ridiculous," Kotone said to no one in particular. "Well, I guess I do have a lot more experience than them, but aren't they supposed to be one of the strongest teams in Fairytail? My gosh Makarov, what have you been teaching these kids?"
Lucy was still frozen, shocked by how quickly and effortlessly Kotone had taken out her team. "What are you?" she asked.
Kotone, brought out of the little monologue, looked back at Lucy, almost as if she'd forgotten that Lucy was there. The smile she gave Lucy was pure, the kind that would light up a room filled with freezing darkness. The answer she gave seemed wrong to be coming out of such a pure expression, "Oh me? I'm a monster."
Lucy was shocked that she said it without a shred of remorse or regret. To Lucy, it looked as if Kotone had accepted the fact and was perfectly at ease with it.
"Don't worry," Kotone continued, "I'll be gone soon so you won't have to be uneasy about me for too long."
Lucy felt her knees lock as Kotone turned toward her and started walking. Lucy found herself unable to breath, the terror was over whelming.
Kotone was inches away and Lucy could only watch as Kotone put her hand on the side of her face. Lucy felt how warm the hand was and it melted her frozen limbs.
"Lucy. What a pretty name. Would you mind doing me a favor? I would like you to tell Natsu and the others," Kotone whispered in her ear, "to save me from myself."
Then everything went black.
A/N ANOTHER CLIFFY! My "U" button fixed itself somehow so it became a lot easier to type this. Yay! I was able to get this finished by Thanksgiving!
Kotone: I'm so confused. What is my personality in this? One chapter I'll be a sobbing mess and then in this one I'm this super powerful girl who is in control of everything, practically cocky…What the heck?
Miu: You're a drama queen sweetheart. You're practically bipolar.
Gajeel: HOW COME I-I mean, how come I don't have any lines in this?
Miu: Because Wendy was slowing you down and you weren't able to make it there in time…
Wendy: I'm sorry Gajeel. It's my fault we didn't get any lines.
Natsu: YES! I finally got a fight scene…but I sucked! How can we lose?
Miu: Knowing you, you would have somehow gotten up and continued to fight even if the lower half of your body was gone. Knowing this, Kotone was smart enough and made it so that even if you wanted to get up, it would be impossible because of your brain was sending signals randomly.
Natsu: Well I'll get you next time!
Mui: Now for reviews.
017Bluefield Thank you. Gajeel said he promises not to yell at me as much now…as long as I don't make him a goody two-shoes…
AquaMiyuki Thanks for the OC! I think I'm going to use her as one of the three OCs I mentioned last time. So look out for her! She's gonna kick butt!
Well that's all the reviews I got this time, but they made me super happy! I'm not even joking when I say that I screamed like a little girl and did a happy dance. They made my day. So do all of the alerts that tell me people favorited this story. I looked at the profiles of the people who did this and I was so honored to have my story under this one guy's favorites. His stories dated back to 2008 and he's only favorited about 15 stories. MADE MY FRICKEN DAY! I love you guys so much right now that I wrote nonstop to get this chapter for you. Of course I kept deleting and editing it to almost perfection…since perfection doesn't exist. Unless you're talking about ice cream…that's just amazing…WEEEEELLLLL I hope you all are having pumpkin pie (for my US readers) or just having a good time and yummy food. I might not be able to update real soon due to finals, but I will try not to EVER AGAIN UPDATE OVER A MONTH LATER! *cone of shame*