Hi mina! I'm back with the next chapter of War Of The Vampire Bats! I'm so sorry it took a little longer than usual to post! I had herds of homework to do and school to go to, not to mention all of the extracurricular activities I have to go to. So... To make it up to you this is a longer chapter. But first... a few announcements.
WARNING: This is a Gratsu fanfic, meaning there is yaoi(boyxboy) included in this, so if you don't like, please don't read.
I apologize for any grammar mistakes there may be in this chapter. Please understand and enjoy=)
Rated T for occasional swearing.
DISCLAIMER: Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima. I only own this plot, and the vampire bats.
SPECIAL THANKS: I would like to personally thank my reviewers: the guest, darkhuntressxir, zakky492, and of course, my friend Mrs. Soul Evans. Thank you all for reading this fanfic of mine. I really appreciate the support.=)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Like in the last chapter, I will say it again. I am taking NatsuxGray and GrayxNatsu requests for oneshots. If there are any requests, let me know and I will work on it after this is done.
Now... Enjoy chapter 4 of War Of The Vampire Bats!
Chapter 4: The Second Vampire Bat War And The Second Kidnapping
Booms and crashes echoed all over Mt. Hakobe as vampire bat and wizard clashed in an all out battle. Alzack and Bisca used their Guns Magic and sent a couple vampire bats flying. Cana threw a tarot card and hit a vampire straight in the face. The pain was to much for the vampire bat fell down holding his head in his hands. Lucy decided to join in the fight as well. She pulled out one of her golden celestial keys and yelled, "Open! Gate of the Giant Crab: Cancer!" Cancer came out with his crab siccors and turned to Lucy. "Is there something you want me to do, Baby?" "Cancer! Give these vampire bats a well deserved hair cut!" Without any objections, Cancer jumped and cut everywhere, leaving a trail of fallen vampire bats with bald and shiny heads. Erza cut down a vampire bat and turned to Lucy. "...That still bothers me. You own this celestial spirit, and yet he calls you 'Baby'... does that not bother you?" "E-Erza! Behind you!" Lucy yelled. A vampire bat was right behind Erza, swooping down as if to kill her. Without looking back, Erza swung her right fist backwards, slap/punching the vampire bat square on the nose. "O-oww..." The vampire bat mumbled as he slowly fell down. "Now... Did you say something, Lucy?" Erza looked at Lucy and Lucy's sweat dropped. "O-oh. Nothing! I didn't say anything!" "Oh. I see." Erza turned around and requipped into her Knight Armor. She took flight and started taking some of the vampire bats down from the air.
It may seem that Fairy Tail was winning right now, but Marcus's plan was already working. This was just the beginning of the war, and Marcus said to himself, 'I guess it's about time now... Fairy Tail, get ready for your worst nightmare! Hahahahaha!'
Makarov was looking at how the battle was doing so far, and he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. This war was going in their favor a little much. 'Do they have something up their sleeve? Are we actually winning? This doesn't seem right...'
Gray took down a whole swarm of vampire bats with his Ice Make: Hammer. 'Yosh! Looks like things are looking good so far... But can we keep this going on forever?' Gray thought. As soon as he said that, every vampire bat that was taken down by any of the Fairy Tail members all rose from the ground they once were lying from. "Crap! What do they have up their sleeve now?!" Gray yelled in anger. In all of his anger, he took off the black t-shirt. "What is this?!" Lucy yelled as the whole guild looked around, dumbstruck by what was happening at that moment. "Haha! Fairy Tail members: What you are going to experience will be the beginning of your suffering!" Marcus yelled. All of the vampire bats attacked, but this time, it was all magical spells the Fairy Tail members used to attack them. "Ahh!" Explosions appeared everywhere, pushing Fairy Tail members back one by one. "What is this?!" Makarov yelled as he saw his dear members go down.
Natsu looked around. Everywhere he saw some of his friends on the ground, unconscious and wounded. 'Mina... They're all fighting to protect me from being the vampire bat's first sacrifice, but they'll all die! I won't let that happen! I can't let my friends and the people I love die for me!' Natsu started to leave, when his flying friend stopped him by grabbing onto his white crops with his paw. "Natsu... Please... Don't go. If you die, then all of this would be for nothing!" Happy cried, looking at the pink haired dragon slayer with tears streaming down his face. "Happy... Don't worry. I won't let them kill me. I promise." Natsu gave Happy a small reassuring smile, and the blue flying cat reluctantly let go. "A-aye... Beat these jerks up for me." Happy gave Natsu a teary smile. "Of course I will!" Natsu said with his signature grin.
Natsu ran towards the battlefield as a certain Ice Make mage got up holding his wounded arm and yelled, "No Natsu! Don't go!" "Don't stop me, Gray. I know what I'm doing, and I won't let you guys get hurt for something I have to do alone." Natsu yelled back as he went towards the swarm of vampire bats. "So, are you finally going to give up, Natsu Dragneel?" Marcus cockily said, thinking, 'Victory is ours, Mom, Dad. Watch me from above as you see the person who killed you die by my hands!' Natsu looked up to Marcus and said, "Quite the opposite, you son of a bitch. I'm going to fucking kill you for what you did to my friends you asshole!" "Oh, is that so? You against all of us? I'd like to see you try." Marcus said with a smirk on his face. "Take this! Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" Natsu yelled as he jumped and hit a couple of vampire bats with a fiery and bright attack. "AHHHHH! That hurts!" That vampire bats yelled in pain as the two that got hit fell to the ground, never to come back up. Slowly, one by one, all the injured Fairy Tail members got up, now realizing it was night time, meaning that the vampire bats are at their weakest state, and they could actually win the battle. "It's night time... And we can win this war! Everyone! Use anything you have that will sting their eyes and attack! We can't just let Natsu do all the work!" Erza yelled, as she requipped back to her usual armor and grabbed her flashlight. "Right!" Alzack and Bisca yelled, requipping their guns to their newest edition of guns, the Firework Guns. The duo took aim, and they locked onto a couple of vampire bats. "Target: lock on! Ready... GO!" They pulled the trigger, and the bullet hit the vampire bat, which in return, turned into a stinging firework for the other vampire bats. Erza jumped onto a vampire bat and put the flashlight in front of its eyes. It yelled out in pain, and Erza sliced the vampire bat. Everyone did what they could with whatever they had that could possibly hurt the vampire bats.
After 10 minutes of this, the only vampire bats remaining were Marcus and Maria. Natsu faced them, panting slightly. 'I don't think I have a whole lot of magic energy left, but I have to do what I can!' He was going to attack them head on, when he was stopped by some familiar voices. "You didn't possibly think that you could do this on your own, did you? Flame head." "Yeah! We're supposed to be your friends, and yet you go running into the battlefield on your own. Did you not care about what we were all thinking, Natsu?" "Aye! What were you thinking, you idiot?" "We are always here for you, as a friend and as a teammate. We will fight alongside you, even if it means death." Natsu turned around, only to see his teammates smiling brightly. They all had wounds everywhere, but they were completely unfazed to any of the damage it might've given them.. "Gray... Lucy... Happy... Erza... Yeah! What was I thinking?" Natsu flashed a goofy grin. "You obviously weren't thinking about anything, you idiot." Gray simply said, still wondering how he ever fell in love with a brainless idiot like Natsu. "Heh heh... Sorry Mina! Let's go kick some vampire bat ass together!" Natsu yelled. "Yeah!" Everyone yelled, except for Happy, who said "Aye!" instead and the whole team ran together to fight the final battle of the Second War Of The Vampire Bats: Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Erza, and Happy Vs. Marcus and Maria.
Natsu and the rest of his team started walking towards the sibling vampire bats. Erza requipped
into her Samurai Requip, revealing a female wizard wearing red pants with yellow flames holding onto
twin swords, her hair pulled into a tight ponytail. Lucy pulled a golden celestial key and yelled, "Open!
Gate of the Bull: Taurus!" A bright light surrounded the mountain as the celestial spirit Taurus appeared
before everyone. "Miss Lucy, you're still looking goood." Taurus said to Lucy. "That's not the problem at
the moment, Taurus! Right now, we have to defeat a couple of vampire bats!" Lucy quickly said, still
not understanding why the strongest celestial spirit she had was the most perverted one yet. Happy left the
group and took flight to help with the visual aid. Gray's hand started to freeze up, and Natsu ignited a
flame in his hand. "Maria... It's the time to fight the people who killed our parents. Are you ready?" Marcus asked his younger sister as they got ready to fight. "Of course I'm ready, onii-chan! I've waited for this day for so long, we have to do it. For Mom and Dad!" Maria said. "Ok then. Come on!" "Right!"
Maria and Marcus dove down towards Natsu and the others. "Mina... Lets get these sons of bitches!"
Natsu yelled as he started running towards the diving vampire bats. "YEAH!" The others yelled and they
all charged into the battle.
Natsu jumped towards Marcus and yelled, "Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Natsu threw the punch
and Marcus dodged it with ease. Gray then came up from behind Natsu and started doing some some
complex hand signs, yelling, "Ice Make: Lance!" The ice flew and attacked Marcus, momentarily
paralyzing him because of the cold ice "Erza! Go!" Gray yelled, moving out of the way for Erza.
"Right!"Erza jumped and swung her sword in her right hand to cut Marcus down. As she did, his younger
sister dived towards him and pushed them to safety. "You ok, onii-chan?" Maria looked at her older
brother, who was still a little shocked due to the cold of Gray's previous attack. "Yeah... Thanks,"
Marcus replied. Lucy looked at how the battle was going, and saw that as long as the sister is there,
then the others will never be able to attack their leader.'Maybe if I take down the sister, then the others
may have a chance...I won't know unless I try!' Lucy thought. "All right! Taurus, let's go!" she yelled and
she ran into the battle, her bull spirit running right behind her.. She grabbed her rope that was hooked onto
her belt and jumped. She whipped her arm and attacked Maria with hopes that it would immobilize
her. The rope reached it's destination, as Maria's leg was now caught in Lucy's rope. "Taurus! Now!"
Lucy yelled, as Maria tried to free her leg from Lucy's rope. "Ugh! Let me go! Onii-chan! Help me!"
Marcus couldn't hear her though. He was busy keeping the other 3 wizards at bay. Still unable to break
free, she was wide open to Taurus' attack. Taurus grabbed his ax and jumped. He sliced downwards,
slicing Maria across her chest. "AHHHH!" Maria scream and fell to the ground. Hearing her scream,
Marcus escaped from the clutches of Natsu, Gray, and Erza and immediately went to Maria, who was
already on the floor, barely breathing. "Maria! You have to hang in there! Don't die on me here!"
Marcus couldn't suppress his tears from falling. Maria slowly turned her head towards her older brother
and gave him a soft smile. "Don't cry, onii-chan. I wasn't...strong enough.. to fight for our family's
revenge... I-it's all up to you...onii...-cha-!" Maria coughed up blood as the wound across her chest
poured out more blood. "Maria! Don't say anything! You'll get past this! You have to!"Marcus placed his
hands over the wound to try and suppress the blood, but it was coming out like a river. With tears
welling up in her eyes, Maria said, "It's too late... onii-chan... I-i'm sorry..." Her eyes fluttered closed,
forcing the tears to fall, and her head fell. "Maria?" "..." "Maria?! Open your eyes!" Marcus gently
pushed his sister back and forth, hoping she'd get up. Maria still didn't respond. "NOOOO!" Marcus
cried as he hugged his younger sister for the last time. Slowly he rose from his spot, and thought,
'Maria...I will take revenge for you, and Mom and Dad! I'll show these Fairy Tail bastards who they're
dealing with!'
Lucy rejoined with the rest of her team, and they all looked at Marcus. He had a very murderous
stare and the only thing that popped into their heads were: Shit just got serious. "You bastards! I'll make
you pay for killing Maria!" Marcus roared. "Lucy, get out of here." Natsu said. "No! I won't leave you
guys to do this by yourselves!" Lucy yelled. "You have to go! I know you were trying to help us, but if
you don't get outta here, you'll get killed by this jerk!" Natsu countered. "I'm not going to leave
you like this!" Lucy wasn't going to back down. "Happy!" "Aye, sir!" Happy came down to Natsu's call.
"Take Lucy and join the others. "Aye!" Happy grabbed Lucy's shirt and took flight. "Natsu!" Lucy
called in protest as Happy flew over to where the other members were. "This is for your sake, Lucy..."
Happy told Lucy with tears in his eyes. "He's trying to protect a friend from danger, even if it means
fighting this jerk by himself..." "Happy..." Lucy looked down and thought, 'Natsu... Gray... Erza...
Please defeat that son of a bitch and come back safely... I believe you can do it!'
"Sorry, Lucy... If I didn't do that, then I'm afraid you'd get killed by this bastard." Natsu softly said
as Lucy was taken by Happy. "Natsu... You didn't do anything wrong. You were just protecting a friend."
Gray said reassuringly to his pink haired boyfriend. "That's right. You were protecting one of your
nakama from harm." Erza said. "Gray... Erza..." "Now, if you don't mind, let's take down this vampire
bat before he kills us. Now that his sister's dead, he's not thinking clearly. And the first thing on his mind is
killing us." Gray said, kind of matter of factly. "How can you say that calmly Gray?! He could actually
kill us and you're just enjoying the fight without your freakin' shirt on!" Natsu vented towards his raven
haired boyfriend. "Huh?" Gray obviously didn't know that he discarded the piece of clothing a long time
ago, and he looked down. What stared back at him was a bare chest. "It never fails! Why?!" Gray
frantically tried to look for the t-shirt, only to fail. "Hah! Serves you right, Mr. Exhibitionist!" "What did
you call me, slanty eyes?" Gray got face to face with Natsu. "You heard what I said, droopy eyes!" Natsu
countered back, glaring at his boyfriend. They may be going out, but their battles and insults will never
end.
While they were going on and on insulting each other, Erza was developing a very severe
headache. 'Those two...' Finally, she snapped. "WILL THE TWO OF YOU JUST SHUT THE FUCK
UP?! WE COULD ACTUALLY DIE AND HERE YOU GUYS ARE, ARGUING LIKE ANY OTHER
DAY!" Her glare was deadly as she looked at the boys. They immediately stopped and instinctively
hugged each other. "A-aye Erza!" The boys simultaneously said, hoping they could live another day. Erza
softened her glare and looked away. "Good. Now we are the same page," she said. Natsu and Gray
sighed in relief and they all focused towards Marcus once again.
Marcus was beyond pissed. He just lost Maria, and now his whole family was gone. He spread his
wings and took flight. 'I have to do it now. For Maria... For Mom and Dad as well. Natsu Dragneel, get
ready to die as the sacrifice to the Lord of the Vampire Bats!' Marcus swooped down towards the trio. "Get
ready! He's attacking!" Erza yelled, tightening her grip on her twin swords. The boys listened to the
requipping wizard and armed themselves with their magical abilities. Without warning, Marcus quickly
aimed for Natsu and grabbed him by the back of his vest with his claws once again. "Fuck! Not agai-"
Natsu yelled as his motion sickness kicked in. "NATSU!" Erza and Gray looked at Marcus, who was
taking Natsu to a place in Mt. Hakobe again. "Gray... Erza..." Natsu slowly said as the motion sickness
got worse. His eyes slowly closed as he was taken to the sacrifice area by Marcus.
"NATSU!" Gray and Erza yelled as they saw the dragon slayer be taken away by Marcus. "Shit!
We have to find him fast, before he gets killed!" Gray was getting more worried by the second. "We will
find him. Don't worry," Erza said, gently putting a hand on Gray's shoulder after putting her swords in a
safer place. "Thanks, Erza," Gray said, feeling a little better. "Now, lets find Natsu again and finish this
war. It's been going on long enough." Erza said. "Yeah. Let's!" Gray said and started running towards Mt.
Hakobe once again. "Gray! Don't you dare leave me in the dust again!" Erza yelled as she caught up
with Gray. "Keep up with me and you won't get lost." Gray said and he received a punch on his arm from
the red headed wizard. "Ow!" Gray stopped running and rubbed the part of the arm that was hit, knowing
a bruise was going to form. "We aren't getting anywhere when you're not running, Gray." Erza was waiting
for Gray to stop acting like a kid and save their friend(boyfriend for Gray). "Wait up! I'm coming!" Gray
finished his "Girly moment" and started running back into Mt. Hakobe, thinking, 'We'll save you again
Natsu! You can count on that, so don't you dare die on me you idiot!'
That was the end of chapter 4. Again I'm sorry that I updated so late. I'll try to be a little quicker for the
next chapter, but STAR Testing is next week for my school, so it may be a little late again. Please review,
and I hope you guys look forward to chapter 5!=)