Hello! Okay, I'm going to explain why I am updating so early. Basically, I wanted to add more in the time-skip that I couldn't add in my next chapter that I was updating next week and I don't want to do more than three chapter but then I needed too even if it would drag. But, then a reviewer gave me this great idea. So, because I left three weeks out instead of my usual two for updating the last chapter I am updating a week early to make up for that but also add an extra time-skip chapter. So, I will update next week the last chapter of the time-skip and still be on the same track and you guys also get an extra chapter. Did that make any sense to you? So, here is an extra chapter of the time-skip. I hope that's okay.
Disclaimer I own nothing of Fairy Tail but Scarlet Destiny is all mine :)
The moment Lucy's sword finished cutting through Jared in half was the moment Lucy's eyes were trained on the ground. She just couldn't believe what she had done. Why didn't Jared move. Did I kill him? Lucy thought with dread. Of course she must have. There was no way Jared could survive what she had done. Lucy knew she had to look up. She had to take her eyes of the ground and look at what she had done. Slowly, Lucy lifted her head and her eyes snapped to Jared who was in front of her. As soon as she saw him, her eyes widened almost like they would popped out of her sockets. The breath left her lungs and her jaw dropped. Because there is front of her was Jared... still intact.
Lucy dropped her eyes to her fire sword to the still intact Jared. Unbelievable. He wasn't cut in half. She didn't cut him in half. Instant relief flooded through Lucy before confusion settled in. How was this possible? She knew for a fact that her sword went right through him yet Jared was standing in front of her looking normal. There was no blood. No nothing. Jared even had a slight smile on his face! This was impossible!
"H-how?!...I just cut you with my sword yet you...No way...I just can't... How is this possible!?" Lucy shouted out in confusion. Because of her confusion she couldn't fully concentrate on her fire sword. It started to disperse until Lucy was not holding it any more. It was gone.
Lucy wasn't the only one that was acting so shocked. Wendy was staring wide-eyed at Jared knowing exactly what happened. Lucy cut Jared down however he was still standing.
Jared chuckled out loud the smile spreading across his face.
"I knew that would shock you but I never knew it would this much," Pause "I guess I have to explain this to you."
"You think?!" Lucy snipped back now getting very annoyed.
"Okay, Okay," Jared started as he held his hands up like he was surrendering "I'll tell you what happened...That right there is my magic. I'm just going to explain this simply...I can phase through things. In other words I can make my body phase into nothing. For example If somebody was to try to slice me with a sword just like you tried to do Lucy, the sword would go right through me like I'm not even there. Basically no attack can ever really work on me because I will just phase through it so I can never get hurt. It takes a lot of concentration and only the most powerful of magic can stop me to phase. Nothing physically can hurt me."
Lucy stared at Jared in amazement. So, that was his power. She could never have guessed it would be that. No wonder he was the master to the guild. Jared was unbeatable if he could do that as no one can hurt him. And, this is exactly what Lucy said,
"That means your unbeatable if no one can hurt you!" Lucy exclaimed.
Instantly, Jared shook his head in disagreement at the statement,
"I'm not unbeatable. Everyone has a weakness Lucy and that includes me. I have a weakness and I am not afraid to admit that. But, to find that weakness will take a lot out of you. It is not something you can find easily."
Lucy nodded her head understanding what Jared was trying to explain. Without her keys she would be weak. Speaking of keys,
"Keahi, you knew the fire sword was never going to work, didn't you? Then why did you tell me to cut Jared?"
Keahi turned to Lucy with a smirk on his face.
"I wanted to see what Jared would do. If he would show you his power or would he just dodge that. Plus, I was also seeing your fighting skills. Your too slow. Any moment you were running to Jared he could have disarmed you. Which means any enemy could have disarmed you as well but they could also kill you at that moment." Keahi commented.
Lucy stared shocked at Keahi's comment about her. She felt angry at what he had said but she also felt disappointed in herself. She was weak.
"But that doesn't mean that you can't improve," Keahi started which caused Lucy's gaze to snap to him "you have potential Lucy. You just need the training."
"Keahi's right. No one is bad at anything. Practice makes perfect. That's all you need to do now Lucy. Practice." Jared added on.
Then, a small smile came on his face.
"Want to know something cool about my magic which I would tell my enemy? Just because you can't hurt me doesn't mean I can't hurt you."
As soon as Jared spoke that he was gone. It was like he disappeared. One minute he was there the next he was gone. Lucy had no time to react. Nor did Wendy. Suddenly, Lucy felt something hit her legs hard causing her legs to lift off the ground. With no time to gain her balance, she tipped backwards and hit the ground hard, her back taking most of the impact. Jared was crouched on the ground beside her, one leg outstretched showing that he was the cause of Lucy losing her balance.
"Lucy!" Keahi shouted and he started to make her way towards her.
He wasn't the only one that moved. Jared was off the floor in the flash and headed straight to Keahi. Both of them ran at each other neither having the intention that they were going to spot. If they headed forward like that each other they were going to crash together.
But, they didn't. The moment Keahi and Jared met head on, Keahi went straight through Jared almost like he wasn't even there. And, this made sense to both Lucy and Wendy. The reason Keahi never stop was because he knew Jared was going to phase through him. Although, what happened next was not what Keahi had anticipated.
The moment Keahi went through Jared, the latter rebounded quickly. Jared spun around and grabbed Keahi's outstretched arm. With a huge amount of power and force, Jared pulled Keahi's arm backwards along with Keahi's body. Jared crouched just a bit right before Keahi was going to collide with him again. But, this time Jared didn't phase through it. Instead, Keahi hit Jared's back with his chest. With Keahi's arm still in Jared's grasp he used it to pull Keahi over his back and flip him around. Keahi let out a short cry as he had no control over his body. He went over Jared's back and hit the ground with a lot of force that the ground vibrated just the slightest. Keahi's back took most of the damage.
"Keahi!" Lucy shouted and she managed to get off the floor. Automatically she headed straight for Jared who was facing away from her.
"Lucy! Don't-" Ren started shouting out a warning but it was too late.
Jared twisted around to face Lucy and gapped her arm. Lucy blinked realizing this. Oh no. Instead, of flipping her over his back Jared spun around 360 degrees along with Lucy. The moment he finished the circle he let go of her and flung Lucy across the short distance until Lucy hit against a Keahi that was trying to get up. Lucy took Keahi down again as she landed on top of him, the air shocked out her lungs. Keahi gasped out in pain at the sudden weight.
"You both need faster reactions never mind just Lucy. That was way too easy to take you down." Jared commented as he stared at the two of them a mess on the ground.
Jared then turned around to Wendy who suddenly turned white as chalk. She really didn't want to be taken down like that. Jared just looked at Wendy for a few more seconds not a single emotion on his face before turning back to Lucy and Wendy.
"I think I'm going to finish the match here. I've got to test your powers now and I know all I need to know. Your not too bad actually. All three of you will work great at Scarlet Destiny, I am sure."
Jared quickly walked up to both Lucy and Keahi. He held out both his hands in front of them for them to take. Both Lucy and Keahi reached up and grabbed Jared's outstretched hands. Jared curled his hand around theirs before pulling backwards bringing both of them into a standing position. Then, he turned to Wendy and jerked his head to the side indicating for her to come towards them. She did.
"Do your best to improve. The next time I fight you, I want you to really push me to my limit. Maybe, even beat me."
Jared let go of their hands. All three looked at him shocked by what he said. Even Keahi, an all-powerful demon looked like he wanted to vanish into thin air by being beat so easily. Jared turned around walking out of the match and towards Sarah. It seemed like he didn't need to say any more. Whatever he needed he knew. He smiled at her before gently taking a hold of her elbow.
"Come on, we should go. I think we should check up on how Nyx and Narria in the infirmary."
"Sure."
Everyone was silence. It was odd. It was like the two of them were in their own little world now. Both of them walked out of the training room together. There was still silence in the room until the back of Jared and Sarah disappeared as they went around the corner of the hallway.
It didn't take long for people to start speaking up. Some shouted out to Lucy, Keahi and Wendy about how great the fight was and how they held their own. Even if it finished quickly it still went really well. Most people wouldn't even last that long against Jared especially if he was fighting for real. After saying this most of the guild members flittered out of the room to go back to the main guild.
"You did great Lucy!" Ren shouted out encouragingly, a smile on his face.
"Yeah you did. Like some people said, some people don't last that long fighting against Jared. You did really good." Kuro commented.
"I agree. Wendy I think you did well too. Although, you could have fought against Jared more than standing there doing nothing." Carla said to Wendy.
"I know we did good, I just though that we could have at least done something against him." Lucy said sadly looking down to the ground in shame.
"Don't worry," Keahi started "you heard what Jared said. Just because we can't beat him now doesn't mean we never can."
The Next Day. Infirmary of Scarlet Destiny.
"Kouta, I don't want to take any more of this! It's disgusting!" cried Narria
"I-I'm sorry Narria, but you must have it. This medicine will help give your body it's strength back." Kouta replied.
"I don't care! I can't eat one more drop of this even if you mixed the medicine in ice cream. It changes the taste and it is really bad!"
"Narria, stop being so stubborn and eat it. Just eat it quick so it won't taste that bad." Nyx butted in to the conversation that Kouta was obviously losing.
This was the conversation that Lucy heard as soon as she entered the infirmary. Apparently, Ren and Kuro wanted to see how Narria and Nyx were doing the infirmary and Lucy joined along as she wanted to meet knew people. She already knew which girl was Narria and Nyx since Ren explained how they looked like.
Kuro wasn't present as he was still in the main guild room so it was only Lucy and Ren. Wendy was already in the infirmary with Kouta and Carla was also there as well. Genta was also in the room sitting next to Nyx's infirmary bed. He had not left the infirmary since he was informed about Nyx's question. Veruna was also present. She had went to the guild the moment she had found out about her team mates condition which was not long after Genta had found out.
"I can't eat this Nyx. It's uneatable! It's that bad!" Narria said.
"Stop trying to force Narria to eat it now Nyx. Once an idea is stuck in her head no one can ever change her mind about it." Veruna laughed as she swung her legs back and forth on the infirmary bed.
"Oh hello, Lucy. It's nice to see you here." Genta interrupted the conversation as he looked over to Lucy and Ren.
"It's nice to see you too."
"Hey! Are you one of the new members!? Lucy?" Narria shouted out excitedly. She looked like she was about to jump off the bed she was lying on with excitement.
And she would have if Kouta hadn't moved forward near her.
"Narria you know you shouldn't get up yet. Your still very weak."
Narria huffed out loud and crossed her arms around her chest and her lips curled up into a pout.
"It's not fair! How come your letting Nyx go now?! She was as hurt as I was." Narria complained.
"I might have been hurt but I wasn't as bad as you." Nyx said as she was sitting on the bed.
"And, I'm glad your better. If you were hurt that much I would have tracked down the guy who wounded you and teach him a lesson he would never forget." Genta said seriously.
"Any way, I bet you know what happened to me already. Loads of people will be talking about the incident." Narria said her voice an alcove lower with sadness as she aimed the statement at Lucy and Ren
"Don't say that Narria. People have been talking about what happened about you because they are worried about you." Ren said.
"Thanks for the support Ren...But, I should have done better. I have no idea why I can't grasp my magic yet."
"Narria don't push yourself down. You'll get the hang of it." Veruna said as she smiled brightly as Narria. Veruna was also feel like she wanted to take some blame onto herself as well. She should have been there with her team mates. But, she knew even if she was that it wouldn't have been any better.
"Um...Nyx right? There's something that's been bothering me and I was wondering if you could explain it to me." Wendy spoke up looking at Nyx.
"Oh is there? Go on ask me then I don't mind." Nyx replied smiling brightly. She liked Wendy. Nyx thought that Wendy was just as cute as Kouta was but minus all that shyness Kouta had.
"Well, I was wondering that when you explained what happened at this 'comet' guild you said that you knocked a guy into the pillar that was holding the guild up. I was wondering how that was possible." Wendy asked.
Lucy noticed the reaction instantly. Each person in the room apart from her and Wendy suddenly smiled simultaneously in the room that it was really creepy how they did it. Even Kouta had s shy smile on his face as well not as big as Ren's that lit up his face.
"I did that because of my magic." Nyx replied.
"How?" Lucy asked wanting to know more.
"I'll show you." Nyx stated and she jumped off her infirmary bed.
"Nyx be careful." Genta said warningly as he stared at Nyx with concern.
"I'm fine now even Kouta said so. You don't have to worry too much now."
After saying that, Nyx walked towards an infirmary bed on the opposite side of the room away from Narria, Genta and Veruna. Nyx stood in front of the infirmary bed she was facing forward to Lucy and Ren.
"Watch this Lucy! It is so cool." Ren whispered into Lucy's ears.
Nyx too a deep breath like she was trying to keep calm. Slowly, she drew her fist backwards until it was raised high and levelled with her head. In a move, Lucy could not possible track, Nyx's closed fix flew forwards and hit the middle of the infirmary bed. Hard.
Instantly, the bed cracked down at the pressure and split in half. Both sides flew upwards and drew close to the middle of the bed where Nyx's hand was. Spits of wood flew all over the place. There were many cracks down the bed all originally leading from Nyx's fist. The bed was split in half it looked liked it would be really hard to fix it back up.
Lucy and Wendy stared gob-smacked at what had just happened.
"How did you do that?!" Lucy cried out.
"It is my magic. Basically, what I can do is that I can transfer my magic into inanimate objects but by inanimate objects I mean my clothes. So, I can change my clothing material into something else. That's what I did here. I turned the material of my gloves into metal so when I hit the bed it was like I was hitting it with metal full force. You can't see when I change the material of my clothes as it stays the same. But, when I knocked that guy in the pillar I kicked him with my boots that I turned into metal. That's why I knocked him out hard. I can change the material of my clothing to what I want too." Nyx explained.
Lucy drew a deep breath after hearing that. She had never heard of magic like that for it seemed really amazing.
"I told you it would be really good. Nyx's magic is very amazing." Ren commented.
"That it is." Genta commented smiling at Nyx like a father who was really proud of his daughter.
Two weeks later. Scarlet Destiny guild room.
Lucy couldn't help but laugh at Ren who was beside her talking so fast that she could barely understand him. He was explaining to Genta what happened in their last mission but because he was talking so fact Genta could barely understand what he was saying.
They were at the bar table one of the favourite places Lucy liked to be in. She loved talking to Genta and she also liked to hear the conversations that people would have with Genta when they wanted to buy alcohol from him.
Lucy was happy. There was no other way to say it. Lucy loved being in Scarlet Destiny. Whenever she thought about how she used to think if she would fit in to Scarlet Destiny she would laugh a lot about it. How could she think that she had no idea.
Lucy was fully integrated in the guild. She was in a mission group with Ren, Kuro and Happy. It just happened. Whenever Ren would want to go on a mission he would drag her with him and that meant she just automatically was in their group. Ren and Happy had also bonded so much as well. They just got a long. So, Happy was also included in their group.
Wendy and Carla would join in on missions but they weren't fully part of the team. They liked going on mission by themselves and to gain experience. Ren had started to teach Wendy more about dragon slayers. As soon as he discovered that Wendy needed more experience about dragon slaying Ren wanted to help. So, they had training sessions together where Ren would help Wendy improve her abilities. Lucy wanted to know more about Ren's past. She wanted to know if he had a dragon who was like a parent to him but that dragon had disappeared but the conversation had never come up and Lucy didn't have the heart to ask.
Happy was also at the bar table and was nodding his head following Ren's every word which actually seemed impossible. Those two were a bit too alike.
"Boy!" Genta butted in "You need to talk slower if I am going to be able to understand what you are saying. I'm not that young any more."
Lucy laughed out loud.
"You heard him Ren. Talk S.L.O.W.E.R." Lucy said finished the sentence very slowly.
Ren was about to reply when suddenly a loud bang echoed through the guild hall. The bang was followed by a loud shout,
"Your Hero is back!" screamed out a male voice.
Lucy spun to the sound and looked at the guild door to find two boys standing in front of them. One of the boys was a few steps in front of the other. One of his legs was raised forward showing that he must have kicked the door open and it looked like he was the one that shouted out. Both boys looked to be in their late teens.
Both boys had red hair except the one at the front with the raised leg had bright red hair while the one at the back had duller colour of red hair. Both had green eyes the one at the front had glowing forest green eyes while the other one at the back had moss-green eyes.
Even though the both had the same colour hair and eyes it was obvious that they were not related as they had different bone structure and different body structures.
"Do you really have to shout that every time we enter the guild? It get's really stupid...Actually, it was stupid since the first time you said that." the boy at the back commented.
"Hey, it's not stupid. I think it's very clever." the boy at the front shot back.
The boy at the back scoffed out load and walked past the other boy not looking back.
"Oh Hiro... We thought you were dead." said a new voice belonging to Ivy who was sitting on the blanket with Rose surrounding by tea.
"Yeah, I was hoping that you would be mauled by a bear." Rose said snappingly followed by Ivy,
"And, I was hoping you would be eaten by a lion."
"So, that means that we were hoping you would be mauled by a bear and then eaten by a lion." Rose said joining the two ideas up.
"Ah, the tea lovers... What kind of nasty tea are you drinking today?" Hiro said with a mocking look on his face.
"Tea is not nasty!" Both Rose and Ivy shouted out together before Rose said following,
"You do not understand the special taste tea has and for that you will always be a disgrace in our eyes."
"Like I care." was Hiro's reply.
Lucy looked so confuse and she turned to Ren for answers.
"Ren, what's up with all that? I've never heard Ivy and Rose talked like that before."
"Well, Lucy the boy who just came in is Hiroki Wakahisa. He is known for his playboy attitude but also he hates tea with a passion. And since Ivy and Rose loves tea it causes a lot of problem with the three of them. They have their own small war when Hiro comes back from his long missions. And let me tell you what just happened now is nothing compared to how it gets." Ren explained.
Lucy was about to reply when she felt a small tap on her shoulder. She turned around to find the other boy who came with Hiro standing behind her smiling softly.
"Well, I don't think I've ever seen you before. Who are you?" the boy asked.
"Oh...uh...I'm Lucy." Lucy replied.
"Lucy...Hmm...a beautiful name for a beautiful girl." the boy said still smiling rather cheekily.
Lucy blushed easily at that. It was super cheesy but she didn't actually mind it that much.
"By the way I'm Taichi Sasaki, your knight in shining armour to be." Taichi said charmingly.
"Seriously? That's really the best you can do?" Hiro said as he appeared beside Taichi "that is so bad!"
"Hiro, why don't you do something else? Like, why don't you go to Ivy and Rose and fight about tea."
"As much as I would love to do that, Jared did warn me that if I wanted to fight with Ivy and Rose then I would have to go outside since he didn't want anything to break inside the guild any more. And, if I do go outside with them then that means it is likely they will find a monster and well..." Hiro's sentence trailed off and Taichi supplied the rest,
"They will find a monster, do their magic and pummel you do bits."
"No! I can beat them any time but you can't really hurt a girl can you?"
"Excuses, excuses." Taichi replied while waving his hands.
"Hey Hiro, Taichi. Lucy is new here and that's why you've never seen her. She's on my team!" Ren announced happily.
Both boys stared at him in shock.
"How is that possible!?" they both shouted at once.
"Yeah, Ren you can't have a girl who hot in your team. It goes against every force in the universe!" Hiro commented.
"Shut up Hiro! Lucy is great and she belongs in my team!" Ren shouted back getting angry as his hands curled into tight fist.
"Ahem!" Genta said interrupting the lot of them "sorry to interrupt but no fighting. You know the rules."
"Sorry." all three boys replied.
"And Lucy is not some sort of prize you know that." Genta added on.
"Sorry," all three boys replied again as they looked at Lucy with puppy dog eyes.
"It's okay." Lucy replied feeling her cheeks heat up yet again. She did feel like shouting at them before but since they were giving her that look it didn't really matter.
"Hey, are you guys in a team?" Happy asked curiously.
"A talking cat?" Hiro said slowly followed by Taichi,
"Well, you don't see that everyday."
"His name is Happy." Lucy said as she looked at Happy.
"Okay Happy to answer your question, we are." Hiro said and Taichi followed by saying more,
"Yeah, we may not get along all the time but we have many things in common."
"So, boys, since you want to impress our newest member why don't you tell her what your magic is?" Genta suggested a sly smile on his face. He knew exactly how to manipulate those two. And both fell for his trap.
"Oh okay," Taichi said starting first before Hiro can interrupt he carried on "I am an enhancer."
"What does that mean?" Lucy asked confused.
"Oh, basically I can enhance anything and everything. So for example, I can enhance my hearing ability and make myself hear things a mile away. I can enhance any part of my body like that making me far better then usual. So, I can have faster reflexive and more strength then usual. I can also enhance other people's magic so I can make them use their magic even better." Taichi explained.
"And that last part of enhancing works well with my magic, I thinks that's another reason Jared paired us up." Hiro continued on from Taichi "I can basically stretch myself. In other words, I can stretched any part of my body making it longer. Such as I can stretched my arm now to reach behind Genta to all that alcohol stocked behind him. Impressed yet?"
Before Lucy can reply Ivy's voice suddenly shouts across the room,
"Yeah, not a very great power if you ask me."
"Okay, that's it! You tea lovers are going down!" Hiro shouted and with no warning he raced towards the pair on the blanket who jumped up ready to go.
"Hiro! No don't! You're going to get hurt!" Taichi shouted and he was about to leave before turning to Lucy and saying "I will return for your love later."
Lucy couldn't help giggling at that. Very, very bad line. Even Ren laughed at that.
"Wow, there are some really weird members of Scarlet Destiny." Happy commented.
"I agree." Lucy said backing Happy up.
And done! See, I didn't leave this chapter at a cliffhanger! You must be so happy of me! Anyway I really hoped you like this chapter! What did you think of the new characters?
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1) I actually changed the power of both Hiro and Taichi and I hoped the people who gave them in aren't mad about that... I was reading the review about Taichi and while I was reading the power the idea of him being an enhancer came into my mind and I couldn't help but change it. Same with while I was reading about Hiro.
2) A review once replied if that I should make a separate series of this all about Scarlet Destiny before Lucy entered the guild. I was thinking about doing it but I want to know if you would read it or not. Now tell me the truth would you? Like it will be parts of characters past and stuff like that. Would you read it?
Please review for this chapter as I would love to know what you think.
Thank you and see yh later! (by that I mean next week)
