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"Speech"
"Thoughts"
Although looking like normal energy waves, the lost magic 'dimension cutter' has the peculiar ability of cutting trough any defense no matter how strong it was, Mirajane could confirm that fact; the dark mages that attacked her moments ago now lay dead all around her, only thanks to her takeover she was still standing.
"Not bad" Llyria said after ending her barrage of deadly waves "A shame I had to cut that pretty body of yours, but Master only specified not to kill you."
Mirajane growled as she eyed her enemy, in the middle of nowhere with no backup anytime soon and facing another mage when she was almost exhausted left her with one option.
Smirking at her wounded prey, Llyria spoke: "Give up now and I promise you we can have some fun before I have to hand you to my master." Her smirk, however, vanished when a semitransparent sphere gathered all around Mira.
"Soul Extinction!"
Believing Mira was almost defeated Llyria was caught off guard and received the full attack; the darkness wave sent her crashing through the small hill, leaving a trail of destruction a good distance away.
Her energy spent, Mira dropped to her knees and tried to regain her breath, she still had to finish the teleporting mage before starting her long way back to Fairy Tail. A sudden movement caught her attention; looking at the trail of destruction she could see a figure quickly approaching her.
"It can't be!" Mira's fears were confirmed; Llyria had survived the attack, albeit not unscratched, and was poised to retaliate against her. Lifting one arm she tried to attack again, but the magic that emanated from her hand was barely enough to cause a minor shock.
Llyria, however, was not about to take another chance. Moving faster than the eye could follow (mostly in part to her time manipulation) she avoided the attack and hit Mira in the stomach so hard that made the demon user spit a long trail of blood before dropping out cold into the ground. When the takeover ended, all that was left was a bruised and bloodied unconscious Mira.
"How dare you hurt me?" Laying a few inches from her boots, Llyria felt like crushing Mira's head but decided against it; the master would not be pleased. Grabbing a handful of her soft white hair she dragged Mira and approached Sixring.
"Wake up!" Llyria kicking the unconscious mage to wake him from his slumber "Take us back now! I have what I was looking for."
Trinity Wraith Guild:
The sound of fighting could be heard just outside of the door, but the master of Trinity Wraith paid no attention to it as he enjoyed a cup of his favorite wine. Taking a sip he savored the flavor of the red liquid when the door to his chamber was kicked open by Ultear. Putting the cup on a table he addressed the woman before him:
"If you wanted to come inside so bad, you only had to ask."
Even in the darkness Ultear studied the man's features, wondering what connection he had to those girls. Pushing that thought aside for the moment she spoke: "My master sent me here to find out more about your guild, hope it's not a problem."
"Not at all" The master said, thinking less about his defeated mages that tried to stop her. Standing up he bowed out of courtesy for her:"Where are my manners; I am Luzbel, master of Trinity Wraith. Make yourself at home"
"Thanks, but this isn't a social meeting. Tell me: what goal does your guild pursue? And why have you declined our previous invitations to join the Balamb alliance?"
"I have declined because we have no intention of bowing down to Hades. Even when he claims it's an 'alliance' Hades acts like everyone should follow him. Am I wrong?" Before she could answer he added: "And our goal is one you share: the revival of Zeref."
"Revival of Zeref? That's new" Ultear sarcastically replied "been done and failed miserably."
"The tower of heaven, yes I know" Luzbel said crossing his arms "What you don't know is that my clan specifically worshipped Zeref since ancient times, and only we can truly revive him."
"And what clan is that?"
"Join me and I shall tell you" Luzbel offered "you also seek the same, and also wish the death of Hades."
Laughing lightly Ultear replied "you presume too much, but I am intrigued; you're the first one that has so openly defied Hades, I wondered how far you can go with that."
"All the way, do we have an agreement?" Extending his hand to shake it he was disappointed when she didn't reciprocate.
"For now, I'll see what you can do. If you can revive Zeref and kill Hades then I might consider your offer, if not, then I'll just kill you and bring your head to my master."
"Then it's settled. You won't regret it."
The mission Natsu took was one where a town needed someone to take care of some bandits, the dragon slayer specifically picked it so he could fight some foes to his heart's contempt, Lisanna and Angel didn't care as long as they could be near him.
However, to fully enjoy his company both girls decided to finish the bandits as quickly as possible to have more time to spend with him.
"Looky here boys" a foul, fat bandit gestured as he pointed to Angel and Lisanna "Look's like our fun for the night just arrived!"
Disgusted, Angel wasted no time and drew a silver key from her dress: "Gate of the princess open! Andromeda!"
If the bandits were lusting before, now they were salivating as Andromeda appeared: wearing a robe that barely covered her ample assets, the celestial spirit had a chain harness around her large breasts while also having her hands cuffed by the front, the celestial spirit might as well be Virgo's wet dream as she also had a ballgag around her neck.
As a clear submissive, Andromeda shyly addressed Angel: "You called, my mistress?"
"Andromeda, take care of them! Be quick with it and maybe I'll let you 'play' that 'game' you like so much."
She didn't need to be told twice, Andromeda unleashed a spiral of chains that went flying towards the horny bandits, now running for their lives. Satisfied with her work Angel turned to Lisanna: "how about a little wager; the one that get's more bandits knocked out wins a date with Natsu-kun."
"Are you insane? Natsu is my boyfriend! I won't let that happen! Besides; you have a head start!"
"Afraid you'll lose?" Angel smirked as she watched Lisanna struggling for an answer. Hearing Andromeda say she got three down, Lisanna used her dragon soul and started taking out bandits.
"Wait! Wait! I give up!" a bandit implored to a fiery Natsu, but before he could connect a fist to the guy, Lisanna stepped in and knocked the bandit out of Natsu's hands. Shrugging, Natsu turned his attention to a fleeing one when a beam out of Caelum hit the bandit in the head, knocking him out cold. Every time he tried to tackle an enemy, Natsu was beaten to it by either girl. After several minutes not hitting anyone Natsu slumped on the ground while Lisanna and Angel continued their small competition, Happy landing on the mop of pink hair.
"You're very lucky Natsu!" The blue cat said "with Lisanna and Angel following you, you won't need to fight anymore. They will finish the jobs while you collect the jewels."
"Oi! Are you saying I'm a pimp?" Natsu asked.
Thinking for a moment, Happy replied: "What's a pimp?"
"No idea" Natsu answered truthfully as he scratched his head.
"TWENTY!"
Both Lisanna and Angel yelled and then turned to each other; they had somehow tied with the score. Before they could fight between each other they saw a tie-breaker; a scared bandit was slowly crawling trying not to be noticed, a task he failed miserably when he was spotted by the two girls.
"Caelum, fire!"
"Flame sphere!"
The poor bandit was hit by the two attacks at the same time, when the dust settled a knocked out bandit dropped as he was fried extra crispy.
Lifting a flag, Happy revealed the winner: "A tie!"
"What!" Both Lisanna and Angel groaned before each grabbing an arm of the downcast dragon slayer, if it was a tie then each would go on a date or the both of them would go out with him at the same time.
As it turned out, Makarov was away from the guild for a meeting, which left them with only one option, Porlyusica. Outside the hermit's house a desperate Elfman struggled against the mages currently holding him.
"Let me go, I gotta save Mira-nee!"
Freed and Bickslow tried to contain him, but in the end the takeover user proved too much as he knocked them aside, but to his surprise he found his feet encased in ice courtesy of Gray.
Before he could break free, Elfman was approached by Erza: "I know how you feel, but we need to wait for Porlyusica to finish whatever she is doing to find Mira. If you just go out there you'll never find her on your own."
Elfman knew she was right, but that didn't ease the fact that her older sister was in danger. Reluctantly he agreed. After several minutes, Porlyusica emerged from the house and faced the mages present.
The hermit looked with disgust at the crowd outside her house, but for this time tolerated their presence since it was an emergency. "I found her" Catching everyone's attention she spoke: "Here; in this map I pinpointed the last place where that mage used his teleporting magic, once you get there you must do the spell again to find the next place where he might have went. No doubt that will be their guild."
Stepping forward, Erza took the offered map "thank you, Porlyusica"
"Just one thing: get her back safely."
"Of course" Erza nodded and turned to her party of mages: Lucy, Gray, Juvia, Elfman and the thunder god tribe were the only mages present in the guild at the time when Mira was captured so they followed Erza in hopes of helping in any way they could. "We have no time to lose! Let's go and save Mira!"
Happy as a schoolgirl, Llyria came before her master and presented a bound and gagged Mirajane to him: "Maaaster! Here is your demon." Unceremoniously she dropped her to the floor, eliciting a grunt of pain from the platinum haired beauty.
While the master of Trinity wraith went to his new acquisition, the leather clad woman finally noticed Ultear at her master's side and scowled: "What is she doing here?"
"Llyria, Ultear is our guest." The master said as he inspected Mira for any major damage that she might have, when the white hair girl opened her eyes she was surprised by the features of the man in front of her but being so weak, plus gagged, she was unable to voice her thoughts.
"She is perfect." Motioning to some mages he ordered them to deposit their new 'permanent' resident to a cell before turning his attention to a glaring match between Ultear and Llyria: "Llyria, play nice with our guest."
The blue haired woman scoffed but obeyed nonetheless, while Ultear spoke to the master: "You have her, now what?"
"Now we only need one more thing" as the master approached Sixring, the teleporting mage gulped seeing the intent on the master's eyes. "Relax, I only need of your abilities to go and fetch the last pieces of our plan."
"O-of course!" Sixring replied after unconsciously releasing the air he had been holding "Where do you need to go?"
"But master! You shouldn't bother with this! Let me go instead" Llyria suddenly exclaimed, but the master declined her offer.
"No need, take a rest, you earned it. Just stay here and guard the guild while I go with Ultear and fetch the rest" Said that he then turned to Sixring "now then, this will only sting a bit."
Sixring wondered what he meant but for only a second as the master put his hand over his head and drained him of his magic, the teleporting mage felt like his very essence was being ripped out of him towards the elusive master. When he was done, the master released the carcass of Sixring and offered his hand to Ultear "Shall we?"
Ultear smirked at his ruthlessness and replied: "Sure, but don't even think about doing that to me or you shall regret it."
The master merely chuckled at her response, after doing his 'soul takeover' on someone he was unable to do it again for several hours, but she didn't need to know that. Allowing Ultear to set a hand on his shoulder he teleported the two of them to their destination.
After finishing the mission, Natsu's improvised team began their trip back towards Magnolia. While both girls knew of the resident fire slayer's weakness, they unanimously voted to take the train, it was a first for both love rivals to reach an agreement; Angel not wanting to walk all the way back to the guild, while Lisanna felt like something had happened while they were out and wanted to return as soon as possible. While Natsu refused at first in the end agreed, as long as he could rest on his girlfriend's lap he could endure the agony of the ride back.
"How are you holding, Natsu-kun?"
"…fine…." The dragon slayer mumbled as the girl caressed his head, she felt bad for forcing him to take the train but she just couldn't shake the feeling she was needed back home.
"Again, sorry for forcing you to take the train" Lisanna replied while Natsu mumbled some more incoherencies "I'll make it up to you… once were alone that is"
"you could knock him out Lisanna" Happy voiced his idea "Erza always does it when we take the train."
Angel, for her part, had to seat in front of them while she at first wanted to take Natsu's side "Natsu-kun, maybe you would feel much better if you changed seats?" Grabbing Happy that was next to her she lifted him as the exceed protested. "Seat next to her so Natsu can switch places."
'Natsu's fine over here!"
"I asked Natsu, not you! Let him answer for himself!"
While Lisanna and Angel engaged in a glare lock, they ignored the fact that Natsu had passed out and was not capable of responding to either girl. Before they knew it the entire train suddenly stopped, by the sudden deceleration everyone slammed against each other and the entire cabin was in turmoil in a matter of seconds. Once the train finally stopped moving, Natsu regained his senses and used his hands for leverage. The surfaces he touched were both round, but one was soft while the other was firm.
"Uh? What happened? Did we arrive?"
"Natsu-kun! I never imagined you to be so straightforward."
Hearing Angel's voice he looked down to realize his hand was resting on her ample breast; the celestial mage had a mild blush due to the embarrassment but made no movement to remove the hand touching her. Feeling a wave of killer intent emanating from his left side he found Lisanna boring holes trough Angel's head, however she stopped when she realized Natsu had his other hand over her ass and also blushed. Natsu, still not removing both hands, opened his mouth to explain when the entire train was cut in half, somehow sparing everyone on board since no one was currently in the middle section.
Forgetting the whole incident, the three mages and blue cat watched as a single man wielding a katana was in the very first wagon; clearly he was responsible for the damage inflicted to the train.
Natsu and Angel assessed the threat, while Lisanna was shocked by the man's appearance; dressed in an entire white suit, gloves and shoes the same color, but what really got her attention was the platinum white hair flowing freely with the wind.
"D-daddy?"
Even when she was too young to fully remember every detail, she could still recall the appearance of her parents; her mother a vivid, more mature version of Mirajane, and her father the very same image as the man before them. The only difference she could discern was the fact her dad's eye color was blue, while this man sported dark red eyes.
"Whaaaaaat! You're Lisanna's dad!" Happy exclaimed as the man chuckled at this statement.
"I'm afraid not. However he and your mother come from the same clan as me, which is the reason why she would confuse me for him." Sheathing his sword he extended his hand as if beckoning them to him "Lisanna, Angel, come with me. Together we can finally achieve our clan's goal, the one true purpose we have in life."
Angel was skeptical, In her mind the celestial mage realized this man was probably from the same guild that tried to take her before, so she didn't fell for that trick so easily. Natsu, as well, saw right through his lies:
"You really expect us to believe all that crap!" Natsu replied, making Luzbel scowl in return "You tried to take Lis-chan and Angel from me, not to mention your goons tried to kill them when they failed at it. I don't know or care who you are, but you're not taking any of my nakamas away from me!"
"You think you can stop me, little dragon slayer" Red eyes glowing as a magical seal surrounded him, Luzbel's appearance changed but not in a drastic way, more in a key factor as wings emanated from his back. What really got them by surprise were the words he uttered as he sprouted the six angelic wings:
"Take over: Seraph soul!"
Even from afar, the Fairy tail mages could still feel the overwhelming magic coming out of him. After destroying the railway with her arc of time, hidden from view Ultear watched amused the unfolding turn of events.
"This is interesting" She was beginning to piece together how this man claimed he could revive Zeref, the question was when she would strike him down to assure that (once revived) Zeref was all hers.
Natsu knew this man was more powerful than any foe he had faced before, but he would not back out; there was no way he was about to let this guy take Lisanna and Angel away from him.
"Karyū no Hōkō!" (Fire dragon's roar)
Unleashing a full fire dragon's roar Luzbel demonstrated his power as he flames didn't even touch him; the deadly attack was repelled like it had hit an invisible barrier that surrounded Luzbel.
Not one to just to stand and watch, Lisanna and Angel also attacked as the celestial mage summoned the mechanical cannon Caelum while Lisanna used her take over: dragon soul. While Luzbel was unimpressed by Natsu's attack, he was stunned when Lisanna transformed.
"What! You defiled her!" Luzbel growled as he watched the now changed Lisanna. Ignoring his comment, Lisanna ,Natsu and Angel prepared their attack.
"Caelum! Use your full power, destroy that man!"
"Flame Tornado!"
"Guren Bakuenjin!" (Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade)
The three attacks hit Luzbel and managed to penetrate that barrier he had used before, but to their horror the damage he received was minimal. In fact, he didn't even move as he continued to glare at Lisanna.
"To think you would let a lower mage like him bind you to his will! You are useless to me now! But this transgression will not go unpunished" Withdrawing his sword he pointed it at Lisanna. "As patriarch of our clan I hereby negate your bond with each other!"
With a horizontal slash he unleashed a cutting wave straight at Lisanna, Natsu saw it coming and jumped in front of her but neither was cut by it. They did, however, felt the energy leave their bodies as they slumped on the ground defeated."
"Natsu-kun! Lisanna!" Angel screamed as she and Happy watched them drop as tried to reach them, but Luzbel materialized before her and backslapped her away. Her celestial spirit, Caelum, turned to the one attacking his master but before it could fire a shot Luzbel cut him in half. Happy tried to fight, but using one finger he sent the blue cat away like he was no more than a fly. With no resistance left, he scooped an unconscious Angel bridal style.
"You will have to suffice" Joined by Ultear, Luzbel teleported back to Trinity wraith.
After a few minutes, Natsu woke up and helped a disoriented Lisanna back to her feet.
"He's gone." Natsu said as he surveyed the area, grabbing Angel's keys he then went with Lisanna to check on Happy. Besides a large lump on the head, the exceed would recover. Depressed, Lisanna felt like a whole was made in her body and all the heat was taken from her. Natsu saw her shiver and said: "don't worry, this is not over!"
Even as he said that, Natsu felt the same as her. Both knew something else happened during the fight, they still didn't know what it was but one thing was certain for each: they could no longer feel each other as they could before.
A.N.
There you go; the reason why they abduct girls has been revealed. Not an epic plot but my main focus since the beginning of this fic was the relationship between Natsu and Lisanna. Hope you're not disappointed by the whole 'revive Zeref' scheme thing.
The Folklistener: Yeah, my bad. I did promise updates once a week but I just couldn't find time between work. I will try to update as soon as possible from now on.
corialanus: Im glad you like my story, I haven't decided who I will pair with Gray but stay tuned to find out.
CreateElements: Lyon x Juvia… Now that's an interesting and rare couple. Maybe I'll write it.
Nico Aldrich: Yeah, I hear ya. I thought there would be more stories with Natsu x Lisanna, but almost all of Fairy Tail fanfic is flooded with Natsu and Lucy fics. Thanks for the review.
Tha Golden Boy, Slax and Onebean: I agree! Natsu deserved that promotion, and when we reach the s-class trials let's see what I can change (it's no spoiler-alert that he will be promoted on my story, but maybe I'll promote another character as well)
To the rest, once again thanks for the reviews and feedback (it's always appreciated).
Till next time.
Demonwithasoul