An Ideal World
Sorry if the chapter is a bit short, I just really want to finish off this arc. To be honest, I never knew this arc would be so boring. Writing this chapter is like watching paint dry. I'm also sorry for the chapter taking two weeks, but my record of being punctual isn't that good, at least it's not a month. I also just noticed that I've been spelling armour the American Way (which is armor, and if you don't know, I'm British) so the spelling will be changed from now on unless I forget (which is 100% percent likely).
At The Site Of Where The Dragonoid Landed
"So the Master decided that destroying the Dragonoid was the top priority." Erza commented aloud. "What about Natsu?" The scarlet haired mage questioned.
"He said he was sturdily built so he should be okay." Lucy briefed.
"I see." The redhead mumbled. "Natsu!" She then called out. "On Master's orders, we will stop the Dragonoid with full force! Before we do that, I want to check with you! Let us hear you!"
"Sure, I'll let you hear…" The dragon slayer smirked as the tone of his voice was that of an evil one.
"Natsu.." Erza uttered as she thought her friend had become evil due to the tone of his voice.
"Ready? Cock an ear and listen up." Natsu began. "Bust this thing up, and me along with it!" The Fire Mage yelled as he thumped his chest.
"But if we do that, what will happen to you Natsu?" His best friend, Happy inquired.
"Stop making excuses! If Magnolia gets ruined 'cause of me, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night!" Natsu responded to his fellow members.
"Not budging a bit, huh?" Alzack pointed out.
"At this rate…" Bisca started.
"The city would be…" Levy worried.
"What should we do, Erza?" Lucy inquired but all she got was silence. "Answer me, Erza!" But Erza seemed to be in deep thought.
"What incredible power!" Daphne shouted. "This power is exquisite!" She added as she continued to press more keys on her piano. "It's the same… as it was back then…" The woman said as she recalled the moment she saw a dragon soar over her head when she was younger. "So fearsome… So ferocious… I'd never seen anything so beautiful… But dragons are free spirits. Since I never knew when I might meet one again, I made one for myself!" Daphne yelled the end of her story.
"Argh! Screw you! You ain't the only one who wants to see dragons! So do I, Wendy and Gajeel! But instead, you-"
"Dragons are gone. They're extinct, just a hallucination." Daphne told Natsu bluntly interrupting him. "Liar-Liar-Liar!" Daphne suddenly blurted out in a fit of rage. "No one believed me. They laughed at me, ignored me. Beings of such power, dragons, they kept denying they existed. Out of all people, you must know how painful being told that is, right?" The scientist told the Dragon Slayer. "And now I've finally been able to unveil this! To show everyone!"
"Wow, that's one messed up backstory." Happy remarked.
"That's the reason?" Lucy questioned.
"First, I'll crush this city! And then fly around the entire continent!" Daphne announced as the Dragonoid let out a mighty roar that nearly knocked the mages off their feet. Out of the corner of their eyes, the mages spotted the familiar figure of Gray.
"Gray!" The redhead blurted out in surprise.
"Sheesh, I should have seen this coming." The teenager sighed as he looked towards the humongous Dragonoid. "I'll give you the outlines of what really happened. You're free to believe me or not." Gray announced.
Meanwhile, Inside The Dragonoid
"Crap! I've got to at least stay conscious." Natsu told himself from inside the artificial Dragon as more and more of his magic power was being drained in order to power the Dragonoid.
"Come on, resisting any futile, I'm telling you!" A voice inside Natsu's head told him.
"It ain't futile! Put some guts into it!" Another identical voice argued. The real Natsu quickly scanned the area to see where the voice was coming from and turns out it wasn't from his head. There were actually two chibi Natsus on the floor, each having a slightly different appearance to their original.
"Don't you get what Daphne is saying?" A much lighter toned Natsu asked. He had permanent, bright pink blush marks on his face.
"No, I don't! You forgot about our promise?" A much darker toned Natsu responded.
"Me?!" Natsu yelled in surprise with his eyes literally gauging out of their sockets. The chibi doppelgangers turned towards the real thing with a less surprised look than their original.
"Only 6% left. It's about time to start, I see." Daphne murmured as she started to play her instrument yet again, controlling the Dragonoid and making it move inwards to the city. "Hai-Hai-Hai-Hai!" Daphne shouted through her megaphone.
With The Fairy Tail Mages
"He forgot a promise as important as that?" Lucy spoke, dumbfounded on what Gray had just told her.
"Honestly! I'd expect that of him but still!" Erza said with a look of disgust and frustration plastered on her face.
"Thank goodness! Juvia believed in you, Gray-sama!" Juvia announced while a merry expression was visible on her face.
"There wasn't any other method…" Gray admitted, continuing with what he was saying. "But right now, our first priority is doing something about that big thing!" Gray declared as he started down the massive artificial dragon that was currently terrorising the city.
"Do something? Like what?" Carla asked with her arms folded, unable to think on how they could help the current unfolding situation at hand.
"Someone's collapsed!" The Sky Mage pointed out, noticing a baker with minor injuries, sprawled out on the floor.
"That's the owner of the cake shop!" Erza notified the group. The redhead had a deep and passionate love for sweets and desserts, especially strawberry cake.
"He didn't evacuate fast enough!" Levy worried.
"Cover us!" Wakaba ordered the bluette as he ran towards the hurt baker.
"We'll go save him!" Droy told the petite Fairy Tail mage as he and Jet ran over to assist the cake shop owner.
"Hai-Hai! Lizardmen 3.1, show yourselves!" The crazed scientist demanded as tons of lime green magic circles formed in the sky. And then as if they came from another universe, lizardmen jumped out of the magic circles and rushed down to attack all who opposed their creator's plans.
"Crap! There ain't no end to 'em!" Bickslow shouted, growling at the sheer number of Lizardmen that were planning to attack them. They were probably the size of a moderately large Rune Knight unit.
"What are you doing here?!" Erza interrogated as she descended from the rooftop to aid the cake shop owner.
"My shop's been crushed… But at least I saved this…." The baker responded weakly as he tightly clutched onto the two layer, encased, strawberry cake.
"For this, you…" Erza was lost for words as she glanced down upon her favourite food but was confused why the owner would save something that would endanger himself.
"You were welcoming two newcomers, yes? I'm not going to lose to a big thing like that." The baker stated as the Fairy Tail mages surrounding him were thankful for his caring and determined attitude towards them.
"I'll heal him." Wendy offered as she crouched down towards the cake maker.
"Wait, Wendy! Your magic power still hasn't-" The white Exceed warned her partner before she was cut off.
"Don't worry, I rested a little." The young dragon slayer told her partner as she began to heal the baker.
"I'm counting on you, Wendy." Titania informed her as she took the strawberry cake off the now unconscious, baker's hands.
"You know, I can't stand pickled plums." Wendy told Erza, completely irrelevant to the current events.
"Pickled plums?" Erza repeated.
"Yes, they're like my weakness." Wendy admitted as she momentarily paused with the healing of the cake shop owner. "Everyone has one. A weakness, that is." Wendy announced. "I've only just joined Fairy Tail. I've only just started with everything but I want to laugh more with Natsu-san, with everyone… cry with everyone… get mad with everyone… I want to high-five with Natsu-san once again!" Wendy confessed as she resumed her healing. "Please save Natsu-san..." The dragon slayer begged her fellow members of the guild before falling unconscious on top of the cake shop owner.
"Hey!" Erza stressed, looking at Wendy's motionless body.
"Wendy! You fool, you see what I said?" The female Exceed shouted at her best friend, running over to her. Other members shared the same worried feeling as Carla and Erza while still mostly focusing their attention on the incoming attack.
"It's okay, she's just lost consciousness. But she's lost most of her magic power." Mirajane, who had just checked on Wendy's condition, informed everybody.
"Only Natsu can defeat it." Erza sighed as she turned towards the Dragonoid. "But Master told us to attack the Dragonoid." The redhead recited. She was in deep thought for a few seconds before an idea popped into her head. "I see!"
"Erza, Jiichan gave me a secret plan-" Gray began telling her while walking up to Titania but was cut off.
"I figured as much. You don't have to tell everyone." Erza told the Ice-Mage before requipping into her 'Tenrin no Yoroi (Heaven's Wheel Armour)'. "The rest of you, eliminate the Lizardmen with everything you got!" Erza commanded. "I will take down the Dragonoid!"
"But Erza…" Lucy began.
"What's gonna happen to Natsu?" Happy asked, finishing Lucy's sentence.
"This is the Master's will, therefore it is Fairy Tail's will." Erza replied with a determined look on her face. "Protect this city at all costs! By the honour of this guild, our very soul!"
"Erza…" Gray murmured, surprised by Erza's actions before following Titantia's orders and preparing to defend the city. "Juvia, come with me." Gray told Juvia who blushed upon hearing these words as he fantasies slowly spiralled out of control. The Requip Mage then flew into the sky, above the massive mechanical weapon before proceeding to shout
"Tenrin: Burūmenburatto (Heaven's Wheel: Blumenblatt)!". A fair amount of swords spawned next to Erza as she charged towards the Dragonoid head first, slashing it with the two swords in her hands. The remaining swords mimicked her actions and attempted to skewer the dragon-slayer powered creation but failed in doing so.
"Hai-Hai, such a weak attack is not a problem." Daphne commented. "3% left until fully charged!" Daphne announced.
"What is it? This thing's weak point, what is it?!" Erza thought, getting impatient.
Meanwhile, the Lizardmen had just landed and started to attack the Fairy Tail mages who were trying to defend the city with all their might. The lizardmen were capable of copying abilities and fighting on equal terms with their opponents. Cana, however, was gradually pushed back into an alleyway that had a dead end. The brunette was unaware if this dead end and was surprised when she hit a wall. This left no room to dodge and attacks as the Lizardman threw a variety of cards at her. Unknown to Cana, these were only distractions as the Lizardman was actually setting up traps. And in a matter of seconds, Cana fell into one of those traps. The trap she stepped was a simple layout of cards, set in a circle. As she stepped in them, they suddenly glowed.
"Crap! This is the Meshi Raitoningu (Summoned Lightning) card spell!" Cana said aloud before she could hear thunder in the skies above her. Lightning then ran down to her at a frightening speed and she could only hold her arms up to her head, preparing for the inevitable attack. After, a few seconds of feeling nothing, she opened her eyes to see a heavily bandaged Obito standing in front of her as he used his chakra receivers to act as a conductor and redirect the direction of the attack.
"Obito?" She mumbled, confused why he was here and not in the infirmary.
"Just stay back… this'll be over in a few seconds." The Uchiha told her as a second Lizardman spawned. Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan gleamed before two warp holes spawned on both the Lizardmen's heads, leaving their body lifeless.
"He wasn't joking…" Cana thought, widening her eyes and slightly blushing at his strength.
"We should get moving and assist the others." Obito advised her as they started running towards the others.
With Gray And Juvia
The two mages were currently on top of the toy shop roof. "Gray-sama?" Juvia questioned as she wondered why they were brought to such a place.
"Okay. This should be in that thing's blind spot. The perfect place for a counterpunch." Gray told Juvia as they gazed at the terroriser from afar.
"What exactly are you thinking…" Juvia mumbled under her breath.
"Juvia, I need your help." Gray pleaded, even though it sounded more like an order. "This is the crucial moment to decide whether Natsu lives, or not. And I can't think of a Fairy Tail without Natsu!" Gray growled, clenching his fists to the point where you'd think they'd bleed. "That just ain't happening!"
"Gray-sama!" Juvia blushed at her crush's determined and angry attitude, well to be honest, she blushed at anything the raven-haired teen did.
"A unison raid." Gray began. "We're gonna cover for Erza and crush all the grunts at once!"
"But…" Juvia started, about to object to her love's plans.
"Ice and water, I felt it before when we faced each other, I think our magic is very compatible.
"Compatible?!" Juvia blurted out as her face turned into a very bright red.
"As long as you believe in me, I'm sure we can do it!" Gray assured the water mage. "Will you lend me your power, Juvia?"
"Hai…" Juvia shyly responded, as tears could be seen forming in her eyes. They both then held each other in the position of the cha-cha-cha dance. "Majikku Yūgō (Magic Power Fusion)! Yunizon Reido (Unison Raid)!" Both Gray and Juvia shouted simultaneously as they combined their magic together, a large blue magic circle formed with an even larger, lighter blue magic circle above it. Large pillars of water suddenly bursted through the grounds of the city.
"What the hell is this?" Jet and Droy couldn't help but watch the attack that was taking place.
"A curtain of ice is…" Levy noticed. The large torrents of water were instantly frozen and were turned into icicles that rained down upon Daphe's creations. The lizardmen were easily decimated by the light blue icicles that were practically inescapable. Somehow, none of the icicles hit the Fairy Tail Mages.
"I know the feeling of this magic power!" Lucy stated in surprise.
"It's a Yunizon Reido (Unison Raid) of water and ice!" Carla pointed out as the icicles that destroyed the Lizardmen turned into snowflakes.
"Do you think Gray and Juvia?" Mirajane asked, not finishing her sentence but still getting the question across.
"They ddddddddid it!" Happy teased, rolling his tongue.
"Wow!" Lucy said in awe of the spectacle that had just occurred.
"Thanks, Juvia." Gray thanked.
"Juvia is glad. Gray-sama puts it all on the line for his friends, th-that's one reason why I've come to l-l-love you!" Juvia confessed turning around to face Gray only for her heart to be broken when her love was nowhere to be seen. "WHERE'D GRAY-SAMA GO?!" Juvia shouted in frustration.
Meanwhile Inside The Dragonoid
"Look at that! You gonna let him get away with stealing the most juiciest scenes?" The evil Natsu asked his two other counterparts.
"Not bad, Gray." The optimistic Natsu simply told him in response, annoying the evil Natsu to the point where he would kill him.
"We should crush him!" The evil Natsu argued.
"Shut the hell up!" The real Natsu screamed, as he was probably more annoyed than the evil Natsu. "I'm getting so pissed right now!" Natsu's emotions were still controlling the Dragonoid as it absorbed more and more of his magic power.
"Then why don't you crush this city, huh?" The evil Natsu suggested in a rude tone.
"I said I can't though!" The normal Natsu replied. Everybody's faces were pretty much blank as most people's sweatdropped at the Dragonoid who was currently displaying Natsu's feelings.
"I think this is getting a bit out of hand…" Happy sweatdropped.
"Oi, Natsu! Can you hear me?" Gray roared at the top of his lungs.
"Gray?" All three Natsus said at the same time in response to the calling of their names.
"You're completely helpless! You should be ashamed! You're nothing but talk, squinty eyes!" Gray insulted Natsu, provoking the pink haired dragon slayer. "How long are you gonna stay fused in that thing, doing your one-man stand up?"
"What'd you say?" Natsu barked at Gray.
"What's that for? That's cruel, Gray." The tomcat informed Gray, giving his two cents on the situation but then Happy suddenly noticed something.
"You forgot about the promise you made! And you can still call yourself a Fairy Tail Wizard?!" Gray questioned Natsu, anger could be seen burning in the pupils of his eye. "Hurry up and destroy that dragon-thing before I pummel your ass!" Gray's (somewhat) motivational speech made the huge Dragonoid and Natsu sweatdrop.
"Hai-Hai, so that's what you were after Gray Fullbuster?" Daphne rhetorically questioned. "But it's already too late. Why you ask? Because Salamander's magic power, and even most of his will itself has been absorbed to power my invention-no- innovation!" Daphne declared.
"If I could destroy this, I would've done it by now!" The optimistic Natsu announced.
"Go crush that droopy eyes flat!" The evil Natsu told the real Natsu who was gathering all his magic power.
"I'm disappointed in you, Natsu!" The blue Exceed voiced, joining in on the insults directed towards the Son of Igneel.
"What?!"
"Isn't is so? Haven't you gotten through every challenge before by destroying stuff? I don't want to hear stuff like; bust me up with it!" Happy continued.
"That's right! Everyone… Everyone in Fairy Tail needs you! That's why we're trying so hard! A Natsu that doesn't respond to the feeling of his friends isn't the Natsu that I know!" Lucy criticised Natsu. The sight of this only made the other nearby mages sweatdrop at their tactic. This tactic could only be used on idiots, and Natsu seems to fit into that category.
"Lucy! Why,you…" Natsu growled.
"That's so mean!" The optimistic Natsu told Lucy.
"Let's crush her!" The evil Natsu suggested.
"Everyone's right! You're sitting there, trapped! You've completely given up!" Erza lectured Natsu, also joining in.
"When did I give up, exactly?!" Natsu quarreled with Titania.
"If I recall correctly, you said; 'bust me up'. That's the same as giving up! It's nothing more than weakness! So, just as you wish, I shall rid the world of this giant thing!" The requip mage told the fire mage.
"This has gotten quite weird…" Cana pointed out.
"Whoa there, Natsu's soul has mostly fused with the Dragonoid!" Bickslow notified the group via the use of his eye magic: Figyua Aisu (Figure Eyes).
"Just try it!" Natsu roared at his fellow guild members as literal fire could be seen shooting out of the artificial dragon's mouth in a stream that probably burnt the stars in the night sky.
"Hai-Hai-Hai! The Lizardmen may be wiped but as long as I have this power, I'll be invincible!" Daphne stated with a crazed look noticeable on her face.
"Fairy Tail has no need for those who view their own life as insignificant!" Erza said, continuing her verbal assault.
"I dare you to say that again!" Natsu told Erza.
"I can't imagine a prideful dragon ever wanting to see someone as weak-willed as you!" Erza spoke, insulting the dragon slayer while equipping her 'Kureha no Yoroi (Black Wing Armour)'. "When you'd leap into his chest to embrace him, he'd would smack you silly!" A scowl formed upon Natsu's face as he started baring his canine-like teeth.
"Gimme a break." The pink-haired mage growled in frustration has his magic power gradually escalated, this was the same for his anger.
"With this power, couldn't we beat Erza?!" Both chibi Natsus excitedly asked themselves making their real counterpart dawn a look of surprise on his face for a second or so.
"Sounds like fun! Bring it, Erza!" The teen yelled, obviously deciding to take up the suggestion that his doppelgangers advised by challenging the Fairy Queen. "Today, finally, I will beat you!" Natsu yelled as the dragon did the same.
"Man, what a simpleton." Gray sighed, scratching the back of his head.
"I can hear it! He is pretty much saying exactly what he feels!" Happy informed everybody that was near him with a sort of evil expression on his face. He was doing an impression of an enemy they faced called Cobra, who could hear people's thoughts.
"Yes!" Lucy replied, also doing an impression, this time of an enemy who turned into an ally, belonging to the same group as Cobra, the man was codenamed Hoteye.
"We're doing impressions now?!" Carla questioned, doing an inner facepalm.
"Hey! Don't move on your own!" Daphne commanded the raged-filled Salamander but he wasn't to listen to anybody as the only thing on his mind was crushing the Requip Mage like a pancake.
"You scared, Erza?!" Natsu taunted as he stomped (in his Dragonoid Form) towards Erza.
"Someone like you," The redhead began as she jumped over all the way to Daphne's creation before attempting to crush the core's blood red shell with her sword.
"Nope, she's scary after all!" All three dragon slayers said in unison. Erza was going to finish her sentence but gritted her teeth when her attack didn't even leave a scratch on the shell.
"It's not enough…" Erza mused.
"What? That's all you got?" Gray asked Erza but was too far away from Titania to be heard. The son of the Fire Dragon King quickly refuelled up on his anger as his magic power soared over its capacity causing his doppelgangers to dissipate due to the heat.
"I AIN'T KIDDIN' AROUND HERE!" Natsu barked as his pupils started to fade away as fire shot out from every joint-no-every sweat gland in his body. The fire rampaged throughout the piece of machinery and made holes in the Dragonoid to escape the body.
"Uh-oh! What happened all of a sudden?! The magic power being absorbed is exceeding capacity!" Daphne pointed out, she no longer bared that crazed, evil look on her face but instead, an expression of worry and panic.
"ALL YOU GUYS THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH PUSHIN' MY BUTTONS?" The fire breathing mage thundered as you could literally hear the fire crackling and making a distinct 'ssss' sound. The whole Dragonoid could be seen lighting up from the inside with fire. The guild Master only looked on at the situation from afar, examining everything that was going on.
"The flames of emotion." Was all Makarov said as the fire had turned an orangey-red colour.
"Natsu!" Both Lucy and Happy shouted for their teammate who looked like he was going to explode of flames.
"Natsu-san!" Wendy worried as Mirajane watched on, next to her.
"Man, this is messed up." A familiar deep voice spoke through the smoke of falling buildings from behind them. A tall figure could be seen walking towards the group of mages who were also watching the situation. "I warned him and everything, y'know. Now the guy who's always hot under the collar has a body that's hot all over."
"Gajeel!" Happy blurted out upon seeing the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"Man, the dolt." Gajeel sighed.
"Gajeel?!" Natsu said when he heard Gajeel's (somewhat annoying) voice (that view only applied to Natsu and Obito however).
"Stop makin' work for me!" The son of Metalicana scolded the son of Igneel before announcing "Metsu Ryū Ōgi: Gōma Tetsu Rasen (Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Karma Demon: Spiral)!" Gajeel transformed his leg into an above average sized drill before starting to rotate wildly, he soared down to the core's shell, piercing and cracking the shell in a matter of seconds before destroying it completely. A bright light blinded everyone for a few seconds before Gajeel was seen bearing a smug look on his face as he looked down and the somewhat scared-looking Natsu.
"G-Gajeel?" Salamander stuttered as he looked up at his comrade.
"Looks like I still got ways to go. I was tryin' to pulverise the whole thing and bust you up with it." The Iron Dragon Slayer admitted. The Fire Dragon Slayer only did a light chuckle at Gajeel's confession.
"Lucy! Call that horse guy! Send all the fire ya got on an arrow in 'ere!" The former Phantom Lord mage called out.
"Nice Gajeel!" Lucy praised Gajeel for his efforts. "Leave the rest to me!" Lucy added as her Celestial Gate Key glowed brightly before a light blue magic circle appeared at the end of where her gate key was pointed.
"As it were, moshimoshi!" Sagittarius introduced himself while saluting.
"If you can hear me, everyone who can use fire, lend a hand!" The female teen pleaded as Sagittarius got ready to shoot an arrow towards the Son of Igneel.
"Okay, got it!" Cana responded as she readied her cards.
"Oui." Reedus replied.
"We just need to send fire to Natsu, right?" Levy confirmed.
"Just need to send fire to Natsu, eh?" Obito thought as a sadistic smile that betrayed all innocence in the Uchiha spread across his face. As the mages readied their attacks, Obito walked in front of them. "Don't worry, you guys can stand back. I'm just going to test something. Kukukuku…" The former jinchuuriki sniggered before it turned out to a full-out laugh. The mages around him were confused by his laughter as there was nothing funny about the situation.
"Just what exactly, do you want to test out?" Lucy interrogated Obito.
"How much fire he can "eat". Or in my terms: How much fire he can handle before he drops dead." Was all he replied with. The nearby mages widened their eyes and were going to intervene but he quickly used 'Doton: Doryūheki (Earth Style: Earth Wall)' to create a barrier that separated him and the others. Obito then had concentrated most of the chakra that was currently residing in his body to his stomach before going through the Rat, Ox, Dog, Horse, Monkey, Boar and Tiger in that order. "Katon: Gōka Messhitsu (Fire Style: Majestic Fire Destruction)!" The shinobi shouted as a large, intense, stream of flamesflowed out of his mouth as it travelled towards the two dragon slayers. The slayers both sweatdropped at the fire raging towards them.
"Even I think that's a bit too much fire for Salamander." Gajeel gulped. "Have a nice time eatin' your fill Salamander! I'm outta 'ere!" Gajeel told Natsu before jumping off the dragonoid. The fire dragon slayer started mentally preparing himself for the flames he was about to devour, doubting himself on whether he could even eat all the flames.
"I can do this. I can do this. I can do this." Natsu kept repeating in his mind as the fire was now inches away from coming in contact with him. "I can do this. I can do this." The fire was now centimetres away. "I CAN'T DO THIS!" The son of the Fire Dragon King admitted loudly as the fire hit him. The distinct sound of flames being sucked up could be heard as the attack was slowly drawn towards the dragon slayer's mouth. Neither the attacker or the receiver of the attack let in, it was a battle of willpower. Natsu was reaching his limit as he could slowly be seen stumbling backwards as his stomach grew and grew. But Obito's stamina was also running on empty, he could drop dead of lack of oxygen any minute now. But in the end, it was the Uchiha who let out first as he viewed his test as complete. The pink-haired teen was applauded by the Sharingan wielder as Natsu had finally finished eating the flames. He let out a fire burp (literally) before fire escaped from every joint in her body.
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"That scientist insulted the pride and majesty of dragons." Natsu said to himself. "I'm gonna crush her good. And now that I just ate, I'm all fired up!" The fire mage grinned while putting his fist and palm together. He then jumped out of the core and fell feet first towards the ground. "Happy!" He called.
"Aye Sir!" His partner responded as Happy caught him from his freefall and flew him above the Dragonoid's head before dropping him.
"DAAAPPPHHNNEEEEEE!" Natsu angrily called out her name as he punched through the dragon's head into the control room. The dragon slayer's eyes were that of a dragon's itself, staring down its prey. "Go ahead, try and use one of those Hidden techniques! I'm gettin' more power as I speak! More than you can hide from with your magic." Natsu dared her as his demeanour and stance had a striking resemblance to a dragon.
"I finally met one…" Daphne thought as a stray tear escaped her eye.
"APOLOGISE TO IGNEEL YOU FOUR EYED BASTARD!" The mage demanded as fire engulfed his right hand. "FOR THIS IMPOSTOR DRAGON!" He finished punching Daphne with such force, the head disconnected itself from the neck and started falling to the floor. Fortunately for Daphne, this meant that her opponent couldn't land the finishing blow on her as the head was now considered as transportation.
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"Ugghhhh…" Natsu weakly groaned as he fell onto floor.
"Th-This is my chance!" Daphne grinned as she somehow managed to make herself towards the teenager without stumbling due to their falling. Daphne then stabbed two different needles into Natsu and four into herself. Just as she finished doing this, a sudden crash signalled that they had finally landed. The pink-haired fire mage groggily stood up on his two feet as he regained his energy back. "Unfortunately for you, Natsu Dragneel, this fight is over. I win and you lose." Daphne triumphantly told Salamander who didn't giving two flying poops to what the scientist informed him. Natsu instantly charged at Daphne as he was now fully recovered from his motion sickness and punched Daphne in the face, making her flying back into a wall as her glasses fell off due to the impact. But the scientist brushed the attack off like nothing happened. "Hai-Hai. Like I said, you can't win." But Natsu still didn't listen to Daphne and continuously punched and kicked her but soon his right hand went numb and limp and was unable to move.
"What the heck?" The Fairy Tail mage blurted out in surprise, stopping his attack for a second. But a second is all it takes for a match you were going to win into a complete loss. Flames engulfed Daphne's foot as she kicked Natsu on her numb arm causing extreme pain for the boy who crumpled to the floor.
"What did you do? Not only to me but to you!" The fire mage questioned her.
"A good scientist never reveals their plans." Daphne chuckled before her whole leg was covered in flames again. She then used said foot to kick Natsu out of the control room and to the outside surprising all the mages that were expecting Daphne to come out unconscious after taking a beating from their comrade. Natsu got up again but his right hand was pretty much pointless to the fight and added nothing to the fight at this point. "I guess you could say: 'I'm all fired up.'" Daphne mocked her enemy.
"Dragon-hating, ability-stealing scum like you don't deserve to say ANYTHING AT ALL!" The teen barked at her before preparing his breath attack.
"Karyū no (Roar Of The)…" Natsu began.
"Karyū no (Roaf Of The)…" Daphne also began preparing the same attack as Natsu.
"HŌKŌ (FIRE DRAGON)!" They simultaneously shoutedas both their attacks clashed but somehow, Daphne's roar overpowered Natsu's roar pushing Natsu back a bit.
"Hai-Hai-Hai. How many times do I have to tell you? You can't win. I'm so powerful right now that if I fractured a bone, I wouldn't feel a thing!" Daphne notified Natsu. "And with that failure of an arm that you currently have, there isn't anyway you can win."
"That Daphne has a valid point." The familiar voice of the Master informed the spectators of the fight.
"Master!" Most of the mages blurted out in surprise due to seeing their Master. "But that's only theoretically." The Wizard Saint added, hinting something. Everybody's attention turned back towards the ongoing fight between Natsu and Daphne. The scientist had been relentlessly attacking the slayer's limp arm ever since she got a chance to attack.
"Karyū no Tekken (Iron Fist Of The Fire Dragon)!" Natsu announced as he swung a sloppy left hook out of desperation, exposing his midsection. Unfortunately for the teenager, Daphne wasn't only a genius at inventing and creating new machinery. She landed a swift kick coated in flames on the vulnerable area which could've have broken Natsu's ribs if it had more speed and power to it. The kick made the Fire Mage stagger backwards out of punching distance as Daphne followed up with her own original move.
"Karyū no Furēmingutēru (Flaming Tail Of The Fire Dragon)!" The magic stealing wizard executed a picture-perfect Mawashi Geri (Spin Kick) with her feet smothered in flamesthat resembled that of a dragon swinging his or her own tail. As her foot crashed into Natsu's face, he could do nothing but take the hit and fall to the ground. However, the Magic Council's worst nightmare stood back up on his feet in a matter of seconds surprising Daphne.
"Looks like that last attack gave me a good idea. If she's really absorbed all properties to my Dragon Slaying Magic, that means…" Dragneel thought.
"You can't doze off in a battle!" The genius told Natsu as she went in for a quick jab but the dragon slayer's limp arm was suddenly back in action as he used it to deliver a rapid blow to Daphne's nose, giving her a nosebleed as a bonus. The scientist's nose was bent out of proportion and was obviously broken but as she said herself, she couldn't feel a thing. "H-How… is your am even working?!" Daphne questioned with widened eyes.
"All you did was put some messed up liquid in my arm, and all I did was burn it off." Salamander grinned. "And now I'm going to pay you back…" He told her while continuing to grin. "... one-hundred times over." He finished before charging towards Daphne at an unfathomable speed, landing a lightning-quick right hook, her face was driven into a sideway downwards from the force of the punch before her face was met by Natsu's flame coated left leg. The second attack made her stumble backwards with no guard as the attacker continued his attacks. He hit a barrage of punches enhanced with his Fire Dragon Slaying Magic thus creating fiery explosions everytime he punched her. His penultimate move in the combo was a flaming uppercut. "Metsuryū Ōgi: Guren Karyūken (Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Crimson Lotus: Fire Dragon's Fist)!" Natsu barked as he landed a destructive middle punch, straight on Daphne's ribs which were probably broken. The force knocked her all the way back to the control son of Igneel slowly walked over to the control room where the dragon-crazed fanatic was about to get up. Natsu grabbed her by the collar before vaguely saying: "I'll show you the true weakness of a dragon slayer…". He then dragged the scientist by her collar, she tried to fight back but in a few seconds, she had extreme motion sickness.
"I knew he would resort to this." Makarov sighed. "But that's a pretty smart move coming from someone like him." The sandaime admitted.
"Ughhhhh…" The sick combatant groaned as she was suffering from motion sickness. Once they both finally reached the others, Natsu stopped dragging her and allowed her to recover from the few minutes of hell she just experienced. The Fairy Tail mages slowly surrounded her with looks of hate in their eyes.
"We should give her in to the Magic Council." One person murmured.
"No, we should ban her from the whole continent itself." Another mumbled. This constant murmuring continued for a few minutes as the perpetrator had recovered.
"ENOUGH!" The Master ordered making everybody's conversation come to a close. "She shall not be handed to the Magic Council for her crimes nor is she being deported from the continent of Fiore. She shall be taken in as a Fairy Tail Mage."
"But-"
"My decision is final!" Makarov boomed at the mages who quivered in fear upon hearing his loud voice. "Of course, she will be taking the appropriate punishment, which I can't think of at the moment." The elderly man added. Gray then walked up to his Master and whispered something into his ear. Makarov's serious face suddenly turned into that of a perverse one before blood flowed out of his nose like it was a waterfall. As Gray finished up his idea, Makarov suddenly shot into the air, his blood carrying high up into the night sky before all the mages could see was a twinkle in the distance.
"Looks like the master is flying off… again." Gray sighed as they turned their attention back towards Daphne. The raven-haired teen stuck his hand out for the scientist to help her up from the ground. Daphne started crying at the sight of this.
"Friends… Real friends…" Daphne thought as tears kept streaming out of her eyes as she was pulled up by Gray, her newfound crush.
"Another love rival contesting for Gray-sama's love?!" Juvia thought as she stared down Daphne.
And that's all for this chapter! I managed to get it to 6k in the end so that's all good. Easter break is soon so the chapters will probably be more frequent, plus I don't have any tests in the next coming weeks! But I may start Taekwondo so Mondays will NEVER be the day I'll update a chapter.
Edited- 02/05/2016: Removed All Mentions Of Kamui