Author's note: Hello! I got some action for ya today, so enjoy!

Also I do not own Fairy Tail.

Chapter Nine - Attack on the Fairies!

Cannons fired and water splashed everywhere as both corsair ships slowly sailed towards one another. The impending skirmish left the crew of the Magnolia scared but ready to fight. The wind originally favored the Fairies, but after a recent turn the westerlies to the starboard side were now favoring the approaching pirates to the west.

Wakaba tried to keep the wheel steady, but dodging each cannon shot was no easy matter. Macao did his best to prepare the entire crew, however, his voice could only travel so far.

"ERZA! YOU GOT THE LOWER DECK! I'LL KEEP WATCH UP HERE!" He shouted from the captain's perch atop the stern castle to one of his most valiant warriors.

"I hear you loud and clear, Macao!" Erza grinned and looked to her scrambling crew. "LISTEN UP!" Prepare your arms and load the guns, starboard side!"

The rowdy bunch of fairy pirates shouted with pride and prepared for the ensuing battle.

"OH YEA! TIME TA MAN UP!" One very tall pirate with pure white hair and brawny arms grabbed two cannon balls and ran down to the lower deck. He and the others were prepping the right side of the ship for the fight ahead, while Erza stayed up top to watch the approaching enemy.

Gajeel wondered around with a humorous grin on his face as he smiled to all the fearful fairies. "Look at these morons. I bet they've never even seen a battle." He continued laughing until his eyes met two of the crew members that he brought on board himself.

"OKAY!" Natsu yelled with a fist in the air and another on his belly. "IT'S TIME TA…oh…oh man I can't do this."

Natsu fell for the ground, but his scrawny best friend Lucy reached out and barely grabbed him.

"NATSU! Oh no, you can't fight like this!" She did a double take looking at the approaching ship and sighed. "Great…he's going to get captured since he's a commander."

That caught Gajeel's ear and made him roll his eyes. "AGH! Blondie, you're comin' with me!" He picked up Lucy and slung her over his shoulder, and followed up by grabbing Natsu's collar and began dragging them into the stern castle.

"I COULD HAVE JUST FOLLOWED YOU, JERK!" Lucy smashed her fists into his back and kicked her feet in the air as Gajeel tried to dodge her boots.

He finally found the doors to Macao Conbolt's office and slammed the doors open. "Alright you two kiddies need to stay in here until the fight is over." He then tossed Lucy a canteen of water.

"Here. And if you hear us start to lose the fight you don't open that door for anyone. Judging by those navy boys we found earlier. I bet there's a pretty penny on both your heads." He slammed the door and left Lucy holding on to a very sickly Natsu.

"Great…well hopefully they can win?"

Gajeel barely made two steps before he finally felt the first enemy shot to hit the Magnolia. He held a hand on the wall to keep his balance and then began to run out to the deck, where he found the enemy ship parallel with their own, and Erza raising one sword in the air.

"…FIRE!"

Erza lowered her weapon and then the sound of a dozen cannons shot off as metal and wooden shrapnel scattered the air with dust and fire.

Gajeel slid down to the railing to protect his face, and then turned to Erza.

"Expect them to board soon." She commanded, and then spun her cutlass around in a preparatory manor.

Gajeel nodded, but didn't move as he kept a hand on his sword.

After several shots, screams, and deaths, the number of abled body cannons was shrinking on both sides. Smoke was quickly filling the air, and Magnolia crew members tried to keep the sails and wood from catching on fire.

Gajeel could here Macao shouting out to his men to keep up the fire, until he heard a new cry for help.

"THEY'RE SWINGIN' OVER!"

The blacksmith's red eyes snapped over to his own crew, who jumped off half the cannons and drew their blades. Then several ropes swung into view as dozens of enemy pirates landed on the deck and lashed out at all the fairies.

"ON YOUR FEET!" Erza shouted as she stabbed one enemy, stole his sword and continued to fight with duel-wielding weapons as a larger swarm entered the fray.

Then, one man landed right in front of Gajeel, but didn't notice him hiding in a crouched position. Gajeel took out his sword and slashed the back of the pirate's legs and shoved him over. He then stood up and ran to help Erza.

"DUCK!" He shouted as a bullet sailed right passed their heads and sadly hit a fairy in the back of the shoulder. Erza nodded, swung around, and dug her blade inside the enemy's pectoral.

As Erza and Gajeel were leading crowd control down below, Gray, Macao, Wakaba, and even Cana had all found arms and began combating a response team from the antagonist ship that looked to take out their pilot pit.

Cana slammed her blade in defense of a quick attack, and knocked her rival away as another was sailing in on a rope, but lucky for her Gray took a dagger from his opponent and threw it right for the swinging man, who screamed with fear as his rope broke loose and he began flying over the side.

Macao did a fair job at slaying his invaders, but looked down at the main deck to find a plank being applied by the opposing pirates to bridge the gap even better from invasion.

He then froze as he recognized a set of commander walking over to his ship.

"Great…it's the Seis."

Fairies tried to pry the board off their railing in order to flip the pirates into the sea, but the first one quickly ran in and slashed two fairy necks and then flipped into the battle field. He had a black and white coat and spiky blonde hair, and he also wore a strange pair of dark glasses as he pierced through the deck.

"These fools have nothing compared to my quick reflexes. I'll tear them to pieces."

Then, a man with an all-white cloak and dark red hair gave him a grin. He had a scar over his right eye, which kept it shut from sight.

"Hold on Sawyer. Hold your damn horses. We have plenty of fairies who need their wings plucked, but they ain't our target."

Then, behind him followed a very beautiful girl pirate with a white blouse, tight blue pants and matching boots. Here hair was snow white and her eyes were a gorgeous shade of navy blue.

"Oh Erik, let him have some fun." She smiled as she threw a dagger through the heart of an oncoming fairy. "After all I haven't had this much fun with a ship raid in ages!"

She jumped off the plank and onto the deck after Erik, and behind her emerged a much taller man who barely fit on the plank. He had a long black shirt with red pants, black shoes with long white socks, and long flowing orange hair that sat under a tri-fold black hat.

"Oh come now we can't kill them all! I imagine we can sell the survivors as slaves, they'll bring us loads of money! Oh Yea!"

Erik rolled his eyes. "Richard shut up. We don't have time to run their asses to some slave port. We got orders from those Phantom duds to get them their prize. Only problem is we don't know who to grab."

"Exactly! Which is why we can grab them all!" The girl smiled again and threw several bombs on the sturdy deck. The tiny explosions didn't really burst any holes, but they did scare and in some cases injure many of the scattering fairies left in the fight.

Erza caught this and ran to confront the enemy commanders. She went to lice Angel right up ide the head, but Eric pulled out a quick blade and blocked her shot. He then swung low and cut her on the top of her right thigh, causing her to scream in pain and fail to notice Eric slamming his fist into her chest.

The pirate queen fell to the ground and tried to collect herself, but then Cobra drew his sword and held the point up to her neck.

"Ha! Sorano this bitch almost took you out. Lucky for you I was right…" He was in the middle of talking to his female companion until he started to look more closely at his now weakened opponent.

"No way…of all the little Fairies we actually found Titania." He grinned and looked to Sorano. "Go tell Brain once we've secured the deck. We're gonna want some answers from this one."

Sorano nodded, but as she went to walk back a crossed the plank a sword flew through the air and landed right on the plank in front of her.

The four Seis pirates looked up to find Gajeel scowling back at them with two more blades in his hands.

"You creeps can run back to your little captain once I'm through with ya. That is…if you're still in one piece."

Sorano stepped forward but once again Erik beat her to it. "Get Titania and the other injured over to our ship. We'll start excavating the ship once I'm through killing this fool."

"Agh great…" Gajeel thought to himself. "These clowns are gonna find Blondie and her boy toy hiding. Guess I can't let them do that." He then smiled and stepped forward. "Look pal I ain't like these prissy little pixies. I'd watch your step facing me."

Erik smiled and pulled out a short but jagged dagger and reverse it in his left hand. He then began to slowly walk in a circle with Gajeel. "You're a proud guy, aren't ya? Well even if you're not actually with the Fairies…at least you'll die like one."

He then lunged forward and clashed his blade with Gajeel's. Then the swift evil pirate brought his left dagger and tried to cut Gajeel's stomach open, but the blacksmith was able to fit his second sword into the middle and deflect the blow. Hit after hit Gajeel and Erik shared blows and parries until Gajeel backed into the tall railing to the left.

Not noticing his footing, he turned his head slightly and barely caught eye with Erik's sword. Sadly this did not protect his exposed side from the jagged dagger coming for his arm.

The blade broke skin and left a nice, sizable gash in his shoulder, making the tall black smith yell in pain, but also sent Erik across the deck in one powerful kick.

Then, as he tried to wipe away the blood, his vison became slightly blurry, and all of a sudden his arms and legs began to feel wobbly.

"Agh…you poisoned your blade?" He asked with coughs in his voice.

Erik laughed after standing up. "Yea, and judging by that gash I'd say you'll be dead in ten minutes or so."

Gajeel fell to his knees and dropped his weapons as he looked Erik in the eye.

"You fucking cheat."

Then, he fell over in a blackout and slammed into the deck, leaving Eric to howl with laughter and the other Seis members to collect their prisoners and bounty for haul.

Now we re-emerge later that day and into the night; right aboard the Phantom Lord's ship, where a ghastly moon rises over the night time sea, and Levy McGarden finds herself dining with the fearsome crew leader of her captors.

Jose Porla sits at the foot of a very long table with Levy on one side, and along the table was a wonderful spread of delicious food and beverages, most notably a very tall bottle of wine.

Jose smiled and grabbed himself a cup. "I'm normally not much of a drinker, but a night like this allows me to break a few rules." He then slid the bottle over to his guest. "Would you like some? It comes in all the way from Minstrel. The finest red in all the seas."

Levy kept her eyes low to the ground and never responded, prompting Jose to roll his eyes and pour her a glass anyway.

"Come now, my dear. I have no reason to poison you. I wouldn't have captured you in the first place…and trust me the alcohol will help you through the trip."

Levy bit her tongue and reached over to grab her new glass. She then looked to the rest of the table, which looked a lot like a typical meal she would be serving for Jude and Lucy…had she not been captured.

However, Levy decided to continue the discussion. "You have no reason to capture me either…but you did it anyway. I'm not royalty, I'm not wealthy, and I'm not in the military. I'm just a servant for Jude Heartfilia."

Jose smiled. "Yes I am aware of that. And trust me, I have no interest in your client or his partners either. I am just interested in you…and for that matter who you really are?"

Levy remained silent as Jose rolled his eyes and pulled out her black locket. "Where did you get this?"

Her eyes widened to twice their size, and her heart started to race as she recognized the locket given to her by Gajeel. She thought someone stole it after being captured, but now she was sure.

Jose twirled it around his hand. "You see, I lost a locket that looks exactly like this roughly seven years ago. Truth be told it's not actually mine, but when the owner died he handed it down to the wrong person…and that person escaped my grasp seven years ago as well."

Levy's lip began to quiver as she tried to remain silent. "W-what do you want with me?"

Jose set the locket down and looked her in the eye. "I want to know why you have the locket of my former first mate. His name was Metalicana. He died seven years ago and gave this to his son…and that son lives in the same town you did."

Jose stood up. "You see, I know you saw that little ritual I performed earlier today, and this little locket will help me explain it. The problem is I need my old first mate to help me use it, and his familial blood is now running through your friend…"

"Gajeel." Levy had a growl in her voice has she glared at Jose.

That made him laugh. "Ha, yes. Him exactly. Ol' Gajeel was one of my best little helpers. Always doing what I asked of him. Then his father died and the little rat treated me like a stranger. He treated us all like monsters…but enough of that. I need the blood of Metalicana, who is now dead…but there is a catch."

Levy now shifted her wait on her seat in discomfort as Jose explained.

"You see Metalicana and I did some nasty things with a secret treasure almost ten years ago, and to keep me from boring you I'll just say I need both our blood to help me out of a grind. Gajeel's will work, but before he died, Metalicana said he had another family member planning a trip down to Hargeon. Said they would be riding on a royal ship."

Jose then walked over and looked Levy in the eye. "How do I make sure you're not that missing relative? Gajeel was an only child, so I know you can't be a sibling. A cousin? Granddaughter? No you're far too old…a niece perhaps?"

Levy looked away as her cheeks began to fill with read. "I-I'm sorry, but I'm not…"

Jose raised an eye and then started to grin. "Oh? Maybe you aren't the missing relative…but it does appear you have a relationship with Gajeel? Otherwise how would you explain his locket being in your possession?"

Levy had no answer and let a tiny tear fall down the eye away from Jose.

The evil captain took the silence as his cue and began to howl with laughter. "Oh this is wonderful! You two are romantically involved!"

"NO WE AREN'T!" Levy was half embarrassed by his statement, but she also had a good idea where Jose was going next, and she didn't like it.

Either way Jose grabbed the locket. "Normally I'd agree with you, after all I don't see Gajeel as the romantic type…but how else would you explain this?"

Levy and Jose continued to stare at one another in a bout of silence. Then, Lily barged through the door.

"Sir…the Seis ship has been spotted. It's headed our way."

Jose smiled and raised a glass of wine right in front of Levy.

"Oh splendid! Why don't you and I ask him together?"

So the Seis make an entrance...I decided to keep their birth names for the story. I like it that way, haha.

Also an interesting little conversation between Jose and Levy. Hopefully he eventually explains why he needs the locket.

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