Author's Note:
Here's Chapter Five!
Not really sure on how this would turn out for all of you since I'm fairly new in this kind of writing, though I really did try.. xD
Well, as said in the previous chapter, here's some Natsu for all of you! xD .
Though I would really have wanted some Laxus here too, he'll have to wait.. :3
Thank you all for your reviews and continuous support! ^_^ Hope you enjoy this!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Fairy Tail characters, they all belong to the awesome Hiro Mashima. :)
Warning: This Fanfiction is Rated M for a reason. Though I do not have anything solidly planned, there will be violence, implied rape and lemons soon in the story.
NATSU'S POV
It's been more than a week since the team and I came on the mission to search for and take down a dark guild. When we took it, it seemed fairly simple enough. According to the job request, the guild wasn't that big and neither are there a lot of people that seemed to be members of it. Combining all the information we had from our client, the townspeople and the travellers, we had sufficient information and all that was left was tracking down the said guild, but in only a few hours, that matter had been solved. The guild's name was Fear Pythios and more than a dark guild, it was an assassination guild and specialized in torture. The members numbered to fifteen according to some people they considered resources and among the three of us, we were pretty sure that we could take them down pretty easily. Why three? I wasn't about to let Lisanna and Happy fight of course! How much of an idiot would I be if I let them fight? Lisanna had already been in enough danger as it was in looking for information and I couldn't very well face Mira if something were to happen to the youngest Strauss. I shook my head as if doing so would take my mind off of things. I should only think of fighting first as in only a few minutes, we would be reaching the guild hall of Fear Pythios.
The mission had originally been for three weeks for us to accomplish, but since among Lisanna and Erza, they were quite persuasive in getting the information needed thus, we were almost two weeks early in nearing to complete the said mission. "Are we there yet?" I asked to break the silence between the team that I was already getting uncomfortable with. "Shut up, Flame Brain. What part of sneaking and keeping quiet do you not understand?" Gray asked me in whispers, his tone implying that he was clearly annoyed. Both of us had been itching for a fight since day one but since Erza had threatened to cut off specific body parts, which I know that she would not have any trouble doing, me and Gray had tried to not use magic. She claims that it attracts too much unwanted attention that may sabotage the mission. It was seriously hard and since Laxus had ticked me off just before we left for the mission, I've had a lot of pent up anger and energy in me. I tried to retort but Erza glared at both of us. "If you two don't shut up right now, I swear I'll do something about you two. I just want to get this over with and spend time with Lucy," Erza whispered before trudging on silently towards the location of the guild.
"That's right. Lucy. We're doing this for Lucy," I thought and remembered the certain blonde that wasn't with us. I had been thinking of her at night before I go to sleep, wondering if she was alright and if she had gotten back yet, if she's eating properly, if she's safe. Tons of thoughts about her would enter my mind every time that I was settling down for slumber and before I would have a nightmare of someone close to me getting hurt. I have no idea who it was, but I could hear evil laughter that would send shivers down my spine. I would smell salty tears and see two silhouettes in which one was clearly hurting the other but nothing else aside from that. I knew it was nakama, because whenever the other was getting hurt, my heart would clench painfully in my chest. So, every time when I wake up, I always check to see if Lisanna was alright. Besides, it can't be anyone but her, right? Erza's just too strong to be hurt that way, Lucy had her spirits to protect her and she was a strong mage in her own right and everyone else was safe in the guild. Lisanna was the most vulnerable. She had to be the one in my dream. I can't be wrong about this. Thoughts were cut short when the team had suddenly stopped walking and I crouched low in the ground like all the others. I looked through and I saw something that looked like a shed and it was only the size of a two story house that could fit in an extended family. The front door says it all though, a picture of a serpent. Fear Pythios.
"Alright, here's what we're going to do. According to our resources, they've got no master, which makes them an unofficial guild already, but they've got two stronger members in there and that will be your job to handle Natsu and Gray. Lisanna, Happy, both of you will stay out here to make sure that no one escapes. If anyone does, it'll be your job to either take them down or intercept them until one of us can help. The rest of the members are my responsibility," Erza whispered her orders and without second thought the three of us stormed the guild. It was obvious that each of them were taken by surprise. A quick head count had made me know that there were 16 members all in all and that we could take them on just fine. We didn't waste any time. Both Gray and I sped through each member, assessing their magic and Erza took on each and every one without delay.
After a mere moment though, out of nowhere, shards of glass rained upon me and Gray and both of us barely managed to dodge it. As my eyes scanned through the crowd, on the second floor stood twins, both of which are female. One had long black hair and the other had short hair with the colour of luscious brown. "It's them. The brunette's mine," Gray said and both of us immediately leapt to the air. We both wasted no time and I decided to completely ignore Gray's fight.
In an instant I tried to land a punch on the girl with the black hair but she instantly dodged and from her hands, she tried to spray liquid at me in which I guessed was her magic. A drop of liquid had touched my hand and I couldn't help but yell, "Fuck!" "It's hot, isn't it? Acid Magic is quite lethal you know. Too bad it's only a drop," the girl said with a smirk and so I launched myself at her. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" I attacked and I hoped that did the job, but it didn't. The girl wasn't taken out, but it did have an effect on her. "Rain of Acid!" the girl said and suddenly drops of liquid were falling too close to me, my instincts kicked in and fire was instantly on my feet, easily taking me from the acid. The drops were coming in too fast, and I could have sworn that some had dropped on my legs, though I chose to ignore the pain for now. Dodging drops were hard and it couldn't be helped that they had already dropped on my arms and legs and shoulders and one or two managed to get on my face. But when I caught a glimpse on the girl, I could see that she was straining to keep this up and was already panting and had one eye closed. Without second thought, I launched myself at her and successfully punched her in the gut. After that were consecutive punches and kicks that she barely dodged. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" I tried against this time within a mere two feet from her and that did the job. In moments, she was on the floor, unconscious and beaten but breathing.
I looked to see that Erza was just finishing with her last mage and Gray was already tying up his opponent. I then dragged my unconscious opponent towards him so he could tie her up as well. When I took a look at him, I could see him cut in several places and bleeding though there was none that was particularly deep that needed severe medical attention. When he caught me looking at him, he just shrugged, "Glass Magic. Yours?" he asked and when I looked at my skin, I could see a couple of burns and welts on my skin where the acid dropped on me. "Acid Magic." I said as Erza had approached us both together with Lisanna and Happy who had a conscious mage with them. "We managed to catch this one, Natsu!" Happy beamed with pride and I grinned at him acknowledging his success. "This isn't the end, Fairy Tail," the conscious mage said before Erza apparently bonked him in the head rendering him unconscious. Gray and I merely laughed at this and Lisanna and Erza smiled and grinned amongst themselves.
"Well, now that we're done. Let's get them to the authorities and head back home," Erza said and Happy smiled triumphantly, "Aye!" And then, we tolled out every member before burning down their now destroyed guild hall. As we walked back, I couldn't help but be excited at the thought that I would see Lucy again. It had been so long since I last spent time with her and I just couldn't help but be excited about it.
THIRD PERSON POV
In only ten minutes of walking, Lucy and Loke had been taken into what seemed to be a guild hall. The building was as big as Fairy Tail's original building and had the picture of a serpent etched into the entrance. "Welcome to our guild, Babe. Fear Pythios," Rick whispered into Lucy's ears as he kept his hold on her, the knife never leaving her throat. Lucy had been nothing but obedient throughout the whole journey thanks to the man's threats of making their lives a living hell. Lucy certainly didn't want that, and even more so that Loke was with her. Though she knew that when they kill him, he would only be sent to the Spirit World, the thought of seeing him with a knife sticking out his body would give her nightmares, just like how her other spirits were currently giving her nightmares. The ever gentle Aries and Virgo and the protective Taurus and Capricorn having a knife sticking out of their bodies were killing her inside as the images continued to haunt her. She could always force close Loke's gate, but currently, she had almost no strength to stand and if it weren't for the thin man constantly pushing her and dragging her, she would still be on the forest floor.
Thoughts were cut short when she had suddenly been thrown into the floor, Loke landing right beside her. She instantly made quick work of the ropes tying his hands together when she noticed that they had been tied too tightly. He winced when the ropes of were finally off and Lucy instantly threw herself at him, sobbing as he held her in his arms and he glared at the mages now surrounding them. He knew that he couldn't do anything since he had strained himself in the previous fight and he couldn't very well take down a whole guild without any help, and he also had Lucy to worry about. The female spoke to a man who was younger than Master Makarov by a few years as it seemed. "Master Frank, the target has been captured and I already sent Rick to talk to the client," the woman spoke and the older man nodded his head in agreement as he looked straight at the girl cradled in the lion's arms. Loke glared at him and he only smirked. "That's good, Rena. Who's that though?" the man asked as he looked directly at Loke and the woman named Rena answered with a shrug, "Oh, that. The girl's Celestial Spirit. She's been behaving thanks to him so we might as well keep him unless the client decides to kill the girl," Rena said before heading down and Loke's eyes widened in fear at the realization of it all. They were planning to kill Lucy and he couldn't even do anything to protect her. As the woman approached them, she took a glance at them and was just about to bark out orders when someone shouted.
"The branch in Cathea! They are being attacked!" a girl about the same age as Wendy shouted and all of a sudden the Master was releasing a dark aura that showed off that he was powerful indeed. "WHAT?!" the old man shouted, his voice echoing within the guild and the girl unfazed by this continued speaking, her two fingers in her temple, "Three wizards stormed in. A man with dark hair and no clothes, a man with pink hair and a female with red hair and wearing armour," the girl kept on speaking and it could be seen that the master could barely control his anger. And suddenly the girl fell unconscious and after a couple of seconds, instantly regained consciousness. "I… I'm sorry, Father. We lost connection. I shall try again," the girl stuttered out and once again put her index and middle finger on her temple and concentrated and after a few minutes. "They had back up. A white-haired mage and a flying cat. They're part of a legal guild," the girl calmly said and then it was Rena who spoke in anger. "Which guild is it?!" the woman spoke through clenched teeth whilst her fist were balled at her sides. "Fairy Tail," the girl said before letting her arms drop to her sides which meant she was done.
Rena's eyes pierced through Loke's body and if glares could kill, he would certainly be dead and not back in the Spirit World. In another second, Lucy was pulled away from him and he struggled fiercely but they were too many and Lucy was still too weak to fight back. Rena grabbed a hold of Lucy's blonde hair and pulled her to stand up. The blonde had her eyes shut from the pain, while the woman spoke in venomous tones, "So, it was your guild that destroyed a part of ours, huh? You're in for a hell of pain, Blondie. You just wait till the client was done with you and it'll be our guild that deals with you," she seethed and all of a sudden, Lucy screamed. The woman let go of her hair and the blonde was left as a screaming, writhing and trembling pile on the floor. Loke struggled to get free to go to her but he was just held tighter as he was forced to watch and listen to her agonizing screams. "No! Please! Stop! That's enough! Stop!" Loke plead and no matter how many times he did, Lucy didn't stop until after five minutes. She was shaking and crying and this time, he was allowed to go to her. As soon as she saw Loke, she scrambled to get to him and he allowed her to seek comfort in his arms. He held her trembling and sobbing form, as he glared at Rena and the master both of which were smirking. "What did you do to her?" he asked with as much defiance and the master himself spoke. "She just had a taste of my magic and saw whatever could happen to her right here in this very building and even right here on this very hall," the master replied calmly with a smirk gracing his features. "Fear Magic, my boy, is very useful in torture which is one of the specializations of our guild. Well, aside from assassination that is," the old man chuckled and Loke only held Lucy's form tighter as she continued to sob.
"Welcome to Fear Pythios, Lucy Heartfilia and Leo the Lion," Rena spoke before both Loke and Lucy were dragged away from the guild hall.
Replies To Some Reviews:
Schlecka: Well, here you go! xD Hope you enjoyed this one... :)
Paname: No need to worry about that... ;) I update as soon as I have written the chapter and I am enjoying this too much.. xD
millervaleriecamille: I'm glad you like that I'm taking relationship progress a bit slowly.. ^_^ I did want to make it as realistic as possible and as close to in-character personality as possible as well.. :)
Erzatscarlett: Sorry that there aren't any Laxus here yet! xD Though he will show up again soon I promise you that.. ;)
Anonymous: Nope, you're not dreaming at all! xD And I love you too! :D . I was actually having trouble on how to write Laxus but I'm absolutely ecstatic to know that you like how it turned out enough to make you melt!
Well, this one's totally new for me since I'm not used to writing up fight scenes, though I used to roleplay them before. xD.
Soooo, did you like it?! :D .. Let me know, okay? ^_^ I love reading your reviews no matter how short or how long it is!
Any thoughts on Natsu? What do you think Lucy saw? And most importantly, what do you think will happen to Loke and Lucy?
Mostly Lucy on the next chapter, though if I can, I'll try to give you guys a glimpse on Laxus.. ;) :D
See you all in the next update!