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"You know, now that I am the one carrying him I realize that I have been taking his ability to fly for granted." Wendy said as they reached Magnolia Town after four days of walking by foot. They were extremely careful with Naruto, making sure not to jostle him at all. He was laying down on a long white stretcher they had got from the last town. He had a white sheet rested over his body to provide some protection from the sun as well. Even the slightest mistake would end up hurting Naruto just a little bit more.
Like Wendy said, every single muscle in his body was torn up from the fight. It made them feel kind of bad when Wendy told them that it looked like it was all their magic that wrecked his body. Naruto it would seem, had a body that rejected being enhanced by magic. He could use magic just fine, but he couldn't increase his speed and power without destroying his own body slowly.
"I wish I could fly right now." Joey said as he looked up at the sky, and Mickey sighed in frustration when he bumped into a tree an knocked himself on his ass. Wendy giggled lightly at the two of them, while they walked through the streets of Magnolia. People whispered and bowed to them as they passed, and it was then that they realized they looked like they were carrying a person that had died.
"It would be really helpful to have Juvia here, she would scare the hell out of these people for thinking her Naruto-sama was dead." Mickey said in a mocking tone. Juvia and Ichiya had been forced to go back to their guilds right after the mission by their respective guild masters previous orders. Joey chuckled when he ictured Juvia giving people creepy glares at the thought of her Naruto-sama dying.
'Naruto...' Wendy thought as she reached under the sheet and touched his hand with her own, while trying to to disturb him. He had been much closer to death than Wendy had told everyone. If he had been fighting in the state he was in for even a minute longer he truly would have lost his life in that fight. How the pain he must have been feeling was ignored, she would have never known. They didn't even see most of the fight because of how high up in the sky it was, but they did see when Naruto was forced to use brains instead of brawn to trick the dragon into nearly killing itself by cruching the dragon under it's own weight and power.
It hurt her deeply to know that it was her own magic that did most of this damage to his body, and she thinks that it might have something to do with him being a Fanalis even though she wasn't sure. Nearly every fiber in his body had been stressed or torn thanks to her boost in power she gave him, and knowing that it was HER magic that nearly put him to death hurt her more than she would ever admit.
"What the hell happened!?" Mickey shouted as she and Joey noticed the condition on Fairy Tail, and all the people working on rebuilding it. Her answer came in the form of Mirajane coming forward with a smile on her face.
"Hello Wendy-chan, and welcome back Mickey-chan and Joey-kun. A few days ago there was a small guild war between us and Phantom Lord. Everything has been taken care of, but can I take it you failed the 100 year mission?" Mirajane asked, and Mickey puffed her chest out in pride. Mirajane blinked a few times when she took in that sense of pride, and her eyes widened slightly.
"We completed the mission Mira-chan! Bring on the fame and glory, because we even saw a dragon!" Mickey yelled with a grin on her face, and her shout attracted the attention of Natsu as he carried a stack of wood towards Erza and Gray. They both rushed along with him when they saw him run towards the group with excitement.
"You guys saw a dragon!? Where?! Was it Igneel!?" Natsu asked hius questions without stopping, and Wendy suddenly remembered that like her Natsu was Dragon Slayer that lost his dragon parent to abandonment. She felt a brief stab of pity for him, before Joey spoke up to Natsu.
"Sorry Natsu, but the dragon's name was Titus... and I don't think you will be able to question it about Igneel." Joey said qwith a grimace, while Erza finally took notice of the body being carried by Mickey and Joey on a strecher. Her eyes widened in horror when she guessed who was under that sheet, and with the appearance of a dragon she dared not to think about what might have happened to her apprentice.
"Why, where is he?" Natsu asked with an annyed curiousity, and Wendy was the one the chirbed up about it. She could see that neither Joey or Mickey wanted to tell Natsu that the dragon had been killed.
"Titus was killed Natsu-san." Wendy admitted, and all those in hearing distance of her were shocked that a freaking dragon was killed. Erza stepped forward and put her hand on Wendy's shoulder with nearly bone crushing force, and her other hand shook slightly in fear of the question she had to ask.
"Where is Naruto-kun?" Erza asked, and Gray blinked when he looked at Erza. He wondered why she was wondering where he was, before he noticed the short stretcher being carried by Joey and Mickey.
"How was the dragon killed? Did he say anything about the other dragons?" Natsu started to ask, before Erza punched him on the top of the head in annoyance. Here she was, trying to learn the fate of her student, and he was interupting Wendy from telling her. Gray walked over to the sheet, and he moved the white blanket away from the body under it. Erza's eyes widened when she saw the pale, and unmoving Naruto wreathed in bandages.
"No..." Era whispered gently, before Mickey grinned at them all.
"This tough little bastard was the one that killed the dragon. He is freaking lucky to still be alive right now." Mickey said with a grin, and Erza sighed in relief. Natsu ran towards Naruto on the stretcher, and grabbed him by the shoulders and started to shake him.
"Now I HAVE to fight you! Hurry and wake up so we can fight!" Natsu shouted with a grin on his face, before he felt three attacks crash into his body. The first came from an anrgy Erza who punched him in the head. The second came from an angry Gray, who nailed him in the gut. The last actually came from a PISSED Wendy, and she kicked him right between the legs. She even channeled magic to make the blow hurt that much worse, and the effect was instant. Natsu was down for the count, while Erza looked at Wendy with a raised eyerbow. Wneyd had a really pissed look on her face, before it vanished when she realized she had just kicked Natsu in the balls.
As if sensing this, Naruto chuckled very lightly.
"... Are you awake?" Gray asked when he heard Naruto chuckle, and his answer was silence for awhile as everyone stared at Naruto.
"... No?" Naruto answered, and everyone now sweat dropped at him. The fact he answered was enough proof that he was awake. Erza imediantly stomped over to his side and glared down at him for worrying her.
"What do you have to say for yourself young man!?" Erza said loudly, and Mirajane in the backgrounf giggled at how Erza was sounding like a mother just then. Now that Naruto's hair was a crimson red, the connections between them were starting to look more like a family than before. Naruto opened his crimson eyes and stared up at Erza without moving his body, mostly because he was in SO much pain right now. Seriously, it felt like every fiber in his body was on fire and somebody had poured lava in his veins.
'Is she his mom?' Gray, Mirajane, Mickey, and Joey all thought in unison as they walked the seen. Joey and Kickey wanted to back away, but they were currently holding Naruto up so they were going to have to stay close sadly.
"I say that I have never had a more fun fight in my life!" Naruto said with a grin, before he was slapped across the face by Wendy and his vision went white for a second from the pain of being touched. Wendy glared down at him from next to Erza, and tears gathered at the corners of her eyes.
"You nearly lost your life in that 'fight' and you call it fun!" Wendy said with a hard look in her eyes that made Naruto grin behind his bandages. He tried to lift himself up, before the pain forced him back down.
"Wendy, of course that fight was fun. I was defending my friends with my life. I would die for my friends, and with a smile on my face. If that dragon had won, you guys would have been killed. The fact that I was the one defending you guys made it that much more important for me to win." Naruto said with an eye smile to let those around him see his emotion. Wendy sighed in annoyance, but relented. Naruto was the type that would die of boredom if he wasn't fighting something powerful. She just wished that he would place some more value in his own life, because he seemed to not care if he lived or died.
*Clang*
"Arrg!" Naruto shouted when Erza knocked him on the head next as she glared down at him, before her eyes softened and she affectionately ran a hand through his red hair. She was going to ask about that, but not right now. That knock on the head was just her way of starting his punishment.
"Your punishment for risking your life is going to be severe, I can promise you that Naruto-kun. If you ever do something that puts you in this condition again, I am going to give you the most boring punishment I can think of." Erza said in her usual strict tone of voice, before Joey and Mickey carried Naruto over to one of the nearby medical tents to get his healing further along. With them gone, Natsu jumped back up to his feet with fire coming out of his mouth.
"I'm totally fired up now! Fight me Gray!" Natsu said as he gave Gray a sucker punch that knocked him into a pile of wood, before he charged into it. Erza was about to go stop it, before she felt Wendy pull on her skirt lightly.
"Yes Wendy?" Erza asked with a raised eyebrow, and Wendy gulped lightly before deciding to ask her question.
"Do you know what a Fanalis is?" Wendy questioned with some hope in her voice, and Erza thought about it for a second before nodding lightly.
"Yes, while rare these days, Fanalis are non-human humanoid beings that hail from a hunting tribe outside of Fiore. Fanalis are beings that hold physical strength far surpassing what humans can do. They can jump to amazing heights, and can break through metal with ease. Their kicks are like lightning, and they have the power to take down strong opponents with a single blow. The true form of a Fanalis is unknown to humans at this point, since none have lived to tell the tale of seeing it." Erza said, and Wendy was impressed before she sweat dropped when she saw Erza reading it out of a book with the title 'Magical Creatures'. Erza looked at Wendy, before she continued to read from the book. "It is known however that because of their bodies they have a low resistance to magic, and using it or having it used on them will usually leave them close to death or dead. It has been reported that a Fanalis can use magic, so long as they don't use it to make themselves stronger physically." Erza explained with an interested look, and Wendy tried tp push further.
"Are their any signs that can point to a person being a Fanalis?" Wendy asked, and Erza turned few a few pages in the book before nodding.
"Nearly all Fanalis can be identified by these traits. Red hair and red eyes, enhances speed, strength, and senses, low resistance to magical enhancement, and the ability toe produce what has been labled a 'Battle Cry'. This Battle Cry sounds like a mixture of a human voice, and a metalic high picthed bell noise... Why the interest in Fanalis Wendy?" Erza asked, before she palmed her own face with her armored hand for not realizing it the second she started to read.
Naruto was a Fanalis.
"Titus-san called Naruto as Fanalis, and I wanted to know what they were. Thank you so much for the information." Wendy said, and she was about to go help Naruto heal, before Erza's iron grip touched her shoulder again. Wendy looked behind her, and almost squeaked in terror when she saw Erza's face close to her.
"Now you are going to answer my questions... Tell me EVERYTHING that happened on your mission." Erza demanded, and Wendy gulped.
Today was going to be a long day.
Chapter End.
Naruto did NOT overpower the dragon. He used the weight and power of the dragon against it, and his smaller size helped him. Naruto was also having his own power enhanced by a Dragon Slayer Spell (Times 5) , his own magic (Times 2), his newly increased Full Fanalis strength, Tiger Cloak (Times 5), and adrenaline (Time 5). Take his base strength, which can completely crush metal without magic, and you have something that can hurt a dragon. Naruto can't use his Tiger Aura Cloak at will right now, and enhancing his body with any magic hurts him a LOT. Not to mention that this dragon was JUST unsealed when the barrier went down. The dragon itself was not at full power, and it's bodies scales were weakened. Not the mention, the dragon itself was nowhere near the level of the dragons that attacked during the Magic Games.
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