Disclaimer: First Chapter
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"Are you sure that Naruto was captured by something?" Makarov asked with a serious look on his face as he looked at Wendy and Morgiana in front of him. It was early in the morning, and at this point only certain members of the guild have even shown up yet. At this point the only ones in the guild were himself, Mirajane, and Erza sitting next to him looking at the injured girls intently. When the girls had burst in the guild hall looking for them, they had been worried that they had been attacked. Then when they explained that they thought that Naruto was in danger, Erza was suddenly more worried about Naruto than she was about the girls.
"Yes, I am sure that something bad happened to him." Morgiana said with her fists clenching. She wasn't sure how she had felt Naruto's pain, but she suspected that Naruto had some sort of latent talent that let him project his own pain. The fact Wendy had felt it as well magnified this supicion, even if she didn't like the blue haired girl.
"Are there ANY clues to where he is?" Erza asked with narrowed eyes, and Wendy shook her head. Makarov on the other hand had his hand on his chin in thought, before he jumped off the bar and landed on his feet and started to pace slightly in thought.
"There were none at our apartment, and he left his weapons and armor back at home." Morgiana explained with a glare aimed at nothing in particular, while Wendy shook her head and pulled a small note out of her pocket and gave it to Erza. It was the only thing that could be a clue, but it wasn't at the apartment. She had found this at her own room in Fairy Hills, and it was in Naruto's sloppy handwriting. It basically said that he would be somewhere important, and not to follow him.
"This is very suspicious, are you completely sure that he was captured. Have you tried to look anywhere?" Erza asked with anrrowed eyes, trying to think of places Naruto could have gone. She was sure that if Naruto went somewhere alone, then he would be sure to be careful, but she was worried as well.
"His scent is gone. He must have flown out of the city." Morgiana said with a small frown on her face. She felt more than a little angry that he hadn't trusted her enough to inform her that he was going somewhere, but then again she had little doubt that he just rushed off without thinking. Her kind were well known to think with their fists, but that way of thinking got them into plenty of trouble everywhere they went.
"So we have no clue where he went, and we can't follow him?" Mirajane finally chimed in, summing the entire situation up as the calmest member of the group at this time. She was worried as well, since Naruto was a fellow member of Fairy Tail of course she would be worried. They were about to continue with their conversation, before the doors burst open with a large white tiger shooting and skidding acorss the floor. The tiger growled at them for a moment, with Erza already having a sword at to defeat the creature.
"Toothless-san!?" Wendy shouted in shock, while the others looked at her with their jaws dropped. During her own training in the woods while Naruto had been gone, she herself had come across the tigers Naruto had befriended. She couldn't understand them like Naruto could, but she was able to gvet what they were feeling. The tiger in front of her was both angry and scared beyond all belief, and when it roared at them his message was clear. Something was very wrong, but they couldn't figure out what.
"What do you think it wants?" Makarov asked with a raised eyebrow, wondering why the tiger had yet to attack them. Morgiana on the other hand sniffed the air around the tiger, and her eyes widened when she smelt freshly drawn blood. Then she caught a smell that had her worried, and angry.
"This tiger smells like Naruto!" The red haired Fanalis girl said, startling the others into looking at the tiger with a more serious look. The tiger nodded, and turned around while making the 'follow me' motion with his head. Then with that Toothless started to run out of the guild quickly, and Morgiana glared at Wendy for a split second before she picked up the girl in her arms and ran out of the guild. If Naruto's blood was this fresh, then she had little doubt that he was injured.
"Dragon girl, give us a boost." Morgiana stated with an annoyed tone, and nodding quickly Wendy held her hands in front of her.
"Vernier." Wendy muttered as the speed of both Toothless and Morgiana was enhaced far passed what they could normally do. Morgina winced in slight pain when she felt her muscles start to rip apart from the foreign magic at first contact. Toothless was enhanced with high speed as well, and not far behind were actually both Makarov and Erza quickly catching up with them.
"Do either of you know where we are going?" Erza asked while keeping her eyes on Toothless, wondering if this tiger was leading them to Naruto's location. While it seemed a bit far fetched, the fact that Wendy knew this tiger and believed in it was good enough for her to decide to stake her trust into the animal.
"No clue, but that tiger has Naruto's smell on it... with the smell of his blood there as well." Morgiana said seriously, her eyes sharp and cold. If Naruto was hurt, then that meant that something had to have hurt him. In the weeks they had been at Fairy Tail together she had seem him fall out of the sky and crash into the ground, only to get right back up and start flight training all over again. The guy wouldn't be defeated by an accident, no, he had to have been attacked.
"I am going to get her just in case." Makarov said as he changed directions to go find the woman had had served as Fairy Tail's best doctor. Wendy was ony so good at healing, and if Naruto was in to far of a critical condition then he wouldn't lose one of his children just because he had waited to see the injuries before going to get help.
"Understood Master." Erza said with a nod, and she didn't stop chasing after the tiger. She was already wearing her flight armor just to keep up with the enhanced Fanalis carrying Wendy. Even in this situation she couldn't help but be impressed with how strong these people were physically. She had secretely watched Naruto train with Morgiana while hiding her presence, and she had seen both of them rip trees out of the ground to use as weapons. Picking up boulders ten times their size with little trouble, and being able to preform feats that most mages could never do without a lot of magic.
'Please be alive.' Wendy thought to herself, praying for Naruto to survive whatever had his friend worried this badly. Now that they had been moving she was able to smell the blood as well until they lef the city finally and went towards a large hill not very far away. They were quickly able to get to the top, and they saw two even larger white tigers circling around a blood and burn covered body wearing only blood stained white clothes on.
"Naruto!" Erza shouted as she ran passed the two tigers and dropped down to his side, before she gasped in shock at seeing a large hole going completely through his right shoulder. SHe could see that where he wasn't burnt he was bruised, and he was soaked in his own drying blood. His skin thaqt wasn't bruised was pale, and there was a sheen of sweat on his face. His chest barely moving as he breathed, the hole in his shoulder not bleeding very much thanks to some white glowing energy attempting to stop the bleeding as much as it could.
Wendy jumped out of Morgiana's arms and went over to Naruto's side, and her hands started to glow a bright blue instead of the normal green. SHowing that she had made improvements on her skills as a Sky Dragon Slayer. She placed her left hand on his heart, and her right hand on his head. Her hand satrted to shake when she took in the amount of damage the near dead boy had across his body.
"Broken ribs, bruised organs, torns muscles, large stab wound from a lightning type attack, and blunt force trama to much of his body." Wendy whispered to herself in shock. Yes, Naruto had been in pretty bad shape from pushing himself with magic to much, but his life was never in true danger when he passed out from those injuries. Morgiana went to Naruto's other side and grabbed his hand with her hands, before looking at his face with a soft and worried expression. Tears bearely held back, and bringing his skin to her face she tried took a smell and found what she was looking for.
'I will never forget these scents, never. When I find the bitches who did this they are dead.' Morgiana swore to herself when Wendy started to heal the hole in Naruto, that being the most dangerous injury to his body. The white energy started to fade away with her magic being what was stopping the bleeding from going any further once that was gone. She grit her teeth and started to sweat at how hard such a fatal injury was to heal. She was now regretting fighting against Morgiana earlier, because she was already using 30 percent of her injury to close the hole by half and inch. It would seem that she would have to use her secret weapon ahead of time if she wanted to make her magic potent enough to heal this hole.
"Naruto... huh?" Erza said before she noticed a drastic rise in power coming from Wendy. The small girls already pretty well sized magical reserves increased 10 times what they had just been easily. Erza looked down at the girl with wide eyes for a moment when she saw the physical changes Wendy had gone through. Morgiana was looking at Wendy with narrowed eyes when she saw the same changes and felt the girls threat level increase. Saber, Toothless, and Heavy started to growl at the girl slightly as the dragon-like presence she radiated grew more potent.
The very first thing a person would notice about Wendy was that whisps of light blue magic were coming out of her body slightly, waving around before fading away while more whisps came around her. It appeared to be sort of like a light blue aura of magical power, something like this would no doubt boost her physical skills by quite a bit. The second change was the damage to her face had healed completely, and her cheeks had dark blue scales on the going close to her eyes. Scales traces from her jaw-line and covered about half of the skin on each cheek, and drk blue scales could be seen on her forehead.
Her forearms had similar scales on them, as did her shins. Her nails were slightly more claw-like, and her canines had grown even longer and sharper. Her eyes had changed from their usual brown to starling bright blue, just like her dragon parents eyes. The blue glow around her hands tripled in brightness, before the hole in Naruto's shoulder started to heal much quicker than before. The flesh swirling and growing back into place, and the hole filling back up until now only half of the energy remained.
Wendy's Dragon Force was a bit different than most other Dragon Slayer's Dragon Force. Her's not only increased her battle ability, but it also increased the potency of her ability to heal others. In this mode it was even possible to heal her own injuries, but it still took a big chuck of energy to heal herself.
'She held back this power against me.' Morgiana thought with narrowed eyes. She hated when people held back against her in a fight, and if this wasn't a desperite situation she would have punched Wendy in the face for insulting her by holding back an amazing power like this.
'So this is the power of the Sky Dragon.' Erza thought as she saw Naruto's condition get better, and not long after she had entered Dragon Force the hole completely closed up. Morgina ran her hand across the blood on his body, before she used it to draw the Fanalis symbol on her own hand. This was her promise to him that she wouldn't let this happen again. It was her way of promising herself that when Naruto was better they would track down the people that did this and tear them limb from limb.
{Different Location}
"So not only did you NOT capture the Byakko, but you also critically injured him to the point that he could die without hours?" Ultear asked with a scowl on her face as she looked down at the two blowing girls. The two girls were shaking in utter terror of this woman that held their lives in her hands.
"The situation had gotten to the point where we couldn't get him this time." Kanon answered truthfully, with a silver monster that was pretty much immune to her lightning, and thick enough so that even Shion's strength wouldn't dent it and the creatures of the forest they knew that they couldn't win. Kanon flinched back in fear when she heard Ultear tap her foot on the ground in irritation.
"He needs to be captured alive you idiots. That boy has a nearly limitless potential for power, and if left with free will then his power can grow until nothing can stop him. If you kill him, then that power will have been wasted forever. If he is captured and his will crushed, then we can groom his power until he is so strong he can control Zeref for us." Ultear said with a sneer on her face. She hated when people failed important assignments like this one. Even she realized that a Fanalis with high magic like Naruto had a nearly unlimited potential, and from the report he could trasnform into a stronger form.
If his morals hadn't gotten in the way, and if he had more practice in that stronger form then these two would be dead for sure. The fact his magic had been sealed before the battle just showed that he was dangerous, very dangerous.
"He can't be that important, we defeated him after all." Shion pointed out, and Ultear growled and slapped Shion across the face.
"You fool. That boy is merely 13 years old, and his magic was sealed, yet he stood nearly even with you two 18 year old S-Class mages and KILLED the S-Class Anti-Magic weapon Richard. He has been credited with the deaths of TWO dragons, and has found powerful magic artifacts that were able to injure dragons. That Fanalis boy will become a threat if he isn't captured very soon, and now he knows about your strengths and won't make the same mistakes twice." Ultear lectured the girls in front of her with a near hateful tone to her voice. Capturing Naruto before he grew to strong for them to break was of vital importance, and if he couldn't be broken then they would use other ways of forcing him to obey. That was why she had her backup plan already set in motion.
She had multiple back ups for the off chance that none of them worked on Naruto. He was much more useful alive than dead, and Hades thought so as well.
She would have Naruto, even if it meant that she would have to go after him herself.
Chapter End.
Naruto is the main character, and as the main character he has to go through trials and hardships to shape him into a stronger character. That means losing, and having his resolve weakened for a certain amount of time. He needs to grow as a person, and being sent to the verge of death is something that you don't just blow off. This is a trial for Naruto to grow, and form a stronger will once he recovers both physically and mentally. Not having him undergo hardships would make this stroy less fun for me to write.
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