S.R: I love how we only got one review on the last chapter but had it called Kawaii like three times.
Wendy: Sir, what's kawaii mean?
S.R: It means cute or adorable.
Erza: I think it also means loveable.
Natsu: Probably, but in our case I'm going with it means cute. Hey Sir, I like the current cover picture for us but could you find or make one of that scene? I think that'd be awesome.
S.R: Possibly. But I think it's time we move on to the story so… yeah.
ERZA'S POV
Natsu, Wendy and I all woke up at the same time. "Morning Natsu, morning Wendy" I chirped to them as I slowly stood up and stretched. Natsu said morning as well before stretching like me. Wendy just yawned as she stood up and then hugged Natsu, then hugged me. "Thank you for saving me and staying with me last night" she said after she let go of me. We told her it wasn't a problem and that we'd do it again if she wanted, before we left to get changed into fresh clothes. Once that was done we met up with everyone else for breakfast.
"Jura, Ichiya, we have to change a few things from our plan. Last night Cobra tried to kidnap Wendy but I stopped him and beat him." Natsu mentioned after we had finished eating. He looked at me and nodded before asking Wendy if she wanted to start learning some new spells. After she eagerly agreed and followed Natsu out I explained what I knew of last night to everyone else. "That's wonderful news. Now Natsu doesn't have an excuse to not help me fight Brain" Jura spoke and he seemed a bit more relieved that he wouldn't have to fight alone, unfortunately I had to dash that hope "That's where you're wrong. Natsu will be guarding Wendy seeing as how they still want her. She only has one attack spell, which is why Natsu and Gajeel should guard her; they can teach her new spells and help her grow stronger."
After arguing about it and a few other details we finally agreed on the changes to the plan. Natsu, and Gajeel would protect Wendy. The Trimens would take out Angel. Ichiya was to fight Hoteye. Gray, Lyon, and Sherry could take out Racer. Jura would fight Brain, and I would fight Midnight. Agreeing on that plan we all set out to do our jobs, but only after Hibiki used his Archive magic to link us with Natsu and Gajeel so we could report in the results of our fights. We decided to split up and search for Oracion Seis anyway even though we had not found their base. The reason being the dragon slayers all smelled more people in the forest than just Oracion Seis, which means they brought the dark guilds that work under them to the forest as well. If we could stir up enough trouble for them maybe one of the remaining 5 Oracion Seis would move to find out why.
Roughly an hour after I started wreaking havoc on the small fry dark guilds that had come with Oracion Seis, I sensed a familiar and powerful presence. I finished off the last few dark guild mages and made my way towards the presence. Hiding behind a tree I peeked out into the clearing I sensed the power in, hoping to confirm my target. I smiled when I saw it was Midnight. Thinking a quick surprise attack would work I stuck with my Hearts Kreuz armor. Jumping out and swinging my sword I was surprised to find I had missed. Quickly spinning on the spot I swung for him again only to miss.
Midnight smiled as he spoke "The legendary Titania. You will be a fun opponent to destroy. Try not to die too quickly though." I just re-equipped a larger sword and swung again. I still missed but as I watched I saw a reflection in the air around Midnight. I hoped back from him before asking "Your magic is reflection magic. You can reflect any attack right?" Midnight's smile grew even wider as he said "You really are impressive, figuring out my magic that quickly. Yes, I can reflect every attack. But that's just my defensive abilities." As he finished speaking I felt my armor squeezing tighter on me. Thinking quickly I re-equipped into my Robe of Yuen, hoping its elasticity would prevent him from attacking me like that again. Midnight smiled and used his magic on my armor once more, trying to control it into strangling me. I just re-equipped a few swords and launched them at him. I noted that he had to actually dodge my swords that time.
After noticing that I realized he can't use his magic defensively and offensively at the same time. I laughed to myself as I summoned an even greater amount of swords that I again sent flying at him. Midnight choose to switch to defense rather than dodge the swords this time. So I charged him swinging the spear that was re-equipped with my robes and faked a swing at him, and punched hopping I threw him off guard. Surprisingly it worked. I watched him fly away from my fist and crash into a tree. He groaned as he stood up. He attempted to make my robe strangle me once more and I repeating myself with the previous number of swords I had summoned attacked once more. He didn't switch from attacking me choosing instead to dodge my swords. Unfortunately for him, I had thrown my spear when he wasn't looking and caught him in the shoulder with it. He spun from the hit and ended up taking a sword to the knee as well. What surprised both of us though was the fact the sword pinned his leg to the ground and held him in place long enough for another sword to go through his other knee.
Realizing he was caught I called out to him "You lose. Keeping attacking me with your magic and I can finish you with more swords. Switch to defense and I can take you out myself." I called hopping I could hit him again with my fist. I watch Midnight panic a little before he gave up attacking me. "You can't beat me when I'm defending myself. I'm calling your bluff" he responded. Choosing to ignore him I charged at him swinging my spear in a one handed diagonal swing upward as I followed up with a fist. He deflected my spear and I slammed my fist into his solar plexus hard enough for him to spit up blood. "I wasn't bluffing." I spoke as he fell forward and limp. I carried Midnight to the nearest Rune Knight prison, following Natsu's directions to get there. Once I turned him in I decided to head back to our base and report in, completely forgetting that Hibiki had linked us all with his archive magic.
NATSU'S POV
Gajeel and I spent around 4 and a half hours teaching Wendy the motions behind the basic dragon slayer attack spells, knowing that she had to incorporate the magic herself in order to fully learn the spell. The only reason we stopped was that we heard her stomach rumble. Making our way inside, we decided Happy and I would be the chef's for lunch. After cooking a simple cheese pizza for Wendy, and Carla, we made a pizza with bacon, sausage, and peperoni for us and Gajeel. While we ate I saw the largest smile on Gajeel's face I've ever seen, and realized that he probably wouldn't admit it but Gajeel was having a lot of fun teaching Wendy. We were going to get right back to practice after lunch but Wendy began yawning and we agreed to let her take a nap. While Carla and Happy (who followed only to talk to Carla) tucked her in for a nap I chatted with Gajeel. "She's a special kid, getting training from both of us" Gajeel said.
I nodded as I spoke "But you had fun teaching her, don't deny it I saw the smile." He just grinned at me before saying "Yes I did. It was like uh…. Not quite brother and sister considering I am just barely old enough to be her dad. It felt more like I was an uncle to her. Granted if that's the case you'd be her father." I nodded and told him about her words last night when I put her to bed, to which he just said to be careful I don't let her wrap me around her little finger. I snorted and said we all need to be careful of that. We then spent the entire time she was napping just enjoying the day and hanging out as if we were brothers. After she woke up we went back outside and instead of training we just played with her, since she was still just a kid. We were still playing when Erza came back. "I beat Midnight and decided to come back. I see the three of you are getting along well" She spoke to us as she smiled. I grinned mischievously to Gajeel who figuring out what I was about to do gave me a thumbs up.
I looked back at Wendy over my shoulder as I shouted "Hey Wendy, look momma's home" only to watch her race over to Erza and glomp her screaming "momma your home!" We saw Erza's confusion before she smiled and played along saying "Hi sweetie. Have you been a good girl today for daddy?" Wendy nodded and chirped a yes before skipping over to Gajeel and touched him while saying "tag your it". She then ran with Gajeel playful chasing after her. Erza walked up to me and before she could ask what that was about I said "We stopped training and she wanted to play house so Gajeel's the uncle, I'm the dad, and we just decided to make you the mom when you walked up." She smiled at me as she whispered in my ear "You have such a good way with kids, that I think you'd be an amazing dad." I wrapped my arms around her before whispering back "Only if you'd be the mom."
S.R: Excuse me while I go melt into a puddle from adorableness overload. *melts into a puddle* okay Now I would like to say "foreshadowing out the wazoo" in that last paragraph there. I'm not telling what wasn't foreshadowing though so :P