Disclaimer: It's too late at night for me to tell you I don't own Fairy Tail.
Hellfire
Zeref paused in the middle of his project- he couldn't recall the exact quantity of ethernano required for his plan. The immortal wizard lifted a hand to sift through the wall of bodies around him. The details could be worked out later.
"You'll do," he mused, pulling a raven-haired soldier from the pile. "Now if I can just remember the recipe for an incubus."
Cana rubbed at her temple, listening to Mira hum as they entered Hargeon. She gave the take over mage a sideways look.
"How can you be so happy this early?" She asked.
"This is where Natsu and Lucy met," Mira said. She tapped her heels on the cobblestone street. "It's got to be more than coincidence that the fight brought us near here."
The card mage rolled her eyes and gave an internal groan. She hadn't had a drink for a few days. Nonetheless, she humored her friend.
"And what does it mean, Mira?"
Cana didn't get to hear the eldest Strauss sibling's answer before a charcoal hand caught her. The brunette felt the jarring sensation of crashing through several buildings. In a split second, she'd been separated from Mira. Cana only caught a pink blur from between the clawed fingers attached to her face. She ignored the pain of having her back slammed to the pavement.
"Natsu, as much as I condone friendliness," she said, voice muffled. She bent her knees and kicked the dragon slayer's chest with both heels. "This is not how you greet people!"
She rolled over once she'd removed Natsu from her. She stood on unsteady feet, pulling out her cards- whatever caused Natsu to attack her didn't matter, he needed to be contained. She flashed a card dimension card toward the transformed fire mage. A thin tail whipped out from behind him, an arrowhead tip impaling and burning the card. Cana grimaced and set her feet apart, ready in case he lunged again.
Prayer's Fountain!
Cana threw down a pair of cards. A magic circle spread on the ground that shot out numerous tridents of water toward Natsu. The fire mage snarled and leapt back, running on all fours to avoid the attack. Cana predicted his movements and ran to cut him off.
"Sorry about this."
Summoned Lightning!
The holder wizard brought out a card that sent an array of electric bolts straight into the dragon slayer's chest. The pink-haired mage moaned, though a moment later Cana noticed his injuries healing over. Almost like-
Satan Soul!
Mira flew in her demon form to knock Natsu through a few more buildings with her thick tail.
"We need to be careful," she said. "The town hasn't been evacuated."
The take over mage ignored Cana's commentary on her definition of careful. Mira turned her attention to Natsu's landing point, where a column of white fire erupted into the air. Several screams followed soon after.
"I'll deal with that," Cana said. "But couldn't you shut him up quicker with Sitri?"
Despite the form she had taken, Mira giggled.
"I want to get him to calm down," she said. "Not kill him."
Mira flapped her wings to meet Natsu, who had taken to scampering across rooftops back towards them.
"Natsu," she called from above, weaving around the streams of hellish flame he spat at her. "I know the temptation to wreak havoc as a demon is powerful."
The eldest Strauss sibling swooped down from the air, gripping the altered fire mage by his horns. Natsu flailed and kicked as Mira brought them over the harbor.
"But," she said, voice raised over the turbulence in the air. "You won't forgive yourself when you come to if I let you hurt somebody."
With that, she flung Natsu down into the ocean near the port. She winced a bit in sympathy at the loud impact his body made with the water's surface. She flew down lower, hovering between where he'd gone under and the docks; ready to dive in if he didn't resurface, or toss him back if he moved toward the town in a craze.
Mira gasped at an earsplitting shriek. She watched, stunned, as the water around Natsu receded and rose above him in a solid wall. The pink-haired dragon slayer stood hunched over, screaming as two wings sprouted from his back and shredded the remnants of his vest. The ugly cracking and snapping sounds the new appendages made as they unfolded into their full span disturbed even her. Natsu glowered at her before he charged, the waves that had built up crashing back down in his wake. Mira climbed in altitude, waiting to confirm she was his target. She concentrated her darkness magic in her hands.
"I don't want to hurt you," she said. The dragon slayer's guttural cries told her he wasn't listening.
Soul Extinctor!
A massive wave of dark magic exploded from her hands toward Natsu. The fire mage faltered in his advance; he responded with a swirling vortex of white flame. The two attacks collided, and, to Mira's amazement, cancelled each other out. She covered her face with her arms against the resulting shockwave.
She felt jerk on her hair and yelped. Natsu, behind her, screeched like a banshee and he plummeted downward. The S-class mage swiped at her assailant's hand, but her efforts were hindered by a slow pull on her magic power. She blinked, wondering at the sensation until her head hit the docks. The wood pieces of the structure broke apart against her skull while Natsu dragged her through them.
The take over mage managed to snap her tail around one of Natsu's legs and throw off his flight. She shouted at a searing pain that tore into her left wing. The agony lessened as they crashed onto the deck of a ship. She pulled herself up- a significant part of her wing's membrane had been burned away, rendering the wing useless. She folded both wings in as a way to ease the pain.
Mira's legs lost feeling and might have folded under her if she didn't catch herself. She felt a biting heat around her ankle- Natsu still had a grip on her with his tail. The fire mage couldn't make any other move, she realized, as he sat on his hands and knees on the deck.
"Motion sickness still affects you," she said, part relief and part bemusement in her tone. She swatted Natsu's tail off with her own. The pull on her magic waned. "Good to know."
Before she could act any further, Natsu barfed out more white flame that consumed the ship beneath him in an instant. The mage's immunity to fire kept him from harm, and he flapped his wings to stay off the boat.
Darkness Stream!
Mira produced tendrils of black magic shaped like clawed hands to restrain the dragon slayer. Natsu snarled and strained, beating his wings to stay airborne.
"Natsu, please come to your senses."
The take over mage noticed a beat in Natsu's struggles. The next moment, his resistance vanished, instead barreling into her. The collision pushed them both onto the shore. She felt the drain on her magic return, much more powerful and demanding. She had to work to maintain her Satan Soul.
"Natsu," she rasped, her vision blurring. "Don't put yourself through what Elfman did."
The charcoal fist Natsu had raised overhead lingered there, though flames engulfed it a moment later. Mira thought she heard a faint choked sob amid the growls of the dragon slayer.
"MIRA!"
He howled as he slammed his fist down. He didn't know why. The demon under him was a target. Right? He shook and fled. No, he flew. He didn't run away. He hunted. New scents pricked at his nose, growing until they flooded his mind. He felt a bit more whole. He couldn't understand how he smelled what he did- the source was too far away. He knew that it should have been impossible. Someone put them there. Why?
Because he needed to wake up. Something... familiar –yes, that was the word- told him that. He ignored the annoying ache in his head, an inflammation not his own. He flew toward the scent of rain, tomes, and iron.
A/N: ... I got nuthin'. Leave tips when you go out to eat, I guess. If you liked this, leave a review! Otherwise, read another fan fiction and come back to tell me how cool it was in a review box!
To Who Reviewed
The Age of Awesomeness (Awesome!): Thanks for reading and reviewing! So glad you're enjoying it! I'll try to update quick!