Retell of Fairy Tail Chapter 15 - Fighting Festival Arc Part3
What can a difference do? A lot! The difference... Natsu is married to Mirajane. It changes every arc from meeting Lucy till the end of Fairy Tail. It's a retell of Fairy Tail.
Natsu's breath was ragged as his muscles burned with anticipation. His heart was soaring and his fist was balled up, ready to knock who came between him and the person who turned his wife to stone.
He was furious, aggravaged, and heated. Natsu wasn't calming down, he was growing more anxious the longer he thought of Mira as a statue. 'Damn.. why can't I find him?!' Natsu mentally yelled as he sniffed the air as he tried to find Laxus' smell. He couldn't find the obnoxious man, somehow he was hiding it.
"Damn!" Natsu suddenly screamed as he stopped running and sent a flaming red leg straight into the ground that instantly cracked the hard thick gray cement. As he ignored the broken road and tried to calm down, he decided to look up at the sky.
The blue sky was filled with small white fluffy cotton candy clouds rowning about. The bright yellow sun shined down and glowed upon Magnolia. From the tall buildings, mountains in the back ground, and the massive cathedral, Magnolia was a beautiful city to be in.. minus the noise complaints that were all caused by the guild whenever they brawled or partied.
"Huh?" Natsu muttered as he began to look around at the place he had decided to stop. Tall mountains were on each of his sides and a meadow with lush green grass with a river going through it was a little ways further. A bridge went over the river that had blue water rapidly fleeing through it. Natsu was at the edge of Magnolia.
"So my first opponent has shown his face, I'm glad it's you." Freed announced as his blue eyes watched Natsu stand there confused. "That's good, Laxus was a tad worried about you. But now that I've found you, he doesn't need to be worried.." Freed then explained to Natsu as he stood there wearing his normal outfit.
Freed's long light green hair flowed back in the light small wind. He wore a red double-breasted coat, which possessed a wide collar, and a larger lighter color cuffs. The coat was closed with four gold colored buttons with a white strip down the front of the coat. Over the waist of the coat, holding it down, was a brown buckled belt. Underneath the coat is a light colored shirt with a collar, a white cravat, and light colored pants. The last piece that made his outfit whole was his sword sitting on his hip.
"Hmm..?" Natsu looked behind him to see Freed, one of Laxus's Thunder God members behind him. Natsu stared up at him for a second and suddenly sported a shit eating grin. He lit his hands on fire and began to step towards Freed. Just what he needed, a willing punching-bag to take the brunt of his frustration.
Natsu stood there in the meadow staring at Freed as there cloths billowed in the wind. He then leisurely took off his one armed jacket as he knew his wife would kill him if he ruined yet another piece of clothing.
"This is going to be fun!" Natsu laughed as the red and orange cracklings fire burned bright in his hands. He knew Freed wasn't a bad opponent, if he was working with Laxus he had to be pretty strong.
"Let's begin, Dark Écriture Darkness!" Freed screamed as his jacket suddenly disappeared and his chest and arms changed immediately. His chest grew bigger and black fur began to grow all over his arms and chest. His now muscular chest was outlined by the hair as he stepped towards Natsu. Eight purple glowing lines sprouted from his back as his long green hair began to go straight up towards the sky. While the last part of his transformation appeared in the shape of red demonic horns and he powered up. He wasn't going to waist time.
"Going hard from the start, I like it!" Natsu laughed. 'But that dosn't mean I'm going to.. I need to save my magin for the fight against Laxus..' Natsu thought to himself and knew he needed to conserve his magic if he wanted to win against Laxus. Natsu took a step back as he quickly got into a fighting stance as Freed pushed off towards him with magnificent speed.
"Darkness Breath!" Freed screamed as he sent a purple tornado of dense magic at Natsu. As the spell made contact it countinued to spin and change all the grass into dust. Freed stood there making sure he hit his target as his spell finished. Where it hit was now nothing, Natsu was gone, and the plant life that was there was dead. 'Hmm.. something's up, that's to easy.' Freed thought as he kept himself on high alert for Natsu. Something was off.
"Fire Dragon's.." Natsu began to mutter from right behind Freed as he watched him began to turn around and freed. "Iron fist!" Natsu finished saying as in a instant he launched his fist into Freed's stomach as he finished turning around.
"WHAT?" Freed gasped as the fiery punch punchered straight into his gut. He spat out saliva as he tired to inhale air to breath. When did Natsu get behind him and how? When was he that strong and when did he disappear? Questions loomed through his mind as he tried to think of the answers. He needed to be ready and at attention, it seemed his opponent was strong and ready to go.
Freed stood there and waited. He already knew that doing nothing wasn't a option, so he had to keep attacking. Hopefully that would reward him about finding out more about Natsu's new strength he possessed.
"Darkness Flare Bomb!" Freed yelled as he created a sphere-like bomb made from his dark energy. He then charged at Natsu's with that purple sphere and closed in on him. Once close he pushed it off towards Natsu's as it detonated.
Natsu breathed out with a huff as he was roughly thrown back. His feet pushed into the ground as he slid to a screeching halt. He now stood there with his arms in front of his chest as he stared down at Freed from across the field. 'He's going all out.. but it's not effecting me as much as I thought.' Natsu thought to himself as he pondered over the new information he gained so far.
Since last seeing Freed and training with Mirajane, he had grown far stronger. But in all honestly he didn't realize he had grown this much. His smile turned to a smirk as glared down Freed once more and locked in on his target.
"Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" Natsu yelled as he blasted off with raging speed and got to Freed in a second. He quickly grabbed Freed by his hairy demon shoulder and lit him on fire as he blasted him away.
"Gah!" Freed yelled as he had no time to react. But he quickly patted himself down from where he landed on the ground. The fire was now out as he stood there and smirked. Luckily he wasn't dumb, he left a small trap for Natsu where he had been standing.
Suddenly the ground under him began to glow with words appearing around him. "Rune Mag-." Natsu began to say before the runes under Natsu activated and suddenly a demon of black and purple color came raging out of it. Quickly it launched and wrapped around Natsu as it held him in his very spot.
"Demon Runes." Freed announced as he began to walk back towards Natsu. As he did he began to turn back to his normal human self as he saw the rune worked flawlessly. It worked perfect and captured his target.
"This is why you don't mess with the Thunder God Tribe and Laxus, do you understand Natsu?" Freed asking as he kept Natsu tied up by the purple rune demon. He watched him closely and didn't notice anything wrong going on.
"Mmm.." A small grunt tied to say a word but coudlnt from inside the runes.
"Hah.. guess I'll presume that's a yes." Freed laughed aloud as he began to laugh. He kept laughing untill he heard a munching noise.. and quickly his laugh died down.
Munch. Munch.
"Damn.. Mira's magic tastes way better!" Natsu yelled as he slurped up all the demon magic and eat it whole. His flames began to change colors and his gray eyes darkened.
"W-what the.. H-how?" Freed muttered as he watched Natsu eat his way out and his rune trap. He was shocked and surprised by this, no one had ever done such a thing. When was he ever able to eat demon magic? He only thought Natsu could eat fire.
"Mira.. that's how. Though it still upsets my stomach.." Natsu sighed as he rubbed his stomach in circles. He was already able to feel the cringes and the magic messing him up inside. The magic wasn't sitting well, but it at least gave him back the magic he used during the fight.
'Damn.. I'm cornered.' Freed thought as he stood there in stock. 'All my strongest magic attacks are part demon and darkness, that means they're useless against him!' Freed then thought. He didn't want to lose and disappoint Laxus, but his future against fighting Natsu wasn't looking to bright. Freed wasn't doubting he was even going to come close to winning this battle against Natsu.
"Why?" Natsu suddenly asked aloud as he watched Freed carefully. Freed had taken a step back, sweat rolled along his fore head, and his clothing had dirt all over it. He wasn't fairing well and now Natsu wanted to finish this quickly so he could beat up Laxus and save his wife. But something bothered him, why and when did Freed, Evergreen, and Bickslow become like this?
"Huh?" Freed asked as he was confused as to why his opponent was trying to ask him a question. In the middle of battle he was asking a question which really wasn't one. One more never meant a question.
"What changed? Why are you hurting your family?" Natsu asked as he stared straight into Freed's eyes as his own were showing confusion as to why he'd fight his friends in the first place. His own eyes were lit with fire as he pondered over why family would hurt one another.
"Laxus.. he's stronger, he deserved to be the guild lea-." Freed began to announce but was stopped by a fiery fist to the stomach.
"DO YOU REALLY THINKS GRAMPS WAS GOING TO GIVE HIM IT SO EASILY?" Natsu screamed as Freed gasped and saliva bursted out of his mouth.
Freed's eyes opened in shock by what he heard. Even if he didn't want to believe Natsu's words, he knew that Makarov was a wise man and would only give the guild to someone worthy that had proven themselves. Someone that would lead them down the path of family and friends.
Wether he liked it or not, his leader; the man he looked up to was not that. He wanted power and control. 'Why..?' Freed wondered as he was one knew with his eyes open wide and shocked. His mind ran over eveything as Natsu's words hit home. Why are they fighting? Natsu was right, Laxus was being cocky and trying to take it by force. Master Makarov wouldn't let that ever happen, he wanted a good successor that would lead Fairy Tail to all there dreams.
"Damn.." Freed muttered as he fell down to his knees and hands. Why were they fighting? Yes family sometimes fight, but never like this, and on this scale. Why? Why did they do this? What had happened to them? What came over them? "What have we done?" Freed asked aloud as the dragon slayer in front of him smirked.
"Rest.. this fight is over." Natsu began to explain. No the fight didn't end hoe he wanted to. He didn't defeat Freed like he wanted to, but he needed to save energy. He was going to need everything for his fight against Laxus. "So.. where's Laxus at?" Natsu calmly asked Freed.
"Magnolia.. the Cathedral." Freed muttered as he chose to tell Natsu the truth. As he thought over everything he know knew this fight has to end. Anything longer would began rifts between them all. "Your wife.." Freed whispered.
Once Natsu had his answer he turned around and began his walk back to a Magnolia from the outskirts. Already a few feet away he heard Freed whisper and it caught his attention. "What about her?" Natsu asked as he instantly turned around and looked at him.
"She's safe and fine, Evergreens magic only freezes her, it doesn't harm her." Freed explained to Natsu as he saw that he was worried about her and would take it out on Laxus.
"Thanks.." Natsu replied back with a small smile and a sigh of relief. His love was safe, that was the best news of the day. Now.. It was time for Laxus to feel his wrath and to mess his sorry ass hole up.
Natsu began walking off towards where Laxus was located, Freed was behind him resting and going over things in his head. He didn't need to go all out and he gave regained some of his magic back from fighting Freed, though he still wasn't fully back up.
Now he was off towards the middle of Magnolia, he was walking towards the gray towering Cathedral that waited. 'What a bad spot to be in, I don't know why he chose this place.' Natsu thought to himself as he countinued walking threw the streets. As he was two blocks away, his nose began to finally pick up the faint of the yellow haired man. "So he didn't lie.. well that's good news." Natsu thought aloud as the budding came into his sight.
It grew taller as he walked up to it and upon reaching it he simply put his hand in front of his face to see the electric magic pulsing through the air. Things aside he knew this was about to be a gruesome hard fight, his magic would be pushed to the max and fight will take everything out of him.
Creak. Natsu began pushing open the heavy large doors of the Cathdrel to reveal the gray pillars and brown benches inside. At the podium there was a large chair with a man sitting casually on it. He had brown boots, black long pants, a black tight shirt, and a coat draped over his shoulders. His hair was yellow spiked up and a lightning bolt scar through his right eye.
"So they've failed.. well that isn't good." The man laughed aloud as he saw a pink haired dragon slayer giving him a site of viscous dark gray eyes staring deeply at him. The man smirked as he waited for a response.
"Laxus.." Natsu muttered.
Hi, long time no see? Yeah.. I know. I've been so busy that I havnt been able to write as much as I want! But I'm trying! College and work is tearing my time apart! Gonna keep writing though..
Next chapter should of grays and Bickslow fight, Mirajnae or erza fighting Evergreen, or Natsu vs Laxus.. Depends really.. Hopfully gonna wrap this arc up in two chapters.. That's my goal.
Thoughts aside.. I might skip over the Oración Seis arc.. i kinda want to do the Edols arc.. any thoughts.. but im motivated to write this story again! Woo! Also any suggestion when to end this story? Idk when to end it sadly yet.. which in not good.
Updating Tenrou next!
-ValinNignt