Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Leafy's POV
"So, Leafy, what do you say we form a temporary training team?"
I tear my eyes off from my breakfast and fix my sight on Mira who is right in front of me. Her younger sister, Lissana pops out from nowhere and grins at me, "Yes! It will be so much fun! With Leafy joining us, we will have an even number of members and we can train in pairs!"
"Sure, why not? It's been some time since I go all out."
After I finish up my breakfast that was prepared by Mira herself, we walk straight to the back of the guild building to start our training. I can see other members are already sparring with each other with their abilities. Mavis told me that we are going to have a war again after so many peaceful years and this time we are going to fight against the black mage Zeref himself. It's good to see that everyone in the guild is working hard to train and become so much stronger.
"Okay, Leafy and I will be a pair, Lissana and Juvia, Elfman and Natsu, Gray and Gajeel, and finally Lucy and Levy."
"How about Erza? I don't see her today." Lucy looks around to find the scarlet haired mage but cannot spot her. Mira just smiles, trying to reassure her, "I'm sure she is doing some stuff before coming here. Now, let's start our training with our respective partners!"
"Takeover, satan soul!" Mira activated her takeover. Without wasting anymore time, she slams herself into me and tries to hit me with her punches. I dodge easily and grow a carnivorous plant right from the ground. The plant now is searching for its prey, namely Mira. Mira cut it off easily but it is too late. A magic circle cast around her, ready to suck her magic power dry. Before I can activate it properly, she escapes easily.
A magic circle appears at her hands and she starts to shoot me with her magic. I cast a quick magic to counter the magic blast that dispersed immediately.
"Leafy, you are pretty good! Let's see how this goes."
Mira tries to blast me with a good number of magic circles. I dispel most of them and avoid the rest. Just then I saw an opening and grow a huge cactus right underneath Mira.
There's something strange that happened when Mira avoids my overgrown cactus.
A loud explosion.
That makes everyone of us stop sparring and look at each other.
Natsu's the first one to say it out loud, "Did you all heard that?"
"Of course, you idiot!"
"Come, let's go and take a look."
Following the source of the explosion sound, I feel a strange soul presence. This soul is not like an usual mage's soul. Worries starts to flood my thoughts. What if it is other types of magical beings? What if it's a new type of mage?
"Erza!"
I stand there in shock when I saw Erza lying unconsciously on the guild hall. Most of the furniture are busted. Wendy rushes to Erza's side and cast her healing magic on her. Other members are all lying around like Erza's condition. Then my eyes caught sight of an unfamiliar person at the guild entrance.
"So, this is Fairy Tail? Looks like a group of losers to me." A woman comes strolling inside with a huge group of mages surrounding her. By the look of this, she must be the leader of the gang.
"Who are you, you bastard?" Flames appear on Natsu's fist and he growls. The woman just laughs at his question.
"Don't your parents teach you to be polite when talking with a lady?" she puts her right hand and strokes her lips, as if in deep thought, "Just in case you all really want to know who am I, I will tell you all once and only, so listen up."
She points a finger to herself and announces, "My name's Demaria, the War Princess from Spriggan 12."
Now I know why her soul presence is strange.
It reeks of death.
Mira tries to activate her satan soul and engage in a battle with her but I raise a hand, motioning her to stop. The white haired takeover mage looks at me with tears threatening to fall from her eyes, "Why?"
"Leave this to me."
"Oh? Do you plan to fight my army and I alone? I must applaud for your courage. But can you withstand it?" Demaria points at me and shouts, "Everyone, get her!"
A large number of magic circles start to appear around me, and I calmly dispel every single one of them. Two of them lurges themselves at me but both of them got their magic power sucked easily when I planted my magic on them before this. Then soon, the rest of them fall down on the floor gasping for breath while their life force is being sucked out.
"What is this? Well, never mind, I will just do it myself." She reveals her sword and stands in her own fighting stance. I grow roses and cactus beneath her to trap her inside. Without much effort, she swings her sword to cut down my plants.
"As if some little plants can stop me. My sword, which I gladly call it Excalibur, can cut down anything."
"Then can it cut this?" I grow another rose but this time it is coated with diamonds instead. It grows and wraps itself around Demaria. She struggles a bit and tries to cut it down with her self proclaimed excalibur.
"Stop struggle, no one can break it. And do you want me to enlighten you with something I know?" The pissed look on her face worth a lot. Probably more than a person who just lose her most prized possession to someone she hates.
"That 'excalibur' you are using is actually just a fragment of the whole thing. I recalled that I was the one who break it to 12 pieces, and seal each of it individually."
"How could you have sealed it? It was sealed almost a century ago!"
"Exactly." I cannot help but smirk and a realization hits her. She struggles more and shouts at me with incoherent words. I shake my head and tighten the grip on her by moving the diamond rose more.
"Go back and tell your emperor, that if he tries to claim Fairy Heart by his own, he will have to deal with me that can easily seal anything, even his prized demons. Now go!"
With a flick of my fingers, the rose grows more and throws her hard and far towards Alveraz. The others that came with her just lay unconscious on the floor. Then a hand pats my shoulder and I turn.
"Leafy! Don't do that again! You might get hurt more than you anticipated!" I smile. It's been some time since someone really cares for my safety. Since the day I got promoted as a S class mage, even my old friends just abandon me, saying I'm too good for them. Bullshit!
"Thanks, Lucy. At least I'm able to reduce our guild's damage. And everyone of you stood behind me, isn't it? That was enough to fuel my willpower and my heart."
"At least depend more on your nakama, Leafy. We are all going to fight as a whole, as nakamas, as family!" the topless Gray said that and I just point at him, "Where's your clothes?"
"Shit!"
"Everyone, we have trouble!"
We all turn to a flushed face Wendy and she continues, "Erza's condition doesn't look good!"
AN: That's it for this chapter. This might be a bit short as I want to stop at that to create a little more suspense. What happened to Erza? Will she survive the spell that hit her? Stay tuned for the next chapter.