Wow I'm really bad at frequent updates sorry my bad I also really have to change that update schedule for my fallen angel story cause we all know it been more than 2 or 3 weeks since the last update heck I think the last time I updated that story was over a month ago maybe almost 2. In case any of you were wondering from the last chapter Natsu's version of the etherion canon is of course nowhere near as powerful if you were to power scale it to other spells in the anime/manga on scale I'd say the size would be half of, maybe a little more than that of Jellal's Sema or Laxus' casual lightning bolt he used against Ajeel. All I can say now is sorry for the wait and that updates will be whenever so on with the story.
The group of females plus Happy after getting over the wall now found themselves in an alleyway waiting for a certain pinkette who seemed to be taking his sweet time in getting to their position. This had initially made a certain busty bluenette worry about him but after five or so minutes of waiting worry soon turned to frustration.
"God damn Natsu hurry your ass up!" Violet growled in frustration as she leaned up against an alley wall arms folded and pouting to show how frustrated she actually was. "I'm sure he fine, knowing Natsu he probably got into a fight with some animal because it looked at him funny" Happy said causing everyone to give him a deadpan look before thinking "What sort of opinion do you actually have about Natsu", the exceed though could only give them a confused look "What?"
"Hey guys" Natsu said suddenly appearing out of nowhere, "Thank god what the hell took you so long?" Violet asked in an authoritive tone while poking the dragonslayer in the chest causing the pinkette to scratch his head sheepishly. "Yeah sorry my bad I started a fight with an animal because it looked at me funny" Natsu said in an amused voice causing the group bar Happy to all have completely blank expressions on their faces "Huh"
"Told you he'd do it; I'm betting you didn't show the thing a shred of mercy" Happy said in a knowing voice "Damn right little buddy up top" the dragonslayer replied in a childlike tone outstretching his palm to his old partner. "You really are a child at heart aren't you?" Violet asked in an exhausted tone although the question was more rhetorical than anything. "I'd say he's just a man child but at least he got the job done" Lucy added on in an equally exhausted voice.
"Well what do we do know? Checking out that explosion won't keep them busy for too long" Carla asked reminding them about the situation but before any of them could speak up a gruffer voice spoke up gaining their attention, a voice that the group from Earthland recognised. "So it was you who did that attack earlier, got to say I'm impressed Salamander" a tall man with long black spiky hair and studs all over his body, overall he had a heavy metal vibe about himself.
"Gajeel!" the Earthland group shouted out causing said man to smirk and Natsu to gain a thoughtful expression on his face trying to remember the name, "Wait Gajeel as in Black Steel Gajeel the iron dragonslayer of Phantom lord?" Natsu asked in surprise, why the hell would he of all people be here wasn't Phantom Lord situated in Oak Town.
"That's the old me, I'm Fairy Tail's Black Steel Gajeel now" Gajeel said with a grin etched into his face, Wendy and Lucy then quickly went to explain what had transpired in the guild since Natsu had been gone. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN LAXUS GOT EXPELLED, AW MAN HOW I'M I GOING TO NOW IF I'VE SURPASSED HIM NOW!" Natsu shouted out in a pissed off voice gaining the attention of a few passing strangers who just decided to shrug it off as nothing.
"Oi Salamander in case you've forgotten we're in an enemy kingdom where an entire army is out to get us" Gajeel said in stupefied voice as he bonked Natsu over the back of the head with an iron fist resulting in the two getting into a very cartoon like brawl with limbs and heads popping out in all directions like they were some sort of eternal rivals. "You want some metal head?" "You're on ash for brains" and thus ensued the verbal onslaught in true Fairytail brawling fashion.
"OI! Enough!" Violet said in a voice that promised pain if they didn't obey, but when both dragonslayers turned to see the malicious aura radiating from the bluenette, her eyes shadowed by her hair with a piercing red glare emanating from the shadows. "Now V, sweetie let's be reasonable we still have a job to do" Natsu said in a timid voice choosing his words very carefully, thankfully Violet just smirked at him revealing her fanglike teeth which were then seen by Gajeel who started looking back and forth between before he started struggling to contain his laughter at figuring out the connection between the two.
"At any rate Gajeel what are you doing here" Carla decided to speak up to get everyone's minds back on track, "I thought I smelt a few familiar scents so I came to check it out, thankfully it was you lot and the Salamander" Gajeel said after recomposing himself. "Then you're aware of the situation?" Violet asked earning a nod from the iron dragonslayer. "You didn't happen to see anything out of the ordinary on your way here?" Lucy asked hopeful he may have had some information on the whereabouts of the guild members or what state they may have been.
"Nothing much out of the ordinary except for the big ass Lacrima in the centre of the city, I would have busted it open like Mystogan told me to but there were too many guards although even if I did bust that big ass Lacrima open I don't think too many of our guild mates are in their" Gajeel revealed confusing the group.
"What do you mean?" Natsu asked with a puzzled expression on his face, "Well think about it this is a world without any natural source of magic compare that to Earthland and all its mages. We draw ethernano from the air around us in Earthland and we have magic containers full of the stuff" Gajeel said pausing to let his words sink into the group. "What size of a lacrima would you expect to get if you converted all the magic power of just one of the mages from our Guild, think about it Master Makarov title of wizard saint ain't just for show I've seen the old dude's magic when he gets serious and that much power just couldn't be contain in a tiny Lacrima crystal I'd expect it to be a good bit bigger than the one in the centre of the city but that's just one person the entire guild and people of Magnolia are in a crystal so there has to be a bigger one somewhere in the capital" Gajeel revealed, it was sound logic but the others weren't quite sure yet.
"How can you be certain of this?" Carla asked wanting as much information before proceeding recklessly into something that would only end badly. "When I was inspecting the crystal I appeared as though it was cut from something so that lead me to believe there's an even larger crystal in the city somewhere, there's that and the guild's ace recently returned from a hundred-year quest" the iron dragonslayer said in a nonchalant voice causing Natsu's eyes to widen.
"Gildarts is back?!" he almost shouted but remembering what Violet could be like kept his voice down, "Yeah and Salamander your gonna want to hear this, apparently on his quest which he failed may I add…" Gajeel paused to let that sink into the pinkette's skull, he had picked up in his time at that Natsu and Gildarts must have been extremely good friends from the way the crash mage went on about him. Seeing the look on Natsu's face however was priceless, he himself looked totally defeated as his hero, idol and role model (poor choice if you asked a few people) had for the first time failed a mission.
"On his quest he was attacked by a dragon" Gajeel said causing Natsu's eyes to widen in shock, "that's all he said apart from the fact that the dragon was pitch black, pure evil and that no man would be able to defeat it not even a dragonslayer" Gajeel said although the last part was said a bit angrily, it even made Natsu a bit angry that Gildarts would say such a thing.
"If what you say is true then how is Gildarts even still alive, I mean no-one in the guild not even the master has ever seen him go all out but even despite that and all the faith I have in him I doubt Gildarts could survive an attack from Dragon if it was anywhere as strong as Igneel?" Natsu asked but Gajeel just shook his head, "like I said that's all I know but if Gildarts is a strong as you let on that just proves my point all the more, someone of his strength could easily create an island's worth of lacrima" Gajeel replied earning a nod from Natsu.
"Right here's how we going to do things, we need to create a distraction to draw the attention of the guards in the city centre away from the Lacrima so you can smash it, then once you've freed whoever's in it make sure to give them one of these" Natsu said while holding out his container of X-balls only to put it away when he seen Gajeel already holding out a flask of the same thing. "Okay never mind, after you've freed them just use your nose to find us, we'll be searching for signs of another Lacrima crystal well either that or I'll beat it out of someone" Natsu said earning a signature Gihee from Gajeel who like how straight forward the plan was and that there was bound to be plenty of action.
"Sounds good to me, now when do we start?" he asked before slamming his fist in to his open palm, "I believe right now would be good" Violet spoke up as she pointed to a battalion of guards re-entering the city. "I think you're right let's go" Lucy said in a frightened tone, "Ah what's wrong bunny girl scared of a few soldiers" Gajeel teased as the group began running in the opposite direction towards the city centre using the alleyways to make sure they weren't seen too much. "I think that's pretty obvious, in case you're wondering I can't fight all too well that's why I form contracts with all my spirits" Lucy argued causing Gajeel to smirk in response and say nothing which somehow aggravated Lucy just that bit more.
10 minutes later
"There it is, look at the top corner and try and tell me that doesn't look like it has been cut or something" Gajeel said in a know it all tone and truth be told the top corner of the lacrima had a jagged break mark as if it had been cut from a larger lacrima. "Looks like you're right, but that just begs the question, if that only contains a few of your guilds members then where the hell are they hiding the larger one?" Violet asked as she narrowed her eyes in on the crowd who were rejoicing as the soldiers broke off fragments of the giant lacrima and allowed it to rain down on them.
The group then felt the temperature around them increase and when they looked to the source they could see Natsu with a pissed off expression on his face and steam rolling off his body, "Natsu calm down we need to stick to the plan" Violet said in a panicked tone as she grabbed Natsu by his shirt ignoring the pain be caused by the increase in temperature as her time with the pinkette had given her somewhat of a resistance to high temperatures and flames.
"She's right Salamander, if you barge in there the entire royal army will no doubt barrel down on us in minutes, we need to stick with the plan if we want to save them" Gajeel said with a neutral tone matching his expression before he got up to take his position on the opposite side of the courtyard. Albeit with a rather angry grunt Natsu agreed and along with the rest of the group took went to a suitable location close enough but not too close to the courtyard to create the distraction. "Wendy you ready?" Natsu asked in a calm tone receiving a nod from the young teen before they both turned to face a giant statue of who they assumed was the King of Edolas.
"Fire Dragon's…."
"Sky Dragon's…."
"ROOOOAAAAAARRRR!"
Taking a brief second to inhale a deep breath of air both slayer then simultaneously released their roars combining them into a tornado of fire and wind dragonslayer magic that flew towards the statue with incredible force before connecting with its target resulting in a rather large explosion drawing the attention of citizen and guard alike which caused immediate panic as one of their King's monuments crumbled to the ground.
"You go now, take as many soldiers as you need that must be the Earthland Mages that escaped the king's plan!"
"Yes Sir!"
Meanwhile amongst the crowd Gajeel smirked as things seemed to be going a bit smoother than he anticipated but he wasn't about to let his guard down, but seeing as the majority of the guards were leaving the courtyard square he supposed it was his time to shine.
"Oi you get back we're in the middle of an emergency here…ugh" One of the remaining guards threated pointing his spear towards Gajeel when he saw the hooded figure approaching the Lacrima however he was silenced when an iron pole shot out from the Gajeel's cloaked sleeve which was followed by a Gihee.
"Yeah and I'm the emergency" Gajeel said with his usual wicked grin as he tossed of his cloak before transforming his right arm into an iron dragon's sword. "Sir he's one of the Earthland mages what do we do if he gets to the island lacrima…" one of the guards who happened to be scared shit of the fact that Gajeel just turned his arm into what looked like a saw blade but he covered his mouth when he saw the now even wider smirk on the dragonslayers face at having heard that little slip of information.
"Thanks for the info, I'd love to repay you but I'm busy right now" Gajeel said with a smirk plastered on his face before he swung his now extended iron sword in the direction of the Lacrima causing it to slice right through the crystal structure. Nothing happened for a moment, then a white light enveloped the crystal before it slowly started to clear revealing the outline of two shadows one male the other female. Both seemed disorientated as the stumbled a bit on their feet, however Gajeel was more surprised than anything that there were just two people in the crystal, he had hoped that if this was the case that he'd get Titania and the She-devil but that wasn't the case as Gray's form came in view along with Erza's. "Oh well one's better than none" Gajeel thought to himself before slamming an iron fist into the ground causing chunks of stone and clouds of dust to cover the courtyard, this allowed the iron Dragonslayer to grab both Erza and Gray and escape.
Needless to say Erza wasn't too happy about being grabbed in hear disorientated state which earned Gajeel a gauntleted fist to the jaw. "Oi Titania it's me so could you not try to knock my head off while we're trying to escape!" Gajeel shouted angrily before he rounded a corner into an alley way. "Gajeel what is the meaning of this what's going on?" Erza questioned furiously trying to summon forth a sword only to find she couldn't. "It'll be too long to give you the whole story, so I'll just give both of you the shortened version of what the hell is going on" Gajeel said earning a nod from the scarlet haired and ice make wizards.
It took a few minutes to explain what exactly was going on but Gajeel was eventually able to explain it in a way that Erza and Gray could understand although he left out any of the details that included Natsu thinking that would be a nice surprise for Erza especially concerning Violet, oh how he would regret that. "I see so we all have counterparts in this world?" Erza said with a thoughtful expression but before she could ask about her counterpart Gajeel answered her question for her.
"Yes, the contact I made in this world who also happens to be my counterpart is a reporter for the Kingdom so I got as much information on all the guilds counterparts that existed within the Kingdom. Your counterpart before you asked is Known as the Fairy Hunter simply because she's killed the most Fairy Tail members of this world than any other Royal Captain, her name is Erza Knightwalker" Gajeel revealed shocking both Erza and Gray that any Erza from any alternate dimension or world could be capable of something such as murdering a member of Fairy Tail.
"Before I forget her both of you need to take one of these" Gajeel said as he fiddled through his pocket before pulling out a flask of X-balls and taking out two of them. "What the hell are those?" Gray with a puzzled expression his face as he picked up the small orange ball. "The hell if I know, Mystogan gave them to me, said that I wanted to use magic here then I need to take one" the iron dragon said with a shrug before poking his head round the corner to see if the coast was clear.
"Hurry up and take it, we need to meet up with bunny girl and Wendy, they made a distraction that allowed me to free you but now we now that the rest of the guild is inside a much larger Lacrima and I have a fair idea where it is but we're gonna have to help those two cause I'm gonna need the blue cat to get me to the other lacrima" Gajeel explained before running off in the direction he saw the explosion occur, he was then quickly followed by Erza and Gray who still didn't know what to think about the situation.
Meanwhile with Natsu's group
Natsu and the others were rapidly making their way through the city smashing through battalion after battalion of guards it seemed like nothing was going to get in their way, well that was until Hughes and Sugarboy along with their battalions came onto the scene but that wasn't what was standing in their way, no what was standing in their way had scarlet hair, a lustful look in her eyes directed towards Natsu and pissed off Violet to no ends, "Natsu you know you can't hide from me."
"Knightwalker!"
Chapter end
Well guys there you happy belated chapter hope you like it, next on my update list is absolutely positively going to be Fallen angel I've left it for way too long so it needs to be updated to make sure it doesn't lose followers. Anyway until next time bye bye.