Chapter 9
Pah! Disclaimers? Who needs em? (It's in chapter one)
"Would you like a drink my dear?" Salamander asked the pretty young blond sitting across from him
"Sure", she responded in good nature ugh, I can't believe I'm doing this. Well if it means I get into fairy tail then I'll endure it, Lucy thought as she reached for a glass
"Not so fast my dear, let me", salamander said with a smirk he evidently thought was sexy before using magic to make the liquid in the nearby cups float and form spheres as if they were in zero gravity
"Open wide", salamander said and with a grimace she did as she was told, salamander moved the orbs of liquid towards her mouth, as they got close, grandfather crux's analysis of the liquid came in and Lucy stood up and slapped the orbs away with the back of her hand
"What do you think you're playing at?!", She asked putting a hand on the pouch holding her keys, it turns out that there was a sleeping drug in the drink. Salamander's face twisted into and evil grin
"You can come out now boys", he called behind him and the curtains separating them from the deck of the luxury cruise ship they were on opened, revealing a group of about twenty burly men, many of whom had unconscious girls slung over their shoulders. Lucy took a step back in surprise
"Wha-what's going on?", She intelligently asked, salamander chuckled darkly
"I'll put it simply for you my dear, I know of someone who would pay a pretty penny for a group of gorgeous young girls such as these and you, well, I could probably get as much for you as all these girls combined", he said menacingly
"I won't let you", she said glaring and reaching to pull out Taurus' key, but before she could salamander created a tendril of purple fire and quick as a snake snatched her pouch from her belt and held it in his hand
"A celestial spirt mage eh? Well too bad, you're completely useless without these", he said condescendingly before throwing the pouch out a nearby porthole, into the ocean
"No!", Lucy cried, reaching a hand out, she turned slowly to once again face salamander
"What are you going to do now my dear?", Salamander said in mock sympathy, just as he looked like he would continue his gloating, the ceiling caved in with a crash and before them stood the white haired woman from earlier
As Lisanna landed she felt a bit nauseous and quickly casted troia to prevent herself from getting seasick, looking around she quickly assessed the situation, noticing the blond aspiring mage they had met earlier in the day she called out
"Happy, get Lucy out of here", Happy gladly followed the command, swooping down through the hole with an
"AYE MA'AM", grabbing Lucy and swooping back out again, Lisanna then turned and glared at salamander who smiled smugly
"So you decided to accept my invitation after all, get her boys!"
The three men closest to her lunged with their arms out stretched and Lisanna quickly ducked, swung her leg at the nearest attacker, knocking him on his ass, as the first fell, Lisanna reached above her head and grabbed the second man's arms and using his momentum, threw him into the third man, knocking them both out
She stood back up and didn't even look like she had done anything, many of the assembled men were shocked at how quickly she had dispatched three men at least twice her size, in a dress no less but salamander just looked furious
"All of you! GET HER!", He screeched madly. But just as the rest of the mob could charge at her, the ship veered wildly and was flung into port by a massive tidal wave
"I said to get the ship! NOT ME AS WELL!", Lucy screamed at a woman with blue hair and the lower half of a fish
"Oops, it looks like I hit the boat with that attack", the mermaid said with disdain
"YOU WERE AIMING FOR ME!?", Lucy screamed incredulously
"Don't call me again, I'm going on a date with my boyfriend...boyfriend", she continued unabated
"Yea, you don't need to rub it in", Lucy mumbled
"And if you ever drop my key again, there will be hell to pay", the blue haired woman said glaring into Lucy's face before disappearing in a flash of light
"Salamander!", Lisanna called from atop the wrecked ship, catching the attention of everyone present
"You … You! You bitch! You ruined EVERYTHING!", Salamander screamed while he threw a tantrum like a toddler
"Let me see your face", Lisanna called down
"What?", was salamander's smart reply as he turned up to face her
"you say you're from fairy tail, BUT IVE NEVER SEEN YOU BEFORE!", Lisanna shouted at him while tilting her hips so her leg was visible through the slit in her purple dress, showing her white guild mark
"Bora, I think she's the real deal!", one of the henchmen said, suddenly terrified
"IDIOT! I told you not to call me that!", Salamander, now know as Bora screamed turning on the man.
"Bora of prominence, so this is what you've been doing since getting kicked out of Titan's nose", Lisanna said calmly
"What?! Lisanna's in fairy tail!", Lucy exclaimed, surprised, Happy just snickered
"Aye sir! She tried to tell you earlier but you were too busy talking", the little blue cat joked causing Lucy to blush
"Ugh! How do you like this bitch! RED SHOWER!", Bora screamed and a torrent of small purple flames flew at Lisanna, many hitting their target and creating a smoke screen
"Pfft. You call that fire?", Lisanna scoffed as she leaped gracefully into the air, changing into her wyvern takeover, the takeover changed her clothes into a form fitting plate male armour that looked like she was covered in silver scales that left her hands, head and most of her stomach bare, it also left her shoulders unprotected but her neck and arms were covered
The physical changes were also prominent, four bat like wings protruded from her back in pairs, one pair just below her shoulder blades and the other just underneath the back of her ribs, the wings were unarmored but were the same shiny grey of the rest of her takeover, the nails on her hands grew longer and sharper, becoming talons capable of ripping through poorly tempered metal, her feet were covered by strange garments that were fused with the form fitting armour, they looked like four pronged metal stilts, one thick heel and three curved and sharp from prongs that click menacingly as she walked
While in this transformation, many had mentioned that it looked remarkably like a combination of her sisters satan souls and Erza's constant armoured garb and while she said it was a coincidence Lisanna had, in fact designed the takeover as such, the power of two wyverns, young or not, had taken a lot of time for Lisanna to master and by designing the takeover as something she was familiar with had helped the process
Many of the henchmen wolf whistled at the curve revealing attire Lisanna's magic had changed her into but they were quickly silenced as she swooped down, appearing only as a silver blur and kicked each of them, sending them flying back into the ocean
"The real salamander could make hotter fires when he was seven!", Lisanna taunted floating about fifteen feet from Bora who was shaking in fury at having his men defeated so easily
"HOW DARE YOU!", He screamed indignantly
"I AM THE GREAT BORA OF PROMINENCE! YOU PALE IN COMPARISON TO MY POWER", he continued and a purple seal appeared in front of his chest
"RED SKULL", he screamed and a large red fireball in the shape of a skull hurtled towards Lisanna at startling speed, in retaliation Lisanna simply raised her hands and caught the fireball, the force of the spell however did push her back trough the air but she kept her hold of the fire and gained control
Bora's mouth hung open in unadulterated surprise as did Lucy's, Lisanna then proceeded to throw the fireball over Bora's head and into the remaining crowd of henchmen, causing and explosion that knocked pretty much all of them out, Lisanna whistled in appreciation
"That attack wasn't half bad", she complimented but Bora was beyond comprehension with rage and could only splutter in disbelief. Lisanna's joyful and taunting expression suddenly turned serious and the glare she shot at Bora sent shivers down even Lucy's spine
"But! You have done two things that are unforgivable this night Bora!", the man in question glared up at her although his anger quickly turned to fear as she shot at him like a ball out of a cannon
"PROMINENCE TYPHOON!", he screamed in retaliation, a spiral of torrential fire burst from a seal over his chest but it didn't affect Lisanna in the slightest, she grabbed each of his shoulders with the strange footwear digging into him and flew straight into the air
"The first was using the good name of fairy tail for such a disgusting scheme", Lisanna yelled in a dangerously calm voice high above the port town, then, she did a violent front flip in mid air, releasing Bora at the lowest point, throwing him towards the ground at a frightening rate
Lisanna flew down parallel to him as he was forced into a dive by the force acting on his body, Bora his the ground creating a crater and bounced, Lisanna had landed next to him and changed into her polar bear takeover, at the peak of the trafficker's bounce; time seemed to slow
She spun in a blisteringly fast roundhouse kick but to all those watching she seemed to be going at a snails pace, he foot connected with Bora's chest, breaking all of his ribs with a clear snap adding them to the list of physical injuries he had sustained; joining both his arms and his right leg
Time returned to normal and Bora flew at the insane speed he seemed to be averaging at during this fight into town, crashing violently through many houses and businesses before coming to stop in a broken pile at the peak of the town, in a pile of wreckage
Lisanna stood over him back in her normal form, looking down at him without an ounce of sympathy, knowing he would live
"And the second was using Natsu's name for the same reason", she said softly before turning away as Bora passed out from his injuries
Happy caught up with her easily and was closely followed by Lucy
"that was amazing!", Lucy exclaimed jumping into the air in excitement but her jubilation was cut shot by the sound of quickly marching feet , the source of which turned out to be a battalion of the magic council's Rune Knights
"Crap! It's the council! Let's go!", Lisanna said and grabbed Lucy's wrist and ran in the direction of the station
"Wait. Where are you taking me?", Lucy asked in genuine confusion, Lisanna simply grinned back at her
"You said you wanted to join fairy tail didn't you?", She rhetorically asked and Lucy's face beamed in realisation
The debriefing was boring, it always was, he had been there dammit! He knew how it went! But his duties as a lieutenant directly under Pantherlily meant that he was required to sit through these meetings around the Kings table
Generally the lieutenants were left out of the general discussion, generally the lieutenants were left out entirely but Ignea's status to be allowed to carry his own magical weapon granted him special privileges like only having to directly answer to Pantherlily and king Faust but it unfortunately meant he had to be more directly involved in the planning and strategic aspects of an attack, something the boy wasn't very good at
It was widely accepted in the capital that Ignea held the power equal or even exceeding the commanders and that if one were to retire he would almost certainly take their place, it was also well known that he was an idiot or at least he seemed to be; he was easily the most eligible bachelor on the continent but he barely spared glances and polite greetings to potential suitors of either sex, he was air headed and brash, it wasn't very often the young lieutenant could be seen sitting still for any reason and as had been previously stated was rubbish at strategy; preferring to leave those aspects to strategists in the divisions he overlooks
Another thing that marked Ignea out from basically all of the rest of the Edolas military was he was generally peace loving, the boy loved a good fight, but nothing that was life or death, he would almost never directly act in battles unless a decisive win was necessary and hated death on either side, preferring to capture his enemies
Unfortunately Ignea's dislike of death lead many to believe he had ulterior motives for joining the army but those rumours were quickly squashed when he proved his prowess on the battlefield despite them being true, now, only Erza Knightwalker: commander of Edolas' second magic war division held suspicion and the two had a violent rivalry with fights often breaking out between them
He had been likened to a demon on the battle field was known with awe and fear and the fire wraith but despite his power and reclusive nature, he inspired loyalty in his men that no other lieutenant could replicate and his men trusted him completely despite many of them having never met him
The boring meeting allowed the white headed lieutenant to think about his time before joining the army; as it had turned out, Neiberosa did know Igneel and had pointed him in his father's counterparts direction, when he had arrived he had gotten more than bargained for
Edo-Igneel had, understandably mistook him for his son at first; them being counterparts after all, but after he had explained his situation to the dragon in human form, the man had not only offered him a place to stay, but to train him an a form of martial arts used by dragon counterparts such as himself
Igneel was a large man, with a similar build to Gildarts with black hair, streaked with brilliant Crimson in the same spiky style he himself had, his eyes were the same charcoal as Natsu's, he was an ex soldier from before magic's outlawing, now a blacksmith and was generally wearing brown overalls caked in soot with a black apron
Igneel told him he had attempted to teach his son in this world the fighting style but the boy was timid and pathetic when he wasn't behind the wheel of a vehicle and that while he was proud of his son, he didn't want the fighting style he had learnt to die with him
So Natsu had spent the better part of a year with his dragon's counterpart, learning the style of the bronze dragon which included not only hand to hand combat, which he excelled at, as he always had, but martial weapons as well, including swords, maces and most importantly Igneel's family heirloom: the dragon's fang staff
Natsu had found himself far better with larger two handed weapons but favoured staffs due to their power of a two handed weapon and speed of a single hander, much to Igneel's delight as again it meant he could pass his extensive knowledge of staff combat and eventually the staff itself
Natsu's natural fire resistance also made him invaluable as a smith and often helped at the forge, building his strength and learning how to repair and improve weapons, as well as, if necessary build them
Natsu had expressed his desire to join the army, to find out if there was a way for him to get back home but hadn't acted on it, instead opting to learn all he could about the land he was in and the skills of bronze dragon
Igneel had fortunately been close friends with the exceed commander Pantherlily who was suspicious of the military's actions concerning Earthland and Extalia and one day when the large exceed had come for repairs on his weapon: buster marm, Igneel had told him of his son's counterpart's plight and with one quick disguise, a new name and history Natsu joined the army under the guise of Ignea Rosa
The rest, they say, is history, the two had recently found documents concerning a plan, but the details of which were ambiguous at best, at least, Natsu had found out it was possible to get home, just not yet.