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How many demons are lurking among humans? No idea, as most of those who lives among humans lives legally. The right question is: how many Zeref's 'demons' are lurking among normal demons…
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Well, this is it. Now, here's the new chapter.
Chapter II – Change of Plans
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July 2, Year X784, 9:37, Fiore Kingdom, port town of Hargeon, hotel room.
"Uhh…" Mirajane moaned as she woke up. About one minute she was lying with her eyes closed, trying to remember why her body is aching all over, and why is her pussy feeling like it was pounded with jackhammer. 'Ah, that's why…' She remembered the events of last night. 'Idiot's dream came true…' She thought about her dream to be fucked until she'd passed out. Mira removed her blanket and examined her body – it was still covered with spots of Natsu's sperm and other liquids.
"Don't worry, you won't get pregnant," Natsu's emotionless voice sounded from aside as Mira thoughtfully was looking at those spots. "I can control the fertility of my own semen," He added.
"Huh?!" Mira's eyes widened. Actually, that wasn't what she was thinking about. Moreover, she completely forgot that tonight's sex actually was an 'unsafe sex', which could result in pregnancy. "I… well… um…" Demoness prattled, pregnancy was the last thing she needed now, especially with his baby…
"You're welcome," Natsu replied as he saw her confusion. He already took shower and dressed up, and now he was sitting near window, reading the Sorcerer weekly, the most popular weekly magazine among Fiore's wizards.
Mira didn't find what to reply; she tried to stand up from bed, but legs refused to hold her and she collapsed on all four. "Oh!" She exclaimed, her legs were still trembling. "Master, what happened before I fell asleep?" She asked as she managed to crawl back to the bed. "Last thing I remember – I cum, and then…"
"You ware cumming for more than five minutes, and then you passed out," Natsu reminded her, still reading the magazine.
"Five minutes?!" Mira's eyes widened. "I remember that I was in complete ecstasy… and then I passed out?" She asked in apologizing tone. "You weren't completely satisfied, right?" She lowered her head.
"No need to be sad," Dread Master replied. "You still did better than I've expected, and much better than any other girl I've slept with. You endured two hours of hardcore sex, that's not bad at all."
"Yes, but…" Mira sighed. "I must admit, master, your endurance is amazing," Demoness smiled shyly. "Tonight, you haven't showed any signs of tiredness…"
"In appearance, I look like human, but physiologically we completely different. For example, I have three hearts and four lungs. This is necessity as, in particular, my brain and, especially, my eyes require much more abundant oxygen supply, but of course, my overall stamina and physical parameters also affected," Dread master explained, still reading the magazine.
"Really?!" Mirajane's eyes widened in surprise as her jaw dropped. 'No wonder he haven't tired! With three hearts, I can't even imagine how much stamina he has! No way could I keep up with that…'
Inside the shower cabin, standing under the streams of hot water, Mira couldn't stop thinking about last night, at the same time trying to sort out her emotions towards Natsu. She definitely should be angry with him, and she still was, but… As they say – good sex can atone for worst relationships. 'Five minutes long orgasm…' Demoness thought with weird smile, she definitely wanted to experience that again… no, she wanted more.
July 2, Year X784, 11:04, Fiore Kingdom, port town of Hargeon.
Natsu and Mirajane were walking towards train station. In the end, Natsu decided to try Phantom Lord first. Both guilds have their advantages and drawbacks, so they seem equal, but train to Oak Town's departing earlier. Not the best reason of course, but still…
"Amazing…" Mirajane mumbled. She was reading magazine, which Natsu passed to her, at the same time trying not to crash into anyone on the walk. "Human's society really is open-minded," She added, reading the topic about some regional magical contest.
At this moment, two girls ran by her and Natsu, excitedly talking to one another.
"…yes, the famous mage-sama is in town!"
"…I know, it's Salamander-sama!"
"…he's a member of that great guild, Fairy Tail!"
Natsu stopped and looked at girls. Mira still was looking into magazine and crashed into Natsu, but he seemingly didn't notice. "Mage of Fairy Tail?" He asked, following the girls with his eyes. "Interesting… c'mon, let's take a look," He decided, probably wishing to observe that man, "Let's see what kind of wizards that Fairy Tail has."
"As you say, master," Mira replied absently, she continued to stare into weekly Sorcerer. As they followed those two, Natsu saw a small but noisy crowd of teenage girls, standing in circle, around someone. Inside the circle of girls was a man with dark-blue hair, dressed into remarkable clothes, though he looked more like a clown than a wizard. As they approached, Natsu's sharingan noticed more details.
"Is he… is he considered cool or good looking among humans?" Mirajane wondered as she was a bit surprised with the crowd of girls. For her own tastes that Salamander or whatever, looked like a fool, making idiotic poses and smiling with no reason.
"No, he's just a buffoon," Natsu replied, as his eyes continued to examine the girls, as well as object of their admiration. "Those girls are under the effect of charm spell, it's working in similar manner with your sister's charm curse," He explained. "Strange… I have a feeling that I've already seen him somewhere… C'mon, let's take a closer look," Natsu decided – he seemingly had a reason to interfere in situation.
"Hey, man, may I have your attention please?" Natsu asked, approaching the man, brusquely pushing aside his fangirls. "Is there any chance that we've met before?"
The man jerked back in surprise before he smirked and struck another idiotic pose, "Maybe you know me as… Salamander, the mage of famous guild Fairy Tail!" The guy in the cloak said, expecting the salmon-haired young man to at least be amazed.
However, the sharingan wielder easily deciphered that this man's words was a lie. "Really?" Natsu wondered, "Then may I ask why the member of renowned Fairy Tail is using a forbidden charm magic?"
"What's in it to you, goon?" Man asked rudely as his smile quickly turned into arrogant smirk. "Get to fuck outta here or I'll teach you to not poke your nose into other's doings!" He threatened.
"Wrong," Natsu replied indifferently.
"Get lost!" Man demanded rudely.
Natsu ignored him, "…I'm going to collect my toll… in blood." As Natsu said that, two of charmed girls suddenly collapsed on all four and turned into tigresses. Everything happened so fast that man just screamed in shock as tigresses pounced on him and simultaneously bit off his legs.
"AAAAAUUUUGH!" Man let out a heartrending scream of horror and pain as other girls, which were standing around Salamander, suddenly began to cheer for him.
"Salamander-sama! You can do it!"
"You can defeat these beasts!"
"Do it, Salamander-sama!"
Such a reaction was absolutely inappropriate, but no one tried to help Salamander. "Now, speak," Natsu demanded. "Who are you? Why are you need this idiotic girls?"
"Help!" Man screamed, trying to gain a passersby attention, "Please! Help! I'm dying here!" He was lying in puddle of his own blood as tigresses were gnawing his limbs, but people continued to pass by, ignoring him as charmed girls continued to cheer for him.
"The quicker you begin to talk, the more limbs you'll retain," Natsu commented. Man tried to bring his hands together, seemingly intending to cast some spell, but one more girl turned into tigress, pounced on him and bit off his left arm. "This won't help," Natsu noted.
One more girl turned into tigress and approached Salamander, growling and baring her teeth, seemingly aiming at Sallamander's groin. "All right! I'll talk!" He cried in horror and despair. "My name is Bora! I'm using a charm spells to kidnap girls and sell them on slave market in Bosko! Please, help me!" As he hear that, Natsu remembered where he saw this man before. Just before Natsu got the mission to kill those two slavers in Bosco, his saw that man's face on wanted poster. Poster's quality, however, was so horrible that even with sharingan Natsu couldn't recognize him. "I'm begging you… no! NO!" The remaining tigress pounced at him and bit off his remaining arm.
"I knew that I saw you somewhere," Natsu commented. His eyes flashed and genjutsu dissipated, revealing Bora lying on the ground, screaming and swinging his limbs. Of course there were no tigresses and no blood as all of Bora's fangirls were looking at him in shock. The charm spell wore off, as all the girls heard that this man wanted to kidnap them and sell as slaves.
"Ah?! What is…?! Going on?!" Bora asked with hoarse voice as he saw that all his limbs actually still on their places. He, however, barely could move as he saw his limbs being torn off, and his brain couldn't quickly adapt to the fact that they're still on place.
"Knock him out," Natsu nodded to Mirajane. "As far as I remember, he's worth 700 000 jewels, and I guess we can earn more if we'll bring him for questioning, which means he should be alive."
'Unbelievable…' Mirajane thought in awe as she approached shocked and confused Bora. She understood that he saw some sort of illusion, just like she did during her fight against Natsu. 'Such a horrible power… This human, Bora… He was defeated the moment he looked into master's eyes…' Now Mira fully realized why Natsu's race was called 'Dread Masters'… Demoness raised her fist and smashed it into Bora's chest, eliciting a shockwave and knocking him out.
Natsu looked around with his glowing red eyes. "Get lost," He commanded, addressing to the girls. As crowd began to break up, Natsu picked up the unconscious body. "C'mon, we need to exchange that for reward, let's go to local military garrison," He said and headed toward aforementioned destination.
"Mmm… master," Mirajane asked, "You said that he's worth 700 000 jewels, right?"
"Yes," Natsu confirmed.
"Is it much? 700 000 jewels?" Demoness wondered.
"Look there," Natsu replied, pointing at one of town's bulletin boards.
"Huh?" Mira was a bit confused but she did as Natsu said. "Oh," She came closer to aforementioned board and saw the advertisements for houses for sale. "Hmm… Two-storied mansion for 1 420 000 jewels?" Mirajane read one of advertisements, "Ah, so… it's half of the price then… it's quite a lot, thus…" Mira again looked at Natsu, 'That man accumulated quite high bounty for his head… He probably was dangerous, yet he was effortlessly defeated…' Slight shiver ran along Mira's spine.
"Master," Mira quietly called for Natsu.
"Yes, I know," Dread Master replied, "She's following us since we took that guy, but don't rush into action, stay calm." The girl that was following him and Mirajane didn't look like a threat.
"As you say," Mira nodded.
"Stay here, I'll be quick," Natsu pointed at one of benches in small public garden, in front of garrison's fort. "Keep an eye on her but try not to let her notice that she's been spotted."
"Understood," Mirajane nodded as she sat on bench and continued to read the magazine; Natsu went to the fort.
Blonde girl, slightly below of average height, with curvaceous but slender body, was observing Mirajane from behind the corner of nearby house. About ten minutes have passed since Natsu entered the building. "Are you looking for something, young lady?" Quiet voice asked her from behind.
"Ah!?" Girl abruptly turned around only to see Natsu standing behind her.
She unwillingly looked into his eyes and her innards grew cold from fear, she made a step back but stuck into someone. That someone roughly grabbed her by waist and pressed to the wall, "Haven't you heard the question?" Mirajane asked.
"No!" Blonde covered her face with her arms as if expecting to get hit, "I… I didn't follow you!"
"Master, look!" Mirajane pointed at the pink emblem on the backside of Lucy's right palm, "That's the emblem I saw in the magazine!"
"Yes, it is," Natsu confirmed as his sharingan noticed girl's Fairy Tail emblem long before that. "Care to explain your morbid interest towards us?" Natsu addressed blonde again. "You aren't that guy's accomplice, aren't you? You didn't think of freeing him?" Natsu asked, though girl's emblem doesn't seem fake.
"No!" Girl desperately denied the accusation as she dared to slightly open her face – seemingly no one intended to beat her, at least for now.
"Then who are you?" Mirajane inquired.
"I'm… I'm Lucy, of Fairy Tail," Girl replied. "And I… well, I actually wanted to thank you…" She explained, humbly looking into the floor.
"Thank us?" Natsu wondered, "For what?"
"For taking that guy down," Lucy answered. "You see, that man was using our guild's name to commit crimes. As a member of Fairy Tail, it's my duty to preserve our guild's good name. I was about to attack him when you two showed up, though, I wasn't sure that I actually would win…" Blonde admitted with sigh, carefully trying to avoid looking into Natsu's eyes. "But you… well, actually I've no idea what have you done to him, but his confession cleared our guild's name, so, on behalf of Fairy Tail, I thank you!" Lucy said, as she even dared to smile a little.
"I see," Natsu replied, as Mirajane was a bit confused, since Lucy seemingly mentioned some unfamiliar social convention.
"Anyway," Mirajane said, "Mas…" She tried to remind about train to Oak Town, but suddenly everything around her became black and white, including herself. She was entrapped in genjutsu.
"Shh!" Natsu shushed at her. "You're in my genjutsu, she can't hear me. Don't reply – just nod if you understand," Seemingly Natsu wanted to speak tête-à-tête with demoness. Mirajane nodded, though she shivered a little – these genjutsu really were scary. "Now, listen up," Natsu continued. "Don't call me 'master' with other people around us, they don't need to know the real nature of our relationships, it may cause a… misunderstanding. Just call me Natsu. And if anyone ask – you're my girlfriend. Understand?"
Mira's eyes widened a little, but it doesn't matter what she actually thought about that request – as a bound demon she had no choice but to comply. She slowly nodded in sign that she understood. "Good," Natsu said as his genjutsu dissipated, and Mirajane let out a sigh of relief as world again became colorful. While Natsu was talking with Mira inside genjutsu, in real world he seemingly was talking to Lucy. He explained to her that he and Mirajane are looking for the guild right now.
"Really?!" Lucy's eyes widened with excitement. "Have you… have you considered joining Fairy Tail?!"
"Of course," Natsu replied. "Actually, we were intending to head to Magnolia today."
Mirajane raised an eyebrow, few hours ago Natsu decided to go to Phantom Lord. She looked at her master but he just slightly shook his head, meaning that she should postpone her question, he was unwilling to create another genjustsu.
"Then come with me!" Lucy announced, "I'll introduce you two to the guild!" Blonde really seemed excited, 'If I'll manage to recruit these two, no one ever will say that I've never done anything useful to the guild!'
"Shall we head to the train station then?" Natsu asked, "I believe train to Magnolia is departing soon…"
"Right!" Lucy agreed.
July 2, Year X784, 14:21, Fiore Kingdom, aboard the train.
While Mirajane was looking into the window, exploring unfamiliar landscapes of human's kingdom, Natsu was talking to Lucy. "I'm probably not the best example to judge our guild," Blonde said humbly. "There are wizards that are much stronger than I," She added, "You probably heard their names…" Natsu nodded, indeed, there were few well known names, particularly, the guild master, Makarov, one of Ten Wizards Saints, and Gildarts Clive, ace of Fairy Tail. "Also, I should note that Fairy Tail is the only guild in Magnolia," Blonde added.
"Tell me about Magnolia," Natsu asked.
"Oh? Well, It's quite a nice town," Lucy replied. "Magnolia has a population of 60 000 inhabitants, and is a merchant city that has been prosperous in Magic since the ancient era. Not too big and not too small, typical mid-sized town."
"Real estate prices?" Natsu asked.
"Higher than they should have been…" Lucy admitted with sigh.
"How long have you been a member of Fairy Tail?" Dread Master inquired.
"One year and one day!" Lucy replied with smile. "I've joined on my previous birthday, 1st July, X783!" Seemingly, joining the Fairy Tail was really an important event in Lucy's life.
"Very well, thank you for the information," Natsu nodded.
July 3, Year X784, 8:52, town of Magnolia.
Since train arrived to Magnolia after midnight, introduction to Fairy Tail was postponed until morning. As usual, Natsu rented a hotel room, however, tonight were no love joys as this morning he and Mira had to wake up early. Mira had mixed feelings about that as, from one side, she was really tired after long trip, but still…
"So, this is it?" Natsu asked, looking at building in front of himself. Fairy Tail's headquarters was an imposing building, which was consisting of three floors, built in a shape reminiscent of a pagoda.
"Is something wrong, master?" Mirajane wondered, looking at Natsu.
"Not really," Dread Master replied. "It's just that archaic design of human's buildings. Pure pragmatism…"
"I'm wondering…" Demon asked, "How buildings where your people lived looked like?"
Instead of answering, Natsu turned his head towards Mirajane and his eyes flashed with red light as she again was entrapped in genjutsu. She found herself on a small rock, which was floating high above the ground, right beneath dark thunderclouds. "Huh?!" She was a bit scared, but Natsu simply pointed somewhere aside. Mira looked that direction and…
"WOW!" She exclaimed in awe. Now she was staring at three enormously high skyscrapers, built on common foundation. Three towers were linked by habitable bridges at the top and the bottom. Towers weren't straight but had spiraling form, it looked like they're made of crystalized liquid. The tips of towers were hidden by storm clouds, and lightning were constantly striking them, but towers were simply absorbing lightning energy. Also towers were equipped with rainwater collection systems and wind turbines, and all towers were glowing with countless lights. Mirajane was rendered speechless by this extraterrestrial view.
"Breathtaking, isn't it?" Natsu asked. "The vast majority of my people lived there, in tower-city of Arcis Tempestatis… And it is still out there somewhere, as its walls is stronger than time itself." Natsu closed his eyes and genjutsu dissipated.
"Oh?!" Mirajane suddenly came back to her senses, she was bewitched with majestic sight, so she even forgot where she actually is.
"Good morning!" Lucy cheerfully waved to Dread Master and his demon, approaching them, "Sorry I'm late…"
"Good morning," Natsu replied politely, hiding his displeasure with archaic design of Fairy Tail's building. Mirajane simply nodded to Lucy.
"Ready to meet the Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked with smile, before she looked at Mira. "Is something wrong?"
"Um?" Marajane looked at Lucy absently. "Oh, it's nothing," She assured her, "I'm just… rethinking my entire worldview…"
"Huh?" Lucy was a bit surprised.
"Don't mind her," Natsu intervened, "Lead the way."
"Right!" Lucy replied cheerfully and headed towards Guild Hall gate.
July 3, Year X784, 9:07, Fairy Tail.
"I'm home!" Lucy shouted, announcing her arrival.
"Yo!" "What's up!" "Hey!" "Welcome back!" Several people greeted Lucy as others waved to her or just nodded. Seemingly Fairy Tail was quite friendly. But then Natsu and Mirajane stepped into the building, and…
"Who is it?" "What's with his eyes?" "Damn, he's looking much cooler than me…" People began whispering, Natsu read their words with his sharingan. "What a cutie…" "Her boobs… so big…" "Those ears… so adorable…" And so on and so forth. "Tell me he's not her boyfriend / Tell me she's not his girlfriend…"
"Lucy? What's going on?" Asked a black-haired woman, who wore brown pants and a sea-blue colored bikini top. "Who are these people?"
"Hi Cana! This is Natsu and Mirajane, they've come to join our guild!" Lucy exclaimed excitedly.
"I'm Mirajane Strauss," Demoness introduced herself.
"My name is Natsu, Natsu Dawnsinger," Dread master spoke out.
"Really?!" Cana exclaimed. "That Natsu?! The one who singlehandedly defeated the terrorists that attacked the Lupinus castle?!"
"Yes, that was me," Natsu confirmed.
'I guess those terrorists ended up badly…' Mirajane thought.
"So it was you?!" Lucy's eyes widened a bit. "And they said that castle remained almost intact…" Lucy added, remembering how Natsu dealt with bora, seemingly without casting any spell.
"And you really want to join us?!" Girl named Cana asked, "That's really great – God knows how much we need people, which can work without collateral damage…" To this point, Fairy Tail mages made a circle around the newcomers.
"Shall we give these guys a try?" Natsu quietly asked for Mirajane's opinion.
Mirajane was a bit at loss, though she already knew why she attracted so much attention from Fairy Tail male mages. That, however, wasn't the reason to deny the offer. "I think so," She replied.
"Very well," Natsu agreed.
July 3, Year X784, 9:20, Fairy Tail.
"And this is it?" Natsu asked as he was watching Cana who brought a guild stamp. "We don't need to at least speak with the guild master or his deputy?"
"Generally, yes," Lucy replied. "Usually you have to speak with one of our senior mages. But you already has quite a reputation, besides, you've already helped our guild."
"Moreover, none of our senior mages are present here, so master left me in charge while he's out for business," Cana explained. "Though, he should be back any moment now, he went to the post office about an hour ago…"
"So, where you want your mark?" Lucy asked, addressing Mirajane. Tonight Natsu explained to her that he wants her to become an official guild member as well, 'to avoid unnecessary gossip and distrust'.
"Here," Demoness decided, pointing at her left hip, three inches above the knee.
"All right," Lucy replied, and few moments later Mirajane got a silver-colored emblem of Fairy Tail.
'Silver…' Natsu thought. Silver is the color that represents a feminine energy; it is related to the moon and the ebb and flow of the tides – it is fluid, emotional, sensitive and mysterious. 'Nice girl…' He seemed pleased with the color, guild stamp color reflects member's nature.
"Your turn!" Lucy exclaimed cheerfully, looking at Natsu.
"Go ahead," Natsu replied, rolling up his right sleeve, and pointing at outer side of his elbow, four inches above the wrist.
"Got it!" Lucy smiled as she pressed the stamp on the specified location, leaving Natsu with golden emblem. Gold is the color of success, achievement and triumph. Associated with abundance and prosperity, luxury and quality, prestige and sophistication, value and elegance.
"Nice colors," Cana noted. Fairy Tail got a lot of mages, but none of them showed such colors, neither silver nor gold. Suddenly, the sound of shattered furniture sounded from behind as one of tables was overturned when someone crashed into it. Brawl immediately started as more mages were joining. They all were yelling at each other but as much as Natsu's sharingan was able to read by their lips – most of them were fighting over 'newcomer demoness' love, despite none of them haven't even learned Mirajane's name yet. It seems that, despite an early hour, those guys already were fueled up with booze.
"Not this again…" Lucy sighed heavily.
"Now then, as we've done with formalities…" Cana seemingly wasn't concerned with massive brawl, "I can finally relax!" She grabbed a big barrel with booze and began to drink straight from the barrel.
"Master, maybe we shall leave and try another guild?" Mira asked quietly.
"No need to rush to conclusions," Natsu noted. "We don't have to become friends with these cretins, let's take a look at guild's seniors first…"
"As you wish…" Demoness sighed.
"Damn, it's becoming too noisy…" Cana complied as brawl was becoming more and more intense. "It's time to stop it," She decided, putting aide her barrel as three cards appeared in her hand. At the same time, several more magical seals flashed in guildhall, as Natsu continued to apathetically watch over that mayhem.
"STOP IT, YOU RAGAMUFFINS!" Thundering voice demanded as someone huge stepped into the guildhall. Brawl immediately stopped.
"Master!" Lucy exclaimed cheerfully as she was glad that he's returned and stopped the brawl.
"HELLO THEre, Lucy," Master waved to blonde as he began to shrink, returning to his normal size, as he appeared to be of quite short stature.
"He is so tiny… He's really the master?" Mirajane asked.
"Size doesn't matter in terms of magic," Natsu shrugged.
Makarov turned to those who were fighting and began to growl. "You… you've gone and done it again!" He jumped up, to the second floor's fence, "Look at all this paperwork that the magic council has sent me! This is the biggest pile of complaints we've had yet!" And Makarov began to read the reports about guild members' recent exploits. "First one, Gray Fullbuster," Master looked over the crowd, "Where's he?"
"I'm here, Master," Young man with raven-black hair responded, as he stepped into guild hall. According to his vertical pointed ears and specific aura there ware no doubts – this guy was a demon, just like Mirajane.
"Just in time," Master narrowed his eyes. "Good job on sweeping out the smuggling organization, but then you walked around the town naked and stole underwear that was being dried."
"Ugh…" Seemingly, that man, apparently named Gray, didn't expect anyone to find out about that. "Wouldn't it be worse if I'd remained naked?" He tried to justify himself.
'I see,' Mirajane thought, 'Seems I'm not the only one who can't get used to wear clothes. I must be careful to not embarrass myself like he did…' Still, Mirajane was glad to see that she's not the only demon in this guild.
"You shouldn't have been naked in the first place," Tall and muscular guy with white (like Mirajane's) hair commented.
"By the way, Elfman Stratus," Master addressed to the guy who just spoke out. "Elfman, you had a mission to escort a VIP but assaulted him during the mission…" [A/N: Elfman's last name changed because he isn't related to Mirajane and Lisanna, he's a human, and he is as much as he was in the original story, excluding his sob story.]
"He said that men is all about education, so…" Big guy replied guiltily, scratching his cheek…
Scolding continued for about fifteen minutes, as master mentioned at least two dozens of names, including Cana, Lucy, Levy, Jet, Droy, Max, Warren, Bisca, Alzack, Nab, Vijeeter, Reedus and others. "Because of you, council's angry with me all the time!" Master concluded, showing the pile of complains to everyone. "However… screw that council!" Makarov announced suddenly as he began pushing some supportively-moralizing speech, which surprised Mirajane and made Natsu to yawn several times.
After everything has settled down, Makarov came to meet with new guild members.
"So, you're newcomers?" Master asked, addressing mostly to Mirajane, as he was looking at her with hearts in his eyes, unable to divert his sight from beautiful demoness.
"Yes, Natsu Dawnsinger, pleased to meet you," Dread Master shook Makarov's hand (and Makarov himself, due to his size).
"I'm Mirajane Strauss," Demoness introduced herself with charming smile, as steam bursted out from Makarov's ears.
"Ohh! I can't remember when I saw such a cutie last time!" Master praised Mirajane's beauty.
"Hey!" Lucy and Cana exclaimed simultaneously.
"Ahahaha!" Makarov laughed and ran away.
"Mas… Natsu," Mirajane looked at dread master, "Is that normal?" She was confused by Makarov's behavior.
"For an old fool? Yes," Natsu replied quietly. "However… he may be an old fool, but aura of power around him is remarkable. He's very strong…"
July 3, Year X784, 10:07, Fairy Tail.
"Okay, I'm going to look for a house for us," Natsu said. "You want to go with me?"
"Um… I'd like to explore the town," Mira replied humbly, "…if you don't mind."
"Jane, I've already told you – I need you to assist me on missions and to entertain me in bed. Everything else's your free time, you can do whatever you want," Natsu reminded. "Just… be careful. You're smart girl, don't let those humans to drag you into something."
"Of… of course," Mira smiled a little.
Mira has already left the guild building as Natsu was ready to do the same, when he heard a very sad and worried voice. "Is my dad back yet?" He looked to the side and saw a boy with black hair, a green short-sleeved shirt and brown shorts standing in front of Makarov, who was taking a nap on the counter.
"You are becoming annoying, Romeo. If you are the son of a mage, trust your father, be a good boy and wait for him at home," The master said with his right eye half-opened.
"But master!" The boy protested, "He said he'll come back in three days, but it's been a week since then!"
"Macao's job is at the Hakobe Mountain, is not it?" Makarov said as he tried to recall the details of the request that Macao took.
"Yes, and it's not far from here, either," Romeo's eyes rimmed with the threat of tears. "Please look for him, I'm worried about my father!"
"No way! Your dad is a mage of our guild! And we have no mages here who can't take care of himself! I told you to return home, and wait for him! Go and drink some milk or something!" Makarov yelled. Romeo jumped in front of him and smashed his little fist right between master's eyes before running away from the guildhall with tearful eyes.
"IDIOT! I hate all of you!" The small voice of an extremely upset boy echoed within the walls.
"Kindergarten…" Natsu commented and left the building.
July 3, Year X784, 16:23, Fairy Tail.
"I see you're in good mood," Natsu noted as he and Mirajane once again met near guildhall.
"Yes," Mirajane nodded, smiling. "I found out that here is an entire quarter, populated by demons!" She seemed a bit excited. "It's rather little, about 250 houses, but still… they even have a restaurant and small marketplace!"
"I see," Natsu replied. "Well, as I told you – Fiore's people are open-minded, that's the main reason of country's wealth. They're tolerant to everyone, so both demons and elves are allowed to trade with humans and live here with full civil rights."
"Yeah," Mira's face become gloomier, "There's an elven quarter as well…" As a true representative of Demonis, Mirajane strongly disliked elves. Two races were in mutual feud long before current era and dragon's civil war, after which humans seized control over majority of planet's surface. "And as far as I've learned – local demons dislikes elves much less then core population of Demonis…"
"It's only natural in environment like this," Natsu commented. "Local elves and demons have a lot of things to take care off, they have no time and no need to despise each other. You too should adapt to it and learn to keep at least neutral attitude toward elves, because, as far as I know – Fairy Tail has at least one elf, aside from that blonde girl, Lucy."
"What?!" Mira exclaimed in surprise, "She's an elf?! But her ears…"
"She's a half-elf," Natsu replied. "Their looks may vary from completely elf-like to completely human-like. She looks almost like human, but still, half of her genes are elven. You didn't notice a bunch of keys on her belt?" Dread Master wondered.
"I did," Mira nodded. "But… is that means something special?"
"Strange, I was expecting you to know about this…" Natsu thought aloud, though his voice remained emotionless. 'Seems that Demonis' core population is more xenophobic than I thought, since such a knowledge isn't common.´ He again looked at Mirajane. "Those keys are tools needed to call for celestial spirits," Natsu began to explain. "Lucy is a celestial spirit wizard. That is a summoning-type technique. Its specificity lies in the fact that you need to be able to use both human's magic and demon's curse, or human's magic and elven mystic weave to form a link between celestial realm and this world. Thus, only half-demons and half-elves can use celestial spirits arts. It is ironic though, those rare individuals who are hybrids of demon and elf, they can't call for celestial spirits, as they're lacking human's magic. Also ironic that pure-blooded humans neither can use it, despite initially it was their development…"
"Amazing…" Only thing Mirajane could say. 'Damn, maybe sitting constantly in Demonis wasn't that good idea; I've missed so many interesting things…'
"Anyway, I've found a suitable house," Natsu pointed somewhere towards town center. "However, just as Lucy's told us, real estate prices here are higher than they should have been… I have money I got for assassinating those two slavers, and those 700k + 200k jewels I've got for Bora, and that's only enough to buy the house. However, I want to observe this guild a little longer before I decide to stay in here. Thus, for now we'll stay in hotel for a few days," Natsu decided. "However, simply hanging around and wasting time, it ain't my style, so let's look for a mission that we can do tomorrow."
"As you say," Mirajane bowed slightly.
July 3, Year X784, 16:51, Fairy Tail.
Natsu and Mirajane were standing in front of mission board. "Hrmmm..." Demoness thoughtfully stared up at the request board, looking at the various kinds of missions that were available for picking. "Search for a magic bracelet. Remove spell from a cursed staff. Fortune telling love with astrology?! Exterminating a devil on the volcano…" She was quite at loss. 'And who is this guy? He's hanging around here since the very morning…' She thought as she snuck a peak at Nab.
"Hmm, this one," Natsu took a request for subduing a monster, which was attacking a mountain village, west from Magnolia, reward was 860 000 jewels.
"A monster?" Mirajane asked without enthusiasm.
"Yes, I know it's a banality, but the place is nearby and reward is good enough," Natsu replied. "Lucy," Natsu called for a blonde, who was sitting at the bar counter, staring into space, thinking about something. "We're taking this mission, should we register it or something?"
"Oh?" Lucy looked at Natsu, "Ah, yes. There are book where we're registering missions." She said, looking at Cana, who was lying on the table face down, drooling in her drunken sleep. Blonde sighed, "It's there," She pointed at shelf near the bar counter. "Just write your name and mission you've taken."
"Very well," Natsu nodded and took the book.
"You know," Lucy added as Natsu took out the pen from his pocket. "There is some kind of unofficial rule of our guild that one of our guild's members form a temporary team with a newcomer and go on mission with them for the first time, just in case… though, in your case it's absolutely unnecessary."
"But?" Natsu asked as it was obvious that Lucy wanted something from him.
"Well…" Blonde said with shy smile, "I'd still like to go with you…" She admitted.
"Why?" Mirajane was a bit surprised.
"You took a subjugation mission, right? I want to see what kind of magic you're using!" Lucy's eyes were full of enthusiasm.
'I see' Natsu noted to himself, 'She possesses human's thirst for new experiences and elven curiosity…' Natsu looked at blonde with evaluating sight. "Alright, you can go with us, but remember, you're only an observer, we won't share the mission's reward with you."
"All right!" Lucy exclaimed excitedly.
"Meet us tomorrow at nine o'clock, in front of guild hall," Natsu informed. "Don't be late, we won't wait for you."
"Master, why you've allowed her to come with us?" Mirajane wondered as she and Natsu stepped out from guild hall.
"No reason to deny her that; we, on the other hand, may just stay on the good terms with other member of the guild. Vast majority of them are pathetic and weak, but who knows, even they may prove themselves useful one day… Anyway," Natsu looked at his wristwatch, "I'm going to custom tailoring shop, you're free to go wherever you want, just return to the hotel before eleven o'clock."
"I will," Mirajane nodded with smile.
July 4, Year X784, 8:14, Natsu's hotel room.
Mirajane was lying on bed, thoughtless staring into the ceiling. Tonight she was fucked even more brutally then previous time. Her nipples were bitten all over, her throat and pussy were brutalized, she received several slaps on her face. Tonight Mirajane was happier than ever. 'What's wrong with me?' Demoness thought. 'Am I really such a slutty whore that I like this guy, despite everything he's done to me, just because he's incredible in bed? No matter what he's saying – virtually I'm his sexual slave, and… I'm happy about that? Mirajane, you're demon of pride, warrior-princes of Demonis, pull yourself together!' Mirajane was trying to sort out her feelings. 'But still…' She slightly moved her legs. "Oh! My pussy…" Mira couldn't suppress smile, enjoying a pleasurable pain in her crotch.
"You really are an extreme pervert," Natsu noted as he came out from the bathroom, as he noticed that Mirajane was smiling, caressing her heavily abused cunt. Her smile became guiltily, but she couldn't suppress it. "Anyway, Jane, hurry up, we should depart on our mission soon," Natsu pointed at bathroom.
"Okay," Mirajane replied, as she managed to sat up in bed. "Ma… Natsu?" She called for dread master.
"Yes?" He looked at her.
"Can you… can you kiss me?" She suddenly asked.
"Hmm? Well, of course, why not," He sat near her and their lips met in passionate and wet kiss, which lasted for about one minute.
"Thank you," Mirajane smiled and hopped off from bed. Doesn't matter what exactly she's feeling towards him right now, kisses with him were very pleasurable, so why not?
"Don't mention it," Natsu replied as he smacked her butt, "Besides, since we're going to pose as boyfriend and girlfriend, we should do it more often…"
July 4, Year X784, 8:57, near Fairy Tail's guild hall.
As Mirajane and Natsu approached the guildhall, Lucy was already waiting for him. Since Natsu's old coat was quite outworn, yesterday he visited a custom tailoring shop to get a new one, and now he was wearing it. It was much like the same as his old one, long black coat, but instead of golden tracery it was decorated with pattern in form of several blood-red clouds. Top (unusable) button was decorated with small, silken, blood-red ribbon, about ten centimeters in length. Tiny bell was attached to the lower end of that ribbon, and it was slightly jingling as Natsu was walking.
"Good morning!" Lucy waved toward Natsu and Mirajane.
"Hello," Mirajane greeted her as Natsu nodded.
"C'mon, let's go," Natsu waved his hand, "We'll be riding a carriage to the village."
July 4, Year X784, 11:21, on the route to the village.
"Interesting tradition Fairy Tail has," Natsu noted as he was talking to Lucy, while Mirajane dozed, with her head resting on Natsu's shoulder, "Helping newcomers with the first missions."
"It's really nice," Lucy nodded with smile. "Unlike you, most of our newcomers have little experience with missions. I remember the time I've joined Fairy Tail," Lucy began to remember, not noticing that Natsu was quickly loosing interest. "After I've finally gathered enough courage to come to the guild and asked to join, master assigned a supervisor for my first mission. The girl named Erza…"
"Erza?" Natsu clarified, "Erza Isgarlad, 'Silken Princess'?" [A/N: Isgarlad means Scarlet on Elvish language]
"Yep, that's she," Lucy confirmed with smile. "She is… something…" Lucy added. "The first mission she chose for me took place in Shirotsume town, request seemed quite simple – two hundred thousand jewels just for taking a book named 'Daybreak' from the mansion of Duke of Everlue… Under the request itself was a notice that Duke was an extreme womanizer and pervert, and that he was hiring a blonde haired maids…"
"Not a bad choice," Natsu noted. "I guess your temporary mentor was trying to teach you to use your personal traits to complete mission. Yet, I suppose, everything happened not like she planned?"
"Yeah…" Lucy admitted with nostalgic smile. "Duke's sense of beauty appeared to be so twisted that he rejected me. In the end, everything was decided with battle, in result of which Duke's mansion was destroyed and Duke himself was arrested due to his dirty secret I've managed to expose," Lucy giggled, seemingly she was pleased with herself. "We got money for completed mission and I even got one of twelve zodiac keys!"
"Not bad," Natsu commented as he was masterfully hiding that he didn't care even a bit.
July 4, Year X784, 13:11, mountain region west from Magnolia.
After Natsu and Mirajane learned mission details and monster's presumed location, they headed higher into the mountains. Without troubles they've managed to find a cave, where monster has settled down. According to villagers' description that was a snow wyvern – quite dangerous winged monster. However, monster wasn't here at the moment…
"Well, I guess we'll wait," Natsu said, as he found a suitable rock and sat on it.
About 40 minutes have passed. Mirajane was reading her sociology textbook, sitting near Natsu, who was reading today's newspaper he bought this morning in Magnolia. And Lucy was hanging around not knowing what to do and shivering from cold, as she forgot to take something to read and forgot that here, in the mountains, air is much colder than on the lowlands.
"Mirajane," Natsu called for the demoness.
"Yes, I hear it," She nodded as she put away her book. Seemingly, monster was approaching. "Allow me?" She asked for a permission.
"Very well," Natsu replied. "Just don't take too long, I'm almost done with it," He added, meaning his newspaper.
"Right!" Mirajane exclaimed, anticipating battle. "Halphas!" She shouted, assuming one of her combat forms. Aquatic-colored scales covered her arms and legs, she also grew a pair of same-colored scaled wings, horns and a tail. She also wore a dark blue, striped, one-piece suit to cover her intimate zones. Suit probably was added to this combat form by Natsu's order.
"Wow!" Lucy's eyes widened in excitement. "What kind of power is this?!"
"This is the Curse of Impersonation," Natsu explained. "Works in similar way with human's Take Over Magic. Well, good luck, Jane," He added as he returned to his newspaper. As he said that, huge snow wyvern appeared from behind a mountain.
"It's huge!" Lucy exclaimed worriedly. "You're really going to let her fight alone?!" She asked Natsu, seeing that he's not going to join the fight.
"If she'd needed my help – she'd asked," Natsu replied emotionlessly.
"Here I go!" Mira announced as she soared into the air and flew towards approaching monster. "Cosmic Lance!" Demoness brought her hands together, gathering darkness energy between her palms. She shot a dense energy beam at wyvern, but, seemingly, it recognized an aggressive intent, and, despite its size, monster appeared to be quite agile. Wyvern dodged the attack as Mira's spell pierced the mountain through. "Tch… that thing's faster than it looks," Mira shot her right arm upward, calling for a barrage of dark energy bolts, "Cosmic Rain!" Several projectiles hit the monster, but damage appeared to be minimal.
Wyvern roared and rushed toward Mirajane with intention to crush her between his wings. "Damn, it seems I have to hinder its movements somehow first," Mira decided. With this thought, she dashed right against huge monster.
'Nice speed,' Natsu noted to himself, looking at Mira's movements. He was still reading his newspaper, but nonetheless was able to observe the battle thanks to his sharingan.
As Mirajane approached it, wyvern tried to clamp her between its wings, but Mira sped up more and slipped beneath monster. Then she made a 'half Cuban eight' maneuver and landed on wyvern's back. "Cosmic Push!" She placed her palms on monster's back and created two curse seals, one above another, creating a tremendous force that smashed the huge beast to the ground, as if it was struck by huge hammer.
"Amazing…" Lucy whispered in awe, watching over the battle.
"Cosmic Chains!" Demoness created another curse seal, which shot forth blue/purple energy chains. Chains' spearhead pierced through monster's wings, chaining it to the ground. "Now, you're mine!" Mirajane created huge blue/purple curse seal, gathering cosmic energy within her palms. "Cosmic Beam!" She released all gathered energy, firing a powerful beam towards chained monster, creating a massive explosion upon impact.
Fight was over, as Mira's powerful spell incinerated the wyvern, leaving only the smoldering skeleton. "Nice girl, isn't she?" Natsu asked for Lucy's opinion.
Lucy, however, didn't answer as she instead was shaking all over with her eyes widened in horror, pointing somewhere behind Natsu and trying to say something, "Av… Av… Av… AVALANCHE!" She finally yelled.
Indeed, Mira's spell caused an avalanche to occur on nearby mountain, and now a huge mass of snow was rushing down towards Natsu and Lucy. "Ah, this," Dread master replied as if it was nothing. "I guess using such powerful spells in mountain region is a bit recklessly, especially during this season…"
"Run!" Lucy shouted and tried to run but Natsu grabbed her by collar, thus preventing her from fleeing.
"Silly girl, what are you doing? You can't outran this," Natsu scolded Lucy, still being completely calm, despite rapidly approaching huge avalanche. "Here, hold it for me," He gave his newspaper to blonde, "I've done with this but Jane might want to read it." Then he turned towards approaching avalanche, formed a 'Tiger' handseal and made a deep breath, "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!" Natsu breathed out a dense stream of extremely hot flame, which quickly turned into massive wall of fire, large enough to block the entire avalanche. As mass of snow collided with Natsu's technique, it began to melt and then to evaporate. When fire dissipated, entire snow mass was evaporated. Cloud of dense mist was floating above current location.
"Ah… h… h…" Lucy was staring at Natsu with saucer-wide eyes, as her jaw dropped on the ground. 'What… is that… insane power?...'
"Natsu, are you all right?" Mirajane returned, carrying one of wyvern's fangs, bringing back fang was one of mission conditions.
"Yes," Natsu replied shortly. "Lucy," He turned towards blonde, "Need help?" He offered his arm, seemingly to help Lucy close her mouth.
July 4, Year X784, 17:57, Fairy Tail's guild hall.
Natsu just registered his mission's success, and now he stood near bar counter with Mirajane, thinking about to eat something before going back to hotel. Though idea to eat in this cesspool was quickly rejected, strange thing happened just as Natsu was about to leave.
"Aaaaa! We got trouble!" Some orange-haired guy barged into guildhall, gaining everyone's attention, as he seemingly was panicking. Once he had caught his breath he added, "It's Erza, she's back." Almost everyone froze after he said that, though they quickly followed suit and fell into a panic as well.
"L-Loki, are you s-sure it was Erza?" Someone asked fearfully.
"Of course I'm sure!" Loki shouted back, "How I could be mistaken?"
"Hmm, Erza," Natsu thought aloud. "The renowned Silken Princess. Okay, let's take a look at her…" As he said that, everyone could hear heavy footstep coming towards the guild.
"It's Erza…" Loki murmured, his expression was disclosing his nervous disposition.
"No mistake – that's her footsteps," Wakaba whispered, biting down on his smoke pipe.
Everyone watched in fear as red-haired young woman walked through the door. She was carrying a giant horn, which was covered in cheap jewels and other gaudy baubles. When the girl made it to the center of the guildhall she put the horn down, making the entire building shake with the weight.
The girl had quite remarkable appearance. First of all, she had pointed ears, which were longer than Mirajane's and they were tilted backwards, at an angle about 55 degrees – a characteristic feature by which you can distinguish an elf from demon, as demons' ears are pointed upward. Another distinctive feature was body piercing, as demons, in general, dislikes any body modification, for example, Mirajane didn't has even earrings. Elves, on the other hand, was famous for their love to piercing, though, this girl definitely went a bit overboard. She had five rings in her left ear, four in her right; apart from that, she had a right eyebrow piercing, septum piercing and lover lip 'labret' piercing.
"I have returned… Is master here?" The scarlet haired, elven girl asked, also revealing a 'venom' tongue piercing.
"She's just disgusting…" Mirajane mumbled quietly. However, putting aside personal preferences, it was obvious – this elven girl is magnificently beautiful. She was of moderate stature, had a long and luxury scared hair, which were styled in long braid, her body was curvaceous and slim, her ass was perfect; though, she probably had more piercing under that green elven chainmail armor she wore now. In general, her beauty could rival that of Mirajane's.
"Welcome back, Erza. Master is attending the regular meeting," Lucy answered with welcoming smile.
"I see," Erza replied.
'So, this is Erza, the strongest woman of Fairy Tail, the Silken Princess…' Natsu examined her with his sharingan.
"Erza-san, what is this humongous thing?" a man with sandy-yellow hair asked from next to the horn.
"Hmm? This? The local townspeople decorated the horn of the demon that I subdued… It was so pretty that I brought it back as a souvenir," Erza answered with a thankful smile as she remembered it. "Will it be a nuisance?" She asked, slightly narrowing her eyes.
"No, not at all!" Max and a few others mages replied instantly.
"The horn of the demon that she subdued," Murmured one of the mages.
"Whoa…" Another mused.
"All of you!" Erza narrowed her eyes as she shifted her gaze to everyone in the building, causing them to stand as still as stone statues. "I heard a bunch of rumors while I was on my mission, it seems you've been causing troubles again. Even if master forgave you, I won't!" She said with a stern voice, making everyone shrink back, as Erza began to scold everyone around here.
"I see she likes to gab for nothing," Natsu commented.
"Just like all elves," Mirajane nodded.
"Ah, you guys give me so much troubles, but I'll let it slide today without saying anything," Erza stated as she adjusted her hair. By the way, she seemed quite satisfied, as if she wanted to speak out for some time.
"Hey, Erza," Lucy called out for elven warrior-mage, "Look, we have a newcomers here, wanna introduce yourself?"
"A newcomers?" Erza asked, turning towards blonde. "Well, I'd li…" Her phrase was interrupted as her sight locked with Natsu's. Her eyes widened as cold sweat quickly covered her face. She seemingly lost faculty of speech as her lips were shaking.
"Hey, Erza, what's wrong?" Lucy was looking at elven girl in confusion.
"You've met before?" Mirajane asked Natsu; remembering her first meeting with him, that kind of reaction wouldn't have been unexplainable.
"No," Natsu replied. "I see her for the first time," He added. With his sharingan Natsu easily traced what she was looking at. "But I guess she already have seen the eyes like mine, and apparently that wasn't a pleasurable encounter," He guessed.
Well, this is it, until next time!