The Tenrou Group Lives On - Chapter 18 – Laxus's redemption?
What happens if Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza gets left behind? The guild is gone. There's only three people left to protect Fairy Tail for 7 years. Theres only three members of Fairy Tail to take control and run Fairy Tail till they return. Natsu must become the guild master until they return.
Natsu x Mirajane x Erza
"So.. this is not what I expected." Natsu sighed as he stood there surprised. The two beautiful looking women who stood to either side of him were thinking the same thing.
As they arrived at Crawford Seams house they were suppose to locate and find anything they could use to find Tartarus. Luckily for them they wouldn't have to worry about Crawford himself as he was locked up away in a jail cell due to being known he was working for Tartarus.
In front of them was something they hasn't been ready for. A Japanese looking home in the middle of a clear patch in a deep forest. From the light oak wood walls to the nice looking porch, and the large circle dome like roof. It was a bit twisted between styles of Japanese and modern. From afar only the dome was visible so it blended nicely into the forest and it's lush surroundings.
Squeak. As Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza walked up to the house they first grabbed the bronze knob and let the door slowly open. With a squeak the door open gently and inside was dark as no one had been inside for quite some time.
As soon as they first entered they saw a reguler living room with three tan couches sitting around a red brick fire place and multiply doors going to others places.
"This.. it looks like a normal home for any regular person." Erza said aloud as she observed Crawford's home and walked around. Her black thigh high boots made a knocking sound against the hard wood floor as she walked around. As she kept moving around, her blue skirt swayed as her silky thighs were revealed and her white button down shirt that accentuated her cleavage was threatening to bust out and radiate her beauty everywhere.
"Oh.. my. I guess your right Erza." Mirajane giggled a little as she quickly agreed with her best friend's observation about Crawford's home. Mirajane walked around in her yellow tight dress that wrapped around her waist and very exotic body. A single black line ran down her dress on the left side and all of the edges of the dress was black as well. A split in the dress started right at her thigh and where her white Fairy Tail mark was once at. Now the slit in the dress showed off her amazing thigh. The dress's arms were sleeveless so her red Fairy Tail mark that matched Natsu's and Erza's was clearly seen.
Instead of responding Natsu hummed a sigh as he searched around for papers hoping for a clue. Things were not adding up. The only thing he did figure out was that Crawford was the person leaking where the ex magic council members lived. Now he had to find the connection between Crawford and Tartarus, why Taratrus was after the magic council, and what the hell Taratrus was trying to do. So many things.. all unanswered.
"Erza?" Natsu asked aloud Erza's name as he left Crawford's desk and saw Erza just standing there at a doorway not moving.
"No." Erza simply replied without moving. Her brown eyes were stuck on a table sitting there inside a kitchen that was through the door she was at. On top of that table was the problem.
A cup of tea.. normally tea wasn't a problem.. but this cup of tea.. had steam coming off from it. It was warm.. they weren't alone.
"Oh wow.. it seems one of you finally noticed it." A large mans voice began to laugh through out the house as Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza all began to spin around looking for the voice.
Now all three of them were on high alert as they braced them self for anything.
Sniff. Sniff.
"What's with the weird smell?" Mirajane asked aloud as she began to wave her hand in front of her nose and began to cough. The smell was terrible and made her mind feel very weird. It was if the world was tipping to the left.
Sniff. Sniff. Natsu began to sniff the air as he heard Mirajane's question. "No! Mirajane, Erza!" Natsu suddenly screamed as he pushed forward with all his might and grabbed Mirajane as she swayed over and quickly caught Erza as she fell towards the floor. Now both women were out cold in his arms as he bursted through a wooden wall of Crawford's home.
'Sleeping magic.' Natsu thought to himself as he looked around and saw Mirajane and Erza fast asleep. His own onyx eyes were drooping but quickly waking up as he sent waves of fire through his blood streams and body. Slowly he burned the sleeping magic out of his body. No one was going to touch his wives.
"Heh.. should of guessed the wizard saint would escape that."
Natsu eyes looked up in confusion. There in the green grass clearing was a large fat man with a small amount of hair on his head that was put into a bun. The man wore a white robe and weird wooden sandles. Slowly the man walked towards him.
"Crawford.." Natsu practically screamed in haste as his mind was confused of how the man was there in front of him.
"I'm surprised you escaped the sleeping magic." Crawford stood there sighing with his big chest jiggling. He was sad that all three of them weren't out cold, but atleast he knew if there was going to be a fight it would be easy as the two women were unconscious. "Hmm.. you were far enough away from where the spell went off.. so you had time to realize the spell, and get away. Impressive." Crawford explained his thoughts aloud as he stared straight at Natsu. Crawford looked like his normal self, big and fat, but from Natsu's perspective he saw the monster in his eyes.
Natsu simply stood there with both Mirajane and Erza leaning into him as he thought of his options. With Mirajane and Erza out he wouldn't be able to fight Crawford and protect them. He couldn't leave them on the ground incase the fight gets to big and one of the spells hit on of them. Natsu only had one option to save himself, his wives, and the two children still growing inside of them.
"Hey.." Crawford began to yell as he watched red licking flames wrap around all three of the figures in front of him.
"I'll fight you when my family is not endanger." Natsu simply stated aloud as he spoke emotionless and let the flames carry him and his wives away from there location.
Slowly the flames drifted high into the air as they looked for a place to land. The red hot searing flames floated by themselves until the controller of the flames decided they were far enough away. Once then the red flames floated down and landed next to a tree as the flames blew away in the wind to reveal Natsu, Erza, and Mirajane. The red flames had carried them.
"Mira.. Erza.." Natsu breathed as he leaned his back against the hard brown bark of a large pine tree towering above him. Mirajane and Erza were both still leaning against him as they slept away.
'No information and Crawford has escaped. It seems our job was a bust.' Natsu mentally thought to himself as he stared at the two women in his arms. One with long red hair like a scarlet rose and the other one with white hair like the white lilac.
"Ara.. ara.. you know you like that my dragon." Mirajane suddenly giggled aloud as her face dashed pink and she snuggled her face deeper into Natsu's chest.
It seemed Mirajane was having quite a nice lucid dream. As both women slept Natsu smiled and thought of how the other jobs were turning out.
"Well now.. normally I don't hurt pretty women like you. But you just gave me a reason that I can." Gildarts laughed as he heard the words ring through his ears and a gleeful smile crossed his bristly face. Gildarts ran his strong hand through his long brown hair as he brought his right leg back and brought his hands up into a fighting position.
Sayla stood there waiting as she put her book away into her pocket and stared at Gildarts. She was now standing up in her cheetah kimino as her two golden horns stood out of her long black hair. Sayla was ready.. but the man in front of intrigued her. How could this man be able to defy her curse?
Gildarts was a perverted man. There was no better way to say it, his eyes ran down Sayla's smooth legs. Up her silky thighs and around her tights that ended half way up her thigh. It didn't matter if the women in front of him was a demon, she was still damn hot. His eyes then once more ran up to where they began to set on a large pair of breasts being squeezed. His mind was in heaven.
"A human able to not be controlled by my curse, this makes me want to know why." Sayla announced as her eyes stared straight at Gildarts whose brown long hair was slightly flowing back due to the door missing. "Macro." Sayla simply stated with a dull voice as she stared at the man in front of her.
Suddenly as Gildarts stood there he felt something begin to grip and take hold of his body. With that he quickly connected things and figured out that this was the spell or curse that the demon Sayla was trying to use on him. "Heh.. sorry but that's not going to work." Gildarts then began to chuckle as he brought both of his hands tightly into a fist. Seconds later small light particles bursted around him as he gave Sayla a smirk.
"I see now.. your magic destroy things and becuase of that my curse can not force you to do what I order to." Sayla explained aloud as her eyes quickly understood what was happening and why her curse was not effected. "If there are more Fairy Tail wizards like you or that are stronger.. well you'll all become quite annoying pests to us." Sayla grumbled with a hard sound as she showed that she was annoyed.
If there were more Fairy Tail wizards stronger then this man in front of her. Then Fairy Tail would be a very large nuisance to Tartarus. Sayla thought to herself as she decided her next action. Her demonic blood was boiling and she wanted to fight this man in front of her, but on the other side she needed to inform Master Mard Geer. "Well.." Sayla sighed as she decided on what she would do.
"It seems I'll have to take up this fight with you on another day, it's more valuable to Tartarus that we know that there's more stronger members that can give a threat to us." Sayla explained as she began to turn around and leave the house she was in as she no longer decided to be there. Her task to kill the ex magic council members named Yuri had succeeded and she even learned a bit about her opponents. Now they could make a full proof plan to take over.
"He-!" Gildarts began to yell as he stepped forward and before he could the beautiful women in front of him simply disappeared in thin air. All that was left was the dead body behind him as he growled to himself to disgust. A bad mess to clean up and a gorgeous women gone. This day could not get any worse. Gildarts sighed as he left the home from which he came in by the broken door and looked up.
Things were going badly, they needed some better news soon.
Boom! Boom!
"What's going on?!" Laxus suddenly yelled aloud as he began to look around. Suddenly a explosion went over somewhere in the city. Something was being destroyed.
Laxus quickly used his dragon slayer abilities and began to sniff the air to see if he could find what was going on. His nose quickly picked up the scent of salty sweat dripping down someone who was using spells. Laxus stood there and calmed his racing heart as he focused on his ears to then hear what the spells where.
"Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun!"
Laxus heard that spells and his eyes opened wide. 'Evergreen!' Laxus thought to himself as he turned into a lightning bolt and dashed off towards his teams mates who were fighting someone unknown.
"You know, you should take this job serious. Laxus gave it to us!"
Evergreen yelled at Bickslow and Freed as they stared at her trying to use her sex appeal to entice people.
So far, the job was boring as they helped Yajima at his restaurant. Nothing was happening and people were just coming and going.
Ding. A very large man roughly the size of Laxus walked in with a pitch black cloak covering his body. The man stood there as he began to look around.
"Hmm?" Yajima hummed as he looked at the large covered man standing there in the door way looking around. "Hello? Are you looking for something?" Yajima then asked as he felt no threatening aura from the man.
Instead of responding the man stood there continuing to look around. The mans large head looked at everything: the tables, the people eating, the Thunder God Tribe themselves, and lastly the man looked at Yajima. That was the trigger.
Slowly the man lifted his arms up across from his chest and suddenly all hell broke lose.
"Rumble." The man with the black coat announced and the building instantly was destroyed as a massive whirling tornado came tumbling down and began to rip all the wooden walls off the building and then the roof caved in. People were torn and buried as things went crazy as people screamed for help. The Thunder God Tribe braced themselves as they stayed standing to find out what was happening.
"M-my restaurant.." Yajima weekly spoke as he pulled himself up out of the rubble that was once his restaurant.
"Hmm..? He's still alive?" A deep voice asked aloud as he slowly walked up to where Yajima was lying down under the rubble. Slowly a stuck his arm out towards the elderly old man and prepared to finish him.
"Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun!" Evergreen suddenly yelled as she began to spread her legs and arms out. Suddenly golden light bolts began to spew from her as they rattled against the man. "W-what? Nothing?" Evergreen squeaked as she watched her attack do nothing to the man in front of her who was now standing over Yajima and about to grab him.
"Cyclone." The man calmly announced as he send a small tornado at Evergreen who then was thrown back yards away as she was forced down onto the ground. But the attack wasn't over. The same swirling wing cyclone got to where Evergreen had landed and the grabbed her as it begun to spin intensely.
"Evergreen! Go my babies!" Bickslow yelled as he watched his team mate begin to get thrown around like nothing. His wooden doll babies instantly all began to shoot blue magic beams at the cloaked man as he tried to protect his team-mate.
"Is that really a attack?" The black cloaked man asked aloud as he sighed and grunted. The magic spells comings from Bickslow's babies were not doing anything. His babies bolts were bouncing off of it like rain. "Rumble." The man spoke as suddenly another tornado came out from his hand and raced towards Bickslow.
As it came towards Bickslow the tornado destroyed the ruble even more. The concrete and stone bicks were broken like a hand moves through air. Once it got to Bickslow it slammed into him and threw him across the ground like a rag doll. There was no stopping him.
"Now back to busine-." The cloaked man once again began to say before he was faced by Freed who was standing there in front of him. His rapier was drawn and his long green hair was flowing slightly in the outside wind. "Why are there so many pests bugging me?" The man asked as he stared straight into Freed's soul.
Freed stood there trying to hold his own ground as his purple Dark Écriture: Wings came from his back. Freed was ready to fight his best to hold then man in front of him back. He would protect Yajima and the Thunder God Tribe!
"Gust." The man said yet another spell as Freed was suddenly thrown back at tremendous speed. Freed skidded along the ruble as he gasped hard for breath that was taken out by a single spell like thing. He truly didn't know what type of magic was hitting him.
"Now that these pests are gone.. let's see about popping your head." The man gruesomely laughed as he bent down and grabbed Yajima by his scrawny old neck. Instantly everything could see his veins appear all over his hand that was squeezing Yajima's neck. Yajima's face began to grow red then purple as the lack of oxygen began to kill him, was this his death?
"W-who a-are you?" Yajima asked as he atleast wanted to know that man that was about to finish and murder him.
"I have no name, I am only one of the nine demons of Tartarus. Hell has now open and you'll soon be there." The black cloaked man explained but suddenly everything watched a lonely yellow pice of lightning crawled around his arm. Before he could then even react a thunder bolt pierced through his arm and shocked him as he was forced to let go of Yajima.
"Gah.." The cloaked man suddenly gasped as he shook off the attack. 'Lightning.. someone else is here..' The man then thought as he began to look around. As he did his dark eyes set on a blonde haired man in front of him who was now standing in between him and Yajima.
"Laxus.." Evergreen croaked as she laid there helplessly and thankful that Laxus had arrived to save the day. The cloaked man was strong, Laxus was needed.
"So does anyone want to tell me what's going on?" Laxus asked aloud as he stood staring at the cloaked man in front of him. From what he could tell, this man had to be strong if he had taken down Evergreen, Freed, and Bickslow. This was going to be a hard fight.
"Hmm.. most people I tell them that I have no name. But I do that becuase most of my opponents are weak. It seems you aren't." The cloaked man explained as he stood tall and then began to pull his black cloak off of his body. Slowly it revealed who he was; a creature.
"What the.." Laxus muttered in shock and surpise as the attacker revealed himself. This wasn't a man in front of him.. he had no idea what was in front of him.
"It is said that my name is Tempesta and I am one of the nine demons of Tartarus. But my name has no meaning and you are about to die." The cloaked man know known as Tempesta explained.
Tempesta had long blonde hair, a snout like a bear, blonde hair running down his cheeks, and chin. His chest was muscular as his abs were shown clearly and on his shoulder he had two black parts to protect himself. He wore a pair of black pants with knee guards and a pair of boots covering the bottom half of his legs. Tempesta snorted as he began to look pissed at Laxus.
"You are.. not human?" Laxus asked as his eyes were wide opened and shocked beyond disbelief. We're all Tartarus members like this?
Suddenly Tempesta arm began to swirl as tornado like winds began to swirl around it. As soon as they started he pushed off towards Laxus. Quickly, with out skipping a second Laxus dodged to the left, as Tempesta followed Laxus quickly dodged every attack thrown at him.
Laxus then decided to attack as he leapt high into the air above Tempesta and used his basic lightning to hit Tempesta. As his lightning hit Tempesta he sent him flying black through the rubble that was the last of the 8-Island restaurant.
"This guy.." Tempesta muttered as he slowly stood up from being thrown down. As soon as he was back up a threatening aura erupted everywhere. Tempesta quickly found the source and was almost stunned.
"Looks like you drew the short straw." Laxus told Tempesta as electricity ran across his black jacket hanging from his shoulder down to his black pants. He was ready to take this demon from Taratrus down from what he had done to his team.
Sweat rolled down Tempesta's face as he stood there memorized by what was happening. How could one of the nine demons of Taratrus be feeling this? How could a mere human be pushing him back?
"Lightning Dragon's Bite!" Laxus suddenly screamed as he bursted himself full of electricity and appeared right above Tempesta. When he was above him, his yellow dragon electricity covered his hands and together he brought them down onto Tempesta's head as he pushed down.
Tempesta was pounded into the ground as the pain ran through his face becuase of where Laxus's attack hit. The ground under him cracked and gave away even more as a massive creator was formed due to his attack. He then laid flat in the ground at the very edge of being defeated.
"Amazing as always Laxus!" Freed yelled as he pulled himself into a sitting position and saw Tempesta laying there not moving with Laxus standing tall above him. This is why Laxus was the strongest and the leader of the Thunder God Tribe.
"Beastly!" Bickslow yelled after Freed as he saw Laxus easily defeat Temoesta as if it was nothing .
"You're such a man's man!" Evergreen yelled as well as he laughed how Laxus defeated something that herself, Freed, and Bickslow couldn't touch or even damage.
"Yajima, where should I take the garbage?" Laxus asked as he looked over at Yajima who was sitting on the ground still catching his breath.
"Well the council isn't exactly in a functioning state.. look at my restaurant." Yajima sighed as he looked around at the rubble. His restaurant was destroyed but atleast the Tartarus member that was murdering all the ex council members and council members was stopped.
"Their headquarters might be out of commission but there's gotta be branches up and running." Bickslow thought aloud as he sat there thinking next to Yajima. Even though the magic council was a mess from leaders being murdered something has to be still working.. right?
"If you cut off their head, the body follows shortly thereafter." Yajima sighed in response to Bickslow. "That's just how dependent and reliant they've always been.." Yajima laughed after as he though back about the magic council.
"Well if that's the case.. maybe interrogating him at the Fairy Tail head quarters would be the prudent thing to do." Freed chipped in as he thought of another idea to what they should do.
"Fairy Tail.. was it?" Tempesta whispered as he laid there beginning to wake up from Laxus's attack. His mind was already racing and knowing what his next step would be.
"It seems we didn't factor in humans being capable of this type of destruction force.. so this type of damage output wasn't a variable in our equation." Tempesta countinued to speak softly as he rambled on. "Looks like I'll have to sacrifice one of my lives.." Tempesta then finished with a laugh.
"One of your lives..? What the hell are you rambling on about?" Laxus asked as he stared down at Tempesta below him in the rubble of Yajima's restaurant.
"You're the one who drew the short straw.." Tempesta laughed as he finished. "Remember that.. human."
Boom!
Surprising everyone, Tempesta blew himself up into thick heavy smoke. Laxus, the Thunder God Tribe, and Yajima were all equally shocked at what had just happened.
"He blew himself up?!" Evergeen screamed in surprise and utter shock.
"What the..!" Yajima yelled as he looked at the smoke spreading through out the city and around them.
"What's with the black mist?" Evergreen asked as she watched black little dots grow in a dark deep black mist hovering and surrounding them.
"It's getting thicker!" Freed yelled as everyone was on alert and ready for anything to come at them.
"Humans are and will always be at mercy of calamity." Tempesta spoke as his voice slowly floated away as the black thick mist began to rise up into the sky.
Laxus stood there looking at the mist. His nose was itching, his magic power was beginning to sway. This mist was doing something.
"These are magical barrier particles.. they feed on the eternano in the atmosphere.. and contaminate it." Tempesta finished explaining what was going on as the black mist swirled around them.
"So this entire area is like an anti-eternano zone?!" Freed yelled in surprise as his mind began to understand what was going on and what was happening.
Cough. "Gah!" Freed breathed as he began to fall over in pain. The mist was already affecting him.
"That means.. not only is our magic weakened.. but all magic users caught in it will be slowly become poisoned." Evergreen squeaked between gasps of breath. The thick mist was beginning to tear her magic in her body apart already.
"Gah! Ugh!" Yajima wheezed as he began to cough. He was slowly becoming to weak to even sit up. He ingested to much of the poison.
"The poison is especially lethal for mages.. though the one down side about this is that I'll have the return to our base of operations to restore my physical body." Tempesta laughed loudly as he voice began to drift away.
Laxus stood there heavy breathing as sweat poured down his face. At this rate his whole team, Yajima, and he would die. They needed to thunk of something and act on it quickly.
From a distance Laxus, the Thunder God Tribe, and Yajima all heard something that frightening them all. "I look forward to dancing on your corpses.. In hell!" Tempesta yelled as his voice stopped and fully was gone.
"Try not to inhale anymore!" Freed screamed as he tried to desperately think of something.
"At this rate were going to-." Evergreen began to say but was caught off.
"The mist.. Is covering he entire area!" Bickslow yelled in surprise as he looked around. The black mist was in every direction they could see.
"We.. need to.. at the very least.. find an area that isn't so densely populated with the mist!" Yajima yelled as he pulled himself up off the ground and began to walk forward. If they didn't find a place with out this mist, they were all going to die.
Yajima took three steps before suddenly the world began to spin for him. With that he fell to the ground and was going out called with a moan of pain.
"Yajim-!" Evergeen began to scream Yajima's name but as she did so her own eyes began to spin as she fell towards the ground.
"Gah!" Bickslow yelled as he fell towards the dark misty ground as well.
"Don't give in! Ever! Bickslow!" Freed screamed as he watched his team mates take desperate breaths of air. Things were looking gruesome.
"Over my dead body!" Laxus yelled aloud as he felt his own body begging to go dumb. He himself was beginning to go down. "Over my.. fucking body!" Laxus yelled as his knees began to shake.
"Laxus! Don't breath in anymore of it!" Freed yelled to Laxus as he desperately tried to do anything he could to save his friends.
Slurp.
"N-no.. Laxus stop!" Freed screamed. In front of him he watched as Laxus began to inhale all of the black poison mist surrounding them.
"Dragon slayer lungs.. are unique. I'm going to inhale all of it!" Laxus explained as he countinued to suck in all of the black mist. He was going to save his team at all cost!
"Take them all home.. that's a direct order." Laxus told Freed as he finished sucking up the poison and fell backwards to the rubble ground. Laxus was out.
"Laxus!"
And that is chapter 18! Sorry for the delay, school kept me busy. Next chapter everyone should be back at the guild building and the beginning of war might start..
Prepare for death and epic fights.. The Tartarus arc is about to get on track to hell! Also Ultears/Meredy's turn is next chapter.
Thanks for all the support so far.. cha in the next chapter!
-ValinNight