Chapter 3
Natsu stayed for lunch and that guy with the scythe was right, the food was amazing. "So are you lot really in a dark guild?" Natsu asked with his mouth full
"We prefer to call it a grey guild" Poseidon said, "we take on jobs too tough for regular guilds and if they involve murder or theft so what"
"So why did your leader bring me here?" Natsu asked as he ripped off more meat
"He probably wants you to join us" Vesuvius said with table manners just as bad as the dragon slayer's
"Correct lava for brains" Kalex walked in to the dining hall and sat at the head of the table
"And why should I join you?" Natsu asked without any food in his mouth this time
"Well for one you lost our bet" Kalex reminded him, "and I can make you more powerful than any one in Fairy tail"
Natsu slammed his fist on the table with a look of burning rage, "fine then teach me" he said as he broke the bone he was holding in half with his grip
"Good but we'll start tomorrow" Kalex stood and walked out without eating a thing
Natsu finished lunch and spent the rest of the day with the others and didn't see Kalex once as he was shown around the mansion they lived in. they showed Natsu the back of the property which was just a large bare and dusty plain in the middle of a forest, "wow you guys are really bad gardeners" Natsu commented when he saw it
"Kalex was the one who made it like this" Riki said, "beside we only ever use it for training"
"Ok then who wants to go a few rounds?" he asked with a smirk
"I'll beat you up" Poseidon stepped forward
The two mages walked to the middle of the plain and stood facing each other, "crashing wave" Poseidon sent a large wave to crush Natsu, who jumped through it and bore down on the water mage with fists alight
"Water chariot" a wave carried Poseidon away as Natsu struck the ground
"Fire dragon roar" Natsu turned and fired his breath attack
"Sea shell" Poseidon shielded himself in a bubble of water that managed to withstand the flames
Natsu lit his fists and charged at the water mage, "arms of the sea god" water surrounded Poseidon's arms as he met the dragon slayer punch for punch, Natsu threw a punch and Poseidon met it with his own but as Natsu tried to push through the water from Poseidon's arm seeped over and enveloped his hand.
"What the hell" Natsu tried to pull his fist out but couldn't, "well that mean you're just a closer target"
Natsu threw a punch with his left hand but that was met by Poseidon's other fist and now both of his hands were trapped, "how we supposed to fight if we can't use our fists?" Natsu asked as he tried to free himself
"Your fists are trapped" Poseidon brought his arms out of the water as he put them to Natsu's chest, "water geyser"
Natsu was thrown in to the air by a powerful jet of water, no actually saw where he landed and they found him half an hour later still soaking wet.
Around the same time Erza walked in to the guild hall with Gray and Lucy, all of them looking frustrated, pissed and depressed respectively, "bad job?" Mira asked as she gave them something to drink
"Yeah an assassin came and killed our client" Gray told her as he started gulping it down
"Yeah it was Kalex" Erza told Mira
"I still need to pay my rent guys" Lucy said from her place, face down on the bar
"Then get another job" Gray said getting another drink
"But the last on was so exhausting" she complained
"Shut up and get to work" Gray said not bothering to look at the blonde and turning to Erza, "so tell us more about this Kalex"
"He's Erza's lover" Mira said with a wink
"HE WISHES" Erza screamed, "any way he's a mage from the dark guild, Reapers path, he uses a type of wind magic called slasher magic"
"And?" Gray asked
"that's all I really know we have fought a couple of times but I always barely get out" Erza admitted making Gray even more scared of the guy, "I always got the feeling that he was never taking it seriously like he was holding back"
"Against you no way" Gray said not wanting to think about the guy who held back against Erza
End of chapter 3