The Tenrou Group Lives On - Chapter 19 – Pre Tartarus
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
"How is he?" Master Makarov asked as he stood there outside the infirmery room. His gut was aching and cold chills we're going threw his weary old body. When Laxus had entered Fairy Tail earlier, his heart almost stopped. Laxus looked as if he was dead, but Freed, his loyal comrade, brought him back home. Now the entire team of the Thunder God Tribe was being treated.
"Not well, but I do think he will survive." Porlyusica explained as she stopped out of the infirmary and Natsu quickly came out after.
Right away both Makarov and Porlyusica watched Natsu go towards his office to check on Mirajane and Erza for the thousandth time. Both of them knew Natsu was worried, but luckily from what they understood of what Natsu told them; they were only sleeping.
"So it seems this Tartarus group is pretty strong." Gildarts sighed. He was the second to last group to come back. When he did return he was briefed about what happened and that most of them had either failed or the ex councilman was already dead.
Now Gildart's just sat there, waiting to see what they were going to next as he had one arm around Cana's shoulder as she gulped down beer by the barrels. The majority of the Fairy Tail wizards were worried. If Laxus had been defeated.. what could they do. Laxus was one of the strongest people they had.
"Well this doesn't sit well.." Master Makarov sighed as he sat down next to Gildarts at the wooden bench. The guild hall was silent as everyone kept there thoughts to themselves and waited to be told any information they could get.
"Of course not.. we have no information and our numbers are knocked down." Natsu voiced as he appeared from the second floor walking down the stairs. He stood there for a second and then began walking towards Master Makarov and Gildarts.
"That's true.. Tartarus are demons from what Freed explained to us before he fell asleep." Master Makarov pondered as he let his old brain crank away. "Could they be Zeref's demons and be controlled by Zeref himself?" Master Makarov then asked aloud as he pondered over things.
"Hmm.. maybe." Natsu replied back as he sat down next to Master Makaorv and sighed himself. "At the moment.. we have no info and we have friends who are hurt." Natsu sighed.
Boom!
"Hey, we're back!" Sting yelled as he bursted through the front wooden doors of the Fairy Tail guild hall with his white magic coming off of his hands. Behind him Rouge, Wendy, Lucy, and the exeeds followed him in. As soon as he was in, he was laughing while everyone else was huffing with trying to catch their breath.
"Welcome back Sting." Natsu told Sting as he entered. "Did you find out any information or was Michello already gone?" Natsu then asked as he remembered who's Sting's team was assigned to.
"Heh.. sheesh, you can at least wait a few seconds for me! I'm a old man!" Michello yelled as he walked through the guild halls doors out of breath and looking as if he was about to collapse. Sweat was rolling down his old wrinkly face and his blue shirt was soaked to the brim.
"Michello.. well this is a surprise." Natsu stated as he stood up and took a few steps towards Michello who was still catching his breath with heavy heaving. 'Did Tartarus miss him? Or was Sting's group attacked?' Natsu thought to himself as his eyes began to scan over the group. Sting nor Rogues clothing was ripping and Lucy wasn't naked, so his brain quickly deduced that they hadn't fought anything.
"Huh..? Why is it a surprise?" Michello asked Natsu as he looked up and saw him staring at him.
"Becuase.. out of all the ex magic council members we tried to save.. Your one of the only two not dead." Natsu explained to Michello.
"Well that's reassuring.. now would you tell me why I was dragged here to this abomination of a guild?" Michello asked as he then looked over at Sting.
"Oh! Explain everything you told us about what Taratrus could be going after to Master Natsu!" Sting answered Michello with a quick grin as he held Lector in his hands.
"Aye sir! About Face to!" Happy quickly chipped in.
"Face.." Natsu muttered as his eyes widened. That was a name hidden by the magic council for many reasons. A weapon that many did not know of.
"Face.. what about it?" Master Makarov asked as he stood up and faced Michello. The mood inside of the Fairy Tail guild building suddenly dropped. Everyone was silent.. they all could hear each other's small breaths as they waited for a answer.
"Face.. it has to be the only reason why Tarturus is going after all the magic council men. They need to find the three people with the keys to face.. the best way to find them is to just kill them all." Michello quickly explained aloud as he watched Natsu and Master Makarov stand there and think.
"If that's true.. why would they need to activate face for? They've proven that there strong enough if they can easily go kill off hundreds of people." Natsu pondered aloud as his brain turned.
"What about something they're trying to keep hidden?"
"Hmm.. maybe." Natsu quickly replied to the tired female voice that came from the story above them. "Hmm? Well it seems your up, how was your rest?" Natsu then asked as he turned back and smiled up to Erza.
Erza was standing above everyone as she stood there on the balcony. Her clothing was hidden behind a small soft white fur blanket still wrapped around her. Her red hair was a mess and going every which way as she yawned.
"Good, though I'm still still tired and curious how I ended up here." Erza replied as she leaned up against the oak brown wooden railing and peared around at everyone. The first thing she noticed was how stressed out Master Makarov was.. had something happened? Next she saw the man next to Sting, the old man had brown hair with two cat like ears sticking out of it. Last was Natsu who had a gentle calm smile on.
"Now what Erza said could be a possibility. We only know little information about this group and we're still hoping for more." Natsu announced aloud as he looked everyone in there eyes. Fear, nervousness, and excitement; those were the things that popped into his mind as he looked at everyone. Some of the Fairy Tail mages were scared and nervous. Others were excited to see what would happen next and a few were fear stricken.
"Keys.. so the three people were the keys to unlock this Face?" Levy asked aloud as her brain was turning, she already had multiple books out in front of her as she dove through them looking for knowledge of Face and Tartarus.
"Yes.. hmm.. that's a possibility, but why would you want to know that?" Michello replied and asked back to Levy.
"Simply because of what Gildarts told us." Levy replied with a smile as her brain began to work even faster. "When Gildarts arrived he told us that one of the nine demons didn't want to fight as they wanted to use the new found knowledge of Fairy Tail and put it into there plan. If we use the logic that Taratrus wants to have everything according to there plans.. then you would think that one of the three keys would be with Taratrus right now. So we simply have to scan Fiore for the magic council members." Levy explained her plan as she quickly pulled out several stones.
With that she threw them into the air as they began hover in place and grow. Slowly in front of them a 3d map of Fiore was formed for all eyes could see. Levy then began to send magic into the stones as she began to scan for the magic council members.
"Hmm.. that could just work. Let's hope we're lucky then." Natsu said aloud as he saw the smiles spread across the guild. This could be it.. this could be there chance. Could they find Tartarus and put a hole in their plan for whatever there trying to do?
As everyone began whispering to each other and talking, Natsu decided to go up stairs. Once he was up the wooden stairs in the Fairy Tail guild hall he placed a arm on Erza's shoulder as he saw her head drooping.
"You know you can fall asleep in my office if you want." Natsu whispered in Erza's ear as he gently ran his warm hand down her fatigued body. As he did so he placed a warm kiss on Erza's neck as she gasped and giggled slightly.
"Teaser.." Erza replied to Natsu as she leaned back onto Natsu and sighed. "I guess your right, that would be better."
With that said Natsu accompanied Erza back into his office as they left the guild talking about Tartarus.
"Have you come to join me?"
Natsu laughed as a grin went across his face. As he stepped inside with Erza half asleep leaning on him, Mirajane was laying on the tan couch with a blanket over her body. Her white hair was a bit of a mess and one of her straps of her yellow and black dress was pulled down.
"Mm.. if you put it that way, I think I have to." Natsu replied as he walked over to the couch Mirajane was laying out. He watched as she began to move to let Natsu sit down and Erza lay down as well.
Once Natsu was sitting down, Mirajane rested her head on Natsu's lap as she looked up as his face, and placed her legs up on the couch arm rest. Erza quickly copied her as she did the same. Now when Natsu looked down he saw both Erza and Mirajane's tired face.
"Ara.. I never thought I would sleep this much." Mirajane giggled as she closed her eyes once more and let her heavy eyelids rest.
"I'm not surprised, your body needs all of its strength and power to protect and grow the soon to be." Natsu replied as he smiled at Mirajane and Erza who were both know dozing off. He then ran one of his hands into Mirajane's dress as he placed it on-top of Mirajane's bare stomach. He quickly did the same as he slipped his other hand in Erza's shirt.
He watched as a slight cute smile appeared on both of his wives as they both rested there own hands on top of Natsu's larger hands. There Natsu watched as both of his loves fell asleep.
As he looked at his wives, his mind wondered. What was going to happen in the next day. Taratrus, they definitely knew about Fairy Tail. So what was there plan? How could they stop it? How could he protect his soon to be family.. and guild? What was going to be the sacrifice?
All the thoughts pulsed through his head as he closed his eyes. There was a lot to think about and to do. Hopefully in the coming days.. nothing horrible would happen.
"So.. this is it." Ultear whispered as she gulped and began walking forward. As she walked forward her black cloak flew behind her as she wore her normal battle suit that consisted of a black one piece swim suit that had protection shields on it. A pair high long boots that went up to her thigh that revealed the rest.
"There's the head quarters of the magic council.. or what's left of it." Meredy said aloud as her eyes scanned over the city. In the corner was a massive exploded remains of a large building. It seemed if it had been blown up. Meredy was a bit nervous the areas as the wind countinued to whip around her.
Meredy still wore her red dress with the yellow bow wrapped around it as her brown ear muffs were still of her head with a knee high pair of black boots were on her legs like Ultear. Lastly a black cloak was wrapped around her.
"True, now should we go down there and ask around?" Ultear asked as she walked towards the remains with Meredy.
"Of course, hopfully one of them will have some information on them." Meredy replied as her eyes narrowed on the coming set of black charcoal stairs. The stairs that led down to the jails, where all the evil criminals were held.
'Please let there be information in there, we need to find Jellal. He will pay for what he did to Natsu!' Ultear thought to herself as her mind was still infused of what he had done. Her mind played the scene over and over each night, it scared her to her core. She wouldn't let it happen again.
Once they were down the stairs, they saw all the criminals, and simply looked at each other. With that they nodded and began investigating and looking for information.
A lot of time goes by within a glance. That's what happened to Ultear and Meredy as they investigated and talked to the remaining prisoners under the destroyed building of the magic council. Half of the time they begged to be free.. but other just stayed quiet for no good reason.
"You know.. you would think it would be a bit more secured down here." Ultear mumbled with slight sigh. Nothing, no information at all on the whereabouts of Jellal. Now herself and Meredy wandered the long dull hallways of the jail. Surprisingly they had only found a few guards who were stationed there just to make sure the prisoners didn't starve to death while the rest of the guards cleaned the bodies and rubble of the ruins above.
"Your right, but I think they might just be scared." Meredy replied to Ultear as they walked along. Their feelings were down and the mood was going bad quickly. They had spent days looking into finding anything about Jellal. Sadly though, they had found nothing.
Together both women pouted as they made there way towards the entrance to the jail. They could see that the weather had gone sour as the rumbling of thunder could be heard in the distance. That only made their mood worsen until something began to glow in Meredy's hand. The clear orb that Meredy had been holding for the past few days was know glowing as magic poured out of it. It only meant that the lacrima was being called.
"Natsu!" Ultear yelled as her mood took a 180 and her breath taking smile appeared. Quickly she grabbed the orb out of Meredy's hand as she poured her own magic into it. Seconds later a man with pink spiky hair appeared on it with a warm hearted smile.
"Hey, how are you both doing?" Natsu asked as he gave both girls a smile as his own orb in his hands began to show Ultear's and Meredy's face.
"Very well, how about you?" Meredy replied to Natsu's question as her heart filled with warmth just by seeing his calm face. Her sour mood was now long gone as she was happy to see the man she so badly loved.
"Good I guess, Levy might have an idea to track down where Tartarus is hiding." Natsu informed both girls as he leaned back on the couch he was sitting at with both of his wives heads in his lap.
"Hmm.. that sounds good. Sadly though we haven't anything about Jellal recently." Ultear explained to Natsu about hers and Meredy's missions so far.
"I see.. well then why don't you both come home? If we do find Tartarus, you'd both be needed." Natsu asked and suggested as he let the question ponder into the air.
"B-but what about finding-." Meredy began to reply back to Natsu but was cut off.
"I know that you both are trying your hardest, but if you haven't been able to find anything in a few days.. then I don't think you'll find any information." Natsu explained to Ultear and Meredy as he both gave them a soft kind smile.
"I see, we'll take the next train home and see you soon." Ultear told Natsu as she looked at a Meredy and gave her a nod.
"Good, I'll see both of you soon." Natsu replied and with that being said the Lacrima went back to being clear as one end of the lacrima orbs stopped.
"Hmm.. so it seems we'll be seeing Natsu soon." Ultear mumbled aloud as her brain went over things. 'Jellal.. you better be at Tartarus, I'm going to rip you to shreds.' Ultear thought to herself as she began leaving the magic council jail with Meredy next to her. They both began to walk towards the busy train station and went off towards Magnolia with looming dark clouds overhead.
"You're worried.." Mirajane said aloud as she opened her sky blue eyes and looked up at Natsu who was had his head leaning back.
"Yeah I am... Tartarus has already proven that there strong." Natsu replied as he his mind went back over Laxus.
Laxus has gone up against one of the Tartarus member, but even though he won the fight; he had lost at the same time. The demon he fought still took him and his team down and even killed an entire town. Once Laxus and his team wakes up hopefully.. there hearts might note recover knowing what had happened.
"Your right, but you've forgotten who we are." Mirajane spoke aloud with a bright smile crossing her red ruby lips. "We are Fairy Tail, we do the impossible." Mirajane explained as she remembered all of the times Fairy Tail has fought the impossible and won.
The dragons at the Grand Magic Games, the Tower of Heaven, and even when half of there family were lost to the Tenrou Island. Each fight, each thing they had fought with all there heart and pulled through. Together the impossible was possible to achieve.
"Yeah.. I guess we do." Natsu chuckled as his own mind flashed through the fights that they had one point given up on. Oracion Seis, Edolas, and many other times they were at the point of falling over and being done. But together they stood up and fought. Together they poured everything they had into the fight and walked away with everyone.
"Mm.. of course, you should know that especially as you were the heart that never gave up." Erza spoke aloud as she stretched with a moan. Every fight that someone had given up on, Natsu was there to pick them up. The fight was looking terrible and it was going to be there loss but every time Natsu would always stand up and suddenly they could fight. Natsu would always drive them to their goal and achieve it.
"Heh.. maybe." Natsu replied to his wife as his own cheeks went pink and slightly blushed.
"Aww, we can still get him to blush." Mirajane suddenly teased as she quickly turned a bit to look at Erza and give her a high five. So it seems both herself and Erza could get there husband to blush and be a mushy still after all these years.
"Demons.." Natsu sighed and muttered slightly as he saw both of his wives fully awake now and being there normal self.
"Well of course, that is the beast I am." Mirajane told Natsu with a cute smile.
"MASTER!"
"Huh? What's going on?" Natsu muttered suddenly as a shrieking voice suddenly yelled through out the building. It pierced thriugh the sound barriers and echoed.
Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza quickly got up as they all three bolted across Natsu's office as they arrived to the door. Once there they burst out and ran to the balcony to see what was happening. In front of him was every single member of Fairy Tail all standing around Levy with shocked faces and there mouthes dropped open.
"What's going on?" Natsu asked as he caught his breath. Something was going on for that scream to have had happen, it was already making his own body shake.
"T-Tartarus.." Levy muttered as her right eye brow pulsed up and down. Her mind had practically stopped and her heart beat was going crazy.
"What about them?" Erza quickly responded to Levy. What was going on?
"T-there.. r-right above us." Levy muttered just high enough so that Natsu, Erza, and Mirajane could hear as she watched all three of them become shocked.
Slowly by surly, Natsu looked up and only could wonder why? What was about to happen?
"Natsu.. Natsu.. today is it. Today is the faithful day you prove that your strong enough.. or you all die." A young man laughed with a happy smile across his face. He wore black robes, a dark red necklace, tan sandles, and he had black hair. But, most importantly.. his eyes were light red.. the color of ruby red blood.
Slowly the young man walked through Magnolia has he was traveling toward a particular building. On the top of this building he was walking to had a certain statue and symbol that was known very well through out Fiore.
On top of this building there was a statue of a Fairy.
The darkest wizard ever.. the evilest man.. so young but so much pain was caused by him.. Lord Zeref was on his way to Fairy Tail.
The final fight was about to begin. Zeref and Tartarus vs Fairy Tail for the most anticipated battle was about to begin. But the members of Fairy Tail did not know that yet..
The heads and blood begins to fly in the next chapter.
*wipes brow* phew.. after a year we arrive at the main goal of this story.. Killing Zeref.. took long enough..
Next chapter begins the big bugs! Get hyped! I know I am!
-ValinNight