Amazing what you can do on a Saturday with f*uck all to do. Here's the first chapter part of the Initiation arc, tell me what you think.
Flying through the air at breakneck speeds, with no harness or vehicle around you to give you the illusion of total safety was something hard to describe. And now was not the time to try.
Ahead of him Natsu could see the different strategies that were being used to land safely in the forest. Ruby used her gun to slow herself before using its scythe form to flip over a branch. That Ren guy hooked his guns on a tree trunk and slid around it like a corkscrew. Pyrrha held her shield up and simply crashed through several trees to slow herself down. Yang used high powered concussion shots from her gauntlets to propel her farther into the forest before crashing through the upper branches of a tree. And Jaune flailed around screaming until Pyrrha threw her spear through his hoodie to stick him to a yet another tree. How the hell are there any trees left here if this happens every year? Natsu thought before implementing his own strategy.
Unlike the other students who wanted to get as far into the forest as possible with the initial launch to avoid more combat and finish faster, Natsu wanted as many opportunities to fight as he could get. After half a month doing nothing he wanted to let off a little steam.
Pushing a concentrated beam of fire out from his feet he was able to create a form of thrusters giving him the ability of flight (Avatar the last Airbender: Aang vs Ozai). In his sealed state he could only do this for about ten minutes but that was more than enough. Repositioning his legs Natsu was able to turn his forward momentum into upward and finally downward momentum shooting him toward the ground, where he leveled out before gently touching down feet first. In all he had traveled about half as far as the other students in the air, and maybe a third as far as Yang.
"Now, where are the punching bags?" Natsu asked himself.
As if to answer him, the roar of a beowolf sounded to his left. Turning his head to the source of the noise, Natsu found himself faced with five large werewolf like beasts with black fur bone white spikes and red streaked masks. The five wolves were spread out along his left side, not surrounding him as there were none on his right, but a half circle of enemies would prove difficult for many fighters none the less. Too bad Natsu didn't fall under that category, nor did beowolves prove much of a threat to pretty much anyone who went through a lower combat academy without considerable numbers.
In other words, this would be more of a massacre than a fight.
"I guess you'll do for a warm up." Natsu said, punching his open palm. This seemed to set them off as all five charged forward at once. Leaning back to avoid the first one's claws, Natsu planted his hands firmly on the ground lifted himself up and swung his feet through the air clockwise while lighting them on fire. The effect was a wheel of fire that came off of his burning feet and struck the five Grim at chest level.
Usually an attack like that wouldn't be able to put down a monster, but these were young, without a single scar on their bodies and having weak armor, and his fire was more powerful than the norm. So instead of the beasts receiving fourth degree burns on their chests, half of their torsos where burned away, killing them instantly.
Flipping back to his feet, Natsu couldn't help but smirk a little as he looked at the Grim's dissolving bodies, "Or maybe not." Guess with me being so close to the cliff, all the stronger Grim around would have been killed off before they could climb up to the school.
That was something he hadn't thought of, landing closer to the school would make him travel a longer distance to the temple, but most of that extra distance would be devoid of anything stronger than the five beowolves he had just killed. Maybe I'll get lucky and run into an Ursa Major.
Pushing such thoughts away, Natsu closed his eyes and focused on his sensory magic. Okay, no one's dead that's good. Looks like Ruby's with Weiss that will be something. Pyrrha seems to have partnered with Jaune, damn so much for that… aaand Yang is pissed off about something with Blake inbound for her position so they'll probably be a team… wait. There are only twenty four other students other than me, does that mean someone doesn't get a partner? SWEET, now I won't have to deal with coming up with excuses every time I want to go into Vale or find something to fight. Natsu wasn't sure why there was an odd number of students for something like this, but he suspected Ruby's admittance screwed up the headcount this year.
Opening his eyes, Natsu took off to where he sensed the other teams heading too, which he assumed was the temple at the north end. As he ran through the surprisingly thin foliage he made sure to keep his eyes and ears open. Turns out that sense Grim had no souls, they didn't have anything for his sensory magic to lock onto, seeing as they were designed to locate magic active or no. So while he could track any human or Faunus he met before, and could at least pick up on the ones he hadn't, Grim never so much as left a blip on his radar.
Despite his hopes, even after running enough to nearly catch up with the rest of the students, the only other Grim Natsu came across was an average sized Ursa which while far stronger than the beowolves from before, still went down with one flaming sucker punch to the face.
Just as he was about to give up on ever getting a halfway decent fight that day, another roar caught his attention. Stopping in his tracks, Natsu turned to face the approaching noise. It was only a moment later that the cause of the noise showed itself, three Ursa Majors.
"Now we're talking." Jumping to the side to avoid the first charge, Natsu settled into a fighting stance. As the second Ursa lunged toward him he ducked under its wide swipe and jumped into the air striking it with a flaming knee to the face, sending it back and cracking its mask slightly.
Landing back on the ground, he wasn't given the chance to settle back into his stance as another Ursa tried to tackle him to the ground, forcing him to backflip several feet back to gain some room.
Touching down, Natsu instantly jumped forward, slamming a fire coated fist into the top of its head slamming it into the ground. He never got the chance to finish the job however as he was once more forced to dodge out of the way of a speeding Grim. "Looks like I'm finally getting that fight I wanted."
Lunging forward once more, Natsu delivered two quick flaming jabs to the face of the Ursa he had kneed in the face, breaking off half of its mask and from the snapping sound that followed breaking its neck as well. As the dissolving corpse hit the ground, Natsu was already moving onto his next target.
Weaving through its swipes, he countered with an uppercut to the chin, his hands still lit aflame. The beast stumbled back, dazed but not down. Before he could follow through, the other Ursa blindsided him, tackling him to the ground and pinning him underneath its considerable mass.
Using his hands to keep the bear shaped Grim's jaw open and away from his own face, Natsu pulled his knees us to his chest and planted his feet into the Ursa's before throwing it off of him and onto its own back. Kicking back up to his feet Natsu didn't give the monster a chance to get up itself using a flame enhanced elbow drop to crush its chest and putting it down for good.
By that point the last Ursa was back on its feet the only evidence of Natsu's earlier strike being a patch of burned fur on its chin. This one was bigger than the other two, with far thicker armor and more marks marring its body than the other two combined. Something this size would give a typical third year student trouble. But again, Natsu was not an average student, he, like Pyrrha, was on par with the average fourth year, perhaps even better (Unless stated otherwise mentions of Natsu's abilities will refer to his sealed state).
Taking initiative Natsu sent a concentrated blast of fire from his hands and feet propelling him toward the Grim at breakneck speeds. Spinning out of the way of the beast's attempt to hit him out of the air he hit the beast with a roundhouse kick to the side of the neck sending it crashing into and through a tree. However it seemed that wasn't enough to keep the thing down as it rose to its feet looking more pissed off than hurt.
"Come on big guy, let's see what you've got." Natsu taunted making a 'bring it on' motion with his hands. He had been waiting two weeks for this and he wanted it to count.
The Ursa charged forward again this time trying to ram Natsu with the spikes on its back by tucking its head down, both protecting more of its vulnerable points and making its charge that much more deadly. Grabbing the two foremost spikes, Natsu dug his feet firmly into the ground and stopped the Urse in its tracks using his aura to reinforce his strength to surpass his already impressive limits. Neither side seemed to want to give way however and it became a power struggle to see which one would cave first, knowing that doing so would leave them vulnerable to their opponent's next attack.
Getting tired of the stalemate, Natsu twisted his arms, throwing the bear onto its side and disorienting it for a few seconds. The few seconds that he needed to coat his fist with twice the flames as before and ram it into the beast's skull, shattering its mask and its bones and ending what passed for its life.
Damn I hate this stupid seal, back on Earthland I could have taken these things down easily by the time Lucy first joined. If it weren't for the fact that I know it would be even more troublesome for everyone to know my true strength I never would have made the damn thing in the first place.
Once more pushing his thoughts aside, Natsu closed his eyes again and tried to locate his sisters to make sure they were doing okay. Finding them not only together, but only about a hundred yards away, Natsu took off in their direction, from the looks of things they were with Jaune and Blake, with Weiss about two hundred feet above them. How she got there he had no idea and frankly didn't care, the drop from the cliff was higher so she should be fine as long as she didn't panic. Wonder why Jaune isn't with Pyrrha. They either got separated or she got held up fighting some Grim too tough for him to handle, but that wouldn't make sense, his aura is as high or higher than hers, he shouldn't be having enough trouble with anything here to the point that Pyrrha would send him on ahead… unless he just got lucky and was born with large reserves and doesn't have the skill to match it. Like Elfman before his wakeup call during the guild war with Phantom.
Whatever the case, he knew Pyrrha was alive at least, her aura was bright as ever and seemed to be closing in on the location the others were at, where he guessed was where the temple was located. Now all they had to do was grab whatever relics were there and get back to the school. Easy.
Wonder if Pyrrha would be up for celebrating us getting into Beacon tonight? Smirking, Natsu increased his pace. He had a mission to finish first, pleasure could come later.
Well, here's my first fight scene, sorry if it sucked but I'll hopefully get better with time. This chapter also gave a bit of a reference to Natsu's sealed abilities so for those who were curious I hope this satisfies you. Constructive criticism welcome.
As for lemons, to be honest I don't really have much faith in my ability to write one so don't expect any until I do.
Read and Review people,
Wingd Knight out.