Chapter 42: Hello World

A/N: Hello there people! Not much to say other than thanks to sashaXmafuyuFOREVER for the review, and to Payn3 for the follow and favorite of the story! Enjoy this action packed chapter!

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A Week Later (Natsu POV)

I stretched on Igneel's back as he flew us to Era, the home of the council. "How much longer? This is so boring. Honestly I don't even remember why I didn't bring Luce."

"Because she's pregnant?" Igneel responded and shook his head in disbelief. "You forgot that didn't you?

"No, but this job won't even require us to lift a finger, in reality. Just to talk for a bit and announce our plans. Oh, hey look! There it is, council headquarters. Man talk about compensating for something, that thing is absolutely huge!" I said and Igneel began his descent.

"Ok Natsu, I'm leaving for now, when you're ready to go light the signal and I'll be there. No need to waste our time. Be safe, my son." Igneel said as I hopped off his back and he flew away, leaving me alone behind enemy lines, again. 'Well Here goes nothing, I hope Luce is having fun back at home. Today is trial day for Rogue and Juvia, time to see Juvia's progress and Rogue true ranking.'

(POV Change to Lucy)

'So first up is Juvia versus Mern. This should be good. Then Rogue versus Rai. Oh my I should have some good entertainment today.' I muse to myself as I watch Kurayami walk into the center of the training ring.

"Ok, first up is Juvia and Mern. Please step forward you two." Kurayami said and the two combatants did, glaring at one another. Juvia was looking up slightly as Mern was as tall as Rai, but did not look in the least bit intimidated. "Ok, so here are the ground rules, don't kill each other. That's it. Everything else goes and, oh yes, please don't maim each other. Ready?" They both nodded and got into their fighting stances, their stare down still going on. "GO!"

He disappeared as both immediately cast their spells, "Thorns!" "Water Slicer!". Mern launched his thorns, which almost trapped Juvia but she cut them easily with her water slicer attack. Then Mern moved in and yelled, "Thorn Thrust!" and thorns shot out, straight at Juvia. she didn't move, however, and instead let them pass through her. I forget sometimes that Juvia can make herself into water, 'Oooh, nicely done Juvia. I forgot that most attacks won't hit you if you focus your magic like that.' Then Juvia became a puddle of water and moved underneath him where she rose up and onto him, reforming back into her body and trapping him. Then a water clone came from where she was standing and it charged at Mern, who was stuck since due to Juvia having him in a headlock. He tried to wriggle lose by his own strength and couldn't so the he yelled, "Thorn Body!" and thorns shot out of his whole body, barely missing Juvia who had to jump off since she had no time to change her body composition. But the clone was not so lucky and ran right into the thorns and was impaled by them, disappearing back into a puddle of water. 'Strange the water is still there, how is that possible, shouldn't it have gone back to Juvia?'

"Water Cane!" she yelled, then I understood why the water hadn't gone back as it formed a whip and struck out at Mern, who dodged, but barely and had to roll out of the way. "Water Nebula!" she yelled and out came two spinning columns of water and they crashed into Mern who stood there and took it, head on. He stood for a moment before it ended and he yelled "Thorny Rose!" as a rose shot out of his hand and expanded and flew towards Juvia. She saw it and dodged to the right of it, which was nicely done as she rolled to stopped just narrowly dodging the rose. I smirked for a second but didn't know that it was about to explode, but apparently neither did she. So when it did she was thrown forward and landed with a thud. She groaned and was slow to get up, but she did and shook off the pain and stood up. "Double Wave!" She yelled and two waves shot out and crashed against Mern, who staggered back a bit and then was hit by Juvia as she yelled, "Water Rush!" Mern was sent flying back a bit and doubled over in pain before he groaned as he stood up.

"Thorn Bullet!" he yelled and thorny bullets shot at Juvia who simply dodged them by turning her body into water. But it was a distraction as he was suddenly upon her and punched her in the face and I realized that she could only make her body water in parts, or that only part of her body could be water and let something pass through at any given time. 'This is very informative. This is also going to take the full ten minutes, someone better hurry up and finish this.' As if he was a psychic, which Mern was partially as he was telepathic, Mern kept up the pressure and yelled, "Thorn Curse!" and Juvia was trapped in thorns that encased her upper body and she yelled out in pain and quickly turned herself into water and put some distance between them and reformed. But no one saw what was coming when Mern yelled out, "Thorn Time Bomb!". Suddenly the area where Juvia had been a massive explosion and Juvia was sent flying up in the air. That's when I noticed where she was standing, 'Oh, so when the fight started and he got into his stance he placed some thorn magic down and set that up, very clever.' Then the fight was all over, Mern jumped and met her mid air and she didn't see him coming. He put some of his heavier thorns on his hands and swung down, sending her flying towards the ground where she crashed with a thud and created a crater.

Kurayami ran out and checked on her and waved his hands in an X, signaling the end of the fight. "WINNER: MERN!" he motioned to Esoj and Nena and they created a stretcher for Juvia, but she refused it and stood up on her own power.

She walked over to Mern and extended her hand which Mern took and they exchanged a job well done. They both walked to where everyone was sitting and I said, "Well that was fun. Took nine minutes and it was kinda close, so well done Juvia." She nodded her thanks to me and I smiled back and had her sit at my right, as I wondered, 'How's Natsu doing?'

(POV Change to Natsu)

I walked with Karr's contact as he leads me to the council chamber, "Wow, you must really hate the council, I mean I'm gonna be interrupting a meeting and embarrassing their security. You will probably lose your job you know?"

"Not if I make it look like you overpowered security, WHICH you did. Need I remind you that all the security people are at the front entrance, unconscious and bloodied?" He said but I just ignored him. Like he said I do want them to know they have no hope of stopping me.

"Is this it?" I asked as we reached a big door that looked very regal and like it cost a lot of money to make.

"Yes, now knock me out and throw me inside. It will make it look like I was beaten after you used me to find this place." He said as I grabbed him, punched him a few times, and threw him inside the room, causing the room's inhabitants to look up and gasp a bit.

"Well hello there council members! How are we today?" I asked mockingly and walked in.

"Natsu Dragneel. Why am I not surprised to see that it is you causing a ruckus?" Said the chairman, whose name I couldn't remember.

"Tch, please you are surprised, don't lie. You all think yourselves untouchable now, even after Tartarus killed all of the last council in this very place, and now here I am. I could kill every one of you, not break a sweat, and go home and have sex with my wife. But I am not here to do that. Today I came to tell you what I plan to do with myself. I will kill Zeref. Get in my way and I will kill you as well, so stay out of my way. And leave Ronin alone as well, we have challenged Fairy Tail to a rematch and it will happen in one year. So leave us alone and wait for the rematch. If your guild coalition comes we will fight them as well, and the rules apply to them as well as us. We lose we surrender, we win we are absolved off all crimes and allowed to form our own guild. These are my terms. You would be wise to accept them." I finished my message and looked at them, waiting for an answer.

The chairman apparently didn't hear my warning nor knew how strong I really was as he charged at me, and sent a spell my way. I deflected the spell with my bare hand causing everyone in the room to have their jaws drop, yawning and grabbed him by the throat. "I warned you to accept the terms. Now I will show you why." I said as I put more pressure to my grip and I felt some of his tendons pop, tearing and snapping. The other council members looked on in horror as I squeezed, and popped his neck, breaking it but not killing him. "Now, unless you wanna be a mute forever like the chairman here, then you will accept the terms. So how do you vote?"

"IN FAVOR!" They all yelled, and I laughed at their fear.

"Good children, alright I'm done here. Igneel sorry about this." I said as I sent up the signal that I had prepared, but was not what Igneel thought it would be. I disappeared as my body flickered away.

(POV Change to 3rd Person)

The council members watched in continued horror as they saw Natsu disappear, as if he were not actually there. "He was a psychic projection the whole time? Just how strong is he? The max a projection could be in terms of relative strength to the original is fifty percent. And that strength was terrifying." Said one of the council members and the others nodded and one yelled for a medic, and attended to the chairman.

In the skies above, the great dragon Igneel was now incensed at his adoptive son, "Damn it! TELL ME THIS KINDA STUFF IS YOUR PLAN BEFOREHAND!" He turned around and flew back towards the new home his son had made and left the signal, which was a message behind, which said, 'I am a psychic projection, no need to take me home. Sorry Igneel.'

(POV Change back to Lucy)

"Oi, sorry about the long bathroom break. Dinner last night wasn't spicy enough for me so I couldn't keep it down too well." Natsu said as he sat down next to me and I looked at him, "So what did I miss?"

"Mern won, as we expected. But Juvia put up one hell of a fight. She was excellent." I said and he nodded, "You did tell Igneel that he was flying a psychic projection to Era right?"

"…Shit. I knew I forgot something." Natsu said as I face-palmed and felt bad for him.

"You know he's gonna be mad when he gets back right?" I said as Juvia who had been nodding to both of us in thanks for the praise started to laugh at my misfortune.

"Sorry, but Juvia finds it funny how little you have changed Natsu-san. You are still that dense fool that always fought Gray." She said in between laughs.

"I'm not that dense…" He said and looked at us.

We all laughed as we knew it was not true, he pouted and we were about to apologize but were interrupted by Kurayami yelling out, "Ok, so here are the ground rules, don't kill each other. That's it. Everything else goes and, oh yes, please don't maim each other. Ready?" Rogue and Rai nodded and stared each other down, slowly nodding and getting into position. "GO!" and the two charged at each other, Rai yelling, "Light Speed!" he was a blur but so was Rogue as he had activated shadow drive and almost matched his speed. They collided and pushed each other back, and they began an exchange of blows, each one using their magic to help create more force behind their punches. They pulled back for some more room and looked at each other, catching their breathes for a moment. Rai was the first to strike as he yelled "Light Pulse!" and seven balls of light went flying at Rogue. Rogue countered, yelling "Shadow Dragon's Roar!" His roar hit the balls of light and they both exploded, only having reached the mid way point between the two. They both charged again and exchange some more blows but Rogue yelled, "Shadow Dragon's Slash!" and his punches became too fast to follow and sent Rai flying backwards. He followed it up with another "Shadow Dragon's Roar!" and sent Rai into a tree, which he destroyed and kept flying. He stopped himself however by using his magic and yelling, "Light Wings!" Wings sprouted from his back and helped him stop his momentum.

He turned and charged at Rogue yelling "Light Meteor!" He picked up speed and crashed into Rogue, the place where they were becoming a massive crater. They both were out of it quickly however and were back to trading punches. They both landed a punch on each other's jaws and sent the other flying back. Then Rogue did something really unexpected, he stood up after landing and focused his magic and activated a mode we did not expect to see. He was in his Shadow Light Dragon mode. 'Did Sting give him his light? What an idiot! I wonder if it was a fair exchange like what Laxus did, or did Rogue just kind of steal it?' Natsu was just as shocked as I was and looked at Rogue who then charged at Rai. Rai was no match for him, as he was quickly overwhelmed as not only had Rogue gone into his two element form, but used his dragon force. He quickly punched Rai in the face, and kept punching him all over. This kept going on for a good minute before finally Kurayami came out as Rogue lost his super dragon mode.

"Tch, idiot. He just wasted all that magic, and not even on the real Rai. Look." Natsu said and I saw the Rai he was beating up disappear in a flash of light and the real Rai charged from the crater. 'Smart. He used a clone to make him think that was the real Rai and had him use up a lot of magic to do that. Well done.' Rai yelled, "Light Speed!" and was on him in less than a second and sent him flying a moment later. He chased after Rogue and kept him flying, not giving him a chance to recover properly and catch his breath. 'This is gonna end soon. Only one minute left and Rogue is completely on the ropes. I still think Rogue can salvage a tie but he needs to stop Rai's assault. Now.' And that he did, he activated his shadow drive and was finally able to grab Rai and throw him off of him. He stood and charged at his top speed and began his own assault on Rai and was raining down punches on him, his fists much stronger as they were augmented by his magic. Then as it looked as if he was about to finish the fight as Rai looked tired and drained, Kurayami ran out and threw up his hands, standing between the two, signaling the end of the fight. "WINNER: NO ONE!". They both relaxed and traded a fist bump, congratulating each other on an amazing battle.

"Tch, Rogue could have won if he hadn't wasted so much magic on his assault, he should have smelled it was a clone. What a waste." Natsu said disgusted, shaking his head.

"Now, now. He put up a great fight as did Rai. They both look tired, as I bet you are as well. Ya hungry?" I asked him and he nodded while sighing.

"NATSU! CARE TO TELL ME WHY YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU SENT A PROJECTION?!" Igneel yelled as he arrived and was very angry.

"... Shit. Ummm Luce I have to go, but save me some food. Bye!" Natsu said and kissed my forehead, then he ran off and was being chased by a dragon... Yes, this man was going to kill Zeref. 'World meet Natsu. Natsu say hello to the world. After today they will all know who you are.'

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A/N: Hahaha, Natsu really is an idiot. But man is he scary when he wants to be. I mean he snapped a guy's neck without killing him, just to make a point. Scary stuff there. Also partially sadistic as he always hurts people and laughs about it but yeah it's whatever...Hahaha! And I liked how Mern and Rai's magic turned out, definitely interesting characters who will eventually get a fight that is a full fight. Well that was fun! Remember to keep looking for the next chapters as I update almost daily, AND READ AND REVIEW! ADIOS!