With Natsu and the others
"WHAT! You say Naruto took off and went after Erigor without us?" Natsu yelled out as he heard what Erza and Gray said to him.
They now stood close to the wind barrier with them Kageyama, who lays on the ground, unconscious and bandaged up after getting a beating by Natsu.
When Erza and the others caught up on them, Erza swung her sword at the defeated Kageyama and demanded him to dispel the wind barrier. But before he could even respond, something unexpected happened.
A hand appeared through Kageyama's body with in the hand a bloody knife that caused Kageyama to bleed out of his mouth almost and collapse to the ground. The person who did it was a fellow Eisenwald member, a friend!
In response, Natsu was the first one to react. He clenched his two fists and lit them on fire. He looked at the assailant with pure anger. knocking him out through the wall.
Now they were outside, still stuck inside the wind barrier with time ticking, they had to figure out how to get out of it.
"Idiot…" Gray shook his head before explain it to him again "Naruto figured their real target is the guildmaster conference in Clover, that's why he has the Lullaby, he wants to us it to kill them all."
"Then we have to stop him!" Natsu exclaimed, not wanting to waste any more time here.
Erza sighed while checking Kageyama's wounds "That's easier said than done. Erigor cut off our only mean to reaching Clover and is headed there by air."
"I'm pretty sure we'll be able to catch up on him with the magic-mobile. But, we can't do anything until we've managed to get to the other side of that barrier." Gray pointed out the biggest obstacle they were facing.
Lucy thought for a moment before asking "You think Naruto can handle that guy by himself?"
"Of course he can, don't doubt him Lucy!" Natsu said while staring at the barrier "There's no way he'll lose to a jerk like Erigor."
"How do you know?"
"….Because he's not someone who let anything happen to Gramps." Natsu said thinking back "Not after everything he had done for him…"
Lucy was curious to know "Why?"
With Naruto
On the train tracks, Naruto still had his kunai pointed at Erigor's throat, now he had cornered the rogue wizard he could easily just disable him and bring him to jail.
Erigor was calm, like really calm. Normally a person who got into a situation like this where he got trapped in an illusion trap with the end result being forced a knife to your throat, you would either be angered, surprised or even scared, but not Erigor, for some reason.
He then calmly spoke "So it's true…"
Naruto raises his eyebrow "Hmm?"
"You fight differently. You don't just fight head on like the rest of the Fairy Tail flies, you use precision to find the weaknesses of your targets and exploit them, you used stealth so I couldn't even hear your footsteps even through the thick cloud of smoke. Not forget to note, unlike those flies you use self-control so you could've gained the opportunity to get me into a position you wanted me in."
Naruto kept himself quite.
Erigor continued to talk "Those set of skills aren't usually being found in wizards who are in guilds….unless they've had done time in the military, buy the Fiore Army doesn't teach that…"
"What are you trying to say?" Naruto asked while holding the kunai up to his chin so he would speak up "Speaj up!"
Erigor laughed out before speaking "I'm trying to say that I know who you are, Naruto Uzumaki. Rogue ninja from the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Wanted for multiple murders, an attempted coup and treason, now with a price on his head. Dead or Alive."
Naruto didn't show it or budge it, but he began to wonder how this guy guessed it.
"I will say, it's an honor to meet a ninja who came from the other side of the world with such an interesting background, giving it that there's little to no contact between the wizard continent and the Shinobi continent. Most of the younger generation now believes it are myths or are too stupid to not believing it. Such a rocking place isn't it? wars, violence, purges….I even heard it's normal for children to join the ranks, even some have killed before they even reached their teens…..Oh, I wish I could've go live there, I would fit right in there."
'Pretty much you would've been buried alive, prick.' Naruto kept his mouth shut while listening to this guy's nonsense.
"But it's hard to get there, isn't it?" Erigor questioned "Not one kindom of Earth and has ever made contact with that continent and basically refuse any trade or interacting with such an environment of violence and killings. Let stand that it takes months of sailing to one of the ports, and a risky journey with the sea between those two worlds being filled with monsters and ships that have fallen into the demise of the cursed and treachery weather."
Naruto forced the man down on his knees and asked answered him "…What? what do you want to know?"
Erigor chuckles while looking up "How come you managed to get to Fiore without going through that journey on the dangerous seas?"
Naruto kept staring at the rogue mage and couldn't help but start thinking about the day he got in Fiore and meet the people he would see as his family….
Flashback, 3 years ago
Night, Magnolia
Walking through the dark alleyways, the Naruto tries to stay on his legs while trying to find the guild that the woman said he needed to go to.
Fairy Tail.
He loses his balance and almost trips over some planks and now standing on one foot and his knee, still holding onto the bleeding shoulder, his already bad eye sight was started to go from bad to worse as it was a clear sign of losing too much blood.
"Got….to….find…guild..hall…" Naruto said as he walks off the alley and starts walking through the calm streets.
It was clear that the population was mostly either in their homes or at a night stand that Naruto was avoiding.
Then he finally saw with his one good eye what he was looking for…
He saw an abnormally high building that stood taller than any other with an remarkable flag flying above it.
It was the Fairy Tail guild hall.
He starts stumbling towards the building while leaving a trail of blood behind him at such an alarming rate, that it looked like he was indefinably wasn't going to make it.
"Almost….there."
Naruto was holding his hand onto his bleeding shoulder, he saw that despite it was late, there was still light coming from the building.
Naruto was on the verge of passing out, so he used all the energy he still had left to walk to the doors of the building and opened it up. He stumbled through the doors and saw that the guildhall for most part was empty, maybe it was closing time.
Then he saw at the counter, two men bickering at each other. The one behind the counter was looked like to be an middle aged man with dark blue hair with some facial hair and was wearing from his perspective some pants, a t-shirt and an white coat.
Then sitting at the counter was an small but elderly man in orange hoodie, blue and orange stripped jester hat.
"Ah, come on!" the elderly men waved his mug around "Give me another one, Macao!"
"No master, I'm not pouring you another beer." A irritated Macao said cleaning a empty glass "Go home."
A stumbling footstep was heard and it then stopped.
Makarov groaned it was possible one of his children and he turned around and yelled "Guild hall is closed, come back tomorrow-" he opened his eyes and widened in shock.
The sound of a shattering mug on the ground got the guy behind the counter's his attention.
He turned around "Damn it master, can you no-" his words chocked in his mouth now he saw what was at the entrance of the guild hall.
An blonde young man looked terribly wounded, with his upper clothes damaged, his exposed skin covered in bruises and stab wounds, his hair soaked in blood and he looked like he could barely stand on his own legs, Makarov wondered what happened to this kid.
He looked down and saw that the ground around his boots were leaving a trail of his own blood. What did this kid go through?"
Makarov hops off from his seat and slowly walks up to the kid "Boy, what happened to you?"
The young man didn't respond and just kept breathing in and out.
Macao walked around the counter "Oh my…"
"Help….me."
Makarov didn't hear that clearly "What did you say young child?"
The blonde young men then turned his head up to look Makarov and looked with his one eye straight in his eye, the look in the boy's eye said it enough for the old guild master.
"…Please." Naruto said before collapsing to the ground.
"Boy!" Makarov quickly went by his side and turned him over and started checking his vitals.
Macao went by his side "And?"
"….He's got a weak pulse, he must've lost a lot of blood." Makarov looks up and said "Go and wake up Porlyusica, tell her it's an emergency, I'll bring this boy to the hospital."
"Wake. Up. Porlyusica?"
"Damn it brat! There's a child bleeding out here. GO NOW!"
"Right!" Macao said as he stood up and ran out of the building, trying to get help as soon as possible.
Naruto began to tremble and was coughing some blood out.
"There, there, take it easy boy, help is on the way." Makarov started cleaning the boy's mouth with some napkins but then noticed under the hair that covered the forehead was something made out of metal. He brushed it aside and saw it was an headband with carved on it a symbol that was scratched through.
'This headband….he must be an shinobi…..but he's still an kid...' he looked down to the kid as he was barely conscious.
Naruto had trouble breathing and was showing signs of tearing up and looked very distrusted.
Makarov started to calm him down "There boy, there. Can you tell me what your name is?"
"N-N-Naruto…"
"How did you came here? Were you with anyone else?"
"…Woman brought me….here. Blonde woman…..told me to come here….*grunt*…"
Makarov asked "Why?"
Before Naruto could answer to that question eyes started to shut down slowly just as the sound of doors opening up was heard the old man say.
"Get this young to the hospital, quickly!"
End flashback
Naruto's visible eye was showing nothing but emptiness at that point thinking back that day. That was the real story he got to Fairy Tail at least, when he was brought in, not much information about him was asked as Makarov made sure he was taken care of without many questions. It was gramps who granted him his second chance.
"Are you going to answer my question or what, bug?" Erigor asked growling.
Naruto looked back and made a frown at him "How about it's none of your business. And what about you tell me how you know all this information about me?"
He directly pushes the kunai against Erigor's throat that caused his throat to cut slightly and release some blood but the killer laughed "Like I'm going to tell you! Just forget it!"
"Who knows!" Naruto demanded as he became more aggressive "WHO KNOWS!?"
"Hahaha!" Erigor laughed hysterically before answering "Only those who were able to obtain that information. Don't you worry, those who know have no interest of leaking it out to everyone, they instead like to fight you themselves, it's not every day you get a chance to fight an real Shinobi who got his hands dirty before. AND I'M ONE OF THEM!"
Just then Erigor somehow managed to create a small powerful dust of wind between him and Naruto, forcing them to split apart.
Erigor turned around and grabs a tight hold on his scythe and started generating the wind below him to lift himself up into the air and take a some distance between him and Naruto.
He stretches his arm and aims his hand at Naruto's position "Now I'm going to end you stupid fly, Storm Bringer!"
A tornado generated and was coming straight for where Naruto stood, it hit the target and it left damage the train tracks.
Erigor smirks at it "Let's see how you deal with that."
"Okay, allow me."
"Huh?
Naruto came from above and before Erigor could react, he received a kick to the face that send him flying towards the tracks below him at such a fast pace, it created an hole by the landing. Naruto landed back on the ground and waited for Erigor to come back up.
Erigor indeed stood back up from the hole and grunts slightly from the kick "Guess I underestimated you, but that won't hold me back from getting my revenge."
"I'll never let you do anything to the old man." Naruto disappeared in a blink of an eye before reappearing above Erigor with an couple of shurikens in his hands.
"Not while I'm around!" he threw them all at once.
"Storm Wall!" Erigor yells as he created a shield that stopped all the shurikens to hit him, but suddenly an explosion occurred ad that went off just in front of him, causing him to jump back a few nudges.
Erigor flew out of there with luck, let stand the few flukes of fire that landed on his clothing he was for the most part but he did gained some bruises from the explosion and it got him madder than ever.
"You wanna play like that? Okay, I got something for you!"
Naruto stood there while gesturing his hand "Come on and get me, prick!"
Erigor grew angry and tilted his scythe and started spinning it around, while also making an X pattern, he manipulated the wind around him until it created some kind of wind barrier around him that looked like a type of armor that covered him.
"I'll force you to your grave, fly! Then when I'm done with you, I'll let you be joined by your friends and that old man!" Erigor exclaimed.
"No Erigor, no you won't." Naruto summoned a clone and reaches his hand out backwards so his clone was forming some kind a energy that was forming some of sphere in his hand.
"Don't be hopeful, whatever you're planning, it won't work because my wind will crush you!" Erigor yelled as he was preparing on of his trump card attacks and boosted it up before going at direct speed towards Naruto's position.
Naruto clone dispelled and left in his hand laid was his own trump card.
"Storm Mail!"
Naruto jumps upwards with his hand reaching forwards.
"Rasengan…."
With the others
Now racing down the tracks, Erza was still driving the mobile as fast and careful she could. Natsu and Happy were flying above them while Gray, Lucy and Kageyama were in the backseat.
They earlier got into a bump and resulted in Lucy's butt going up in Kageyama's face on which he 'insulted' now the celestial mage asked concerned "Do you think Naruto's going to be fine?"
Before Gray could answer her that question, the ground began to rumble hard that it caused them to hop off their seats temporarily.
"What was that?"
"Look! Major dust cloud over there on 12 o'clock!" Happy said out loud.
Everyone inside the back took a peak out of their window and saw a major dust cloud was in the air just not that far away.
"Wow…." Kageyama couldn't let those be trapped in his mouth, he never saw someone push Erigor being pushed this far…
"That must be Naruto." Erza stated as she was certain it was him and turns to Happy carrying Natsu "Natsu! Get over there and help him out if you can!"
"Right! Let's go Happy!"
"Aye sir!" Happy responded as Natsu boosted Happy's flight with his feet burning up like turbos and going towards the cloud site.
Erza stared at the cloud dust and knew that only one attack Naruto would've used that could cause an explosion this big and hoped.
'Naruto, just wait.'
In the dust that was clearing, all the tracks that were placed were now gone, the wind power of both men was simply too strong for it to resist.
As it cleared, Naruto was seen standing in the middle of a small crater that laid just near the end of the track where someone could fall off into the canyon. With his flak jacket now covered in dried up blood and his mask being down for most part so it was easy to see his mouth. He did not show
Right in front of him stood an smiling Erigor who was holding his scythe just behind Naruto's back, and was ready to stab him.
"So….this is the power of the Shinobi…." Erigor's smile started to open up and blood started spilling out of his mouth "I'm impressed…"
Naruto had managed to smash the Rasengan into Erigor's chest, meaning he dealt the final blow against the Eisenwald member.
Naruto still kept his neutral expression and said "You know, normally those who get the full power of the Rasengan against their bodies they don't stand against it."
Erigor stood a step back away from Naruto, leaving Naruto' hand in the open, showing that the spot where Naruto had smashed the Rasengan in had left a big bruise which possible was the only give away to the internal damage he had given.
The scythe dropped to the ground just as Erigor dropped to his knees soon after his weapon fell. It was officially given that Naruto had beaten the Eisenwald wizard as the Lullaby flute fell off the guy's belt as a sign of defeat.
Erigor the Reaper of Eisenwald was defeated. Naruto now stood above the body of Erigor, he was still alive and he started to talk to his unconscious body.
"Guess that's that. You must know, the Magic Council wants me to end people like you, those who enjoy killing, terrorizing, pillaging and all of that. And that old goat who sends me the message to dispose you, believes I could end your life because that was my previous profession."
Naruto pulls out a sealing scroll and dips his finger into his wound and used it to draw a line of blood over the writings of in it.
He started doing multiple handsigns "But to hell with them, I'm not going to kill you, instead I'll see that you'll rot in prison for the rest of your miserable life."
He finished his series of hand signs and then planted his hand on the scroll and in response a cloudy dust erupted.
Coming up in such speed, a flying Happy carrying Natsu saw the cloud dust and saw Erigor's scythe.
"There! that must be Naruto, go down, Happy!"
"A-Aye!" Happy complied as they started flying downwards to the smoke.
Naruto walked out of the smoke and puts the scroll back into his pocket just as something crashed in front of him.
An clearly tired Happy laid sweating out of exhaustion on the twitching body of Natsu that face planted hard on the tracks.
Naruto then looks up and saw that the mobile was driving up towards them. Erza was seen waving at him.
Now Erza was being helped climbing off from the driver's seat by Lucy, she turns to Naruto and smiles "Nice work Naruto, but where's Erigor?"
Naruto points back "Look over there."
There lied an unconscious and beaten up Erigor, in ropes and down on the ground surrounded by Gray and Natsu who was poking his foot against his head.
"Stop it Natsu." Gray told him to stop.
"What, just checking out if he's still alive."
"Of course he would be fire brain, why else would Naruto keep him tied up."
"Who you call fire brain? Ice pervert!"
"Who are you calling an ice pervert-"
Erza had a thick mark on her head and ordered "Would you too idiots knock it off!"
Gray and Natsu quickly became friendly with each other "Aye!"
From watching in the background next to the mobile stood an bandaged up Kageyama who couldn't believe what was in front of him.
'I can't believe it, that guy beat Erigor? But he never loses…' The young men then looked down to see something lying on the ground;
It was the Lullaby flute. Just up for the grab.
Lucy was a little bit concerned by the cut wound Naruto had "Those wounds…"
"Huh? These?" Naruto looked down to the wounds and waved it off "Don't worry about it. it doesn't hurt much."
Erza chuckles and says to him "Well done, Naruto. Thanks to you all the guildmasters will be safe now."
"Yeah, good work, Naruto!" Happy threw a thumb up while standing on Erigor's head.
Naruto chuckles at the cat "Thank, Happy." showing his smile as his face mask was lowered, revealing his bottom half his face and the noticeable scare that lead up from his covered eye.
Lucy couldn't help but ask Erza in the ear "Does Naruto always cover his bottom half of his face?"
Erza was kinda taken back by the whisper and replies back with an smirk "Why? You fancy him?"
Immediately Lucy blushed "What? no! I'm just…asking."
Erza chuckles "That's a question I'm asking myself a long time..."
A loud roar of an engine was heard and before anyone realizes it, the mobile rocketed over them with shadows coming out of it. one of it grabs for the flute and jacks it off the ground.
In the driver seat sat Kageyama who grinned insanely.
"Kageyama!"
"What do you think you're doing!?"
"Lullaby's mine now! shouldn't left your guard down flies!" Kageyama yelled as he drove off with the mobile and the flute in full speed towards Clover.
Everyone was left shocked but then they felt an strong presence jump right pass them. Naruto started jumping from rock to rock.
He turns back and yells "I'll try and stop him! You guys just make sure you'll get to Clover!" He says as he goes as fast as he could towards Clover.
"After him!"
Night had fallen, Naruto finally reached Clover. He just got out of the conference hall and found out master Makarov had left the building to take a walk.
He was currently scouting the area, looking for the master.
"Come on, where are you gramps."
He jumped on a branch and just accidently looked to his right, and with luck he saw Kageyama standing there with the flute in his mouth ready to play.
Standing in front of him stood was master Makarov.
"Crap!"
He stopped on a branch and makes his way to stop the Eisenwald member.
He just had to do it, one melody and he had ended the life of the Fairy Tail guildmaster Makarov in a sound beat.
But for some reason Kageyama couldn't finish what he had started. He started hearing all the things he heard the Fairy Tail flies speak earlier…
'killing innocent people isn't going to help getting your rights back!'
'You should try look for the positive, you and your buddies…'
'Kage! We really need your help right now!'
'He's a member of your guild! He trusted you and you tried to kill him!'
The guilt, the guilt started eating him and it forced him too distance his lips from the flute.
Makarov raised his eyebrow but notices something from afar, hopping from tree branch to tree branch, that must be Naruto…
He already figured out who this kid was and recognized the flute.
'I can do this….I only need to do one song and that will change everything.' Kageyama's mind spoke.
Makarov closes his eyes as he turns around and finally addresses to the young wizard "Nothing is going to change."
Kageyama was taken out of surprise, did this guy just read his mind?
"You cannot change the fact that for those who are weak will forever remain weak. Now maybe it's just me but I don't think that's a bad thing. I mean we humans are weak creatures by nature."
Naruto stopped just on a nearby branch above Kageyama and started listening to his master giving one of his many sermons. With not that far away the rest listening in on it.
"Our insecurities are the reason why guilds exists," Makarov turns his head around "and why we have friends…"
For a moment Naruto would've thought it was also meant for him because Makarov spotted him.
"When we're surrounded by allies, it's easy to stay positive about the future. Think of it this way; if we're clumsy we may stumble and bump into things, but as long as we have faith in our future, we continue marching forward, our inner strength immerges on its own, but we have to choose our path and pledge to our live to the fullest. So don't let that silly flute get in the way." Makarov suggested to the young man in a humble way of asking.
Kageyama was too stunned after hearing that speech and couldn't find the courage anymore to continue the carnage they'd planned for. Instead he started to rethink his decisions.
"Just drop the flute, man."
The shadow user turned his head around and saw Naruto standing behind him.
"The old man just destroyed your hole plot by just opening your eyes. Do not go further that path anymore and just drop the flute."
…
Then Kageyama finally dropped the flute and sunk on his knees and bowed to Makarov "I surrender…"
Makarov nods at the young man's words and turned to Naruto who nodded back to him.
"Master!"
Both turned to the other side seeing that the others had arrived.
"You stopped it."
"Good work, gramps."
Naruto smiled as he saw Erza grabbed Makarov and hugged him tightly until they all happily answered Makarov's question and got the good feeling of a job well done.
Naruto turns to Natsu's best friend "Hey Happy, where's Erigor?"
"Oh, we left him at Clover station, the army was waiting there so we handed him over to them."
Before Naruto could reply to the cat, he felt an dark energy pop up out of nowhere. He couldn't explain it but it was an very powerful and growing presence that was too close by. He could sense it from somewhere towards his right. It was the Lullaby flute that began to be glow with that dark energy.
A evil laugh came from the object as its eyes were glowing "I've grown tired of you worthless wizards and your antics!"
From out of nowhere, a giant circle appeared in the air, giving in the same dark energy, then an giant monster appeared made out of wood and it was enormous, so big that it was taller than the mountains that surrounded Clover. It had three scary empty eye sockets that resembled the flute and looked like some kind of version of an skeleton of some sort.
It spoke "I shall feast, upon your pitiful souls!"
Lucy shrieked "It's huge!"
"Obviously!" Happy replies.
"What is that thing?!" Kageyama asked the most terrified "Erigor never said anything about a monster!"
"It must be a demon from the Book of Zeref."
All the guild masters who were inside the conference hall started running away before the beast could've crushed the building with them inside of it.
Just a few miles away from Clover, the Fiore military was astonished by the sight of the creature. They first got all the courage they could get and started an assault towards the monster, but when it destroyed a series of mountains nearby the military, they turned tail and 'retreated'.
"Pitiful humans, I prefer the taste of a wizard's soul!" The monster roared as it was looking for an challenge.
Erza saw that the monster was directly eyeing them so she took the quick initiative "Gray, Natsu, get everyone to safety. Naruto, you and I-" she turns to where he stood and saw the spot was empty.
"Where's Naruto?"
Gray looks around "I don't know."
"LOOK!" an guild master points out "There's someone standing right in front of it!"
All the Fairy Tail members turned towards where the man was pointing. Naruto was just standing there, on the ground close to the monster.
Lucy was panicking "What is he doing!? That monster is going to smash him!"
"Natsu, Gray, with me!" Erza ordered before she got stopped by Makarov "Master?"
Makarov just stood there staring "Wait for Naruto to call for help, right now let him be."
Kageyama widened his eyes hearing him "Are you nuts, old man? There's no way he can beat THAT?! He'll need something of the same size to beat it!"
Erza took a moment before nodding "Alright, we'll wait."
"What?!"
With Naruto
Naruto now sat down in his meditation position and wiped some of the blood out of his jacket and started going through a series of hand signs.
"Sorry guys, I know I've been asking you guys a lot lately, but help me clean up this last mess and then I'm done." Naruto said to himself as he raises his hand up.
"What do you think you're doing!?" the creature demanded as it raised its foot above Naruto "I'll smash you and then devour your soul!"
"Summoning jutsu!"
A giant puff of smoke erupted with a following of an light earthquake as if something hit the earth, the ground began to shake heavily that it forced the creature backwards a few feet.
The ground beneath the spectators began to shake heavily and got some even to cling unto the nearby trees. One of them was Lucy who yells;
"What kind of magic is this!?"
Happy watches closely and says "Looks like Naruto summoned one of his friends….."
"What? does he have celestial spirits or something?" Kageyama spoke while on his knees.
Makarov only stood right on his feet and shook his head "You're wrong, my boy. These aren't celestial spirits."
"Not celestial spirits? Then what did he summon?"
"Look, the smoke is clearing up!"
The smoke was indeed clearing down and it first revealed to be a blue happi vest that has the kanji 蝦 (ebi) on the back. it also carried a massive dosu blade on his hip. It also had an remarkable scare trough one of its eyes.
"I wonder what that is?"
Then the smoke cleared the rest of the body, it had….rusty red skin….and the appearance of an…
Kageyama shrieked out of shock and yells "A frog! He summoned a fricking frog!?"
"No, it's not a frog, it's a toad. Big difference!" Happy corrects him "And he has a name you know, his name is Gamabunta."
"B-But….it's huge!" Lucy pointed out in disbelief "How can a toad be this big!?"
"From what I was told by Naruto, he signed a contract with the Toads, many of them have different tasks from messengers to combatants, I heard there are a series of summoning are out there, like slugs and snakes…" Makarov informed the girl.
Lucy got the chills through her spine "Eww. Snakes….."
Happy commented 'Such rudeness.."
"I heard that!"
Standing from atop of his summoning, Naruto greeted him "Hey boss…."
The toad blew out a large amount of smoke out of his mouth, as Gamabunta was smoking his kiseru pipe as always "What do you want, brat."
"I need your help dealing with an problem."
"I see…. you've been quite busy summoning us for today, first you summoned one of us to deliver yet another hunter ninja back to the hidden leaf village, then you summoned Kōsuke to deliver a message and now you've summoned me in the middle of the mountains," the chief toad said while his eyes looked up to the boy "Carry to explain why?"
Naruto pointed up to the front "That."
Gamabunta looked forwards and saw the creature that was on the opposite side of him "Hmmm, what's this? Some kind of an cursed monster of some sort?"
"You fool! I'm Lullaby, a creation of the Book of Zeref! Master of dark magic."
Gamabunta just commented at the exclamation of the monster "All I see is an tree gone bad with an eye too much for its head."
"WHAT! how dare you!" the monster yelled back at the toad, showing his clear insecurities.
Gamabunta turned his focus back to Naruto "What's the reason why you've summoned me to fight him, brat? I've could've easily let someone else take my place and deal with this!"
"Because this monster has the ability to kill thousands of lives in a short time span, by using the ability of using death music magic." Naruto calmly explained to the chief.
"And what use do I have to deal with this nonsense?"
"First, you're able to use your blade to cut through this monster's skin with your blade…"
"Yes…."
"Also, I want to keep the damage rate as small as possible, due master Makarov being here and my teammates can be 'overkill' if they go out on free range." Naruto said his second suggestion.
"You're still in that guild of troublemakers? I will say, they fit you. No respect for their elders, free caring and so short tempered that you could get involved in a fight in a matter of minutes but still a family guild at most."
Lucy sweatdropped listening to the description "Wow, even a massive toad can accurately say what this guild is."
Makarov laughed as the toad was true and puts his thumbs up "That's Fairy Tail for ya!"
The others just smirked, liking that for every bit said.
"You insolent fool!" The Lullaby creature felt insulted by being forced to fight what was in his eyes an inferior being "I'll first teach this frog bastard a lesson before I will devour your soul!"
This pissed off the chief toad when he was called an frog "What did you call me, you filthy branch!"
The sound of an blade could be heard being pulled out as Gamabunta was wielding it and putting it in front of him "When I'm done with you, you will be nothing then a piece of wood I'll carve into a new smoking pipe!"
Natsu and Happy's eyes were replaced by stars and were watching the standoff like kids "Oh this is awesome!"
Gray couldn't help but agree with Natsu on this one, this looked pretty amazing as he rarely saw Naruto's summonings fight "I'll give you that."
The chief toad made his first move by hopping towards the monster as quick as he could with Naruto holding unto him so he didn't fell off.
"Hang tight, kid! because I'm going for it!" Gamabunta says.
"Die!" the Lullaby yells as it opened its mouth and fires a magic bean towards the toad. But before it could hit him, Gamabunta disappeared in a flash.
"What!?"
Gamabunta then reappeared in front of the monster with his blade ready.
"Here!" Gamabunta spoke as he slashed at the monster
SLASH!
SLASH!
Gamabunta went passed the Lullaby monster, then a moment later the creature began to cry out as it's left arm was cut off from the body and a large scare was given to the chest.
Kageyama was in awe "That's one strong toad!"
Lucy couldn't hide her amazement either "This is just insane!"
Makarov turned to Erza, Gray and Natsu "Well, what are you waiting for?"
The three turned to their master and paid attention to him.
Makarov smiled "So long you brats don't destroy too much, I'm okay with it."
Jumping back a little, Gamabunta had pretty much roughed up the Lullaby monster, but it was still standing on its two feet.
"I must say, you keep getting yourself into these situations, kid." Gamabunta said.
Naruto agreed "Yeah, that's what I get from hanging around with the people I hang around with."
The Lullaby monster roared in anger and yells "Wait and you see! I'm going to play a melody so hard, that you'll be begging me to end your lives with my bare hands!"
"You only got one left. Branch." Gamabunta pointed out.
"THAT'S IT!" The Lullaby creature grew angry as he threw its head and was ready to sing.
SLASH!
Erza in one of her requip armors managed to fly up and deliver a blow to the monster's side. Enraging it more and bringing it out of balance for just a split moment.
"Ice make: Lance!" Gray yells as he fires from below the monster a dozen ice spears that launched themselves at the demon, hitting it multiple times and forcing it to stagger backwards a few feet, but it was still standing.
Natsu was about go and use one of his best attacks but got called.
"Natsu! Wait a moment, use your best attack when I say so!" Naruto yells to his friend just as Gamabunta was preparing for an attack.
Natsu nodded "Right!"
"Pathetic wizards, I've had enough!" Lullaby roared. "I shall end this now!" gave off an earsplitting shriek. It sucked in a huge breath out of everything that was alive, the plants, the trees were dying and it all gave away the Lullaby was preparing its most deadliest attack.
Gamabunta turns his eye up to Naruto "Aren't you going to cover your ears?"
"No."
"Why not?"
Then when it expects to sing…it just wheezed. It just wheezed out of all the holes it were created by the Fairy Tail members.
"Because that's what I expected." Naruto explained.
"I don't understand! Why can I not play my melody of death!"
"It must be because all of those attacks!" Kageyama said.
Lucy added "They created so many holes in that thing it totally messed up its sound!"
An awkward silence was presence between the two giants, all that was for nothing.
Gamabunta sweatdropped "Was this supposed to be your big moment, or…"
"DON'T MOCK MEEE!" The Lullaby creature yelled as it kicked one of the mountains like an angry child.
Gamabunta was about to end this and had his belly filled up with oil "I'm ready kid!"
"Right!" Naruto nodded and yells "Natsu! We could use your fire now!"
"Alright!"
Naruto jumped off Gamabunta and was about to do the same thing as the chief toad.
"Toad Oil Bullet!"
Gamabunta/Naruto fired from his mouth an extremely sticky oil and it was directly at Lullaby monster. It hit him and covered the monster and it wasn't able to move much.
"What the! WHY CAN'T I MOVE?"
Naruto landed on the ground and yells "Now Natsu!"
Erza yells "Do it!"
Gray yells "Finish it off!"
"I got this!" Both of Natsu's hands were covered in flames as he jumped upwards towards the in oil covered Lullaby monster.
An large fireball was created in Natsu's hands and he started yelling "With the flames in my right hand, and the flames on my left! Put them together, and you'll get this; Fire Dragon; Brilliant Flame!"
The dragon slayer smashes the attack into the center of the monster and in the while body of the monster went up in flames in a split second.
"NOOOOOOO!"
A enormous explosion erupted and it created a white light that reached the top of the sky as if it reached Heaven itself.
Minutes later
Standing on top of Gamabunta, Naruto realized it maybe was an mistake to use that last attack, as now an crater was created on where the conference hall was.
"Well kid, you done it again." Gamabunta said tiredly "You created another mess and now I'm an accomplice of it."
Naruto scratched the back of his head "Yeah….my bad."
"Normally I would've like nothing else but too smash you to a little bug, but I can see you only had good intentions, now I know none of the townspeople were injured."
"Yeah, don't know if the townspeople themselves see it that way." Naruto sees that they were chasing his friends out of town, not that they mind it. they were used to it.
Gamabunta sighs "Anyway, go and meet up with your friends before you lose them."
"Right…..Thanks, chief. Say hey to Gamakichi and Gamatatsu." Naruto jumped off the giant toad and starts running for the others.
The chief toad watches as the others waved at him happily rejoin them and run for the heck of it before the villagers caught them.
It brought him to his own thoughts at the young boy.
'As I suspected, the kid's changed. He still lives with the guilt of killing those damned council members and leaving his village. No doubt in my mind he's blaming himself till this day for what happened after that Uchiha brat tried to defect.'
Gamabunta himself thought of Naruto first as nothing but a loudmouth brat with a short fuse and some arrogance, but when he learned more of the boy and his actions he grew keen on him.
'You may be a short fuse but you're no coward, kid, to the contrary, you're one of the most dedicated ninja's I've ever met. Even when the whole village is turned against you, you've shown to be loyal to it to the core. Most ninja's of your nature lose it and don't make it long. But I see you've made yourself a new life with these wizards. Let's just keep it that way and stay with them kid. because if what the elder said is true, then your time to go back to the village will only be a matter of time.'
Those thoughts were said from the chief toad as he puffed away back to his home. Just like Naruto was going to return back to his guild.
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