edited chapter 16
Natsu stood before the council with a bored expression but kept a lingering eye on Siegrain and Veronica the whole time.
The trial went like the last time this happened. Accept there was no fire-breathing idiot to interrupt it.
"Any questions."
"I assume this is because I did nothing to stop the destruction as the highest-ranking wizard at the time of lullaby awaking?"
"Yes, you're recognized as one of the strongest wizards alive, proven by your rank as a wizard saint. It is your job to be a representative of what it means to be a wizard."
With a yawn, "I understand where you're coming from, but lullaby came from the book of zeref as far as I'm concerned, these damages were acceptable losses since the alternative was the possible deaths of the guild masters."
"What are you insinuating?"
"I'm not insinuating anything, just the big picture now. So if there's anything else, I'd like to go home today."
"Do you plead guilty to all charges?"
"Yes and F.Y.I, I didn't intervene in the fight as Gray magic is meant to slay demons like the lullaby."
The rest of the trial went as you expected.
When Natsu left the courtroom, he's greeted by Yajima via thought projection.
"What is it you need?"
"The others would not like me asking this, but what are your thoughts on that message lullaby gave out before his demise."
"Hmm, I wouldn't worry about it too much."
"How can you say that after hearing lullaby dying words."
"It's just a gut feeling besides we have bigger fish to worry about."
"And who might that be?"
"The black dragon of the apocalypse!"
"Right, well, that's what you and the other dragon slayers are for," he said small smile.
"You can say that again, and if Acnologia is as powerful as we think, he might just take out zeref's demon for us to show his dominance if we're lucky."
"True, well, I'll see you around Natsu and say hi to maki for me," he said with a smile.
"No problem," as Yajima's projection vanishes in a flash of light.
When Natsu walked out of the fiore branch of Era, the sight of Ultear and Happy greeted him.
"How did the trial go?"
"Like you expect, but Yajima talked to me afterward about Lullaby dying words."
"And?"
"I told him not to worry about it since Acnologia is a bigger threat."
"Ah, you pulled a bait and switch on him."
"Yep, come, let get back to the guild."
"Aye, sir."
Two hours later
"What are you doing out here by yourself," he said, looking down on a twelve your old girl with white hair.
He didn't need his enhanced senses to know this was Yukino.
She hid behind a tree, poking her head out toward Natsu "my name is Yukino, and I'm lost, sir."
"Natsu, the name I'm not gonna hurt you, so come on out" she did as she was asked and reluctantly came out of her hiding spot.
Ultear seeing Natsu kind side made her heart warm-up "Now where are you from? We'll walk you home," she said
"Ok, Yukino, how did you end up out here."
"I live at an orphanage nearby. So we went to the flower garden, and on our way back, I must have taken a wrong turn, and now I'm lost."
"Come on, I will walk you home," he said with a warm smile with his hand out.
She took him by the hand and walked alongside him. Ultear kept pace with them and was a little shocked when Yukino held out her hand to her.
Happy was watching this display with glee, wearing a massive smirk on his face "wait till the master hears about this."
"Yukino, not to be rude, but do you have any family out there? We might be able to find them for you."
Yukino stopped dead in her tracks. "I have a sister. I lost her when men attacked my family in dark robes."
"Does she have a name?"
"Sorano"
"If we find someone by that name, we will make sure to tell you," he said with a grin getting a smile out of her.
"How about we stop for some ice cream on the way back to the orphanage" Ultear interjected
"Sounds like a plan," Yukino beamed both of them with a smile.
They stopped by a nearby ice cream stand. After that, they walk to the orphanage with comforting silence.
As soon as they reached, Yukino asked them to stay a little longer; she held out a photo of her and Sorano when she came back out.
"This is my sister. Please, if you find her tell me I miss her."
Natsu looked at the photo and was shocked to see her sister is Angle.
"Ultear mind making a copy of this"
"Sure thing, darling" using her lacrima, she took a picture of the photo.
"Will keep a lookout for her Yukino hope we meet again someday.
"By," she yelled when she turned around. She was met with the caretaker of the orphanage.
"Yukino, where have you been? You had us all worried sick."
"I'm sorry I got lost" she went into great detail about her journey home with the, in her opinion, the friendly people.
With Natsu and company
"Well, this is unexpected?"
"How so, Natsu?" Happy said
"Turns out her sister is Angle of the Oracion Sies."
"Your kidding."
"He's not. I can confirm it since I was part of Grimoire Heart."
"Take a look at the photo" one look at the photo was enough for Happy to believe him.
"What are we gonna do about this?"
"Well, if my hunch is correct, Richard won't be the only one helping us out during Nirvana."
"Hmm"
"What's so funny Happy?" he said
"If I didn't know any better, you Ultear and Yukino looked like a happy little family, hehe."
As you'd expect, Both Natsu and Ultear had blushes that rivaled Erza hair.
Natsu's mind was struggling to wrap his head around Happy's statement.
Ultear mind, on the other hand, was going to a million different places all at once "would we make a happy family, could I be a mother and him be the father, do I even want kids with Natsu? Of course, I do, but do I deserve to be a mother after everything I've done? Yes, of course, I can. I'm with Natsu, after all. This is all so confusing,"
"Ultear, Ultear, earthland to Ultear," shaking his hand in front of her face.
"Hm wha- oh yes, Natsu."
"Were almost to the guild. We have to get ready for Galuna, remember."
"Right, almost forgot about that!"
The next day
They finally made it to the guildhall, and they went to the bar to get some food after a long journey.
Ultear was approach by Erza "you caught me off guard; next time, I'll win for sure," she said fiercely.
"Any time anywhere," she chirped.
"Can you two behave" Natsu interjected?
"Not now, Natsu," they said in unison.
When Happy approached Makarov with a massive grin as he's watched the display, "what is it, Happy."
"You'll never believe what I saw," he told him about their encounter with Yukino to the end.
Makaron had a massive grin on his "thanks for telling me."
"I couldn't make this up even if I tried," Makarov gave a knowing smirk "ok, maybe I could, but I honestly could not believe if I didn't see it with my own eyes."
Makarov gave a knowing smirk once again, only for Happy to look away.
Makarov began to slouch. "Sir is something wrong," Mira said
"I'm fine, just sleepy. He's coming"
Footsteps are be heard. Many of the guild members began to collapse to the floor as they fell asleep one by one.
"Not again," Gray said before falling asleep."
The only one unaffected was Makarov, Natsu, and Ultear plus him.
"Mystogen," he said as the masked man grabbed a random flier from the job board.
"Been a while, so how are they anima coming along?" Natsu said as Ultear was holding onto him to stay up.
"Fine and not as frequent thanks to you and Ultear. I still feel bad for that close call we had"
"How many times do I have to say it's neither of your faults? Just remember the plan for Magnolia."
Natsu and Mystogan just stayed silent, unable to counter her.
"Will see you when the time comes."
"Mystogan, lift the sleeping spell when you leave."
"Very well."
He then counted down to five as he left the guildhall, with everyone waking up accordingly.
And like before, the same conversation happened to expect one thing.
"Master, Natsu, Ultear, Happy, and Wendy are the only to see his face," Gray informed
"I can see Master, but how come the other four.
"Wendy joined up with Mystogan, Natsu Ultear, and Happy have done jobs with him in the past, so they got to for obvious reasons."
"Really"
"Yeah, on that note, Master, Natsu, and Ultear are the only ones strong enough to not fall under the sleep spell.
This is when Laxus is going on the same spiel as before, but unlike last time, Natsu didn't say a word and only glared at him.
"A does the little dragon think he can take me on."
"Who the one that's a wizard saint."
"The title lost its credibility when they made you one. I'm still stronger than you."
"Will see about that one day Laxus" Natsu continued glaring at him till he left along with most of the guild.
Makarov looked towards Natsu. "Natsu, have you made your decision.
"Yeah, I'll take the S-class job. After all, time is of the essence."
"Make sure you have everything and meet me in my office."
"I'll go get the flier," he said, walking up to the second floor.
"Why is Natsu going to the second floor? The job board is over there."
Mira explained how the second floor holds S-class jobs and how the only wizard who made the rank S-class are allowed to take them.
"How many S-class wizards are there in fairy tail
"Seven in total that includes Natsu, Ultear, Erza, Laxus, and Mystogan."
"Wow!"
At this time, Natsu showed up with Ultear and Happy. They waited as Natsu went to Makarov's office.
Mira went to the back to take inventory, knowing this was his chance. Happy approached Lucy with the flier.
"Hey, Lucy came to show you the job we took," he said, holding up the flier.
"Happy, why are you going your not S-class."
"Where Natsu goes, I go," he said before flying back to Ultear, intentionally leaving the job request with her.
Natsu finally came out of the office "off we go see you guys in a few days."
Moments earlier, with Natsu
"You used the code word, so I assume you have this under control."
"Yep, oh and one more thing," said, sliding a piece of paper to him with a name on it.
Makarov took the paper and saw the name Gray on it. "I see it has to do with that, doesn't it."
"Yeah, and they have a golden gate key, so send him when the time is right.
"Very well, but be careful."
"I will gramps see you in a few days."
The code word they devised when something comes up that involves Natsu, time is of the essence, meaning it's out of Makarov's hand or goes with it.
Lucy notice Happy left the flier and immediately noticed the golden gate key as part of the reward.
"Oh, I'm not gonna have him get another one of the gate keys," she said, running off to the Natsu group.
Mira noticed all of this. She usually would tell the master about this, but this was Natsu, after all. He wouldn't let anything happen to her, would he?
The next day Makarov was sipping his coffee when Mira told him what happened last night.
"Damn, I was hoping she wouldn't find out about it," he yelled.
"What are you talking about master," Gray said, walked up to them.
"Part of the reward for the galuna job is a golden gate key. Unfortunately, I can only assume Lucy went with Natsu, so he doesn't get it for himself."
"Seriously, she thinks Natsu will keep a gate key all to himself that wasn't Capricorn."
"She a woman they loved to jump to conclusion Gray I need you to bring Lucy back."
"Why, if Natsu, there should be nothing to worry about on top of that, they have Ultear."
"Do it. If you not back by tomorrow, I'm sending Erza as I doubt Laxus would do it."
All that was left of Gray is an afterimage of him as he bolted towards the door.
Hargion port later that day.
"Found you," Gray said, scaring the daylights out of Lucy.
"Gray, what are you doing here."
"Here to take you back, the master had a feeling when she found out the job had golden gate key attached you might tag along."
"Good everyone here," Natsu said, hogtying Gray. "Bobo, we're ready when you are"
"Can't thank you enough for taking the job."
"You can thank us by getting us to Galuna."
Curious about the display between Natsu and Bobo, Gray had to ask," what's going on here."
"Bobo, mind explaining on the way since I'll be incapacitated."
"sure"
Throughout the boat ride, Bobo told them his story.
He told them everything that has happened since then and why he had to leave.
"One more thing, play along with them as it will be easier that way."
"You can count on us," Gray said with conviction.
"Good, this is where we part way till the job is done. Best of luck to you," he took to the skies hoping they can free his people.
"Gray take the wheel," Ultear said
"Right," he put his hand on the lacrima, using his magic to guide their way to shore.
Galuna Shoreline.
Taking command like the wizard saint, he is "Ok from here we head to the village."
"Right," the other said in unison.
Village gate
"Yo" he yelled
"Who go their a guard said
"Natsu Dragneel here to talk about the job you requested"
"Let me see your emblem" everyone complied and was let in.
Just before the door, open Natsu whispered to them, "remember what Bobo said to play along this got nods of understanding.
Nothing change from their encounter in the old timeline expects they're a day ahead.
While everyone went to sleep, Natsu stayed up.
"What's wrong Natsu," his wife asked.
"I'm just thinking of how to go about this. I'm going to be up for a little while you get some rest."
"Ok," she said, laying down on the mat.
After half an hour, Natsu was sure everyone was asleep when Loki showed up.
"Do you have what I asked for?"
"Right here, master," he handed him a necklace with lacrima shaped like a snowflake "might I add, I think it's admirable what you're doing for Ultear."
"Is there anything else I need to know?"
"Yes, actually," Loki whispered in his ear, the other details behind the necklace.
"Thank you, Osiris. this means a lot. You may go now, Loki."
"Farwell master," he disappeared in a flash of lights.
Natsu put the necklace in his pocket dimension before heading to bed.
The next day
"Natsu, why did you want me to come along anyway."
"After hearing Bobo's story the first time I had Ultear use thought projection to scout out the island, and what she found shook her to the core."
"What could that be bad to freak Ultear out."
"You'll find out when we get to the temple, and I'm only going to say this once, so listen up."
"What could it be, flames brain," he said with a chuckle.
Natsu chuckles as well "ok, stripper, try and keep control of your emotions when you see it."
"... ok"
They trekked through the jungle only run into a giant rat which Natsu, with the help of Gray and Ultear, swatted away about 100 feet, knocking it out cold.
"Who's could that be" Gray asked
"Someguy going by cold emperor Ultear found out when she scouted this island after we met Bobo the first time. Come on. We're almost there."
Moon temple
"This place is ancient."
"Aye"
"Is that the moon engraved on the wall."
"Yeah, galuna use to be known as the island of the moon."
A bad feeling washed over Natsu, remembering the last time around.
Crack! And the floor suddenly gave out, causing them to fall into the cavern below.
"Ultear not gonna be happy once she reaches her conclusion."
She walked over and whispered in his ear, "Natsu, am I getting fat."
"No, of course, not. I slammed the ground last time, and you weren't here, so it must have been too much wait on the floor shit, don't take that the wrong way, please."
Ultear had an unreadable expression on her face.
Natsu was praying she didn't take it the wrong way.
"How hard did you stomp the floor last time."
"Not very just a light tap and blame it on lucy. Happy was always complaining about how heavy she is, hehe."
Ultear let out a slight chuckle at this "that's brilliant."
Natsu let out a breath he didn't know he had besides, "do you know how many guys give me the evil glare when they see you're mine" Ultear expression turned into a warm smile.
"Thank you."
"No problem, now it's time for you and Gray to lay this demon to rest" she gave him a nod.
"I can't believe the floor gave way," lucy informed.
Seeing the opportunity before her, "I blame you."
"Why me?"
"If you didn't tag along, the floor wouldn't have given way!" Checkmate she thought based the look on Lucy's face
"This way," she said. So they followed her through the cavern till they reach a massive opening housing deliora, the demon of destruction.
Natsu was quick to bring Ultear in a hug, comforting her.
However, he looks to Gray to see him in a similar state; he somehow held on.
It now he noticed Ultear was crying. He gently stroked her hair, calming her.
This went on for several minutes, both Gray and Ultear manages to get ahold of themselves.
"Why did you bring me Natsu," Gray said in a severe tone.
"When Ultear told me what she found, I knew I had to take it and bring you, so you too lay this demon to rest," even though that's a lie.
Gray didn't know what to think after hearing Natsu's words.
Ultear let go of Natsu having a feeling of what is going to happen.
He walked up to Gray, who then promptly punches him in the face.
"Gray, why would yo-" Ultear stopped her.
"Just watch," she said
Gray then punched him again and again, over and over again, and the whole timer Natsu wasn't fighting back. Instead, he was taking the hits allowing him to let it all out.
When the punches stopped, Natsu smirked, "better now."
"Yeah, sorry for doing that"
"It's ok. You needed to deal with this somehow."
"So what do we do now," he herds footstep down the cave.
"Hide everyone," Lucy said
Natsu didn't at all; instead, he waited with an evil smirk on his face.
Ultear and Happy could only sweat drops at this.
When the three enter the room, they are stopped dead in their tracks.
"N-Natsu, what brings you here," a man with blue said as a man named Tobi hid behind him.
"Same-old same-old got married, am a wizard saint now and took the job the village chief requested did I mention I'm a wizard saint now hehe."
It was at this time a woman with pink hair showed up and well shocked to see Natsu.
15 second later
The three wizards lay on the ground with bruised all over them.
"Now you're going to tell me what you're doing here and why Deliora is here as well if not-"
"You'll do what exactly," Yuka said
"You see, Gray and Ultear here have some unresolved issues about the demon, and I'm sure they'd be more than happy to take it out on you," he said, still smirking.
And in the background, Gray was cracking his knuckles, and Ultear had an evil glint in her eye.
"Ok, we'll tell you," Tobi practically yelled.
Who knows how long later
"Well, looks like I'm done here."
"What are you saying, Natsu?"
"Isn't it obvious this is Gray's fight now since Lyon is in charge around here? After all, he trained alongside Gray before he entered fairy tail. You up for it, Gray."
Gray devil slayer mark appeared on his right arm "what does this tell you, but I have to check something first" he activates his demon eye to analyze the ice shell.
Natsu faces him. "What is it, Gray?"
"The ice shell is blocking my analysis of deliora, so I can't tell if he's alive or dead."
"Will worry about that later. Let's deal with Lyon first."
"Got it."
"What about us?" Yuka said
With an evil smirk, "will leave you to guard the demon."
"You can't do that to us!"
"Yes, I can. I just did by" they made their way to the surface.
"Ok, their camp should be in the upper levels of the temple"
After several minutes of running, they stood outside their camp.
And setting on his throne was the cold emperor "hmm, seem the others were taken care of during their search."
He looked his fellow student in the eye. "Cut the crap, Lyon. I know it's you."
"Gray, it's been a long time since the day you killed Ur," he said as he took off his helmet, revealing a head of Gray hair.
Gray could easily end this quickly since he is a lot stronger than his X784 counterpart and his slayer magic, but he might as well give Lyon some false hopes.
He got in his maker stance, few spell here over there, and it looked like Gray was losing.
"I always was the better student" just as he turned toward Natsu and the other, he heard a strange noise.
He looks to Gray only to see him biting at his ice SNAP suddenly. The ice Lyon created started to liquefy and found its way into his mouth.
"ICE MAKE EAGLE" he shouts, sending ice eagles toward him.
Gray effortlessly dodge them and catches one of them only to eat it. "You going to have to do better than that, Lyon. After all, I'm an ice devil slayer," he shouts, revealing his mark.
"ICE DEVIL RAGE," he shot as a mass of purple ice and fire out of his mouth, slamming Lyon against his throne.
"Where did he get this power" Lyon wheeze
Elsewhere
Khione giggled at the display as her champion showed his old rival what it means to be an ice wizard.
"Soon, Ur, you will be set free," she whispered as her hands dangle one of her necklaces hanging on the wall.
Back with Gray
"ICE DEVIL'S ZEROTH DESTRUCTION FIST" his fist and forearm cover in purple, he went in for the finishing blow.
"Oh no, if that hits me, I'm a goner" he can only watch as Gray gets closer and closer.
Moment before impact
"Lyon, you need to move on with your life, maybe join a guild or something" he promptly bunks him on the head, knocking him out cold.
A face can be seen hidden in the stone walls of the cave. "Damn, looks like there's no point to continue with the revival, I still have that deal with Phantomlord for the time being, and another key will soon be ours," she faded back into the stone wall.
"Gray mind explaining what's the deal with you and Lyon and Deliora I never could get in answer with all confusion?" Lucy asked.
Natsu looked to Gray with a firm expression, "Tell her after all were guildmates."
Knowing he can't hide it forever, Gray filled Lucy in on how Lyon Deliora and Ultear are mixed up in this mess.
"Oh my god, I can't even imagine what it must have been like carrying that with you all these years."
"With all the big players are taken care of, I'm going to get the three peons from the chambers. You guys handle everyone else."
"Wait, can't you do those guys last? It's going to take us a while to do this," Lucy pleaded.
"Come on, Natsu," Ultear added.
"Fine"
It took an hour, but they tied up everyone and then outside of the temple door.
"I still can't believe your alive, Ultear," Lyon said, finally waking up from his one-sided defeat.
"Believe it or not, after I escaped, I found her, and though you and gray replaced me, only when I met up with Natsu did I realize how much of a fool I was"
Lyon couldn't face her after hearing that as memories of Ur came back to him.
"What about Deliora," Lucy added.
Taking a thinking poser, "Well, we can't leave him here."
"Someone else could set him free," Ultear added.
"Try as we might. Ice shell won't break," Gray added.
"There may be away, but it can be dangerous," Natsu said offhandedly.
"What?" Gray and Ultear said in unison
This whole time Lucy is pondering how they can act this after having a mental breakdown earlier.
"My azure flames might be able to melt the ice, and Gray can go in for the finishing blow."
"What's so special about your azure flames?"
"Part of the reason I don't use them very often is they have this unique ability to feed off the ethernano in the environment so they can sustain themselves without my input.
"Yikes, no wonder people don't use them nowadays."
"Well."
Natsu then went into explaining how fire wizards throughout the centuries tried and failed to tame these flames.
As no one but the azure dragon could control them and in those attempts magic nullify technology was created as a fail-safe in case azure flames got out of hand.
The closest they got to the azure flames is cold fire. It retained its blue color, but it's a shadow of its former self.
"Ok, if no one but the azure dragon can control them, how did the fire wizard conjure them?" Gray asked
"Oh, that's simple you take regular flames and channel a whole lot of magic into a small enough space over a long period of time. It will eventually ignite into azure flames."
"I didn't t know. How did you learn that."
"It's one of those things you only hear about from other wizards who use the same magic like you, in my case, fire," he informed
"I feel like an idiot not realizing that sooner since it applies to me as well."
"Um guys, I hate ruining you chit chat but we have a job to do," Lucy interjected
"Right"
Natsu brought Lyon with, so he can see the demon's destruction.
When they made it to the chamber, they found the three peons exactly where they were.
Both Gray and Ultear shared somber looks at what Natsu was about to do. Little did they know he had other plans.
Natsu jumped down to the chamber floor up to the ice and pulled out the necklace earlier, keeping it flush with the ice.
Almost immediately, the blue color and glow of the ice began to fade, only to be pulled into the necklace.
"Gray, get your slayer magic ready."
"Why?"
"Just trust me."
"Fine," he activated his magic, only for a look of shock to form on his face.
Whatever was blocking his analysis earlier was fading from his new analysis is saying Deliora is dead.
"Natsu, what have you done," Ultear said in a hushed voice.
"Just wait, all will be explained shortly," the piercing cry of Deliora silenced him, but he was still calm about it.
Deliora started the break out of the ice just as half his body free massive spear of purple ice shattered his body.
They look too Gray, wielding what can only be described as a bow made of purple ice.
"Ok, with Deliora gone now, we have to tell the villagers the truth."
Wearing a questioning look, Lucy had to ask, "how can we do that?"
Let's get everyone back to the village first.
"WAIT! Natsu, what did you do to the ice" Ultear said coldly.
"Oh well, you see, I transferred all Ur's essence into this soul lacrima, turning the ice shell into ordinary ice."
"What are you saying," she said shakily.
There's a sudden chill in the air with a slight breeze that quickly spiraled together before long, a humanoid shape formed.
As time moved forward, more detail could be seen as it became more and more defined.
Ultimately revealing Ur as she was when she cast the ice shell, but she had both of her legs this time.
"M-mother"
"Master"
With a smile, "don't just stand there."
Ultear walked towards her mother slowly as her mind tries to wrap her head around what is happening.
Natsu noticed Grays's look of disbelief and could only smirk as he watches him restrain himself as they both knew this affected Ultear the most.
Closer inspection revealed what could be seen as a slight glow but to the more conscious. She was radiating magic energy.
Ur faced Ultear with a smile on her face walking towards her daughter.
"Mother"
"Ultear"
Finally, they are reunited after ten long years. the two were quickly embraced each other, shedding tears of joy as
But their embrace didn't last long as Ur phased through Ultear, causing her daughter to frown.
"Hey, don't worry, I'm just a projection, so it will take time to remain solid over long periods" Ultear let out a giggle at this.
Ur turns to the side-eyeing Gray before a warm smile formed on her face "been a while, Gray. I see you made a life for yourself since your here with who I can assume are your friends."
"Yes, ma'am."
"And who are you," she said, looking to Natsu.
"He would be my husband's mother," she informed, standing by his side holding up her wedding ring" I'm no longer Ultear Milkovich. You are looking at Ultear Dragneel."
Her smile could only grow "so what have I missed in the last ten years."
Natsu walked up to Ultear, putting the necklace around her.
With a questioning look, Lucy has to ask, "Natsu, how is this possible?"
"Well, Gray seems we will have to tell everyone when we get back."
"Fine by me."
"Gray and I are godsends, in other words, mortals who have earned a god's favor, and we bear their mark as a testament of our strength."
"How did you get the necklace."
One of the perks of being a godsend is we can communicate directly to the gods who gave us their favor-"
"That's enough as I'm starting to get the picture, so how does it work?"
"This gem the makes up the pendant of the necklace is a soul lacrima, so I bound Ur's soul to it."
"Thank you, Natsu. I don't know how I got so lucky to be with you," Ultear said with Joy.
"Get a room, you two," Gray Chirped.
As you expect, both Natsu and Ultear were blushing like crazy as everyone laughed at Grays's choice of words.
With a questioning look, "I feel like I forgot something," Gray said out loud. "SHIT ERZA."
"I completely forgot about her doing that after a decidedly to tag along with you guys."
Natsu, Ultear, and Happy are as calm as you can be with Ur having a questioning look "who's Erza?" she asked.
"She a member of our guild and Ultear's arch-rival theirs constantly at each other's throats over who stronger," Natsu supplied.
"Please tell me Ultear is stronger."
"She is, but Erza refuses to accept it even after they fought"
"She sounds like a handful."
"You don't know half of it, guys. Can we talk about this later? We still have a job to do."
Everyone was brought back to their senses, pulling themselves together.
"Now that these guys are tied up, what do we do with them," Lucy said
Natsu walked up to the three peons plus Lyon. "I might be willing to turn a blind eye to this if you all agree never to do something like this again because the magic council won't be so merciful,"
One look from Natsu made them choose the obvious choice, and so they agreed to his terms.
Lyon looked toward his master with a hint of guilt.
She walked up to him and proceeded to rip him a new verbally and compare him to how well Gray is doing.
She spared no expense bringing up the fact he joined a guild and made a life for himself based on hard work, not petty revenge on top of his superiority complex.
"How are you here?"
Wanting to throw in his two jewel "Sorry but that's a secret, and if you tell anyone, Well you don't want to know what I'll do to you," he grinned evilly at Lyon.
Remembering the villager's situation, she has to speak out, "Wait, what about the moon drip!"
"Yeah, it's affecting those villagers, and you're at fault," Gray said fiercely.
"Gray calm down a sec," Ur said in her teacher's voice, causing him to keep his emotions in check forcefully, and it even scared Lyon.
"Listen, I don't know how to fix the villagers from the effect of the moon drip."
"There's got to be someone who knows," Ultear said out loud.
"Gah, I feel like a massive idiot for not realizing this sooner," Natsu yelled.
"What?"
"I just remember the day we spent looking up the moon drip after I talked to Bobo the first time," he exasperated.
In truth, Natsu researched the moon drip because he nearly forgot all Erza speech about it.
"What do we do then?" Lucy asked
"Well, we have to wait till nightfall for the moon to be out so the villagers will believe us."
Ur disappeared in a flash of light, going back into the pendant, saddening Ultear slightly.
"She is recuperating right now after being ice for ten years,"
Outside the temple
"I assume you guys can take care of yourselves," he said, eyeing down Lyon and his followers.
"Yes, you don't have to worry about us."
"Lyon!"
"Yes, Gray"
"you're better off joining a guild. You are a talented wizard. You're wasting your skill if you didn't use it for something productive."
"Will see" he and his group headed toward the shore while Natsu headed toward the village.
Nighttime
They stood in the center of the village with the moon high in the sky.
"Gray, do you mind."
"No problem, ICE MAKE PILLAR" Natsu lifted high in the sky.
"FIRE DRAGON CLAW" he rocker toward the moon at breakneck speed. "PURGATORY DRAGON ROAR" a massive torrent of crimson red flames shoots out of his mouth toward the moon, only spread out over a large area burning shell of moon drip energy.
When the flames died down, the moon it all its pearl white glory were revealed.
When Natsu landed, he told the villagers the truth of what has been happening to them.
On cue, Bobo showed up to reassure Natsu's tale. Soon afterward, their memories came back to them.
"There someone at the gates," a guard said aloud.
"Wondering when she would show up."
The gate opens to reveal the scarlet knight with a stern expression that only intensifies when she locked eyes with Ultear.
that it for this chapter
and for new readers, I made this chapter extra long to wrap up this arc in a single chapter
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