Hey, all my fellow fairy tale fans, happy late New Year. This was supposed to be out with chapter 7 yesterday, but I forgot. Sorry anyway. I hope you have enjoyed the story so far or at least hated it enough to come back to complain about it either way. Welcome to episode 6 or chapter six? Eh, whatever.
No jokes this time; I promise.
I'll be moving on with the story.
I'm so sorry.
In the small town of Clover, you'll find a building where some guild masters go to hold conferences and talk about how things have been going in the magical world.
"Hey, have the guys heard that mysterious wizard appeared again," a man asked. His name was Goldmine; he was the leader of a lower-rank guild.
"Yes, I heard someone call out," Goldmine said to see the master of the blue Pegasus guild bob walking up to him.
"Well, if it isn't, the leader of blue Pegasus didn't expect to see you here," Goldmine said, surprised.
"Oh, come on, just because I'm the leader of one of the big three doesn't mean I can't hang out," Bob tells him, " I think the old hag is somewhere around here too," Bob says as he looks.
"But back to that mysterious wizard," Bob said, facing the elderly man. "I'm sure every guild in Fiore is looking for him," Bob said, "especially Phantom."
Goldmine nodded, " it figures those jerks would be looking for him," Goldmine said as he ate his kabob. "If another guild were to find him, they'd probably be a huge threat."
"Yeah," Bob said, " I guess we can call this the race to find the." Bob stopped and stroked his chin. "What did they call him to know."
"how do we know it's him?" someone called out. "It could as well be a girl, too."
"Who cares, but whoever finds the wizard first is definitely going to up their Job score," someone else shouted.
Goldmine smiled. 'Well then, it looks like the games have begun.'
Enter The Dark Guild Eisenwald
Back at Kunugi station, heroes look from afar as people crowd around the train station. "A guy with a scythe and lackeys took over the train."
"Really," someone shouted, "you don't think the dark guilds are back."
"I can get cars or boats, but why a train," Lucy asked.
"it doesn't seem like a good choice for getting away," Happy says.
"then I guess it's up to us to figure out where they're going," Gray said while he sat in his underwear.
"You're naked, Gray," Lucy shouted.
"Am I?" he asked in a calm tone.
"the military has already been called to action, so it's only a matter of time," Lucy said.
"I hope you're right, Lucy," Erza said as she drove off.
On the train Eisenwald was on, Erigor sliced a chair in half while attacking Kageyama, "so let me get this straight: you allowed a wizard to see the Lullaby flute, and you let him get away," Erigor shouted.
"But it's not like he knows anything about our plan, sir," Kageyama pleaded, "and even if he did, there's no way he could stop us on his own."
Erigor sliced at Kageyama again, cutting off part of his ear. "We can't take any chances," Erigor told him, "fortunately, we have a plan in place."
"Yeah, the thing in Oshibana," Kageyama said.
"We'll, lure these wizards into a trap and any foolish enough to follow," Erigor said.
Erza burst through the town, causing people to jump out of her way. "Erza, you need to slow down," Gray shouted while holding onto the top of the car. "At this rate, you'll lose all of your magic power before the fighting starts."
"then I'll have to rely on hand-to-hand combat," Erza said. "Besides, I have you and Natsu with me." She looked back to see the sickly wizard.
"there was something I was supposed to tell you, Lucy," Happy told her.
"Yeah," Lucy pondered.
"I can't remember," he says, "I think it was your-"
"Totally sick, for real," Natsu groans as he slumps into the chair.
"Really," Lucy shouted.
Natsu then climbs up to the window and almost falls out.
"Natsu, you're going to fall," Lucy shouts as she grabs him.
"That's what I'm aiming for," he groaned.
"Well, if it wasn't that, then what was it," Happy said to himself.
"Lucy, hungry."
"Fishy"
"I like to fish."
Lucy gives him a death glare as the mobile bounces off another rock, "why are you saying I'm weird."
oshibana station comes into view, and there appears to be smoke. "What's going on there?" Erza ponders.
People gathered in a crowd at the station to see what was happening. One of the conductors stood outside, trying to get the crowd to stand back, "Pleaser, the station has been closed; we ask you to stand back."
Erza pops up and puts a hand on his shoulder. "What's going on," she asks.
"Why would I tell you, lady," he tells her. She then punches him in the face, knocking him out the preceding to ask the next conductor, who she then knocks out.
"Seems like her questioning method is a little counterproductive," Lucy said as she watched Erza.
"She has her way of getting things done," Gray tells her in his underwear.
"where are your clothes," Lucy asks him.
"Eisenwald is inside. Come, let's go," Erza instructed as the wizards ran inside. "An army platoon stormed in, but it seems they haven't returned yet." Erza explained, "They likely engaged Eisenwald in battle."
They came across stairs to see that the whole army had been incapacitated. "they've been wiped out," Happy says as he overlooks the knights.
"they had no idea they were up against a wizard guild," Erza said, "we have to stop Eisenwald and fast."
They enter the main room, where the entire Eisenwald guild is waiting for them. "Step into our parlor, wizards," Erigor shouts as he stands up, "tell me what guild you are with."
"We are not part of a guild," Erza tells him, "but you will be coming into custody with us."
Erigor laughs at Erza's statement, "I'm sorry, but that's not happening."
Lucy put Natsu on the ground and shook him, "Come on, Natsu, we need your help!" Lucy shouts
"Good luck," Happy tells her, "between the train, the car, and you're shaking, it's a motion sickness times three."
"But I'm not a vehicle," Lucy shouts.
Kageyama Glares at Natsu. "You; it's your fault I got in trouble with Erigor. get up."
"That voice," Natsu whispers.
"What are you scoundrels after? What do you plan to do with the lullaby?" Erza shouted.
"You don't know? What's here at the train station?" Erigor asked as he rose.
"He flew!"
"It's Wind Magic!"
"You plan on broadcasting the Lullaby?" Erza questions
How many thousands of noisy onlookers are gathered around here? And if you increase the volume, it'll reverberate throughout the city."
"The melody of death, which is! Do you plan on making innocent people listen to the flute's lullaby? It's a purge." Erza shouted.
"I'm purging the fools who guard their rights and safety without even knowing there are those whose same rights have been stolen away." Erigor told her, "Their sin is living without knowing that this world isn't just." he explains.
"And so, The Reaper has come to punish them!"
"You're not going to get your rights back by doing something like this," Lucy tells them.
Erigor laughs, "You think we care about that? No, all we want is power," Erigor tells her.
"We're bringing forth a new age of darkness, "Kageyama tells her. "Of course, by the time it gets here, your pest will be long gone." he then attacks Lucy, but Natsu blocks the attack with his fist.
"Eisenwald dude," he shouts, "I thought I recognized that voice."
"Natsu, you're back to normal," Lucy says happily.
"Looks like we have a party," Natsu says, smirking.
Lucy looks at the members of Eisenwald. "You think we can take 'em," Lucy asks, "they outnumber us 3 to 1."
Natsu smiles, "that makes it more fun."
'You fell right into my trap,' Erigor thought to himself. 'Everything is going exactly as I planned.'
There are some bastards that I must make sure to hear this flute.
"I leave them to you men," Erigor shouts, "show them the terror of the dark guild Eisenwald." He then vanishes away.
"I'm going after him," Natsu shouted as he started to run off
"Natsu, wait!" Erza shouted
"I'll go with him," Gray shouted
"They ran off," one of the members shouted.
"they're going after Erigor."
"I got them," one of the members shouted. "I, the great Rayule, will take them down."
"I'll come with you," Kageyama tells him, "that pink-haired dimwit will pay," Kageyama shouted, eager to get his revenge on Natsu; he disappeared with his Shadow Magic.
"Will catch up with them once we're done here," Erza tells Lucy.
Lucy nodded; she had to admit she was a bit nervous.
With the top members of Eisenwald gone, the rest of the guild gets ready to fight Erza and Lucy. "You know it's a shame you two are almost too cute to kill," one of the members states.
"You don't frighten us. "Erza pulls a Magic sword out of nowhere. now this is your only chance to surrender, and you may leave here alive."
[##Titania theme##]
"You don't frighten us, Lady," one of the members shoots. "We have tons of magic swordsmen." Giving no reply to their taunts, Erza rushes at her opponents and defeats an entire group of them with one slash, breaking all their swords, and swiftly decimates another group of Eisenwald thugs with a similar slash of her sword.
"I'll show you," a few minor members attempt to attack her with a combined light beam attack; Erza jumps, and then Reequips her sword into a spear in mid-air and swiftly attacks them with it, defeating the whole group before they can release their Magic.
Another group charged Erza, but Erza had reached the ground; she then equipped once more with twin swords, "it changed into twin swords," one of the members stated.
"I've never seen someone Requip as fast as this chick,"
"What Requip," Lucy asks.
"It's not too different from your keys, Lucy," Happy tells her, "the user can keep weapons they have stored in another dimension, and when they change, it's called requiping."
"Amazing," Lucy says, shocked.
After defeating a few more Dark Guild members, Erza exchanges the twin swords for a large ax, landing a fierce blow on the dumbfounded guild members crowded around her.
As the Eisenwald Guild Members begin to wonder how she can change weapons so fast
"I'll lend a hand," Lucy shouts.
"You sure, Lucy," Happy says.
"{Open gate of the giant crab cancer}" Cancer then appears," you need some help, baby," a few of the guild members aim for him. Cancer easily defeats a few Eisenwald members,
"Nice shot, Lucy," Erza told her, "but does he have to say baby after every sentence."
"Afraid so," Lucy tells her.
Erza looks around and notices that many opponents are still left. "This is starting to get annoying," she sighs. "Lucy, hang back," her armor begins coming off., shocking the Eisenwald guild members.
"wait, what are you doing, Erza," Lucy asked.
"Well, while most magic swordsmen can usually only requip their weapons as they fight, Erza can fight while requiping her armor to increase her abilities." He states that "it's a technique that only Erza has. It's called The Knight."
The smoke clears, revealing Erza in her heavens wheel armor. Lucy and the Eisenwald Guild Members are dazzled at Erza's appearance.
"Now, dance my swords," Erza unleashes a barrage of swords, wiping out the last of the Eisenwald members. Enraged at his fellow Guild Members' "All right, you're dealing with me now," Byard tries to attack Erza with Light Magic, but Erza defeats him without any effort.
"I don't believe it. Where did this chick come from," the last member asks; he looks to see Cancer about to attack him; he vanishes into the wall, causing Cancer to hit. "Sorry, I missed it."
"Damn it," Lucy shouts; she turns to Erza and smiles, "Don't worry, I got him," Erza nods, and Lucy runs off.
Erza looks at the already defeated guild members; she falls to her knees, struggling to stand. 'Gray was right; I wasted too much power on the magic mobile.' She looked in the direction Natsu and Gray went. 'Please don't fail me, boys.'
"What was Erza thinking?" Gray shouted.
"She wasn't," Natsu shouted, "everyone knows fire and Ice don't mix."
"I don't need you. I can take Erigor all by myself," they shouted in unison. "Are you copying me?"
They notice that the walkway splits, "Which way do we go."
"I guess we have to split up." They stood back-to-back, each going differently. "Natsu, we're going against an evil freak who's about to unleash a deadly spell," Gray told him, "if you find him, give him a thrashing.
Natsu nodded, "don't worry, I will," Natsu told him. "I'm going to burn him to a crisp," the two laughed before realizing what was happening.
"Don't die on me," Gray said under his breath.
"what"
"Nothing just get going," Gray shouted before running off.
Gray notices a loudspeaker and comes to a stop. "That's it; Erigor is going to play the Lullaby flute through the speaker system." Gray runs up to the studio room and kicks the door down.
Gray enters the studio. "There's nobody here," Rayule appears, hanging from the ceiling. "Maybe I was wrong about them playing it over the PA." Rayule then attacks Gray with five strings of his Magic Urumi, but Gray dodges it.
"Lucky guess, kid," Rayule tells him, "but our plan isn't that obvious."
Meanwhile, outside, More people have gathered in front of the station. Someone sees Erza and shouts, "Hey, what's going on."
"If you value your lives, then you will leave this place at once," Erza shouts. "This station has been attacked by a dark guild, which is threatening to play a deadly spell over the loudspeakers. I beg you to run as far as you can."
Not thinking once the entire crowd erupts in a panic running away from the station, 'Why would send them into a panic like that," one of the conductors asks.
"I much rather that than watch all these people die," Erza told them, "and you all need to evacuate as well."
Erza watched as the crowd disappeared. "now that everyone's clear from the station, I wonder what Igor's next move will be," Ezra turned in shock as a giant wind barrier surrounded the train station.
"There is no escape from my Urmi." Rayule attacks Gray by swinging the strings of Urumi, but he dodges. Rayule tries to attack Gray once again,
"{Ice-Make: Shield.}" A giant wall of ice forms in front of Gray
"This punk uses Ice magic," Rayule asks, shocked.
"{Ice-make knuckle}" a bunch of fists from the ground attacking Rayule, knocking him through a wall. "This is your last chance to tell me what you're up to."
"Erigor wind barrier should be up by now."
"His what," Gray asks.
"Erigor created a wind barrier to keep your insects from escaping."
Back outside, Erigor confronted Erza, "You know I wish I had time to fight you," Erigor boasted, "you might have been a challenge."
"But alas, I have no time to play with you now." Erigor then uses his Magic to push Erza into the wind barrier.
"Grigor," Erza jumps at the barrier, only to be knocked back.
"Don't even try." Erigor tells her, "This magic wind wall is one-way: you can only pass from outside to inside." he explains, "If you try to exit from the inside, the wind will cut you to shreds."
"What in the world are you up to," Erza asks.
"Thanks to you, idiots; I've wasted quite a lot of time." Erigor tells her, "If you'll excuse me." Erigor then flies away, leaving a confused Erza.
"Wait!" Erza shouted, 'Damn that, Erigor. Where could he be going,' Erza thought. 'So, he wasn't targeting this station, after all. Damn it, I've had enough of your riddles.'
Gray pins Rayule on a wall. "Let me get straight to the point. Tell me your plan or else."
Rayule laughs, "The only reason we took over this station was to block traffic to the final stop." Rayule then faces Gray, "The biggest hit in history going down in Clover."
"Soon we will have vengeance," he pushed Gray off him, attacking him gain with his Urmi. "Cause in Clover, the guild masters are holding their annual conference."
Gray was shocked; he hadn't expected that. "So, you plan on targeting some of the most powerful wizards on the planet."
Rayule just laughed, "When Lullaby plays, those old fogies won't know what hit them," he then wrapped his Urmi around Gray.
Gray struggles and smiles, the air around him becoming cold. "I should thank you," he says as the string becomes Ice. "You just told me the whole plan, making our lives much easier."
A wave of Ice attacked him before Rayule could realize what was happening.
At another part of the station, Natsu was running around looking for Erigor. "Come out and fight me," he shouted as Kageyama followed him. Cover in his shadow.
Gray walked out of the room, and the smoke around him was cold. Behind him, the reflection of a frozen man could be seen, his face covered in terror. "There are things much more terrifying than a dark guild," Gray said aloud, "and don't you forget it."
To be continued
Me: Well, this chapter was honestly interesting to write. One hard thing, though, is making Erza not as well-known as she is in the actual anime, but hey, I'm not one to judge, so anyway, don't forget to review.
Lucy: Wow, Ezra's armor was so cool.
Natsu: Man, I always miss the good stuff.
Mira: oh, chin up, Natu
Natsu: sighs
Lucy: I wish I had a cool armor set like her.
Mira: but Lucy, you already have cool armor.
Natsu and Lucy: really
Next time: Flame vs. wind
Mira: think about it you wore it on your first job.
Natsu: her maid uniform
Mira: Yeah, it looked so cute.
Lucy: I'm never wearing that again.