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Harry, knowing that Natsu likes to fight more than him, decided to fight Toby while his friend fought Yuka. Harry cast Expelliarmus at the dog-faced mage to throw him back so they can be farther away from Natsu and Yuka's fight.
Once Toby got back up from the ground, Harry saw how he made his claws turn green and grow. "I bet you don't know what my paralyzing claws can do!" Toby said.
Harry knows that his face was blank; he couldn't help it, how stupid was this guy? "Umm, they paralyze…" he said unimpressed.
"Whoa, how did you know!?" Toby asked in shock.
Harry sweat dropped. 'You just told me…' he thought quietly to himself. He refocused when Toby shook himself out of his shock and glared at him.
"It doesn't matter! I bet that you won't be able to escape my claws," after Toby said this, he charged at Harry, who side-stepped out of the way.
Toby kept coming after him, but Harry wasn't really doing much in this fight – if he could even call it that. He just dodged the moment the dog mage got close enough, and sometimes he would dance out of the way of the attacks just because he was bored with just side-stepping him. He would spin out of the way, or even move into a backward handstand while landing on his feet again in a complete circle. (AN: I don't know the same of that move.)
Toby growled, "Hold still!" he swiped his claws again, but this time Harry ducked and whipped his leg out and kicked his opponent's out from under him. Harry stood up straighter, waiting for Toby to get back up.
"Are you done yet?" He asked the dog-faced mage.
Toby got up off the ground. "I SWEAR, I WILL GET YOU!" With a yell, he charged in. Harry only smirked and dodged, and when Toby's back was to him he cast the knockback jinx that he learned from the Book of Spells, and sent his enemy away, who landed face first in the dirt.
'I almost feel sorry for this guy. He's trying so hard, but he can't even get a hit in,' Harry thought to himself.
{Why do you say almost?} He heard Fawkes asked, who was flying somewhere above them.
'I completely forgot you can read my mind,' he muttered in his head. 'I almost feel sorry, because he did after all try to kill an entire village.'
{That's a good point, but I feel sorry for him for being stupid. He might not even know that what he's doing is wrong.}
Harry snorted. 'No one is that dumb…right…?' He wasn't too sure. He knows that people can be really stupid, but he forgets how far it can really go.
{You would be surprised.} He could he the smile in Fawkes' voice, but didn't say anymore, because Toby got back up.
Shortly after Harry attacked Toby, Natsu went after Yuka. He was glad that his friend allowed him to fight the stronger looking one out of the two mages. He sent a fire dragon's iron first at the bushy-eyebrow man, but when he hit this magic shield that Yuka created in front of him, Natsu's spell went out.
He jumped back to get space between them and said, "Fire Dragon's Roar!" The stream of fire shot out of his mouth, but like with his last spell, the fire went out when it hit the shield. Natsu made an annoyed face and a sound of frustration. 'At this point, I'm going to start thinking that Harry got the better guy,' he thought, but didn't look to see if his suspicions were correct.
Yuka told him what his shield did, and that got Natsu to call him a cowered for hiding behind it. He tried to break through the force field, but nothing worked, but then an idea struck him. He dashed at the shield again, but instead of having his hands covered in his flames, he just punched it with his bare fist. A second after punching the magic force field, Natsu screamed in agony, feeling like his arm is being torn to shreds from the inside out.
Yuka smirked, but there was some nervousness to it. "Are you an idiot or something? Touching this shield is enough to tear your arm to pieces," he said. "That is just reckless."
Natsu smirked, and then thrust his head into the magical shield with a roar, making Yuka's eyes widened in pure shock and fright. "I don't care if the shield can block magic. As long as I don't use it I can get through!" he said while laughing.
Somewhere above the fighting, Fawkes was watching Natsu in slight shock. 'I think Natsu might be a little insane…'
Yuka nervously said, "So what? You can't use magic while in this surge."
Natsu smirked devilishly. "But I can use magic from the outside, right? Thanks, because you just gave me a great idea." His elbow lit up in flames and pushed a lot of power into it so he can punch his arm the rest of the way through and hit Yuka in the face. "Fire Dragon's Flame Elbow!" The mage was sent flying across the ground, and when the dust cleared, Natsu was able to see that he was knocked out.
He turned to see how Harry was doing, and what he saw made him laugh. Harry was dancing around his opponent's attacks with little to no effort. He realized that he had all along the better opponent. He looked around and saw Bobo's grave and fixed it. Once finished doing that, he turned back to Harry, and then up to Fawkes. "Think you can tell him that we should get going?" he asked knowing that the phoenix heard him.
Harry dodged another attack when he heard, {Natsu finished his fight already. He's waiting for you to finish so we could go.}
"Will you hold still?!" Toby shouted.
"Wait hold on!" Harry said, and pointed to his head. "You have something right here." Toby touched his claws to his head, zapping himself with his own magic. "Wow, he really is that stupid," the wizard mumbled.
"That's all it took to defeat him?" Natsu asked in shock. "No wonder you were just playing with him."
"I gave him too much credit. I didn't think that would actually work," Harry stated with a wave of his hand.
"Well anyway, I have an idea on how to stop the moon drip," Natsu said with a smirk, making him smirk in return.
"You're just full of ideas today, aren't you, Natsu?"
After Natsu whispered his plan into Harry's ear, they leave to find a place to camp out.
Shortly before Natsu and Harry started their fight with Yuka and Toby, Lucy was clinging onto the rat and trying to figure out what to do to stop it from reaching the villagers. She started punching the toes that she was holding onto for dear life, but it didn't seem to be doing anything to faze the overgrown rodent. Then an idea popped into her head, and she started to tickle the toes.
Angelica started to laugh, making Lucy smirk in victory, but the feeling didn't last long. The rat stopped moving its tail like a propeller, which caused them all to fall out of the sky. Lucy was able to jump off the rat's toe and land onto a branch of a nearby tree. When she looked down to where Angelica crash landed, she saw that it was passed out – most likely from hitting its head on a rock that she couldn't see from the angle she was in.
Lucy jumps down from the tree, and looks around, trying to find where Sherry went. "How dare you!" She heard from behind. The Celestial Spirit mage turned to see her enemy looking at her with rage filled eyes. "You hurt poor, sweet, dear Angelica! You will regret that! Doll Magic: Wood Doll!"
Lucy was confused, not knowing what the spell did, but her answer came in the form of a tree that was looming over her from behind. The now living tree threw a punch down at her, making her dodge out of the way of it. She did not want to get hit with a 2,000, maybe more, pound tree, that is adding more force along with its weight.
"Well, if it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get!" Lucy declared while holding a golden key in her right hand. "Open, Gate of the Golden Bull: Taurus!"
"Moo!" Taurus sounded when he came through the gate, and then looked over to her. "Wow Lucy, you are looking ~ fiiine ~ this evening," he said with hearts in his eyes.
Lucy decided to ignore his comment. "Taurus, I need you to destroy that tree!" she said while pointing to his soon to be target.
The bull on two legs grabbed hold of his ax. "Of course, Luuuucy!" he said with a grin. He jumped into the air and brought his ax down, cutting the tree in two while mooing.
"Good work, Taurus!" Lucy cheered, but then she heard Sherry say something in shock about her having such a powerful spirit, but she must have come out of it.
"Doesn't matter, you just gave me something to play with," Sherry said with a child-like smile.
Lucy smirked. "We'll see about that. Taurus, attack her!" she ordered, pointing at the one she wanted her spirit friend to attack.
"As you wish!" Taurus said and charged at Sherry, but then he stopped before he could hit her.
Lucy was surprised and worried for her spirit. "Taurus… what's wrong? Why did you stop?" she asked, but then the bull turned to her, and she sees that his eyes are glowing the same way as the tree did – even though trees don't have eyes.
Lucy had to jump out of the way of her own spirit's ax before it could hit her. She was so confused as to what was going on. "Taurus, what's wrong with you?"
Sherry laughed. "Isn't it obvious? He's under my control now," she said.
"Taurus, you need to snap out of it!" Lucy said shortly after hearing what her enemy said.
Taurus grunted, "I'm trying, Lucy… But I can't control myself. Please move out of the way, I don't want to hurt you."
Lucy pulled her whip out from her belt to use it for grabbing the ax and pull it out of Taurus' hands. She was happy that she was able to get rid of that problem, but it would seem that Sherry didn't really care for that, because she had the bull spirit pin her down.
Lucy had to roll from side to side so she didn't get punched by a bull that could easily crush her skull to nothing than a red mess on the undergrowth.
"My doll magic allows me take control of anything, unless it's a human, but a Celestial Spirit are still up for grabs," Sherry explained how her powers worked, but Lucy decided to put that information to the back of her head for the time being.
"Close, gate of the bull!" Lucy called out, but nothing happened. "Taurus, you need to help me close your gate!"
Sherry smirked, but Lucy couldn't see that. "It's no use, if I don't want your spirit to close his gate then he won't."
She ignored the doll mage. "I close the gate to the bull! Go back to the spirit realm, Taurus!" Lucy shouted with all her might, and to her surprise, Taurus disappeared. She looked at her hands and muttered in shock and happiness, "I did it… I used Forced Gate Closure!" With a grin on her face, Lucy got back up from the ground and faced a shock Sherry. "Now the fight really starts."
Sherry jumps down from the cliff that she was on. "Don't get too excited, after all, your spirits don't work on me," she proclaimed.
Lucy gritted her teeth together. 'She's right… If I summon another spirit she'll just take control of it again,' she paused in her musing. 'Do I really do that? I don't see any other way of fighting her.' Lucy looks around to see if there was anyone else around beside her and Sherry. When she didn't see anyone, she smirked. 'Well, I doubt she'll tell anyone. So, I could keep it from the others for just a bit longer. It just doesn't feel like the right time to show my friends what I can really do yet.'
Lucy puts her whip away and holds up her hand that has the ring on it that Harry saw back at the guild, in front of her. She pinches the icy-blue gem and turns it. With a deep breath, she says, "Releases…"
The magic in the air became cold, colder than when Gray is angry at Natsu, creating a chilly fogs around her. "Winter Dragon's Spear," she said. The mist solidified into an ice spear in her right hand, and gauntlets made of ice formed on both of her wrists a moment after just by her will.
She can see that this shocked Sherry by a lot, but she can't really blame her; after all, she showed no hints of being a dragon slayer!
"I don't like to use my spirits to fight my battles for me all the time when I could help them," Lucy said.
"Where did this power come from? Was that ring hiding it all this time?!" Sherry demanded.
Lucy smirked. "As a matter of fact, yes. You see, I was born with the powers of ice, but I had no control over it. But one day, my mom brought me to meet a winter dragon, and she taught me how to control my ice by teaching me Winter Dragon Slayer Magic."
"But that's…That's not possible!" Sherry shouted. "Dragon's no longer exist!"
Lucy's eyes sadden. "That may be true now, but that does not stop me from looking for the one that saved my life." She didn't say anymore, even if what she said confused her enemy at the end of her sentence.
She held up her spear at the ready and dashed forward with it pointed at Sherry. Her opponent dodged, but just barely. Not allowing this to slow Lucy down she swung in the direction that the doll mage went in, hitting her with the icy staff part and sending her toward the rock face that Sherry jumped down from before their real fight began.
Sherry was able to recover before having the nasty impact with the rocky cliff. She landed on a small platform that is sticking out of the rock wall, and touched it with her hand.
"Doll Magic: Rock Doll!" she cast, making the rock turned into a golem.
Lucy stared at the now alive hung of rocks with slight worry; she has never fought a rock monster before. 'Well, first time for everything, right?' With this thought in mind, Lucy readied herself to fight the monster.
She waited for the golem to strike first, and when it did throw a punch at her, she jumped and landed on the arm, lifted her spear, and stabbed downed while shouting, "Winter Spear Dragon's Biting Fang!" When the spear stabbed threw the arm of the golem, and large arrow head of ice sliced through the rest of the arm, cutting it off.
While the golem cried out in pain, Lucy jumped off the fallen arm that was cut to the elbow, and held her spear like it was a scythe instead. "Winter Spear Dragon's Tail Slash!" An arc of ice with a cutting edge, was sent flying toward the golem; however, another wood doll got in the way, and took the hit.
Lucy, in her moment of surprise, didn't notice that Sherry made another wood doll. If she did, she would have been able to dodge the punch aimed at her. When the tree doll hit its mark, Lucy dropped her ice spear, was sent flying pass the trees, and out of the tree line, closer to the ocean.
Lucy got back up and saw the giant body of water, and an idea slammed into her like the tree just punched her again. She runs over to the ocean while holding a golden key in her hand. Once in the water, she plunged the key in like it was a key hole to a door. "Open, Gate of the Water Bearer! Aquarius!" she called out, and after doing so, she heard Sherry saying in disbelief again about her having another powerful spirit.
"When are you going to learn that my magic can control Celestial Spirits?" Sherry exclaimed mockingly, not noticing the Lucy was smirking like that was the plan.
Once Aquarius was under Sherry's 'control', the doll mage told her to take Lucy out. Aquarius did just that, but with an added bonus – she took Sherry down with her, just like Lucy was hoping she would.
They both got caught up in the whirlpool, making them spin and scream. When it calmed down and they were on the shore with the water spirit now gone, they got up, but the world was spinning all around them, not allowing them to have the ability to walk straight.
Once Lucy and Sherry found each other, they started batting away with their shaky fists. Lucy, being the first to recover, clotheslined her enemy, knocking her out cold on the sandy beach.
Lucy panted, still not fully recovered from the dizzy spell. She fell to her knees, and tried to catch her breath, but she couldn't do so for long, because not two seconds after falling, Angelica jumped out of the tree, and was about to body slam her.
She tried to get up, but her legs wouldn't let her. Right before the rat was about to crush her, a flash of red and sliver flew in between her and the giant rat, followed by a whistling sound that can only come from a sword. Angelica was sent back a bit and hit the ground not far from Lucy with a gash in its belly.
Lucy looked up to see who it was that saved her, but before she could thank them she froze in fear. Her brown eyes meeting angry, brown ones that belonged to Erza Scarlet.
"Erza… What are you… doing here? EEP!" Lucy yelped when Erza pointed the tip of her sword at her face.
"You and the other, once I find them, are coming back with me to the guild, so you may face punishment," the red-haired, S-class mage said threateningly.
"But…but we can't! These people need us to lift the curse!" Lucy tried to reason.
"Silence!" Erza ordered. "You disobeyed the rules, and rule breakers must be punished. So, don't try to get out of it."
"But what about the villagers? We can't just leave them."
"That is not my concern. You and the others shouldn't have come on this S-class quest to begin with."
Lucy was shocked. "How can you say that? How can you say something so heartless?" Erza didn't say anything, and Lucy couldn't tell what she was thinking, because her face was expressionless beside the rage. "Are you really going to turn your back on these people when you know you can help them?"
Erza was silent for a moment. "…We're going to look for the others and then we're leaving," she finally said.
"Lucy, are you okay?" Lucy heard Happy's voice and looked over to see him spot Erza and try to fly back the way he came, but the scarlet-haired woman caught him before he could.
"Yeah, Happy I'm fine. And we can't leave yet!" Lucy focused her attention back onto Erza after reassuring the blue ball of fluff. "Not only is there a curse on the island, but there are people that are trying to bring back a demon, and a really powerful one at that!"
Erza glared at her and said in a deadly calm tone, "I'm not interested." Lucy gulped and realized that there is no use getting through to her on her own; she knows that she's going to need probably all three of the others that came with her on this job to convince the S-class mage that they need to stay and help this island.
TBC
Yes, Lucy has dragon slayer magic; however, it's so she isn't a weakling – sorry Lucy. She needed something other than the power she already has. Razzy Riddle, sorry but this is the only magic she's getting, because I need her to not become OP. I might give her more keys like Draco and the other stars that were never mentioned in Fairy Tail, but were – kinda – in Harry Potter. Fighting Styles are not really a power, so I have no problems giving Lucy something that came from a movie or something.
Now the reason why Lucy was surprised when she heard Natsu looking for a dragon was because she couldn't believe he was looking for one in a town full of people.
P.S. Should I draw pictures of what the attacks that I created look like? If so, then please let me know.
Natsu: Lucy just became Awesome! :D
Harry: Why are you allowing him to see this early? :/
Enj/Dark: I'm allowing him to see it, because I plan on her showing this power to them during the GMG.
Zeref: That's far away still. =(
Enj/Dark: Exactly. :)
Zeref: *whispers into my ear* But if that's the case, then why aren't you telling them about me yet?
Enj/Dark: *whispers back* Because I'm going to skip an arc, and by doing so will bring up the Tenrou Island arc a bit faster.
Zeref: How many arcs till then?
Enj/Dark: Let's see… After this one, there is the Phantom, Leo, Tower of Heaven, Battle of Fairies, and… Oracion Seis. I'm skipping the arc after that, so it's Tenrou next.
Natsu: You're not doing the fillers?
Enj/Dark: Only if I like them, but it's going to be filler episodes, not filler arcs.
Voldy: Good, not a lot of people like fillers.
Harry: You mean you don't like fillers, because there is no way you are really thinking about the viewers.
Voldy: Oh look… he does have a brain after all. Too bad he wastes it. *get's glared at by everyone*
Zeref: Please review and vote. She's still looking for more votes on team names.
