Hello everyone!
I see that Chapter 4 was a big hit, so I decided to get chapter five in before New Years!
I may, MAY, just write and post chapter 6 if there is enough time before New Years, so well will just have to see.
I said I would tell you guys where the quote, "What do you desire? What do you wish for from the bottom of your heart?" came from.
The answer is...
Gundam Unicorn, Episode 7, when Banagher and Audrey met Syam Vist, Banagher's great-grandfather and he asked what Banager wanted to do with Laplace's Box. (P.S., one of my favorite animes of all time, great mecha designs, a good idea, really good character development. I highly recommend it to any fan of Gundam or any fan of anime period.)
However, since none of you found that out, no special shout out for anyone!
I shall give you another quote from one of my favorite animes, so just look at my profile and you will see the list, it is from one of those and here is the quote, "We are Celestial Being. Our goal is the eradication of war. Even if the world chooses to rejects us, we will continue to confront it. Even if we must use force to do so, we will continue to act as a deterrent for the world. That is the reason we must continue to exist. For the future."
Same rules as last time, if one of you figures out were the quote is from, I shall give you a shout out in chapter 7, so get cracking.
There is going to be a lot happening in this chapter, so be prepared for a lot of things different than in cannon.
And that's it, so first disclaimer and then onto the chapter.
I do not own Fairy Tail or anything that has the Fairy Tail brand. Fairy Tail is completely owned by Hiro Mashima.
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"Dragon/Demon Talking"
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Chapter Five: The Star's meet the Fairies.
In the great city of Era, located in the heart of the large city, there is a large rocky mountain and on top of that mountain is nested the highest authority in the magic world, the Magic Council.
The Magic Council is made up of nine individuals, people who are shown to be extremely powerful in magic, but also are shown to think before they act, people who show great knowledge of the laws and regulations of Fiore, so that they may act as an example of what to be.
Right now the nine members of the magic council are in a meeting discussing the events of last night.
"It seems that young Natsu Dragneel was crucial in capturing Bora the Prominence, who apparently been kidnapping and then selling women from various cities around the country as slaves." A now 19 year old Jellal Fernandes said.
"That young man is nothing short of extraordinary. He not only became the youngest S-Class wizard in history, he has gone on to train several other extremely powerful wizards, yourself included as I recall Jellal." A elderly man with large downwards facing eyebrows said.
"He only helped me unlock my magic container, he never gave me lessons. I wanted to learn to stand on my own two feet, Yajima." Jellal responded.
"Ah. I apologize. But the fact of the matter remains. Natsu has become the strongest man in all of Ishgar, even surpassing God Serena. How is he by the way?" Yajima asked.
"He is still bitter towards that defeat, ranting and raving about "How that dastardly and cheating dragon slayer" cheated in the match. I swear it is starting to give me a headache." A young women said.
She was an extremely beautiful young women, with pale skin, dark purple hair and brown eyes. She was currently wearing a tight form fitting kimono that had a spinning flower pattern to it.
"He gives us all a headache, Ultear. If he wasn't the SECOND strongest man in Ishgar, I doubt anyone of us would give him a moment of our time." Jellal said back to her. "By the way, how is your mother?"
"Ur is doing well, she is currently doing an S-Class mission to slay a beast in the Southern part of the continent, near the tropical Island of Galaluna, the beast in question is the Leviathan." Ultear responded.
"The Leviathan? Isn't that the monstrous sea serpent reported to 185 feet long?" Yajima asked. (To see a picture, go to /Leviathan_(Raid) I am to lazy to describe it.)
"Indeed it is. Should be no problem for the Seventh Wizard Saint." Ultear said with a bit of pride in her voice.
"If your little discussion is over, may we get back to the discussion at hand?" Org said, holder of the Second seat on the magic council.
"Sorry sir, please continue." Ultear said.
"As I was saying, Natsu Dragneel has once again taken down another criminal, he 350th now isn't?" Org said.
"I do believe so. That boy has taken down more bandits, slave rings, master criminals and dark guilds than most wizards do in their entire careers. Too bad he refused the position of 1st God of Ishgar." Yajima said.
"He did give a few good reasons for why he said no and lets not forget that he was responsible for the new improved training that has taken place in Fairy Tail, leading to most of the guild getting control over their magic powers, leading to less property damage than any other guild. Look at the incident at Hargeon, less than a 2,500 worth of damage done to the pier, so a low ranking D-Class request would pay for damage. Any other guild might have done any where from 150,000 to 5,000,000 worth of damage." Jellal said.
"Still, would have been nice to have the leader of the Wizard Saints to have a sense of humility and not an ego the size of a guild hall" Ultear said.
"We all have our problems with God Serena Ultear. Let's just finish up this meeting." Org said. "The number of Dark Guilds, even through the efforts of Fairy Tail, Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus, are starting to become an issue. Natsu, Jura, Erza, Mirajane and the other S-Class wizards are doing their best to get rid of the Dark Guilds, but more and more are starting to pop up out of the woodworks. We need to increase our crackdown on Dark Guilds." Org said.
"But how? The Strongest Light Guilds are doing their best, but they can't get them all." Ultear said.
"Which is why I propose we make it mandatory for every single Light S-Class wizard to take three Dark Guild extermination requests per month and in exchange for their services we will triple the price for a regular Dark Guild extermination request." Org said.
"I think that is a good idea. We are only using a portion of our resources to get rid of the Dark Guilds, but we trust Fairy Tail, Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus S-Class wizards to handle the job, the weaker guilds might not be able to get rid of the Dark Guilds with such ease." Belno, an elderly women with sandy blonde hair that is in a ponytail that makes the hair fan out in tear dropped shaped tufts of hair.
"That is a good point, but they are S-Class for a reason. They are their guilds strongest members and as such they are capable of handling themselves in a fight. But you do raise a good point. How about all Dark Guild extermination requests are only to be taken in a group of no less than four members, two of which must be S-Class?" Org proposed to the council.
The council members looked to each other for a few seconds before Ultear turned back towards Org and said, "I think I speak for all of us when I say we agree with that."
"Very well. Messenger!" Org shouted out.
Within seconds, a light green frogman came running into the room and said, "Yes Council member Org?"
"It is the decision of the council to make a new mandatory request for every single Light guild. Send this out to all light guilds today." Org said.
The frogman nodded and then took out a piece of paper and said, "What shall it say?"
"It shall say, "Until such a time as the Dark Guild count has reached zero, all Light Guilds are expected to have their S-Class wizards do three Dark Guild extermination requests a month. They can only accept the request if they work in a group of four with a two S-Class wizards in said group." Org said.
The frog man nodded and wrote it down quickly and then said, "What shall be the reward sir?"
"The reward for each Dark Guild successfully destroyed shall be 24,000 jewels." Org said.
The frogman nodded, wrote it down and then said, "Anything else Sir?"
Org shook his head and then said, "That will be all."
The frogman nodded and then quickly left, off to get the news out to all light guilds.
Org then said, "Let us hope this measure does it's job. The Dark Guild numbers are starting to become a massive concern."
"The Dark Guilds will fall, we have Jura, Erza, and of course Natsu on our side." Ultear said.
"Despite Natsu's unimaginable strength, he is still only one man. He can't be everywhere at once. One on one, there are only four to five individuals who can stand against him." Jellal said.
"Zeref, Acnologia, Igneel, Merlin and the demon king, E.N.D." Ultear said.
"It is a tragedy that E.N.D. fell protecting Igneel. According to history he was humanities protector, standing against his fellow demons and against the dragons to protect the weak and the innocent." Jellal said.
"Indeed. But that is the ancient past and this is the present, we must focus on the here and now. If there is no other issues, I would like to declare this meeting over." Org said.
There were no more issues, so the meeting was declared over and the council members went back to their own chambers.
Ultear and Jellal walked to theirs together, discussing a hidden secret.
"Does HE suspect anything?" Jellal asked.
"Nothing. To him, I am his loyal pawn. He is unaware that I in fact serve another." Ultear said.
"You know he asks nothing for what he did? Why do you serve him?" Jellal asked.
"For the same reason you started that little band of yours. To pay back the debt I owe him, even if he doesn't see it as if I owe him anything. He would say my smile is all the payment he needs. He is a good man that way. His heart is just so large. I kinda evy his girlfriend. He will never cheat on her, he will always be by her side, he will always do everything in his power to keep her happy." Ultear said.
"I made "that little band of mine" to do something about the amount of evil in the world. I saw evil as a child, I also saw the power of good and how evil ran from it. I vowed to live up to HIS example, to fight for the weak, the innocent, the helpless. I was that way when I was a child, and I will never let anyone else go through what I did, not if I have anything to say about it." Jellal said as he clenched his right fist as bad memories came back to the surface.
Ultear shook her head and chuckled, saying, "Just look at two of us. One man changed the course of our lives. He inspired hope to grow inside my heart and that allowed me to change my path. How much pain and suffering would I have commited if he hadn't done what he did."
Jellal nodded his head and said, "I bet he doesn't know how much good he has truly done. How many people he has inspired to do better, to be better. To him, he will never do enough good in the world, always seeing the deeds of his life as not enough good done."
Ultear giggled a little and said, "He is just that way. Come on, we have paperwork to do."
Jellal groaned and said, "Paperwork. Truly, that is the legal form of torture."
Ultear just rolled her eyes and said, "Just suck it up and be a man."
The two went into their offices, but before Ultear did she stopped and had one thought.
"Natsu, what are doing right now?"
Meanwhile...
It was approximately 2 O'clock in the afternoon when the train rolled into Magnolia train station.
The overpowered as hell Dragon slayer, his small, but incredibly dangerous flying, talking cat and their new buxom blonde all exited the train and made their way into Magnolia's train station.
Natsu walked out of the station, stopped and took a deep breath of the air.
"Ah, 'tis verily I say to thee, thither is no better air than the air of thy hometown." Natsu said as Happy and Lucy stared at him.
"Aye Sir." Happy said cheerfully as he too took a deep breathe.
"Lucy looked at them and said, "Why did you speak in Shakespearean?"
"Because, it makes me sound a lot cooler." Natsu said.
Lucy rolled her eyes while smiling at the two of them and then began to look around, this town was a lot different from Hargeon.
For one, this town was at least three to four times the size of Hargeon and this town was literally littered with dozens of shops, charts and houses lined all over the city and that was as far as Lucy could see.
Natsu then turned to his new friend and said, "Come on Lucy, Fairy Tail awaits."
Lucy snapped out of her revere and said, "Yeah, right. Let's go!"
Natsu and Happy chuckled and then the group of three began to walk onwards.
After about 20 minutes of walking, they finally reached the guild hall of the mightiest legal guild in all of Fiore, Fairy Tail.
Lucy had stars in her eyes as she went into full blown fan girl mode, "This is really the Fairy Tail guild hall! It's even cooler than I imagined!"
Natsu and Happy laughed and Natsu said, "If you think that is awesome, wait until you get inside."
Lucy started to reach for the door, but Natsu grabbed her wrist and said, "It is probably better if I go first."
Lucy looked confused, but Natsu was already in front of her.
Natsu then lifted his right leg and smashed it into the door, causing the wooden door to blast open, almost tearing it right off its hinges.
Good thing Natsu went first, because less than 0.0003 seconds later a large table came flying towards the group.
It impacted Natsu with enough force to tear the table into wooden splinters no bigger than than a quarter, but Natsu wasn't moved an inch and had no harm done to him
Lucy was beginning to freak out, what the hell was going on inside the guild that TABLES were being thrown around with enough force to possibly nearly kill a regular person?! (Those tables are made out of wood and are rectangular and capable of holding about 8 people, so I am going to estimate that those tables are weighing close to maybe 150-200 pounds, I am not sure, but I am positive being hit by a wooden table that size going about 20-25 miles is going to definitely knock someone out or possibly do long lasting damage. This is all speculation of course, so don't take my word at it.)
Lucy looked inside the guild and when she saw what was happening, her jaw dropped, her eyes widened, and her mind crashed.
Pure, unadulterated chaos.
There was a massive brawl raging through the guild, tables, chair, beers, barrels, mugs, even people, were being flung through the air as fists were being sent flying everywhere one looked, there was not one spot in which the interior of the guild was not enveloped in chaos.
One guy jumped on top of a table, tore off his shirt, showing his grisled and muscular chest as he yelled out, "LET'S GET IT ON!" and then he jumped into the air to tackle his unfortunate target.
Lucy also saw someone take a large ladder and then use it as a blunt weapon to knock several people out before that guy was knocked out with a chair directly to the face.
Another guy flipped over a table with enough force it was flung into the air and it came down onto it's poor target's, all of whom were knocked out by the impact.
Lucy was sputtering nonsense, unable to comprehend what was going on inside of this guild.
Wha..wha...what is happening?" She said slowly, still trying to wrap her mind around this level of insanity.
"This is the daily guild brawl. Fairy Tail may be the least damaging guild of them all, but when we are in our own guild, we cut loose and beat the ever living hell out of each other." Natsu said with a smile on his face, while Happy flew up and sat on his right shoulder.
Natsu then gently grabbed Lucy's left hand and dragged her to the bar, where the fighting was significantly less.
At the bar, there was two white haired girls working the bar.
"Hey Lisanna! Mirajane!" Natsu said with a smile on as the two women turned towards Natsu.
Lisanna is a 17 year old petite with short white hair and blue eyes. She is currently wearing a pink t-shirt, blue jeans with white flower patterns on the kneecaps, has on a brown belt with a silver belt buckle and has on some white sneakers.
Mirajane is a slim young woman of below average height. She has long wavy white hair that curls slightly at the ends, while two bangs frame her face and reach down to her chest, her hairstyles most prominent feature is a short upwards ponytail that is gathered on her forehead. She also has stunning large blue eyes that just makes her all the more beautiful. She is currently wearing a sleeveless maroon ankle-length dress with a pleated skirt. She has a large pink bow on the front of her chest that act as the straps for her dress, while a gold bracelet is on her right wrist and a sky blue necklace is on her chest as well and to finish off her outfit, she is wearing a matching set of high heels.
Lisanna and Mirajane both turned towards Natsu and smiled towards their favorite dragon-slayer.
"Hey Natsu! How did the trip to find the phoney Salamander go?" Lisanna asked.
"Well, me and Happy found him in Hargeon. Turned out that the fake Salamander was Bora the Prominence and he was kidnapping women to sell them off in Bosco." Natsu said.
Lisanna gasped and said, "Did you free the women?"
"Aye. And we did even less damage than usual, only minor structural damage to the pier." Happy said as he jumped off of Natsu's shoulder and onto the counter.
"Good job you two. Here is your fish Happy." Mirajane said as she gave Happy a large fish.
Happy drooled over the large fish and when he got it, he began to devour it with only the ferocity a cat could give.
"Oh. I almost forgot." Natsu said as he reached out and grabbed Lucy and brought her over and said, "This is Lucy. She is a Celestial Spirit mage and she wants to join our guild."
Lucy was a bit nervous meeting two other S-Class wizards, who just so happened to have bodies that most women would kill to have. "H-hi. My name is Lucy. Nice to meet you."
Lisanna and Mirajane smiled warmly towards Lucy and Lisanna said, "Hi Lucy. My name is Lisanna Strauss, this is my big sister Mirajane and my older brother Elfman is somewhere in that mess of a guild fight."
Just then, a bottle came rocketing towards Lisanna's face at incredible speed.
With even greater speed, Natsu reached out his hand and grabbed the bottle in mid air with no difficulty, but no he had several tick marks all over his face and he gritted his teeth in annoyance.
"I am all for fun and games, but when people who don't want to join are getting hurt that's when I draw the line." He said as he turned around and faced the warring guild members.
Natsu took a deep breathe and then shouted out in a deep, monstrous voice, "KNOCK IT OFF!"
The entire guild stopped when they heard that voice, that voice is only used when they almost hit Lisanna or someone else who wasn't in the guild fight with something, so Natsu was probably very angry right now.
They all slowly tuned towards the source of the voice and they all paled.
Natsu is now surrounded by a dark and malicious aura as his eyes glowed a deep crimson red.
Yep, Natsu was REALLY angry right now.
"I have told you guys a hundred times now, DON'T GET ANY BYSTANDERS HURT! And what did you guys do? You almost hit Lisanna in the face with this bottle." Natsu said as he raised said bottle in front for all to see.
Everyone paled even more, Natsu was super over protective of Lisanna, even though she could probably beat everyone in the guild sans the other S-Class wizards by herself.
The reason for Natsu's over protectiveness was the fact that Lisanna was Natsu's first friend he made here in the guild. He saw her as his precious baby sister, even though she was two years younger than him.
So if she was ever hit by anyone, or anything, Natsu went off like a volcano and utterly trashed everyone in the guild, even though such things didn't even hurt her anymore.
The only reason Natsu wasn't over protective of Erza was the fact that he knew her strength and he knew she could handle herself.
There was also the fact that Erza specifically told Natsu not to fight her battles for her and threatened him with unholy amounts of pain if he did.
Needless to say, Natsu quickly learned not to dot over Erza.
Back to the present, Natsu's dark aura grew even more and he threw the bottle to the ground, smashing it and then began to crack his knuckles one by one, each one causing a flinch from all of the frightened mages.
The guild members huddled together and shook in fear as Natsu took slow steps towards them, each one of his footsteps causing a new level of fear to grow within them.
Just before Natsu could begin to tear the mages a new one, Lisanna got in front of Natsu and said, "Wait Natsu! Look, I am fine. Please don't hurt them."
Lisanna used her greatest weapon, puppy-dog eyes and small tears.
Natsu's defenses went down quicker than Sears stock prices and he gave a small huff as he turned back towards the bar, but not before saying, "Anyone of you nearly hurt Lisanna again, you will feel rEAL FEAR." He said sinisterly.
The assembled mages gave quick nods, none of them daring to upset the highly volatile dragon slayer anymore than he already was.
Natsu walked over to Mirajane and said, "Could I get a 20 flaming piece order of chicken legs?"
Mirajane nodded and said, "Sure thing Natsu."
She and Lisanna walked into the kitchen, leaving Lucy and Natsu at the bar, while everyone else was quietly working t get the guild back in order, so maybe Natsu would be calmer.
"What in the name of all that is holy was that Natsu?" Lucy asked, being frightened by Natsu's intense aura of darkness.
"Oh, that. That is just me being extremely overprotective of my good friend. You know I am a Dragon Slayer right?" Natsu said.
"Yeah." Lucy said not getting where Natsu was going with this.
"Well, you see Dragon's are extremely protective of their own family and friends, there have been tales of dragon's fighting to the death to help protect their friends, some of who weren't even dragons." Natsu said.
"Ah, so it was your Dragon Instincts that caused you get all angry over Lisanna almost getting hurt." Lucy said in realization.
"Yep. I know she can handle herself, but to me, she will always be that little girl I helped train. She was pretty weak back in the day, so I was really over protective back then." Natsu said.
Lucy nodded, but then a small elderly man, only standing about two feet tall, wearing a jester's hat jumped up on the counter and said, "Hi, how are ya doing?"
"Um, okay?" Lucy asked.
"Good, so may I ask why you are here child?" The man asked.
"I am here to join the guild. I am just waiting for the master so I can asked him if I can join." Lucy said.
"Well, you came to the right guy. I am Master Makarov Dreyar, Fairy Tail's Third Guild Master. Nice to meetcha."
Lucy was stunned for a few seconds, but then recomposed herself and said, "Nice to meet you. I am Lucy and I would like to join Fairy Tail."
"Hm. I am going to guess that from the keys on that key on your right hip that you are a Celestial Spirit mage, correct." Makarov said.
"Yes sir. I currently have three of the gold Zodiac keys." Lucy said.
Makarov nodded and he then said, "Well Miss Lucy, there is, but one thing I have to check before I can allow you to enter the guild."
Lucy looked at Makarov and said, "What" before she felt something grope her.
She looked and saw Makarov groping her while saying pervertedly, "Oh, ho ho. Nice rack you got."
Lucy blushed bright red before smacking Makarov with her right hand away while screaming, "PERVERT!"
Makarov fell of the counter and said, "Feisty, I like that. Welcome to Fairy Tail."
Lucy, still blushing, nodded and then heard Makarov say, "Natsu, go get the magic stamper for Lucy's guild symbol please."
Natsu nodded and then walked to go get the guild stamper, but before he did that, he gave Makarov a firm smack upside the head and said, "Master, stop doing perverted things, I am not going to bail you out of jail a sixth time."
Makarov looked sheepish and said, "I'm only human."
Natsu sighed and walked into the back and a few minutes later he came out with a magic stamper.
Natsu looked at Lucy and said, "Where do you want your guild mark and what color?"
Lucy thought for a few seconds before she said, "Pink and on the top of my right hand please."
Natsu nodded, colored the magic stamper and pressed it gently onto Lucy's skin.
The part of the stamper that made contact with Lucy's skin glowed and then Natsu lifted it off her skin and showed that a brand new pink Fairy Tail symbol was now permanently placed onto the top part of her right hand.
"Congratulations Lucy, you are now an official member of Fairy Tail." Natsu said with a smile.
Lucy smiled and said, "Yes!"
Natsu laughed and said, "C'mon Lucy. Let's get lunch. You need a place to stay."
"That's right." Lucy said, realizing she had no place to stay.
"I happen to know a landlady who has a nice little apartment. Cheep too, only 70,000 jewels a month." Natsu said.
Lucy's eyes light up, "Really?!" She said excitedly.
"Yep. I'll take you over and you can look at it after lunch." Natsu said.
Lucy smiled brightly and said, "Thanks Natsu."
Natsu nodded and said, "I'm just being a good friend."
Lucy smiled back to him and the three of them, Lucy, Natsu and Happy ate their lunches in peace and quiet.
However, just before they got up to show Lucy the apartment, the guild doors flew open and from it came a worried looking six year old purple haired boy.
The boy was about 3 feet tall, had a slight tan to him, had black eyes and was wearing a dark green shirt with a large yellow "S" on it, while also wearing a pair of orange shorts and black sneakers.
Natsu recognized the boy and said, "Romeo? What's wrong?"
Romeo replied with, "My dad. He took a job to clear Mt. Hakobe of Vulcans, but he hasn't returned yet."
"How long ago did he take the job?" Natsu asked.
"It was three days ago. Please, go check and see if he is alright. I am getting worried." Romeo said, he voice starting to get shakier by the minute.
Natsu smiled at Romeo and gently ruffled his hair and said, "Sure, I'll go looking for Macao. He shouldn't have taken this long to do that simple of a job."
Romeo had tears running down his face as he hugged Natsu and said, "Thanks Natsu, you're the best!"
Natsu smiled and turned towards Lucy and said, "Sorry, we will go look at the apartment later."
Lucy shook her head and said, This is far more important than where I am sleeping tonight."
Natsu smiled and said, "You already have the Fairy Tail spirit. You will fit right in."
Lucy smiled and Natsu then said, "We are headed to Mt. Hakobe, which is really cold this time of the year, so go to the guild stores and get some winter clothing. Happy will show you."
Happy nodded and then took Lucy to the guild storage space in the basement, where she found a thick fur lined pink winter coat, some dark blue winter pants and a pair of white winter boots.
Lucy and Happy came back upstairs and Lucy said to Natsu, "Alright, I am ready."
Natsu nodded and then he, Lucy and Happy all went walking to a magicmobile rental place.
Time skip...
Lucy was sitting in the passenger seat of the magic mobile they had rented, Happy on her lap, while Natsu drove the vehicle like a bat out of hell.
The magic mobile was a new model that had come out only a few months ago. Unlike previous models, this one had a special function that altered the wheels in an instant to adapt to changes in the terrain it as currently driving on. This allowed it to have unbelievable control on ice and other conditions, even when driving at 95 miles an hour. It also had a small section in the back for injured people to be laid down and helped out.
Natsu, due to his status was able to get the magic mobile with little difficulty and they were now approaching the top of Mount Hakobe right now.
Natsu drove the magic mobile a few minutes longer and then stopped, they had finally reached the top of Mount Hakobe.
Natsu got out and was hit full force of the extreme blizzard swirling around the top of the mountain, but the son of Igneel was unaffected, he had faced far worse temperatures than this with nary a flinch.
Happy as well faced the onslaught of mother nature with also no reaction, though far he may be from Natsu's power level, he had also faced and conquered climates that are many times worse than this, this was nothing compared to the son of Natsu Dragneel.
Lucy was also taking the cold very well, what with her being wrapped up in the extremely thick and well insulated winter clothing she had borrowed from the guild.
Natsu then placed his hand onto the magic mobile and a dragon glyph was placed onto the right door.
The dragon glyph was rather symbol, two serpentine dragon's twisting around a large flame.
This dragon glyph was special, it would serve as a homing beacon, calling out to Natsu so he can find the magic mobile later after they had found Macao.
Natsu then turned his head into the winds and took several deep breaths, trying to find Macao's scent.
After three minutes of trying, he gave up, he may have better senses than anything on Earthland, but the blizzard was causing all kinds of interferences with his sense of smell.
Natsu turned to Lucy and Happy and shouted, "I can't get Macao's scent, this blizzard is causing too much interference!"
Happy then shouted out, "Then we will just have to find him the old fashioned way!"
Happy then disappeared in a cloud of smoke and when he came out of it, he was once again in his large Battle Tiger form.
Happy, Natsu and Lucy then began to search all around for any cue were Macao could have gone, while also keeping an eye out for any remaining Vulcans.
After about two hours of searching an still having found nothing, the group then began to walk back to the magic mobile to move to another part of the mountain.
Lucy was behind Natsu and Happy, her legs became extremely sore from all the hiking she had just done.
She then felt as if something was watching her.
She turned around just in time to see a large ten foot tall ape with snow white fur all over it's body come flying out of nowhere.
Before Lucy could do anything, the ape took a breath and breathed out a large green cloud.
When Lucy breathed in some of the cloud, she immediately began to feel faint and within seconds was out cold, not a sound having been made from the whole exchange.
The ape grinned perversely and said, "Woman, woman, woman."
The ape then picked up Lucy and took off for his cave.
Natsu and Happy were unaware of what had just happened, the roar of the blizzard masked the Vulcan's approach and the blizzard was sending so many scents everywhere trying to pick out a single one was very hard.
But then Natsu got a feeling deep from within his gut, telling him something had just happened.
Natsu turned around and saw Lucy nowhere.
Natsu's eyes widened and said to Happy, "Happy! Lucy is missing!"
Happy twisted around and saw that she was nowhere in sight.
"Damn it! What do we do?" Happy said.
Natsu then looked into the snow and saw a set of footprints rapidly being filled up by snow and said to Happy, "We follow the tracks as quickly as we can before they disappear!"
Happy nodded and then the two partners set out, determined to find their missing friends no matter what.
Meanwhile...
The Vulcan had reached his cave, he was much faster than Natsu and Happy in the snow.
He gently laid down Lucy against some ice and began to dance around her while chanting "Woman, woman, woman!"
After a little while, Lucy began to wake up and saw she was in some kind of a cave.
She then heard a voice say, "Woman, woman, woman!"
She twirled around and saw the creature that had knocked her out was dancing around her while doing a weird dance.
Lucy got really angry, this thing had knocked her out and taken her to his cave against her will, she was going to lay the hurt down on this stupid monkey.
She quickly reached for her key ring and took one off it.
She twirled the key around in her fingers and shouted out, "Open, gate of the Golden Bull, TAURUS!"
She pointed the key to the ground and a large magic circle appeared, and from the circle came a large figure.
The large figure was revealed to be a rather large humanoid bull man. The bull was standing on two legs, was approximately 8 feet tall, had white fur all over his body, while black patches of fur was all over his body as well. He had two large bull horns coming out of his forehead, two bull ears on either side of his head, rather small black eyes. He wore brown leather guards on his forearms, lower legs, and had brown light leather armor on his chest and waist as well ad finally he had black combat bots on to complete his image. On his back was a massive 7 foot tall two sided battle axe that had silver edging to the massive blades, while the rest of the axe blades were black, with red writing near the handle of the axe.
"Let's mooooove along!" Taurus shouted out as he flexed his massive muscles.
"Taurus, I need your help! That perverted monkey over there kidnapped me and took me here to his cave!" Lucy said to her old friend.
Taurus's eyes glowed red and he shouted out, "HE DID WHAT?!" to Lucy.
"He kidnapped me and took me here to his cave." Lucy said.
Taurus turned towards the Vulcan and shouted out, "Listen here you no good perverted ape! Lucy is my dear friend and you kidnapped her, big mistake, because I am going to kick the shit out of you!"
Taurus then charged for the Vulcan, the Vulcan meeting his charge.
The two combatants met in the middle of the cave, the force of their fists meeting caused a small shockwave to ripple out and destroy a lot of the icicles surrounding them.
The Vulcan was pretty strong, but Taurus wasn't a gold Celestial Spirit for nothing and he quickly overpowered the Vulcan and began to unleash blow after blow to the Vulcans face, chest and stomach.
The Vulcan was flung back and struck the far with immense force, creating cracks that went everywhere.
Lucy smiled and said, "Yeah, good job Taurus!"
Taurus smiled towards Lucy and said, "Just doing my duty."
The Vulcan pried himself from the wall and began to pant.
Taurus looked at the Vulcan and said, "What's the matter you dirty ape? Give up so soon?"
The Vulcan began to growl and then he roared out, a purple aura formed around himself as purple flames came bursting forth from his fists.
Taurus was a little shocked to see a Vulcan using purple flames, most Vulcans could not use Fire magic, they could only use Take-Over magic, which allowed them to posses people.
Taurus then realized it, this Vulcan had taken over someone and was now accessing their victims magic to bolster their own.
Taurus then drew his massive axe and got into his defensive stance, with the Vulcan now using flames, he had to be a lot more careful, the Vulcan could now attack from a range, while Taurus was still only limited to close-quarters combat.
The Vulcan roared out and said, "I don't like men, I like only women! Go away!"
"Never! Lucy is not only my master, she is my friend and I will not allow you to hurt her!" Taurus roared back.
The Vulcan then roared out once again and gathered his purple flames and sent a massive vortex of fire towards the bull.
Taurus calmly stood his ground and once the flames were close enough, he began to spin his axe in a circle, faster and faster the axe spun until it started to create a vortex.
The flames struck the axe, but by then the axe was spinning so fast that the flames were dissipated within seconds after hitting the axe.
The Vulcan growled, seeing his attack fail, but the he saw the roof of the cave still had a lot of icicles and he had an idea.
He sent a large fireball ito the ceiling, causing a large explosion, which led to a number of icicles and rocks to begin to fall down towards Lucy and Taurus.
Taurus saw the danger and ran to Lucy and covered her with his body, protecting her from the falling icicles and rocks.
Taurus groaned in pain as the ice and rocks struck his back with a lot of force, but he refused to be moved from his spot, that would leave Lucy vulnerable to danger.
Eventually, the rocks and ice stopped falling and Taurus got up with a groan of pain.
Before he could fully get up, the Vulcan appeared in front of him and hit Taurus with a flaming punch straight to the face.
Taurus cried out in pain as he was flung into a wall, creating cracks and a small crater, while also increasing the pain his back was feeling.
Taurus open one of his eyes and saw the Vulcan was preparing to attack once again.
But before he could do that, Lucy chucked a rock right at his race, and she got a bullseye, hitting the perverted monkey right in the face with the rock, causing the Vulcan to become stunned from the surprise attack for a few seconds.
This was all the time Taurus needed and he got himself out of the wall, grabbed his axe that he had dropped and rushed the Vulcan.
Before the Vulcan could fully comprehend what was going on, Taurus was already mid swing of his mighty battle axe, so the Vulcan could do nothing, but watch as the axe completed the swing and smashed right into his chest, causing all air to leave his body, along with a little saliva as the force of the blow flung him back into another wall.
The Vulcan was breathing heavily now, that last blow had almost knocked him right out, but somehow, the Vulcan was still conscious.
Lucy then had an idea and said to Taurus, "Taurus, fling me towards him."
Taurus looked a little apprehensive towards this idea, but Lucy was his master and he trusted her, so he grabbed her by her waist, twirled her around a few times and then flung Lucy towards the now standing Vulcan.
Lucy righted herself in mid air, stretched out her right leg and shouted out, "LUCY KICK!"
The Vulcan looked up towards Lucy just in time to see Lucy's foot come crashing right into is face, the force of the impact burying the Vulcans head several feet into the wall, a small shockwave from the force was created and finally, the Vulcan was defeated.
Lucy jumped off the Vulcans face and landed on her feet, all those years of doing yoga and gymnastics had made her body quite flexible and maneuverable.
Taurus came running over to lucy and said, "Are you alright?"
Lucy nodded towards Taurus and said, "I am fine. Are you okay?"
Taurus nodded and said, "A little sore on the back, but otherwise I am A-okay."
Lucy nodded and was about to say something when the furthest wall from her exploded with immense force.
Taurus stood in front of Lucy to protect her from the force of the explosion, but the force was so strong that he began to slide backwards.
Eventually the winds created from the explosion died out and Lucy got to see what had caused the explosion.
The answer was one angry and extremely pissed off Natsu Dragneel, both of his hands were now covered in orange flames, the tips of the flames were actually starting to turn crimson red.
By Natsu's side was an equally angry Happy, who currently had the heads of two beaten down and unconscious Vulcans smashed into one another.
Once Natsu saw Lucy, the flames extinguished and Natsu looked really relieved.
Happy tossed the two Vulcans back out of the hole they had just created with casual ease and the two ran over to Lucy.
"You okay Lucy?" Natsu asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Lucy said as the two approached.
Happy looked over to the Vulcan and whistled, saying, "Knocked out a Alpha Vulcan on your first mission? Not back."
"Alpha Vulcan?" Lucy asked confused.
"Yeah, Alpha Vulcans are some of the oldest and strongest Vulcans of them all, they are very tricky because sometimes they can show the magics of previous mages they have taken over, leaving them with a large repertoire of spells and strengths to draw from. You can tell an Alpha Vulcan from a regular Vulcan by their magical power, it is always much greater than a regular Vulcan."
"Ah, I see." Lucy said.
Then, a bright flash erupted from the Alpha Vulcan and when it left, a man was left.
The man was in his late 30's, was mildly muscular, slim and was of average height. He had short, slicked back dark blue hair, dark eyebrows and dark eyes, with a large amount of stubble, along with a thin moustache. He was wearing a knee-length white jacket that has dark blue collar, a dark blue t-shirt underneath, brown pants held up with a white belt that has a golden belt buckle and finally he has light blue necklace that has the same "S" Romeo has on it.
Natsu and Happy knew this man, as they shouted out, "Macao!"
The two ran towards their fellow guildmate and looked him over for injuries, with Lucy helping them out.
Once they had determined that Macao was still capable of being moved, Natsu gently lifted him over his right shoulder and said to his two compatriots, "Let's roll. We have to get Macao to Porlyusica."
Happy and Lucy nodded and after Lucy sent Taurus back to the Celestial Spirit world with her thanks, the three of them took Macao back to the magic mobile as fast as they could.
As they traveled there, Lucy noticed a large number of knocked out Vulcans everywhere, with large craters and body impressions of Vulcans everywhere.
Lucy then asked Natsu, "What happened?"
"Well, you see, when me and Happy tried to follow the Vulcan that captured you, we found around fifty of them in a large group. So me and Happy tried to get around them to try and find you, but they cut us off. Knowing time was wasn't on our side, me and Happy decided to use around 3% of our maximum power and we knocked almost all of them out in a single attack. We the took out the few remaining ones and then we felt your magical presence so we went that way and well, you know the rest." Natsu said.
Lucy nodded and said, "Thanks for helping me."
Natsu looked at Lucy as if she had two heads and said, "I did nothing, you knocked out an Alpha Vulcan on your very first mission, not many people can claim that distinction. You showed that you do have a lot of potential locked within you. You will be a fine wizard one day."
Lucy looked down and said, "But Taurus did all of the work, all I did was kick the Vulcan and give Taurus a distraction."
"Don't sell yourself short. You found Macao and freed him from that Alpha Vulcan, so you did good. You just need a little bit of work and you will be mighty." Natsu said.
"You think so?" Lucy said, her eyes filled with hope.
"You bet Lucy. Now c'mon, we got too get Macao home." Natsu said as they found the magic mobile.
Lucy gained a look of determination on her face and said, "Right."
Natsu placed Macao in the back of the magic mobile, where Lucy began to treat his wounds with happy's help, while natsu went to the driver's seat and started up the magic mobile.
The magic mobile flared to life and then Natsu began to drive the vehicle back towards Magnolia.
Timeskip...
The last flares of the day began to fade as the sun began to set in the city of Magnolia.
Romeo was standing by the guild, waiting for Lucy, Happy and Natsu to bring back his father, all the while thinking about what had caused Macao to go on that mission.
Several other boys from the town had been making fun of Romeo and Fairy Tail, so Romeo had gone to his father and told him to do something incredible, so Macao took the job to get rid of the Vulcans on top of Mt. Hakobe.
Romeo felt deep regret for telling his father to take the job, he felt as if it was his fault his father was missing and the guilt was eating him up inside.
Then, he heard a familiar voice call out to him, saying, "Romeo!"
Romeo spun around to see Natsu, Happy and Lucy helping a bandaged Macao walk towards the guild hall.
Romeo's eyes began to water as he ran towards his father to give him a back breaking hug.
"Daddy, I am so sorry for saying those things!" Romeo began, but Macao cut him off.
"It's alright son. Next time those bullies give you problems, simply tell them, can your dad take on and defeat 35 Vulcans? Because mine can!" Macao said.
Romeo cried some more, but nodded.
Lucy, Happy and Natsu smiled at the heartwarming scene and then began to walk away, but they heard Romeo say, "Thanks you, Natsu, Happy and Lucy!"
All three of them waved back towards Romeo and continued on their way.
Natsu turned towards Lucy and said, "Well, I promised I would show you the apartments I was talking about."
Natsu led the group by the river and walked up to a nice looking apartment building.
Natsu knocked on the door and a elderly women opened the door and said, "Yes?"
"Hi, my name is Natsu Dragneel and my friend here is looking for an apartment." Natsu said, motioning towards Lucy.
The landlady nodded and said, "Follow me."
She took them up to a apartment and said, "What do you think?"
Lucy looked inside the apartment and saw that it was a very nice little place to stay and said, "I love it, how much is rent?"
"Rent is 70,000 jewels a month, down payment is required." The land lady replied.
Before either one of them could say anything, Natsu took out a bag full of jewels and handed them over to the lady, saying, "That should be enough for Lucy's down payment. Call me if there needs to be more."
Natsu and Happy then turned and walked out, leaving a stunned Lucy and landlady, who then turned towards Lucy and said, "Nice boyfriend you got there."
Lucy blushed and said, "He isn't my boyfriend."
The landlady raised her right eyebrow and said, "Really? Then honey you need to make your move."
Lucy blushed even more and said, "I have known him for a total of a single day."
The landlady kept her eyebrow raised and said, "Then honey, you have a really good boyfriend material friend there."
The landlady then went downstairs to get the papers for Lucy so they could finalize the agreement.
Lucy meanwhile was desperately trying to cool down her cheeks.
Lucy really liked Natsu, he was funny, kind, compassionate, and really handsome, but she has known him for only a day, so why did she get so embarrassed when she was teased about her and him?
Eventually Lucy got her face under control and then she went downstairs and signed the papers with the landlady.
Lucy now had a home that only cost 70,000 jewels a month, the rooms at Fairy Hills, the dorms for the girls of Fairy Tail cost 100,000 jewels a month, not that Lucy knew of those dorms.
Lucy then went upstairs into her apartment and took out the old book from that magic merchant in Hargeon that Natsu had bought her.
She opened the book and say that indeed, the authors name was blurred out from existence, making it impossible to find out who had written this book.
Turning the page to the index, she this:
"Chapter One: Introduction To Celestial Magic."
"Chapter Two: Different Key types."
"Chapter Three: How To Summon The Zodiac's Battle Forms."
"Chapter Four: How To Use Celestial Magic As An Offensive Tool."
"Chapter Five: How to Create Platinum Celestial Spirit Keys.
"Chapter Six: How To Properly Execute The Two Strongest Celestial Spirit Spells: Urano Metria and Gottfried."
"Chapter Seven: The Celestial Spirit King"
"Chapter Eight: The Three Lost Spirits."
"Chapter Nine: How To Create and Utilize Star Dress Form."
"Chapter Ten: Final Notes."
There was a lot of information to read and absorb, but what stuck to her the most was fact that there was a way to create PLATINUM Celestial Spirit keys!
She had never heard of the Platinum keys before, they sounded powerful.
She flipped to that page and began to read.
"Platinum Celestial Spirit Keys are the strongest of all keys, they can summon spirits of terrifying power that are only eclipsed by the Celestial Spirit King and so only three were ever created.
The Spirits that are summoned are: Draco, the Dragon, Skyress, the Phoenix and Artemis, the Paladin.
These three spirits are seconded only the Celestial Spirit King in terms of power.
They were created to be the guardians of Earthland, to fight and protect everything that ever was or ever will be and it was due to their actions that the Dragon Civil War was won, but they paid the price.
If you wish to learn more about these three, go to Chapter Eight.
Now, to create a Platinum Key, some components are required.
To create Draco's key for instance, you will need some pure grade Platinum, a vial of dragon blood and five Fire Dragon Scales.
Meanwhile, Skyress's key requires once again, some pure grade Platinum, a vial of Phoenix blood and five Sky Phoenix feathers.
Finally, Artemis's key requires pure grade Platinum, the legendary sword Excalibur, and a vial of blood from the Holy Grail.
To create these keys one will need the legendary hammer Mjolnir and a unbreakable will.
I would not recommend trying to create the Platinum Keys until one has 7 Zodiac Keys and has mastered the art of opening three Celestial Gate's at once, then one will be able to handle to strain of creating the Platinum keys.
Lucy was excited, these spirits sounded amazing, spirits nearly the same league as the Celestial Spirit King was something she had never thought might happen, but here was three Spirits that were almost in the same league as him.
But her face fell when she saw the ingredients required to create said keys, it would almost be impossible for her to create them and she was nowhere close to being capable of opening three Gates at once.
Sighing, she turned the book to Chapter One and began to read when her door opened up and in came Natsu and Happy, carrying lots of food.
"Natsu? Happy? What are you two doing?" Lucy asked.
"Well, we figured that you had no food, so we went out and bought you some. Hope you like meat." Natsu said with a smile.
Lucy smiled to and said, "Who doesn't like a good steak?"
Happy smiled and said, "We are going to be best friends."
Happy and Natsu then went to Lucy's refrigerator and began to put away the food.
Lucy also helped out and within twenty minutes, all the food was put away and the three of them had made some sandwiches and were eating right now, when Natsu saw the book.
"Hey Lucy, isn't that the book I bought you?" Natsu asked.
Lucy nodded and Natsu asked, "So, is it any good?"
Lucy nodded and said, "It is very helpful, it talked about how to create Platinum Keys, but the components to create one are almost impossible to find."
Natsu and Happy looked intrigued and Natsu said, "Platinum Keys, I thought the best keys were Gold?"
Lucy nodded and said, "So did I, but apparently there were once three keys that could summon three super strong spirits, Draco the Dragon, Skyress the Phoenix and Artemis, the Paladin. But somehow their keys were lost and to recreate them you need some pure grade Platinum, a vial of dragon blood, five fire dragon scales, a vial of Phoenix blood, five Sky Phoenix feathers, the legendary sword Excalibur, a vial filled with blood from the Holy Grail and finally you need the Legendary Hammer Mjolnir."
Natsu then said, "I got a few of those things back at my house."
Lucy's head snapped towards Natsu so fast natsu as worried she might have whiplash and said, "You do?!"
Natsu nodded and said, "I'll show you after supper."
Lucy nodded and after the three finished eating, they walked towards Happy and Natsu's house.
Lucy gasped when she saw Natsu's and Happy's house.
The house was more of a mansion, with it being three stories tall, and 250 feet from end to end.
"This is mine and Happy's house." Natsu said happily.
Natsu opened the door and led Lucy inside, Happy following behind.
The inside of the house was nicely decorated, with brown oak flooring and and white oak walls and a few nice paintings here and there.
Natsu led Lucy to his personal study on the second floor.
The house was made like this: First floor had living room, kitchen, and the memory room, where all the requests Natsu and Happy completed where placed onto a giant board, showing all their travels and adventures so they could remember them for years to come. The basement had the laundry room and storage rooms where they placed extra stuff they might need later on. The second floor had Natsu's personal study, where he could go and just think, while Happy's personal study had rows of fishing lines and rods for when he wanted to go on one of his all day long fishing trips. There was also a library where a large number of books and tomes found of their many adventures were placed for future references, and finally the third floor was where the rooms were and the bathrooms were located.
Natsu's personal study room had a large black oak desk, where several papers were located, on the far right of the room was a large map of Fiore, where a large number of "X's" were located on many towns. On the far left of the room there was a large bookshelf where a large number of old books and even some scrolls were placed onto. There was also two leather couches in front of the desk and finally on the ceiling of the room was a large painting of the nighttime sky, painted to near 100% accuracy.
Natsu went to the far right of the room and pressed a certain spot on the wall.
The wall slowly split open and a vault was revealed.
Natsu placed his hand onto the vault and it opened with a 'click.'
There were several shelves in the vault, each one holding a number of objects.
Natsu opened the box and showed Lucy that the box held a vial of blood and several dragon scales.
Lucy gasped and said, "How did you get these?"
Natsu then said, "Well I am a Dragon Slayer, so my blood is almost the same as a regular dragon's, and I can create dragon scales for better defense, I just tore them off."
Lucy nodded and then said, "But what about the other items? They are going to be almost impossible to find."
"I got you covered." Natsu said.
Natsu then took out a map with several spots marked on it and said, "There have been rumors of a Phoenix located in the mountains near Crocus, while according to legend, Thor took Mjolnir to his grave, which is rumored to be somewhere in the ruins of the city of Asgard. Excalibur on the other hand is said to have been taken by a Wraith after King Arthur's death and taken somewhere on Avalon. The Holy Grail's location is unknown, but I can help you find it."
Lucy narrowed her eyes and said, "Why would you go through all this trouble just to help a girl you have barely known for a days times?"
"Well to be honest I kinda want to meet this Draco fellow, he sounds cool and I haven't seen a Dragon in almost 7 years, so it would be nice to see another Fire Dragon again and I kinda want to battle him, see how powerful he is for myself." Natsu admitted with a sheepish grin on his face.
Lucy nodded and said, "Well, thanks for the help Natsu."
Natsu nodded and gently took the box back from Lucy and then placed it back inside the vault and then closed it.
Natsu then went back to the map of his desk and said, "I believe I can help you locate all the necessary items for the Platinum Keys, but I think we should wait until you are able to summon three Zodiac's at once before we go and try to find them."
Lucy nodded and after talking with Natsu for a little bit, the two of them walked back to Lucy's house, with Happy following closely behind.
Once back at Lucy's place Natsu said, "Remember Lucy, come to my place at 5:30 tomorrow in the morning for your first training session with me."
Lucy nodded and said, "Got it Natsu."
Natsu smiled and then said, "See you tomorrow" and then he and Happy walked home.
Natsu then began to think about his red haired friend and thought, "Erza, come home soon. It's getting too dull without you here."
Meanwhile, miles away, a certain red haired knight was starting to go to sleep when she heard Natsu's thoughts and thought back, "Don't worry Natsu, I will be home soon."
Natsu smiled and thought, "Goodnight my love."
Erza smiled and thought, "Goodnight to you too. See you in a few days."
"Can't wait." Was the immediate reply.
Erza smiled and drifted off to sleep, while Natsu and Happy walked back to their home for sleep, so they could be ready to begin Lucy's first training session to get her stronger.
The days of peace of drawing shorter, evil is starting to stir once more, but just as before, a champion of light stands ready to banish the dark back to the abyss from whence it came.
Natsu Dragneel and Erza Scarlet, the Dragon and the Knight, the two champions of light are ready to fight for their homes, their friends, their family.
Finally, Chapter Five is done and so much earlier than I thought it would be.
I honestly thought that this chapter would have taken at least until the 30th or later, imagine my surprise that it is done on the 26th.
Some of you may have noticed that I changed the chapter a bit and after thinking about it for a bit, I decided it would be much better to have an Arc where Natsu, Grey, Erza, Happy and Lucy all go looking for the items necessary to create Platinum keys. This AU Arc will take the place of the Tower of Heaven Arc, so it will happen shortly after the Phantom Lord Arc, which will happen after the Galuna Island Arc, where we will see Deliora once again.
If you have any comments or criticism, please PM me or leave a review, I always love to hear your thoughts.
This is StrikeFreedom10, signing out.